alsobrooks, aye. ms. cortez masto, aye. senators voting in the negative -- banks, barrasso, blackburn, boozman, britt, budd, capito, cassidy, collins, cornyn, cotton, crepe,crapo, cruz, curtis, daines, ernst, fischer, graham, grassley, hoeven, husted, hyde-smith, johnson, justice, kennedy, lankford, lee, lummis, marshall, mccormick, mcconnell, moran, moreno, mullin, murkowski, paul, ricketts, risch, rounds, schmitt, scott of florida, scott of south carolina, sheehy, thune, tillis, tuberville, wicker, and young. mr. hagerty, no. vote: the clerk: mr. markey, aye. the presiding officer: this vote the yeas are 49. the nays are 51. and the amendment is not adopted. the senator from south carolin gram to my colleagues, it's been a very long day. to the budget committee staff. nick and your team, thank you very much. a senator: through this process i've gotten to know senator merkley better and it's a pleasure. we're one step closer to fixing a problem that all americans want us to fix, i think. mr. graham: the man who murdered la

alsobrooks:. president trump made what i would call troubling and shameful comments after the devastating, fatal plane crash that occurred here in washington, d.c.. i am sure you are aware of that. he blamed, at the time, while the bodies were still in the water, many of them children, he took out a moment to blame the incident on federal aviation administration hiring people with intellectual and mental health disabilities. again, while the recovery efforts are going. do you agree with the president's comments? ms. chavez-deremer: i can't comment on what the president says or does not say. i threw where the president in the agenda that he is moving forward with. sen. alsobrooks: do you agree that, with the comment, that hiring people with intellectual and mental health disabilities was the reason? do you agree with the comment that that was the cause? ms. chavez-deremer: i haven't had a conversation with the president on this and i can't speak to it any further. sen. alsobrooks: the same hiring l

alsobrooks: in any mail sent out across the government through opm a.g. bondi: i do solemnly swear that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states. mr. patel:that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states. a.g. bondi: against all enemy, foreign and domestic. mr. patel: against all enemy, foreign and domestic. a.g. bondi: that i will hold true faith and allegiance to the same, that i take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. mr. patel: without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. and i will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which i am about to enter. so help me god. [cheers and applause] mr. patel: wow, wow, wow. first and foremost, we were just with president trump and i just want to thank him. i know he's not here in the room right now. but what a ride we have been on. what a courageous warrior and leader he has been and the faith and trust he has put in me to lead the f.b.i. is the greatest honor that i'll ever have in my life. and to gen

joining us now is senator angela alsobrooks of maryland.d pensions committee. that's help. and she joins us now. >> welcome, senator. it's good to have you. >> thank you. >> good to. >> be here. yes. thank you. good to be here already. >> so you you've had quite an eye opening few weeks in the united states senate with these confirmation hearings. and specifically, i do want to focus on the work that you're finding you have to do there to get these nominees to actually lay out what their impact is going to be on, on our citizens, on the government itself. i want to start with the exchange you had with rfk jr, which for me was priceless because it exposed so much about what what we're in for here. let's take a quick listen to the senator with rfk jr. >> you said the following. >> and i. >> quote, we should not. >> be giving. >> black people the same vaccine. >> schedule that's. >> given to. whites because their immune system. >> is better than ours. >> can you please explain what. >> you meant? >> there's a. >> series. >> of studies. >> i th

alsobrooks. ms. baldwin. mr. banks. mr. barrasso. what they are doing is not just illegal it's devastating for me but every single zip code. speaking of the unified voice to make sure when congress passes a bill, that law is followed. we need to focus on negotiating serious spending bills fast approaching march 14 deadline. that's the deadline of what i'm trying to do now. but, this is really critical we've got to know that once those bills become law, trump will actually follow them. we cannot just reach an agreement, and stand by while president trump rips are laws in half serious bipartisan path forward for our country's one work congress works together to avoid a shutdown, stops the defect is happening, reasserts s authority to protect the funding that our communities need. a portion that is a far cry from the task republicans are setting out today with this pro- billionaire and tight middle-class budget resolution. let's be clear the chairman's does not just accept but doubles down to what t

alsobrooks: two weeks ago i had the opportunity to question robert f.nedy jr., the president's nominee to serve as the secretary of health and human services. i asked mr. kennedy jr. a simple question -- what different vaccine schedule would you say i should have received? i asked this question because just three years ago, kennedy said -- and i quote -- we should not be giving black people the same vaccine schedule that's given to whiteses because their immune system is better than ours. when i asked him this question, mr. kennedy referenced a study by poland, a study he assured me, and not just me but also my colleagues on both sides of the aisle and the american people watching, that this study asserted -- that this study asserted that indeed certain races required a different vaccine schedule. that was a lie. in fact, the study's own author stated the data doesn't support a change in vaccine schedule based on race. mr. kennedy's response was damning, and his response was dangerous. and so i followed up following the hearing with a letter and with qu

alsobrooks. quorum call: in early $2000 replacing the radar system because of uncoordinated changes to spectrum allocations. this is exactly what i'm talking about when we say we need to work together. we cannot continue to have this play out in a way we are not thinking about our military capabilities. in ukraine we are seeing how essential spectrum is everyday. the russians are jamming ukraine drones communication gps and satellite, this all shows that our military needs to be a blur, more flexible if we are going to succeed in our operations and that kind of contested and congested spectrum and environment. today how warfare does append on spectrum enabled communications. "spectrum is no longer just an enabler of the warfare, it is the warfare. so today's victories and battles really will depend on us getting those right and if we lose the spectrum war we lose the war. today's healing is about how we keep the same globally competitive while china and russia and other foreign adversaries are ma

alsobrooks. >> here this morning on this brisk morning my fellow democratic senate judiciary colleagues and mine are here at the fbi headquarters today on the day of the senate republicans have scheduled a vote to confirm kash patel president trump's nominee for fbi director. we stand outside the building mr. patel on one day plans to, quote, shut down and reopen the next day as a museum of the deep state. that is one of many of the bizarre, political statements made by the man who is asking for ten years as director of the fbi. after meeting with mr. patel reviewing his record questioning him at the hearing, i'm convinced he's neither of the experience, the judgment nor the temperament to lead the fbi. my senate republican colleagues are willing lfltly ignoring myriad red-flag warnings about mr. patel especially his reoccurring instinct to threaten against perceived enemies this is an extremely dangerous flaw for someone who seeks to lead the nation's most powerful domestic investigative agency

alsobrooks. the dfc was designed for a purpose, trade and the big thing. i won't come up with why we came up with that, we were at the drc. if they want to create a sovereign wealth fund there should be a different order. if you put it in the dfc, it clouds the mission. are we going to do a development or sovereign wealth fund and you cloud the mission and get away from what i like to call purity of purpose. dfc for hard core infrastructure projects that bring in other invests so we can wean them off foreign aid. foreign aid by itself has not brought anybody out of -- into prosperity, but working together to build the infrastructure to create that structure there, that brings in the opportunity, outside dollars and then we create friendships and allies around the world. >> great, thank you. mr. chairman, i'm willing to work, let's do the work in congress and this committee and let's build a better, stronger, more prosperous-- >> could i just add something if i could. >> the gentleman's time expir

alsobrooks. quorum call: the clerk: ms. alsobrooks. power a little over now. what would you say is his approach. >> that's a pretty big question because there are things going on at once. executive orders to establish themes and programs he talked about in the campaign giving directives to executive agencies to line them up along his loc objectives and perhaps spark action but there are other executive actions that raise serious questions and/or chance to follow up on a lead given by the supreme court so in some sense exact executive orders so there are some there and some are more controversial than others. >> is that the case? >> i have this -- sorry, i'm just trying -- >> i have this question but i'm not talking about the executive community decisions. i'd like to highlight cases called removal power. people have noticed the president doing arguably unusual things as far as will removal but i don't think they grasped a direct connection between what the court has been doing since roberts been

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. cramer. mr. crapo. the chance to have a spirited conversation. the budget committee reported out senate concurrent resolution seven, that will allow the reconciliation process, the spending of money and the reduction of spending based on different committees. this resolution allows for 175 billion immigration policy enhancements does not spend the many penny after words and by billionmr dollars what will hapn those two committees work with the trump administration to meet their priorities. there is nothing in this resolution directing one dime of spending. note spending bill can be implemented without presidential signature. i want to make sure that is clear. one of $50 billion in increased defense spending. quiet? we have a lot of threats since the withdrawal of afghanistan radical

alsobrooks: thank you. this is a bad, bad man right here. can we here for president kelly. all my friends in a ge make some noise my friends in labor, make some noise. i know that there must be some super bad marylanders in the house today. if you're here, let me hear some noise. let me say that you represent the very best in all of us. you represent the best in all of us. our civil servants, you've answered the call. the call not to serve a republican government or a democratic government. you were called to serve the american people in an american government. for anyone who is wondering, these jobs are not republican jobs or democratic jobs. they are american jobs. they are american jobs. you show up every day to make sure that the hard and important work is to be done. i want anyone who is listening to hear me when i say, you belong here and we are not backing up, backing down, going away, none of it. the important work that you do ensures that the american people have what they deserve. these are people who have sewn into our country. veterans like my uncle who when he

alsobrooks.we are witnesses to restore volatility in the farm economy. for many crop and specialty crop farmers markets up and tied a below breakeven for several inflation and input costs and lower farm prices. through the foresight of the squeak the american relief act of 2025 provided usda with more than 30 billion to deliver ad hoc financial assistance to farmers expensing economic and natural disasters. when including the ad hoc federal support use inflation adjusted net farm income is projected at $180 billion up 26% from last year. i know firsthand that farmers would rather get the returns from the market but in today's farm economy it's ad hoc support that is propping up their incomes. these economic assistance payments offset only a portion of the farmers negative margins and are lit the bridge into a new five-year farm bill can be authorized by congress. as we've seen for the last decade u.s. agriculture continues to face them unprecedented economic challenges that the traditm bill progr

senator alsobrooks. >> thank you so much. i'd like to just begin my remarks, hello, thank you so much for being here today, and i'd like to just begin by following up with what my colleague said and address what i regard as very disparaging comments. i would like to say first of one of my colleagues regarding the educators who have come here today in the same vein as senator kim, the educators who were hearing my colleague referred to them as these people and set who would want to be taught by these people? passionate educators who have come here today not on behalf of themselves, they are here on behalf of our children and they want to address how shameful it was to say who would want to be taught by them. they are exactly the kind of people who we want teaching our children. the question i have for you today, i know your parents were civil servants, and so you recognize the importance that they bring to their work, the care and concern that they bring to their work, and i have been very concerned regarding the treatment of

alsobrooks. ms. baldwin. mr. banks. barrasso. mr. bennet. mrs. blackburn. mr. blumenthal. ms. blunt rochester. mr. booker. mr. boozman. mrs. britt. mr. budd. ms. cantwell. the presiding officer: pursuant to rule 12, no debate is permitted during a vote. the senator will suspend. the clerk will continue to call the roll. vote: the clerk: mrs. capito. mr. cassidy. ms. collins. mr. coons. the presiding officer: pursuant to rule 12, no debate is permitted during a vote. the senator will suspend. the clerk will continue to call the roll. vote: the clerk: mr. cornyn. the presiding officer: pursuant to rule 12 no debate is permit the during a vote. the senator although suspend. the clerk: mr. cornyn. ms. cortez masto. mr. cotton. mr. cramer. mr. crapo. mr. cruz. mr. curtis. mr. daines. ms. duckworth. mr. durbin. the presiding officer: pursuant to rule 12, no debate is permitted during a vote. the senator although suspend. the clerk: mr. fetterman. mrs. fischer. mr. gallego. mrs. gillibrand. the presiding officer: pursuant to r

alsobrooks. as left failures in the underlying security of freedom the constitution. the most obvious example of one of these is our invasion based on complete failure of intelligence. this led to the death tens of thousands and undermining the stability of european allies and strengthening of al qaeda and others transiting around. not once but twice the fbi intelligent doing divine presidency also portrayed him. in so-called evidence. only lincoln but the emphasis intelligence officials that the information helps when the election. james klapper denies the existence internet records. not oversight and lied about doing it and yet has never been held responsible. fbi powerful political reasons with traditional mass and radical traditional methods. twenty-four hours i criticized her nomination, is based on domestic terror watch list. the, there are more examples. the bottom line is a must and. president george reelection cemented from the american people to break the cycle of failure and weaponizat

i'm joined now by senator angela alsobrooks, democrat of maryland.appening at all moments. i was so struck. let me just first say, by the moment you had in the rfk jr hearing this week, and i want to talk about that and your role on that committee. but i first have to start by asking you about this purge of fbi officials of all levels are law enforcement across the country that we've just seen happen this evening. yeah. >> you know, you mentioned there's a lot happening. so i would. >> be remiss if i didn't first. >> express my. >> condolences yet. >> another plane. >> crashed tonight. so much is happening, as you mentioned. regarding the fbi. i'm a former prosecutor. >> i know. >> so i spent 13 years. >> working in. >> courtrooms and i worked alongside many of. >> our the best and. >> brightest in the law enforcement community. >> including the fbi. >> and as you mentioned, these. >> are in so many cases. >> apolitical civil servants. >> who are serving. >> our country. >> and what. >> we're seeing. >> now is really it's devastating. >> it's devasta

alsobrooks. the right to do it just like we had the right to do mount mckinley and no one is even challenging that. essentially, it is primarily the associated rest. i don't know what they are doing but i will just say that we will keep them out until they agreed that is a golf america. we are proud of this country we wanted to be the gulf of america the associated press has been very, very wrong on the election , on trump in the treatment of trump and other things having to do with trump and republicans and conservatives and they are doing us no favors and i guess i'm not doing them any favors. i guess if that is the way life works. thank you for the question. who are you with? >> very good question. thank you. yes. >> we are hearing that russia wants to force ukraine to hold new elections in order to sign any kind of a peace deal. is that something that the u.s. would ever support? >> we have a situation where we have not had elections in ukraine or we have martial law, essentially, martial law

alsobrooks. you will recognize for five minutes for the opening statements. >> thank you, chairman latta. chairman kathy, vice chairman weber, ranking member pallone, ranking member castor, distinguished members of the subcommittee thank you for the invitation to appear before you today. i am brigham, a senior fellow at the hudson institute and director of the initiative on american energy security. i am also professor and executive in residence at miami university, oxford, ohio. one who did it in my personal capacity i've been blessed to add a portfolio career over the last four decades during which i've worked for cabinet members of both political parties. i served in a military, have run businesses as well as my current work in academic and nonprofit sectors. energy as has been testified to today is the glue that binds everything together. it empowers our cities, our factories, our commercial buildings, our farms and our homes here energy is the lifeblood of this nation. it enables us to both

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. cramer. mr. crapo. mr. cruz. mr. curtis. mr. daines. ms. duckworth. mr. durbin. ms. ernst. mr. fetterman. mrs. fischer. mr. gallego. mrs. gillibrand. mr. graham. mr. grassley. mr. hagerty. ms. hassan. mr. hawley. mr. heinrich. mr. hickenlooper. ms. hirono. mr. hoeven. mr. husted. mrs. hyde-smith. mr. johnson. mr. justice. mr. kaine. mr. kelly. mr. kennedy. mr. kim. mr. king. ms. klobuchar. mr. lankford. mr. lee. mr. lujan. ms. lummis. mr. markey. mr. marshall. mr. mcconnell. mr. mccormick. mr. merkley. mrs. moody. mr. moran. mr. moreno. mr. mullin. ms. murkowski. mr. murphy. mrs. murray. mr. ossoff. mr. padilla. mr. paul. mr. peters. mr. reed. mr. ricketts. mr. risch. ms. rosen. mr. rounds. mr. sanders. mr. schatz. mr. schiff. mr. schmitt. mr. schumer. p

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. cramer. mr. crapo. mr. cruz. mr. curtis. mr. curtis. mr. daines. ms. duckworth. mr. durbin. my extraordinary sister is here as well as addison's brother rick and my sister-in-law abbey and my closest friends come down to support me. my father is a professor of american history. taught me how to appreciate life. when i was 14, she was diagnosed with terminal cancer she decided when you die before then, was going to live. she pulled me class so i rushed and said, are you okay? is okay, let's go. drove to new york city we went to the opera and a late night dinner, super late and get to on time. my mother died in february of 1978 when i was 16 years old. a year end a half later, my father was diagnosed with lung cancer. he wanted to make sure i left

alsobrooks. mr. padilla: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from california. mr. padilla: i suggest we suspend the quorum call. on roll call vote 26, i voted nay. it was my intention to vote aye. i ask unanimous consent that i be permitted to change my vote since it will not affect the outcome. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. padilla: thank you. the presiding officer: the senator from missouri. a senator: thank you, mr. president. mr. schmitt: i stand here to amplify my support that i was able to give in the judiciary committee of pam bondi who will hopefully in a few short hours here be confirmed as the next attorney general of the united states of america. i want to thanks, before i do that, the leadership and the hard warning of -- work of leader thune and senate majority whip barrasso in this entire confirmation process, working at a clip that i think is responsible and one that honors the mandate that president trump got to shake things up here in washington, d.c

. >> angela alsobrooks asked him about his quote.e vaccine schedule that's given to whites because their immune system is better than ours. she asked him to explain what he meant. he said there's a series of studies that show the particular antigen that blacks have a much stronger reaction. he he tripled down. >> he tripled down. you know, the most interesting thing to me about all of this is the possibility that you have senator cassidy, a republican who potentially. >> is. a doctor. >> who's a doctor himself, who clearly was. you saw some of the footage there, was getting frustrated. who could end up being the vote that blocks the. >> vote for him? let's not even pretend. let's move on. >> i have. >> hope refill that mug with something because we've got another busy hour of the weekend ahead. we're going to be joined by marc elias, former justice department prosecutors alexis loeb and ashley occurs, and illinois governor j.b. pritzker. that is all right after this on the weekend. >> work, play. >> blink. >> relief. work. >> play. b

thank you so much. >> thank you, senator alsobrooks. senator sanders. >> i ask unanimous consent to enter into the record opposing ms. mcmahon as secretary of education. >> so ordered. >> the capitol police are requesting the audience remain seated until ms. mcmahon leaves. thank you very much for being here. you have handled yourself extremely well. i now ask for unanimous consent to enter into the record 55 letters of support for ms. mcmahon's nomination. for any senators who wish to ask additional questions, they will be due tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. audience, please stay seated until ms. mcmahon leaves. thank you. >> thank you very much. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2025] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> maybe i should have said stay in place. >> [indiscernible conversations]

alsobrooks. and despite her even walking away from those confirmation hearings with several senators from senator curtis out of utah and senator collins still openly suggesting that they didn't have wholly clear answers from her, and were even caught by surprise by her unwillingness to call edward snowden a traitor. she is now in the situation where she is expected to be confirmed here in a matter of minutes. >> as a matter of fact, the voting has already been, or at least the call to votes have has already begun. so vaughn, meanwhile, rfk jr needs to clear one final hurdle before his confirmation vote in the senate. is there anything in his way? >> right. we expect that procedural vote to take place here today that will allow him to go for a full vote before the senate to be officially confirmed. we anticipate that official vote taking place tomorrow, and the two big question marks were susan collins and bill cassidy. bill cassidy, of course, the republican senator from louisiana who is a physic

when newly elected democratic senator angela alsobrooks from maryland, was literally giving him pointeduestions specifically to the pseudoscience and racist science that alluded to black people not necessarily needing to have the same vaccine schedule as white people. we know what that goes back to, and i know that you pushed back a little earlier and that's absolutely fine. but when we talk about white supremacy and we talk about those white hoods and how it's presenting itself in this administration and his picks, it's not talking about people lighting fire to individual's homes. we're not talking about bombings. we're not talking about that level of activity. but the other side of white supremacy, the other side of what the kkk did was ensure that black people's faces were not in certain spaces, was to ensure that they were cut off from achievement, was to ensure that there were various mechanisms and policies put in place that would stop the growth and economic development of the black community, and in this case, what we see from many of these nominees, rfk jr. i would put a huge s

. >> senator alsobrooks, thank you for being with us. thank you for your powerful voice. i can't wait to watch you in the weeks ahead. that does it for me tonight. the rachel maddow show starts right now. hey, rachel. >> jen, do. >> you feel like that last. >> hour was one minute, or do you feel like it was about 15 hours long? it's one or the other. i know it doesn't feel like it was an hour. >> somewhere in between eight hours. is that an appropriate answer to. and it's just the sheer amount of news we're all consuming right now is. and just trying to wade through it as we all are. >> yeah, exactly. well, you did a phenomenal job handling that breaking news tonight and all these things that are developing while you are on the air talking about them. well done my friend and honor to be your colleague. always honored to be yours always. thank you. all right. thanks to his home at home as well for joining us this hour. there is a lot going on and just about everything that's going on that we have set to talk about tonight are stories that are continuing to develop. and so

my senator, proud to wok senator angela alsobrook to the stage. great senator from maryland. thank you. ms. alsabrook: thank you so much. to all my friends in afge, let me hear you make some noise. to my friends in labor. let me hear you make some noise. [cheers and applause] and i know there must be some super bad marylanders who are in the house today if you're here, let me hear some noise. [cheers and applause] let me just say that you represent the very best in all of us. you represent the best in all of us. our civil servants, you have answered the call. the call not to serve a republican government or a democratic government, you were called to serve the american people in an american government. and for anyone who is wondering, these jobs are not republican jobs or democratic job, they're american jobs. they're american jobs. and you show up every day to make sure that the hard and important work is to be done. and i want anyone who is listening to hear me when i say, you belong here and we are not backing up, backing down, going away, none of it. the important work th

alsobrooks. lots of the many things they've done that are long, yes, we're going to make an effort to do that. yes. >> i understand concerns about going around the legislative branch. but politically, democrats -- they like the idea the president is doing these cuts. is that tone deaf political -- [inaudible] >> simple. everyone knows there's waste incumbent and should be cut. but doge is using a meat ax and the cutting things that are efficient and effective. i was in albany and syracuse monday talking to community health centers, many of them have had their funds cut temporarily. some even has up and restore jet. that the most efficient healthcare providers around. take a idea, maybe this programs they don't like. but most people agree that far was extremely effective, cost effective. most people would want to see us continue our fight in central africa against the bozo doesn't come here. the bottom line is simple. if you want to make cuts, then you do it through a debate in congress. not flawl

alsobrooks: thank you, mr. president, and -- the presiding officer: the senator from maryland. ms. alsobrooks: democrats have been here all night, and guess what, we are not letting up because right now in maryland and across this country the administration is conducting a witch hunt for federal workers. see, what the president said i am your retribution, he meant he will scapegoat, bully, and attempt to silence the federal workforce. it is is a retribution that they do not deserve. and i really want to paint a picture of who these federal workers are and who they are not. they are not partisan hacks hell bent on pursuing some kind of political agenda. they are not part of some deep state conspiracy that apparently keeps this president awake at night. in fact, to the contrary. these people are hard-working americans who believe in this government, regardless of who the president is. as a matter of fact, they are my friends, many of them are my neighbors, and they are my constituents. they are marylanders. see, i represent over 150,000 federal workers. in maryland, we are proud to h

we elected a great new partner for me in the united states senate, angela alsobrooks.ant to thank maryland, i want to thank everyone else, i want to thank the officers of the dnc, including my colleague, senator tammy baldwin. now, we are here in a room and we obviously cannot see out of the windows from this particular room, but on wednesday night 67 souls perished in a terrible aircraft collision and plunged into the potomac river, not far from where all of you are sitting here this evening. while emergency responders from the district of columbia, virginia, and maryland came together to try to provide rescue operations, and did provide recovery operations. while they were providing recovery operations, i happened to have my tv on and i saw the press conference at the white house. while those emergency responders were working to recover the bodies of those we lost, president trump -- president trump was at the white house spewing baseless conspiracy theories and engaging in gross finger-pointing and politics. president trump owes those families and the country an apo

host: marilyn senator angela alsobrooks -- maryland center.he senate remains in session this morning. they pulled an all-nighter over in protest of russell vought to service the budget director and president trump's second administration -- in president trump's second administration. yesterday a procedural hurdle was overcome with a vote to limit debate on the nomination. democrats said they would not yield back the 30 hours of debate. they have held the senate floor since then. vought is expected -- a vote is expected on vought's nomination at 7:00 p.m. tonight. senator brian schatz of hawaii and chris murphy of connecticut, they had the early morning shift. listen to a little lighthearted moaned between the two senators. [video] >> they really are cutting the stuff that matters to regular people. then they will book that as savings. they will shove it in the direction of billionaires and billionaire corporations. i see my friend senator murphy is here. it's a little like old times to see you on the floor at 2:00 a.m. it used to be easier whe

alsobrooks, no. mr. cramer, aye. ms. blunt rochester, no. mr. kim, no. mr. merkley, no. mr. lankford, aye. mr. kaine, no. mr. warnock, no. ms. hirono, no. mr. booker, no. mrs. murray, no. mr. heinrich, no. ms. cortez masto, no. mr. rounds, aye. mr. moran, aye. mr. reed, no. mr. thune, aye. mr. cornyn, aye. ms. warren, no. ms. hassan, no. mr. ossoff, no. mr. fetterman, no. ms. smith, no. mr. van hollen, no. mr. markey, no. mr. coons, no. ms. baldwin, no. mr. hickenlooper, no. mrs. shaheen, no. vote: the clerk: mr. boozman, aye. the clerk: ms. klobuchar, no. mr. hoeven, aye. the clerk: mr. schiff, no. the clerk: mr. bennet, no. mrs. capito, aye. mr. wicker, aye. the clerk: mrs. fischer, aye. the clerk: mr. cruz, aye. the clerk: mr. mullin, aye. mr. lee, aye. the clerk: mr. gallego, no. the clerk: mr. curtis, aye. the clerk: mr. whitehouse, no. the presiding officer: the yeas are 51, nays 49. the confirmation is confirmed. under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be l immediately notified of the senate

alsobrooks. consumer market in the world for growth producers to get access to that market we must engage equal footing. how will you ensure china owners commitment in 2019 to complete the phase one? on the playing field. president. the presiding officer: the senator from delaware. mr. coons: are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: we are. mr. coons: i ask that the proceedings under the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. coons: i rise to speak against russell vought who's been nominateded to run the most powerful federal organizations you've never heard of, the office of management and budget, or omb. russell vought has as much business running omb as i do being a hair model for pantene. russell vought has as much business being near the federal government again and running the central plays that make the federal government work as i have standing behind center for the eagles this sunday running plays in the super bowl. vought had this position before,

. >> and going to the last conversation, if you think about angela alsobrooks, if you think about lisaa harris campaign, 107 days, they tried to have a national campaign that was not rooted in local communities. so that's why you see the gap between the turnout and the outcome for those races compared to the presidential race, the business model of campaigning for the democratic party is broken. it has been broken for a while. we've seen it in 2016, we had a lightning rod of a first trump administration that turned out voters in 2020, and then they went back to the same model in 2016 and we got the same outcome. so the party needs to really look at the business model of how they do campaigns for the national candidates and focus more locally to talk to voters where they live. >> so, derrick, let's talk about this moment right now. you know, we're not at a campaign season just yet. it does seem that i've spoken to some democrats who feel sort of frustrated that their party doesn't hasn't really coalesced around a message or found a leading voice or two. and it's also striking, sort of t

alsobrooks. the presiding officer: the senator from new hampshire. mrs.haheen: is the senate in a quorum? the presiding officer: we are. mrs. shaheen: i ask that the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. shaheen: i come to the floor today to call attention to the trump administration's unconscionable disregard for air safety. last month, here in washington, we saw the deadliest commercial aviation event on u.s. soil in over 23 years. and while this loss of life was horrifying, it was unfortunately not unimaginable. in recent years, near misses at airports across the country have increased, and the incident at dca illustrated just how quickly these dangerous situations can take a turn for the worst. several times last year, runway incidents were narrowly avoided, due in no small part to the heroic actions of certified professional air traffic co controllers who staff our towers. these controllers are hardworking americans. they often log 6-day weeks and 10-hour days, and that's on a good week. so even before this week's misg