mr. moran: mr. president, thank you. we are considering at the moment the reauthorization of the federal aviation administration, and i am disappointed by what we are about to do today, although at this point there appears to be no option. but this extension fails to accomplish significant and important reforms in the aviation world, and it's something we were able to do, should have been able to do, almost accomplished, and as a result of our failure, i will oppose the reauthorization legislation we will vote on in just a few moments. mr. president, three weeks ago, i came to the senate floor to express my concern with what was happening, and my plea and request of our house colleagues was for them to act on the f.a.a. reauthorization bill as the senate sent it to them, the f.a.a. reauthorization act of 2016, which in april passed the united states senate by the unusual vote of 95 votes in favor. broadly supported. i serve on the commerce committee, mr. president, and chairman thune and ranking memberson worked hard wit

moran is with the attorney general of virginia. a strong cruz supporter. i understand you were with mrs. cruz, heidi cruz at the end of the speech. you suggest that she get out of the hall? what happened? >> people behind her were physically approaching her, and it was not a pretty situation. and the decision was instantly made to not talk to media and get out of the arena. and people from my own delegation were physically approaching her and yelling at her. so, i physically moved media out of my way, and got in the way of my own delegation so she could get out of the arena? >> supporters, you had to get her out of the area? >> yes. >> what do you make of the whole scene? >> it was very disappointing. families are out of bounds for everyone else in america, i don't care what you think of the speech. but not here. >> you got her out of the hall, and where did you take her? >> they left without me. i stayed in the arena. >> thank you very much. thanks very much. george, you can see the kind of division and danger, the emotions in the hall running so high, the attorney general of virginia, a strong cruz supporter, got mrs. cruz out

dagen: moran, this is why we are simpatico. this just another mr. about the same cars. the ca coach. next hour, the vice presidential race heating up on both sides of the aisle. who will donald trump and hillary because they are running mate? we discuss straight ahead. dagen: good morning. i am transfixed. maria bartiromo has the morning off. dueling events on the campaign trail. hillary clinton hitching a ride on air force one. president obama with her later today. donald trump heads to the tar heel state as well. speculation over his potential vice presidential pick. indiana governor mike pence met with trump and talk about it. >> a very enjoyable personal time between two families. we got to know each other a lot better. nothing was offered and nothing was except good. i will just always be grateful for the time they had. dagen: entry in jupiter's orbit overnight. bogle of the nation awaited needs for space research. a center in the nba, cap and durant announcing he will enjoy the golden state warriors next year. details ahead. hostess, the maker

moran. in 2014 president obama apointed him to the united states holocaust memorial council, the governing body of the american holocaust museum. 2011, mr. rosenbaum was named to the board of director of the national jewish democratic council and in 2014 was elected as the council's chair. thank you for serving. [applause] now we're going to start to get down to business so i'm going to turn it back to shirley. >> i'm not sure what that means but thank you. i need to find a quorum. i would like to introduce our parliamentarian helen mcfadden to determine if we have a quorum. in order to determine that a quorum is present we need each , committee member to vote yes, not yet, by pressing the 1-a button on the top of your clicker. so i am going to introduce ms. mcfadden and she's going to go through the details. ms. mcfadden: good afternoon. we have a screen up and if you would punch 1-a on your clickers we will watch it tote up there. as you can see it's toting up the number of you who are here. and a quorum in this instance is 91.75. so there is a quorum present. ok. now you have also been given a copy of the proposed rules. those were s

mr. clerk are any other items today? >> item 9 adjournment. >> meeting adjourned. thank you very much for attending. [gavel] >> good afternoon i'd like to call the san francisco public utilities commission to order. >> commissioner moranwvrn and commissioner caen is expected shortly. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> item 3 approval of the minutes of june 28, 2016. >> you have before you the minutes of june 28th is there a motion to approve the minutes. >> second. >> public comment on the minutes hearing >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? minutes passes. >> item 4 general public comment i see mr. da costa has public comment good afternoon. >> good afternoon, commissioners today i'll be speaking about the digesters i wanted the commissioner to pay attention including the attorney so there was a time when the people of san francisco were told that a san francisco public utilities commission would address the mitigation of 0 both at the time the clean drinking water and the wastewater and when the time came the commission at the time not to commission maybe commissioner caen was on the commission that decided okay. we are going to stick with the clean water and relegate the wastewater to the side this is w

mr. moran: thank you. i now ask unanimous consent that the senate be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein up to 10 minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. moran: madam president, i have another request. there are seven requests for committees to meet during today's session -- national session -- senate session. they have the approval of the majority and minority leader. the presiding officer: duly noted. mr. moran: madam president, i would notice the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quoarp quoru quorum call: quorum call: a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from nebraska. mrs. fischer: madam president, i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. fischer: madam president, i rise to draw attention to important legislation that would ensure american taxpayers know how their hard-earned dollars are being spent. this morning i was pleased to join s