Also testified at this Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. Reign Relations Committee hearing. Good morning. This hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Together today to discuss the nominations. Calista gingerich is the nominee to be the ambassador and nathan rank and status of ambassador at large. George edward glass is nominated to be u. S. Ambassador to portugal and mr. Kroll ridges to be assistant secretary of state for Consular Affairs. I want to welcome the nominees and their families. And congratulate them on their selection by the president. Thank you for your willingness to serve. I want to know with congressman rooney supporting mrs. Gingerich. Congressman rooney was congressman from florida in an ambassador to the holy see during president bushs term. Also honorede is to welcome our distinct colleagues who will and to do so by witnesses. I will make this a filibusterfree opportunity mr. Chairman and it is a great privilege to be able to
Also testified at this Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. Reign Relations Committee hearing. Good morning. This hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Together today to discuss the nominations. Calista gingerich is the nominee to be the ambassador and nathan rank and status of ambassador at large. George edward glass is nominated to be u. S. Ambassador to portugal and mr. Kroll ridges to be assistant secretary of state for Consular Affairs. I want to welcome the nominees and their families. And congratulate them on their selection by the president. Thank you for your willingness to serve. I want to know with congressman rooney supporting mrs. Gingerich. Congressman rooney was congressman from florida in an ambassador to the holy see during president bushs term. Also honorede is to welcome our distinct colleagues who will and to do so by witnesses. I will make this a filibusterfree opportunity mr. Chairman and it is a great privilege to be able to
Morning. It was a 6. 6 magnitude earthquake outside of perugia. Reports of injuries, but no deaths. This follows two shocks from last week that crumbled buildings. In august, this region was hit by another devastating earthquake. That one killed nearly 300 people. And because of that quake, most of the residents had already left this area. Back here in colorado, a gunman on the run boulder. Police say they responded to a shots fired call at pleasant and broadway this morning. Boulder police say theres a confrontation in the parking lot of a bar there. Someone pulled out a gun and began shooting. A man was hurt and sent to the hospital. Were looking to see how he is doing this morning. Earlier in the morning, cu boulder sent a warning to people in the area but police say there is no longer a threat there. We are are working to find out what the denver coliseum. One person was killed and two others are in the hospital. Dpd says theyre still looking for that shooter. We know what sparked
Quorum call quorum call a senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator the majority whip. Mr. Cornyn thank you, madam president. Id ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Cornyn madam president , it may not look like it now, but were actually making great progress in moving forward with a critical piece of legislation that would reauthorize the federal aviation administration, and in the process make flying safer and more efficient for all of our citizens. Members across the aisle have worked together on this legislation, and i know well have an important vote at 5 30 on monday and hopefully be able to process some of the amendments that have been agreed upon by the managers of the bill which are a part of the managers package. But i wanted to turn to a topic that has concerned me a lot over the last year and troubles me more each day, and that is the use by former secretary of state Hillary Clinton of a
I have a lot of people to thank. I would like to thank rosemary. I would like to thank mark and his wife were driving alice and myself down here. I would like to thank [applause] a serious mistake. I i would like to thank the letter carrier. When. When i was a little boy my parents gave me a book called they carried the mail. I only remember one sentence neither neither snow, nor sleet, nor rain, nor dark of night shall save these careers from the swift completion of their appointed routes which i believe were words sponsored by the king of babylonia i dont no how many hundreds of thousands of words we speak, but we should all be aware of the struggle of the letter carriers. Facilities are being closed down. That seems to be the same in youngstown, ohio. This summer they are closing the Distribution Center so that henceforth when you mail a letter in youngstown lets say to the the super max prison a 20 minute drive from our home that letter will henceforth go to cleveland and then come