Mr. Chairman, are you ready to begin . Please begin your five second countdown. Chair pappas five, four, three, two, one. Good afternoon. I call this hearing to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. We have a number of members participating remotely today. And before we proceed, i would like to go over some items for our members participating remotely. First, if youre experiencing connectivity issues, please make sure you or your staff contact our Technical Support so those issues can be resolved immediately. Members participating remotely must continue to use the video function for the duration of their participation in the hearing, unless they experience connectivity issues or other technical problems that render the member fully unable to participate on camera. It is committee and subcommittee policy that members participating remotely will remain muted when not recognized, just like turning on your microphone on and off during an inperso
Financial roadblocks. This is an hour and ten minutes. Mr. Chairman, are you ready to begin . Yes. Please begin your fivesecond countdown. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Good afternoon. I call this hearing to order. A quorum is present. Without objection, the chair is authorized to call a recess at anytime. I would like to go over items. If you are experience connectivity issues, please contact your staff. It is committee and Sub Committee, participating members will be muting when not recognized and its out of courtesy so that background noise did not interfere with another member recognized to speak. When you are recognized you need to unmute your microphone and pause before speaking so we can hear everything you say. In order to ensure that everything members say is captured on the live stream of the hearing members are asked to pause for two to three seconds before beginning to speak. If you wish to have a document inserted in the record please ask for unanimous consent and have your staff email t
Will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion. We, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of troy d. Edgar of california to be chief Financial Officer of the department of Homeland Security, signed by 17 senators. The presiding officer by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. The question is, is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of troy d. Edgar of california to be chief Financial Officer of the department of Homeland Security shall be brought to a close. The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote . If not, the yeas are 62, the nays are 31. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the nomination. The clerk nomination, department of
Baseball, basketball, football, track, and the many sports that come under the olympics mandate. This bill in particular i wish to remind our colleagues again provides relief, but we really hope it is a deterrent and works to move other nations, the european union, to be able to establish these kinds of responses to doping. This act establishes criminal penalties for participating in a scheme in commerce to influence a Major International sport competition through prohibited substances or methods. It also provides restitution to victims of such conspiracy, athletes in particular, many of them who have suffered great losses because of this fraud. It protects whistleblowers from retaliation by criminalizing participation in International Doping fraud conspiracies, whistleblowers will be included in existing witness Protection Laws and establishes coordination and sharing of information with the u. S. Antidoping agency. To establish a matrix if you will, a format. So i want to say that we
Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news Head Quarters in new york, in for an marie green. Nearly three weeks after Mass Shootings in texas and ohio. The position on tougher gun control legislation remains unclear. Yesterday he said gun deaths in America Constitute a Public Health emergency but stopped short of offering a clear proposal on how to address the issue. In new york. Laura, how is the president respondinging to criticism over his stance on gun reform . Reporter the president says changes are in the works but going to done, hes not goingre to into detail about what those are and what hes willing to change. Outside the white house yesterday President Trump tried to clarify his stance on gun control legislation. Were working on background checks. It there are things we can do but we already have very serious background checks, strong background checks. Reporter he pushed back when he discussed the slippery slope of gun rgulation. Mr. Trump spoke with Wayne Lapierre