Economy. He has already instituted proposals and rules that would benefit public safety. I hope mr. Pai will also continue to hold the f. C. C. To the highest standards of transparency. His decision to make proposals and orders accessible to the public prior to the commissions vote on them was a positive action. The f. C. C. Will continue to be in good hands with mr. Pai as chairman, and when the senate votes later on today to move this nomion along, i urge my colleagues to vot yes and eventually to vote yes for his confirmation. Thank you, mr. President. And i note that the staff is about to make a suggestion. Mr. Wicker mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that notwithstanding the provisions of rule 22, at 12 15 p. M. , all postcloture time be considered expired on the erickson nomination, and that if confirmed, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table and the president be immediately notified of the senates action. Further, that the senate then resume c
Thank you, evan. Thank you very much for being here, congratulations on the book. Thank you, thank you. I have to say i was little surprised to learn about the book and to read it. Its a funny book, thats not the surprise but the surprise is that i remember when you got to the senate, there was talk of you, i guess the expression was the Hillary Clinton model, following the Hillary Clinton model, you know, do your homework, go to committee hearings, dont do national press, basically show that you mean to be a serious senator. Youve been in there for nine years. Right, right. This is not the kind of book you wouldve written, almost nine years, this is not the kind of book you wouldve written maybe at the first, would you . Oh, not at all. Basically, i had to not be funny publicly [evan] right. For my entire first term laughs . audience laughing and i took hard to do. I mean i get, the book is a response to a lot of questions i get asked. The first i get asked the most is is being a Unit
We are playing to win everywhere and we are investing to win. The key to virginia is we have built a really good field infrastructu infrastructure. His team has been helping folks with tech tools so that we are helping our partners in the eco system. Thats the new dnc. Thats why i feel optimistic moving forward. Again, we dont put our hopes on any one state at any one time. Whether it is Washington State and Senate District and elsewhere. And we are going to keep fighting. We have about 20 minutes to go. Well go next to rick kline. Jeff mason and alex rorty. Two problems on virginia, first the importance that you see from where you sit, is thering in special about this donor class and im wondering if you can talk about what you were trying to do thats different than the old dnc would have done beyond money for tech tools. What is getting done there . The races in new jersey and virginia are important. This is a 13year election cycle race. The next governor of virginia is going to presi
Trump Campaign Chair Paul Manafort and to others. The Christian Science monitor posted this hourlong event. Ok, folks. Here we go. This morning is tom perez, chairman of the Democratic National committee. This is his first appearance at one of our events. D ce been meeting with chairs since larry obrien. Thank you for being here. Chairman perez is a native of buffalo. Here the bashers degree from brown university. He earned a bachelors degree from brown university. Was Deputy Assistant attorney general for civil rights and the clinton administration. He led the state of marylands labor department. In the Obama Administration he was assistant attorney general for civil rights, and secretary of labor from 2013 until 2017. We are on the record here. O live blogging or tweeting no filing of any kind while the breakfast is underway, to give ourime to listen to what guest says. There is no embargo when the session ends probably at 11 00. We will email several pictures of the session to all r
The dominican republic. He earned a bachelors degree from Brown University where he is now teaching parttime, working a variety of jobs and where he worked his way through school, working a variety of jobs. He was Deputy Assistant attorney general for civil rights and the clinton administration. Te served as deputy assistan attorney general. He was elected Montgomery County council member, and led the state of marylands labor department. In the Obama Administration he was assistant attorney general for civil rights, and secretary of labor from 2013 until 2017. Thus ends the biographical part of the program. Now on to mechanics. We are on the record here. Please, no live blogging or tweeting. In short, no filing of any kind while the breakfast is underway, to give us time to listen to what our guest says. There is no embargo when the session ends probably at 11 00. To help you curb that relentless selfie urge, we will email several pictures of the session to all reporters here when the