A senator are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer no, we are not. A senator thank you, madam president. I rise today because its my honor to introduce my colleague who actually needs no introduction but still for this speech today. Mr. Hoeven i have the pleasure to introduce kevin cramer who will be thriferring his delivering his official maiden speech to the senate. Ive known kevin for many years. Hes always been incredibly diligent worker for the people of north dakota. And he served our state in many different capacities. He served as tourism director and did a tremendous job promoting our state, promoting tourism, and really promoting the beauty and the history of our state in a way that brought a lot of National Attention and really made a difference in terms of tourism for our state. He also served our state as Economic Development director, something that is certainly near and dear to my heart. Ive always believed that job creations are job one. To me thats the engine th
Enforcement agents. This portion is just over one hour. The committee will come to order without objection. The chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. We are convening to hear the testimony of acting secretary of Homeland Security Kevin Mcaleenan. I want to briefly address the spectators. I already saw two signs being held un, so i want to address you. We welcome you and we respect your right to be here. We also ask in turn that you respect we ask for your respect as we proceed with the business of this committee today. It is the intention of this committee to proceed with this hearing without disruptions. If a disruption occurs, listen up, a Capital Police officer will go up to the individual and instruct that they cease demonstrations. If the individual does cease, no action will be taken. However, if the person does not cease, he will be asked to leave. Were grateful for your presence here today and your cooperation and we want to move this hearing along
Testified before the House Oversight and committee. Just over anis hour. Hour. I want to briefly address the spectators. I already saw two signs being held up, so i want to address you. We welcome you and we respect your right to be here. We also ask in turn that you respect we ask for your respect as we proceed with the business of this committee today. It is the intention of this committee to proceed with this hearing without disruptions. If a disruption occurs, listen up, a Capital Police officer will go up to the individual and instruct they cease demonstrations. If the individual does cease, no action will be taken. However, if the person does not cease, he will be asked to leave. Were grateful for your presence here today and your cooperation and we want to move this hearing along quickly. Every time i have to stop and the police have to address issues like that, that just slows us up. I would also remind all members to avoid engaging in any adverse personal references. I now rec
What are the processes for holding a president accountable . Watch book tv every weekend on cspan2. Today, the chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee talked about the 2020 campaign and the chance for President Trumps recent rally in North Carolina tournd her back, directed toward ill on omar. It was discussed at it was hosted by the question signs monitor. It is an hour. Linda its a little after 9 00. Were going to start and im good to talk a little bit and let the congressman eat quickly. Im Linda Feldman from the Christian Science monitor Washington Bureau chief for our guest is congressman tom emmer of minnesota the chairman of the National Republican campaign committee. This is his first appearance at a monitor breakfast so welcome. Now we will give you bennett queue ground. He was born in south bend indiana and grew up in the dina minnesota attended First Boston College and the university of alaska fairbanks and played hockey for both. Then he got his law degree
Pretty simple. They talk about jobs, a strong economy, a strong defense. But in this particular case i was doing it about ridgecrest and it was about disaster assistance. Just had a multiple of earthquakes, some even yesterday weve been through. They were looking to see where their government would be. Theres a military base there too, see if wed be able to rebuild it. When i answered questions about what was going on in the house for the last week, talked about an impeachment bill coming up. The contempt. And anything else this new socialist democrat majority wanted to do to go after this administration. Whats interesting is, i didnt turn to the republicans for the question, i found a question that i agreed with that came from a chief of staff from a democratic member. That challenged anyone to name one thing that the democrats have done to help the voters around the issues around the Kitchen Table of that telephone town hall that night. I agree with him, theres not one i have found.