mr. crapo: you are -- are not talking about whether there was bias in the recommendation not to prosecute, and you were not whether you didn't find bias. this is what we are having a discussion about. >> it is clear that president trump had a biased state of mind. only strzok, but a number of these messages were intended to be private, but did not have anything to do with the way they did their jobs. us, ist you are telling any different evidence. >> correct. sen. crapo: that is different than saying there is no bias. secondly, you said, with regard , youe charging decisions had, canever bias was you say the director of fbi gave a charging recommendation? mr. horowitz: i would use the same language you did. we did not see evidence of that, the testimony we received. i believed there was plenty of evidence, though it may be circumstantial, that the recommendation made by the director of fbi -- of the fbi was influenced by bias. would you agree? mr. horowitz: speaking of political bias, we did no

mr. crapo: thank you, mr. president. i first want to thank senator alexander for the great efforts he's undergone in order to bring this legislation forward. the senate is working as it should. we are processing amendments. and hopefully we will make it through all of our appropriation bills this year and go back to regular order so that we avoid the kinds of collisions that we've had all too often in the past few years as we try to accomplish the business of our government. as we've been told, the next amendment that is planned to be voted on in the next few minutes we hope is the crapo-whitehouse amendment. this amendment is one that focuses on our nuclear energy in the united states. nuclear energy is a carbon free emission source of energy. it's becoming recognized as one of the more important parts of the energy solution in the united states and our amendment does a very simple thing. it creates a pilot project at the idaho national laboratory to begin perfecting and implementing the process of processing spent nava

mr. kessler. >> thank you, chairman crapo and ranking member brown. my name is bob side dough i am the security practice leader. i refer the committee to my written system. cyber attacks are on the rise, no organization large or small, public or private is immune to the threat. our clients face three significant challenges, emerging interconnected technologies drive fundamental transformations and create complex third-party ecosystems, the volume, velocity and precision of attacks and the shortage of cyber security resources and skilled professionals. ey works with clients across all sectors and many should be commended for their efforts. in my experience financial services, especially the largest banks, are considered best in class. not only in terms of organization and investment, but also for leading the engagement with stakeholders across the ecosystem. large banks are accustomed to higher levels of regulatory scrutiny and their third party risk management programs tend to be more mature and robust but challenges remain. today financial institutio

mr. nelson, you may proceed. >> sure. thank you. share chairman crapo and ranking members of the committee inviting me to speak today. i don't have one of the timers so cut me off. >> if you hear this sound that means the bell range. >> i'll discuss the topics you mentioned already. cyber risk to increase cyber readiness and what more needs to be done by the private sector and government to help protect companies and business and consumers information. as you mentioned, in the intro, i've been ceo of this since 2006. and have seen major changes occur in the last 12 years. i this i the biggest change has been the growing sophistication of cyber attacks and threats. in response, they have made significant investment in cyber defenses and has come together as a community to back make teary sill enmake -- major resilience efforts. today it receives tremendous benefit from that relationship. improve detepgntion and threatso the risks. as a way of background, it is a nonprofit organization. we've been around since 1999. and formal mission is in the written te

mr. nelson, you may proceed. >> sure. thank you. thank you chairman crapo and brown and other members of the committee for inviting me to speak today. i don't have one of the timers so cut me off. >> well if you hear that sound, that means the bell range. >> i'll discuss the topics that you discussed already, cyber risk, efforts to increase the cyber readiness and help protect companies and business and consumers information. as you mention, in the intro, i've been ceo since 2006 and seen major changes in the last 12 years. i think the biggest change has been the growing sophistication of cyber attacks. in response the financial ser service sector has come together. today the financial services industry receives tremendous benefit from that partnership that enables cyber threat intelligence to flow to the sector and improve prevention and response to cyber threats and other risks. by way of backgrounds you mentioned that it is a nonprofit organization. we've been around since 1989 and formal mission is provided in the written testimony. but i could sum it u

mr. crapo: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from idaho. mr. crapo: mr. president, in a few minutes, we are going to vote on the crapo-whitehouse amendment. i stand to support that amendment and encourage my colleagues all to vote in favor of it. i first want, though, to thank my colleague, senator whitehouse. he and i have worked together on a number of issues building bipartisan support to advance our ability to utilize nuclear energy in the united states. i also want to thank senator alexander and senator feinstein for their work to complete this omnibus appropriations bill and to continue to push to bring our appropriations process to regular order. our amendment focuses on the development of fuel sources for our advanced nuclear reactors. the united states currently lacks both a supply of high -- haleu uranium, and a process to make haleu for advanced reactor designs. advanced reactor start-up cores require a high assay, lower enriched uranium. at the end of navy fuels' life, it contains highly enriched uranium with an average enrichment of 80%. curre