The presiding officer the senate will come to order. Under the previous order, all postcloture time is expired. On the wiegand nomination. The question now occurs on the nomination. Is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 82, the nays are 14. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of thomas t. Cullen of virginia to be United States district judge for the Western District of virginia. Signed by 17 senators. The
Good morning. This hear willing come to order. This hearing will come to order. I want to thank acting secretary wolf for his service and for taking the time to come before our committee here today. I know you have a lot of things on your plate here. The committee does appreciate you taking the time for coming in and explaining whats all been happening and answering our questions. Your full testimony, full written testimony will be entered in the record. For my part, im going to read my Opening Statement, and then there will be a twominute video at the tail end of my statement. The federal protective Service Officer David Patrick underwood was 53, on may 29th, when he was shot dead guarding a Federal Building in Oakland California during a protest. His partner was also shot, but thankfully survived. News reports said the protests involving approximately 8,000 people turned chaotic and violent as demonstrators smashed windows, looted stores and broke into a bank a few blocks from where
Business owners are slamming city leaders as their Stores Remain shut, were going to be talking to one of those desperate Business Owners on what he wants to see from city officials and then to massachusetts where forensics are now requiring most students to receive the flu vaccine to ease the burden on our Health System during this pandemic what doctors are saying about the move and why a lot of parent s are protesting but first , all eyes are now in the rnc the Republican National committee as the dnc, the democrats come to their conclusion. Democrats wasting no time slam ming President Trump, specifically for his response to the pandemic. Watch. Donald trump hasnt grown into the job, because he cant. And the consequences of that failure are severe. 170,000 americans dead. My dad was a healthy 65 yearold. His only preexisting condition was trusting donald trump and for that, he paid with his life. The tragedy of where we are today is it didnt have to be this bad. Just look around. It
Mr. Portman mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from ohio. The presiding officer mr. President , im here on mr. Portman im here to talk about the steps congress should take with respect to the coronavirus pandemic. Im start with the legislation that majority leader senator Mitch Mcconnell introduced yesterday, one of the aspects of it that hasnt gotten much attention and i think is very positive and an effective way to get the economy moving in a safe way is some tax legislation. These are tax credits and Tax Deductions that help to encourage the hiring of new workers but also to do so in a safe way. These are the kinds of things that make a lot of sense and have a lot of bipartisan support and appeal. So i think it should be part of whatever final package we end up with. The goal of these tax incentives is to say that we want people to reenter the workforce but do it in a safe and sustainable way. For example, in the mcconnell proposal is legislation i introduced called
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