we turn to our third witness mr. braun the feet. president a patriot management in california. mr. lafitte. >> mr. chairman and ranking member, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today for this hearing on the impact covid-19 has had on the live internet industry. i'm the president of patriot management a management company-owned by live nation. they represent over 45 artists, producers, songwriters including one republic, the bastrop boys, pharrell williams, and usher. i've been part of the music industries in size 14. i started helping local bands by selling t-shirts and making flyers. fortunately for me one of those was metallica. i was able to turn that opportunity into a career. instead of going to college, i went on tour. that was my education. since then i have had the privilege of managing many fans, running a record company, and coming back to doing what i love the most, represented the artists as their manager. before any of this i was a music fan and still in. from the beginning you could always find me in front of the stage somewhere as an obsessed fan. t

mr. braun: rick manchin, back in 2018, we ran on what we're talking about today. we wouldn't be honest to the people that elected u to come here. i had eight pages of prepared remarks. this is something i've talked about so often, i'm going to cover some new terrain to make it relatable to the citizens across this country of how this place works and how it's so different from how anything else wos. a few of us come from the world of accountability. the business world,here you don't have the luxury of doing what we do here in the federal government. and listen to this closely because this is what most citizens don't understand. we are given the revenues here in this place, and our only job, number one, should be to not spend more than what we're given. we don't do that. we borrow 23% roughly of what we spend. try taking that to your banker running a business, see if you get a loan doing that. that's just a real simpleay to look at how we do this year after year. on main street, whether you're running a business, whether it's your household -- i served in state gove

mr. moran: i ask unanimous consent that the braun amendment at the desk be agreed to and the bill as amended be considered read a third time. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. moran: i know of no further debate on the bill as amended. the presiding officer: if there is no further debate the question is on passage of the bill as amended. all those in favor say aye. opposed, no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the bill as amended is passed. mr. moran: i ask unanimous consent that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. moran: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from kansas. mr. moran: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 5272 and s. 3287. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar 572 s. 3287 a bill to manage the government wide financial plan and for other purposes. the presiding officer: without objection the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. moran: mr. president, i ask unanimous consen

mr. cornyn: madam president, i also ask unanimous consent that doug gelzuka, military fellow in senator braun'soffice be granted floor privileges for the remainder of the congress. i apologize to doug if i mispronounced his name. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cornyn: madam mr. cornyn: madam president, we've seen a series of encouraging developments in the middle east, a place where there isn't a long trend line of positive developments. we have destroyed the isis caliphate. we've brought down dangerous terrorist leaders like al-baghdadi. and of course the head of the irgc, general soleimani, who was personally responsible for american blood on his hands, particularly in providing explosively performed explosively formed penetrators that penetrated our armor in iraq. through the work of the trump administration, we've strengthened bilateral ties with our closest friends and allies, including israel and jordan. and this summer the administration helped forge historic peace deals between israel and arab nations in the region. the united arab emirates became the third arab country a

mr. braun: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to legislative session and be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. braun: i ask unanimous consent that the committee on commerce be discharged from further consideration of h.r. 2610 and the senate proceed to its immediate consideration. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 2640, an act to establish an office within the federal trade commission and so forth and for other purposes. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed. the committee is discharged and senate will proceed. mr. braun: i ask unanimous consent that the wicker substitute amendment at the desk be agreed to, the bill, as amended, be considered read a third time. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. braun: i ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read a third time. the presiding officer: without obj

mr. braun: mr. president the presiding officer: the senator fro indiana. mr. raun: today i rise in proud support of legislation that will break down barriers for those with medically determined a.l.s. a.l.s. is a progressive and fatal neurodegenerative disease that affects the spinal cord and brain, gradually robbing its patients with the ability to speak, eat, and eventually breathe. there is no known treatment, no known cause and no cure. today we have reason to hope. since 2016, senators whitehouse and cotton, have championed the disability insurance access act. thanks to their tireless efforts, we're about to give a.l.s. patients and their families more timely access to their social security disability benefits. no longer will these patients have to wait five months to access benefits they've earned. passing this act will help alleviate some of the financial burdens that company -- accompany an a.l.s. diagnosis and will allow patients and their families to focus their precious time where it needs to be, with their loved ones in their battle against the dise