Mr. Mr. Speaker ive been asked to reply, my right honorable friend the Prime Minister is in attendance on her majesty the queen welcoming their majesties king felipe and Queen Letitia of spain. Isnt todays report that the National Grid made 3 billion pounds profit in 201516 at the expense of households further evidence that the government is not delivering Fair Energy Prices . Will the government agree to an immediate rebate for overcharging . And will the government now commit to an Energy Price Cap for the 17 million households on the most expensive tariffs . The right honorable lady is right to identify the issue of Energy Prices and im sure she will welcome the announcement in the queens speech that the government will insure fair markets for consumers, this will include bringing forward measures to help tackle unfair practices in the Energy Market to help reduce energy bills. Im sure this is an issue on which we can work across the house together. Mr. Speaker, yesterday you kindly
Awarded will come after the statement. During his confirmation hearing, fbi director nominee Christopher Ray was asked abo about wray was asked about the ongoing russia investigation. Here is an exchange between wray and Senate Committee judiciary member lindsey graham. You say that mueller is a good guy, right. Thats been my experience, yes. And youll do anything necessary to protect him from being interfered with when it comes to doing his job. Absolutely. I think do you believe that, in light of the done junior email and other allegations, that this whole thing about Trump Campaign and russia is a witch hunt . Is that a fair description of what were all dealing with in america . Senator, i cant speak to the basis for the comments. I can tell you my experience with director mueller. I am asking you as the future fbi director, do you consider this endeavor a witch hunt . I do not consider director mueller to be on a witch hunt. Thank you. Can the president fire director mueller . Does
We will have more details on that later in our program scheduled in the senate coming at 2 15 pm eastern. Confirmation hearing is continuing to and capitol hill. And this story from the hill. Com, all the confirmation process same democrats are delaying a vote on senator sessions nomination to be president trumps attorney general. Arguing they want more time to review the pick. Quote aas weve done most enemies im asking that vote for senator sessions be held over until next week. Senator feinstein the top on the Judiciary Committee said they write that the committee was scheduled to vote on the alabama republicans nomination during this mornings meeting. But the committees approval is our first step to being scheduled for a full senate vote. We will not get them till next week as the sun is out due to the republican retreat in philadelphia underway tomorrow. On the committee roles, a lawmaker can ask not be held over. It has been done so for next week. We will show you that hearing fro
Pages from senator sessions in response to questions from Committee Members. Welcome to the first markup , i would5th Congress Welcome senator feinstein is our new Ranking Member, although she has been a member for a long time. We recognize senators sash senses sass. Senator kennedy. We welcome back, she is not here to knoww, i want her she is welcome back to this committee. It is an honor for our committee to be interested with so many policy areas under our jurisdiction, ranging from Sexual Assault survivors rights, to issues of national security. We accomplished good things in the 114th congress. We held 99 hearings, 30 bills, every one of them bipartisan. 24 of the 30 were passed by the senate. 17 of them became law. Among the major bipartisan statutes reported by our committee were the country has worthy comprehensive addiction and recovery, defend trade secrets, justice for victims of trafficking, the justice against sponsors of terrorism, and during last years markup of the adam
Pages from senator sessions in response to questions from Committee Members. Welcome to the first markup , i would5th Congress Welcome senator feinstein is our new Ranking Member, although she has been a member for a long time. We recognize senators sash senses sass. Senator kennedy. We welcome back, she is not here to knoww, i want her she is welcome back to this committee. It is an honor for our committee to be interested with so many policy areas under our jurisdiction, ranging from Sexual Assault survivors rights, to issues of national security. We accomplished good things in the 114th congress. We held 99 hearings, 30 bills, every one of them bipartisan. 24 of the 30 were passed by the senate. 17 of them became law. Among the major bipartisan statutes reported by our committee were the country has worthy comprehensive addiction and recovery, defend trade secrets, justice for victims of trafficking, the justice against sponsors of terrorism, and during last years markup of the adam