mr. warner. senator warner: no. senator merkley: no. the clerk: mr. kaine. senator keaning -- kaine: no. senator king: no. senator van hollen: no. senator enzi: aye. the clerk: mr. chairman, there are 12 yeas and 11 nays. . mr. enzi: the resolution is reported out of committee. with no further business i remind members wishing to file additional minority views that hard copies must be signed and filed with the committee clerk in dirkson 624 no later than noon tomorrow. i also ask unanimous consent the staff be permitted to make necessary technical and conforming changes to the reported resolution and the number from the table be provided to include in the resolution where appropriate. i thank my colleagues for all their time and dedication today. the markup of the fiscal year 2018 budget resolution has been -- i'll make a few more comments but everybody can leave because it's -- >> mr. chairman, could i ask unanimous consent to add my request to be recorded as a no vote on the motion to table senators number one? mr. enzi: certainly. without objection. >> ca

mr. warner: again, welcome, sir. as you're obviously aware, one of the most important investigations this committee's involved in at this point is the russian investigation into activities in 2016. i just want to get you on the record. do you promise to fully and completely cooperate with this committee's investigation of russian interference in the 2016 election, including by turning over all materials in your possession to the committee as requested, as promptly as possible? mr. demers: i do support the work of this committee and that investigation. i think it's a very important one. and i do pledge to cooperate with you on that investigation. obviously in terms of turning over everything, from the outside i don't know all the rules. i'd have to talk to other folks at the department about it. but i do support your -- mr. warner: within the constraints of the rules, obviously. we need that cooperate. mr. demers: yes. you'll have it. mr. warner: we've had it from many. there are some entities, i think we still have a

mr. warner, proposes an amendment numbered 1138 to amendment numbered 1116. mr. warner: i ask unanimous consent that the reading be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. warner: i rise today and speak in favor of my amendment striking the language in the budget resolution that would exempt the $1.5 trillion tax reconciliation instructions from senate bill and prevent this body from dramatically increasing this body from our debt and deficits. i know everybody is coming back from lunch and probably feel pretty good and don't want to get -- get sick, but our country has $20 billion in debt. both parties have unclean hands. in the years i have worked with my republican colleagues on issues trying to address debt and deficit, but the notion that we're about to take on a budget resolution this afternoon and we're going to start with the premise that the rules that are there to try to protect us from being fiscally irresponsible, we're going to blow those off at the outset and say we're going to start with a $1.5 trillion in the hole before we st

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mr. kaine: i co-do have co-sponsor, if i could add senators warner, king, and murray as co-sponsors. mr. enzi: speaking in opposition this would change the chair's ant to change discretionary spending levels in the event congress and the president agreed to new discretionary levels for fiscal year 2018. i believe we can have an honest discussion about each spending prior toin its own merit. i reject the idea that defense and nondefense have to be tied together. doing is so mere lay negotiating tactic and it's unfair to our service members. the constitution first and foremost entrusts us with the duty to provide for our defense. that duty requires matching our military spending to the missions we ask our troops to carry out and the threats they face doing. so the senate agreed last month with a strong bipartisan vote to an 89-8 higher spending level for the defense department. this budget reflects that bipartisan vote by including the most regular discretionary defense spending we can under applicable budget law, along with appropriate level for the overseas contingency operations acco

mr. warner is vice chair of the intelligence committee and what really is the point here is to say why did our government must have the tools to protect against foreign interference in how can we create these tools and i think the fact that you have the vice chair of intelligence and chair of the armed services committee showed howoo important the tools are protecting the national security. >> are there free speech concerns about having this kind of database orifice linear on thehe internet? >> iem actually a fan of the former supreme court justice scalia when faced with questions aboutt disclosure on campaigns talked about the home of the braveki and in this case this isn't any kind of restriction in terms of extra layers it is simply a disclosure and the federal communications commission many years ago back in the 50s and 60s wrote that listeners are entitled to know by whom they are being persuaded. this is simply a tool for the government to ensure the foreign y,and entities are not coming i. the disclosure has been upheld by the supreme court and repeatedly i wouldld go to many people

mr. warner gave to the public, i would fire them. >> lou: senator warren just blattingered in response to the questions. this is preposterous. and yet mitch mcconnell is not talking and saying come on, guys. no one is keeping this in porportion. this is i don't know if the right words witch hunt, but it is obviously insulting to the american taxpayer and the intelligence of the americans go in the country. to center it go forward without evidence of any crime. and no crime defined or found, what in the world, and by the way,in am talking with allen desswitz said collusion is not a crime. he can't condone anything they are doing. >> no one can tell you the criminal pred cute. and unfortunately senator burr is a glorified sock puppet to senatory warner's 2020 campaign he's getting up. and this is ad- sound bite material. they produced four this happened pages of witness tell. and make it public and put it on the internet and crowd source and i get i can come up with conclusions to draw. >> lou: burr said he hit the wall with the trump doszier from the former british spy. chris steele who by

mr. warner presented, i would fire them. charles: senator warner out did himself, blathered in response to the questions. this is preposterous, yet mitch mcconnell is note talking with the chair and ranking member to say, come on, guys, no one is trying to make sense. this is i don't know if the right word is a witch-hunt, it is an obvious insult to the american taxpayer and the intelligence of americans in the country. to have this go forward without any evidence of any kind, no crime to find, no crime found. what in the world do they -- and by the way i'm talking with allen the other day said point blank, collusion is not a crime, he can't condone anything they are doing. >> as i have said, many times, no one can name a criminal predicate. in that regard, unfortunately, senator burr serves as a glorified sock pu puppet to senr warner's 2020 campaign. this is all sound bite material, they produced 4,000 pages of within testimony. lou: good lord. >> make it public, put it up on internet and let's crowd sources, i bet i could

mr. warner gave to the public, i would fire them. >> lou: senator warren just blattingered in response to the questions. this is preposterous. and yet mitch mcconnell is not talking and saying come on, guys. no one is keeping this in porportion. this is i don't know if the right words witch hunt, but it is obviously insulting to the american taxpayer and the intelligence of the americans go in the country. to center it go forward without evidence of any crime. and no crime defined or found, what in the world, and by the way,in am talking with allen desswitz said collusion is not a crime. he can't condone anything they are doing. >> no one can tell you the criminal pred cute. and unfortunately senator burr is a glorified sock puppet to senatory warner's 2020 campaign he's getting up. and this is ad- sound bite material. they produced four this happened pages of witness tell. and make it public and put it on the internet and crowd source and i get i can come up with conclusions to draw. >> lou: burr said he hit the wall with the trump doszier from the former british spy. chris steele who by

the qualifications to do it and it's not that far for them to go it's not the first time that mr mark warner's called the controversy over some of his comments and people saying that he's basically sort of said very bad things about the working class showing contempt for them he's previously talked about illiterate people and people who use the bus to travel to work and he's also said that he wouldn't yield to lazy people in response to the protests that came over his controversial labor reforms here in france basically he's called the working class slack is i will not yield in any way not just workers not to cynics not to the extremists. who are gathered here today to protest against macron and his policies which undermine the very existence of the workers from. this movement is necessary it is the response of the french people who are protecting their rights. there's been huge criticism from the opposition parties in france people saying that mr marquand doesn't know what it means to work and that mr marquand should want. his language and have much more respect from the people it also comes

mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator warner. >> mr. sharply, would you please stand and raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear to give this committee the truth, the full trout and nothing but the truth, so help you god? >> i do, sir. >> please be seated. chris, before we move to your statement, it is practice of this committee that i ask you five standard questions that the committee poses to each nominee who appears before us. just a simple yes or no answer for the record. do you agree to appear before the committee here or in any other venue when invited? >> yes. >> if confirmed, do you agree to send officials from your office to appear before the committee and designated staff when invited? >> yes. >> do you agree to provide documents or any other materials requested by the committee in order for it to carry out its oversight and legislative responsibilities? >> yes, i do. >> will you both ensure that your office and your staff provide such materials to the committee when requested? >> yes, i will. >> do you grow to inform and fully brief to the fullest extent possible all members of

senator warner: thank you, mr. chairman, and welcome, mr. sharpley. congratulations to your nourishing to serve as inspector general of the cia. i believe the job of inspector general is critical to the effect of operation of any agency. this committee relies on inspector general of the intelligence agencies to ensure the organizations are using taxpayer dollars wisely, conducting activities within the spirit of the law, and supporting and protecting whistleblowers. whistleblowers who report fraud, waste, and abuse. these functions are even more important in an organization like the cia which by necessity does not operate in the public. i appreciate you are the third nominee to come for this pretty this year. i wish to express my hope we will soon see from the president a nominee for the position of the i.g. for the overall intelligence committee. this position has been vacant since february, and i'm about theth number of changes. i appreciate our meeting earlier this month. we talked about a number of issues you will face as a cia i.g i want to ask y

warner: thank you mr. chairman. it looks like i may be the last. let me echo a lot of comments that were made. and how disappointed i am in this approach. 2008 there here in has been no issue i have spent more time on them looking at our nations allen's sheet. balance sheet. members of have made very upset in terms of what i would look at get our balance sheet in order. the trouble is we have not done a lot of that. the state of our countries balance sheet is pretty bleak. $20 trillion in debt accumulated by both parties. framework, under the , there isax reform very little reform. i see a lot of tax cuts. this notion of a budget that would be a framework, a prescription for what our country would be, is one i find extraordinarily disturbing on many, many levels. i'm sure there are many who have , every othert , at leastax reform let's start with revenue neutral. this starts with the presumption that we are going to have a holeion and-a-half hold -- of tax cuts. i believe 1.5 trillion is low. other nonpartisan groups would say this plan would add t

warner. if confirmed mr. dimmers would lead that oversees the russia investigation that's headed by the fbi. he is assistant general council at boeing. >>> i would like to start by recognizing the family you brought with you. your wife is here as well as your children, elizabeth and matthew. senator warren will sign a slip for you to take to school to get extra credit. your sister also, in a statement john speaks strongly about what each of you provided over the years. i know how important it is for each of you. our goal in conducting our series is to allow for it. he has provided written responses to over 30 questions. of course members will be able to ask additional questions. he is the graduate from the college of holy cross served as a clerk for the ninth circuit court and then for the late honorable justice scalia. he served in national security division as attorney general. he also served as council. while at the national security division he additionally completed a detail as council to deputy attorney

mr. steel is happy to meet with senators burr and warner. picking a date. so there may be a continuing political interest in washington in trying to make the christopher steel dossier seem like a scandal or seem like an unplumble depth that we'll never be able to understand and nobody will ever be able to investigate. we'll never know if any of it is true. i get the political drive to come to one of those two conclusions or maybe both. but in reality, based mostly on open source reporting from the american media in reality, a, a bunch of the dossier has proven to be true. b, the fbi and cia have reportedly validated parts of it as true and have apparently used it as the basis of some of their on going investigation, c, the special counsel robert mueller is investigating the dossier including interviewing christopher steel about it. and d, senate investigators apparently can meet with christopher steel if they want to. even if the republican chairman of the intelligence committee yesterday said otherwise. so republicans are obviously under a lot of pressure

warner. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. sloan, when you were named ceo after the fake account scandal, you are asked why a career as a wells fargo insider like you, why that made you the right person to fixy the fundamental problems at the bank, and you said, quote, because i've been making change for 29 plus years at wells fargo. sols i want to take a look at yr time at wells fargo. from 2011-2014, the height of when wells fargo was cheating customers by opening fake accounts, you serve as a chief financial officer, and as cfo he spoke to potential wells fargo investors a lot. on those calls you aggressively promoted wells fargo ability to open up accounts, didn't you? >> no, i didn't. >> no, you didn't? well, here are the transcripts from all of the investor earnings calls that you participated in from 2011-2014. i have read through them, and on these calls no c one, not even john stumpf who was the ceo at the time bragged more about wells fargo does ability and commitment to open new accounts for existing customers. in t

warner. >> thank you, mr. chairman. secretary, it's good to see you again. it's been a while. >> good to see you. >> i think you hear a lot of frustration and obviously i am -- i want to official comment, but what senator corker said where there may be a contradiction between the conclusions of the intelligence community and what the secretary of state is trying to do. it's a really thorny issue and, mr. chairman, we may want at some point to hit a classified brief for members of the committee, sitting on the intel committee, some of the conclusions are fairly chilling. you said you have not seen the chinese order, but in terms of your view of it is there any gaps, any visible gaps or holes that -- in the chinese new restrictions towards the north koreans. >> again, senator, i have not seen the order. they did issue an announcement today that all -- that they are shutting down all north korean firms and joint ventures with china. i think that is a welcome step. we are working very closely with the chinese and to the extent that there are gaps and of course a

senator warner. >> thank you mr. chairman and i'd like to bring up the amendment number one.i like senator kaine's amendment that i would hope at some point we are somebody from the press would go back and look back when democrats were in the majority and when all of these exact arguments around the importance of keeping the deficit under control, deficit-neutral, financial guardrails. read the bill before you vote on the bill were all absolutely made by members of this committee who sat in the minority. if we would adhere to what we said in prior times and the same perhaps could be said for us in that sense -- my amendment is based again on the use of the cbo. as legislators we often disick re-about policy goals and desired outcomes but we have always agreed on a common set of referees and we have fun with read on the joint committee of taxation and the congressional budget office should tell us how much a piece of legislation costs and it shouldn't go to the executive branch or some third-party think tank that i don't believe we should look around for alternative facts and

mr. chairman, there are 12 na and 11 aye. >> the amendment is not agreed to. next amendment is warner number one per does anyone seek recognition in opposition? >> this would strip the chairman of the budget committee of his ability to determine that budgetary fx of the legislation ended this amendment places both scorekeeping authority with cbo contrary to the budget act for accountability and in defense of the budget act i oppose this amendment and i urge my colleagues to do likewise. >> proponent for 30 seconds. >> i believe we need to use cbo and gct with an independent third-party validated served as well and should not change referees mid stream. >> for reasons i stated earlier i oppose the amendment. does the senator request a roll call? the clerk will call the role. [roll call vote] [roll call vote] [roll call vote] [roll call vote] [roll call vote] [roll call vote] [roll call vote] [roll call vote] [roll call vote] [roll call vote] >> mr. chairman, there are 12 na's and 11 aye. >> the amendment is not agreed to in the next amendment is warner number to peer does anyone seek r

mr. chairman. >> thank you. >> this is more interesting than practicing law, isn't it? >> some days. >> thank you, senator. senator warner. >> thank you, mr. chairman. let me first of all echo what senator kennedy has just said. the whole notion of the credit rating aemg rating agencies and we have no ability to opt into these systems. we are part of these systems whether we like it or not. i'm often asked in my job on the intelligence committee whether i think the single greatest vulnerability our country face its and i believe it's cyber security. i believe we do not have a whole of government or whole of society approach on cyber security. in recent times we have seen russia take unprecedented action attacking 21 of our states voting systems. we've seen our social media platforms being manipulated with false information in the first i think shots of disinformation and misinformation campaigns, at least indirectly related to cyber. i appreciate you, mr. chairman, coming forward with the recognition of the edgar system breach. i wish it will have been done quicker, although has been pointed out, this is not in isolation

:00, the senate vote in relation to the warner amendment with no second-degree amendments in order prior to the vote. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. gardner: i ask unanimous consent the senate be in a period of morning business for senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. gardner: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of s. res. 293 submitted earlier today. the clerk: senate resolution 293, commemorating the 150th anniversary of morgan state university. the presiding officer: weeks, the senate will proceed. mr. gardner: i ask that 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. gardner: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of h.r. 2989 which was received from the house. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 29789 -- 2989 afternoon act to establish the frederick douglass bicentennial commission. the presiding officer: without objection, th

warner. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. smith, appreciate being here, but we have seen a history of other companies, of yahoo! announcing today their breach was 3 billion. not the billion they initially acknowledged. but for a company like yours where american citizens have no right to opt in, to know customer based relationship with you, i think it raises a whole host of policy questions we can't get into today. but i think this committee needs to look at. i think we have to ask honest questions. who own this is data. how do you get the right to this data that's our personal information and yet your company's practices of cyber hygiene are sloppy in the extreme. the fact that there was known vulnerability that you didn't have appropriate internal controls ain place to easily patch this is an issue. the fact that it took so long for the senior leadership to get his act together is inexcusable. and what i find what i'm going to spend my time because i could echo what my colleagues have said about how long it took. but then o

warner? >> thank you, mr. chairman. and looks like i may be the last. let me echo a lot of the comments that my friend many maryland has made, how disappointed i am and this approach. since i got here in 2008 there's been no issue that i've spent more time on than trying to look at our nation's balance sheet and some of those times i have made members including the ranking member very upset in terms of what i'd be willing to take a look at to try to get our country's balance sheet back in order. the trouble is we've not done a lot of that and the state of our country's balance sheet at this point is pretty bleak. 20 trillion in debt. that has been accumulated by presidents in both parties. neither party has clean hands on that. this budget framework under the guise of tax reform i think there's -- i've seen very little reform. i've seen lots of tax cuts and this notion of a budget which would be a framework about what our prescription for our country would be is one that i find extraordinarily disturbing on many, many levels. i'm sure there are many who

latest, senator burr and mark warner said the committee has made the multiple requests to meet with steele over last months and we remain open to any credible offer to meet with mr tell us about this? >> i think what that reflects is there's a sort of dance going on, ari. eastbound though senator burr said earlier in the week, look, we have asked steele to come in and basically refused, it's more complicated than that. steele has offered to come in but he doesn't want to do some things that the senate intelligence committee apparents wants him to do. for example, reveal who paid for the dossier. the work that he was doing. and maybe reveal some of his sources. so that is ongoing. but, you know, as we have also reported, mueller's team has gone to interview him and i find that significant, you know, nearly -- more than a year after the fbi first got parts of this dossier. so they have a long time to investigate these claims. they're still going back to talk to mr. steele to ask more questions which tells me it's still in play and there's still some things in there they're trying to vet and verify, ari. >> how do prosecutors look at that? >> there are two things h

mr. steele in fact would be happy to meet with richard burr and senator mark warner. >> that is very different than what the republican chairman had suggested this week. and this discrepancy is important. if steele is ready to give his intel to investigators, and they are suggesting otherwise at the same time, then maybe this doesn't all who know steele's shoulders. maybe there is no wall. maybe there is more of a negotiation how he provides what he has. if fact, within just the last two hours, it's nbc's ken dilanian reporting on that development. >> our sources for the story were sort of taking issue with the way the chairman of the intelligence committee characterized the situation with steele. he basically said, look, we've asked to talk to him and he's refused. apparently it is more complicated. steele has offered to talk to the committee but they haven't been able to come to an agreement on conditions, on the circumstances. >> okay. let that sink in. we've been talking about the dossier for a while. what this means when you think about it, a debate over how to testify is obviously differ

mr. kushner over the summer and this past week met with representatives of twitter and senator mark warner said that he was deeply dissatisfied with what twitter had given him. the chairman of the committee is holding a press conference and we'll hear much more from both senators as well as the social media companies, whether it's twitter, facebook, fortune, reddit. >> and google. >> and google, yeah. >> thank you, gentlemen. i really appreciate your time. >>> coming up next, the phrase is back and we've got to live with it. the juice is on the loose. o.j. simpson released from prison on parole this morning after serving nine careers of a 33-year sentence. will o.j. return to public life to make money while he's on parole? we'll talk about that. >>> based on all of that, mr. simpson, i do vote to grant parole when eligible. and that will conclude this hearing. >> thank you. thank you. [ applause ] >> all right. so a big moment from july and about 2 1/2 months after being granted parole in that hearing, o.j. simpson is out of prison, released early today in the early-morning hours. he was s

mr. trump, at least for now. so we're joined right now by the thas "hardball" roundtable, ashley parker, astern herndon, and erica warnerith the associated press. down the line here, let's start with the republicans. i sort of think they no longer say the word tax reform. they're getting pretty blunt about it. they want a cut for the rich, the people that are paying their way, ashley? >> yeah, i think that's fair. >> corporate tax cut is number one. >> they've been pretty clear about that. but at this point what they want is any sort of legislative achievement or a win or a deal. and if it ends up being a tax cut for the rich, they'll take it, i think. >> well, they're in the trough. they're heading for it. they've got a stock market which is booming based on the discount or the expectations they will get this tax cut. they almost have to deliver. >> well, i don't know if that is -- i don't know if that's true. i don't know if they'll absolutely get it. but i know certainly they're all trying to rally around that. and even more than that, they know that dronald trump has the party and its base still loyally to them pers

and that's why senator mccain and senator warner and i have come together. so, thank you. mr. salgado, i just have a remaining minute here. our intelligence agencies have reported that the kremlin is spending nearly $200 million a year, or that they had done that spreading propaganda through outlets like r.t. in the lead-up to the election, president putin of russian sought to delegitimize the u.s. electoral system by intensifying critical coverage on r.t. r.t. is one of the most popular channels on youtube, that right? >> yeah, it is a popular channel on youtube, yes. >> so youtube provides a share of the advertising money that it makes on popular channels to the sponsors of those channels. and there is actually these google calculators that can help estimate potential earnings based on page impressions. the more click, the more money is made. it safe to say here then that they make a significant amount of money in shared ad revenue from you? is google actually paying this kremlin-owned entity? >> i think r.t. is making money on ad revenues through their youtube channel. that

that's why senator mccain and senator warner and i have come together. thank you. mr. salgado i was just a remaining minute here. our intelligence agencies reported that the kremlin has spent nearly $200 million a year spreading propaganda through outlets like r.t. in the leadup to the election, president putin sought to delegitimize the u.s. electoral system by intensifying critical coverage on rt. it's one of the most popular channels on youtube? mr. salgado: it is a pop lohr hannel on youtube. senator klobuchar: and part of the earnings go to sponsors of those popular youtube channels. is it safe to say they make a significant amount of money in shared ad revenue from you? is google actually paying this kremlin hoff -- kremlin-owned entity? mr. salgado: i think rt is making money on ad revenues. senator klobuchar: is google paying them? mr. salgado: i'm not sure how the money flow go bus we would be involved in the remuneration to youtube channels. senator klobuchar: that sounds like you're paying them. mr. salgado: i don't know the actual flow. senator klobuchar: w

warner have a good working relationship. at least speaking for the senate, i don't think partisan will get in the way and it certainly won't influence what mrevan bayh, thanks to you. rick tyler, much appreciated. garrett haake, thank you, my friend. up next, the american woman who was held hostage in afghanistan for five years breaks her silence. what she says really happened during her family's captivity and during their rescue. m and all that? is that whole thing still dragging on? no, i took some pics with the app and... filed a claim, but... you know how they send you money to cover repairs and... they took forever to pay you, right? no, i got paid right away, but... at the very end of it all, my agent... wouldn't even call you back, right? no, she called to see if i was happy. but if i wasn't happy with my claim experience for any reason, they'd give me my money back, no questions asked. can you believe that? no. the claim satisfaction guarantee, only from allstate. switching to allstate is worth it. only from allstate. i kept looking for ways to manage my symptoms. i thought i was doing okay. then it hit me... managing was all i was

warner, has pushed back. i'm just wondering if there's been any health and compensation . mrs. adamle: one of the benefits that the nfl offers is called plan 88. whose number was 88, hence the name. and basically that just says is given an ex-player a diagnosis of dementia, then they are entitled to -- not entitled, you can apply for benefits. that's often been and will be the expression has been denied, deny, deny, delay until they die. many wives have had a great deal of difficulty obtaining that. i think because of the nature of my background and understanding assessment and documentation and able to put as together a portfolio of mike's application and we were able to obtain that. i know many families have tried for years able to put together and have not been able to obtain funds for that. the plan 88 pays for any out-of-pocket expense related to - medical expense related to their care giving for dementia. so that's a nice benefit to have. but it's been difficult to obtain. in the actual settlement case, as you said, the nfl is formidable and the wives are coming up agains

mr. khan on the word restraint. >> no restraint. >> no respect. >> if it's not from capitol hill, it's mark warner virginia, senator always great tolity of the intel committees in the house of the senate to be able to do their job properly on the investigation. are those misreadings of what's going on behind closed doors in intel committees. >> joe, i can't give you a read on what's happening in the house or senate judiciary committee. i can tell you our committee is moving forward. i think we're the only bipartisan effort. all the members of the committee, we just want to get the facts out to the american public. we've made progress. still have a lot of folks to interview. we also department of homeland security have come out with 21 states with russians attempted to food stamper with. we' next week is a really big week for the company. we have all the social media companies out. already have bipartisan legislation that says let's go ahead and equalize at least transparency so the rules that apply for a political ad that might appear on morning joe, if someone does that same kind of ad on facebook, they have to have that same kin

warner. if confirmed mr. dimmers would lead that oversees the russia investigation that's headed by the fbi. he is assistant general council at boeing.

warner, whitehouse, king --. the presiding officer: the senator's time has expired. a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from wyoming. mr. enzi: mr. president, i urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment which would create an uneven playing field for the upcoming reconciliation work. if adopted, this amendment would reinstate a point of order from the fiscal year 2008 budget resolution which congress repealed two years ago. it was repealed to ensure equal treatment of all reconciliation bills by restoring the level lel playing field that had existed prior to the adoption of the point of order in 2008. under the byrd rule, the byrd rule specifically does not require such budget neutrality inside the budget window. why? because reconciliation was designed to be neutral in its orientation. the budget act states that reconciliation instructions must enumerate changes in spending and revenue amounts. it does not stipulate those changes must be increases or decreases. the fiscal year 2016 budget resolution restored long-standing neutrality principle of the byrd rule. it wa