. >> mrs. murray? >> aye. >> mrs. murray, aye. >> mr. ossoff? >> aye. >> mr. ossoff, aye. mr. padilla? >> aye. >> mr. paul? >> no. >> mr. paul, no. >> mr. peters? >> aye. >> mr. peters, aye. mr. portman? mr. portman? no. mr. reed? mr. reed, aye. mr. risch? no. >> mr. risch, no. mr. romney? >> no. >> mr. romney, no. miss rosen? >> aye. >> mr. rounds? >> mr. rounds, no. >> mr. rubio? >> no. >> mr. rubio, no. mr. sanders? >> aye. >> mr. and sanders, aye. >> mr. sauj? >> no. mr. shots? aye. >> mr. schumer? >> aye. >> mr. schumer, aye. mr. scott of florida? >> no. >> mr. scott of florida, no. mr. scott of south carolina? >> no. >> mr. scott of south carolina, no. mrs. shaheen? >> mrs. shaheen, aye. mr. shelby? >> no. >> miss sinema? >> yes. >> miss sinema, aye. miss smith? >> aye. >> miss smith, aye. >> miss stabenow? >> aye. >> mr. tester? mr. tester aye. >> mr. thune? mr. thune no. mr. tillis? >> no. >> mr. tillis, no. mr. toomey? >> no. >> mr. toomey, no. >> mr. tuberville? >> no. >> mr. tuberville, no. >> mr. van hollins? >> aye. >> mr. val hollen, aye. mr. warner? >> aye. >> m

mrs. murray: thank you, mr. president. mr.dent, i come to the floor today to support the nomination of mayor marty walsh to serve as secretary of family. across the country working families are desperate for help. even before this pandemic the deck was stacked against workers and especially against women, workers of color and workers with disabilities thanks to an unlivable federal wage and sublivable wage for tip workers and workers with disabilities and a pay gap that makes getting by even harder. a national sick and medical leave policy and quality affordable child care for working families. a failure to protect workers from pandemics and workplace accidents and harassment and scrims -- discrimination and a wave of job loss and economic uncertainty upending the lives of workers and families across the country. this pandemic has laid bare the painful fact that while our economy might work for the biggest corporations and wealthiest individuals, it isn't working for working families. and all of these challenges -- unsafe work

mrs. murray, aye. mr. ossoff, aye. mr. padilla, aye. mr. paul, no. mr. peters, aye. mr.. reed, aye. mr. risch, no. mr. romney, no. ms. rosen -- >> you hear the yays and nays, and senate minority leader mcconnell saying he recommends a no vote and so far it appears republicans are following suit. democrats need 50 votes. they feel like they have them. m manu raju knows better than i. probably the white house is bracing for a first legislative victory in the biden administration. right manu? >> yeah, this is going to be one huge step towards achieving central pillar of the new president's agenda. this bill is going to pass, passing on a straight party line vote. we expect the vote to be 50-49. two key votes, joe manchin was the subject of intense speculation, scrutiny, negotiation behind the scenes yesterday, he voted yes. he's a democrat from west virginia. he was likely to vote yes after he secured his deal yesterday on jobless benefits. but lisa murkowski, the alaska republican senator, she had not said how she might come down. she just said she is voting no against the

mrs. murrayorks 32 hours a week and even after 20 years in her position still makes less than $15 an hour. fortunately in maryland that's going to change, where our state minimum wage will gradually increase to reach $15 an hour in the year 2025. but that is not the case in so many other states, as we're hearing, where the minimum wage has remained stuck at $7.25 since 2009. ms. murray is a founding member of the non-profit worker organization united for respect and she volunteers on the board of directors there. raised in a union family, she has led efforts to change policies at walmart to better the lives of essential workers, and her activism has contributed to winning family leave policies for pregnant and parents walmart workers and better wages, a fight that she continues here today. members of the committee, ms. murray is also a walmart stakeholder, shareholder, and she has been a vocal advocate against excessive buybacks at walmart to improve the lives of associates. she's a proud mother,

mrs. murray: thank you, mr. president. i ask unanimous consent to complete my remarks before the vote is called. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. murray: for the information of senators, i will speak for about seven minutes. madam president, i'd like to start by taking a moment to address the awful violence we saw in georgia yesterday. everyone, especially elected officials, needs to not just speak out, but to act against this deadly display of hate. to the victims and their families and to the asian american and pacific islander community in washington state and nationwide, my heart is with you, not just today but going forward. i will continue sending a strong message that hate against you must stop, and i will keep working to ensure your safety in light of the terrible surge in hate crimes we have seen in our state and across the country. now, madam president, i rise today to voice my strong support for attorney general becerra to serve as secretary of health and human services. after four years of attacks

mrs. murray: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: thank you, madam president. i rise today to voice my strong support for dr. cardona's nomination to serve as secretary of education. across the country students, parents, and educators are in crisis. every day without an experienced leader at the department of education is a day that we are losing precious ground. back in my home state of washington, i heard from a mother in yakima whose children shared one iphone to learn. i heard from a father of a high school freshman in spokane worried about the social and psychological toll the pandemic is taking on his son. i heard from students at the reservation about children on a shared spotty broadband and i know there's so many similar stories from people in my state and across the country about how this pandemic is making life harder. the ways it has set back students from where they would be in a typical year, denied them access to critical school resources, deepened long-standing inequities and so much more. from early education

quorum call: mrs. murray: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: i ask that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. cantwell: we're having a vote. i ask consent that that vote not start until i finish my remarks. the presiding officer: is there any objection? seeing none of -- ms. cantwell: i just wanted to make a few points. you know, our former colleague, representative becerra, spent much time in the congress -- i think 12 terms -- and much of that in a position of focusing on health care policy as a member of the ways and means committee. i say that because i know so many of our colleagues, particularly house members, have gone on to run agencies, run departments, basically be secretaries of defense and basically they just had some congressional experience in that policy area. so i'm not sure why we're discarding that important policy background, consideration, balancing of those issues, weighing in on parts of our constituencies as mr. becerra did. and, mr. becerra was the first hispanic to be a

mr murray, you told me british tabloid press was not bigoted. i have given you some examples.re and there. i'm looking at the whole thing. when you say that someone might make one comment about something, and i'm not saying whether those were bigoted or racist at all... let me ask you... i never get the chance to actually finish. when you actually label somebody as bigoted because one example that is disputed, not taking the whole thing of the context and saying look at the way they have come to it, i'm afraid, if you keep on looking you will find a needle in the haystack. but you just said the british press isn't racist, and now you're saying if you keep on looking, you'll find a racist needle in the haystack. let me ask you again. are those headlines racist? simple yes or no. i will not stand here and defend whether they are or not. why? you're the society of editors. you can find it on social media. but since then, three separate editors have disagreed with that response. the guardian tweeted to say their editor, kath viner, disagrees with the society of editors statement s

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mr. schumer, has he arrived? senator murray, thank you for your leadership. welcome back to the house side. we are proud of all of our members who have gone from the house and senate. chris murphy makes us so proud on so many issues and the leadership on this one is just so important to the cause. senator murphy of connecticut. senator murphy: thank you very much, madam speaker. thank you for joining us here today. madam speaker, i'm so glad you framed this through the prism of children. because we obviously think about the lives that have been lost in school shooting after school shooting. but what we often forget is that there are generations of kids who are experiencing mind-altering trauma every single day growing up in incredibly violent neighborhoods. it's not a coincidence that the underperforming schools tend to be in the neighborhoods with high levels of gun violence. because even if you or your family member are not the immediate victim, fearing for your life every day of gun violence, it literally forces your brain to go through trauma that affect

murray. cheryl. >> thank you mr. speaker, mr. speaker, we've seen the disgrace feral way the e.u. have responded to u.k. fish exports. part of the answer is the u.k. consumers to buy british fish. as chairman for apf fishery can i invite to join a fantastic british chef to show how easy it is to prepare and cook a dish using british caught fish? >> well i'm very happy to take up my honorable friend suggestion i'm not grattest chef myself but i will -- i have made and can make from memory a fish pie can prawns i'm undertake to do mr. speaker -- >> thank you mr. speaker, people like my constituents see them or keep their shop despite shrinking government support unchange overhead, and decrease profits. i'm urgently seeking prime minister support to protect the immediate long-term recovery of huge businesses and job it supports. all of the prime minister explain why his government refuses to listen to the beauty industry calling for vap to be temporarily reduced to 5% hair and beurrety businesses similar to what other sectors and hospitality, tourism and culture businesses. >> she's

mr. floyd died of a cardiac arrhythmia. >> let's bring in phillip rucker, melissa murray, and our own ali velshi in minneapolis for us tonight, covering the trial. that's where i'd like to begin. ali, how was day one received there? it is apparent the prosecution sees its job as more or less convicting george floyd in his own death. >> yeah. that's a good way to put it. today was tense. we've had demonstrations over the last 36 hours. and the prosecution opened up with the idea that derek chauvin was on george floyd's neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds. we're familiar with the eight minutes and 46 seconds that had become popular until it was measured against a tape released in august. it was nine minutes and 29 seconds in the end. but the defense was arguing that there are underlying conditions for george floyd. a heart arrhythmia, and a large amount of fentanyl in his body. their point was, what derek chauvin did was not the chief cause of floyd's death. all they need to do is sow enough doubt into the minds of the jury. the problem is, there are millions of people who have seen this video. and they think what their eyes

>> chair murray, thank you so very much to you and to our ranking member mr. burr. dr. levine, was a pleasure visiting with you recently. dr. murthy, i look forward to our conversation. dr. murthy, understandably, the federal government has focused the bulk of its resources on slowing the spread of the covid-19 pandemic. however, we have simultaneously addressed the secondary impacts. we have to get this done of the pandemic, including the reported increase in opioid overdoses. as surgeon general, you are considered the nation's doctor. how will you guide discussions and scientific investment so that individuals who live with acute or chronic pain can get appropriate treatment including nonpharmacological treatments such as physical therapy and also if they do need pharmacological treatments that they're nonaddictive? >> well, thank you, senator, for that question. i think you're raising a critical issue here, which is how do we treat pain appropriately, given how many americans are living with some form of chronic pain. i cared for many of these patients when i was pra

mr morgan also had an on—screen row with a co—presenter, who accused him of �*continuing to trash�* meghan. his employer, itv, said he was leaving the good morning britain show with immediate effect. jawn murrayresenter and commentator. he's in washington. good to talk to you. you know as well as anybody that news moves fast. is as well as anybody that news moves fast.— moves fast. is it still news over there? _ moves fast. is it still news over there? let _ moves fast. is it still news over there? let me - moves fast. is it still news over there? let me tell i moves fast. is it still news l over there? let me tell you, what a difference a day makes. all last week there were a lot of british experts, a lot of oil experts all over american television talking about what a lot of people and the people in the us, particularly hollywood stars have rallied behind meghan michael leave was a smear campaign, that story of a legend living in the palace. many of those commentators were talking about that and at wing as though it was a serious investigation that was going to take place. can i tell you, that after sunday night, those same experts were all over television talking about how damning this was

mrs. murray: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: mr. president, i oppose this amendment. it would strike two important improvements we made to the program that funds private schools. first, republicans are critiquing this bill for not being targeted enough. this would remove funds to private schools that serve significant percentages of low-income students. the american rescue plan provides and additional $2.75 billion for services to private schools and the bottom line is federal funds shouldn't be spent at expensive private schools. instead, they should be targeted to low-income students at private schools like all our other education investments. the pandemic is disproportionately harming sunday students of colors. while these students are already much more likely to attend public schools, we need to make sure that those that do attend private schools are prioritized as well. secondly, this amendment strikes the limitation we placed on the funds be used for reimbursements at private schools, permitted with the first round of funding

mrs. murray: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: madam president, it is frustrating but not at all surprising that in the middle of a pandemic, as we are working to get urgently needed relief to our families, to our small businesses and our communities across the country, some republicans would rather spend time launching political attacks on reproductive health. that is exactly what this amendment is, an effort to expand restrictions on abortion that already make it harder for women who have low incomes, often women of color, to exercise the constitutionally guaranteed right to make their own health care choices. i oppos amendment because it is completely unnecessary it is a harmful attempt to distract us from the work we are on tonight. madam president, i raise a point of order that the pending amendment produces budgetary changes that are merely incidental to the nonbudgetary components and violates the congressional budget office of 1974. mr. lank

mrs. murray: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: thank you, madam president. i rise today to strongly urge my colleagues to support the nomination of dr. rachel levine. she's a highly qualified public health expert to serve as assistant secretary for health. as the highest ranking official on pennsylvania, she led the state's covid-19 response by focusing on transparency and clear science-based communication giving daily briefings on the status of the pandemic, and advocating for the resources and support pennsylvanians needed. dr. levine has been on the front lines of this pandemic which is why she knows firsthand what our states and communities need from the department of health and human services. and even before this crisis, dr. levine established herself as a trusted voice to the people of pennsylvania on matters of public health through her work to establish opioid prescribing guidelines and education for medical students. make lifesaving treatment for opioid overdoses widely available, combat eating disorders, increase

mrs. murray: thank you, mr. president. i really want to thank senator schumer, senator wyden, senator sanders and others for working so hard with me on making sure our relief bill includes a much-needed raise for our workers. democrats and republicans alike have joined together in rightly calling our essential workers heroes, and the backbone of our economy, but despite their tireless work and the constant risk of covid exposure, too many of these workers are paid wages so low they cannot afford to pay for even their most basic needs. this pandemic should be a wake-up call, but these workers who we all call heroes deserve more than $7.25 an hour. i urge my colleagues to vote for the sanders amendment in order to give a much-needed raise to millions of workers and end the tipped minimum wage and subminimum wawj for youth workers and workers with disabilities. after more than a decade since the last federal minimum wage, the tides are turning, and there is overwhelming support for congress to act, so let me be clear. today's

mrs. murray: this is a delay tactic intended to stop what we are doing to send the bill to the help committee. it would instruct the help committee to remove 135 million dollars in critical funding that will help support humanities and cultural organizations weather the worst of this pandemic. mr. president, the pandemic has devastated our arts and cultural organizations. our nation's museums, indigenous cultural organizations and local education nonprofits are facing significant losses in revenue, in layoffs, in furloughs. our cultural organize gaitions in rural and suburban areas need these resources to continue to serve our communities. the u.a.c. program at the department of health and human services is critical for ensuring the health and welfare of unaccompanied children. we absolutely do need to take steps to support this program to ensure their well-being. but this amendment is merely a delay tactic to address the critical issues at hand related to the covid-19 crisis. i urge my colleague