mr. casey: mr. president, scawctd that the president be in a period of morning business for debate only, with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. casey: mr. president, i rise today to speak about the nomination of roberts gordon. earlier this year, mr. gordon had strong bipartisan support in the finance committee when his nomination came to a vote. mr. gordon is president biden's nominee to serve as the department of health and human services assistant secretary for financial resources and he has a long history of dedication to public service. more recently, he served as director of the department of health and human services for the state of michigan. he played a central role in the state's pandemic response, and managed an agency of 14,000 employees and a multibillion-dollar budget. before that, he held senior roles in the u.s. department of education and the office of offf management and budget, where he championed evidence

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mr. casey: that you want. i rise -- thank you, mr. president. i rise tonight to talk about the inflation reduction act. i'll keep within my five minutes. i want to start by providing a brief summary. this is legislation which will do a number of things, all of which are helpful to the american economy and american family. first of all, it will lower the cost of prescription drugs for seniors. it will in fact lower the cost of energy, the prices people pay for energy. on the prescription drug front, we talk about lowering costs, it empowers medicare for the marisa time to begin to negotiate for lower prices. it also caps the out-of-pocket costs that medicare beneficiaries pay at $2,000. in pennsylvania, the estimate is that there are more than 73,000 pennsylvanians that pay more than $2,000 a year for prescription drugs. every one of those 73,000-plus pennsylvanians and more will benefit from that capping of out-of-pocket costs. so it lowers costs for families, but it also reduces the threat of climate change and reduces the deficit at the same t

senator casey? >> mr. chairman thanks so much. i wanted to start by thanking you for the hearing and for the work that you and the ranking member have donei n conducting this simple -- done in conducting this important investigation. this is a subject area that doesn't get nearly enough attention in washington and not so in the context of this hearing and the work that was done by this committee and staff. all of their good work should be held up for commendation. i also want to say i know i'm late for the hearing. i may have missed some of the engagement and some of the answers to questions. if my questions are redundant or duplicate of i apologize for that. i've come to this issue, not just in the context of a public official and a member of a committee, but also in a very personal way. my father was the beneficiary of a double organ transplant in june of 1993, harding lover. now many -- heart and liver. not many 61 euros at the time -- a 61-year-olds at the time had -- were beneficiaries of that transplant. i was told he was on

former doj lawyers david rivkin and lee casey write that mr.trump's documents are covered by a specific statute, s the presidential records act of 1978. his rightsl rds a under the actp any application of the laws the fbi cites presidents from washington through carter treated to white house papers as their personal property, and neither congress nor n the courts ever disputed that. joining us now is former u.s. lawyer david schoen and harmeet ilin, chairwoman of the republican national lawyers association. david ,wo o tonight "the washington post" published the latest leaks from the biden doj. all of this is feeling a little familiar to me. how about you? yeah, of course.es listen, it's a completers political partisan weaponization ofe. the processza and it's a very scary thing because this is a process in which the courts for decades have said we have to have a neutral and detached d magistrate overseeing things if we can't trust this process, we're in a lot of trouble, not just when a president's records are seized, but, you know, all t of u

mr. meadow, and casey having heard the discussions amongst cabinet secretaries. >> there's a large concernt might happen in the final 15 days of your presidency if we don't do this. >> even by trump standards it was a pretty big bomb shell when we heard it there, members of the ex-president's cabinet were talking about whether he needed to be removed from office using the 25th amendment after his role in the deadly capitol insurrection. brand new reporting this week tells us that the january 6th can select committee has been spending their august recess digging deeper into what exactly those discussions were comprised of and asking former cabinet members directly about them. from "the new york times," the panel has been holding closed door interviews. in an effort to uncover more, and january 20th when president joe biden was sworn in including talks about invoking the 25th amendment. it follows a series of high profile interviews. the latest was former national security adviser robert o'brien which the times said lasted several hours yesterday. the reporting also reveals committee investi

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mr. mayor, thank you. wait, wait. before you walk down, i want you to come up with me. where i come from, scranton is caseyuntry. we were raised in the same neighborhood, not far from two of the best candy shops in the whole country. i just wanted to let -- they cannot deny me which is why i wanted them up here. by the way, this guy has more integrity in his little finger than most have in his whole body. that is why a love working with them. welcome home. [applause] >> welcome home. >> and, like me, he married way up. [laughter] thank you very much. [applause] as my mother, jean finnegan biden would say, please excuse my back when i am speaking. i apologize. by the way, we would know one of the best things of being president of the u.s. is the marine band. they are the best in the world. stand up guys. they are the very, very, very best. [applause] they cannot only play but they know how to fight too. >> i love you. thank you for being here. thank you for being here. show less text how old are you? >> nine. >> almost double figures. folks, it is great to be here. >> welcome home. >> thank you so much. the

casey today to recognize the heroic achievements of merrill's marauders representatives today's virtual ceremony by proud family members and three living legends. master sergeant kayla haaland, missile -- mr extend my deepest condolences to the families of mr. raleigh nays and former staff sergeant bob has an easy, we served as the historian for the riders who both passed away this april. we are grateful to all the heroes for documenting and sharing their account of their units triumph and the jungles of burma. we stand in awe of the legacy they leave with us. the courage and grit of the 3000 men who answered president roosevelt's called to join the dangerous and hazardous mission is a testament to true service and valor. led by brigadier general frank mayoral, these soldiers trained hard traveled to a part of the world they never, been all to carry out an arduous mission on behalf of liken country in support of freedom and democracy. it's fitting that the heroism of merrill's marauders before ever recognized an honored by the congressional gold medal. we're grateful to everyone who made this honor possible. so the surviving members of merrill's marauders, you are achievements shine brigh

casey and the judge in connecticut presiding over a separate case. that too came up yesterday in court. i'm going to show that moment. take a look. >> you say, mr. jones, that you're taking these court proceedings seriously. you're approaching them in good faith. but the truth of the matter is you've been broadcasting repeatedly a picture of our judge on fire, haven't you? >> objection, caomcompound, you honor. >> no. >> the person on the left of this image is our judge, correct? >> yes. >> the person on the right is another judge you don't like, right? >> yes. >> showing those pictures, he was trying to on the show, they were trying to make this connection because the judge in this case in texas had done in her former work worked for child protective services trying to say, claiming that there were evidence exposed for working with pedestriaophilepedophiles. you're just seeing him fact checked multiple times yesterday in court. and he has been broadcasting throughout these proceedings, and this is not the first time that has come up in terms of what's been said. not the first time it's coming up in court. i just want to play one other moment fo

mr. holzer had strong opportunity and in that time period and certainly didn't have much of a motive to murder susan caseyo hear that was quite a relief as you can imagine for brad. who has replayed the scene countless times. saying goodnight to susie and pulling away before she got inside the apartment door. >> in hindsight it bothers me that i didn't wait and watch her. but there's no reason that anybody should be there. it's five in the morning. the whole town was dead. i just remember needing to get home. wanting to get home as soon as possible. it didn't cross my mind for a second that anything had happened or that anyone was there. >> the galant little gesture he didn't make. brad holzer has all kinds of time to think about that. >> sometimes i think about it, yeah. i wonder what we would be doing right now. there could've been a future with her. >> susie was laid to rest on a sunny day in may, 2008. in the little cemetery outside her hometown. no one the slightest aware of how much more was still to come. coming up -- >> seems that you didn't make it home last night. >> an angry message from susie

mr. patel: thank you for the question. i support a woman's right to choose, to abortion and reproductive care across the board. but listen, we had 50 years to codify roe. after casey we were told -- the republicans pointed out their playbook and told us exactly what they would do. we fail to do it despite democratic presidents with democratic majorities. . we failed to codify griswold, obergefell. we have failed to codify loving, which would affect my own engagement, which is the right to an interracial marriage. the question is, why didn't we? wherever our priorities for the 30 years? at this point, why don't we put these things to a vote in the u.s. senate and put them on the record in opposing contraception, for example, and i know that you just did that. and passing these bills right now. there are executive actions the president could take right now to speed up the ability to get abortions, and not be penalized as doctors performing abortions across state lines. these do not require the republican vote. we need to ensure that we protect a woman's right to choose. it is sacrosanct. >> thank you, candidates. if you're just joining us at home, we are at the top

this morning by david ripken lee casey the title is the trump warrant had no legal basis, and they write that the materials had statutes general in technicality application mrtion no clear intention otherwise, a specific statue will not be controlled nullified by general one regardless of the priority of enactment one thing thank you hear people say all the time miranda if 24ek do to it a former president imagine what they can do to an ordinary citizen. >> exactly, in fact that is what they've been doing to ordinary citizens over january 6 no one kicked up a stink about it, but the fbi, i mentioned all those egregious cases from from about russia collusion, through thank you suppression of hunter biden laptop inside fbi through to mar-a-lago raid. all of these incidents are being controlled by one cabal inside fbi the get trump cabal these people stayed in place, for six years despite so much evidence of their wrongdoing. and that tells you that it is deliberate, that they are permanent security force designed to be basically the personal police force of joe biden and the democrats. >> exactly right, by the way, not just fbi, built there are also people in

mr. tobin made the right response there. it is up to the public to determine what is meaningful in this investigation. certainly florida has had its share of high profile investigations. we went through caseynclined to issue a document with just a first line redacted or unredacted, then that's what we get, and it's up to the public and through its surrogate, all of you, to figure out what the meaning is behind that but not the government's job to tell the public what is meaningful in terms of release of its own information. >> what is the response to the argument that some are so specific that they would be outed or identified by virtue -- >> i think judge reinhart is going to protect the identity of confidential informants, that's probably the right outcome here. none of the media interveners want to jeopardize, and information that would lead to the disclosure of their identity is kept secret. however, it is important to note that simply saying somebody works for a particular agency is not sufficient. perhaps saying their title, their post, number of years they have been in position, and other identity may get us there but the fact there are confidential informants working with the gover