United States Senate history, we pause to acknowledge that you are our light and salvation. You are the strength of our lives, enabling us to move confidently toward the future. Empower our lawmakers who are coming and going, sustaining them in all of their tomorrows. Bless also the many other laborers who will be leaving us, who faithfully served without fanfare. Lord, reward their fidelity with heavens commendation. As our senators seek to respond to the voices of the American People, may they make it their top priority to listen to your whisper. May pleasing you be their greatest desire. Let your kingdom come and your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. We pray in your sovereign name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the 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 the
You do it. I think youve touched on so many things i agree so whole heartedly. Our good friend from montana the nose a thing or two about energy. I think on the environment, you touched on that. A lot of people believe that people that come from Energy States for throwing caution to the wind on of our mental issues. Theres no one in his body onto the side of the aisle the desolate the best and cleanest environment for themselves and their children and families and future generations. I think this pipeline has passed every hurdle that the Environmental Community rightfully so put out to make sure that will we are protecting army. Try and find a balance between the environment and the economics if you will, the economy. Its a widely important to i dont know if theres any Environmental Impact study standing in a way that would prevent this. I agree and i think he is correct and the senator from montana knows this as well. The senator from montana also has an issue of asking to explain in
Important. I hear you can get pretty smart turnout. My opponent is so dumb that it takes them two hours watch 60 minutes is the woman i remember. [laughter] three so seriously this is why they do it because of work. And all the the Political Science suggests now. At the present turnout is when they run those issues and those ads, heres here is my lovely wife, louise, and her three beautiful children. I can procreate, what the heck, who cares. I think that i think that the Political Science estimates that up for another day. But we have . Lauren, lets go over to the full halfhour. Does anyone have a problem with that . Hello, im a secondyear student and my question is what does it look like in the spring with the Republican Caucus in the senate that you have ted cruz running were starting to run and we are coming up against the debt ceiling. What happens and what does Mitch Mcconnell do and it do we start to see a large thing in the Republican Senate . Is a big smile on her face. Lets t
And it is a tone that will depend largely on the administrations willingness to respect the message sent. That is one of the things that we are discussing on friday. It was a productive meeting and there were a lot that both parties can accomplish over the next couple of years. I hope that happens and i hope im optimistic currid working together requires trust. I think president obama has the duty to help build the trust that we all need to move forward together. And to double down on old ways of doing business. That is why i think moving forward with unilateral action would be a big mistake. As it was last nights announcement to give china a free pass on a mission while herding middleclass families and struggling miners here in our country. Last friday the president said that the American People would like to see more cooperation in washington. He says he thinks all of us have the responsibility and himself in particular to try to make that happen. And that is the kind of tone that th
And that was hed asked you about mindless austerity, mindless sequestration cuts, ndless which was both in your written testimony and your spoken testimony. Do you really mindean mindless or was that a misspeak . What i mean by that is we sspea should look to make smart cuts hould in programs that arent working. It doesnt say smart. It says mindless. The implication of mindless is that it t applies a kind of across the board one size fits all approach to cutting spending as opposed to what i think were trying to do in our budget, which is to be much mortar getted. Fair enough. But i guess the point the chairman was getting at is given that bob woodward wrote about it and he says it was the brain child of jack lew in the white house. Was the president not smart in offering that proposal . I think the history was it was something that was thought to be so bad that it would neverd neve go into effect. So i dont think anybody at the time thought it was a smart strategy for reducing our bud