Quorum call mrs. Shaheen madam president . The presiding officer the senator from New Hampshire. Mrs. Shaheen madam president , is the senate in a quorum call . The presiding officer it is. Mrs. Shaheen i ask that the quorum call be lifted. The presiding officer without objection. Mrs. Shaheen thank you. Madam president , more than 50 years ago, president kennedy signed the equal pay act making equal pay for equal work the law of the land. And yet today, wage discrimination still persists. Today women i continue to be pad just over threequarters of what their male counterparts receive for performing the same work. More women than he have before are graduating from college, but over the course of their careers, they will each make an average of 1. 2 million less than a man with the same level of education. Unfortunately, thats not unique. Across a wide array of industries and within all different occupations, wellqualified women continue to earn an average of 77 cents for each dollar th
Its back to school for scotlands pupils, as the first minister announces everyone will be back in the classroom by mid august. The number of Rape Convictions in england and wales falls to a record low. And lift off and looking for life on mars nasa launches a rover to bring back rock samples from the red planet. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. People in the uk with coronavirus symptoms will now have to self isolate for ten days rather than just a week as ministers attempt to prevent a new spike in infections. The extension comes into force immediately and brings us into line with World Health Organisation guidance. It comes as new figures show that england had the highest level of excess deaths in europe between the end of february and mid june. Excess deaths are the number of all people who die above the average recorded in previous years, and are seen by many experts as the most reliable measure of the impact of the pandemic. Health secretary matt hancock has warned that new
They dont have the money to do it. They cant transfer them in 72 hours, my fellow senators, because they dont have the money to do it. So thats why this supplemental, madam chair, as you said, is so critical. We cant hold ourselves up as a paradigm of human rights and then say round them up and shakeup the and ship them ba. Should they say that to the syrians that are escape something round them up and ship them back . Were better than that. I have to disbrae with my friend from south carolina. Were not being overrun by these kids. Were a country of 300 million people. Were talking about, what, 50,000, 90,000 at the most . Thats overrunning america . Nonsense. We can deal with this. Now, let anyone think, we got to work with those other countries. We have to do things in those other countries. Its a complex issue. As some of you have state. Not going to be solved overnight. Its not going to be sofld with a few military people. But in the meantime, the single, most important thing is to
By his wife heidi and his mother as well as Carly Fiorina. In the meantime, all eyes are on the trump event after his Campaign Manager is now facing a Battery Charge for man handling a reporter at an event earlier this month. Trump is standing by his man, though, and all of it is happening as all of the republican candidates are backing away from a pledge to support the partys eventual nominee. We have reporters at both events covering this. Wild turns in this race right now, especially after last nights cnns town hall. Lets go to Phil Mattingly who is live at the trump event. What are we expecting this morning . Reporter kate, if you had any expectation that the Trump Campaign was going to reverse course or not be on offense or even apologize in the wake of what happened to Corey Lewandowski, the trump Campaign Manager, you were wrong. You had to watch the town hall last night. Take a listen. I stick up for people when people are unjustly accused and, in my opinion, unjustly accused.
Strikes on targets associated with the chemical weapons capabilities of syrian dictator Bashar Al Assad. A combined operation with the armed forces of france and the europe nighted kingdom is now underway. Last saturday the assad regime again deployed chemical weapons to slaughter innocent civilians. This time in the town of douma, near the syrian capital of damascus. The evil and the despicable attack left mothers and fathers, infants and children, thrashing in pain and gasping for air. These are not the actions of a man. They are crimes of a monster, instead. Pete this, in my opinion, is what you want from the president of the United States at moments like this when international alarms of gassing people and lines are crossed. America steps up and enforces them. Its nice as you saw in that graphic when our friends come next to us theresa may, that zone from france but ultimately this is about american leadership. No one else is going to enforce this. No one else is going to do what n