The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be terminated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent that following the vote on calendar number 849, carnes, on monday, july 21, the senate remain in executive session to consider calendar number 789, lawson, and 537, reddick, there be two minutes for debate equally divided between the two leaders or their designees prior to each vote, that upon the use or yielding back of what time, the senate proceed to vote with no intervening action or debate on the nominations in the order listed. That any roll call votes following the first in the series be 10 minutes in length. The motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table, that no further actions be in order. That any statements be printed in the record and that president obama be immediately notified of the senates action and the senate then resume legislative session. The presiding officer
[silence] mr. President. The senator from texas. The mac as your president come i rise today to speak about one of the Saddest Development in the United States senate. Namely the allout assault on the First Amendment been led a Senate Democrat. It is important to clarify what the issue before this body is not about. The issue before this body is not about access to this, despite a whole lot of politicking by Senate Democrats to suggest to the contrary. In this body, the number of people who would do anything to restrict access to contraceptives to anybody is nero. Let me repeat that. There is no one in this body, there is no one i am aware of across the country who is advocating restrict in anyones access to this. Mr. President , my wife and i are blessed with two little girls. I am very glad we dont have 17. Nobody, nobody, nobody is talking about restricting access to this. What are we talking about . What we are talking about is the federal government using brute force to force peop
Republican leader comments on the 2014 Midterm Elections. House democrats present their economic agenda. Then the House Rules Committee considers a lawsuit against president obama. On the next washington journal, immigration and the influx of unaccompanied children from Central American with two members of congress, Iowa Republican steve king and Texas Democrat Eddie Bernice johnson. Washington journal live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. We are here at Salisbury House in des moines, iowa. Its a home that was built by karl and edith weeks in the 1920s. He was a man of many and varied interests. Nonone of the most notable are his amazing collections in terms of artwork, sculpture, the Library Collection is an amazing collection of rare limited First Edition works. Its incredible. He collected the books that he collected not only because they are important historical works but also because he believes that books themselves were works beyondand had a worse the words on a page. He collecte
Suggests that 50 of these children may need some form of protective service. That is an International Responsibility of the United States responsibility the United States also has to be mindful. Let me address with the chairman raised initially. The president is asking for 3. 7 billion. 3. 4 billion is dealing with the consequences of a failed policy within the native countries. Instabilityy means that is not safe for families and children therefore they are putting their unaccompanied children at risk by transit to the United States. 300 million is being used for dealing with the causes. We have programs in these countries. We have the Millennium Challenge Corporation that is operating in honduras and el salvador. We have partnership for growth operating in el salvador. We have the Central America Regional Security initiative. We have programs that were intended to deal with some of these issues. To me, the most Successful Program that was initiated to deal with a global problem that
A culture that respects life, a culture that honors the dignity of every individual and honors the values of our judeochristian elites. Theres no magic to a Free Enterprise system or democracy or even our mighty military that cannot be undone by men behaving badly. You have heard it said that liberty cannot be established without barrell established without relative normality without faith. Today thats an unfashionable symptom in our society. Many wanted to believe that a completely Secular Society is a desirable goal for america. Democracy and military might will not the countries of western europe have weakened themselves by adapting a secular worldview which pushes matter of faith to the site. Ive got no interest in seeing america go the way of europe. As for me [applause] as for me i think carville and clinton got it wrong. I think its a culture stupid. That brings me to and want to talk about today. Theres so much this president the Obama Administration has done that worries me th