Hearts to you. Lord, please shower your mercy on our nation, as we seek to deal with the las vegas mass shooting. Please show mercy to the victims and their families. Lord, in spite of this horrific act, give us faith to believe that evil will not ultimately prevail in our world. May this tragedy motivate us to plant and water seeds of peace, as we cultivate a greater respect for the laws of seed time and harvest. Cut in pieces the cords of wickedness that seek to bind us. Today, guide our senators and use them as ambassadors of reconciliation in our nation and world. Eternal god, though we walk in the midst of trouble, stretch forth your hands and revive us with your might. We pray in your merciful 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. Mr. Mcconnell
Of mr. Pie the federal vacations. As fcc commissioner and now as chairman has not been a vigorous watchdog for free speech. He has not put to the peoples right to information first and in fact he has put corporate interest first. Outright and he has opposed policies are right that insured under serveda communities have access to essential technology and i strongly oppose his renomination to the commission. Lets begin with his responsibility to guard First Amendment rights. President trump has relentlessly attacked nbc, cbs, abc, cnn, the New York Times and the washington post. He calls these established and esteemed news outlets they can use and he even called them the enemy of the people. Earlier this year in february during the Senate Commerce hearing this was an oversight hearing and i asked chairman pai point blank whether he agreed with the president that these main stream news organizations were the enemy of the people and he refused to answer, refused to disagree patently outrag
Objection. Mr. Udall thank you, madam president. Madam president , i rise in opposition to the renomination of mr. Ajit pai to the federal Communications Commission. Mr. Pai both as f. C. C. Commissioner and now as chairman has not been a vigorous watchdog for free speech. He has not put the peoples right to information first. In fact, he has put corporate interest first. And he has opposed policies outright that ensure underserved communities have access to essential technology. I strongly oppose his renomination to the commission. Lets begin with his responsibility to guard First Amendment rights. President trump has relentlessly attacked nbc, cbs, abc, cnn, the new york times, and the washington post. He called these established and esteemed news outlets fake news. He even called them the enemy of the people. Earlier this year in february during a Senate Commerce hearing, this was an oversight hearing, i asked chairman pai point blank whether he agreed with the president that these
The pandemonium that ensued was that thousands of concertgoers in downtown las vegas figured out they were being fired upon n from above. And there is nothing wrong with sending every thought and prayer, every bit of your heart to las vegas to all of the family members that lost loved ones to those recovering to the First Responders to the community writ large. It really does help. I lived through one of these as a witness in sandy hook. Many of those pairings are still my friends or about the same age or kids who are the same age. While there is absolutely no words, no gestures that can never save the ones that cometh with losing a child, especially a first grader, it did not hurt to know that the rest of the world was thinking every single, minute about that community. The overwhelming amount of stuff they showed up in sandy hook. The teddy bears that piled up in the days and weeks that follow. N it was a reminder to that town that it wasnt forgotten. It helps. It does. But its not e
What if its not to expose it but to expand it . The liberal fix for arson is always more fire. Its not hard to make obamacare better, but you would need a governing majority that wants to make it better. Meaning a forced purchase always requires more force. Its the socialist excuse. The idea is sound. We just need to obey more. Compare that with capitalism, a system that adapts to human imperfections. Unlike socialism, no straight jacket is required. Yet this intrusion never ends because the media approves, even whenecades of failure stare back at us with pleading eyes. The ruin is twofold. The real damage is what we got from obamacare, the unseen damage is what could have been in its place. What could have been . You can apply that question to venezuela, ussr, inner cities, wherever top down coercion leaving its bloody imprint. Fact is the Affordable Care act was an act, a trojan horse for redistribution. What were told is good for us can only exist as a lie. To the left were just chi