maureen: marilyn senator barbara -- marilyn senator barbara mikulski is joining calls to put harry at tubman -- harry at tubman on the $10 bill for stop treasury secretary jacob lew said they would put a woman on the bill when it is redesigned in the coming years. sam: the protesters were here with the message "dump trump." maureen: plus, we are on storm watch. lou and out with the old:, in with the new four the wizards. and a dream match at wimbledon. maureen: a second shift has backed out of plans to build a restaurant in donald trump's d.c. hotel, joining a growing list because of his comments about illegal immigrants. d.c. bureau chief sam ford reports. sam: they rallied in front of the old post office, which trump is renovating. protesters gathered on freedom plaza and march day block to the construction site, carrying signs and announcing donald trump for his statements about mexicans. donald trump: they are bringing drugs, they are bringing crime they are rapists. >> he continues to dig a hole that he started. it's him believable. sam: numerous leaders took part in the march. >

senator mikulski: it is very nice to see you again. mr. chairman, thank you for having this hearing as well as the vice chair. i would like to pick up on senator heinrich's recommendation about an additional hearing on the subject. in our briefing, i saw a lot of criticism of what we are pursuing here for some type of opportunity to not go dark. but i did not see any solutions. i saw a lot of criticisms, a lot of critiques, but i did not see solutions. we have tremendous technical know-how and i believe that the people in silicon valley are indeed very patriotic people and they don't want drug dealers and international traffickers and pornographers to get away with various things. so if we could get from those as well as the civil liberties community start working towards a solution, that would be great. in this year's appropriations funding, we worked very hard to support you. it is now senator shelby. we have now put in $8.4 billion to fund you for this coming year. my question to you is do you feel that those resources and the type of w

. >> senator mikulski? >> mr. director, it's very nice to see you again. mr. chairman, thank you for having this hearing. there's always -- i'd like to pick up on senator heinrich's recommendation about an additional hearing on the subject from the technical and civil liberties folk. in a briefing materials i read from aclu, the software alliance come and i saw a lot of criticism of what we are pursuing here for some type of opportunity to not go dark. but i didn't see any solutions. i saw a lot of criticisms, a lot of critique but i didn't see solutions. now i believe i can, as senator heinrich said, and others, we have tremendous technical know-how and i believe the people of silicon valley are indeed very patriotic people and they don't want drug dealers and international traffickers and child pornographers to be able to get away with various things. so if we could actually get from those as well as from civil liberties community, how we can start working to solution, that would be great. mr. director, in this year's appropriation funding we worked very har

after working for senator hart i worked for senator mikulski and ran for city council myself. for the last generation or two, we have had this question of what america's role should be in the world. iraq and afghanistan have left it in a place where people are wondering, are americans going to be willing to send troops overseas. where do you think we are? governor o'malley: i believe we are in search of a new story that make sense of our fundamental principles in a world that is very different from the 1990's or the cold war. i believe america's role in the world is to lead by example with the rise of a global middle class. the way we do that in these times is to create a foreign policy that is more about engagement and collaboration and in national security strategy that seeks new alliances to identify threats and to work with other nations to reduce them before we are backed into a corner where it seems the only response is a military response, american boots on the ground or not. for example, one of the things that preceded the failure of the nationstate of syria and the ri

she plans to run for outgoing senator barbara mikulski's seat. >>> president obama wrapping up his historic visit to africa today. he became the first sitting president to address the 54- nation african union which is headquartered in ethiopia. mr. obama called for leaders across the conts innocent to fight -- continent to fight for corruption and uphold democratic leaders. he also said no president should be president for life. >>> meantime authorities in zimbabwe want to talk to an american dentist who allegedly killed a protected lion. they believe dr. walter palmer of minnesota paid a farmer $55,000 to hunt and kill a popular lion named cecil. if convicted a judge could sentence palmer to up to 15 years. >>> a dramatic day inside a signature theater in shirlington but actors played no role in this protection. instead it was a wayward young buck deer that burst through an open loading dock door at 9:30 this morning and made its way on to the stage where one member of the crew preparing for an upcoming show took a picture. mick got the job of shhing that door back -- shooing that deer bac

senator mikulski: we have three so-called coincidences today. the fact that technology failed at united airlines, the new york stock exchange, as well as "the wall street journal." i don't believe in coincidence. i think coincidence is an event we don't have an explanation for. is the fbi investigating these as breaches? have you not been called in or are you are not able to say? i am very troubled. dir. comey: obviously, that caught my attention. we are not big believers in coincidence either. we want to dig into that. we have been in contact with all three companies to understand what is going on and we do not see any indication of a cyber breach or cyber attack. "the wall street journal" piece is connected to people flooding their website in connection to the new york stock exchange. to find out what was going on. but it looks like, again, and by ms. this -- in my business, you don't love coincidences, but it does appear that there is not a cyber intrusion involved. senator collins: director, you talked about the impact on terrorism cases and

mikulski: thank you very much, mr. president. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that i be able to speak in morning business for no more than ten minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. mikulski: thank you very much, mr. president. i rise today to commemorate the 50th anniversary of medicare. 50 years ago on july 30, 1965, president lyndon johnson signed into law the legislation to create medicare. mr. president, i say "thank god for medicare." it was a great idea 50 years ago. twit was a great idea 50 months ago, 50 weeks ago, 50 minutes. and i stand on the senate floor to say, we must keep medicare as medicare, keep the integrity and solvency of medicare. we cannot turn medicare into a voucher. we cannot dilute it, phase it out, or eliminate it. and i will say to this, until my last vote is cast in the senate, i will defend medicare. i saw what this meant in 1965. that summer i had just graduated from the university of maryland school of social work. change was in the air. the civil rights movement was making

john: i think the pressure from people like mark warner, democratic senator from virginia babra mikulski, democratic senator from maryland. both virginia and maryland are chock-full with federal workers and when you had prominent democrats, members of the president's party, saying that she needed to go, saying this had been an outrageous violation, i think she finally got that signal that wasn't impressed on the conference call and the white house today at the briefing josh ernest said it was quite clear new skills were needed. that's a sign the white house was not a bystander in this. they wanted this change made. gwen: we've heard 21 million this time, maybe four million earlier this year. do we know anything about the sensitivity of the data breached and who was affected and who caused it? john: we know it was not only federal workers but also family and friends of federal workers. the exact identities of which people were affected aren't known. at the press briefing, a reporter asked josh ernest, i've applied for a security clearance to get my white house pass, was my data compromise

let me move to senator mikulski asked the question. i'm going to raise another issue that i think there's been a great deal of confusion around. and concern and that's the opm breach. we're months into this now and continue to get a series of different answers in terms of numbers. i've been very disappointed by opm's reaction in post breach in terms of assuring those federal employees current and past. both in terms of what actions the government is going to take to protect them going forward. some of the subcontractors they've been using and how ill equipped they've been, not your topic. but if you can give a little more clarity about the overall scope of that within the confine or within the context of it public hearing? there's an awful lot of people listening for those kinds of answers. >> something i have to approach carefully. >> i understand. >> i know that the administration opm is working close to offering a more public and more detailed accounting of what we think was lost. but it is an enormous breach. and a huge amount of d

she will run for barbara mikulski's seat. >>> in virginia a new report says lobbyists are spending aittle bit less on local lawmakers. just released disclosed reforms show lobbyists spent $456,000 on dinners and gifts for lawmakers in richmond between last november and april of thiyear. that number was about $472 -- the year before and in the 500,000s in 2013. the changes could be because of former governor bob mcdonnell's recent corruption case. >>> your commute over the 495 can be faster. the agency wants the lanes to go all the way to the 270 spur. vdot says another bridge will be needed to address future traffic volume increases. >>> a traffic alert for you this morning. major lane closures on 395 in d.c. for months to come. the closures are part of the effort to extend the third street tunnel and make room for the capitol crossing development. this won't take place during the peak driving hours. all lanes are open from 5 to 11 p.m. and then 5 to 11 p.m. in the southbound direction. it will be cut to one lane in each direction in the district. these lane closures will be in effec

mikulski: thank you very much. well mr.president i'm here today to stand up for maryland and for all of the students that could lose resources under an amendment offered by the gentleman from north carolina, senator burr. now, there's much that i admire about senator burr, but his current amendment is really -- really would cause maryland tremendous problems. the burr amendment would punish states that make significant investments in those students who need extra help. this amendment would not do one thing to lift kids out of poverty or to close the achievement gap. in fact, it makes it worse. the so-called hold harmless provision that is in the bill does not hold maryland harmless. it doesn't prevent any of the maryland school districts from losing money. under the burr amendment maryland would lose $40 million. let me repeat, under the burr amendment, maryland would lose $40 million. now, maryland knows that i've always been on the side of students of teachers, of those who run programs, and the taxpayers who pay for them

mikulski: thank you very much mr. president. mr. president, i ask unanimous cons ent th able to in morning business for no more than ten minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. mikulski: thank you very much mr. president. i rise today to commemorate the 50th anniversary of medicare. 50 years ago on july 30, 1965, president lyndon johnson signed into law the legislation to create medicare. mr. president, i say "thank god for medicare." it was a great idea 50 years ago. twait was a great idea 50 months ago, 50 weeks ago 50 minutes. and i stand on the senate floor to say we must keep medicare as medicare keep the integrity and solvency of medicare. we cannot turn medicare into a voucher. we cannot dilute it, phase it out, or eliminate it. and i will say to this, until my last vote is cast in the senate, i will defend medicare. i saw what this meant in 1965. that summer i had just graduated from the university of maryland school of social work. change was in the air. the civil rights movement was making its progress t

maryland senator barbara mikulski will introduce a bill today calling for harriet tubman to have thatescaped in 1849 and she returned several times to help others to freedom. the treasury department recently announced the redesigned 10 will feature an american woman. senator shaheen is also sponsoring that bill. >>> time for a look at weather and traffic on the 1s. and we think you'll like what you're about to hear. >> i thought you were about to speak minion or something. >> me thinks. that is a world. that is a word. >> we have a clearing sky. the rain is long gone. great weather for driving this morning in midday and for the afternoon commute. we'll have drying roads this morning. watch out, a little bit of ponding in some of the low areas from yesterday's storms. otherwise, some sunshine with drying roads will be in the mid to upper 70s for the morning commute. headed back home, dry roads. lots of sunshine. temperatures in the upper 80s and you will notice it's going to be a bit less humid throughout the day. a look at weekend changes in the forecast. might get a little bit of rai

. >> senator mikulski. i understand security firms have a top shield that can be penetrated? >> i don't have any more information than what i read in the news senator, but i read that as well. >> which indicates that this is an international problem -- >> it certainly is. >> -- and really shows that despite best efforts of highly skilled profession -- that's not to excuse where we are. but your advice is get with it and get with it pretty quick. >> i think you have summed it up. >> and would you recommend this be across all government agencies. that opm was hit, et cetera? >> my experience having served on the federal cio council and worked with many of the agencies is that opm is not some outlier here. that many of the federal agencies have very similar issues as far as management and cyber security posture. >> thank you very much, sir. ms. archuletta, the federal employees. maryland is the home to 130,000 federal employees. they work at everything from the national institutes of health to the national security agency. most people with the national security agency are civili

i want to barbara mikulski office senator from maryland where the applied physics lab is and we had 10,000 postcards from people who just thought that this is cool. >> wow. >> and she pushed for it the senator, and bill frist, the representative from the area pushed for this mission in the year 2000. i and i guess miles was at the launch in 2006 january 19th. nine and a half years later. >> unbelievable. >> we get these pictures man. it's just fantastic, and so everybody, you know you go to school and what you say to kids what's your favorite planet and still my favorite planet is earth, but people will say pluto, so now we have pictures of pluto. >> of the dwarf planet pluto discovered 85 years ago. >> yeah. >> and his kids were there. >> that's right. >> adrian and -- >> that's okay if you can't remember their name. >> annette. it's all good. a lot of numbers running through my head today. we want to get about ten times the resolution 10.1 times the resolution that we had yesterday, and you can really see on pluto that it's this world with different geologic regions. i don't mean you hav

. >> we had such a good time we won't oonld and hat dinner. 20 months ago barbara mikulski ordered themch of fun because it wee each fwoenl. so jut for fun we tore so just for fun we torment them sometimes. >> the pool is off limits to women. why? >> it's not pretty. some of the male senators are like to swim in the buff. >> theyed tobe told they cot not give ott out. i cannot get it out of my hard drive. >> that would be i too much. keeping the lines of communication open to find a compromise. what would washington look like if there were more well in the senate? >> i think we would get a volume of more things done. we're doers. there would be a lot less of this back stapping and jekt the set of hateful things. >> women make up 51% of the population but hold 21% of the seats in congress. in the history of the senate there have been more than 1,900 senators but only 46 women. >> we even all seen it which is great compared to where we even been and where we're going. we have a lot more to go, i think all of ulgs would agree on that. >> it's not all of that. they earn 77%. when it comes t

and all of the leaders there and i can assure you on the hill, senators mikulski, the various members of congress, are worried too. they're saying you have to get a manager, you have to get people who know how to run this system on a day to day basis. you have to have troubleshooting, you have to have a whole response to a whole raft of problems that you haven't dealt with. meanwhile, congress is losing its patience. the house has cut funds at least at this stage of the deal. we haven't gotten to the final product yet. it's a serious situation and in effect they're saying that metro has got to put up or shut up. >> it's a really unified front when you look at it. you have the two governors and the mayor of the city. you have the transportation secretary. and they're all talking about metro. you know, larry hogan says, listen, we have to move forward we know what we have to do. to dave's point, i think the central point is the general manager issue. you need someone at the top to try to move metro in a particular direction. i think what's important here, chris, will they hire a general

i give credit right now to senator mikulski trying to push an energy bill through the senate.it for that and she deserves it. that is leadership but we don't see much of that. we haven't had an energy bill since 2007 in the latter part of the bush administration and we have been throughout the cycle with no leadership coming out of either the senate or the house or the white house for that matter. so we had going to set ourselves up for high-priced oil and 24 to 36 months and there we are. neil: the passive reactive thing you lost me but that is a question on the as 80s which i am happy to say at least if you are looking to go to george washington university you needn't worry about it which -- i understand the whole idea was to get a score that went at least into the triple digits. i had no idea. now we are going to explain what it means if there are no more as 80s, it will depend on your kid's great point average for your grade point average, that could be evening the spot as far as hellish possibilities. the move, for the saps to set yourself down. s to set yourself down. t

mikulski: thank you very much mr. president. first of all, i want to compliment the senator from connecticut on his initial statement related to student privacy. i think it's an essential element to clarifying privacy is meant to protect but not inadverted opponently inhibit our ability to give help that those that so desperately need pit. i want to associate myself with his remarks on really doing something about the background check, the timely response. i think the massacre in emanuel a.m.e. deeply troubled the nation. the very least thing that can come out of this is not only the flag coming down and all that it meant but other barriers to safety should come down as well. and i want the gentleman from connecticut to know that he has my admiration and my support. mr. president, while we're waiting for the vote in approximately 15 minutes i know that senator kaine will be coming to the floor to talk about an important post secondary educational remediation reform. but i wanted to comment on the 21 million federal employees who

i'm very pleased that senator warner, senator mikulski, senator coats senator ayotte and senator mccaskill are joining me in this bipartisan effort to strengthen cybersecurity in federal agencies. i very much appreciate their input into this bill and their support. mr. president, the cyber attack that stole sensitive personal data from millions of current former and retired federal employees from the poorly secured databases at the office of personnel management underscored the extraordinary vulnerability of our federal computer networks. but for the more than 21 million americans infected and indeed, for our country the threat from this theft continues. whether it is the risk to the individual of identity theft or the impact on our nation of the compromise of the identity of those dealing with classified information or the potential for espionage or blackmail the threat remains extremely serious. worst of all mr. president are better -- worst of all mr. president, better security of computer networks at o.p.m. might well have prevented this terrible breach. the negligence of o.p.m. offici

a couple examples, barbara mikulski, a senator, said she doesn't believe in coincidences with everything going on yesterday. dianne feinstein said this is an oddity, she said we need to deal with is talking about a greater computer problem, because it is happening every couple weeks it feels like and it has to end. i want to point out at this point there haven't been any calls for congressional hearings but that might be something to keep an eye on, at least one analyst we heard from yesterday, here is what he had to say, he said expect hearings in the house and senate before the august recess. officials will be forced to explain what happened on top of that, we expect significant investigation. that is one person's opinion. maria: i am sure the sec wants to know what happened. your company focuses on compliance, regulatory issues ended years toward configurations of this was the software configuration, software update the went awry. >> absolutely. in this day and age with highly complex high-speed trading machines things can go wrong and definitely with the date and configuration change

mikulski: thank you very much mr. president. i come here today to speak about the bill pending before us called every child achieves act. this is the successor to the no child left behind which is the successor to the reauthorization of the elementary secondary education act. 50 years ago in 2015 -- in 1965 as part of lyndon johnson's morning to end poverty in the united states of america and to lift all -- be able to lift people up, he asked congress to pass the elementary and secondary education act. it was the first act legislative act where the federal government was involved in education. up until that time, education was thought of as the purview of the states and local districts. senator johnson -- excuse me, president johnson agreed to with that as did the congress, but at the same time they knew that there were children living in abysmal situations of poverty and at the time of a national prosperity he wanted to lift those children up. great legislation passed during those 50 years, head start which continues to be a ha

coons-reed-blunt 2178, mccain 2181 whitehouse 2185, blunt-cardin-mikulski collins 21 the 5 gillibrand 2116, graham 2199 -- pardon me, 2216. graham 2199, alexander 2201, bennet 2225, booker 2224, cornyn 2227. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. alexander: thank you madam president. now, i ask unanimous consent notwithstanding rule 22 on behalf of myself and senator murray if cloture is invoked on the alexander amendment number 289, the following amendments be made pending en bloc: coons 2243, cruz 2180, heitkamp 2171 hatch 2082, warren 2106, burr 2247, as modified with changes at the desk, murphy 2186 brown 2100, wicker 2144, markey 2176, murphy 2241, sanders 2177, casey 2242, schatz 2130 nelson 2215, as modified with changes at the desk, manchin 2222, bozeman 2231 is baldwin 2188, capito 2156, thune 2232 king 2256, schatz 2240, warren 2249, following that, at a time to be determined by the majority leader in consultation with the democratic leader, either today or tomorrow, the senate vote in relation to the following amendments: brown 2100 heitkamp 2171,