The risk may decline. We have to turn the page government must steer the ship, its a crucial part. We believe the last few minutes for live coverage of congress, you can watch this program in its entirety on our website, cspan. Org. For now we take you to a brief session of the u. S. Senate, no votes are scheduled for today live coverage here on cspan2. S. R under the previous order, the senate stans adjourned until 10 00 a. M. , on tuesday,improving the publicd health care system. G the publicd this is just under an hour. The u. S. Senate wrapping up a brief session here on this monday. Members returned more at 10 a. M. Eastern to consider the nomination of Michael Whitaker to be faa administrator. Lawmakers will hold the weekly party caucus meetings on tuesday. As always you can watch live coverage of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. If youve missed any cspans coverage, you can find at any time online at cspan. Org. Videos of key hearings, debates and of the events feature markers of
Be. This is joe. When youre connected youre not alone. Cox supports cspan as a Public Service along with these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. And the senate about to gavel in to resume work on a shortterm spending bill to fund the federal government beyond saturdays midnight deadline and avert a government shutdown. Senators voted 7719 yesterday to move forward with the measure as they wait for the house to pass its own temporary spending bill. The Senate Planning to recess this afternoon at 12 30 for weekly caucus meetings. As we take you live now to the senate floor. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The guest chaplain, Lieutenant Colonel kent a. Lund, Wing Chaplain of the 181st Intelligence Wing, will lead the senate in prayer. Chaplain lundy. If you would, be in prayer with me. Inspiring god godthat creates a way where there is no way inspire these servant senators to rise to every challenge by putting people over profits an
Operations to Small Business loans. This is a problem with maga extremism. Its not serious about governing chaos is the only word in their playbook. Conflict seems to be the natural state of being and some of them seem to exalt in shutting down the government. And if maga republicans get their way, the danger for this country will be great. Extremism will be dominant. The ultra rich will be empowered. Working families here on cspan2 we are going to break away now for live coverage of the u. S. Senate. Deg to shut down the federal government. The fringe element of extremist House Republicans has pushed congress to the brink of another costly, wasteful shutdown. The Government Shutdown of any duration would harm hardworking americans and our economy. Shutdowns cost taxpayers billions of dollars per week. They cause businesses money. They could even cause a downgrade to the nations credit rating. And they force an unnecessary disruption of many vital services. Federal workers in all 50 st
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So i think were going to started. Take your seats. Good folks take their seats if they are to begin. So well get going. I am from the sec office of media relations. Just like you know we would be posting a fact sheet about the proposal and text of the chairwomans remarks and with no further ado let me introduce chairwoman rosenworcel. Thanks, will. Thank you, everyone for being here. You know, it was more than three years ago when the covid virus reached our shores and upended daily life. I dont know if remember those early days but i thought it was bewildering. We were told to stay home, hunker down, and move lifeer online. So i grabbed what i thought wast important at work and moved my office to my dining room table. At home, i kept changing the location of the wifi router, feverishly trying to identify the sweet spot where the signal would reach everyone in my family. We had two parents, two kids, a toocrowded house, and all of us on the internet, all the time. It was a lot. And we