good morning everyone the committee will come to order we are here to consider the nomination of dan brouillette currently serving as a deputy secretary of energy and i believe you have done an excellent job. so we want to thank you all you have done at the department. and at this point for your willingness to step up in a higher capacity. we have our colleagues here this evening texas and louisiana are well represented. mister deputy secretary you should feel verydu welcome by having these gentlemenmp next to you. we will start with senator cassidy followed by senators cruz and senator kennedy to introduce deputy secretary this morning. would like to proceed we do have a full complement here this morning and a full house behind you so the introductions do not consume the full morning but we do welcome all the good comments s comments. >> what a wonderful way to tell me to be brief. [laughter] it's a privilegege to represent my friend dan brouillette eminently qualified as united states leads the world in all sorts of energy. he shared a longer showed a commitment to energy security and understa

we are here to consider the nomination of dan brouillette. i am one who believes that you have done an excellent job as second-in-command to secretary perry. we welcome you back to the committee. it is good to have discussion with you. i want to thank you for all you have done at the department. for your willingness to serve at this point. and to step up in this new and higher capacity. we have our colleagues here today this morning to introduce the deputy area secretary. texas and louisiana are well represented. feel very welcome here. by having these gentlemen the two you. we will start with senator cassidy. followed by senator cruz and senator kennedy. to introduce the deputy area secretary this morning. we do have a full complement here this morning. we welcome all of the good comments. what a wonderful way to tell me to be brief. he is eminently qualified. the united states leads the world in all kinds of sex -- energy issues. hea louisiana native, understands the importance of exports. and lowering greenhouse gas emissions abroad. he ha

we're here today to consider the nomination of dan brouillette to be the secretary of energy. he currently is serving as the deputy secretary of energy, and i am certainly one who believes that you have done an excellent job as second in command to secretary perry. so we welcome you back to the committee. it's good to have discussion with you last week. i want to thank you really want to thank you for all you've done at the department, for your willingness to serve to this point, and for your willingness to step up in this new and higher capacity. we've got our colleagues here this morning to introduce the deputy secretary, both texas and louisiana are well represented. mr. deputy secretary, you should feel very welcome by having these gentlemen next to you. so we will start with senator cassidy up here at the dais followed by senators cruz and kennedy to introduce the deputy secretary this morning. so senator cassidy, if you would like to proceed. we do have a full complement here this morning and a full house behind you. hopefully the introductions do not consume our full mo

national resources considers the nomination of dan brouillette. and at 2:00, limiting reproductive health care in states. president trump and turkish president erdogan held a joint news conference talking about terrorism in the middle east and renewed trade talks and president trump announced that they'll release a turkish-american and the news conference was held in the east room of the white house. [inaudible conversations] >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states and the president of the republic of turkey. >> thank you very much, everybody. please. i want to begin by welcoming the first lady with us today and the first lady of turkey. thank you very much for being here. this is a great honor to have you. and we had a wonderful and very productive meeting. before we start, i would like to thank president erdogan for releasing detainee golga who was in detention, in different forms of detention and i appreciate that very much. that was a very nice tribute and he'll be coming back at some point in the not too distant future. so

appeals. 10:30, the senate energy and natural resources committee considered the nomination of dan brouillette to become the next energy secretary. the house over

we're here today to consider the nomination of dan brouillette to be the secretary of energy. he currently is serving as the deputy secretary of energy, and i am certainly one who

good morning everyone the committee will come to order we are here to consider the nomination of dan brouillette currently serving as a deputy secretary of energy and i believe you have done an excellent job.

to the court of appeals and senator energy and national resources considers the nomination of dan brouillette. and at 2:00, limiting reproductive health care in states. president trump and turkish president erdogan held a joint news conference talking about terrorism in the middle east and renewed trade talks and president trump announced that they'll release a turkish-american and the news conference was held in the east room of the white house.

. >>> now dan brouillette, president trump's nominee to serve as energy secretary, testifies before the senate energy and natural resources committee. he'll answer members' questions about his background and energy development philosophy. >>> good morning, everyone. the committee will come to order. we're here today to consider the

the senate will vote on secretary nominee dan brouillette on monday when they return, currently the energyecretary, confirmed to be replaced by rick perry. they will continue work on judicial nominations. although live senate coverage on c-span2 and the house on c-span. -- follow live senate coverage on c-span2 and the house on c-span. impeachmenthe house inquiry hearings continue next week when house judiciary chairman holds the first impeachment increase hearing into president, focusing on the constitution and the history of impeachment. watch wednesday, december 4 at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3. chairman nadler extended an invitation for the president and his counsel to appear before the committee. read the letter to the president on our website, c-span.org/impeachment, and follow the impeachment inquiry live on c-span3, online at c-span.org, or listen on the free c-span radio app. announcer: former supreme court justice anthony kennedy receives the liberty metal at the national constitution center in philadelphia. we will

the senate energy and natural resources committee consider the nomination of dan brouillette to be the next energy secretary. he was nominated by president tr

the senate will vote on energy secretary nominee dan brouillette, currently the deputy secretary. if confirmed he would replace rick perry. the senate will continue work on judicial emanations. follow live senate coverage on c-span two and the house on c-span. congress has until december 20 budgett 12 bills for the to avoid a government shutdown. >> on apartheid and what i would say is very unfair personalized reporting of these fellows. knownk that you ought to that opinion because you're going to be disappointed in me down the road if i did not tell you that. i am telling you frankly that i think your industry is rocking all of us. >> that is heavy-handed. you can imagine what it was like for the journalist the next day. i imagine he was not going to call on the journalist to the next day who offended him in the press conference. that they are wrecking the country, very disturbing, very disturbing. we are hearing that today, that the press is the enemy of the american people, according to president trump. the press is not the enemy and of the american people. the press is out th

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dan r. brouillette of texas to be secretary. mr. mcconnell: madam president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: i move to proceed to legislative session. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion. all those in favor, say aye. those opposed, vote no. it appears the ayes have it. the ayes do have it. the measure is agreed to. mr. mcconnell: i move to proceed to executive session and consider calendar number 347. the presiding officer: question is on the motion. all those in favor, say aye. all opposed, no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. the clerk will report the nomination. the clerk: nomination, the judiciary, eric ross komitee of new york to be united states district judge for the eastern district of new york. mr. mcconnell: i send a cloture motion to the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: cloture motion: we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate

dan brouillette is currently the deputy energy secretary. he is the number two person at the department. he is the deputy to the amigo. so at his confirmation hearing sitting on the energy and natural resources committee, which i at one time chaired, i thought it was important to ask mr. brouillette some basic questions about what i've outlined here. and what i wanted to know wasn't real complicated. who did secretary perry meet with regarding ukraine and nafta gas? he was a powerful, powerful guy. and he wielded major influence over a nation that's dependent on aid from the united states as it resists aggression by russia. who else was in the loop with secretary perry? now, deputy secretary brouillette acknowledged in my questions only that there were meetings but provided no further details about who took part in them. in follow-up written questions, again he just wasn't forthcoming. he wouldn't provide any answers. so i'm sending a letter to deputy secretary brouillette to give him yet another chance to answer basic questions. to who was

we're here today to consider the nomination of dan brouillette to be the secretary of energy. he currently is serving as the deputy secretary of energy, and i am certainly one who believes that you have doneex