NEW: U.S. State Department releases footage of American search and rescue teams rescuing a child from the rubble following the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela.
Here are the latest updates from Venezuela:
- Death toll has risen sharply to 1,430.
- 68,900 people are reported missing by families, according to the Associated Press.
- 17 flights with about 1,600 rescue team members have arrived to help in Venezuela.
- Tensions are reportedly rising on the ground over the inadequate response from the Venezuelan government.
“There’s a pile of bodies over there from last night. Newborn babies. Look what time it is, and they still haven’t come to recover them,”said Mileidy Romero, who was searching through the rubble.
“At 8 p.m. there were people alive down there, and they haven’t bothered to rescue them. We’ve located several bodies, and they haven’t helped us recover them either. What are they waiting for?”
We make it far too easy for senators in the minority to use the filibuster to kill bills supported by the majority.
The whole idea behind the filibuster has, from the beginning, been to protect and prolong debate—not to cut off debate, forcing the Senate to abandon any bill that doesn’t immediately receive the support of at least 60 senators.
Filibustering is supposed to require far more than opposing cloture.
Especially for bills of exceptional national importance—like the SAVE America Act—senators should be required to hold the floor and speak.
The minute filibustering senators stop doing that, the legislation can and should be passed at a simple-majority threshold.
This is not a radical idea.
This describes what the filibuster is, how it has historically operated, and how it should work today.
Share this message if you agree that the Senate—and the country as a whole—would be well served by a return to this approach.
Thune is again using pro-forma sessions to make pretend the Senate is still in session, to block Trumps recess appts
Join me in calling on Trump to use the power vested in him, under (Art- II- Sec,3) to call the Senate back into session... until they Pass the Save America Act
Keep your guns. Buy more. Get trained and exercise your second amendment rights. There may come a day soon, and sooner than we think, when we need them.
The second amendment may be the only thing that saves us from becoming England.
@LeaderJohnThune What are you doing talking about the past? Get the SAVE act passed! Do your job! Stop neglecting your duties! Don't be a traitor when it can and needs to be done!!
The Senate shouldn’t take recess right now.
We should turn back to the SAVE America Act and debate it until it passes, working through weekends to their filibuster.
What better way could we find to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary?
John Thune is actively paying the Taliban $40 million weekly, despite a bill sitting on Thune's desk to stop this funding. This money supports terrorists who kill Americans. This practice must end. DEFUND THE TALIBAN!
For six months, I have been negotiating with Anthony Fauci's lawyers over a date to testify before my Homeland Security Committee. He finally agreed to appear this month. Then he backed out. So I subpoenaed him. He will testify in July.
https://t.co/w2599FJASz
Ask yourself one very simple question.
Why would anyone fight this hard to stop the government from checking whether voters are U.S. citizens?
A Biden appointed judge named Sparkle Sooknanan just blocked Trump's effort to verify citizenship and clean the voter rolls.
They call it "privacy."
Funny how the "privacy" always cuts in exactly one direction — keeping the rolls as messy as possible.
Verifying citizens should not be controversial.
Pass the SAVE America Act.
If your employee was NOT doing his job
& decided to take a vacation for over a month on your dime,
would you continue to employ him?
(I’m talking about our Senate)