Guide our senators to live so honorably that they will bring glory to your name. Lord, inspire them to yield their allegiance to you, striving always to receive your approval. Thank you for hearing and answering their prayers, as they fervently seek your wisdom. Guide them through the challenges of these times. Lord, remind us all that we are mere sojourners in time, heading for the better land of eternity. We pray in your loving name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. Under the previous order, the senate will be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. Mr. Grassley madam president. The presiding officer the senat
Healthcare community including hospitals. This morning i spoke to the president , speaking on the almost daily basis, sometimes several times a day im a and asked him about the state of the situation in her home state of illinois. Unfortunately, there still desperate for testing kits. Illinois has about 5000 more kids that were provided yesterday by private company. In the printing of our government but weve never seen the number of test kits that we believe are necessary to measure the current state of this coronavirus in her home state of illinois. The official count, and i might add that word official, is that we have had88 288 billing audiee infected into one totality. I believe the number of infections in the official report closely understates the in my home state of illinois. And once more tests are administered and we received results im afraid we are going to see a dramatic increase in the number of reported state. These cases yesterday, one to eight new cases were announced h
Process. They spoke at an event hosted by the committee for a responsible federal budget. So, this sounds really loud to me. Does it sound okay to people . Yeah . Hello everybody. Im maya mcginnis. I run the committee for responsible budget. Im pleased you joined us for our forum. Many of you probably know this, but the committee for responsible federal budget is a Bipartisan Organization focused on fiscal responsibility. And if you look at the world right now where the debt is at near record levels, never been this high relative to the economy since world war ii and the deficit is the largest its ever been when the economy is this strong its a really important issue to focus on right now. Im smiling so i dont cry. I was thinking i look really happy. Its a troubling time for fiscal policy. Theres no question about that. Let me just tell you quickly about two projects that we are doing before i kick off our really great panels and speakers for this afternoon. The first project were doin
On the campaign trail. Not only for the president ial candidates but also the upcoming senate, house, and governor races. It is free. It is easily accessible. Its all there at cspan. Org. Members of the Senate Budget committee along with budget experts discuss ways to improve the congressional budgeting process. They spoke at an event hosted by the committee for a responsible federal budget. So, this sounds really loud to me. Does it sound okay to people . Yeah . Hello everybody. Im maya mcginnis. I run the committee for responsible budget. Im pleased you joined us for our forum. Many of you probably know this, but the committee for responsible federal budget is a Bipartisan Organization focused on fiscal responsibility. And if you look at the world right now where the debt is at near record levels, never been this high relative to the economy since world war ii and the deficit is the largest its ever been when the economy is this strong its a really important issue to focus on right n
Law and we are delighted today, to have jim zarin here at the law school to celebrate his book. Plaintiff and chiefs. And we will have the format of our team anthony carl who will ask questions of jim. I would like to just introduce jim. He is fundamentally a trial lawyer. His book flames and chiefs, is he trial lawyer news book. Theres an Opening Statement that theres evidence by category and relevance a sneak closing argument. Jim has always been a superb trial lawyer. We met first in 1968, would we both will criminal prosecutors at the Southern District. Jim about my age arrived about 18 months earlier and he by the time, was already a start litigator and prosecutor. In those days, the prosecutor news office in the Southern District was small about 50 lawyers in the Criminal Division. We wash each other and we learn from each other. And jim was my mentor. He took me out of my first trial. Prosecution of young men letters from a mailbox five of them. I think he was a guilty verdict.