. : -- senator lankford: how is it transmitted? is a mosquito lighting someone who has zika and then the mosquito transmits it to someone else or is there another way that it is transmitted? dr. schuchat: that is basically what happens, but it is not immediate. the mosquito bites the person, takes up the virus and subsequently is able to infect other people. senator lankford: it's not necessarily be blood from the other people -- the blood has been transmitted to the mosquito itself and then it is also transmitted? that is the part that is interesting that i have not seen in a lot of public information. so many people in the public are trying to figure out why our mosquitoes carrying this and why is it only certain types? mosquitoesn types of can take in the virus. one particular mosquito is the best sector for this virus because it primarily feeds on people. they are capable of carrying the virus but it's not a good effector. you may want to supplement that with additional comments. because of this idea that mosquitoes can get the

lankford: those remarks.g it happen as the center as a senator just told us is a different skill set. we want quick results. we want urgent results. resultes, the long-term take the long game. -- theyire a longer require a longer perspective than one congressional cycle or one election cycle. our next presentation will come from a gentleman that understands that intrinsically. the united state senate is a complicated a-day. the personalities involved are sometimes elaborate. the rules themselves are nuanced and intricate and then the what we talk -- is about every day. it is my pleasure to welcome the senate majority leader who understands the values and principles that make us who we are, but he also understands the process in order to make this stuff actually happened. liu please join me in welcoming mitch mcconnell. -- will you please join me in welcoming mitch mcconnell. [applause] mcconnell: thank you very much. it is great to be here. you have had an opportunity to hear from two of our finest. i am plea

lankford: state and local, federal taxes, a fee attached to it. i want to talk to a challenge with packaging and then to streaming. have a conversation about streaming services and i know y'all are experimenting with it now.at deal the cost of the actual content that's coming to you, there's an ongoing conversation about that, well, because as everyone complains about their cable bill, what i hear back typically is do you providers have any idea how much it costs in.x, y, z content coming where does that fit into the typical billing practice? forecast trying to five years from now, when you talk about hardware, when you fiber being put in the ground and you talk about content, where does that rank? do your analysis and you're looking at the threads, where does content fit into that? >> i'll take that, senator. mr. patel: the content costs rising is a significant issue. i do not think consumers understand the dynamic in place. we talk about billing and fees, but a out of the last 11 years, the cost of the content has exceeded the pricing that we pa

. >> senator lankford. >> thanks for being here again. you helped lead or did lead when president obama was president-elect obama in 2008 intelligence transition team. it's part of the responsibility be able to brief the future president at the time of some the issues that were blinking red, i think the term was used, on the intelligence community. if you helping organize for that next transition because will have a new president next year, what are the key things you could articulate our blinking red for the new president? >> cyber certainly. that individual whoever is elected needs to use their all for, eight years to tackle this issue to take him know to come up with the types of understanding that are necessary. terrorism will continue to plague us. that's related to the cyber issue and how we're going to make sure that fbi and nsa and cia and others are able to do their job to protect this country. proliferation is something we cannot forget about, which is brought into stark relief by the activities in north korea and kim jong-un an

. >> senate yoor lankford. >> thank you for being here again. you helped lead or did lead when president obama was president-elect obama in 2008 the intelligence transition team. it's part of your responsibility to be able to brief the future president at that time on some of the issues that were blinking red, i think the term was used, on the intelligence community. if you were helping organize for that next transition because we'll have a new president next year, what are the key things you could articulate right now are blinking red for the new president? >> cyber, certainly. that individual, whoever is elected, needs to use their all four-eight years to tackle this issue because it's going to take time in order to come up with the types of understandings that are necessary. terrorism is going to continue to plague us. and that's related to the cyber issue and how we're going to make sure that fbi and nsa and cia and others are able to do their job to protect this country. proliferation is something that we cannot forget about, which is broug

you have to hearken back a little bit to what senator lankford was talking about earlier in the program, that we have to heed this call. i actually was in ministry before i joined faith and freedom a couple of years ago. and it's not an uncommon separate train of thought as to sunday morning or saturday night mass, that we have to understand that faith must lead to action. and so we urgently and desperately need your help in your own town or community, wherever you're coming back to after this weekend. our hope, just throughout the weekend, as you're finding, noticing different people, either with faith and freedom shirts or badges or whatever the case may be, just staff members, we would love to talk with you more about how you can specifically personally be engaged wherever you're from. if we can -- one of the benefits to me of conferences like this is to connect with my peers. as you build relationships, and certainly the ambassador showroom just across the hall here, are great resources, various sponsors and organizations that we partner with, they can be helpful. they're either sub

senator lankford. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thanks for hosting this hearing and the conversation here. as senator paul mentioned there's a context to this as i read through the notes, one of my first thoughts on the section on not getting an answer the first time you make a call in customer service, i wondered how many times that our constituent service folks in our staff have tried to call va or social security or multiple other agencies and we'll work for months to get an answer to a question that should be a straightforward issue. there's a great deal within government that lacks in customer service as well. i think that deserves a public acknowledgment. that all of us have a very long way to go in dealing with cable customer service is the pot calling the kettle black as we work through this process. saying all that, i have also had people call my office that have been incredibly frustrated by not getting attention with their cable provider. and they reached a point where they called their cable provider so many times and g

senator lankford. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thanks for hosting this hearing and the conversation here. as senator paul mentioned there's a context to this as i read through the notes, one of my first thoughts on the section on not getting an answer the first time you make a call in customer service, i wondered how many times that our constituent service folks in our staff have tried to call va or social security or multiple other agencies and we'll work for months to get an answer to a question that should be a straightforward issue. there's a great deal within government that lacks in customer service as well. i think that deserves a public acknowledgment. that all of us have a very long way to go in dealing with cable customer service is the pot calling the kettle black as we work through this process. saying all that, i have also had people call my office that have been incredibly frustrated by not getting attention with their cable provider. and they reached a point where they called their cable provider so many times and g

lankford: thank you all for being here.se are important days and we need to be clear and articulate voices. you, what is the end goal for isis and? what do they see on the horizon? they are fighting for what and they will know they have achieved it when? one to say they are -- be a caliphate that dominates the world. this is their stated mission. i think they are realistic objective is to control syria, iraq, and be the region leader of jihad and global jihad. that's why they spend so much efforts on targets al qaeda. they are more critical of al qaeda than probably other ones because they see them as their competitors and arrivals. is regionall dominance, but obviously they want to expand in the west and elsewhere. >> so you talk with the regional dominance, you have to motivate people in western countries rather be in europe, united states, australia, wherever may be, to fight an attack in this occasions as well. so why try to motivate people in australia or the united states or in europe to be in the fight for them, it i

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because, as adam lankford, an expert in criminal justice at the university of alabama told "the washington post" this week, "it's becoming increasingly apparent the mass shootings are just as deadly as bombings and the scary part is that it's often much easier to pull off." close quote. mr. president, republicans are in denial about the connection between terrorism and guns. in the aftermath of the mass murders are guns at the lgbt nightclub in or l.a.n. dorks republicans are saying that these attacks have nothing to do with guns, nothing to do with guns. the senior senator from south carolina said yesterday, "this is not a gun control issue." it is a gun control issue, and that's undeniable. there's no question about this. none. terrorist leader rurnlzing lone wolves to exploit our nation's gun laws by buying assault weapons and then murdering americans. the republicans have blocked every attempt that we've tried to address the deficiencies in our nation's gun laws. last december, republicans blocked legislation that would close the so-called terror loophole which allows suspected terrori

senator lankford. >> not as much as charlotte to hope for that but that's a whole different issue. thank y'all for being here and for your testimony today. i think i don't has reiterated the same thing we want to make sure you hear it loud and clear from all of us. safety is the primary consideration. that was part of our conversation even a year ago when you're going through the confirmation process when the conservative precheck line is projected to become a projectile is another randomized and we had people going through it was all about speed and resistance to say we were losing a sense of safety. for the i.t. support to say we are overly optimistic on staff and so we have a drop is that a rapid increase in passengers and it's not rocket science to try to get why we have long lines. i just want to make sure everyone hears loud and clear we are still for subsidy. it's not just about speed but are plenty of people that as we travel to airports we see tsa workers standing around or not in a hurry when people are weighted in favor of long lines. i think people understand the safety

and on this i have been working closely with senator lee from utah and senator lankford from oklahoma and the third amendment i want to address is an amendment to strip the citizenship from any americans who take up arms and join isis or other terrorist organizations waging jihad against the united states of america, and on this i've worked with a number of senators including chairman grassley on the judiciary committee. each of these amendments addresses different policy components of our nation's security, but they all share the ultimate objective of ensuring that america remains the strongest nation that the world has ever known. the first amendment that i've introduced that i would urge this body to take up would increase funding for our cooperative missile defense program with israel, to ensure that our ally, our close friend can procure the necessary vital assets and conduct further mutually beneficial research and development efforts. this has been an ongoing partnership between israeli and the united states of america, and yet unfortunately the obama administration in its requ

lankford:. i am pleased to be here. when the american people elected in 2014, they called for the senate to get back to work as james pointed out. the previous majority did not do much. 15 roll calls on amendments and in entire year. they won an and and to democratic dysfunction and new it was time to go into a new direction and that is what we have done since taking office in january of 2015. we passed the most important k-12 reform in more they m&a a decade. parents and kids first. it gets rid, let repeat that, it gets rid of no child left hind and its one-size-fits-all mandate. washington from imposing common core. [applause] mitch mcconnell: you are amazed that president obama signed it, right? he did not have a choice. been described as the largest evolution and a quarter century. we passed the most important long-term transportation reform in two decades. nation'sds our highways and crumbling infrastructure, reduces waste, gives communities more control over how funding is spent and it does not raise taxes by one