If not all in favor say aye. All opposed no. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes have it. The nominations are confirmed en bloc. Mr. Mcconnell i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to 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. Mcconnell i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 26, s. 129. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk calendar number 26, s. 129, a bill to reauthorize and amend the Sea Grant College program act and for other purposes. The presiding officer is there objection to proceeding to the motion . Without objection. Mr. Mcconnell i ask unanimous consent that the wicker substitute amendment at the desk be considered and agreed to, the bill as amended be considered read a third time. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell i know of no further debate on the
You can also open some questions. From a timing standpoint economically, i think its an interesting time. We had jackson hole, Second Quarter gdp numbers looking a little better so thats great. From a human and social perspective, its an unfortunate time in our sympathies and prayer go to the folks in houston. Get right into it. We will talk to the domestic economy and the Global Economy. Lets start off with u. S. Economy. Where do we stand right now whats the outlook for the next three to five years. First quarter gdp was 1. 2 . Second quarter was 1. 3 . For the year 2017, u. S. Economy should grow approximately two and a quarter percent. Its not great by historical standards but certainly sufficient in our view to further take slack out of the labor market, drive down the on employment rate and other measures of employment slack. We can talk about that there are a number of reasons why gdp growth is more sluggish now than it was ten years ago or 15 years ago and the number one reason
The criminal alien gang member and ask fort its immediate consideration. To amend the immigration and nationality act with respect to aliens associated with criminal gains and other purposes. Pursuant to House Resolution, the amendment prints its house report 115 307 is adopted. This amendment is considered red. And generalwoman man will control 30 minutes. Chair now recognize recognizes the gentleman from idaho. I ask that all members may have five legislative days with which to revise and extend their remarks. That objection is so ordered. Speaker, i rise in support of hr 3697, the criminal gang member removal act. I introduce this bill for a very simple briefing. Is facing anates evergrowing danger from transnational gangs. And u. S. Immigration and enforcement. We need more tools to deal with this danger. Governments most important responsibility is the safety and security of the American People. But we are not filling that responsibility when we have allowed things to enter our co
, who has a number , who ares on his team experts in money laundering, so wet does this tell you . Guest this tells you the special Counsel Robert Mueller is pushing forward seems like they are starting to find things that could lead to criminal charges in the future. Theres that piece of the investigation. Flynns son has been dragged into this. He helped out during the trump transition after the election. I think he helped with scheduling and he was in meetings. He also got involved in salacious pieces with a retweet of the infamous pizza gate story, which is a pizza parlor where apparently he did not want to go into at some point because there were all things occurring. That was a sex scandal, a lowgrade sex scandal i think people were trying to push for the election. Host we also solve the story about facebook ads that popped up with ties either to the russian government, what is that about . Guest that is senator mark warner, the lead democrat on the Senate Intelligence committee.
Good morning. Senate committee on Health Education labor and pensions will please come to forward. Were holding our fourth hearing this morning on stabilizing premiums and ensuring access to insurance in the individual Health Insurance market for 2018. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then well introduce our five witnesses. Welcome to you. After their testimony, senators will have an opportunity to ask the itnesses five minutes of questions. To begin with, we ought not to take for granted the three hearings this committee has had over the last ten days. For seven years hardly a civil word was spoken between republicans and democrats on the Affordable Care act. It was trumpcare versus obamacare day in and day out. But for the last ten days senators from both sides of the aisle have engaged in serious discussion for several hours at a time about what congress can do between now and the end of this month to help limit premium increases for 18 illion americans n