Impeachment trial and senators sworn in as jurors. Well take you live now to the senate floor on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal king, ruler of all nature, thank you for the opportunity to serve you and country. Help us to give government what belongs to government, as we render to you our faithful stewardship. Lord, guide our lawmakers to make right choices in challenging times. Enable them to feel your presence and become lights to a dark world. Open their eyes to see your daily gifts and blessings, infusing them with a spirit of gratitude. Protect our nation from sea to shining sea as you empower us to live for your glory. We pray in your wonderful 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 n
Good afternoon, everyone. Notwithstanding the change in the schedule, were going to start on time, the new time. So, on behalf of myself and bob wise, who is my supremely and talented collegial codirector of the nyu law schools legislative and regulatory process clinic, i wanted to welcome you here today to the fourthyear of the form. Forum. We are joined by another nyu law entity. A nonpartisan, multidisciplinary director, and the rachel called brenner, who is here, has been invaluable in helping pull together the programs this afternoon. This forum would not be possible without the generous support of a Renowned International law firm. It gives me great pleasure to partnere peter ross, a in the chicago office, who knows a lot about what we are talking about today. He served his district for six terms, from 2002019. He chaired the house ways and means subcommittee on oversight, where he championed efforts that were supported on a bipartisan basis to overhaul the irss civil Asset Forfe
Placed in a separate part of the journal. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Cotton 70 years after the creation of nato, the biggest external threats to the alliance are a revisionist adversaries, china and russia. Unfortunately, however, the alliance faces some internal threats, too. Among the allies themselves, who too often fail to take these adversaries seriously, instead striking dangerous deals with the very powers who threaten to destroy all of us. Consider the nord stream 2 pipeline project between germany and russia. Germany touts the pipelines commercial benefits, but russia sees is differently. A strategic tool to divide europe and, thus, strengthen its punitive claim to dominion over Eastern Europe. The nord stream 2 pipeline would effectively double the amount of natural gas russia would export to europe along a route that bypasses the alliances eastern frontier. This would deepen nato members reliance on russian gas while also enhances Vladimir Putins ability to
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