our truth, and our life, we worship you. quicken our consciences by your holiness that we will find nourishment in your truth. as this partial government shutdown grinds on, help our lawmakers to to open their hearts to your love and to surrender their desires to your purposes. in this tangled world, we are conscious of our woeful inadequacies to sit in the seats of judgment, to balance the scales of justice, and to respond with equity to the myriad calls of human needs. we need you, eternal god, to crown our deliberations with your wisdom and with spacious thinking to fit these challenging days. we pray in your strong 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: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. mo
today is also the day that approximately 800,000 federal workers won t get their regularly scheduled paychecks. this includes approximately 3000 wisconsinites. many of these workers are doing their jobs without pay. coast guard workers, transportation security administration agenton, air traffic controllers, along with federal law enforcement including fbi and dea agents. these hard-working americans are suffering because president trumps and republicans in congress refuse to support bipartisan legislationrt to end the shutdown and reopen the government. we should be working today to pass bipartisan legislation to end the senseless and useless shutdown and reopen the government. sadly, no votes are scheduled today by the senate majority leader. this means the trumps shutdown will continue. the house did their job in past bipartisan legislation to end the trumps of the. but senate majority mcconnell has thus far objected to bringing this legislation up in the senate. in fact,
record. today is also the day that approximately 800,000 federal workers won t get their regularly scheduled paychecks, including approximately 3,000 wisconsinites. many of these workers are doing their jobs without pay. coast guard workers, transportation security administration agents, air traffic controllers, along with federal law enforcement including f.b.i. and d.e.a. agents. these hardworking americans are suffering because president trump and republicans in congress refuse to support bipartisan legislation to end this shutdown and reopen the government. we should be working today to pass bipartisan legislation to end this senseless and useless shutdown and reopen the government. sadly, no votes are scheduled today by the senate majority leader, meaning that the trump shutdown will continue. the house did their job and passed bipartisan legislation to end the trump shutdown, but senate majority leader mcconnell has thus far objected to bringing this legislation up in t
record. today is also the day that approximately 800,000 federal workers won t get their regularly scheduled paychecks, including approximately 3,000 wisconsinites. many of these workers are doing their jobs without pay. coast guard workers, transportation security administration agents, air traffic controllers, along with federal law enforcement including f.b.i. and d.e.a. agents. these hardworking americans are suffering because president trump and republicans in congress refuse to support bipartisan legislation to end this shutdown and reopen the government. we should be working today to pass bipartisan legislation to end this senseless and useless shutdown and reopen the government. sadly, no votes are scheduled today by the senate majority leader, meaning that the trump shutdown will continue. the house did their job and passed bipartisan legislation to end the trump shutdown, but senate majority leader mcconnell has thus far objected to bringing this legislation up in t
i want to stay here in california. it means it means the world to me. reporter: just a few delegates of hitting that magic number, kpln is looking to tuesday s final round of democratic primaries to seal the deal. on tuesday i will have decisively won the popular vote, and i will have decisively won the pledged delegate majority. you can t get much more than that out of a primary season. reporter: clinton telling cnn s jake tapper after tuesday s contest she s pushing for party unity. i expect senator sanders to do the same, and that we will come together and be prepared to go to the convention in a unified way. reporter: but clinton s rival bernie sanders argues that clinton s super delegates shouldn t be counted just yet. hillary clinton will not have the requisite number of pledged delegates to win the democratic nomination at the end of the nominating process. the democratic national convention will be a contested convention. reporter: vowing to take his