Today, inspire our senators to embrace your promises. May they remember your promises to supply their needs, to never forsake them, and to prevent anything from separating them from your love. Lord, bestow your blessings upon our lawmakers, making them wiser, stronger, and better, glorifying you in their labors. Use them to advance your kingdom in our nation and world, as they attune their will to your purposes. We pray in your blessed name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our 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 presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley i ask to speak for one minute in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Grassley id like to bring my colleagues uptodate on atoa bipartisan bill to lower drug prices and also at the same time give you
To focus on now of course is a trade deal with the uk and so i have joined a number of other senators and asking you can watch this online at cspan. Org. The senate gaveling in at 3 30 p. M. And they will take a procedural vote on a couple of abortion measures. Live coverage now of the u. S. Senate. 18. The presiding officer under the previous order, the time until 3 30 p. M. Will be equally divided between the two leaders or their designees. The senator from alaska. Ms. Murkowski madam president , just very briefly here this afternoon, we will have beginning at 3 30 p. M. A series of votes to include the nomination of Katherine Macgregor to be deputy secretary of the department of interior, and i would like to provide my support for this nomination. I want to thank my colleagues on the energy and Natural Resources committee for working with me to report and rereport ms. Macgregors nomination moved out on a bipartisan basis. I thank the majority leader for filing cloture on her nominat
this is drawn is that we want, that the drafters of this want to send a message of appeasement to iran and this has been tried. it hasn t worked. the last administration bent over backwards to offer appeasement to iran. they were greatly betrayed by it. it was tried with the jcpoa, and it didn t work. the reason it didn t work is we are not dealing with people here who are acting in good faith. what we need to do is we need to send a message of firmness and not weakness, and at the end of the day when we re all done with this, there will be such a message. it needs to be a consistent and uniform message when it comes to messaging to iran, when it comes to messaging on our foreign policy as it relates to iran. but it will not be this law that is before us because it s going to be vetoed. we all know it s going to be vetoed. it takes a two-thirds majority to override that. it s not going to happen. and so the mixed message is there. iran will listen to it and the hard-liners wi
Development on federal lands. We will hear from state and federal energy officials. This has Natural Resources sub hearing is chaired by paul gosar of arizona. Lands. I ask unanimous consent of the gentleman from arkansas be allowed to sit with the subcommittee and par this will allow us to hear from witnesses and members keep to the schedules. Therefore i ask for unanimous consent that all other members be made part of the hearing records if they are submitted to the clerk by 5 00 p. M. Today. Without objections to order. We can do that now. I ask that theyre not be any type of disruption regarding the testimony getting here today. Its important we respect the decorum and the rules of the house until the public can hear our receipts. The subcommittee will examine oil and gas on federal lands. They are holding a hearing in several weeks and we asked the members reserve all offshore questions for the next hearing. Its owned by all americans and the bureau of Land Management is obligated
Development on federal lands. We will hear from state and federal energy officials. This has Natural Resources sub hearing is chaired by paul gosar of arizona. Lands. I ask unanimous consent of the gentleman from arkansas be allowed to sit with the subcommittee and par this will allow us to hear from witnesses and members keep to the schedules. Therefore i ask for unanimous consent that all other members be made part of the hearing records if they are submitted to the clerk by 5 00 p. M. Today. Without objections to order. We can do that now. I ask that theyre not be any type of disruption regarding the testimony getting here today. Its important we respect the decorum and the rules of the house until the public can hear our receipts. The subcommittee will examine oil and gas on federal lands. They are holding a hearing in several weeks and we asked the members reserve all offshore questions for the next hearing. Its owned by all americans and the bureau of Land Management is obligated