Advance the measure both for 11 30 a. M. Eastern. Now live to the senate floor here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal father, our souls long for you, for we find strength and joy in your presence. Guide our lawmakers to put their trust in you, seeking in every undertakin to know and do your will. When they go through difficulties, may they remember that, with your help, they can accomplish the seemingly impossible. Give them a faith that will trust you even when the darkness is blacker than a thousand midnights. May they always find strength in your providential leading. We pray in your strong name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The
We come here today with an we come here today with an opportunity to say to america we see you and hear you. I experience your pain. And one year, seven times as an elected position and this body trying to get into the Chamber Office building on the congressional side, i understand some part of what too many have experienced. This Police Reform legislation does that and provides clear opportunities for us to say not only do we hear you, not only do we see you we are responding to your pain. Because we in america believe that justice should be applied equally to all citizens with no exception. And when we see exceptions it is our responsibility to do something about those and this legislation helps us get there. We received the letter from senator schumer on the other side saying there were five things about the d justice act my response is simple lets have the amendments if we can get on these two sides of the chamber and we should do that in the legislation i met with other senators.
Driving up the death toll further as the u. N. Security council wrangles over ceasefire plan we report from northeast nigeria where the government has apologized to the families of dozens of missing schoolgirls for giving them false information. Its time to make. A much harder. President rallies the conservative faithful saying a school with no guns is a dangerous place. And how one tweet from a reality t. V. Not chapel most one point three billion dollars. Top story in sports. From russia fails a drug. Out of all the details coming up for you later in the program. The death toll continues to climb in syria where the government bombing of a rebel held enclave near damascus shows no signs of abating rockets have been fired into eastern for a sixth straight day but in the death toll to four hundred forty three people since sunday well at the u. N. Security council of vote is due to take place any time now on imposing a thirty day ceasefire in syria but it has been delayed by last minute
Library, and we have a great speech today for president s day weekend. A day in the life of a president. How many of you are members, raise your hand . Oh, wow, fantastic. For those of you who arent members, if you become a member today, you get a 25 discount on pauls book which you can buy in the store. He will be doing a book signing immediately after the program, so you can get a new book and have him sign it before we go today. We have a new exhibit thatll be opening in april want to tell you about, its called art of war. Its an exhibit that looks at the poster art of world war ii from our collection. We have about 3,000 posters in our collection, and were going to be doing an exhibit starting april 21st. And the artists, quite remarkable by some of our greatest, norman rockwell, andrew wyeth and others. Paul is both a working correspondent with west wing reports and reports from the white house on a daily basis, and hes also a tremendous historian. Hes delved into the history of b
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