udall: no plan. a senator: mr. president? mr. van hollen: how am i recorded? the presiding officer: the senator is not recorded. mr. van hollen: because it is wrong to repeal and run, i vote no. the presiding officer: the senator will suspend. debate is not in order. a senator: madam clerk, how am i recorded? the presiding officer: the senator is not recorded. mr. markey: i vote no for the millions who will lose opioid coverage. the presiding officer: debate is not allowed. the senator will suspend debate. mr. bennet: how am i recorded? the presiding officer: the senator is not recorded. mr. bennet: thank you, mr. president. i would vote no on behalf of the children of colorado. the presiding officer: the gentleman from colorado will suspend. ms. heitkamp: mr. president, how am i recorded? the presiding officer: the senator is not recorded. ms. heitkamp: on behalf of the thousands of people who receive health care in my state in rural hospitals -- the presiding officer: debate is not allowed. ms. heitkamp: who know not how they will get health care if this pas

udall, no. >> mr. president. >> how my recorded. >> the senator is not recorded. >> because it is wrong to repeal, i vote no. >> mr. van hollen, no. >> madam clerk, how my recorded. >> mr. markey. >> the senator is not recorded. >> madam clerk, i wish to be recorded no for the millions whd will lose opioid coverage. >> mr. markey, no. recor >> mr. bennett. >> how my recorded. >> senator is not recorded. >> thank you mr. president, i vote no on behalf of of the children -- >> the gentleman from colorado will suspend. >> mis- camp. >> how my recorded. >> senator is not recorded. >> on behalf of the thousands. w >> debate is not allowed. >> who know not how they will get healthcare without a replacement, i vote no. >> mis- camp, no. >> mr. president. >> mr. parker. >> how my recorded. >> senator is not recorded. >> on behalf of each of these in delaware. >> debate is not allowed.fiebate >> mr. parker, no mr. menendez.t >> the senator is not recorded. >> senator is not recorded. >> mr. menendez, no. >> mr.

udall? >> how am i recorded? >> the senator is not recorded. >> i vote no because this will hurt -- the senate will be in order. >> republicans have no plan. a >> the senate will be in order. >> mr. udall, no. >> mr. president? >> mr. van hollen. >> how am i recorded? >> the senator is not recorded. >> because it is wrong to reveag and run, i vote no. >> mr. van hollen, no. >> madam clerk, how am i recorded?g officer: >> mr. markey. >> the senator is not recorded. >> madam clerk, i wish to be recorded no for the millions who will -- debate is not allowed during a vote. >> mr. markey, no. >> mr. bennett? >> how am i recorded? no >> the senator is not recorded. >> thank you, mr. president. i vote no on behalf of the children of colorado. >> mr. bennett, no. >> mr. president? >> ms. heitkamp. >> how am i recorded? >> the senator is not recorded. >> on behalf of the thousands of people who receive healthcare in my state -- debate is not allowed during a vote -- >> who know not how they look at healthcare without a re

udall was also's sent to and president carter at the white house. he also mentioned that there was a press conference on friday, march 30. we have a transcription of that press conference. number one, no evacuation order is necessary at this time. recommendation is pregnant women and children stay willf five mile radius remain in effect until sometime tomorrow. my earlier advice that people living within 10 miles of the plant site remain indoors. in efforts to keep the public informed, he had a state wide televised address to report to people and a three mile radius of the incident. pennsylvanians, i hope to very soon now tell a tired group of women and children that they can know home now. i will treasure that moments for as long as i lived. i think it will mark the end of the most dangerous days any governor has had to face in this century." among that -- a rover designed to deal with such incidents. could used so a machine go into the containment building without having to send human beings inside to deal with the meltdown. the rover that is on t

senator udall again and i introduced an act we call move it. it later involved into a legislation that designed to better accommodate agencies who seek a particular i.t. system, but they're unable to do so in their current budget framework. i again would ask you to commit towards, attention towards modernizing the department of commerce and its i.t. infrastructure, particularly its legacy i.t., and you believe the federal government can better leverage commercial cloud-based solutions to save money and increase security? >> i'm a very big proponent of cloud. we have used it a lot in private sector, and as far as we can tell it is not only more efficient, it's probably also more secure for lots of very complicated technical reasons. i think it's a very important thing for government to do. and also have systems that talk to each other. there's an awful lot of silo in both within commerce and outside of commerce. and i think that is not a very satisfactory end result. we need to all be similar quality and efficiency of communication. i think the

i will -- i'm reminded of a line that is attributed to the late congressman mo udall. when you appear last after people like chairman mccall and senator whitehouse and samir, you often find yourself in a position where everything that needs to be said has been said but not everybody who wants to say it has said it yet. i'll try not to be repetitive. i spoke to karen and i asked her, since i'm channeling her, what are the points she would emphasize. one piggybacking on what beth already said, the work force. the work force issue is a spectrum of challenges. it ranges from s.t.e.m. for our kids and through hygiene, that is, engaging in good practice, to, at the other end, building the education systems and the acrettation systems that license high-end practitioners. the report emphasizes that there's also a dimension and this really piggybacks on something that senator whitehouse mentioned, with we don't have and we're not ever likely to have sufficient number of high-end specialists for every organization to be what we would call cyber competent. with apologies to my go

. >> senator udall. >> thank you so much, mr. chairman, and you and the ranking member to work so carefully with us to get this organized in such a good, good fashion. mr. tillerson, let me first of all, thank you so much for your visit to our office, and to be able to exchange ideas and discussing where you want to a approach things as the incoming secretary of state, if you rare -- if you are approved. i want to thank so much your family for being here. it is always wonderful to see family, and brenda and brothers and sisters, and so, it is a good, a very good start i believe. you know, i believe that exxon has done and continues to do business in the various countries in the world that are are problematic to the u.s., and you have mentioned it a little bit here, and in some of the cases, some of the countries are outright hostile. we know that exxon did business in iran, and iran's regime has supported terrorist attacks against americans. exxon has a massive oil interest in russia which is recently acted to undermine our e --

udall: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from new mexico. mr. udall: thank you, mr. president. and, mr. president, i rise along with senator warren and with my other colleagues this evening to oppose this action by president-elect trump and congressional republicans to take health care away from tens of thousands of new mexicans. let me be clear. what president-elect trump and republicans are doing now will throw health care into chaos. it is reckless, it will hurt thousands of new mexicans and millions of americans. and the worst part is that the republicans have no plan to replace care they will take away. the affordable care act is not a perfect law. i've always said that we should work to improve it. but, mr. president, it has helped thousands of people in my home state of new mexico. before we pass the -- before we passed the fiewrkt, new mexico has -- the affordable care act, new mexico has a high rate of people without health insurance. it was one of the high nest our region and in the country. but since 2010, that number has gone down 44%. pretty incredible,

about, something worked on windows on the house transportation committee and i worked within senator udall he is still a senator and i was a congresswoman at the time, the concern of the 10,000 lives were lost through impaired drunk driving and driving under the influence of drugs. we were able in the fast act to get the driver alcohol detection system for safety to try to get some innovation to try to work on prevention of, to prevent a massive loss of life that we have the people get behind the wheel when they shouldn't. so i would encourage you and your department to keep moving forward on the research and development industry. i think of lots to be done and there are a lot of good ideasou out there and i would just like your commitment. i'm sure you would be committed to that as well spirit we certainly will do that. >> thank you so much. i look forward to voting in the affirmative for your confirmation. thank you. >> thank you, senator capito. >> thank you, chairman thune and ranking member nelson. i am pleased to be joining on this committee, because the committees work is of course

udall. >> no. >> mr. murphy. > no by proxy. >> mr. marky. >> no. >> mr. americaly. >> no. >> mr.cker. >> no by brosmy. >> mr. chairman. > aye. >> so now we'll hold it open. >> i ask unanimous consent that the roll call be held open. >> as members if members do come in and want to vote in the middle we'll stop the speaking to allow them to do so. thank you. bit of a departure from how things have been in the past. but i certainly respect everyone's ability to cast votes in the manner they which. senator rubio. senator rubio: let me begin by saying i think all presidents, especially the new one is -- this is evidenced by the fact that a 240 history of the republic, we have only had nine nominees voted down by the full senate. i want to add given how much uncertainty currently exists regarding the future direction of our policy, this deserves a higher level of scrutiny than tradition would dictate. i entered into these deliberations, as you said, mr. tillerson testified for over eight hours. i spent time researching and preparing for it. i had extensive conversations with him. he is

udall. mr. van hollen. mr. warner. ms. warren. mr. whitehouse. mr. wakir. mr. wyden. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] mr. young.t. >> a quorum is present., >> could we have order in the chamber?animous >> the majority leader i ask proceed with as rezwan submitted earlier today. >> senate resolution 1 informing the president of the united states that a quorum of each house is assembled. >> is there objection tobled. perceiving to the measure? without objection the senate will proceed to the measure. >> mr. president the senate is not in order.ll: >> the senate will be in order. the senate will be in order. >> i ask unanimous consent the resolution be great to the motion to reconsider be o considered may be laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. >> without objection. pursuant to the senate resolution 1 the chair points the senator from kentucky mr. mcconnell and the senator from

senator udall has returned. he is up next and we have senator lee. >> thank you very much mr. chairman and mr. ross, i want to welcome you today and thank you for your willingness to serve. i appreciated meeting with you in my office earlier this month and you have an extensive business background that spans numerous industries. the six should prove useful to you at the department of commerce where you will lead a diverse collection of agencies. commerce does everything from forecasting the weather to managing federal use of wireless spectrum but the common thread is promoting job creation economic development, sustainable development and improved standards of living for americans. i certainly want to work with you to ensure that the commerce department meets those goals in my home state of new mexico. i would like to follow-up today on some of what we discussed in my office earlier this month. first you were reportedly going to be taking a big role on negotiating trade agreements in international trade policy. the president-elect and his family have a wide variety of assets a

udall: mr. president, thank you for the recognition, and senator merkley, thank you very much for your yielding. i have been here on the floor listening to senator kaine, senator merkley. i saw senator cardin, from my office earlier. and i think you can see that many of us that sat through these hearings and heard the answers, it didn't give us a lot of confidence that rex tillerson was able to step in and be the top diplomat for the united states of america. so i join in many of the comments that have been made earlier. i want to talk a little bit about one of the issues that's developed in the last couple of days that i think really has bearing on this. you know, for the last century the united states has led the world stage. we are the inspiration for countless nations, as they nurture hopeful democracies, democracies that respect human rights and individual liberties. we're a nation of freedom where men and women can work hard, build a happy, healthy life, live the american dream. and that i

abenow, wyden, durbin, feinstein, leahy, udall. it begs the question, if this is only a temporary ban from countries until we can ascertain better vetting, how much worse is it for these 73 sitting democrats to have voted for a permanent ban? that's rather shocking. it's notable that president obama, not exactly consistent with president -- former president george w. bush, who in eight -- who went eight years without coming out and making formal criticisms, well, president obama has said he's very heartened by all the we even p protests and have democrats here in the house that said that we've heard before, the president fundamentally disagrees with the notion of discriminating against individuals because of their faith and religion, and it just, because i know my friend here in the house would not misrepresent the truth, it shows that obviously he hasn't read this executive order that makes very clear, it's not banning a religion or a faith. it's countries where we don't have enough information and i just find it interesting that

talk about something i worked with on the house transportation committee and worked with then senator udall, he was still a senator and i was a congresswoman at the time, the concern of the 10,000 lives we lost through impaired drunk driving and driving under the influence of drugs, we were able in the fast act to get the driver alcohol detection system for safety to try to get some innovation to try to work on prevention of -- to prevent the massive loss of life we have that people get behind the wheel when they shouldn't. i would encourage you in your department to keep moving forward on research and development in this area, lots to be done and a lot of good ideas and i'm sure you would be committed to that as well. >> we look forward to doing that. >> thank you so much. i look forward to voting in the affirmative. >>> next, a forum on chinese investments in the u.s. and confirmation hearing for the small business administration. after that, the congressional budget office's economic outlook. w,

. >> senator udall has returned. change i want to welcome you, for your willingness to serve, earlier this month, and you have an extensive business background that spans numerous industries, this would be useful to the department of commerce to lead a diverse collection of agency, commerce is everything, managing federal use of wireless spectrum. the common thread is promoting job creation, economic development, sustainable development and improved standards of living for americans. i want to work with you to ensure the commerce department meets those goals in my home state of new mexico. i would like to follow up with what we discussed in my office earlier this month. mister ross, you would take a big role in renegotiating trade agreements and international trade policy. the president-elect and his family have a wide variety of assets around the world, other countries could seek to use as leverage the us in negotiations. of confirmed the secretary of commerce, you are committed to divest a major undertaking. it wou

. >> if i could, senator udall did an excellent job of teasing this out.ve state your personal position as it relates to climate change? >> i came to my personal position over about 20 years as an engineer and scientist, understanding the evolution of the science. came to the conclusion a few years ago the risk of climate change does exist. and the consequence of it could be serious enough that actions should be taken. the type of action is -- seems to be where the largest areas of debate exist in the public discourse. i think it's important to recognize the u.s. has done a pretty good job. >> this is not as succinct as i was hoping. it's my hope -- >> i think we should let him finish. >> do you believe human activity based on your beleaf in science is contributing to climate change? >> the increase in the green house gas concentrations in the atmosphere are having an effect. our ability to predict that effect is very limited. >> senator garner. >> thank you, chairman, and thank you, mr. tillerson for your hopeful service to the country and to your family,

senator udall? >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. and governor haley, thank you very much for coming to my office and sharing your views. and it's great to have you here today, and great to have your family here. i want to thank your husband and your older bring for their service in the military. you obviously have an impressive story here to tell and we appreciate you being here. >> thank you. >> i'm a very strong supporter of the united nations, and i believe that strong u.s. leadership is needed to ensure that the united nations remains a viable institution in the future. i've been extremely alarmed by some of the president-elect trump's dericive comments about the u.n., and i'm very concerned that his statements have harmed the efforts in that body. and it's good to see that you're clarifying some of those. the most discouraging is that he has insinuated or allowed the perception that the united states will no longer take a leadership role. and you're saying today i think that you're going to assert that role. i -- that he would

udall: mr. president, i rise today to oppose the confirmation of congressman mike pompeo as director of the central intelligence agency. i respect congressman pompeo's background and service to our nation. however, i strongly believe that his positions on at least three key issues undermine his qualifications to lead the central intelligence agency. first, he has supported broad surveillance programs that allowed the government to spy on the american people, programs that were far-reaching, invasive and violated law-abiding citizens' constitutional rights to privacy. these programs were hastily passed as the part of the patriot act in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. i was one of only 66 members in the house of representatives to vote against the patriot act. since then, we've learned through reviews by the privacy and civil liberties oversight board, as well as the unauthorized disclosure of programs by edward snowden, that these programs did -- that these programs did go too far, no dou

senator udall. >> mr. tillerson, in your capacity as ceo of exxon mobil, the you praise the paris agreement last year noting that addressing climate change " requires broad-based practical solutions around the world." believe that the overall national interests of the united states are better served by staying in the paris agreement. if so, why? if not, why not? mr. tillerson: as i indicated earlier, having a seat at the table to address this issue on a -- and it is important. i think it is 190 countries who have signed on to take action. we are better served by being at that table and by leaving that table. >> and i think you understand generation oren a more that it has taken to get all the countries at the table to sign an agreement, be willing to move forward with targets and it would be very unfortunate i think to move away from the table. so thank you for your answer there. i just wanted to follow-up on discussions the senator had with you in the first round and continue to look at the successes of o

senator udall. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and than you, governor haley for coming to my haufs and sharing your views. it is great to have you here today, and great to have your family here, and i want to thank your husband and your older brother for their service in the military. you obviously an impressive story to tell, and we appreciate your being here. >> i am a very strong supporter of the united nations, and i believe that strong u.s. leadership is needed to ensure that the united nations remains a viable institution in the future. i have been extremelile alarmed by some of the president-elect tru trump's derisive comments about the u.n. and i'm very concerned about the statements that have harmed our efforts in that body, and it is good to see that you are clairifying some of those. the most discouraging is that he has insinuated or implied that they will not take a role, and i would say that you are going the be asserting the role, and that he is going to be cutting off the funding and have our participation, and so t

udall: no plan. a senator: mr. president? mr. van hollen: how am i recorded? the presiding officer: the senator is not recorded. mr. van hollen: because it is wrong to repeal and run, i vote no. the presiding officer: the senator will suspend. debate is not in order. a senator: madam clerk, how am i recorded? the presiding officer: the senator is not recorded. mr. markey: i vote no for the millions who will lose opioid coverage. the presiding officer: debate is not allowed. the senator will suspend debate. mr. bennet: how am i recorded? the presiding officer: the senator is not recorded. mr. bennet: thank you, mr. president. i would vote no on behalf of the children of colorado. the presiding officer: the gentleman from colorado will suspend. ms. heitkamp: mr. president, how am i recorded? the presiding officer: the senator is not recorded. ms. heitkamp: on behalf of the thousands of people who receive health care in my state in rural hospitals -- the presiding officer: debate is not allowed. ms. heitkamp: who know not how they will get health care if this pas