certainly going to support it and give us a little more time to do what our own susan collins and patty murray have been working to get more regular order for the appropriations process. we should turn to that, leader schumer has had many, many opportunities to pass these bills out of committee to bring these bills for the senate's comment to get to regular order and get us to the conferences we need to do. so i look forward to having this issues in front of us. after we passed the cr and as we moved to look at the supplemental as well. these are very important issues as we got to the end of the year. so we are coming up on thanks giving also. i think when we see all of the turmoil we talk about it, we know it was to the pictures and the visions and the dramatic events going around the country, i think now is the time for us as americans to really be grateful and thankful for all the things in our lives. we have so much in this country that sometimes we forget to focus on that. a little tidbit of news is i was actually born on thanksgiving day my parents were going to name me thankful ever mor

signed: patty murray, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stans adjourned until 11:00 a.m., adjourned until 11:00 a.m., >> the u.s. senate remains in recess for the thanksgiving holiday. the next boat in the chamber will be november 27 on the nomination of a u.s. district court judge from minnesota. as always, live gavel to gavel coverage of these u.s. senate on c-span2. we now take you back to booktv. >> it's been a little more time, people talk about positive solutions rather than right away going to that's just religion but that's just -- just not helpful. to do that, i think. >> a million questions. hang on. let's get into the abortion question. and one thing that was very striking foran me, and one of my favorite things come out of reading the book is just saying that what you have done is sort of crystallized so much research that's out there that most of us don't read, write? there are so many other people have done research and so much that you have done, and you distillate

violent and shout people down they are hoping that same tactic will happen here they will get patty murraythers who are maybe a little bit more vulnerable to start to side against israel. i think you are already starting to see some of the coverage, frankly, becoming anti-semitic, leaning into some hamas propaganda which is going to make the job of these protesters a whole lot easier. when you have the media on your side, when you are able to really threaten the power structures for the democrats and the base does do that i'm hoping that israel is not going to really give a damn about how protesters on the ground in seattle or portland or new york care about what it is. >> laura: i don't think they care. >> simply trying to exist. >> laura: yeah. well i think the v vin venn diagram antifa same group. steven, congressman clarify posted a video today accusing biden of genocide basically advocating for genocide herself. watch. [chanting] >> we will remember in 2024. ♪ >> i hope that makes him appear moderate if he is being attacked by her. michigan from the river to the sea. i would say is th

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in a nonviolent protest to shut down the federal building in seattle where democratic senator patty murrayf washington has an office, urging the senator to call for an immediate ceasefire. dr. rothchild is on the steering committee of the jewish voice for peace health advisory council and providing frequent updates on the deteriorating medical situation on the ground in gaza. she's also the mentor liaison for we are not numbers, and on the board of gaza mental health foundation. welcome back. if you can talk about the attack on hospitals. you have the attack on the ambulance convoy. israel said it was because they were transporting hamas fighters. you have the attack on the hospitals come israel says it is because command-and-control is underneath. can you comment on this? and the number of the death toll at this point? >> this is an appalling situation in terms of the death toll. there are multiple international laws, starting with the geneva accord, being violated. you're not allowed under any circumstances to bomb hospitals, health centers, ambulances. this is against international law.

i guess the senate may go for this but patty murray called it the stupidest idea ever. and the senate and congress has done stupid ideas before. but we'll see. in the last shutdown there was all of this, and now we're underplaying it and assuming they will work something out. what if they don't. >> and the question is what do democrats do? and i'm told they're waiting and trying to see how the republicans deal with this. maybe this republican revolt will end up leading to changes in the plan, that they could take their position then. democrats will meet on tuesday. presumably that is the day they will vote on this. what is interesting is the responses that we're seeing. senate democratic leadership suggested an openness to this and then the white house put out a statement last night saying this proposal is a recipe for more shutdowns and house republicans are wasting precious time with an unserious proposal. but this is does not have the spending cuts of those democrats that said was a red line. so listen to what chris murphy, a democrat from connecticut, a liberal demo

in a nonviolent protest to shut down the federal building in seattle where democratic senator patty murraywashington has an office, urging the senator to call for an immediate ceasefire. dr. rothchild is on the steering committee of the jewish voice for peace health advisory council and providing frequent updates on the deteriorating medical situation on the ground in gaza. she's also the mentor liaison for we are not numbers, and on the board of gaza mental health foundation. welcome back. if you can talk about the attack on hospitals. you have the attack on the ambulance convoy. israel said it was because they were transporting hamas fighters. you have the attack on the hospitals come israel says it is because command-and-control is underneath. can you comment on this? and the number of the death toll at this point? >> this is an appalling situation in terms of the death toll. there are multiple international laws, starting with the geneva accord, being violated. you're not allowed under any circumstances to bomb hospitals, health centers, ambulances. this is against international law. i

within senator patty murray who chairs the senate appropriations committee called this the craziest,hing she's ever seen. it doesn't include any of that request the biden administration made for military support for ukraine or humanitarian aid for ukraine or gaza. but importantly, it has this -- there is no other way to say. asinine rolling funding of the agencies. how is that possible? how are we going to put this together, when there's funding of the agencies for hud and d. o. t. through january, and funding of commerce and hhs in february? it continues to kick the can down the road and make fiscal cliffs for the agency staggered. it's a ludicrous proposal and there is no way they look at democratic support. >> kurt, what's the plan for democrats? here if this was purely about politics, i might say sit on the sidelines, let that republicans continue to make fools of themselves. but both to brittany and alaina's points, at some point an adult has to step up and say, we have got this, we can't let millions of americans suffer because this republicans can't get their act together. so

they're demanding washington senators patty murray and maria cantwell join growing congressional calls for a ceasefire. the action was organized by the seattle chapter of jewish voice for peace. a federal appeals panel has blocked individuals and civil rights groups such as the naacp from suing to enforce the voting rights act, granting that authority solely to the u.s. government. voting rights advocates warn that monday's 2-1 decision by the republican-appointed 8th circuit court of appeals could further erode the enforcement of the landmark 1965 law. we getting provisions that protect black and other voters of color from racial discrimination. the majority decision was written by a judge was appointed by donald trump stop the ruling stems from a gerrymandering case in arkansas in which the state chapter of the naacp accused arkansas of restricting voting access to black citizens. sophia lin lakin, director of the aclu's voting rights project who argued the case in front of the appeals court, slammed the decision as a travesty for democracy, saying the ruling "has put the voting righ

democratic senator patty murray called a, quote, the craziest, stupidest thing i have ever heard of. safe to, assume you agree. explain to viewers why this two tiered sea or won't work, and won't get any democratic votes. >> thank you for having me back on, jonathan, i guess the only issue i would take with senator murray's statement, is having worked on capitol hill for almost a decade, now i have seen crazier things from house republican colleagues. but this one, it certainly is up there. a. -- as the new speaker calls it, a term by the way that none of us had ever heard of until this past week. it really doesn't accomplish anything other than seemingly uniting both republican and democratic members in opposition. so here we are again. you might remember, we were at this position just about six weeks ago, heading towards a government shutdown. then, at the very last second when so many of us were preparing for a government shutdown that saturday, september 30th, kevin mccarthy shocked us by putting a clean sea are on the floor, and of course that was the end of him, his speakership

signed: patty murray, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. morning business is closed. under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session to resume consideration of the following nomination, which the clerk will report. the clerk: nomination, the navy, admiral lisa franchetti for chief of naval operations and to the grade of admiral. cannot exist as the employees are not empowered to speak out when they see this harm and harassment. that's why in addition to the sorts greeted the 2017 law established office of accountability and whistleblower protection or oawp. oawp was given the explicit task of investigating and making disciplinary recommendations concerning senior executives and whistleblower retaliate or so. it is broadly accepted the first few years of oawp existence or an absolute failure. at best oawp was completely ineffective organization at worst a tool used retaliate against whistleblowers it was tasked with to protecting. as conq

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i want to recognize my colleague, chair patty murray who has done comment work in her first year as chair of the appropriations committee. she's been outstanding. i also wish to thank vice chair susan collins for her terrific work as well as all the appropriators on both sides of the aisle. pursuing bipartisanship isn't always easy. most of the time it's difficult, more difficult now than ever, but if you stick with it, we can do it. and we've stuck with it and we've done it. thanks to both sides we are reaching a good outcome for the country. i yield the floor. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: thank you, madam president. i want to thank everyone who has worked with me and the senior senator from maine to get our bipartisan spending package here. over the last few days, we've had a truly robust amendment process and considered 40 amendments. and this vote is now our chance to get congress back on track so that we can fund our government in a bipartisan way, avoid another massive end of the year omnibus and address pressing issues

signed: patty murray, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. morning business is closed. under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session to resume consideration of the following nomination, which the clerk will report. the clerk: nomination, the judiciary. jeffrey m. bryan of minnesota to be united states district judge for the district of minnesota. political road had on capitol hill. let's start on the political side and this headline the leaked story, lead stories go to roll call.com george santos will santos go on? how to answer that question ranking member the answer is and will go on at least for the short term we don't know how much longer it will extend in congress but it seems like he will be with us one way or another for a while just consider he was parodied on saturday night live recently. he is now part of the cultural fabric of our lives not just a political lives but the most immediate issue is whether he will be expelled from

signed: patty murray, president pro tempore.he presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until tuesday, >> senate lawmakers will return following the thanksgiving holiday. you can watch live coverage of the senate on c-span2. now back to the senate foreign relations committee hearing on artificial intelligence. >> i certainly agree with that assessment that intellectual property theft by the prc has stripped critical competitive advantage out of the us economy for several decades now. our response to that, and even response to that has put us in a deterrent hold and there is a very real threat to the security of our most advanced ai systems going forward. it is why one of the pillars in the voluntary commitments is the security pillar which is standards around cybersecurity testing, disclosure of test results for our most advanced frontier models and a very real shared focus by the government and these companies on safeguarding that aspect. >> final question, talking about the leadership in the uni

signed: patty murray, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 3:00 p.m. on monday, november 27, 2023. hr accuse him of not having spenthr time really reviewing things before they and because tends to drag on there were opportunities for reporters to get to your question to pick on things so we would pick up on things during that review. okay. you know, let's we we picked up that biden for instance was not for a surge in afghanistan that came out at the time we picked up on the the concern that the military the generals were going to roll the president were trying to put pressure on him at least. was the concern inside the white house whether or not? i wouldn't agree with that characterization, but that was the concern inside the white house. so we did pick up on a lot of those things at the time. but it's hard as a journalist because obviously they want to be able to have a confidential. i understand that if i were in their position, i would too. but is my it's my

signed: patty murray, president pro tempore.siding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. morning business is closed. under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session to resume consideration of the following nomination which the clerk will report. the clerk: nomination, the judiciary, ramon ernesto reyes jr. of new york to be united states district judge for the eastern district of new york. mr. schumer: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. schumer: mr. president, another election night in america, another win for women's choice, another win for democracy, another win for the democratic agenda of jobs, infrastructure, lowering costs for the middle class. another terrible defeat for the maga agenda. americans don't want hard-right extremists to govern this country. at stake last night was a woman's right to choose in ohio, the governship in kentucky, cannabis reform in ohio, control of the legislature in virginia, state supreme court seats and so much mo

signed patty murray, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. understand the state of the economy. >> a really big thing, a giant recession historically high, unemployment and i remember a depressing time three years ago but it didn't do anything really and we seen incredible recovery, better than any other in the world, we're back to where we were, wages are rising and we did have inflation mostly due to the reopening, all of a sudden they want to try and the russia framework but we're getting to the other side of that. we are seeing real wages after inflation going up of the last two months so we are on a separate trajectory and it's a look at how other countries are doing, the u.s. economy is doing better than all. >> by economics, what is the and how much did you have to do with incredible recovery? >> the best way to talk about it, it is an economy from the bottom up and middle out focusing on low income households which the american rescue defended at the tim

signed: patty murray, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. morning business is closed. under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session to resume consideration of the following nomination, which the clerk will report. the clerk: nomination, the judiciary. ana de alba of california to be united states circuit judge for the ninth circuit. the movement toward her and supporters. >> west virginia senator joe manchin announced earlier you will not reelection for the senate. what are you looking at their and any indication he might run for president? >> two things we are looking at. one, this does not help democrats, they are narrow lead in the senate and joe manchin is the only democrat in west virginia. he would have had a hard time winning reelection so it is unclear if you would able to pull that off. he has made comments is video announcing he was going to run again, plans to travel around the country which is the kind of thing you do when y

signed: patty murray, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. the chair lays before the senate a communication of the secretary of the senate regarding a message from the president received during the adjournment of the senate. the clerk: dear mr. president, on friday, november 3, 2023, the president of the united states sent by messenger the attached sealed envelopes addressed to the president of the senate dated november 3, 2023. said to contain messages regarding the president's notification to the congress consistent with section 8 of the fisherman's protective act of 1967 as amended and regarding the continuation of the narng r national emergency with respect to the threat from securities investments that finance certain companies of the people's republic of china. the senate not being in session on the gay the president driver r delivered this message, i accepted the message at 3:00 p.m. and present to you the president's message with accompanying parents. re

signed: patty murray, president pro tempore. presiding officer: under the previous order, is the leadership time is reserved. morning business is closed. under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session to resume consideration of the following nomination, which the clerk will report. the clerk: nomination, the judiciary, micah w.j. smith, of hawaii, to be united states district judge for the district of hawaii. mr. schumer: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. schumer: mr. president, today i come to the floor to speak on a subject of great importance, the rise of anti-semitism in america. i feel compelled to speak because i'm the highest-ranking jewish elected official in america. in fact, the highest ranking jewish elected official ever in american history. and i have noticed a significant disparity between how jewish people regard the rise of anti-semitism and how many of my nonjewish friends regard it. to us, the jewish people, the rise of anti-semitism is a crisis, a five-alarm

signed: patty murray, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. morning business is closed. under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session to resume consideration of the following nomination which the clerk will report. the clerk: nomination, the judiciary. shanlyn a.s. park of hawaii to be united states district judge for the district of hawaii. test: mr. schumer: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. schumer: yesterday, i spoke here on the senate floor about a subject that is highly personal and yet of immense importance, the rise of anti-semitism in america. i spoke out because, as the highest jewish elected official in the country and in american history, i felt an obligation to say aloud what is felt within the hearts of so many jewish people across the country and around the world. after october 7, jewish americans are feeling singled out, targeted and isolated. in many ways, we feel alone. the solidarity that je

signed: patty murray, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate will be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten to speak therein for up to ten >> guest: yes. today it will be voting on two parts here. . separates the continued resolution and the two separate parts. the first part of corporation bills sent to jail in 19th, that milcon, p.a., energy and water, and so we are going have those four separate elsewhere. the rest will go to figure a second. basically people, what would happen is you work until june 19 to pass those bills. today the ability to pass that cr. they will do it under the will because what usually happens is it would go to rules committee and then while in rules committee it would then put out a roll. the rule would go to the floor and the role would have to pass in order to then vote on the bill which would require the majority. but usually it happens historically democrats don't vote for rules of republicans. republicans

signed: patty murray, president pro tempore. presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. morning business is closed. under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session to resume consideration of the following nomination which the clerk will report. the clerk: nomination, department of health and human services. monica m. bertagnolli of massachusetts to be director of the national institutes of the national institutes of guided unveils 16.4 million real grants that amtrak in the corridor article says that president joe biden and was playing for passenger rail projects that will benefit and amtrak travel by the commander-in-chief the president speaking at the amtrak outline how the owner hall trains in infrastructure cost 25 real projects along the northeast quarter. let's take a look at what he said yesterday in delaware. >> when all this is done we will reduce in speed up the trees on the northeast quarter this matters for businesses trying to get to bismarck. it matters for

signed: patty murray, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. morning business is closed. under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session to resume consideration of the following nomination which the clerk will report. the clerk: nomination, the judiciary, monica ramirez almadani of california to be united states district judge for the central district of california. >> [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] anoth- tuesday's elections -- maybe today's too, who knows -- but tuesday's elections were another horrible defeat for maga extremism and the -- by now, republicans need to admit there's a pretty clear pattern at play. ever since donald trump was elected president, the maga agenda has led to failure in big elections, small elections, red state elections, and blue state elections and everything in between. and shouldn't -- it shouldn't be any bigamis

. >> washington democratic senator patty murray also spoke on the floor of the chamber wednesday, she highlighted the need for child care in the united states. >> as you well know because we've talked about it, our child care system is simply broken. it is not working for families across our country, and we face a crisis now that continues to grow worse. i've said that many times, many times, and i will say it again and again and again until we fix this broken system for good. i'm not the only one here in congress that feels that way. earlier this month, 48 of my senate colleagues sent a letter to me and vice chair collins, leader schumer and leader mcconnell to include child care funding in any emergency supplemental. today many of them are joining me on the senate floor to lift up the concerns that we are hearing from parents and making the case for providing robust child care funding without delay. we cannot pretend that child care is any less urgent than the other challenges that we face. for every parent, child care is a do it now problem, not a do it later problem. we need to tr