Vote the presiding officer have all senators voted . Any senator wish to change their vote . On this vote the yeas are 95. The nays are 2. Twothirds of the senators voting having voted in the affirmative the resolution of the ratification is agreed to. The majority leader of the senate. Mr. Mcconnell the senate is not in order. The presiding officer the majority leader of the senate. Mr. Mcconnell the democratic leader and i want to take a few minutes here to point out to everyone that our colleague, the senior senator from vermont, just cast a truly historic vote. Of course the tax treaties are significant, but im talking about the fact that senator leahy just cast his 16,000th vote of his senate career. We know of no single statistic that can begin to capture such tenure, but this figure comes close. 16,000 votes cast for his constituents. With numbers like that, senator leahy has already left towering figures like our late colleagues ted stevens and ted kennedy in the dust. Now hes
Only accelerate when a business may deduct certain deductions and not whether the costs are deductible in the first place. However, the most costly of what i term general business incentives is also likely the most popular. Im going to show you in just a minute. The most popular because it has such an overwhelming number of cosponsors in both bodies. That is the shortline tax credit. This provision offers a tax ched to shortline railroads for qualified maintenance expenditures. This credit isnt available to the largest railroads, what we call the class one railroads. This credit benefits smaller railroads that are critically important for farmers and many manufacturers to get their products to the global markets. For example, in my state of iowa, according to a recent data from the american short line and Regional Railroad association, there are nine short lines and Regional Railroads. This credit isnt just supported by an and important to the railroads themselves. Its also supported b
Biden, 4,000 dow points. Warren, 8,000 dow points. David hes got it all figured out. Sanders, a good 12,000 dow points. By the way, im serious when i say that. These people want to take a ton of equity out of the economy and put it in their hands. They want to tax the heck out of people and business and put it in their hands. Their hands, inefficient, ineffective, give them a dollar of tax, maybe 20 cents rolls down to what its used for, 80 cents goes to the bureaucracy. It is the worst thing that can happen. I got to tell you, some of these people running for president right now are making barack obama looking quite conservative these days. Gary, gary, they are going to say look at the economy and look at the market under barack obama. Look, i think this is a pretty ineffectual scare tactic. The president should be making the point about the free economy. Free economies are always the most process posperous. Government intervention is what causes the crashes. He should make that point
2019. Heres todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. A thousand additional u. S. Troops now getting sent to the middle east after iran said it will surpass the amount of low grade uraniuim it is allowed to stockpile within the next ten days. The u. S. And iran inch closer to conflict. We should not yield to Nuclear Extortion by the iranian regime. The fbi is digging into the social media accounts and military background of a man accused of trying to shoot up a federal courthouse in downtown dallas. Were looking at motive. And toronto chaos broke out after a shooting at the raptors nba championship celebration. We know there are four victims right now that have gunshot wounds. Passengers on a flight to france catch a terrifying bout of turbulence. The fashion world is mourning the death of designer and socialite Gloria Vanderbilt, the mother of kcnn anchor Anderson Cooper. Eating a tub of mayonnaise. Is that a big blob of it . It was the music that stole the show. And all that matte
Set up a protest encampment at penn last week. A clash at uc berkeleys encampment over the war in gaza, a confrontation between a propalestine protester and a counterprotester is raising concerns. Three people were hurt yesterday. The flashpoint in the incident seemed to be when someone grabbed an israeli flag from a counter protester. Nbc bay areas Christie Smith has more about the ongoing protest. Hey hey hey. Tensions flared at uc berkeley wednesday evening near a propalestinian encampment in front of sproul hall. Video shows a small group of people around an israeli flag. Someone in that group, who asked to remain anonymous, says a small group approached them in a confrontation began. Soon, someone grabbed the israeli flag and a Person Holding the flag was hit. Today on campus, the ongoing propalestinian encampment is quiet with some saying those responsible for the confrontation are not part of their demonstration. We had one person who ive never seen at the camp no, no, none of u