senator grassley: senator tillis? senator tillis: i'm trying to figure out if i can get these normalized. people accepting the answer that rest suits the narrative. can you explain to me again, one, the number of children who have not been yet reunified with her parents? >> yes, sir. senator tillis: and i want to talk about the reasons why. >> of the children in our care, at the time of the judge's decision who were determined to have been separated or we had indications of separation based on our analysis, 1961 -- excuse me -- 1992 of those as of this day are no longer in care. 559 remain in care. senator tillis: 559 are the number of children who may be able to be reunified with her parents present information you have that have not yet? >> that would include both those who we have not yet reunified, but maybe eligible for reification, such as the remaining miners who might have parents that have been released into the interior or the remaining wants that might have parents who have returned to home country, but it

did that have to happen in order for tilly to go?ife i will never see the end of lots of support, so it is incredible to think i can get something back and i can provide other children, young people, adults with opportunities. listening to you, from that 5 million, more than that, raised, obviously you were very determined. was she like that from an early age? absolutely. tilly has never said, "what a shame, i can't," she has never said, "what a shame, i can't, " she skates, has never said, "what a shame, i can't," she skates, skis, mountaineers, and she has always just said, "how can i do that?" and with the support of countless individuals and organisations tilly has achieved pretty much all i have done. it is so impressive. talk a little bit about your fantastic piece of equipment here, your wheelchair. it has been a life changer. it was provided by children's charity who have been a big part of our lives and it gives me all my independence and has enabled me to do all the things i have done over the past 18 years. it is part of m

thank you very much. >> now we'll have questions for our three presenters, sarah, tim, and tilly. commissioners, questions? commissioner sullivan? >> i have a question for tim, our m.t.a. representative. it's about sf park. sf park is the dynamic pricing intended to always kind of create 10 to 15% open spots on commercial areas. >> correct. >> what's -- has that now been rolled out citywide, and what's the status? >> yeah. that was a pilot. it was initially federally funded, and just this year -- actually maybe last year, it left the pilot phase and has been expanded citywide? i'm happy to send you a link and that the sort of principle behind that is, you know, the curve in our public right-of-way is an important resource, and it's also an important tool for us to use in order to achieve the mobility system that aligns with some of the policies and priorities we have. and pricing is obviously something that the public responds to. so that -- that's sort of the -- the sort of underlying, underpinning of sf park is a dynamic pricing. it doesn't fluctuate a whole lot? i'm not an expe

tillis: final question i have. the alien identifier, it sounds we have a disconnect where some think we separate these children and we are not tried to do our best in the documentation to keep these family units identified in either electronic or paper records. are we not doing -- chief, you said you try to link whoever comes together, or whoever is apprehended together, and it sounded like through the process over to hhs that there is identifying information to find that you did the people who are apprehended initially at the border. did i hear that right? >> yes, sir. when we apprehend somebody, each individual is given an alien registration number. within our system of record, which is e3, our agents go win and identify family members related to those individuals and both the narrative of what is called a form i213 and make reference to those we can go back and look at the alien registration of the specific individual and find out who else is associated with them. that includes members beyond just parental, and

jeff flake, senators thom tillis and mike lee.ee and tillis urged the majority leader to keep the senate in session during august. then they don't show up for the day that was required. joining us ed rollins. rollins serve as white house political director under president ronald reagan. ed: the majority leader doesn't know how to count votes. he those had all the players to stay in line in august and this shows he doesn't have them all in play. he better figure it out. lou:f what is the excuse for a mike lee and tom til his who are about as conservative as most of liberals, they are absolutely misrepresenting themselves. how could they do that? call for the majority lead tore keep the senate in session, then do this. ed: it's one more outrageous thing they do. it's why the country holds them in disdain. the three leaders, pelosi and religion and mcconnell. but mcconnell has gotten more done and held in the lowest esteem according to polls. lou: mitch mcconnell who i have been critical of for not supporting the president has shown

tillis: thank you, mr. president. i ask unanimous consent i may be able to complete my brief remarks. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. tillis: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, before i speak on a topic that i sadly have to come to the floor every week and speak on, i want to offer my heartfelt condolences to the mccain family and to all of his friends and supporters. i had the privilege of serving on the senate armed services committee with senator mccain for three years. i learned a lot from him and he has done a wonderful job of standing up for men and women in uniform and standing up for veterans in his entire time in congress. i also wanted to share this one story. i had a reporter ask me yesterday, you know, what kind of experiences have you had with him that were most memorable. and it was a day that i spent with him in north carolina back in 2014. you really judge, i think, a politician by how they behave when they're not in front of the camera or they're not here at the desk of one of the

tillis: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from north carolina. mr. tillis: thank you mr. president. mr. president, i come back again -- the presiding officer: the senate is in a quorum call. mr. tillis: i ask the -- unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. tillis:i come back again for the part of several weeks and for every week that i have to to draw attention to what i think is a great injustice and it's about this man andrew brunson. pastor brunson has been in prison in turkey since october of 2016. he's actually lived in turkey for more than 20 years. he's a presbyterian minister that's associated with the same church as reverend billy graham in western north carolina. he's been in turkey doing missionary work and really connected with the turkish people and he's not forcing the word on anybody. he's simply sharing it with those who want to hear it. he has a small church in izmir that only seats about 100 people and that

as senators cruz, tillis and is i wrote in an op-ed on sunday, neither of those options is good choices. that's why we believe the best way to insure this crisis never happens again is to repeal flores agreement but only as it relates to the time limitations governing accompanied undocumented immigrant children. some of my colleagues will claim that we would end all protections for minor children and just allow the government to detown families indefinitely. so that's not a true interpretation. in fact, nothing could be further from the truth. no one on our side of the aisle wants to end the humane standards of care required by flores. if anything, given recent news reports, we are more than willing to statutorily enhance those protections. we also want to see families kept in federal custody -- we don't want to see families kept in federal custody indefinitely. as director d mchenly is going to -- mchenry is going to testify, when families are placed on the docket, their cases are usually resolved in 40 days. in contrast, when families are released into the spear you, they'reic given a

venezuela we speak to founder and chairman of the mexican chamber of commerce of great britain even to tilly about what president elect andres manuel lopez obrador means for the world plus is brics it no surprise given the e.u. policy on the jailing of democratically elected politicians on the day new spanish pm petter sanchez meets his catalonian counterpart we get the take of a spanish m.e.p. on the european parliament's committee on foreign affairs jordi so that all this of all coming up in today's going underground but first on this day in one nine hundred sixty two singer bob dylan recorded the song that would make him a star blowin in the wind he introduced it by saying it was no protest song later though he said that the greatest protest song ever written was by someone we speak to today we caught up with the grammy award winning artist. and film star known for you can get it if you really want harvey they come many rivers to cross i can see clearly now and countless others jimmy cliff speaks to us at a hotel in west london jimmy you're touring across europe across the world the big t

no stranger to processing thousands who survived the dangerous journey across the mediterranean, tilly'sned to ta ke new government are determined to take a stand on illegal migration and are using this as an example —— italy's. on italian tv, the country's deputy prime minister said nobody would be allowed to come to shore unto other european states promised to take them in. he threatened withholding billions of dollars worth of eu contributions until they do. at an emergency meeting in brussels, the european union responded to those demands. translation: in europe, threats are useless and don't get you anywhere. the only way to solve a problem in europe is too worked together in a constructive manner and in goodwill. this is what the commission has been trying to facilitate for a long time. for those on board, this is just the latest hurdle in a perilous journey from north africa. almost all come from eritrea, a country with one of the world's worst human rights records. when they first arrived, many told authorities that they had suffered months of this treatment and detention in liby

structure crumbled it was a major highway connecting different cities and towns in the northern part of a tilly and the tragedy happened a little bit before noon the z. morning hours and tuesday of course it is a very popular mall to weigh at firefighter who's among those many around two hundred emergency staff working on the ground. says that they were at least twenty cars on the bridge when it collapsed helicopters and ambulances are seen on the ground police and rescue workers are also there they are trying to find more survivors the bridge was built in one thousand nine hundred sixty s. and we hear that it was undergoing maintenance at the time when the incident occurred we also hear that people in eataly massively contact emergency services all frayne help particularly to didn't blog so truly tragic moment for the whole country and we see this feeling of solidarity and of course sadness. yeah thank you very much for the op that are to use maria. police in britain have confirmed they are treating a car crash outside parliament as a terror attack the vehicle crashed into security barriers af

he had a breakfast last week, and senator john cornyn, th thom tillis.hey all urged him to stay on the job. >> they didn't even need to tell him that. this is the dream job. jeff sessions wanted to be an attorney general forever. the damages that sessions has been pushing quite effectively. it didn't work out the way they wanted, but he has been a very effective policy person. i think donald trump may be hesitating to fire him. even beyond the russia situation, it would be really tough to get anyone confirmed into attorney general. the democrats are going to use -- they would use that confirmation process to litigate all sorts of other policy things. so the travel ban, the family separation, what is going on at the border, and not to mention other hot button legal and flash point issues. it is wrapped up in a lot of stuff that goes beyond. >> thank you for being with us. >>> he pulled off a giant upset in florida that could lead to a democratic governor of the sunshine state. and get low prices on school supplies all summer long. like this case of paper

tillys up 50%. five below up 41%. conn's, francesca's, tiffany and american eagle up about 20%.se stocks have made investors more money than many of the big cap technology stocks that we talk about so much here's the question, will that retail rally continue as more companies start to report their numbers? let's bring in dana telsey from telsey advisory group. i guess, dana, macy's stock. yesterday it was a horrible day for macy's stock it is still a stock that's nearly doubled over the past year should we worry that macy's was the canary in the retail coal mine >> i think macy's had its own unique situation the numbers reported for the quarter were solid the comparisons in the third and fourth quarter become more difficult. the key will be for all of these retail stocks we need to see the continuation of good sales as we get to the fourth quarter. we are going into a solid back to school season now it feels better. there's trends that consumers are buying, particularly in apparel. i don't think the weakness in macy's that you had could be exposed to the whole group >> you know,

journal and nbc news report that five republican senators, john cornyn, senator john kennedy, tom tillis, ben sath had breakfast with sessions to urge him not to quit. that day sessions released a statement saying, quote, the actions of the department of justice will not be improperly influenced by political consideration. meanwhile, other senate republicans who once warned trump against firing sessions are now openly signalling that there may no longer be opposition to such a move. >> we need an attorney general that can work with the president, that can lead the department of justice. this relationship is beyond repair, i think. it's a pretty deep breach, and here's what i'm suggesting, that he's not the only man in the country that can be attorney general. the president has lost confidence in jeff sessions. >> senator graham also added this caution. >> we won't have a real attorney general unless they're highly qualified and will do their job. that's the deal. >> mueller's team is now getting ready for the second trial of paul manafort who was convicted of tax fraud last week. the sec

jeff sessions to remain on the job through the november elections where jon cornyn of texas, tom tillis of north carolina, jerry -- if donald trump does replace jeff sessions his new attorney general would immediately be able to control robert mueller's investigation and possibly much more importantly the new attorney general would be able to decide what would happen to robert mueller's written report when his investigation is complete. the attorney general could immediately send that report to congress as evidence supporting the impeachment of the president or the new attorney general could lock that report in a justice department safe and never allow one word of it to become public. leading off our discussion now matt miller, former spokesperson for the attorney general eric holder and msnbc contributor. david frum, senior editor for "the atlantic" and author of "trumpocracy." and maya wiry, former counselor to the mayor of new york city. also an msnbc legal analyst. even the encouragers of jeff sessions are simply saying hang on until after the election. >> i don't think there's any

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. >> senator tillis. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you all for being here and the good work you are doing. mr. ford, this may be in your lane but i think one of the things that would be helpful to the committee, that can either be provided in a classified setting or ideally in the open setting so that we can cut through some of the stuff that we heard today. tramlines. i'm trim lines, exxon was mentioned here. interestingly enough, i think that it started in the 2013/14 timeframe. probably months before crimea was invaded. and yet for the entire period of time under the priority ministration, there was not enough action to make exxon take pause as to whether or not it made sense to do that. this administration has. i think of look at some of the economic fundamentals movement in the gdp, the sorts of foreign direct engagement, those are going to be very helpful for us to have and kind of map that to actions that you all have taken. you may not be able to drive direct causation but i think that would be helpful to show and i thin

>> well, on your point it's not going anywhere, back when we introduced it, senator tillis, senator graham, myself, senator booker, we introduced bills to protect the special counsel by making it harder for president to fire him by giving him a remedy to go to a three-judge panel and be reinstated if that was an improper hearing, we were told we'd never get a hearing. then we got a hearing. we were told we'd never get a markup. we got a markup. we were told we'd never get it out of committee. our bill got out of committee and is now on the floor. i'm convinced if majority leader mcconnell would give us a vote, it would pass by a veto-proof majority. so i just -- i am more optimistic about the relevance and value of that bill perhaps than others. >> senator chris coons, thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you, john. >> so it's times like these you find yourself asking why don't we have a former white house counsel who served during a major scandal to talk to? well, luckily tonight we do. former nixon white house counsel john dean, he joins us, along with david gergen who also serv

the good parts of florida want to see was there a possibility to cross the great around tilly's i'd also the west. this is al jazeera. hello i'm so robin you're watching the out of their news our lives my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes the u.n. calls a full meal miles top generals to be investigated and prosecuted for genocide. a new u.s. mexico trade deal donald trump says it replaces nafta id hopes canada will join. meanwhile the trumpet ministration bows to going criticism that it hasn't done enough to honor the late senator john mccain. and france's president says it's time for europe to stop depending on america for its security. welcome to the news our united nations investigators say mere miles top military general should be investigated and prosecuted for genocide the recommendation is included in a fact finding mission report it concludes at least ten thousand people were killed after the military launched a crackdown on rohingya muslims in august last year hundreds of thousands fled across the border into neighboring bangladesh from june reports.

hello welcome to the program i'm richelle carey saudi arabia has reportedly delayed its plans tillis shares have been state owned oil company ram co on the stock market media reports say the initial public offering has been postponed indefinitely but the saudi government has disputed this the energy minister collett off ali says the government is committed to conducting the i.p.o. at the appropriate circumstances and time the plan to float around five percent of aramco was expected to be the world's largest stock sale and it lies at the heart of crown prince mohamad instalments vision to transform the economy of the government is faced widespread criticism for its crackdown on dissent and its military campaign and yemen so why is aramco important that was set up more than eighty five years ago and his sense become the largest oil and gas company in the world and manages the kingdom's large oil reserves of over three hundred billion barrels its average daily crude production is ten point two million barrels a day but there's no clear data on how much the company is worth some analysts

joining us now north carolina senator thom tillis from the armed services committee.ere? >> agree completely and appreciate his work and the work of the president to make this a top priority in terms of the relationship between the united states and turkey. >> jon: turkey has been moving more and more in a religious direction. their secular presidency seems to have sort of gone away under president erdogan, a mistake on their part? >> i think it is. if you take a look at that move which is largely against the wishes of a good number of turkish people and you add to that some of the decisions they've made economically, i think those are the key factors driving the economic problems they're having today. >> jon: the president is continuing to put the squeeze on turkey through some of these sanctions. is there more that should be done or do you think that they should be given time to take hold and see what happens with regard to pastor brunson? >> i think that first off we need to keep in mind that pastor brunson is the one who we focused on. there are others we also nee

i want to acknowledge the valuable leadership of senators shaheen and tillis. turkey is an important nato ally and it is multifaceted. however turkey's announcement of the intent to buy the russian air defense system threatens the integrity of the nato alliance and would have a negative impact on the alliance between the u.s. and turkey. also the unlawful detention of pastor brunson has raised serious concerns about its commitment of the shared values of the nato alliance and the rule of law. the ndaa calls for the secretary of defense in consultation with the secretary of state to report on the u.s.-turkey relationship including turkey's purchase of the system. should turkey proceed with the s-400 purchase, what the impact would be in turkey's f-35 aircraft program. the assessment must include the steps required to of such a change on the united states and other international programs. the provision also pro be hibts the department of defense from delivering -- delivering any f-35 aircraft to turkey until the report is submitted to the appropriate committeies.

tillis: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i come to the floor, as i have -- the presiding officer: we're in a quorum call. mr. tillis: i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. tillis: thank you. i thank you again, mr. president. i've come to the floor again as i have in the past few months to talk about a matter that should be toern -- that should be important to anybody who travels overseas. i'm talking about a presbyterian minister from north carolina who has been in turkey for the better part of two years -- he's been in turkey for the better part of 20 years, and he was a missionary that entire time. he created a church in ishmir and has lived there peacefully and lawfully for two decades. in october of 2016, after the coup attempt, an illegal coup attempt and the people responsible for it should actually have to answer to the turkish justice system, swept pastor brunson and thousands of other people into the turkish justice system and he's been in

he will say continue deliberations on tilly -- until you can really each -- until you can reach a deliberationyou have exhausted your efforts. they could be instructed to go back and continue with the notion that there are several convictions or quintals, that is a defining moment in the proceedings. scarlet: let me jump in. we have clarification that paul manafort faced 18 counts. it seems like there was a partial verdict because the jury has reached a verdict overall. joe: jeffrey, we do not know which way these verdicts on the eight counts are going, but i'm curious from the perspective of a prosecutor, this is very politically charged stuff and we live in a time where people of different political persuasions can frequently agree on a common amount of facts. how difficult is it to prosecute a case like this when so much of this could be so polarizing? >> that is a fair point. you try to divorce yourself from the politics and atmosphere. that usually does happen. once you get into evidence, the jury is looking at it. who they voted for and what their political beliefs might be our kind of r

i have been working with senator cruz, tillis and senator durbin on a narrow bill that prohibits the separation of children from their families, requires an ongoing reporting by the administration -- excuse me, and public reporting about what has occurred. the bill would also provide additional judges, lawyers and resources to ensure that these families are treated humanely and not left ignored and facilities without proper sanitary conditions, food, water, cots and blankets to sleep on. the bill is straightforward and limited to address the current crisis. i am hopeful that we are close to an agreement and that the bill could enjoy broad bipartisan support. mr. chairman, thank you for holding this hearing. hei hope the administration officials are ready today to give us the official figures on reunified children and how it plans to ensure that no further infringements occur on the constitutional rights of the parent and the child to be together. i look forward to hearing and to the witnesses and working with my colleagues to get legislation enacted quickly. thank you very much. >> t

tillie fowler. she was a dear in mentoring. jennifer dunn was a very good mentor to so many people. they would sit down and talk to us about the history of things. how you got things done. as well as just personally being friends. that was important. barbara vucanovich was another one who was very good about reaching out and helping all of us in various ways. they would always offer to help campaign if you needed to do that, whatever, it was more the day-to-day. you could go to them if you had a question about -- how can i work this bill through? whatever it may be. and they could tell you from experience what they had done, which almost always was very helpful. there was a lot of that back then. today, i don't know. before i left, it didn't really seem the same because they say it was hard just getting the women together. everybody is so busy, though. i don't know if you even notice that, but it just seems like life is a lot more hectic and busy than it used to be. technology was supposed to change that, but i guess it made it worse. [laughter] >> we had heard that you are a part o

. >> senator tillis. thank you all for being here and the good work you're doing. miss mandelker-- or actually, mr. ford, this may be in your-- and one they think provided to the committee in a classified setting-- or in an open setting, are trim lines. i'm very curious to see what is the -- let's say activities with foreign direct investment into russia, you know, if you applied it back over some period of time. if you take a look at exxon. exxon was mentioned here. interestingly enough, i think that started in the 2013-14 time frame, probably months before crimea was invaded and yet for that entire period of time under the prior administration there wasn't enough action to make exxon take pause as to whether or not it made sense to do that. this administration has. so if we look at some of the economic fundamentals, movement in their jdp, the sorts of foreign direct engagement, those are going to be very helpful for us to have and kind of map that to actions that you all have taken. you may not be able to drive direct causation, but i think helpful to show and i

, you know, i'm just going to say that i want to, and we can look at all the metrics that senator tillis was talking about and gdp and all that, but let's look at a micro level. because i've been watching your work regarding rusaw. it seems pretty schizophrenic. it seems not only on your side but on the terror of side, where all of a sudden out of nowhere, they are granted a waiver. the it becomes public, waiver is withdrawn from their tariffs. how does it benefit if we say we're going to give you extensions so you can get rid of the oligarch and you can continue to function? that sounds schizophrenic to me. >> i can't comment on the terror situation. we were clear when we investigated his companies, we were designating those companies because they were 50% or more owner controlled by mr. garipaska. the same was true of the other oligarchs we investigated. >> but you let him take his money out of the company before you then said we'll lift the sanctions? >> we haven't lifted any sanctions on rusaw. at the same time we lifted those designations, we appreciated that those designations can

i know, tom tillis is a friend of mine as well. it's like-minded countries coming together in the face of shared threats. >> based on that description, it's something that would be interested, but we haven't formed a position on that. we're just hearing that. >> mr. chairman, you just asked it. it surprises me we don't have that. what's the closest that we have to such an agreement? >> nato does work together and has center of excellence and they do address this issue. now, the issue becomes at what part do you actually reach invoking article 5 and whether that needs to be somehow adjusted in the context of cyber activity. i would say that in 2007 when i was secretary, we did would, with astona when there was a service attack. i don't think it's a big threat, but formalizing what has been operating for a while. >> and it may be updating nato's game on this. cyber is one of the key concepts of nato and that was now back seven, eight years ago and the last few communiques of nato, cyber has played a key role. there's defending nato c

thom tillis, senator from north carolina has been the leading guy on this issue.stor brunson. he has spoken to ambassador bolton. think we're making progress. the administration sanctions of turkish officials have been positive. the lira is down 40%. a lot of pressure on the economy in turkey. frankly i think we're heading in the right direction. we'll have to be very patient to see this thing run its course. secretary pompeo has done a good job of speaking clearly and with great authority to the folks in turkey. ♪ attention homeowners age sixty-two and older. one reverse mortgage has a great way for you to live a better retirement... it's called a reverse mortgage. call right now to receive your free information kit with no obligation. it answers questions like... how a reverse mortgage works, how much you qualify for, the ways to receive your money and more. plus, when you call now, you'll get this magnifier with led light absolutely free! when you call the experts at one reverse mortgage today you'll learn the benefits of a government-insured reverse mortgage.

as you know well, i worked hard with senator tillis, senator graham, senator booker, the four of us toegislation that would protect special counsel mueller and his investigation from interference by the president. i'm grateful for the partnership that those senators have shown in making sure that this special counsel and future special counsels are more strongly protected from presidential interference. i am concerned about the number of statements made by my colleagues yesterday that suggest they would be okay with attorney general jeff sessions being replaced. eugene robinson earlier in your show made the point correctly part of what's going on here is saying to the president look we can deal with this after the election. the reality is it would be very hard for the trump administration to confirm someone who is so closely shares their agenda which i strongly oppose on a range much issues, like voting rights, like immigration. jeff sessions as attorney general is blocking criminal justice bipartisan criminal justice reform. he has an agenda on a range of things that puts him at the f

senator thom tillis from north carolina.i worked with jeff sessions for two years and he is one of the most decent and honorable people i know. he has led the doj with integrity and is committed to defending the rule of law without a little bias or partiality." "it seemshris murphy, to be two storylines emerging, trump getting more serious about firing sessions and mueller and turning the doj into the law enforcement arm for his political grudges and congressional republicans getting more serious about letting him get away with it." and more from jackie spear of california saying "the president doesn't get it, the attorney general works for the american people, he is not the president's attorney. the ag's allegiance and authority -- loyalty is to the constitution. i never thought i would be defending jeff sessions, but i am." we will show you more reactions from members of congress as this issue has emerged in the spotlight. should jeff sessions remain attorney general? it is 202-748-8001 if you are a republican. democrats,

but let moo he just mention the labor-h.h.s., education staff, mike general tillie, jeff reisic, ashley palmer, courtney bradford, our staff director, all of those are on our side of the aisle. senator murray's staff, obviously, critically important part of this as well. mark leash, kelly brown, terri curtain. this bill would not be here today in theton it's in or would not have been able to respond to all of the suggestions this week without both of these staffs working to make it happen. and i would yield back. the presiding officer: under the previous order, amendment number 3699 is withdrawn. amendment 3695, as amended, is agreed to. the cloture motion with respect to h.r. 6157 is withdrawn. and the clerk will read the title of the bill for the third time. the clerk: calendar number 500, h.r. 6157, an act making appropriations for the department of defense and so forth and for other purposes. the presiding officer: the question now occurs on passage of the bill as amended. a senator: i ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there is. the cler