Will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion. We, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of troy d. Edgar of california to be chief Financial Officer of the department of Homeland Security, signed by 17 senators. The presiding officer by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. The question is, is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of troy d. Edgar of california to be chief Financial Officer of the department of Homeland Security shall be brought to a close. The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote . If not, the yeas are 62, the nays are 31. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the nomination. The clerk nomination, department of
Of misdemeanor hate crimes. Meeting the house is both the house and senate are meeting every three days in these sessions while most members of congress are on their summer break. Numbers return on september 9. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms. Washington, d. C. August 27, 2019. I hereby appoint the honorable donald s. Buyer jr. To act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer today will be offered by our guest chaplain, monsignor stephen j. Rossetti here in washington, d. C. The chaplain good and gracious god, as the days of summer come to a close, and as we look forward to the busy days of fall, we pray that you would cast out the darkness of discord in our country and in this place. May your holy spirit descend upon us and usher in a new time of unity, Mutual Respect and peace. Ma
And, what i plan to do today is have dr. Griffin give opening remarks about his priorities and things that may or may not have changed since the last time we spoke and had a conversation. He and i will engage in backandforth and talk about what he mentioned in his opening remarks, and it is my hope to allow time for questions. Without further ado, dr. Griffin. Dr. Griffin it is a pleasure to be here. The last time i was here was in april of 2018. After i was two months was confirmed as the undersecretary, and it was still three months before i was the head of an actual Legal Organization within the department of defense. We were still working on establishing a charter and all of the bureaucratic things one does to convert legislation into executive branch institutions. Months since i have been here, we have been busy. We have filled out the senior bank levels of our organ senior levels of our organization. Porter you know dr. Lisa as well as our directors for Defense Research and engin
So really i want to thank everybody for being here today. All right. Lets get started. Todays session and conversation is about equ÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷ race study. I want to get started, first lets give our guest a round of applause. [applause] i want to start off first with some of the introduction in jeffs book. The introduction on the crisis cycle and i want to hit a couple of points and open it up to jeff and dr. Cunningham. Mark, is it okay that i call you mark . Please, please. Race makes itself known in crisis, in the singular event that captures a larger pattern of abuse and pain, we react to crisis with the flurry of words an sometimes action. In turn the reaction sparked its own backlash about rage, justification and denial, the cycle turns next towards exhaustition, complacency and before we know it we find ourselves back in crisis. They are not abstract thing and impact real people and real life in terms of poverty, annual income and schooling, inscars r
So really i want to thank everybody for being here today. All right. Lets get started. Todays session and conversation is about equ÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷ race study. I want to get started, first lets give our guest a round of applause. [applause] i want to start off first with some of the introduction in jeffs book. The introduction on the crisis cycle and i want to hit a couple of points and open it up to jeff and dr. Cunningham. Mark, is it okay that i call you mark . Please, please. Race makes itself known in crisis, in the singular event that captures a larger pattern of abuse and pain, we react to crisis with the flurry of words an sometimes action. In turn the reaction sparked its own backlash about rage, justification and denial, the cycle turns next towards exhaustition, complacency and before we know it we find ourselves back in crisis. They are not abstract thing and impact real people and real life in terms of poverty, annual income and schooling, inscars r