mr. hawley: i yield the floor. mr. hawley: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from missouri. mr. hawley: i ask unanimous consent that notwithstanding the provisions of rule 22, the senate vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the hinderaker nomination at 11:45 a.m. tomorrow. further, if cloture sin voke $, the senate vote on confirmation of the nomination at 4:00 p.m. tomorrow and that following disposition of the nomination, the senate vote on the motion to up voke cloture on the young nomination. i further ask if cloture is invoked on the young nomination, the confirmation vote occur at a time to be determined by the majority leader in consultation with the democratic leader on thursday, september 24. finally, the cloture motion on the samuels nomination be withdrawn and the senate vote on confirmation of the samuels nomination-on-following the cloture vote on the young nomination. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. hawley: madam president, there is i understand there is a bill at the desk an

mr. hawley: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from missouri. objection is heard. mr. hawley: the senator describes a world that doesn't exist. he says section 230 protects the little guy. section 230 protects the most powerful corporations in the history of the world. google and facebook aren't the little guy. instagram and twitter aren't the little guy. you know who is left vulnerable by those megacorporations? the people who don't have a voice, the people who when they get deplatformed don't have an option. if you're silenced by google, facebook, or twitter, what is your option? none, nothing. you can't be heard. you can't go to court. you can't do anything. every american should have the right, if they're unfairly discriminated against because of their political views, to at least be heard in court. now section 230 as it exists today and as it's currently being applied, it protects the most powerful corporations. it protects and has protected human traffickers. it protects some of the worst abuses of free speech in our society, and that's why, mr. president, i will

hawley. >> thank you, mr..>> chairman. mr. harrison, let me come back i to the issue if i could of ad time, which is what senator lee was asking you about about a moment ago. we talked about how youtube and search, you have dominant nd positions in both of those areas and platforms and that you havee to use a google ad platform in order to place advertise. s on adver search or youtube. which means an awful lot of a people are using tools like google ads and dv 360.my qu my question is do your demand side platforms like dv 360, do u you offer volume discounts to advertisers? >> you mean do large marketers for instance, do we provide different rates? is that the question?n? >> do you offer volume discounts? >> we do have programs that allow very large advertisers or very large agencies, which i believe are industry standard, reduced rates. i'm not sure whether that is a volume discount but reducing v rates when they buy our > ha advertising. >> areolume these volume necesso get the discounts iff they increased over time? >> i'm

mr. hawley: madam president, i come to the floor today to address the growing crisis in our country, in our cities and towns across our country, a crisis of law and order, yes, a crisis of the rule of law, a crisis of confidence, a crisis of solidarity. because as our cities and towns come under siege as so many of them descend into violence and lawlessness night after night, we witness before our eyes the fraying of the american fabric, the breaking of american bonds. the violence we are witnessing is not just about the individual lives harmed or lost, neighborhoods destroyed, businesses burned and looted, families living in fear, whole neighborhoods cowering behind locked doors. no, the devastation we are seeing, the crisis we are facing is about the confidence in our society itself, in our ability to come together, to live together, to find common ground, to build this common community and pursue that more perfect union. all of that is under threat in this current crisis of lawlessness, of lack of respect for the rule of law, of the decline of due process and law and order. these are not

mr. chairman. chairman johnson: thank you, senator hawley. senator sinema. sen. sinema: thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate acting secretary wolf joining us today. i want to focus my questions today on several issues related to border security and immigration, key issues, of course, in my home state of arizona. i remain committed to finding bipartisan and common sense solutions to secure arizona's border and protect public health while also treating migrants , fairly and humanely. strong border security and a fair immigration system should be mutually reinforcing goals, and i'm always ready to work with my colleagues in a bipartisan way to achieve these goals. so my first question for you, mr. wolf, is your department has not completed environmental stewardship plans for border barrier projects in arizona, despite local stakeholders expressing significant concerns about the impact of these projects on water and cultural resources. while my office has received information from dhs that these reports will be available soon, construction began before mitigation plans were complete. i will note th

hawley. >> thank you mr. wolf for being here. i spoke with the last weekend in anticipation of this hearing could let me talk about it operation legend which is so important to my home state. last week with another tragic shooting death in the city of st. louis that marks the city's 195th death this year three months ago that surpasses last year's total which was itself a record 194 killed since 2019 and we are seeing a surge of violent crime across my state enforcement acrossss united states. it's one of the reasons i so appreciate your departments cooperation and help with operation legend which is itself named for a missouri resident of 4-year-old boy who was killed in his home in kansas city, missouri precan you give us an update. when you were here in august we talked at length about the operation legend. can you give us an update of where those efforts stand? >> we continue totenu support te department of justice. talk a little bit about mutually support from elan sport -- law enforcement perspective. in time they call up a

meantime to senator hawley. >> mr. harrison, thanks for being here.an we go back to "the federalist" to clarify something you said to senator lee. do i understand now that you have a content moderation requirement in order to access google's ad platforms, is that right? is that your testimony? >> no. >> because "the federalist" didn't moderate their content section. what you're saying you require them now to engage in moderation in order to have access to your platforms. is that right? >> no. our ads policy is that our ads will not show up against harmful, offensive content. that's the requirement. if they want to show our ads next to their content, then that content can't be harmful or offensive. >> so, in other words, they have to moderate it, right? because they didn't moderate their content at all. this isn't even their content. it's third-party content and they didn't moderate it all which under section 230 they are perfectly entitled to do, but you're saying now that in order to have access to your, arguably, monopoly ad platform, they have to e

hawley: that is a shocking number. thank you for your work on this and thank you, mr. chairman. airman johnson: senator hawley, thank you. senator siiema. sen. sinema: i appreciate the gentleman joining us today. i know it is critical that we work together to tackle threats against the homeland and along our nation's borders. i remain committed to working every day in a bipartisan fashion to secure the border arizonans safe and make sure , the migrants are treated fairly. a key part of this overall effort is attacking the challenge at our nation's ports of entry. my question is for mr. cuccinelli. arizona ports of entry are among the busiest in the nation and the goods and people flowing through them play critical roles in both arizona's and the nation's economy. c.p.b. employees work hard every day to facilitate the flow of trade and travel, but our nation continues to struggle with significant amounts of illicit drugs entering our nation through our ports. with a month yet to go in fiscal year c.p.b. is reporting that 2020, they have already seized more marijuana, methamphetami

hawley. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. wolf, thank you for being here. i enjoyed speaking with you last week in anticipation of this hearing. let me talk to you a little bit about operation legend, which the department is participating in, which is so important in my home state. just last week, with another tragic shooting death in the city of st. louis, that marked that city's 195th death this year. three months to go, of course, in the year. that already surpasses last year's total, which was itself horrific. 194 killings in 2019. we're seeing a surge in violent crime in my state and across the united states. that's one of the reasons i so appreciate your department's help and cooperation with operation legend which itself is named for a missouri resident, legend taliaferro, who was killed in his home in kansas city, missouri. you talked at some length in the department's involvement in operation legend. can you give us an update on where those efforts stand? >> we continue to support the department of justice. i talked a little bit about mutual aid su

hawley, a senator from the state of missouri to perform the duties of the chair. signed: chuck grassley, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. mr. mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: our nation is mourning the end of an exceptional american life. justice ruth bader ginsburg meant so much to our country. first and foremost, she was a brilliant generational legal mind who climbed past one obstacle after another to submit the very -- is summit the very pinnacle of her profession. justice ginsburg was a fixture on our nation's highest court for more than a quarter of a century. she was not just a lawyer. no, not just a lawyer but a leader. for majority opinions to impassioned dissents, her life's work will not only continue to shape jurisprudence but also enlighten scholars and students for generations. by all accounts justice ginsburg loved her work because she loved the law. in a more ordinary life story, her courage and continued excellence in the face of multiple serious illnesses would itself be the heroic climax rather than just one more remarkable chapter among so many. on the