Why dont we get started since time is short. Good afternoon, everyone. I serve as the director of defense studies here at the center for National Interest in washington, d. C. Welcome to our friends here with us in the flesh as well as those joining us on Facebook Live and as well as cspan 3. We present to you a real treat. Not one but two part discussion on u. S. Missile defense policy. Part one will be the gentleman sitting next to me on the right, senator tom cotton from arkansas. Part two, keynote address, as well as a q and a session. Now, im going to keep my remarks very brief as we want to spend as much time with senator cotton as possible. Obviously it goes without saying that washington faces severe challenges when it comes to the missiles and proliferation of missiles throughout the world. Obviously north koreas very much in the news it due to the developments of its short, long range missiles and its ability to actually at some point hit the homeland. Senator cotton has been
Do not do that again, mr. Shanahan, or i will not take your name up for a vote before this committee. Cspan programs are available at cspan. Org, right on our home page or by searching the video library. And now Energy Secretary rick perry on President Trumps proposed 2018 budget for the Energy Department from the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee. This is about an hour 40 minutes. Good morning everyone. The committee will come to order. I apologize for the delayed start, but hopefully we will have an opportunity to hear from the secretary and learn of the president s views for the department of energy. Secretary perry, i want to welcome you to your first hearing following your bipartisan confirmation here in the senate. While it took us a little bit longer than wed hoped to get you in this role, were glad to have you at the helm. We look forward to helping you get a full compliment of folks there at the department as well. The budget request for the department of energy ta
Silence your telephones if you havent already. For our viewing and listening audience feel free to also follow along on twitter using the pressclub. For our cspan and radio audiences please be aware in our audience today are members of our general public. So any applause or reaction you may hear is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. Now, id like to introduce our head table. Please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. Head table participants please stand up when i say your name. We have jamal abdul alim, senior staff writer at diverse, issues in education. We have jerry weller, foformer u. S. Representative from illinoiss district and the state society in washington. We have mike, a supervisor here in washington, d. C. We have tony trem, star scholar graduate of harry s. Truman in chicago and an incoming northwestern student whos planning to study neuroscience. We have armando rodriguez. We have Lisa Matthews coleader of the npc Headliners T
The 2 3 majority required to pass each bill at some point this evening. We also expect the swearing in of two new members, karen handel of georgia and ralph norman of South Carolina, both elected last tuesday in special elections in those states. Live house coverage coming up next here on cspan. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] postponed. Votes will be taken in the following order. H. R. 2547 by the yeas and nays. H. R. 2258 by the yeas and nays. First electronic vote will be conducted as 15minute vote. Remaining votes will be onducted as fiveminute votes. The Unfinished Business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from missouri, mr. Graves, to suspend the rules and pass h. R. 2547 as amended on which the yeas and nays are ordered. The clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk Union Calendar number 129. H. R. 2
The 2 3 majority required to pass each bill at some point this evening. We also expect the swearing in of two new members, karen handel of georgia and ralph norman of South Carolina, both elected last tuesday in special elections in those states. Live house coverage coming up next here on cspan. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] postponed. Votes will be taken in the following order. H. R. 2547 by the yeas and nays. H. R. 2258 by the yeas and nays. First electronic vote will be conducted as 15minute vote. Remaining votes will be onducted as fiveminute votes. The Unfinished Business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from missouri, mr. Graves, to suspend the rules and pass h. R. 2547 as amended on which the yeas and nays are ordered. The clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk Union Calendar number 129. H. R. 2