The presiding officer any senator wish to vote or change their vote . The yeas are 88. Nays are 4. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. A senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator from wyoming. Mr. Barrasso thank you, madam president. First i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to a legislative session and be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Barrasso thank you, madam president. Madam president , i come to the floor today having just spent thanksgiving day with our troops serving in afghanistan. It was an incredible honor to join President Trump in a surprise visit to the soldiers stationed at Bagram Air Force base. We served thanksgiving dinner to our dedicated Service Members, those are indi
Lack of neutrality in covering this impeachment ordeal, he would have to be crazy to step foot in their courtroom. If only to look at the mainstream medias response to the president traveling to afghanistan to visit the troops. News week tweeted that hes golfing and tweeting. Thats what he was doing. There you have it. He went to see our troops. He went to thank them for all their hard work. The fact that they are risking their lives every day to protect all of us so we can have the freedoms we have. Its interpretation versus reality. This is all we have gotten for nearly three straight years from both the media and the left. They say he has done a horrible job as president. But the reality is our stock market is at a record high. Unemployment is at a record low. You wonder why the president refused to feed the beast. Why testify when anything and everything you say will be for certain used against you. There is no benefit of the doubt when it comes to him. All the more reason for the
And President Trump reits troops in afghanistan and says the taliban is talking about is talking again. Breaking data from south korea breaking data from south korea, industrial reduction from october not good, down 1. 7 percent and seasonally adjusted month on month numbers. The estimate was for a fall of just 3 10 of 1 , certainly a negative territory fall after the 2 hit in september. The numbers were in line in what economists were expecting of a fall of 2. 5 . Looking dire when it comes to Industrial Production and marrying what was saw and mirroring what we saw in the china numbers this week. What else can the bank of korea do in a policy decision coming out and about two hours . It seems they will hold after we saw two cuts already this year, but a lot of questions on how long they can actually pause when it comes to the easing cycle. More on that later on. We will have an economist join us in the next hour to count ton the bok decision, a lot look forward to including the forec
The committee will come to order. Without objection, all members will have five days to submit statement, extraneous material for the record subject to the limitation and the rules. Ambassador wells, miss friedman, welcome. Welcome to members of the public and the press, as well. We are glad to have our friends from cspan with us today, as well. We meet this morning so the committee can conduct oversight of the Trump Administrations policy towards afghanistan and ill now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. For months weve been attempting to get some visibility into the ongoing peace negotiations without success. We all want peace. We all want the fighting in afg to end, but Congress Needs to know when a potential deal looks like, members on both side need to have the chance to ask questions and offer views. In the last few weeks weve seen the afghan reconciliation proseses is go off the rails in a spectacular fashion. We learn trade president ial tweet that the administration wa
On House Resolution 191 and adoption of 591 and adoption of House Resolution 591 if ordered. The first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15minute vote. Remaining electronic votes will be conducted as fiveminute votes. Pursuant to clause of rule 20, the Unfinished Business is the vote on ordering the previous question on House Resolution 591 on which the yeas an nays are ordered. The clerk will report the title of the resolution. The clerk house calendar number 44, House Resolution 591, resolution providing for consideration of the joint resolution, Senate Joint Resolution 54, relating to a National Emergency declared by the president on february 15, 2019. The speaker pro tempore the question is on the ordering of the previous question. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a 15minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned cove