Quorum call quorum call quorum call quorum call quorum call mr. Reid mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be terminated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i now move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 892. The presiding officer the question is on the motion to proceed. All in favor say aye. All opposed, no. The ayes appear to have it. Ththe motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the nomination. The clerk nomination, department of state. Noahbryson mammot to be ambassador to the argentine republic. Mr. Reid i send a cloture motion to the desk. The presiding officer the clerk will report the cloture motion. The clerk cloture motion. We, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, hereby move to bring to a close the debate on the nomination of noaa bryson mammos of california to be ambassador to the argen
Would generally be funding for the rest of the fiscal year, but in a way not yet defined carveout funding for homeland to avoidor immigration funding effectively the implementation of the resident will executive action. Doing that in an appropriation bill is difficult to do, because and there was a memo from the Congressional Research office just circulated to the office of jeff sessions, alabama it is difficult to do through the normal course, but causeare ways you could restrictions on funding or restrictions on the program itself. You just cannot do it through the normal run of the mill appropriations process, and i think that is what would need to be worked out if anyone on the house side wanted to take that approach. Lets look at the appropriations chair, hal rogers, and what he is talking about, what he is tweeting about. Congress must fight this executive order to then nail through legislative means that one act real change. Is he saying there should not be an appropriations mea
Lyndon johnson was certainly an imperial president. I think what we see in johnson we start to see the cusp of the end of the imperial president s in the United States. There have been president s the acted in three fleet since then. The bush, no doubt about that. But he was the last person i think to understand the use and abuse of power. Unfortunately, he abused it in many respects. As did many of the president s who succeeded him. But he wasnt the last person who understood because of his constant demand of power within the United States he understood much better how to maneuver power overseas. He was less interested in what went on overseas and, unfortunately, his presidency was really defined by his adventure in vietnam which were almost less than in many respects. He inherited that. He did not making any better, no doubt about that but he did understand the use of power and especially within the United States. He was i think one of the last president s who did it truly understand
Just make sure there is someone in front of you. If there is somebody you can focus on it is easier. How far are we going down . We will stop here. One of the things i wanted to point out to you here coming down the steps you will see that the 36 rib trusses that form the superstructure of the dome converge here to the 12 that go up to support the statue of freedom. As you can imagine, trying to merge 36 items into such a small space at the top was too great so every third truss is the one that continues forward and the two that flank it merge into its side for buttressing support. What you also see is the enormous super structure has very slender bands that reach down to suspend the shell below. And it has a very thin element that reaches out to the shape of the exterior dome. The brilliant thing about this design is that the dome is exposed to very harsh conditions on the outside, very cold in the winter, extremely hot in the summer under direct sun. Some plates may approach 130 degr
Home when youre not in front of the computer screen. That has some customers pulling the plug, literally. Users tweeting they are ripping their nest devices off the wall. Here now our tech expert rob enderle who owns a nest smoke alarm by the way and security expert, todd morris. Rob, are you nervous about the nest device . It will be spying on you . Recognize that google is probably already spying on me in new and wonderful ways. Im not that worried about the current generation of device. I am worried what may be coming though. Melissa why . What do you think . What are the possibilities . Well as google moves into home automation and Home Security it is obvious they will move into cameras, room sensors, things that would tell them specifically what im doing and where im doing it. Nest could determine what kind of smoke picking up in the house, what kind of smells in the house. Melissa interesting. It will cross over solidly into privacy pretty quick. Melissa todd, what about that . T