i want to thank senator cardin who has spearheaded this, along with senator murkowski. it's bipartisan. thank them for championing this e.r.a. resolution and i look forward to advance its voting this thursday. finally, in a few minutes my colleague from massachusetts will take the floor to ask unanimous consent that some of our brave military leaders get the promotions they deserve. it is absolutely outrageous that the senator from alabama is playing with the security of america, playing with the lives of these military leaders whose lives are being disrupted by his harsh action. he believes strongly that the military, that women in the military shouldn't have the right to abortion. almost all americans disagree with him. but no matter how strongly he feels, to hold up the promotion of military leaders, many of whom, most of whom dedicated decades of their lives to protecting our country and now living leaving those positions vacant risking our security is one of the most abominable and outrageous things i have ever seen in this chamber witnessed by the fact that no one

so a senator from california. senator new york, a senator from michigan. just the absolute strain on their. oh, yeah, he had an energy. i mean it's well i'll tell you the part that that blows my mind is the amount of money that these candidates have raise to run in these large states with all of these markets. i mean, you know, it's it's not unusual $50 million for a a senate campaign is is not that unusual. these in some of these states. oh, i never i don't think we spent more than two and a half, $3 million. who do you prefer, heinrich or ben lujan? i bought good men. they're both good. then they're hard workers. they're both working hard. yeah. and very, very committed to their constituents. i agree with. i think we're just incredibly fortunate. have senator luann in northern new mexico because mean this is his home he knows everything he needs to know about northern new mexico sir thank, you appreciate it. cha cha. do you want to take some questions? you want to take some questions? okay. all right. cecile, there you are. hi, jeff. is there. hey, how a

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

senate resolutions introduced earlier today, senate resolution 176, senate resolution 177, and senate resolution 178. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measures en bloc. without objection, the senate will proceed. mr. whitehouse: i ask unanimous consent that the resolutions be agreed to, the preambles be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table all en bloc. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today, it stand adjourned until 12:00 noon on thursday, april 27, that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day and morning business be closed. following the conclusion of morning business, the senate resume consideration of the motion to proceed to calendar number 3, s.j. res. 4, that the cloture motions filed during yesterday's session ripen at 12:30 p.m. the presiding officer: without

>> certainly, senator. as went stand at the residential security system program we are requesting specifically five personnel for that confide fte's.s. that's for security engineering specialists, , an expert in physical security enhancements and construction, a financial administrative specialist since that would be a significant amount of money that we deal with inur this regard, two progm managers and a senior program manager. so that's five for the program specifically. some of the other ones were asking -- that programe going in the future? >> i do not see it -- were estimating perhaps the participation rate of 50%, and it's going well so far. actually approximately half of the senators who are currently in office have had residential security assessments. in the last year, or this eula i we've had 25 and another 12 who have requested them. so the interest in having the surveys and receiving the recommendations has been strong, but i don't h know that we will see it grow and increase once one -- >> yes

thank you. >> it will continue, senator -- thank you, senator scott. thank you. i will take my five minutes now. thank you for responses, senator smith. it was a start, but inadequate. i want to talk to you more about medical debt. i appreciate that your commitment to increasing access to credit overall. i appreciate the 500 dollar threshold that you are doing, that you are not putting in the reports up to 500. i appreciate the first year of not reporting, and i appreciate that if the medical debt is paid, it's not on the credit report. i want to talk a little bit more about that. cfpb just released a report that found, for consumers with over $500 in medical debt, or under $500 medical debt, removing medical to increase their credit scores by 32 points. then, when medical collection was removed from credit reports, the total amount of available involving credit increased by over $1,000. my question, starting with you, mister begor, will you commit to removing medical debt above $500 from credit reports? >> senator, i think we made a very productive move the 500

yes, senator. this is part of what drives the cost makes it a more challenging upgrade than simply replacing the phones on the desks. >> and you've been coordinating with the senate team another of an initiatives. could you give us an idea of those? >> one, that we are working through is to modernize for paid processes with the dispersing office. that will affect all offices one -- offices and when completed should make life much easier for those senate offices. i think that is perhaps the most significant one that we are coordinating with the secretary on. >> thank you very much. >> i also mentioned closed captioning, that is a modernization effort that will be a capability that constituents and our broader senate community will benefit from. and that is also a significant ask in our budget request for $695,000 to provide the capability. >> thank you very much. chief, just a clarification. when you speak of dignity protection, or those visitors to capitol? they're not members. >> no, i am talking

>> thank you, senator. i believe that ab5 was a bill passed by the california legislature, and given to me in my event role to enforce. i do not believe that the abc test that is caught a fight in ab5 its federal law, and i do not believe that i could make it federal law, unless you all made it federal law. >> let me push this little bit more. in your comments to senator cassidy, you said the department of labor does not have the authority to implement the abc test. do you still think it is a good model for the country? >> i think -- >> your moment, senator. >> senator, bona fide independent contractors have a place in our economy and need to be able to operate. i also believe that miss classification, meaning when you have someone who should be an employee, but it's called an independent contractor, maybe they work side by side with other people who do the exact same thing as they are, but they are called and independent contractors, so they're not protected by minimum wage, overtime, unemployment insuranc

and the senate security system. today we will be reviewing the united states capital police fiscal year 2024 budget request and before i address that requested like to thank you chiefsb manger and all you do to support the security for the capitol complex each and every day. including the president's budget request his request foryo preparation of $840.9 million for the capitol police. which is an increase of $106.3 million from fiscal year 23 enacted level. this is an increase of both the salaries in the general expense appropriations. this increase provides an annual invasion of salaries for ongoing person on fiscal year 23, increased overtime for core mission and national political conventions funding forr new positions and cola and miscellaneous payment funding for this increase also provides for increased protective services and support during an election year to include national political conventions funding to support the purchase and lease of various fleet vehicles funding to support the continuation of the

senator rosen, myself, senator klobuchar, and senator smith. the presiding officer: without objection. the presiding officer: the junior senator from nevada. ms. rosen: thank you. since the supreme court overturned long-standing protections for the fundamental right to access abortion care nearly a year ago, we have seen countless attacks on women's reproductive rights from antichoice states across our nation. states that are banning abortions without exceptions for rape or incest, states that are risking the lives of women who have miscarried. and i've been doing everything i can to stand up and to defend a woman's fundamental right to make health care choices for her own body without interference from antichoice politicians. and this includes making sure we protect our veterans' rights. and that includes the right for those veterans to make decisions over their own bodies. our veterans and their families, they risked so much to protect our nation, to protect our rights, and we owe it to them to defend their fundamental right to access reprodu

thank you. >> thanks senator sinema, senator langford i'm going to turn the gavel over to senator ossoff. >> thank you, again, for being here. we have lots of issues that are still out there. i want to be able to drill down on a few others. last time that you and i were speaking in this public setting before, i ask you about knowledge of the criminal record of individuals from the country that they're coming from. we know they are on the terror watchlist, obviously, but hundreds of thousands of people that we know nothing about, i ask you the question about, do we have access to the criminal history of individuals that are released on parole, released on notice to appear, notice to report. all the different methods of releasing individuals into the country while we are waiting hearing, do we know the criminal history of the country they're coming from. at that time he said you did not know at that point, i've not received an answer back yet. do we know at this point, if we have a criminal history from their home country, before we release them into our country? >> senator, what we are do

senator. uh i'm not covering for anybody, and you know that and when i have democrats on and i've had, democrats on the facts have asked many, all of them about their position on where where they believe this issue. should be my question for you, sir. my question for you, sir, is about president trump who you've endorsed to be president again. is he right in saying that this issue should be a states issue. he said yesterday . i think it is speech in iowa that he opposes late term abortion. here's what i believe that anybody running for president who has a snowball's chance in hell in the 2024 primary is going to be with me, the american people and all of europe, saying late term abortions should be off the table 70% of people. uh opposed late term abortions. i am confident over time. that's where our nominee will be confident that no democrat will answer the question of when do you draw a line? they never get challenged. and i welcome this debate. i welcome this debate. should we be like china

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.

man: the senator from nevada. reid: unsupportable. mikulski: the senator from nevada. reid: totally unsupportable. we have the nevada test site, nellis air force base, fallon air naval station, hawthorne ammunition depot. we have done our share. it's not compatible with tourism, which is our number-one industry. people are afraid of it, based upon chernobyl, based upon the experience of the people in st. george, where they have the highest cancer rate in the world, literally. we don't want it if it's 1,700 feet underground or 10,000 feet underground. when nevada was first mentioned as a possible dump site for nuclear waste, i said, "no way." my goal is to deliver these signed petitions to the president and impress upon him that nevadans don't want a nuclear dump in their backyard. man: joining me now live is u.s. senator harry reid. what's your strongest argument to keeping nuclear waste out of nevada? reid: how are you gonna get it here? we had 400,000 truck accidents last year. 14,000 of those dealt with hazardous materials. we had 2,100 train wrecks last year. over

>> thank you, senator. that a.b. 5 was a bill passed by the california legislature and given to me in my then role to enforce. i do not believe that the abc tests that have codified a.b. 5 is federal law, and i do not believe that i could make it federal law unless you all made it federal law. >> lette me push just a little more. so your comments to senator cassidy, you saidd the departmet of labor does not have the authority to implement the abcest the, but do you still --tist test, but to do you still think it's a good model for the country? >> i think, senator, that independent contractors have a place in our economy and need to be able to operate. i also believe that misclassification, meaning when you have someone who should be an employee but is called inexhibit contractor, maybe thy work -- independent contractor, they work side by side with other people who do the exact same thing they do, so they're not protected by minimum wage, overtime the, unemployment insurance and other laws and the employees

senate you're on c-span2. [inaudible] [inaudible] first let me begin by welcoming back our friend leader mcconnell to the senate. it's great to have him back here in this chamber. we're all happy to see he's recovering well. i also want to welcome back our colleague from pennsylvania and friend senator fetterman. we're all glad he got the support he needed and he's sending an important message to millions of americans that asking for and getting help works. now, on the debt ceiling, today is the start of a consequential work period here in congress but instead of getting to work in our nation's capital, house republican leadership took a field trip to new york city. is was sort of a circus. today's big spectacle of course was speaker mccarthy's speech at the new york stock exhange where he recycled the same old talking points but failed to provide anything new or anything of substance. one thing is clear from this morning's theatrics. while democrats want to preserve america's full faith and credit, speaker mc

>> 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

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

rather than find common ground with the house, senator schumer's having the senate vote on a nonbinding resolution commending and congratulating the university of connecticut men's basketball team for winning the 2023 men's basketball championship. that's not all senator schumer's been doing. just last month he's approved march is maine's maple syrup month. talk about taking on big issues. i wonder what may's month will be about. president biden and senate democrats waste time, house republicans are taking action. today i'm proud to announce that we are introducing the limit, save, grow act of 2023. this responsible legislation will be led by our budget chairman, jodey arrington. would responsibly raise the debt limit into next year and provide more than $4.5 trillion in savings to the american taxpayer. here's how we do it. first, we limit government spending. our plan would return discretionary spending to preinflationary fiscal year 2022 levels. then limit the growth of spending to 1% per year. these are the same levels we had just four months ago. i didn't hear, mr. speaker, a singl

senator: thank you. chairwoman fantwell: senator moran. senator: thank you, chairman. mr. nolen, thank you for the conversation he had with me on the phone on january 11 and january 12. i appreciate that there have been conversations at the faa and within the industry whether the agency should change the system's classification from the notam systems classification from mission support to safety critical. comments or thoughts? this is a closed captioning test. this is a closed captioning test. this is a closed captioning test. this is a closed captioning test. this is a closed captioning test. this is a closed captioning test. this is a closed captioning test. this is a closed captioning test. have given the criticality of them. senator: senator klobuchar and i introduced the notam improvement act. any thoughts on whether that would be no assistance to you and the the faa? acting admstor nolen: we fully support the goals that you have an it is much of what we are working towards. very supportive. senator: let me talk about a specific technology update. spotlight on the faa

hi, senator. quick two-part question.ou are describing the senate and congress reasserting its powers over war and peace. why has the congressman refused to this role to this point? what future oriented reforms would you like to see? >> why has congress advocated the role? congress has advocated this roles in's the very start of the nation. -- since the very start of the nation. madison wrote the constitution together with others, but also wrote the diary of the constitutional convention explaining what they are doing. he had a famous correspondence with jefferson years later, they were talking about this art of the constitution. the phrasing can be specific or vague. madison wrote a letter to jefferson and set our constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that it is the executive most likely to initiate war, therefore we have vested the question of war with the legislative branch. that was their intention. but from the very beginning, what congress showed was, madison was smart about the exe

senator: thank you very much. senator peters. senator: senator markey.woman fantwell: thank you, senator markey. senator peters. senator: thank you, madam chair. thank you, mr. nolen, for being here today before the committee. like many americans and michiganders, i am certainly concerned about the recent incursions into our airspace of a chinese surveillance balloon, as well as several as of yet unidentified objects, the most recent one that flew across the upper peninsula of michigan and was neutralized over lake huron. i have been in contact with the dod, the department of homeland security, and your agency to monitor these currents and i have called for greater transparency into these incidents. so i certainly do appreciate some of your comments that you've made here today about faa's coordination with norad so i don't want to belabor those points. you have covered those well. i do want to ask you one thing related to that. the white house and after the creation of an interagency team to study the broader policy applications for detection analysis an

so was senator tim from south dakota who was away from the senate for eight months.ohn mccain, ted kennedy, arlen specter, all senators who were struggling with cancer and were away for long periods of time. so she is right to say, there appears to be a little gender this termination going on here. as to as to mr. ro khanna, some wear ambitions on their sleeve. i think ro is one of those individuals. there's a group of 40-year-old's in congress right now that are ambitious to the point of wanting to move people along. khanna also supported leon for the senate seat, when senator feinstein ran for reelection some four years ago. there is a history there as well. kristen: that is important context. i am floating it out there, i'm not suggesting anything -- but the senators you named who were men who had prolonged medical absences, was that during a time when perhaps it wasn't so divided? the members were not so close? it was not 51-49, we are if you lose two people for a length of time, everything comes to a screeching halt for your party's agenda, i wonder if that may

senator cassidy? >> i will allow senator romney to go next. >> thank, you senator cassidy. thank you, mister chairman. i am one of those americans who is concerned about the fact that americans tend to pay a lot more for drugs than people in other countries. i have looked for ways to see if we could not have some kind of global recognition of the prices that are available in other countries and limiting our drug prices to those that may be consistent with a basket of other countries that purchase and honor our patents. that being said, i reject the idea, if you will, an ex post facto expert on people saying we provided some money and research, a lot of money in research to moderna and therefore we want to take the ownership of this product that would simply be unfair and contrary to our system of law. i would also note that the u.s. investment in moderna's effort, i would comprise portion that went to research and fast-tracking the vaccine versus actually purchasing that vaccine being manufactured by moderna. the latter was the great bulk of what the united states governmen

senator? >> according to your website, southwest has committed to, quote, reimbursing reasonable expense that occurs as a result of the destruction, including meals, hotel accommodations, and hotel transportation. on the website, the word reimbursement is used repeatedly, yet the calls that i'm getting to them my office say that when folks are receiving these payments, the payments are being labeled as settlements instead of reimbursements. not everybody understands the difference there, but as i'm sure you appreciate, your settlement implies that the customers are agreeing to forfeit their rights for legal remedies. let's not think it's not disclosed on the website when they are applauding their receipts for reimbursement. why is southwest describing these payments and reimbursements on website, might as settlements when the payment is made? that's my first question. my second question is for that commitment, the despite this language change, i would like you to make clear that southwest is n

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senator murkowski from alaska i yield the floor. >> the senator from alaska. >> ith think senator cardin for his leadership on this issue not only in this congress but in the previous congresses when we have attempted to advance this very important measure. what we have in front of us right now is the senate resolution for an amendment to add the equal rights amendment to the constitution. it's pretty simple, mr. president, equality of rights under the law shall noty be denied or abridged by the united states or by any state on account of s sex. it is as simple as that. that's it. that is the first substance of the equal rights amendment where we refer to it as the era. i think most people in this countryt believe that it's already a part of the constitution that it's already a protection under it. justice scalia stated more than a decade ago now he said certainly the constitution doesn't require discrimination on the basis of sex. the only issue is whether it prohibits it. it doesn't. a little bit of history here, first proposed back in 19233 years after ratification of the 19th amendme

senator, thanks so much. >> thanks, maria. senator senator senator ed the because this morning.g up, the made men of the biden administration. secretary of state antony blinken misled the american people about the biden laptop just before election 2020, but in doing so, he was able to secure a top job in the biden administration. former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe says he should resign immediately. the former dni will joining me next -- will join me next live.u ♪ comes to your finances. - are you a certified financial planner™? - i'm a cfp® professional. - cfp® professionals are committed to acting in your best interest. that's why it's gotta be a cfp®. >> it is adam schiff, the chairman of the house intelligence committee, who as you pointed out on friday said that the intelligence community believes that hunter biden's laptop the9 and the e-mails on it are part president of some russian disinformation campaign. let me be clear, the intelligence community doesn't believe that because there's no intelligence that that supports that, and we have shared no int

g >> thank you senator. since we've launched in 2019, we've had over 12 million consumers have additional lines to their credit reports and we do this through a fairly simple process to gain access to their permissions so the consumer option to do this. we look for these trade lines and add them to the credit report and immediately store them. what we found is over half the consumers that have done this it seems see an increase in their credit scores so there has been used beneficial. we've worked with the industry to ensure that its works and that the information is valid so the scoring systems work, we've reworked all the sporting companies so we believe this is a effective way of helping people who have been credit files and ultimately also for people who have no credit history. so very proactive step.wa we did take an further steps more recently with the launch of a product called experian go which is targeted at people who have no credit history they can establish an account with experian for the first

senator fetterman: thank you, senator. we will now move to introduce our witnesses. i'm excited about the panel that we have with us today. i'll introduce them all now. ms. jones cox is vice president of the food assistance policy at the senate for budget and policy priorities. welcome. ms. heather roanldz is the managing director of the lab for economic opportunities at notre dame. welcome. mrs. lori jones john, c.e.o. of filibuns, the largest food bank in new jersey. a great organization from a great state i've heard of as well. >> we certainly agree. senator fetterman: mr. james whitmer, executive director of the gardens in joplin, missouri. sir. i like that look. [laughter] and finally, mrs. hice, the outreach specialist for food link in new york. and mrs. cox, you are now recognized for five minutes. ms. jones cox: thank you for the opportunity to testify. i'm part of a nonpartisan policy institute in washington, d.c. i want to make three key points. snap plays a critical role in reducing hunger and poverty. snap supports and incentivizes workers by making ends

senator markey and senator cantwell, thank. you >> thank. you senator. bud. thank you, chair. mr. noland, welcome. i was listening to a colleague from across the aisle a few minutes ago from colorado. it struck me how much i appreciate to your aviation experience and service to our military. it would just make sense, common sense seems not so common anymore. but it just makes sense that somebody leading the federal aviation administration would actually have aviation experience. so i appreciate the experience that you bring to the table. on the morning that this issue occurred, a pilot in newark airport sums of some of the issues goes beyond this particular outage. atc was talking to an airplane that was, to a pilot to an airplane that was taxing our departure until the pilot about the nationwide ground stop. atc asked the pilot if he had heard anything about the issue before departure. the pilot responded, no. nobody reached no dems. well maybe that is because the notice system is not designed in a user friendly way. the faa's new federal website is a little better. it does not p

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