mr. whitehouse: i'll gladly yield. mr.umer: i want to file the no kings act, which deals with the horrible supreme court decision that gave immunity to future presidents. and so, i move to proceed to legislative session. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion. all those in favor say aye. all opposed say no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. mr. schumer: as i said, this is just putting on the calendar rule 14, the no kings act, which deals with the awful supreme court decision that basically allows presidents to do what they want, as long as they can call it official. i understand that there's a bill at the desk, and i ask for its first reading. the presiding officer: the clerk will read the title of the bill for the first time. the clerk: s. 4973, a bill to reassert the constitutional authority of congress to determine the general applicability of the criminal laws of the united states and for other purposes. mr. schumer: i now ask for a second reading, and in order to

mr. whitehouse: thank you, leader schumer. the right wing fed soc justices also took away women's right to an abortion, leaving millions of women unable to make basic decisions about their own reproductive health, and endangering women experiencing troubled perhapsies. they -- pregnancies. they overturned long-standing and overwhelmingly popular gun safety laws, leaving our communities exposed to the epidemic of gun violence. they eviscerated the government's ability to fight climate change and to protect consumers from corporate profiteering. and they invented, out of thin air, the idea that former presidents are absolutely immune from being held accountable for using their office to break the law to commit crimes, even to crit treason. on top of all this, the court has done its best to prevent the american people from fighting back through the democratic process. it's made it harder for other people to vote, while making it easier for billionaires and deep-pocketed special interests to impose their will on the american peopl

mr. wyden: senator whitehouse, thank you for your comments and talking about the immediacy of what is in this bill. i've had some come to me and say, if this is put off by 2025, who won't be around to see it. senator bennet has been in in fight since day one. really dedicated his public service to kids. welcome. bennet bennet thank you to -- mr. bennet: thank you to my colleagues who are here and i thank the presiding officer who's been a champion on all of the tax credits, the -- and bringing together people on both sides of the aisle. and you, mr. chairman for your steadfast leadership over many, many years. and i'm not going to give everybody a long history lesson here. but you want to know why our politics are so messed up, why it feels like we're having these incredible disagreements and divisions and all of this in our politics. i believe there is one fundamental reason for it and i believe that fundamental reason is that people in america have lost the sense of having economic mobility for themselves and their families. the whole idea of the american dream is that if you worked ha

chair whitehouse: thank you, ms. hinman. mr. schwietert: chairman whitehouse, ranking number -- remember grassley, senator graham, members of the committee, i am the chief government affairs and policy officer at the alliance for automotive innovation, representing automakers, battery suppliers, and -- producing most of the vehicles sold in the u.s. thank you for the invitation to testify and to share our perspective this morning on the u.s. electric vehicle market and policies to help accelerate this transition. today, i want to provide the auto industry perspective on the shift toward electrification, and to give the committee a status report about not only what is working, but also where there is work to be done. let's start with this. electrification is transforming personal mobility. it is rewriting global supply chains, rebuilding domestic industrial base, and creating jobs. an underpinning of the american economy and our national security in fundamental ways. today, 113 electrified products -- sedans, pickups, utility vehi

whitehouse. rex thank you chairman wyden and mr. president to collect center from rhode island. >> first of all i want to congratulate senator brown and senator casey for all the work they have put into this effort. chairman wyden, for his negotiation to where we are right now. this is a big deal forrhode isl. we tried the child tax credit during covid prayer we know how it works 174,000 rhode island families group company vid. what we saw is it listed many of them out of poverty. what else we saw is that it enabled parents to get into the workforce. there is a phony narrative that if you give the child tax credit to families they will avoid work. our experience was the opposite. once you had child tax credit revenues and you could afford for instance a child care for yournc kid, then you could go to work. and of course we needed workforce through company vid so people were taking paying attention to this. that was our experience it. this is a pro child pro work tax credit. now you think it be an easy slam dunk takes to the house of

would like to welcome today's witnesses invited here by senator whitehouse and graham. and finally mr. chairman requested unanimous consent to put this article called copper it can't beat mind fast enough or electrified vehicles. i thank you. before you go on i was thinking i mentioned if you inconsistencies in my opening remarks but i think of others. maybe the adjective is being unrealistic or inconsistency may fit a couple of things. quiet was a number one producer of ethanol we have 43000 jobs in iowa if we had every vehicle in the united states bev's you could see but that could due to the particular job that we created 40 years ago to produce a more environmentally friendly product. then a petroleum is. we have the inconsistency rain forest hacked away to mine nickel and indonesia. we have the inconsistency of people in the congress that talk about we've got to stop the use of child labor around the globe and yet we have children mining cobalt in congo. i mentioned transmission in my opening comment the chairman mentioned transmission this permitting process is by environmentali