the clerk: nomination, the judiciary, michael lawrence brown of georgia to be united states district judge for the northern district of georgia. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from montana. a senator: mr. president, i ask the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: there is not a quorum call at this time. a senator: thank you. today is human trafficking awareness day. the suns suffering from the rise in human trafficking. mr. daines: i'm grateful to montana's attorney general tim fox has taken that issue head- head-on. in fact, montana has had three times as many human trafficking cases in 2017 as we had in 2015, a three-fold increase. unfortunately this number will likely continue to rise in the coming years, and online platforms are a driving force for it. like so many things, the internet has tremendou tremendor for good as well as for evil. having spent 12 years building a start-up cloud computing business in my hometown, a business that we grew to over a thousand employees. we took the company public. this became a large global business. i u

michael brown, and tamir rice. in oakland, spencer blake, kron four news. (steve) turning now to our four zone forecast(catherine) meteorologist lawrence meteorologist meteorologistlawrence karnow is here,..and lawrence there are some changes ahead for us lawrence karnow: it was a beautiful start to the new year with just a few patches of fog, a few high clouds and lots of sunshine. a weak ridge of high pressure continues to bring us dry and mild weather. but that is all about to change. there is also a supermoon tonight meaning the moon will be full and at it's closest point in it's rotation around the earth. a flood advisory is up for coastal areas and around the bay through tomorrow with unusually high tides. on the satellite image you can see the storms continue to spin off of the coast. as we head into the middle of the week, high pressure will flatten allowing us a chance of rain. one the pattern opens up we could see above normal rain over the next couple of weeks. the air quality continues to suffer but should improve vastly once the rain returns. tomorrow we will see increasing clouds and very mild temperatures. some highs tomorrow could be near 70 degre

the clerk: nomination, the judiciary, michael lawrence brown of georgia to be united states district judge for the northern district of georgia. a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, the trump administration has come up with a name for its energy policy. the energy policy amounts to basically a big fat cascade of gifts and special favors for oil, gas, and coal companies which in turn make big political contributions. but trump administration officials call the policy energy dominance, more accurately its name would probably be fossil fuel industry political dominance. or one might actually call it ignorance dominance since the administration willfully ignores scientific understanding, basic economics and market theory, and even, even the warnings of our national security community. the situation is not pretty from an environmental point of view. e.p.a. administrator scott pruitt is busily trying to roll back fuels limiting the ephegss of -- emissions of methane, a more powerful greenhou