i would thank you, senator donnelly. i yield to my great friend who's been with us for a majority of the evening here on the floor and has not yet posed a question. i yield to my friend from hawaii for a question without losing my right to the floor. a senator: i thank the senator from connecticut and the senior senator from connecticut for their leadership. i want to read something i received just about a half-hour ago from a constituent. dear senator schatz, i'm following the filibuster online. though i know you don't need more convincing about what we need to do i thought to reach out to you anyway. i felt so paralyzed since sunday's shooting in orlando. mr. schatz: on sunday afternoon i brought my 4-year-old to the uh campus, university of hawaii campus for a film screening and i found myself for the very first time strategizing about where to sit and what i would do if there was an active shooter and how i could best cover my son's body if we couldn't escape. i'm not an anxious person by nature, but i refuse to acce

donnelly: let me ask you one more question, which is this. senator, do you think we are underestimating in this body that the senators are this couldl said harm terror investigations, in the wake of the mass shooting in the area, looking to use the spending bill to force another vote on such a provision. republicans in the senate rejected the same effort in a procedural vote on an amendment from democratic senator dianne feinstein of california in december after the mass shooting in san bernardino. again, that from cq roll call, and, of course, you can watch the senate live on our competitive network, c-span2. any have voted to cite member for allegedly affecting a congressional investigation into whether the iris targeted conservative groups with tactics and status. committee members passed a partyline vote that accuses the irs head of providing false testimony to congress and allowing evidence to be destroyed. the committee chair jason chaffetz has called it a first step in eventual impeachment proceedings. the judiciary committee will cons

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corey gardener in aurora and senator kirk of illinois and joe donnelly yes of indiana.rough the next one. the murphy amendment and closed the gun show loophole and stronger background checks that went down, as well. the only republican supporting kirk, interesting three democrats went against murphy. mansion, tester and hide camp from progun states one could say. then the amendment which a lot of folks would get support. this is the republican bill that would bar those on the terrorist watch list to be able to purchase weapons lost republican votes. susan collins, mark kirk and jeff flake and it picked up joe donnelly and joe mansion. a lot of people thought that number would be higher than the last time around after san bernardino considering it was the republican proposal to get those on the watch list from getting weapons and the last one, the feinstein bill was 47-53. heidi democrat from the red state of north dakota voted against it. you saw a lot of jockeying and political theater. in terms of what is any tangible legislation that can come out of this, steve, excu

[applause] donnelly? >> thank you. >> david donnelly has worked 20 years fighting big money in politics. onhas managed or consulted campaigns. let me just remind witnesses and members of the committee, again, the longer the statement of the witness means i have to restrict russians. i am begging the witnesses to be short. thank you. >> i particularly appreciate the holistic approach to issues of democracy. it is not one silver bullet. it takes a comprehensive approach. include ae you to proposal to oppose big money in campaigns. americans want people who look like them to be able to run and serve in office. --e new york city's public they have all one on office on limited public funds and small donations. mark hanna once said there are two important things in politics. the first is money and i can't remember the second. the second is of course the people. even those of us who remember the second part are often forgetting to talk about it when it comes to the issue of money in politics. they make it compli

senator donnelly: thank you.what you think is the rest -- the biggest shortcoming we have in africa, right now. of things areds you lining up to make sure we have more success? >> senator, one of the shortcomings we have -- a lot of the isr's -- if we want to strike at various times and provide assistance to other nations, than isr would be a valuable addition. in addition, the size of the savenent, the ability to personnel, rescue personnel is a very if a gold task. we talked about responsibilities on the western side of africa. we also have responsibilities in djibouti. there are risks there with regard to time and space. are thedonnelly: what relationships between isil and other terror groups, such as oklahoma, islam and mcgrath, b.ll should bob -- al shaba boko haramdhauser: from is interesting. they pledged support to isil, but you have different perspectives on how much influence isil has had on boko haram. they certainly have not given the much financial assistance. perhaps training and the like. recently

donnelly tagged me out of the crowd to go up to the front. he was sitting 10 feet away, coughing. interrupting speaker foley, coughing. so rude. on national tv i snuck away from my desk and went back into the republican someonem and grabbed and asked for water and cough drops and kleenex and i will left to sylvia conti and said, sir, do you need any of this? because i notice you keep coughing. in, he started laughing. he almost fell out of his chair laughing. in every time he saw me on the floor after that he would call me over and introduced me to his friends. he was amazing. he passed away one month later. everyone of us, whether it was the pages in the republican high room watching of :00 with bob dortmund, private screenings. it was hilarious. midnight. every one of us has a memory like that and i do think just our mere presence on the house floor had a calming effect. host: i think there is a lot of merit to that. the fact that there were kids there. >> and it was not just they had to behave but when they had to authorize the use of force, for example. they thought of us. bec

. >> reporter: chief donnelly says they continue to build this case it may take a few days to get tohe bottom of all of this but he's very confident they will figure out who was responsible for all of this vandalism. lucy. >> all right. thank you very much, bruce. hopefully they find that person soon. n gloucester county police are search fog the mean shot and killed a man. police found the 24-year-old victim shot several times on 1300 block of pine street in paulsboro late last night. if you know anything about this, give police a call. >>> on to the fox 29 weather authority now, it was a hot one out there today. tell you what. so hot in fact all camden county schools dismissed their students early. they all got to head home at 1:00 this afternoon before the hottest part of the day. staff left at 4:00. meteorologist scott williams in the heat in old z are we heading toward a heat wave? >> reporter: lucy, we hit none degrees yesterday. none so far today and it looks like we could do it again tomorrow. so, yes, if we do that, we're talking about our second heat wave of the year. but f

. >> reporter: jim donnelly says his detective are working hard on the case and with at least four otheresses, also hit, it is a top priority to find the man responsible. >> we will put all of our resources behind to it find out who this individual is. >> i hope they find his fingerprints or his blood, and they can get this guy. i do. i would be curious to find out why. i would like to have a talk with him. >> reporter: of course, cost to replace all these tires very expensive. at this business alone, more than $22,000. reporting here from warminster, greg argos for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> several significant wild fires are burning out of control in southern california, arizona and new mexico. the so-called sirpa fire near santa barbara is biggest of them all burning 7800 acres since it started last wednesday. right now, that fire is only about 54 percent contained, and fire fighters there are not only battling dry conditions, but also contending with extreme heat that has consumed parts of the west. >>> baby-sitter hicks is getting kid outside before the heat forced them to find so

senator donnelly was concerned about manufacturing jobs in america. indeed, our trade policy has given full access to our market to goods manufactured by companies in countries that do not have to abide by the same labor laws, the same wage rules from the same of our mental rules are the same enforcement. this is a very a level playing field for american manufacturers have a devastating impact. the loss is extensive, and is that really fair to the american worker to american companies having to compete against companies that are allowed a completely different set of standards that lower their costs dramatically? >> i guess i would just say in the view of most economists, more open trade creates net benefits, but that doesn't mean benefits for everyone. there are dangers but there are also losers, and that certainly -- >> the losers of the manufacturing -- is that fair to the manufacturing workers? >> it's important to have policies that address the losses. losses. >> since the mid '70s, 1975 through now we've had for decades in which virtually -- virt

. >> senator donnelly. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you chair yellen. we talked about corporate offshore and and the devastating my homet has had in state of indiana and manufacturing towns across the country. the frustration remains. the decline in manufacturing employment is one of the factors that has led to a shrinking middle class. we have two economies in this country. the overall economy might be doing well enough and the will be richer than ever. middle and working class families are not feeling the recovery. we have been stagnant for years. a recent pew report that 1971 each decade has ended with a smaller share of adults living with middle income households. what is the state of the economy for working families? >> will i would agree with you that for the decades now as we were just discussing, there has been downward pressure on the incomes of less skilled individuals. and the kinds of jobs that once upon a time were pretty readily available say, for high school educated man in manufacturing have gradually diminished. there has been a long-te

. >> senator donnelly. >> mr. chairman, and thank you, chair yellen. >> when you were here in janway, we talked about the offshore drilling, and the devastating effect in indiana and the manufacturing towns across the country. the frustration remains that the decline in manufacturing e employment is one of the factors that has led to the shrinking middle class. we have two economies in the country, and the overall economy might with be doing well enough, and in the wealthier bet ter thn ever, but the middle class working families are not feeling the recovery. the wages have been stagnant for years. a recent pugh report said that since 1971, each decade has ended with the smaller share of adults living in middle income households than at the beginning of the decade, what is the state of the economy for the working families? >> well, i would agree with you that for decades now we were discussing that there is downward pres shower on the incomes of the less -- downward pressure on the incomes of the less skilled and

senator donnelly was raising concerns about manufacturing jobs in america, and the trade policy has given full access to our goods manufactured by companies in countries who not have to abide by the same labor laws or the wage rules or the same environmental rules or the same enforcement, and this is a very unlevel playing field for american manufacturers and devastating impact. the loss is extensive, and is that the really fair to the american worker to have american companies having to compete against companies that are allowed completely different set of standards that lower the costs dramatically? >> well sh, i guess that i woul just say that in the view of most e kconomists, more open tre creates net benefits, but it does not mean that benefits for everyone, and there are gainers, but there are also losers, and that is certainly -- >> the losers are the manufacturinging workers again, right? is that fair to the manufacturing workers? >> well, it is important to have policies that address the losses. >> and since the mid-'70s and 1975, and four decades now in which virtually -- let me

donnelly: mr. president, as we continue to debate this year's national defense authorization act on the floor this week, i want to take a few minutes as the ranking member of the armed services strategic forces subcommittee to discussion provisions of the bill that relate to our nation's nuclear deterrent and nonproliferation programs, missile defense, and space programs. i want to start by thanking all members of the strategic forces subcommittee for putting in another year of hard work. i'd especially like to thank our subcommittee chairman, my colleague from alabama, senator sessions, for the strong partnership we have built over the past few years leading this committee together. i want my colleagues to note that senator sessions and his staff worked closely together with me and my staff in developing elements of the bill pertaining to the strategic forces subcommittee. together with her colleagues, we have built bipartisan consensus on some of the most important issues in this bill. no small f

donnelly: the family that wants to make sure there's a paycheck coming into the house and all mom and dad wants is a chance to go to work, they're who we should be working for here, for the same people that my colleague from north dakota works for, in bismarck and in fargo, in munnsey and lafayette and all these suppliers around my state whose jobs are dependent on these export opportunities that we are walking away from by standing against the export import bank -- export-import bank. here we are again on the united states senate floor talking about the responsibility to do our job and to consider the president's nominees to important federal offices. the nominee we're talking about mark mcwaters is a republican nominee for the board of directors of the export-impart t bank and we are all lined up on this side to support him. it's the credit agency of the united states. it helps american companies. so many in my state of indiana creating jobs and opportunity and a chance for people to go to work, put a roof over their kids' heads, to be able to retire with dignity, to be able to comp

with that, i want to yield to my friend, senator donnelly, from indiana. mr. donnelly: thank you. thank you, mr. president. to my colleague from ohio, my colleague from west virginia, this is a critical issue, and i rise today to join you in support of the bipartisan miners' protection act. we are here to make sure that the federal government makes good on our promise of benefits for miners who risked their lives to help our country meet our energy needs. as you've noted, president truman and the federal government made a promise that the 1946 krug-louis agreement to guarantee health and pension benefits for coal miners. these workers and the jn reagan administrations that followed sacrifice their own long-term health. now they're depending on us to make sure that they get the benefits that they earned. in indiana, my friend from west virginia said 27 now your state. we have 3,000 retired miners approximately receiving pension benefits and another 1,500 receiving health benefits. many of them in the southern part of my state. there are tens of thousands of other retirees, 90,500-p

your senator, joe donnelly, is here. here --or, two nieces mayor tim, is here. i want to congratulate them for graduating tomorrow. i met a couple of the phallic the taurean's, who seem like outstanding young ladies. my -- a couple of the valedictorians, who seem like outstanding young ladies. my two young -- my young daughter is graduating this week. i don't want to embarrass her. down, iave a chair, sit have some stuff to say here. doubtt going to talk to -- to talk about the fact that my daughter leaving me is breaking my heart. i'm not here to talk about that. i'm here to talk about the economy. i don't know if you've noticed, but this is an election year. and as a more colorful election season than most. it has been a little unusual. >> [indiscernible] president obama: no, i can't do that. [laughter] the constitution prohibits it, and more importantly michelle prohibits it. the reason we are told this is an unusual election year is because people are anxious and uncertain about the economy. and our politics are a natural place to channel that frustration. s

senator donnelly was raising concern about manufacturing jobs. and our trade policy has given us access to goods manufactured in countries that do not have to abide by the same labor laws, the same wage rules, the same environmental rules or same enforcement. this is a very unlevel playing field for american manufacturers, has a devastating impact. the loss is extensive and is that really fair to the american worker to have american companies having to compete against companies that are allowed completely different set of standards that lower their costs dramatically? ms. yellin: well, i guess i would just say that in the view of most economists more open trade creates net benefits but that doesn't mean benefits for everyone. and there are gainers but there are also losers and those -- senator merkley: is that fair to the manufacturing workers? ms. yellin: well, it's important to have policies that address -- that address the losses. senator merkley: since mid 1970's, 1975, we had four decades which zero -- virtually 100% of the new income has go

david donnelly. >> thank you. >> david donnelly has worked in politics to organizing and he has managed over consulted on six winning campaigns for state policy and pioneered electoral and accountability campaigns on the issue. let me just remind the witnesses and the members of the committee, again, the longer the statement of the witness, means i have to restrict the question so i am taking the witnesses to be short summary because i would like members to have questions to be or to ask them all right? >> thank you. i also want to thank the committee for the opportunity to speak your today and i appreciate the holistic approach to issues of democracy that it is not one silver bullet that will solve the problems that ail our but it takes a comprehensive approach and part of that confidence of approach i encourage you to include a bold comprehensive proposal to reduce the influence of money in politics and commit to work to advance that platform and every possible way in the next administration. americans want, americans want people who look like them to be or to run for office and serve

donnelly of indiana, gardner of colorado, and on the other side, universal background check by chrisckground checks to join internet sales for gun shows. it failed on party line vote, 44-56. right now, looks like all these provisions are going down next to figure out how to prevent suspected terrorists from getting guns when they disagree on how to do that. expecting more gridlock. >> they need 60 votes to pass given threat of filibuster? >> that's right. every one needs 60 votes. incredibly difficult to get anything done. need a bipartisan consensus and we know it is hard to get that. >> we will get back to you when the other votes occur as well. thank you very much. let's bring back scottie nell hughes, key trump supporter. trump made news over the weekend when he said he thought more people in the pulse nightclub should have been carrying guns, you would have had in his words a very different result. national rifle association disagreed, they said nightclubs where people are drinking, people should not come in with guns. trump later walked comments back, said the security guards o

. >> and paul donnelly at the public affairs group. i'll confess i'm a little bit disappointed because this has been a very sophisticated discussion about economics, but a little bit too simple about immigration policy. it wasn't until the very end that dr. kallick mentioned both immigration is based on family. the question is if all immigration is the same, permanent to temporary legal and illegal we can talk about that way. dr. myers mentioned about a month the national academy of sciences is going to do a new report on the economic and pack. they did one about 20 years ago, which concluded that immigration is a small benefit to the american economy as much as 10 billion a year in a $14 trillion economy. in other words, if you get 145. i'm a green cards, not guestworker guy. that is my bottom line on all immigration issues. it's a very simple question for you. why would we ever want more people with fewer rights? >> a kind of feel like i did say we don't think we want that. we want to have a system of immigration that does respond to

deputy chief john donnelly toldl us time was critical. >> time is -- you have seconds.s you can't holdr breath butea so long in the smoke, a the efforts here today savedav those three people.ree people. you remember just a few monthsum ago the fire down on minnesota avenue where the firefighter fig gave his mask to woman.oman it's that type of situation.. very time sensitive.ti it's a very highly orchestrated rescue. >> reporter: so in terms of ters the people that were injured byb this fire, again, we had a five-year-old mail arcmail a 12-year-old male and an adult female transported we're toldd just for observation and thenn one firefighter that firefightef a female who received some burns to her hdsan.an even though she was wearing wri protective gloves which giveschs you an idea of just how hot thii fire was when firefighters were trying to bail also we were tolt there was one teen male who jumped.jump. he mack us willy was notas injured. inju we don't know, though, what floor that teen was on, and d.cc fire tells us there are a few af other people here that they arey evaluating.in

. >> senator donnelly? >> thank you, mr. ÷úchairman.order to get $3-an-hour jobs to mexico. the ceo said returning cash to shareowners continues to be a 3u-q targeting w3$22 billion of totalq shareholder returns 2017." of that $22 billion, $16 billio] will come in the form of stock buybacks. $16 billion in stock buybacks, while firing 2,100 worker91 in indiana in order to get $3-an-hour jobs inlp mexico to help fund the stock buyback.fáw3 i will also note that the savings they get from this a÷%z less than one half of 1% ofq th amount of the stockñr buyback. so, my question is, you xdknow,n 1982, this could have been considered market manipulation.i what does the s.e.c. think of actions like this now? >> well, i fámean, the safe harr rule thatt( you mention does no immunize liabilityçó from marke manipulation, if it occurs. i mean, you know, it'se1lp basiy designed toq impose some rules o at least try to prevent market manipulation, but it doesn't -- you know, for example, if the buyback is done on the basis of material nonpublic informa

shawn donnelly from the u.s. council for international business. one short comment and then a question. i'm pleased to see what i perceive to be a cato softening of your criticism on isds from your earlier almost jihad against it. [ laughter ] many of us do think having the option to go to expert arbitration as opposed to the national courted vietnam or malaysia is useful. my question is a different one. how seriously do you take the threat that we always hear that if tpp doesn't pass, if the u.s. doesn't approve it, asia will go to the rcep or something else and have a much lower standard? is that a realistic alternative and how should we deal with that? thanks. >> personally, i don't think the deals are mutually exclusive at all. i think what's more significant about not getting the tpp done is the fact that business wants to move on and supply chains are going to be established. and they're going to oscify. if there's not a tpp, to me, the cost of failure exceed the benefit of success in the short term. and that failure is manifest in the impen

. >> senator donnelly? >> thank you, mr. chairman. good morning. thank you so much for being here. . in 1982 the s.e.c. adopted rule 10b18 to provide a safe harbor from market manipulation liability on certain stock buy-backs. buy-backs could have been considered market manipulation back then. recently in my home state of indiana, 2,100 workers were let go by a highly profitable company in order to get $3 an hour jobs to mexico. the ceo said returning cash to shareholders continues to be a top priority. we're targeting $22 billion of total shareholder returns through share repurchasing and dividends through 2017. of that $22 billion, $16 billion will come in the form of stock buy-backs. $16 billion in stock buy-backs while firing 2,100 workers in indiana in order to get $3 an hour jobs in mexico to help fund the stock buy-back. i will also note that the savings they get from this are less than one-half of 1% of the amount of the stock buyback. so my question is, in 1982, this could have been considered market manipulation. what does the s.e.c. thin

and in response to questions around opioid disorder by senator joe donnelly of indiana, va indicated that about 68,000 veterans today had -- or in 2015, had opioid use disorders. figure represents about 13% of the total population of veterans currently taking opioids according to the va, so that's a lot of veterans. 68,000 have opioid use disorders and that's 13% of the veterans on opioids. that's a huge, huge problem. a couple of the witnesses have mentioned the costs. and we just had an opportunity to go to iraq last week, anbar province. and they had a couple of dogs there trained, but those are trained for bomb detection. and -- but i asked. i asked -- i asked the dod, i said, what does it cost for us to train a dog, in that context. and they said $55,000 each. but that's dod. you know, i'm not surprised that the private sector is doing it for a heck of a lot less. it's probably apples and oranges. they get trained for something particularly different. but, mr. lyle, first of all, thank you for your courageous service to our country and you're helping veterans still. is that what

senator donnelly was reason a concern about manufacturing jobs in america and a dinner tray policy has given full access to our market to go to those manufacturers by companies and countries that do not have to buy by the same labor laws, the same wage rules, the same enforcement, this is a very unlevel playing field for american manufacturers to have a devastating impact on the loss is extensive. is that really fair to the american worker to have american companies having to compete against companies that are loud completely different set of standards that lower their cost or medically? >> i guess i would just say that in the view of most economists, more open trade creates net benefits, but that that does not mean benefits for everyone. there are gainers, but there are also losers and that is certainly. >> is that fair to the manufacturing workers? >> well, i think it's important to have policies that address the losses. >> since the mid- 70s, 1975 until now virtually 100% of the new income has gone to the top% of the leaving nine out of ten americans in our economy out in the coal.

let me turn to follow up on the topic that senator donnelly was talking about. and that is the vet down of the kc-46. you are making decisions here. you are going to be making some o conchnuss decisions relatively soon. when do you plan on make those? >> the next decision will be mop 4 and we will be doing that in the next several months. >> including oconus locations? >> yes, sir. as a matter of fact, we have 11 will coigses that we will be vetting down two that we are planning. the next two i do not believe are oconus mp. >> what do you look at for characteristics? >> we have is a set criteria that first lay out that cratia. we share that with the delegations. and then we score bases against that criteria that then produce it is preferred candidate list. the preferred candidate list is where we actually then begin our site surveys. >> i will throw out a couple characteristics that i think the important. strategic location. hub of air combat power for the asia pacific. world class training areas. 24/7 nor add mission. that routinely intercepts russian bombers.

they worked jobs, printers relit fast, worked for donnelly, a printmaker and my grandfather was a porter. there the story of black chicago, chicago is miles and miles of black middle class neighborhoods and despite -- even though we are both writing about chicago these are national stories and discriminatory policies greeted african-americans in the north and despite all of the policies like redlining, restrictive covenants, contract buying, the fact that african-americans still bought homes, still created vibrant neighborhoods is astounding. >> absolutely agree. in your book were you aware -- go back to what you were talking about, your grandfather and how he hated the south but you also had a grandfather who was a porter. >> that is the same grandfather. >> telus about his history is a porter. >> he was a bartender at playboy mansion on his weekends off but here in chicago turn some extra money. all my grand parents are deceased. this was a way to get into the middle class and it was a very good job. my grandmother worked also because black women worked. one was a cook at doolittle ele