in session this morning with more work on trump administration executive nominations, including peter wright to be assistant administrator for the environmental protection agency's office of land and emergency management. confirmation votes on two of the nominees are expected at 11 a.m. eastern today. and now through live coverage of the u.s. senate here on c-span2. the president pro tempore: the senate will come to order. the chaplain, dr. barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. the chaplain: let us pray. almighty god, who is given our lawmakers diversities of talents by the same spirit, use us for

then we will vote on robert king to be assistant secretary of education and john pal ashe and peter wright. the president has called on them to serve in these important roles. the senate will give them the consideration and confirmations that they deserve. on another matter, fourth of july weren't the only things for american families to smile about last week. we received more positive news about the strong u.s. economy that american workers and job creators are building with a big assist from republican policies. more than 200,000 new jobs were created in june alone. the economy is overflowing with opportunities. american workers are in high demand and more and more previously sidelined individuals are getting to clock back in. the last administration's so-called recovery disproportionately helped a few major metropolitan areas, but it left whole communities and whole regions of our country more or less in the dust. not these days. the results are very different under republicans for-growth, for-policy agenda. now we're seeing a real, all-american recovery. as "the new york times" reporte

numbers me now, cyber security expert morgan wright, i have met peter teal, spend an hour talking withhe is one of the smartest people you will ever meet, when he makes an accusation like this, i think it has to be taken seriously, does he make a valid point. >> he absolutely does. i have written articles about this for the hill,. google and microsoft there are a lot of companies that building technology they refuse to sell to our military, our police in united states, but yet they clab -- grab -- collaborate with the chinese. everyone that they are building from ai, machine learning, facial recognition it ends up in the hands of chinese military, that does not please a lot of my friends, pelton group, they are stationed all over the world. >> very interesting to see how google in the statements, is parsing words appears to be prevaricating, we're not directly dealing with the chinese military. well, directly is the operative word. quote from the chairman of joint chiefs, general dunford said, the work that google is doing in china is indirectly benefiting the chinese military. that is

peter wright is ready for the task. he currently serves as a special counsel at the e.p.a. previously mr. wright worked as managing counsel at the dow chemical company for nearly 20 years. his nomination has been endorsed by 18 current and former chairs of the american bar association's section of environment, energy, and resources, including john cruden who is the former assistant attorney general in president obama's administration. john millner, the current chair of the section, writing on behalf of the former chair said this of mr. wright. he said peter's career, his selfless commitment to the american bar association's section of environment, energy, and resources and the members it serves as well as his well recognized personal integrity exemplify the high standards of the legal profession. he goes on to say, we enthusiastically and without reservation support the consideration of peter as assistant administrator for the office of land and emergency management and believe peter will serve this office, he says, with distinction and honor. so he's ready to take on this r