whitehouse: that's a good start.that context, i would like to present her as the new chairman this gavel. sen. capito: oh, thank you. sen. whitehouse: it was made in 1956 of wood from the old west virginia state house, by the mckinley vocational high school in wheeling, west virginia. it was presented to the then-governor of west virginia, hewlett-packard smith, who -- wew -- hewle it, t smith, who kept it upon his departure. he was term-limited out and that was significant for among other reasons, that it opened the office to the chairman's father. may you bang it in good health. sen. capito: thank you. [applause] thank you. very nice. thank you. sen. whitehouse: second, we have indeed worked well together. we have together successfully advanced nuclear energy reform, we have together successfully encouraged and expanded carbon capture. and the wrda and highway bills present big bipartisan opportunities for more work together. i even hope, together, we can revive permitting reform. so there's plenty of good opportun

chair grassley: senator whitehouse. sen. whitehouse: welcome, ms. bondi. ms. bondi: thank you for meeting with me. i appreciate it. sen. whitehouse: you were a prosecutor for a great many years. did you ever have an enemies list? ms. bondi: no. sen. whitehouse: you went on to be florida's attorney general. as attorney general, did you have an enemies list? you are responsible for hiring into the florida department of attorney general, correct? ms. bondi: it is the third largest in the state approximately 1400 employees and 400 lawyers. only california and texas are bigger offices. sen. whitehouse: and you are responsible for hiring into that office. would you have hired someone into the florida attorney general's office who you knew had an enemies list? ms. bondi: to cut to the chase, you are clearly talking about kash patel. i do not believe he has an enemies list. he made a quote on tv which i have not heard. i saw your sign or senator durbin's sign, but i know that kash patel has had 60 jury trials as a public defender, as a prosecutor. he has great experie

whitehouse: yeah. think the concern is that weaponization of the justice department may well occur under your tenure. and we want to make sure that that's not the case, that you remain independent. that you remain able to and willing to tell the president no when that's necessary to protect the constitution and the integrity of the department. so, that's where i'm asking these questions. we talked in the meeting about the contacts policy that has prevailed really since senator hatch sat in that chair and demanded it of the clinton justice department. through all the administration since then, with the exception of a brief period under attorney general gonzales, which he corrected and which did not end well for him, there has been a contacts policy that limits contacts between the white house and the department of justice to a very few senior officials on each side. in your role as attorney general, if you are confirmed, will you maintain, defend and enforce that long-standing contacts policy? ms. bondi

whitehouse: yeah. well, the chairman is familiar with my observation about the fossil fuel industry, that they have essentially two business strategies. one is to produce fossil fuel , and the other is to control congress and manipulate politics so that they can do so violating the laws of economics that would otherwise require them to put the price of their pollution into their product. milton friedman is scowling down at them. chairman, it's up to you. i've gone over my time already. if you wanted to allow the other two to answer or if you want to do it -- wait for a second round. chair merkley: i have some additional questions. and i suspect you might as well. dr. mason: i just support what she said. sen. whitehouse: she covered it. mr. alspach: i'm not as familiar with this as dr. brander is. sen. whitehouse: one last thing which is that unilever is quite a big company that we've worked with for a long time and they have come up with a proposal that kicks in this coming year to remove from the ecos

i've been working with senator whitehouse. how can you get big economies like china and india to adopt better practices? tariffs, if you are a tariff person your ship has come in, we are going to have itariff's on everything and everyone. one of the things senator whitehouse and i have been talking about is a carbon pollution tariff that if you're in china and you're making steel and you have the worst business practices, in india you have basically no environmental practices at all, europe and the united states, we are trying to have responsible manufacturing and energy extraction, trying to be environmentally sensitive, what should we do aboutchina and india? do you like the idea or at least are open-minded to the idea that the cyclic people who basically use on sound science , reckless environmental policy maybe it's time for them to think. >> sen., thank you for your service as well. as you remember learning about the principal as an officer in the military we have multiple instruments of national power so putting aside th

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i went to senator whitehouse, chairman of the budget committee. he and i issued the budget committee's first subpoena since 1991 to obtain a report that was developed by investigations independent ombudsman, mr. neil barofsky. the report confirmed allegations and shed light on the breadth of credit suisse servicing during and after world war ii, along with the efforts to keep the wealth hidden. so it is very clear credit suisse's past leadership handled this poorly. they smeared the reputation of the simon wiesenthal center and also the reputation of mr. barofsky. the bank even fired m mr. barofsky, which is why we had to subpoena his report. since then, credit suisse as a bank icle lanced and was -- collapsed and was merged and mr. barofsky has been rehired after our pressure. now the bank ubs owns the ■ results of this inquiry and it also owns credit suisse's past of mishandling this whole event. earlier this month, senator whitehouse and i released updates from this investigation. shortly after, there were negative press leaks about ubs and pos

whitehouse: did mr. pella have a role? mr.ght: he is a member of the center but i will not speak beyond that. sen. whitehouse: here we go again. i will not speak. my time is up. chair graham: he said that she says he stands by the letter. sen. whitehouse: that is not the question. my time is up. chair graham: senator lee. sen. lee: thank you for being here and for your willingness to serve. the administrative state has been crushing the american economy and american innovation, and it is also something that operates in a manner fundamentally contrary to the structure and intent of the u.s. constitution. article one sections one and seven makes it clear that only congress may enact federal law. in article one section seven in particular it makes it clear that you cannot make a federal law unless you follow the formula involving bicameral passage of a single bill, a single item, and legislative text and -- in both houses followed by submission to signature, veto or acquiescence. less you follow that you cannot make a federal law

whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. mr. young. >> a quorum is present. a quorum is a president present. how to preserve the leadership time is reserve the senate will be in the period of morning businesspe with the senators permitted to speak and they're in for up to 10 minutes each. the majority leader will then calling up. i'm not going to read. [laughter] majority leader. >> not a present asking a subset of the sea of consideration as friends one comment which was submitted earlier today. >> clerk for pope reports a resolution for. s >> s rez one to establish a committee to inform the president of the united states a quorum in each house is assembled. >> is an objection to the proceeding that objection will proceed to the measure the rental should be agreed to the motion to beha considered be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action orni debate. >> without objection. pursuant to senate resolution one that chair appointed senator from south d dakota and the senator from new york as a committee. as a committee to join the commi

whitehouse, mr. wicker. the vice president: please raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that you take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which you are about to enter, so help you god? the senators: i do. the vice president: congratulations, senators. the vice president: the majority leader. mr. thune: i suggest the absence of a quorum. the vice president: the absence of a quorum having been -- the absence of a quorum having been suggested, the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the clerk: ms. alsobrooks. ms. baldwin. mr. banks. mr. barrasso. mr. bennet. mrs. blackburn. mr. blumenthal. ms. blunt rochester. mr. booker. mr. boozman. mrs. britt. mr. budd. ms. cantwell. mrs. capito. mr. cassidy. ms. collins. mr. coons. mr. cornyn. ms. cortez masto. mr. cotton. mr

just look at this tweet from senator sheldon whitehouse, who'll join me in a moment. he of rhode island, who's leading the charge on economic risks and costs of climate change, quote, climate inflation. in five years, home insurance has increased more than 50%, and the rate is accelerating as climate driven risks like flood and wildfire become worse and harder to predict. unlike the housing finance system, which is largely regulated at the federal level, property and casualty insurance is regulated at the state level. the result is a patchwork of different regulations where premiums vary wildly due to state by state regulation. that, in turn, has incentivized economically dangerous behavior in some areas. check out this map from the new york times, which reveals higher insurance premiums for home ownership. the darker the color, the higher the premium. you can see the distorted rates, which is making home ownership unaffordable for many. zero in on oklahoma covered in red, where buyers are paying a lot more for home insurance compared to the value of their homes, even

. >> senator sheldon whitehouse who helped to get them all moved through is back with us. senator whitehouse, i want to go to to the conference that created the news of the day where they were saying well, clarence thomas promises to do better. that's good enough for us. >> yeah, as you know, you followed this so closely lawrence. i have had an ongoing correspondent, met with them repeatedly, the judicial conference for years now. to direct their attention to the misconduct. i have by and large had a good response from them. slow, for sure, cautious for sure, but always moving in the right direction. and so this letter is a little bit hard to fathom. it is full of seeming contradictions. the letter says judges have an obligation to amend erroneous filings. but they didn't require justice thomas to correct his filings from the past six years. there was unstated confusion that said food, lodging and entertainment and never said transportation and never been read to mean transportation and a lot of the gifts to alito and thomas have been, and before, scalia have been in the f

whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. mr. young. the clerk: senators voting in the affirmative -- barrasso, budd, cornyn, crapo, daines, graham, hassan, hyde-smith, johnson, kaine, kim, lee, lummis, marshall, mcconnell, mccormick, moody, moreno, paul, rounds, scott of florida, tillis. senators voting in the negative -- alsobrooks, duckworth, gillibrand, klobuchar, lujan, murray, padilla, reed, sanders. mr. schumer, no. mr. hickenlooper, no. the clerk: mr. schmitt, aye. the clerk: ms. rosen, no. ms. ernst, aye. the clerk: mrs. fischer, aye. the clerk: mrs. capito, aye. mrs. blackburn, aye. the clerk: mr. heinrich, no. mr. warner, no. ms. blunt rochester, no. mr. sheehy, aye. mr. ossoff, no. mr. boozman, aye. the clerk: ms. murkowski, aye. ms. collins, aye. the clerk: ms. warren, no. mr. van hollen, no. mr. curtis, aye. mr. ricketts, aye. the clerk: mr. banks, aye. the clerk: mr. cruz, aye. the clerk: mr. wicker, aye. the clerk: mr. thune, aye. vote: the clerk: mr. lankford, aye. mr. gallego, no. the clerk: mr. fetterman, aye. mr. dur

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additional judicial conference rejecting democratic senator sheldon whitehouse 2023 requests that itorney general attorney generalfor supposedly g disclosure rules. this is part of sheldon whitehouse ongoing to harass and delegitimize justice as he does not wipe to the conferences whether it straightforwardly reminded him justice thomas has followed all the rules as they were written at the time this is not its job but sheldon whitehouse knows all of this but it was a welcome rebuke for amanda talks about rules a lot but does not follow them himself. >> are right alicia? >> what's is a mystic california governor gavin newsom who earlier announced the cost had ballooned to $100 billion. gavin newsom definition of efficiency spend more taxpayer money more so late. >> talk sorry dan? what is a common saying all of the planets are aligned to make some great projects happen here to hit to the fact all planets are about to get in line on january 21 with 6 of the seven plants will be in the line out there from mars, jupiter, uranus, neptune, venus, saturn, mercury catc touches upon fabri. a

be $500.00 marines to the southern board of the us to detect unauthorized crossings by migrants. whitehouse says the marines will support customs and border control. officials, ministry officials say as many as 10000 soldiers could be sent mazda approaches on the armed forces. you can find more information on a website else, is there a dot com, off the top? so the, the storm a winds done its damage and moved on from all the new case of the coast of norway. there were warning side for the amount of snow rock in the strength of the wind for the region high ground. so that system that spread its frontal line all the way down through germany. the steep clements in java square world leaders are gathering for the world economic forum as poland takes on the e. you council presidency. it faces critical challenges securing its borders with fellers, managing tensions with russia and navigating global unpredictability. following donald trump's return to office at home, questions loom over whether president audrey due to and prime minister donald fast can present a united front as poland leads europe t

i worked for the better part of a decade with senator durbin, chairman grassley, senator whitehouse, senator cornyn, senator booker and others who passed the first step act which president trump signed into law in december of 2018. the first step act, as the name implies, was intended to be the first of multiple steps, much remains to be done, including with the implementation of the first step act. the credits available under the first step act are still being implemented. i assume you'd be willing if confirmed to help us continue to implement first step act. ms. bondi: yes, senator. and also, i just learned it's my understanding, i don't know for fact, but it's my understanding that a lot of those beds for halfway houses, for re-entry, have not been filled under the first step act. so if that's true, i want to look at that right away and figure out why. sen. lee: right. and i think other reforms like the safer supervision act, i whh i'm a co-sponsor, can also be helpful on that front. it's always important to make sure that we're running -- although ours is not the largest criminal

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senator whitehouse. sen. whitehouse: welcome, mr. bessent. thank you for the meeting we had in my office. i understand that colleagues have already raised the urgency of more sanctions on russia's shadow fleet, particularly as it is sabotaging our allies' infrastructure in the baltic. and urge that it is unfair for chinese manufacturers to be able to under-price u.s. manufacturers by virtue of lower environmental standards. i just want to give two big thumbs up to both of those notions. as we talked about in my office, i think the most immediate danger of a major economic collapse is going to come through the insurance industry. we are seeing signs of it in florida already. the fires in l.a. are making it worse in california, but it is occurring nationwide, and as we discussed, where you cannot get insurance you cannot get mortgages and you cannot get mortgages, you cannot sell properties at value and that cascades according to the chief economist of freddie mac, into a 2008-style massive economic recession. so, i would like to ask first that

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he was flattery put to make a choice, and that's why he's issuing this message, a 1000 heroes whitehouse corresponding kimberly how good. thank you very much. great to talk to you today. as always, we're going to pivot now from russia, ukraine to a completely different part of the world that in america, we don't need them. they need us. that is the stark message delivered by president trump to latin america on monday. now 3 days and days presidency. the region is already getting a taste of trumps, uncompromising and hard line policies, from top declarations on immigration and trade to revisit in cubans designation as a space sponsor of power and control of a panama canal trumps agenda has sent shock waves across latin america. while the reason is right wing leaders will likely find an ally in this new administration in the us. many countries are bracing for an upheaval in their dealings with washington or latin america editor lucy. a newman said this report from the july and capital santiago. during his election campaign, donald trump repeatedly referred to that in america as the source

that must be what it is that the mass of platforms, the trying to align themselves with, the new whitehouse. you know, i don't think the mark suffer bird has made much of a secret of his efforts to get in good with donald trump. you mentioned that that $1000000.00 donation to the inauguration after the election, also worth noting that mark soccer for adult went down to mar logo, to dine with the president. and so to speak, a case of the ring. it's also been evidence in the personnel decisions about mark soccer board has been making. the, for example, has appointed the prominent republican joel kathlyn as the chief of global affairs officer at baton now. uh, joel kaplan. i actually also appeared on fox and friends. that's a show that donald trump supposedly watches in order to explain these policy changes at match off. there is also dana white, known as a, to trump ally, and the president of the ultimate fighting championship r u. s. c. u has also been recently appointed to the board. so perhaps more than worries about aligning about metal aligning itself to the incoming leadership of the un

give you a second to remember the names of those who served so well, dianne feinstein, sheldon whitehouse, amy klobuchar, chris loomis, richard blumenthal, cory booker, alexi padilla, jon ossoff, senator butler and senator welch. they deserve a round of applause. [applause] i would be remiss if i did not note the amazing staff that brought us here as well on my side. extraordinary group of people starting with and swanson, philip rest. [applause] sarah bauer. [applause] stephanie angel, just clay, leak simmons. [applause] the high point of the last four years was when you kept your word and we were able to confirm justice ketanji brown jackson. [applause] if you are to be the first, you have to be the best, and she is, certainly the best by every measure. you kept your word and nominated her and we have done a great favor to the nation by following through. in closing, we are proud of the fact these nominees have bipartisan support, more than 80% of them received bipartisan support. i want to thank my friend and colleague of many years, chuck schumer. i nagged him and beat up on him and t

here's senator sheldon whitehouse, democrat of rhode island, talking about his legacy. >> very often, indeed, too often, political outcomes in washington are determined by the political weight and the wealth of contesting forces vying for power. it is brute force. against brute force. and it makes you wonder, is that all there is to this? is this just an arena of combat where huge special interests lean against each other trying to shove each other around each for their own greed and benefit. well, this incident 60 years ago is an eternal lesson of what a difference one person can make. a regular american. a nobody in washington. good at his craft, good in his character, and in the right place at the right time, a man who knew it was right, broke the fever of virulent political frenzy that has captured washington. one private lawyer's sincere direct outrage at a cruel attack on his young associate, a few words from a boston lawyer who had just had enough. turned the tide of history.rs madame president, may we never forget in this world of vast and often corrupt political forces, the p

and that was senator sheldon whitehouse, democrat of rhode island, jim townsend did the mccarthy hearings on communist? did they accomplish anything, in your view? they really accomplished very little at all when it comes to their stated goal, which was to find communists. no evidence of communist infiltration to root out communists, spying and infiltration. if anything, they got in the way because they diverted a lot of energy and a lot of attention away from investigations that might have found what were some of instances of infiltration. high levels of of the us government. so very little was accomplished by by the investigations themselves. probably the only good that really you can say came out of the whole episode was that the primary subcommittee committee on investigations adopted some reforms so that abuses of the kind that senator mccarthy engaged in would be much harder to engage in in the future. so things like requiring that, both the majority and the minority have a significant role in determining what investigations ought to be pursued, giving the minority the opportunity t

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and sean, good evening, it was interesting to see president trump as he was leaving the whitehouse today heading to marine one. he raised questions about mitch mcconnell's vote. he was asked about pete hegseth's chances. he said that the two, mercowsky and collins were expected. and they said, what about mitch, what is mitch doing? and i think that there is a sense that the former senate majority leader may vote no on pete hegseth. that brings it to three no votes. and the biggest question is tillis from north carolina. there was a glowing statement about his trip to north carolina and the affected areas today. saying how much it meant to him personally and the people surviving hurricane helene and the devastation still after all these weeks. that is not an indication how he is going to vote on pete hegseth, but that's something that came out today. it is rare for the nominee himself to be on capital hill. to bring his family to capital hill, and he was standing or holding in what is called strong herman room, waiting. and he gave reporters a thumbs up. so we are waiting for the key vote

senator sheldon whitehouse saying this was no normal inauguration of american president. president trump gave a cadre of billionaires seats of honors on the dais. they were, in fact, sitting in front of the cabinet. he is handing them the power of the federal government to loot the hard working people who pay their taxes and keep their country running. the incoming president just created a cryptocurrency to enrich himself as he takes office. his first actions as president include massive giveaways to big oil billionaires and pledging to raise taxes on americans. and the outgoing president had a reason to preemptively try to protect his family from politically weaponized investigations. the democrats must be vigilant to protect america's civil liberties, our democratic system, the rule of law as looters and polluters line up before president trump to feed themselves at the expense of the middle class and our environment. >> if there if there is a if there is something to pay attention to from the first speech, it is the stagecraft. it is, it is. these are all very delibera

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i yield to my friend from rhode island, the great leader, senator whitehouse. mr.the point to my friend from massachusetts that when democrats used reconciliation, we used thefrie to do the inflation reduction act and help everyone. the inflation reduction act meant green jobs to red states and it meant less pollution for everyone. the republicans are teeing up to use reconciliation to help big ceo's, billionaires and big corporations who are already doing amazingly well. if you feel you're being left behind by those folks, it's because are you. look at what ceo pay has done, rocketing sky ward, compared to the pay of the top 1%, other folks in the c suite who may not be the ceo, compared to typical worker wages down here. most americans are right here, and most of the benefit of this tax reform will go to these folks. ceo's are taking a larger and larger share for themselves of the resources of american corporations, leaving less and less to pay their workers, and that's the difference rocketing upward and more or less flat. and they want to make this worse throug