Vote vote vote the presiding officer is there anyone wishing to change their vote . Is there anyone remaining to vote . On this motion the yeas are 87. The nays are 9. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report. The clerk nomination, department of transportation, derek kan of california to be under secretary fo secretary of transportation for policy. A senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. Mr. Thune madam president , i rise to voice my strong support for the nomination of derek kan. The Commerce Committee held a hearing on his nomination on june 8 in 2017 and reported his nomination favorably out of the committee on june 29 of 2017 by voice vote. Its now november 9. Over four months since the nomination was reported out of committee. This noncontroversial well qualified nominee has been languishing in the senate for far too long. Its truly unfortunate, madam president , when we have to go through the cloture process on this particular nomine
Mr. Thornberry mentioned about ack which situation reform and making sure the system works better. I thank the chairman who has taken the lead on this issue. I think we have made significant improvements while acknowledging that we still have a long way to go to get the efficiency out of the pentagon budget. I think this bill does a great job supporting the troops and their families. Its basically the case we recruit a Service Member but you retain the family, and that means you have to provide for them. We support the 2. 5 pay raise in this bill and support the troops and their families in many different ways. This is a very good product. I also want to say, and i want to thank representative langevin on this issue. This bill states that Climate Change is a National Security threat. We make that the policy of the United States congress to acknowledge Climate Change and the impact that its going to have on our National Security. And representative langevin was tireless in making sure t
All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the majority and the minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Rohrabacher, for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Speaker. And i ask permission to address the house and to revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Rohrabacher mr. Speaker, on his recent trip to asia, President Trump reminded us and our International Trading partners that our commercial agreements must be honest, fair and reciprocal. This admonition with this admonition he called on our asian friends to build automobile plants that would employ American Workers. Three cheers for him doing that. The United States already has experienced the benefits and the liabilities of foreigncontrolled multinational Automobile Companies manufacturing in our country. These c
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. Major general will spend the next few minutes [inaudible] watch is complete he will take questions and youll be moderating this discussion. Please limit it to one question or one followup. That allows anybody an opportunity to try to get questions. So without further ado, general horlander. So good afternoon. Great to be back in again and see some family faces here and i really appreciated the opportunity to present to the overview of the armies 2018 budget request. More importantly i will tell you i and even more so pleased to be able to continue to serve our great country in uniform as an army soldier. So theres always something that inspires me. Ill take a few minutes here and, in the process of provide an overview of what the army is doing today. I will sketch out the current operating environment, where our physical posture has look like over the last five to six years and have this request supports the administration and the Army Leadership pr
Opportunity to present to you the overview of the armys 2018 budget request. More importantly, i will tell you i am even more more so pleao be able to continue to serve our great country in uniform, as an army soldier. So, thats always something that inspires me. Ill take a few minutes here in the process of providing an overview of what the army is doing today. Ill sketch out the current operating environment, what our fiscal posture has looked like over the last five to six years and how this request supports the administrations and the Army Leaderships priorities. And then of course ill spend some time to provide a biapproach ration review of some of the details of the armys request. We are increasingly more and more active in worldwide operations across the globe. I would offer to you that the current pictorial on the slide before you not only represents some of the Current Operations where army forces are heavily engaged, but it should remind us all of the velocity of instability