mrs. murray: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: as we grieve with the communities from el paso and dayton and midland, i can't help but be reminded of the seattle jewish federation, marysville, seattle pacific university, freeman high school, and so many other communities in my home state of washington and nationwide that are suffering as a result of tragic and tragically preventable gun violence. after each of these heartbreaking events, families in washington state ask me why does this keep happening and why can we not stop it? and the answer is the same every time. we can't stop it because republicans, led by leader mcconnell and now president trump, won't let us. because of this inaction, we have entered a very destructive cycle. people going about their days to school and movie theater, place of worship to places where they should feel safe, lose their lives to gun violence. communities and democrats speak out. we call for commonsense reforms such as the universal background checks which the vast majority of americans s

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mrs. murray: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i come to the senate floor this afternoon with my democratic colleagues to voice my strong opposition to this administration's move to take money away from our military to fund president trump's wasteful border wall. now, i often say we make a promise as a nation to take care of our service members and their families, sacrificing to defend our freedoms. but the pentagon's announcement this week that it plans to move billions, billions of dollars away from critical military construction projects across our country is more than a broken promise to our troops. it is an egregious abuse of power that undercuts congress' constitutional obligation to set our nation's budget, and it compromises critical national security priorities. so earlier today democrats on our appropriations committee and i support offed an amendment to -- supported an amendment to the defense appropriations bill that would prevent the president from undermining congress'

mr. hairman. > thank you, senator murray. we'll welcome the nominee, mr. scalia. the secretary currently serves as the united states transportation secretary. secretary, welcome. secretary chao: thank you. chairman alexander, ranking member murray, before introducing today's nominee, please let me acknowledge senator johnny isakson who recently announced his etirement. his leadership especially under the pension protection act has greatly benefited workers and you will be dearly missed. i am pleased to be here to introduce eugene scalia who i have known for decades as the nominee to be the 28th secretary of labor. i worked closely with him when i as secretary of labor. i can attest to his keen intellect, personal integrity and commitment to protecting our nations workers. there is a quorum of scalia members. let me especially mention marine scalia. she has been a strong guiding influence in her family. she is a strong new englander who made sure gene read a biography of samuel adams. to emphasize the important of character and dedication in public service. this is

mrs. murray: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: i join my democratic colleagues on the floor today to once again speak out against this president and his administration's outrageous abuses of executive power. and while unfortunately there is a myriad of presidential abuses to which i could be referring, today, this evening i'm here to discuss two of his most recent and most egregious actions that not only run afoul of congress' authority and our constitutional system of checks and balances but also compromise our national security. it began with the president making a phony national emergency declaration to bypass congress and steal money to build his border wall under the auspices of a,, quote-unquote, crisis, one of the president's own making in pursuit of advancing the most anti-immigrant agenda this country has seen in generations, all manufactured to secure federal funds to build his often touted vanity wall on our southern border, a wall the am

mrs. murray: thank you, mr. president. i want to thank my colleague from alabama for his tremendous leadership on this really critical effort, because right now we are days away from a very damaging lapse in funding for our hbcu's, our tribal colleges and other minority-serving institutions, and that creates unnecessary and needless uncertainty for students in schools across the country. now, mr. president, both of my colleagues spoke of music and the need for harmony. well, it appears to me that the bill that the senator from alabama is asking us to approve today for the funding for hbcu's is a heck of a lot of harmony. the house has already acted to fix this. they sent this bill to the senate on a bipartisan basis. all members of the house supporting it and paid for it in a way that even the white house supports. in this day and age, i would that i can that harmony. so i am very frustrated about today's opposition to a very simple step to protect colleges and universities with such important missions. and, mr. president,

mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator murray. we'll welcome the nominee, mr. scalia. the secretary currently serves as the united states transportation secretary. secretary, welcome. >> thank you. chairman alexander, ranking member, murray, before introducing today's nominee, please let me acknowledge senator johnny isakson who announced his retirement. his leadership on the pension protect act of 2006 has greatly benefitted workers and our country and you will be dearly missed. i'm pleased to be here today to introduce eugene scalia who i've known for years. and i can attest to his keen intellectual, respect for the rule of law, personal integrity and commitment to protecting our nation's workers. let me know that there's a corum of scalia friends here. she's been a strong guiding influence on her family. she ensured that gene read a long biography of samuel adams when he was just in graduate school to emphasize the important of dedication and character in public service. this is just one of the many ways that gene's parents instilled within him a profound respect for

satisfied the legitimate inquisitorial appetite of the honourable gentleman. 0rder, urgent question, mr ian murrayh the european withdrawal number two act 2019. the minister. thank you, mr speaker. in the tone that you are setting, perhaps i can incorrectly refer and thank my honourable friend because there are many friends across the chamber and if one reads the newspapers this morning, i think there is a feeling that we are adversarial permanently but that is not the case. many of us work together bilaterally in groups in this house and committees and most of the time on the floor of this house in consensual nature. turning to the subject of this very important, urgent question. the government will obey the law. this has always been the case. the house has always been the case. the house has heard this from the prime minister, it has heard it from the first secretary of state. it has heard it from the lord chancellor, who has constitutional responsibility for upholding the rule of law. and yesterday, honourable and right honourable members had opportunity to put similar questions to the attorney

mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator murray. we welcome mr.lia and you will introduced by elaine chao. secretary chao currently serves as the united states transportation secretary and she previously served as labor secretary under george w. bush. secretary chao, welcome. >> thank you. chairman alexander, ranking member murray, before introducing today's nominee eugene scalia please let me acknowledge senator johnny isakson who recently announced his retirement. his leadership on the penth protection act in 2007 andese grate waited workers and i am pleased today to zhu you to vince scalia be too the 28th u.s. secretary of labor. i worked closely with gene when i was secretary of labor and can attest to his keen intellect, respect for the rule of law, personal integrity and commitment to protecting our nation's workers. let me know that there's a quorum of scalia members here and let me mention maureen scalia who is a treasured friend for many years. she's been a strong, guiding influence on her family, she's a proud new englander who ensured t

mr. wonderful, but we have no use for you at this time. senator mcgovern: like nearly 2 million others, murrayt in the whipsaw of our war-based economy. while this administration fails to turn war plans to industries of peace, while it will make no plans to convert his talent from missiles to mass transit, when it exports jobs to japan and germany and imports goods that he could design better, murray is left to his own devices. >> something for you quickly, because i understand the problem. things are slow, i know your capabilities, in fact you are precisely the kind of guy my company needs and wishes to continue to grow with. >> what is it look like downstream? it doesn't look like things will be picking up shortly? >> sit down and wait. >> my lack of fulfilling a role as a provider and a husband and father. conversation and, don't ask daddy for that. i'm five foot 10 and 180 five pounds and when i see the kid looking at me that way, i feel like i am nothing and way zilch. i can take anything anybody outside can give, and i can fight it, but how do you fight the fact that kids look at you wit

mr. johnson went to the queen as is discuss murray i want to suspend parliament for five weeks. she is obliged to say okay, mr. johnson. the uk supreme court said that is completely illegal. you can't do that. it embarrassed the queen. it is unlawful. boris johnson phoned the queen apologized to the whole affair. prior to the uk ruling can i fire mr. johnson, anyone? you know -- stuart: takes her order from politicians. politicians ordering here, that is the way it is supposed to be. ashley: it's a quirk in the constitution. even though it is not written, she has some discretionary powers. stuart: it's a quirk, that is a fact. ashley: a quirk indeed. stuart: "fox business alert." new sanctions involving russia. this is just coming right at me. have you got anything on this, ash? ashley: i do. to do with a 2018 midterm elections. and they're going after one person in particular, yfegnipergoshin. influence through the internet agency. the internet agency was identified as one putting outfalls information and creating false event in the attempt to try and, you know, influence the ca

mrs. murray: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: i ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mrs. murray: thank you, madam president. madam president, i want to speak on the nomination that will occur before the senate shortly on the nomination of eugene scalia as secretary of labor. and i think it's important to say that as president trump continues relentlessly pursuing his antiworker agenda, now more than ever we need a secretary of labor who will stand up to the president and stand with working families, not someone like scalia who is an elite corporate lawyer who has made his career fighting for the biggest corporations and against workers. we need someone who will fight for strong health and safety protections, not someone who has crusaded to strike them down. we need someone who will hold companies accountable, not someone who uses his last position in the department of labor to undermine whistle-blower protections and fought to get his corpo

mrs. murray: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: mr. president, i ask to speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. murray: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, before i begin, i would like to take just a moment to remember the thousands of innocent lives lost 18 years ago today and to thank the first responders who so bravely sacrificed their lives in the service of others. september 11 is a day that will always weigh heavily upon our nation, but it is also a day that shows the strength and resiliency of the american people. in response to tragedy, we saw beyond our differences and came together as a country. that is a lesson we must never forget. now today, mr. president, i come to the floor as a voice for families in my home state of washington who have had enough of just, quote, thoughts and prayers, and as a mother and a grandmother who has had enough of them too. my heart breaks with every report of another horrific mass shooting. like my colleagues here today and the rest of our country, i

mrs. murray: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: as we grieve with the communities from el paso and dayton and midland, i can't help but be reminded of the seattle jewish federation, marysville, seattle pacific university, freeman high school, and so many other communities in my home state of washington and nationwide that are suffering as a result of tragic and tragically preventable gun violence. after each of these heartbreaking events, families in washington state ask me why does this keep happening and why can we not stop it? and the answer is the same every time. we can't stop it because republicans, led by leader mcconnell and now president trump, won't let us. because of this inaction, we have entered a very destructive cycle. people going about their days to school and movie theater, place of worship to places where they should feel safe, lose their lives to gun violence. communities and democrats speak out. we call for commonsense reforms such as the universal background checks which the vast majority of americans s

mrs. murray: thank you, mr. president. what we're seeing today really disappoints me. we have today a straightforward opportunity to prevent a critical part of our higher education system, hbcu's, tribal colleges, and other minority-serving institutions from having to deal with a lapse in funding. and we should take it. this is bipartisan legislation. it has passed the house. there is no reason at all to delay it a minute longer here in the senate. so i want to thank the senator from alabama for his leadership on this, and i express my personal strong support for the future act which will give us time to work out a permanent fix for funding hbcu's and tribal colleges and minority-serving institutions through a comprehensive h.e.a. reauthorization which i declare is necessary. i appreciate what the senator from tennessee said about moving forward with higher education reauthorization. i'm hopeful we can continue to work on reaching a compromise as we have done on several other pieces of legislation. as i said before, i believe any reauthorization of the higher education