The presiding officer the majority leader is recognized. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be terminated. The presiding officer without objection, so ordered. Mr. Reid mr. President , i would renew my request that was just denied. I would also add to that that i be recognized at 7 30. The presiding officer is there objection . So ordered. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from ohio. Mr. Brown thank you, mr. President. I ask unanimous consent to dispense with the quorum call. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Brown thank you, mr. President. Its with pride and humility i thank my colleagues for passing senate bill 381 last night. Once passed by the house and signed by the president this will bill award congressional gold medals to the surviving world war ii heroes we know as the doolittle tokyo raiders. The effort to pass this bill has been a personal one for me. I thank 78 of my colleagues who have cosponsored the resolution. It
Disturbing. A Police Car Driving through a crowd gathered for illegal street races. We will have more on this story ahead. Lets begin with the new twist we are now learning about. Forearm President Trumps desperate attempts to stay in power during his last days in office. The wall street journal is reporting that trump pushed the Justice Department to ask the Supreme Court to invalidate joe bidens victory. This comes a day after the president considered replacing the acting attorney general who wouldnt support his efforts to overturn the election. We are now joined by one of the koeshd entz who broke this story. Jess brachb covers the Supreme Court for the wall street journal. Thank you for joining us. You write that the president wanted this intervention with the Supreme Court right after the Court Dismissed a lawsuit tiled by texas the state which was seen by many as his last legal hope. Your article states he wanted us, the United States, to sue one or more of the states directly in
Judiciary will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on oversight of the department of justice and National Security division. Before we begin ith would like o remind members weve established an email address and addressing distribution list for the motions and written materials. If you would like to submit materials please send them to the email addressss previously and we will circulate the materials as quickly as we can. I will now recognize myself for an opening statement. The National Security division was established within the department of justice in 2006 with the purpose of creating an incentive for incenr intelligence National Security and counterterrorism streamlining interactions between federal prosecutors main justice and the Intelligence Community. Operating on the front lines includingin the domestic terrorism, Cyber Espionage and threats of the foreignju gove
Journey from a family with generations of formidable women from her career as a lawyer to her role as a wife and mother and, of course, she talks about a seminal moment that motivated her to launch hearse into politics. Her energy and resilience whether bringing her sons with her to the senate floor while voting or taking on military Sexual Assault have made her an extremely refreshing voice on capitol hill. Your candor, your sense of possibility are so evident in your book and so welcome in this town, and i want to thank you for being such an inspiration to so many of us. Its a great, great book. And i hope you all will read it. Its, believe it or not, its a political book, but its actually a page turner. The its a really fun read. In conversation is a friend and hongtime customer at politics prose, Andrea Mitchell, who is probably better known to most of america for her prizewinning reporting on nbc news. Shes host of a daily show on msnbc that explores the most important issues of t
Them. The consequences, the damage, incalculable. But the results predictably dangerous, and this will never work. This is as democrats absolve themselves of any responsibility for massive failure after failure that they have themselves controlled for decades. Now they want to do it on a national basis. Too often politicians lose sight of what is really important. Let us start tonight, lets have a conversation. Lets begin with the basics. We as the vast majority of the american people, when i think most americans do believe in god, that every man, woman, and child in this country in the world are created in gods image. We believe that. You believe as i do that every single human being was born with special unique gifts to my godgiven gifts endowed by our creator that we are born with and while we know human nature is not perfect, we know all the sins have fallen short, the great book again. But if the United States of america is where we have the potential to correct wrongs and injusti