Passed 2020 spending legislation, the funds the federal government passed at tonights midnight deadline to the 20th to avert a shutdown. Votes are expected at 11 a. M. Eastern. They and plan to work on the nomination to the next energy secretary. Live coverage of the senate right here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will open the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. God, the fountain of every blessing, in this thanksgiving season, we praise your holy name. May the lives of our lawmakers please you. Inspire them to walk in your ways, keeping your precepts with such integrity that they will glorify your name. Incline their hearts to your wisdom and provide them with the understanding they need to accomplish your purposes. Lord god, let your mercy protect our senators from the dangers of this life, as they learn to find delight in receiving your approval. Keep them evermindful of lifes brevity and the greatness of
The transfer of real estate, cars, gold and currency for non commercial persons is subject to capital id tax. During the review of the objections of the Guardian Council to the tax plan on speculation and gambling, the members of the parliament amended article 12 of this plan. According to this the capital id resulting from the transfer of securities or goods traded in the Stock Exchange and commodity funds, real estate and independent funds and gold coin deposit certificates are not subject to the tax subject of this chapter. The head of the Privatization Organization said today that the contract for the transfer of the headboards will be held today, wednesday, with the final transfer of 85 percent of the shares of esteghlal and presplis teams and the receipt of the first installment. According to mr. Bazian, the shares of sarkhavais were given to two banking and petrochemical consortia in a competitive and transparent arena. In fact, on the day before the offering, the base price of
Vietnamese opt and our hospital and i went to nutrong once a week to do red cross work. Watch American History tv, every weekend on cspan3. The Senate Energy Committee Held a hearing on the Global Energy out look. The executive tiff director of the agency talked about oil and Gas Production and the decreesable price of Renewable Energy and Cyber Security and a another of other issues, this is about an hour and 45 minutes. Good morning everyone the committee will come to order as we begin our first hearing what propositions to be a very busy 2008 id like to provide specific welcome this morning to our new member, senator smith. It is good to have you as part of the committee. I think you will find that this is a committee that does good work. We like to focus on policy and we like to do things in a bipartisan way every now and again. So looking forward to starting the new year off with that good foot. We dont have senator capito with us this morning but she is returning to our committee
Moderate the program. Again, welcome and look forward to a good discussion today. Thank you. Thank you so much, marcelle. Good afternoon and welcome everyone. Im pleased to be able to moderate this discussion and im very, very happy to have such distinguished colleagues with me to help enlighten us on this subject as marcelle said, one of critical interest and one of a timely nature at the moment given events in the region and here in washington as well. My introduction can be short. You can look for greater detail in the handy programs that were on your chair when you walked in, but allow me to please just briefly introduce kate bauer, who is the bloomingstein fellow at the Washington State institute and a former treasury official that served as the departments atake shea in jerusalem and in the gulf region. To her right is david cohen, former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence agency and better known to me in his role at treasury before he joined the cia when he was under se
Moderate the program. Again, welcome and look forward to a good discussion today. Thank you. Thank you so much, marcelle. Good afternoon and welcome everyone. Im pleased to be able to moderate this discussion and im very, very happy to have such distinguished colleagues with me to help enlighten us on this subject as marcelle said, one of critical interest and one of a timely nature at the moment given events in the region and here in washington as well. My introduction can be short. You can look for greater detail in the handy programs that were on your chair when you walked in, but allow me to please just briefly introduce kate bauer, who is the bloomingstein fellow at the Washington State institute and a former treasury official that served as the departments atake shea in jerusalem and in the gulf region. To her right is david cohen, former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence agency and better known to me in his role at treasury before he joined the cia when he was under se