padilla. mr. chairman. mr. chairman the yeas are eight and the nays are 11. >> whitehouse number two. more storms addressing the worst drought seeing more hail and worse hail and for those of us in coastal states being the level rises to boot and this is causing homeowners insurance rates go up homeowner insurance non-holes to go up in states like florida and counties in other states it has reached a true crisis level with a thousand% increase and this would be a response to that and i would encourage a yes vote on the repeal of the epw instruction and change to reduce revenue. >> thank you. call the roll. >> mr. grassley. mr. crapo. mr. johnson. mr. marshall. mr. cornyn. mr. lee. mr. kennedy. mr. ricketts. mr. moreno. mr. scott. mr. merkley. misses murray. mr. wyden. mr. sanders. mr. whitehouse. mr. warner. mr. kaine. mr. van hollen. mr. lujan. mr. videa. mr. chairman. on this vote the yeas are eight and the nays are 11. >> we will come back to that. king three. cam three is the one that i discussed that would

senator padilla: padilla number 7. this will strike the reconciliation instructions for the senate committee on energy and natural resources. as you know from prior political attacks on the inflation reduction act, this instruction is aimed at undoing the critical federal investments that have spurred private investment and have created hundreds of good-paying jobs across the country. and despite republican receipt you rick, un -- rhetoric, undoing the i.r.a. would actually undermine our energy independence, not strengthen it. our republican colleagues know that the i.r.a. has actually been good for the economy. it's been good for america's energy independence. so much so that many republicans have gone out to events celebrating many new facilities after having voted against the bill. as of november, 2024, hundreds of billions have been funneled into energy projects and the overwhelming of this funding has actually gone to republican districts. and not by a small share. nearly 80% frt $4 -- of the $243 billion worth of

padilla. mr. paul. mr. peters. mr. reed. mr. ricketts. mr. risch. ms. rosen. mr. rounds. mr. sanders. mr. schatz. mr. schiff. mr. schmitt. mr. schumer. mr. scott of florida. mr. scott of south carolina. mrs. shaheen. mr. sheehy. ms. slotkin. ms. smith. mr. sullivan. mr. thune. mr. tillis. mr. tuberville. mr. van hollen. mr. warner. mr. warnock. ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. mr. young. senators voting in the affirmative -- alsobrooks, baldwin, bennet, blumenthal, blunt rochester, booker, cantwell, fetterman, gallego, gillibrand, hassan, heinrich, hickenlooper, hirono, kaine, kim, king, klobuchar, lujan, markey, merkley, murphy, murray, ossoff, peters, reed, rosen, sanders, schatz, schiff, schumer, shaheen, van hollen, warren, wyden. senators voting in the negative -- banks, barrasso, blackburn, budd, cotton, cramer, crapo, cruz, curtis, daines, ernst, fischer, graham, grassley, hoeven, husted, hyde-smith, johnson, justice, lankford, leigh, mccormick, moody, moran, moreno, mullin, paul, ricketts, risch, rounds, scott of florida, scott of south ca

senator padilla: padilla number 7. this will strike the reconciliation instructions for the senate committee on energy and natural resources. as you know from prior political attacks on the inflation reduction act, this instruction is aimed at undoing the critical federal investments that have spurred private investment and have created hundreds of good-paying jobs across the country. and despite republican receipt you rick, un -- rhetoric, undoing the i.r.a. would actually undermine our energy independence, not strengthen it. our republican colleagues know that the i.r.a. has actually been good for the economy. it's been good for america's energy independence. so much so that many republicans have gone out to events celebrating many new facilities after having voted against the bill. as of november, 2024, hundreds of billions have been funneled into energy projects and the overwhelming of this funding has actually gone to republican districts. and not by a small share. nearly 80% frt $4 -- of the $243 billion worth of

senator padilla: aye by proxy. the clerk: mr. padilla. senator padilla: aye. the clerk: mr. chairman. chair graham: no. the clerk: mr. chairman, the ayes are 10, the nays are 11. chair graham: thank you, all, for being here and it took 30 minutes but i don't know how to do it much faster. yes. senator van hollen: i ask unanimous consent to record an affirmative on merkley 1. chair graham: absolutely. so ordered. the next round, we'll start now. we'll give you some notice when it comes time to vote. and we'll start with merkley number el ultimo informe del departamento espera un informe la influencia supera al pais el doctor rivera nos explica y asÍ comenzamos ♪ m ♪ florida has gotten the most attention along with arizona. true in every state including my state of oregon. and fact i just read an article that is titled all-cash and offers. the offers are always cash. this is columbia south carolina. they typically close in about two weeks. there's a site called we buy homes in south carolina as is in their hedge fund offers.cio. a huge factor destroying the major source of wea

chair grassley: senator padilla? sen. padilla: colleagues, as uno is not just -- as you know, it is a lot of confusion this week as the executive orders that have been issued as the produce of the federal budget, hiring freezes, et cetera. but relevant to this confirmation hearing, the fbi has paused as new academic classes while they assess how the hiring freeze to impact. term. the executive orders have a national security exception, but it is unclear how they will apply to agencies like the for vk. so it's not uncertain this is not certain if they will qualify for exemptions, the civilian population in the sbi. of the white house memo stated nearly 1000 per missionary fbi employees would stay on only if, quote, justified without clarity on the timetable or process for justification. mr. patel, how does this help, or does it hurt the fbi improving public safety in america? mr. patel: senator, i know as much about this as you do, reading it in the media. i will tell you this if i am confirmed, fbi employees represent the

el gol, el primer gol del partido gracias a este pase de josé castillo que yael padilla levantaba, leones de ese partido, porque iba a haber otra vez otra goleada del américa. aquí. este balón iba a llegar para zendejas zendejas que la levantaba para víctor dávila de cabeza, marcaba el primero del partido para las Águilas. después se iba a equivocar en la salida. sebastián jurado este balón le iba a quedar a erick sánchez, que le iba a ser chiquita y así de zurda iba a definir. entonces el segundo para el ave. pero entonces iba a aparecer brayan rodríguez en 2 ocasiones. primero en esta que aprovechaba el rebote otra vez de jurado para marcar el tercero y después con una definición soberbia para poner el 4 a 0. y con eso el américa sigue siendo más líder que nunca. pero tuvimos más acción y vamos ahora a monterrey, donde rayados se enfrentó al necaxa, el único gol del partido que le iba a caer aquí a fidel ambriz para que la tocara con sergio canales, que se la regresaba y era un golazo. y con esto monterrey se llevó los 3 puntos y consigue así su primera victoria del campeonato y vam

. >> senator alex padilla says the u.s. army corps of engineers put lives at risk today when they released a massive flow of water from two california dams after president trump ordered an increase in water deliveries to southern california. the president celebrated the increased flow in a social media post today, claiming more water would have helped with the la wildfires. local officials say water supplies were sufficient and the fires are fully contained tonight. state water managers were alarmed by these actions. they noted that releasing water now when there are winter rainstorms, is wasting reservoir supplies that farmers will need later for irrigation during dry summer months. senator alex padilla said the water was released into rivers that do not flow to los angeles. padilla wrote a letter today demanding answers from defense secretary pete hegseth about the unscheduled water release. he wrote, quote, based on the urgent concerns i have heard from my constituents as well as recent reporting, it appears that gravely

senator padilla. sen. padilla: thank you, mr. chair. mr. guffey, i want to begin with you and that you know that my heart goes out to you for your and your family's experience, and i appreciate willingness to be here to share your testimony. mr. guffey: thank you. sen. but the: i wanted -- sen. padilla: i want to alert my colleagues to a relatively new product,-character-based chatbot apps. many of these have been flooded with age inappropriate chatbots, which may cause young users to be exposed to sexual or suggestive ai-generated imagery or conversations. as a father of three school-age children, this is personal. further conversations with these chatbots can end tragically. since 2023, two individuals have died by suicide following extensive conversations with ai chatbots. the threat, colleagues, the risk is real. mr. guffey, how would you recommend this committee begin to think through the risk posed by this emerging consumer product category? mr. guffey: whenever it comes to ai, i would have to lean more on some of the other panelists

padilla says the sudden release could have caused flooding to farms and communities.ernor newsom is calling on state water managers to divert and store as much water as they can from the latest winter storms coming in. he signed an executive order today directing agencies to capture water and send it to reservoirs and other storage in northern california, even if they haven't adopted a flood control plan. he said that this includes the san luis reservoir between gilroy and santanella. south of the sacramento river delta. >> if you're in northern california, one of our staging areas focusing on pre-position in anticipation of the upcoming winter storms, particularly these atmospheric rivers that are just starting over the course of the next 5 or 6 days. >> environmental groups are sounding off against the water diversion, with some calling it a death sentence for california's suffering salmon population. they say water management needs holistic planning, not piecemeal executive orders. and a coalition of environmental groups released a statement saying that the governo

and with that, let me introduce senator padilla. sen. padilla: good morning. i want to thank ranking member durbin for bringing us together today. you know, it's pretty clear to me what's going on. i think back to president trump's first term, his trademark strategy was to try to, quote, flood the zone, to muddy the waters, to put us in a state of constant chaos for the purpose of confusing the american people, make people feel overwhelmed with so much that happens in a single day. and to distract from the real dangers and threats that he represents. he's doing it again. and doing so to try to pull attention away from the extreme nominees he has put forward to serve not just in his cabinet, but in a number of high-level positions in the administration. so for people listening to us today thinking, well, maybe this is just politics as usual. of course democrats are going to oppose president trump's nominees. no. this is not a distraction. this is a real danger and a real threat. only in the year 2025, when president trump has the republican party basically in a

i now turn to my colleague senator padilla. senator padilla: thank you, senator hirono. in addition to a lot of the specific concerns about kash patel and how he would be as a f.b.i. director, i feel compelled to remind us of the moment that we are in right now. in the first two weeks of the second trump administration, the chaos that has been created, we have seen efforts by the administration to unlawfully freeze federal funding. threatening payments to housing programs, social security, medicare, beyond, etc. we have seen unprecedented access by the world's richest man, enabled by the richest president in history, to access the treasury department's databases. threatening not just payments but putting at risk everybody in america's personal information. in times of chaos and crisis like this, the public deserves to see trusted leaders in the most important positions of our federal government. trusted leaders who will stand up and say no to a president trying to blow through the very guardrails put in place by the constitution. so in that context that nomination and po

senator padilla number 6. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i call it padilla number 6. this amendment would create deficit neutral fund relating to achieving energy dominance and d independence as part of all of the above energy approach which would include solar, wind and hydrogen. i've already spoken on the importance of preventing plan cuts to the inflation reduction act and republican efforts to unwiden hundreds of billions of dollars to private sector investment that is we have unlocked across the country. these investments are critical to achieving our shared goal of energy independence to achieve energy independence the senator from maryland. mr. van hollen: madam president, i call up my amendment 233 and ask that it be reported by number. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from maryland, mr. van hollen, for himself and ms. hirono proposes amendment number 233. mr. van hollen: madam president, i offer this amendment with my colleague senator hirono. it's very straightforward. it creates a point of order against any legislation th

esta jugada que el piojo alvarado ponía para josé castillo el balón al centro y ya el padilla recibíao de juárez y les iban a pegar otra goleada. primero, esta jugada donde zendejas se queda con el balón, la manda otra vez para la cabeza del chileno víctor dávila. y así caía el primero. después erick sánchez iba a aprovechar este error en la salida de sebastián jurado se queda con la pelota. la hacía chiquita y así marcaba entonces el segundo para las Águilas del américa y después un doblete uruguayo para cerrar porque venía brayan rodríguez, que venía primero con este balón. aprovechaba el rechace que dejaba ahí para marcar el tercero y después el mismo bryan iba a marcar el cuarto para que la a américa s líder contundente de el clausura. mientras tanto, en la premier league el título parece estar ya definido para el liverpool, que otra vez, de la mano del faraón salah sacó la victoria. vamos a ver las acciones de este partido en la casa del iba a ser primero desde los 11 pasos. ahí venía, le pegaba fuerte abajo y así marcaba el primero y después una joya del egipcio que aquí recorta

senators padilla and adam schiff introduced the access to counsel act. if it passes, it would help u.s. citizens, green card holders and other people with legal status looking to get in contact with an attorney or relatives if they're detained by border protection for more than an hour. i think it's important to recognize that whenever donald trump says he's only going after violent criminals, that's a lie. the bill would also require homeland security to ensure that people with valid travel documents at the border and at airports can communicate with counsel and others if they're subjected to questioning or searches by border protection. a setback to president trump's effort to shrink the government, delivered by a federal judge today. all this while, the president huddles with congressional democrats on how to get a budget passed. nbc's yamiche alcindor has the details from the white house. just hours before the federal worker buyout deadline, a judge put a pause on the trump administration program, at lea until monday. the controversial deferred resig

now her friend, so-called friend jesus padilla, was there eventually. he is the one who actually gave lindsay the gun after she asked for it. and as she took that gun into her hands, is when lindsay allegedly fired multiple shots through the window, killing itself. >> it didn't take long for police to track down jesus padilla, who admitted to supplying the gun. he was charged with first degree murder by facilitation at his sentencing. it sells. grieving family addressed him. family friends come around, but her room is empty. i can't hear her laughs, her music. >> and i wanted to look at you in the eye to tell you right now that what you did was wrong. >> jesÚs was sentenced to 13 years for reckless manslaughter for his part in ejdsell death. >> i want to apologize to both her and her family for what i've taken. what happened? she'll never deserved it. she was one of a kind. and i truthfully don't think words can possibly describe how wonderful and amazing she really was. >> while the defendant was not the person who actually pulled the trigger, he was t

y precisamente hablando de derechos de los inmigrantes, el senador alex padilla envió un mensaje a todaen documentos, si están indocumentados, tienen derechos. de todos modos, toquen la puerta. no tienen que abrir representantes de ice. necesitan una aprobación judicial para poder hablar con ustedes. firmado por un juez. padilla también dijo que cuando trump asegura que solo va tras criminales, pues esto es falso y que sus acciones lo demuestran. además, señaló que no es cierto que solo persigan a quienes están indocumentados. citando la decisión de trump de eliminar el tps a 300.000 venezolanos que llegaron ilegalmente bajo las normas establecidas. y seguimos hablando de migración y para eso vamos a pasar con miryam villarreal, quien se encuentra en el estudio junto a la alguacil del condadoanta clara, para hablar precisamente de la postura de este departamento frente a los operativos de ice miryam. hola, qué tal? muy buenas tardes. así es, ya nos acompaña dalia rodríguez, sub alguacil de la oficina del alguacil del condado de santa clara. bienvenida. muchas gracias por su tiempo. much

with us now is california democratic senator alex padilla, who sits on the judiciary committee and hasghout the day. i really appreciate you coming right in and speaking with us, senator, with us, senator, i appreciate that. i know you just voted against kash patel. why. >> of course i'll say happy to go from committee to the floor and to come here to you. w did i vote against kash patel? i mean, he is completely unfit for this role. you've been talking earlier about the. no. the lack of independence now of the department of justice. overall, the fbi especially, it cannot be under the white house's thumb. that's not how we achieve justice in the united states of america. but if you look at president trump's pick from attorney general bondi, his selections for deputy attorney general, fbi director patel, these are people who are going to be far from independent. they claim to want to depoliticize the fbi when their history, their track record, shows that they're going to be doing the exact opposite. and they already are, from rounding up the names of people involved in january 6th inves

i now turn to my colleague, senator padilla. >> thank you, senator hirono. in addition too a lot of the specific concerns about kash patel and how he would be as a fbi director, i feel compelled to remind us of the moment that we're in right now. in the first two weeks of the second trump administration, the chaos that has been created. we seen efforts by the administration to unlawfully freeze federal funding. threatening payment to housing

un padre indocumentado y ante las nuevas medidas presentadas contra la migraciÓn, el senador alex padillaa proteger a la comunidad musulmana, tendrÁ como requisito que se asegure que las personas son documentos de viajes varios que se presenten en otros puntos de interacciÓn puedan comunicarse con otras partes interesadas y estÁn sujetas a una inspecciÓn prolongada. los invito a que le tome una fotografÍa a esta lista estos son de la red de respuesta rÁpida en distintas ciudades y estos nÚmeros pueden servir mÁs adelante y recordÉ que tiene derecho en este tipo de situaciones, estamos allÍ para apoyarles y luego de las protestas realizadas por cientos de personas y esto como parte de la iniciativa un dÍa sin inmigrantes, nos presenta un anÁlisis que puede tener ya que muchos se preguntan si estÁn transmitiendo. cientos de manifestantes, autopistas y una de las principales calles creando caos vial y portando banderas, unos cantando y pidiendo que las acciones contra personas indocumentadas pare en los Ángeles y tambiÉn en el paÍs. >> tenemos que reconocer y hacer recordar la protesta, la p

padilla: mr. president, i too, rise today to oppose the nomination of kash patel to serve as director of the federal bureau of investigation. now, let me begin by saying to americans watching at home who may not be completely up to speed as to what hes' -- to what's going okays the importance of this -- going on, the importance of this significant situation or wondering who is kash patel. you might have been distracted these last few weeks by a rush of headlines coming out of the white house, maybe preoccupied with the cost of groceries that are rising by the week. you may have, if you caught any news, been hearing about how president trump, the richest president in history, has given elon musk, the richest man in the world, unprecedented access to millions of americans' sensitive, private information. yes, elon musk has access to your personal private information from social security numbers to home addresses to your tax information. there's been a lot going. all the while, president trump is als

senator alex padilla said unscheduled water releases require close coordination with local officials and safety personnel, as well as downstream agricultural water users, in order to reduce flood risks to communities and farms. based on the urgent concerns i have heard from my constituents, it appears that gravely insufficient notification was given, recklessly endangering residents downstream, and senator padilla has sent a list of his concerns and his questions to the administration. reporting in san jose i'm mark sayer, ktvu, fox two news. >> people forced to evacuate their homes due to the wildfire in altadena are returning home, and one family found an unwelcome guests who thought the crawlspace beneath the house felt just right. a 525 pound bear had taken refuge in the crawlspace after the wildfire. it took a state fish and wildlife team 24 hours to get him out. after hours of assessing the situation, they determined tranquilizing the bear was not an option. eventually, they placed a cage at the crawlspe oning, and and triggered the trap door. the bear was given a welfare check

la nave, alejandro montoya perales, el copiloto josÉ de jesÚs suÁrez, el paramÉdico rodrigo lÓpez padillao recuerda. >> muy fiestero, sabemos que es una persona alegre, de baile, siempre contento. nayeli: las autoridades confirmaron la muerte de otra persona al caer la aeronave y 24 personas mÁs resultaron heridas. cuatro permanecen hospitalizadas, dos en condiciÓn crÍtica. este altar improvisado fue colocado en la intersecciÓn que continÚa cerrada y donde los equipos de emergencia siguen con las labores de limpieza. cabe mencionar que la caja negra de la avioneta fue recuperada a 2.4 metros de profundidad donde ocurriÓ el accidente junto con la grabadora de voz, estas piezas eran claves para reconstruir los acontecimientos que causaron la tragedia. la junta nacional de seguridad del transporte tambiÉn dijo que los operadores de la torre de control intentaron de tener comunicaciÓn con la tripulaciÓn antes del siniestro sin obtener respuesta. ilia: y con respecto a la tragedia aÉrea del potomac, en washington, hoy recuperaron de el rÍo el ala, el motor y el fuselaje del aviÓn de american a

chair graham: senator padilla. sen. padilla: thank you for being here. i cannot help but notice how many times i have heard throughout the hearing today your argument that the impoundment control act is unconstitutional. but the fact that the incoming general counsel at o.m.b. and along with you in your final days of the first trump administration specifically requested legislative adjustments to the impoundment control act. what that tells me is that you do in fact understand the constitutionality of this law as not just currently on the books, but upheld by the courts. in your testimony here today and through how you served in the first trump administration, it has strikes me you come across as someone who thinks that they know better than congress, better than this committee, and at times, better than the president during the first trump administration. you testified last week that you have been thinking about returning to the o.m.b. the last four years, and i can only hope and pray that, should you be confirmed, that you would uphold the constitution

britt: senator padilla. sen. padilla: thank you, madam chair. colleagues, i appreciate the opportunity to focus on this crisis today with one caveat. i think that it is a little disappointing to continue to stick to an inaccurate narrative that the fentanyl crisis in america is primarily an immigration problem. the fentanyl crisis in america is a health crisis. it is a public safety crisis. as we've heard from testimonials today, it is a life and death crisis. but the fact of the matter is that the vast majority of fentanyl that is smuggled into the united states is brought in through legal ports of injury. not between ports of entry, but legal points of entry by primarily united states citizens. don't take my word for it. look at cbp data. i know that it has been called into question earlier the accuracy of it. even if it was off by half. half-and-half. don't mistake my words here in condoning that anybody attempting to come into the united states unlawfully that happens to be carrying fentanyl should be off the hook. we should clampdown on tha

deputies say padilla has dementia and is unable to function without a caregiver, and she is believed to be on foot. if you have any information on her whereabouts, you're being asked to call the sonoma county sheriff's office. in san francisco, we are now hearing from a man who was shot seven times outside of a dispensary in the city's south of market neighborhood on january 27th. martin oliver says he was taking a smoke break when his life was forever changed in a horrific attack. now, ten days later, oliver is back home recovering and ktvu christien kafton sat down with him and joins us live from san francisco with his story. christian. >> yeah, claudine, i did have a chance to speak with martin oliver today, and it's clear that he remembers the entire incident. he remembers the man pulling the gun, aiming at him firing. but it's also clear in talking with him that he instead is choosing to focus on those who came to his aid and those who have rallied around him since the shooting. the shooting of martin oliver outside of the viper room was a shock. even in this sometimes troubled

senator alex padilla said unscheduled water releases require close coordination with local officialsety personnel, as well as downstream agricultural water users, in order to reduce flood risks to communities and farms. based on the urgent concerns i have heard from my constituents, it appears that gravely insufficient notification was given recklessly endangering residents downstream, and senator padilla has sent a list of his concerns and his questions to the administration. reporting in san jose i'm mark sayer, ktvu, fox two news. >> well, if you bought eggs lately, you know prices are high and they are expected to go even higher. the national average price for a dozen eggs was under $4 last december, but now it's risen to close to $8 a dozen. and that cost could keep going up in coming months. the bird flu has killed millions of hens, so now farmers are buying chicks to replace them. and the cost of those replacement hens is also going up. >> yeah. so it used to be a dollar a chick you could buy and raise that chick to your full sized hens. but you know, now $5 for that same chic

padilla: very well said. chair britt: i want to address before moving to the next senator the argument that u.s. citizens bring the most fentanyl into the united states and not illegal immigrants. today incomplete seizure interest statistics that support that argument.with the wide open border policies of the biden-harris administration over the last four years, we don't know the full scale of drugs smuggled into this nation. the prosecution statistics only account for individuals who were actually caught, prosecuted, and sentenced, not criminals who managed to actually evade detection. the washington post says that federal officials estimate that we are only catching five to 10% of fentanyl coming in from mexico. do that math. if that is true, we are only catching -- we are not catching 90% to 95% of the fentanyl actually coming across our southern border. we have to be honest about that. that should alarm every single one of us, and it shows why border security is an important component to stopping the flow

california senator's adam schiff and alex padilla have already announced support for that 8. meantime, la mayor karen bass has fired the city's fire chief bass says she met with kristin crowley today and decided to remove her in the best interest of the city. crowley's termination comes after weeks of mounting tensions between her and the mayor. in today's announcement, the mayor specifically pointed to crowley's handling of last month's deadly wildfires. 1000 firefighters. >> who could have been on the job fighting? the fires were sent home. the other thing that i mentioned is that i said after the fires, we're after the fires were out after the rain had stopped that a full investigation would begin. one step of that investigation was to do an after action report which she refused. >> former chief deputy ronnie villanueva is going to be serving as interim chief. back here in the bay area. at least one business in antioch will likely have to close after an early morning fire cause some serious damage. firefighters say started just before 6 o'clock this morning at the everyday

supplied later on in the year, during the harvest season, california senators alex padilla and adam schiff are joining other senate democrats demanding the trump administration answer questions about reported purges of dozens of fbi and doj officials. last week, the trump administration allegedly removed or reassigned dozens of career law enforcement officials who were involved in the prosecution and investigation of mr. trump and the january 6th rioters. the senators said they have grave concerns, and the removals represent a, quote, alarming threat to national security. over the weekend, thousands of fbi personnel were asked to complete a questionnaire by today about their role in the january 6th investigation. still to come, san mateo leaders discussing the future of bike lanes in one neighborhood, with fierce arguments on both sides of the issue. plus, san francisco city leaders aim to crack down on the selling of stolen goods on city streets. the new bill that's been did you know using the grocery outlet app gives you the opportunity to win groceries for life? imagine never paying for

california senator alex padilla says this is also a tactic to distract from other actions like president trump's cabinet nominees to put us in a state of constant chaos for the purpose of confusing the american people. >> and the latest gallup poll does show a slight dip in the president's approval rating due to concerns about the economy falling from 47 to 45% in washington. i'm jessi tenure. mitch mcconnell, the longest-serving senate party leader in u.s. history is officially announcing his retirement. >> the kentucky republican says that he's not going to seek re-election next year making that announcement this morning on his 83rd birthday signals an end to his decades long tenure that began in 1984. representing. >> our commonwealth has been. the a lot of time. i will not seek to on 8 com. >> my current term the senior senator has had a few health episodes in recent years, including falls and moments of confusion. mcconnell says that he's going to finish out his current term, which ends in january of 2027. still ahead on kron for news at 6 as the nation honors black history month, w

senator alex padilla says must decisions are irresponsible and won't address the country's budget deficit threat. >> is a very, very big all because as a you know, breakfast. elon thinks there's some savings opportunities here and a president with just doesn't care the u.s. national resources committee has jurisdiction over national parks. i spoke with the ranking democratic member of the committee, representative jared huffman, who expects the national park decisions by trump and musk to be taken up in court. some of these firings we think are illegal. others are just wrong, headed. and so, you know, there will be litigation by. >> federal employee unions and others after firing notices were sent out friday. the park service added to the confusion tuesday saying it will reinstate about 5,000 seasonal jobs that were initially rescinded. those with national park experience likes a busy summer season combined with under staffing. >> will result in a dangerous situation for visitors keep fighting because this a highly illegal and me and the thousands of buttered probationers. evan terminate

padilla, no. mr. young, aye. ms. murkowski, aye. the clerk: mr. bennet, no. the clerk: mr.ley, aye. the presiding officer: the yeas are 52, the nays are 48. the nomination is confirmed. under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table and the president will be immediately notified of the senate's action. the majority leader. mr. thune: i move to waive the mandatory quorum with respect to the kennedy nomination. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. the clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture the clerk: cloture we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby bring to a close debate on the nomination of robert f. kennedy jr., of california, to be secretary of health and human services, signed by 17 senators. the presiding officer: by mandatory consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. the question is, is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of robert f. kennedy jr., of california, to be secretary of