Grea fort bragg and oth installations and call North Carolina home, eve for a thanks to our colleague for joining us today. Madam president , thanksgiving dinner has become the single most sell grated celebrated meal of theay. With tens ofmericans gathering with family and friends to give thanks for their bleings and of course for one another. Folks, i know that this yr its a lot different. While we sti have so much to be thankful for, the covid1 paemic means folks will be traveling less and might not be celebrating in larger groups. And as a result, many will be separated from their loved ones on this very special day. Bu folks, this is a very familiar feeling for anyon who has ever served in our Nations Armed forces. Protecting our nation. Rom at any given moment, thousands of men and women,oms and dads, brothers and sisters, are stationed arnd the world standing vigilant in the defense of freedom. Those wearing the uniform arent the only ones making a sacrifice either back home ther
The president and the first lady and rnc chairwoman Ronna Mcdaniel and we just learned about senator mike lee and all of this started with hope pics, the mike Lee Development that we are indicating, he sits on the Judiciary Committee, a number of democrats have been calling for delaying the confirmation hearing or knocking altogether as a result of this, we do know that judge barrett has already tested negative but again the news only is going to prompt more calls for him to be tested yet again, among those who have been testing negative besides the judge wilbur ross, the secretary negative, Steven Mnuchin, the treasury secretary, negative, alex azar the health and Human Services secretary, negative, yvonne cattrall, mark meadows, the chief of staff, negative, secretary of state, mike pompeo, negative, the defense secretary, mike esper, negative, bill barr, the attorney general, that was known yesterday, negative, the widespread Contact Tracing to get to the bottom of anyone who was 50
The presiding officer the senate will come to order. Under the previous order, all postcloture time is expired. On the wiegand nomination. The question now occurs 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 . If not, the yeas are 82, the nays are 14. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. The clerk 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 thomas t. Cullen of virginia to be United States district judge for the Western District of virginia. Signed by 17 senators. The
Museum in kansas city hosted this event and provided the video. Our guest speaker Gary Armstrong teaches American Foreign policy in programs and washington d. C. Hes a professor of Political Science in liberty, missouri. He graduated with a ph. D. From Georgetown University. Gary served as Research Assistant to francis you can jada, a political scientist, political economist and author to the former u. S. Secretary of state Madeleine Albright who was here for a private dinner earlier this year to just drop a name or two to impress you. Gary joined the William Jewell college in 1992 and now serves as inaudible director of the International Relations major. The William Jewell college body voted him professor of the year four times. Theory is also a longtime supporter of the National World War One Museum and memorial and for that we are appreciative. Please give doctor Carrie Armstrong a warm welcome. applause good evening and thank you for coming. Tonight there should be a lot of interes
The chair is authorized to declare a recess at any t time i now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Good morning todays hearing will focus on the f35 joint Strike Fighter a highly technical Stealth Fighter that is the pentagons largest and most costly acquisition programs in cf 35 Program Began more than 20 years ago the department of defense more than 350 billion onts Development Total cost to sustain the program is estimated at more than 1 trillion. Unfortunately this program is plagued by challenges including major problems with maintenance of the aircraft. This hearing will address the many, time and manpower the military is forceded to spend for spare parts from Lockheed Martin. Juneck 2019 the dod Inspector General found over a threeyear period more than 15000 spare parts for the f35 lacked dialogue that maintains Important Information of the spare parts. 2020 Committee Staff from the majority and minority visited multiple military bases and interviewed personnel who maint