Vote vote the presiding officer are there any other senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 51, the nays are 42. The nomination is confirmed. The majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i ask unanimous consent that with respect to the walker nomination, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table and the president be immediately notified of the senates action. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell i move to proceed to legislative session. The presiding officer the question is on the motion. All in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes do have it. The motion is agreed to. Mr. Mcconnell i move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 717. The presiding officer the question is on the motion. All in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes do have it. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the nomination. The clerk nomination,
Duty in asia. I continued to fly fighter jets until i refired from the military with the rank of commander in 2001. After my time on active duty, i also became a pilot for a commercial air carrier. As a commercial airline pilot, i was performing my primary duty. And association that was importantly conceived in 1931 to represent airmail pilots. I had many appointed and elected positions in the association ultimately becoming the president of alba from 2011 to 2014. I represented more than 50,000 u. S. And canadian pilots at over 30 companies on contractual, safety, and government policy matters. I lead a team to address complex bankruptcy rein restructuring. Nothing was easy and they had to Work Together to settle negotiated agreements. I also served on numerous safety committees including the federal aviation fa advisory committee. Air traffic services, and appointed as the faa drone advisory committee. Last year i also cochaired the department of transportations Second Committee to r
Representing more than 51,000 pilots in 31 u. S. And canadian airlines. [inaudible conversations] okay. If we could go ahead and take our seats, well get started. And now i would like to welcome our webcast audience to join us this morning. Thank you for joining in with us. Lets go ahead and begin our next panel. Okay. As i mentioned earlier, im going to change my role, certainly, a little bit x im going to moderate this discussion with our friends from the faa, transport canada and the International Civil Aviation Organization otherwise known as icao. Often its been said that safety is never an end state. Those of us in the safety business know it is ever changing, and our work is never finished. We can never delude ourselves into thinking weve got all the answers, and i know most of you know that. No flight is ever routine or just like the previous one. To some degree, theres always a unique set of conditions and circumstances that present a challenge to an otherwise safe and unevent
And so both of those procedures happen successfully, that student had a plea bargain and so he is a richard sex offender and was charged and convicted of those crimes and he was also expelled from the university. And the last piece i would say about that is there still are other parts. I accompanied her to grand jury. I went with her when the sentencing happened and was there to also explain some of the other bits and pieces of things, crime Victim Compensation and wheres he going to be on probation after she get in touch with those people, and all the pieces that continued after both matters are closed. Finally, just is a better, she is still a student and she still impacted. Just because those two processes have concluded, her life continues to be impacted by what happened to her. So there i am still a resource over on campus. I just think vestibule is a great word. Sometimes i think of a hub, having that person who has the knowledge of although the systems and can really lay out for
There is right now a movement led by mainly figures from basra like a judge who was a minister and then a Parliament Member who is probably the best person to articulate the cause of basra right now at the national level. His narrative is right well known. That is there. I think what goes on in basra, see basra is not just about basra. The leadership in basra, the political leadership, the governor and city council, they belong to strong parties that are national parties. These are the leaders who are from outside basra who call their own politicians and say dont approve this. The biggest problem basra has to achieve its provincial status is the politicians of basra and baghdad who are resisting it. But i think right now there is a mechanism to collect sits and then present them to the election commission. Then it will go forward that way. The question is will the same people who caused the previous attempt to fail do it again, or is the momentum too strong right now in light of the na