mr. schatz: what about the part people are worried about, not the fun part. mr. zuckerberg: what's that? r. schatz: the part people are worried about, are your d.m.'s informing the ads? are your browsing habits being collected? everybody kind of understands when you click like on something or if you say you like a certain movie or have a particular proclivity, i think that's fair game. everybody understands that. what we don't understand exactly because, both as a matter of practice and a matter of not being able to decipher those terms of service and the privacy policy is, what exactly are you going with the -- doing with the data and do you draw aties dings between -- distinction between data collected in the prosofse utilizing the platform and that which we clearly volunteer to the public to present ourselves to other facebook users. mr. zuckerberg: senator i'm not sure i fully understand this. in general people come to facebook to share content with other people. we use that in order to also inform how we rank services like news feeds and ads to provide more v

mr. schatz: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from hawaii. mr. schatz: thank you, mr. president. in his confirmation hearing last january, e.p.a. administrator scott pruitt said there was evidence that climate change had actually leveled off over the past two decades. in response to mr. pruitt's comments, an atmospheric scientist in california pulled together some colleagues to study satellite data from around the world. they found, predictably, that mr. pruitt was wrong and they prepare to publish their findings in "nature scientific reports," but then something weird happened. a few of the scientists said they didn't want their names listed on the research. they were worried about their ability to get a green card in the united states. mr. sander told the new yorker that this was the first time he saw colleagues feared putting their names on research because they were worried about the negative consequences fors themselves and their families. in this country scientists should not work in fear, they should not worry about their work being politicized, but this is wher

mr. schatz: i -- thank you, mr. president. i'm they're give some brief remarks about what we're on right now, which is a congressional review act vehicle to reconsider agency guidance. now, there's nothing that sounds more arcane and wonky than that. the issue at hand has to do with disparate treatment of people when they go into a -- borrow to get a car that there's plenty of evidence that black and brown people are taken advantage of and treated more poorly in the credit context than white people. and so the cfpb went to collect data and to require that people were treated fairly. and so i'll be voting against this c.r.a. vehicle, by i actually think there's a bigger, broader, more concerning issue. and i'm going to be trying to work with the parliamentarian's office and with the leadership of both parties to address it because although it's arcane, it's very worrisome for the senate itself. so the congressional review act passed in 1996 and the idea was totally straightforward. any rule passed pursuant to substitute -- and

mr. schatz: thank you, mr. president. nasa is a science agency. its mission is to advance science, aeronautics, and space exploration, and to enhance economic vitality, and stewardship of the planet. that's the mission. that's why past nasa administrators have been accomplished leaders in the fields of government, aviation, and science. the nasa administrator in president obama's administration was charles bolden. he has a master of science degree. he was an astronaut and a commanding general in the united states air force. president george w. bush had two administrators during his presidency. michael griffin was a physicist and an aerospace engineer who helped to design missile defense technology satellites early in his career. sean o'keefe was an engineer in the navy who worked on nuclear submarines. before leaving nasa he served as deputy director of o.m.b., secretary of the navy and comptroller for the department of defense. daniel golden was a mechanical engineer who had previously been a vice president at a space and technology company. he w

mr. schatz: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from hawaii. mr. schatz: thank you, madam president. i thank senator hirono for his pointed remarks, and i'd like to offer my condolences to the family of senator daniel akaka. he died on friday at the age of 93, leaving behind a legacy of integrity, kindness, and service to hawaii and to the nation. in washington, senator akaka was an ambassador of aloha. he showed people kindness, respect, and hospitality rarely seen in this town. he didn't just represent hawaii's interests in the congress, he showed the world what hawaii represents. in the words of president kennedy, all that we are and all that we hope to be. he started that service as a welder i in the united states ay corps of engineers, he fought in world war ii in the pacific arena, traveling to places like saipan. when world war ii ended, he took advantage of the g.i. bill to attend the university of hawaii and to become a teacher, an occupation that he never fully left behind. senator akaka served for 36 years in the congress -- 14 years in t