mr. reed: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, as we consider the appropriations minibus this week, i rise to emphasize once again the importance of acknowledging and addressing the threat of interference in our election systems. in particular, congress must address the continuing threat of russian cyberattacks against our democratic institutions. it is difficult to overstate the need to shore up support for democratic institutions here and around the world in light of president trump's recent foreign policy failures. in the last week or so, the president has attempted to derail the nato summit by insulting our allies and demanding that they immediately double their contributions, thrown a wrench into brexit negotiations, and seemingly endorsed a new prime minister for the united kingdom and then embraced russian president vladimir putin in helsinki. president trump stood shoulder to shoulder with president putin while the world looked on and he chose to take the word of a auto accurate and k.g.b. agent over the assessm

mr. chairman >> senator reed? >> thank you very much, mr. chairman welcome, chairman powell the issue of wages has been discussed by several of my colleagues and yourself. in 2000, the last time we were at this situation where we were touching 4% unemployment, the share of national income by corporations was about 8.3% and share of wages was 66% today we're once again reaching that point of 4% unemployment yet corporate profits account for about 13.2% of national income they've gone up significantly. wages as a share have gone down from 66% to 62%. if those trends continue, the situation where working men and women are not going to get their fair share of growth, what are you trying to do at the fed to ensure they get their fair share of growth? >> the decline in labor share of

mr. reed: mr. president, i'd like to join my chairman, senator collins, in requesting that all of our colleagues file their amendments by 1:00 p.m. tomorrow afternoon so we can continue to make progress as we're doing. again, i thank the chairman for her great leadership. with that, mr. president, i would yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from alabama. mr. jones: thank you, mr. president. i rise on behalf of the line workers in our alabama auto plants. i rise on behalf of our soybean and cotton farmers. and i rise on behalf of countless other alabama businesses that have contacted me because they feel threatened by proposed tariffs but are afraid to speak out publicly for fear of reprisal or in some cases they simply don't want to be seen as inflicting political damage to the president. mr. president, i came to this body to work on solutions, not to raise partisan threat levels. so i'm not one to unfairly level criticism at the president of the united sta

[inaudible conversations] mr. reed, what about the security issue? apps can be considered doors or backdoors into information on one stone, correct? >> guest: no, not the back door statement. remember, when you're pulling, putting and in action application under device. that's your decision. it's never a back door. always a front door. backdoor the, if it's a backdoor, then somebody would be picking up the phone. >> host: so it's another entrance into your phone. last year "the communicators" went to black cat in vegas and we were told specifically to take facebook which is the most downloaded at off your phone because facebook has access to everything that you're doing, every click, on your phone. is that important that an app like facebook has access to that kind of thing? >> guest: i always enjoy the hyperbole of the security crowd. that's a bit of a hyperbolic statement. it's possible to get it but i think at the core of the question that is being asked is, are you happy with what facebook is doing with your data? are they doing, is it appropriat

mr. reed, thank you, mr. president, as i and many feel the trump summit was a disaster. the propaganda, dissembling and denial as part of russia's hybrid operations against our country, our allies, and our partners, they are an ongoing and persistent threat to our national security. by failing to challenge putin's fabrications on russia's interference with democracy, its role in syria, its use of chemical agents against civilians or violations of its arms control obligations, president trump acquiesced in russia's lies and facts and undermined our security in the process. reed reed a low point was president trump siding with putin on the assessment of russian interference. mr. reed: it was the intelligence community that putin launched an attack on our elections elections with an intent of undermining public faith in our democratic process. that was confirmed unanimously by the senate select committee on intelligence. last friday the justice department indicted 12 russian military intelligence

mr. reed: i thank the chairman for recognizing and the opportunity to speak. mr. speaker and my colleagues on the other side of the aisle for the efforts they put in the palliative care and hospice education and training act. mr. speaker, i rise in strong support of this bill because hospice and palliative care is an underutilize piece of medical treatment in america. this bill is designed to promote not only the care that is provided under palliative and hospice care but also empower the work force of today and tomorrow to provide these critical health care delivery systems to our aging population and to our family members and to our dear fellow citizens. mr. speaker, i am strongly in support of this legislation because this is something that is personal. as i lost my mom nine months the day she was diagnosed with lymphoma and passed in my arms, the woman who taught me how to live and my 11 older brothers and sisters also taught me how to die. and we in america need to have a conversation across this entire nation how important it is to recognize that we are all

mr. reed: i thank him for his service to our community and his bravery. i pray he rests in peace. i ask this legislative body to pause its deliberations and join in remembering and honoring the 29-year life of trooper nicholas clark. yield back. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 3, 2017, the gentleman from california, mr. correa, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. correa: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on the subject matter of this special order. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. correa: mr. speaker, thank you for the opportunity to address this body and once again on the urgency of reuniting migrant children with their families. the administration's zero tolerance policy has caused chaos and systematically has torn immigrant children away from their parents. many innocent children are still being held under inhumane conditions at detention facilities apart from their parents

reed? >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. thank you both for your willingness to serve. ii assume you're familiar with the military lending act. so if a service member would prefer to go to court to enforce his or her right instead of being forced into arbitration, do you think that service member's choice should be protected? >> yes, to the extent it's provided under the law. >> the military lending act has been recently strengthened by the defense with new regulations to close loopholes and to prevent unscrupulous lenders from preying upon service members, men and women. and having in my early days been an executive at a company, i've seen this firsthand. do you support stronger rules and will you enforce them to the extent possible? >> i'm committed to enforcing the law.

mr. reed appreciated wildlife and is also one of the authors of the endangered species act, which protects many animals, including several in florida. he later ended up founding 1,000 friends of florida to preserve special places in our state. nat reed is an institution in the state of florida and he was a wonderful mentor to me. our state lost a real leader and a friend to many and he will be greatly missed. mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields. for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one inute. mr. payne: mr. speaker, sometimes it seems that the united states moves from one crisis to the next. we have to keep our eye on the ball. as members of congress, we have a duty to protect everyone in this country from unnecessary suffering. we cannot forget the trump administration is still holding children in cages. cages r us. congress should step up and end this terrible policy. we c

mr. reed: thank you, mr. president. i rise in support of h.r. 6147, the so-called minibus. let me say, i am extraordinarily proud to work with chairman collins. she's put together a thoughtful bipartisan t-hud appropriations bill that reflects the priorities of more than 70 senators who provided that are than 800 funding or language recommendations. her leadership, her commitment to fairness and to ensuring that all of our colleagues had the opportunity to help make investments in their states is remarkable and deeply, deeply appreciatived. -- deeply, deeply appreciated. we looked at all of these suggestions and recommendations. we received guidance from chairman shelby and vice chairman leahy, and i aappreciate their creative and constructive role, appeared we were able to produce legislation which i am remarkably proud of and, again, thank the chairman for her great work. the bill does not include any poison pill riders, which is following the principle established by chairman shelby and vice chairman leahy. this agreement has given the committee the space to evaluate the

reed: that thank you, mr. chairman. i think i'm going to follow-up up on senator collins' threat is there a threat to justify section 232? robert: so -- sen. reed: is that a yes or a no? robert: well, that was the beginning of the answer. you have to start with the proposition that you think you need to help the steel industry , for example. if you're going to do it, you have to do it globally. you can't help the industry by just putting on tariffs against one country. because -- first of all, we have terrorists on china, and the problem comes in from other resources. so, if your decision is, we will have the u.s. pay higher prices steel, to save an industry, you make that decision, where the price increases are worth the pain -- people have different ideas of where that pain is, but this is logically how you would do it -- you cannot be in a position where all the benefits of that, for example, come into or go to the canadian steel manufacturers. you have to be in the position where the benefit, if we are paying the pri

mr. trump claimed. and joining us now is democratic senator jack reed. he is the ranking member of the senate armed services committee. i wanted to ask you about how easy and how hard was it for you to achieve what you did yesterday on the senate floor, getting 97 votes on the senate floor in what was essentially a rebuke of president trump's rhetoric about nato? >> well, we had the opportunity on the senate floor to speak. and we were able to do that. i think it was the argument. but more than that, beyond the rebuke, it was an affirmation of our support for nato, our recognition of its role in defending the united states over many, many decades. also recognition of the rule of law as a guiding principal of international relationships and asking the president to do what we asked last year, give us a report on the line activities of russia going on today. what we got was a bipartisan response. it was about this country, about representing our constituents and standing up for what we stood up for decades. so it was a very satisfying and i think it started

reed, president of the app association representing some 5000 app developers talks about privacy, cyber security, and an upcoming supreme court case that examines whether apple has a monopoly on app sales. mr. reid is interviewed by politico technology reporter. >> all of the information you see, sure apple has a couple of fun apps on there. all of the information comes from my members. we are the driving force that makes your phone, your tablet exciting, interesting, valuable, useful. and we think of you as our customer. we think of you as our customer so much so we don't care what platform you are on. if you use an application and decide to switch from apple to android, you are my customer regardless of which platform you are on. maybe you go back to blackberry. i still want to consider you my customer. a is a review flotation - representation of an older case and the question of who is , ultimately the customer? if the result would be for the court to i believe would incorrectly determine we are merely employees and vendors of apple inc. or google. watch the communicators monday night on c-span2. travelingpan bus is across the country honor 50 capitals tour. the bus stopped in anchorage

mr. chairman. i want to say welcome to the witnesses. ms. reed, i look forward to supporting you. you are a lucky witness this morning, since your colleague is receiving most of the attention. i would remind -- i'm sorry senator corker is no longer here -- the -- i was here at the start of dodd-frank and cfb. senator corker and i worked very closely together. the original proposals were to set it up with traditional oversight. and some members said they did not want to create a new box, a new entity. so it was put in this rather unique framework inside the fed. history would demonstrate that was how the rather unique aspects of the cfpb came to bear. i want to industrial down. to me data-driven decisions rather than agenda driven decisions. r warner and i expressed deep concern about director mulvaney's deep skepticism about data collection by the cpfb. he has been hostile to data collection, i think we froze data collection for six months. that'm deeply concerned one of your full priorities was to limit data collection to what law."eded and required by favors a0 that cost-benefit

the reed motion and the appointment of conferees, the senate resume executive session. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask consent the senate now resume executive session. the presiding officer: without objection. under the previous order, the senate stands in recess until senate stands in recess until >> vice president mike pence will be attending the republicans gathering. we hope to hear from senate leaders before 2:15 p.m. eastern when lawmakers return. they will have confirmation vote on the nomination of a judge on the night circuit court of appeals. there will be another vote following that to limit debate on a justice department nomination. also likely more speeches reacting to president trump's nomination of brett kavanaugh to the u.s. supreme court. earlier today senate democrats on the judiciary committee held a news conference on the supreme court steps reacting to president trump's nomination of judge kavanaugh to the supreme court. >> [inaudible conversations] >> we will begin is that agreeable. president trump has been crystal clear that he would put pro-gun and pro-life j

reed's honor. all we can do is just try to continue his life's work of protecting florida's unique environment. mr. president, i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: mr. president, i spoke before the 4th of july recess about two financial risks that are coming our way thanks to not getting anything done on climate change. one, of course, is the risk to coastal properties, not something that the presiding officer has to worry too much about given his home state but something that rhode island's ocean state has to care a lot about and the distinguished senator from florida and his constituents have to care a lot about because there is a point where rising sea levels intrude into the sailability, the mortgagability, and insurability of houses and none other than freddie mac, the huge federal housing corporation is predicting that there will be a coastal property meltdown. the other risk is that of a carbon bubble. there is a lot of talk in the economic literature about a carbon bubble. one recent financial study reports the p

mr trump was flying from washington to brussels the u.s. senate voted on a motion in support of nato and senator jack reed introduced that motion and he said of the senate floor unfortunately this motion has become necessary because some of our closest allies have come to question the u.s. commitment to collective self-defense president trump has at times called the alliance obsolete our allies are starting to wonder whether they can rely on the united states to come to their defense in a crisis. now the subtext here is pay up or we will not guarantee your security is that a credible threat there at nato headquarters terry do people really think that would ever happen. they have good reason to be worried about that because president trump has implied that on more than one occasion including just last week at a campaign rally in montana where he spoke about chancellor merkel by her first name he said i told that i couldn't guarantee it meaning the protection of germany he has said more than once that perhaps the u.s. would only come to the defense of those countries that spend two percent of their g.d.p. which wouldn't be a very big group s

reed? >> thank you very much. mr. chairman, welcome chairman powell. the issue of wages has been discussed by some of my colleagues and yourself. in 2000, the last time we were at this situation where we were touching 4% unemployment, the share of national income by corporations was about 8.3% and share in wages was 66%. today we're reaching the point of 4% unemployment. yet corporate profits count for about 13.2% of national income. they've gone up significantly. wages as a share of -- going down from 66% to 62%. if those trends continue, the situation where working men and women have not going to get their fair share of growth. what are you trying to do at the fed to insure they get their fair share of growth? >> the decline in labor share of profits labor share of profits was generally oscillating fairly constant for a long number of decades. and right around the change of the turn of the century, begin to drop precipitously and continue to do so for more than a decade. it's very troubling. we want an economic that works for everyone. and that happe

mr. chairman. senator tillis: welcome. questionset into the , i ms. kraninger, ms. reed: abouto talk a little bit what i believe, white i believe xl needs to become functioning again. you talked about an increasing number of equivalent agencies in the global markets. i think we have got to get away proposition,her/or talking about the reality that if we don't have this in our toolkit when we are competing in the global market, that we disable ourselves, much the same way we do when we get out of economic incentives. you agree? ms. kraninger: yes. do you think but for the xm bank, that the transaction would go a different way? i can you tell the committee what that would look like so that hopefully we can get to better certainty for the long-term interests of the ex-em bank? ms. kraninger: yes. a lot of people ask you a lot of questions and gave you limited time to answer. would you like to respond to anything before asking a couple of questions? thank you.er: i recognize senator tester wanted to hear more about my views. i could certainly talk about challenges in the pay

reed national medical center. first lady, melania trump, made a visit to the hospital to visit service members wounded in combat and their families. mrs. trump spent five days at the hospital as a patient after having kidney surgery in may. >>> when we come back, those who serve. we'll catch up with a man who has given so much to our country and is still honoring his fellow veterans today. fire. now two meg the price. why the victims ) families are outraged over the punishment. plus, we investigate how san francisco )s dirty streets just cost the city.... big bucks. next. the news at six starts right now: >>> finally tonight, it's estimated only about 600,000 of the 16 million americans who served in world war ii are still alive. on any given day you'll find some of them visiting the world war ii memorial in washington, d.c. often there to greet them a familiar face, a fellow veteran, now 94, there to honor the enduring bond forged by war, duty and sacrifice. his story tonight in those who serve. at the world war ii memorial on the national mall, the crowds gather around an old soldier, reporting for duty to say thank you. >> thank yo

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mr. trumd be playing right into vladimir putin's hands. in a hastily arranged news conference this morning the president tried to claim victory, saying nato allies have reed to his demand for a big increase in military spending. >> they've raised an additional $33 billion that's been put up by the various countries,in nocluding the united states. >> reporter: but moments french president macron denied mr. trump's claim and reaffirmed all allies are still committed to paying 2% over the next decade, targets that were previously agreed amid the confusion and chaos mr. trump reaffirming his commitment. >> believe in nato. nato now is really a fine-tuned machine. people are paying money that they never paid before. >> reporter: tough talk that may also be aimed at showing strength ahead of his one-on-one with russian president vladimir putin. the president under pressure to press putin on election meddling, something mr. trump says he'll do. >> all i can do is saydi you and don't do it again, but he may deny it. >> reporter: but the president may ha only added to concerns by seeming to leave the door open to recogning russia's 2014 annexation of crimea, a mov

mr. acting chairman. and i want to thank our two guests today for their willingness to serve. let me start with miss reed. thanks for coming by my office. i appreciated the conversation that we had. and i think it is no secret that i've been very concerned and a skeptic about exim bank, skeptic about its fundamental mission. in my view, it is by its nature intrinsically forced to subsidize -- it forces taxpayers to subsidize companies, distorts markets, picks winners and losers by virtue of its very activity. there have been episodes of waste and fraud and abuse. historically it has not been particularly responsive to congress. despite all that, i was willing to vote to confirm a quorum of board members provided a reformer like scott garrett be leading this organization. our pro-exim senators decided not to have a quorum, so that's where we are. however consistent with my interest in seeing reforms, i was pleased with your testimony. you emphasized a number of areas where you have committed to us that you want to pursue reforms, but i'd like to just have a specific series of questions that i would pose t

mrs. trump made a surprise visit yesterday to wounded service members at walter reed medical center. >>> aleveland area fertility clinic is defending itself after a freezer malfunction destroyed almost 4,000 eggs and embryos. dozens of families are suing hospitals for negligence. they apologized for the march incident but it is denying legal liability. in a document made public this week it says clients knew about the risks that are involved. doc is here about the legal battle. >> since the incident, university hospital says it's taken significant steps to enhance equipment at its hospital, increased staffing and additional training. still, for some patients, the changes come too late. >> at the time i wasn't really thinking about kids and i wasn't trying to have kids, so it just gave me hope. >> reporter: sierra matthews was just 19 years old when she decided to freeze her eggs at university hospitals. it was 2014 and she had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer. she was one of hundreds of women who found out in march of this year whose eggs were destroyed when a cryo preservation system li

mr. secretary, welcome. i wanted to play for both you and vaughn something that happened on the hill this morning. senator jack reed appropriations hearing quizzing ambassador robert lighthizer, u.s. trade rep, during a senate hearing about whether canada should have been hit with these tariffs under the national security provision of the trade law, as it was, which as you know was terribly offensive to the canadian government. let's watch. >> is canada a national security threat to the united states, justifying this? yes or no? >> in the case of steel, yes, absolutely, because of the nature of the program. nobody is declaring war on canada or saying that they're an unfriendly neighbor. they're obviously not, they're a great ally and, uh, certainly one of america's closest friends and trading partners. but if you decide that you need to protect an industry, you can't be in a position where the protection is of no value. >> here you've got a democrat questioning the ustr about free and fair trade which has always been a republican mantra. your reaction, mr. secretary? >> well, look. if you talk to dairy farmers they

and that following disposition of the reed motion and the appointment of conferees, the senate resume executive session. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask consent the senate now resume executive session. the presiding officer: without objection. under the previous order, the senate stands in recess until senate stands in recess until >> vice president mike pence will be attending the republicans gathering. we hope to hear from senate leaders before 2:15 p.m. eastern when lawmakers return. they will have confirmation vote on the nomination of a judge on the night circuit court of appeals. there will be another vote following that to limit debate on a justice department nomination. also likely more speeches reacting to president trump's nomination of brett kavanaugh to the u.s. supreme court. earlier today senate democrats on the judiciary committee held a news

mr. jarmon that a program of an strategy that focuses on detection and enforcement helps address the sources of improper payment. i worked on a bill with my colleagues to introduce the reedchild back which recently passed the house. this bill would direct cmf to work with entities including improvement organizations to engage in outreach with prescribers to prevent prescription drug abuse. this bill is directed toward educating outlier opioid prescribers to help change their behavior and prevent overprescribing. mister alexander and by the way, this issue is in many ways personal to me because it's no secret south florida is the medicare fraud capital of the united states and my constituents no longer want for that to be the case. so my question to you is how does the administration view prescribed education as fitting into an overall fraud strategy? >> thank you for the question. as you know first of all, the secretary and the administrator and privateer made it clear that fighting the opioid crisis is a top priority and we are working closely with law enforcement to do that. we are bringing tools to that fight, the civic tools from the program integrity perspective tha

mr. speaker, i rise to recognize the passing and the important contributions of a great floridian for his unrelenting determination to rotect the florida everglades, nathaniel reed was a man i was proud to know and one of florida's most influential and environmental leaders. he advised presidents on environmental protection an conservation. he worked in the legislation of the endangered species act and clean water act. mr. mast: he was an avid fishermenman and conservationist. he was the founding member of ation.erglades found he championed bamp saying the everglades doesn't care what party you belong to. she cares what you do. nathaniel ended every phone call by sending his sincerest best wishes and he always truly meant it. and today we send him our sincerest. and remember his unwavering commitment to america's everglades and his service to our nation. mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from washington seek recognition? mr. newhouse: mr. speaker, i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from washington is recognized for one min

mr. chairman for calling this really vital, important hearing. this past weekend i went on a faith in politics pilgrimage, a bipartisan led by tom reed to upstate new york. the home of two of the vital human rights social justice, civil rights movement in our country, the right to abolish slavery, the fight to abolish slavery in the fight to grant women the right to vote. we went to the graves of harriet tubman, frederick douglass, susan b anthony, all people who dedicated their lives to freedom and the right to vote for american citizens. i cannot think of anything more important than this hearing and i must say it is a national scandal that we have been asking for it ever since the election to find out what happened with the tampering of trying to interfere and prevent people from having their vote. the evidence is absolutely clear that the russians tampered with our election, nothing is more important and i hope, mr. chairman, this is the first of many hearings focusing on preserving the integrity of our votes and our election system. i don't think anything is more important in our country. i would like to start first by asking, have you read th

mr. gutierrez had a diverse career and mexico government survey and prominent positions in the areas of trade, finance, diplomacy, passionate kiss security, and did so under for president. walter russell reed who will lead this discussion with ambassador is a distinguished fellow at hudson institute, also the james clark chance professor for foreign affairs and humanities, and the golden review columnist for the wall street journal. >> he is an honest graduate of groton and yale. please join me in welcoming ambassador gutierrez and walter reed. you should have cards on your seeds which you can jot down questions so that we can do this quickly and smoothly, so we can get as many in as possible. someone will collect them during the program and pass them to walter. use the cards, and we will get everybody in as much as we can. >> thank you john for the introduction, and thank you ambassador for joining us. i should say the ambassador has urgent business to do. when we finish the program, he will need to exit so he can get to the telephone, apparently this is a day where important calls are being made. this is a really interesting moment in mexican history, and the history of us-mexico relatio

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mr. reed: thank you, mr. president. today i introduced a motion to instruct the conferees to the national defense authorization act regarding the critical importance of the north atlantic treaty organization for united states national security, for our protection. i join my colleagues this afternoon in support of the motion which sends an important message to our allies, our partners, and our adversaries that the united states is unwavering in its support of europe free from the threat of external aggression and in support of the rules based international order that has promoted international security for decades. the motion to instruct provides important guidance at this critical juncture before the nato summit in brussels and the u.s.-russia summit in helsinki. the motion instructs the senate conferees on the national defense authorization for fiscal year 2019 to ensure the final conference report on the ndaa reaffirms the ironclad u.s. commitment under article 5 to the collective defense of the alliance. it reaffirms