Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the vote on the soon-to-be-pending nomination be called up. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the Duncan nomination?
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I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second? The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk called the roll.
cooked up in back rooms, cloaked in fake numbers (that) loots our country (for) the least deserving people you could imagine feels (like) a crime scene.
There is a doctrine or a principle that is kind of a tedious economic term, ``marginal utility of money.'' What it means, in very plain terms, is that if you make $60,000 a year, your last thousand dollars of income is a big deal to you…
So bad enough that they are here arguing for excess benefits for themselves compared to regular Americans; worse, they are using dark money corruption to get there. So how is that patriotic?





