With the current field of candidates. If you say yes you are satisfied, tell us why at 202848800. You can text us your opinion. All we ask is that you include your city, name, and state. Our twitter feed cspanwj and our facebook facebook. Com c span. Ll to thiso question, some comments this morning, one from erin saying, how about dropping everyone, but Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren . Someone else on facebook saying, yes. Im trying to figure out what the deal is with tulsa gabbard. They are fine and capable folks. James davis from facebook, Michael Bloomberg was not my choice but i can support him now. He seems more realistic and sane. Michael bloomberg and norfolk, virginia with a start to his campaign. Asing that he chose norfolk the first stop because the region is a case study for political change. Southeast virginia proves that with the right candidate, we can turn areas from red to blue, he said. Bloomberg also said he would make a gun violence a major focus of his campaign
Ukraine investigate former Vice President joe biden in exchange for military aid. It is just under 2. 5 hours. [crowd noise] the committee will come to order. Thank you for attending today. Today, we will hold the nomination hearing on important position. The nominee today is John Jay Sullivan to be the u. S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation. We have two distinguished colleagues of ours. We will allow them to proceed with introductions. I will postpone my opening statement. I asked the Ranking Member to do likewise. Until the nominees have been introduced. We are glad to be joined today by senators dan sullivan of alaska and ben cardin of maryland. Sullivanand senator has drawn the straw to go first. Thank you very much. Its an honor to be before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee again on behalf of my friend John Sullivan. To beport his nomination the United States ambassador to the Russian Federation. Despite what his last name would suggest, we are not related. Although i oc
Committee will come to order. Today, we will hold the nomination hearing on a very important position. The honorable John J Sullivan to be the ambassador to the Russian Federation. First, we have two very distinguished colleagues of ours who wish to introduce our nominees. Torefore, i am going postpone my Opening Statement and i ask the Ranking Member to do likewise. Beh that, we are glad to joined by senators sullivan of alaska and cardin of maryland. Sullivan thank you very much, mr. Chairman, Ranking Member menendez. It is an honor to be in front of the committee again in front on behalf of my friend John Sullivan to support his nomination to be the United States ambassador to the Russian Federation. Despite what his last name would suggest, we are not related, although i regularly joke with senator markey who is also a proud sullivan member in his heritage that at some point in history, we will probably all related. I have supported secretary sullivans nomination before and can spe
Floor on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, from the rising of the sun until its setting, you remain the same. We find solace in your changeless faithfulness; your mercies sustain us each hour. Lord, do not keep silent as our lawmakers grapple with the great issues of our time. Reveal your purposes to them, guiding them on the paths of courage and obedience. Lord, remind them that you appointed them to their work, and they are accountable to you. May they not forget that you are the supreme judge of the universe in whose presence humanity must one day stand. We pray in your holy name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presid
Tonight or something. And i are, kellyanne going to have a fireside chat. We thought this would be a different way of having a dialogue about our Republican Values and to get to know kellyanne a little bit better. First off, thank you for being here. Let me first say thank you to you. You are a fantastic state Party Chairwoman for the state of ohio. Thank you. [applause] thank you. We all beginning with the president and Vice President appreciate your leadership in ohio, and i want to remind everybody here im in my personal capacity of Kellyanne Conway. We dont want any of those ethics people to get crazy overnight. I got a little more dressed up than usual because its date night. It is saturday night and we are all in ohio. I did want to thank you and senator portman and misses portman for being here. I know the Lieutenant Governor is here. We have other statewide officials state what elected officials, local elected officials, people who just want to have a great time and support wha