Sir, nothing has changed, lets go over it again i do not need that. Have the director of National Intelligence saying Something Like that without broad agreement across the intelligence community. So i think that is fact one. The day russians 400 andot china or some guy. It was the russians. Second, in terms of what the russians were after, they claim they were after sowing discord. In this, they were spectacularly successful. But they were not alone. They had a candidate with russian moves. By contrast, they had a candidate very tough on russia and who they blamed for the mass demonstrations against the corruption in the russian elections in 2011. And ive to believe cannot going to classified information but you have to believe the uniform nature of the hacking and dumping of damaging tothat was secretary clinton and helpful to donald trump was both incidental and accidental and the russians saying they did not know what they were doing is not credible. Want a senate investigation, a
The committee is called to order. We are reconvening our business meeting to consider nomination of attorney general scott pruitt to be epa administrator. Yesterday the minority members of the committee chose to boycott this business meeting. It is disappointing that they chose that course of action. We will not allow it to obstruct. As i stated yesterday this committee has conducted an extremely thorough and fair process of reviewing attorney generals pruitts nomination. That includes hearing of length, number of kwegs and timely responses. It is unprecedented to delay for incoming president to this extent. We had an election last november. The people spoke and now it is time to set up a functioning government. That includes a functioning epa. To do that this committee has to do its work. So at this time i ask for a motion to suspend rules 2 a, 4 and 8 of the rules of the environment and Public Works Committee for the duration of this business meeting. I so move. Is there a second . A
We will not allow it to obstruct. As i stated yesterday this committee has conducted an extremely thorough and fair process of reviewing attorney generals pruitts nomination. That includes hearing of length, number of kwegs and timely responses. It is unprecedented to delay for incoming president to this extent. We had an election last november. The people spoke and now it is time to set up a functioning government. That includes a functioning epa. To do that this committee has to do its work. So at this time i ask for a motion to suspend rules 2 a, 4 and 8 of the rules of the environment and Public Works Committee for the duration of this business meeting. I so move. Is there a second . All those in favor. All opposed nay. And the opinion of the chair the ayes have it and rules 2 a, 4 and 8 of rules of committee are suspended for the duration of this business meeting. At this time i would like to call up president ial nomination 44 scott pruitt of oklahoma to be administrator of the E
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And for independents and others, 202 7488002. You can also join us on twitter. Welcomed onare facebook. Comments are welcomed on facebook. We want to start with a series again yesterday in the lookingn post called for america. The headline of yesterdays piece was the great unsettling. The first of four pieces. They travel for three months talking to voters about the political situation in the country, particularly on the president ial situation. The headline in the Washington Post. They write that each president ial campaign has its own rhythm and meeting meaning, but this one has an exaggeration of everything that came before it. Of so the culmination many longemerging trends in american life. The decomposition of traditional institutions. The dissent of political desk politics into reality tv entertainment. Demographic and economic shift quickening the impulses of inclusion and exclusion. And us versus them all of it leading to the moment of settling with the Republican Party unravel