Nomination for the director of office of management and budget. Live coverage. Senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. O god of light, as we approach independence day, we thank you for giving us the gift of true freedom. You have blessed us with freedom from sin, guilt, and shame. You have redeemed us. You have also given us freedom from fear, providing us with peace in the midst of the storms. Today, please guide our lawmakers so that they will fulfill your purposes as they face the challenges of these times. Lord, awaken them to your inescapable presence. Keep them from thinking that you are absent from our world or disinterested in it. Enable them to feel you in their midst, as they grapple with the problems of our time. We pray in your strong name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United
Chief of staff. Now, live coverage of the u. S. Senate. Vice president under the previous order, the senate will consider the following nomination. The clerk nomination, general charles q. Brown, jr. , to be chief of staff and general of the United States air force. The Vice President under the previous order, the question occurs on the nomination. Is there a sufficient second . It appears there is a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote the Vice President are there any senators wishing to vote or to change their vote . If not, on this vote, the yeas are 98, the nays are zero. And the historic nomination of general charles q. Brown, jr. As the United States air force chief of staff 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. Mr. Alexander madam president . The presiding officer the senator from tennessee. Mr. Alexander thank you
Introduce people more formally prior to their also thomas fanning, two of the commissioners of the commission. First of all i want to thank the cochairs and that commissioners for the important work on the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. I think the end product is excellent. I think it has solid recommendations that a number of these are within our committees jurisdiction over the working hard to evaluate those and the ones that we can get them passed into law of these recommendations can be done through executive action. What id like to spend my time just enter my formal written state into the record, i just want to talk about two of the commissions recommendations. When i i got here in the congrs in 2011, cybersecurity was a hot issue. It still is. Its not going away. I remember the buzzword back ban is we have to do something about this. Weve made a number of attempts and quite honestly we made a fair amount of progress. My own sense is the bad guys, the people and often always have
Nurses, doctors and all the frontline medical workers, some sick and doing their job andisolated from their family. First responders, essential workers, dcf social workers and bta bus and train drivers and many many other Public Servants who has always did what they had to do in order to serve us but in some cases suffered terrible loss as a result. For a load or laid off workers who despite coming in early , working the extra shifts found by no fault of their own are left wondering when that job comes back. Everyone suffering under the fear of the unknown amid this pandemic. Everyone has sacrifice a wedding or major moment in life and went without holding their loved ones at the exact time they needed to be held the most area and everyone who lost a friend, a brother, a sister, a mom or a dad, there are tens of thousands of you right now in the commonwealth who have either grieved or are going through one ofthe hardest moments of your life. The toll this virus takes and continues to t
Update from prudential regulators. This is a timely discussion as we engage with the nations prudential regulars amidst the health care and economic devastation of the covid19 pandemic. In queens in other parts of new york city have been very part hardhit. We at seven marquesas and more deaths than most states in the country. I did knit this healthcare cris millions have lost their jobs and loss of income compounded the Economic Impact. But thanks to the doddfrank wall street reform and the implication of the decade before the financial crisis, the nations Banking Sector has emerged and develop a bright spot with adequate capital and worked with clients to restructure mortgages and loans and extend credit. But but i that serious concerns about the implementations of the ppp Stimulus Program and the role some of the banks played and prioritizing loans are Large Companies rather than Small Businesses a minority community. But thanks to the hard work of chairwoman waters and chairwoman ve