Cost. This is about 40 minutes. [ applause ]. Thank you for everybody coming. Before we introduce our event tonight. I want to talk about the flag thats behind me. A lot of people have asked me, thats a weird looking flag. You have to modify it to clean up. Is that the right flag . The last time you saw this flag, it was draped across east village where president obamas last Campaign Speech of his entire career. We wanted it to be here tonight to show that we had good days in the past and today. We are going to have good days in the future. [ applause ] for barack obama, no pressure, senator klobachar. Amy klobachar is the daughter of theschoolteacher. Shes one of the most effective members of the u. S. Congress. Thats not just me saying it. It was reported last year that amy was ranked number one of the 114th congress. [ applause ] she has worked on a lot of cracks on sex traffickers and led last years landmark to combat of the opioid epidemiepi. Her legislative effort is amazing. The
Make it easier for the department of Veterans Affairs to fire, demote or suspend employees. Final passage scheduled for 6 1. Later in the week the senator heitkamp legislation to expand sanctions on iran, targeting people who work on irans illicit missile program. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. Under the previous order, the question occurs on the elwood nomination. Mr. Alexander i ask for the yeas and nays. The presiding officer is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote the presiding officer any senator in the chamber wishing to change their vote . If not, the yeas are 67. And the nays are 33. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. Under the previous order, the senate will resume consideration legislative now and proceed to the consideration of s. 10994, whi
Manns best friend at work helping veterans on a daily basis. We want to make sure we have people that are pretrained, predrilled over and over and have the right protocol going. This doctor spent much of the day talking about new guidelineses for Health Care Workers. It has been three weeks since Thomas Duncan was admitted to texas presbyterian. He suffered ebola, a disease that claimed his listen. Two nurses became unaffected, some asked if u. S. Hospitals were capable of handling an outbreak. Melissa chan is live in dallas, a city that is the focal point to the response for ebola. This quarpt heen will end quarantine will end soon for some. Tell us about that. These people will go back to their regular lives, theres a bit of concern with the mayor and others, about potential discrimination, not just against the Duncan Family that is expected to be released at midnight this evening from their quarantine, from the 21 day period, but the Health Care Workers. The multiple people who have
Subject of the week ahead. We hoped, we prayed in our own way. Unfortunately, it was not in our hands. It was not in the hands of the government. It was in the hands of terrorists. That was a brother of the british aid worker killed by the Islamic State group. The beheading of david haynes is being met with global condemnation. British Prime Minister is vowing that the Islamic State pays. Calling it barbaric. The u. S. Took to the air waves, laying out the president obamas strategy against the Islamic State. The Administration Says it has secured the key support from the arab leaders and tomorrow secretary of state john kerry will attend a conference in paris with dozens of countries as the u. S. Works to build a coalition. Britain is mourning the loss of david haynes. British Prime Minister David Cameron called the killing of david haynes pure evil saying they were not muslims they were monsters. First well work with Iraqi Government to make sure it represents all of its people and ab
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