mr. kramer: yeah. ms. greenhouse: if i understand some of your recent work, your view is that the court hasn't necessarily been counter majoritytarian enough. that's a power that the court has for the court. it shouldn't be shy about using. so i want to give you a chance to talk a little bit about that. mr. driver: i think that the supreme court has fallen down in vindicating the constitutional rights of marginalized citizens. some people would say that's because the supreme court is fundamentally incapable of vindicating those rights. it's just too fragile an institution. when it attempts to vindicate those rights, it ends decided not to up making matters much worse. it can't come to the rescue of marginalized groups. you hear this all the time with respect to roe vs. wade ander ifman vs. georgia, the capital punishment. even brown email are say it's a seventh grade perception of the court coming to the rescue of racial minorities is in-- inaccurate because the nation as a whole was committed to racial eg

mr. kramer that couldn't have occurred from a single fall. get a fall, we have lots of falls unfortunately in new york city. the impact sites show damage. you can't fall and have front impact site and back impact site. it's got to have one of those injuries occur before he went out the window. i think, in my opinion, from the distribution of the fractures and the internal injuries there was more that he had to have been injured before he went out of the window. >> all right. and even compounding more -- even more, that's your scientific finding. that's you doing the autopsy and looking at the findings. but even before this incident, like just a short time before, he sent out a text message which reads: i'm at the american hotel in saudi. i think something bad is going to happen to me tonight. please contact state department as soon as possible. bad things were said. he warned that something that -- that something was about to happen. sounding like he was worried he was about to be murdered. the saudis are treating this as a suicide of this am

mr. kramer of north dakota who is a member of the energy and commerce committee is not on this particularsubcommittee that he is been so focused on these issues at the center for to a half hours with us and we'll give them the opportunity to ask five minutes of questions. >> well, thank you, mr. chairman. and thanks to alex for the indulgence. it doesn't take one could north dakota and to represent the entire state so i spread myself everything, mr. secretary, and so i think the members. i also want to thank you not only for being here but for at least agreeing to if not joyfully i think you're a joyful catchment joyful person, holding one of the listening sessions in north dakota. it was a late request and late addition to the agenda for u.n. secretary fox and others but i threw enjoy the time you are out there. i noticed in the qer there's a lot of reference to things you learned last august in north dakota a special as it pertains to the transportation infrastructure. and some of the challenges particularly reflected on the challenges for the railroads that move multiple commodities as

mr. kramer of north dakota who is a member, he's not on this particular subcommitteepicf1 o but he's beensat here for 2 1/2 hours with us and we're going to give him the opportunity to ask five minutes of questions. >> well, thank you mr. chairman and thanks to my colleagues for the indulgence. it does"@ only take one dakotan to represent the entire state. i spread myself fairly thin, mr. secretary. i thank the members, i also mr. secretary want to thank you not only for being here but for at least agreeing to, if not joyfully, although i think you're a joyful person, to holding one of the listening sessions in north dakota. i know it was a late request and a late addition to the agenda for you and secretary fox and others but i thoroughly enjoyed the time that you were out there. i notice in the qer there's a lot of reference to the things that you learned last august in north dakota especially as it pertains to the transportation infrastructure and some of the challenges particularly reflected are the challenges for the railroads that move multiple commodities, as you know. and you hear

kramer nomination. if there is no further debate, all those in favor say aye. those opposed nay. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the nomination is affirmed. mr. enzi: madam president? the presiding officer: under the previous order the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table. the president will be immediately notified of the senate's action, and the senate will resume legislative session. mr. enzi: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from wyoming. mr. enzi: i rise today to speak about the growing burden of federal regulations and the need to rein in the creation of new rules and the expansion of existing rules. the regulatory burden in 2014 is reported to be nearly $2 trillion, and the size of the federal register last year came out to nearly 78,000 pages of new rules and regulations. this chart shows the 78,000 pages of regulations is all too common especially for this administration where regulatory overreach has become normal and the size of the federal register has topped 80,000 pages for four out of the six years of the president's time in office. with this administration, we're seeing a high water