Him so he can say more about the tragedy that occurred in texas over it weekend. Top of the morning and i thank you, mr. Chairman. Welcome. All nine witnesses. All time hearing. And the distinguished gentleman from wisconsin. Let me just say briefly that before discussing the important topic of the days hearing, i want to raise another issue that we must unfortunately confront with urgency. On sunday, a gunman shot and killed 26 church goers in southern springs, texas. We now know that information concerning his Court Marshal for Domestic Abuse should have been submitted by the air force to the National Instant criminal background check system and should have been prevented from purchasing firearms from licensed gun dealers via the brady background check system. Yesterday before this information came to light, i wrote to you, mr. Chairman, requesting that the briefing planned for our members tomorrow afternoon by atf on the issue of bump stocks. Be expanded through the fbi to discuss t
Over it weekend. Top of the morning and i thank you, mr. Chairman. Welcome. All nine witnesses. All time hearing. And the distinguished gentleman from wisconsin. Let me just say briefly that before discussing the important topic of the days hearing, i want to raise another issue that we must unfortunately confront with urgency. On sunday, a gunman shot and killed 26 church goers in southern springs, texas. We now know that information concerning his Court Marshal for Domestic Abuse should have been submitted by the air force to the National Instant criminal background check system and should have been prevented from purchasing firearms from licensed gun dealers via the brady background check system. Yesterday before this information came to light, i wrote to you, mr. Chairman, requesting that the briefing planned for our members tomorrow afternoon by atf on the issue of bump stocks. Be expanded through the fbi to discuss the background check issues. Related to southern springs. And in
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
Senate now, i would ask unanimous consent that floor privileges be granted this congress for darren dodd from the u. S. Secret service and salia m [inaudible] from the department of justice. Without objection. Okay. Today i come to the floor to address my colleagues about the bipartisan resolution of disapproval that i introduced on january 30th along with senator crapo and 24 other cosponsors. This resolution now has 32 cosponsors and, of course, thid resolution of disapproval is absolutely necessary. The resolution is a procedure as we know under the Congressional Review Act for repealing executive branch regulations. The regulation at issue in thisd disapproval resolution was issued by the Social Security administration under president obama. This regulation unfairly stigmatizes people with disabilities. If the regulation is not repealed, it will allow the agency to very unfairly deprive Social Security recipients of their second amount rights Second Amendment rights. The regulation
Detailee from the secret service and the detailee from the department of justice. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Grassley today i come to the floor to address my colleagues about the bipartisan resolution of disapproval that i introduced on january 30, along with senator crapo, and 24 other cosponsors. This resolution now has 32 cosponsors and this resolution of disapproval is absolutely necessary. The resolution is a procedure, as we know, under the Congressional Review Act for repealing executive branch regulations. The regulation at issue in this disapproval resolution was issued by the Social Security administration under president obama. This regulation unfairly stigmatizes people with disabilities. If the regulation is not repealed, it will allow the agency to very unfairly deprive Social Security recipients of their secondamendment rights. The regulation would result in disability recipients being reported to the National Instant criminal background check system as