president biden s nominee to head citizenship and immigration services. and now live to the floor of the u.s. senate here on c-span2. the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. the chaplain, dr. barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. the chaplain: let us pray. precious lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations, sustaining us with your goodness and mercy. today, surround our senators with the protection of your divine favor, enabling them to obey your command to be productive. lord, continue to strengthen them to follow your precepts, fulfilling your purposes as they find joy in your presence. keep them from the things that bring regret. increase their faith, providing them with courage to live for your glory. we pray in your strong name, amen. the presiding officer: please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god,
happen now at 12:30. these are all union members represented from the local 1021, one of several unions in negotiations with the smta right now. the union wants to make sure the incoming director will be sympathetic to working conditions. there are a lot of problems plaguing muni, the director says, one is the quality of the equipment it uses. even new vehicles in the fleet that he and other partners have problems with. here is how he describes it. they break down. sometimes the brakes don t work. there are screws falling out of them all kinds of things. it is that the quality should be held to a lot higher standards. we are negotiating in good faith with the unions because we want to make sure their workplaces are safe and enjoyable while they work and that they have the resources they need to do their jobs directly and in a way that helps and preserves the community. reporter: this rally comes following a pretty challenging week-and-a-half for muni. on friday riders
this period in our young lives shaped our sense that this democracy is special, is important, is worth fighting for, and requires greater sacrifice of us than might be obvious here in the comforts of the united states. it s because of these shared experiences we urchth the understand the ways when our democracy is dysfunctional, when the world sees gridlock, especially today, especially on the continent we ve both come to know and love in africa that there are competing models for how to organize a society that are rising in their visibility and their confrontation and their competition with our own. we know democracy matters. and believe we have to fight for it. we respect each other. we listen to each other. and over the years i ve been blessed to have the chance for us to work together. at a time marked by division and partisanship, senator flake rightly recognizes that we need to get back to a point where compromise is rewarded rather than punished, when we work togethe
since israel sealed off since hamas attack on civilians. despite today s aid, the situation is desire for roughly 2 million in gaza. i m chris livesay in egypt. aid can trickle in, but refugees can t trickle out. also tonight, breaking news. a dual american israeli fighting for israel killed in combat. we ll have the details. and looming ground offensive. israeli officials say preparation for the next stage of the war has been approved, starting with increased air strikes. plus, bound for home. god bless you guys. what president biden told the american mother and daughter held hostage by hamas as their illinois neighborhood prepared for their return. today is a most celebratory day. and later, tickets to history. an auction for front row seats that changed america forever. you paided nearly $250,000 and you would have went higher? i would have went higher. this is the cbs weekend news from washington. good evening tonight. gaza on the brink of an inva
for three or four questions. the gentleman just here, if for three or four questions. the gentlemanjust here, if you could say your name. sure, paulfrom itv news, you say that there is no quick fix but many of your predecessors say there is, simply to send fewer people to prison, isn t that the immediate way to reduce the pressure on our immediate way to reduce the pressure on our prisons? as i pointed out in my speech, we are sending fewer first time offenders to prison and we are sending fewer people to prison, for short sentences. but the fa ct prison, for short sentences. but the fact is, we have seen an increase in prosecution rates, for areas like sex crime, and an increase in sentences for those, which i think reflects the seriousness of those crimes and i think it would be wrong to arbitrarily reduce those sentences are not prosecute as many cases. so we are keeping a steady prison population, that is what has happened for the last six years, we are reducing the numbe