work cut out for him but we are leaning on him to fulfill those responsibilities and keep the department of energy as one that not only here in the united states we look to for true leadership, but around the world mr. president, rick. has a strong record of results based on public service in the state of texas. he is a proven leader and i am confident he will do a good job for us leading the department of energy in this new administration. i will be supporting his nomination and i would certainly urge my colleagues to do the same. with that i note the absence of a quorum. >> after that debate, the senate voted 62 - 37 to confirm former texas governor rick perry as energy secretary. earlier in the day the senate had confirmed retired neural surgeon ben carson as secretary of housing and urban development

>> in case you missed it, here are some clips of c-span programming from last week. nancy pelosi at the san francisco healthcare form talking about the affordable care act. >> we are for the affordable care act. we want to see them come up with something that does not diminish what our polls were in the affordable care act. those goals were to expand coverage to as many people as possible in our country. to improve benefits for everyone , and to lower the cost. >> kellyanne conway at sea pack. >> there is an individual sentiment that you make your own choices. i look at myself as a product of my choices, not a victim of my circumstances. that is what being a conservative is all about. >> john kelly spoke about deportation. >> all deportations will be

according to our legal justice system which is extensive and includes multiple appeals. the focus of deportations would be on the criminal element that has made it into the united states. all of this will be done in close coordination with the government of mexico. >> ruth bader ginsburg at stanford university. >> i never saw a woman in a symphony orchestra. someone come up with the bright idea, let's drop a curtain between the people who are listening and the judges. it works like magic. almost overnight, women were making their way into symphonies i wish we could duplicate the drop curtain in every area, but

it isn't that easy. i have one real and one fictitious role model. the real one was amelia ehrhardt and the fictitious one was nancy drew. [applause] >> from the british house of commons, debate on trump's visit to england later this year. >> the day after the inauguration, 2 million mostly women, marched on the streets of america. 100,000 marched here in this country and it was an expression of fear and anxiety that we had someone in the white house wielding this enormous power, the power was enormous, but unfortunately the intellectual capacity of the president. [inaudible] >> all programs are available at cspan.org on our homepage and by searching the video library.

>> later today on our companion network c-span, they interviewed dave about the news media. you can see it live on c-span. >> we want to welcome freshman representative jamie rapkin. he's a democrat from just outside washington d.c. in maryland. thank you for being with us. >> how do you like your new job. >> i love my new job. i wish i may have had a term under president obama because we are working seven days a week, 14 hours a day on all of the problems that have arisen in this administration. i love it and i live just about 25 minutes away from the capital so i can take the metro straight down or drive and i don't have to spend all my time on the airpla.