Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 77. The nays are 14. The nomination is confirmed. Mr. Cotton mr. President . The presiding officer the senator for arkansas. The presidin the presiding officer under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table and the president will be immediately notified of the senates actio actions. The senator for arkansas. Mr. Cotton i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to legislative session for a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Cotton mr. President , 20 years ago this week, joe biden and other politicians in both parties gave a gift to the communist party permanent, most favored nation status. Permanent most favored nation status is a trade privilege we grant to most countries who are members of the world trade
Committee on Small Business member states, hearing on response, we had a hard stop, we could move as quickly as we can and could not accommodate every member in person today and we are accepting statements until thursday april 30th. Today is a chance for the committee to hear directly from members of congress about thoughts on the covid19 response for the next package to Small Business issues for the committee of jurisdiction. I would like to remind everyone we are practicing social distancing and taking other precautions for all in attendance. I appreciate your cooperation so that we can protect ourselves and our hardworking staff. Three weeks ago when congress created the Paycheck Protection Program we did so with the goal of providing a lifeline, the program experienced Unprecedented Demand and proven successful, helping more than 1. 6 million entities to support employees. As a result we will be replenishing the Program Later today. While we are moving quickly to provide an additio
Fletcher from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park with her tonight. Before we get started a couple of things plays a member to mute your self. In our program site will be recorded. You will be able to find that online within the next couple of days. Also at the end of our program tonight we will have time for questions. Esif you have a question, please send that in the chat and will ask those at the end of the question. Sinso again thank you guys for joining us tonight. Help me in welcoming Ranger Fletcher to our program. Thank you very much. Thank you everyone tonight for joining. Again my name is ranger antjuan fletcher put in the science communicator for Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the appalachian center. Ten nights, on behalf of the National Park service i just want to welcome you all to your africanamerican experience in the smokies. This is so important. Or getting information out to the masses said tonight were going to learn about several different stories in sev
The Single Digits. The windchills 1020 degrees below zero. I anticipate a high this afternoon near 14 degrees. A windchill advisory is kicking in tonight. This morning the temperatures 4 at the airport. 9 waukesha. 7 at west bend and kenosha. 9 port washington. Here is a look at the windchills ranging from 2 below zero to 16 below zero at beaver dam. Theea the increasing wind. The windchill advisories going into the effect tonight at 9 00 and running until 10 00 tomorrow morning. The overnight windchills in the neighborhood of 1525 degrees below zero. So we are talking more about the snow coming up. Thank you. Adrienne overnight, a driver lost control of his truck and ended up in extremely cold water in kenosha. Tim, first and foremost, hows the truck ended up in a river near Carthage College in kenosha. Kenosha police say that the driver lost control then went over a snow embankment and into the river. That person was rescued from the river and taken to a hospital to be checked out be
Us nasty windchills. We look in the distance to the gas light building, the flame is flickering and that is a forecast looking ahead to the possibility of the snow thursday night and friday and saturday. Lets talk about the windchills. All kinds of layers are needed. We have Single Digits above and below zero. It is going to fluctuate this morning. Now as we go through the next 24 hours, tonight and thursday morning, a windchill advisory for all of southeast wisconsin. Frigid conditions, feelslike temperatures 1525 degrees below digits this morning. Dress nice and warm. Live in the third ward Jeremy Nelson and back to you. Thank you, jeremy. Adrienne overnight, a driver lost control of his truck and ended up in extremely cold water in kenosha. Tim, first and foremost, hows the driver . Tim the driver is safe. The truck ended up in a river near Carthage College in kenosha. Kenosha police say that the driver lost control then went over a snow embankment and into the river. That person wa