[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. We are going to get the hearing started. I want to welcome director Nick Rasmussen from the National Counterterrorism center. Nick, we have invited you here today in an open session. I think some of the news outlets vice chair that said this would never happen with me being chairman that everything would be close and i want to point out we are having an open session and this is to provide the senate and the American People with an update on the current threat from terrorism. The committee remains concerned about the expanding evolving nature of this threat than the challenges facing the Intelligence Community and the evolving nature of the threat. This is the first of what i hope will be a number of open hearings that should give the Intelligence Community an opportunity to better inform the public of its current efforts and challenges. As mr. Rasmussen and i have talked about here is what we do. More importantly here is why the American People
Minutes. Welcome to mornings on 2, sunday, may 17th, im claudine wong. . Good morning. Im mike mibach. You never know what youre going to see here. And we saw a little of the clouds above the sky. Another school start for those participating in the race today. Yes, youll see jackets to start the morning. Maybe once the race gets going well see jackets shed. In the time being, cool and cloudy conditions. That onshore breeze sticking around for sunday. Heres a live look at the sun trying to shine bright. Not going to happen. Weve got those clouds widespread once again, well inland and we are looking at another below the average day for your temperatures. Giving you a look at the cloud cover. Low clouds, mid and high level clouds also in the forecast today. Right now 55 concord. 51 napa. 55 at sfo. Low 50s in novato. So temperatures fairly uniform and similar to how we woke up yesterday, maybe a tad warmer in areas. I dont think youre going to notice much if youre getting out early, for b
Back to your calls on the issue of iran. Can the u. S. Trust the country as we try to hammer out a deal . Tuesday is the deadline. Paul from indiana, good morning. Caller the president of the United States, inept amateurish. He is a liar and a coward. Why should anybody believe anything that comes out of his mouth . He has lied over and over again. I lived on the southside of chicago. I worked for him. I cannot believe what im seeing with him. This is the most unbelievable regime i have ever seen. Host when you say you work for him, what do you mean . Caller i went door to door to get him elected to the senate. He live to our faces. Host how so . Caller he told us he was against gay marriage. He said he was not going to do anything on health care he said he was not going to do a total overtake and he did. Host ok. Measure passed by the house. A significant change in the tone of the health care debate. A photograph of john boehner and nancy pelosi who were able to hammer out a deal. 37
A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from arkansas. A senator are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer we are in a quorum call. Mr. Pryor i would ask that it be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Pryor mr. President , i rise to talk about the business on the floor, which is the omnibus appropriation bill. Let me start by thanking chairwoman mikulski for her leadership. She has put long hours in this over the christmas and new years break where most people were home with families and doing things in their home state and on vacation, she never stopped working, and her team, her staff on the Appropriations Committee never stopped working, and the staff as always is kind of the unsung hero around here. They did so many great things to put this together, both democrats, republicans, house and senate. Everybody had to Work Together to get this done. Im proud that they did. Im also proud to be the one of the appropriations subCommittee C
Prosecuted and hopefully by the time we get to vote on this resolution, this issue will be moot, but i think its very important for us to be on the record for this very tragic case. Thank you. First i want to thank supervisor campos for that resolution and say that as a former prosecutor i think its important for all of us to ask this da to consider what is in the best interest of justice in this situation and really stand up for our transgender young people. I have four items today. First item is a resolution to urge Governor Brown and the state legislature to restore cuts to medical reimbursement rates. While Governor Brown is to be commended on the progress in the budget in reducing our states debt and increasing our reserves, it doesnt invest in supporting important and Critical Healthcare services with regards to our states historically low medicare rates. We need to make sure that the proposed cuts to medical cal reimbursement rates are restored. I have a second item around trans