Informed or doesnt inform your approach at ferc. Absolute. Thank you foryo having me and is a pleasure to you today. Yes, i did spend a good chunk of my youth in lexington, kentucky, and obviously had the opportunity to serve the senior senator and party leader from kentucky in the United States senate, senator mcconnell. In terms of how that informs my work at the commission, i cant quantify how much i learned from senator mcconnell just about his work ethic and his discipline and his leadership style, his approach to governance is approach to bipartisanship i think, you knew, in my working for him, most of, if not all of the legislative initiatives that ieg worked on, it didnt pass the senate with 60 votes. They pass with 85 plus votes. Oftentimes, and were talking substantial legislation on the energy front, on the Infrastructure Sector multiple. Farm bills, multiple highways built. Hes a consequential pieces of hgislation, and i saw how senator mcconnell worked to bridge the intere
Joe biden sat in on 20 speaker phone conversations with his son, hundred and business associates. No direct response yet from the president but the republican chair of the Oversight Committee says devons testimony indicated the president violating foreign agents registration act, its a serious charge. Democrats set out to respond instead the phone conversations were not about business, just niceties and the weather. Donald trump is running away with the republican nomination, increasing his lead over his challenges. He says he will let them debate so he can pick a Vice President. A poll from the New York Times and says biden supporters are a mile wide and an inch deep, Approval Rating 39 . To the market, stocks have had a terrific run, five state runs but is only in the early and going. The dow may be done 100 points, 20 for the s p, 85 and nasdaq. Uber, put the flagstone. The stock reached 50 a share, full disclosure i bought it two weeks ago. The report says uber made a profit. But c
you, mike. that s right. so these lawmakers will soon meet with president tsai here in taipei in just a few hours. this is their last stop of their three-day tour through the island and it s really been focused on deterring a chinese invasion but, if that day does come, the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee relations committee, excuse me tells fox sending u.s. troops to this island is not out of the question. conflict is always a last resort. house foreign affairs chairman michael mccaul doesn t want war. but if china invades taiwan, he says the u.s. military could step in. speaker mccarthy and yourself have said that multiple times now that we need to arm taiwan now, before there s any sort of invasion. what about u.s. troops? i think, you know, then you are talking about unauthorized use of military force. would you support that. if the american people support this, the congress will follow. so, you re saying that the option to authorize war powe
You are watching live coverage on cspan2. Kansas. Da drl drl mr. Marshall i ask to add our amendment to the substitute amendment for the faa reauthorization bill. Kansasians elected me to fight for them in washington to fgive them a voice at the highest levels of government. I took that seriously. For that reason, i stand here today and will not fall in line to the coward operating pro procedures that block us from bringing our priorities, the priorities of the people to the floor. Kansasians want our voices to be heard and not sidelined by lobbyists. Every senator in this chamber should have the right to hear and vote on their amendments. Many of my colleagues and i welcome this debate. Its healthy. Lets have the debates. Lets take the hard votes. Whats the harm . I ask everybody, what is the harm of these discussions of these debates and then letting the cards fall where they may with each vote. Each senator deserves the opportunity to bring their amendments to the floor and make the
Mr. Aguilar were concerned, we want everybody to [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2024] well leave this program now for live house coverage. Following order. Passage of h. R. 529. Motions to suspend the rules and pass h. R. 4824, h. R. 4877, h. R. 6093, h. R. 3738, h. R. 4016, h. R. 1767. Dering the previous question on hse resolution 1173. Adoption of House Resolution 1173, if ordered. The first electronic vote ll be conducted as a 15mite vote. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule 20, remaining electnic votes will be conducted as either fiveminute votes or twminute votes. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the Unfinished Business is the vote on passage of h. R 529,n which the yeas and nays are ordered. H. R. 529. A bill to extend the customs matters of the United States from 12 nautical miles to 2 natticles miles from the baselines of the Un