A couple votes coming up including one for President Trumps nominee for the National Credit Union Administration board. You are watching live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. A senator madam president . The presidin officer senator from kentucky. Paul palm i ask that the folling be granted floor privileges, calem case, lucy, carlin gupta, and gab brie ella mastra. Thpresiding officer without objection. Under the previous order, all postcloture time has expired. The question is on the nomination. Is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . Hearing none, the yeas are 58, the nays are 35. The notion nomination is confirmed. Under the prious order, the motion to reconsid be considered made and laid upon the table and the predent will be immediately notified of the senates action. A se
The centers for Disease Control related to 530 e cigarette related incidents of lung disease in 38 states and the u. S. Virgin islands. First, i want to make clear that we did not plan to have this emergency hearing at the beginning of this congress, let alone this time last month. On august 23rd, officials from illinois reported the first death due to a mysterious vaping related illness. And since then, a total of eight individuals have tragically died in this outbreak. The response to this crisis, cdc is warning the American Public to consider not using e cigarettes of any kind. Because the subcommittee has investigated the youth vaping epidemic and the companies behind it, we feel its our duty to draw attention to recent Government Health warnings about the dangers of e cigarette use. The longterm Health Effects of continued vaping is unknown. What we do know should give us pause. State Health Departments continue to conduct retro active analysis of patient records to better underst
The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection, the chairs are authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. Without objection, id like to have a few members waved onto the committee. Congressman jordan, congressman meadows, and congressman cox. Shall be prorated to join the subcommittee on the guys and. Irected dais i now recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. We are here to amplify the recent Health Warnings issued by the centers for Disease Control related to 530 e cigarette related incidents of lung disease in 38 states and the u. S. Virgin islands. First, i want to make clear that we did not plan to have this emergency hearing at the beginning of this congress, let alone this time last month. On august 23, officials from my home state of illinois reported the first death due to a mysterious vaping related illness. And since then, a total of eight individuals have tragically died in this outbreak. In response to this crisis, cdc is wa
For equality. Were pleased to have here and without further adieu hegar. Thank you so much and thank you to book people. You have been so wonderful and warm and i keep telling everybody, wherever you bought your book, return and it buy imfrom book people. So thank you yall so much. Ive been speaking for seven years and so nervous right now because im sieging to a bunch of people who i know and love and respect, many of whom are in the audience are toastmasters so i would ask you to please not evaluate this speech. So im just blown away by how many people are here and i kind of just want to save all the time just oneonone if a everybody because a lot of you if i have seen in a while about my mom wanted know speck for an hour and then someone else told me, be brief, be funny, be seated. So im going try to find where in between those two. So read just a short excerpt from the book, and then well talk for like six or seven minutes and then get to the signing. A brief disclaimer with give t
Tonighting we have m. J. Hegar with her book, shoot like a girl that details her time in afghanistan [cheers and applause] and her fight to eliminate the militarys Ground Combat exclusion policy which kept female Armed Service members from officially serving in combat roles. Shelys in austin with her lives in austin with her family and gives back to herral that matter by mentoring cadets. She continues to speak about her fight for increased military effectively through equality. We are so pleased to have her tonight, so without further ado, m. J. Hegar. [cheers and applause] thank you so much. And thank you to book people. You guys have been so wonderful and warm. I keep telling everybody, wherever you bought your book, return it and buy it from book people. Thank you all so much to. Be i am so nervous right now because im speaking to a wunsch of people who bunch of people who i know and love and respect, many of whom who are toastmasters. So i would ask you to not evaluate this speech