but as i mentioned, tom tillis is drafting a bill that will be more straightforward. it will still be criticized. this is a political town, people will say things even if they aren't true, but that will reassure folks that those with pre-existing conditions can still have protection. caroline: it is notable at this time that you are working in a bipartisan nature. senator cassidy, you're putting forward a family leave proposal. can you talk us through that and how you think this is something that can better the world not only for businesses, but those working for them as well? sen. cassidy: our goal is that new parents would have the opportunity to stay at home with their child for a period of time. both parents, obviously usually the woman is focused on. the way we do this is first by recognizing that you have to be fiscally sound. earn $70,000 aou year, you have paid parental leave, even if it is by another name. so first it is for those earning less than $70,000 per year. second, you can recognize it doesn't have to be six months. as muchs is maybe not as some woul

it usually does sure there is no coordinated neural activity but they wouldn't do it on their aunt tillie with a and i'm also reminded of the fact that there's a lot of research now growing research that you know newman's when humans are considered clinically dead and are then revived that there is some evidence for consciousness so we really don't know what's going on here and i this is very dangerous territory there isn't a lot that it actually involves me possible that would be my personal judgment or that in this area it is about judgment calls and so clearly if you're starting to move into this area you do what we always do in science where you say this is a new area let's get together globally let's sit down let's say what's acceptable what's not here's the problem from my point of view. that whenever humans think about this. there are very few ways in which the research subjects the animals the pigs in this case have been standing in their share and generally what we do in science is you know which we do what's convenient we do what's good for us and we we try to get all the rest o

tillis, senator from washington, mrs. murray, the senator from -- senator klobuchar, baldwin, the enator from wyoming, mr. reed, the senator from new hampshire, mrs. she houston. the speaker: of the members of the escort committee will exit the chamber through the lobby doors. >> madam speaker, the act acting dean of the diplomatic corps. >> madam speaker, the president's cabinet. the sergeant at arms: madam speaker, the secretary-general north atlantic treaty organization. spoibs members -- the speaker: members of congress, i have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you his excellency jens stoltenberg, the secretary-general of the north atlantic treaty organization. secretary-general stoltenberg: madam speaker, mr. vice president, honorable members of the united states congress, ladies and gentlemen, i am really truly honored and grateful for the privilege of addressing you all today and to represent the 29 members of the nato alliance. 70 years ago tomorrow, nato's founding treaty was signed in this g

you'll lose a tillis team is now collecting flowers.if butterflies live here caterpillars will soon emerge the larvae spin the winners in ants nests and only leave them after pea patient is complete. you also said le has spent the last twenty years looking for the large blues. some areas are no longer used for agriculture but the butterflies have still disappeared. it's obvious that leaving areas to regenerate themselves won't preserve insect diversity on its own. as for these typical species see leaving meadows found is the same as using them. it's utilization system so sooner or later it has to be utilized it needs mowing and if a mowing and foresting stops and at some point the species will just disappear. zeta low is chairman of the world biodiversity council he has initiated a range of studies aimed at drawing attention to the consequences of the worldwide insect mortality he thinks humans must realise how important insects are. we have calculated that pollinators create value worth one hundred fifty billion euros at world market p

, so -- that have been involved in bringing the project to fruition, and at this time, i would ask tilly chang from the transportation authority who's been a major partner to say a few words. [applause] >> thank you so much, mohamed, mayor breed, and honored guests. i'm so delighted to be here on behalf of the transportation authority to congratulation the sfmta and our partner agencies on this very happy day, and the entire community, really, for this collaborative effort. as mayor breed mentioned, this has been a long time coming, and recognizing that the plans began well over 30 years ago as well as the vision for this area. this muni vision was expressed as early as the 2001 plan, carried forward in 2003, and then carried forward by voters in the prop k expenditure plan. because we all recognize to bring the community back together and heal the division that had been created through the earlier development of the division section, but also improve the ridability for the 50,000 riders who use this essential corridor every day. so i just wanted to recognize all the hard work on this pr

senator tillis. >> thank you, mr. chair. gentlemen, welcome. secretary wilkie, it's great to see you. first up, i want to thank you all for in your budget request funds to expand down in jacksonville. how do you see that -- well, first off, for people who would suggest there's a trend in the va or members of congress to privatize, it seems like budget requests for the expansion of the opening of a million square feet in three different health care centers in north carolina with a different model seems to suggest you believe the brick and mortar va presence is a very, very important part of the future. i'd like for you to maybe touch on that, but tell me how that expansion in jacksonville, in combination with the pack teams are going to improve care there. and how do you leverage the pack model for veterans across the country? >> senator, let me talk about business processes that have led us to that stage. as i mentioned earlier, we are in the process of doing market assessments across the country to lead into the asset infrastructure review com

during the 2014 election, senator tom tillis of north carolina, senator tom cotton, republican senator from colorado, tom gardner, one of the biggest recipients of support. in the 2016 election, ron johnson and president trump. in the 2018 election, current auditor mark rosendale when he ran to unseat the democratic senator jon tester. he lost the election, and senator from missouri, josh hawley, who did win. we've reached out to the nra for a statement, but a spokesperson sent a statement saying, quote, we scrupulously follow the law. this latest effort by giffords and the campaign legal center is a frivolous complaint. joining me now is a person who helped suspend these violation issues, brendan fisher, at the campaign legal center. brendan, thank you for joining us. what's the basis of the lawsuit? >> well, you did a very good job explaining it. first of all, a central element of campaign finance law is independence. citizens united said that a non-profit corporation like the nra can make unlimited expenditures in support of candidates like donald trump as long as that spending is i

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that the mueller report should not have been authorized in the first place and was written as nast tilly as possible by 13 angry democrats who were true trump haters including highly conflicted bob mueller itself, the end result is know collusion, no obstruction. it is important to point out the report does not exonerate president trump. our boris sanchez is traveling with president trump in florida and has this report. >> reporter: the chairman of the house judiciary committee jerry nadler filing a subpoena demanding to see the full unredacted mueller report. democrats are demanding to see all the underlying evidence including information that was redacted because it includes sensitive grand jury information. nadler set a deadline of may 1st but it does not appear the department of justice is ready to comply with his request. they put out a statement in part calling his request unnecessary. here's the full statement. they write, quote, in the interest of transparency, the attorney general released the special counsel's confidential report with only minimal redactions. the department of

. >> chad: the only other muslim female, rashida tilly rushed to l on omar's defense.e words out of context because we we speak truth to power. being a refugee herself, she sees what terrorism can do and what violence can do to a whole country, to a whole people. taking it out of context, this is just pure racist act by many of those. >> congresswoman ilhan omar say g.o.p. dan crenshaw went too far, especially since the feds just arrested a new york man who wanted to kill her. crenshaw said never incited violence against omar. shannon. >> shannon: chad pergram and on the hill, thank you very much congressman ill omar she has made many comments many deemed anti-semitic. back in 2017 she tweeted this america founded by, saying we maintain power through neocolonialism. that was pre-election. let's bring in julian, house judiciary committee and contributor guy benson to debate or discuss we will see how it goes, gentlemen, chad talked about the initial tweet by dan crenshaw and a republican freshman as well, saying this is unbelievable, so we tweeting his twee and another,

she was best known for playing tillie masterson in the 1964 james bond film, goldfinger.nnounced on the official 007 twitter account. she was the cousin of academy award-winning actress helen mirren. she was 77. authorities releasing surveillance video of when a student got into the car she mistakenly felt was rupert. police say that her body was found miles away off a dirt road and that her blood was inside the suspect's vehicle. that suspect is now in custody. reporting from atlanta. jonathan? >> harris, police are still investigating the motive but they believe a simple mistake is what led to the opportunity that this killer took. take a look at the security camera video, it shows samantha josephson alone in downtown columbia where she was waiting for an uber driver. instead of getting into an uber car she got into this vehicle. investigators say the child's car safety locks were engaged so she couldn't get out. >> we don't have a statement of it any evidence, we believe she simply mystically got to this particular car thinking was an override. >> police stay a group o

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senator tillis was talking about restructuring. this is a fundamental shift that now treats base as a domain. so the culture has changed because the mission has changed. the leadership will change. the prirptization of the resource will change. and then our approach to developing capability will change. >> i got you. secretary wilson, you said you didn't think the space development agency a good use of resource. can you elaborate on why you think our money and effort is better invested in processes and organizations that already exist which is the point i'm trying to make? >> the space development agency is not part of the president's proposal or the legislation in front of you. and the first project that this agency is apparently going to take on is actually funned by the air force -- funded in by the air force and in our budget. 's in our budget at $140 million and in five years. >> it's part of your belly wick. >> that is. and we proposed to do it with dampa. the question is how best to -- darpa and the question is how best to g

. >> thank you, senator tillis. >> thank you all for being here.ant to talk more about organizational transition. i think the president was right to make it a target of what we want to achieve. secretary shanahan, or secretary wilson, part of what i'm trying to do is when you stand up the force, part of what you're doing is realigning current operations, and into a more cohe receive unit, so if you're looking at the end state of a space force, have you tried to see how much of that is more realigning commands. if i'm building a new enterprise, how much of the current enterprise is the net new and what is the underlying cost associated with that. in reality you're not going to get a lot more money. you will have to create a force, current spending run rates for the most part, and so i'm trying to figure out, as they rightly suggest, that there is a capability he needs by the mid 20s, what shifts to the right after we have quantified that net incremental cost for the structure of a separate force. >> we have been looking at how quickly can we respond

tillis: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i want to speak briefly about an historic day. april 4, it was the day that the nato alliance, the agreement in washington was signed to create the nato alliance after the second world war. i want to start it by saying or by repeating what president truman said on that day. we hope to create a shield against aggression and a fear of aggression. a bulwark which will permit us to get on with the real business of government and society. the business of achieving a fuller and happier life for all of our citizens. that agreement was signed on april 4, 1949, and since then the 70 years that have followed the alliance has gotten stronger. the alliance has grown. in fact, there's a number of countries that hope someday to also be a member of the nato alliance. it's been an important and what i believe the most important alliance in the history of mankind. this week is nato week, and yesterday we had the secretary general speak to us before a joint session of congress, and the secretary general was very actually optimistic about the future

senator tillis? >> thank you all for being here. i want to talk more about organizational transition. i think the president was right to make this a target that we need to achieve. so, to me, it's not a matter of whether we should do it. it's how we should do it, and when we should do it. secretary shanahan, or secretary wilson, part of what i'm trying to do is when you stand up the force, part of what you're doing is realigning current operations into a more cohesive unit. so if you're looking at the end state of a space force, have you done the analysis to determine how much of that is just realigning existing commands, training doctrine center? in other words, if i'm building a new enterprise, how much of the current enterprise is simply being realigned and then what is the net new? what i'm specifically talking about is the underlying cost associated with that. in reality you're not going to get a lot more money. you will have to create a force, current spending run rates for the most part, and so i'm trying to figure out -- and

senator tillis, is he going to face a prime err in 2020? he's some clashes with -- primary in 2020? he's had some clashes with president trump. mr. meadows: i can tell you that there is zero chance that i'm going primary. bob: could you support a primary challenge? mr. meadows: it's not up to me. it's up to the people of north carolina. do i think he will have a primary? i do. i think it's up to the people of north carolina whether it's serious or not. but i do think he will have a legitimate primary opponent. whether that actually happens, you know, certainly we would have to know soon. but i can tell you with 100% confidence it is not me. bob: reare you citing anyone to run against -- -- are you recruiting anyone to runs against -- mr. meadows:, no i'm not. bob: even informally? mr. meadows: no. don't try to make news in that way. he's obviously our sitting senator and i fully expect that -- bob: do you fully support him? mr. meadows: i fully expect he will be our senator after 2020. bob: you think he's going to win re-election but you're not endorsing him? mr. meadows: i don't kn

tom tillis-on-in north carolina, maine.a universe where you could get some bipartisan agreement on for example a dreamers for a wall deal, for something that recognizes the situation on our southern border is very different than it was ten years ago. we're not talking about single men looking for economic opportunity. we're talking about families coming up in general fear for their lives, given the chaos in our countries. there may be changes in asylum that make sense. there may be alocations adjusted, right now given the way he has enflamed this issue to the points democrats tend to not admit there is a crisis for fear to give credit to president trump. i don't see a way we can get real support on this issue. >> there are calls to relieve the pressure on the border. they required camps or judges toed a judd indicate these digs i situatio -- situation. it was sparking the migration in the first place. those are the types of policies, while they may seem sensible to a vast majority of people will not fly with the anne coulte

among the toughest races for republican held states are for cory gardner, martha mcsally, thom tillisand david purdue in georgia. those races are ones to watch over the next year or so. atchell in tennessee, democrat. good morning to you. go ahead. caller: good morning, greta. chattanooga. i finally got in to you. it has been a while. i try to keep up with you every now and then. host: what grade would you give house democrats? caller: i would have to give them a b, may be a b+. they are moving pretty quickly to be 100 days in. i have not seen the democratic party move that fast. this is really the second time actually watching. what gets me, what i wanted to call about was i don't want to be a racist or anything, but people call up and say this about the black people -- you don't know nothing about the black people, you are an individual calling from another state. this woman talking about black people leaving illinois because illinois is so corrupt. leaving illinois and go where? people leaving the democratic party. i have a problem with the republican party. i think the republican

senator tillis and i are the cochairs of the newly established senate nato observer group which builds on the effort that was started back in the 199 0's by tomorrow daschle and trent lott to address the expansion of nato following the fall of the berlin wall. our task is to not just shepherd through the senate any changes in nato that require senate approval, but it's also to remind all of us and to remind the american public just how important nato is. over the last seven decades the nato alliance stood by its members in the darkest hours including in afghanistan after the united states was attacked on september 11. and as secretary general stoltenberg reminded us yesterday the only time article 5, the mutual aid clause of the nato charter has been invoked was after september 11, after the united states was attacked by terrorists. our trans-atlantic bond has been critical to the united states and nato, and in particular it has sustained a period of unprecedented global security and stability. and while people may not recognize it, every day the united states sees the benefits of nato

tillis: madam president. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the motion. the clerk: we in accordance of raoul 22 hereby move to bring to an end debate on the nomination of calabria, to be the director of the federal housing finance agency, signed by 17 senators. the presiding officer: the question is is it the sense of f the senate of the nomination of mark anthony calabria of virginia to be director of the federal housing finance agency shall be brought to a close. the yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: vote: the presiding officer: are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote? seeing none, the yeas are 53, the nays are 46. the motion is agreed to. the senator from tennessee. mr. alexander: thank you, madam president. this morning i received a letter from the united states ambassador to china, terry branstad. he said this. quote, i'm delighted to inform you that china's ministry of public security announced china will make all forms of fentanyl -- thank you, madam president. l

we are not moving to a system of divorce on demand, what we see in cases like tilly 0wens last year,ou have to stay in that marriage? fundamentally it can be. it takes two people to stay ina can be. it takes two people to stay in a marriage and stay happy so i absolutely support saving civil marriages, that has got to be any policy that the government looked at, but equally where a decision has been made that a marriage has broken down irretrievably, a couple should be able to exit in a dignified way and if only one of them feels that the marriage has broken down, they should still be able to do that and there will be protections around ensuring that they are not exiting without finance is being looked at, etc, but fundamentally that couple, that individual should be entitled to their decree of divorce. picking up to their decree of divorce. picking up on the point simon made, he is correct me if i'm wrong, you're saying that in some instances because this process will be contracted if you like, much faster, there will not be the opportunity and time perhaps for a couple may be to sa