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mr. coons: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from delaware. mr. coons: i ask unanimous consent that the proceedings under the quorum call be vitiated and upon the conclusion of my remarks, the senator from rhode island be recognized prpb withou the presiding officer: . the quorum call is lifted. mr. coons: i rise today to express my deep concern with the tax reform bill that the senate finance committee is likely to approve later this week. the latest version of this massive tax bill which will impact every single american was only released to the public late tuesday night, less than 48 hours later, the finance committee is ramming through this bill on a party line vote without any hearings and without a thorough review of the bill. i strongly disagree with this process, with this closed-door process of developing the substance of the bill which skews the benefits to the wealthy at the expense of middle-class families and with this bill s irresponsibl ....
department . -c of rule 19, further consideration of h.r. 1 will now resume. the clerk will report the title. the clerk: union calendar number 302, h.r. 1. a bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title 2 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018. the speaker pro tempore: when proceedings were postponed earlier today, 29 1/2 minutes of debate remained on the bill. the gentleman from texas, mr. brady, has 17 minutes remaining. without objection, the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. neal, has 12 1/2 minutes remaining. the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. brady. mr. brady: thank you, mr. speaker. i m pleased to yield two minutes to the gentleman from alaska, mr. young. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from alaska is recognized for two minutes. mr. young: thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. congress established alaska native settlement trust in 1988, to provide permanent health ed health, education, and welfare benefits ....
understand how much of a hole it s going to blow into the housing production but i expect that there are other unintended consequences by twhesm just found out last night that wind and solar will also have the same issue in being impacted by this. i hope we can adopt my amendment and fecks this. i hope we can slow down and understand this important part of our tax code. thank you, mr. chairman. senator grassley. mr. chairman, members of the committee, i m not going to vote for this amendment but i do appreciate that she brings up an issue that we better be very, very certain about, not only because of low income housing but also because of renewable energy and she mentioned wind and solar, something that should not be touched, and it is hurt very badly in the house bill. shouldn t be tutched by any of this stuff. we made an agreement three years ago to be in transition get rid of the tax credit 20, olar 21, for wind in and as i indicated yesterday or two days ago in ....
that is entirely up to the department of justice. reporter: going back to volusia that, when he said he spoke with putin and he believe he meant what he said, in other words, there was no collusion he actually said he believed that putin believed what he said. that he wasn t going to get into an argument with him over that when they had bigger things like north korea, like issues in syria that he needed to deal with and work together on. reporter: so the question being he always maintained it was democrats colluded with russia. he saying putin exonerated the democrats? the president still firmly believes there was collusion with the democrats during this election process. defend he is not going to get into back and forth with a world leader he needs to work with and wants to work in order to deal with big and serious things facing our country right now. reporter: follow-up. i will move ahead. reporter: as new yorker is concerned deductions for state and new york ....
leonardo painting? it was sold for 4$450 billion. your world in 90 seconds. not once have i seen him act inappropriately toward any woman. roy moore s campaign remains defiant after new allegations. two women describe unwanted overtures by roy moore at the alabama mall. if your behavior is so creepy you can t go to the mall that s hard. mr. trump will make his way to capitol hill and meet with house republicans just before they vote on their version of the new tax bill. investigators found the body of his wife hidden under the floorboards of their home. police captured an escapee. this should have never happened. they are trying to track down the serial killer. lost art of da vinci over $400 million. all that. the couple looks pretty pleased with the whole thing. and all that matters president trump takes a water break. what? these press conferences are pretty dry to begin with but this one seems even dry. on cbs this morning. ....