senator. mr. president, one other thing about senator stevens, no matter how far he rose -- and we're hearing about the high levels in the senate he attained -- he never forgot what was most important: serving the people of alaska. when people, our constituents, traveled thousands of miles to come to d.c., he always made time for them. thousands and thousands of alaskans have notes from him, congratulatetory letters, condolence letters, letters of appreciation. at his standing-room only funeral in anchorage, where i had the honor of serving as an honorary pall bearer, someone asked a show of hands of the audience, hundreds and hundreds of people, how many had received add letter from senator ted stevens. nearly every person at that service raised their hand. and of course he treated his staff like family. if you worked for.senate.gov stevens, like my wife julie did, you were always part of that family and you could always expect loyalty from him the rest of the your life. mr. president, these

get a side says it must be the senate. -- the other side says it must be the senate. clarify thatarr point saying it must be you, and the only issue is if what we have presented has a right to be presented. thank you. >> thank you, the case is submitted. >> sunday night on "q&a" looksan history professor back at policies on managing immigration. >> i would argue the current wave of anti-immigrant sentiment, xenophobia is not different from what we have seen in the past. while it seems to us to be peppered with acts of violence and ferocity, there have been other acts of violence, anti-immigrant riots before the civil war. anti-immigrant riots in the 1880's. there have been a lot of moments anti-immigrant sentiment has been translated into true ugliness. >> watch sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's "q&a." >> house democratic leader steny hoyer and republican whip steve scalise spent nearly an hour on the floor debating the house impeachment inquiry. it took lace during the end of a discussion of next week's schedule. representative hoyer was asked about commi

>> senator, i have not. >> thank you, senator cruz. senator tester. senator cruz, if you could have that reduced in size and we will enter it into the record without objection at this point. so ordered. senator tester. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank you and ranking member for having this hearing and i know for the two folks on the panel this morning, it is probably a painful morning for you. but the fact is the infinitely more painful for the folks sitting a couple of rows behind you. you have said many times that mistakes were made and obviously they were. unfortunately, that admission was made after 346 people died. and there are a lot of reasons, whether it's pilot error. and i didn't listen to the whole thing, but you damn well better sell safety. i fly four legs a week and a lot not for the grace of god it could have been me on one of those airplanes and we expect there to be safety. obviously something went wrong. and it's not first time. there's the situation here that was pointed out several people have pointed out to you and noth

the senate finance committee, the senate health, education, labor, and pensions committee and the senate judiciary committee have spent a lot of time this year working on this issue, and work on truly bipartisan solutions remains ongoing. earlier this year house committees advanced drug pricing legislation on a bipartisan basis, but unfortunately house democrats have made it clear that they're more interested in playing politics than in cooperating on legislation to address the challenges that are facing american families. democrats know that the pelosi drug bill has no chance of passing the senate, but they have chosen to pursue this socialist fantasy instead of working with republicans to develop a bipartisan prescription drug bill that isn't just price controls and that might actually go somewhere. like the democrats' larger socialist fantasy in medicare for all, the pelosi drug bill would ultimately hurt the very people that it's supposed to help. in this case by restricting their access to lifesaving drugs and future prescription drug innovations. madam president, the pelosi drug bi

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not even the senators. so it was a total surp >> (voice shaking): i am here day not because i want to be. i am terrified. i am here because i believe it is my cic duty to tell you what hwhpened to me while brettr kavanaugh and i re in high school. >> when you realized how genuinely terrified she was to be there, it shocked a lot of the older, longer-servg senators, that once again, this issue was being broughinto the public sphere. >> (voice breaking): i believed he was going to rape me. i tried to yell for help. when i did, brett put his hand over mmouth to stop me fromll g. this is what terrifi me the most, and has had thmost lastinlaimpact on my life. it was hard for me tbreathe, and i thought that brett was accidently going to kill me. >> it was, of course, a larger-than-fe moment. christine blasey ford had to go before the eyes of a nation and the world. >> i thought she was enormously courageous, enormously persuasive. >> she was very polite and just looked dead honest. >> it was a huge burden on her

senate. when the alaska statehood act finally passed, ted returned to alaska and served as a representative in the state house, becoming majority leader after just one term. then in 1968, he came to our senate where he would go on to serve for 40 years. once here, he distinguished himself as a fierce advocate for alaska. he fought relentlessly for funding to build rural hospitals, highways, ports, and military bases across the state he helped create. his efforts only increased when he ascended to the powerful chairmanship of the appropriations committee. he often quipped that being such a young state, alaska needed extra help to catch up to its elder siblings. any help -- and help is exactly what he secured. one estimate says he steered more than $3.4 billion in federal funding to alaskan projects in just the last 14 years of his tenure. those of us who served with him on the appropriations committee got to know ted's incredible hulk tie which he would wear on days with especially difficult d

a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. a senator: thank you. i'd like to thank any colleague from ohio for raising the issues about the skills back. ms. smith: this is something very important in minnesota as well. i agree with you. i think this should be a place where we can find some bipartisan agreement. thank you for your word, senator portman. today i rise to talk about another gap that i would like to ask my colleagues for help in filling. mr. president, for many americans, the 35-day government shutdown during the last holiday season is a distant memory. the national parks have reopened with their usual programming. airports are running like normal and federal employees are back on the job with the backpay that they lost because of no fault of their own because of the federal government shutdown. but for one group of workers, things are not back to normal. these are the low-wage workers employed by federal contractors serving in cafeterias, providing building security and keeping federal buildings clean. they work -- these federal contra

it is actually an amendment by senator jones that senator capito cosponsored. the presiding officer: duly noted. a senator: madam president, i rise today in strong support of my amendment with the senator from alabama, senator jones, to this domestic spending package. our amendment will block an impending $1.2 billion billion cut to federal investments in public transportation. ms. mcsally: without our legislative action to block this cut, public transit agencies across the country will suffer a 12% across-the-board cut. these cuts would be devastating to all of our communities. transit funds in my home state in arizona are critically important to our quickly growing communities. maricopa county was the fastest growing county in the united states last year and cities such as flagstaff and tucson are also attracting more jobs and more families. our state continues to have to meet the demands of our expanding cities and towns, and that is true from phoenix to flagstaff and all throughout the state. our amendment would block more than $15.4 million in cuts to ariz

the senate unites. our prayers are with those of the house for elijah's wife, for his children and for all the colleagues, friends andta

finally, senator helms, mrs. helms too, not only humbled by this but also proud of secretary wilkie who served on his staff. when secretary wilkie stepped away from his staff to pursue other things, senator helms wrote a letter to him, you are a young man and high principal. great judgments, and remarkable wisdom for one so young, i predict a great future for you in so many ways. introducing senator wilkie, secretary wilkie today is retired lieutenant colonel jim carrafanoh, the vice president of heritage katherine davison institute, national security and foreign policy, dw richardson fellow. 2009, and u.s. army for 23 years. in addition to leading heritage national security and foreign policy, serves one of the nonprofit esprit they corps which educates the public about veterans. >> this is the best day of my life. i get to introduce a great friend and a great american. i love what senator helms wrote. he is no longer a young fellow but he is still a man of high principles. thank you. it is great to partnership

our senator, robert wilkie. secretary wilkie was in aid to jesse helms, and stood right here and my job and introduced so many distinguished speakers. to have them here doing this is one great payback. he is our guest today and deservedly so. he was confirmed by the u.s. senate on july 23rd, 2018, and sworn in on july 30th 2018, as a tenth secretary of veteran affairs prior to his prior position. he was the under secretary for defense, the principal adviser to the secretary and the deputy secretary of defense and served jim mattis as the undersecretary of defense as an assistant secretary of defense. before that was in a special assistant to the president of the united states for national security affairs and a senior director at the national security council -- did you ever see this guy at all? for five years he was part of the largest engineering management form at all. he's a colonel, we don't hold that against him, and he previously served in the navy reserve with the joint -- i hold that against him! with a

both senators are members of the senate judiciary committee and yesterday the chairman indicated there is an investigation he would like the committee to pursue. chairman graham said he would invite rudy giuliani to testify before the senate judiciary committee about quote corruption in ukraine. senator harris responded to that on twitter saying good. i have questions. joining us now is senator kamala harris, democrat from california a member of the judiciary committee and intelligence committee and now a democratic candidate for president of the united states. senator, thank you very much for joining us tonight. i want to begin with what reads like a prosecutor's notice letter saying preserve all your documents, this comes from you and senator blumenthal to former state attorneys general, you actually referenced that in your letter. i think the recipients of this letter today know that very well about both of you. what are you hoping to accomplish? >> to put everyone on notice, lawrence, this is a process that is about pursuit of justice and truth and that we are not going to tolerate

, senator shaheen, senator blew men that will and senator blackburn. we need swift and bipartisan action to repair the damage caused by the decision to allow turkey to attack our chief partner in the fight against isis terrorists and to make sure that we stop the revival of isis. the syrian kurds have been the tip of the spear in our fight against isis and its re-emergence. the senate should vote on the bipartisan resolution that senator rand mentioned that passed the house yesterday but move immediately to take up the bill that we are introducing today. i think we recognize that many damage has been done. as senator graham, russia, assad, iran and isis are moving quickly to fill the void, but we can demonstrate that american leadership matters here in the congress and take the measures that we are calling for today. we have to send a message. we have to a send message. and we will fight to make sure that isis does not get more oxygen and come back. they have been down, but they are not out. and this action that has been taken gives them the opportunit

there have only been two such senate trials. but the impeachment power is the congress's most serious check on presidential abuses of power. without removal, it shook the presidencies of johnson and clint clinton. now, tonight, we are going to explore how the less sons from those earlier fights may determine the fate of the trump presidency. >> just so you know, the call was perfect. >> one year for watergate is enough. >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman. >> i have an article two where i have a right to do whatever i want as president. >> it depends upon what the meaning of the word is. >> i'm not a crook. >> i answered everything. it is a hoax. >> i shall resign the presidency e fktive at noon tomorrow. >> there is no pressure. this is a scam. >> the credible threat of impeachment did drive nixon from office. but the threat was based on nixon himself, his words, his tapes, his evidence that did in his presidency. on this sunday night, three weeks into this ukraine crisis, if you can believe it, it is also presid

. >> he was in the senate and in 1984 he was head of the senate foreign relations committee the second to do so. he was a top leader in the modern conservative movement and he along with margaret thatcher and ronald reagan were instrumental to win the cold war and defeating communism. a matter of fact margaret thatcher wrote jesse helms record is unmatched. also it was well known as a bipartisan senator and him and joe biden were very close friends and to this day the vice president will talk fondly of his relationship with helms and in the archives we refer to those love letters that biden and helms shared that are open and they are on the website that they are unique. in 2001 when he announced his retirement, mead wrote in the wall street journal opinion section "as senator helms prepares to step down, i cannot see how it feels we are looking for something to wear an american politics of benefits principle first in loyalty before ambition and we could do a lot more like him. and of course senator helms admiration is very well documented in october 6, 2000 he said if america saved her

senator wyden and senator grassley agreed on that. we think that needs fixing, because that $3100 can hit the patient in month one and we think it should be spread out over a year. but it is the right idea. these people shouldn't be strapped with those out-of-pocket costs. if you look at the pelosi bill, which has an out-of-pocket cost cap, and you look at the senate bill, that is the piece i would love them to agree on. take care of the elderly and disabled so that they don't face these kinds of prices again. and as i said, we stepped up to say we will pay for it. $3 billion a year and we said put it on us. we are will help even more. above the $100 billion we are already paying to help folks in this country be able to afford their drugs, we will pay for that as well. i hope they can get past the political dynamics which are legion at the moment, and come to some reasonable agreement to take care of the problem. sarah: what about the other big aspect of senator grassley's bill, which would penalize drug companies that raise prices ye

the senate needs to speak up. we cannot effectively support our partners on the ground without a military presence. senators who thought we should withdraw from syria and afghanistan in february do not get to criticize president trump for withdrawing from syria today unless they go on the record, admit they changed their minds, and say it's too dangerous to quit. so today, along with chairman inhofe, chairman risch, senator graham, senator burris, i am introducing a stronger resolution that acknowledges hard truths and focuses on our strategic interests in the middle east. our resolution acknowledges the vital role that our kurdish and arab syrian partners have played in rooting out and destroying the isis cal fate. -- caliphate. it condemns turkey's decision to escalate hostilities in syria, warns against the abandonment of our allies and partners in syria, and urges president trump to rethink his invitation for president erdogan to visit the white house. it also acknowledges turkey's legitimate national security

senator risch: senator rubio. senator rubio: thank you for being here today and service to our country which i think is across four cabinet departments, three administrations, last two years as the deputy, and all six weeks as the acting secretary of state. now you are going to russia. as i told you yesterday i don't know what you're going to do to top that. that's a great record of service to our country. because you are the nominee to such an important post, i think we just want to cut to the chase. we all understand the theory and the argument made that the president of the united states was engaged in an effort to leverage u.s. foreign aid to a country in exchange for that country helping him go after the -- a political opponent. that is the allegation. that's what the house is looking into. bottom line, were you aware at any time until the stuff was in the press, did anyone ever come to you, were you aware of that sort of connection, that quid pro quo that's being alleged? was that something you were a part o

if the senate votes to dismiss. guest: it could, if they voted to dismiss it would be over and everyone would go home. at a minimum, there would have to be a majority of the senators to vote to dismiss it. i rather doubt that the matter would be dealt with like that. it would look so obviously partisan and would present, frankly, difficulty republicans who are up for reelection in the next cycle and who need, at the least, to be seen in their states to be treating this matter seriously. host: that requires a simple majority, correct? guest: yes. host: texas, good morning. caller: good morning. this is such an interesting subject. questions that have seen answered on various channels and i want to get a straight answer on this. rules,rstanding is the there are no rules in the constitution for what the congress right now is undertaking. that the majority leader of the congress basically sets the rules. understand i also that in the nixon impeachment, there was a special counsel that gathered evidence and that rule is

another of my colleagues, senator graham, said he was trying to organize a letter of senate republicans promising they would not go back until my clothes to convict the president abefore the house completes inquiry. before any articles impeachment are even drafted. let alone voted on. before scrap of evidence was considered in the senate trial. if it comes to it. senator graham seems to be advocating alice in wonderland justice. first the verdict, then the trial. i hope they will rethink that. over the state work period the republican leader ran an advertisement in which he declared the way impeachment stops is with a senate majority with me as majority leader. that's a far cry from what he said in 1998 "not prejudging the case". we are several steps away from but the potential trauma sums. the house continues to do its work diligently evenhandedly with only the facts in mind. i remind my republican colleagues in this chamber that committing today to vote not guilty is contrary to their oath to do impartial justice. that's their oath. instead of prejudging, i ueremi my republican collea

senator sanders? >> well, for someone who wrote the damn bill, as i said, let's be clear, under the medicare for all bill that i wrote, premiums are gone, co-payments are gone, deductibles are gone, all out of pocket expenses are gone. we're going to do better than the canadians do and that is what they have managed to do. at the end of the day the overwhelming majority will save money on their health care bills, but i do think it is appropriate to acknowledge that taxes will go up. they're going to go up significantly for the wealthy. and for virtually everybody the tax increase they pay will be substantially less -- stnc substantially less than what they were paying for premiums and out of pocket expenses. >> senator warren, will you acknowledge what the senator just said about taxes going up? >> so my view on this and what i have committed to is costs will go down for hardworking middle class families. i will not embrace a plan like medicare for all who can afford it. that will leave behind million

senator murphy: we have no choice. to say it today, the world doesn't stop at our borders any longer. our economic interests clearly are now global. the ability for information to flow across borders and for other nations to use low-cost mechanisms to mess with us in the united states outside the projection of military forces is more menacing than ever before. we are serious about protecting america, we have to be globally engaged. that doesn't mean that you your d game is to defeat your adversaries or your projections abroad. i think if we can project and portray strength to both russia and china, then it may be there is a better chance they will decide to amend their either political or economic behaviors to a standard that is much more in line with american interests. but we don't have the capacities to meet them where they are today and this is what i write about. china is midwifing technologies and delivering them to the world or the way russia is using corruption and bribery and information propaganda to try to i

senate. i was a naval flight officer, later governor for delaware and now i serve as delaware's u.s. senator. i have had the privilege of serving with literally hundreds of people here, in the house as and governor and certainly in the navy, armed services during the vietnam war. among my all-time favorite colleagues, all those, whether it was military service or the state of delaware or here in congress, one of my all-time favorite people to serve with was a woman from north carolina from a place called shelby. my wife is from north carolina. her family is from north carolina. she has her father down there and a lot of nieces and nephews that grew up in the mountain. she's got sisters in raleigh. some of her sisters live in shelby. there was a woman born there in 1953 named kay hagan. i don't know that she was born kay hagan, but she became kay hagan, and maybe that was after getting married. but she was a daughter of a homemaker named jeanette, and her dad had a tire business. later he work

over a decade i knew her as a state senator and candidate and senator and former senator who returned to private life without an ounce of regret. or ill will i never heard her once complain because she was never sour or sarcastic or dejected. always remained to her last day a cheerful optimist and a happy warrior. it's one of the many reasons she was beloved by members on the side of the aisle and i believe on those on the other side as well. we will miss her. my heart goes out to chip , their three kids and their wonderful grandchildren that she was so proud of. now on another subject yesterday morning it was announced that us special operation forces killed aku bakr al-baghdadi the leader of the islamic state. this is a great victory for the safety of our country and partners. and those operations that executed this mission the intelligence community professionals whose work helped enable the mission and our allies and partners particularly the syrian kurds to work contributing to the local isis but despite this victory we must not confuse the death of this evil man with the defeat

to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable cindy hyde-smith, a senator from the state of mississippi, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: chuck grassley, president pro tempore. mr. mcconnell: madam president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: later today the senate will have the opportunity to confirm another brilliant nominee to the federal judiciary. in this case, i'm proud to say this new lifetime judge will be another fine kentuckian. for those of us who know justin walker and have seen his work up close, it's clear that president trump made an outstanding choice to be a district judge for the district of western kentucky. mr. walker has sharpened his legal skills at the highest levels, including premier clerkships to then judge brett kavanaugh of the d.c. circuit and former justice anthony kennedy. as a prominent attorney and law professor, he's earned the respect of his peers in the legal world and of the community that he'll serve on the bench. for his students, mr.

it is being slowed down in the senate or paused in the senate because the republicans who run the chamber want to give the cease-fire a chance. they want to give the president a chance to try to seal the deal they worked out here is going to be successful. they are having sanctions as plan b. the house will pass it. they are working in conjunction with senate republicans who are not opposed what the house is doing. they just want to give the president a chance and i think i recall the president saying last ork that if the sanctions cease-fire is not successful, he could reimpose sanctions that he had placed from the executive branch. congress will take them up in the house and the senate is in a ift and see mode to see things do in fact stabilize in the region and that the kurds are protected and the isis terrorists who are imprisoned at their that way. if things start to fall apart, then i think you might see the senate pressured to act and more willing to act on the house bill that we are likely to see move next week. -- >> we seeers lawmakers continue to work. were her from the senate

responded, you have addressed senator, senator, senator. i think you should be addressing victims because they are the ones we are asking questions on behalf of. they are the ones who have come today on behalf of their family members. another thing i want to ask you -- you have mentioned a couple of times a lack of awareness of emails or documents or communications. we have something around here before we vote. we read the bill. so we know what is in it. if we need to ask questions, we ask questions. we develop the awareness that is so necessary to make good decisions. of thehave a full view situation that is in front of us. disconcerting to hear someone who is to be the leader of a company to say, i was not aware. or, i did not know. that.had not read nobody made me aware of that. buck.l that passing the it is your responsibility if you are going to lead the company to have that awareness. have you at this point read each and every page of every document that is relative to the situation in this case? say i have i cannot read every documen

sanders, senator klobuchar, senator booker, all of them will be in the senate six days a week, most of the day monday through saturday. now, you don't have to be mensa material to see who that helps. >> neil: very interesting. >> maybe it's just a coincidence. i doubt it. >> neil: no. you're doing the columbo thing. >> good to see you. >> neil: does seem like the middle of a political crisis. an interesting book out. talking the historians. they're view of times where we had bigger crises, much bigger crises and we got through them each and every single time. david rubenstein on that and history and i guess us after this. ♪ - [woman] with my shark, i deep clean messes like this, this, and even this. but i don't have to clean this, because the self-cleaning brush roll removes hair while i clean. - [announcer] shark, the vacuum that deep cleans now cleans itself. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. i wish i could shake your hand. granted. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ >> neil: you know, we always say

anderson: senator klobuchar -- senator klobuchar, senator warren -- senator warren supports a voluntary -- excuse me, senator klobuchar, you support a voluntary buyback, if him him i'm correct, right. what is wrong with a mandatory buyback? your response. sen. klobuchar: i just keep thinking of how close we are to finally getting something done on this. i'm looking at the mayor of dayton. i met one of the survivors from that shooting, 30 seconds, nine people killed. the public is with us on this in a big way. the majority of trump voters want to see universal background checks right now. the majority of hunters want to see us move forward with gun safety legislation. well. why not a mandatory one? sen. warren: so, look, i want to get what works done. i want to use the method we used, for example, with machine guns. we registered them, we put in a huge penalty if you didn't register them, and a huge tax on them, and then let people turn them in, and it got machine guns out of the hands of people. but the problem here that we need to focus on is, first, how widespread gun violence is. as

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senator moran, senator hoeven, senator murkowski, and senator collins. i also want to thank their respective ranking members, the democrats, for their bipartisan cooperation here -- senators shaheen, senator merkley, senator udall, and senator reed. together, these four measures before us today account for nearly one-third -- one-third, madam president -- of all nondefense discretionary spending, consistent with the bipartisan budget agreement, they contain no new poison pills. and i would caution my colleagues on both sides of the aisle against pursuing poison pills -- poison pill amendments if we're able to proceed today. if we're to make any progress on the 2020 appropriations bills, i think we must be true to our commitment enshrined in the terms of of the budget agreemeno refrain from such provisions, to move the process. i would also like to move this package through regular order so that we can return quickly to a second package that the majority leader spoke to us at lunch today about, that funds the military and many more other agencies. there's

reporter: senator graham, senator graham. reporter: sir -- senator, you said a secret, illegitimate process -- sen. graham: that's my view. reporter: what do you say to the argument that 47 of your republican house colleagues who serve on these committees, they have the right to be in there, it's not secret, it's bipartisan. sen. graham: i would say if we pulled this -- eating this alive. let me finish and let me tell you why. how many people have asked me about bill taylor's opening statement? all i can say is if we had rudy giuliani's opening statement, and he said, i did nothing wrong, i doubt if you would accept that. so 47 republican house members feel like it's not working for them. they feel like that volker's testimony has been selectively released. radcliffe's cross-examination of taylor is not available to you. so the people that you named are as upset as i am. here's what i would say. there's a way to do it. reporter: president trump -- sen. graham: these rights that every other president, nixon, clinton have had,

thank you, senator. >>thank you, senator. senator klobuchar. >> "we're not covering what you need." >> i spent most of my time studying one basic question and that is why h hard-working peope go broke. one of the principal reasons for that is the cost of health care. and back when i was studying to out of every three families that ended up in bankruptcy after a serious medical problem had health insurance. the problem we've got right now is the overall cost of health care. and, look, you can try to spin this any way you want. i've spent my entire life on working on how america's middle class has been hollowed out and how we fight back. i've put out nearly 50 plans on how we can fight back and how we can rebuild an america that works. and a part is that is we have got to stop -- >> thank you, senator. >> americans from going bankrupt over health care costs. amy: that was senator elizabeth warren talking about medicare for all. the questioner was mark lacey. steffie woolhandler, your response and the refusal of elizabeth warren

it's cosponsored by senator klobuchar, senator leahy, senator feinstein, and others. this bill is an effort to try to protect us from this type of international interference in our elections as well as local efforts that are aimed at trying to intimidate voters at -- targeted at minority voters. that should have no place in american politics. this bill did pass the house of representatives in march of this year in h.r. 1. very quickly, and let me tell you what this bill does. it prohibits individuals from knowingly deceiving others about the time, place, eligibility and procedure of participating in a federal election. it -- exercising their right to vote, particularly the use of digit yalt platforms that disseminate voters, and combating voter intimidation, especially those aimed at suppressing voting rights. i would hope every member of this chamber would support these efforts. unfortunately the majority leader has failed to bring any of these issues to the floor or give us any time to take up legislation in order to protect our free election system. time is running

mr a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. a senator: from new mexico. thank you for the recognition. it's great to be here with senator murkowski. i rise to speak in support of fiscal year -- fiscal year 2020 interior appropriations bill which is now before the senate. mr. udall: and i want to begin by thanking my chairman and partner in this endeavor, senator murkowski for her working with me to produce a very fine bill that is crafted on a bipartisan basis. it's extraordinary that this bill is on the floor for the second consecutive year. after many years when we were not able to move the bill by regular order. and much of the credit goes to her leadership and her commitment to working through tough issues in a fair and a pragmatic way. one of the reasons i'm particularly proud of moving a bipartisan bill is the importance this bill has for my home state of new mexico. this bill reflects the long tradition we have in my state of working across the aisle to support conservation priorities. it includes a number of important a

now on climate is senator cardwell knows later the senate will vote on his resolution and repeal the trump administration's soak called affordable clean energyon role. this is one of the few opportunities for the minority can force the vote on the senate floor and there may be no more worthy an issue than protecting our environment. four years ago the obama administration put in place standards and safeguards for co2 in fossil fuel emissions from power plants. the first of their kind intended to meet the threat of climate change but earlier in july by employing shady science the trump administration obliterated the safe guards so vital to protecting our world and frankly a lot of the in my home state of new york. place the trump administration enacted the new rule that would allow polluters to wreck our air and dirtier water and poison our earth with little to no accountability. thanks to this new rule commonsense limits on carbon emissions have been blurred. deadlines for implementing reductions have been tripled or even quadrupled. time is running out for the united states to meet

i want to thank senator daines, senator tester, senator gillibrand and senator jones who have joined me in adding $1 million fully paid for and offset within the bill to help combat this epidemic of meth in our country and certainly in our states like colorado. another amendment that i've been working on is the bullet-proof vest amendment. we've seen too many attacks on our law enforcement over the past several years, so this legislation would provide a $1.1 billion fund for our nation's law enforcement officers with type 3 bullet-proof vests. they are capable of stopping more powerful rifle ballistics and would allow more officers to come home, to come home at the end of the day of their service and that's what we need to be focusing on how to protect the men and women in blue in our communities. proud to have joint legislation earlier this year that was signed into law that permanently reauthorized the bulletproof vest partnership program and hope we continue to build and offer our support to those who it defend that thin blue line. the crown jewel of our conservation programs, the

a big number for a senate candidate. senator mcconnell energizes democrats. it may be wouldn't be as difficult to raise a lot of money running against him. that is still certainly to her credit. it is still an uphill climb. >> gary peters in michigan. the one democrat that republicans feel it they have a shot at the seating. he was outraised by his republican challenger in the most recent quarter. john james run and successfully for can -- senate in 2018. they see james as a strong candidate. democrats caution that senator won competitive races and is consistently raising a good amount of money. democrats look at michigan as a place where the president's popularity will be a major factor. president trump narrowly won michigan in 2016. democrats see his popularity dwindling there. they think that will also help peter's going into 2020. >> michael is in wisconsin. republican caller. >> yes. you mentioned something about running in-state and out-of-state. does rollcall publish that? does that get to the media as far as excluding money coming in and out of the st

a senator is not a civil officer. a class of people subject to impeachment under the constitution. >> north carolina, republican line, good morning. >> good morning. i am actually a duke law student, would you come to our school and have a talk? this topic is electric and you can feel it in the school, in terms of the excitement and the discourse of not understanding what the process really entails. >> what is the question you are getting from your peers? >> it is really about the process. also, what i think has been the thread and the common theme is when you have an administration that is doing continuous blocking of potential witnesses, where they are essentially stopping every step of the way those people coming forward in offering their testimony, is that we are seeing barriers set up. a lot of the focus has been on what compels individuals to come forward from the law and what statute in the law will provide a mechanism, compelling them to come forward, other than the subpoena process? secondly, one question abo

and joining me now is a senior senator from that state. senator, thank you for joining us. appreciate it. >> thanks, steve. >> let me start on the question of impeachment. >> a couple weeks ago you gave an interview to politico. you drew a distinction between trump had committed impeachable offenses but you have not drawn a conclusion if he should be impeached. given the reporting on those depositions and what mulvaney said yesterday, is that still your view or has it changed? >> no. i think the guy has clearly flaunted the rule of law, he's committed impeachable offenses. and i think if the facts continue to support what i think he's done, he should be impeached as a result of it. >> what is the difference between saying you have no doubt he committed impeachable offenses but you're not sure on impeachment? what was the distinction you are drawing there? >> i think that if the facts hold up the way they are he should be impeached. we're just at the beginning of the impeachment inquiry. they're going to go through it and look at the facts. the facts are pretty terrible. the

a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. murphy: thank you very much, mr. president. mr. president, the most sacred, the most important, the most profound responsibility that a president of the united states has is to keep americans safe. everything else that we care about, the citizens of this great nation, the best nation on the planet, it matters very little if our physical safety and the physical safety of our families, of our loved ones aren't assured. that's job number one for the president of the united states. now, mr. president, i believe that the president has likely committed offenses that are worthy of impeachment. i think it's likely that information is going to emerge from the house's inquiry that will present republicans with clear evidence that the president's abuse of office has been serious. now, obviously, we need to wait for the articles of impeachment to arrive in the senate, if they do arrive, before any of us decide our vote on revolve, but the publicly stipulated facts already surrounding the presiden

reporter: thank you, senator. i want to follow up a little bit more on the lunch and in general the eaction you got from white house and the president himself. what did -- can you tell us a what he -- what would he like you to do? effort?pportive of this does he talk about being more aggressive on his behalf? and then, have you heard from the last 10 days or so that the witnesses have been coming out about his frustration? senator graham: yes. he was in a good mood. he appreciated the lunch. would like the process to be xposed for being basically unfair. he keeps telling us he did nothing wrong. he keeps telling me that the phone call was president. i'm -- phone call was perfect. i'm saying, the phone call was ok with me. he feels like it never stops. been in office, what, three years now, and every time another around there's reason that his family, his friends -- he's got to pay legal ills and that he feels like he doesn't have a real fair chance of being president of the united states. he thought it would be ov

senate mitch mcconnell, the majority leader says to his fellow senators in the conference, i understand why some of you don't want to support this president, oh yeah, you do? said i. this is agreed justly disloyal on his part and lacking in just plain guts. and then to say we will focus on process, because this isn't fair. what in the -- what is going on over there? >> i cannot explain that mindset because i don't understand that mindset. i have viewed this from day one that the other side is out to basically get this president. they protect him, his family, his associates. lou: and the republican party. the majority leader of the house and the senate, mcconnell and her former friend paul ryan the speaker of the house, you let the democrats steal the election of 2018. in 40 seats with it. it is incredible. >> we have to take it back. lou: where is the fire in your bellies. i just can't comprehend. >> what i am saying quite frankly is a regal kindling of the fire. i have talked to 70 people over the past two weeks in our conference and leadership who have a renewed burning in the air sub

manchin: i want to thank my colleague from ohio, senator brown, senator stabenow, senator casey, all those who feel strongly as we do and have constituents in our state who helped build this country to what it is today and deserve the respect we give them and also the hard fight that we will make sure we do for them. we're here to bring attention to the issue of the american workers' pension. i want to thank you for allowing me to speak today in the ever-present issue that our retired workers face in the issue of their pensions. i come to the floor today to speak on behalf of some of america's hardest workers. it has been 285 days, 285 days since i introduced the american miners act which would protect miners' pension from becoming collateral during coal mine bankruptcies. this is something that should have been done. it's been on leader mcconnell's desk for quite some time. we could have taken care of this a few years ago. we got the health care done, but they split it apart and we weren't able to get the pensions. the miners rely on their hard-earned pensions and retirement that sh

governor reynolds, senator , former, senator ernst congressman david young. the epa's assistant administrator. speaker of the house cap grassley. all the local leaders and guests and neighbors and friends. it is great to be back in the hawkeye state. thank you for that wonderful, warm welcome. i am really honored to see you all turned out today. thank you for taking some time away from work and your obligations to talk about an issue of great importance to iowa and the nation. let me say thanks to a few friends who are with us today. not just do i want to thank her for that overly generous introduction but i have to tell you, there is no more dynamic, in americag governor then governor tim reynolds. he is doing a phenomenal job for iowa. and let me thank another friend of mine who i have come to know well in my duties as vice president. and i find my ways the united states senate on a regular basis. i get a chance to interact with both of your senators, anatoly this one is amazing. inlikes to say that they was mother and a leader. they are born and raised her

own senator. , the powerful fightr who is leading the for economic justice, senator jane sanders. this champion empowered the community by defeating an oppressive law. let's give it up for the councilman. [applause] the champion of the new york , the senator.t [applause] down all the way from upstate new as assembly man phillips tax. own homegrown, fighting on behalf of dreamers and the economy that works for all new yorkers, the assembly member. [applause] least, the men who took the stand against corporate a smack downp put on jeff bezos. and in his spare time, puts the most progressive legislative session in new york city, the majority leader. [applause] [chanting new york squad] senator bernard sanders always talks about this presidential run not being about me, but about us. we are going to turn around and we want to do it, are we ready for that? [applause] [applause] >> all right, queens. [chanting new york squad] just say something quick? on my way in, i was on the train. [applause] >> i was listening to another new yorker and i should've brought my phone so you could hear

and so to deal with this issue, senator joe manchin and myself and senator todd young, senator doug jones, senator kiersten sinema have proposed something called the trust fact. it is designed to save the trust funds associated with these major programs. it's designed to make sure that we have a process for finally getting balance in social security, both trust funds in social security as well as medicare, as well as the highway trust fund. this is an effort which has been undertaken in the past unsuccessfully, and there are a lot of people who say, well, it can't be done now. but it's got to be done now because if it's not done now, the burden that will fall on our seniors eventually will become extraordinary, and the burden that'll fall on the next generation as they don't know whether social security and medicare can be depended upon is unthinkable. the approach that senator manchin and myself and these other senators have taken is pretty straightforward. we're not laying out a specific plan to change these programs. instead, we have laid out a process for modernizing these programs. a