1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable shelley moore capito, a senator from the state of west virginia, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: chuck grassley, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 3:00 p.m. on monday, december 2, 2019. december 2, 2019. everything days during the thanksgiving break, the senate will return on monday at 3:00 o'clock eastern on nominations. taking back to the tv on c-span2. >> now on book to be jeff mason and joel klein discuss a warning which is reported for a behind-the-scenes look from a trump administration from an anonymous source. you been around this town for a long time did you learn anything from anonymous? >> i don't think anything is startlingly new in the basics, it's a critique of term presidency that we heard a lot in red in the same author in the new york times and ominously, i think you learn the depth of the concern of this particular person and interesting details about antidotes. i thought one thing that was interesting wa

. >> senator capito? >> thank you for not just or service but for being here today and your long history in such a distinguished field. along the lines as senator cortez, we are at the 100th anniversary of the amendment, and i wanted to highlight efforts we made here. you mentioned this in your statement. i am a cosponsor of the act and you talk a little bit about building a museum from the ground up. you mentioned these perspectives in terms of financing. i don't of any perspectives here on if this act were to pass, how that would come to fruition. there is some things to think about. first of, all it's so important that if we do a new museum, it's important to recognize that well it's a story of individual women, it's a lens to help us understand what it means to be an american. we are to frame it in a way that, we have this american history museum, that allows us to do important work that crosses throughout the smithsonian. it allowed us to build collections, what kind of staff do you need. so in a way

perspective on that tonight, bret baier spoke with west virginia republican senator shelley moore capitobret: thank for being here. obviously the focus in washington will be impeachment and it seems like it's heading towards your side of the capital with you as a juror. as you sit here tonight having watched what you've watched, how do you see this? >> i see it as a political blunt instrument that it has been throughout the entire process. when the hearings were private, it was pretty obvious that the democrats were using this as a way to be destructive to president trump himself and then when it comes into the public arena over the last several weeks, i think it showed itself again to be a very divisive, very partisan exercise and discouraging to the american public, but it will be coming over probably to the senate, i will be a juror, i'm all ears of course to try to figure that out once it comes onto my plate. >> bret: to that point, one of the people making the case is the house intelligence committee chair adam schiff, here is his closing argument. >> when the founders provided a me

senator capito. thank you secretary bunch for being here ahead and your long history in such i think a distinguished field. kind of along the lines of senator cortez-masto, not on the latino museum put we are at the 100 them never a of the ratification of the 19th 19th amendment, giving women the right to vote, and i wanted to highlight efforts we have made here and you mentioned this in your statement on the smithsonian american women's history museum act, which i'm a co-for. obviously you talked but building a museum from the ground up. i wonder -- you mentioned the perspectives in terms of financing. i don't know if you have any perspectives here on if this act were to pass, how that would come to fruition? >> i think a couple of things to think but. first of all, it is so important that if we do a museum on the history of american women, it's important to recognize that while it is both a story of individual women, it's also a story that is a lens that helps us understand what it means to be an a

describing president trump's phone call to his ukrainian counterpart, the explosive allegations on capito hill. >a the la of the camp fire debris finally removed how the town of paradise is celebrating the end of the biggest cleanup in state history. >>drugs and gu seized 50 people arrested a major gang bust, the noto >>major gang bust in stoton police say 50 people were arrested and zens of guns were seized in an operation targeting the norteno street gang today, state attorneys general javier becerra said that the gang members are suspected of a variety of crimes in stockton. they could face charges, including attempted murder robbery drug stribution multiple weapons violations. in addition to the more than 40 guns officers, seized drugs, including fentanyl heroin cocaine an meth the operation was a joint effort between several local agencies and the us department of justice. >>it is improper for the preside of the united states to demand a foreign government investigate a us citin. and a political opponent, the references to specific individuals and investigations su as former vice pre

. >> reporter: but there's still no timeline for an impeachment vote tracie pottsn now to the capito where the secretary of the navy is out of a job after new fallout over how the case of y navy s.e.a.l. edward gallagher was treated. president trump was not pleased with the way it was handled by the tt richard spencer was fired, thanking him for his service the president said the ambassador to norway will be c's kelly o'donnell has more >> reporter: a major shakeup at the pentagon the navy secretary is out. asked to resign by defense secretary mark esper over his handling of disgraced navy s.e.a.l. eddie gallagher spencer was already under pressure when he disputed reports about the controversy saturday. >> i did not threaten to resign, but let us just say that we're here to talk about external threats and eddie gallagher is not one of them. >> reporter: the pentagon chief called spencer's actions deepley proposed to the white house that if officials did not interfere with the navy re, spencer would make certain gallagher could retire with his s.e.a.l. membership and the coveted pin

climate change many european cities are also having to adopt to changing conditions in the brick capito op and her 12 have increased in intensity and frequency in recent he is so the authorities are looking to open up an additional supply of water by tapping into an acute look at it on to the city but that's not all. the renowned athens acropolis seen from the top of nearby mount like a better house for athenians like a better says even more important nowadays because it still has traces of woodland 80 percent of the metropolis is a densely built cauldron of cement with summer temperatures easily hit 38 degrees celsius climate change is also aggravating conditions in the drought plagued arid landscape linear mira valleys had enough their rising heat and a long period of heatwave creates drought and we have problems because also we do have. a different type of rains these days also get the climate change we have shorter periods of time that we have enormous amount of water coming down in a very short period of time so this creates flooding and flooding creates erosion so we have this dou

capito if we continue growth 'd with the same pace so does not. well the current government repeats all the mistakes of previous government but doesn't repeat it successes and that's a problem and we just want the chance of the change in this neat system you should know who the majoritarian who those people are there are like we have like 150 people in the parliament. and well the ruling party has about. 20. 3 terry and david this. of the ruling party did not ask any question did not have any anything to say via the mic or a phone in the parliament for last 2 years they didn't all the microphones they just buy the busy seats to protect their businesses you should know that. this public procurements 3rd of them are made by direct sales and that's how the system works and they don't want to give it up they don't want to give the power to the people they don't want to give the choice to the people ok and that's when the final minutes in this debate i'm sorry to cut you off we are in the final minutes of this to meet people and to give you every reaso

nancy cordes leads off our coverage tonight at the capito >> reporter: the newest transcript paints a damning picture of actions taken by the president's personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, and u.s. special envoy kurt volker. deputy assistant secretary of state george kent told lawmakers that giuliani schemed with a series of corrupt ukrainians to wage a months-long campaign of lies against then-u.s. ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch. kent says the smears created a crisis that threatened to consume the u.s.-ukraine relationship. kent says that after yovanovitch was sent home, special envoy volker informed the ukrainians that he was now in charge of ukrainian policy along with two trump confidants, ambassador to the e.u. gordon sondland and energy secretary rick perry. >> volker, the special envoy, said there was no quid pro quo. >> reporter: volker had been the g.o.p.'s favorite witness. >> the definitive account on all this is the one from ambassador volker. >> reporter: but kent claims that volker, who has since resigned, pulled ukraine's president aside at a june meeting to expla

blunt: senator capito sen. capito: thank you, mr. chairman. always great to see you dr. hayden and thank you for your good work. i think you are doing doing an excellent job at the library of congress. just in the brief time i've been in here. but i wanted to talk about when i was chair of the appropriations subcommittee of legislative branch for two years, i went back and looked at some of the legislative language that we had in our report. our report in fy 2016 recounted gao's finding that a lack of leadership and oversight at library resulted in duplicating i.t. policies. in 2017 on our report noted that the ig's finding that the labry -- library failed to have quote, an organization wide independent strategy for digital collection activities and that the goal of addressing a collection strategy was not included in its plan or information technology strategic plan. indeed at that time, the library was seeking funding for a digital collection management even though there was no comprehensive study. bringing these up not to rehash but to highlight how much progress has

capito: thank you, mr. president. i'm really pleased to be here with my fellow west virginia senator, senator manchin, who has been -- we've joined each other on this topic before, but he's been a real champion for our miners and i'm really grateful to him and others who have participated. but i think it's -- we've got to talk about this every day and make sure that we underscore the urgent need to pass the bipartisan american mine rs act. i -- miners act. i appreciate senator manchin and certainly appreciate senator mcconnell and senator portman as well. back in 2017, time was running out on the health care benefits for 22,000 retired miners. i remember it well, particularly following the patriot coal bankruptcy. we came together as a bipartisan group to pass the legislation with the house that protected health care for those men and women. well, we're in a similar situation today, which we knew we were going to be here. the senate needs to act soon to save the health care of 13,000 retired miners and protect the pen

chairman. >> senator capito. >> mr. holmstead, i'm going to give you a chance to respond because understanding it's more complicated but i want to say a few things before i turn the floor over to you. first of all, i am a co-sponsor of the gain act and i think because we have a bipartisan -- we have several bipartisan pieces of legislation here that are in sending carbon capture and utilization with the dual purposes of preserving economy and also cleaning the environment at the same time. so i was going to ask you to respond to what mr. walke said, but the way i understand this is if you add on, make a significant investment with the goal of reducing your emissions and you are more efficient that it would stand to reason that you would be more economical and so your plant would be running more, more time, putting out more production, therefore, maybe your per -- per unit emission is less, but your overall emission may be more because you're running more efficiently. and so wouldn't we rather have -- since -- like senat

capito he. will try his actions to get people to understand that he kills people and that it kills people now it's critically both sides return to the people's doors on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. come on peter you're watching the news live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes a shaky cease fire rockets launched from gaza into israel was off took some went into effect. withholding security assistance in exchange for help with a domestic political campaign in the united states would be crazy i believe that then and i believe it now. a senior you.

senator shelley moore capito. probably a way to find our way back to the suburban voter. our work cut out for sure. senator susan collins. i think this was indicative of an unpopular governor. it goes on. so they don't quite -- haven't quite lassoed this idea it's about health care and president trump's attack on obamacare. >> well, what senators say is not always what senators think. i think those things do register concern. and if the problem is an unpopular governor, they need to remember on top of the presidential ticket they'll have a very unpopular president. went out of his way. remember the covington boys who got into that famous youtube altercati altercation? made a huge issue out of them. almost every precinct in covington voted democrat. >> jeff sessions, former senator and attorney general is reportedly going to announce today that he wants his senate seat back. here is what president trump has said of late about jeff sessions. >> the attorney general made a terrible mistake. everyone my enemies say that jeff sessions should have told you that he was going to

republican shelley moore capito calls it a wake-up call for the party, calling specific attention tovoters. suburban voters are critical at any point, but what about 2020? >> well, they're always critical. whoever the swing voters are in an election are the ones that ultimately decide it. so president trump has a very solid base, you know, that evidently has not gone anywhere unless something dramatic happens in the impeachment process that we haven't seen yet. and then it is clear that his negatives are really, really high. so the battle is for the people that are in the middle. there's a little trick here because you have to secure your base before you can get to the middle. so i know that's what the fight in the democratic party has been about. it's a little bit too quick to say that just because you lost kentucky that that's going to have ramifications on the federal side. but the republicans clearly would have wanted to be in the win category last night. and this indicates that when democrats show up, when they go out and talk to rural voters, when they talk to farmers, when the

capito: thank you, mr. president. as you know, this coming monday, november 11, is veterans day. i've heard my colleagues pay tribute to veterans in their own special way, and i wanted to be a part of that group today to say a mitety thank you to our men and women -- a mitey thank you to our men and women who serve. they have stood up to protect us and outer freedoms that we hold so dear. you know, veterans day to me is sort after day to reflect on the sacrifices made bid all of those who've -- by all of those who've served. it is a time to say thank you. it is a time to take a pause and think about the veteran themselves and their families. it's also a time for our young people -- and i'm talking elementary age students -- to really see the pride and the commitment that our veterans over time have had, whether you're going to your hometown parade, or going to a cemetery ceremony or just talking about it within your own home. throughout america's history, our military has been regarded as the greatest in the world, and it sure is. our military would not be what it is without the

backing him one of those who attended one of those meetings with the president senator shelley moore capito spoke to reporters and gave us some insight into what the president is thinking. in terms of the. scenes frustration is the. inability to be a loser. but he did well on and he didn't think i believe he is part of our conversation blaney. kimberly what else did he say. yes so obviously the headlines here in the united states of the impeachment very much down party lines but the president as he sort of went on and on about some of the different headlines coming out of that interview with respect to pietschmann also that pivoted to at one point to the ongoing clashes between pro-democracy protesters in hong kong as some of the crackdowns that have been taking place by some of the security services in hong kong as well backed of course by china now the u.s. president kind of surprised everyone with some of those comments i'll talk about this in the 2nd but he's really in a tough spot when it comes to this china issue because for shelly's been trying to talk about trade improving trade boa

capito even now. we're trying to suction to get people to understand that it kills people and that it kills people now it's ridiculous both sides return to people's doors on no jersey or. combine it with the news hour live from london a look at the top stories in the last hour brazil's former president always an hour sooner to silva has been released from prison he was freed off to the supreme court overturned a rule which required criminals to go to jail often losing that 1st appeal iraqi security forces have clashed with anti-government protesters in baghdad and the southern city of basra as well iraqi commission for human rights as at least $23.00 protesters have been killed in the on rest since sunday and hundreds of pro-democracy protesters in hong kong have held a vigil for student who died after falling from a car park during monday's demonstrations they blame the police for his death. now firefighters in the australian state of new south wales say they are in uncharted territory with an unprec

1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable shelley moore capito, a senator from the state of west virginia, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: chuck grassley, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 3:00 p.m. on monday, december 2, 2019. december 2, 2019. everything days during the thanksgiving break, the senate will return on monday at 3:00 o'clock eastern on nominations. taking back to the tv on c-span2. >> now on book to be jeff mason and joel klein discuss a warning which is reported for a behind-the-scenes look from a trump administration from an anonymous source. you been around this town for a long time did you learn anything from anonymous? >> i don't think anything is startlingly new in the basics, it's a critique of term presidency that we heard a lot in red in the same author in the new york times and ominously, i think you learn the depth of the concern of this particular person and interesting details about antidotes. i thought one thing that was interesting wa

senator capito. >> thank you mister chairman. it's always great to see doctor hayden and thank you for your good work.i think you're doing an excellent job at the library of congress in modernizing its operations. this is the brief time i've been in here but i want to talk about when i was chair of the appropriations subcommittee of the legislative branch for two years, i went back and looked at some of the legislative language we had in our operation subcommittee report. i report in fy 2016 reported gao findings that a lack of official leadership and oversight at the library resulted in duplicative overlapping and inefficient it policies and investments and again in 2017 our report noted that the ig's findings that the library failed to have an organizationwide independent strategy for digital collection activities and that the goal of addressing digital collection strategy was not excluded in the library wide strategic plan for its information technology strategic plan. indeed at that time the library was seeking funding for a

now here is a republican, capito, coons, ernst, jones, moran, shaheen, sinema, smith, wicker, brawnd. this is legislation that we all -- and braun. this is legislation that we all agree on, on short-term pell grants. then we have senators grassley, smith, cassidy, ernst, hassan, jones, klobuchar, manchin and rubio would like to simplify the federal aid letter so you don't get a letter in the mail if you're living in maryland or tennessee and think you have got a grant that you don't have to pay back when in fact it's a loan that you do have to pay back. we also agree on increasing the maximum pell grant. and we also agree on how to pay for it. we also agree on permanent funding for the historically black colleges and institutions in a way that the budget committee can easily approve and that can pass the senate. so if we can agree on all that and it all helps students at historically black colleges and minority-serving institutions, then why don't we pass it. why don't we do that. why don't we come up with a short-term gimmick-supported house-passed bill that sets up a new cliff, why

endless litigation and a very difficult to double check sod like to thank leader mcconnell and senator capito constant upon sender and off for joining me on this bill. gain act is identical, identical to a bipartisan bill, the new source review permitting improvement act that is sponsored in the house i congressman morgan griffith and collin peterson and alexander muti. i encourage senate democrats to join us in making this deal bipartisan on this side of the capital as well as we have it bipartisan in the house. any senator who cares about economic growth, emissions reductions and clear regulations i would encourage to support this legislation. i would now like to turn to ranking member crapo for his opening remarks. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'm going to do something i don't think i've ever done in 18 years. i just had my colleagues, asked my colleagues to bear with me for a moment. we all have military personnel who answered and injured and some killed, and i just want to share with you briefly before i recap my opening comments. just a couple words about an army battalion ranger from de

capito: thank you, mr. president. as you know, this coming monday, november 11, is veterans day. i've heard my colleagues pay tribute to veterans in their own special way, and i wanted to be a part of that group today to say a mitety thank you to our men and women -- a mitey thank you to our men and women who serve. they have stood up to protect us and outer freedoms that we hold so dear. you know, veterans day to me is sort after day to reflect on the sacrifices made bid all of those who've -- by all of those who've served. it is a time to say thank you. it is a time to take a pause and think about the veteran themselves and their families. it's also a time for our young people -- and i'm talking elementary age students -- to really see the pride and the commitment that our veterans over time have had, whether you're going to your hometown parade, or going to a cemetery ceremony or just talking about it within your own home. throughout america's history, our military has been regarded as the greatest in the world, and it sure is. our military would not be what it is without the

senator capito. >> thank you, chairman and the ranking member as well. i went to see first of all to the families who are here, extending my families but also my gratitude for you coming forward through your pain to bring to us to congress, which is not an easy thing to do, your frustrations and probably stronger feelings in the loss of your loved ones. i will say that when colton culn flight 3407 when that in buffalo in the early 2009, the families that came forward to us, i was on transportation committee on our second make such an incredible impact and it made flying on a regional airlines much, much safer because of that. so hopefully that will be what the result of this is for you today, and for all of us. mr. muilenburg, particular attention has been called to the fact that bowling later in the developing process of the max revised range of flight conditions that could lead to activation of the mcas. but that boeing did not notify the faa of these changes at the time. this is troubling if, in fact, this is true. was boeing not obligated by the faa

for thousands of retirees around yesterday a bipartisan group here in the senate led by senators capito, manchin and myself took a step toward the emergency of underfunded pensions for thousands of miners and retirees and their families. we introduced new legislation to expand the health care fix to protect the pensions of nearly 92,000 miners into the future. earlier this week i personally raised the subject with president trump. we talked about a solution for these retirees. i hosted kentucky miners here in the capitol to hear their concerns and discuss a path forward. i spent my entire career in the senate fighting for all kentuckians. i worked to protect coal companies from bad ideas and promote their future. i will work with the trump administration and support our mining families. on another matter, mr. president, earlier this week the securities and exchange commission took a significant step into the 21st century. when public companies put business decisions up for a vote by their shareholders, it stands to reason that asset managers who own shares on behalf of their clients hav