senator grassley: ok, thank you. chair durbin: thank you, senator grassley. senator blumenthal. senator blumenthal: thank you, mr. secretary, for your service and thank you for being here today. i want to begin with an issue involving an international student, in particular. i'm routing for uconn in the final four, the men's team is powered by an incredibly talented and successful forward named adama is a nothingo who is not -- sanogo who is not a citizen of the united states. he is a star. the rules have been revised two years ago, the ncaa at the urging of myself and others, allowed student threats to benefit from their name, image, and likeness. and international students like him and aliyah edwards on our women's team, other athletes in other sports who are international students are prevented by student visa rules from benefitting from financial opportunity and indeed their educational futures because of these rules. i sent a letter to you calling on d.h.s. to issue guidance and open rulemaking to enable some fairness and equity here, but the schools haven't received guidan

the senator from new jersey here is a learned senator. it says the unobligated balance of funds made available in the covid funding -- and i won't read the actual cry takers but the covid funding -- the unoctoberred funds mated available shall be made available to local education agencies to keep elementary schools and secondary schools served by such agencies physically secure. that is the entirety of the bill. you can use the $100-plus billion that congress has appropriated to make schools safer. now, not a word from the senator from connecticut addressed that bill. he just said, i object. and as for his caterwauling that the first bill -- gosh, he can't figure out what's in it, you don't do it this way. the first time i introduced it it was cruz-barrasso and every senator voted on it because i introduced it as an amendment to the bill the senator from connecticut introduced. now, mind you, in the wake of uvalde, with great fanfare, a the senator from connecticut passed a meaningless gun control bill that did nothing to prevent what hap

senator cruz asked for unanimous consent to pass school safety legislation however senator murphy objected to the request. this is about 40 minutes. >> mr. president, i wish we were not here. facing these issues yet again. in recent days, our nation is seeing yet another horrific schoolmb shooting. september of last year i stood on the senate floor and tried to pass legislation to stop theha school shootings. there've been too many of them. i've been there on the ground at too manyf of them. santa fe high school in texas about 45 minutes away from my house. the morning of that shooting i got the call within minutes of the shooting i was down on campus just over an hour after it occurred. i saw the tragedy, the tears, the grieving parents, the children in shock. you faulty, i was there shortly after that as well. the holder, the mayhem. too many of our children have been murdered by deranged lunatics. when you and i were kids, this wasn't a thing. when you went to school, i went to school, there wasn't a single day that i woke up going to school worried that some idiot, some sociopaths was

senate unanimously.f this bill had passed into law, $15 billion to double the number of police a officers on campus, that was available to the public, private. schools and procure schools. and with that would havece meant there is a very real on —- possibility police officer would have been at the front door at the covenant school in nashville. look at what happened as a parent or grandparent weon are beyond horrified at what sort of deranged person murderers little children. but we also know that shooter came to thete front door and shot the. this bill had passed funding for school security that front door and made more secure so the shooter could not have blasted it. importantly as many of us have watched the body kim footage, it is horrific and deeply disturbing but also it isyo on inspiring. you see the nashville police officers'r arrived 15 minutes after the shooting began they enter the campus. they are scared they don't know what's going on but they are looking for the shooter wearing bulletproof

senator kaine up to ten minutes. senator risch for up to five minutes.senator menendez for up to five minutes. and senator schumer for up to two minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. young: thank you. mr. president, i'm proud to join my colleague, the great senator from virginia, senator tim kaine, on the floor of the senate today. as we await this final vote, final passage of the repeal of the authorizations for use of military force in 1991, the gulf war, and 2002, the iraq war, i reflect on just how much work it took to get here, how much persistence, and i thank senator kaine for sticking it out. a lot's happened over the last couple of decades. 20 years ago, american soldiers were fighting that war in iraq. today they are still there. they're advising iraq's army at the invitation of the current government. 20 years ago iraq was our enemy. today iraq is a strategic partner, an ally in advancing stability avoss the middle east. -- across the middle east. a lot has changed in the last 20 years and yet according to our laws, today we a

the future has to be about passing the railway safety act that senator brown, senator vance, senator fetterman, and others, and i, are leading. it's bipartisan, that never happens around here in big bills, or rarely, i should say. it would be a good start by norfolk southern to tell us today, in addition to what they're gonna do for the people of ohio and pennsylvania, tell us today that they support the bill. that would help. if a major rail company said, we support these reforms and will help you pass this bill. so, that's why i think people of both states deserve, mister chairman, thank you for this time, i'm grateful to be first in line. thank you very much. >> thank you very very much senator casey. next we're gonna hear from senator brown from ohio. >> mister chairman, thank you, ranking member capito, thank you, senator merkley, senator, thank you all for your thoughtful reflections and comments. i want to recognize a highlands this morning at the ohio epa, has been onsite many times, including, i believe, every time i've been there, and the residents of east palestine who mad

floor of the senate today. as we await this final vote, final passage of the repeal of the authorizations for use of military force in 1991, the gulf war, and 2002, the iraq war, i reflect on just how much work it took to get here, how much persistence, and i thank senator kaine for sticking it out. a lot's happened over the last couple of decades. 20 years ago, american soldiers were fighting that war in iraq. today they are still there. they're advising iraq's army at the invitation of the current government. 20 years ago iraq was our enemy. today iraq is a strategic partner, an ally in advancing stability avoss the middle east. -- across the middle east. a lot has changed in the last 20 years and yet according to our laws, today we are still at war with iraq. now, this isn't just the result of an oversight. it's an intensal abdication -- intentional abdication of this body, of its constitutional role in america's national security. nm allowing it to -- and allowing it to continue is a strategic mistake. it's

neither is any senator in this chamber.one of my 99 other colleagues are there to hear the testimony that was heard by those who made these decisions on behalf of their constituents as elected representatives must dig a little deeper my friend the senator from new jersey has heard this riveting for the dc council just went wild with the leftist effort to let criminals run free market what they did they raise penalties and in some cases look at actual places and in with attempted murder the current national sentence five years in prison for attempted murder. twenty-three and a half years how does this compare to other states there are at least seven states that have maximum penalties i see the republican leader is not on the floor the state of kentucky has a lower sentence for attempted murder then the revised dc code maybe tomorrow i introduce a piece of legislation to raise the penalty for attempted murder state of kentucky but i don't think that's goodi enough. that's what we're doing substituting our judgment for the dis

this effort by senator hagerty is now being joined by a legion of senate democrats. i want to thank each and every democrat for stepping forward and joining senator hagerty and all republicans for saying no to this bad idea of being soft on crime in the city that is overwhelmed by crime. if there was an award to be given for bad ideas, i would nominate what the d.c. district council did in trying to reduce punishment for crimes against persons and property at a time when the city is on fire in terms of crime. senator hagerty and others have stepped into the breach. tomorrow we're going to vote, and we're going to end this ill-conceived idea. i want to thank him for his leadership. i look forward to being his wingman tomorrow. the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. hagerty: i ask unanimous consent to speak. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. hagerty: i would like to say that i appreciate and am very touched by the remarks of the good senator from south carolina, mr. graham. and senator graham, thank you so much for your support and your pres

i thank you heard me mention right here in this room with senator grassley and senator stabenow and senator crapo that's where we locked down the first ever financial penalties for price-gouging and medicare and we saw the benefits of this, this week with a reduction in coinsurance. it's going to get help to millions of people. that was done in 2019 in this room, in a bipartisan way. cms is working on a tight timeline with respect to the drug pricing reform and it has a lot to do in advance of the september 1 announcement of which 10 drugs will be the first to go forward on the negotiation process. last week was an important milestone with the release of medicare pricing negotiation guidance and penalties for price-gouging and you and i have talked about that. so important that the inflation reduction act guidelines are met and ensure people who are participating in these programs are ready. my first question to you and you and i have talked about this, is it possible for you to submit to a timely release of the final negotiation guidance which would come about the summer? >> senator that i

and senator leahy. it was signed into law by president trump. soft on crime. this bill passed by an overwhelming vote of 87-12 in the senate, signed in law by president trump. unlike most republican senators, senator cotton opposed the first step act. it established earned-time credit that allowed prisoners to earn time off sentences by participating in programs. the bill included a compromise that excluded those from criminal offenses. carjacking was one of those offenses. the criticism that he is making in the first step act doesn't -- no matter -- no matter how many classes a prisoner takes or skills he learns, he cannot earn a day off his sentence under the first step act. exactly the opposite of what the senator from arkansas just said. that can compromise wasn't enouh for the junior senator from arkansas. he offered an amendment to the first step act that would have skewedded tens of thousands of prisoners. i knew and they know now, the purpose of a residcism is to reduce recidivism. when we exclu

a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. rubio: back in 2019, i believe april 2019, if not the first, i must have been one of the first people to call for the company tiktok to be banned in the united states. i do think that's an extraordinary thing to ban a company. and so before i think we, for someone like me who has argued for a national ban on a company like this, to take away something from over 100 something million americans, many of whom i've heard from, many of whom i know personally, before we do something like that, i think people deserve an explanation as to why. why is it we would want to do that. i don't think the answer can be trust us, it's bad for america. i think they do deserve an answer. i think they do deserve a clear argument as to why it's in our national interest to do this and why it's the only option we have. first, i think it's important to understand how tiktok works. it's an ingenious app. no one argues about it. short-form videos, and it always seems to show you what you want to see. and the mo

do senator kane.a will start with this. there's a lot of things he said i agree with and in particular about him not getting with his looks and instead in his persistency is correct in that regard. senator kane has been a true committed good faith warrior onun this issue and some of the things that were said out here are absently accurate and deserve to be underscored and things that i agree with. first of all i really appreciate senator kane pointing out the fact the deliberations on this particular repeal of the ams to get it off of the books has taken a whole lot longer and more deliberation than the actual passage to get into the war. it's easy to stand here and say they were wrong that did this 20 years ago. i don't know how many are left. their defense of course they had information that was very different from what we have today which is unfortunate because as you pointed out there has been a lot of harm done as a result. so we should start with that one of the most important things we doing co

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senator scott? >> thank you, mister chairman today, we are here to understand just how we found ourselves in the middle of the second and third largest bank failure in the united states history. our questions are nowhere near answered, this is an important first step in providing transparency and accountability necessary to the american taxpayer. i would like to thank mr. chairman for taking the time and working with me to try to bring the bank ceos in to this hearing. i think it's incredibly important that we hear from the folks specifically and uniquely responsible for the failure of these banks. folks who manage them. by all accounts, this is a classic tale of negligence and it started with the banks themselves without any question that is where the buck stops. so it is imperative that we hear straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak, to find out why these banks were so apparently -- poorly managed and poorly managed the risks. unfortunately, the bank's ex are not the only managers listening.

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i support the senators resolution of disapproval. because the residents and visitors of this city have a reasonable expectation of safety. i encourage my friends across the aisle to support this commonsense resolution and senda message that the democratic party is not beholden to its fringes, particularly whereas here it would lead to increased crime rate and additional unnecessary suffering. thank you, madam president. >> washington, d.c. is in the middle of a carjacking crime wave. there've been more than 100 in the nation's capital so for this year. it's only march 8th. two thirds of the carjackers use guns to force or terrify the victims out of the vehicles. so what do we do in response to this? do they supportri to defend the police or install more cameras or put more cops on the streets? no. they passed the law to reduce criminal penalties for carjackings. reduce the criminal penalties for carjackings and other seriousus crimes. i wish i were joking but sadly i'm not. washington's answer to higher crime is less prison time for

in that case i ask unanimous consent that senator lee, senator hirono, senator bennet and senator marshall be granted five minutes each prior to the scheduled vote. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. reed: thank you, madam president. i rise to discuss the promotions and appointments of generals and flag officers in the united states military including several appointments to lieutenant general and vice admiral. these are officers who would hold positions of particular importance and responsibility to the nation. the promotions of these military leaders were reported out of the armed services committee over the past two months. there have been no substantive objections raised against these nominations. for the benefit of my colleagues who do not, may not appreciate the nature and volume of military promotions and nominations considered by the armed services committee, last year the committee considered and the senate confirmed nearly 20,000 military officers, including 656 general and flag officers. the senate confirmed 20,000 nominations through bipartisan un

>> senator sanders: yeah.after all of that, and remember this is in the midst of a pandemic where over a million people died and then after that they said well, when the government reserve of the quade ofs,e ar goio so this is corporate greed at its worst. so you know. >> stephen: what can you do? >> senator sanders: well, we can do a lot of things but for a starter, turns out that on the day that we announced mr. bancel was going to come before the committee, just coincidentally they announced that they were going to make the vaccine available for free to people. but in addition to that, medicare and medicaid should not have to spend billions for the vaccine. look, the bottom line is, i think most americans know year after year the pharmaceutical industry makes tens of billions of dollars. they pay their ceos outrageous compensation packages and meanwhile, we pay by far the highest prices in the world. stephen, i've taken people over the canadian border to buy insulin products for one-tenth of the price in ca

rubio and senator casey and senator fetterman and senator hawley.oin us to get something real done for the people whom we serve. the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. brown: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to legislative session understand be a in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. brown: mr. president, i have eight requests for committee to meet during today's session of the senate. they have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. the presiding officer: duly noted. mr. brown: thank you, mr. president. i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of s. 619, which is at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: a bill to require the director of national intelligence to declassify information relating to the origin of covid-19 and for other purposes. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed. mr. brown: i ask that the bill

for the most part even with senate absences, with senate -- with senator mitch mcconnell out, senator feinstein and senator john fetterman also out, this measure won't have any trouble cutting past the finish line. host: how does president biden feel about that effort? guest: president biden has vocalized support for the issue. but we will have to see how it plays out. host: that is one of the key issues on the senate side. what about the house side this week was to mark -- this week? guest: the house side is focusing on passing the parents bill of rights act. they are writing the legislation for this week. what essentially it does, it is a key component of kevin mccarthy's commitment to america act. it would amend the elementary and secondary education act of 1965. it would require schools to provide parents with a list of books and reading materials and also make accessible their curriculum. it also affirms parents rights to essentially challenge the school curriculum and addressed school boards and also receive information about violent activity in the children's school. host: givi

senator wicker and senator moran and of course senator graham, the ranking member of the committee have been part of our efforts on the afghan refugee and have signed their name on the bill and we are working with other senators as we speak. our bipartisan legislation that i know you are aware of requires applicants to go through vetting that is just as rigorous as the vetting they would have gone through if they came as refugees, a standard that ate former republican administration national security officials called the gold standard of vetting. so we have worked with your department and the dod on this. how would the vetting provisions included in the afghan adjustment help to ensure that afghan evacuees are fully and rigorously vetted? >> senator, we are very appreciative of that act and we do hope it is promulgated. in operation allies welcome, our efforts to bring those who stood by us in combat safely to the united states, we undertook rigorous screening and vetting protocol. we did that before they arrived in the post extent possible. this really institutionalizes that process an

>> no senator. >> offered 20 months you've been in charge of the denver airport. you are in charge of the airports buildings, correct? >> i am in charge of everything that goes on at that airport. >> i'm not sure that's exactly right. you are in charge of parking at the airport is that correct question are coming parking spaces of the denver airport? works thousands. >> okay you are in charge of all the shops and restaurants in the airport how many restaurants are there? >> we have anywhere from 150 -- 200 or so. >> you are in charge of coffee shops and clothing stores and newsstands. you are not in charge of the pilots, are you? >> no senator. >> you are not in charge of the airplane mechanics, our use or question or correctness or progression on charge they are traffic controllers you? >> no senator. you know, look at prior faa administrator as you and i talked about i respect your military service. i look at prior faa administrators current acting was a commercial airline multiple enrolls hit cer

and our colleague senator rubio republican from florida, senator casey, longtime friend, democrat from pennsylvania. senator fetterman also a freshman has been here a months from pennsylvanians under holly from missouri. to make trains safer as they go through places like east palestine, a hybrid real company lobbyists have spent years fighting every effort that we can make to make our trains and our railing safer. now, ohioans the presiding officer of the senior senator from georgia has seen in his state, ohioans have seen these rail crashes the derailments just in the last four months the best known when the damage was greatest. also sandusky on lake erie the greatest body of freshwater in the world, the great lakes. steubenville on the ohio river the two greatest natural resources that our state has the ohio river and lake erie. and drinking water and all kinds of things, recreation for so many people. all three of these committees are paying a price. over the past month i've been east palestine multiple times talking to residents of mayor, fire chief, business owners, parents but i

thank you very much senator cornyn. senator whitehouse? >> thank you senator klobuchar.let me start off by -- >> seven out of the eight members of our band went to brown university. a lot of around pride. >> that's pretty impressive. what were your favorite venues? >> we played at a local venue at 8 to 20 a bunch. honestly, we mostly play that house parties on campus. that was where we got our start. we also played, recently, a bunch at fed music hall. >> 8 to 20 is a great organization. i am proud to have you in the middle of this. a group that emerged from our terrific brown university. >> thank you. >> you mentioned in your testimony today that many artists like you play live nation venues, you typically are also required to use ticketmaster and a live nation own promoter. if that were not the expectation, what difference, do you think, would be for your band in your fans? >> we'll, if we have the ability to weigh different offers, we would be able to see a more apples to apples comparison of what kind ideas we could get at a given venue. you are correct in saying tha

with that, call on an ex senator, senator vance. >> all right, senator lujÁn, thank you.ister chairman and miss sohn, thank you for coming before us today. when i take my line of questioning in a slightly different direction from some of the other. folks just to be direct with you, ms. sohn they're actually areas of subsequent agreement between the two of us on some of these issues. i also noticed that you are a participant in what i would call this weird racialization of american political rhetoric in the last few years. in particular, coming out of a desire to give equal opportunity and fairness to every american regardless of skin color, of course a very good thing, has been this weird trend in certain corners of american politics to be very, very racialized. if it criticize explicit racial groups, almost as a pejorative. you, unfortunately, have participated in that. i want to ask just a couple of questions on that, before i do, i want to illustrate this by pointing at something that's going on in my state. we have a very, a very bad train crash in east palestine, ohi

thanks to the leadership of senator hagerty leading the discussions and efforts, senate republicans are going to vote to stop washington, d.c.'s radical new legislation. the legislation that what's criminals get out of jail free. senate republicans are going to vote to make the nation's capital the safest place to visit and a safer place to live and safer place to work. wyoming families ask me all the time if it's safe for them to visit washington, d.c. or if it's safe for their kids to come to washington, d.c. for something like history day. an opportunity to see the nation's capital. imagine that. many american families actually afraid to visit or have their thechildren visit the nation's capital. liberal cities all across the country have become danger zones. families in wyoming watch the nightly news. they can't believe their eyes. they see smashing storefronts new york and chicago. they see innocent people getting mugged on the streets. they see it in new york and in washington, d.c. the cities run by liberals are not safe. across the country we have new records, madam president, f

thank you, senator but i d note through the workk of senator grassley and i did and senator lee last year, the merger t-bill the past 88, with 88 senators senators along with the bill with centrally as an amendment is going to amount to a billion dollars to these agencies as professor francis and i agree on this, onn the resources, and you are referring to ms. lewis. that is a significant increase. while we would like to see more it isas a significant increase t on the back of taxpayers to help these agencies to do the work. okay, next up senator grassley. >> thank you, madam chairman. my first question is to professor morton. mr. lewis and ms. lewis bear in your testimony you express support for the american online innovation choice act. how it deals with the digital market abuses. you just heard testimony by professor francis and professor candeub expressing a number of concerns of the bill sod like to review briefly explain why you agree or disagree with professor candeub and francis. >> thank you, senator. i think that the digital platforms we have today have quite a bit of entre

and senator vance and senator fetterman and i will. that's bipartisan that never happens around here. it would be a good start by norfolk southern to tell us today what more they are going to do for the people of ohio and pennsylvania and tell us today that they support the bill. that would help. if the major rail company said we support these reforms and we will help you pass this bill. that's what i think the people of both states deserve and mr. chairman thank you for this time and i'm grateful to be first in line. thank you very much. >> thank youou very much senator casey. next we will hear from senator errod. >> thank you and ranking member capito think thank you and senator merkley thank you all for your thoughtful reflections and comments. i want to recognize the high winds and the epa has been on site many times including the residents of east palestine who made the trip others who talked about what this means for their family. they represent ohioans in this tightknit town in colombia county which once made 80% of ceramics in

a senator: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from alabama. mr. tuberville: thank you, madam president. since coming to washington two years ago, i learned a lot about the senate and about how washington works. politics can at times be like a game. while we may be on different teams politically, we should all be focused on winning for all american people. and if there's one thing i know about in my last 40 years as a coach and educator, it's trying to win and how to win. 50 years ago we discovered a winning strategy for all of american female athletes. it was called title 9, probably one of the most successful pieces of legislation that's ever came out of this body. signed into law in 1972, title 9's 37 words empowered women to win by leveling the playing field and providing them access to the same opportunities as young men. i believe those words are worth repeating today to remind this body of their importance. no person in the united states shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subject t

thank you very much sir. >> thank you senator. >> thank you senator. , senator smith. >> thank you mister chair. and thank you mr. bancel for being with us today. i want to start by just saying that the covid-19 vaccine is safe and effective. in preventing hospitalization and death, from canadian, and the process for developing in distributing this vaccine is a tribute to the innovation and the technology of the scientists and researchers and manufacturers, and also the federal state trouble and local agencies that deliver -- and i include moderna and as i had to grow, it's also critical that americans continue to have access to these vaccines. now, we're not talking economic theory today but i want to say i'm a capitalist. i want to business school, i started my own business, so i did not make as much money as you made mr. bancel. and i understand that concepts of return on investment and risk reward but it is difficult for me to accept that the profits you are reaping on the backs of american taxpayers are necessary or reasonable. it feels like a bonanza to me. so, i want to understand

senator grassley? last year's fbi hearing raided cocaine to protect -- whoever push my office about wrong doing at the department. the fbi. do you commit to me, this committee, and the side and as they hold any retaliatory will conduct against those wars, will be disciplined? >> i do, senator. and you know well more than any other member of this committee that i've been a staunch supporter of whistleblowers. and the false claims act. for the entire period of my run as a judge. as well. >> if i were to set up a hypothetical fact pattern for you, and ask you to tell me how you would handle it, the justice department and fbi have received information from over a dozen sources. that's the first. one second. the sources provide similar information about potential criminal conduct relating to a single individual. and third, that information was shared with the department of fbi over a period of years, according to department policy procedures, what steps with the department to take to determine the truth and

senator chairman. and i bump appreciate you very much bringing up the challenges of the state department. prior to the pandemic, i was in dublin, and our embassy there told me that in the lead up to my visit there had been a dramatic infusion of chinese diplomatic personnel to their embassy. the reason was there was a pending telecommunications, tender in ireland at the time, and the chinese were able to send in literally dozens of individuals to help huawei compete. we were represented in our embassy by a very capable defend didn't attachÉ, but we didn't have the ability, as the chinese did, to be as nimble in making sure that we are supporting our efforts to make sure that it is western companies, western technology, that is be ultimately being able to keep pace with chinese technologies. that is just another example about how our resources just don't match chinese resources, and i appreciate the chairman for making that a priority. i will try to sneak in one question for each of you, i wanted to tal

for th, senator. about the stabilii think bringing stability to the faa is part of addressing those issues so what i would do is put together a plan, a tactical plan around supply chain and have that as a first priority for me. some of the issues we've seen around the country now with material cost increases and inflation and all those things is tied into the availability of theories materials. so putting a plan together to address that is one of the first things i would do. the other thing i think about, you mention the subsidies, the communities, essential air service and those sorts of things. the faa needs to do better with those subsidies as well and that would be one of my priorities but that is your question putting together a solid plan to address rural airports in places like kansas would be one of my first priority is. >> i don't think it's through any fault of your own. you and i have not met until we shook hands a moment ago and if you are interested and i would make sure if you would come

senator -- this is senator. -- ms. senator. >> mr. chairman, i think all of those who are watching these proceedings and everyone in the auto -- funniest and the panelists. this is the utter frustration that you are sharing with us that is so powerful, and i think my colleague for her advocacy and getting something done. there is a definition for addiction, and would you say that the millions of young people who are on social media are exhibiting what amounts to an addiction to the platform? >> within the scientific community we are debasing the use of that word. -- debating the use of that word. there is clearly a dependency on social media which we can see kids suffering from the same symptoms that we see in the dsm-v, the diagnostic manual for -- >> the addition and social media is that this is such a negative kind of information that they get bullied, they are all kinds of horribly negative kinds of, of, messages that they get from this particular addiction, which may be a big difference. we do have treatments normally for addicti

senator brown just indicated sitting in senator pat leahy seat. he was carrying more about organics and daring this morning. so, we welcome you to the. speaking of welcoming new members, we are so pleased to have senator welch, senator fetterman as new members of the committee. we appreciate you. we are so glad you are joining us. particularly at this bowman we have so much important work to do on the farm bill. thank you. also, we welcome our witnesses. undersecretary taylor, undersecretary moffitt, and miss childs. thank you for being here today on this really really important topic. i know that ranking member both men and i share the fact that we know we have a big job ahead and we are working closely together to be able to pass the next farm bill with strong bipartisan support. i'm really confident that this committee is up to the task to be able to do that. last year our committee examined usda research, world element, and energy programs. now we begin the new congress with a review of the farm bills horticulture and trade titles. these title

senator bennet.k you, madam chair. we need an faa administrator who is senate-confirmed, but also who knows how to get things done. an administrator whoat can manage the complex bureaucracy at faa, and prepare it for the realities of modern air travel today. someone who can give us confidence the next time we get on a flight, someone who will reassure us that we'll get where we're going safely, and not have to think about how everything works again. that's phil washington. phil came from humble beginnings. as the madam chair mentioned, he served 24 years in the army, achieved the rank of command sergeant major, the highest rank for enlisted servicemen. command sergeant majors are the people that get things done by organizing, motivating their troops, delivering on the mission and holding peoples accountable.he he was stationed in fort carson, colorado, the beginning of his relationship with colorado. our veterans are renowned for their discipline, their leadership, their courage, their dedication to

>> yes, senator. when the local jurisdiction has an individual or has information that would benefit the public safety of the community it doesn't share that information with immigration and customs. >> and we should be clear. i'm not talking about somebody that's gotten into a fender bender. i'm talking about people that may be in there for sexual assault. we know they are in there for that or trafficking or any number of other violent or potentially violent crimes. i need that information because i want to put pressure on local governments in the state of north carolina saying if you want to do this, i want you to be held accountable, and to be held accountable we want to pass the justice for victims of sanctuary cities act. now i want to talk about the transnational criminal organization. i didn't know this until now. looked it up. did you know that the cartel translates into stone? it's an informal adjective, so that translates into the new stone generation. one of the cartels that cover the bread