Lord, preserve them, keeping them from stumbling or slipping. Enable them to rejoice because your goodness and mercies endure forever. May our senators remember that you love righteousness and justice. May this knowledge motivate them to follow your precepts, earnestly striving to glorify your holy name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the 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 clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington d. C. , february 12, 2016. To the senate under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable mike rounds, a senator from the state of south dakota, to perform the duties of the chair. Signed orrin g. Hatch, president pro tempore. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presidi
Resolved in the court. This is about three hours. The Rural Economy will come to order. Dear heavenly father we thank you so much for the opportunity to serve this great nation. Lord we thank you for the freedoms that we have we thank you that you have blessed us as you have with the rich resources and the ability to use those to make the world a better place. Lord guide us and direct us, give us wisdom through this hearing and we ask all this in jesus name, amen. Thank you. I want to thank ms. Mccarthy. Its related to the regulatory of the Environmental Protection agencies. Many members believe that epa has pursued agenda absent of any recognition of consequences and production agriculture. Epa is trading regulations and policies to burdensome overreaching and negatively affect the jobs of rule economy. The most poynant example water rule, the clean water rule. Ill be frank, this rule is not about clean water. Every one wants and deserves to drink clean water. Rebranding government is
Resolved in the court. This is about three hours. The Rural Economy will come to order. Dear heavenly father we thank you so much for the opportunity to serve this great nation. Lord, we thank you for the freedoms that we have, we thank you that you have blessed us as you have with the rich resources and the ability to use those to make the world a better place. Lord, guide us and direct us, give us wisdom through this hearing and we ask all this in jesus name, amen. Thank you. I want to thank ms. Mccarthy. Its related to the regulatory of the Environmental Protection agencies. Many members believe that epa has pursued agenda absent of any recognition of consequences and production agriculture. Epa is trading regulations and policies to burdensome, overreaching and negatively affect the jobs of rule economy. The most poynant example water rule, the clean water rule. Ill be frank, this rule is not about clean water. Every one wants and deserves to drink clean water. Rebranding governmen
T the Supreme Court halted implementation of the power plan until legal challenges against it are resolved in the courts. Some members a discussed the flint, michigan, water contamination crisis. This is three hours. Ive asked mike bosh to open with a prayer. Dear heavenly father, we thank you so much for the we opportunity to serve this great nation. Lord, we thank you for the res freedoms that we have. Make we thank you that you have blessed up as you have with thee rich resources and the ability to use those to make the world a better place. Lord, guide us and direct us, give us wisdom through this hearing. We ask all this in jesus name, amen. Thank you, michael. I want to thank you m administrator mccarthy for being here this morning. The appreciate you being here. Y theres a reason, a top issue for nearly every member of our ag committee is related to the n regulatory agenda for the Environmental Protection agency. Many members of this committee believe the agenda has been absent
Newschannel5 viewer who shared it on facebook. There you see it right there, the nightmare situation for everyone stuck right there. Our meteorologist tara blake is there live. So tara is stepping out of the vehicle, but you can see the snow coming down. Here she is live with more information. Well, no, there we have mark. Here is the location of the accident, just outside of leroy, interstate 90 westbound. You cross over payne creek right there, so you go downhill, and thats most likely where the accident has happened involving 15 semis. The backup quite extensive, all the way to 528 and beyond. Then theyre stopping traffic going eastbound at route 306 and getting you off and tracking you down route 8 4, then back on into madison. So its going to be a little while before this gets done. Here we go with what happened. We had this big old squall come through. Not lake effect, though. This was a trough of low pressure that kind of moved you can actually see where the trough is now from y