Testimony on Senate Resolution 355, improving procedures for consideration of nominations in the u. S. Senate. I want to thank senator lankford whos here with us at the table for agreeing to appear before us today to discuss the merits of his resolution. In 2010 this committee undertook a comprehensive examination of the filibuster in the United States senate. That examination was conducted in response to an ongoing debate about invoking the Nuclear Option. And while in action was taken immediately following the conclusion of the committees work, the senate did take steps in early 2013 to modify some of the rules and procedures more considering bills for considering bills, conference reports and certain nominations during that congress. Later that same year the senate took a more drastic step and invoked the Nuclear Option for certain nominations. Invoking the Nuclear Option affected a permanent change, as my colleagues well know. But the other changes which improve the efficiency of t
Lady fly into the sunset and rough weather. But we begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 skojd 90 seconds. From this day forward its going to be only America First. Americas 45th president donald j. Trump assumes pow stheer this was very strong stuff. Did not see any outreach. He basically took the hide off of everybody sitting on that platform. Should i keep the twitter going or not . Keep it going . I think so. The balls remind us this is a day of great joy for millions of people. It will be interesting to see what happens just Getting Started on this new chapter in all of our live, really. This is not a period. This is a comma in the continuing story of building america. Not my president Inauguration Day mark by protests across the country. Protesters turned destructive in byron. Were not going to take this. Were not going accept it. This is not going to be normalized. A pretty significant storm system throughout southern california. Strong storms toppling tree
Rough weather. But we begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 skojd 90 seconds. From this day forward its going to be only America First. Americas 45th president donald j. Trump assumes pow stheer this was very strong stuff. Did not see any outreach. He basically took the hide off of everybody sitting on that platform. Should i keep the twitter going or not . Keep it going . I think so. The balls remind us this is a day of great joy for millions of people. It will be interesting to see what happens just Getting Started on this new chapter in all of our live, really. This is not a period. This is a comma in the continuing story of building america. Not my president Inauguration Day mark by protests across the country. Protesters turned destructive in byron. Were not going to take this. Were not going accept it. This is not going to be normalized. A pretty significant storm system throughout southern california. Strong storms toppling trees on flooded streets. Oh, my
People are filing in. I want to thank everyone for coming out today. On behalf of our president thomas burr and the 3,000 members of the National Press club i want to thank everyone who braved metro road closings and construction here at the press club for coming out today. And i think one of the reasons we have such a good crowd is to talk about a president ial transition gives people hope that theres light at the end of the tunnel after the Long Campaign but at the same time i learned that sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is a locomotive coming at you. And so today what were going to do is were going to talk about sort of that tunnel. Whats going on in terms of president ial transition and what needs to be done to get us to noon on inauguration day. We have a really great panel for this discussion. And so with us today, we have clay johnson who served as the Deputy Director for omb in the Bush White House beginning in 2003 and before that he was an assistant to the presid
People are filing in. I want to thank everyone for coming out today. On behalf of our president thomas burr and the 3,000 members of the National Press club i want to thank everyone who braved metro road closings and construction here at the press club for coming out today. And i think one of the reasons we have such a good crowd is to talk about a president ial transition gives people hope that theres light at the end of the tunnel after the Long Campaign but at the same time i learned that sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is a locomotive coming at you. And so today what were going to do is were going to talk about sort of that tunnel. Whats going on in terms of president ial transition and what needs to be done to get us to noon on inauguration day. We have a really great panel for this discussion. And so with us today, we have clay johnson who served as the Deputy Director for omb in the Bush White House beginning in 2003 and before that he was an assistant to the presid