mr. sullivan: mr. president? the presiding officer: the junior senator from alaska. mr. sullivan: thank you, mr. president. i want to commend my colleague from ohio on his legislation. the national parks means so much to us and alaska. i'm looking forward to getting on that bill as a cosponsor of a very important piece of legislation. so once again, senator portman is leading the way in the senate on so many issues. but, mr. president, what i want to do this afternoon was say a few words about the president's visit to nato and the nato meeting that we just had and talk about the importance of alliances and our allies. i think if you read in the press now, i think overall you see this trip, you see the meeting. the president met with all the nato leaders in brussels, that overall was a good trip. there's been this commitment by nato members since at least 2014, but it really goes way earlier than 2014 for each country to spend 2% or more of their g.d.p. on defense spending. so we share the burdens of defense. now, the united states has slings always -- -- has essentially a

mr. sullivan: mr. president, it's thursday afternoon, and for the new pages here, you will hopefully see that this is certainly one of my favorite moments in the senate. i know it's the presiding officer who gets to see the alaskan of the week every week around this time. but i guarantee the young men and women who are doing a great job as our pages, they're going to start to view this as their favorite time, too, because you get to hear about alaska, and you get to hear stories about example arkansas, and you get to hear about great people, wonderful people. and the great state of alaska has been doing great things for their community, their state, their country. we call that person our alaskan of the week. now, from the on-set, we've tried to focus on people generally who are unsung heroes in their communities. people who have worked diligently a lot of times without a lot of recognition, and i get to, with my colleagues, come down here and tell stories about what they've done for their community or

mr. sullivan. i thank him for working with me and my staff. on the minority side as well, i thank congressman kennedy as well as mr. raskin and the ranking member on the judiciary committee. bipartisan to educate people who are the victims of domestic violence about better ways that they can protect themselves and avail themselves of good representation in court. i urge my colleagues to support the legislation. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass senate 717, as amended. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed, and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from wyoming seek recognition? ms. cheney: mr. speaker, i move to suspend the rules and agree to h.res. 995. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the resolution.

sullivan. and i said, yeah, i know that. what should i call you? she says you can call me by my name. my name is mrs. john sullivan. i thought we're not going to have a lot of bonding here. at that time it was almost half of the women here had inherited -- not inherited really but had run for their husband's seat after their husband had died. and not all of them but some of them like mrs. john sullivan, thought they weren't just the woman, they were carrying forward his agenda, whatever that was. so there were the patsy minks and bella abzig's and shirley chisom, yes. there's a nice bonding there. and then there's the others. oh, martha from michigan. she was terrific. martha griffiths. but there was the other group that wasn't quite there yet. and that's why we didn't have a women's caucus. 14 was small enough. if you take half of them out, it was seven. we've got to at least have double digits. it took a while to get a woman's caucus going. >> so you joined four other freshmen women at the beginning of that 93rd congress, yvonne burke, marjorie, liz holtzman. later on two widows succeeded their husbands. >> exact

sullivan. and i said i know that, what should i call you? and she said my name is mrs. john sullivan. and i thought we're not going to have a lot of bonding here. we had at that time, i think it was almost half of the women here, had inherited, not inherited really, but had run for their husband's seats after their husband had died. and not all of them, but some like mrs. john sullivan thought they weren't just the woman, they were carrying forward, his agenda. whatever that is. so there were the patsy minks and the bella abzugs, and shirley chisholm, yes. there was a nice bonding there. and then there's the others, oh, mar martha, from michigan, martha griffiths, but there was the other group that wasn't quite there yet. that's why we didn't have a women's caucus, 14 was small enough. if you take about half of them out. is that seven. we've got at least double digits, so it took a while to get a woman's caucus going. >> you joined four other freshmen women at the beginning of that 93rd congress, yvonne burke, barbara jordan. later two widows succeeded their husbands. >> that's right.

sullivan from missouri, she was the chairman of a committee. i said, i know you're my dean. what should i call you? she said, my name is mrs. john sullivan. and i said, yeah, i know that. what should i call you? she said, you can call me by my name. my name is mrs. don sullivan. so i thought, well, we're not going to is a lot of bonding here. you know, we had at that time it was almost half of the women here had inherited -- not inherited really, but had run for their husband's seats after their husband had died. not all of them, but some of them like mrs. don sullivan thought they were just a woman, they were carrying forward his agenda, whatever that was. so there was a thing, in bella, in shirley, yes, a nice bonding there, and then there's the others. martha from michigan was terrific, martha griffith, but there was the others that weren't quite there yet. that's why we didn't have a women's caucus. i mean 14 was small enough, as you think about half of them, seven, but at least it took a while to get -- a women's caucus going. >> so you joined four other freshmen women at the beginning of that 93rd congress. yvonne burke, liz holtzman

mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator sullivan. senator manchin. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, mr. wilkie, for your service and continued desire to serve as you can tell we're all proud of the veterans interstates there we want to make sure you don't move everything to alaska. >> we still have hospital. >> senator tillis isn't going to let me move everything. >> that's right. anyway, this morning there were 93 jobs posted on the federal jobs posting for west virginia. we have full-time primary care physicians needed in petersburg, psychiatrist at martinsburg, social work program coordinator at clarksburg, registered nurses and i.t. specialist at several other facilities. we will submit everything for you. i just know we brought this to your predecessors before, and what plan do you have recruiting, spatial in rural areas whether it be in alaska or west virginia or rural north carolina or nevada, all of our states, montana, georgia, what is your plan to basically get more people involved in helping us in the va with their expertise? >> yes, senator i'm going to go bac

mr. chairman. >> senator sullivan. >> thank you mr. chairman. thank you for volunteering to serve again. i think that was a powerful opening statement, one of the best that i'v i've heard on anyt nominee and i want to thank you for that. i fully intend to support your nomination and hopefully most of my colleagues or all of my colleagues will as well. i appreciate you and the chairman already talking about rural issues as i've said before there's a rural america, extreme, and then alaska. it's not just the size. i don't like doing this to the ranking member, but you mentioned montana and i think we are close to five times the size of montana but it's also the expansive you look at as we've talked about in our meeting if you look at the expense of alaska and superimposed it over the southeast communities like my state it would be any kind of a northern florida area. the northern communities in my state would be like the northern part of north dakota and the chain would extend out to san francisco, so my state is a continent wide place and yet we

the judge in the case, sullivan, wanted to meet mike flynn before he sentences mr. flynn. >> that is shouting in the background, hay i hear, as flyn walking wapast live. walked past people and got in an suv. there's chushouting. are those to tests? >> reporter: some of the chants included "lock him up," recalling flynn saying "lock her up" about clinton during the republican national convention. this was flynn's first appearance in seven months since pleading guilty to lying to authorities. not much happened in the courtroom today. this was a status hearing. both robert mueller's office and flynn's lawyers requested his sentencing be postponed yet again. it suggests he is continuing to cooperate with the mueller investigation. mueller still has business with mike flynn. they did start the process of a presentencing report. it looks like flynn will be sentenced probably this fall. the business is wrapping up. the case is proceeding. he's pleaded guilty to lying to authorities. he's cooperating with robert mueller's investigation. hallie? >> ken dilanian outside of th

mr. president, save thoughts and prayers for empty soul, he later apologized. margaret sullivanton post wrote this, a couple of days after shooting everybody knew about the shooter and grudge against paper, while there is no cause, there's a connection in the attitudes of this unhinged gunman and the president of the united states, a dangerous failure to understand the role of the media in our society. anne, i hate to put you on the spot but do you think that's fair? >> margaret is correct that there's not any link here. i mean, this guy's beef with the paper to your point went back to 2012. donald trump has nothing to do with why he was angry at this particular paper, why the gunman, the alleged gunman was. but there's a different environment that surrounds anything having to do with reporting, reporting on trump now and i think i agree partially with jason here that, i mean, trump -- when trump says that not only says that the press is enemy of the people but points to specific reporters and points to reporters in the back of his rallies with the clear implication that he hope

ramy: bloomberg washington reporter greg sullivan, the latest out of there. what is happening between mrtrump mr. putin. we want to alert you to something crossing the bloomberg terminal right now. korea, south north jae-in monday and --moon mate meet north korea's leader in august again. again, the president of south korea mate meet the north's kim next month. this would be a follow-on to what happened in singapore. just recently in the past month developments and in the meantime let's get first word news. >> the european union is drawing up a list of american goods to base tariffs if upcoming talks for dropping duties on imported cars. debating whether auto imports damage national security. washington already hit the eu with duties in steel and aluminum which led to tit-for-tat. >> important truth of trade is that companies do not trade, companies and people do. stablees create a environment for trade or they don't. either way, it is the general public who will see the impact and pain. haidi: britain's new brexit chief has helped the first talks. one where britain crashes out of the bl

sullivan theater. i'm your host, stephen colbert. >> oh, that's who you are! >> stephen: nice to meet you, mr.me we've spoken. mr. president, we've talked many times before. always good to have a conversation. i always enjoy it. do you enjoy it? >> i do. i think you got a real future in this. ( laughter ) >> stephen: thank you very much, thank you very much. i think you do, too. ( laughter ) now, you guys have been on the book tour-- how long have you been doing the book tour so far? >> second day. >> stephen: second day? >> yeah. >> stephen: well, it's been an eventful two days so far. ( laughter ) >> yeah, it's moving along good. >> stephen: i-- i-- i noticed-- i watched you on "the today show" yesterday morning. i noticed you didn't enjoy that entire interview. i want you to enjoy this one. but i do want to ask you something, which is, when i got home last night, on the cnn-- they had a lower-third banner that said something about "william clinton's tone-deaf response to the question from 'the today show.'" my question is, would you like a do-over on that answer? do you-- do you understand

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i'd like to thank senator sullivan from alaska for introducing this bill and shepherding it through the senate. and would like to thank mr. kennedy from the great commonwealth of massachusetts for introducing this bill in the house. this is an extremely important issue and i hope it will make a real difference in increasing legal services to victims. i urge my colleagues to support the power act and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia reserves. the gentleman from maryland is recognized. mr. raskin: thank you very much, mr. chairman. mr. speaker, i rise in support of s. 717, the pro bono work tome power and represent act -- tome power and represent act of 2017 or the power act, as amended. it seeks to promote pro bono legal services to promote survivors of domestic violence. domestic violence, sexual assault and stocking -- stalking impact people in all of our communities. this assists victims who find themselves in a domestic violence situation, it far exceeds the ability of free or low-cost legal services and yet research consistently shows, as the chairman of the judic

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mr. engel and i are going to be meeting with deputy secretary sullivan this afternoon at 4:00, so we'll raise that issue, ambassador, at that time as well. >> thank you so much, chairman royce. thank you, ranking member engel, for once again holding a hearing on a very timely and important topic. since widespread protests began on april 18th in nicaragua, we have seen over 300 people killed under the direction of daniel ortega and his henchmen. and venezuela continues to rule with impunity, ignoring the need for leadership. in honduras, they hide behind the so-called transition of power. nada has changed for the people of cuba. activists are still being held for days at a time. they're still being beaten and arrested, and the regime continues to rule with an iron fist. more worrisome, mr. chairman, is the cooperation between these rogue regimes has actually increased. just last week there were reports indicating that maduro had sent a shipment of weapons to ortega to help. instead of using the countries' resources to alleviate suffering for his policies, he sends refu refuge, being responsibl

mr. --f wrote a letter enclosures to the letter will be included in the record along with a letter from chief judge sidney thomas. chief judge of the ninth circuit court of appeals. both senator sullivan and gains are strongly in support of splitting the ninth circuit and they will be splitting an additional statement for the record today. our record will remain open for seven days. this hearing is adjourned. thank you. [captions made possible by mlb network] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [various inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] today, president trump will hold a campaign rally in florida speaking in support of three candidates. defeat bill bid to nelson and congressman matt gaetz's reelection bid. right after that, the aspen institute will hold a discussion on the future of college sports. former collegee basketball coaches and players, ncaa officials and sports law experts. testify onofficials border security and immigration policy for migrant families coming to the u.s.. 9:30will start tonight at p.m. eastern on c-span. brette court nominee kavanaugh continu

mr. sullivan: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from alaska. mr. sullivan: mr. president, it's thursday afternoon and it's one of my favorite times of the week, and i know for many of my fellow senators, including the presiding officer and the pages, this is one of their favorite times of the week too because it's the time that we get to talk about the alaskan of the week. now, there are people -- i had a couple of people come up, hey, senator, when are you giving your speech on the alaskan of the week? i said later. okay. we're going to keep an eye on it because people have a lot of interest in the great state of alaska. now, the alaskan of the week, as many of my colleagues know, is somebody who we like to highlight who has just done great stuff for the state, community, town, state, maybe country, sometimes it's someone famous, but, mr. president, oftentimes it's someone who's been working really hard for much of their life and doesn't get a lot of recognition, just doing it, the heroes of the community. and so that's why we like to talk about the alaskan of