The National Defense authorization bill today for 2021. There there are a number of amendment votes scheduled for this afternoon. Live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal spirit, grant to this nation, and to all people, a social conscience built on the vision of the ancient prophets who saw sufficiency for every person and a time when anxiety would overcome chaos and hopelessness. Hasten the day when the small and weak can make their contributions alongside the great and powerful. Lead us to the day when we will see peace among the nations of the earth, when swords shall be beaten into plowshares. Use the members of this body to bring us to the time when your will is done on earth even as it is dob in heaven. Lord, we trust you with our future. Let your glory cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. We pray in your mighty name. Amen. The pr
Show, and these crew members of working to bring San Francisco the best one yet. Its going to be a bunch of big shells and theyre going to look like theyre right on top of you. Reporter this years show is extra special to pat diaz. Tomorrow he will lead San Franciscos new years show. San francisco has seen jeff thomas displays on the fourth of july and on new years eve many year for many years. Jeffrey tired this year and the torch has been passed to me and my colleague, matt. Congratulations. Well, thank you. Reporter and he hopes to continue this legacy with a bang and a trigger in hand. Yes, you heard right, a trigger. You have to hold this button down. Its called the dead man. And this button allows the system to shoot fireworks. If something goes wrong, then all that has to be done to stop the fireworks is to let go of that button. Reporter while this crew loads up the shells for the fireworks, San Francisco Police Officers are also prepping for the big show. No discretionary time
That nothing was going to be lost and everything was going to be protected. Here we have the issue being raised again but from another perspective. I believe that enacting this bill, protecting floridas shore from the dangers of offshore drilling, will save jobs in coastal tourism, Recreation Industries and many others that are held by the people of florida, including women and people of color. The Diverse Coalition of businesses and industries permitted to protecting floridas gulf coast and offered strong support for the underlying legislation. The real threat to jobs in florida will be failing to extend the existing moratorium. Elected first including the entire florida congressional delegation, the Florida Governor oppose drilling in the eastern gulf and support h. R. 205. This amendment does not do anything to protect people of color and diversity keeps the for these reasons i urge opposition to the amendment and i resevere. The chair the gentleman reserves the balance of his time.
To see, i would like to see more control of our voting by the county clerk in our counties, rather than giving it to the secretary of state, and she was sued by Judicial Watch for not cleaning up the voter rolls and at this time, the voter rolls are still not cleaned. Person runningw for secretary of state and every one of these candidates and the primary has basically supported cleaning up these the voter rolls. Another issue i would like to address host we are out of time, i want to give professor halderman a chance to respond to follow that. Guest i would say that the very positive thing that you just mentioned is the optical scan paper ballots in the polling place. That is the best technology we have currently for securely recording peoples votes. What the state also needs to do is make sure that those paper ballots are being regularly audited to make sure that they match the statewide results. Is not expensive, it is not particularly timeconsuming, but it is a step that most state
Our guest is senator kiersten gillibrand. Fill theppointed to seat of one of her mentors, hillaryy of state clinton. She is known for her work on behalf of women. She has endorsed paid family leave, sponsored legislation to help reduce maternal mortality, and spoken out against Sexual Harassment and assault, including in congress. About we will hear more these efforts and her other priorities, including medicare for all, gun control, and immigration policy. She will also share thoughts about her campaign, including her strategy for making it onto the democratic stage in houston next month. Please join me in welcoming kissinger legrand and the Washington Post bob costa. [applause] thank you much for joining us here at Washington Post live. Really appreciate you taking the time, senator. Busy on the campaign trail. Yesterday, i was in missouri. What we have seen is an allout assault on womens reproductive freedom and we went to the front about, what does an attack on womens reproductive