to my turn it over colleague, senator whitehouse. senator whitehouse: thank you. i will try to wrap up quickly. it is long past time for a sincere effort to help americans . we have ideas that will help americans. so much having 0% set aside. what we have instead of a sincere look at security is a budgetary threat. it will reduce american , all tont options establish a budgetary trick to move revenues into the 10-year urgent window. for every dollar they move into the 10-year window it counts as revenue and we lose revenue in the out here, so on a net basis there is no foreseeable game but it does create phantom revenues. it can be used to us that tax cuts for the rich. so, what you are doing is disrupting american retirement security, failing to produce enhancements and improvements we need to and instead reverting to a budgetary trick that will allow for tax cuts for the wealthy. we deserve better. thank you for listening. >> all right. we are ready for questions. i am going to take them on this subject only because it will be after our lunch. yes, sir? [indisce

whitehouse: thank you, mr. president. the decision coming up in this united states supreme court, the janice decision that senator brown has just spoken about, is one that merits the attention of people who are concerned about the country and the court, and i'd like to make two points in my remarks. the first has to do with the very difficult to explain, or at least very difficult to comfortably explain pattern of 5-4 decisions of the united states supreme court in which the five consists entirely of the republican appointees. the supreme court makes a lot of decisions, of course, but there is something that is particularly interesting about the 5-4 decisions for the five republican appointees -- where the five republican appointees line up and roll the other appointees, and when you start looking at those decisions, there are some really significant patterns that emerge. the first pattern goes to issues in which the court is treading into the world of politics. now, bear in mind that when sandra day o'connor left the cou

senator whitehouse, senator feinstein would like it make one. i think senator grassley comes, he'll certainly be allowed to do so. the title of this hearing is extremist content and russian disinformation online, working with tech to find solutions. that's exactly what we want to do. we're here to try to find solutions. let me describe, i think, the challenge. i doubt if i would be here if it weren't for social media, to be honest with you, president trump told fox news on october 20, 2017. so this is the president of the united states saying that from his point of view, social media was an invaluable tool to help him win an election. i would dare say that every politician up here today asking you questions uses your service and we find it invaluable to communicate with our constituents and get our message out. not only do we use it, not only does the president use it, millions of americans use your technology to share the first step of a grandchild, to talk about good and bad things in our lives, and i would like to say to all of you, you've en

whitehouse: thank you, mr. president. it has been a sorry spectacle for americans to witness what the polluting industries are doing with the full connivance of the trump administration to the environmental protection agency. an agency that enjoys broad popularity among the american people but is obviously a thorn in the side of big polluters who make very big campaign contributions and therefore have inordinately big influence here in congress. the creep show parade of nominees to the offices responsible for protecting the public's health at e.p.a. is nothing short of astounding. it is an array of cranks, charlatans, hacks, lobbyists, toadies, in really unprecedented measure in the history of our country. it seems that at this point the key and only credential for appointment to the environmental protection agency is that you are reliably pro-industry and reliably anti-public health. we are facing a nomination for one of these characters. his name is william wehrum. he was previously nominated to the e.p.a. office of air

here is what we know right now-- officers responded to the accident on whitehouse road in largo.e tell us that officers found one car flipped over into the powerlines! after some more investigating, officers say it appears the two cars were shooting at each other. none of the occupants were injured in the shooting but 2 occupants were injured from the accident. right now.. a manhunt is underway in baltimore for the person who shot a veteran police detective in the head. the detective was investigating a homicide in west baltimore when he confronted a man acting suspiciously. that man then opened fire. another detective rushed him to "shock trauma," which was only a couple miles away. the detective is on life support right now in the i-c-u. we have a crew at the scene in baltimor.. and we'll have an update later int he hour. new overnight -- police in federick, asking you to help find this girl you see right here. 16-year-old brooke turner. she went missing yesterday, right around 10 in the morning. she was seen in the 15-hundred block of north market street. taylor is about 5-foo

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here is what we know right now-- officers responded to the accident on whitehouse road in largo. police tell us that officers found one car flipped over into the woods and another car crashed into powerlines! after some more investigating, officers say it appears the two cars were shooting at each other. none of the occupants were injured in the shooting but 2 occupants were injured from the accident. right now in an officer fighting for his life, as the department launches an city-wide search for the man who shot him in the head, in broad daylight. the department now offering a 64-thousand dollar reward to catch the person who pulled the trigger. police say the officer was investigating a murder, when he was gunned down while talking with a suspicious person. the officer is at shock trauma right now-- in grave condition. the detective is on life support in the intensive care unit. we have a crew in baltimore, and will have a live update on his condition in about 20 minutes. happening now-- the top senate republican is supporting the idea of a write-in alabama as opposition mount

senator whitehouse? >> i don't think there is much that you and i are going to accomplish today on the question of drug pricing, but i hope very much in office you will take the side of the american people and not just the pharmaceutical industry or worse yet the investors who have raided the pharmaceutical industry with the solo mission to jack up prices on necessary pharmaceuticals and extract money with monopoly authority. we know how to deal with that ordinarily. i want to talk about a different situation, which i think is an opportunity for considerable bipartisan progress. i want to start with two rhode island stories. you know what a medicare aco is. >> i do. >> we have two in rhode island. one is a very early one, coastal medical, which over four years has saved medicare $28 million relative to its benchmark while maintaining a 99% quality score. that makes it one of the best in the country. its average per member per year expenditure is going down, while the satisfaction and health of its member

whitehouse. >> no. >> mr. warner? >> no. >> mr. merckly? >> no. >> mr. cane? >> no. >> mr. king?> no. >> mr. van hollen? >> no. >> miss harris? >> no. >> mr. chairman? >> aye. >> report the vote. >> kill the bill! kill the bill! >> the ayes are 12 and the nays are 11. >> the bill is reported out. >> kill the bill! kill the bill! kill the bill! kill the bill! >> that's how it went. you saw the headlines about that today. it sounded like a neat and tidy process. that was the neat and tidy process. it wish the republicans got their no debate, party line hearing today. what they are trying to do with this really enormous bill will hurt the american poor and hurt the american middle class quickly and significantly and for a long time. and it will throw 13 million americans off their health insurance. and so what they are trying to do is very, very unpopular and that's why they are trying to go fast. that's why they are trying to outrun the resistance to what they are doing. they are also likely to get another non-partisan report on the cost of their bill and who it hurts as soon as to

and in another authoritarian turn when the whitehouse was asked on friday about kelly misstating thosepress secretary, sarah huckabee sanders said reporters cannot question kelly because he's a four-star marine general. >> if you want to get into a debate with a four-star marine general, i think that that's simply highly inappropriate. >> seth: is it? because the last time people refused to question a general he turned out to be a foreign agent. i mean, are we just supposed to blindly believe without question that for a great low rate you can get online, go the general and save some time? [ applause ] i'm not willing to blindly believe that. but to be fair, trump has a point, it's inappropriate to question a marine general. like for example retired four-star marine general john allen who criticized trump at last year's democratic convention. >> they had a general named john allen, and he -- i never met him. and he got up and he started talking about trump trump trump. never met him. and you know who he is? he's a failed general. >> seth: that's right. he's a failed general as opposed t

that is the rhode island senator sheldon whitehouse. are part of a coalition of cities, universities, faith groups, and companies who are in bonn, germany, to reject trump's vow to pull the u.s. out of the paris accord and instead proclaim "we are still in." well, on saturday, democracy now! asked a number of these senators and mayors what they mean when they declare "we are still in." among them, massachusetts democratic senator ed markey. i began by asking him why he's here at the u.n. climate summit in bonn, germany. >> we're here to tell the world that donald trump does not represent the majority view in our country, that overwhelmingly people do believe that the planet is dangerously warming and that human activity is causing it and that we have to do something about it. we just want them to know that inside our country, mayors, governors, private sector companies, and individuals are continuing to move forward to meet the goaoal that was commitd by the united states to the world. amy: what does that mean? if president trump says h

senator whitehouse. senator whitehouse: thank you, chairman. and welcome, both nominees. there is a distinction that i would like to try to elucidate that i hope you will both agree with.

whitehouse. >> nope. >> mr. warner. >> no. >> mr. barkley. >> no. >> mr. kaine? >> no. >> mr. van hollen? >> no. >> ms. harris? >> no. >> mr. chairman? >> aye. >> report the vote. >> mr. chairman the ayes are 12 and the nays are 11. >> the bill is reported out. we'll recess momentarily. [ chanting ] [ chanting ] >> since the vote has been completed, apparently those in attendance do not want anyone else to speak. if this continues, i will close out the meeting. [ chanting ] kill the bill! don't kill us! kill the bill! [ chanting ] don't kill us! kill the bill! don't kill us! kill the bill! [ chanting ] >> again, following the precedent of the committee, most people have submitted their comments. i think that most of the republicans will be submitting theirs for the record. so senator sanders vote last. go to this side. >> pass at this point. >> thank you. >> senator murray. >> thank you, mr. chairman and ranking member sanders. before i start, i want to make some quick clarifications. since it sounds like some of my republican colleagues are confused and may have actually been

nothing appears planned on the whitehouse schedule today. and in the meantime attorney general jeff sessions took issue with being accused of lying about his previous testimony over russia. during yesterday's house judiciary committee they told lawmakers after seeing media reports he could recall a meeting last year in which george pop done list papadopoulos. make clear to him that he was not authorizeded to represent the campaign with russian government or any other foreign government for that matter. >>> sessions appearance before the house judiciary committee poll owes a guilty plea from papadopoulos, as well as statements from another advisor who says he add veesed the senator about an upcoming trip to russia. >> 4:45 our team members coming joining us now and erin como warming up people get on the road and pack things and aarr you're talking about weather. >> they probably aren't getting up this early. >> we sure hope they are. >> cold temperatures again. i get you saying that. we're getting closer to december and we're halfway through

what will the whitehouse do with moore once trump comes back jason afrom the international examiner. >> this fwlon up ovt weekend and these are accusations yet there's a reverberation throughout the entire gop throughout washington. >> i mean we're starting to hear more and more senators and we mentioned mitch mckabul throwing moore under the bution sais this is enough i believe the women roy moore needs to step asaid and it's head of national republican senator committee and he believes the women and rye moore needs to step aside and president trump yet to do t that. perhaps when he gets home he'll take that step and mack the call. >> there's about a lot of talk about luther strange and a write in campaign what have you heard about that. >> it remains a possibility and govern nor kiv are republican she's allowed to delay the date of of election so that is one possibility a little far fetched but possible. it's also possible that we would have roy moore win election only to have him repl attorney general and former person in that seat but jeff sessions said he has absolutely no inter

senator whitehouse. senator whitehouse: we talked about in our last conversation about how the care organizations and the ways we can deliver better care at less expense. there is another much more particular area where i think there's another bipartisan opportunity. to improve care. in this case it would lower expense, but that would not be the point. that area is end-of-life care. advanced care. there is a good group you may be familiar with called the coalition of transform events care that has very broad corporate institutional support that is focusing in these areas. rhode island has been active in this space. we have enormous support from, where the most catholic state in the country, the catholic diocese has been helpful in the council of churches have been helpful, the major hospital groups and medical society have been extremely helpful. what we see is that from time to time, we bump up against problems within the medicare, medicaid ailing systems. which in a general arbitrary world might make s

a part in this kind of narrative changing and we share with you what's going on on the web site whitehouse dot gov as we're doing this show it's a meeting of the president's commission on combating drug addiction and. just listen in for a cup. it sounds. and i think it gives us a blueprint if we stay the course and per year and recognize that we are dealing with a brutal who will stop at nothing on its own to be successful and we need to follow through with the growth. addiction is and that i think in many respects. we need if you don't enjoy it this is a a white house commission it's fully informing the president and the current administration in better ways to tackle the opioid crisis is even just seeing meetings like that is not a step in the right direction to choose beginning to change the start. i think as a president. i dress the same from the top view but i think as a treat or being an addiction psychiatrist i look at this very differently decriminalizing which i really did talk about the economy single the truck charges as a form and then the realizing the drugs exist in the south

chairman. >> thank you, senator whitehouse, mr. casey. >> mr. chairman, thank you. >> excuse me, senator murkowski is here and i failed to go to that side. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, i apologize. >> i know i'm at the end dias and came in later, but there's added benefit to being one of the later ones and having the full opportunity to not only hear most of your opening comments, sir, but to hear the questions and the inyearries and your responses, again, congratulations on your nomination. i will also be curious to hear your response to senator paul's inquiry, regarding i mportation of drugs. i think for those of us in alaska where our neighboring country, our neighboring state, if you will, is canada, many in my state wonder why we are not able to do more when it comes to safely importing. so, i, too, am curious to know what you might propose in that area. senator baldwin mentioned the hearing that we had some weeks ago about drug pricing and i think, a general level of just confusion and bemusement that many of us had, those who

i would like to look to melissa whitehouse and the mayor's office. i don't know if you have any comments to add on the budgetary process or if the mayor's given any kind of direction to the law library. do you have any ideas? >> thank you, chair tang. melissa kahy, mayor's budget director. we budget all the known increases at the time of the budget. >>supervisor tang: are you aware of any requests from the law library for any additional increases to help with the move -- securing the books skm then helping to move them into a safe location? that's okay. you don't have to answer. >> i don't believe so, but i would have to go back and check with the analysts. >> that's correct, and what we did do is we talked to mr. updike a few weeks ago and together, we talked about working together to come up with funds and appropriatation to be able to come up with a solution. >>supervisor tang: but to be fair, that's not the correct department you should be directing that conversation to. the conversation should be directed to the budget and finance committee and

a lawyer for kushner de not comment nor did the whitehouse. >> thanks. t mr.ke to radio host saying listeners want the feds to go after hillary clinton and the president responded with this. >> the saddest thing is that because of the president of the united states, i am not supposed to be involved with the justice department. i'm not supposed to be involved with the fbi. i'm not supposed to be doing the kind of things that i would love to be doing, and i'm very frustrated by this. >> president trump himself under scrutiny concerning his interactions with the justice department. we learned last week he wanted a gag order lifted on an undercover informant in a case that could involve hillary clinton, and it's still not clear if the president did anything improper by firing former fbi director james comey. if h. >> if you ever have the feeling president trump believe the the only person in the federal government is him, he's no you confirming it. in his latest interview with fox news, his response, no problem. >> we don't need all the people that they want. don'

. >> times said 7,000 pages detailing how the whitehouse is lying about the vietnam war 30 years. >> days have to be over. okay hey people are concerned. >> spielburg directed film and tom hanks and meryl st streep. the first female newspaper publish area and hard driving editor joined unpress departmentsed battle between journalists and government and inspired by true event and has a timely sense to it. that move january 12. it will have december release to also become oscar front runner. >> may i be honest? >> sure. >> tell me how you felt bone. it i adore tom hanks and meryl streep when i saw them in that i felt like oh, it's tom hanks and meryl streep. did you feel like that a little bit, like so familiar at this poyptd like -- >> i. >> ground house players and we're going to this to community theetser. i'm seeing them so much. >> weird. >> but i feel like they can carry any type of film sdmri know but look i love them i'm telling you how i felt about. it i'll have to disappear into the story. >> auto i'm steven spielberg and i can hand pick something to win an academy award. >>

chairman senator whitehouse. chairman,ehouse: mr. because the coverage of this won't show it, let me just say for the record that every single republican senator has left, except for the chairman, like folks running away from the scene of a crime. mr. chairman back in 2009, , before you voted against the senate passage of the recovery act, as the economy was teetering into disaster and we tried to hold things together, you said then, the american people are telling me and my colleagues to stop spending money we don't have for programs we don't need. the u.s. government the big , credit card in the sky, has already maxed out its credit card, but the bank hasn't noticed and the government is now applying for another card with a higher spending limit. end quote. that was then. this is now. here we are. eight years later. and the national debt has fully doubled since the chairman declared that our national credit card was then maxed out. instead of doing our job as a budget committee, and recommending policies to address the $20 trillion

. >> thank you, chairman graham and ranking member whitehouse and i'd like to thank our three witnesses for joining us today. i think what you presented today is truly troubling evidence of the scope and reach of russia's interference in our l.a.x. election and the ways in which americans who typically expect to know when they're consuming a political advertisement were misled and what are very troubling, slow, halting steps of your otherwise compelling and innovative companies to come forward and to work with us and to help us understand the scope and consequence of this. senator coons: mr. stretch, let me start if i could with a political ad from facebook. this is an ad that was run on facebook in may of 2016. a key moment in the primary campaigns of both hillary clinton and donald trump when both were closing in on the nomination. a group that claimed to be part of texas -- you can see in the upper left -- but was in fact paid for by russians in rubles used this ad to target americans based on their professed characteristics like an interest in patriotism or supporting veterans. the

critics like sheldon whitehouse brand the president's new pick for the top environmental advisor as a climate change skeptic. they accuse kathleen hartnett of rejecting basic science. meanwhile at the conference on climate change in germany, the official u.s. delegation will present its first talk tomorrow. the event promoting the use of fossil fuels. joining me katherine lampell and jake levine. jake, let me start with you. normally the united states is a leader at the environmental conference. this year's top 23 tells a very different story. it's a shadow delegation basically. what's going on out there? >> i'm holding back some laughter, jacob, because were this not real life and not hugely important and serious and bearing on matters of public health and clean air and clean water, it would feel like a "saturday night live" skit going on with, you know, a recent appointment that really completes the trifecta of climate deniers who are now leading the agencies that are charged with solving climate change. so thankfully we do have what has been called a shadow american presence that's

it was never reached because at the end of this long and arrested whitehouse -- arrested whitehouse process the department of justice made a terrible decision. there is a rule of conduct called the rule of candor for the tribunal. if you're a lawyer going before the judge you have an obligation to state the law fairly and accurately before the judge. if you're not being truthful about what the law is that's a violation of federal conduct for which lawyers can be sanctioned and it applies to lawyers across the board. a hardworking lawyer with six or seven files under his arms piling into a state district court to maybe run through three or four cases in that day before a busy judge, that lawyer has the obligation of candor, and it includes an obligation to do adequate research. to actually have looked up the case law and to disclose it to the judge so that you're not misleading the court about the state of the law. that applies to lawyers across the country. the busiest, the most distracted just local lawyer, just a guy with a practice maybe in a strip mall, who buzzes into court with a bunc

whitehouse: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: in this season of thanksgiving, let me say that i'm thankful, as i rise for my 187th "time to wake up" address, the spirit that this great nation devotes to tackling climate change, even with this president. the united states now is alone in the world as the only nation not committed to the historic paris agreement. but at the u.n. climate change conference in germany, i saw firsthand that americans are still committed to climate action. corporate leaders like mars, microsoft, facebook, and walmart were there to discuss the role american corporations can take on climate change. american governors, mayors, universities, and many other corporations all brought the same message to bahn -- that notwithstanding the corrupted trump administration, america is still in. senators cardin, markey, schatz, and merkley and i sent the message that most of our constituents and the majority of the american people believe -- that climate change is a serious threat to our country and the pl

whitehouse: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 15 minutes as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: thank you, mr. president. our e.p.a. administrator scott pruitt has a little problem. you see the supreme court has ruled that greenhouse gases are pollutants under the clean air act. therefore, under the clean air act, the environmental protection agency which pruitt leads is legally obligated to regulate greenhouse gases. they must do this as a matter of law. moreover, the e.p.a. has determined that greenhouse gas emissions endanger the public health and welfare of current and future generations. and scott pruitt has said that he won't contest that endangerment finding. he is stuck with it. why? because he knows it's a contest he'd lose by a landslide. the climate denial nonsense he espouses has never passed peer review. it's not real science. and it would get buried in any forum where facts and truth matter. that's also likely why the

. >> well, president trump welcomed college sports champions to the whitehouse. 18 ncaa teams were includedluding penn state women rug by team. they're posing there. look at the president being playful. they all posed in pictures and exchanged handshakes and traded jerseys with commander-in-chief. he hailed players as "great athletes" penn state rug by one of the most successful collegiate rug by in the u.s. with 12 national championship wins. south carolina women's basketball champs declined to attend after their invitation was delayed. >> well that's definitely something you never forget when in college, right? >> absolutely a trip to the white house. >> how fun. >> it's off surprise for the phillies and that did not stop the team from throwing a huge slum per part of sorts last night. how a group of children that could definitely use a break from doctors and hospitals got the phanatic treatment. plus here's a question, will your waist line be angry at your appetite. >> yeah he. >> not if you wear a specific pair of pants. we'll tell you what you should wear to dinner on thursday night. a

. -- whitehouse, udall, and baldin. i yield the floor -- baldwin. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion. is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote:

. -- we have the great sheldon whitehouse leading the charge. at a time when we are deeply concerned about north korea expanding and using their nuclear arsenal, we don't need donald trump attempted to decertify the historic iran nuclear nonproliferation agreement that secretary kerry sewed up really early negotiated. morning at 8:00 a.m., saturday, the formulations democrats had an emergency phone call, ben cardin tim kaine, cory were strategizing to present this important agreement that john kerry negotiated, it is essential or the piece of the planet that this great man negotiated. john kerry is a master statesman who has used the tools of smart power, education, health and development to help our country and through his service, he has americans gays of all to the constellation of possibilities for ourselves, our nation and our world. if there was a mount rushmore, john kerry would be carved into that stone, his legacy, like his spirit is indomitable. in 2009, as one of his final visionary acts, senator ted kennedy wrote a letter to presiden

senators graham, booker, whitehouse, coons and i have cosponsored measures that will help protect the special counsel. there are two measures now, but they are so closely similar that they should be brought together, and conversations are under way to do so. i expect that we will have a single bill in the very near future. but we should stand with one voice against obstruction of this investigation. i ask that my colleagues go on the record now to state that they will absolutely resist and oppose any interference by the executive branch into this investigation or investigations that are under way by our congressional committee. on the house side, the intelligence committee, and in the senate, the judiciary committee, along with our intelligence committee. the congressional committees have separate purposes. in the judiciary committee, we uniquely have the responsibility of oversight over the department of justice and the f.b.i. we have the unique responsibility to prevent the obstruction of justice and to uncover it that's indicated by the firing of jim comey. my hope that that invest

by the way, we have the great sheldon whitehouse from rhode island leading the charge on climate change with us tonight. [applause] we are deeply concerned about north korea expanding and using their nuclear arsenal, we do not need to donald trump attempting to decertify the historic iran proliferation of agreement that secretary kerry so brilliantly negotiated. morning, the foreign relations democrats had an senators and died to strategize the actions needed to protect this important agreement that john kerry -- senators and i to strategize the actions needed to protect this important agreement. john kerry is a master statesman who has used tools, education, health, and development to help our country. through his service, he has lifted the days of all americans -- he is lifted the gaze of all americans to possibilities for ourselves. mount rushmore for diplomats, john kerry would be carved in that stone. his final one of visionary acts, senator ted kennedy wrote a letter to president obama. he told them what was at stake for the debate of the affordable care act worth the fundamental

but before i get to that, i'd like to mention that senator tester, senators tester, whitehouse, harris, van hollen, kaine, manchin, coons and feinstein are all announced supporters of this amendment and i wanted to offer my thanks and appreciation to them for their assistance. again, the amendment is very simple. recommit the bill, have the committee work it once more, and come back to the senate floor with a bill that does not bust the deficit. this is one of the most important votes any of us will take in this body. i think it may be the most important. this is a bill that will affect america and americans for a generation. if past history is any guide, this will be the major tax reform bill in the next 20 to 30 years. it will affect every business, every citizen, and our entire economy. the stakes, in other words, are incredibly high. and it's my s.ssumption that when the stakes are hikes -- the bar for the process would also be high. if you're doing something with such enormous ramifications, it is common sense that you would take a great deal of care to thoroughly understand the p

markey: by the way, we have the great sheldon whitehouse from rhode island leading the charge on climate change with us here tonight. [applause] sen. markey: and at a time when we are deeply concerned about north korea expanding and using their nuclear arsenal, we do not need donald trump attempting to decertify the historic iran nuclear nonproliferation agreement that secretary kerry so brilliantly negotiated. [applause] sen. markey: yesterday morning at 8:00 a.m. saturday, the foreign relations democrats had an emergency phone call. senators strategized the actions needed to protect this important agreement that john kerry negotiated. john kerry is a master statesman who has used tools, education, smart power, health, and development to help our country. and through his service, he has lifted the gaze of all americans to the constellation of possibilities for ourselves. for a nation, and for our world. if there was a mount rushmore for diplomats, john kerry would be carved into that stone. 's legacy, like his spirit, is indomitable. in 2009 as one of his final visionary acts, senator t

whitehouse: mr. president, i was very pleased to be here for the, the remarks of my colleagues and friends. and i'd just respond by saying that we are all for growth. we are all for growth of the american economy. i think on this side we're just a little bit less sure that you grow the economy by growing the share of the economy that goes to the super rich and to big corporations. or that you grow the economy by growing benefits to corporations that move jobs from america overseas. and i'm pretty confident that on our side, we don't believe that the solution to the deficit is a tax bill that raises the deficit. but i'm here to talk about the climate change conference that we just got back from in germany , a conference where the united states stood alone as the only nation in the world. syria and nicaragua having left us. not a party to the historic paris agreement. led by senator cardin, my colleague, senators markey, schatz, merkley and i went to tell the nations gathered there that the trump admin

senator whitehouse. senator whitehouse: thank you, chairman. and welcome, both nominees. there is a distinction that i would like to try to elucidate that i hope you will both agree with. let me ask first whether you agree that we ought not base our -- >> this hearing continues online at c-span.org. the house coming in next. they'll take up a resolution later today requiring anti-sexual harassment training for members of congress and their staff. live house coverage now on c-span. pastor ron dunn, new hope ministries, akron, michigan. the chaplain: let us pray. our father and our god in heaven, we praise you for your goodness to this great nation. giving us blessings far beyond what we deserve. direct the elected leaders of this governing body to meet the many challenges that this nation faces today and in the future. give them wisdom to know what is right and the courage to act upon it. set their feet on the path of your righteousness and peace. strengthen their determination to give witness to these truths by the way we should live. give them harmony that puts an end to

if sheldon whitehouse ever runs for president, he is a democrat, i would vote for him.ld love to see a white house in the white house. in new york this morning. in massachusetts, line for william.ns, good morning. it is open phones. caller: good morning my name is william joseph. i am from massachusetts. a couple comments. first of all, mr. trump should not be involved in any tax laws and changes until he provides income tax himself. it looks like he never files taxes. he never provided in the information for the general public. both like he never filed taxes for 12 years. now -- talking about changing the tax law? i was listening to the first republican guy -- host: matt gaetz. caller: talking about lowering the tax for low income people. the tax for low 10% topeople informed 12%. is what they call lowering the tax to low income? from 10 to 12? the second thing is -- thosewe will take comments and continue with open phones in just a minute. we want to focus on the president's announcement today for his pick for chair of the board of governors for the federal reserve po

i've worked with my colleague senator whitehouse from rhode island. i intend top introduce legislation criminalizing the reckless operation of drones. that cannot stop committed violent actors. how is dhs assessing the rapid increase in the quantities and capabilities of small uavs and the potential to be used as an ake vector. >> in case my time does run out, director wray, integrating intelligence is the critical strategic pillar of the fbi strategy. i want to thank you for your efforts in this domain. in the international space, the u.s. provides a significant amount of intelligence to our foreign partners that enables them to better protect their own nations from attacks. can you and director rasmussen comment on how these partners are ecipro indicating in information sharing and what can be done to improve this cooperation? >> a quick answer on aircraft systems, this is an area where we lack authority. if there's anything i ask of the committee to assist us in getting authority. we can't even do testing of ant anti-uss systems with our authoritie

senator hatch, senators hatch, warren, cassidy and whitehouse share my concern, and on the senate side, they've introduced a similar bill, almost identical, to address this critical issue. i believe on this issue we can get bipartisan support to move forward with an approach to inform the public, the consumers about the decision they will make with their money and, to be honest with you, our investment in their future. the current system is massively broken. and let me put up a chart that will show that -- it is up. magic here. on the current system. this is the current reporting system for higher education in the united states today. if you can possibly read it from there, and we'll get it submitted for the record, these are all the groups that have gathered data, all the places it go all the information that's exchanged about students going to postsecondary education in the united states. i ask you, mr. speaker, can you make any sense of that? i worked 35 years in that field. i will tell you that a student enrollment for one system doesn't match the definition of enrollment in anothe

whitehouse: mr. president, i come to the floor for the 184th time to ask us to at last wake up to our duty as a congress to enact some prudent policies to address the looming effects of climate change. the presiding officer is well aware of what alaska faces from ocean acidification and ocean melting and sea level rise and all of that. for the generations who will look back at this, i have tried in these speeches to chronicle the political tricks and bullying that have put congress -- the congress of the united states -- in tow to a massively conflicted special interest, such as we are incapacitated on this vital subject. the shamelessness of the fossil fuel industry and the spinelessness of congress in standing up to it will provide a long lesson in modern-day corruption and political failure. the trump administration has been particularly loathsome, threatening the emissions standarded for cars and tax reduction, disbanding science advisory committees, liftin life moratorium on coal leasing and ope