schatz: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator -- the objection has been heard to the request from the senator from hawaii. is there objection to the request from the senator from north carolina? mr. schatz: mr. president, reserving the right to object. i'm a member of the defense appropriations subcommittee on the appropriations committee. and the way as the senator from north carolina knows, that we do defense appropriations is with great care. we have markups. we find out what each service branch needs in terms of personnel, in terms of bases and installation, in terms of new acquisitions. and that process takes a fair amount of time. and that markup is not done. and so i would love to move on dense appropriation -- defense appropriations, but from the standpoint of responsibly spending hundreds of billions of dollars, we're not there yet. so, therefore, i object. the presiding officer: the objection is heard. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: mr. h

host: thomas schatz, president of citizens against government waste. you can found more on the group at cagw.org, and you can find him on twitter. coming up next, we will be taking your calls. tell us what is on your mind. democrats can call (202) 748-8000. republicans, (202) 748-8001. an independents, (202) 748-8002. newsmakers interviewed the number two democrat in the house , steny hoyer of maryland, who talked with reporters about this year's midterm elections. are you seeing the elements of an electoral wave coming, and would it be a disappointment at this point if democrats cannot retake the house later this year? >> i expect us to retake the house, the majority, and i do so because i think the environment is such that the american people are looking for some stability, looking for some focus on the issues that they care about in terms of jobs, education, health care, the environment, and in terms of our national security. i think dave you democrats as being able to provide some stability to our country, and very frankly, a proper check and balan

senator schatz, anything else for the good of the order? >> well, i think we pretty well covered the subject today with the folks that are here. and as i mentioned earlier, there are some folks who are not here who could shed considerable light on some of the other aspects of the way this process works. it's clear to me, at least, and i think most of the members of this committee, that we need to make some changes, at least with respect to the kind of alert that was issued in hawaii. when it's a nuclear attack, i think the chain in that alert system needs to be modified to reflect the seriousness of the threat, not that any of them aren't serious. but obviously this is a very different -- this was a very different sort of threat. but thank you so much for the work that your various organizations do, and alerting the public, and encourage you to continue to work to develop and refine those processes. and technologies. so that we can become even better. and hopefully more efficient in seeing that people have the notifications they need in the

it's exactly what went through the minds of senator schatz. regrettably he knows the answer to thatet question and he knows it's very real and it's very personal. he was the heir. he received the alert and it's because of that personal connection to this situation and the leadership that he has shown in the aftermath that i am going to be here simply to support him in this. nobody should have to go through what folks in hawaii did but the flipside of thath is we want to make sure that there is a system in place so if there isn't inbound nuclear warhead that people are alerted. when disasters occur americans rely not only on the emergency alerts but also the 911 system. but the infrastructure is aging and frankly it's been left behind in the digital revolution revolution. congress must make modernizing the 911 system a national priority which is why i have for what senatora klobuchar to introduce the next generation 911 at of 2017 and i hope this is something that is a template for moving ahead on bipartisan things and this is a good bill to st

shareman thune, ranking members nelson and schatz, and members of the committee. i'm sam matheny and i'm the chief technology officer at the national association of broadcasters. on behalf of the thousands of free, local television and radio broadcasters in your home towns, thank you for inviting me to testify on the emergency alert system. and how broadcasters fulfill their roles as first informers and how innovation will allow broadcasters to do even more to keep viewers and listeners safe during emergencies. broadcasters take seriously their role as the most trusted source of news and emergency updates. whether it's preparing listeners and viewers for the coming storm, directing them to needed supplies and shelter during the disaster, or helping rebuild in the aftermath, local stations are part of the communities they serve. and broadcasting is sometimes the only available communications medium in an emergency when wireless networks fail. morning consult recently found that the american people turned to broadcastners times of emergency by a factor of more than

schatz: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator -- the objection has been heard to the request from the senator from hawaii. is there objection to the request from the senator from north carolina? mr. schatz: mr. president, reserving the right to object. i'm a member of the defense appropriations subcommittee on the appropriations committee. and the way as the senator from north carolina knows, that we do defense appropriations is with great care. we have markups. we find out what each service branch needs in terms of personnel, in terms of bases and installation, in terms of new acquisitions. and that process takes a fair amount of time. and that markup is not done. and so i would love to move on dense appropriation -- defense appropriations, but from the standpoint of responsibly spending hundreds of billions of dos,

senator schatz can you hear me? the senator schatz are you still with us? >> it sounds like we lost the senator. but i guess the point i'd like to make, richard, is that this is a state agency that sent out this alert. it didn't come from the u.s. military where we're going to turn around some exclusive footage from within the room. we were in the room yesterday, richard, where this alert was sent out. i'm here on assignment with nbc left field our digital video unit and we were looking at what happens in the event of a nuclear attack on hawaii. civil defense estimates that only 10% of people god forbid would perish here. 90% of the people would survive and this system is set up in order to make sure people shelter in place, stay in place and then stay tuned for alerts from that civil defense agency. what happened here was a massive breakdown. a massive human error that was confirmed by the governor's office that literally someone in the room where the button to be pressed in the event the pacific command alerts the state of an inbound missile, someone push

senator schatz: thank you. yesterday the administration declined to impose sanctions required under the bipartisan russia sanctions law that passed with overwhelming majorities from the house and senate. it's not clear which parts are waiveable and which parts are not. we're still doing the analysis. what's clear to the extent there is discretion to weigh or delay, the administration has to have factual findings. so can you tell us what those findings are? secretary mnuchin: senator, again, i think that's a very unfair characterization of what we have done. as i have said, there was an extraordinary amount of work that went into this. the classified report is hundreds of pages. i look forward to congress reviewing this. our sanctions going forward will be based upon a lot of the work that the intelligence community did. it was our interpretation that we had to deliver the report to congress yesterday, which we did and we fulfilled. again i want to commend a lot of career professionals, -- senator schatz: you ar

>> i think senator schatz is doing a terrific job trying to draw attention to this issue and looking at complex questions like the one you just described. i think the most important thing for hawaii right now is that we commit to getting this done in short order. disasters like this we can forget about the overtime, and we cannot do that for the people of hawaii or anyone else who might be impacted by a false alert in the future. so i think the most important thing that happens like that is that we actually commit to getting something done in short order. >> i was wondering if you could give us more details about the roadblocks you encountered in the creation of the office of economics? >> we asked a lot of questions of our colleagues. they refused to answer them. we asked how many people would be moved in this agency. they refused to tell a spirit we asked what divisions might be shut down or collapsed. they refused to tell us. we asked to count individuals who would be moved and what would be the broader impact on the rest of the agency and its responsibilities. they refused to tel

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schatz. you obviously prepared extremely well and in light of the fact that you paid attention to yesterday's hearing as much as you did, i just want to say that you're as much a glutton for punishment as we are when we came here. [laughter] >> but thank you both for your enlightening testimony and your patience. i yield back. ... i think it is, no matter the process, people who work the process, determining what is good and what is bad how we actually do this, look at it honestly. look at programs we do like, programs we don't like, are they working? and also the human element. i heard mr. hastings say this. there is knowledge by member, knowledge of a district from all of us sitting up here is a says for certain program, there is reason obviously may look wrong or right either way. that is the human element that needs to be here. this hearing is good, what is does of anything, we need to be transparent what we do. we need to do what we do better. thanks for what y'all have done. thanks for

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senior senator brian schatz posted -- fellow democratic senator mazie hirono said -- and just a few minutes ago, the governor of hawaii spoke with cnn and said that someone pushed the wrong button during an employee shift change, sending out the false alert about an incoming ballistic missile. we will have more about this story as it develops. tonight, remarks from housing and urban development secretary ben carson on disparities currently facing african-american communities in the u.s. he spoke at a symposium hosted by the manhattan ends at it and followed panel discussions with educators and journalists who have studied and reported on education and discrimination issues concerning african-americans. the those comments tonight at .:00 p.m. eastern on c-span c-span's "washington journal" live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up sunday morning, cook political report editor charlie cook talks about the early outlook and race ratings for 2018 midterm elections. and a georgetown university professor discovers just discusses her recent piece in and world resources i

. >> reporter: hawaii's senator brian schatz tweeted, "there was thrs no missile threat." cbs news spoke to him on the phone. >> regardless of whether it's human error or a computer glitch or a hack, whatever it was, it's totally unacceptable, and there needs to be better accountability. >> reporter: it took 38 minutes for emergency management officials to correct the mistake. >> i encourage them to just go ahead and tweet out, "no missile threat." i don't know how much longer we would have been waiting. >> reporter: hawaii governor david ige now says a worker pushed the wrong button during a shift change, sending the warning out to the entire state. the federal communications commission is now investigating. reena. >> ninan: carter evans, thank you, carter. african ambassadors to the united nations held an emergency meeting friday night in response to president trump's alleged remarks about their homeland. they're demanding an apology for what they call racist insults. errol barnett has latest from the president's winter white house in florida. >> reporter: mr. president,

schatz: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from hawaii. mr. schatz: thank you, mr. president. you know, i was going to give some prepared remarks, but i'm going to be a little quicker because i see the senator from virginia here, and i know how devastating a government shutdown is for the state of virginia. it's terrible for hawaii, for our shipyards, for our federal workers, but i do want to respond to my friend from alaska. and he is my friend. we overuse that word in the united states senate, that is for sure, but dan sullivan is my friend, but he's wrong on this. first of all, a small point. the nfl network is back up and running on the armed forces network. that was fixed on saturday. second of all, there were unanimous consent requests on friday night to make sure we pay the military. on friday night, a unanimous consent request was made to pay the military. it was objected to by the majority leader. and then we tried again yesterday, and it was objected to by the majority leader. and so when the junior senator from alaska alleges that we are emerging with sli

elijah cummings, senator elizabeth warren and brian schatz conducting a study they thought would provechase firearms online, to and to have your period undercover agents faced 72 unsuccessful attempt to purchase farm transactions fail because they would not ship across state lines or to buyers prohibited from possessing a firearm. bernie sanders's wife and her shady dealings, and the president of college jane standers secured to, and secure enough money from donors, college went bankrupt and close the doors in 2016. we were just talking about this before the break, two of apple's, taking the lead in helping parents manage their children's devices but is that the phone maker's job and is this about protecting children. thank you for joining us this morning, appreciate it. let's start with that question. who is responsible for determining how your child uses a cell phone? >> it is not apple. it is the parents job, parents are responsible for how children use apple's product, putting the blame on apple is insane. not sure why anyone would think they should be responsible for it. >> let's

senators like brian schatz and chris murphy have put forward ideas to get universal health care that exactly single-payer. they will, this year, be putting forward ideas about jobs in the economy. how to get jobs and places that really have been left behind in the economy. i think you will see more of that. but, it is a full-time job for democrats who are right now in congress, that is where the opposition is, to protect basic issues like, let's not throw 20 million people off health care care. that is consuming. the tax-cut debate was consuming because the agenda is controlled by donald trump. i absolutely believe the democrat who wins the campaign, which is a far, has to have ideas about how the economy can grow and grow for more people. david: your organization does a lot of the groundwork leading into a presidential campaign. a lot of the thinking. what are the differences, i recall, bill clinton, al gore come out from what the government should do and should not do. when you take infrastructure, jobs, health care, as we saw today with the amazon, berkshire, hathaway, what is the

. >> reporter: yesterday it was libby schatz saying she would be willing to go to jail to protect sanctuary city policies. today san francisco's acting mayor, london breed, echoed that sentiment. >> when you grow up in the projects you spend your whole life trying to avoid going to jail. but this is one of the issues that i wouldn't mind going to jail for the first time in my life over. >> reporter: that comes amid rumors that agents may be pla planning larger raids in california. xavier becerra says he came armed with facts, not rumors. >> enforcement must be done according to federal law, and certainly according to the u.s. constitution. >> reporter: california has two new laws in effect this year. senate bill 54 enforces non-cooperation policies between california law enforcement agencies and federal immigration authorities. and assembly bill 450 which says immigration officials are not allowed access to a private area of a work site or access to employee records without a warrant. and, there's more. >> ab 450 tries to make sure that as an employer, you are not sharing information that i

schatz: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator for hawaii. mr. schatz: thank you, mr. president. here's what's happening. last night senate democrats asked to do a one-day continuing resolution. they also asked to do a three-day continuing resolution. what does that mean? that means that we were at an impasse because the house-passed continuing resolution was four weeks and that was not acceptable to the 60 -- to enough united states senators to pass. so you subject it to a vote. it doesn't get cloture. it fails. under normal circumstances, then you try to find out what might be able to get cloture. but we were so close to the deadline that we needed something called a unanimous consent request. in other words, we needed ever single united states senator to accede to the idea that we should vote on something. and it's not unusual for a unanimous consent to be granted. a lot of times it is just perfunctory staff, everyday staff, to allow someone to have ten more minutes to speak or whatever it may be. but on big things you don't always grant consent. i get that. but thi

. >>> oakland mayor liberty tunnel by schatz is in washington, d.c. for the us conference of mayor. she's there to talk about homelessness and solutions for homelessness and affordable housing opportunity. a how they can end gender equality issues and sexual harassment. >>> and they're trying to reduce childhood hungry and reduce gun violence in the cities. >>> and president trump is in switzerland this morning for the world economic forum. political and business leaders are gathering in davos today. the president is expected to argue that his policies designed to boost the u.s. economy should be welcomed by the business community. he'll participate in bilateral meetings with presidents from israel and the u king. >>> he told reporters back in washington that he is willing to talk underoath to special counsel robert mueller into the investigation into russia possibly meddling into the 2016 e e >>> if or when there is a meeting, prosecutors are expected to ask the president about whether he requested fbi director james comey to drop an investigation into farmer national security advi

senator schatz and i've put something together with guards of that. let me ring up something that's perhaps will more provocative. the need to maintain the international network theoretically world health is doing that. i'm not sure we are getting our bank for our buck with world health. you probably have relationships with them so don't mean to put in a bad position but the cdc is doing it separately. at the same in a time of scarce resources a wise use of resources. thoughts? >> the world health organization has some of the best experts in the world and around the world and they are the normative agency for setting policy and guidance around the world but they are not a strong operational agency. they don't have resources for going to train the world. they have some money for that but their budget is constrained as well. >> do they have the capability of doing it? >> not right now. >> were having to supplant an international organization with the centers for disease control. it's almost as if we are compensating for something which has responsibilit

. >> reporter: yesterday it was libby schatz saying she would be willing to go to jail to protect sanctuary city policies. today san francisco's acting mayor, london breed, echoed that sentiment. >> when you grow up in the projects you spend your whole life trying to avoid going to jail. but this is one of the issues that i wouldn't mind going to jail for the first time in my life over. >> reporter: that comes amid rumors that agents may be pla planning larger raids in california. xavier becerra says he came armed with facts, not rumors. >> enforcement must be done according to federal law, and certainly according to the u.s. constitution. >> reporter: california has two new laws in effect this year. senate bill 54 enforces non-cooperation policies between california law enforcement agencies and federal immigration authorities. and assembly bill 450 which says immigration officials are not allowed access to a private area of a work site or access to employee records without a warrant. and, there's more. >> ab 450 tries to make sure that as an employer, you are not sharing information that i

that's where brian schatz is mom was waiting for emts.ad postponed, they would've had to wait another 45 days for a marriage license, so a judge agreed to perform the ceremony in the loo and it was all caught on video. the groom's mother we are happy to report has since recovered. >> what can you say? love is love. if they wanted to get married and didn't want to wait. >> that's right. >> i like what it said on the web site which is they didn't want to flush away their wedding dreams. a little play on words they are. >> good way to start your weekend. >> it sure is. >> thank you for joining us today. >> "outnumbered" starts right now. see you soon. speed when we begin with the fox news alert. president trump is going after the media calling it fake news as a bombshell report that he ordered the firing of special counsel robert. this is "outnumbered." i'm harris faulkner. here today with sandra smith. melissa francis, host of kennedy also on fbm, kennedy herself and in center seat, "outnumbered" today we welcome back the cohost of the bern

she and brian schatz, the senator from hawaii, have done a lot, i think, to say that a lot of systems broke down here. and they did a lot yesterday. they snapped into action after this first happened to say on twitter, this is a false alarm. everyone remain calm. i think those two younger leaders from that state have done a lot, and we need to hear more from the trump administration about this. >> yeah, and to that end, i just want to say, i have been getting texted from a friend of mine, karen, who lives in hawaii. she said people are so something mad that trump has never addressed this, instead, today, talking about wolff's book and fake news. is there anything the president could do to have gotten out and be part of this conversation and calmed the concerns of the citizens in the 50th state? >> you said the operative word there, anything. he didn't do anything. he was, as we know, on the golf course yesterday. and has been doing the regular tweeting that he normally does, and didn't say anything at all. and that's the problem. he should have done something. just something. >> how d

the other side of the aisle, senator brian schatz of hawaii says nobody wins the government shutdownattle but i do know one thing, if it happens it will be because of bipartisan compromise was rejected by republicans. anyone who says they want to avoid a shutdown should be asking for a vote on that compromise. my understanding is this is a compromise brought to the president that they were so insulted by. >> he should be careful with the 280 character limit. he should dial that back. 140 should be enough, america. >> shannon: say what you gotta say. >> a government shutdown is like a war. nobody really wins it, but somebody loses less than the other guy. i think, this is just my hunch here. i think we are going to have one. i think we will have a little one. i think this is a hot stove moment. >> shannon: a mini shutdown? >> probably the norm -- every president except for i believe -- i don't think george w. bush ever had a shutdown. >> shannon: not that i recall. >> but since the modern budget era which started in the 1970s, every president has had a shutdown except one. it's fairly

senator schatz and i have for do -- and i have introduced something such as that. need to have a public healthyou don't need a, tut when an emergency hits, i cannot be encumbered and put in escrow by another effort. you do have accountability. gao will make sure they do it. we also take care of contracting because the previous cdc director said of ebola, he had to get 10 sign offs on travel vouchers for people to get over to west africa, and that slowed the response. he had to contract with ngos to contract to get transportation for people and goods. we are trying to circumvent that , in senator schatz and i have put something together regarding that. let me hit on stuff that's perhaps more provocative. dr. inglesby, you speak about the need to maintain this international network. theoretically, world health is doing that. i'm not sure we are getting a bang for our buck with world health. you probably have relations with mean to put you in a bad position. if we are funding internationally world health and the cdc is doing it separately, that does not seem in a time

yesterday while we were covering it live as it was unfolding on msnbc, i talked with brian schatz, one of the two senators from hawaii. i asked him that question, are you comfortable with the state government having control over that button, given this catastrophic failure of the system, the idea that the people of hawaii were basically left hanging for twice as long as it would take for a missile to get from north korea to here to the hawaiian islands is frankly inexcusable in the eyes of that senator at least. he wasn't ready to make the commitment to take that power away from the state government and give it to pacom, u.s. pacific command, that is supposed to alert for the call of the sirens to be sent out. i'm sure that's one of the issued addressed in the days ahead. >> jacob soboroff thanks so much. kelly is in florida near mar-a-lago. we heard from the president already via twitter. why have we yet to hear from him on the hawaiian missile scare? >> reporter: it is an opportunity for the president if he wants to speak on this issue. we know how easy it is for him to communicate t

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at a senate hearing today, democrat brian schatz of hawaii suggested the responsibility for such alerts should not be left to the states. >> we have lively debates about federalism, about the role of local versus federal government. but a missile attack is federal. a missile attack is not a local responsibility. confirmation and notification of something like a missile attack should reside with the agency that knows first, and knows for sure. >> woodruff: hawaiian officials have blamed human error for the false alert. but the federal communications commission said today the person in question is refusing to cooperate with investigators. and on wall street, the dow jones industrial average gained 140 points to close at 26,392, another record. the nasdaq fell about four points, and the s&p 500 added a point. still to come on the newshour: gymnastics moving forward after widespread sexual abuse. the classified document that's causing a stir on capitol hill. puerto rico still without power, months after hurricane maria, and much more. >> woodruff: after days of powerful testimony, former gy

clearly in the event of a nuclear attack norad is presidential and that's what senator schatz is attempting to get at with this though which on the surface make sense to a lot of us but we definitely need to figure out how we keep what has happened this time from happening again and we are still trying to put all those pieces together. [inaudible] >> this bill would be under his his --. >> doesn't have a markup then? >> we probably wouldn't alessa something that triggered our jurisdiction but if it has fcc components and if it would they would come under our jurisdiction. we will take a look at that at what he is proposing and see if there are other things that we will take into consideration what we have heard today in the subsequent field hearing and see if there are other things like i said that we can do to divide and make the system work better and avoid what what i think was a very potentially catastrophic situation. if nothing else certainly an embarrassing situation. >> the framework you are talking about for best practices maybe that would be under your jurisdiction so maybe you mi

the incident prompted immediate anger and outrage from state leaders, hawaii senator brian schatz calling it an abomination. the governor of hawaii saying the false alarm was totally unacceptable. officials blame human error for the mistake, saying an employee pressed the wrong button during a shift change. the frightening false alarm adds to the stress hawaiians are already feeling over the escalated nuclear tensions between the u.s. and north korea. i want to get straight to democratic congresswoman, tulsy gabbard of hawaii. she's also a veteran and a member of the house armed services committee. so first, how are people in hawaii doing? that must have been unbelievably traumatic. >> i think traumatic understates the experience that the people of hawaii went through yesterday. getting that alert that went out to over a million cell phones, all across the state, not to speak of the visitors who were there who got that same alert, saying an incoming missile is headed your way, take shelter, this is not a drill. hawaii has just started a few months ago, these monthly nuclear attack sirens

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something brian schatz, senator from hawaii said on our air earlier when i had the opportunity to ask him about that. he called for that. and also, vern miyagi, administrator of the agency, effectively made a very large mistake today said immediate change in protocol. two people will be in the room at all times when these tests take place, where the alerts are sent there. on the left of the screen, footage we took from inside the very room where that accident happened today. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week that area is staffed. this is not a drill, we have an incoming ballistic missile to actually go out is a call from pacom. pacific command of the u.s. military supposed to go into that room and then these men and women that staff the room are supposed to send out not only the text alert, the television alert and sirens. one other thing i want to say to you, davids, about supposedly sirens being sounded across the island. we didn't hear sirens on this side of the island. on the waikiki side. there are 394, telling you throughout the day, sirens throughout the state of hawaii. sounds as

schatz? >> thank you all for being here. facebook had $10.3 billion in revenue last quarter. about 23,000 employees, if i'm not mistaken. twitter, $590 million in revenue last quarter. so my question for facebook and twitter is in dollars, as a percentage of revenue, however you want to calculate it, and in terms of employee count both part-time and full-time, how many people, how many dollars are you devoting to this problem? ms. bickert? >> thank you, senator. this has been a significant area of investment for us, not just now, but over the past years. but i do want to point to a recent announcement from our ceo mark zuckerberg after we released earnings last quarter where he specifically pointed to the fact that as we invest in safety and security, people should expect to see facebook's costs go up. that's reflected in the fact that we now have more than 7500 people who are working to review terror content andor potential violations. we have 180 people who are focused specifically on countering terrorism. so these are people like the former academics, like brian fishman, f

senator schatz. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, governor for your willingness to continue to serve and thank you for the conversation we had last week. want to give you some data points. according to the fdic, thanks had record breaking profits in 2016 highest return on equity, shows banks are likely to do even better this year across the board. banks have increased their dividends to shareholders by 70%. community banks earnings have also been increasingly, up almost 10% 10% this quarter cod to last year. household credit and home loans, car loans, credit cards has surpassed prerecession highs. according to the fed sluggish loan growth in the commercial sector, it is due to lack of demand. the question follows on senator warns question, which is what problem are we solving with deregulation? >> i'm not going to characterize what we're doing as deregulation. i would rather think of it as looking back over eight years of what is very innovative regulation in many cases, things that a never been done like liquidity require

and i disagree on rates i think are seeing a pickup in volatility starting to rise in germany, the schatze jgbs, too. the markets are a state of mind. earnings central is. >> right >> i think there are some real tail winds here. but the risks are building because the rate paradigm is changing and global equity will not be as abundant among all the central banks last year. >> that will fall to below a trillion dollars >> where is the u.s. equity market s&p >> our target is 6825 a. lot of fingers are in the air on these sorts of thing i do think we get a little more volatility early in the year i think we pull back simply by a rate scare >> twa are we talking about? >> 25, 2600. not a heck of a lot. >> it would scare people they would realize vol at 5 on s&p. that's a scary pullback. >> you are in. would that scare people? i think people buy on that dip you know, therefore, within they forget the dip that's the conundrum you're in? >> fair. >> this is still a market that a lot of people are not par sis pa -- participating in. you will not get the dip everyone is waiting to buy the short vol

. >> thank you, senator schatz. senator young is not here. senator markey. >> thank you, mr. chair, very much. last month, the fcc gutted the net neutrality rules that protected the internet as we know it. as a result, the next facebook, youtube, twitter will struggle to get off the ground. i strongly oppose that fcc decision, which is why i plan to introduce a congressional review act resolution of disapproval which will undo the fcc's recent actions and restore the 20 15 open order. my resolution enjoys the support of the democrats, susan collins, from maine has indicated she will vote for it. do you support my cra resolution, which would put net neutrality back on the books? mr. monje? >> yes, sir. thank you for your leadership on this issue. it is an important issue for our company and users. >> you would support it? >> yes. >> thank you. >> miss downs. >> we support strong enforceable net neutrality protections and we will support any efforts to put the rules back in place. >> police beckert? >> same answer. we will support the cra and we also support and will work with

schatz: i still have the floor. and if we don't get this done by 1:00 a.m., i personally don't think we should adjourn. i think it should be personally uncomfortable, physically uncomfortable. i think we should be embarrassed by this and i think you make a very good point. we should stay in until we get it done. it is disappointing to me that i hear all of that and yet when i ask you whether you'd be willing to work on a unanimous consent request to effectuate what you just said, the answer was no. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. brown: thank you. i agree with the senator from hawaii, senior senator from hawaii. give us just a day. go back to the murphy continuing resolution. you don't need to do my three days. give us one day so we can reopen the government so if we don't finish by 6:00 or 7:00 or 8:00 tomorrow morning, the government is closed right now. we know that. i'd like to ask senator tillis and the presiding officer and republican leadership if they just give us

schatz: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator -- the objection has been heard to the request from the senator from hawaii. is there objection to the request from the senator from north carolina? mr. schatz: mr. president, reserving the right to object. i'm a member of the defense appropriations subcommittee on the appropriations committee. and the way as the senator from north carolina knows, that we do defense appropriations is with great care. we have markups. we find out what each service branch needs in terms of personnel, in terms of bases and installation, in terms of new acquisitions. and that process takes a fair amount of time. and that markup is not done. and so i would love to move on dense appropriation -- defense appropriations, but from the standpoint of responsibly spending hundreds of billions of dollars, we're not there yet. so, therefore, i mr. hatch: mr. president, america's kids have access to quality medical care is among my top priorities in the senate. that's why long ago