to give this company release, we will offer a bipartisan amendment led by senator cotton and van hollenthat retroactively composers sanctions originally leveled against zte. reversing the consent agreement signed this morning. this is a bipartisan bill. senator cotton and senator van hollen don't agree on much, but thank god when it comes to national security, they agree. this chamber should overwhelmingly vote for the cotton-van hollen amendment t which i'm proud to cosponsor as likely senator cornyn and others on the other side will do. we must do that. we hope leader mcconnell will allow a vote, or at minimum put in the managers package. we cannot move forward with this danger to national security without doing something about zte. there's also a provision in the defense bill to expand the jurisdiction of the committee on foreign investment in the united states nona cfius so that the board can review minority position investments in joint ventures and critical technology and infrastructure companies. too often foreign companies usually chinese backed by some hostile foreign governmen

it's rare indeed when schumer, van hollen, rubio, and cotton issue a joint statement, on this issue, we all agree. it's an issue that transcends party and concerns the vital national security interests of this great united states of america. so i'm very glad for the sake of the country we were able to come together and pass this amendment. finally, mr. president, on health -- madam president, on health care. today we expect the trump administration to issue a new rule that would expand junk insurance plans that don't cover critical conditions and are far from comprehensive health coverage. these plans may not include coverage for maternity care, may not include coverage for mental health treatment, may not include coverages for newborn care, prescription drugs. worse still, these plans weaken protections for americans with preexisting conditions. finalizing this rule is simply the latest being act of sabotage of our health care system by the trump administration and a back door to expanding junk insurance plans which benefit the insurance industry but hurt the average american. that'

hollen: this is a bipartisan effort.e to rubio and many others on a bipartisan basis in the senate believe we should keep the original penalties in place on zte. those were announced by the secretary of commerce as you recall back in april and we have had lots of testimony before the congress by leaders of the intelligence zte committees that -- intelligence committees that zte poses a national threat to the american intelligence network. on top of that, zte finally did u.s. sanctions multiple times flagrantly, and tried to cover it up. yesterday, the senate passed the authorization bill which has this provision in it. david: are you confident that your version will prevail? i am confident because there is strong bipartisan support in the senate and when the house appropriations bill voted on this issue number of weeks ago, a subcommittee unanimously voted to maintain the existing penalties on cte -- on zte. i know the white house once this out, but there is very strong bipartisan support in the house and senate for keep

senator chris van hollen thank you so much for joining us, sharing your words. just like you, you know, we are praying that we can get through this on the other side and we don't see something like ts happengain here in thanks s for joining us.rich.- we appreciate it. >> and thank you for covering this. thank you. all right. i just want to give you anwe were talking a little bit abouthe effect and the impact that this is havin earlier we showed or we talked about the tweet from one of the editors from the capital gazette. jimmy debutts t teted in the midsthis, he said the reporters and editors give all they have everyay. there are no 40 hour work weeks, no big pay days, just a passion for telling stories from our community and that's what is. and he wg basically sayin he's devastated, devastated thik he feelse, you know, they were targed and we out how this newspaper is soalk community oriented and tellingri thees of annapolis and just to know that they are dealing with this right now is just horrific. >> yes. all right. we are goingho to -- w again, i'm sorry?

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. >>> later i'm joined exclusively by senators jeff merkley and chris van hollen as they descend on theder detention centers to try and find some answers. >>> now, every president, every party has left their fingerprints on the state of our immigration system today. the reagan administration's amnesty policy drew widespread backlash and still gives some nservatives pause today. the bush administration had its faults. the administration struggled to handle a spike in migrations amid mass deportations. but at the moment, the current administration is separating families from their children at our bor with mexico, not because of a law, but because this administration has chosen to do so. so far despite nearly 2000 children being separated from their families, what's missing from this story are a flood of images of these young children. it was images of children, after all, that spurred the president to change course in syria. so far, this young toddler has become the face of this policy. stop and look at her for just a moment. and remember that there are thousands -- thousands of other fac

up, senator chris van hollen is here. to ourminder, subscribe weekly podcast. ?at you miss some of our favorite interviews from during the week as you get a chance to read listen to them. >> perfect for your commute home. >> this is bloomberg. unit deal toof the resurrect cte -- zte. chris van hollen is one of those speaking out against the deal. you withgreat to have us. just talk about the amendment you are trying to achieve here. it is great to be with you. to read that a clear the secretary of commerce is a retroactive april when he imposed a very harsh penalties including restrictions on exports and of course the president tweeted out that he e and chinese zt workers. prohibit ant would federal agency from buying their products and reinstating the full penalties on till the president made certain certifications going forward. clarify what those certifications are? >> they would require the president to tell congress they have not violated u.s. law for more than a year. we don't think that is asking too much. toill limit their ability jump into this deal. and

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van hollen: thank you. reserving the right to object, senator cotton from arkansas and i were just on thelo this past 15 minutes explaining why this bipartisan provi is inthe e bill. because of the threats posed by huawei and z.t. and with respect to z. specific h. -- and with respect to z.t.e. specifically because of its multiple, flagrant violations of u.s. law and removing that dish that provision with a send a bad signal to anybody around the world watching that you can violate u.s. sanctions law with impunity a we shouldn't be doing that. i object. the presiding officer: objection is heard. mr. perdue: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from georgia. mr. perdue: i don't disagree that we need to send a str message to people doing business with the united states. however, the commerce department has imposed severe fines -- in th in the z.t.e. case, a $1.7 billion fine, in addition to penalties and compliance measures on z.t.e., including the firing of its entire board and all senior execut

. >> senator, we do appreciate your time.hr senator c van hollen along the texas/mexico border.o our viewers we did receipt out aorepublican, andy harris, bara tocoms whicktman then did not chooseo join us. we did hear from andy fi a harri ws'e hope to have him later this week. >> in the meantime senator vanou hollen thanks fr time. morniid you. currently 78 in washington. uryo 80 degrees at 5:00. it is going to me aostly sunny hot and humid afternoon. actual air mid 90s but that heat index will get awfully close to 100. so heat continuesex thet couple of days. first day ofn summer oeirs thursday. plenty more fox news morning right after this. ♪> >>00 o'clock. good morning. thank you so much for joini this morning. >> top of the hour on this monday, june 18th. here's what's on the fox5 morning menu. >> battle of the border separated from theirs parent the fight over illegal immigration may be coming to a head. f anihi >> morningn the heels of last week's rollereroaster dl in many florida. what you should be lookingef out foore you or your kids get on one of those rides. e-aronam

we have senator chris van hollen of maryland standing by on the phone. senator, as you listen in, take a listen to jessica schneider to read some tweets from the courts and crime reporter phil davis who works for the "capital gazette" who's thankfully okay. he tweeted a couple things to describe the scene and i want to get your reaction. jessica, if you could read those tweets for us. >> absolutely, jake. these are especially chilling tweets. two tweets from this court and crime reporter at "capital gazette," phil davis. he describes what was happening. first tweet says, gunman shot through the glass door to the office. and opened fire on multiple employees. can't say much more and don't want to declare anyone dead but it's bad. the next tweet, he reflects a little bit more saying there's nothing more terrifying than hearing multiple people get shot while you're under your desk and then hear the gunman reload. we haven't seen anymore tweets but obviously a chilling and terrifying scene as described by this reporter for the "capital gazette" while he was

. >> that was maryland senator chris van hollen who says the united nations has accused the o u. violating international norms with this policy. van holle tells us he will head to the border this weekend to get a firsthandccount of what is going on there. >>> tonight an investigation into gunfire outside the home of theu.s. marine corps' highest ranking officer. this happened this morning on capitol hill at the home of the commandant in southeast d.c. the home is located on g street. it turned out a marine suffered afl self-ted gunshot wound and was rushed to the hospital. news 4's mark segraves bro th story on twitter today. mark, what else do we know? r orter: good evening, jim. this still remains under investigatio i just spo to a marine corps spokesperson who says that marine remains at gw hospital in condition.table this happened just outside thea cont's home here on capitol hill right outside of that marine barracks guard post. that's where it happened. >> reporter: the marine was on duty assigned to this guard station at the corner of 9th and g street southeast. just befor

senator chris van hollen spoke with bloomberg television earlier to explain why lawmakers moved to pass what could be a death sentence for this company. zte graham: van hollen poses a national security threat to the united states through their telecommunications network. on top of that, zte violated u.s. sanctions multiple times, so therecover it up, is no reason to let them off the hook. emily: joining us from new york, selina wang, who has been following the saga. does this mean these penalties will indeed be reversed? selina: the senate passed a bill that would reinstate the ban. this complicates the earlier agreement trump had made to ease sanctions as long as it paid a hefty fine and rearranged some management structure. this does not necessarily mean the ban is going to be reversed. this has to be passed through the house. any compromise has to be agreed upon by the house and senate, and at the end, tom still has to sign it into law. many asian analysts think this the issue and of the end of the day the ban will still be eased. there is bipartisan support for this bill and it is t

to give this company relief, we will offer a bipartisan amendment led by senators cotton and van hollen that retroactively imposed the sanctions originally leveled against z.t.e., reversing the consent agreement is signed this morning. this is a bipartisan bill. senator cotton and senator van hollen don't agree on much, but thank god when it comes to national security, they're agreeing. this chamber should overwhelmingly vote for the cotton-van hollen amendment, which i am proud to cosponsor, as i believe senator cornyn and others on the other side will do. we must do that. we hope leader mcconnell will allow a vote or at minimum put it in the managers' package. we cannot move forward with this danger to national security without doing something about z.t.e. there's also a provision in the defense bill to expand the jurisdiction of the committee on foreign investment in the united states known as cfius, so that the board can review minority position investments and joint ventures in critical technology and infrastructure companies. too often foreign companies, usually chinese, backed by

joining me now is democratic senator chris van hollen of maryland.ave you, senator. >> great to be with you. >>> you've been very outspoken about your opposition to the deal that the commerce department struck. it finds zte a billion dollars. it makes them put $400 million in escrow, should they violate sanctions again. your republican counterpart senator tom cotton of arkansas said, quote, the only fitting punishment would be to put zte out of business in the united states. is he right? >> he is right and that's why i teamed up with him to offer the amendment which is now included in what we call the manager's package and i'm confident that that's going to pass the united states senate in the coming week. the commerce department had the right penalty back in april when they announced that because zte had not only violated the u.s. sanctions policy against north korea and iran once, but they did it repeatedly and then when they were caught, they said they were going to come clean and instead, they engaged in a big cover-up and did it again. that's wh

here's my conversation with oregon senator jeff americaly and chris van hollen. >> just visited one of the processing centers where they are putting a lot of kids and separating them from their parents. we talked to one of the moms there who had been separated from her daughter. the mom and daughter had come from guatemala. they asked for asylum but now the moms being prosecuted as a criminal and we'll be separated from her daughter. this is a deliberate and inhumane policy and we're here to say to president trump, end it, end it today. >> do you know the age range of the children being separated? >> there's a very wide age range. i think if you -- they made a policy if you're under 5 they are not going to take you from your mom or dad. we don't really know. this is a lot of chaos down her there are some things that we can see very clearly, they are deliberately enforcing this new policy of separating moms and dads from their sons and daughters. >> senator murkily, you were talking about the processing center where parents are working through the immigration system. i'm curious if you'

joining us now from capitol hill maryland senator van hollen.ng us. >> great to be with you, wolf. >> so a third of the senate up for election this year and all democrats are trying to protect 24 seats. what's the strategy from your perspective? can youealistically retake control, become the majority in the u.s. senate? >> well the answer is as of toefinitely have a credibility path toward taking majority of the united states senate. i would not have been able to say that to you one year ago, certainly a year ago january. and that's because we've seen incredible momentum for democratic candidates around the country, both in the november elections in virginia and elsewhere and the special elections in places like alabama and in the special election in pennsylvania where you had a state in the case of alabama, congressional district in pennsylvania that both went big for trump in 2016 but wanted to representatives and senators as they went forward. so, we see a lot o momentum, but we have a very difficult political map in the senate. there's no su

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we begin with breaking news overnight on the intensifying van hollen kay volcanic disaster. a 5.6 earthquake striking the island already jolted by 5,000 tremors in the last month. that triggered ash flumz as high as 10,000 feet into the air. ongoing lava flows from the volcano has wiped out hundreds of homes and the bay. the once picturesque vacation land now a field of black completely inundated with molten rock. the volcanic eruptions and tremors could continue for months. >> the powerful tornado whipped across albany county, wyoming laremy leaving a path of destruction. just before 6:00 p.m. shy even issued a warning for residents to take cover. within the hour social media was exploding with images of the massive funnel cloud forming in the atmosphere. now tornadoes swirled around for about 30 minutes. damaging structures, electrical poles, power lines and fencing. so far no reports of anyone injured. >> previously convicted drug offender alice marie johnson is waking up outside the walls of an alabama jail this morning after president trump commuted the 63-year-old grea

we had maryland senator chris van hollen on earlier. he sort t of said same thing you did. needs to be done while we don't yet know thed motivation behinhe shooting but we talked about how sing our thoughts and prayers simply aren't enough. just a short time ago speak paul ryan tweeted out his condolences called this aes sensel attack on a maryland newspaper cled it sickening saying he's praying for those folksnd their families tonight. you know, it's going to bein interest again to see what ppens in the days the weeks that follow. >> regardless of where you stand politically, five people went to work went to the doctor went to wherever they y'reto go todom hayhend t >> right. >>and it doesn't matter, i mean, what you think about the situation, that's the fact. and sohere you go from here, we'llee. we're going to take a break. 're back a this. >> ♪ >> ♪ here's money for pizza. here's the wif i password, buyou go online while the boys are online the internet can slow down and... they don't like it. you guys don't have fios? [mrs. jennings] oh-no. but it's a 100% fiber-optic

in this regard and you do not watered-down but limited protections already exist. >> senator van hollen. >> welcome, so i'm in a follow up on some questions. one was by senator warren regarding the case that was out against one west for alleged discriminatory practices. to your knowledge is hard engaged investigation of the complaint. >> are you referencing the hud on the financial freedom? >> i am referencing the case that was brought with respect to the alleged discriminatory lending that was referenced by senator warren earlier. >> i don't know if that is a hud issue. one west bank when you looked at effectively a fair lending data, we had out of proportions for the community. i think it was less the 100 mortgages that they use. it wasn't a statistical relevant. we were low in certain areas but it's not like you had a relevant population in the narrative. >> was the complaint filed in that case and has that issued been resolved? >> is that still pending? >> have you been questioned in that case. >> the comments you made in the house yesterday obviously generated understandable concer

senatorhris van hollen went a step further. >> mitch mcconnellhould follow the same rule, same standard today tha he did when there was a vacancy under president obama. he hesaid, because was an upcoming election he wasn't going to even hear from merrick garland, president obama's nominee. we're muchto closen election day now than then. >> tea c coverageing up in less than 30 minutes on "nbc nightly news." p >>> ance george county teacher is suing the school district. she says the principal at ardmore elementary school bullied her and should be fired. beth women are on leave. what the school system is doi. >> i have in my hand an order of protection she received. >> reporter: this has now become a legal matter. >> wha i would like to see that the bullying stop. >> reporter: sitting next to her attorney, crutchfield said she's suing prince george's county schools and suing for the principal atyrdmore eleme to be fired. she said she's been bullying her for years. two weeks ago things esca lated. >> i don'tnow what led up to her being angry and hostile with me at this time. t >> reporte co

it's rare indeed when schumer, van hollen, rubio, and cotton issue a joint statement, on this issue, we all agree. it's an issue that transcends party and concerns the vital national security interests of this great united states of america. so i'm very glad for the sake of the country we were able to come together and pass this amendment. finally, mr. president, on health -- madam president, on health care. today we expect the trump administration to issue a new rule that would expand junk insurance plans that don't cover critical conditions and are far from comprehensive health coverage. these plans may not include coverage for maternity care, may not include coverage for mental health treatment, may not include coverages for newborn care, prescription drugs. worse still, these plans weaken protections for americans with preexisting conditions. finalizing this rule is simply the latest being act of sabotage of our health care system by the trump administration and a back door to expanding junk insurance plans which benefit the insurance industry but hurt the average american. that'

. >> van hollen praised gun laws passed by maryland lawmakers, but lax laws in other states makes it bring guns into maryland. >> president trump weighed in on ettwitter. he t this as the news broke yesterday. prior to departing wisconsin i was briefed on the shooting at "capital gazette" i napolis, maryland. my thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families. thank you to all of the first responders who are currently on the scene. the president could publicly comment later this morning. he is expected to makein remark bout an hour. he is scheduled to talk about the six- anniversary of his tax cuts. went'll keep an eye on the even and have more coverage of the shootings in this newscast, including a look at the suspect's past encounters with police. >>> tomorrown organizers p another big families belong together rally in the district. yesterday u.s. capital police arrested more than 500 protesters and charged them with unlawfully demonstrating. this is footage from therowd at the senate office building. they are protesting against president trums zero tolerance imgrans p

senator chris van hollen spoke to bloomberg to explain why lawmakers moved to pass what could be a deathentence for the company. >> they pose a national security threat to the united states through their telecommunications and network. that, they violated u.s. sanctions multiple times, flagrantly. so there is no reason to let them off the hook. emily: but president trump is not backing down, here is wilbur ross, speaking on bloomberg television. saying there might be a compromise, but the government will take action if violations continue. >> we have taken over $2 billion in fines. ever, we havetime the ability to implants into a company that has violated sanctions our code of conduct, our code of export control. and we have unfettered access to the company in order to monitor it. ,f there are further violations we will shut them down as we did before. we have the power to do that. emily: bloomberg tax correspondent joined us to explain. >> we are seeing them get punished severely. the longer they are in this limbo, the more damaging it is for companies. they have already lost billions,

i'm going to turn it over to senator chris van hollen, and he'll pass it on to the members of the housek you, senator merkley, for bringing this together. we just came from a processing center. we were able to talk to a mom. her daughter had been separated from her in that processing center. sheer charged with illegal entry. under the new policy, they will deliberately separate moms and dads from their sons and daughters. this is a choi that the trump administration that is made. it is inhumane, it is cruel and we are calling on president trump, who has total control over this decision today on father's day, to end the policy and allow these families to eunite. i'm pleased to it ove to shielda -- sorry, either one of you. >> thank you all for bei here. it's a pleasure to have you. it's important bring issues, also to the rest of the country, so we're happy to have member of congress sees the injurisdictions that are happening, and i thi we're seeing a symptom of issue that is we have ignored in central america for years and latin america. hopefully we can continue working on this. the s

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. >> chris van hollen of the state of maryland, don't forget, we have a press briefing scheduled for later on this hour and we will bring that to you live but for now, back to you. >> harris: thank you very much. reaction pouring it over what's happening there over the last few days. former first lady laura bush wrote in "the washington post" yesterday "i appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries. but this zero-tolerance policy is cruel. it is immoral and it breaks my heart. joining me now, republic and congressman of the great state of virginia. member of the congressional border security caucus. thank you so much for being here. first of all, i want to try to see if we can get real clear information on where the white house is in all of this as you understand it moving forwar forward. >> the white house has been clear along the way they want their fourth pillar plan. i prefer the goodlatte plan because it has verified. if you don't, we'll end up right back here in five years. but is not on the democrats. the politicization that's going on right now. th

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and senator chris van hollen, senator jeff merkley, they were part of a tour a little bit earlier today going inside there. here's what they had to say about what they saw inside. >> senator merkley and i just visited one of the processing centers here in mcallen, where they are putting a lot of the kids and separating them from their parents. we talked to one of the moms there who had been separated from her daughter. the mom and daughter had come from guatemala. they a asylum. but now the mom's being prosecuted as a criminal and will be separated from her . this is a deliberate and inhumane policy, and we are here to say to president trump end it, end it today. >> and the senators as well as some congressmen and women are on their way to brownsville to another facility right now. ana, i also got a chance to tour inside this facility today. i can tell you that going in there there still are a lot of families that are being held together. a lot of these families don't even know they're going to be separated until the moment before it happens. they give them a sheet of paper that kind of

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because i and many of my colleagues are so alarmed by the state of affairs, senators kaine, cardin, van hollen, brown and merkley have joined me to introduce a resolution to reaffirm our commitment to nato just in time for the nato summit in july. i plead with my republican colleagues to join us in making this a bipartisan commitment to the future of nato. this resolution reaffirms what should be obvious, it urges president trump to do the same in committing to this alliance and to stand resolute against russian aggression. we know hostile nations will seek to exploit the strained relationship between natoened a the united states, and we can't allow this to happen. if our president won't d it, congress must. we need to act to reasse that america can still be trusted to stand for the values which inspired the creation of nato and to stand by our allies and friends who share our goal for a peaceful world. thank you, mr. president. mr. cornyn: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority whip. mr. cornyn: mr. president, i want to begin my remarks by commending our colleagues in the house fo

. >> senators van hollen and merkley took a father's day trip to the border. was there for their debrief. of all the reporting that we've seen about the utter lack of preparation for this crisis, what they told me was in addition to the backed up bridges, the separations, there is an acute shortage of mental health professionals right now to deal with the trauma that these children are facing. he said a minimum, at a minimum they're short by about 90 counselors they need to deal with the trauma these kids are dealing with. >> steve. >> a picture is worth a thousand words. we talked a little bit about the numbers how 40% of americans oppose this immigration policy. among independents it's 44 points and among women it's 48. you'll see a thousand ads like what you're seeing on television coming up in the fall. and you're going to see another 10 or 15 or 20 seats in play for democrats this year. >> democrats take the house. >> i think they do, yeah. >> this immigration issue is reaching across the country. you're having would producers, steve levitan of "modern fa

van hollen: i object. the presiding officer: objection is heard. the senator from inn *eup. a senator: i heard my colleague from maryland and arkansas. therefore i object. mr. donnelly: i object. the presiding officer: objection is heard. a nator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from indiana. the presiding officer: i rise to discuss my efforts on senate armed services committee on behalf of of the people of indiana for a defense bill that supports indiana's role in our nation's defse, that protects america's security interests and defense-related jobs. mr. donnelly: before i get to that, though, i want to take a moment to acknowledge the chairman of our committee, my frnd senator john mccain. he's an american hero. i hope as he watches the senate do its bipartisan work on this year's ndaa, the john s. mccain national defense authorization act, that he knows all of us here are thinking of him back in arizona, wishing him the best in his battle. when you think about john mccain, you think about a fighter. you think about the epitome of a man who defends ourre

>> let's see if we can learn anything from our next guest joining us, maryland senator chris van hollen. senator, thank you for being on the phone with us. we're sorry for the tragedy that's taken place in your state. what can you tell us? >> well, we've been reaching out to law enforcement. and as you have been reporting, they are still in the process of collecting information and understandably cautious about not releasing anything until they are absolutely certain about what happened in this terrible situation. a lot of the information we've gotten is from the court reporter phil davis who has been tweeting. i know phil davis. he's the crime reporter at the capital gazette. he's a very good reporter and reliable reporter. i've been to this building. it's on the first floor of an office building. the set-up is sort of the open bull pen. you have in news offices. clearly it can be vulnerable if somebody is shooting, whether from inside or outside. but with respect to the details, we're reaching out, of course, to law enforcement and most of all hoping we can get some information to the

there was an old boys network in hiring and maybe people that look like you and me and schatz and van hollen and to me and rounds that we might have an advantage in hiring because we know people that look like us and that's who usually get tired from banks? did that ever occur to you? first of all i appreciate you do >> recognize that i signed a consent order after i joined the bank and i'm proud to say we diversify the board out under my leadership. i don't think it's stated in the format as you describe. >> i'm not saying you did it. i'm saying you don't seem to recognize the incrimination because you've never seen discrimination. >> what i said is if we undermine leadership we diversify the board so that would give you an indication of the actions i took. there tools training in laws in place to avoid discrimination. there's lots of evidence of inequity in the world that i would tell you just because i haven't personally experienced the that i'm not saying it's not -- . >> you have said you have never seen it. >> that's not true. it's part of an institution or bank over the course of my c

van hollen. >> at this, mr. chairman. congratulations, mr. chairman, on taking over the chairmanship of this subcommittee. welcome to both of you, and i want to start by associating myself with the comments of the ranking member, senator coons, both with respect to net neutrality. we had a vote 52-47 overturning the rule. that will go to the house. and you know, we're hoping the house follows the senate lead. we're going to have to agree to disagree with you on that. also agree with senator coons about the concerns on consolidation and media ownership. my questions really relate also to broadband deployment in rural areas. the fcc has its annual 706 broadba broadband deployment report. you and the commission have been considering looking at mobile and sort of fixed terroristial is just one category, which in my view would ignore the important distinctions congressman andy harris and i wrote to you about this, and i want to thank you for deciding in the end to go ahead with continuing to look at both mobile and fixed terrestrial separately. i

i want to thank senator heitkamp and senator van hollen for helping. as a ranking member of the rule development subcommittee, i'm very happy this bill include strong energy title that strengthens successful energy programs from the last farm bill like the role energy for america program. my colleague, senator, char has also provided great leadership along with senator ernst and i'm very happy to see that included. i would also just like to note chairman roberts, i'm very happy for the inclusion of our rule health liaison and the managers package. i worked on that with senator rounds and also senator jones. this will really encourage the collaboration we know we need between usda and health and human services to address the specific healthcare needs of rural communities. i'm very happy to see that included. thank you again chair roberts and ranking member and i look forward all look forward to continuing work on this bill. with your permission i would like to recognize our leader, senator mcconnell for his three minutes and 21 seconds left bac back. >>

backgrounds have an ability to access usda services and i want to thank senator heitkamp and senator van hollen for helping in that work. as the ranking member of the development subcommittee i am happy that this bill also includes programs from the last build like the little energy america program and my colleague senator klobuchar also provided leadership on this along with senator and i'm very happy to see that included. i also would like to note i am very happy for the inclusion of our health liaison package today i worked on that with senator jones and this will encourage the collaboration we know we need between the usda and health and human services to address the specific needs of the rural communities. i'm happy to see that included. rthank you again chair roberts and ranking member stabenow. i look forward to continuing work on this bill. >> with your permission i would like to recognize our leaders senator mcconnell for his three minutes and 21 seconds. >> thank you mr. chairman, ranking member. i'm happy to be here this morning. >> a. i say one other thing thank you for your commitm