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Vote the presiding officer have all senators voted . Any senator wish to change their vote . On this vote the yeas are 95. The nays are 2. Twothirds of the senators voting having voted in the affirmative the resolution of the ratification is agreed to. The majority leader of the senate. Mr. Mcconnell the senate is not in order. The presiding officer the majority leader of the senate. Mr. Mcconnell the democratic leader and i want to take a few minutes here to point out to everyone that our colleague, the senior senator from vermont, just cast a truly historic vote. Of course the tax treaties are significant, but im talking about the fact that senator leahy just cast his 16,000th vote of his senate career. We know of no single statistic that can begin to capture such tenure, but this figure comes close. 16,000 votes cast for his constituents. With numbers like that, senator leahy has already left towering figures like our late colleagues ted stevens and ted kennedy in the dust. Now hes ....
Only accelerate when a business may deduct certain deductions and not whether the costs are deductible in the first place. However, the most costly of what i term general business incentives is also likely the most popular. Im going to show you in just a minute. The most popular because it has such an overwhelming number of cosponsors in both bodies. That is the shortline tax credit. This provision offers a tax ched to shortline railroads for qualified maintenance expenditures. This credit isnt available to the largest railroads, what we call the class one railroads. This credit benefits smaller railroads that are critically important for farmers and many manufacturers to get their products to the global markets. For example, in my state of iowa, according to a recent data from the american short line and Regional Railroad association, there are nine short lines and Regiona ....
Biden, 4,000 dow points. Warren, 8,000 dow points. David hes got it all figured out. Sanders, a good 12,000 dow points. By the way, im serious when i say that. These people want to take a ton of equity out of the economy and put it in their hands. They want to tax the heck out of people and business and put it in their hands. Their hands, inefficient, ineffective, give them a dollar of tax, maybe 20 cents rolls down to what its used for, 80 cents goes to the bureaucracy. It is the worst thing that can happen. I got to tell you, some of these people running for president right now are making barack obama looking quite conservative these days. Gary, gary, they are going to say look at the economy and look at the market under barack obama. Look, i think this is a pretty ineffectual scare tactic. The president should be making the point about the free economy. Free economies are always the most process posperous. Government intervention is what causes the crashes. He should make that point ....
Set up a protest encampment at penn last week. A clash at uc berkeleys encampment over the war in gaza, a confrontation between a propalestine protester and a counterprotester is raising concerns. Three people were hurt yesterday. The flashpoint in the incident seemed to be when someone grabbed an israeli flag from a counter protester. Nbc bay areas Christie Smith has more about the ongoing protest. Hey hey hey. Tensions flared at uc berkeley wednesday evening near a propalestinian encampment in front of sproul hall. Video shows a small group of people around an israeli flag. Someone in that group, who asked to remain anonymous, says a small group approached them in a confrontation began. Soon, someone grabbed the israeli flag and a Person Holding the flag was hit. Today on campus, the ongoing propalestinian encampment is quiet with some saying those responsible for the confr ....