The majority leader disagreed with this approach and he and the rest of my republican colleagues urged them to abandon the shutdown play before was too late but they refused to listen, ignoring the majority of americans who are against this approach. They want to continue bipartisan discussions followed by open debate on the floor. Shortly, this evening, we will take a photo members can offer their ideas on how best to solve this problem. It will be a process that is fair to all sides. Once we vote to adopt a motion to proceed, my colleagues and i will have the opportunity to have our proposals considered under regular orders. Offer amendments, debatend amendments and vote on amendments. Amendments will have a 60 vote threshold before they can be adopted. 60 votes, thats what we need. What i am interested in is solving the problem and that lmeans not only a proposal of 60 votes but one that can pass the house and be signed into law by president trump. That is critical. This should not
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Id like to call this hearing on world live throats order and id like to welcome our distinguished witnesses today, director of National Intelligence dan coats, director of the Central Intelligence agency mike pompeo, director of defense Intelligence Agency general robert ashley, director of the federal bureau of investigation chris wray, director of the National Security agency Admiral Mike Rogers and the director of the geo spacial Intelligence Agency robert cardale. Weve got a long day in front of us and i thinkal of you for being here. I now how forward you look to this one occasion on an annual basis. Since 1995, this committees met in open forum to discuss the security threats facing the United States of america. This has never been nor will it ever be a comfortable conversation to have. The threats this country face are complex, evolving, and without easy answers. They exist in multiple domains. Theyre asymmetrical and conventional. They can be launched from across the ocean or p
Did he start this mindset we will build up our navy and our Missile Defense forces in such a way that we never lose face like this again. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. The director of national intelligence, the cia director and the director of the fbi testified earlier this week at a Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing on global terror threats. This is two hours and 40 minutes. At a Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing. I would like to welcome our distinguished witnesses today. Dan coats. Mike pompeo. General robert ashley. Chris wray. Mike rogers. Robert cardella. We have a long day in front of us. I thank all of you for being here. I know how forward you looked to this one occasion on an annual basis. Since 1995, this committee has met in open forum to discuss the security threats facing the United States of america. This has never been, nor will it ever be, a comfortable conversation to have. The threats this country face are complex, involving, and without easy ans
Here with any external skills. Strong back and a determination to work and feed his family and he did it. I grandmother the same. That is the story of this country. We will debate this week in the United States Senate Whether it will continue to be the story of this country. Some will argue weve had enough immigrants, we dont need w anymore and others, i hope, will realize that we have an opportunity here. An opportunity to not only allow people to come to the country and be part of this countrys future, to create the diversity that makes us unique in the world, the diversity of immigration. I think we can come up with a reasonable answer to this. There will be differences of opinion, strongly held beliefs on one side or the other. The question is whether this body, the United States senate , with 49 democrats and 51 republicans, just about as close as you can get can reach a common bipartisan agreement. Would it be a headline across america if the senate actually had a debate in the s