Today, inspire our senators to embrace your promises. May they remember your promises to supply their needs, to never forsake them, and to prevent anything from separating them from your love. Lord, bestow your blessings upon our lawmakers, making them wiser, stronger, and better, glorifying you in their labors. Use them to advance your kingdom in our nation and world, as they attune their will to your purposes. We pray in your blessed name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our 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 senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley i ask to speak for one minute in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Grassley id like to bring my colleagues uptodate on atoa bipartisan bill to lower drug prices and also at the same time give you
We break away from this portion of washington journal to fill our longtime commitment to bring you live Senate Coverage. Follow this at cspan. Org, senate gasoline and next coming up shortly. Senator Tammy Baldwin will deliver the annual reading of washingtons farewell address. After that the senate will debate the nomination of Robert Malloy to be a district judge for the Virgin Islands with the vote to limit debate on the nomination is scheduled for later this afternoon. Live Senate Coverage is here on cspan2. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, the center of our joy, make us your captives so that we may live liberated lives. Provide our senators with the spiritual, mental, social and physical revitalization they need just for today. May they place their trust in you and experience your profound peace. Grant that they will relinquish their worries to you, as they permit your perfect love to cast out every fear. Lord, show them your redemptive purposes in every problem they must so
Popular runner guide series on 17 200 claims and constitutional law claims please welcome christopher torok. Our next panelist is the professor himself wrote the book, he is a graduate of notre dame where the was a runnerup valedictorian but the made up for that when he went to Harvard Law School and won the diploma for being top student to graduate in his class. He is, its a lot easier. A lot easier. And he has been a lawyer and a professor including back at harvard for a while, hes currently at vanderbilt and hes the author of this book. It makes a compelling case for the class action mechanism and we will hear from him and our moderator today is the judge of the ninth circuit. He is a graduate of, a korean immigrant i should start with came to this country and graduated from Ivy League Cornell and then also harvard lawschool. His classmates, magna cum laude and works at block tell, works at the associate white House Counsel i believe in a special counsel to the Judiciary Committee a
Accompanied by the vice premier of the peoples republic of china. Thank you very much. We greatly appreciate you joining us at this white house event. It is very important and remarkable location. Today we take a momentous ste step, one that has never been taken before toward a future fair and reciprocal trade phase one of the historic trade deal between the United States and china. Together we are righting the wrongs of the past to deliver Economic Justice and security for American Workers and farmers and families. Want to thank president xi who was watching as we speak and i will be going over to china in the not too distant future to reciprocate. I want to thank president xi was a very very good friend of mine. We are representing different countries. He represents china i representing the us, but we have developed an incredible relationship if i want to thank him for his cooperation and partnership throughout this complex process. Our negotiations were tough and respectful leading
Sympathies and support to all of those members in their electorate. I want to thank you for the work you have done. The member raise the matter recommendations regarding the assets, what the government has done to respond to that with two separate actions of funding which matched what they originally asked for i dealt with this during the bushfire season, in addition to those funding allocations of 11 million, on top of that we announce that further 20 million over and above the 15 million being provided each and every year as part of the arrangement we had. We are pleased to do that. Ongoing funding was addressed in this years budget. The house of representatives, the primacy was asked about preparedness and how they acted on this, and related to the catastrophic season. The leader of the opposition. My question is addressed to the primacy. Does the primacy regret saying volunteer firefighters dont need economic compensation for lost income because they want to be out there. Once agai