tavailable and which is at the desk and further that the current print resolution be agreed to come of the preamble be agreed to end o and the motio reconsider to be made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. we should know as much about this investigation as we possibly can. we do know we only know part of the story and the report is only part of the story. it's very important we not turn our country into this back and forth where each successive party tries to use the apparatus of government to investigate the previous president. we do know now that the investigation of the campaign reached the highest levels of the white house all the way up to president obama. what we don't know is president obama told the evidence to getst this investigation started was paid for by the hillary clinton campaign. we need to know that, so that isn't part of the report, but that's something i'm asking we should attach to this resoluti resolution. we need tont know was president obama told that this information came from the hillaryon clinton campaign. we do not yet know whether or not he wa

spirit of the constitution -- the bayous of liberty secures the declaration of independence says -- the preamble to the constitution -- what is this all about? it is to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. one of our great liberties is you can't single a person out without judicial process. >> thank you all very much. [applause] >> thank you so much. in thetarr will be out lobby signing copies. he has let the grandkids he wants to buy christmas presents for. we will see you out in the lobby. [laughter] >> we come back here at 12:34 lunch. here is a look at our primetime schedule on the c-span networks. starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, wrote to the white house coverage continues with remarks from joe biden at a conference of the international brotherhood of electrical workers. interviews with freshmen members of the 116th congress. hearing on a house afghanistan reconstruction efforts. liveshington journal, every day with news and policy issues that impact you. morning, toturday guests discuss the gender pay gap. the rise in measles cases this year. onthese time

do you think they pulled the plug on him now i mean i think the key is in the words in the in the preamble to to the to the defense minister's statement there i mean he made a great effort before he announced all of these conditions to mourn the people that have lost their lives or of these protests even going so far as to call them martyrs and to say that the measures the military the military has now chosen to take is precisely to avoid the shedding of even more blood so i think that what has happened is that the military as an institution has realized that perhaps supporting a bashir is a lost cause does make sense to do it anymore and to avoid the people perhaps even if the protests have gone on for a few more weeks for the people to even turn against their military or perhaps that they would even be divisions within the military so to avoid that scenario. my assessment is that they sort of more or less had to had to take that move to appease the mass protests in the country as we've seen in the past couple of days. the heavy protests a symbol like the woman who stood on top of the car

of the constitution -- the values of liberty secures the declaration of independence says , and the preamble to the constitution what is this all , about? it is to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. one of our great liberties is you can't single a person out without judicial process. thank you all very much. [applause] >> thank you so much. judge starr will be out in the lobby signing copies. i encourage you all to get it. he has a lot of grandkids he wants to buy christmas presents for. we will see you out in the lobby. thank you. we come back here at 12:30 for lunch, but we had to out so they can set up. [indiscernible] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [applause] >>

we all belong in the preamble. thank you. i think i realized that the thing that we... that we praisec soabout this document, its neutrality, is not enough for most of us. it doesn't protect most of us the way it should. >> reporter: schreck says that whilwriting the play, she began to question whether or not the constitution should be rewritten altogether. the first step toward that would be to scrap the one we have. to that end, she concludes her work with a scene in which she matches wits with an actual high school debater. the topic?" should the united stat constitution be abolished?" >> if we abolish the constitution, we risk sending the country into complete chaos. our country's more divided than it has ever been. the only thing holding us together as americans right now is the faith in this document. we may choose... we may choose to interpret it,differently, ithout it, we risk complete collapse. >> reporte do you actually believe that the constitution has outlived its usefulness? >> no. i still have a fundamental faith in the document. edthink it needs to be ame

of the constitution, the values of liberty to secure the declaration of independence says, and the preamble of the constitution, what is this all about, to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. one of our great liberties is you can't single a person out without judicial process. >> thank you all very much. [applause] >> thank you so much. judge starr will be in the lobby signing copies of contempt. i suggest you all get it, he has a lot of grandkids to buy christmas presents for. [laughter] >> we come back here at 12:30 for lunch. but you have to clear up for now. [indiscernible conversations] c-span, we month on will feature the winners of our studentcam documentary competition. studentsd high school created videos answering the question, what does it mean to be american? . our second prize high school are from irvine, california. c-span is available there through cox communications your their winning interesting -- when he introduced titled "american food." >> joh

spirit of the constitution -- the values of liberty secures the declaration of independence says -- the preamble to the constitution, what is this all about? it is to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. one of our great liberties is you can't single a person out ithout judicial process. thank you all very much. [applause] >> thank you so much, judge starr. judge starr will be out in the lobby signing copies of "contempt." he has a lot of grandkids he wants to buy christmas presents for. we will see you out in the lobby. >> we come back here at 12:30 for lunch. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> members of congress are returning to capitol hill this afternoon. the house meets at 4:45 eastern to start bill debate. five bills today, including authorizing funds for local water pollution projects and improving a seven-state agreement on use of water from the colorado river water basin. votes scheduled at 6:30 east

hundred ninety six any state has the right to determine in its own laws who their citizens are in the preamble to this international treaty it is stated that the issues having to do with citizens in these issues on satish ip have to be taken into account the legitimate interests of states and individual people on. with regard to fifteen of the universal declaration of human rights dave said no one can be arbitrarily stripped of sedition ship of the right to change sits citizenship we do know what you're a bit of ukraine is going to say in his statement that this is interference in the internal affairs of ukraine flagrant violation of international law creeping annexation of done by us creating the opportunity to question the ownership over that let me stale him right away vladimir you rich all of that has nothing to do with reality we're not interfering in the internal affairs of ukraine we're not involved in creating an exemption was simply providing people with an opportunity to resolve the would be drastically important issues for them and this is because the cavan of their words are refusi

remember the words of the preamble, we the people in order to form a more perfect union, not a perfect union, but a union that is en route to perfecting itself, a goal it will no doubt never realize that we should all hope that it never ceases to try to realize. for lincoln, i think the destiny of the union was that in time it would come into closer congruence into harmony with the other great founding documents for which she had in a certain way even deeper reference, the declaration of independence with its principal of universal human equality which he said again and again was the source of every political thought he had ever had. now, the problem that americans in the mid-19th century faced is that these two documents were in effect at odds with each other because the constitution did not give the federal government , and lincoln respected this even early into his presidency, did not give the federal government the constitutional authority to interfere with the laws of the several states including the laws supporting slavery. another favorite of mine, herman a great writer wrote a

the most important people that theld be satisfied are first two words to the preamble of a constitutional -- the constitution. "we the people." in and sayl jump thank you. we will talk to you in another month. we always appreciate your calls and your participation. thank you and have a happy easter as well. guest: wow. yes. i hope i have as much energy and engagement in the news when i'm 95. love his reminder of the constitution because that ultimately is what governs the constitution. all the official take an oath to uphold the constitution. members of congress, cabinet members, the president. we do not pledge loyalty to a president or a particular person. upholding thet constitution. what is striking is the ways in which, so there is no judgment on whether he has done anything impeachable. but just how acai the norm he has behaved. there are certain norms that can -- don't go to laws but the way things have been done, he is so outside the oxen so many ways, that i think he has thrown a lot of people for a loop and force us all to go back and look at, what is the constitution? it is a re

the most important people that should be satisfied are the first three words to the preamble of the constitution, "we the people." host: i will jump in and say thank you. i wish you a happy easter. we will talk to you in another month. of 95.althy at the age we always appreciate your calls and your participation. caller: thank you and have a happy easter as well. guest: wow. yes. i hope i have as much energy and engagement in the news when i'm 95. i love his reminder of the constitution because ultimately, all elected officials take an uphold the constitution. members of congress, cabinet members, the president. we don't pledge fealty to a president or to a particular person. it is all about upholding the constitution. what is striking about the trump presidency is the ways in which, there is no judgment yet on whether he has done anything impeachable, but just how outside the norm he is. there are certain norms that are, that don't go to laws are the constitution, but the way things have been done, he is so outside the box in so many ways that i think he has thrown many people for a loop. and f

and it would be preserved for later, and there's also specific reference in the preamble to that sectionsays, the opinion says you can't prosecute a sitting president but you can investigate a sitting prosecute and you can prosecute a sitting president after he's not in office anymore. those were very telling signs about what bob mueller's intent was in laying out all that evidence. and it wasn't to me, not as close a question as i expected to see it. there's about 130, 140 pages of laying out a lot of facts. some of which they decide are in favor of the president. most of which are not in favor of the president. and then i expected to see a lot more robust sort of acceptance of potential defenses on the part of the president's lawyers. bob mueller's team dismisses out of hand various constitutional legal and statutory defenses that the lawyers brought to bob mueller attention. that strikes me as not as close a question as we might have thought. >> they clear or there's insufficient evidence to prosecute the president or anyone on his team on the conspiracy charge. they make -- mueller m

it was, in the words of the preamble, a journey towards a more perfect union. perfection has never been a stated goal. it is just making it a little more perfect. i think history can offer us a sense of proportion. without that curiosity, jefferson would not have been part of that broader conversation. unlikely we would have set out on this particular path with these words guiding us. that is the we need to be first one. curious. second is humility. i don't mean that in a franciscan sense, though that is important, but the capacity to admit when we made a mistake and learn from that. that may be the hardest thing in our current climate. we would not be here, many of us, maybe any of us, if john kennedy had not been able to admit that he made a mistake and learn from it. he comes into office in january of 1961, he is determined to be like james bond in every way by the way. he wanted to upend the eisenhower era top-down decision-making. he wanted to move quickly. he believed in guerrilla action. he believed in counterinsurgency. he wanted to run things with his

further, that the concurrent resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: is there objection? a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from kentucky. mr. paul: reserving the right to object, i'm all for transparency. i think we should know as much about this investigation into the president as we possibly can. we do know that we only know part of the story and that the mueller report is only part of the story, but we also need to know how this originated because i think it's very important that we not turn our country into this back and forth where each successive party tries to use the apparatus of government to investigate the previous president. we do know now that the investigation of the trump campaign reached to the highest levels of the white house, all the way up to president obama. what we don't know is was president obama told that the evidence to get this investigation started was paid for by the hillary clinton campaign? we

compromise as the afghan constitution where the afghans cited sharia law and individual liberties in the preamble. i said it wasn't half as bad as the compromise that made my 3/5 of a man in the american constitution. something to remember about time. with all due respect as to weather, hitler did miss time his attack on the soviet union and got caught in something napoleon did, as well. it's called winter. mr. ferguson: it would have been hard for him to avoid winter. at some point in that campaign, even with the power of blitzkrieg. [laughter] ms. rice: earlier might have helped. we're going to turn to you now. if you come to the microphone to ask questions, we'll alternate between the microphones. so sir, you have the first question. >> i wonder if you could talk a little bit about how our values inform foreign policy. we seem to be able to embrace saudi arabia and their human rights and brutally murdering a journalist. and we want to sell them weapons. and then we vilify iran and 50 years ago, the cia executed a coup with the nascent democracy. that seem to be in our best interest to overthro

>> i don't know, this is a legal process that will be ongoing for some time, but i think the preamble we're understand attack. it has not been new and it is ongoing as we speak, there are folks out there from russia, from south korea, from china that have an inattention to try to pit us against each other, to try to undermine our democratic processes, and make us question the truth and facts. this is where we're having our new democracy right now under this context. and to have a president that doesn't even recognize the threat, doesn't even want to admit that there was that kind of interference in the elections of the past, that means he is part of the problem in making us less safe. if there is one thing we should all join together on it is that we're being attacked. someone is trying to attack the electoral process and we should work together to try to stop it. >> stipulating that the assange charges have nothing to do with the 2016 election, they're not about wikileaks dissemination. but we're having a debate online of whether or not julian assange is a journalist. people are conc

the previous question shall be considered as ordered on the resolution and preamble to adoption without intervening motion or demand for division of the question except one hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on energy and ommerce. section 3, it shall be in order at any time on the legislative day of april 4, 2019, for the speaker to entertain motions that the house suspend the rules as though under clause 1 of rule v. the speaker or her designee shall consult with the minority leader or his designee on the designation of any matter for consideration pursuant to this section. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized for one hour. >> thank you, madam speaker, and for the purposes of debate only i yield the cust mir 30 minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. burgess, pending which i yield myself such time as i may consume, and all time yielded is for the purposes of debate only. i ask unanimous consent that all members be given five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks. the s

this is what has become the kind of preamble to the biden campaign and i think that's bad for him. >>om the left, certain elements of the left against biden basically saying if you are going to get into this thing, prepare to have a very unpleasant time. and the fact that he has said absolutely nothing in front of a camera, i don't think, is really helping his case all that much here. i do feel like there is, look, the video footage that we played there is very uncomfortable to watch there is a creepiness there. >> plus the slow motion with the music. >> that's true. we have seen these exchanges in the past, it's creepy, it's not, i think, appropriate especially these days. there is a difference, i think, between that and some of the me too actions that this is now being weaponized against him in a way that a lot of voters would say that's not the same thing. >> first to march wraps point the democratic party has a zero tolerance attitude accepting the commonwealth of virginia. but, when it comes to joe biden, let's step back and look at the fundamentals. i think we all anticipated th

is so central to our founding, is included in the preamble of the constitution. it is important to know when you have served in combat the inception of our nation, even limiting the discussion you just recent history, we have patrolled the streets in a combat zone and shortly after the terrorist attacks in 2002. in 2016, when the session was made, when the decision was made to open all military positions to women, only about, i'm sorry. only about 10 percent of those military positions remain open. women have fully proven by the time they were capable of performing 90 percent of those positions. so excluding women from registration would be ignoring the fact that women are already performing in combat, in combat units and incombat roles . some of our think the exclusion is appropriate because time and money needed to weed out women would not have a physical capability would be counterproductive to the purpose to expeditiously raise an armed force in a national crisis troops regardless of gender have always been sorted by their capabilities. every team assesses th

this topic goes to the heart of our country's long-standing struggle to carry out what the preamble to our constitution says it is designed to do, to form a more perfect union. hate incidents target victims based on actual or perceived race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or other immutable characteristics. some of these incidents may be crimes, and some are not. but all of them harm not only individuals but also our communities and ultimately our entire nation. unfortunately, various statistics confirm what most of us have observed, that hate incidents are increasing in the united states. although reporting of hate crimes to the fbi by the states is woefully incomplete, what we do know is these statistics have been on the rise in recent years with hate crimes surging 20% last year and the plurality of these crimes 29% being motivated by anti-black bias. the american public consents this reality. a poll conducted by the communities against hate initiative showed that 84% of individuals believe that hate incidents are very or somewhat pref lent in this country and 66% believe that s

the most important people that theld be satisfied are first two words to the preamble of a constitutional- the constitution. "we the people." in and sayl jump thank you. we will talk to you in another month. we always appreciate your calls and your participation. thank you and have a happy easter as well. guest: wow. yes. i hope i have as much energy and engagement in the news when i'm 95. love his reminder of the constitution because that ultimately is what governs the constitution. all the official take an oath to uphold the constitution. members of congress, cabinet members, the president. we do not pledge loyalty to a president or a particular person. upholding thet constitution. what is striking is the ways in which, so there is no judgment on whether he has done anything impeachable. but just how acai the norm he has behaved. there are certain norms that can -- don't go to laws but the way things have been done, he is so outside the oxen so many ways, that i think he has thrown a lot of people for a loop and force us all to go back and look at, what is the constitution? it is a real

the lease to my apartment in new york. [laughter] so a little bit later we found this man - - a manual that outlines very quickly that is a preamble this was directly by the ministry or agreed upon by the minister and the ministry of war. they spell it out. than the bureaucracy is built for the brutality. >> and the last one gets more into education. >> yes. this is a health certificate for a six-year-old little girl and shows that the medical tests that she has to go through before she could enroll in the isis school. her date of birth her eyesight was good, she could talk. they may be a brutal organization but even they know. [laughter] >> so if you could come up here with your interview of people on the frontlines and your examination of others on recor record, what is a general sense how they structure the organization? what is isis like as an organization? >> the big take away this wasn't a pr move for propaganda but they really aspired to that and they manage to outdo the government that they had and change direction with a certain petty crime aspect. from that brutality and the murderous nature of the group said to be bruta

the phrase i heard? it's a classic preamble for a buddhist scripture. what follows, it was the connors buddhist teaching. , when a sacred test might be, i changed the name to reflect that idea. two things that may not as early seem to go together, something called american, something from the asian buddhist tradition, they found a way to come together. >> in some way, and attempt to revise american, to come to grip with it, or to relate to the audience, i think it's one of the things to make sure it focuses on people. these great moments in history. i wonder when you were writingng that, how does that work for you? you find characters to help tell their stories work was it the story first? all of you. each of you. >> i start with that, it's hard starting off because this is our nation's first migration. a movement of tens ofhe thousans of people settling hundreds of propertied farming settlements across the earlier midwest, during the 1790s. i knew if i wrote this, this is a straight up. >> , would take the heart out of his history. the o people who lift

he has a poem that begins with the phrase, have i heard, it's a classic preamble for a buddhist scripture. it's what follows is what lived and what happened at the camps was a kind of buddhist teaching. the interpretive would be the interpretation of a classical sacred text might be. so i changed the name at the end to reflect that idea that two things that may not seem to go together, something called american and something from the asian buddhist tradition in the midst of war and how they come together. >> so all of your books in some way are an attempt to revive american history or come to grips with it or two related to an audience. and so i think one of the things that they share, it focuses on people. so at these great moments in history, i am wondering when you are writing that how did that work for you? did you find characters to help tell your stories or was it the story first? >> all of you. >> i can start. it is hard to start off because this is the nation's first great migration. it is a movement of tens of thousands of people settling of property settlements across the earlie

the world? your opinion piece that you wrote, maybe a preamble to exactly this theme. for our viewers.hat happens when women stop leading like men. i want to read a part that stuck out to me. you wrote, it's past time for women to stop trying to cram themselves into outdated nasa space suits designed for an alien masculine physique. we can soothe our world and maybe even save it. but what is it that you're seeing in some women leaders right now that gives you this hope? >> well, look at the prime minister of new zealand, for instance. jacinda ardern. she was a young woman world leader who was famous simply really for having a baby in office. then the massacre happened at the christchurch mosque, and in this instinctive way that had a terrific womanly empathy, she donned the hijab and said, you know, spoke her solidarity with the muslims. it was a remarkable moment. women across new zealand followed suit. we saw eric countries projecting her image on monuments. i think it was a uniquely female moment. >> do you see those qualities in the women running for president right now? >> what i

so, we sat down at this table, she sat at the head of the tablt and i sat with my stenographers notebook i take notes in. without a word of preambleshe talks about how beautiful and elegant she was and since i s,member her in a series of the most beautiful dresses. whatever talk, he followed the rest as a 21-year-old congressman and she said turn them tolo your advantage but she alsoio said at various times in his life she saved his political career and one was dramatic to me because this very fierce battle -- bad temper it suddenly came to a coalition point not long after johnson came to congress. at the same time you wanted to build a low-income housing project in austin and it was mostly mexican americans in this tighborhood he owned most of the houses and was getting a good income arranged by this and the chief lobbyist said to me herman was about to turn and went herman turned on you he never turned back. >> she couldn't afford this cous coalition. >> they were providing the money eo finance his own career and analysts said just add them to emy estate in virginia and she sat at theim table and said thee is an easy compromise.

decided to suspend that while the investigation is ongoing, to conserve cash for whatever eventuality might come. it was a very uncertain outlook. as you noted in your preambleean union? well, it is not the european union this time round. 10% lower than this time last year. greece, turkey, still strong, and spain, but not as strong as the european union destinations where before. it is a tough market, brexit overhangs it. sterling overhangs it, and the tragedies we saw in places like sri lanka, it continues to overhang some of the destinations. interesting to see turkey back on the holiday— maker agenda, a interesting to see turkey back on the holiday—maker agenda, a very weak currency and much safer and more settled than perhaps we have seen over more settled than perhaps we have seen over the past few years. these things ever and flow, but a difficult market to operate in. thank you very much. the markets? a quick glance, those are the european markets. standard & poor's, the 500, a broad index in the united states, that is at a re cord the united states, that is at a record level. that really has been a hangover from the good figures we had on gdp, the ec

mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of s. con. res. 14. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate concurrent resolution 14, authorizing the use of emancipation hall in the capitol visitor center to celebrate the birth of king kamehameha the first. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection, the senate will proceed. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the concurrent resolution be agreed to 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. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of h. con. res. 31 which was received from the house. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h. con. res. 31 authorizing t

barrasso: 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. barrasso: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of h. con. res. 16 which has received -- which was received from the house. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: house concurrent resolution 16, authorizing the use of the capitol grounds for the national peace officers memorial service and the national honor guard and pipe band exhibition. the presiding officer: is there objection proceeding to to the measure? without objection. mr. barrasso: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to 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. barrasso: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of h. con. re

the presiding officer: if there is no preamble, the rest of the consent is agreed. without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of s. 145 submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 145 commemorating the bicentennial of the birth of rabbi isaac mayor weiss and the 130th anniversary of the founding of the central conference of american rabbis. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection, the senate will proceed. mr. mcconnell: i further ask the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to 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. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of s. res. 146 submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 146, recognizing the centennial of the institute of international educat

the preamble reflects this idea that sovereignty is retained by we, the people. the ninth amendment expresses a similar idea that it is equally profound and important to the idea of what america is. it is that rights are retained by the people. whether they are listed in the constitution or not. these rights are retained by the people. we keep these rights with us. i think that is an idea that is core to the american experience. >> the ninth amendment was included because the founders knew they could not enumerate every single right that belongs to human beings, human nature in the bill of rights. so they included in the ninth amendment as a catchall to later define other rights. >> the ninth amendment ensures that a citizens, we continue to fight, mobilize, and fight for the views for the rights that have not been granted. >> many of the issues that our nation faces today are in the quest of gaining rights that may not directly enumerated. that promise enables us to have hope in america that changes in our society comes as a direct result of the actions that eve

mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of s. res. 173 submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 173, relative to the death of the honorable richard g. lugar, former united states senator for the state of indiana. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection, the senate will proceed. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: now, mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 10:00 a.m. tuesday, april 30. further, that following the

scott: 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. scott: thank you, and i yield back. ms. mcsally: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from arizona. ms. mcsally: the colorado river is the lifeblood of the southwestern united states. the river provides drinking water to 40 million americans. irrigation to 5.5 million acres of farmland, and more than 4,000 mega watts of carbon free hig hydropower to communities across the west in seven states. unfortunately the last 19 years have been the colorado basin's driest on record. this long and intense drought has left the combined water stored behind lake powell and lake mead near critically low levels putting the water supply for some of the nation's largest cities in danger. the colorado river drought contingency plan otherwise known as the d.c. p. was negotiated between the seven colorado river basin states to respond to this prolonged d