with that, i yield to senator alexander. thank you, mr. mcconnell,nd senator senator durbin, amy. i would like to see what i can say that is constructive. i brought a picture with me of the senate doing nothing, which is what happens when we do what we are doing right now, and nominate derek khan on thursday to be the secretary of transportation and then he would and nextcut off debate monday we confirm them but only one senator speaks. our district judge from georgia, cloture on wednesday, and a week later cut off debate, confirming the next day know senator speaks. the problem is people look at c-span and they say they are doing nothing, and they are as bad as we thought. that is one problem. i would like to see if there's any way i can resurrect the bipartisan spirit that existed and 2011, 2012, and 2013, when a group of former white house counsel's can to me and said, could we do some thing about the tradition of innocent until nominated? nominating andof confirming presidential appointees. where president obama, a democrat and democrat majority -- i am a republican, and i sai

all other senators? ell, it matters a lot because being recognized first permits exactly what i have been talking about. the majority leader, to of rmine what the business the senate will be. more time is the coin of the senate. the about years you've read or heard, because it continues, the ouse complaining about senate. we pass all of these bills that go over to the senate. nothing happens. like dropping it into a black hole. i'm reminded of a story when the democrats were in the majority in both the house and tom foley i think was the speaker at the time, he was asked about one of his young embers, he said who is the opposition, mr. speaker? opposition, the republicans. the enemy, now that's the senate. harking back to what i told the ashington predicted, senate is not a place where things are done quickly. and for a whole lot of institutional reasons, it is a a lot of things don't happen. but remember the founding were not interested in efficiency. high on their list. they were interested in dividing

certainly. >> senator? >> senator? >> senator? >> senator? >> senator kennedy. sen. kennedy: one more question. >> senator? we have lost the support of our allies in western europe. what are you planning to do? sen. kennedy: i would hope that the changes i've suggested and the changes in policies in southeast asia, what needs to be done in order to strengthen ourselves at home will bring back from support -- bring back support for the united states not only in western europe but in latin america and africa and all across the rest of the country. i think that's one of the great casualties of the war, not just the divisions within our own country, not only the divisions within our own country, but the lack of confidence that exists in the united states in other places around the globe. thank you very much. [applause] roger: so it's a whole new ball game with senator kennedy's announcement. the candidate most immediately affected, senator eugene mccarthy, is now with david in the studios of wbay tv in green bay, wisconsin, and in a moment we'll switch out to green bay t

the presiding officer: the senate stands adjourned until senate stands adjourned until the us senate confirmed michael pompeo as secretary of state with a vote of 57-42. six democrats and one independent voting guests including senators donnelly, high camp, mansion, in king. the chamber confirmed richard cornell to be germany's ambassador. more votes are expected this week with senators have a district work. next week and they are expected back into session on

and i worked with a bipartisan group of senators. senator durbin. senator schumer. senator mccain. senator levin, and each of those three years we took some steps to try to improve the presidential nominating process. and we did some pretty important things. we eliminated 163 positions. they don't have to be confirmed. we took 272 moran said they are privileged, you can move them through more rapidly much we eliminated secret holds that took 17 years for senator grassley. we eliminated 3,000 noncontroversial positions. and for two years we said for sub cabinet members eight hours of post cloture debate and judges two hours debate. senator reed want ds us to do that. senator mcconnell didn't want us to do that. but we did it anyway because we thought it was good for the senate as an institution. so we did that. now here we are today. and back then, i remember senator shoe manaschumer saying should believe that, he said everyone believes that. so everyone knows where we are. democrat for variety of reasons. so their tactic is to slow down the senate by taking a long period of time to

certainly. >> senator? >> senator? >> senator? >> one more question. >> senator? >> we have lost the support of our allies in western europe. what are you planning to do? >> i would hope that the changes i've suggested and the changes in policies in southeast asia, what needs to be done in order to strengthen ourselves at home will bring back support for the ones not only in western europe but in latin america and africa and all across the rest of the country. i think that's one of the great casualties of the war, not just the divisions within our own country, not just the divisions within our own country, but the lack of confidence that exists in the united states in other places around the globe. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> so it's a whole new ball game with senator kennedy's announcement. the candidate most immediately affected, senator eugene mccarthy, is now with david in the studios of wbay tv in green bay, wisconsin, and in a moment we'll switch out to green bay to hear senator mccarthy's reaction. obviously, from senator kennedy's comments this mo

senate. senator langford introduces in december, 2017 -- senator lankford introduced this in december, 2017 and his work we appreciate. hearing onee held a december 19, 2017. the text of the resolution was taken from a resolution passing 78-16 in the 113th congress. senator lankford has proposed a resolution that if adopted would allow the senate to vote on nominees in a streamlined manner. once a majority of the senate decided to end debate, senators would be allowed to speak about -- but the most serious senators would still be a lot to speak on all but the most senior executive and judicial nominees for 8 hours. the most senior nominees, debate hours, district judges as they did in 2013 and 2014 would go to eight hour debate. i support the resolution and look forward to a vote to send to the floor for the senate's consideration. the senator addressed two main issues. first of all, we should agree the president should be a point that should be able to appoint officials to carry out their ag

coons and senator booker, senator tillis and senator graham. i think this is a proud day for the committee and i think that the 14 to 7 vote sends a clear message be that not everyone agreed on this, but a clear message that we must protect this investigation. and investigations going forward as senator tillis noted, this is not just about this investigation, it's really about all investigations going forward. >> for me this issue has really hit hard as a former prosecutor and i spent eight years doing what job and we would have cases come before us all the time where maybe the victim wasn't very sympathetic or maybe you knew the department or it was a white collar case that someone liked in the community and you would always have to see your job as being a minister of justice, that your job was to conflict the guilty and to protect the innocent. that you had to do your job without fear or favor. so that's why my blood boils when i hear some of the comments from people either on tv or threats of firing people, that you have to follow the law wh

with senator kunz, senator booker, and senator grams. -- senator graham. i believe the vote sends a clear message that not everybody agreed but a clear message that we must protect this investigation. the investigations going forward --sen. tillis: did, this is senator tillis noted, this is about investigations going forward. for me this issue has hit hard as a former prosecutor. i spent eight years doing that job. we would have cases come before us all the time where maybe the victim wasn't very sympathetic or maybe you knew the defendant, or it was some kind of white-collar case of someone people liked in the community. you would always have to see your job as being a minister of justice. your job was to convict the guilty and to protect the innocent. that you had to do your job without fear or favor. that is why my blood boils when i hear some of the comments you are on tv or threats of hiring people that you have to follow the law where ever it leads you. you doesn't mean you don't have discretion sometimes to be compassionate about how you follow the

certainly. >> senator? >> senator? >> senator? >> senator? >> senator kennedy. sen. kennedy: one more question. >> senator? we have lost the support of our allies in western europe. what are you planning to do? sen. kennedy: i would hope that the changes that i've suggested and the changes in policies in southeast asia, what needs to be done in order to strengthen ourselves at home will bring back support for the united states not only in western europe but in latin america and africa and all across the rest of the country. i think that has been one of the great casualties of the war, not just the divisions within our own country, not only the divisions within our own country, but the lack of confidence that exists in the united states in other places around the globe. thank you very much. [applause] roger: so it's a whole new ball game with senator kennedy's announcement. the candidate most immediately affected, senator eugene mccarthy, is now with david schumacher in the studios of wbay tv in green bay, wisconsin, and in a moment we'll switch out to green bay to he

you, senator harris. senator kennedy. >> mr. zuckerberg, i come in peace. [laughter] >> i don't want to have to vote regulate facebook, but by of that ll, a lots depends on you. i'm a little disappoint indeed this hearing today. i just don't feel like we're connecting. o let me try to lay it out for you from my point of view. a really smart guy and i think you have built extraordinary american lot ny and you have done a of good. some of the things you have been magical.o are utopia we d digital have discovered has mine fields. there are some impurities in the facebook punch bowl. they got to be fixed. fix them.k you can now, here is what is going to happen. a whole going to be bunch of bills introduced to regulate facebook. they pass you whether or not. spend $10 back home, million on lobbyists and fight go back home and help us solve this problem and, too, one is a privacy problem, one is a propaganda problem. privacy rt with the problem first. let's start with your user agreement. here is what everybody has been today and i l you say this gently. user agr

senator stennis, senator lott, senator cochran of course recalling senator wicker on the committee picks a long history of service on the rules committee of mississippi senators and we're glad to have you joined that. this afternoon we meet tomorrow at senate resolutions 355 or resolution for improving procedures with the consideration of nominations in the senate. senator lankford introduced this legislation in december of 2017. i think he has talked to virtually every member of the senate democrat and republican about it and his work here we appreciate. the committee held a hearing on the resolution december 19, 2017. the text of the resolution was taken from a resolution that passed 78-16 16 in 113th congress. senator lankford has proposed a simple resolution that if adopted would allow the senate to vote on nominees in a streamlined manner. once a majority of the senate decided to end debate, senators would still be allowed to speak about all but the most serious, the senators will still be allowed to speak on all but the most senior executive and led judicial nominees for eight hour

senator lee? >> i would like to offer an amendment. >> please proceed. >> are there copies? >> mr. chairman as i offer this , amendment i'd like to -- >> was it filed? has it been filed? >> yes, it's been filed. let me pull it up. it's amendment caption alb-18495. >> we have copies? >> yes. >> this is the cornyn amendment? >> yes, and i'm offering it. we have a couple issues here. with respect to the underlying legislation, we're told that if president trump fires special counsel mueller that it would spark a constitutional crisis, one that threatens the rule of law in america. not content to wait, the committee's solution apparently is to do the job ourselves by advancing the legislation we're considering today, legislation to which my amendment responds. there are two constitutional provisions at issue by the underlying legislation and that i try to address through my amendment. the first is article two's vesting clause which provides the executive power in the united states government shall be

>> no, senator. actually, the first line of our terms of service say that you control and own the information and content that you put on facebook. >> well, the recent scandal is obviously frustrating not only because it affected 87 million, but because it seems to be part of a pattern of lax data practices by the company going back years. so back in 2011, it was a settlement with the ftc, and now we discover yet another instance where the data was failed to be protected. when you discovered the cambridge analytica that had fraudulently obtained all of this information,why didn't you inform those 87 million? >> when we learned in 2015, that cambridge analytica had bought data from an app developer on facebook that people had shared it with, we did take action. we took down the app. and we demanded that both the app developer and cambridge analytica delete and stop using any data that they had. they told us that they did this. in retrospect, it was clearly a mistake to believe them. and we should have

>> no, senator. actually, at the first line of our terms of service say that you control and own the information and content that you put on facebook. >> well, the recent scandal is obviously frustrating, not only because it affected 87 million, but because it seems to be part of a pattern of lax data practices by the company going back years. so back in 2011, it was a settlement with the ftc and now we discover yet another incident where the data was failed to be protected. when you discovered the cambridge analytica that had fraudulently obtained all of this information, why didn't you inform those 87 million? >> when we learned in 2015 that cambridge analytica had bought data from an app developer on facebook that people had shared it with, we did take action. we took down the app. and we demanded that both the app developer and cambridge analytica delete and stop using any data that they had. they told us that they did this. in retrospect, it was clearly a mistake to believe them. and we should h

chairman. >> senator udall. senator moran is up next. i will say again that after a couple more questioners, we will probably give the witness another short break. >> thank you. >> we are getting about two-thirds through the list of members here to ask questions. >> mr. zuckerberg, thank you for your testimony and thank you for your presence here today. on march 26th of this year, the ftc confirmed it was investigating facebook to determine whether its privacy practices violated the ftc act or the consent order facebook entered into with the agency in 2011. i chair the commerce committee subcommittee that has jurisdiction of the federal trade committee. i remain interested in facebook's assertion that it rejects any suggestion of violating that consent order. part two of that consent order requires an facebook "clearly and prominently display notice and obtain users' affirmative consent before sharing their information with any third party." my question is, how does the case of approximately 87 million facebook friends having their data

democrats chewing up hours of senate time on nominees that literally no senator opposes. i understand my friends on the other side have a number of disagreements with the president. that tends to happen in politics. but that's no excuse at all for this historic obstruction of noncontroversial nominees. bad for the senate. it's unfair to the american people. that's why i support senator lankford's efforts to enact the very same rules change that a large bipartisan majority agreed to back in 2013 when the democrats were in the majority here in the senate. it would empower the senate to process nominations more quickly while preserving ample opportunity for debate. it is precisely the rules change that my friend, the democratic leader, supported back in 2013. i joined in that bipartisan effort along with a number of my fellow republicans. it passed 78-16. 78-16. the white house may have changed hands, but the last time i checked, fair is still fair, and common sense is still common sense. so senator lankford is giving my democratic colleagues their very own chance to show th

>> no, senator. actually, the first line of our terms of service say that you control and own the information and content that you put on facebook. >> well, the recent scandal is obviously frustrating not only because it affected 87 million, but because it seems to be part of a pattern of lax data practices by the company going back years. so back in 2011, it was a settlement with the ftc, and now we discover yet another instance where the data was failed to be protected. when you discovered the cambridge analytica that had fraudulently obtained all of this information,why didn't you inform those 87 million? >> when we learned in 2015, that cambridge analytica had bought data from an app developer on facebook that people had shared it with, we did take action. we took down the app. and we demanded that both the app developer and cambridge analytica delete and stop using any data that they had. they told us that they did this. in retrospect, it was clearly a mistake to believe them. and we should have

>> yes, senator. although, to be clear, we don't offer an option today to pay for people not to show ads ad supported service is aligned with the mission to help connect everyone in the world. we want to offer a free service that everyone can afford that's the only way we can reach billions of people >> so, therefore, you consider my personally identifiable data, the company's data, not my data, is that it >> no, senator actually, the first line in our terms of service say that you control and own the information and content that you put on facebook >> well, the recent scandal is, obviously, frustrating, not only because it affected 87 million, but it's part of a pattern of lax data practice the going back for years. back in 2011, there was a settlement with the ftc, and now we discover yet another incident where the data was failed to be protected. when you discovered the cambridge analytica that fraudulently obtained all the information, why didn't you inform those 87 million? >> when we learned in

>> senator, yes. one of my critiques of the arrangement we reached with iran was it was insufficiently close to such a standard. >> so you support the gold standard? >> i do! and while i've not been part of the negotiations, senator, i know that the state department and the department of energy are working towards achieving that. >> would you oppose any agreement that is less than the gold standard that allowed for uranium enrichment on the soil of saudi arabia? >> i can't answer that for you. i can imagine that we got close but not quite to the full definition of the gold standard. i don't want to hypothesize so the answer is, yes, i can imagine such a scenario. >> how do you think iran would respond if we pulled out of the agreement with iran while simultaneously agreeing to a deal where saudi arabia could receive plutonium reprocessing and uranium enrichment? how do you think they would respond? >> this is precisely my concern with the iran agreement. >> right. so that's the question i'm asking you

he became a senator in 1990. at one time he chaired the senate affairs committee. this is about 15 minutes. mr. akaka: madam president? the presiding officer: the the senator from hawaii. mr. akaka: madam president, i rise to give me remarks and my aloha to the united states senate. madam president, before i begin, i want to say that my good friend, my colleague of 36 years, my brother dan inouye, hawaii's senior senator, i wish him a speedy recovery and return to the senate. mr. president, i -- i mean, madam president, i rise today to say aloha to this institution. i have been honored to be a member of the united states senate for 22 years. it has been an incredible journey that i never imagined. as a senior in high school going to kamemha school for boys, which was noted as a military school, my life was changed for school. when i saw japanese fighter planes attacking pearl harbor. like most men in my generation, i joined the war effort. my path was forever altered. when the war ended, i believe i was suffering from ptsd. it was an act of congress that allowed me

>> no, senator. actually, the first line of our terms of service say that you control and own the information and content that you put on facebook. >> well, the recent scandal is obviously frustrating, not only because it affected 87 million but because it seems to be part of a pattern of lax data practices by the company going back years. so back in 2011, it was a settlement with the ftc and now we discover yet another incidence where the data was failed to be protected. when you discovered the cambridge analytica had fraudulently obtained all of this information, why didn't you inform those 87 million? >> when we learned in 2015 that cambridge analytica had bought data from an app developer on facebook that people had shared it with, we did take action. we took down the app and we demanded that both the app developer and cambridge analytica stop using any data that they had. they told us that they had. we should have followed up and that is not a mistake that we will make again. >> you did that and

coons and senator booker, senator tillis and senator graham. so i think this is a proud day for the committee, and i believe that the 14-7 vote sends a clear message that not everyone agreed on this, but a clear message that we must protect this investigation. and investigations going forward, as senator tillis so well noted, that this is not just about this investigation, it's really about all investigations going forward. for me, this issue has really hit hardfo as a former prosecut, and i spent eight years doing that job. and we would have cases come before us all the time where maybe the victim wasn't very sympathetic, or maybe you knew the defendant, or it was some kind of white collar case of someone that people liked in the community, and you would always have to see your job as being a minister of justice, that your job was to convict the guilty and to protect the innocent. that you had to do your job without fear or favor. and so that's why my blood boils when i hear some of the comments from people either on tv or threats of firing pe

i just want to commend my colleagues who worked on the bill, senator kunz, senator booker, senator tillis and senator graham, only her on this committee for this important work. i am glad we are going to have this come up for a vote, and i join senator feinstein and asking that any amendments the be bipartisan in the spirit of this bill. i would like to thank our out outes who have spoken against the danger of ending -- -- of upending this investigation by firing the special counsel or deputy attorney general rosenstein. i know you, mr. chairman, has said it would be suicidal if the president were to do that. i thought that was very direct and to the point. i also know that senator kennedy and i did a joint interview in which he voiced concerns about this, as did other members of this committee. i think it is very important. as a former prosecutor, i believe that you have to have bipartisan support for the law, and that that is one of the goals of this committee is to uphold the rule of law. we must allow director mueller, who is a republican appointee, uphold the rule of law. someone who

yes, senator corker. >> senator markey? senator: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. pompeo, i'd like to look at your record on human rights a little closer. next monday is the fifth anniversary of the patriots day marathon bombing in boston, and it, of course, was a horrific day in our history. it was something that proved once again that we are boston strong. but following those attacks, you falsely alleged that american muslim leaders were, quote, potentially complicit in violent acts for failing to speak out, even though the american muslim community and its leaders had already condemned that attack. because words matter, mr. pompeo, i have to ask you, do you believe that your statements falsely accusing american muslim leaders of being complicit in the boston marathon attacks exemplifies the kind of moral leadership that our country should have in the post of secretary of state? director pompeo: senator, i think i answered this for you yesterday. i'm happy to do it here again. i'll answer the same way. i felt then and feel now that everyone has a responsibility t

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votes for senator mccarthy. 13.5 one vote for senator mcgovern. three votes for reverend channing phillips, and one half votes for senator ted kennedy. >> that is right. >> guam. >> guam casts its total vote of five for vice president hubert humphrey. vote, five for vice president humphrey. hawaii. >> madam chairman, hawaii casts 26 votes for hubert humphrey. that is a pickup or two from earlier counts. >> idaho, 25. >> idaho casts one half vote for senator mcgovern. 3.5 votes, senator mccarthy. 21 votes vice president humphrey. walter: this is going about according to the cbs delegate count, which means humphrey would end up with an even count. >> illinois, 118 votes. >> illinois -- [crowd jeering] >> illinois casts 112 votes for vice president humphrey. three votes for senator mccarthy. >> i think i heard you correctly but i want to be sure. the illinois vote, 112 votes for vice president humphrey, three for senator mccarthy, three for senator mcgovern. indiana. >> indiana casts for reverend channing a phillips one vote. mcgovern, two votes. sen

a senator: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from mississippi. mr. wicker: are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: we are not, senator. mr. wicker: madam president, i rise in strong support of the nomination of mike pompeo, our current c.i.a. director, to be the next secretary of state. and i must say i have watched with interest the proceedings day before yesterday in the foreign relations committee. the debate was interesting on both sides. i appreciate the fact that accommodations were made so that mike pompeo's nomination could be presented to the full senate with a positive vote. i am disappointed that so many of my democratic colleagues have stated that they will oppose this nomination, and i heed the admonition of one of the members of the democratic party at the -- at the confirmation vote before the committee when -- when this member asked that senators not question the motives of anyone who takes a position one way or the other with regard to the nomination of mr. pompeo. and so i will heed that admonition, madam president, and not

senator corker: senator young. senator young: mr. jenkins, historically roughly 90% of the food that goes into the country of yemen as come in from the outside. it's imported into the country and significant amount of their fuel and medicine is as well. 70% tole 0% -- to 80% of those come from the port. with that in mind, would would be the implications, humanitarian consequences of an attack on the port by the saudi-led coalition? mr. jenkins: with the temporary closure back in october-november, we saw that an extended closure of the port would be catastrophic to the humanitarian needs in the country. senator young: could you throw some numbers? i don't foe if there is internal projections about over certain period of time the impact that would have on the number of people would succumb to disease hunger and so forth? mr. jenkins: i don't have numbers off hand. i do know that the vast majority of people within that -- the majority of people in need in that 22 million number live in the northern part of the country . accessible by th

certainly. >> senator? >> senator? senator? senator kennedy: one more question. >> senator? we have lost the support of our allies in western europe. what are you planning to do? senator kennedy: i would hope that the changes i've suggested and the changes in policies in southeast asia, what needs to be done in order to strengthen ourselves at home will bring back support for the ones not only in western europe but in latin america and africa and all across the rest of the country. i think that's one of the great casualties of the war, not just the divisions within our own country, not just the divisions within our own country, but the lack of confidence that exists in the united states in other places around the globe. thank you very much. [applause] >> so it's a whole new ball game with senator kennedy's announcement. the candidate most immediately effected, senator eugene mccarthy, is now with david in the studios of wbay tv in green bay, wisconsin, and in a moment we'll switch out to green bay to hear senator mccarthy's reaction. obviously, from senator kennedy's comment

the senate vote on the nomination. if cloture is invoked that the senate vote on the confirmation without intervening action or debate and with respect to both nominations, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, and the president be immediately notified of the senate's actions. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. mr. tillis: thank you, mr. president. mr. schatz: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from hawaii. mr. schatz: thank you, mr. president. in his confirmation hearing last january, e.p.a. administrator scott pruitt said there was evidence that climate change had actually leveled off over the past two decades. in response to mr. pruitt's comments, an atmospheric scientist in california pulled together some colleagues to study satellite data from around the world. they found, predictably, that mr. pruitt was wrong and they prepare to publish their findings in "nature scientific reports," but then something weird happened. a few of t

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to the senate floor. it's expected to succeed but it's the issue of getting it out of committee. we woke up this morning thinking the nomination would not advance because kentucky senator rand paul was going to vote for democrats and it wouldn't be enough. there was a change in that, and then we thought maybe he would get out of committee with what's called a favorable recommendation. then one republican senator is absent, senator isakson is in georgia attending a funeral. now they are deadlocked at at 10-10. this happened right before this meeting. having received assurances from president trump and director pompeo that he agrees with the president on these important issues, i have decided to support his nomination to be our next secretary of state. he joins democratic senators heidi heitkamp, joe donnelly, and joe manchin and supported the nomination. likely enough to confirm. the president tweeted: "hard to believe obstructionists may vote against mike pompeo for secretary of state. the dems will not a

before i turn to the senator, i want to welcome senator king. i would like for the people of maine to know he does this often when things are serious. he comes and actually listens to the testimony. we thank you for doing so. >> thank you very much. mike, thank you for your service at intel. at the cia. that's been great for those of you on the committee, senator rubio and ri the only two that have the cross pollenization, i guess, the privilege of serving on the intel committee, and we hear from the heads of all the 17 agencies that we have that engage in intelligence matters. and over the years, over the ten years i've been on it we've had numerous heads of agencies come in, and sometimes, frankly, we feel we're getting stiff armed. i can tell all of you on this committee that mike pompeo has been candid when he came in before the intel committee. he has been helpful. and he has always been straightforward with us. so thank you for your service there. you've earned my respect in that regard, and you'll certainly get my vote for confirmation on

>> no, senator. i believe and i think you will agree we will talk about foreign policy issues, we will talk about -- >> this has a connotation of foreign policy because this is about russia and so at the end of the day understanding how you responded, what you will do as we're looking at mandatory sanctions that the administration has yet to impose, looking at how we're going to deal with a russia that not only sought to affect our last elections but is doing so even as we speak both at here, home and across the world. those are substantive questions. >> yes, senator. >> it's not for me simply a question of interest, it's a question of understanding what you were asked, how you responded and what you did. >> you talked about the important policy issues. i'm happy to talk about this administration's work on russia, i'm happy to talk about our work on sanctions if that's what you -- if that was your question. >> did president trump ever discuss the fbi or special counsel russia's investigation with you

>> senator, no i have not. >> senator, no i have not. >> thank you. admiral davidson, there is for question that the asia-pacific region is one of the most complex and dynamic areas in the world. 36 nations, home to more than 50% of the world's population, 3,000 different languages, several of the world's largest militaries and five nations allied with the u.s. through mutual defense treaties. can you just go over once again how you have prepared yourself to serve as this the commander of this very large, diverse area? >> yes, ma'am, i have multiple tours in the pink. two tours on the u.s. pacific fleet staff. my history as a number of operational deployments there as well. i've had important policy and strategy responsibilities here dealing with the pacific. as part of the total global portfolio here on the joint staff and two tours on the opnaf staff and dealt with southwest asia to a certain extent during my time in the state department and i also have experience in the white house. >> i'm sure you've touched bases with general o'shaughnessy becaus

>> i do, senator. i actually was part of a team on the house side some years ago to -- that worked on that, worked with that on the white house. we weren't ultimately able to be successful. i do believe it is important that we achieve that. that we have a new set of leaders in the united states congress who also provide that authorization. i think the one we have works. i think it provides the authorities that the president needs today. but i would welcome working alongside you to achieve -- i think you used the term refreshed aumf. >> i think it's very important. honestly, i don't think it's not inappropriate to say that some in the administration have not been as forthcoming to try to get to a decision here. because a number of us believe that it ought to be flexible as to reach, as to groups. we do believe the president has inherent authorities within the constitution as commander and chief that need to be respected. but it's just not tenable to say we're relying on aumf that goes back to 2001. that

inspire our senators. give them truth in their innermost being, a sense of dedication in their work, and a spirit of cooperation that they may labor together for the good of this land that we love. may they strive to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with you. we pray in your great name. amen. the presiding officer: please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the presiding officer: the clerk will read a communication to the senate. the clerk: washington, d.c., april 19, 2018. 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 perfom the duties of the chair. signed: orrin g. hatch, president pro tempore. mr. mcconnell: madam president? the presiding officer: majority

since 2007, senator brown has represented ohio in the senate, in the u.s. senate focusing much of his attention on american manufacturing and fair trade. brown serves as the ranking member of the senate banking committee and was the first ohio senator in 40 years to serve on the senate agriculture committee. prior to his election to the u.s. senate, brown served as a u.s. representative for the 13th district of ohio. he's also served as a member of his state legislature and as secretary of state in ohio. please join me in welcoming senator share odd brown. [applause] -- sherrod brown. [applause] i can tell who the journalists are because they never stand up for me so i appreciate that. you can tell who everybody else is. thank you. nor should you so i appreciate that. andrea, thank you for the introduction and for your good work. had a wonderful conversation at her first year in journalism working for the prague czech republic post so thanks for the work you do for the press club. jamie i knew from his first days at miami university. he grew up in coply, oh

senator heitkamp said she had no objections. like pompeo was withholding. senator heitkamp said she had no objections. she cited the need to have diplomacy on north korea as a reason for voting to confirm mike pompeo at this time. >> heidi heitkamp lending her support, saying she would support the nomination of mike pompeo when it comes to the senate floor. let's go back to the senate foreign relations committee, your tweet where you say pompeo is one vote away from a historic negative confirmations vote in the senate foreign relations committee. what do you mean by historic, and what happens if it is reported unfavorably by the committee? rachel: i use the word historic, because to our knowledge, it has never happened before. they never started releasing those of executive meetings until the 1920's. -- votes of executive meetings until the 1920's. in recorded history, there has never been a negative vote of a secretary of state nominee by a committee. there are three things that can happen in the scheduled vote. they could vote

senator collins and senator manchin essentially convened a large group of bipartisan senators on the daca situation to try to see if some proposal could be put together. virtually everything went down on the floor, and in conversations since what i've learned is that in negotiations with the president, senator schumer tried to consummate a deal where the president essentially got what he wanted with respect to border security if the daca bill went through. well, that was clearly not successful. you referred to certain loopholes in your conversation with senator collins. i'm wondering if you could be more precise because we are really very interested and involved in trying to find a solution. >> well, thank you. your support for this would be very important. i think there's a bipartisan opportunity to join together and say once and for all we believe we should have a lawful system of immigration, and we're going to support things that actually work to help achieve that. i've not so jokingly said for years that congress will pass anything on immigration as long as it doesn't work. if i

i got it from wayne owens to senator franken moss, the last liberal senator from utah. probably the last one for a while. we are probably getting mitt romney soon. bobby had been the coordinator in the rocky mountains. he worked for senator ted kenny when he was majority whip. he believed in the kennedys, he dpawf me my first job back from the peace corps, i worked in the office and then i would be a capitol cop in the afternoon, i was doing two jobs, i can almost write a book on how much i learned as a cop here, i learned about the guys in the country who vote conservative, they may not agree with everyone in this room but they love their country, i learned a lot from the police, like the superintendent. there was one democrat, one senator who always made a point of saying hello and greeting all of the capitol police in the morning, he said hello as equals, that told me so much about him. he was well-known for looking out for those in the country that had gotten bad treatment from the police, he would have been sympathetic to the black lives movement but he also believ

senate? think for the reason you stated there is a lot of concern among republicans about losing the house. the senate majority, the senate republican majority is seen as a firewall by republicans and we have seen some new fundraising numbers today from one of the major outside super pac's, the senate leadership fund that is run by a close mcconnell ally. they are getting good numbers. attributesof the pac that to donors having the perception that the senate is the firewall and they need to give if they want to make sure that holds. even though it is difficult to see the math work to where democrats win back the senate, it is within the realm of possibility. that is definitely a focus for gop donors. heard the senator hoping they can get through regular order on appropriations deal with nominations. perhaps there is a rules change or perhaps not. are there any major pieces of legislation the senate is going to be able work through in the remaining months? >> i think that despite the optimism,

moran: thank you, senator shatz. senator from oklahoma, senator lankford. senator lankford: thank you, mr. chairman. i am one of those skeptical individuals that has not evolved on this issue of marijuana. i have a hard time believing if only more of our parents smoked more marijuana our kids and families would be so much better, employment would be so much better. i have a hard time believing that. several billion dollars the appropriations committee has allocated to them to study pain medications that are nonaddictive to address that. we haven't opioid epidemic. i would rather not swap and opioid epidemic with addiction to marijuana and say we solved the problem. we did not solve the problem long-term. i would love to be able to maintain this. there are ways to manage other different kinds of thing to manage pain. my preference would be that our nation does not become more and more addicted to marijuana to solve our opioid addiction. let me mention a couple things. budget-related -- you made recommendations moving things around specifically with atf. ,i w

senator grassley: thank you, senator feinstein. the history and growth of facebook mirrors that of many of our technological giants. founded by mr. zuckerberg in 2004, facebook has exploded over the past 14 years. facebook currently has over two billion monthly active users across the world, over 25,000 employees and offices in 13 u.s. cities and various other countries. like their expanding user base, the data collected on facebook users has also skyrocketed. they have moved on from schools likes and relationship patterns. today facebook has access to dozens of data points from events you have attended and location based upon your mobile device. it is no secret that facebook makes money off this data through advertising revenue, although many seem confused by all together unaware of this fact. facebook generates -- generated $40 billion in revenue in 2017 with about 98% coming from facebook across facebook and instagram. significant data collection is also occurring at google, twitter, apple and amazon. and an ever expanding portf

two votes for senator eugene mccarthy. senator george mcgovern. votes for our distinguished vice president hubert humphrey. [horns blowing] vote is ash carolina follow. 44.5 votes for humphrey. votes for senator mcgovern. ore.otes for governor more north dakota, 25. >> madam chairman, north the coda is a state that modestly -- casts seven votes for senator mccarthy. 18 votes for vice president humphrey. howard: the north carolina vote, after the delegates were released, shows votes for vice largestt humphrey the ,rop in humphrey or mccarthy any of them. the greatest difference with had of any of them. there are only one, it too, or three votes most. >> -- for senator eugene mccarthy and 94 votes for vice president hubert humphrey. >> ohio's vote. they also gave two votes to mcgovern and one for ted kennedy. 94 votes forote is vice president humphrey, 18 for senator mccarthy, 2% of mcgovern and one for senator kennedy. oklahoma, 41. casts .5 vote for phillips. for mcgovern. mccarthy.for senator 37.5 votes for vice president humphrey. >> the oklahom