grassley: what's the law? >> it would basically create a registry of an official owners for corporations in the united kingdom. grassley: i don't know if the issue is the same for the united states. i think it's perfectly legitimate or it you need to know who is running a company. transparency brings accountability. >> senator grassley, thank you for a wonderful presentation. it was a lot of fun. i think we covered every issue on that list and we did it in an hour. thank you very much. we are adjourned. >> if you missed any of the discussion with senator grassley, you can find it on www.c-span.org. later, an executive nominations or nasa. at noon it, coverage of the white house course on density dinner from saturday, including the red carpet arrivals and remarks by the president and comedian cecily strong. the supreme court will hear cases on gay marriage. this could pave the way for same-sex couples to marry in all 50 states. more than 30 states and the district of columbia allow same-sex marriage while it is

general grassley -- senator grassley: some of this will be a push back of the political party. want you to know that as part of this. it was a long time, but let's subtract two months out of that time because this administration and the democratic congress in november and december could have decided to do that. i also admit that we republicans said it would all be held older, but they had a bigger agenda that they were glad to be held over because they wanted to get 13 judges approved and a couple of pieces of legislation out of committee while they were still in the majority. that is their choice, but i do not think republicans should be blamed for the first two months. they could have gotten the job done. there is no eu could have filibustered it. -- no way you could have filibustered it. let's go over my role as committee chairman we would have the nomination up for consideration a second time because all of these nominations go back to the white house. they come back up. as senator leahy asked me, i said on january 20 seventh we had the hearing on january 27. i said we will

senator grassley: oh. well, simple.u want to subtract november and december from that long time, you should do it. the democrats were in control of the summit. they decided not to bring her up. they had a lot of legislation and judges they wanted to get through. when it was submitted in congress in january, i said i would have a hearing on january 27th. we had it. i said we would be voted -- we would vote her out of committee. she was voted. and then it is up to the republican majority to decide when she will come up. they decided that she would, as -- he would come up as soon as we went through the human trafficking bill. that is why she is not being approved. stephanie: but don't you want eric holder out asap? senator grassley: i do not think i will see enough difference in the politicizing with loretto lynch then i saw with eric holder. it might be a little different. she has not shown me how she will change the department. erik: senator grassley you are from iowa. it's an especially important state when it comes to

senator grassley: senator klobuchar. senator klobuchar: thank you so much, senator grassley. and thank you so much, mr. secretary. we have talked about this in the last week and you are very aware what's happened in minnesota where six men from the twin cities area were arrested for plotting to travel to the middle east to fight for isis. our u.s. attorney there as you know is doing a good job as are our law enforcement officers on the federal level. i hear people. and i think you also know one of the reasons we were able to make these cases is because of the relationship that law enforcement has built over the years with the somali community, of which we are very proud, and been able to get information and be able to bring these cases. i think that gets forgotten sometimes. part of this is the effort that the -- you mentioned your coming to minnesota. i was with you then. and the idea of fighting extremism in the pilot program that's going on in minnesota. i would hope that this is a long-term priority of the department of homeland security. one of the concerns that we have

grassley: on april 9 -- can i have a response by may 1.rote about another individual in the country illegally, i'm allegedly sick the charge with suspicion of second-degree murder. i've yet to see a response. could you see i get a response to that? secretary johnson: i will undertake to provide you a prompt response. sen. grassley: the department no longer seems to have a well to enforce immigration laws. i start with the statistics into a real removers that removals. omitting from 237,000 in 2009 2 102,000 in 2014. saying officers were reassigned from the interior to the border i don't think -- i guess i would say it doesn't explain why interior removals had already declined by 44% between 2009 and 2014. what can the committee expect with regard to removals in the interior? will they continue to decline? secretary johnson: with the resources we have come i'm interested in focusing on criminals and recent illegal arrivals at the border. we have prioritized criminals those who came into this country after january 1, 2014, and we -- at the b

grassley. mr. grassley no. mr. crapo. mr. crapo no. mr. roberts. mr. roberts no. mr. enzi. mr. enzi no. mr. cornyn. mr. cornyn no. mr. thune. mr. thune no. mr. burr. >> pass. >> mr. burr pass. mr. isakson. mr. isakson no. mr. portman. mr. portman no. mr. toomey. mr. toomey no. mr. coats. mr. coats no. mr. heller. mr. heller no. mr. scott. mr. scott no. mr. widen. mr. wyden no. mr. schumer aye. miss stabenow. miss stabenow aye. miss cantwell no. mr. nelson. >> mr. nelson aye. mr. menendez aye. mr. carper no. mr. cardin. mr. cardin aye. mr. brown. mr. brown aye. mr. bennett. mr. bennett aye. mr. casey. mr. casey aye. mr. warner. mr. warner no. mr. chairman? >> no. >> the chairman votes no. mr. burr. mr. burr no. >> the clerk will report. >> mr. chairman, the final tally is eight ayes, 18 nays. >> the amendment is not agreed to. >> mr. chairman. >> senator brown. >> i'm down to my last two amendments, mr. chairman, you'll be glad to know. beyond that i'm not responsible for the lateness of the evening. the first amendment is number 52. first amendment's number 52. >> okay. >> and

>> well, i don't know that senator grassley is misaligned on these issues because i've heard him say a lot of things with what we've been talking about. he's a good man. i think on the republican side i think there's a desire to come together and get this done in the house and the senate. and i think that to the extent what senator grassley said was yeah, violent criminals and people who commit massive fraud they will be subject to long sentences. what we're talking about are more non-violent offenders first-time offenders, low-level offenders not getting really long sentences. so i think there will be consensus around these issues, and i think if you look at the experience that's gone on in the states and several so-called red states from texas, mississippi georgia, south dakota, even ohio, which is more a purple state, a lot of progress in these same areas. that should give us all comfort that republicans can get those things done in the states. we can do it in the senate and the house, as well. >> it is harder to work together because you're typically not aligned on many issues? >

this administration -- senator grass yn grassley has been vocal on this. china's trade economic policy of undermining the global marketplace where major ceos admit to us. they can't say it publicly because they retaliate. shotgun something should be done about it. the appropriate time is now. i urge my colleagues to support this important amendment. >> i thank the senator from new york. i understand his zeal here. to determine whether some measure s a subsidy directly or indirectly to a country's exports. if so, then the sanctions can follow. it teams to provide for trade sanctions that can be based on assumptions without support. it would invite trade sanctions from other countries on the basis of some sorts of pre presumptions presumptions. it would allow so many degrees of freedom in arriving at a subsidy determination including indirect subsidy of undervaluation that it would prove infective. that's my view. i'm concerned about it. it raises the likelihood of trade disputes and trade wars. i understand my colleague's sincerity on this. i intend to hold

just today, on television, on bloomberg, senator grassley was asked about the delay. again, citing the historical issues. and he said, and i'm quoting here. if you subtract november and december from that time frame, you should do it. the democrats were in control of the congress and they decided not to bring her up. that in my mind is an astouppeding display of due policity. and i know that it may be that you guys are looking at me, many of you have been in washington longer than i have and gosh, josh likes working at the white house. he has stars in his eyes. but this kind of dramatic reversal and going back on one's word is just business as usual in washington. the sad part, i think, is that senator grassley, particularly in his home state of iowa has cultivated a reputation is somebody who is true to his word. and the only conclusion i can draw from this astounding exchange is that it is possible that senator grassley has been in washington for too long. >> that was a portion of today's white house briefing. see the entire event online. house speaker john boehner

i know that senator grassley chair grassley asked questions. so i'll go back to the record to see some of the specifics. in your answer you did mention there had been some retraining revising the protocol, reviewing the protocol, revising and retraining so we can avoid future instances of this -- what on the surface looks like negligent decisionmaking. but the question i had for you -- i have two questions. one, i believe that mr. rangel-hernandez's deferred status has been decided a month -- rescinded a month or so ago. my question is, how many instances have been identified in the audit or review that were similar to mr. hernandez's and what is the current status of that review and the potential that others deferred status will also be rescinded and their disposition after it? secretary johnson: i know there have been a handful of others who have been identified in the same category. i do not know the status of whether they have been rescinded or not but we can get that , information to you, sir. senator tillis: yeah. i'd like to get that and

he and the white house were particularly annoyed at he and senator chuck grassley, the chairman of the judiciary committee who said they should have put her through in the lame duck session last year and remembering grassley said they ought not to put her in through the lame duck and the white house called him duplicitous. >> and suggested he might have stayed in washington too long. >> the thing is, her nomination is not held up because of her qualifications. it's held up for two reasons. one, a fight about trafficking bill not related to her. the leader of the republicans says he will have a vote on that next week and the second is immigration because she wants the president's immigration policies. gloria: don't the republicans think this has gone on a bit too long at this point? manu: some feel that way. you heard jeb bush say this week they should confirm loretta lynch. gloria: because they should vote on her. manu: vote on her exactly. >> he's got the executive point of view, though. manu: he does have the executive point of view. you talk to some republicans i talked to john corr

>> let's listen to what the white house had to say to grassley.. >> i have to prove that i'm not running for president if i go beyond the consideration of this to be an active candidate trying to break the tie -- >> that in my mind is an astounding display of duplicity. the sad part i think, is that senator grassley particularly in his home state of iowa has cultivated a reputation as somebody who is true to his word. and i think the only conclusion i can draw from this astounding exchange is that it's possible that senator grassley's been in washington for too long. >> see there that's josh earnest bringing 2016 and chuck grassley into the equation at the end here. we're seeing more and more of that from the white house podium them talking about the next election coming up as president obama goes out and promising to use their power. there was a thought the president might hurry. name somebody while the democrats are still in charge in the lame duck session before the end of the year. and chuck grassley did say at the time please wait that's not

uma on friday, inspector general of state department announced he was responding to senator chuck grassleyiowa would investigate her for getting a $135,000 salary from say the department and a dispen saying for 35,000 more from a firm founded by bill clinton former chief of staff that sells political intelligence, and advice to foreign companies at same time she is top aide to hillary clinton at state department i would not have someone like that as traveling to iowa where chuck grass grassley is revered. lou: i'm laughing. i'm trying to remember. i get a sense of who you are going to be working again. who are you working for? a among entries we have three first year public senators do you think one offing a candidate? >> it is too early to say, but i will say they had all these can days have strengths. and challenges, i think that they have all done well in their announcement, the question is how well in the days afterward marco rubio last night gave a strong speech with a clear vision. but what impressed me about rubio is what i have seen over last couple over years behind scenes he prep

well let's hope that the durbin grassley bill or the grassley durbin bill will get passed. i'm a firm believer in it. there are one or two justices that say they would rather over their dead body. if that happens i don't want those two supreme court justices to die but i believe that we could enhance people's understanding of the court system by having the supreme court tv, very much so. now i didn't mention that in my remarks because it divides republicans and democrats. you are going to have a bipartisan group to get it passed and you are going to have a bipartisan group against it. my point is that easily predictable. >> we are covering a lot of good questions. >> senator grassley thank you for being here and i have a question regarding whistleblower protection act. i had lobbied congress -- my name is jane rosen a u.s. journalist/scientist. we were working for the federal legislation on whistleblowers. one of the issues that came up and i implore you with your recent investigation with new york university universities are recipients of a huge amount of federal tax dolla

grassley. mr. roberts. mr. corning. no bright -- by proxy. mr. isaacson. mr. toomey. mr.coates aye. mr. scott. mr. wyden. no. missed cantwell -- ms. cantwell. mr. menendez. aye. >> no instruction. clerk: mr. brown. no by proxy. mr. warner. aye by proxy. mr. warner is aye by proxy. mr. chairman. german votes no -- mr. german votes no. the amendment is not agreed to. senator nelson, you are next. senator nelson: you said you would prefer me to offer the amendment to the customs bill. is that correct? i have filed it to both goa and the customs bill. your choice. this is a preferable bill. this is the preference for bahrain. that is the location the united states navy 5th fleet in the persian gulf. they bring in yarn and fabric and make it into garments and textiles. you all asked me to modify it, and this is the modified amendment so that the preference is conditional on the labor department certifying that the bahrain is living up to its labor commitment. i think that is a reasonable compromise. now, the reason that this is super important to me, there is a town in florida

grassley, no. no. mr. cornen by proxy. mr. burr. no. awe. mr. cooks >> no >> mr. scott. >> no by proxy. >> no. mr. schumer. rich mr. nelson. awe. mr. machine desert. rich awe mr. chasy? awe mr. warner awe. chairman. no. chairman votes no. mr. chairman the final tally is 12 awes and 14 nays. the amendment is a not agreed to. any other a menment to the taa bill? i wanted to thank you and ranking member for an inch including collection of labor statistics in the modified mark on the customs endorsement bill. and one a menment is the ex-pavenths program and stability that i think is very important. and where we are going to open up the economic opportunities and also to talk about how we will train and skill a workforce. there was two witnesses at the hearing yesterday and both labor and business supported the apprentice program. and so, i would hope that we can look at this moving forward. so appreciate looking at that, the other within is obviously the clean energy tax credit which um. you know we have many jobs here that the u.s. can be competitive in. i look forwa

grassley, for mr. kirk proposes amendment numbered 273 as modified. mr. grassley: i ask unanimous consent that the reading of the amendment be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. the senator from arizona. mr. flake: i'm pleased to be able to speak in support of my amendment, number 294, to the justice for victims of trafficking act. this -- it's important as part of our duties as stewards of the taxpayers' money to ensure that the government is running as efficiently as possible. this amendment simply requires the g.a.o., the government accountability office, to study the programs and initiatives affected by this bill and those that are related to services for trafficking victims and other victim services. in particular, the amendment directs g.a.o. to look for duplication and overlap and requires them to issue a report to congress describing how the costs associated with them and to make recommendations on how to achieve cost savings. i do support this legislation. i voted for when it was considered by the judiciary committee but it is incu

the prize goes to senator chuck grassley. harry reid for not bringing this up when the democrats had the majority in december. you and i talked about this at the time. both of us had some questions that. the reason senator reid and the white house didn't push it they wanted to start fresh. it was an olive branch. a show of good faith and it was said at the time. openly at the time this wasn't a big secret. now senator grassley is blaming senator reid for doing what they perceive is the right thing to work the republicans. it is just mind blowing what this woman has been through. >> i wrote this in my piece today. some level of dog whistling here. because they did confirm the secretary of defense and others but the fact that it is a woman and an african-american plays to some empties on the far right to want to send messages to overly qualified women and blacks. it seems to be somewhat singled out here that we'll make an example out of lynch. >> i agree. at worst it is sending that message and senator dick durbin happened to b

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host: a little pushback from senator grassley's office. mr.rassley -- his spokeswoman, beth levine, said the white house was rewriting history. she said democrats held 55 seats at the time mr. holder announced his intent to step down. let's go to florida. sherry. caller: good morning and thank you for taking my call. i don't think that anybody that obama tersely handpicks is going to win the nomination. obama himself has proven, we cannot trust him. he is a liar, fraud, and trader. look at what he has gotten into in the rest of the world. along with harry reid, he is also unknown l a known liar. look at all the muslim brotherhood people he has an all the different organizations as it is. that is my opinion, by know a lot of people agree with me. we can't trust obama and certainly don't want to put our trust in anybody that he handpicks. host: here is what jeb bush has to say. he calls on republicans to approve cartilage. this is a story in "political" this morning. he says, i think presidents have the right to take their team according to repo

. >> grassley's take on the wait to vote on lynch drew a harsh response from the white house. >> that in my mind is an astounding display of duplicity. >> is that helpful to the process of getting her nominated? is that helpful to building relations with the party that the controls the u.s. senate? >> i'll observe that being nice has gotten us a 160-day delay. maybe when they look up the definition in the dictionary we'll get a different result. >> and mitch mcconnell said the vote should in the take place in a lame duck session of congress. senator mcconnell now says he's planning to bring lynch up for a vote as early as next week. harry reid says he's prepared to force a vote if republicans do not act. >> we've put up with this for far too long. we're either going to have a vote on this or i'll create one. i know parliament procedure around here and we're going to put up with this for a little while longer but not much. >> at least five republican senators have come out in support of loretta lynch. >> a naturalized u.s. citizen is in custody this afternoon accused to going to syria

senator grassley is my friend, we've been friends for over 30 years. i won't speak for him but i suspect he'd say we have things to get going too. so i hope that we're able to get this trafficking matter taken care of and get the attorney general and the deputy attorney general confirmed. now, at this time in the last two years of president bush's term his second term, the democrats had come back in the majority. i wanted to show that we would keep partisanship out of it and i think as chairman i moved 14 or 15 judges of president bush's through by this time. 14 or 15 of them. moved them far more rapidly than republicans had during the end of president clinton's term. i am glad we've been able to confirm one judge the judge from texas who -- two two judges i'm sorry the first was a judge from texas whom i supported, and i've complimented the two senators from texas because of their work in picking somebody who would be the judge first and foremost, not without -- without reference to whatever their political background is, and -- but i would hope that

then we'll turn to senator grassley. senator wyden: thank you very much, mr. chairman. i passed at the beginning because i wanted all of my democratic colleagues to have a chance to speak first. while senator brown is here i just want to be clear that i think he has had a very valid point that the playbook on international trade has to change. trade agreements in 2015 have to be very different than trade agreements from the 1990's. the president, to his credit, said in the state of the union that passed agreements haven't lived up to the hype. we have to make sure that our trade policies are not part of a time warp. 25 years ago, nobody had an iphone nobody was texting, china wasn't an economic powerhouse. i will do this briefly because i didn't ask any questions early on, what is different with respect to the legislation that will be considered this week and in effect the old playbook? the first area in which it is different -- and especially appreciate senator brown focusing on this -- is on trade enforcement. trade enforcement has to focus on protecting american jobs

chairman grassley senator leahy, distinguished members of this committee, i'm honored to be here among you. i want to thank you for your time this morning and i also want to thank president obama for the trustee has placed in me by nominating me to serve as attorney general of the united states. it's a particular privilege to be joined here by the members of my family that i've introduced as well as the numerous family and friends that have come to support me and whose travel and service i am so appreciative. mr. chairman, one of the privileges, and in fact my favorite thing in my position as the attorney for the eastern district of new york, is welcoming new attorneys to my office and administering the oath of the office. it is a transformative moment in the life of a prosecutor and one that i remember well. as i stand before me prepared to pledge their honor and integrity, i remind them they are making their old not to me not to the office and not to the atty. general but to our constitution. constitution. the fundamental foundation for all that we do. it is through that document and

thank you members of the committee. >> thank you senator grassley. senator cardin. >> a few mr. chairman. i would like to call up the cardin amendment, cardin portman to amendment number 113. i would ask consent in addition to senator cardin portman cap well schumer menendez case case and hell or be as co-sponsors at the emet -- to the amendment. mr. chairman i think you are familiar with his amendment and it deals with one of our trading partners israel. this amendment only applies to the ttip negotiations so it would not affect tpp negotiations. it's interesting that as we are meeting on april 22 it's exactly 30 years ago this date that the united states and israel sign the u.s. israel free. agreement. at that time it was considered an unprecedented trade agreement in the history of united states and the first fda entered into in the signing ceremony at the house ways & means committee minister minister of commerce and industry ariel sharon especially u.s. trade represent william brock stressed it would benefit the economies of united states and israel and serve as a precedent

and so i'm glad we're proceeding accordingly. >> thank you, senator grassley. there has been objection to this meeting, so we will meet -- come back from this vote. these two votes and meet at 11:30, unless we can remove that objection. we will then recess until 4:00. and then we'll be back here for as long as it takes. and i will recognize other senators for their statement when we resume. mr. chairman. >> have you voted senator? >> i have not. but my opening state is really short. >> go ahead. i'll wait with you. >> thank you for allowing this. i'll be brief. i filed many amendments on 88 initially to the four bills we're considering today. my amendments will improve the negotiating objectives in key areas. it expands congress' role which this should all be about in evaluating trade assessments and trade agreements. i appreciate chairman hatch and senator wyden working with me and my staff to get some of them considered. i look forward to debating them through the course of the day and evening. i wanted to thank chairman hatch and senator wyden for the playin

grassley? >> no. >> no. mr. crapo? >> no. >> mr. roberts? mr. robert no. mr. enzi? >> no. >> mr. cornyn? >> no by proxy. >> mr. cornyn no by proxy. mr. burr? >> no by proxy. >> mr. burr no by proxy. mr. isaac son? >> no. >> mr. portman? >> aye. >> mr. toomey? >> no. >> mr. coates? >> no. >> mr. heller? >> no. >> mr. scott? >> no by proxy. >> no by proxy. mr. widen? >> no. >> mr. schumer? >> aye by proxy. >> ms. stab my? >> aye. >> ms. cantwell? >> aye. >> mr. nelson? >> aye. >> mr. menendez? >> aye. >> mr. carper? >> aye. >> mr. cardin? >> aye. >> mr. brown? >> aye. >> mr. bennett? >> aye. >> mr. casey? >> aye by proxy. >> aye by proxy. mr. warner? >> aye. >> mr. warner aye. mr. chairman? >> no. >> the chairman votes no. mr. chairman, 12 ayes, 14 nays. >> the amendment is not agreed to. any other amendments for the taa bill? senator cantwell? >> mr. chairman? yes, i wanted to thank you and ranking member wyden for including my amendment to approve collection of labor statistics in the chairman's modified mark on the customs and enforcement bill. i filed two amendments that i beli

later remarks by iowa senator chuck grassley. >> this week on q&a our guest is judith miller former "new york times" reporter and author of the book "the story, a reporter's journey." >> jewely miller author of this story. deep in the book you have a chapter called inmate 454570083 this paragraph. the worst part of jail was not sleeping on the paper thin yoga mat on the cold concrete ledges that had replaced more expensive cots nor the vile food mystery meets drenched that an inmate dubbed sloppy nose. so what was the worst thing about being in jail in >> for me it was probably being locked up all the time without any control over my life. i mean, we take watches or cell phones for granted. you know what time it is, you know what you're supposed to be doing. all of a sudden jail means total loss of control. you work on their schedule. you sleep on their schedule. and because i was in a kind of high security jail it wasn't a martha stewart cupcake life jail. there was no access to the outdoors. i think i had about four hours of real air, breatheable outdoor air in 85 days. so for me th

. >> the national press club hears from iowa senator chuck grassley. he will talk about the agenda of the judiciary committee. that is live on c-span at 10:00 a.m.. we take you live to the justice department where loretta lynch will be sworn in. she becomes the first african-american woman to have the justice department. the vice resident will reside. that is 11:00 a.m. eastern live on c-span. coming up next, secretary of state john kerry talks about u.s. trade policy. plus, the debate on cyber security legislation. and, future medicare payments to doctors. next, secretary of state john kerry talks about the need for a definitive trade strategy as congress works on a building would establish rules for international trade negotiations. the secretary spoke about the impact of trade on the global economy and other issues like nuclear proliferation and combating violent extremism.

calling senator grassley's comments about why the delay is happening astoundingly due police tus and saying that this delay is unconscionable. the white house is really willing to go farther on the language as this delay becomes more and more pro noupsed. >> the u.s. attorney in new york highly respected, the president made it clear he would like to see a roll call vote in the united states allowing her to be confirmed as the next attorney general of the united states. the president was asked about the compromise that was worked out in the u.s. senate on the issue of iran the iran nuclear deal that's not yet there, seems to be moving forward. listen to what he said. >> i updated prime minister renzi on the framework that we reached with iran. our progress towards a comprehensive deal that prevents iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and we agreed that until any final deal is reached angions on iran ps must continue to be fully and strictly enforced. >> jim sciutto the president made it clear, though, he thinks it's a reasonable compromise that had been worked out by the chairman ran

and described senator grassley's comments as astoundingly due police tus, wolf. i think that's going to be one of the big topics here today. >> we'll see what happens. two questions from american journalists, two questions from italian journalists you're there we'll check back with you after this fuse conference. the president and prime minister we're told will open with statements, jim sciutto and gloria borger with me. one of the highest priorities for the italians right now the humanitarian crisis, in libya. >> no question. a spillover from what was a failed campaign. u.s. and italy were with european partners brought down the government of mommar gadhafi the place home to terrorist groups worse than before and outflow of humanitarian crisis, people flying by boat to italy at the forefront of that. >> and a major humanitarian crisis for the italians and i'm sure we'll hear the prime minister talk about literally hundreds if not thousands refugees trying to flee to italy. >> also he's here to talk about his ambitious economic program, wolf. many ways as a young

chuck grassley, who chairs the senate judiciary committee, argued she won't be the "clean break" that's needed. >> no one disputes that she has an impressive legal background. it was her testimony before the committee that caused concerns for many senators, including me. after thoroughly reviewing that testimony, i concluded that she won't lead the department in a different direction. >> woodruff: in the end, ten republicans voted to confirm, including senator mitch mcconnell, the majority leader. lynch will be the first black woman to serve as attorney general. >> ifill: there will be no jail time for former c.i.a. director david petraeus. a federal judge sentenced him to two years' probation today for giving classified material to his mistress, who was also his biographer. he'll also pay a $100,000 fine. the retired general made a brief statement after his court session in charlotte, north carolina. >> today marks the end of a two-and-a-half-year ordeal that resulted from mistakes i made. as i did in the past, i apologized to those closest to me and many others including those with wh

visit ncicap.org] >> the national press crop hears from chuck grassley. he is the chairman of the judiciary committee. that is live at 10:00 a.m., here on c-span. phone that, we take you to the justice department where loretta lynch will be sworn in as the 83rd attorney general. she becomes the first after american woman. vice president biden will reside. that is 11:00 eastern here on c-span. >> during this month c-span is pleased to present the winning entries in this years documentary competition. steenkamp is the annual competition that encourages students to think critically about issues that affect the nation. students are asked to create the documentary based on the theme the three branches. to demonstrate public policy, law our action -- affected them or the community. allie stanley and catherine thompson. >> over 80 years ago, the tennessee valley -- it went from one of the poorest streets in the country to a moving economy. what could possible he change the climate? the idea that something could change, what's impossible became a reality. the peo

senator cornyn is working with chairman grassley and senators on both sides of the aisle to resolve the remaining issues. it's my hope that we'll be able to go through an orderly amendment process and pass a trafficking bill early next week. the senate would then consider the lynch nomination through the regular order as i have already committed to doing followed by a consideration of the iran bill as reported unanimously by the foreign relations committee earlier this week. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that at a time to be determined by the majority leader with the concurrence of the democratic leader, the senate proceed to vote on the motion to proceed to calendar 30 h.r. 1191, and that if the motion to proceed is agreed to, senator corker or his designee be recognized to offer a substitute amendment that is the text of s. 615 as reported by the foreign relations committee. the presiding officer: without objection -- is there objection? mr. reid: mr. president. the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. reid: i reserve my right to object and would say that the work do

another issue we will be working on thanks to senator grassley is a re- authorization of the juvenile reauthorization act. i appreciate very much that the chairman is willing to work on this and has made it one of the priorities for this committee. obviously the way in which juveniles are treated in our correctional system and the way they're detained has been an important issue for the justice department and i ask again for your cooperation in active support of our process going forward to reauthorize the j date j pa. >> this is a great concern to me in terms of both my practice in new york and talking to my colleagues across the country who face these issues. i believe issues. i believe it is important to all of us to look at the latest research on how juveniles develop and how they manage themselves in certain environments and i i am open to reviewing those. i look forward to working with you in reviewing that statute. >> you and i both had the experience of being u.s. attorneys and i suspect we both had the experience of finding people who were targets of our efforts and if we loo

stephanie: we spoke to chuck grassley last week, who is up in arms saying there is not enough transparencyoes not feel like he's got good insight into what is happening there. and we know hedge fund activists like bill ackman are involved. ed: i think that is a big fight and i will leave that be. but when the governor ships were established in the -- in 2008 both the treasury and leadership may clue that the ultimate resolution of these conservatorships will require action by the congress of the u.s. i think it's important for congress to legislate the end of these conservatorships and a new housing policy for the country. stephanie: why do you think they haven't? why are we waiting so long? ed: in the early years there was a lot of concern in the market and concern over weakness. after that, i think it is political calculation. erik: if we could set aside the debate over whether executive privilege has a role or the debate over transparency, as a matter of principle do you support the sweeping of the profits from fannie and freddie into the treasury? ed: again, i will not comment on that,

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[inaudible conversation] >> senator grassley is chastising the chairman. i accept it. let's move ahead. senator brown. >> i will make it easy. thank you for moving forward and mr. chairman your tolerance. this is brown amendment number eight. now negotiating objective with respect to public health. the underlying bill doesn't include a negotiating objective of public health and this amendment inserts one. our trade agreement should strengthen the 2007 bipartisan agreement on trade policy. that was the may 10th proposal that was adopted. our trading partners should comply with trips, the world health organization resolution on public health, innovation and intellectual property. third, they should not include obligations that could be read as limiting access to medicine and 4th, governments have the right to regulate and pass laws in the interest of public health without the threat of trade-related penalties. think about cases on tobacco aimed at the australian government. >> i cannot hear senator brown. >> governments have responsibility to protect public health and th

senator grassley has been a vocal component of this issue in the past. senator isakson and carver have voted and are supportive of improvements in this space. i know i'm forgetting some others. forgive me. china's trade economic policy of undermining the global market place which major ceos quietly admit to everyone of us they cannot say it publicly, but they know what is going on. the appropriate time is now. i urge my colleagues to support this 14th amendment. >> thank you. i understand his seal here -- zeal here. determine whether some currency misalignment is effectively a subsidy either directly or indirectly to a country's exports. if so, the sanctions can follow. i actually asked my colleagues to vote against this amendment. it could be based on presumptions without support. currency fundamentals. an amendment would allow so many freedoms and arriving at a determination including indirect subsidies raised on some measure of under evaluation that it would prove entirely ineffective . at least that is my view. either it could or would not be made. i

express my gratitude to senator murray and senator reid on the other side of the aisle and senator grassley and tousing allowed senator mcconnell the majority leader who said we will not move the nomination for attorney general until we get this done and today i hope we will then we can enter into that nomination. this senator warner and hiding camping and others senator collins comes to mind if others who have worked so relentlessly with that determination of where we are today. to get this over the finish line to move to other business. >> i was in jail because i did not reveal the hidden idea of the source and protecting sources is the lifeblood of journalism for pro for those and i stuck to with classified information. to protect them my source newswire dried up. and i did not have much choice. >> but yesterday celebrating martin luther king's burkett -- for its day to have honest and open in a conversation with the excessive force and as the conversation progressed to win from training police officers school will see much the responsibility is as a whole and for the first time and in s

grassley: today the senate takes up the nomination of the 83rd attorney general. we all know that the former democrat leadership could have processed this nomination during last year's lame duck, but in the limited time that we had they chose to concentrate on confirming a number of judges and getting a losing vote on n.s.a. reform. ms. lynch at that time wasn't high on the priority of the democrat majority, but now i'm pleased that the senate was finally able to come to an agreement on the sex trafficking legislation so that we can turn to the lynch nomination. i voted against ms. lynch in committee and will oppose her nomination again when it's time to vote this afternoon and i'll spend a few minutes now explaining my reason to my colleagues. this nomination comes at a pivotal time of justice with the department of justice and our country. the next attorney general will face some very difficult challenges from combating cyber crime to protecting our children from exploitation and to help fight the war on terror. but beyond that, the new attorney general has a me

and, of course, the chairman of the judiciary committee, senator grassley and particularly i want to single out the majority leader senator mcconnell who said we would not move to the nomination for attorney general of the united states until we get this done. and, indeed, today i hope and believe that we will get this done and then we can turn to that nomination. but there are others on the -- perhaps too many to name -- senator warner, senator heitkamp and others on the democratic side, there are those on the republican side, senator collins comes to mind, and others who've worked so hard and so relentlessly and with such determination to get us where we are today. so we need to get this over the finish line so we can move on to other business. mr. president, i have 11 than consent requests for the committees to meet during today's session of the senate. they've been approved, these requests have been approved by the majority and minority leaders. i'd ask unanimous consent that these requests be agreed and that these requests be printed in the record. the presiding officer: without

. >> and i believe senator schumer and grassley and corker and others if this were like it was in libyaonents right out of libya, we wouldn't be having this discussion. >> gadhafi's regime right after the war in 2003? >> exactly. we caught him red-handed. he capitulated. i was there and got to see some of the nuclear assets. the fact is he totally capitulated the nuclear missile facilities left the country. that's not on the table. we're not talking about somebody backing away. we're talking about somebody who says they won't continue as fast. >> congressman issa thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >>> breaking news coming up next. we have more on the revelation of the attack on the white house by hackers working for the russian government. >>> plus rand paul officially now running for president of the united states. how does he distance himself from some of his father's more controversial positions? why do we do it? why do we spend every waking moment, thinking about people? why are we so committed to keeping you connected? why combine performance with a conscience? why innovate fo

so we thank senator cornyn, we thank his negotiating partners from both parties we thank chairman grassleyfor his superb work on this important bill in the judiciary committee as well. we look forward to this bill's passage in the house and its signature by the president. and once the justice of victims of trafficking act passes here in the senate, we'll turn to consideration of the president's nominee to be attorney general just what i pledged we'd do, and that's what we will do. now one final matter: i believe we're going to be hearing from the chairman of the finance committee shortly. senator hatch will be here to discuss bipartisan trade promotion authority legislation which is important because we know that trade is the key to supporting high-quality american jobs and exporting more of the things american workers make and exporting more of the things that american farmers grow. congress is working again and this bipartisan bill is another sign of that. no legislation will ever be perfect, but chairman hatch and ranking member wyden along with chairman ryan in the house put together a