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Funding expires. Bills on energy and clean air and forced labor. Announced Ruth Bader Ginsburg will lie in state in statuary hall at u. S. Capitol friday. The ceremony will only be open [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by conroy. Plain, father chaplain conroy let us pray. Ord, merciful god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. E give you thanks for the life and work of justice ruth ginsburg. Americans be inspired to be their best selves because of her example. She rest in peace. Bless those throughout our ation who are suffering from ....
Quorum call quorum call mr. Sanders madam president. The presiding officer the senator from vermont is recognized. Sorry. Mr. Sanders thank you. Madam president , since last week the senate has been quote, unquote, debating the presiding officer senator, were in a quorum call. Mr. Sanders i would ask that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Sanders madam president , since last week, the senate ostensibly one of the great deliberative bodies in the world, supposedly, has been quote, unquote, debating the 740 billion National Defense authorization act. Its been a very, very silent debate because of the 700 amendments that have been filed to this bill. There has been no roll call votes on any of them. I do understand that in the managers amendments have been accepted, and thats fine, but weve had a vigorous debate but nobody in the world has heard that debate because theres not been one amendme ....
Speaker pelosi thank you for being here. A sad day. I know that many people are quite shaken by the fact that we have passed the 50,000 number of people who have died. Over 50,000. The numbers are staggering. Each individual case is so heartbreaking. Yesterday on the floor we heard about a fiveyearold girl whose mother was a Police Officer and father a fire fighter and she died. Then we heard maxines sister is dying. Senator warrens brother died. That is people we know, but people we dont know are having same terrible grief in their families. Our prayers and thoughts are with those who lost their loved ones. Our prayers are with those who are diagnosed, over 900,000 people, approaching 900,000 people diagnosed. And also 26 million having lost their jobs. Staggering numbers. Staggering numbers. Lots of snow and family grief. The conversation going on now is if we were to open government, how and when . It should be signs based scie ....
A senator mr. President. The presiding officer the senator for west virginia. Mr. Manchin are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer it is. Mr. Manchin wish to vitiate the quorum call. I will i am doing so because i believe he is well qualified for the job. He has been the commissions general counsel for the past two and a half years. He understands the complex legal issues that come before the commission. I voted to report mr. Danlys nomination both last november and last week on the strength of his qualifications, not on politics. I urge my colleagues to do the same. But the position to which mr. Danly has been nominated is one of five seats on the federal Energy Regulatory commission. By law, no more than two of the five seats can be held by one party. Only three of the seats are now filled. Two by republicans and one by a democrat. The other democratic seat has been vacant since last august. Traditionally when both a r ....