Quorum call quorum call mr. Sanders madam president. The presiding officer the senator from vermont is recognized. Sorry. Mr. Sanders thank you. Madam president , since last week the senate has been quote, unquote, debating the presiding officer senator, were in a quorum call. Mr. Sanders i would ask that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Sanders madam president , since last week, the senate ostensibly one of the great deliberative bodies in the world, supposedly, has been quote, unquote, debating the 740 billion National Defense authorization act. Its been a very, very silent debate because of the 700 amendments that have been filed to this bill. There has been no roll call votes on any of them. I do understand that in the managers amendments have been accepted, and thats fine, but weve had a vigorous debate but nobody in the world has heard that debate because theres not been one amendment here on the floor. And knowing the way the senate does
Its also the virtual capital of the european union. A union of half a billion people. But its also the city from where hundreds of fighters have left to fight for isis in syria, o they have good reason here to be back to you. Police thanked the public and the media for not talking about the raids on social media. New detaiis in a double Homicide Investigation out of des moines. Police say a man is in custody, and the two vicdims are a woman andder dadaghter. Police went to a home alonggull avenue around seven last night. They found the two victims inside. The suspect is recovering in a hospital. This makes the 15th and 16th moines. Thankfully it didnt take long to restore power to thousands of people this morning after a car crashed into a powerrpole. A viewer sent us this picture from the area of hillcrest and ridgeway. Waterloo police tell us it happened around 11last night Midamerican Energy had the power restored aaut two hours later. At this point, police dont know what caused the
Im mike hydeck. Right now, a tentative calm prevails in ferguson. People living in the st. Louis suburb are hoping that this chaos is over. Danielle nottingham with more. Reporter burned out businesses smoldered following a night of chaos in ferguson, missouri. Rioting broke out after a county prosecutor announced that nine white and three africanamerican jurors decided not to indict Police Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown in august. Their decision was based on 70 hours of testimony from about 60 witnesses. This morning the mayor of st. Louis condemned the violence. It really sets back the cause of social justice. Violence doesnt solve anything. Reporter president obama called for peaceful demonstrations, but the situation quickly got out of hand as roaming groups of demonstrators, some from outside the area, ramp alleged through the neighborhood firing shots, breaking windows, and destroying businesses. Police responded with tear gas. Cbs n
You have not thought through it . Needs to be proposed and final i have not even been briefed on that because we are still looking at the science in the right to keep the policy and legal questions aside. Very quickly, you did a National Survey of the willingness of people to pay . I believe it was. Did you also survey the industry to see if they were willing to pay for the epa opinion on whether or not it was cost costeffective, and did you also do a survey to see if people were willing to pay for the loss of jobs and jobs were exported offshore because our plants cannot compete . I think that we are seeing a little bit of apples and oranges. Im not sure its time for me to clarify what the survey was doing and what role it was applying. We will talk offline. Thank you, sir. The gentleman from newtown, mr. Stewart is recognized. Thank you, madam administrator, thank you for being here today. Im sure that you just enjoyed your warning. Im honored to be your. Thank you. I must say that y
Republicans without qualifiers, we kind of looked the other way when this group was doing its own thing. I think the Government Shutdown was the straw that broke the camels back. Senate. They the money againsting me. That opened the floodgates. Then all the other one started piling on and asking the same questions. Last few weeks there has from theiful silence more a survey part of the party. Everyone is involved. Seeink you are going to more of a concerted effort financially, structurally, in the media, and it is a way of not just eating defined by one very vocal group not just being defined by one vocal group. They go out in the cold and rain. Lot to get me to protest these days. I think this has been good. On your first question about obamacare, the best thing to happen to obamacare was the Government Shutdown. Who waser asking a guy about two and a half weeks in when we finally started talking about the website and all the problems remember there were glitches. When can we start ca