chairman hatch asked and senator wyden did too. you received the 2017 distinguished presidential rank award, is that correct? ms. gianopoulos: yes. senator isakson: less than 1% of the executives receive it in the federal government. and protect the american consumers. ms. gianopoulos: yes. senator isakson: you should go through the blueprint. ms. smith: we are working on it, sir. you did say you need more authority. what authorities specifically do you need more of to do your job? ms. smith: sir, i believe the authority request will touch on several things. the data we can share and who we can share it with. i think as mr. brady noted, the penalties and the other civil enforcement actions we can take in this area are also an important thing for us to consider and talk about. the specifics i'd like to consult with both our other government agency partners and with the private sector to make sure that we're hitting the mark with it but we will do that fairly quickly. senator isakson: are part of the problems antitrust rules and regu

chairman hatch asked and senator wyden did too. you received the 2017 distinguished presidential rank award, is that correct? ms. gianopoulos: yes. senator isakson: less than 1% of the executives receive it in the federal government. and protect the american consumers. ms. gianopoulos: yes. senator isakson: you should go through the blueprint. ms. smith: we are working on it, sir. you did say you need more authority. what authorities specifically do you need more of to do your job? ms. smith: sir, i believe the authority request will touch on several things. the data we can share and who we can share it with. i think as mr. brady noted, the penalties and the other civil enforcement actions we can take in this area are also an important thing for us to consider and talk about. the specifics i'd like to consult with both our other government agency partners and with the private sector to make sure that we're hitting the mark with it but we will do that fairly quickly. senator isakson: are part of the problems antitrust rules and regu

wyden: mr. president, before i begin my remarks on the legislation before us, i just would like to complement -- compliment our new colleague senator jones on a superb maiden speech. i thought he was so gracious when he remembered senator heflin. i served with senator heflin. and i think senator jones is going to be very much in that tradition. and i just want to take a quick minute and commend our new colleague for launching his time in the senate in an extraordinary way. mr. president, i call up amendments number 2212 and 2213 as provided for under the previous order and i ask that they be reported by number. the presiding officer: without objection. the clerk will report the amendments by number. the clerk: the senator from oregon, mr. wyden, proposes amendments number 2212 and 2213 to h.r. 1865. mr. wyden: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. wyden: mr. president, i would ask unanimous consent that my hour begin now for speaking on this subject. we're a bit behi

senator burr: senator wyden. senator wyden: just a quick comment. to nomination of gina haspel head the cia comes in and especially momentous time. and i havenrich asked to that certain aspects of her background be declassified so that the american people can mightat sort of person head the agency at a particularly important time. i will wrap up this point by saying i hope members will i,port senator heinrich and calling for declassification. it's a historic day because as i understand that you are the first nominee from the nsa to be considered at this committee. we welcome you, and let me begin with some questions. in 2001, then president bush directed the nsa to conduct an illegal, warrantless wiretapping program. neither the public know the full intelligence committee learned about this program until it was revealed in the press. i learnedersonally, about it from the newspaper. so there is a lot riding on how address a similar situation. we have already noted the history of your being here. if there was a form of surveillance that currently requ

wyden: they didn't. we roll the estate tax back. the fact is, we are closing specific and major loopholes. mr. schumer: yes. in the back. ok, we'll call on both of you. reporter: the biggest -- mr. schumer: one with lot of hair. one with not so much. repoer: the infrastructure program -- [inaudible] -- is now under fire by administration. what do you think -- [inaudible] -- angry retaliation against you for -- mr. schumer: look, i'm not going to get no the politics of it. gateway is the most important infrastructure projects in country. it effects 50 million people in the northeast corridor. 25% of our economy. if those two tunnels that are now under the hudson river are no longer functional, they'll be -- there will be a recession in the entire country. not just in new york, new jersey and even the northeast corridor. so we have to get it done. the good news is we have bipartisan support. for get it -- for getting it done. from everything i hear it's all systems move ahead, despite what the president had to say. reporter: to what e

senator wyden: i'm going to take that as a yes. it's going to take more than 10 years to get to a clean audit. i'd really like a yes or no answer because the public, it seems to me, deserves that at this point. secretary norquist: absolutely, senator. senator wyden: ok. let me ask you one other issue. we have had several policy analysts over the years tell us that they don't think the auditors are going to uncover w inefeshencies -- inefficiencies after great amount. they aren't going to find many things that are that inefficient, why is it going to take by vare ue -- virtue of your last answer, more than 10 years to get a clean audit? do you agree not very many inefficiencies will be found? secretary norquist: we haven't had the results -- senator wyden: what's your opinion now based on the fact you worked in the field for quite some time. what's your opinion today? secretary norquist: that you will find places for savings. that you will find things that you can automate to improve the accuracy of the datea. you will find chances

schumer: senator wyden. senator sanders is ranking member of the budget committee so we'll call him next. mr. wyden: thank you, leader schumer. what we are proposing is to lift americans' infrastructure out of dess repair by ensuring that -- disrepair, by ensuring that multinational corporations and the fortunate few pay their fair share. last year republicans unanimously chose to spend over $1 trillion on flashing taxes for -- slashing taxes for exactly those people and businesses. and now apparently they are out scrounging around, looking under the sofas, trying to find some spare change in order to pay for our infrastructure. in fact, only a few months ago finance committee republicans passed up a golden opportunity, a golden opportunity with bipartisan roots to redirect taxes on overseas earnings, to invest in infrastructure. we could have used and it could have been bipartisan because we spent a lot of time working on this. using repatriated dollars, dollars from overseas that were stashed there because

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senator wyden. senator wyden: mr. secretary, during your confirmation hearing you mentioned teddy roosevelt nine times. oregonians have a strong appreciation for roosevelt as a conservationist and as a president. with his signature he created the crater lake national park and it is the deepest lake in the united states known for its beautiful blue. . two million acres, sacrificed for private exploitation. second, you proposed opening america's precious coast to offshore oil drilling. only to walk it back in one state where it seemed there was a potential republican senate candidate who opposed it. i could tell you in our state, orr gonians don't want to look out over haystack rock and see oil darics. third, during the most expensive wildfire season in recorded history, you played a shell game with the wildfire account at interior to pay for unrelated helicopter ride, and this is another matter that the inspector general is looking at. unrelated helicopte so my first question, mr. secretary, is, would teddy roosevelt b

senator wyden: we'll show you how to do it. we've done it for two decades right onsically say the envelope, if you aren't the person that you say you are, you one heck of a bad way, you are going to face serious, penalties, and that's why it has worked and is theorted on both sides of aisle. warren?: senator senator: thank you both for being here. a very goodends message to see you both sitting side by side and answering the committee's questions. appreciate your service to the country. nielsen, i want to thank thank you for your comments about the bombings in austin. talked to chief manly at the austin police department the day before yesterday, he told me there are roughly 500 federal authorities on the ground doing everything they could to the bomber and as we learned today, he will not be doing that anymore. it's important to remain vigilant. i think you also said unless be other unexploded bombs planted. he might have i'd like it ask both of you to comment on this. understanding of our beersaries, whether they russia or ch

today, senator wyden be recognized for up to 60 minutes to offer and debate concurrently his amendments number 2213 and 2212. that those be the only amendments in order and that following the use foraying back of that time -- or yielding back of that time, the senate vote in relation to the amendments in the order listed with a 60-vote affirmative threshold required for adoption of each amendment. finally, that following disposition of these amendments, the bill be read a third time and the senate vote on passage of the bill as amended, if amended, without debate. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. mr. mcconnell: so, madam president, i'm pleased to report that the appropriations package is currently being finalized. i will have more to say once the bill has been filed, but i'm proud to announce it will meet a number of vitally important objectives. this includes the largest year on-year increase in funding for our service members in 15 years. along with major steps forward for law enforcement and border security, for the fight against opioid addict

. >> thank you so much, at last, not least, going to turn to senator wyden. you should know when we talked about this hearing, senator wyden immediately approached me and said i was in the community at a meeting with a passionate young woman who i would love to have come and be a voice from oregon, and so we're so glad you could be here. senator wyden. >> senator stabenow, thank you so much to you and senator nelson for your leadership, and are absolutely right, eva jones stood up at a town hall meeting that had a few days ago in tiny and rural ojl, oregon, population 2500. and suffice it to say, her presentation was just riveting, and i thought it was important for our colleagues to hear it. the essence of what eva said, i couldn't begin to do it justice, is she essentially said we students have had it. we are tired of trying to find cabinets that we might fit into in order to hide. she mentioned that beautiful windows after high school, and said, we think about which ones we ought to be walking in front of, because if we go to a particular window we might b

. >> senator ron wyden a democrat from oregon sits on both the senate intelligence and finance committees. senator, there are lots of folks calling for jared kushner to resign. are you among them? >> certainly i think there are a whole host of questions with respect to his financial entanglements. you know, when you're doing security clearance reviews, those kinds of entanglements really almost make you a magnet for blackmail and foreign efforts to compromise you. so i think it was very appropriate the action that was taken this week with respect to his security clearance. snipe wasn't it too late though? he's spent 14 months looking at the nation's most sensitive secrets. >> what i can tell you is i think bob mueller is just getting started. and it's on a whole host of issues, for example, the new report that you all just broke tonight shows that this russian hacking was a very serious crime against our country. and it was a crime that donald trump both cheered and applauded. and at this point, it's almost hard to be shocked anymore. you read about jared kushner's entanglements, you read

thank you, senator wyden. we want to make an opening comment, and then have an opening comment from a woman who has been an incredible leader for years as it relates to common sense gun laws. then we will hear from david, and we appreciate all of you and your patience. i want to thank all of you again whose lives have been forever changed by gun filings -- violence. , bute here today to listen in ways had experience nobody wants to experience. we are grateful you are willing to share your feelings and your views. i particularly want to thank the young people who have galvanized people to focus now on what is happening in schools and communities, for your energy, ,our urgency, and your passion and your voices. the things to come, the march to come, and the other efforts are incredibly important in moving us forward to get action. we all know that today's young people were born after columbine. you think about it, they have never lived in a time when they did not have to worry about their own schools joining the

senator wyden. >> thank you very much. i want to thank you the channel. let me start with you, miss smith. as i indicated, to me what's going on is the ripoff artist, counterfeiters are trying to under cut the american brand. so this is really high stakes stuff. and i want to ask you the two questions that our staff asked your staff. and the first one is a yes or no answer so we are clear on this. does the agency need more authority to crack down on the counterfeiters, the ripoff artists? just yes or no. do you need more authority because the staff asked it, and you all wouldn't give us a direct answer. so i want to give you the chance yes or no, do you need more authority? >> yes. >> thank you. so that is good to finally have that on the record. when will will you be able to give us the details with respect to exactly what it is you need? because, as you know, the staff asked you, do you need more authority, couldn't get an answer then. you now have given us an answer to your credit. and then they asked, can you tell us when we will get the details of wh

senator wyden, thanks so much for being with us.very much for your patience this evening as we have so much to discuss. congressman schiff yesterday on the house side says he wants sam nunberg to testify before the house intelligence committee. do you need to hear from him in the senate? >> i think it would be very helpful, but he would not be my first choice of a witness at a public hearing. i think my first choice of a witness at a public hearing would be michael cohen because michael cohen is the president's go-to money man. of course we've heard a lot of rumors over the last few days about his involvements with various people that the american people are pretty curious about. but the bottom line for me is the key issues are what are called the "follow the money" questions, and the republican leadership in neither the house nor the senate are getting into it. that's why i put michael cohen as my first public witness in the senate. >> let's follow up on that because the "new york times" happens to be reporting tonight -- actually,

wyden: you took almost half my time. could you give me a reason, an explanation for whether teddy roosevelt city where you are would advocate a budget that virtually eliminates the land and water conservation fund? hon. zinke: i believe the land and water conservation makes $122 million available. it does not add more property into the federal state. but our budget also has the largest investment in the history of this country on three critical areas. one of his backlog of our parks system. two, maintenance backlog of our wildlife refuge system, which teddy roosevelt initiated. thirdly, making sure we meet the treaty obligations of 48,000 american native kids. that is the largest investment the history of this country's i believ would be proud of the focus on preserving, protecting, and maintaining our treasures. sen. wyden: what i asked you, though, because it is in your budget is whether he would support something that is so todamental, for example, what you said you're prepared statement, which is increasing access to

if democrats like senator wyden think she may support these programs it's a viable question to ask heron hearing as director of the cia will she recommend to president trump that he consider any other enhanced interrogation programs? we shouldn't assume she has any personal love of torture because she was following these lawful orders. >> one more quick one, 30 seconds, just on if they're nominated, if they pass through, pompeo leaving the cia to go to state and haspel at cia, how would their working relationship work? how would that affect policy? >> we could see intelligence play more of a role in the policy process. it's a policy input and to date we've seen the administration turn deaf when we start talking about russian interference and things like that. we could see intelligence may more of a role in policy development and implementation. >> thank you so very much. quick break. president trump visiting the u.s. border, next. liberty mutual saved us almost $800 when we switched our auto and home insurance. liberty did what? yeah, they saved us a ton, which gave us a little wiggle

wyden: thank you. under what circumstances should individuals with an interim clearance get fbi clearance type of access? that is for you, mr. dunbar. mr. dunbar: senator, as we heard today, interim clearances have been used throughout the government for some time, many years. there are specific. government documents for interim clearances. the guidance is out there now allows interim clearances at the secret level as well as the top-secret level. there are situations called out in the guidelines which speak to urgency of circumstances, those types of ideas about how when somebody might be granted an interim security clearance. i believe an example that would be applicable here is an incoming administration which has the need to onboard personnel and get them into positions as soon as possible in order that they can perform the duties of their function. in regard to mr. kushner's sinceic case, the dni policy standards and requirements. as mr. phelan stated, each individual adjudication, and iss is in a

senator wyden? >> senator stabenow, thank you so much. to you and to senator nelson for your leadership and you're absolutely right. eva jones stood up at a town hall meeting that i had a few days guy in tiny and rural odell, oregon. population 2500. and suffice it to say, her presentation was just riveting. and i thought it was important for our colleagues to hear it. and the essence of what eva said, and i couldn't begin to do it justice, is she essentially said, we students have had it. we are tired of trying to find cabinets that we might fit into. in order to hide. she mentioned the beautiful windows at her high school. and said, we think about which ones we aught to be walking in front of because if we go to a particular window, we might be susceptible to being shot and killed. and at that meeting in odell, you just kopt hecouldn't hear a drop. i want to close with what eva said. eva said, my guess is there are other students around this country saying the same thing. she said, you know, i'm a senator -- excuse me, i'm a student. an

. >> joining us now is senator ron wyden, a senior member of the senate intelligence committee. thank you for making time to be with us today. >> thank you. >> you said it would be to vote favorably for secrecy, to vote for gina haspal for cia, what do you mean? >> in effect, the facts have been covered up here for quite sometime. we have been trying to get this information, as you know, gina haspal has never testified before the united states congress. there have been published reports, public reports about various links with respect to interrogati interrogation, torture and the like but the public has a right to know here and what senator and i are talking about is information that could be made available to the american public, particularly with this nomination that would in no way compromise sources and methods and it seems to me in the name of transparency and and accountability this information needs to be declassified. >> do you have any option to make any of that information even in a round about way, do you have any opportunity to make any more information, any more inf

i'm so glad that senator wyden suggested that you join us. thank you very much. [applause] last but definitely not least. >> thank you for this opportunity a special education at the academy in baltimore maryland as working as a affiliate and 24 years ago ago i made the choice to become a teacher because i see education to shape the next generation of american citizens. where children are allowed and encouraged and to become the people they will be. with those deep passions are nurtured and encouraged a world of safety and trust because of the lack of common gun laws that places the value of a child's life below of those who choose to carry weapons of mass distraction children face dire. reminders there liesdo could come crashing down around them four -year-olds to be prepared there is an active shooter in their building multiple times they must perform a wall -- lockdown. in that moment the goal of every individual and that building is no longer the development and growth of children but to stay alive andnd keep others alive each teacher walks toward the classro

senator wyden: we'll show you how to do it. we've done it for two decades right onsically say the envelope, if you aren't the person that you say you are, you one heck of a bad way, you are going to face serious, penalties, and that's why it has worked and is theorted on both sides of aisle. warren?: senator senator: thank you both for being here. a very goodends message to see you both sitting side by side and answering the committee's questions. appreciate your service to the country. nielsen, i want to thank thank you for your comments about the bombings in austin. talked to chief manly at the austin police department the day before yesterday, he told me there are roughly 500 federal authorities on the ground doing everything they could to the bomber and as we learned today, he will not be doing that anymore. it's important to remain vigilant. i think you also said unless be other unexploded bombs planted. he might have i'd like it ask both of you to comment on this. understanding of our beersaries, whether they russia or ch

guest: just yesterday, the nra sent a letter to senator wyden because my question has reported there is a common-connected russian tycoon that has been trying to -- kremlin-connected russian tycoon trying to influence -- whether they try to influence, again, the 2016 election to the tactic of using the national rifle association. letter toden sent a thethat's what they say. , they have not been updated. they hide the source of a lot of this money. we have a federal election commission that is notoriously dysfunctional due to the ideological opposition to our campaign finance laws by several of the republicans who sit on that commission that could pass regulations, that could investigate. so unfortunately we don't know where a lot of that money is coming from until we modernize and update some of our disclosure laws. host: but the fbi is investigating a possible russian money donated to the nra? guest: that has been reported by both mcclatchy and npr. host: independent in northland, texas. you are on theguest: that has by both mcclatchy and npr. all right. let's go to air, thomas. ted

. >> thank you, senator wyden. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. mr. chairman and colleagues, just a quick comment before we go to our nominee. the nomination of gina haspel to head the cia comes at an especially momentous time. senator heinrich and i have asked that certain aspects of her background be declassified so that the american people can see what sort of person might head the agency at a particularly important time. i'll just wrap up this point by saying i hope members will support what senator heinrich and i are calling for with respect to declassification. mr. nakasone, an historic day, because as i understand it, you are the first nominee from the nsa to be considered at this committee, and we welcome you. let me begin with some questions. in 2001, then president bush directed the nsa to conduct an illegal warrantless wiretapping program. neither the public nor the full intelligence committee learned about this program until it was revealed in the press. speaking personally, i learned about it from the newspapers. so, there is a lot riding

which only has a few production factories volkswagen has more than one hundred factories world ron wyden ready to start producing vehicles soon this shift comes after volkswagen by the way has pled guilty in two thousand and sixteen to cheating a mission's test in the millions of diesel powered cars. castro family legacy is ending in cuba for the first time in nearly six decades a castro will not be president of the country and the new leader is bound to face numerous challenges including economic reforms artie's alex mahela bitches and toronto with more alex thanks for joining us president raul castro is stepping down next month allowing a new generation of politicians to take the reins what do you think we can expect and see with the change in leadership. well the process already started last sunday cubans went to the polls to choose a new national assembly april nineteenth and the national assembly assembly will be choosing a new president and as it stands it looks like the favorite going in is fifty seven year old vice president the country right now is news miguel diaz can now he is

we lowered it not to 25% like senator wyden had proposed but to 21%. and, thus, we made ourselves roughly at the average in the industrialized world to make america more competitive. we were seeing people going overseas and investing because they had better tax rates than we had here in america. and who owns the stock? you heard the democratic leader talk about stock buybacks and he said well, the corporations are using this money to buy their own stock back. you know who owns stock in america? i'm not sure of the exact percentage but a huge percentage of it is owned by retirement funds and pension funds, firefighters, teachers, and others who want to see their retirement not only safe but also grow. and what they've seen since the tax cuts and jobs act was passed in december is the value of their retirement funds go through the roof. the stock market is at an all-time high or thereabouts. it set huge records. so i know that -- i know our friends on the other side of the aisle are worried because they made a dangerous gamble against the tax cuts and jo

now senators klobuchar and wyden want more answers from the founder and ceo of facebook mark zuckerberg> nbc news correspondent jo ling kent reporting for us tonight from our los angeles bureau. we'll take another break. an update on some late news coming up when we continue. i'm leaving the track behind, but i'm not standing still... and with godaddy, i've made my ideas real. ♪ ♪ i made my own way, now it's time to make yours. ♪ ♪ everything is working, working, just like it should ♪ >>> just a few last items before we go here tonight. starting in pennsylvania, where as you may know, one of the most famously gerrymandered political maps in the country is about to get redrawn. its final hurdle came today. the case went all the way the supreme court, and by declining to hear it, the new map goes into effect. and some have theorized this new map could result in a net gain of anywhere from two to five more democrats in congress representing the commonwealth. the next government shutdown deadline is looming. our kick the can congress has passed five spending bills so far this year, all of t

hill wholks on capitol talk about government privacy, look at senator ron wyden, at times senator rand paul. there are even members who talk about vehicle privacy to the caller's point about onstar, especially as we start thinking about a world of self driving cars. all of these efforts tend to run into some sort of partisan vote lock that keeps meaningful reforms from coming to fruition. >> i think to his question about why are we worried about these , there are same issues happening other parts of our lives. i think it comes down to accountability and having some form of oversight and understanding what is happening. host: what are other companies doing to get ahead of this issue ? you mentioned the delete ,acebook campaign on twitter but what lessons are these companies learning so they are not in the crosshairs? >> i think a lot of what you in regards tois the investigation of russian interference in these platforms, companies like google, twitter, and facebook have emphasized that they have taken efforts themselves to self regulate. you are seeing companies try to indicate that th

14 cosponsors of this resolution, senator lee, , murphy, warren, booker, leahy, markey, feinstein, wyden, berkeley, jill a brand, baldwin, that is what we are doing with senate joint resolution 54. what wewh are saying is that if congress wants to go to war in yemen or anyplace else, boat to go to war. that is your constitutional responsibility. stop abdicating that responsibility to a president, whether it is a republican president or in the past, democratic presidents. mr. president, i expect that colleagues today will be arguing about what the word hostilities mean within the context of the 1973 war powers resolution. what does the word hostilities mean? some will argue that american troops are notho out there shooting and getting shot at, not exchanging fire, gunfire with their enemies. and that we are not really engaged in the horrifically destructive saudi led war in yemen. that's what some will argue on the floor today, that we are really not engaged in hostilities. we are not exchanging fire. well, please tell that to the people of yemen, whose homes and lives are being destroyed

. >> senator wyden. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and it's been a good panel and i'm just going to ask one question to this panel and it's for you, ms. farrell. it seems to me, one of the central issues here is there is a culture where over secrecy is actually valued. and there is no accountability for excessive secrecy. so we end up with 4 million people with security clearances, and i've heard my colleagues talk about the backlog question and i know that is very important to our companies, buttbut i think to really get at the guts of this issue, we've got to deal with this over secrecy kind of question. i'd like to ask you, what, in your view, is the government doing that is most helpful in terms of reducing that 4 million number, which i think reflects that there are too many secrets out there and too many people are sitting on them. what's the government doing about that? >> senator, i'll start. >> i'd like to start with the gao. >> okay. >> thank you. that's okay. there's -- we have, in the past, recommended that d.o.d. and its