grassley, aye. the clerk: mr. paul, aye. ms. cantwell, no. the clerk: mrs. gillibrand, no. the clerk: mr. cruz, aye.db the clerk: on this vote the yeas are 45 the nays are 51. the motion is not agreed to. h.r. machine madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: madam president i with a partisan to ask everybody who's worked really hard the presiding officer: the senator will suspend. mrs. murray: i want to thank everyone who has worked really hard on this and for all members of the senate i yield back all of our time. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the motion to concur with a further amendment is withdrawn. the question occurs on the motion to concur. a senator: i ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: the clerk: ms. baldwin. mr. barrasso. the clerk: mr. blackburn. mr. backer. -- when booker e -- mr. booker. mr. bennet. mrs. blackburn. mr. booker. mr. boozman. mr. braun. mrs. britt. mr. brown. mr. budd. ms. butler. ms. can

grassley. mr. hagerty. ms. hassan. mr. wl mr. heinrich. mr. hickenlooper. ms. hirono. mr. hoeven. mrs. hyde-smith. mr. johnson. mr. kaine. mr. kelly. mr. kennedy. mr. king. ms. klobuchar. mr. lankford. mr. lujan. ms. lummis. mr. manchin. mr. markey. mr. marshall. mr. mcconnell. mr. menendez. mr. merkley. mr. moran. mr. mullin. ms. murkowski. mr. murphy. mrs. murray. mr. ossoff. mr. padilla. mr. paul. mr. peters. mr. reed. mr. ricketts. mr. risch. mr. romney. ms. rosen. mr. rounds. mr. rubio. mr. sanders. mr. schatz. mr. schmitt. mr. schumer. mr. scott of florida. mr. scott of south carolina. mrs. shaheen. ms. sinema. ms. smith.■ ms. stabenow. mr. sullivan. mr. tester. mr. thune. mr. tillis. mr. tuberville. mr. van hollen. mr. vance. mr. warner. mr. warnock. ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. mr. young. fir senators voting in the affirmative -- blackburn, budd, capito, collins, cornyn, cotton, cramer, crapo, daines, fischer, graham, grassley, hagerty, lee, mullin, rick

senator grassley: mrs. tpo*rbgsd you made a point in our testimony about our safety net system being disjointed and difficult for women and new mothers to navigate. are these programs and agencies that are more complicated than others? what can agencies currently do to make these programs easier for women to navigate? mrs. ford: thank you, ranking member grassley. yes, i would say that women normally experience a safety net that's deeply terrible. if they go to one they go to several agencies filling out application f they are looking for help turning away a situation from domestic violence. that's a different application. if they are looking for assistance getting back into the workforce and looking -- workforce opportunity act funding, it is not just a different application, but a different location. i would point to the state of utah as being the most fully integrated state. their department of workforce services has integrated more than 50 federal programs into the single agency. caseworkers are empower

i will now turn it over to ranking member grassley. grassley: good morning, mr. chairman.i'm sorry i missed the last three hearings because i couldn't be here. senator whitehouse: it's great to have you back, to be healthy enough to be back and participate in hearings again. senator grassley: we are tackling a very serious topic this morning. abortion above all. is a moral and legal issue. abortion is not an issue that lends itself to being looked at solely through an economic lens. after all, life is priceless. there's a reason this committee historically hasn't delved into this issue. it's not an issue easily distilled down to dollars and cents. typical of budget issues that this committee normally works on. in fact, it is rather dehumanizing. the chinese communists are the best example of this, when they instituted the one child policy. targeting female babies to external nation. and they did this thinking it would help their economy. but look what happened. chineses backfiring and hurting the economy. i think right now we just saw statistics, there are no longer -- the

so as usual, the grassley oversight will continue. i yield the floor. the roll. quorum call: the clerk: ms. baldwin. ?r take his word for it and ignore their own shrinking paychecks. literally taking a victory to tout his disaster economic record. his administration is declared bidenomics the word of the year. american consumers are shelling out a bigger portion of their income on groceries any point in the last 30 years. reporting demand for enough people to make people income stretch. across the board. consumer prices are nearly 18% higher today than they were when president biden took office. this is what it really means? a kitchen table tonight working families will probably wonder whether the president has any regrets. or that he wishes he had but ignored his party's top economics economists and rammed through trillions of dollars in left-wing spending which brought on the worst inflation in 40 years. or whether he wishes he had not declared total war on our most affordable sources of domestic energy. these americans industries support. president b

grassley. mr. hagerty. ms. hassan. mr. hawley. mr. heinrich. mr. hickenlooper. ms. hirono. mr. hoeven. mrs. hyde-smith. mr. johnson. mr. kaine. mr. kelly. mr. kennedy. mr. king.pa■c the clerk: mr. merkley. mr. moran. mr. mullin. ms. murkowski. mr. murphy. mr. ossoff. mr. padilla. mr. paul. mr. peters. mr. reed. mr. ricketts. mr. risch. mr. romney. ms. rosen. mr. rounds. mr. rubio. mr. sanders. mr. schatz.schmitt. mr. schumer. mr. scott of florida. mr. scott of south carolina. mrs. shaheen. ms. sinema. ms. smith. ms. stabenow. mr. sullivan. mr. tester. mr. thune. mr. tillis. mr. tuberville. mr. van hollen. mr. vance. mr. warner. mr. warnock. ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. mr. un the presiding officer: on this vote the yeas are 47. the nays are 51. the motion is not agreed to. a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. a senator: thank you. in order to consider my simple and reasonable amendment,t'stal democrats blocking amendment out of the way in order to move forward with my amendment. mr. hagerty: let me caught

>> senator grassley i'm happy to look at that analysis. we took a lot of time working with treasury to make sure none of our proposals impacted those making under for the thousand 40000 of the assumptions corporation will pass on any tax increases that asked for for hard-working americans are something we is something we should all be concerned about. all of his proposals are focusing on over 400,000 and frankly mostly tax proposals would hit those in the top one and 2% earners in the country. >> this estimate is by treasury and you said you work with treasury. but then they are giving conflict and views compared to what i quoted. we have also data from the joint committee on taxation suggesting taxpayers under 400,000 would shoulder more than half president biden's corporate tax hike. and i think you keep forgetting that corporations are nothing but a sheet of paper. they aren'tthey are management. they are employees and they are customers. and everything a corporation pays is passed on to someone else. so you've got to get over this he t

senator grassley knows this.t have been your intent. i don't believe it was their intent to, when we actually passed a law to add funding through these mergers fees, their intent can't have been to say we're going to take away an work and get more fees in, we're going to take away the upside that you always had for 25 years. the budget by 8 million, 10 million, whatever it was? yes. yes, is it a hard budget year to make decisions? it is. but the point is sometimes, like we did with semiconductor chips, or with other things that congress makes a decision through the process, a long, tenuous process, that we're going to take one area of the government and not pudon, o budget a little bit, but we're going to do a game changing thing.?qthat's why grassley andd on it so long. we were tired of the 3 million, 4 million to hire the lawyers and still be one fourth the size of the legal department. we were tired of 350 less employees this that division than in 1979. we made a decision as the senate to vote for that and do

thank you ranking member grassley. yes, i would say it women normally experience that's deeply fragmented if they a are looking for food assistance they go to one agency if they're looking for health insurance they have to go to another agency and usually fill out a different application. if they are looking forse help turning away from a situation with domestic violence that is again a different application it's a different caseworker. if they were looking for assistance to get back into the workforce and we are that workforce innovation funding it is again not just a different application but a different location. fi would point to the state of utah as being most fully integrated states for their departmentse of workforce servis has integrated more than 50 federal programs into a single agency. caseworkers are empowered in the state of utah to be able to connect the person in front of them to any one of 50 programs that fits their needs and they are eligible for. most estates are not able to do that. even in the stat

i look forward to today's conversation on the presidel noy distinguished ranking member, senator grassley and wel turn to our witness of office of management and budget. and just so everyone knows senator padilla is obliged to preside this morning i'll be him. he'll have the opening round of questions that i will go to the end of the line and take his. >> thank you, mr. chairman for holding this hearing. and thank you director young for coming to give the position of the administration on the budget. today's hearing is with the budget committee is supposed to do, budget issues. we spent a great deal of time over the past two years on climate, on abortion and a lot of other issues. but this is what this committee should be doing so ident or then for having a day of budget hearings. i wish cautiously optimistic hearing president biden's call for bipartisanship and unity during his inaugural address. but boy have i been disappointed. for three years upon the agenda but he has taken a my way or highway approach to governing. whether those who disagree with him are attacked as extremists. he t

grassley. mr. hagerty. mr. hawley. mr. heinrich. mr. hickenlooper. ms. hirono. mr. hoeven.central mrs. hyde-smith. mr. johnson. mr. kaine. mr. kelly. mr. kennedy. mr. king. ms. klobuchar. mr. lankford. mr. lee. mr. lujan. ms. lummis. mr. manchin. mr. markey. mr. marshall. mr. mcconnell. mr. menendez. mr. merkley. sna mr. moran. mr. mullin. ms. murkowski. mr. murphy.s. murray. mr. ossoff. mr. padilla. mr. paul. mr. peters.. mr. ricketts. mr. risch. mr. romney. ms. rosen. mr. rounds.Ñ mr. rubio. mr. sanders. mr. schatz. mr. schmitt. mr. schumer. mr. scott of florida. mr. scott of south carolina. ms. sinema. ms. smith. ms. stabenow. mr. sullivan. mr. tester. mr. thune. mr. tillis. mr. tuberville. mr. van hollen. mr. warner. mr. warnock. ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. mr. young. the clerk: senators voting in the affirmative -- baldwin, heinrich lujan, peters schatz and sinema. senators voting in the negative -- manchin, moran, and sullivan. mrs. blackburn, no. the clerk: ms. stabenow, aye. the clerk: mr. brown, aye. the clerk: mr. paul, no. the c

with that, i turn it over to senator grassley. mr.g our kids and also i'd like for givi opportunity to help him advance three bipartisan bills which could revolutionize child safety in the digital era. as child predators have exploited development of technology to harm and endanger our nation's most vulnerable, our laws to address this grave and growing threat to our kidses fallen way, way behind. we have three bills to talk about. one goes by the title of stop, see sam, strengthens reporting requirements, success suspected abuse byhe cyber tip line, and it also protects child victims in court. another bill goes by the earn i 230 to ensure victims can secure justice, and then the last one, the shield act, would impose necessary criminal penalties for distributing illegal, explicit pr accountable.ld sexual i'm proud to cosponsor both the stop csam and the ernest -- earnit act and have supported all three bills in the judiciary committee as part of my efforts protecerwith senator graham to these bills are essential to protect our childr

grassley, no. the clerk: mrs. murray, aye. the clerk: mr. schmitt, no. ms. warren, aye. the clerk: mr. schumer, aye. the clerk: mr. cassidy, no. mr. wicker, no. mr. welch aye. ms. collins, aye.zv the clerk: mr. mullin, no. mrs. capito, no. the clerk: mr. hawley, no. the clerk: ms. hirono, aye. the clerk: mr. murphy, aye. the clerk: mr. young, no. the clerk: mr. romney, no. mrs. britt, no. mr. sanders, aye. the clerk: mr.l, aye. the clerk: mr. thune, no. the clerk: mr. warnock, aye. the clerk: mr. daines, no. mr. bennet aye. ms. klobuchar, aye. mr. markey, aye. mr. king, aye. vote: the clerk: mr. sullivan, no. the clerk: ms. baldwin, aye. mr. cornyn, no. the clerk: mr. braun, no. mr. fetterman, aye. mr. hoeven, no. the clerk: mr. booker, aye. the clerk: mr. ossoff, aye. the clerk: mr. van hollen, aye. the clerk: mr. coons, aye. mr. cruz, no. the presiding officer: the ayes are 52, the nays are 44. the motion is agreed to. the clerk will report the nomination. the clerk: nomination the judiciary, sunil r. harjani of illinois to be united states district judge for the north

kindly direct senator grassley's office to hhs's office of assistant secretary for legislation for this been told by contractors that they are ready to respond to me. but hhs instruction has so far caused them do you accept the pt recipients of congressionally appropriated taxpayers money must respond directly to congressional oversight requests? and i hope you can positively that they should. if not, when will -- if you would agree with me, when would you direct your staff to clarify to recipients on my letter that they must respond to congress? we have had the epa say in these letters that i sent to other groups spending taxpayers money, that they could respond directly to me. you say that for your department? sec. becerra: as a former member, i want to be able to conduct oversight from when i was in the house of representatives. these contractors,ó7 t give americans every right and opportunity to respond to you. we offer them guidance if they wish to have it. they are under no obligation to get it but you are within your rights and they are, as well, to be in communication. >> as a f

grassley. hagerty. ms. hassan. mr. hawley. mr. heinrich. mr. hickenlooper. ms. hirono. mr. hoeven. vote: mrs. hyde-smith. mr. johnson. mr. kaine. mr. kelly. mr. kennedy. mr. king. ms. klobuchar. mr. lankford. mr. lee. mr. lujan. ms. lummis. mr. manchin. mr. rkey. mr. marshall. mr. menendez. mr. merkley. mr. moran. mr. mullin. ms. murkowski. mr. murphy. mrs. murray. mr. ossoff. mr. padilla. mr. paul. mr. peters. mr. reed. mr. ricketts. mr. risch. mr. romney. ms. rosen. mr. rounds. mr. rubio. mr. sanders.. schatz. mr. schmitt. mr. schumer. mr. scott of florida. mr. scott of south carolina. mrs. shaheen. ms. sinema. ms. smith. ms. stabenow. mr. thune. mr. tillis. mr. tuberville. mr. van hollen. mr. vance. mr. warner. mr. warnock. ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. mr. young.tors voting in the affirmative -- brown, butler, cantwell, carper, casey, durbin, hassan, king, klobuchar, menendez, murphy, padilla, peters, sinema, smith, stabenow, warnock. senators voting in the negative -- britt, budd, cassidy, collins, cornyn, crapo, fischer, grassley, hagerty, hoev

i flew to dc with the intent of sitting in front of senator johnson, senator grassley and their committee and within my lawyers sought counsel. i had discussions and decided it was a bitter focus of my time to work voluntarily with the fbi. >> so what did you do then? >> washington, d.c. -- >> main justice, fbi or the office? >> i believe itfield office. they didn't want to do it in main justice for some reasons. i wou have gone wherever they asked me to go. >> did they tell you at the time that you were providing informationfi that if you provided information it wasn't true and corrt thatd liable for that under criminal statute? >> yes of course. i appreciate you asking that question. misrepresented, misstated or lighted that i was committing criminal offenses which i take very seriously based on the fact i was willing to die for this country and to just correct ms. crockett's statement earlier i didn't accuse the fbi of lying. i stated in my transcribed interview that the fbi mistakes inss their 302. my orders never saw that document after my interview until it was made public to the wo

grassley. mr. hagerty. ms. hassan. mr. hawley. mr. heinrich. mr. hickenlooper. ms. hirono. mr.hoeven. mrs. hyde-smith. mr. johnson. mr. kaine. mr. kelly. mr. kennedy. mr. king.obuchar. mr. lankford. mr. lee. mr. lujan. ms. lummis. mr. manchin. mr. markey. mr. marshall. mr. mcconnell. mr. menendez. mr. merkley. mr. mullin. ms. murkowski. mrs. murray. mr. ossoff. mr. padilla. mr. paul. mr. peters. mr. reed. mr. ricketts. mr. risch. mr. romney. ms. rosen. mr. rounds. mr. rubio. mr. sanders. mr. schatz. mr. schmitt. mr. schumer. mr. scott of florida. mr. scott of south carolina. mrs. shaheen. ms. sinema. ms. smith. ms. stabenow. mr. sullivan. mr. tester. mr. thune. mr. tillis. mr. tuberville. mr. van hollen. mr. vance. mr. warner. mr. warnock. ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden.ung. the clerk: senators voting in the affirmative -- baldwin, booker, duckworth, fetterman, heinrich, kaine lujan, murray, padilla schatz, sinema tester. senators voting in the negative -- cassidy, fischer, hager hoeven manchin,s romney, tuberville. the clerk: mr. menendez, aye. th

grassley. mr. hagerty. ms. hassan. mr. hawley. mr. heinrich. mr. hicken mr. hoeven. mrs. hyde-smith. mr. johnson. mr. kaine. mr. kelly. mr. kennedy. mr. king. ms. klobuchar. the clerk: mr. lankford. mr. lee. mr. lujan. ms. lummis. mr. manchin. mr. markey. mr. marshall. mr. mcconnell. mr. menendez. mr. merkley. mr. mullin. ms. murkowski. mr. murphy. mrs. murray. mr. ossoff. mr. padilla. mr. paul. mr. peters. mr. reed. mr. ricketts. mr. risch. mr. romney. ms. rosen. mr. rounds. mr. rubio. óh vote: p% the clerk: mr. sanders, mr. schatz, mr. schmitt, mr. scott of florida. mr. scott of south carolina. mr. sullivan. mr. tester. mr. thune. mr. tillis. mr. tuberville. mr. van hollen. mr. vance. mr. warner. mr. warnock. ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. mr. young. the clerk: senators voting in the affirmative -- brown, cardin duckworth, gillibrand king lujan, markey merkley, rosen, shaheen, smith, van hollen warner whitehouse. senators voting in the negative -- blackburn, britt, cotton crapo, grassley hagerty, hyde-smith marshall moran, murkowski, paul

grassley, no. vote: the clerk: mr. warner, aye. 9>■ the clerk: ms. baldwin, aye. mr.lerk: mr. mcconnell, no.■6 the clerk: mrs. shaheen, aye. dn the clerk: mr. wyden, aye. ■#m the clerk: mr. barrasso, no. ms.nema, aye. the clerk: mr. welch, aye. the clerk: mr. marshall, no.■( the clerk: ms. rosen, aye. bennet, aye. the clerk: mr. cramer, no. the clerk: mr. padilla, aye. the clerk: ms. hirono, aye. mrs. capito, no. ■r. peters, ay the clerk: ms. ernst, no. ms. murkowski, no. jí3p5 the clerk: mr. boozman, no. the clerk: mr. daines, no. mrs. . braun, no. the clerk: mrs. hyde-smith, no. the clerk: the clerk: mr. kennedy, no. the clerk: mr. durbin, aye. the clerk: mr. thune, no. ■b the clerk: mr. cassidy, no. mr. ossoff, aye. the clerk: mr. cardin, aye. ms. cortez-masto, aye. ■o■ the clerk: mr. murphy, aye. the clerk: ms. hassan, aye. the clerk: mr. vance, no. peddling. vote: zoo the clerk: mr. tester, aye. mr. manchin, aye. ms. warren, aye. mr. kelly, aye. the clerk:sanders, aye. t h the clerk: mr. manchin, no⌝ the clerk: ms. butler, aye. ■■n( the presiding officer: on this

russian disinformation, the laptop was a liar dollar of this deposition shows senator johnson, senator grassleyt about the laptop was real and what was on their was damaging. rachel: the university of florida has fired all the -- allahu akbar implies in compliance with state law. here's a memo on this yesterday. to comply with board of governors regulation on prohibited expenditures the university of florida has closed the office of the chief diversity officer, eliminated administrative employments and halted their contracts. governor ron desantis said florida is where dei goes to die, it is toxic and has no place it these universities, florida was the first to a lemonade dei but i hope more states follow suit. that is a huge move out of florida. rachel: i know we want to talk how great it is to get dei out of school, politically speaking this is how you get back on track, this is one of three other things he has done that are high profile culture issues conservatives care about and that is the way to restart for the year, should have run in the first place. >> nikki haley's candidacy, he bowed

is anybody going to ask her, say chuck grassley's memo that was released in late 2018 that said the senateon found no evidence to substantiate any sexual assault allegations against brett kavanaugh who including the one made by christine blasey ford. >> i do not believe her and i didn't believe her then and if you look at the senate investigation and fbi investigation and you have no witnesses and nothing also collaborated it dropped the day before the confirmation vote, i think the senate did the right thing and put them on the bench. i think is an honorable man and i think it's a tragedy what he went through to celebrate her the way that they're doing is disgusting. dagen: i want you to listen to another piece of sound from mark judge, it kind of goes to the liberal campaign and behind christine blasey ford at the time. >> in her initial letter describing what happened i'm referred to as mark g judge it's a byline as a journalist when i was younger, nobody calls me mark g judge, they call me mark judge unless you have research my past and you found them. joe: christine blasey ford that t

grassley. mr. hagerty. ms. hassan. the clerk: mr. hawley. mr. heinrich. mr. hickenlooper. ms.irono. the clerk: mr. hoeven. mrs. hyde-smith. mr. johnson. the clerk: mr. kaine. mr. kelly. mr. kennedy. mr. king. ms. klobuchar. mr. lee. mr. lujan. ms. lummis. mr. manchin. mr. markey. mr. marshall. mr. mcconnell. mr. menendez. mr. merkley. mr. moran. mr. mullin. ms. murkowski. mr. murphy. mrs. murray. mr. ossoff. mr. padilla. mr. paul. mr. peters. mr. reed. mr. ricketts. mr. risch. mr. romney. ms. rosen. mr. rounds. mr. rubio. mr. sanders. mr. schatz. mr. schmitt. mr. schumer. fda. mr. scott of south carolina. mrs. shaheen. ms. sinema. ms. smith. ms. stabenow. mr. sullivan. mr. tester. mr. thune. mr. tillis. mr. tuberville. mr. vance. mr. warner. mr. warnock. ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. mr. young. senators voting in the affirmative -- boozman,braun, britt, cortez masto, cotton cramer grassley kluchar, lankford manchin, murkowski, rubio, schatz smith, tuberville and young. butler heinrich kaine, mendendez, murphy, stabenow and warner. mr. booker, no. . collins, aye

senator grassley has a birthday.chandler. >> we will send it to them but you guys order it ahead because that's a good thing to do. >> stephen: you can just click on that right there and preorder from here, i don't know where that takes you. i apologize ahead of time, i hope it's not a cult, or wherever you buy books. "does this taste funny." >> am i leaving? >> stephen: no! i'm thanking you for writing this book with me. >> i will say this, i think this cookbook should be an example for all couples of hope. [laughter] an example of hope for all couples. >> stephen: why is it an example of hope for all couples? >> because i cannot even chop celery without you telling me i'm doing it wrong. [boos] it's all good now and now we've written a cookbook together. i feel like i'm being a little mean. i will back up. >> stephen: i wrote a book. >> it's beautiful! it's beautiful! we did it together! >> stephen: it was an act of love and you made it ugly. we should do first drafts before our relationship deteriorates completely

antitrust division of justice, which is not the topic of my talk today, which we funded with senator grassley i believe that it would be we on 88 -- eight vote pretty only get that for volleyball resolutions g there. and so we been working about technical language at all sounds small ball. we've been trying to get that change that has been occupying my mind but now i get to come and see you and go out for the forest for the trees and talk a little bit about her doing what needs to be done to expand haveg competition in america. companyo thanked chip and angie for inviting me. i know that therev■■g are reps m great plains communications and metronet or are you guys? of course minnesotans are in the back. [laughter] humble, humble t much. just of some of you notez4 m cri started out at a law firm for it i was in w a private sector for4 years but this part of why i care about competition. one of my biggest clients with mci change law firms to kng thea conflict. and i love doing their work. back then they were a really scrappy. the federal law was in the midst of getting pasts and we're basically

that last poll, senator grassley was well over the traditional retirement age but he did win over voters for the election. he had that mantle or legitimacy. bernie sanders won far more support in his party than many younger rivals and his fan base was far younger than other politician's supporters. he built a big and in that sense of age young and diverse coalition which is a rebuttal of the idea he was past his time and that sanders coalition with a lot of young, excited people, may offer lessons for biden that he will need this november. some of the other answers i showed for you are not about rules or substance. congress just has rules that give out the majority of powerful posts for people who have been there the longest. this has nothing to do with biden or trump. this is a long-running rule. virtually every powerful committee post which controls the money, what legislation gets a vote, goes to the longest serving members who are usually the oldest, and that means one demographic group ends up with much more outsized power than any other cohort in america. they're taking up much mor

division of justice, , which is not the topic of my talk today, gets funded as we believe senator grassleynd i believe it would be with the merger of the change th like 88-eight vote. if you only get that for volleyball resolutions of their, and so we've been working about some technical language that's in there here it all sounds really small ball but it's really a ball. and so we have been trying to get that changed and that's been occupying my mind but now i get to come and see you and kind of go out for the forest for the trees and talk a little bork the doing and what needs to be done to expand and to make sure that we have strong competition in america. and want to thank chip and angie for inviting me, and i know there's plains communications and metronet here. where are you guys? summer. there. of course minnesota's in the back. humble humble.o÷ thank you so much. i did notice they were the audience members that were nodding their head when i started out, thank you. so just so some of you know, my street cred still be here is i started out at a law firm. i was actually in the privat

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grassley. mr. hagerty. ms. hassan. mr. hawley. mr. heinrich. mr. hickenlooper. ms. hirono. mr.mr. markey. mr. mcconnell. mr. menendez. mr. merkley. the clerk: mr. moran. mr. mullin. the clerk: ms. murkowski. mr. murphy. mr mr. ossoff. mr. padilla. mr. paul. mr. peters. mr. reed. mr. ricketts. mr. risch. mr. romney. ms. rosen. mr. rounds. mr. rubio. mr. sanders. mr. schatz. mr. schmitt. mr. schumer. mr. scott of florida. mr. scott of south carolina. mrs. shaheen. ms. sinema. ms. smith. ms. stabenow. mr. sullivan. mr. tester. mr. thune.p÷ mr. tuberville. mr. van hollen. mr. vance. mr. warner. ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. the clerk: mr. wyden. mr. young. senators voting in the affirmative -- butler, duckworth, merkley, reed, rosen, rounds, te te tester. nato grassley, paul, vance, wicker, young. mr. romney, no. ms. ernst, no. mrs. capito no. mrs. fischer, no. mr. barrasso, no.1i the clerk:r. daines, no. mr. mrs.britt, no. the clerk: ms. cantwell, aye. mr. hickenlooper, aye. the clerk: mr. lujan, aye. the clerk: mr. tillis, aye. ■3 9 the clerk: mr. peters, aye

grassley, no. the clerk: mr. casey, aye. mr. ricketts, no.■) the clerk: mr. young, no.cott of south carolina, no. the clerk: ms. stabenow, aye. ■b the clerk: ms. rosen, aye. ms. duckworth, aye. the clerk: mr. kennedy, no. mr. lankford, no. the clerk: mr. mullin, no. ms. hirono, aye. mr. cardin, aye. mr. boozman, no.la the clerk: mr. markey, aye. the clerk: mr. budd, no. vote: the clerk: mr. romney, no. mr. hoeven, no.j/■u5vuá■ the clerk: ms. sinema, aye.conn. the clerk: mr. cruz, no. the presiding officer: on this vote the yeas are 52. the nays are 46. and the motion is agreed to. under the previous order, the senate will resume legislative session and proceed to the consideration of s. 3853 which the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 336, s. 3853, a bill to extend the period for filing claims under the radiation exposure compensation act and so forth.e the presiding officer: the senator from west virginia. mrs. capito: we're not in a quorum call. okay. yes, thank you. mr. president, i hours before p biden's state of the union address to discuss the reality

>> no. >> following your ukraine trip, senate republicans, senators grassley and johnson released the burisma report which new york times concluded was "unproven allegations that echo an active russian disinformation campaign." are the unproven allegations that are at the heart of the republican report the same fabricated claims of the donald trump and rudy giuliani sent you to ukraine to dig? >> yes. >> last summer you wrote a letter to congress noting that when the media started to get tired of the smokescreens and using this, one of the authors of the republican burisma report would be your "guy in the senate to push all the information." what did you mean by that? >> senator ron johnson was our guy in the senate. it was told to me that when we pushed information he would push it in the halls of congress. >> someone the media was getting skeptical about pressuring this information after they proved it wrong time and time again, the plan was to have a u.s. senator, ron johnson, push that disinformation even further. >> correct. we had congressman nunez already doing. senator ron joh

. >> reporter: what's more, a memo release by committee chair charles grassley's office in november 2018ims of sexual assault made against justice kavanaugh. what was it like for you to see that? it goes out there. you know there were people on television saying, look, this exonerates justice kavanaugh. >> i was devastated when that report came out. i was really, really upset. that was a really difficult period that, i think, was the beginning of sort of the darkest times for me. >> reporter: things got dark, indeed. not only was her moment in the national spotlight deeply traumatizing, it also brought death threats credible enough to for force her and her family out of their home and into a hotel for months. what kind of threats were you getting? >> gosh. i want to see you six feet under. i want tee to see you 12 feet u, a lot of those. i hope you get cancer. i hope you die. i give you a year. glad you have two kids because we have two opportunities. and all of the letters like that, like they would have such similarity to them that it felt like do these people know each other? because

senator grassley will be here momentarily to acknowledge of thopg of this committee meeting.has another conflict in his schedule as well. i want to proceed. e witnesses. each will have five minutes provide an opening statement and then round of questions from each. i asked individuals to ?lse stand and raise your right hand. you say that testimony will be the truth, the whole truth and nothbut the truth, so help you god. let the record reflect both have entered in the affirmative. we will start with inspector general horowitz. you may proceed . >> i could not hear. first? >> yes. thank you. >> thank you, chairman durbin. i also wanted to acknowledge with me are the team that work on the desks and custody report print and visited the present mentioned in your opening statement.■b i have been inspector general for almost 12 years. every year i have included the b.o.p. in my annual report of the top management and performance challenges facing the with some notable exceptions, the problems at the b.o.p. seem to only increase. last year the b.o.p. was added to the gao high risk l

. >> senator grassley.aughter] create a level playing field which i know you want at the same time for any litigated challenge that may come to the rules. we're in the process of the complete transparency rule will be asked to provide more information. we are close to getting the retaliation and incrimination rule out in final form can't retaliate against the user and rights. in the process and is a discovery rule. to provide a balance circuit court of opinions. just one. >> could you characterize a few things and what you would like to do as effective or it enhances? >>do what done in a way that doesn't create a cesspool litigated challenge. >> maybe gently could you speak about your role forpl and farmers have a big interesting but your role in the preserve feedstocks without diluting it? i know some people want to dilute it. i think we have two roles is to advocate for a rule that allows broad array of stocks including the traditional clocks for biofuels to qualify for the incentivized ethanol for exampl

myself, senator sanders, senator grassley, senator smith, senator hickenlooper, three republicans and two democrats, have been working on this since i have been in the senate. competition and transparency. if you want to be in the biggest part of our economy, health care, and especially at the tail end of our lives, be out there, be open. ms. simpkins, i was wondering, because you have done a good job, and like senator fetterman said, the pay doors are coming through either state or federal governments. and you are aimed at low income. what is your cost, roughly, to do what you are doing across those five states? because we heard $3800. i just asked my staff, it is closer to $4500 per month in indiana. what are you finding? you are serving low income residents. what does that cost structure look like? ms. simpkins: thank you for the question, ranking member braun. sen. braun: that would just mean in terms of, you have a business . without giving any trade secrets away, what does it roughly cost in those states to provide a service? your payor is mostly in government. in the case over

bigger picture, this is an interesting combination of individuals, myself, senator sanders, senator grassley, senator smith, senator hickenlooper. that is two republicans and three democrats. competition in transparency, if you want to be in the biggest part of our economy, healthcare and especially at the tail end of our lives, be up there and be open. ms. simpkins, i was wondering. you have done a good job, like senator fetterman said, your payer is coming through the state and federal government and you are aimed at low income. what is your cost, roughly, to do what you are doing? that is across the five states? we heard $3800 here and i just asked my staff that is closer to $4500 in indiana per month. you are servicing low income residents. what is that cost structure look like? >> thank you for the question. i am trained -- >> that would mean you have a business, without giving any trade secrets away, what does it roughly cost in those states to provide a service? your pay our is mostly from government and the case over here did not have that advantage. you saw what happened. that was i

and others on this committee have been worked with senator shaheen and marshall as well as senator grassley on the spill that has come to this committee already. i need to go to the floor along with a number of other bills we have talked about the required social media companies to report fentanyl and other dangerous drug sales on their platforms and the words of our dea administrator they basically the cartels don't care people dire not because no one knows it. in a mexico and china have basically harness these platforms to social media companies have the correct incentives to identify and eliminate drug sales to kids? >> thank you for the question and the concern on all his important things. until there is disclosure of what kids experience as a drug content, sexual content, until there is transparency about these things i don't know what the incentive is which is why transparency is so essential. as parents and grandparents we see it, we understand it. we know how frequent it is. that's what the numbers share and there's one thing for everyone to know is that when we talk about the categ

that is why senator and i and others on the committee have been working with marshall and senator grassley on this bill that is coming through this committee already and it needs to go to the floor along with other bills that we talk about to require social media as and companies to report fentanyl and other dangerous drug sales on their platforms. the cartels who don't really care people die or not, because no one knows it. in mexico and china, they harness these platforms. two social media companies have the correct incentives to identify and eliminate drug sales to kids? >> thank you for the question and the concern on all of those important. until there is disclosure of what kids experience as the drug content and sexual content about these things, i don't know what the incentive is, which is why i think transparency is so essential. as parents and grandparents, we see it and understand it. we knew how frequent it is. that is what the numbers share. if we want one thing for everybody here to know, it is that when you talk about any category that you care about, such as drugs and when t