mr. padilla: mr.president. the presiding officer: the senator from california. mr. padilla: mr. president, i have six requests for committees to meet during today's session of the senate, and they have the approval of majority and minority leaders. the presiding officer: duly noted. mr. padilla: mr. president, i also rise today because today is a bitterwe day for me -- bittersweet day for me. i rise to recognize and express my gratitude for the work of my communications director since my first day in the senate. i speaker for everybody in my office when i say we're going to miss her, but i'm also proud. next week she will begin work at the white house as special assistant to the president and as press secretary to the first lady, and i have no doubt that she will do great things in her new role. since our first days in the russell basement, in the senate office building i had when i was transitioning and vanessa brought her incredible experience, her unique personality, and tremendous passion to the j

mr. padilla: thank you, madam chair.i further ask that the padilla amendment, which is at the desk, be considered and agreed to, the committee-reported substitute amendment, as amended, be agreed to, the bill, as amended, be considered read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. mr. padilla: thank you, madam president. so i rise to discuss and explain the matter on which we just took action on. it is relative to wildfires. all across the western united states, historic wildfires continue to grow both more frequent and more severe. every year in recent years, entire communities have been destroyed by wildfires in a matter of hours. we've seen this in california, in new mexico, and colorado. families are forced to flee with only the belongings they can quickly pack into their vehicles. now, last year i visited the incident command center in quincy, califor

mr. chair for. >> thank you senator padilla,cl ranking member johnson. >> again, our sincere condolences for it i cannot imagine how painful it is for you to have to relive this but i cannot imagine losing a child or a sibling so again, thank you. i want to try and find out, sounds like in both of your cases you are certainly not giving the kind of contact you would want let's start there. while your son, while your brother were alive, how many times were you able to see them or talk to them? approximately. >> of course. once question. >> i am sorry. but i had meant to say is the only occasion we were able to get a phone call through tof my brother after multiple attempts are multiple phone numbers as my father, mother, siblings, myself and made attempts throughout the week's most likely every other day essentially we would calln, and be told he did not want to call us. it was on call. and it was not even longer than matwo minutes. >> 's total time in custody was how w long? >> the total time in custody, can i just review? >> again just approximate three. >> 91 days for. >> 91 days. so y

mr chairman, thank you. senator rosen, senator padilla, you are recognized for your questions. thank you. mr chair. >> before i ask my questions, i just want to be very clear that uh the potential threat posed by you a.s. is one that congress must address before the existing authorities expire. we absolutely agree on that. i know in california we've seen how rogue uas can disrupt critical functions including wildfire suppression efforts. so my questions are not related to the need for reauthorization, but making sure that we do so in a responsible way. now the first area of questions has already been covered by senator scott and that had to deal with the sort of broad exemptions to title 18 that are called for in the administration's proposal. i know there was a recognition and back and forth of, you know, that is not currently the case there's a lot of specific , exemptions and it may not be pretty, it may not be easy, but you're making it work. so there's more than one way to get this done. instead of just asking that question over again, i will follow up mr. whitman with this . title 18

padilla. senator cruz? >> thank you. mr. polite, i am concerned this department of justice is politicizing the enforcement of justice. you have discussed how there is a priority focused on elections and i recognize that there is a political focus on that, although you have told this committee that 1000 complaints produced five prosecutions, none of them involving violence, all involving threats. serious threats of violence should be investigated and prosecuted. however, a week after the dom's decision was leaked -- the dobbs decision was leaked, several pregnancy centers were vandalized. jane's revenge took credit for firebombings of pregnancy centers in madison, wisconsin, amherst, new york, buffalo, new york, and des moines, iowa and gresham, oregon. more recently, centers in north carolina and in washington, d.c., just 500 yards from where you are sitting now, were covered with paint, egged by radicals. there have been 85 attacks against pro-life institutions. despite these very real threats and violent attacks against pr

padilla on the amacing work you're -- amazing work you're doing in the omaha community. mr. speaker, i rise today during the ovarian cancer awareness mo month, those who have survived or unfortunately lost their hard fought battle. a rare but badly disease, only 18,000 women will receive a new diagnosis this year, but this past march, our communications director, danielle jenson, was one of them. the deadliest of the reproductive cancer, only 20% are diagnosed early stages 1 or 2, with a five-year survival rate of 70%. the risk of women getting ovarian is about one in 78 in their lifetime and estimated that thousands will lose their life to ovarian cancer. dan danielle was diagnosed with stage 2 and recently completed chemotherapy. if a woman has never carried a pregnancy to full tirm or had a -- term or had a child after 35. a history of ovarian or coalo reco rectal cancer -- colorectal cancer includes some. frequenturiation, fatigue, pelvic, abdominal changes are symptoms. they should be of concern if they don't go away after two weeks following interventions such as chang

padilla. >> thank you mr. chair. like to thank you for holding the hearing on the need to reauthorize epa brownfield program. the brownfield program has a long history of supporting safe and responsible redevelopment. and since its inception it has made nearly 10,000 properties. many of which are in the home state of california. many of which are in my hometown of los angeles. and many of which are literally in my backyard in the neighborhood where i grew up. i have seen and worked on these issues of the state legislature putting s state resources to federal resources and redevelopment. i am familiar with these efforts ntbut once it on a time as a ciy councilman were trying to navigate some of the cleanup efforts and efforts had redevelopment for productive use in economic benefit. often in underserved communities. i appreciate your ricin testimony for touching on the challenges of deindustrialization. the example i want to focus on today is actually not in my backyard but in the count city and county of san francisc

introduce the let doctors provide reproductive health care act along with senators murray, padilla, and presiding officer mr. president senator lujan to protect doctors in states like nevada where abortion remains legal from facing, from facing prosecution and potentially jailed by antichoice states. no doctor -- let me repeat this. no doctor should ever be jailed for providing women with reproductive and often lifesaving care they need wherever these women are from. no doctor should ever be jailed for providing care. antichoice republicans in the senate have blocked these efforts in the past as they continue to push for dangerous bans. today, today we have another opportunity to protect doctors and their patients by passing this legislation without obstruction or delay. because let's be clear. we will, we will not give up. we will not allow a national abortion ban to pass the senate. we will not allow doctors to face prosecution for doing their jobs. and we must, we must protect a woman's right to choose and continue fighting against this ban every step of the way. thank you, mr. president. i yield back. m

. >> senator padilla you are recognized. >> thank you, mr.hair and i want to thank you for holding this important three today. i companies testifying today offer unprecedented ability to access, consume and distribute information. you are right to focus our attention on how corporate product design and investment choices influence the content produced and tissue beaded. my first question -- produced and distributed. my first question is relative to content moderation. last year it was disclosed that facebook 87% of all spending combating disinformation on facebook was spent on english language content. despite the fact that only 9% of facebook's users are english speakers. she also disclosed safety investments for users and countries other than the u.s. were abysmal. twitters disinformation and misinformation work disclosed by someone who testified yesterday found that twitters team lacked language expertise in the countries it was serving even though 80% of twitter users are outside the u.s.. your companies make commitments to all of your us

padilla? >> thank you, chair. and have a question i want to get to, obviously. but mr. peters, i just want to pretend by expressing but i imagine you've heard from other members of the committee, other senators about the reports we hear. of abuse and exploitation and the bureau of prison facilities across the country and in california my office receives regular inquiries and concerns. about living conditions, for example. year long delays in receiving adequate health care, particularly troubling in the midst of the covid pandemic and beyond. so, appreciate your commitment to ensuring humane, efficient and appropriate conditions are restored in facilities around the country. but when asked about staffing here in the second, but all the point in the facilities, you're one example is of concern to me. fresno county, in california, has during the summer average temperatures of 93 to 97 degrees. the periodic triple digit temperatures and beyond are not common. yet, we received reports from fbi mendoza, in fresno county, that it lacks adequate air conditioning. you can imagin

padilla has been patiently waiting. senator king. >> i want to reason issue that has been discussed. all of you a very comfortably asserted that this was constitutional. that the ecra was constitutional. mr. mueller, i think he's the term well within constitutional bounds. i'm worried about the implications of the so-called independent legislature theory. and the theory basically holds that there is a difference there is a subtle within the election clauses in article one and the election clause article two. article one says legislatures and states shelves that election rules. but then semicolon congress may amend or override those rules. in the election clause for the president's talks about the states shall select electors in a matter the legislator still direct. there is no provision for congressional express provision as there is an article one. there are those who assert, apparently we now have three justices, thomas, alito, and gorsuch, who appeared to accept this theory. that nothing can override, and they can do whatever they want whenever they want. mr. bauer, let's start with you since you are a graduate of the same law school that i am. i will give you the privilege of beginni

mr. padilla: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from california. mr. t that is not withstanding rule 22, the senate consider calendar number -- treaty document 116-did, that the treaty be considered as having been advanced through the various parliamentary stages up to and including the presentation of the resolution of the advice and consent to ratification, that any committee conditions, declarations, or reservations be agreed to and applicable, that any statements be printed in the record as if read, further, that if the resolution of ratification is agreed to, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table and the president be immediately notified of the senate's action. the presiding officer: without objection. the clerk will report. the clerk: treaty calendar no 4, treaty doc 116-2, -- mr. padilla: madam president, i ask for a division vote on the resolution of advice and consent to ratification. the presiding officer: a division vote has been requested. on treaty document 116-2. all those in favor, stand and be counted. all t