the nominations are confirmed en bloc. mr. schatz: madam president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate consider the following nominations en bloc. calendar numbers 381, 612 through 619, 624 through 629, 631 through 633, 634, excepting colonel catherine v. barrington, and 635 through 646, and all nominations on the secretary's desk in the air force, army, coast guard, marine corps, navy, space force, and foreign service, excepting p.n.587. that the nominations be confirmed en bloc, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate, that no further motions be in order to any of the nominations, that the president be immediately notified of the senate's action, and the senate then resume legislative session. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. shat i ask unanimous consent that the committee on veterans affairs be discharged from further consideration of the following bills and the senate proceed to their en bloc consideration -- s.3249, s.3285,

the nominations are confirmed en bloc. mr. whitehouse: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to legislative session and be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of s. res. 686, submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. res. 686, designating may 18, 2024, as kids to parks day. the presiding officer: without objection. the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. whitehouse: i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today it stand adjourned until 10:00 a.m. on wednesday, may 15. that following the prayer and pledge, the m

the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding en bloc? without objection. mr. schatz: i ask unanimous consent that the resolutions be agreed to, the preambles be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, all en bloc. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schatz: mr. president, i have seven requests for committees to meet during today's session of the senate. they have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. the presiding officer: duly noted. mr. schatz: i ask unanimous consent that the -- when the senate completes its business today it stand adjourned until 3:00 p.m. on monday, may 20. that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day, and morning business be closed. upon the conclusion of morning business, the senate proceed to executive session to resume considering of the lanham nomination. further, that if any nominations are confirmed during monday'

the nominations are confirmed en bloc. ms. hassan: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of s. res. 668, which is at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. res. 668, honoring the life of daniel robert "bob" graham, former senator for the state of florida. the presiding officer: without objection. the senate will proceed to the measure. ms. hassan: i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. hassan: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the committee on veterans affairs be discharged from further consideration of s.2181 and the senate proceed to its immediate consideration. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s.2181, a bill to amend title 38 united states code to repeal the sunset on entitlement to memorial headstones and markers, and for other purpos

the senate will proceed to the resolutions en bloc. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that the resolutions be agreed to, the preambles be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, all en bloc. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 178, s.2195. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar 178, s.2195, a bill to amend the energy policy act of 2005, to reauthorize the diesel emissions reduction program. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: i further ask that the bill be considered read a third time and passed, and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 343, s.3791. the presiding officer: the clerk will report.

and democrats are losing african american majority votes or latino vote is, you know, up for grabs en bloc. i don't see anybody looking close to what george w. bush got from the latino votes, for example. wondering, though, but from the biden campaign perspective, what is that this message is? >> well, i mean, i think that there are those within the black and the latino community that identify with president -- former president trump's grievance message. there is no doubt about that, there is a lack of trust that exists between those communities and those communities and the democratic party. so that means that the president biden has some work to do, but here's the other reality that i -- that came to me as i was watching the rally last night that i don't think we have an appreciation for. it is incredibly hard to message against someone who is a liar, and who isn't being held to account on those lies. trump gets to the mic and just spews one after the other and there is no one holding him account to those lies. and then you got an entire conservative media apparatus that is perpetuating

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at the nato parliamentary assembly in sofia, en stoltenberg again spoke in favor of allowing ukraine to attack the territory of our country with the bloc’spean correspondent regina is in direct contact with the studio sebastianova. regina, hello, what other calls were made in the bulgarian capital and how do eu leaders comment on the initiative of the nato secretary general? hello, italy and germany are against it. on what conditions to supply weapons to ukraine. as i said earlier, the time has come to consider lifting a number of restrictions. ukraine is under attack from russian territory with missiles and artillery, and it is difficult to respond to them. kiev has the right to defend itself in accordance with the un charter, international law, including attacking legitimate military targets on russian territory. some allies have lifted such restrictions, allowing ukrainians to better defend themselves. i believe that the time has come to lift other restrictions. stoltenberg stressed that nato's goal remains to prevent the conflict from escalating into a full-scale war between russia and its allies; he stressed, for example, that nato

of the publication were en masse outraged, why should we even save a non-member of the alliance, given the rather large contributions that countries have to pay to maintain the blocliticians among those who disagree. about the breakdown in nato, author's commentary by maria petrashko. hello everyone, i'm maria petrashko, telenews agency. a journalist from the british guardian suddenly asked macron's age-old question. why is the nato alliance needed? this issue has been of concern to many of the changing members of the alliance for a long time, who are reluctant to pay the required 2% of gdp. donald trump also asked a question about why we need this strange alliance, however. the british columnist is still not a politician, and this is noticeable. he devoted the main part of his publication to reasoning: and if, in order, that should, it would be necessary and it would be possible to make nato. restrictions on kiev's use of western missiles were intended to create defensive cordons around black sea grain-exporting ports. typically, guardian readers en masse disagreed with the journalist’s opinion, expressing their indignation in the comments. nato cannot intervene

called the muslim vote .co.uk, and they are choosing to treat the muslim vote as a bloc vote and wanting to mobilise it ense against labour and the tories and lib dem. yeah, but i do worry christian about where this ends. are we witnessing the start of something irreversible in british politics here? >> i don't think it's irreversible. and i think that, you know, inevitably the war in gaza will end and tensions will reduce. but we i was just going to point to touch on a very important point here. and it's a really good example of why i'm so opposed to keir starmer's strategy of refusing to nail down his views on any topic, because he's saying one thing to jewish groups , one thing to jewish groups, one thing to muslim groups. i don't know which side of the fence he'll come down on if and when he wins the election. and that is so concerning to me. in democracies, we should know what he's he's even distancing himself from the diane abbott thing. >> i mean, jeremy hunt made a comment, you know, this was relatively rare that i take anything jeremy hunt says seriously, but he did make a comment, which i though