the second thing though is the actual shocks to oil prices and with nominal g.d.p. targeting you do allow a temporary spike in inflation when there is a severe oil shock because that sort of cushions the blow on unemployment now i know that sounds bad for people worried about inflation but remember if we're targeting nominal g.d.p. growth at five percent on average we're only going to have about two percent inflation on average so the years where inflation is higher than it's normal like during an oil shock will be offset by years when it's lower than normal but again i reiterate the big problem in the late sixty's all through the seventy's was not just oil shocks but we let the trend rate of inflation get way too high so instead of going from two percent to four percent inflation we sometimes went from ten to during the oil shock years could well have a severe recession without the two thousand and eight financial crisis in europe and in. yes we could of in fact we've had have had severe recessions in the past without oil crises i'm sorry financial crises. but what

the second thing though is the actual shocks to oil prices and with nominal g.d.p. targeting you do allow a temporary spike in inflation when there is a severe oil shock because that sort of cushions the blow on unemployment now i know that sounds bad for people worried about inflation but remember if we're targeting nominal g.d.p. growth at five percent on average we're only going to have about two percent inflation on average so the years where inflation is higher than it's normal like during an oil shock will be offset by years when it's lower than normal but again i reiterate the big problem in the late sixty's all through the seventy's was not just oil shocks but we let the trend rate of inflation get way too high so instead of going from two percent to four percent inflation we sometimes went from ten to during the oil shock years when we had a severe recession without the two thousand and eight financial crisis in europe and in. yes we could of in fact we've had have had severe recessions in the past without oil crises i'm sorry financial crises. but what i t

the second thing though is the actual shocks to oil prices and with nominal g.d.p. targeting you do allow a temporary spike in inflation when there is a severe oil shock because that sort of cushions the blow on unemployment now i know that sounds bad for people worried about inflation but remember if we're targeting nominal g.d.p. growth at five percent on average we're only going to have about two percent inflation on average so the years where inflation is higher than it's normal like during an oil shock will be offset by years when it's lower than normal but again i reiterate the big problem in the late sixty's all through the seventy's was not just oil shocks but we let the trend rate of inflation get way too high so instead of going from two percent to four percent inflation we sometimes went from ten to during the oil shock years when we had a severe recession without the two thousand and eight financial crisis in europe and in. yes we could of in fact we've had have had severe recessions in the past without oil crises i'm sorry financial crises. but what i t

the nomination is confirmed. under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, the president will be immediately notified of the senate's action, and the senate will resume legislative session. the clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. the clerk: cloture motion: we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the motion to proceed to calendar number 428, h.r. 4660, an act making appropriations for the departments of commerce and justice, science, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2015, and for other purposes, signed by 17 senators. the presiding officer: by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. the question is, is it the sense of the senate that debate on the motion to proceed to h.r. 4660, an act making appropriations for the departments of commerce and justice, science, and related agencies for the

whoever you want to nominate. and do i run this i've never run is >> if you're going to run again do you run it. >> do i run. >> how do we do it i forgot. >> when john was here it didn't matter. >> i'd like to nominate president tan as president. >> second. >> there's a motion and a second is there a nominate any other nominate. >> are we doing one level at that point. >> yes. the president first there's a tough competition. >> okay i don't see any comments from the commissioners any comment to reinstate me. okay. no public comment let's take a vote >> okay. commissioner campagnoli. commissioner lee. commissioner joseph. commissioner hyde. commissioner perez. commissioner akers. well president tan i guess >> sure. you're up again >> thanks everyone (clapping.) let's move on to the second position that's for vice president happy to entertain a motion. >> i'd like to nominate commissioner hyde for president. >> i second that. >> great who's been an excellent vice president. any comments from commissioners any other

and seats 1 through 5 are the ones that must be appointed or nominated by an organization. i don't believe that we've confirmed any of those and my assumption is the proceeding, not members, can change who serve in though seats. great. i just wanted to say i do know, too, out of the members as a member of the rules committee, i am happy to support all three of those members, but i also do support having them go back to rules for a full -- so we have a full universe of candidates that come before us. if that motion doesn't come through, i'm happy to support these three moving forward. i know we have to move on the sunshine ordinance task force. [speaker not understood] i do think it's important to fill those seats. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you. i'll be voting against the motion. i want to thank the rules committee for its work to supervisor yee and supervisor tang for going through what i know is a very lengthy hearing and being very thoughtful and considering each of the people who appeared at that hearing and then making a decision about which you were prepared to go

one on confirmation of the harper nomination, and then thee will be a cloture vote on the nomination of sharon bowen. the senate will be in recess from until 2:15 following the votes. mr. mcconnell: mr. president? the president pro tempore: the republican leader. mr. mcconnell: four years ago washington democrats sold this country a bill of goods. like a ginsu knife pitchman, they promised obamacare would create jobs, improve the economy, and lower premiums and reduce health spending, all for the low, low price of not causing americans to lose their insurance or their doctors or the hospitals they liked. today americans know the truth. it was a sham. the lie of the year, convenient deceits to advance the far left's agenda. the people we represent just want the pain of obamacare to go away, but the democrats that run washington, they've got other ideas. and just yesterday they rolled out the red exa exert carpet fos scwel. the newest attack is the most extreme yet. the president wants americans to believe that his national energy tax can somehow heal the planet and regulate the oceans

the nomination is confirmed. there are now two equally divided prior to a vote on the mendoza nomination. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. nelson: mr. president, just to remind the senate, this judge and the next one, as the previous one, is done by the judicial nominating commission process that senator rubio and i use in order to take any kind of politics out of the selection of judges. it's worked very well for years, and this judge and the next one are part of that process. thank you very much. i yield the floor. mr. president, i ask consent to yield back all time. the presiding officer: without objection all time is yielded back. the question is on the nomination. is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: the presiding officer: any senators wishing to vote? if not, -- the ayes are 94, the nays are zero. the nomination is confirmed. there are now two minutes equally divided prior to a vote on the bloom nomination. witho

i wanted to thank you all for considering my april plication and thank spj for nominating. i'll keep this brief. >> i wasn't fully telling attention. what was your name. >> mark. >> i'll keep it brief. my interest on the task force is to help the task force operate efficiently and i believe my experience and my background will help me contribute to achieving those goals. thank you very much. >> thank you mark. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is winston. i'm the nominee for seat number two. chairman yee, thank you for your continued support and tang, thank you for considering my nomination. there's a couple of updates and i'm not going to run through the speech i made before about my qualification and i had a positive meeting with council member wiener regarding the task force operation and not only that, i also -- my colleague and i received an award from the san francisco press club for reporting on oakland main awareness center last week and in the next couple -- in the next couple of weeks i'll be speaking at a national conference in san francisco about those rec

the clerk will report the nomination. the clerk: nomination. the judiciary, m. hannah lauk of virginia to be united states district judge for the eastern district of virginia. mr. reid: i send a cloture motion to the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: cloture motion, we the undersigned senators in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the is standing rs of the senate move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of m. hannah lauck of virginia to be united states stkreublgt stkreublgt -- district judge of the eastern district of virginia signed by 17 senators as follows. reid of nevada, coons, blumenthal, merkley, durbin, gillibrand, cardin, nelson, feinstein, warren, harkin, hirono. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the mandatory quorum under rule 22 be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i move to proceed to legislative session. the presiding officer: the question is on the measure. all those in favor say aye. all those opposed say no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is a

there a nominate any other nominate. >> are we doing one level at that point. >> yes. the president first there's a tough competition. >> okay i don't see any comments from the commissioners any comment to reinstate me. okay. no public comment let's take a vote >> okay. commissioner campagnoli. commissioner lee. commissioner joseph. commissioner hyde. commissioner perez. commissioner akers. well president tan i guess >> sure. you're up again >> thanks everyone (clapping.) let's move on to the second position that's for vice president happy to entertain a motion. >> i'd like to nominate commissioner hyde for president. >> i second that. >> great who's been an excellent vice president. any comments from commissioners any other nominations for vice president to make this interesting >> no okay any public comment on the nomination for commissioner hyde as president. i don't see any let's vote >> same house, same call? yep >> done okay. congratulations. >> we're going to move on just to clarify your term isn't until june 30th. >> yes. and so item 5 is police department ques

the clerk: nominations, the judiciary. mark g. mastroianni of massachusetts to be united states district judge for the district of massachusetts. bruce howell hendrix to be united states district judge for the district of health care. tonya s. chutkan of the district of columbia to be united states district judge for the district of columbia. the presiding officer: under the previous order, there will be now two minutes of debate equally divided in the usual form prior to a vote on the confirmation of the mastroianni nomination. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the two minutes time be yielded back. the presiding officer: without objection. the question is on the momtion. is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. there is. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: the presiding officer: are there any senators wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote? if not, the ayes are 92, the nays are 2 and the nomination is confirmed. under the previous order, the motion to reconsider will be considered made and laid upon the t

the motion is agreed tothe clere nomination. the clerk: nomination, the judiciary. salvador mendoza jr. to be united states district judge of the east district of washington. mr. reid: there is a cloture motion it is desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: we the undersigned senators hereby move to bring to close debate on the nomination of salve door mendoza jr. of washington to be united states district judge for the eastern district much washington signed by 17 senators as follows. mr. reid: i ask consent the reading of the names be waivedtt objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the mandatory quorum under rule 22 be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i move to legislative session. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion. all in favor say aye. all opposed nay, the ayes appeae it. the motion is agreed to. mr. reid: i move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 741. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion. all in favor say aye. all opposed, nay. the ayes appear to h

the clerk will report the nomination. the clerk: nomination, the judiciary, paul g. byron of florida to be united states district judge for the middle district of florida. mr. reid: i send a cloture motion to the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the cloture motion. the clerk: cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of paul g. byron of florida to be united states district judge for the middle district of florida, signed by 17 senators. mr. reid: i ask consent the mandatory quorum be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i move to proceed to legislative session. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion. all those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes appear to have it. the motion is agreed to. mr. reid: you move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 780. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion. all in favor say aye. opposed no. the ayes appe

so i will oppose the nomination. again, i would also ask to submit for the record my may 19 response to louisiana house members regarding their letter, and i ask that be made part of the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. vitter: if miss burwell is passed by the senate as secretary of h.h.s., i ask her to take heed of these calls. we have a law before us. we need to follow the law. not in some cases, in all cases. not implement here but not there. not give some folks special treatment and special exemptions not found under the statute, but implement the law as written. that will be her responsibility as much as anyone in the administration. i urge her to be a true leader in the administration, to start doing that in an appropriate legal way. thank you, mr. president, and i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: will the senator please withhold his request? mr. vitter: yes, i will. mr. kaine: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from virginia. mr. kaine: i have four una

who did they nominate? they're tired of washington, but laura -- >> republicans are going to do pretty well in 2014. they're slated to do pretty well. democrats are on defense right now. tim, i have a question for you. i want you to take a listen to what eric cantor said just a few hours ago about who might succeed him. oh, sorry. we don't have it, but basically he was talking up kevin mccarthy who is the majority whip. look, i like kevin mccarthy. i'm a big fan of the majority whip. i'm wondering if you think that would be in the spirit of, if we ushered the next guy in line along, if that would be in the spirit of what happened with dave brat yesterday in virginia? >> i think it's the most fluid situation within a republican caucus in more than a generation. i don't think anyone has a clear path to this leadership position. mccarthy -- >> is it up for grabs? >> i think it is. i think it's good for the party and good for the movement. have a good, vigorous, healthy debate. i honestly hope there are new fac

the nomination is confirmed. the question is on the batta nomination. if there is no further debate, all those in favor say aye. all those opposed, say nay. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes have it. the nomination is confirmed. under the previous order, with respect to the nominations just confirmed, the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table, the president will be immediately notified of the senate's action, and the senate will resume legislative session. under the previous order, the senate will be in a period of morning business until 1:45 with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each, and with time equally divided and controlled between the two leaders or their designees. mr. levin: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. mr. levin: madam president, the unanimous consent proposal that i just made a few moments ago and that was objected to by the senator from kentucky related to the need of the senate to take up the ratification of five tax treaties that were approved by

if not, the ayes are 52, the nays are 42. , and the nomination is confirmed. the clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. the clerk: cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate hereby move to bring to a close the debate on the nomination of sharon y. bowen of new york to be a commissioner of the commodity futures trading commission signed by 17 senators. the presiding officer: by unanimous consent the mandatory quorum call has been waived. the question is: is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of sharon y. bowen of new york to be commissioner of the futures commodity trading commission shall be brought to a close. the yeas and nays are mandatory. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: the presiding officer: are there any senators wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote? if not, the ayes are 50, the nays are 44 and the motion is agreed to. the clerk will report the nomination. the clerk: commodity futures trading commission, sharon y. bowen

and i'm proud to stand up and support her nomination. and with that, mr. president, i yield the floor and note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from delaware. a senator: mr. president, i ask proceedings under the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. coops: mr. president, in my home state of delaware, today we have a problem. just this week in my home state, the critical i-495 bridge over the christina river in wilmington, which carries more than 90,000 drivers each and every day north and south on this critical artery of the east coast of the united states, was closed indefinitely. while engineers and workers were on an unrelated project in the area, they noticed that four of the key pillars holding up the bridge were alarmingly slanted. causing widespread concerns about the bridge's safety and prompt action to shut it down. now, as the delaware department of transportation and the federal highway administ

president, on many occasions on nominations, they also do the same on nominations, we have approximately 140 nominations held up, they vote for them. bills that they've supported, nominations they've supported they still make us file cloture and waste the time of the american people and i say months mr. durbin: one last question through the chair. so we need five republican senators to join the democratic senators if we're even going to debate the bill about refinancing college student loans. is that my understanding? mr. reid: the senator is right. i would note -- let me see here. i have a unanimous consent request for committees to meet during today's session. i have approved of this, senator mcconnell has approved of this. i ask consent this request be agreed to and printed the record, this request. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i would note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: a senator: mr. president? the the senator from virginia. mr. kaine: mr. president, inquiry, are we still in a quorum call? the presidi

whoever you want to nominate. and do i run this i've never run is >> if you're going to run again do you run it. >> do i run. >> how do we do it i forgot. >> when john was here it didn't matter. >> i'd like to nominate president tan as president. >> second. >> there's a motion and a second is there a nominate any other nominate. >> are we doing one level at that point. >> yes. the president first there's a tough competition. >> okay i don't see any comments from the commissioners any comment to reinstate me.

i've been nominated as a director, and i have not won an individual award, but if i'm ever nominatedely not doing it to win. i'm doing it to change people's lives. to touch souls and touch hearts and i'm doing it for the 80-year-old woman who comes up from little rock, arkansas and saved the money to do a play on broadway. i'm doing it for those people who allow us to go to the bank every week who said i had a million dollars in ticket sales and i'm doing it for the communities that is like story-telling saved their lives and it's been a tradition since the beginning of time for us since the beginning of this country. i do it for my grandmother who is no longer with us who died in 1992, and i know that i'm a product of a generation of prayers. >>> stay with us. d >>> closed captioning for "our world" is brought to you by -- >>> this is blare underwood. >> i'm nicole ari parker and you're watching -- >> "our world with black enterprise". >> welcome back. for decades it's been lights, camera action for these two superstars. mark lamont hill sat down with blair underwood and nicole ari

who will win this nomination?of rick perry's biggest assets in this race was the benefit of really low expectations after the last campaign. the flip side of that leaves a little margin for error. you pointed to three governors. what's interesting is if all three of those guys go away, who emerges. indiana governor mike pence is close with krooichristie, is cl with walker but is also behind them. if they stumble, pence has relationships with both the conservative donor class, other donors and just this week he's in alabama speaking to the republican party. >> he also has close ties to the koch brothers, too. could be a huge deal for pence. >> we have all this attention on hillary clinton running for this nomination i think it increases the amount of attention we pay to those republicans at this phase to have some balance in there. walker's possible problems, christie's problems, rick perry's missteps are in the spotlight at this stage in the campaign than if you didn't have such a front runner in hillary clinton.

the nomination is confirmed. under the previous order, there will be two minutes of debate on the beecroft nomination. without objection all time is yielded. the question occurs on the nomination. all in favor say aye. all opposed, nay. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the nomination is confirmed. there will be two minutes of debate prior to a vote on the dynan nomination. without objection. all time is yielded back. the question occurs on the nomination. all in favor say aye. all opposed, nay. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the nomination is confirmed. under the previous order, there will be two minutes of debate prior to a vote on the kia'aina nomination. without objection all time is yielded back. the question now occurs on the nomination. all in favor say aye. all opposed, nay. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the nomination is confirmed. under the previous order, there will be two minutes of debate prior to a vote on the logan nomination. without objection, a

porter's nomination is part of the package deal.ry concerned attention from liberal groups in pennsylvania. who reacted negatively to news that a democratic president might be appointing this conservative activist to a lifetime appointment on the federal bench. they highlighted his background as a social conservative activist as leader of the pittsburgh lawyer's chapter of the federalist society as trustee of a conservative group, center for vision and values. liberal groups in pennsylvania gathered 40,000 signatures in opposition to the nomination of the guy who had yet to actually to be nominated to anything. today the huffington post reported david porter will not be nominated to the federal bench as part of a package deal of conservative, not conservative nominees to try to get them through the senate. chock one up for the pennsylvania liberals on this one. but this package deal thing isn't happening just in pennsylvania. it is happening all over the place. david porter isn't the only potential nominee in this scenario who has c

the clerk: nomination, department of state. crystal nix-hines of california for the rank of ambassador, united nations educational, scientific and cultural organization. the presiding officer: under the previous order, there will be 30 minutes of debate on the nomination equally divided in the usual form. who yields time? if no one yields time, time will be charged equally to both sides. mr. coats: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from indiana. mr. coats: mr. president, i rise to oppose the nomination of crystal nix-hines to be the u.s. ambassador to the united nations educational, scientific, and cultural organization, otherwise called unesco. and i wanted to speak on this nomination to once again express my firm opposition to the administration's stated intention to circumvent u.s. law, law that was passed by this body, regarding funding of unesco, an intention repeated by ms. nicks hines -- nix-hines at her testimony last year. there's nothing personal in this foreign policy me relative to this individual. i

longer have my store this is another thing showing i was involved during that time in 2008, i was nominated the woman of the year and i'm proud of that. there was a time when people were asking for letters and i didn't quite catch that but i brought a letter from richard who's the president of the merchant and my coworker i've been around a long time and very aware of the issues surrounding the octavia market street plan. >> okay any questions. supervisor tang >> sure i see you've got a lot of history in the community and i want to see if you can speak going forward and what are the issues in the neighborhood. >> one thing we're very interested in seeing how the money is spent open projects that will enhance the safety of the streets. and also then seeing more art involvement. i've read a little bit about the term is only through december so i would - i am generally a quick study but have the approval of robbing i think left on the committee and jason who's on the committee now i wasn't able to print out the letters but they think i'll be a good person to step in and fill the vacancy for no

happer's nomination. this is who the administration sends to speak on behalf of all americans including native americans? i urge my colleagues to vote against mr. harper and call upon the administration to transmit a nominee who has an unblemished record of protecting human and civil rights, a record of aplirkt and integrity commensurate with this very important post. mr. president, here's the situation. mr. harper will probably be confirmed today on a partisan vote, on a party-line vote. he we need to get 60 -- he won't get 60 votes. he'll probably get 5 or maybe one or two less. this is another example of the deprivation that has taken place of my right to advise and consent and that of nie every single member of the minority. this nomination would not have come to this floor if we'd still require 60 votes. but instead my colleagues across the aisle have decide deprive members on this side of their right of advise and consent because he will be confirmed probably today in a party-line basis, despite the

since 1984 we have seldom had a major top tier conservative running for republican nomination. we've had some good conservative but quite frankly many of them if not most of them weren't top to. in 2016, i think we'll have a traffic jam of limited government, constitutional conservatives running for president. now, without giving away who my favorite candidate is, and i would be happy with any number of them right now, what i do is market and that's what i've done for 50 years is market. when you've got a product, a cause, you have to position, if you want to be successful, your product opposite the competition. if we assume our competitor in 2016 is going to be a washington insider, i.e. hillary clinton, i don't think you want another washington person to run against. i think the strongest candidate would be somebody in the states. so we have many, many good governors, mike pence, scott walker, bobby jindal, rick perry, rick scott in florida. we have many, many to choose from. and i think that would make the strongest ticket in 2016. now, probably shouldn't say this but i thin

it says that the nomination if the vacancy arose within 30 days nomination is pending. >> if 30 days. seemsason i'm doing that hypothetically a real matter for the political branches to themselves.g we have to decide this. i thought well, why not look and thewhat congress objects to least. and i got that 30 day thing from act by analogy. i want to get you view on that. analogyld point out by also there is another provision in the pay act, the same statute that says so long as a nomination is pending even if the vacancy arose more than 30 ofs the same expression congress p. views of what is appropriate. >> that was that senate. that isnot the senate sitting now. you are attributing the views of one senate to the senate over time. >> that is an expression of the law of the united states that the -- interested in how you think the 30 day idea if out in terms of your concerns? >> well, i think it -- the -- as said, i think there is an equilibrium and the 30 days doesn't fully capture and low ifperature me talk about it, i could briefly. >> yes, briefly. majority of appointees submitted. t

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she is talked about for her acar-nominated role in american gangster.s is her first ever nomination. she is also covered in essence magazine. every time i see you i am inspired by our conversation. i was teasing her when she walked out. when her people told me she was going to be in town, i wanted to have her on the show, but i almost passed on it. the last time we talked we were in new york, and we are still getting phone calls. people say the best conversation i have ever abducted was with you. >> we realize we are each other. one thing i realized about being an actor, you are like a big tunnel through which circumstances and racism and sexism, everything passes. it becomes the stuff of what you do. a musician learns the notes. an actor has all those things. it occurs to us that that is the stuff of life. we are all students. we walked through each other. job is to relax and open the door and let things come through. careful something comes through that is not going to damage the entrance. this: what you make of nomination at this point in your life?

the unequivalent cal intent and the will of san francisco voters that the journalism -- they would nominate candidates. the intent of voters remains transparency. look no further than tuesday easy lexes where 71 percent of voters approved. make no mistake, the people want open government. be reminded also that the california constitution requires the government and those like you elected to oversee the government to take the broad evident possible view of disclosure and the narrowest view of non disclosure. that language was approved by voters in prop 9 with 87 percent of san franciscans voting yes. the question is clear, that san franciscans want transparency. in 1999 where 58 percent voters approved of making the sunshine -- they made it tougher. that means a robust task force, that means strong fair members like mark and ally winston. yet, there are members of your government, not all, but some that seems more interested in having faxes guard the hands than having accountability in city hall. the policy shows this. and there's members of your board, not all, but some who seem like they'r

and the nomination is confirmed. there will be now two minutes equally divided prior to the vote on the crawford nomination. mr. leahy: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. leahy: is this the crawford nomination? the presiding officer: the senator is correct. mr. leahy leahy: strongly suppoy both senators from vermont. and i might say also by the people of vermont. and i yield back all time. the presiding officer: without objection, all time is yielded back. the question is on the nomination. is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. there is. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: the president pro tempore: on the vote of the confirmation of geoffrey crawford of vermont to be u.s. district judge, the vote is 95 yeas, zero nays. the nomination is agreed to. and under the previous order, with respect to the confirmed nominations, the motion to reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senate's action. there

is dependent on whether they nominate electeddable candidates.dave brat one. >> dave brat so far seems to be an electable candidate. he is, again, as you say, no doe, college economics professor. and a guy who ran a very grass roots campaign but he is an attractive candidate. he did speak directly to people. he did have a very clear, very forth right message. he doesn't seem to have a bunch of baggage. and he seems to be safe in this district. and i think the other thing is that for eric cantor. going negative, trying to attack, trying to seek and destroy when you are in the greater position, that's not necessarily the right way to go. john boehner faced a challenge in his race in ohio. he dispatched the guy because he got out there and got busy and talked to the constituents and made a more positive case to his constituents about why he ought to stay and why his clout was worth having. >> megyn, let me just. >> go ahead, bret. >> add in. we were talking about the possible write-in campaign and it is possible by the law. eric cantor can have a wr

angela merkel once again standing behind the nomination of juncker. i am not sure he is a dream candidate, but angela merkel is .nder pressure in germany they are saying, you cannot give into the brats. brits. regarded as too federalist. very difficult to reconcile those positions. touel sa has gone commemorate the victims killed in world war ii, after the landings in normandy, one of the largest mass murders of french citizens during the german occupation. >> a village in central france was of no strategic interest to the germans, but that is precisely what made it a target. when the allies landed in 6, the ss madee its way toward the north of the country. to try to ward off french resistance fighters in the region, the ss spread terror in its path. route was a village where residents were divided up. men were sent into barns. women and children locked up in the church. all of them were sprayed with bullets and set on fire. 642 people were massacred that they. -- that day. only six survived. almost an entire population marked out in a matter of hours

thank you and the committee for your consideration of my nomination. i look forward to answering your questions. >> thank you for your testimony. if any members has written questions for the record for the nominees, i ask that you please submit them by noon this friday, jo june 20. i also ask that the nominees respond to the written questions quickly so that we can move the nominations forward. we will now begin asking questions of our witnesses. will the clerk please put five minutes on the clock for each member. mayor castro, in your opening statement, you mentioned some of your priorities if confirmed. would your priorities also include working to address the fast housing needs and engage in consultation with tribes? >> thank you very much for the question chairman, johnson. i appreciate your very strong advocacy for our tribal communities. absolutely. i'm committed to ensuring that we work closely with our tribal communities. i look forward to at hud being focused on that. i fully understand that in my experience as a big city mayor, however, that

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want her to get the nomination. one big caveat, she had 50-point lead over barack obama in the early stages in the last campaign as well. >> george, thank you. >> and diane coming up with many new ways to ask it. >>> all right, george thanks again. george has a big story this morning, including much more of that exclusive interview with hillary clinton. >> and of course, don't miss all of diane's exclusive interview with hillary clinton, inned a vantz of her new book, "hard choices," everything was on the table. nothing off-limits. it's a one-hour abc news primetime special. it's airing monday at 9:00 p.m. eastern. don't want to miss that. >> a big show monday night. >>> we've got a lot of other headlines this morning and for that, as always, we get it over to ron claiborne. >>> good morning, everyone. we begin with a breaking news story, this developing story out of quebec, canada, where police are searching for escaped inmates, using a helicopter to get make their getaway. the chopper dropped down and picked up th

order we can take those nominations together. so i nominate commissioner frazier for president and commissioner scott for vice president >> second. all right. any discussion. any objections >> i'm not accepting. (laughter). >> any public comment i don't need a second on this. any public comment on that item? all right. all in favor of president as confirmation frazier and vice president commissioner scott. all in favor, say i. opposed? no objection. all right. thank you. great. that's the main part of our business. item number 17 >> item 17 discussion item report on the health care issues if any. >> anyone come forward on this item. nothing. already any public comment on that item? seeing none. item 18 >> item 18 discussion item opportunity to place items on future agendas. >> i'd like to hear from the gender on the urgent care vendors at the some meeting where they were and their times not just for san francisco. we had a testimony last time will someone from someone who searched for urgent care facilities and couldn't find one

we can nominate and elect a principled limit government, constitutional conservative to be the republican nominee, and elect that person in november and the governing america by 2017. so in order to chart the future, we've got to understand the past as i said earlier. so this is a cliff notes version of my book, drinking. read the book, understand the problems, where we been -- my book, tranten. we have a website called conservatives hq.com that is focused entirely on building and relaunching the conservative movement. so thank you very much. appreciate you being here today. [applause] >> we will be glad to recognize you for questions. if you wair