Maintenance of National Parks and other federal land open to the public. Senators are now working on amendments to the bill. No votes are scheduled yet, but work is expect today continue to next week. Now to live coverage of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. 1mighty god, thank you for your great and precious promises. You have promised to keep a record of our pain. You have promised that no weapon formed against us will prosper. You have promised to supply our needs and to surround us with the shield of your blessings. You have promised to keep us from stumbling or slipping. Lord, you have promised that nothing can separate us from your love. You have promised to do for us more than we can ask or imagine. Great and precious are your promises. Give our lawmakers confidence in your promises, as they face these tumultuous times. Sustain them with your
Threshold. Now is not the time, says borisjohnson. Meanwhile the labour party pledges to compensate nearly four million women who lost out when their state pension age rose from 60 to 66. Voters in hong kong turn out in record numbers to cast their ballots in District Council elections. Five teenagers have been arrested after a large brawl at a cinema in birmigham last night which saw a number of Police Officers injured. Good afternoon, welcome to bbc news. Boris johnson has unveiled the conservative manifesto with a speech in which he promised to spend more money on Public Services without raising income taxes. He also pledged repeatedly to get brexit done, and vowed to keep the United Kingdom intact. The headline promise of this manifesto is the conservative pledge not to raise income tax, National Insurance contributions or vat. The so called triple tax lock. They also kept up the pressure on labour over the nhs by promising 50,000 nurses more than double what labour were proposing.
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