is necessary for having the tools for this recovery secondly, in my view, the pro o proposal by mr. rubio is critical it allows us to take the embedded loss and put it on a 20 year am at a 1% rate is an sba product. it's really geared toward a hurricane and not to a national pandemic the third point is the main street program both you have know my views on this on friday, at 1:00 in a typical washington, d.c. issue, the fed released its frequently asked questions and dumped out to the public on friday afternoon that you would not pursue this asset based lending type approach for a different main street term sheet. mr. barr did a good job describing that. i think that can be done, chairman powell, to companies on sound footing, not able to reach credit on reasonable terms and in the concept of a backstop i want to press both of you that while it doesn't fit the main street term sheet you have today that took four mornths to stand up, i still believe it's important. you had a key component in another washington key component in the frequently asked questions. you said at this time. i would

in my view, the proposal by mr. rubio in the senate been -- in the senate bill on the 7a loan program is critical because it allows to take the embedded loss we think is coming and put it on a 20 year, at a 1% rate. it is a much better solution than the emergency loan program used during this pandemic, which is geared towards a hurricane and not a national pandemic. the third point is the main street program, and both of you know my views on this as we have talked about it in oversight commission hearing and privately that is on friday at 1:00 come in a typical washington, d.c. issue, the fed released its frequently asked questions and dumped to the public friday afternoon you would not pursue this asset lending type approach for a different main street term sheet. mr. clark did a good job -- mr. pillar did a good job describing that. i think that can be done to companies on sound footing, to companies that do not credit on reasonable terms, and in the concept of a backstop. i want to press both of you that while it does

cardin, mr. rubio, and nydia velazquez, chair of the small business committee here, played a role.icant we passed the heroes act. from four months-plus passing the heroes act, and the senate has taken no action. one could say, well, the senate hasn't taken action get the votesan't of the democrats for a bill we woefully inadequate. i didn't hear the gentleman talking about those people who food lines or the payment who need that f $1,200 and dollars for children. i didn't hear him saying anything about the testing thisilities so we can stop virus. criticize him from mentioning the chabot bill. tell my -- i will friends on the republican side, i'm hopeful they'll get the pportunity to vote for either an agreement between mr. and in, secretary mnuchin peaker pelosi and schumer and others who choose to participate n the negotiations, but i am very hopeful that we will have either an agreement or a bill we can pass that i hope everybody on this floor votes or, which will deal with the problems i mention, t

secondly, in my view, the proposal by mr. rubio, that is the senate bill on the 7-a loan program is critical because it allows to take this embedded loss of the last six or eight months that is coming and put it on a 20 year am at a 1% rate is an sba product and much better solution than the emergency loan program that the sba has used during this pandemic which is geared toward a hurricane and not a national pandemic. but the third point is the main street program and both of you know my views on this as we've talked about it in oversight commission hearing and privately and that is on friday at 1:00 in a typical washington, d.c. issue, the fed releases its frequently asked questions and dumped out to the public on friday afternoon that you would not pursue this asset-based lending type approach for a different main street term sheet. mr. barr did a good job describing that. i really think that could be done, chairman powell, to companies on sound footing to companies that are not able to reach credit traditionally on reasonable t

mr. engel and senator rubio and senator merkley. i thank you for this opportunity. and so many of our members who have spoken on this issue. . . beijing's actions on the uighur people continue to be an outrage to the collective conscience of the world. across the region, the uighur and other muslim majorities are brutally repressed. in this way. a pervasive state of mass surveillance and predictive policing used to discriminate against and violate the human rights of minorities. incidents of mass shootings, extra judicial killings, and intimidation and suppression of journalists. courageously exposing the truth. and the pass incarceration of more than, this is a lower figure, i think it's higher, but conservative figure, one million innocent people with beatings, solidarity confinement, depravation of food and medical treatment, and with extensively documented programs of forced labor. if you are out there watching the congress, know what this means to you. the exploitation of people in china has a direct impact on our trade policy and on our values first and foremo

mr. chairman. i want to thank my cosponsor, senator moran, out the door, and chairman rubio, open hearings are rare and i appreciate him doing this. let me start by saying that when our country's safety is at stake , there is a need to classify documents essential to protecting american lives. what there is no need for is a dilapidated, out-of-control classification system that costs taxpayers more than $18 billion a year. colleagues, cannot even distinguish between what should and should not be kept secret. when it comes time to declassify a document, the agencies have to even havend do not the ability to communicate about it securely online. here's what happened. intelligence officials have to print out the documents. they put them in a bag and drive around from agency to agency. traffic,et stuck in they better bring a bag lunch. it means intelligence officials .arch around it might make a funny saturday night live skit but it is an .bsurd waste of taxpayer money documents are piling up in the secret databases. the system is choking on itself and it gets worse each year as a flood of new informat

mr. jamie fly is now a senior fellow and adviser to the president at the german marshal fund. he previously worked as a counselor for foreign and national security affairs for senator rubio and served on the national security council staff during the george w. bush administration. mr. grant turner is the chief financial officer of the united states agency for global media and also serves as the interim ceo of the agency from the fall of last year until june. he previously serveds a budget direct at the office of budget during the bush and obama administrations. without objection your complete written testimony will be made part of the record of this hearing and i will recognize you for five minutes each to summer rise your testimony. mr. turner, we'll begin with you. >> thank you, chairman engle, ranking member mccaul and members of the committee. i'm testifying to disclose significant concerns about the u.s. agency for global media, specifically related to the dire events that have been unfolding at the agency over the past few months. first let me start by telling you a little bit about myself and usagm. i've been privileged to serve in the u.s. federal civil service a

mr. pack has in fact done on his own. nick: joining us now is jamie fly, foreign policy advisor to mark o rubio, former aide to president bushresident of radio free europe, fired by michael pack. you are a republican. do you believe what pack is doing is partisan? jamie: i am not sure it is partisan. what we learned at the hearing, there is a lot of gross mismanagement of the agency underway right now. there were democrats and republicans fired en masse. he is putting america -- american tools at risk. nick: why does it matter an organization like yours, voice of america, these other organizations, are seeing -- seen as perhaps not independent under michael pack? jamie: over the decades they gathered a loyal following in closed societies like russia, china, iran belarus, which is relevant right now as they are out in the streets trying to topple lukashenko. their credibility stems from their independence and adherence to the highest professional standards of journalism. that is what is being threatened by mr. pack's actions, by e removal of the network heads, by some of his attempts and people working with him to influence c

mr. president, i urge this body to adopt my legislation which i proudly have introduced along with senator rubio and senator cotton, senator braun and senator loeffler to give every american who is unfairly censored the right to have his or her day in court, the right to stand and be heard, the right to fairness and due process of law. this is a stand we must take in defense of free speech, in defense of our elections. but more importantly, above all, in defense of our democracy and the rule of we the people. and so i ask unanimous consent that the committee of mers -- commerce be discharged from further consideration ofs s. 3983 and the senate proceed to its immediate consideration. i ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read a third time and passed and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: is there objection? a senator: reserving the right to be 0. the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. wyden: thank you, mr. president. i just want to say to the senate, in my time in this body, this is one of the most stunning

mr. chairman. i especially want, to thank my cosponsors senator friend who i know is getting out the door. also chairman rubio. open hearings are rare. and i very much appreciate him doing this. let me start by saying what our country safety is at stake, there is a very real need to classified documents. essential to protecting american lives. what there is no need for is a dilapidated out-of-control classification system that cost taxpayers more than $18 billion a year. and get this colleagues. cannot even distinguish between what should and should not be kept secret. the classification system so i dated an dysfunction and dysfunctional that when it comes time to just classified document, the agencies have to find the don't even have the ability to communicate about it securely online. so here's what happens colleagues. intelligence officials have to print out the documents. they put them in a bag and drive around from agency to agency. and if they get stuck in traffic, they better bring a bag lunch. now watching these intelligence officials march around with their documents, might make for a funny saturday

mr. trump's office, we would sit down, we would talk about it, he would approve it and then i would contact david. next thing you know, two days later on the front cover, marco rubio has a drug problem. >> that is a remarkable campaign contribution to the donald trump for president campaign, at least legally, you think that that might have been seen that way. >> it could certainly be seen. and i hate to say that there's other stations right now that are doing the same thing. they're becoming state-run television as well as newspapers that, you know, if donald trump sneezed, it's the greatest sneeze in the history of the world. and front, you know, front page news story, breaking news. >> let me ask you about another sort of surprise appearance in your book. it's the appearance of don mcgahn, of all people, who, of course, has had a very unusual time in the spotlight as president trump's white house counsel and as somebody who was a fulsome cooperator with the mueller investigation, even while he was serving in the white house. you write about arranging for a portrait of president trump to be purchased at auction basically by a fake buyer. it was actually paid for

mr. trump's office, we would sit down and talk about it. he would approve it and then i would contact david. next thing you know, two days later on the front cover marco rubio has a drug problem. >> tonight rachel got a confirmation that donald trump was lying about something that i said donald trump was lying about nine years ago when he claimed he was sending private detectives to hawaii to investigate barack obama's birth, and michael cohen explained donald trump's hateful obsession with president barack obama. >> he doesn't care what he says. he doesn't care who gets hurt so long as he wins. when he saw his poll numbers and popularity and the number of times that he's gracing the front cover of a newspaper is increasing, he just added onto it. all of a sudden he was sending people to hawaii to go check. that's a lie. he never sent anybody anywhere. he just said it and everybody bought into it. of course donald trump sent somebody. he's rich, right? who wouldn't send somebody if you want to prove your point? donald trump didn't do it because he didn't want to spend the money and he didn't believe it. you know, his hatred for barack obama is plain and sim

mr. rubio: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. rubio: if i may just for a moment, just for the information of the members then who are on the committee, we will not be having the meeting, the hearing today on the issue of election security with the person leading that effort. it was a priority of many here. we are scheduled to have the director of national intelligence tomorrow to discuss that and many more topics of great importance that i know a lot of people here have been saying we need to be having briefings over. i hope that if in fact the democratic leader intends to object to that, we should know that today as well i hope so that the members will know that and make apparatuses accordingly. i yield the floor. -- and make arrangements accordingly. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: question is on the nomination. is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll.

mr. rubio: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. rubio: in the events of the last few months we'll be seeing on the streets, the protests, all the issues that surround that i think it forced the country to grapple with our history on the issues of race. and in particular the -- what we teach young americans about what that means and how it fits in the broader story of america. is america in fact a nation founded on racism, one that makes our very founding and its principles almost irredeemable? it's an important question. you can't ask americans or any generation to sacrifice or defend any nation so deeply flawed. so it is one i think we need to talk about. this country was founded in the year 1776. it was founded by this declaration that all men are created equal, that your rights come from god, from your creator. now, we take those words for granted today. they were extraordinarily radical ideas 244 years ago. up until that time, every person on earth was told that your rights were whatever the sovereign allowed you to have, whatev

mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent that the rubio amendment at the desk be considered and 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. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the committee on veterans' affairs be discharged from further consideration of s. 4072 and the senate proceed to its immediate consideration. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. 4072 a bill to desk nate the clinic of the veteran affairs as the robert d. maxwell of veterans affairs clinic. promise without objection, the committee --. the presiding officer: the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the bill be considered read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the committee on help be discharged from further consideration of s. 924 and the senate proceed to its immediate c