senators together. and on the issuest it's not a close call. it's time to update the program and better meet the needs of those who find it so crucial. >> thank you, chairman, for your comments. and i want to introduce the four witnesses. four witnesses, elizabeth curda oversees federal disability programs. steempb earth advantage lista is acting deputy commissioner for social security administration. thank you. and mia ives-rublee is director at the center for american progress. nice to see you. and kathleen romig is a senior policy analyst at the center on budget and policy priorities and is the lead expert on social security and ssi. so we will begin with ms. currda. you are reognized for five minutes. thank you for joining us. >> chairman brown, ranking member young and members of the subcommittee. i'm pleased to be here to discuss our work on the ssi program. ssi has faced long standing challenges in administering ssi. gao issued a number of reports with recommendations for how ssa might address th

senator carlson responded, mr. president, i think this might be the right time for you to come and meet our prayer group. and that's just what the president did. in this group he found individuals who were willing to offer their nonpartisan support for our president, the leader of the free world, because they knew that's what was best for our country. the job of the president is not easy and you often find yourself in the midst of difficult political situations. however, as the president, you should still be able to count on our prayers for the success of our country. prayers for the success of our country. this event allows us to recognize our common bonds to offer our prayers for one another, our president, and our nation. senator kirsten gillibrand and i are here together in this effort. we both understand what our founding fathers believed in, the right of each of us to worship the good lord the way that we see fit, whether it be in a church, synagogue, mosque, mountaintop, temple, or cathedral. we believe that

. >> martha: we are joined by senator ben cardin, a democrat on the foreign relations committee and senator john barrasso, a republican member. then... >> we have a real problem with the flow of guns through the inner city. >> we cannot continue to endure the level of violence that we are now experiencing. >> martha: mayors call for federal help to stem the rising violent crime while president biden tries to reassure law enforcement. we will ask our sunday panel how the president walks the line between crime and policing. plus... musical physical elizabeth the second marks 70 years as queen. we will discuss the milestone, the monarchy, and the weight of the crown over seven decades of duty. all right now on "fox news sunday." ♪ ♪ and hello again from fox news in washington. a contentious winter olympics now underway in beijing, but it is the chinese and russian presidents who say they are now on the same team in a global power competition as tensions rise on the ukraine border and the united states fends troops to the region. in a moment we will speak with white house national security

here's more specific, many of us on both sides of the audio here, senator thune, senator cinema, senator cantwell have been working on this issue. it's complicated. it's taking a long time. that's part of the constitutional structure as you know. ask james madison about how long it can take particularly on something very complicated. here's the question i have. is it ever okay to say look, you elected officials are not very knowledgeable, you are taking too long. let us experts get to work and we will devise net neutrality rules. this is kind of what the chair man did. i know you worked for him on that. who has the authority to undertake net neutrality legislation? >> legislation obviously congress. fcc adopts policy -- >> you are over another 40 seconds. i'm trying to get these guys in on round one. >> may i answer? >> please. >> i think it was senator moran. i would love to see congress to settle the issue of fcc end net neutrality, but until then the fcc has the authority to act and federal courts, dc circuit. in the cases the fcc has the authority to act and with the neutrality rules

now, on the timing, once the president sends judge jackson's nomination to the senate, senate democrats will work to ensure a fair, timely, and expeditious process, fair to the senate and the american public. judge jackson will receive a prompt hearing in the senate judiciary committee in the coming weeks. after the judiciary committee finishes its work, i will ask the senate to move immediately to confirm her to the supreme court. i have no doubt that judge jackson would make an outstanding supreme court justice. judge ketanji brown jackson has been confirmed by the united states senate on a bipartisan basis three times, and i expect and hope she will earn bipartisan support in the senate. ok? questions on this subject. reporter: what kind of republican [inaudible] sen. schumer: look, judge jackson has an impeccable record as a judge and in her public service. she has been confirmed by the united states senate on a bipartisan basis three times, so she is a highly qualified nominee, and i hope there will be a good number of republicans supporting her. i do not see why there shouldn't be

. >> the chair of the senate judiciary committee spoke on the senate floor about the retirement of supreme court justice stephen g. breyer and president bidens possible placement and senator durbin is scheduled be tuesday at the white house with the president to discuss vacancy and judiciary committee republican member, john cornyn also spoke on the senate floor about justice stephen g. breyer's replacement in the president's plan to select the first black woman it at this nominee to the court. >> senator from illinois. >> in keeping with the remarks on the republican senate leader, i would like to start with recognition of supreme court justice justice stephen g. breyer to the america, and on july the 12 of 1994, court of appeals judge named justice stephen g. breyer appeared before the senatear judiciary committee is the first day of his supreme court confirmation hearing and as he began speaking justice stephen g. breyer the maintain and courted, i believek the law must work for the people and he argued that are nations best web of constitutions, statutes and rules regulations and pract

the senate judiciary subcommittee is chaired by senator amy klobuchar of minnesota. the top republican on the panel is senator mike lee of utah. >>> okay. thank you, everyone. i call to order this hearing of the subcommittee on competition, antitrust and consumer rights entitled the impact of monopoly power on innovation. good afternoon, i want to welcome our witnesses. i think senator lee and his staff as well as my staff for planning this hearing. innovation is part of the american spirit. it is the core of the american spirit. innovation generates new opportunities and new hopes for businesses, workers and families. breakthroughs this science and technology has given us the vaccines that are getting us through the pandemic and driving the development of clean energy solutions to take on the climate crisis that we see every day as my state is getting a record heat wave and thunderstorms in the middle of december today. emerging technologies like artificial intelligence are driving innovation across our economy. of course some of our economy's largest companies bega

psaki: we are not going to get into private conversations we have with senator manchin or any other senators about this piece of legislation. note the caucus is taking steps to lower costs, making sure medicare can negotiate the cost of prescription drugs, and ensuring the tax system is fair. there is strong support for that. there are a lot of members having continued conversations. >> [indiscernible] is the u.s. open two more talks? what is a step forward? ms. psaki: the door to diplomacy remains open. you do not know what decision president putin will make. while we have seen the buildup of troops on the border, our secretary of state spoke this morning with the russian foreign minister and reiterated our commitment and openness to a diplomatic path forward. let me give you more of a readout. secretary blinken, the state department has a background call on this. the secretary emphasized the u.s. willingness to continue substantive exchange with russia. he reiterated the united states commitment to sovereignty. he also urged immediate russian de-escalation and the withdrawal of troops and

these are the senators. there were five democrats and two republicans and then they added a democrat later, so i'm not sure exactly who's in this picture, but that was the committee as it was gathering. just beginning hearing on a midwest transit defense transportation center, and you can see harry there actually touring that center with the committee on their work. um, one of the things they found which was fascinating to me when i first learned about this when i really dug into truman committee, was that what they had done in the effort to get things done quickly to build up the defense capabilities united states. as germany was rearing its ugly head and with a war over in europe. um, they harry found in the committee found that there were these cost plus contracts. and hi, this is personal to me because when i was campaigning for the senate for harry's seat. i certainly was aware of the truman committee in the work that had done and i was certainly aware that there was a lot of costly things going in iraq

you served in the senate, on the senate judiciary committee. you sat through many judicial nomination hearings at a couple of supreme court processes. walk us through the nominations prospect. at some point the president has said by the end of february he's going to make a nomination and then of course it goes to the senate. what should we expect as we look at the senate process? >> thanks joe and thanks to adx for hosting this event. i'm honored to be here. so yes, once we, once the white house has a nomination or a nominee they're going to send to the senate, the senate process starts and it's kind of been laid out through tradition and rules. first thing is the nominee submits their judiciary chair which is a comprehensive form that provides the judiciary committee with a starting point. for evaluation of a nominee. normally, there's an informal rule that the committee gets 28 days to review the senate judiciary questionnaire for a hearing is held. so you have, you'll have about a month of time for the committee to review the opinions, the w

in a 50/50 senate. so, this begins as the single most difficult confirmation of a supreme court justice for a president whose party, technically, controls the united states senate. joe biden is the first president of the united states who has to make this historic decision about a supreme court nominee while vladimir putin is amassing over 100,000 troops at the ukraine border. joe biden is the first president of the united states who has to make a decision about the supreme court while trying to get control of a worldwide pandemic in which the united states has fallen far behind other countries in preventative measures because the opposing political party champions resistance to basic public health measures including vaccinations. and president biden has to make his decision about the supreme court while trying to figure out what no president before him has ever figured out, how to control inflation in this economy. the only person who works with the president every day on every one of those issues and

thank you thank you, senator schumer, thank you, senator gillibrand. to all of my colleagues on the republican side, thank you. this is not bad for business. this is good for america. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the clerk will read the title of the bill for the third time. the clerk: calendar number 264, h.r. 4445, an act to amend title 9 of the united states code with respect to arbitration of disputes involving sexual assault and sexual harassment. the presiding officer: the question is on the passage of the bill. all those in favor say aye. all opposed say no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the bill is passed. the clerk: nomination, federal maritime commission, max vekidge, of washington, to be a federal maritime commissioner. the presiding officer: the senator from new hampshire is recognized. mrs. shaheen: mr. president, i come to the floor today to support three extraordinarily qualified department of defense nominees, melissa dalton to be -- dr. david honey for research and engineering and dr. wallender sec

thank you very much. >> thank you senator crapo. senator stabenow. >> thank you mr. chairman and ranking member. i soen appreciate the focus we e giving in the leadership you're giving on this and i have to say dr. murthy i appreciate your report on young people. we know that one out of five americans will have -- in their lifetime and that number may be going up related to the pandemic. the chairman talked about i think there are many of us in this chamber who have experiences with their families and for me it wasas my dad being bipolar before there was a diagnosis and before there was treatment and medication. i so what happens when he didn't have those things and what he did and the transformation in him and our family so i wish that for everyone which means we have to treat health care above the neck as well as below the neck and get rid of that stigma. we know that children and many adults have been particularly hard hit and anxiety depression and other issues can become way too common and far too many children and young people have gone without treatment and so

she has been confirmed as i said bite the senate twice unanimously. nothing about her or her approach of this job has changed. former head of the community bankers said yesterday a few lawmakers appear not to believe the assurances that she will not metal directly in affairs of financial institutions, but i believe her and so do my fellow bankers. after all, she had any information to tell bankers what to do, she surely would have done so when she was at the fed or treasure before. she did not because she knows and understands the role of the bank regulator. all five fed nominees have run the,. they've offered to meet with senators on and off the committee. religions and democrats. they've gone to hearings and answered dozens of questions for the record. they received an unprecedented amount of support. still counting. banking industries, state regulars, economists. and more and more. this pivotal moment in our economy, everyone needs to understand we need a full reserve board. this will be the first time in almost a decade where we have all seven mem

senator duckworth? no? the senator live here and in person and we'll come back to senator duckworth. you're recognized and then i have senator stabenow after you by webex. go ahead. >> thank you, mr. chairman, i'd like to begin by asking consent three documents into the hearing record, one is an economic study published in the national academy of science called environmental outcomes of u.s. renewable fuel, the second is a study by the university of georgia called analyzing the downstream impact of u.s. biofuel policies. and the third is an article entitled u.s. bread and donut maker urge biden to roll back biofuel requirements. i want to share a personal-- >> is there objection? hearing none. >> thank you. thank you very much. we've already heard testimony that the rsf mandate is adding about 28 to 30 cents a gallon to the wholesale cost of gas on average and of course, at a time when fuel prices are extremely high, and inflation is extremely high. it works a hardship on consumers. and i believe we should

senator king and senator kelly and i are working on the effective suicide screening and assess the in the emergency department act to provide resources for emergency room personnel to identify, assess, and treat individuals at risk of suicide. i think unfortunately, we know that's where far too many who are seeking help end up sitting in an emergency room where you don't necessarily have those that are trained to identify and assess. later this week, i'm going to be introducing the guarding our mental health act to prevent cost guard members who seek help from being automatically processed for discharge. again, we know we have to make headway on the stigma issues associated with mental health. and then with senator rosen, we're going to be introducing the youth mental health and suicide prevention act to ensure that the grant can provide additional mental health programming to students. madame chairman, we know around this senate here there's plenty that can divide us. i would like to think that mental health, substance use, these are areas we can find true bipartisan consensus and ho

>> yes, senator. i would be happy to do that. >> i think i will submit the rest of my questions for answers in writing. >> thank you very much, senator grassley. i think senator carper is available online and we want to give a special shout out to senator carper because he is making a personal commitment to stand up for kids as they kind of wind their way through the mental health system. >> thank you for joining us and for your service and thank you for joining us today for your testimony. i want to thank you for the opportunity and delighted to have my friend and colleague senator cassidy. the pediatric mental health crisis challenge for those in the room working with others that share this mission like you, doctor murthy, we believe we can forge the way [inaudible] the goal of the council was to focus [inaudible] shows the low cost and high benefit and my simple question is how can congress work to build on these services. >> senator, it's good to see you and thank you for the question about preven

so senator mcconnell as the majority leader in the senate spends most of the senate's time and dedicated the calendar to confirming as many nominations particularly lifetime appointments to the federal bench as he possibly could. and sort of had this conveyor belt of nominations running through the senate and really there's no incentive. the other thing is in the event that ththe republicans regain the majority in the senate and have the majority in the house, there's no real incentive to sort of reform the legislative filibuster then either because joe biden is going to veto whatever is a majority republican item in the house and senate to get back to i mentioned earlier the congressional review act process which is a simple majority to negate regulations for departments and agencies. that if you were to see a republican majority in the senate they can still advance those bills with a simple majority so they could attempt to sort of send messages about a pending president biden's epa regulations, various covid regulations from hhs and treasury. wherever, and get those bills to the presi

you work for senator rubio. i think you are involved with a couple of the papers in a report that was produced on american investment. take us how you've seen the political context change over the last several years. >> yeah, sure. first of all thanks for reading. i'll let my former colleagues know, , they will appreciate it. so just for reference, the text you are referring to are are a few reports senator rubio release back when he is chairman of the small business committee, just to summarize them quickly. the first was on china's, made in china 2025 strategy which the communist party clearly outlined its very specific plans to dominate ten critical industry areas in the 21st century. what that report did was try to understand the applications of that fact which, number one, what you again admit that the chinese, his party clearly understood itself to be in fierce competition with us and was organizing its economy accordingly at the applications were important it meant china was trying to do loud on the basis

sanders: thank you, senator merkley. senator romney. >> ms. young, as you probably know i was one of those who was part of a bipartisan negotiating team that put together the infrastructure built. our largest single investment was in highways. you can imagine our surprise when we see the department of transportation indicating that the highway money cannot be used for increasing the capacity of highways. this direction flies in the face of our intent and our needs. i recognized, some states are not growing and may not need additional capacity, delaware, new york, rhode island and so forth. but other states are growing fast, south carolina, florida, my state of utah is the fastest-growing state in the nation in the last decade. we need to increase capacity on highways or we will not see the economic growth that we projected as being a part of this bill. current -- could you get back to our members of a bipartisan group on our progress on this front? ms. young: the ranking member brought this to my attention today. i will look into this and than

senator feinstein couldn't attend the meeting but senator booker was there. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2022] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> is tensions along the russia-ukraine border remain high, there are concerns the russian invasion would cause humanitarian effects and cause a migration c-span is your unfiltered view of the government. including media come. the world change in an instant. we never slow down. we look at the haydn's administration pandemic and mental health policies. usa today james bovard

especially with the shocking news the democratic senator of new mexico is out of the senate right now, recovering from a stroke. cnn's manu raju spoke with them. let's start with what he told but a letter he and west virginia democratic senator joe manchin signed about what manchin would be willing to support in build back better. apparently, speaker pelosi and president biden never knew about this letter? >> that's right. they felt blind sided by this. the white house did not know about this either. recalled where they were at that time, it was in july. they were negotiating how to move forward on the larger agenda. manchin laid out what he could agree to. $1.5 trillion. at that time democrats were trying to piece together a larger plan. $3.5 trillion to move the biden agenda. but manchin had made clear, he could not go that far. it wasn't until a couple months later when news broke about exactly what manchin would ultimately, could agree on. at that point the democrats were left scrambling. trying to reconcile their approach with what joe manchin could agree to. they still pushed fo

olsen: senator -- sen. cotton: can you name anyone else on the department of justice's most wanted page? mr. olsen: i'm sorry, i didn't hear. sen. cotton: can you name anyone else on the department of justice's most wanted page from the january 6 riots? mr. olsen: i am not familiar with the most wanted page. sen. cotton: i guess we have to seek our answers elsewhere. this has not been a stellar performance today. >> senator whitehouse, are you online? please proceed. sen. whitehouse: mr. olsen, as a legal matter, are violent acts and threats of violence protected by the first amendment? mr. olsen: no, violent acts and threats of violence are not protected. sen. whitehouse: are they crimes, sometimes federal crimes? mr. olsen: they can be both state and federal crimes. sen. whitehouse: if violence or threats of violence occur at a school board meeting, is there any difference from other locations? mr. olsen: not from the perspective of whether the acts would be considered crimes under state or federal law. s

senator wicker, a few words. >> senator shaheen is an experienced senator who was use to the filibuster, and she managed to do and she said she would do, did brief remarks. let me see a brief i can be. i attended earlier this morning a bipartisan, bicameral hearing with the polish foreign minister. it harken me back to the days when i was in rotc student and when i wasas about to enter the air force where i served. i never thought poland would be free. i was pessimistic about that. and yet today we were hearing from the polish foreign minister about their upcomingr chairmanship come chairmanship in office of the osce. it strucke have come, i am a vet of ronald reagan, and ronald reagan called the soviet union the evil empire. there were all sorts of deaths and imprisonments, and executions to prove that. the evil empire broke up, and poland is free, when they have an election you don't know who will win until because are counted, unlike russia. ukraine came along a little later, but they want to be in charge of their destiny. and our international rules based system of agreements ratifi

we are joined by ajay kundaria, former chief counsel to senator amy klobuchar on the senate judiciary committee. prior to his work on the senate he served in a department of the treasury, the promise of commerce and private practice. we are also joined by farah peterson, professor of law at the university of chicago law school and former clerk for justice stephen breyer. farah peterson is a legal historian focusing on statutory interpretation. in addition to her supreme court clerkship, she clerked for the second circuit court of appeals. thank you to all of you for being with us today. you are the one who has the opportunity to work up close and personal with justice breyer. tell us from your vantage point about his approach to judging and the mark he made on supreme court jurisprudence. >> one thing that stands out about justice breyer, he spent so many years on the court, 10 or 11 years as junior most justice, he had to do his convincing before the justices sat down. maybe he would always be in conversation with colleagues. engage in conversation treating everyone as of oh you enga

a rare joint interview with democratic senator joe manchin and republican senator lisa murkowski next. >>> and not a game. as the world braces for potential war on russia's border, the winter olympics kicks off in china with a controversial start. as the world grappleless with beijing's human rights atrocities, are athletes safe to speak out? u.s. ambassador to the united nations linda thomas g-greenfie joins me ahead. >>> the republican party officially embraces the january 6th insurrection and censures two of its own for telling the truth. does truth telling mean political compile from today's gop? >>> hello. i'm jack tapper in washington where the state of our union is wondering if we're about to emerge from a rough couple years. president biden is enjoying a week of positive headlines for the first time in quite some time. a january jobs report that far surpassed expectations, good news in the pandemic as covid cases and hospitalizations plummet. but the president's agenda is still mired in washington, d.c. dysfunction. the president has had trouble getting all 50 democrats in the

member of the senate foreign relations committee. senator, great to see you. >> good to be with you, chuck. >> let me start with the decision to deploy troops. you know, a lot of times, at what point, do you think the president should be getting advice from congress? or congress is, i guess, acceptance of deploying troops like this, at what point do you think he needs to go to congress? >> look, i think it's important that the president, the secretary of defense, the secretary of state consult with the foreign relations committee. the president and his team have been doing that regularly, within his scope as commander in chief the president has the ability to deploy troops particularly to our nato allies. and in the face of a demonstrable threat to the region and region's stability towards putin's progressive stance towards ukraine. but i think one of the things we've been seeing president biden and the senior team do very well is pull together our nato allies, canada and the united states and western and central european nations and

legislationce of with senator graham and senator wyden and senator collins to introduce the workforce readiness act and what it would do is to do some polling with afterschool providers to connect you with with local employers through things like job shadowing or exploration are internships, just another way of connecting folks with what might be the first job to get at the challenges the senator explained. can you tell us a little bit moreir about what we need to be doing to connect young people sooner if you agree with the quality of opportunity challenge. >> in new york city in particular the providers who do workforce development are often engaged. i thinkg where we find the most success is the subsidized workforce learning or development opportunities for the project based learning for part of that we need to expand on the opportunity act. the waiver that is in place right now serving exclusively we've heard from our members makingex sure more young adults that are in school have access to the programs and dropout prevention so in additionon to that it's to connect to that employ

congressmen and senators. [ laughter ] >> senator tillis? >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> ambassador taylor, in your opening comments you were talking about how you thought that the threat of an imminent invasion maybe is reduced and that there is an interest in negotiation. i'm trying to understand why on earth we would accept any -- they've laid a predicate through a very provocative posture and now they're saying if we behave or agree to something differently, what does the rational basis for us getting into kind of a hostage-like negotiation with them. it doesn't seem like a good faith discussion, so why am i wrong? >> you're absolutely right. while russia has all those troops on the border, it's -- it is a threat to ukraine. it's holding a gun to ukraine's head, the hostage while they negotiate on these other issues. so in order to have any kind of legitimate conversation, productive conversation they have to be mobilized and they have to send their troops, forces back to barracks and back to their home stations, so that's number one. >> number two, if th

>> senator, i do. right now, 18 of 21 countries in have signed strategic agreements for initiatives with china. china has increased their spending 360% in the middle east, so i believe it's of great concern. we have to expose their predatory practices where they treat every country as a client or a customer where we deal in relationships and we are partners and allies. >> so how does countering china in the region balance some of our commitments with regional partners? >> i believe we can do both. >> reports last year emerge that saudi arabia purchased ballistic missiles from china while also manufacturing its own ballistic weapons. are you concerned that china is forging technological relationships with countries to further enhance the ballistic missile capabilities? also, do you have broader concern that our traditional allies should be shifting towards china as we potentially focus on other regions across the globe? >> senator, i'm very concerned with china's military involvement in terms of the agr

we also know that he called senator mike lee's cell phone mistakenly trying to reach senator tuberville of alabama. and those call logs were not in the documents that the january 6th select committee received from the national archives. perhaps he used his cell phone and they weren't documents and perhaps the call logs were destroyed and perhaps they haven't received the documents yet. the archives, excuse me the january 6th select committee anticipates getting more documents from the archives and maybe they haven't come in yet. regardless, still a lot of questions that need to be answered, kristen. >> there sure are, leigh ann. politically speaking for republicans the last thing they want is yet another headline that they have to answer for that relates to former president trump. can you take us inside the reaction. what are folks saying on capitol hill about this latest reporting? >> the idea that the trump white house was sloppy at its call logs with its records and with how information went in and out of the white house isn't a surprise to anyone. the question that i think really ma

we have advanced to the senate and the senate has confirmed a record number, the most diverse group of judges in the first year of any presidency. we look forward to a highly qualified, seasoned, capable nominee. a person of integrity and character and someone we can stand behind. we know that will be the outcome of the decision-making process the president's beginning. thanks. >> let me just say, there was a powerful sense of excitement in the room because we are on the cusp of making history. and moving the country forward in a way that all of us feel very proud to be a part of. i came away from this conversation looking forward more than ever to bipartisan support. i think the president will nominate someone of such compelling personal story, of character, and intellect, that republicans will have no choice. i things a president will in should look forward to someone who is persuasive. who not only understands and will speak to the experience of everyday americans but also to her fellow justices. and help bring together a deeply divided court. a court that is doing tremendous damage

over the past few weeks several of our senate colleagues and i, including senator o, senator bozeman, senator merkley and others have joined us in engaging with a host of stakeholders. what that concept looks like in practice across a multitude of industries and levels of government. what we heard was in part sobering. but also i am happy to report it was encouraging. we heard from waste workers about the challenges they face with contaminated recycling streams and the impact of china's national policy on their ability to effectively manage domestic waste, especially plastic. we heard about the need for brighter product design -- better product design so companies can have products returned to them in good condition to be reused. and we heard about the devastating impact of the fashion industry on our environment. did you know that every second almost a dump truck's worth of textiles goes into our landfills? the fashion industry is responsible for some 10% of global emissions, more than the aviation sector and the maritime shipping sector combined. i did not know those things. my gues

>> thank you, senator. i had the privilege of serving as a federal public defender, assistant federal public defender in washington, d.c. i think it was some 16 years ago. and as part of that experience, i, as you say, represented people. i represented them in the appellate division of my office. so all of my clients were convicted. and i think that the insights that one gains from that kind of professional experience really can be very helpful in future endeavors, especially if you go into judicial service as i have. and i can give you a concrete example. when i worked with my client as a defender, my job was to talk with them and to try to get their help to identify errors, angst that had gone wrong in their trial proceedings so that i can raise them on appeal. one thing i noticed that i was struck by was how little they could help me with that project. most of my clients did not really understand what had happened to them. they had just been the most -- through the most consequent show proceeding in thei

>> thank you senator. it would be incredibly useful to have the terms the military uses defined so that civil society groups and humanou rights groups is understanding who the military applies a civilian status to any combatant status to. another important issue of the concerns that we have that are repeated in a land corporations study that came out in the end of january thatve added to it we have been saying, which is it relies only on its own record and the privileges its own record where as skeptical the external sources that you want to be more accurate for civil society and media because it actually conduct investigations some more information about methodology is a reflection of lessons learned after four years or five years of criticism of why these numbers are not accurate. >> can ask for further comment? >> of course it is. it's very important they usexp the methodology of civilian casualties and who it regards as combatants because these are not really madee clear on the docket that hasei been p

one last try for senator murray. we hear you very loudly. >> for the record, it was not me, it was the committee staff. less their souls. you are actually too loud. tone it down a little bit. >> is using my preschool yell at you voice. >> that is great. >> thank you mr. chairman. i'm really glad to be here today. strong support for her nomination. a role she has felt already on an acting basis for the past year. i have known ms. young for many years. many of us had. we have known her for her expertise, unmatched work ethic, and maybe most important link, a willingness and proven track record of bringing both sides, republican and democrat together, to get things done for the american people. when we talked about appointing people in the government, people who will do the work, we are talking about her. any senator whose work on any major spending bill has seen that she knows the budget process inside and out. she would also make history as the first black woman to leave the office of management and budget. on that no

>> thank you, senator. that's a fantastic question and very much dove tails with the work that i referenced earlier. we at aai are very interested in the digital business ecosystem sort of as a business model or phenomenon. what we find is they're very unique. typically a digital business ecosystem is built around a platform, whether it's search or e commerce or advertising, you name it. to support those platforms and the users that engage with them, you need a lot of infrastructure, you need machine learning technologies, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, data analytics. we find when those two pieces are in place, digital systems can expand infinitum. they can add in apps to their item. these ecosystems have really significant capacities for growth and expansion. what we've seen with the top five is they have grown monumentally, 700 transactions, 200 reportable under the age of sar requirements, only one challenged google ita by the department of justice. we are very worried about what we see from

>> thank you senator. i certainly share that view that because of the need to respond to the pandemic, there is a lot more reserves in the system. and i supported the the removal the reserves from the leverage ratio for custodial banks. and i think it makes good sense to look for ways, while keeping capital strong, to find a way to adjust that supplemental leverage ratio because of the much larger amount of reserves in the system. >> thank you. >> i do commit to working with you. >> thank you. also, let's talk a little bit about inflation. this is critical. we're at 7% right now. stated goal is 2%. 5 percentage points. critical. i think in our discussion with chairman powell, he made it pretty clear the fed could manage the demand side. i think you would agree with that. demand is where you work at, not necessarily on the supply side. fair enough? >> absolutely. i think over the medium term, inflation is a monetary phenomenon and we have tools that operate on the demand side. >> okay. in order to move that

kentucky republican senator rand paul and texas republican senator ted cruz cheered on the most expensive protest in american history. senator paul said quote, i hope the truckers do come to america. senator paul urged american truckers to do the same thing. senator paul was hoping, really hoping, that american truckers would close down the super bowl yesterday in los angeles. so far, zero american truckers have followed rand paul's advice. any american truckers using their vehicles to commit crimes, like closing a bridge or parking illegally in new york city or washington d. c. run the risk of losing their license to operate trucks and permanently losing the insurance on their trucks. in other words, american truckers, if they follow rand paul's advice, could lose their right to work as truckers for the rest of their lives. if they commit the kinds of crimes with their trucks that we have seen. yesterday, canadian authorities remove the protesters from the ambassador bridge. they made 30 arrests and had to tell only if you pick up trucks in order to clear all of the blocking vehicles off

and we will get reaction from senator ted cruz, member of the senate foreign relations committee. and we will ask our sunday panel whether there is an off-ramp for putin. plus... >> this is petula texas in the south county. many of the major political issues that are huge part of what goes on in southwestern texas run through this town. >> bill: the road to the midterms, first up, home of the nation primary. all right now on "fox news sunday." ♪ ♪ >> bill: at a low again on this "fox news sunday." fears of war intensified as the standoff between western allies and russia enters a pivotal phase. the ukrainian president has called for a meeting with the russian president putin, but this week, president biden said he's convinced that putin has decided to invade, a move that would rattle world markets, disrupt global energy supplies, and challenge the international order. in a moment, we discussed the new assessment with pentagon press secretary john kirby, but we begin with team fox coverage. steve harrigan on the ground in kyiv where tensions are still high. mike tobin in southe

senator coons? >> thank you, senator. as you can tell, this is a wonderfully collaborative committee that's gotten a lot of good work done under the leadership of both parties over the last couple years. it's been a real joy to serve on the sub compete. i'm grateful for your focused and effective leadership of the department a at this moment of historic investment in making sure that americans have access to broadband. like the state of rhode island, delaware has areas that i would argue are genuinely rural. we have about 11,600 families that have no acess to internet services, broadband at all. we also have significant urban areas where affordability is the key issue. i look forward to staying in contact with you. you raised a number of issues. permitting and the permitting process in rural areas, skills for installers and so forth and how we're going to update that and making sure that between what the department does and what fcc does that we produce a result that is genuinely affordable. let me just briefly ask, do yo

to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable jacky rosen, a senator from the state of nevada, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. morning business is closed. under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session and resume consideration of the following nomination, which the clerk will report. the clerk: nomination, department of defense, alexandra baker of new jersey, to be a baker of new jersey, to be a >> well, i am not very happy to be back with my trusty and somewhat battered time to wake ago i delivered what i i hoped would be my last time to wake up speech, and took the poster off the floor. things looked good then. the conditions for climate progress were in place. voters had elected a democratic president, a democratic majorities in both houses of congress so the malicious group rest of the fossil fuel industry on the republican party was no longer a st

cantwell: thank you, senator tester. senator blackburn? sen. blackburn: thank you and congratulations to each of you on your nomination and for being here. mr. putnam, to you. we had a good hearing yesterday it our airline. we had a little conversation about spectrum, and i am sure you have seen that the faa had come up. they were voicing some last-minute opposition to 5g deployment and creating problems when 39 countries have already deployed 5g. nobody has had these. and these problems or concerns and d.o.t. does have some significant spectrum holdings, and that mid band spectrum, if it is not being used, we need to get it back, recoup it, auction it, and get it out there, so i would like to hear from you how you would see working with the ntia and the fcc to ensure that spectrum is going to move into the pipeline and get there for consumers and that we are wisely managing the spectrum. >> thank you for your question, senator blackburn. certainly there's great economic value associated with providing additional spectrum, but at the same time,

they can still get through those and make a decision on the floor in the senate. right now we are trying to move them out of committee and moving forward so the american public can see we are still really focused on the needs of this country. i am disappointed they are not here and i am hopeful that they will reassess at the end of the day and come to the table and work with us to address and make sure we have a functioning reserve. >> thank you. does anyone else want to speak? thank you all, committee is adjourned. plan to vote. here are his remarks. >> something happened today in the banking housing and urban affairs committee that i've never seen before in the uniteds states senate. three weeks ago, senator toomey, the ranking member, senior republican on the committee from pennsylvania and i agreed that there would be a committee vote today for six nominees. sandra thompson, who would be head of the fhfa, the vice chair at the federal reserve, jay powell, the sitting w chair woud be renominated to confirm him as

senate by a unanimous vote. if harding fails to recognize character flaws, so did the senate. you have to blame them as well. nobody raised any objection to alcohol being secretary of the interior. you can blame harding, but you also have to blame the senate. harding is responsible for who he chooses in his cabinet and government. that is the reason he is not going to be on mount rushmore. but if you look at what he did to turn the country around economically, domestic politics, civil rights record, equal rights for black americans, calling for an anti-lynching law. going to birmingham, alabama and speaking to a segregated audience and saying black thing to have equal rights. african-americans need full equality. that's a courageous thing to do. pardon political prisoners. he did what he could to heal the country from the wounds of world war i. i think that outweighs the scandals. at this people went to jail and were prosecuted. susan: as we close out, three minutes left. and all of this research and reading, what was the most surprising thing or the most interesting thing you

. >> ohio republican senator rob portman and democratic senator jeanne shaheen spoke on the floor in support of sanctions for russia in the buildup to ukraine. they traveled on a delegation to ukraine where he met with the country's leaders. >> i come to the floor tonight with my colleague from new hampshire, senator jeanne shaheen to discuss the critical situation in ukraine. ukraine is an independent country, it's a democracy, it's an ally of ours, it's a country that's currently under siege. there's a threat of invasion by russia that grows every single day. right now there are more than 130,000 russian troops under the command of 100 tactical groups surrounding ukraine. this russian deployment includes nuclear capable missiles, rockets, tanks and artillery and is no longer on the eastern border of ukraine where there's been activity before as we've discussed, but now in the northern border where russian combat troops and heavy equipment have moved into the country of belarus and in crimea, additional russia has amphibious assault ships and others in the black sea to the south and