Legislative business, five measures including one to increase protections for community religious centers expected to recess shortly after that and reconvene at 4 30. Rder the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God of the universe, we give you thanks for giving us another day. We ask your blessing as we approach the end of the first session of this 115th congress. You know well the contentiousness of this season. Look into the hearts of all the members of this peoples house that they might discern good will within. May the good will you find be rewarded with your grace. May any contrary spirit be banished. In the days that come, help each member to understand well and interpret positively as they are able the positions of those with whom they disagree. Grant to each the wisdom of solomon and to us all the faith and confidence to know that no matter how difficult things appear to be, you continue to walk with our nation as you have done f
Conference, alisyn, with more details, including possible Surveillance Video from the gas station. That could show us exactly what happened. That would help, thanks so much, sarah. And its Important Note what you saw in the video there, that wasnt a flashbang being thrown by the Police Officers, it was a firework coming from the crowd allegedly it was an attempt to try to create some type of disturbance with the gas pumps there, it didnt work, thankfully, that could have really changed the dynamic of the situation, but certainly it caused panic. This situation comes in the wake of two officers being shot at and killed in brooklyn, new york. There had been calls to come together after that but those calls were ignored by protesters who took over streets in manhattan. Chanting how do you spell racist . Nypd. The timing is causing criticism. There had been questions about whether or not president obama would attend the officers funeral. We know Vice President biden and his wife, jill, are
Monday. People still had to go to work and talk to each other and share their grief and their thoughts and their mourning and discuss this tragic unacceptable seemingly new normal. Well, heres one small way to stop and reflect on how unacceptable this reality is for our nation, for each other, for our children, to acknowledge this level of violence occurs regularly itself is to know its wrong. In fact, thats the simple point presented succinctly on the front page of todays boston globe. This is what weve become. This is what weve become because this is reality. This is how we live now. To feel that reality and to know inside that its wrong is to maybe understand the beginning of how to change it. You dont need a newscast to also know theres no unity on solutions for all this in america right now. Top democrats are invoking these shootings to make a somewhat unusual call to demanding republican leader mcconnell interrupt the current summer recess to hold a vote on background checks. As
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