The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Cornyn madam president , before congress adjourned for the holidays, our colleagues in the house of representatives carried out their sole priority for 2019, which was to impeach President Trump. That was their numberone objective in 2019. While its no secret this is something theyve been dreaming of since the day that President Trump was inaugurated on january 20 of 2017, it certainly took our colleagues in the house on a roller coaster ride and the country as well. Ive likened it really to not a roller coaster ride but to a threering circus. It does not reflect particularly well i think on their on their body or on the seriousness of the process. In marv last year, here in march of last year heres an important quote to remember speak pelosi cast a lot of doubt that an Impeachment Vote would even happen. This is march 2019. She said, impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless theres something so compelling and overwhelming and bi
Mr. Cotton madam president. The presiding officer the senator from arkansas. Mr. Cotton in the next few days Senate Democrats will move to discharge a war powers resolution to tie the president s hands in defending this nation against iran and terrorist masterminds like Qasam Soleimani. Lets think about how we got here and the implications of this reckless action. Qasam soleimani has the blood of thousands of americans on his hands and hundreds of thousands of innocent souls across the middle east. For more than 20 years he was the Supreme Leaders most trusted lieutenant, irans terror mastermind, the man responsible for the deaths of hundreds of american soldiers in iraq and afghanistan by supplying the most deadly kind of roadside bombs soldiers ever faced. He and his proxies and iranian leaders like him are responsible for bombings of our embassies in places like lebanon and kuwait. Theyre in no small part responsible for the ongoing horror of the Syrian Civil War or the civil war in
A 2016 study asked people from 17 Different Countries whether they thought the world was Getting Better or worse. Just 11 percent believed things were improving. 30 percent thought things said more or less stayed the same. But the overwhelming majority 58 percent were of the opinion things were getting worse. This dramatic scene is one of a selection of photos taken by photographers and 28 team for the World Press Photo exhibition at the village of lantos in berlin but which impression is it that we take home with us one with positive foundations providing us with inspiration joy and amusement but do negative stories overshadow a view of the world one that can be so cruel and just so traumatizing and terrifying. World in oxford is a more rarefied one the English University town has a special appeal for those with open minds its venerable halls of learning have seen no shortage of unconventional thinkers and people who like to see things along alternative lines. And ritchie from scotlan
Still defiant nostrum remnants of the Syrian Revolution in a province as turkey and russia reaching new agreement on a Demilitarized Zone. And a multibillion dollar export industry has been blamed for the month long blanketing Southeast Asia. We got some more weather pushing into western parts of your private the next couple of days but still on the cool side the breezy side wall autumnal should we say scandinavia eastern areas if you are pushing over towards that western side of russia this piece is a cloud here showing up quite nicely and you got this march weather front running right down across the black sea through the balkans into the adriatic into italy some sharp showers all miss some heavy downpours as well sliding further southwards in east was it picking up the northwest even the cool direction of course with the temperatures around 14 celsius in warsaw just 90 degrees there for most meanwhile i was told the western side if you want to 20 in london not see bad 22 in paris ge
How low still no letup in the heat across the middle east if anything temperatures 2 or 3 degrees about the seasonal averages lost a clear skies i saw you last a push over towards the black sea see this line of cloud just pushing up towards the caucasus thats going to sink its way further south which over the next day or so so ankara 26. 00 celsius here on friday quite sharply to 19 degrees as we go on into saturday really setting in this system makes its way through little bit of snow there over the Higher Ground still going up to 43 celsius in baghdad the 39 in kuwait city and that sunshine extends down across the Arabian Peninsula here in doha were getting up to around 38. 00 celsius as well as 100. 00 in fahrenheit a fair bit of cloud across southern parts of the peninsula southern areas of oman into yemen where you see that cloud you might just catch a spot or 2 of light rain or drizzle salada at around 29 degrees some rain some really right pushing its way into the western side o