Justice, and righteousness. May they cultivate such ethical consist tency, that their words will be undergirded by right actions. Lord, keep them aware of your continued presence, as they find in you fullness of joy. Show them the path to life, as you guide them to your desired destination. We pray in your merciful name. Amen. The president pro tempore amen. Please join me in the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of americ, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley madam president . The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley i ask to speak as if in morning business for one minute. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Grassley the United States of america has the mightiest military in the world to protect our freedoms and to guarantee peace around the world. Thats why its so important to keep check on the pentagons financial ledgers. Taxpayers expect their m
In the senate, he and i would like the u. S. A. Freedom act to go further and we both worked together on legislation that would make additional reforms. And certainly our colleagues on the Intelligence Committee and here in the senate can sphect expect to see us continuing to Work Together to advance these additional reforms over the coming months and years. And for now the two of us are saying we ought to support the u. S. A. Freedom act and then move on move on to other critical areas. I particularly want to see closed whats called the back door search loophole, which my colleague from new mexico talked about. What this means colleagues, is that when you are engaged in a lawful search of someone who is a threat overseas pursuant to section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act very often americans lawabiding americans can get swept up in this search and have their emails looked at. This is a problem today and my view is it is likely to be a growing concern in the future be
Away from weather and traffic. Thank you for joining us this early hour of the day. Right now, 50 degrees is the temperature. Thats way warm. Way warm above normal. 33 is where we should be for the hour of the day. Its 45. 43 in new jersey. 49 around bridgewater. So the normal temperature about 33 in the park to 23 up there to 20 in monticello. But a sunny, cooler day today. The high 5 2. Thats going to run about 10 degrees warmer than normal. Weve got a lot to talk about. Rain is on the way for tomorrow. Weather and traffic together every seven minutes. Lets see whats happening. We will start off by telling you about 63rd street blocked after problems from last week. The ed koch 95th street bridge, ongoing maintenance into queens. And to the Brooklyn Bridge, watch for ongoing construction and lets go outside and ill show you the l. I. E. , westbound through 106. And eastbound, its construction. And to the other camera, the southbound van wyck really moving slowly here at kew gardens f
Five stars or a big bust. Hey, everyone, good wednesday morning. Im reena ninan. Im Richard Bacon and the aftermath from last nights candidates debate. The nine top candidates on the stage in las vegas. Most of the action was right there at center stage involving donald trump, senator ted cruz and jeb bush. Bush and trump squaring off several times but shaking hands after the debate was finished. Abcs Stephanie Ramos has the details live from washington. Stephanie, good morning. Reporter good morning to you, richard and reena. Well, this final debate of the year focused on National Security and terrorism. And the verbal punches came out swinging almost immediately. Postgop president ial debate, donald trump sympathizing with his competition. I like jeb. I think jeb is a nice man. I really do but i think id do the same thing if i was him, id be attacking me. Reporter on stage the gloves coming off. We need to have a leader youre real tough. Reporter wasting no time to spar over Foreign
From critics are just in for star wars the force awakens. Five stars or a big bust. Hey, everyone, good wednesday morning. Im reena ninan. Im Richard Bacon and the aftermath from last nights candidates debate. The nine top candidates on the stage in las vegas. Most of the action was right there at center stage involving donald trump, senator ted cruz and jeb bush. Bush and trump squaring off several times but shaking hands after the debate was finished. Abcs Stephanie Ramos has the details live from washington. Stephanie, good morning. Reporter good morning to you, richard and reena. Well, this final debate of the year focused on National Security and terrorism. And the verbal punches came out swinging almost immediately. Postgop president ial debate, donald trump sympathizing with his competition. I like jeb. I really do but i think id do the same thing if i was him, id be attacking me. Reporter on stage the gloves coming off. Youre a tough guy, jeb. We need to have a leader youre rea