mr. alexander: i object. the presiding officer: the objection is heard. mr. alexander: mr. president? the presiding officer: i recognize the senator from tennessee. mr. alexander: the distinguished senator from alabama mentioned music and a lot of us have been watching ken burns country music film the last several days which is terrific and includes lots from alabama and even more from tennessee. my experience with music and song writers is to get a melody, you need some cooperation. you need cooperation. usually three songwriters will write a song. so i'm interested in harmony but i think we need some cooperation across the aisle as on our committee, thanks to the distinguished senator from washington state, senator murray and senator jones, we often had. we had it on fixing no child left behind. we had it on the 21st century cures. we had it on the opioid crisis response act. we have it on the lowering health care costs act which came out of our committee 20-3 just recently. and we need to have it on higher education. so i have a suggestion today. and i want to speak about it for ab

mr. alexander: mr. president, i have 11 requests for committees to meet during today's session of the senate. they have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. the presiding officer: duly noted. mr. alexander: mr. president, if a few minutes, i want to speak about president trump's nomination of eugene scalia to be the secretary of labor, but first i want to introduce two speeches that i made in tennessee into the record. i notice the room nearly cleared when i observed i was about to make some speeches, but at least there are some people watching. the first speech was on august 26 of this year in clinton, tennessee. it had to do with the clinton 12. these were 12 students, some as young as 14 years of age, who walked down the hill and enrolled in clinton high school in 1956, 63 years ago, and became the first students to integrate a public school in the south. many of us remember what happened the next year in arkansas when the governor stood in the door and president eisenhower had to send

that it never works out mr obama's barely. 2 years. on. alexander for. himself as an adventurer he really cultivated this image of the daring adventure he was in he was the best publicist to machine ever. few know him as well as she tells andrea of wolf is an expert on alexander from whom bolts life and adventures her biography reintroduce the great naturalist to a new generation of readers and now the world is marking his 250th birthday we made out with andrea wulf at the royal institution in london one of britain's foremost establishments for scientific education and research. will spend over a decade on the traces of alexander for humboldt she's written 2 books about him including an illustrated album about his famous expedition to south and sin. america it depicts the hardships in jude but also his fascinating encounters and discoveries and it includes his drawings which fundamentally changed your view of the americas. you alexander for whom boyd was for sure one of the greatest scientists of previous times of all times when he was the most famous sc

mr. trump insisting he did nothing wrong. peter alexander begins our coverage. >> reporter: late tonight, president trump firing back. >> no push, no pressure, no nothing. it's all a hoax, folks, it's all a big hoax. >> reporter: the president defiant following the white house's release of this five-page memo detailing his july phone call with ukraine's president, zelensky. >> it's a joke impeachment for that when you have a wonderful meeting or you have a wonderful phone conversation >> reporter: but democrats say the president's words amount to an impeachable offense. >> i'm glad the president released this transcript, but it is absolutely stanbalances rema. >> reporter: that call begins with president trump congratulati was withholding hundreds of millions oy aid, emphasizes the united states is very, very good to ukraine. when zelensky says he's thankful for the u.s.'s military support and expresses a desire to buy more military equipment, president trump says i would like you to do us a favor though, asking ukraine to investigate matter

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mr. scalia: thank you so much. sen. alexander: thank you, senator murray. i want to thank my colleagues for conducting a confirmation hearing that included vigorous questioning of the nominee, which one would expect for someone from -- who's been nominated by any president for secretary of labor. there are probably no set of issues about which we have more different opinions politically than on labor issues, but with treating the nominee with the kind of respect that a presidential nominee should have. so, i thank my colleagues for that. i thank senator murray and her staff and our staff for the professional way they've conducted the various discussions we have in connection with the nomination. mr. scalia, it's been two months since the president made known his intent to nominate mr. scalia. we've had all of his records sent for three weeks. we will -- we've had good questions today. and we'll vote next tuesday. i won't have any further questions except to make a couple of comments. one is, there are opportunities senator murphy indicated, despite our poli

mrs. abernathy was born on 1, 1931 in union town, alabama. eight the youngest of children born to alexander and ella gilmore jones. she met her grade future husband, reverend dr. alph abernathy, who wrote in his memoirs he was impressed by er audacious spirit and inherent dignity. n 1952 after mrs. abernathy completed her b.s. in business administration from tennessee she and dr. abernathy were married. he moved to montgomery, alabama, where she became the secretary for the alabama taught of the naacp and high school courses on business i prevailed because of her personal courage and sacrifices way for future generations of black children like me to succeed. lust for the president politically that does not serve our nation well. the high points. there is no quid pro quo between resident trump and president zelensky for anything, much less military aid. eight times of reference to joe biden. "the wall street journal" will have a good deal of retracting today. fact, president zelensky out of out the rooting corruption. zelensky said we here in the ukraine are trying to drain the swamp much li

obvious correspondent ugh zondervan naaman is at the united nations alexander and not surprisingly of course iran featured quite prominently in mr trump's speech we understand that germany's chancellor angela merkel has met with president trump reportedly there are also plans for her to meet with iran's rouhani. do you think that she can play a mediating role. well it appears live there for now that the german chancellor as well as the french president among the crow are trying to take the role of media tourists here to try to be the media truce between iran and the united states marco also met with rouhani yesterday and he is due to met with president to meet with president today and i think that what is what it is telling us is that the europeans are seeing a chance for diplomacy here president was very critical of iran and he's united nations addressed however he has so far shown restraint in the conflict in the crisis and he refrained from any military retaliation measures against iran and i think that the europeans understand that that is there a chance to try it to give to try to give diplomacy a chance but of course we ha

an emotive a very powerful message there from mr emberg let's go now to new york city to did abuse correspondent alexander phenomena who is covering the u.n. climate summit alexander get it to work has the world's attention unquestionably but what i wonder how receptive are world leaders to her message. so she's of course only a student we have to say but she's also the face of the global movement a movement that is getting stronger and stronger every day as the at least it seems to sway when we just remember last friday where 4000000 people to go to the streets to demand bold climate change action and her speech here was a very emotional and it was very impressive she is that you can really sense and hear in her voice her anger outrage and a hope that you know that something can happen i was very impressed by but have way of addressing the world leaders but of course we need to add that many of them are well connected with the oil and gas industries and many of them argue that it's for them not to not really possible to to do as much as as demanded because they are as they say concerned about jobs in the

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alexander hamilton awareness society, of which i am a member. i have spoken twice at hamilton's grave, which is at trinity church in downtown manhattan. -- noise and traffic. [laughter] mr. cregeau: i wanted to briefly say, a nice connection by coincidence because i wrote an article about the six degrees of alexander hamilton and the huntingtons of norwich. my wife and i own the huntington house in norwich. the house is pictured on the left. there is his portrait, based on by johnature painting trumbull. he married faith trumbull, the daughter of the governor of connecticut, and her famous brother was the painter. his epaulet on the right, which went to auction. we got blown out of the water at an auction for that. $26,000 for a pair of epaulets. ok. the hamilton we know, there is so little that we know. there is so much in which we focus on his accomplishments as treasury secretary. for the infamous duel, where we know how it ends, he will be killed by aaron burr. there are scandals and so forth, and a little bit about his military experiences. that is what we tend to not know. it was a portrait by john trumbull. like alexander hamilton, he also at one point served as

alexander: they were reviewing the problems of mr. carlos ghosn but also the other man.rently had said to some of the other board members, in particular mr. kelly, can you make sure i get paid more without having to change my contract? it was anppear understanding internally if not externally that playing around with contracts, rules and money was a perfectly acceptable form of behavior in the company. came out afterwards and there is no way outsiders would know that. is there a lot of rot? once you have those corrupt internal practices, it takes a lot of rooting out because there are people with a vested interest to maintain the status quo. column bloomberg opinion pointed out carlos ghosn went to jail but this second person gets shoved out the door. if you were a ceo being headhunted, why would you take the job? , particularly if you don't have clear guidelines as to what you can do. personally we think the thing that needs to do is they have to completely realign the business, start collecting far more capital towards the electric products and they have drifted that w

alexander hamilton. james madison's copy actually has an notations by james madison. >> it says right here, "mr.mes madison's esstays, federalist number 10, addresses the dangers of what he called factions and is cited on both sides of the campaign finance debate. >> so federalist number 10. >> he's leaving us alone with the federalist papers. >> among the advantages promised by a well-constructed immune, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction. faction can be read as at whwha? >> special interest groups. >> this is basically talking about money and influence? >> money and influence. >> from large organizations? >> there are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction. the one by removing its causes, the other by controlling its effects. by removing its causes. how do you do that? you can't remove the causes of -- >> human nature. >> human nature or faction, right. >> i think you control. >> what you're going to do is control its effects. >> control its effects. >> today the men and women entrusted with controlling the effec

alexander and robert acosta in general. it's unique that moment after it's public he's leaving the administration, build mr. bolton, he's interacting with reportersp that could be a preview of a strategy to set the record straight in bolton's view. we've got a lot more to go on this story and see what our latest sources are saying and toss it back to you. >> i do want to let folks know peter alexander at the white house is reporting that charlie cupperman, the deputy national security advisor will step in on an acting role. ned price, what happened here? as -- from your viewpoint? was this policy, the ones that i mentioned? we know there have been public disagreements between these two men and vivid disagreements within the national security team, particularly between john bolton and mike pompeo. was it policy or personality or some combination of both do you imagine? >> well, i imagine when it comes to the disagreements it was a little bit of both. it was certainly policy. there had been rumors of personality. but i think we also have to talk about this in terms of the process we've seen today and that is

alexander hamilton as part of the deal. here is a quote from john adams as to hamilton's influence at this time, late 1790's. "such was the influence of mr. hamilton in congress that without any recommendation for the president, they passed a bill to raise an army." that is from page 553 of chernow's seminal engrossing biography of hamilton. does the say, chernow best job of going through hamilton's later military service. adams is just incredulous. you have to keep in mind, hamilton had served as a congressman from the state of new york at that point before becoming treasury secretary. the letter to george washington from hamilton in which he is negotiating about how he will take this role on. place inommand, the which i, hamilton, should hope to be most useful is that of inspector general." he wants the field command. washington was done with doing field command at 66 years old. he wanted it to go to hamilton. "this i would accept." the other generals who were going to serve in the war were incredulous. they were as in shock of john adams. i have to serve under alexander hamilton? i am henry knox, i was already a general in the revolut

alexander ocasio-cortez is the son of aliens from mars. it's not true. oh, it isn't? well, then let me go ahead and change that. [laughter] mr. grove: and this goes on all the time, and you have to worry about it. it is corrosive. there is no if's, and's, or bud's about it. we have to find a way to deal with it. >> let me make a point. i look at the internet as the greatest invention since the gutenberg press for the dissemination of ideas. the representative democracy, who are the owners of the government? the people. so the people decide. the reason newspapers are dying, people can get biased information for free on the internet. people realize -- human beings have a position and a view. reporting too much has turned into columns and editorials. carl, even before all of those wonderful milestones in history, if it weren't for the gutenberg press, who would've read those 95 theses that martin luther nailed to the church? the gutenberg press got those ideas out that led to the protestant reformation. i am not promoting that. >> reagan was a great baptist, thank you very much. [laughter] mr. allen: jefferson said, whether some

mr. mccallister. >> not wasting any time are you, tracy? >> well, you know what they say about the early bird. >> yeah, i do. >> this is the second movie of alexanderion. >> i know this country was built by people just like me who work very hard and don't have everything handed to them on a silver spoon. >> what's brilliant about "election kw, is that you're getting voiceover from like three or fount different perspectives. >> who knew how high she would climb in life, how many people would suffer because of her. i had to stop her. >> alexander payne made a very american movie. and the performances in "election" of matthew broderick and reese witherspoon are terrific. >> looks like you could use a cupcake. >> it's a remarkable film. >> how are you? "boys don't cry" is based on a true story, a young man who was a trans man living in a small community. he fell in love with a woman. they had a relationship, and other people discovered that this was a trans man and not a sis man and sexually assaulted and murdered him. "boys don't cry" is a phenomenal movie. like, no studio would've made that movie. >> it was a game changer in terms of american cinema

mr. scalia. the secretary currently serves as the united states transportation secretary. secretary, welcome. >> thank you. chairman alexander, ranking member, murray, before introducing today's nominee, please let me acknowledge senator johnny isakson who announced his retirement. his leadership on the pension protect act of 2006 has greatly benefitted workers and our country and you will be dearly missed. i'm pleased to be here today to introduce eugene scalia who i've known for years. and i can attest to his keen intellectual, respect for the rule of law, personal integrity and commitment to protecting our nation's workers. let me know that there's a corum of scalia friends here. she's been a strong guiding influence on her family. she ensured that gene read a long biography of samuel adams when he was just in graduate school to emphasize the important of dedication and character in public service. this is just one of the many ways that gene's parents instilled within him a profound respect for public service, for the founding principles of our country, and for the importance of using one's talents to make a difference fo

mr. scalia and you will introduced by elaine chao. secretary chao currently serves as the united states transportation secretary and she previously served as labor secretary under george w. bush. secretary chao, welcome. >> thank you. chairman alexandernking member murray, before introducing today's nominee eugene scalia please let me acknowledge senator johnny isakson who recently announced his retirement. his leadership on the penth protection act in 2007 andese grate waited workers and i am pleased today to zhu you to vince scalia be too the 28th u.s. secretary of labor. i worked closely with gene when i was secretary of labor and can attest to his keen intellect, respect for the rule of law, personal integrity and commitment to protecting our nation's workers. let me know that there's a quorum of scalia members here and let me mention maureen scalia who is a treasured friend for many years. she's been a strong, guiding influence on her family, she's a proud new englander who ensured that gene read a long biography of samuel adams when he was just in grade school to emphasize the importantance of dedication and character in public service. this is just one of the many ways that gene's parents instilled within him a profound respec

mr. alexander: i'll start again, mr. president. ken burns told me last year that his eight-part, 16-hour country music film that concludes on pbs this week could be more popular than his civil war film. and after watching the first episodes, i suspect he may be right. his new film plums the depths of the american soul using the one tool, music, that is most likely to touch the most number of us. as a united states senator from tennessee i will confess my bias. the first two hours of country music a week ago sunday was about the recordings of hillbilly music in 1927, at the birthplace of country music in bristol, where the tn-virginia -- the tennessee-virginia state line runs down the middle of main street. two years ago senator kaine and i played a concert, me on the key board, he on the harmonica at the end of that main street at a fiddler's festival they have. the rest of the ken burns episode winds through a community called boogertown in eastern tennessee in the smoky mountains where dolly parton was born. to the grand ol' opry

mr. alexander: i appreciate the comments from the senator from new jersey. just to be clear, the house bill for historically black and minority-serving institutions creates a new funding cliff. it's a short-term patch for two years that creates a cliff after two years. it's supported by a budget gimmick that can't possible pat the senate. so what i have proposed is a permanent solution. get rid of the cliff. a permanent solution that those institutions and those students can depend on. $255 million a year fully paid for. that is the proposal. second, the united states department of education has written us a letter to congress and said no one is going to lose their money at the end of the month. the law expires but the money doesn't. there's enough money to continue the program for another year. it shouldn't take us another year to work this out. and third, it is urgent to deal with historically black colleges but let's look at the students, not the colleges. who goes to historically black colleges? low-income students often go there. and 20 million low-inco

mr. alexander: reserving the right to object, the senator from alabama is a valued member of the education committee, ensuring that historically black colleges and universities have continued funding is something we all want to do. however, instead of a short-term patch, i favor a long-term solution, and i'm ready to do this along with a few other bipartisan higher education proposals that also have bipartisan support. here's what such a package could include. $255 million permanent mandatory funding for historically black college, reduce the number of questions on the fafsa that 20 million families fill out every year for federal aid that senator bennet and senator jones proposed. i would like to see the legislation pass again that reduces 22 questions on the fafsa. schatz, lee, and durbin proposed pell grants for prisoners. there is a proposal by senator portman and kaine and many other bipartisan senators on short-term pell grants for job training. we could expand pell grant eligibility. we could increase the maximum pell grant award. these are all things we should be able to agree on,

mr. mcconnell: but as impressive a as these statistics are, all of lamar alexander's colleagues know that political record-setting is not what makes him tick. here's something he likes to say about serving in the senate. it's hard to get here. it's hard to stay here. so while you're here, you might as well try to accomplish something. well, he certainly has lived out his own advice. during senator alexander's very first term, he get to 70 senators to support his bipartisan america competes act to help our country stay competitive with the rest of the world. he even persuaded a democrat and republican leaders to join forces as the principal sponsors. when it was enacted in 2007, everyone knew who the chief engineer had been. as senator dan inouye said at the time, i wish to commend my colleague, senator alexander, for his broad and very intricate history of bipartisanship. if all of us in this body followed this process in all major legislation, this would be an historic session. i thank the senator from tennessee very much. that was senator dan inouye from hawaii. then in 2012, after bein