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
Encourage each of our colleagues to join me in a standard, responsible step forward. Thank you. Mr. President , i rise tonight to urge my colleagues to support cloture on the motion to proceed to the f. A. A. Authorization bill. Now, let me explain what this is about. The vote to get on this shell legislation is simply a vote to move the process forward, to prevent a disastrous Government Shutdown. It does not indicate support or opposition to any particular component of a continuing resolution. It does not bind members to vote one way or the other on a continuing resolution. What this really is, is a vote on whether or not members want government to shut down at the end of this week. It does indicate in the strongest possible terms that the senate is committed to working to prevent a department of the shutdown. We still have time to consider legislation to keep the government open and funded, but in order to do so, the process must move forward. I would ask all senators who wish to av
For the elderly is 21. 4 . And over 63,000 households receive food stamps. In the state of illinois over 13000 children are homeless. At the end of last year, chicago had the highest fifth highest foreclosure rate in the nation. This bill is fiscally irresponsible and reflects misplaced priorities for our nation. We can make improvements to the bill to address the concerns of Small Businesses and family farms if current law is inadequate but wholesale repeal reflects poor leadership. The fiscal recklessness of the republican approach that balloons our deficit by hundreds of billions of dollars via tax dozens of tax cuts reminds me of the adage that says death by a thousand cuts but this is debt by a thousand tax cuts. Its bad for our economy. It is bad for our citizens and it is bad for our nation. I will vote no. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from washington reserves and the gentleman from texas is recognized. Mr. Brady mr. Speaker, im very proud to introduce a key member of t
The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , july 18, 2013. I hereby appoint the honorable doug lamalfa to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2013, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip each, to five minutes but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from North Carolina, mr. Coble. Mr. Coble i thank the speaker. Mr. Speaker, ive heard some criticize the president for having played golf with tiger woods because woods is not a favorable role model. The president s golfing is none of my business, but permit me to tell you what is my business.
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