mr. casey: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from pennsylvania. mr. casey: i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: we're not in a quorum call. the senator is recognized. mr. casey: i ask unanimous consent that liz wynnetrob be granted floor privileges during today's proceedings. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. casey: thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. mr. mcconnell: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to executive session for the consideration of the following nomination, executive calendar 42 1-rbgs the nomination richard granell to be ambassador to germany, that if confirmed, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, that the president be immediately notified of the senate's action, that no further motions be in order, and that any amendments related to the nomination be printed in the record. the presiding officer: is there obj

mr. casey: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from pennsylvania. mr. casey: thank you, mr. president. i would ask consent to speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. casey: thank you, mr. president. i will address two matters this evening. i would ask be consent initially to have both sets of remarks appear at different places in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. casey: thank you, mr. president. the first is with regard to syria and the syrian civil war. i rise today as syria is about to enter its eighth year of conflict. we have witnessed seven years of displacement and violence, seven years of war crimes, seven years of bashar al-assad's illegitimate grasp on power. to say that it is past time for assad to go or that it is past time for the conflict to be resolved dramatically underestimates the suffering, the horrible suffering and destruction the people of syria have experienced. in these seven years, almost 500,000 syrians have been killed, and more than 12 million have been displaced fr

mr. casey: i rise this afternoon, and i know i'll be joined by a number of my colleagues on the floor, to talk about gun violence and to talk about what happened most recently and tragically in the state of florida. i hope we can cover a number of, a number of aspects of this challenge, but i wanted to start, of course, with the victims who were killed at marjory stoneman douglas high school on february 14. i'll make reference to the individuals specifically more a little later. we're remembering them today. we're thinking of their families. certainly thinking as well of the surviving students and praying for the families, the victims and the survivors. i can't imagine what these families are dealing with right now just days after this tragedy. there are a lot of ways to express grief, a lot of ways to somehow articulate the loss. i can't do it adequately, so i'll turn to, in this case a songwriter, a recording artist, bruce springsteen. we all know a good bit of his music, but years ago he wro

mr. casey: i rise this afternoon, and i know i'll be joined by a number of my colleagues on the floor, to talk about gun violence and to talk about what happened most recently and tragically in the state of florida. i hope we can cover a number of, a number of

mr. wall, how is that different than casey? in casey we required doctors to hand out state-created materials telling the women about what services the state and others provided. adoption centers, fathers had to pay things. now, i think your distinction -- and you keep repeating it is -- these centers, i'm assuming both the licensed and unlicensed ones are not doing procedures. but i don't know what an ultrasound is if not a procedure. i don't know what a pregnancy test is if not a proceeds -- procedure. i don't know how counseling on the pregnancy state is not part of medical advice in the same way a doctor gives it when he's considering ap abortion procedure -- an abortion procedure. i don't understand the difference. both of them are doing medical-related procedures, and both are being asked, the chief said there's a distinction in not advertising someone else's services. but in casey we permitted it. so please explain to me again why there's a difference here. >> so, justice sotomayor, i agree with everything you said in the

casey? >> i just have one question for mr. shadel. this is based upon some of the testimony we heard today from mary talking about her travels, the many miles. i think our staff did a rough calculation, mary, and i guess if your 15,000 miles means you've driven across the state 53 times. so i just hope your don't run for office. but no matter how many miles she travels, how many times she would go across the state, she can't prevent every one of these. we've got to get at the root cause. the fcc finalized a new rule that i mentioned to allow the phone companies to block calls. but obviously this problem of spoofing, fraud is still happening. i guess the basic question i have is what can we do to ensure that the industry is using this new tool? and every other possible tool to prevent this? what's your sense of that? >> i think it's a great move that the fcc did this, when we support -- >> could you put your mic on, please? >> we definitely supported that move, the fcc, to allow telecommunications companies to use the technology that w

governor casey subscribed to that belief. mr. speaker, let's be clear. intentionally stopping a heart beat is not health care. h.r. 490 recognizes what science has already affirmed. that there is a baby growing in her mother's womb, one with her own distinct heart beat. therefore we have an obligation to protect the most vulnerable among us. to defend the defenseless. how can our country continue to flourish and claim itself as a champion of human rights when we allow our society to rid ourselves of our own future generations? that is why i came to the floor today. to urge those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. the -- for the heart beat protection act. to give our country a chance to reflect on some of the deeper questions and deeper values. to walk in solidarity with one another. when one encounters a difficult situation. to stand in each other's shoes with empathy. i urge my colleagues to support this legislation and i again thank the gentleman from iowa and i yield back my time. mr. king: reclaiming my time. i th

senator casey? mr. lighthizer: i would like to respond. i think that is fundamentally wrong. mr.hairman: go ahead and respond. mr. lighthizer: to suggest that we are doing is not sophisticated is nonsense. i would suggest that if you look at these dialogues that we have china joins the wto in 2002. bush'sthat, we have action for china against ip. a clinton action, no result. no we start the jcct, the strategic economic dialogue. the deficit goes from about 100, $250 billion. we arecided, while getting nothing done, this is the problem, strategic economic dialogue is not working. let's have strategic and economic dialogue. they put that on the table for a couple years and the trade deficit continues to go up. we have had every one of these so-called dialogues, that have accomplished almost nothing. the trade deficit has gotten worse, with respect to every single one of them. this president came in and said, we are going to start a comprehensive economic dialogue and do it definitely. is a hundred day plan, the end of the hundred days, and we essentially got nothing. the trade defi

so-- >> thank you. >> senator casey, i'm so glad you brought up that last issue and that mr. shadel had the opportunity to respond because years ago when the do not call registry was established, we had hoped that we were going to see an end to these kinds of abusive calls and the ability to spoof the telephone number has really made the do not call registry useless. and i share your frustration that the telecommunications companies have technology available that could help in so solving this problem and they need to deploy it and it would make such a difference. i'm personally not surprised that the telephone is still the instrument of choice by con artists because it's harder to have an emotional connection through e-mail. romance on-line scams do exist, but it's when you hear someone on the phone and you don't want to be rude and you may be isolated and living alone that it can become very seductive to be drawn in to a scam. and to, i think, the refusal script is a really good idea and one that we should add to next year's fraud book as one of our tips for people. as our f

. >> senator casey? >> mr.man, thank you very much and happy birthday. >> thank you. >> pretty bad singers, but we tried. mr. lighthizer, thank you, mr. ambassador for being here and for your work, for your willingness to come back into public service at a difficult ti time. i was struck by a lot of your opening sentence but one sentence that jumped out is "the costs of globalization are falling most heavily on workers." i think it's those last five words that i think are maybe the most important thing you said, falling most heavily on workers. that's been the experience of pennsylvania. we've had a record manufacturing job loss in the last generation. you know a lot of the numbers but the numbers don't tell the story. just economic devastation that i can't even imagine, lives completely destroyed, trauma and suffering that flows from the job loss. suicides and family breakup and all kinds of trauma is probably the best way to describe it and it started to present itself in the '80s. there is a four or five-yea

mr. clay. >> the interest served by the license disclosure is very much like that of the disclosure in casey. promoting informed choice by patient. more specifically it empowers the woman by explaining that her financial circumstance does not make her unable to access supplemental care including full prenatal care that the practitioners do not supply. pregnancy and medical care is extraordinarily critical. >> there is a sense when you read the statute as to whether the statute has been gerrymandered. would you speak to that. if it has been gerrymandered that's a serious issue. if you have the city don't want to apply them generally just some people who speech we don't like. >> the disclosure is targeted at women who seek free care for pregnancy. not any particular viewpoint. clinics that provide free air low cost pregnancy care either once where they can be found in where the information is immediately useful. >> if you have a lot neutral within has a lot of crazy exemptions and when you apply the exemptions what you're left with is a strange pattern when it turns out just about the only clin

mr. kushner in mexico this is part of the president's first of all plan. >> do you know who likes it? sherrod brown, bobby caseyemocrats are jumping on this because they said this. >> they're allowed to do whatever it is they want that's going to help them. more power to them. >> you don't agree with them? >> no, here's what i'll say. in 2016, bernie sanders won west virginia on a progressive economic message by 51% in the primary. it resonated. what did he talk about? about health care for everyone, about raising the minimum wage. there is a way to talk about the economy that dras are not doing a good enough job about it in a holistic economic plan way which we're not doing that, just about a small sector of the population. >> why should republicans talk like democrats? >> i'm talking about democrats. >> i agree with that. >> talk about it in a way that resonates. that's what i'm talking about. >> we deeb this had a lot during the campaign. bernie sanders constantly talked about trade. constantly. that was a centerpiece. and wait, and hillary clinton backed away from tpp. >> bernie sanders, donald trump and pa

casey, thank you. >>> let's bring in the man who represents austin, texas, republican congressman michael mccall. sir, i want you to listen to what the chief of police, mr. manley, said earlier today. >> well, you know, that's the question all along, is this terrorism, is this hate related. as the day moves on, that is something that we're going to analyze. we're clearly dealing with what we expect to be a serial bomber at this point, after what is the fourth device. as we look at this individual, and the pattern and what we're looking at here, we will have to determine if we see a specific ideology behind this. >> dana: congressman, you're the chairman of the committee on homeland security. does this meet the definition of terrorism? >> well, it is terrorizing the austin community, because you never know where it's going to happen and when. now we've had four sophisticated bombs going on in the community. i've been briefed a lot on what isis intends to do in terms of sending bombs, and packages. but the fact is in this case, they're actually put on the front doorstep. they didn't go through the postal service or u.p.s. that distinguishes this case in a

is on the correct side of mr green i was on the correct side so that adds up for the course of a week. in the end victory at the championship would go to england's paul casey. this is only the second to him and women the p.g.a. tour will be englishman. was he to stay with this year. novak djokovic has returned to tennis didn't go to plan at indian wells on sunday he suffered a shock to feet to the world number one hundred nine terror daniel of japan this was his first match since the australian open after which he underwent surgery on an elbow injury he suffered at wimbledon last year daniel won seven six four six six one to progress to the third round. from need felt like. first match ever played on the tour. very rarely for me i just played the. last rhythm everything just short of the inside of this with our last couple weeks but. yeah it was just. i i mean i was grateful to be our only quarter after surgery that quickly. but the same time was just didn't feel good at all. there's a blockbuster classic fords here at indian wells later on monday with venus and serena williams going head to head in the third round at thirty seven and thirty six years old

already since the threat by casey cagle, delta has had invitations from the governors of virginia and ohio and others who have said they can come there. has mrcagle made a mistake in your view by threatening this huge corporate citizen of the state of georgia? >> absolutely. there is no question that by invoking his powers, the lieutenant governor, to threaten a corporate citizen who wanted to exercise its rights, that he made a terrible mistake. while there is an economic dimension to how lieutenant governor cagle threatened delta, let's not lose sight of the human dimension of this issue. this is about gun safety. this is about children dying. and unfortunately, lieutenant governor cagle decided to make this about his campaign for governor. and unfortunately on both sides of the aisle, we have people who are using this incredibly tragic moment but also this opportunity for change as a way to, i think, distract us from the real issue at hand which is the need for gun safety in america. >> in addition to being a mayor, you're also an attorney. i want to ask you about the legality and the ethics. i want to put that tweet up, i will kill any t

casey. >> senator thank you very much and happy birthday. >> well, thank you. h >> we are bad singers but we tried. thank you mr.assador for being here and for your work and your willingness to come back into public service at a difficult time. i was struck by a lot of your opening statement but one sentence that jumped off the page at the top of page two is quote the cost of globalization and the cost plural of globalization are falling the most heavily on workers. it's those lastll five words tht are the most important thing you saidan falling most heavily on workers. that's been the experience in pennsylvania. we have had a record of manufacturing job loss. you know a lot of the numbers but numbers don't tell the story. just economic devastation and i can't even imagine. lives completely destroyed. trauma and suffering that flows from the job loss. suicides and family breakups and all kinds of trauma is probably the best way to describe it. it started to present itself in the 80s. there was a four or five year period in the early 80s when half of the steelworker jobs in pennsylvania were lost. it went from 90

mr. bell: good morning, chairman alexander. good morning chairman alexander. ,ranking member murray and honorable members of the committee. my name is dr. william c. bell. i am the president and ceo of casey family programs. we are the nation's largest operating program focused on reducing the needs for foster care and billing communities for help for children and families around america. we work in all 50 states, puerto rico, and the u.s. virgin islands. and with more than 16 tribal nations to influence long-lasting improvements to the safety and success of children, families, and the communities where they live. i thank you for the opportunity to be here today to discuss the disruption and trauma the opioid crisis is causing for our children, families, and communities. data in our work states and communities shows that parental substance abuse is a key reason that the number of children being separated from their families and placed into foster care has been increasing significant license 2012. -- ever since 2012. as you have heard, approximately 7000 children enter the foster care system in 2015. governors, mayors, child welfare leaders, nonprofit leaders, tribal leaders across the cou