senator udall: thank you very much. thank you to all of the witnesses for being here. i think you have given some excellent testimony here and helped enlighten us in this area. we now live in a world where we are waiting to find out who else facebook has allowed to access our data without our consent. over 60 device manufacturers had access to some part of facebook's data. it is unclear how many third-party developers also had access to this data and who they shared it with. the american public trusted facebook with personal and intimate information and a -- they broke that trust. facebook is not a trusted steward. the negligent behavior has allowed countless political ads filled with misinformation from foreign entities is having a direct impact on our democracy. this must stop now. we have seen a great deal of public and congressional attention since the 2016 election. we are going to see history repeat itself unless we have action. i am concerned that the federal agencies with a role here, the federal trade commission or the federal election commission or both are n

we'll talk about that and much more with senator tom udall and correspondents and analysts are standing by. and first to white house correspondent jim acosta in south carolina right now. jim, the president's hard-line on immigration appears to be getting harder? [ chanting ] >> reporter: that is right. he will be campaigning here and he will hammer the issue of immigration until the mid-term elections coming up this fall. and even with families being separated with their children at the border, the president believes this issue is a winner for the republican party. as they try to down out questions from reporters, president trump pushed back on any notion he regrets signing an executive order to halt child separation at the border. >> the executive order was great. it was something that i felt we had to do. we want children staying together. the law has been this law for a long period of time. >> reporter: but the president doubled down on the hard-line stance declaring to set up a system that sends migrants back to home countries, no matter their circumstances. >> we want a system wher

. >> reporter: senator udall thinks the president should come here to visit the site for himself.e's stressed that he thinks there's been a complete breakdown of trust between the federal government and the people, not to mention the media, because we have been unable to visit the sites by and large specifically the one behind me. one of the things most disturbing about what he said, the plan for reunification, the question on everyone's minds, when will the kids be back with their families? he asked an official inside the camp to be back their parents. he told me he was, quote, told to call them in a week. that tells them how disorganized they are. confusion is occurring. >>> and kelly cobiella is live in riyadh, saudi arabia. kelly, how have women been reacting to this? >> reporter: it really was a celebration. one minute after midnight, daughters, mothers, sisters, taking a victory lap of sorts going to the local labor places to seesaw dee saudi arabia ente 21st century. >> i'm so excited that i can drive myself around and not wait for a driver or maybe -- i don't know, i'm spe

i grew up southwest and senator udall and senator heinrich tell me i'm the onlator currently servi w was born in new mexico. our town was divided into two parts and mine was one of the only white families in the neighborhood that was populated by hispanic families who'd been there for generations. most of the kids i grew up with spoke spanish at home and so from a very early age, i grew up with the same that everyone around me have something different to offer. my parents sent me to the public school in our neighborhood and my school frankly lost some of the resources that the white kids have so my parents got involved. my dad jned the school board and my mom volunteered and they both devoted part of their lives to making things better and they loved it. they loved doing that work. i was raised to believe the same hopes and dreamswho and hard at being a good citizen is to go out and listen to those different experiences and perspectives and do your part to help. maybe that's why minnesota was the right place to me to go into public service. along with the weather, which we love talki

udall? >> thank you mr. chairman. i really appreciate you calling this hearing and having these experts before us. i asked the following question to secretary. pompeo and wanted to get your perspective. the chief of staff of the army reminded us recently in an appropriations hearing of the nature and character of war, the traditional ideas that war at is based-- at its base is an extension of politics, military means to reach a political objective. taking an expansive view of what congress approved, the political objective is to stop terrorism at a broad level. a more restrictive view that was sold to congress when i voted in favor of that was that we aim to punish and deter the perpetrators of the us specifically al qaeda and the taliban, which view do you believe is the correct one? >> i think it's the narrower view and i think congress at that time worked hard to come up with specific language. there was a back-and-forth that has been reported on quite a bit between the white house and drafters in congress coming u

chair. >> thank you, senator udall. senator blumenthal. >> mr. soltani, the record before us leaves us no doubt that facebook violated its dissent deagree and -- and the only thing what to be done about it, facebook was supposed to establish a privacy program to obtain audits to ensure that the privacy of consumer information is protected, yet, virtuall none of those tasks, and in fact, in testimony before us sitting exactly where you are, mark zuckerberg said in response to question, how many other cambridge analyticas are there out there? we don't know and to my knowledge they still don't know. so the audits tracking of the oversight that facebook was supposed to be doing simply has gone unperformed. are there other data collection or sharing practices that you believe warrant investigation by the fcc as well? >> i'd be happy to respond by a written response. >> i would appreciate you doing so because i, for one, will be strongly urging the fcc to go beyond the obligations of the consent decree, not only conjuncti conjuncti conjunctiontiv relea

president, i want to thank my colleague, senator tom udall and senator richard blumenthal, for joining me to visit the southwest border last week. we went to the border to seek answers and demand accountability for the very real impacts that president trump's cruel and unnecessary policy of separating children from their parents. the permanent trauma that these policies are inflicting on parents and their innocent children, many of whom are refugees fleeing violence and seeking asylum is inhumane and horrific. taking thousands of children, some as young as infants and toddlers away from their parents, and detaining them as a form of punishment or deterrence is ineffective and it is morally indefensible. after all, under the rule of law, refugees fleeing violence have a right to request asylum. as of now, only about 500 children of the over 2,000 children in custody have been reunited with their families since president trump signed an executive order ending his family separation policy last wednesday. there is still no clear plan for the white house to ensure that they will make sure t

udall: i rise today to talk about the immigration crisis that this president has generated. the nation has seen images of children trapped behind wire fencing, children sleeping on concrete floors. we've seen the tents hurriedly set up to house children separated from their parents. and we've seen the video of jessica, who doesn't know where her mother is and wants to talk to her. we've heard the audio of young children crying out for their mothers and fathers. and we've heard the audio of a detention facility staff person telling the kids not to talk to the press, claiming it will hurt their immigration case. as of june 12, on american soil, over 100 babies under the age of one year are being held in detention by the american government. and we think this can't be happening in the united states of america, but it is. last friday senators heinrich and blumenthal and i visited president trump's tent city in torneo, texas, and we toured a border patrol station in clint and el paso and a port of entry in el paso. we were turned away from tourneau on friday, and so i went back s

. >> we spoke to senator tom udall from mexico. he tried to get into this and was denied entry.e did. and he helped solve one of the mysteries we have which is where are the girls? he shed some light on that. take a listen. >> we were just trying to get a sense in the short period of time they were there do they -- are they being treated well? have they had any problems? those kind of things? have they talked to their parents? most of those things were answered yes. and, and i would say for the most part kind of happy and smiles, just today seven girls have arrived at about the approximate same age. >> 13 to 17. >> 13 to 17 girls. >> so you heard there from the ages of 13 to 17. he put the total number of kids in that camp at somewhere between 250 and 260. we thought it was around 250 but obviously he's adding in there the recent arrival of those seven female detainees. he described it as very hot. it is, of course, very hot. it's about 108 degrees out here. he said the kids are able to get out and play some kind of soccer but they have to return very quickly to air conditioned

senator udall just got in yesterday for the first time, but he was disappointed about what he was told. i asked him, what is the plan? he said, i asked that to the officials inside that compound and the answer was shocking, . that he would have to check bulk in a week. >> considering the fact these are all children and another week that will go by without them being reunited cal, thanks very much. find a cool place. >>> while stripping away their trial rights, today the president tweeted in part this -- when somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no judges or no court cases, bring them back from where they came. the house is scheduled to vote early this week on a so-called compromise immigration bill. there are reports that republican lawmakers are preparing a narrower bill that would allow kids to stay in facility with their parents more than 20 days. that's part of the flores judgment we have talked about the last week or so i want to read this trump wee in full i'm gov to have you weigh in. >> that's not saying anything that's slightly legal, but let's go. >> we cannot allow a

yesterday we saw senator udall from new mexico coming here. he wanted to get into the camp. he was denied entry. he got into a little side room where he watched a cctv camera. he pressured and he's back today to try to get into that camp. there's no guarantee it will happen. the breakdown between the administration and the elected officials in this country is simply astonishing. there are areas they cannot get into, there are areas they're not allowed access to. i'll give you one more example, david. we know there were young children brought into this facility because we saw the buses pass us by and we saw the figures of young children on those buses. the next morning at 3:00 a.m. we saw three fans being escorted by suburbans out of the facility. 12 hours later, the senators go into the facility, come out and say there are only kids, maels between the ages of 14 to 18. there's no free-flow of information. we don't know who's being moved around and when they're being moved around. it's really chaotic to answer your question. >> cal perry and ron hilliard. protests in mcallen,

i had dinner with senator udall during his trip. >> new mexico. >> to the mexican border.overed one facility, one detention facility costs $400,000 per day or $2,000 per person per day. there's a less expensive day, $4.50. why? the largest private-owned prison system political action committee gave the trump campaign $170,000. >> people incarcerated for benefit. thank you. when we return, let me finish tonight with trump watch. he won't like tonight. you're watching "hardball." dear future us, we have a mission: to help hand everyone a better world. that's why we, at the coca-cola company, make shore breaks with actual coconuts. tea, organically. treats for celebrations. water with added minerals for taste. dear future us, that's why we're striving to do good. and help our communities get the education they deserve. we're doing this today... ...so you can do even more. the coca-cola company ...so you can do even more. let someone else do the heavy lifting. tripadvisor compares prices from over 200 booking sites to find the right hotel for you at the lowest price. so you ba

three senators -- blumenthal, hinrich and udall were here. they just gave a press conference. they went inside to take a tour of the tent city. unfortunately all they got, sounds like, was a power point presentation and some video. they spoke to some contractors who gave them the following information -- there are roughly 250 boys being held in a tent city behind me here between the ages of 14 and 18. that is something that we've been waiting to find out. how many kids are there, their ages and where they came from. they have all been separated from their parents. unfortunately, the senators were not able to talk to any of them in a very emotional press conference, senator blumenthal said we're fathers, this is an internment camp. he called it one of the worst things that he has ever seen in his entire time up on the hill. so an emotional sort of day here as again we continue to see elected officials coming to this site, trying to get in and not gaining access. i asked the senators, what does this do about the level trust between the federal government around the media and the

those three senators, udall, hinrich came here to try to pressure authorities to let them see the tentsy came here, spoke to the media. they walked to the gate behind me. they had an interaction with homeland security. then they were allowed onto the compound, but they were taken into a control room, david and shown some cctv footage of the tent city. they didn't get to see it with their own eyes. after is that visit they came back here and were very upset about how things went down. take a listen to what they said. >> what's going on in washington and what's going on on the ground, are very different, and there's a lot of confusion, there's a lot of chaos. >> these kids should have never been separated from their families. that is the fundamental problem here. and this administration created a disaster of its own making. >> first, the separation of toddlers. from their parents, ripping them out of their parents' arms. and now, the prospect of mass internment. which is a nice way of saying -- mass imprisonment. of families. >> so confusion reigning and that's what we've been talking abo

senator tom udall from new mexico was here earlier in the week and didn't get into the facility.e came back over the weekend. he was able to finally see the tents but the big question on everyone's mind, of course, is when are the families reunited? i asked him what he was told about in that facility. here's what he said. did you get a sense of what now? how long to be here? >> the o.r. lady that's leading, that's the federal agency in custody of the children said to call us in a week and she thinks they will be leaving. >> reporter: call in a week. right? i mean, this is sort of very symb symbolatic of a government that doesn't seem to have thought this through and caught off guard from the old new policy of separating families to an executive order which frankly leaves these kids in a very weird sort of space where they don't know when they're going to be reunited or how, chris. >> i mean, call news a week. this isn't a fed-ex package lost in the mail. i mean, seriously. call news a week and then maybe have an update for you about what's going to happen to children? cal, thank

we heard that from senator udall just yesterday who asked one of the officials in the camp, he said, what's the plan to unify these kids with their families? and the senior senator, richard, of new mexico, was told, you'll have to call back in a week and find out that information. >> yeah, i remember, you were interviewing him yesterday, and when that happened, of course, we're talking about a u.s. senator saying to call back in a week. update us quickly here, cal, because you also have new numbers that came in overnight from the department of homeland security on some of the unaccompanied alien children and where they're at today. some new numbers. >> reporter: the members who have gone in today? >> yeah, 522, is that rights, have been reunited? >> reporter: right. oh, i'm siorry, yes. 522 have been reunited. here's the thing we have to remember, right? these numbers sometimes do not just add up, we also don't know what we're being told. there's a lot of confusion as to when people were detained, how they were detained and the method of when and how it happened. the new old policy t

we saw tom udall who was able to get into the compound, he was able to talk to the children in there. he was able to nail down some information for us. there's between 250 and 260 kids in there. take a listen to what he said about the conditions and his thoughts on it. >> the real problem is is the trauma of being separated from your parents. i mean, that's something that runs deep and you can't just fix with physical types of things. giving people meals. there's an element to this that's very heart breaking to me as a father. it's a pretty sad circumstance and this policy that created this is just -- it just created chaos. i think the president should come out here and see the disaster he's created. >> well, we need to continue to stress as we look at these dhs numbers as gabe does that break down, as jacob soboroff works the phones we are being told things according to the u.s. government. i stress according to the u.s. government because we have been lied to for the last week consistently by the u.s. government and in speaking to senator uh-dall there he asked e officials in the ca

>> meanwhile, democratic senators martin heinrich, richard blumenthal, tom udall went to texas where they tried to visit a detention facility where 250 migrant children are being held. the senators were denied access, though. >> i just think this is an administration that is completely afraid of transparency. it's afraid of the media. >> i think it's an internment site with tents. it's a prison-like internment site. >> also today, lawmakers' efforts to deal with the immigration crisis got something of a blow from the president, who has been demanding that congress take action. earlier in the week donald trump met with house gop leadership, said he would support legislation. this morning, though, the president tweeted this. quote, republicans should stop wasting their time on immigration until after we elect more senators and congressmen/women in november. dems are playing games, have no intention of doing anything to solve this decades-old problem. we can pass great legislation after the red wave. that brought this reaction from republicans on capitol hill. >> i respectfully disagree

senator udall is coming back because he pressured the federal government to be able to see those tents, allegedly. i say allegedly because, again, we're being misled a lot of times on this story. allegedly he's going to get a look at the nents about an hour. >> how hot is it there? you're talking about a tent city. you're in the middle of a desert. what are the conditions like? >> reporter: i'm in the shade, there's an overhang here. it's about 100 degrees in the shade. it goes up to 110, 120 in the sun. that was yesterday. today is a little cooler. you imagine being in the sun. those kids will not be able to get out of the tents. >> cal perry in tornillo, texas. i want to move to mario atencio in homestead, florida. mariana, what are lawmakers trying to find out today in south florida? >> reporter: they're trying to visit the facility, david. they were turned away earlier in the week. they're just about to come out. we will learn drinkly from them from florida senator bill nelson, fredericka, congressman soto. we know there are 1,000 children in there, ages 13 to 17, including 400 gir

morris udall, a congressman from arizona once said if you have politics in your bloodstream, only embalming fluid will replace it. during the course of my internship, in the senate office , i got politics in my bloodstream, and i have never quite left capitol hill cents. ron took a different path, he went back to the business world, successful with private business as well as his investments, and other endeavors. he did well for his -- himself but as corey has reminded us, he did not just sit on that success, and walk away from his responsibility to many others, i have let know that for a long time, we are in an area which is an error i should say where there are arguments made about hyper partisanship, but i know that when it came to service for the public, ron stepped up to serve chicago's democratic friends as much as his republican friends. he committed to harold washington and eugene sawyer. he chaired the city cut universities, and the illinois state board of education. he served as well as corey has mentioned, as chairman emeritus for the boys and girls club of america for nearly 30

>> the language that senator udall was talking about. senator brown has language in the farm bill-- generally speaking would you be open to something like that depending what it is? >> i don't know what brown has in his-- you know what-- >> farm bill act. >> farm bill, oh, oh, no, you know, i-- i have stood down on a lot of i think so this in this interior bill because he wanted to be true to the commitment about our desire to avoid anything that may be viewed as a poison pill or authorizing on appropriations and so i'm trying to be fair and judicious with all of that and still give folks a opportunity to weigh in. i think we feel really very bipartisan product and i'm proud of that. so, what i want to do is prove an appropriations bill which talks about the funding for interior, epa, forest service. so, i'd like to sit-- i'd like to try to keep that in that vein, but as i just mentioned, senator udall and i are continuing to talk about all of the issues that we're dealing with. i know that now that we've moved it out of the subcommittee

morris udall, a cumbersome from arizona, once said if you have politics in your bloodstream, only embalming fluid will replace it. during the course of my internship in that senate office, i got politics in my bloodstream, and i have never quite left capitol hill since. path.ok a different he went back to chicago, into the business world. successful in that world, with business as well as his investments and other endeavors. did well for himself. but he did not just sit on that success and bank the money and walk away from his responsibilities to others. i have known him for a long time. we are in an era where there are arguments made about have her partisanship, but i know that when it came to service to the public, ron was stepping up to serve chicago's immigrant mayors as much as his own republican friends. that included sharing -- chairing the economic development commission. he chaired the city colleges of chicago under mayor richard daley. he chaired the illinois state board of education. he served as well, as corey has mentioned, as chairman emeritus for the boys and girls club of am

morris udall a congressman from arizona said if you have politics in your bloodstream only embalming fluid will replace it. ron took a different path. he went back to chicago, into the business world. successful in that world. with private business as well as with his investments and other endeavors. did well for himself. as corey reminded us he just didn't sit on that success and bank the money and walkway from his responsibilities to many others. and i've known that for a long time where an area where there's arguments made about hyper partisanship but i know when it came to service for public ron was stepping up to serve chicago's democratic mayors as much as his own republican friends. he included chairing the city's economic commission under mayor washington and sawyer. he chaired the city colleges of chicago under mayor daly. he chaired the state board of education and served as well as corey mentioned as chairman and chairman emeritus for the boys and girls club. over and over he stepped up for public service. he'll do it again. belgium is an important ally to the united state

therefore, i would like to ask unanimous consent to allow senators sanders, lee, and udall should they come to participate in the hearing. nano yest le tenured judge in the state of new jersey. following his service, he began teaching constitutional delaware w hool for two years. he was chosen by the student bodys the most outstanding professor. he authored seven books on the u.s. constitution, lectures nationally on civil liber d ahe o enapotano, you're recognized for your opening statement. >> i asked my bosses to be here. they said we're dying to see bernie sanders cross examine you. you know me as a commentator on television. i've been a professor of law for a total of 16 years. i have published nine books on the constitution, and much of my work has concentratensepaon o p often begins t first day of constitutional law by asking the students what's the most distinguishing feature of the american constitution? it's the first oaw ection ofricy.ay freedom ofspee. some of them may say due process. but i impose upon them t observation that even the constitutions ofotal indiana countries

senator udall? >> thank you, chairman wicker. all of you have pointed out that the app economy is an innovative part of the economy and has revolutionized how we navigate our lives. we heard senate marquee talk about that history and overview. however, these innovations raise questions about children growing up in a digital world. as a result, parents are being forced to make difficult choices between their children's privacy, and allowing their kids to engage in an increasingly online world. i, along with my colleague, senator hassan and cortez masto, have written to youtube, about youtube kids app, directing children to conspiracy theory videos and about the need to respect the privacy of children. and i also plan on contacting other major app developers and platforms as part of the effort to ensure that children's privacy is protected. mr. reed, last month, "the washington post" reported on a study by the international computer science institute at the university of california berkeley, finding that thousands of children's app

i thank udall, bennet, harris and allowing me to work with them on this amendment and have it included in the substitute. if you look at the drought gripping the western united states in particular, arizona 100% drought, california 69% of the land in a drought, colorado 79% of the state in a drought, kansas 79% in a drought, utah 100%, north dakota 81%. this is -- these are areas where this equip language will help address as we work toward solving this ongoing drought condition. water is the lifeblood in the west. colorado is the only state where water flows out of and not into. we have to be sure to get this right. this is the picture of the colorado river. this is an example of a bloodline of water that goes from colorado down to california, all the states in between, that rely on this river. as we see that water in the river decrease, it puts more pressure on the upstream states, and that could be a challenge between the p up -- between the upper basin and lower basin states. the tools we helped provide in the farm bill help us manage this river, help us manage the land, -- land ad

senator udall. >> thank you, chairman blunt. and let me just before i ask a couple of questions, we had a previous secretary of state by the name of diana duran, who made these just widespread accusations about voter fraud. and our state very conscientiously went through thousands and thousands that had been reported. and after review it came down to several. i mean just a handful of unintentional minor errors. no one was ever prosecuted. there was never any real fraud that was found, and so i think we need to be very, very careful. i mean, she got wonderful headlines, you headlines. for weeks there was all this activity of, oh, there is fraud, there is fraud. and then when it finally trickl trickled out and everybody reviewed it there was nothing there. so i want to focus, again secretary ashcroft, on the quote that senator durbin asked, the evidence indicates that voter fraud is exponentially greater threat than hacking evidence. what evidence academic studies back up that claim? >> well, the senators actually own words back t

as i just mentioned, senator udall and i are continuing to talk about -- about all of the issues that we're dealing with. i know that now that we've moved it out of subcommittee, we're probably going to have more colleagues coming to us before thursday and saying, hey, wait, what about this. >> senator, you expressed some frustration over previous administrations on their acting on resilience and also some words on defense-related emergency. what would you like to see done? >> this was kind of the direction of my questioning to -- to the ferc here. i think that the ferc has authority to do far more than they have done historically. i sent a letter to chairman bay in '15? when did i accepted the letter to bay, me and fred upton? i want to say it was '15. >> november 16. >> 2015. so back then i -- i said we've got to have you, the commission, has to have a focus on what's happening with resilience, reliability off the grid, and i asked a series of questions. ultimately what happened. there was a technical conference a year and a half later. i have been frustrated because i think that yo

senator hatch and udall, the same. we would hope to have more votes later this afternoon and and hopefully in the area of 5:00. that will be up to the majority leader and the democratic leader. we'll let senators know about that. senator pwoez -- boozman and daines and i and democratic colleagues hope their staff will file today any amendments they wish to have included in these three appropriations bills. mr. president, i ask consent to call up amendment 2914 and ask that it be reported by number. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. the clerk will report the amendment by number. the clerk: the senator from tennessee, mr. alexander, for mr. gardner proposes an amendment numbered 2914 to amendment number 2910. mr. alexander: mr. president, i ask consent that there be ten minutes of debate and following the use or yielding back of that time the senate vote in relation to the gardner amendment and carper amendment, and that there be no second-degree amendments in order to the amendments prior to

in my very first month as a senator, i cosponsored senator tom udall's legislation to do that. a few wealthy donors shouldn't dominate the political conversation in this country. but reversing citizens united isn't the only thing necessary to restore fairness to our political process. we should also pass senator whitehouse's disclose act, which i'm proud to cosponsor. this legislati requires super pacs and big political spenders to disclose to the public exactly where their donations are going. no constitutional amendment is required for this key measure. in 2010, the disclose act came up just one vote short in the senate, and i urge the senate to immediatel take it up again so we can finally pass this important bill. we also should replace the federal elections commission, which is mired in political squabbling and hindered with weak enforcement authority. the f.e.c. should be replaced th a new campa finance agency that has a strong mandate to enforce the law with new rules to ensure that one political party can't shut down the agency simply for political gain. i also believe

mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the udall amendment at the desk be considered and agreed to, the committee-reported amends as amended be agreed to, the bill as amended be considered read a third time. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i know of no further debate on the bill. the presiding officer: the question is on passage of the bill as amended. all in favor say aye. all opposed say no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the bill as amended is passed. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of the following calendar bills enclock, calendar 453 through 465. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measures en bloc. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the bills be considered read a third time and passed, the moses to reare can be -- motions to be considered be considered made and laid upon the table all en bloc. the presiding o

udall 2547. stabenow 2537. don fischer 2554. cardin 25262. rubio 2564. reed 2636. schumer 2757. menendez 2683, and smith 2523. mr. corker: mr. president. i ask unanimous consent that the senate be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. corker: mr. president, i had a conversation with senator inhofe and senator reed earlier to talk a little bit about resolving a blue-slip issue. i think many members here are aware that i wan to offer an amendment that deals with our ability to weigh in on tariffs that are put in place under se232 ofhe tra act. national security issues. i think we may have found a resolution to that, but i don't want to offer it right now, then senator inhofe not knowing yet whether there works for him or the committee would have to object. i don't know if that would be the case. i want to continue to work on this. i'm not going to offer an amendment and a statement thereof relative to this. with that, i don't see anybody else on the floor that wishes to spe

in fact, senator udall and senator heinrich tell me that i am the only senator currently serving who was born in new mexico. our town was informally divided into two parts and mine was one of the only white families in our neighborhood, which was mostly populated by hispanic families who'd been there for generations. most of the kids i grew up around spoke spanish 00 at home and so from a very early age, i grew up with this sense that everyone around me had something different to offer. my pents sent me to the public school in our nbo and my school frankly lacked some of the resources that the schools from where more of the white kids had. so my parents got involved. my dad joined the school board and my mom volume tease and they both devoted part of their lives to making things better. you know what? they loved it. they loved doing that work. i was raised to believe that the world is full of people who share the same hopes and dreams but have very different experiences and perspectives. and that part of being a good citizen is to go out and listen to those different experiences and