ms. smith: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. ms. smith: 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. ms. smith: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the appointment at the desk appear separately in the record as if made by the chair. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. smith: mr. president, i understand that there is a bill at the desk, and i ask for its first reading. the presiding officer: the clerk will read the title of the bill for the first time. the clerk: s. 532, a bill to preserve and protect the free choice of individual employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations or to refrain from such activities. ms. smith: i now ask for a second reading, and in order to place the bill on the calendar under the provisions of rule 14 i object to my own request. the p

ms. smith: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. ms. smith: thank you, madam president. thank you to my colleague, senator chob, for those very personal words about our shared friend, senator dave durenberger. i rise today with my colleague, senator klobuchar to honor the life of senator dave durenberger whom we lost, as amy said, on january 31. archie and i send all our support to the durenberger family, to susan, charlie, and lois, dave and heather, michael and margaret, daniel and jennifer, and to all of the family that loved him so well. when he was first elected to the senate in 1978, senator durenberger became the first republican senator from minnesota in 20 years, but his political affiliation never defined him. throughout his 16 years in service in the senate, senator durenberger measured his success by doing work that helped people, not by scoring political points for himself or his party. long before arriving in washington, senator durenberger was committed to public service and committed to improving the lives of minnesotans.

smith: thank you, ms. monica. the -- mr. smith: thank you, ms. the american people, they don't need to be lectured about our state of the union. instead, republicans want to listen to them. that's why yesterday the house ways and means committee on their first hearing loaded up a bus and went to petersburg, west virginia, to a sawmill to listen directly to the american voices of the issues that they're facing. whether it's the inflation crisis, the debt crisis, the interest rate crisis, or the energy crisis. ashley bachmann, a mom of three, and an owner of a local restaurant, testified. she told us that that -- her restaurant has been bleeding money daw to all the interest cost -- due to all the interest costs. as a direct result of biden's inflation crisis. she also told us how difficult it is for her to keep a work force of 35 employees because she's competing with the government who gives them more benefits than what they can earn. wily mcdade, co-owner of the local distillery, talked about how painful, and that was his word, of the supply cha

smith of oregon guilty. ms.. no. miss snow. not guilty. mr. specter. not guilty. mr. specter. not guilty. mr. stevens. mr. stevens guilty. mr. thomas. mr. thomas. guilty. mr. thompson. mr. thompson. guilty. mr. thurmond. your. mr. thurmond. guilty. mr. torricelli. mr. torricelli, he not guilty. mr. voinovich. mr. voinovich. not guilty. mr. warner. mr. warner. guilty. mr. wells. down. mr. wells down not guilty. mr. widen. mr. widen not guilty. the galleries will be in order order. on this article of impeachment. 50 senators have pronounced william jefferson clinton present the united states guilty as charged. 50 senators have pronounced him not. two thirds of the senators present not having pronounced him guilty. the senate a judges that the respondent, william jefferson clinton, president of the united is not guilty as charged in the second article of impeachment. the chair directs judgment to be entered in accordance the judgment of the senate as follows the senate having tried. jefferson clinton, president of the states upon two articles of impeachment exhibit, it against hi

two people briefed on the matter the time said the decision by the special counsel, jack smith, to subpoena me msr underscores how deeply into mr. trump's inner circle mr. smith is reaching, and is the latest sign that no potential high-level witness is off limits. this news comes two weeks after jack smith's interview subpoenaed mike pence. both jared kushner and ivanka trump testified to the january six committee. ivanka trump was with her father on january 6th before the attack on the capitol. >> when i entered the office, the second time, he was on the telephone with who i later found out to be the vice president. the conversation was pretty heated. who is a different tone than i had heard him take with the vice president before. >> some witnesses testified that ivanka trump tried to get her father to tell the people attacking the capitol to stop. >> when you talk about others on the staff thinking more should be done or thinking that the president needed to tell people to go home, who would you put in that category? >> well, i would put pat philbin, eric herschmann, overall mark meadows, iva

you heard singer sam smith has come out and said it's the latter's this ms. he smith who uses the pronounsing and said that he would be officialdom not fishermen a fish at them has he lost the plot . yeah i mean this last plot. yeah i mean this last couple of alone, he's dressed up as the devil, his beloved video where it looks like people are urinating on and now he's talking about fishing on the fact that it would be a fish to them. i guess us out. and then i say i'll call you and keep up. join right for the next join me right here for the next houn join me right here for the next hour. should we back hour. should we bring back national i'd to national service? i'd like to see sam you bet. national see sam smith. you bet. national service actually knows you had a lot . patrick thank you. the top lot. patrick thank you. the top stories this hour , the family of stories this hour, the family of the missing mother of nicola bulli says the public seems now more about appalling speculation into her private life than actually finding her. yesterday revealed the 45 year old was vulnerable and t

smith: it says the north carolina unemployment agency is a broken system. mrz porter: -- ms. porter: mr. horowitz, do these headlines seem familiar? do they seem representative of the problems regarding with -- unemployment system during the pandemic? mr. horowitz: they do. ms. porter: would you surprise these stories are from 2013, 2014, long before covid-19 was a problem? mr. horowitz: not at all. this has been an issue that g.a.o. has spoken about for decades, maybe. i'm not sure if it's that long. but certainly we have as i.g.'s as well. the unemployment insurance system needs to be fixed. ms. porter: i could not agree more. let's talk so we can fix it. state unemployment agencies have long had problems getting help to people who need it and preventing our tax dollars from ending up in the wrong hands. when the pandemic first began, we needed to deliver relief quickly. but due to chronic underinvestment in technology and systems at states that administer programs, we saw the same problems with waste, fraud and abuse we've seen for decades under democratic and republican p

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smith goes it is not good news for donald trump. harry, before we go, do you think we're going to see charges against donald trump for january the 6th? i understand the dock mshere is anybody else but donald trump the indictments would be handed down. i'm curious why people drag their feet in georgia. he should have been indicted for that phone call. if i were a congressman and made that phone call i would have been indicted and in jail. any other member of the congress would be in jail i knew people sent to jail for hell of a lot less than that. on january 6 people in sitting jail now part of a conspiracy. a seditious conspiracy. yet donald trump still sitting in a country club. while the other people are sitting in jail. do you think he's ever going to see justice? >> so, well, justice yes. the conventional wisdom is that's sprawling, difficult, complicated. but the news that smith is making today, what is pence? pence is only good for january 6. ivanka, try iing to tell him to beg off. everybody telling heifer. she is at the center and can testify to those things. he is clearly developing it. rapidly and toward an end game. to me if he starts with mar-a-l