Flat. The dax in germany up by. 30 . The moves would undermine opecs effort to try and control supply and raise prices. The wti is still sitting 50. 64. 22 are dead and Dozens Injured in manchester england. In this case, police say a suicide bomber likely detonated an improvised explosive device on monday night as people were leaving an Arianna Grande concert. Officials say that they believe they have, in fact, identified the bomber. The singer, Ariana Grande was not hurt. And several hours after the bombing she tweeted, in her words, broken, from the bottom of my heart. Im so sorry, i dont have words. Britains Political Parties have agreed to suspend campaigning until further notice. And donald trump made a joint statement with the palestinian president in bethlehem. So many young, beautiful, innocent people, living and enjoying their lives, murdered by evil losers in life. I wont call them monsters. Because they would like that term. They would think thats a great name. I will call t
Sullivan and that 11 am voting on whether to move forward with that nomination with a simple majority needed to advance. A confirmation vote possible tomorrow unless senators agree to hold that the earlier and sent recessing for up to 215 for their weekly party lunches. Yesterday the Senate Confirmed the longestserving governor in us history to be the next ambassador to china. Iowa republican terry branstad. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, the fountain of every blessing, we praise you for your loving kindness and tender mercies. We are astounded by your wonderful works to the children of humanity. Lord, we are incomplete without you. Fill our thirst for the knowledge of the sacred with your divine wisdom. Today, inspire our lawmakers to do your will. May they bring love where there is hate, light where there is darkness, and hope where there is despair. Lord, use them to transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrow
In. The house in session today taking up a number of bills this week to coincide with combating trafficking and Child Protection week, you can follow the house on cspan. We are covering coverage of the briefing by the budget director, mick mulvaney, president unveiling the fiscal year 2018 Budget Proposal. We have posted that budget on our website at the top of cspan. Org. You can see the budget directors briefing and all the other related briefings online as well as cspan. Org. Pro tempe senator from utah. Mr. Hatch mr. President , i rise today to discuss International Data privacy. This is a critically important issue that has become all the more important over the years, as weve become more sophisticated. But its been pressing in recent months as a result of the Court Decisions impacting Law Enforcements ability to access Electronic Communications overseas. I dont think it will surprise anyone, mr. President , to hear me say our privacy laws have not kept pace with technological dev
Mr. Schumer mr. President. The presiding officer the democratic leader. Mr. Schumer mr. President , mr. Schumer mr. President , mr. President the senates thoughts and prayers go out to everyone in manchester england. Such violence is particularly heartbreaking when it happens as it did in manchester at a concert with so many young people there. We mourn the families of the victims of last nights terrorist attack. We hope the perpetrators are quickly found and brought to justice. Mr. President i saw on tv a mother waiting, trying to email and text her daughter. She got no answer. She was wondering where her daughter was. She thought that the horrible memories for me after 9 11 that her when i went up there and saw hundreds of People Holding up signs, have you seen my wife, evelyn . Have you seen my son, john . Not knowing if they were alive or dead and most of them ended up in bed. We hope and pray that mother and all the other mothers who are waiting and fathers and brothers and sister
The fact of the matter is it is growth being curbed, not the programs themselves. Look at this. The Congressional Budget Office says we spent 100 last year and were supposed to spend 106 this year. For a lot of people anything less than 1107 is a cut. There are no medicaid cuts in terms of ordinary human beings refer to a cut. Were not spending less money one year than we did before. Were growing medicaid more slowly over the 10year budget window. Neil i want to repeat again, if you were to follow the traditional media describing this budget, this isnt a protrump or antitrump statement here, the fact of the matter here it is the biggest budget in american history, 4 trillion worth of spending. Every single major entitlement, every Single Program will be getting more money than was originally going to be the case down the road. Now, what was curbed was the growth. In other words the growth of spending, medicaid, you heard a lot about that. Still over the next 10year it will be getting o