mr. wyden, guilty. mr. young, not guilty. >> in this article ofimpeachmene pronounced donald trump, president of the united states guilty as charged. fifty-two senators have pronounced him not guilty as charged. two thirds of the senators present not having pronounced and guilty, the senate judges that the respondent donald trump president of the united states, is notes guilty as charged in te first article of impeachment. the clerk will read the second article of impeachment. article two. section of congress the constitution provides that the house of representatives have the sole power of impeachment and at the present shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors. in his conduct by the office of the president of the united states, and in violation of the constitutional oath, execute the office of president of the united states and to the best of his ability preserve and protect, and defend the constitution of the united states and

mister wicker not guilty mr wyden mr wyden guilty mister young. mister young not guilty. senators voted for waiting for those- votes to be added up to see so i see what has happened we are expecting to donald trump be acquitted- you can hear first and- a guilty say no give up but we're expecting the very much along party lines are we not. no question it wrong is it going to vote. finding him guilty but that's not gonna be anywhere near enough to get the two majority needed to follow the president goes and remove him from all this so it's up to you posted but only up. to you donald trump. it's not going to. new hearing. others as saying we'll see guiuilty guilt. hehe's going to win because he'l hehe'll he'll getet the numberst never the less it's an experience i will mock him as take a list so set. the chart. in guilty the set of judges that the respondent donald john trump president of the united states is not he is charged in the first goal of impeachment. the clerk will read the second article of impeachment. article two obstruction of congress the constitution provides

mr. white house? mr. white house, guilty. mr. wicker? not guilty. mr. wyden? mr. wyden, guilty. mr. young, not guilty. >> bret: 52 not guilty, 48 guilty, they do not get to 67, so this is a vote to acquit. the president of the united states on the first article of impeachment, abuse of power. the clerk will read out in the numbers, the supreme court justice, chief justice john roberts will say the president is acquitted of article one, abuse of power, and they will move on to article two. this does not usually happen, senators sitting at a desk, getting up, saying guilty, not guilty, you just saw one of the most powerful votes in the u.s. senate, a senator ever can make, and now article one is acquittal, listen in. >> this article of impeachment 48 senators have pronounced donald john trump, president of the united states guilty as charged. 52 senators have pronounced him not guilty as charged. two-thirds of the senators present not pronounced him guilty, the senate of judges that are respondent donald john trump, president of the united states is not guilty as charged in the first

grassley: senator wyden. sen. wyden: thank you very much, mr. chairman. i want to start with what i think is a clear double standard with respect to responding to congressional oversight. i look at the record and it seems like democratic request s get shoved to the back of a filing cabinet, and somehow republican requests get the red carpet treatment. so i want to give you specific example and give you a chance to respond. treasury gets two requests from congressional committee chairs, one request is backed up by clear statutory language, in tax code section 6103, requiring the treasury secretary shall provide tax documents to the committee. the other request doesn't have the same legal basis, and certainly, to me, it looks political. the request from the democratic chair, with a firm legal basis, was met with nothing but legal foot-dragging. the request that came from the republican chairs got vip treatment. they got, you know, a response out the door in a flash. it looks to me that there is a double standard here. that you all are tipping the scales of

and sworn in guilty mr white house mr white house guilty mr wicker mr wicker not guilty mr wyden mr wyden guilty mr young mr young not guilty in this article of impeachment 48 senators have pronounced donald john trump president of the united states guilty as charged $52.00 senators have pronounced him not guilty as charged 2 thirds of the senators present not having pronounced him guilty the senate a judges that there was an trump president of the united states is not guilty as charged in the 1st article of impeachment the clerk will read the 2nd article of impeachment. article 2 obstruction of congress the constitution provides that the house of representatives shall have the sole power of impeachment and that the president shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors in his conduct of the office of the president of the united states and in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of president of the united states and to the best of his ability preserve protect and defend the constitu

mr. wyden, not guilty. mr. young, not guilty. [ no audio ] >> this article of impeachment, 48 senators have pronounced donald john trump, president of the united states, guilty as charged. 52 senators have announced him not guilty as charged. 2/3 of the senators present not finding him guilty, the senate judges donald john trump the president of the united states is not guilty as charged in the first article of impeachment. the clerk will read the second article of impeachment. >>> article ii, obstruction of congress. the constitution provides that the house of representatives shall have the sole pow over impeachment, and that the presidential be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors. in his conduct of the office, the president of the united states and in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of the president of the united states and to the best of his ability to preserve, protect and defend the constitutio

mr. wyden: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, this week the senate is having yet another debate on legislation to restrict health care for women. and i'm going to take just a few minutes to talk about what this debate is really all about. the old republican slogan was a chicken in every pot. the new republican slogan is, it's a republican in every exam room. the senate has done remarkably little ledges -- legislating under the recent control of the other party, but somehow, some way there always seems to be time to have an attack on women's health care. it's come up again and again, and it's always the same basic proposition on offer. republican politicians trying to somehow squeeze themselves in between women and their physicians. my view is that the government ought to make sure that women can get health care from the doctors they trust and that politicians ought to stay out of things. roe v. wade says that's supposed to be the law of the land when it comes to access to abortion. more than four decades of settled law

grassley: senator wyden. thank you very much, mr. chairman. i want to start with what i think is a clear double standard in regards to responding to an oversight. i look at the record and it seems like democratic request get shoved to the back of a filing cabinet, and somehow republican requests get the red carpet treatment. so i want to give you specific examples, and give you a chance to respond. treasury gets two requests from congressional committee chairs, one request is backed up by clear statutory language, in tax code section 6103, requiring the treasury secretary shall provide tax documents to the committee. the other request doesn't have the same legal basis, and certainly to me it looks political. the request from the democratic chair, with a firm legal basis, was met with nothing but legal foot-dragging. the request that came from the republican chairs got vip treatment. they got a response out the door in a flash. it looks to me that there is a double standard here. you are tipping the scales of congressional oversight. what am i

the republican gets a quick response. >> again, that's just not fair, mr. wyden. we've responded to your committee requests and others with thousands of sars. we are following the law of 6103. again, on the advice of counsel, we have not responded to that. >> i gave you a specific example involving the tax returns that shows the double standard. >> it's not a double standard at all. one has to do with sars, that's under a different section, which we've responded to your requests and the democrats' requests on this committee equally with the republicans. >> let's talk about something else where once again it sure looks like there are sweetheart arrangements that don't meet the test of the public interest, and i'm talking about the state-owned bank which has been accused of a billion dollar scheme to help evade our sanctions and it sure looks like erdogan and his son-in-law have been personally implicated in it. since taking office, you've had seven meetings, seven, with senior turkish officials, two of them were meetings in the oval office with erdogan and one with

mr. chief justice, i ask unanimous consent of the senate sitting as a court of impeachment will stand adjourned under the previous order. >> without objection, so ordered. >> i suggest the absence of a quorum. ... ... [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> the senate impeachment trial of president donald j. trump has completed -- concluded i should say with both sides completing their arguments for and against the articles of impeachment. adam schiff the lead manager on the house management team just wrapping up his comments. the house now and probably one of the more unique quorum policies as a chief justice leaves and the senate will resume shortly in a period good morning business allowing senators to speak up to ten minutes each on any issue, likely on impeachment. they will get the same amount of time or a similar period tomorrow business ahead of vote on friday at 4 p.m. on wednesday rather, 4 p.m. on the articles of impeachment. as this quorum calls continue where d

mr. wyden: thank you. well, y'all did it for me. now we are going to south carolina to win and then we are going to take this back. i think everyone who has caucused for us, but i particularly want to thank the precinct captain, all our volunteers that are here. made all those phone calls. i plan to come back to win this state outright. know, i could not have done it without -- i want to start out, i've got to recognize a few of the congressperson's here. david titus has been incredible. [cheers and applause] mr. biden: there is a guy named horace here. you ever heard of him? that guy can campaign. know, there is a fellow from a little state called california. bill, thank you. and hilda solis. where's hilda? she was just there. maybe she is coming back. so, so, so many of you. i have to tell you what, man -- >> the comeback kid! [cheers and applause] biden: you are sending me back. we are wearing laborers out. my team stepped up in a big, big, big, big way as did a bunch of you. we've got some of the best union support, i think bett

i would like to ask publicly mr. secretary for your commitment to working with me and the chairman and ranking member wyden in getting this done? >> absolutely. you were the one who brought this real anomaly in the statute to my attention. it's absurd that a senior goes in for a colon oskpy expecting to have no co-pay, and if they have a polyp which is what we're screening for, they come out of anesthesia and they get a bill. so you raised this to my attention, and i have worked to sho champion that and i'm delighted it's in the budget. we'll work with you. >> i thank chairman grassley and wyden. last year's budget hearing i asked you to commit to a number of things related fda efforts to curb e-cigarette use. when reducing nicotine to nan addictive levels. you said absolutely. you went on to say you'd be driving for the effort to restrict flavors in e-cigarettes with full vigor, your words, you wouldn't hesitate to take more aggressive action. despite these strong commitments, hhs dropped its nick teeb redux proposa

we are also asking for the travel records from secret service for mr. hunter biden. >> a spokesperson for the top senate democrat on the finance committee, ron wyden, saying for its part the trump administration refused to comply with all democratic requests for documents and witnesses associated with impeachment. applying a blatant double standard, trump administration agencies like the treasury department are rapidly complying with senate republican requests. no subpoena is necessary, and >> ever presented for chuck grassley saying "it's strange that any senator would complain about receiving responses to oversight requests in a timely matter. even one of the house and patient managers is not so impressed. >> our law enforcement intelligence agencies have been very clear that these conspiracy series are not true they've been debunked. mission time national leaders furthering them. it jeopardizes their own national security. >> a treasury spokesman declined to comment when contacted by fox. harris? >> harris: mike, thank you very much. i'm doing now bu

. >> thank you mr. secretary we appreciate that. we don't always agree but we appreciate it nonetheless. senator grassley has already raised the issue of him and senator wyden to reduce prescription drug prices is not every day we have that consensus we have that we are encouraged by that. and then to justify the prices for their products in the day and age with other healthcare costs and then to support the bipartisan bill to reduce drug prices. >> we have been very active working with the bipartisan leadership to pass the legislation and to get that package and the other approach to get this to the past we are open to that but we are deeply engaged with the democrats and republicans on this committee to grasp this legislation. >> some of our republican colleagues that the bill would amount to price controls to jeopardize immigration and as a former ceo the drug company ceo and that drug companies can continue to innovate. >> with all respect i fundamentally disagree with the notion the penalty provisions in the grassley wyden bill

thank you, mr. secretary. i yield back. rep. eshoo: the gentleman yields back. pleasure to recognize the gentleman from new york for his -- is it -- four minutes. >> thank you. the state of new york was extremely disappointed to hear that cms has denied the state's request for its renewal of the delivery system reform. when the program was first approved, it was insisted that new york include talk between states medicaid program that would incentivize providers to move away from fee for service toward value-based payments. new york's health care community has made progress doing just that. receiving double-digit reductions and preventable hospital readmissions while saving the federal government billions of dollars. that request for additional time and continued investment was to move closer to exactly what cms and hhs have been saying federal government wants everyone to be doing. so in light of that, why would cms and hhs want to stop supporting these successful efforts to achieve the very goals the trump administration has been saying it has for healthcare? w

mr. merkley: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. merkley: as united states senators, our decisions build the foundation for future generations. i want those generations to know that i stood here on the floor of this chamber fighting for equal justice under law. i stood here to defend our senate's responsibility to provide a fair trial with witnesses and documents. i stood here to say that when our president invites and pressures a foreign government to smear a political opponent and corrupt the integrity of our 2020 presidential election, he must be removed from office. as a number of my republican colleagues have confessed, the house managers have proven their case. president trump did sanction a corrupt conspiracy to smear a political opponent, former vice president joe biden. president trump assigned rudy giuliani, his personal lawyer, to accomplish that goal by arranging sham investigations by the government of ukraine. president trump advanced this corrupt scheme by instructing the three amigos, ambassador volker, secretary of

mr. wyden: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. wyden: i want to thank the vice chair of the intelligence committee and pick up on his remarks, and for my colleagues, i believe they asked that i give my remarks before i offer my unanimous consent request, and that is what i will do. mr. president, america is 266 days away from the 2020 election, and majority leader mcconnell has yet to take any concrete steps to protect our foreign elections from hacking or foreign interference. thanks to this legislative blockade, the united states senate has been totally derelict in its duty to stop foreign cyberattacks on our elections. and i want to give just one concrete example, having listened to my colleague from tennessee. mr. president, there is not one single nationwide election cybersecurity standard on the books. that means there's not even a prohibition on voting machines having an open connection to the internet. mr. president and colleagues, that is the equivalent of stashing our ballots in the kremlin. there's no such cybersecurity

mr. wyden: mr. president, reserving the right to object. the presiding officer: the senator for oregon. mr. wyden: mr. president, the majority party's antiwomen health care agenda has certainly been on display in the last few days here in the united states senate. two votes on tuesday. more votes and debate today. every time, it's the same basic proposition on offers. legislation that squeezes republican politicians in between women and their doctors. i have said the old g.o.p. slogan used to be a chicken in every pot. these days, it's a republican in every exam room. not only does this legislation discount the fact that reproductive health care, including abortion, is health care, it would make women's health care services more expensive. this would head this country back to the days when the health care system was just for the healthy and the wealthy. my view is decisions about the health care of women, especially reproductive health care, including abortions, are enormously personal. they ought t

mr. mcconnell: madam president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: today every senator will be able to take a clear moral stand. we'll have the chance to proceed to commonsense legislation that would move our nation closer to the international mainstream with respect to defending innocent human life. there are only seven nations left in the entire world where an unborn child can be killed by electing abortion after 20 weeks, and the united states of america, unfortunately, is one of them. set aside all the far-left rhetoric that will greet senator graham's straight-forward legislation and consider this simple fact. to -- do your democratic colleagues really believe that what our country needs is a radical fringe position on elective abortion that we only share with china, north korea, and four other countries in the entire world? the american people don't seem to think that's what we need. one recent survey found that 70% of all americans believe that at a minimum -- at a minimum, elective abortion should be limited to the first three mont