A quorum call quorum call quorum call quorum call quorum call mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i ask consent that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to executive session for the consideration of calendar number 519 through 545 and all nominations on the secretarys desk, that the nominations be confirmed en bloc, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate, that no further motions be in order, that any statements related to the nominations be printed in the record, the president be immediately notified of the senates action and the senate then resume legislative session. The presiding officer without objection, so ordered. Mr. Mcconnell i now ask unanimous consent the senate now proceed to consideration of calendar number 189, s. 1875. The presiding o
Quorum call mr. Sanders mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from vermont is recognized. Mr. Sanders i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection, so ordered. Mr. Sanders mr. President , i wanted to inform the members about an important hearing that was held this morning at the Senate Veterans committee. And i also want to thank the members of the senate who in the midst of a very partisan environment last month voted with 93 votes, overwhelming support to pass a very significant piece of legislation to help the men and women who put their lives on the line to defend our country, the legislation that was written by senator mccain and myself. And i thank him very much for his help in this effort. One of the important provisions in that legislation was an understanding that the needs of our veterans are a cost of war. They are a cost of war quite as much as guns and tanks and planes and missiles are a cost of war. It seems to me to be fairl
The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , august 4, 2014. I hereby appoint the honorable thomas e. Petri to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. , ned, john a. Boehner speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, reverend peter foaland, holy Trinity Catholic church, washington, d. C. The chaplain god of the unexpected, god who makes the weak strong, who makes the poor rich, who makes the dead alive again, dash our expectations as we begin this week of labor on behalf of the citizens of this country. Help us seek you, not in the familiar, but in the strange. Help us reach out to you, not in the comfortable but in the challenging. Help us realize your justice, not in the usual patterns that can shackle us, but in the new way you show us, the way that always frees us. Bless today the members an
Workers in liberia, nancy ripold currently getting an experimental drug, wasnt enough left, so dr. Kent brantley got a unit of blood from a teenage boy who had survived the disease. How the impact of the ebola impact is reaching into our neighborhood. Reporter Nathaniel Dennis loved the Baltimore Ravens and had loads of friends, a local Community College student and aspiring musician. He was visiting family in liberia when he physical gravely ill. When he was first admitted to the hospital, they put him in the ebola ward. Reporter his cousin said nathaniel fell victim to circumstances. Turns out he did not have ebola but couldnt get the needed medical care out of the country because the Ebola Outbreak left him grounded. Nathaniel died. Now she waits for his body to return to the u. S. Along with his grieving mother. There are current think 1,323 cases of ebola currently 1,323 cases of ebola, 729 deaths including a passenger from nigeria that was going to return to minnesota next month.
Automatically, and you are going through your world whether your smartphone or your credit card, you are doing this hundreds of times a day, maybe. All ofue is nsa can use that to establish a profile. That is a good thing. Why do you have to do it to hundreds of millions of innocent people . That is a problem. That is where i have a problem. I do not want to hurt nsa. I served 30 years there. And it is a needed capability to keep us safe, but my goodness, we need to observe the three legs of the government, the legislative process, to the judiciary, as it was always intended. We do not need to say that we are at perpetual war and can never go back to a democratic visible. We need to get away from that. And that is on the idea that theres a lot of information that is limited to the dish it to the leadership. I can only speak to what ive that is really quite only for sensitive operations. Abbotobad aid on when youre talking about the kinds of things from the surveillance nsa does, those