The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Eternal father, thank you for giving us another day. The house is eptering a two week recess, many members will be returning to their districts to meet with constituents. We know that work will be getting done behind the overt political scene. While important and significant issues are being addressed, may all members be imbued with the wisdom of solomon, the patience of job, and proceed like nathaniel who was a man without guile. In all, let there be more light than heat. May all that is done be for your greater honor and glory. Men. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house her pproval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. For what purpose does the the gentlewoman from california seek recognition . Thank you, madam speaker. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, i demand a
Oversight of the department of Energy Research and development enterprise. Welcome, mr. Secretary. Were delighted youre here today. This committee has jurisdiction over the department of energys vitally important science and Energy Research and development activities. The laboratories and facilities so i hope we see you much more frequently from now on, and i look forward to working with you throughout this congress. With the budget season mostly behind us, id like to bring just a few minutes and a few items to your attention. Ill start with the good news which is that despite the administrations best effort to make draconian cuts across the board to deo research and Development Programs, most actually fared well in the house of representatives. Im particularly pleased to see the increases to the budget for arpae and the long Programs Office both of which have yielded truly transformative results for Energy Technologies of all types. Im also quite happy that the house supported a subst
Automatic sequester cuts. Kentucky senator rand paul will offer an amendment to lower spending caps over the next decade. We expect final votes later this morning and we may also see more work on President Trumps judicial nominations. Now live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. The senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, who has created humanity in your image, look upon us and hear our prayers. Today, give our lawmakers the desire to do your will and the energy to complete the tasks that will glorify your name. That which they dont know, reveal it. That which they lack, supply it and that which they doubt, confirm it. Keep them blameless in your service, so that their lives will be living letters causing people to exalt your name. Lord, strengthen their minds for your service, so that your wisdom will permeate their endeavors. We pray in your mighty name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in re
Lets dive right in. This is not your first book on cybersecurity. You coauthored on cyber were. Why follow up with this book now and what has changed . Guest thank you for reading the book and you may find some of your work and some of your great reporting referenced in the book. All appropriately footnoted. 10 years ago we wrote a book called cyber or and we said things than that militaries were going to become dominant and threatened the landscape of cyberspace and militaries will attack each other in cyberwar. We said infrastructure would become part of the target set and there could be large damage and destruction. Not just spewing information and at the time we were criticized. There was a great review in wired that said it was fiction. At one level we decided to write this book to say back, now we were right but we also wanted to say what has changed in 10 years and while we were right about some things we were wrong about others. Yes the militaries have become the dominant threa
Situation, deliberately holding of kids and asylum kids. It doesnt have to happen in the United States and it violates many treaties that we are a part of it. Mr. Castro the Trump Administration has doing Something Different in a few ways. Zero tolerance policy and started egress iffle separating father and mothers and kids were lost and the administration had no way ahead of time to track them and reunite them with their parents and what is known as remain in mexico that once people seek asylum. The administration has done, number one, they send many of them right back to mexico and these are unfortunately the cities that some of these cities that the United States government and the department of state recommends that americans do not travel to and we are recommending to our own folks that they dont go to these same cities. And then the other thing they have been doing is metering in trying to block people from remember these people are legally presenting themselves for asylum and bl