And others on Gun Legislation. Senator schumer waiting one. Inute for the mayor senator schumer are you with the mayor . [indiscernible conversation] senator schumer welcome. Great. Ok, lets get started. M very proud to be joined im very proud to be joined by, of course, my friend and colleague, Speaker Pelosi, mayor nan whaley from dayton. Good to have you here. And i want to thank my colleagues senators brown and stabenow and representative scobar from el paso, texas and representative thompson. Too Many Americans are losing their lives to gun violence. Too many families are just weeping because they have lost loved ones. I was at the airport, a gentleman came over to me and said thank you for what youre doing, i lost my nephew to gun violence last year. Americans are suffering from the abundance of gun violence in america. Last month, Mass Shootings claimed 51 lives in el paso, dayton and odessa to say nothing about the daily lives lost by gun violence. Enough is enough. Congress is
To start the work week. Lawmakers are expected to continue working on allowing kelly kraft to upset the United States in the upcoming United Nations General Assembly in new york. They moved to advance her nomination is set for 5 30 p. M. Eastern today. Now to live coverage of the u. S. Senate here on the. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Almighty god, sovereign of our nation and lord of our lives, thank you for infusing us with the confidence that you order our steps each day. Give our lawmakers courage and a strong resolve to glorify your name as they trust the unfolding of your providence. As they remember what you have already done to bless this nation, inspire them to march confidently toward tomorrows difficulties with a total dependence on your power. May they recommit themselves each day to faithfully fulfilling the awesome responsibility you have entrusted to them. L
The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 1420 to amend the independent energy act to promote Energy Efficiency via information and computing tech nollings and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from illinois, mr. Rush and the gentleman from michigan, mr. Upton, each will control 20 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois. Mr. Rush i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on h. R. 1420. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Rush mr. Speaker, i yield myself as much time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from illinois is recognized. Mr. Rush mr. Speaker, i want to thank my friends and colleagues on the energy and Commerce Committee, ms. Eshoo of the great state of california, mr. Kinzinger of my home state of illinois, for working in a bipartisan manner to bring h. R. 1420, the
Host this week on the communicators, it is a tech policy roundtable with three working journalists. We look ahead to the fall and what congress and executive agencies may be doing when it comes to executive policy. Our panel begins with Emily Birnbaum of the hill. Ashley gold of the information and Alexander Levine of politico. Facebook, what is going on with that case . Thank you for having me. The ftcs 5 billion with 5 billion settlement with facebook opted by the cambridge has dividedandal washington. On one hand you have republicans and Industry Groups saying the meantlion fine, that it facebook was being held accountable. On the other side you have democrats and consumer and privacy advocates blasting the ftc track record on enforcement and saying that because of facebooks size and money, this wont deter facebook in the future. Right now in washington, we were we are in this wait and see mode with facebook. Facebook is still doing damage control to convince skeptics and lawmakers
The hill, we also have ashley gold of the information and Alexandra Levine of politico. Ms. Levine, first question to you. Facebook has seen a lot of attention in this town the last couple of months. Do we expect what is going on with that case and do we expect further attention . Thank you for having me. Great to be here but 5 million settlement with facebook was a combination of this long privacy probe by the Cambridge Analytic data scandal was in washington so on one hand you have republicans and Industry Groups saying that the 5 billiondollar fine because its the largest go down in history of the agency that it meant facebook was being held accountable. On the other side you have democrats in Consumer Privacy advocates blasting the ftcs track record on enforcement and saying that because of facebooks size and how much money it has it will not deter facebook from bad behavior in the future but right now in washington we are sort of in this wait and see mode with facebook where faceb