i think now that falls to the united states senators standing behind me. we are thrilled to have bernie moreno and john schuster here. also, to work that legislation and make it as good as possible, make it possible for it to come up for a vote in the united states senate. i think that's a very viable and very reasonable goal. i think we continue to need to do better at real safety in this country. i even talk to the fire chief. he has strong views about rail safety, how we can make the bill better but also how common sense safety makes its way into our public laws. henry? >> [indiscernible] how concerned should americans be? >> let me bracket the question because i want to focus on east palestine. >> you are talking about the cleanup that has to be done economically and environmentally. what action can the people here depend on from your administration? >> i think the first and most definitive question -- natalie, is that right? good memory. the first, most important, concrete promise is that we will be transparent as the cleanup proceeds. i remember talk

take over the process, and so you are right, we should have no business as usual in the united states congress. senator schatz and i have said no trump appointees to the state department if they don't reopen a.i.d. [cheers and applause] so this is part of a much bigger plan. make no mistake, it is part of a bigger plan to replace hard-working working federal employees who are sworn to replace them with trump political cronies, and the end game that they want to secure his once they get the key is to government, they do want to provide huge tax breaks and big giveaways to the wealthiest of america at the expense of everybody else in america. are we going to let that happen? hell no, so i will end with this -- we are witnessing in real-time the most corrupt bargain in american history. elon musk contributed, paid over $250 million to help elect donald trump, and now donald trump is turning over the keys to the treasury and the rest of the federal government to elon musk. we need to end this illegal power grab, and we are going to do it now. we are not going back. thank you all for being here. now let me

they won the united states senate. they have majorities acrossti congress. but we are not powerless. we have agency. we must join together and fight in these ways. allow them to weaken us by us turning against each other. the suspect coalition that grows and grows and grows. there can be no bystanders in this fight. it is time that we understand the only thing necessary for it wrong to triumph is for right to do nothing. for right to be silent. their legislators walking through here but these are the ways that we are going to fight. first of all and the united states senate's we will not cooperate. we are joining the leadership. we are joining the leadership already stated by brian shots of hawaii. we will with no appointments when it comes the state department. no appointments when it comes to foreign policy. the first thing were going to do in the senate is not cooperate with the illegal and unconstitutional acts that they are trying to do. the second thing we are going to do, and we met this morning. it is in the legal perspective. the second thing we are

this is my first engage man since losing the election for united states senate. so i'm very comfortable doing campaign speeches. well, we'll see if i'm anywhere as good a speaker about own life. and and so that you guys to break me in. so let's have a little bit of fun. and just so you know, you've got burning questions. now. i did that didn't i? that was not on purpose. if you have burning questions, trying to remember, they are because i am going to do q&a and we can talk whatever you want, because now what i say doesn't really matter. i don't have a democrat lying about me. so. so we can talk about anything. we can talk about my life. we can talk about my family. we can talk about the campaign. i'm here for. for all. and i hope that you leave in some way encouraged or inspired. so with this admission that i've never done book event before, um, we're going to, we're going to wing our way through this because not sure what you expect, but i have, i've been wrestling with how best to do this and i thought, well, let me just take a poll since since, you know, poli

united states representative from the seventh district of indiana. the eighth district of illinois in the honorable katie britt, united states senator from alabama. >>nt. thank you to the honorary cochairs, senators roger marshall and senator maggie hassan and all the organizers of this wonderful event. brothers and sisters, yes, i say brothers and sisters, despite our differences in race, gender, language, politics or religion itself, where others only see differences, today it is important that we rely on what unites us, and that is the almighty god. you remind us in the holy koran, o mankind, we have created you from male and female and we have made you into nations and tribes that you may know one another. indeed the most honored of you in the sight of god is the most righteous of you. o god, help us embody the sacred truth to see beyond our differences and recognize the worth you have bestowed upon every human being. instill in us the qualities of mercy, justice, and humility. make us servants of peace and advocates for the oppressed. inspire leaders, president, congress, our speaker, our leader, or supreme court, and all of our elected officia

and i don't know about you, but i think the united states senate should vote for single -- i don't think the united states senate should vote for single nominee who's going to participate in this fraud. when we open up the senate every single morning, we don't pledge allegiance to the billionaires. we don't pledge allegiance to elon musk. we don't pledge allegiance to the creepy 22 year old's working for elon musk. we pledge allegiance to the united states of america. and so i want to make sure that my mother gets her social security check, not because she pledges allegiance to elon, but because she pledges allegiance to the united states of america. i want to make sure your neighbor gets a tax refund, not because they pledge allegiance to the billionaire class, but because they pledge allegiance to the united states of america. and so we have work to do right now. every single one of us has a responsibility to stand up to this fraud. and it is true, we have to reach out to everyone in this country really conservatives, liberals, republicans, democrats, and tell them that we have not mon

and honestly, it looks to me right now, like the united states senate, the republicans in the united senate, it's donald trump's senate. >> well, you say that. and today, tulsi gabbard and robert f. kennedy jr. just took key steps forward in their confirmation. i think you ought to vote in the kennedy situation in committee. not not tulsi gabbard. but what does it tell you that president trump is getting what he wants even over some murmurs earlier on of republican opposition? >> yes, i know. i mean, to see as i serve on the finance committee, and i saw every single one of the republicans on the committee vote to move robert f. kennedy forward, a person who clearly cannot be trusted with the health of americans and clearly doesn't have the experience or the background to run one of the largest and most complicated federal agencies. he couldn't even really describe the difference between medicare and medicaid. and yet every single one of those republicans voted for him. and this i think what we're seeing is the impact of the kind of hardball, intimidation based tactics that the admini

i said, i'm going to make sure people know that one united states senator or just one perhaps is not running for president of united states. and i call myself the designated driver. i said, i'm going to sticker and work on protecting first amendment and privacy and a tax policy that gives everybody a chance to get ahead and get middle men out of health care. system because they're chewing up so much. the $4.5 trillion we spend. and that's why i it so we can clear that up. this is not a precursor to an announcement in 2028. they're about ron wyden and running for president. there is fact my take in off the table. any prospect that at least one united states senator is definitely not going to be running. yeah out all right over. you're not the first person who's told me that and then changed mind. so we'll keep chasing you in the halls. but i did enjoy i mean the book talks about sports it talks about your basketball dreams and weaves in kind of what you learned playing sports into, you know, your real the real basketball story that i don't you as much in the book but it's a statement i

appointments, united states senate caucus on international narcotics control, signed sincerely kevin f. mccumber. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, sir, pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2-h of rule 2 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on february 4, 2025, at 1:28 p.m., appointment, public interest declassification board, signed sincerely kevin f. mccumber. the speaker pro tempore: the chair announces the speaker's appointment pursuant to section 4-a of house resolution 5, 119th congress and the order of the house of january 3, 2025 of the following members to the select committee on the strategic competition between the united states and the chinese communist party. the clerk: mr. bolivar of michigan, chair, mr. wittman of virginia, mr. barr of kentucky, mr. new house, mr. hood of illinois, mr. johnson of south dakota, mrs. hinson of iowa, mr, mr. bilirakis of florida, mrs. kim of

and grace will lead me home ♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the honorable kirsten gillibrand, united states senatornd the united states representative from tennessee. >> good morning, and thank you to the republican leadership, the democratic leadership, and especially to the organizer of this year's terrific prayer breakfast, carrying on this tremendous tradition. i would like to talk to you about a portion of the tour that focuses on the miracle of the parting of the red sea which was performed by god through moses, as the israeli eyes escaped the pursuing egyptian army. after crossing the sea and recognizing the astounding miracle that had occurred, moses and the people of israel sang the song of the sea and in hebrew. that signified their journey from slavery to freedom. this prayer is so central to jewish life that it is said every day as part of morning service. and if i can, i will read a few verses. who is like you among the powerful, old lord. who is like you, powerful in the holy place. too awesome for praises, performing wonders. you inclined your right hand, the earth swallowed them up.

i mean there's not a single united states senator, even the united states senators who don't like the fact that we spend money addressing famine overseas that thinks usaid is a criminal organization. that's ridiculous. it's not true. nobody who spent a day looking at usaid thinks it's a criminal organization. it is just normal public service committed people who show up to work every day trying to solve problems for america abroad. so we just have to accept that they're on the -- their on the record explanation that they're shutting down usaid because they're a criminal organization is not true. it's not true. so we have to search for what the answer is. who benefits most by usaid shutting down? i would argue it's china. so china's influence in the world is primarily nonmilitary. china's got a big growing military, we've got to worry about that. but china doesn't have military partnerships like the united states does, china has technology partnerships, mineral resource extraction partnerships, port partnerships. china's influence in the world right now is primarily nonmilitary. they d

any prospect that at least one united states senator is definitely not going to be running. yeah out all right over. you're not the first person who's told me that and then changed mind. so we'll keep chasing you in the halls. but i did enjoy i mean the book talks about sports it talks about your basketball dreams and weaves in kind of what you learned playing sports into, you know, your real the real basketball story that i don't you as much in the book but it's a statement i feel about i went to calarts santa barbara on a basketball scholarship. the book says all i wanted to growing up was to play in nba. kind of ridiculous, you know, proposition, you know, really but i got an offer, gonzaga, which is a big basketball powerhouse and eventually we put it up on the wall and people said, well, why'd you do it. and i said, if i had gone to gonzaga, i would have sat on the bench even more than i did it called santa barbara. but the world would have seen that a jewish could play with the jesuits. did you? john stockton? yeah. you're from utah? yeah. he was up there. he was a gon

so ashley and josh were part, became a part of my family on my campaign for the united states senate. ashley was my deputy finance director on the campaign. she help me raise money particularly in the state of south carolina. and she was just a force of nature. she did so much but she always did it with a smile. and so when i thought about coming to dnc, to the dnc and the staff i wanted to bring, ashley was one of the people i knew i needed to have with me. and for the four years she has served in the chairs office, once she start off give you my schedule together and then she took over the day-to-day operations of the chairs office. she is such come such a tremendous person. she is so good and she always has my back. and ashley, i am so grateful for you and so thankful and just wanted to give you a token of my appreciation. [applause] josh, also work with it on the campaign was one of the first people that we heard on the campaign because he was my bodyguard for he's a person on the campaign that spent the most time with me because he drove me from place to place. so i would sit in

senator ron wyden wrote a letter of complaint to the treasury secretary about elon musk taking control of the united states treasury, taking control of the actual payment mechanisms in the united states treasury, something no treasury secretary has ever actually seized control of. senator wyden got a reply letter today that the treasury secretary himself, scott bessent, who should be impeached and won't be for allowing elon musk to violate the integrity and security of the united states treasury, was afraid to sign. the treasury secretary was afraid to sign this letter. the letter says that elon musk's band of unnamed computer operators, quote, will have read only access to the coded data of the fiscal services payment system. read only access. really? does elon musk seem like a read only guy to you? does elon musk seem like someone who would accept read only access anywhere, or someone who wants his hands on the controls? elon musk says he has much more than read only access. last weekend, when we first learned of musk's raid on the united states treasury, where he was seizing the controls after a treasur

it matters to me because my first month as a united states senator, you had this terrible train disaster a couple of years later as vice president of the united states just to check in on how the cleanup is going. the big question i had as a senator is people always ask, is the water clean to the drink, is the air a clean to breathe. and luckily, we now have a great epa administrator who, i think, can answer those questions and fix the problems on the ground. we're just going to do a little fact finding, talk to people and see what's -- maria: that was incredible when you put the stick in the water and showed is exactly what had occurred. i was grateful that you did that. thank you for doing that and telling the country what had taken place. look, i know it's only been 11 days, 12, 13 days with you as vice president is. can you give us some observations? [laughter] >> it's the coolest job aye ever had, and it's an honor to serve. it's hard not to pun pinch yourself when you walk into the oval office. my kids are really happy that the family has adjusted to this very well. and, look, i'm

i know that's hard for people to understand, but in the united states senate, if a bill is called up, you're going to offer any kind of amendment on any subject to that bill. and it has unlimited debate unless those senators want to end the debate. so we are free flowing and slow moving legislative body. in fact, washington was it was reported to have been i ask as he presided over the constitution convention, what do you think the senate is going to be like? and i'm told that washington replied, it's going to be like the saucer under the teacup. the tea is going to slosh out of the cup, down to the saucer and cool off. in other words, it was sort of going to be the the brakes of the american legislator process. the house they anticipated would be a place of great passion and quick reaction and that's the way it's remained for all these years. the house can do things very quickly. typically does two things quickly. the majority can run the house and the senate. it takes a superman party of 60 to do almost everything. so rarely does either party. achieve a 60 vote threshold in the sena

second of all, almost every united states senator on the democratic side is going to come to this floor to articulate why we are united and why we think this moment is so important. if confirmed, the director of omb, russ vought, may well be the most important man that no one's ever heard of. under normal circumstances, the omb director is a powerful but kind of anonymous because they're responsible for technical things, nerdy things, developing and implementing the entire budget. but russ vought wants to go way beyond that, wants to take an agency that people outside of washington never heard of and turn it into the power center of the federal government. he wants to consolidate power at oma in a stark and sometimes illegal way that he alone will get to decide who deserves the government's help and who doesn't. you do not have to take my word for it. i'm a democrat. i always want to make the case for our side, but i want you to understand these are his words because he's one of the authors of project 2025. and let me just say what he says about this job. the director must view his job

on about katy britt united state senator from alabama. >> thank you, mr. president.sisters, yes i say brothers and sisters. despite our differences in race, gender, language, politics or religion itself, or others only see differences, today it is important that we rely on what unites us. that is the almighty god. you remind us all man kind we have created you for mail and female. and made you into nations and tribes that you may know one another. indeed the most honoredht of you in the sight of god is the most righteous of you. oh god, help us embody the sacred truth hurried to see beyond our differences and recognize the worth you have bestowed upon every human being. instill in us the qualities of mercy, justice and humility. make usce servants of peace and advocates for the oppressed. inspire leaders, our president, our congress, our speaker, our leader, our supreme court all the elected officials nationally and locally to act with sincerity and wisdom and to remember power lies not in the authority but in our service to humanity. asas elected officials been givn

united. >> states government to break the law. >> to rig. presidential elections. >> did you say. >> that yes or no? >> again. >> senator, you're reading a partial. >> statement. >> so i'm unable to. >> fully respond. >> okay. again, we'll put it on the record. have you referred to the media as the most powerful enemy of the united states that they have ever seen? is that right? >> again, you're reading. >> a quote i take it you're reading. >> it accurately. two 2324 you said. >> we're. >> going to come after the people in the media who lied about american citizens who helped joe biden rig the elections. we're going to come after you, whether it's criminally or civilly. is that something you said? >> that's a partial statement of what i said. >> steve bannon's. >> podcast. >> that's how a prosecutor rolls. following yesterday's fbi firings, the top democrat on the house intelligence committee, senator jim himes, said that patel had, quote, misled the senate on his answers regarding the administration's plans for weaponizing the federal government. while there have been reports that some republican senators have privatel

president says this about territory not owned by the united states. senatoran hollen was very accurate in calling it ethnic cleansing. there is no other way to say it. palestinians are not being uh, asked for their -- whether they want to leave or not. and it is clear they have not left. after 15 months of bombing. they are not crowding at the egyptian border. they went back to their homes knowing that their homes are gone. let me also remind people that palestinians in gaza themselves are already refugees. they came from other parts of historic palestine in 1948. they already know what will happen to them if they, as senator rubio, secretary rubio said, if they temporarily relocated there is no such thing as temporarily relocating with israel. there are many negotiations, the most famous of which is 194 that asked israel to return back palestinians who are forcible ibly displaced in 1948 israel has not allowed a single one. this time around they know if they leave their home they are not going back. >> we heard in that tape, a good deal of the condemnation f

support this legislation, kids online safety act which had such strong bipartisan backing in the united states senate. do you think house leadership ought to support it? >> thank you for that question. i firmly believe the house should support it. 90 one-3 coming out of this senate body is something that is so unheard of, the first time in years i ever felt some sort of peace. i felt hopeful something will be done to protect our children. it is putting more children at harm not just from fentanyl. thank you for the continued support on this bill. >> a lot of social media companies are driving these harmful algorithms and many enough various actors taking advantage of that. the act is exactly that. the kids online safety act is to protect them from various activity reaching them on a daily basis. to get over the finish line. >> i will lose, senator cruz. >> madam chairman, thank you for hosting this very important debate and this important hearing. the american people you should a clear and unequivocal mandate, the open borders we have had the last four years must be closed. to stream across the borde

this legislation kids online safety act which has such strong bipartisan backing here in the united states senate do you think the house leadership should support it. >> thank you for the question. i firmly believe the house should support it. 91 the 3 coming out of this senate body for something that is so unheard-of and have it on my birthday last year it was the first time i had ever felt some sort of peace finally felt hopeful that something was good to be done to protect our children. and to see it fail in the house, not even get out of committee, is absurd because it's putting more children, not just from fentanyl but all the other harms out there. i thank you for your continued support on this bill. >> a lot of the social media companies are driving these harmful algorithms to our children stop many nefarious actors are taking advantage of that.. that act as exactly that wethe kids online safety actors try to protect them from all those nefarious activities and the harmful algorithms that are reaching them on a daily basis. i absolutely back that bill and back you in anything that we can d

senate should support this legislation which had such strong bipartisan backing here in the united states senate. will it make a difference, do you think the house leadership ought to support it? >> thank you for that question, senator blumenthal. i firmly believe that the house should support it. 91-3 coming out of this senate body is something that is so unheard of. and it happened on my birthday last year. it was the first time in years i'd ever felt some sort of peace. i finally felt hopeful that something was going to be done to protect our children and to see it fail in the house, not even get out of the committee, it's absurd because it's putting more children at harm, not just from fentanyl but all the other harms that are out there. so i thank you for your continued support on this bill. >> thank you. mr. puerta? >> a lot of the social media companies are driving these harmful algorithms to our children and many nefarious actors are taking advantage of that and the act is to try to protect them from awe of this activity and it is harmful algorithms that are reaching them on a daily basi

votes to get him out of committee, and i think there will be the votes to get him approved the united states senatet i will take a step at a time in a week from tomorrow, we will have that vote. he will be on the floor of the united states senate. >> john: senator, thank you so much for joining us. i really appreciate it to now to the white house for the briefing. >> secretary leavitt: has the president said the bonds of affection between the american and israeli people have endured for generations and are absolutely unbreakable. killed the president is committed to eliminating hamas in securing a lasting peace for the entire region. the historic proposal for the united states to take over gaza announced by president trump last night underscores this commitment. insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over again and expecting different results. president trump is an outside of the box thinker and visionary leader who solves problems that many others, especially in this. we have already seen the results from president trump's pulled feet to make peace through strength on the stage and the

was a time where i think only his wife thought he was capable, post-stroke, of becoming a united states senatorkers in the united states senate right now, and i think he has to be someone who is considered a leader right now, emily, as they look for leadership that they do not have at all. they should be listening to john federman. pennsylvania, one of the biggest and most important swing states of the election. >> the democratic party should listen to him for that very reason. the irony is as he is calling out the extremist view that has fishhook to the rest of the party, way left -- the reason why they lost the middle, the reason why the common sense policies of the g.o.p. rang so soundly during the election. he is now the extremist view, my point is. he is now the voice of "don't listen to him. what is he saying?" here's the thing: every day that passes that we talk about this, where the postmortem is ignored by that party, where there isn't some type of aggressive searcher who can be the new leader and the new voice who doesn't have such a checkered, horrible past, or extremist votes on the

. >> and you have just been watching a really important speech on the floor of the united states senate. that was senator bill cassidy. doctor bill cassidy, explaining why he just a few hours ago, was the deciding vote in order to get robert f. kennedy over the line in the key committee that he voted on to be the next secretary of health and human services. as i mentioned, he's a medical doctor. he was very concerned, openly concerned, including during the confirmation hearings that he attended and that he questioned mr. kennedy during about kennedy's anti-vaccine rhetoric and history of just to sort of summarize some of what senator kennedy just said, peddling in some conspiracy theories from senator, senator cassidy's point of view. now, just to recap, what happened this morning is that the senate finance committee voted to advance kennedy's nomination. he won by just one vote, which is why senator cassidy. doctor cassidy was so critical. i want to go to cnn's manu raju, who was outside. that hearing has been working his sources on this. we're going to talk about some of the sort of t

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