president. the presiding officer: is there further debate? hearing none, the question is on passage. all those in favor say aye. all opposed, no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the bill is passed. mr. cornyn: madam president, i ask unanimous consent that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cornyn: i note the absence of a quorum, madam president. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. schumer: madam president. the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the quorum be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: now, madam president, so much of the senate s work happens behind the scenes and out of the spotlight. over the past few weeks, there are scores of senate staffers, probably more than scores, hundreds i would say, who have spent many late nights and some sleepless ones put
important issues facing the americas today. they talked about the attitudes of voters in venezuela, and oho support has shifted since 2019. this is an hour and 20 minutes. all right. i m going to go ahead and start to introducing the next panel, and so the next session is entitled, venezuela, a conversation and this session is a one-on-one interview moderated by the president, and featured luis day leon. and also the president of the group will be here to talk about the latin american market. and also, the visesupervisor of the group. and also, we will be joined by the professor of foreign governments and also held the governance and the southern cone administration, and so without further ado, please welcome our speaker. buenos diaz. translator: good morning. the topic of venezuela has come up a great deal in this conference since we got started yesterday afternoon. it is topic of great concern for all of us here in this room. and i don t think i need to point out th
important in washington d.c. going on tonight, i think you know what i m talking about. thank you for coming. i m mark loiselle at this george mason university and we author the intelligence policy and national security that has put on a number of these wonderful programs in the last few years. i m flattered that his turnout and look very much forward to this event. for those of you who don t know george mason university has a short school policy government that provides academic programs in fairfax and arlington virginia and we have a number of her fashion of degree programs primarily taught in arlington and public policy public administration international security studies which has been ranked number two by u.s. news and world report nationally that we are very proud of and i think the michael hayden sent her center for security policy studies a number of other entities at the school are a very important component of the recognition we have received for being leaders in
welcome to the u.s. policy oward syria. you can for those of you who are twitter literal, you can follow @mcmideast. and tweet there as whelm we have a busy agenda today. i m going to be very brief. we have a hard stop for a break at 1:20. we ve invited you here today for three purposes. the first purpose is to highlight some of the atlantic council s work on tracking regime atrocities and war tactics and strategies in parts of syria as a basis for accountability going forward. and also to speak with two experts on stablization in syria, a conversation that s been spurred by a new atlantic council report. but which, i ll say more. and finally, last but not least, you ll hear from ambassador james jeffrey, special representative for syria engagement. there will be opportunities after the discussions to pose questions to the speakers and to ambassador jeffrey. but for now, let me turn to mr. graham booky. he is the director of the atlantic council s digital forensics research
welcome to the u.s. policy oward syria. you can for those of you who are twitter literal, you can follow @mcmideast. and tweet there as whelm we have a busy agenda today. i m going to be very brief. we have a hard stop for a break at 1:20. we ve invited you here today for three purposes. the first purpose is to highlight some of the atlantic council s work on tracking regime atrocities and war tactics and strategies in parts of syria as a basis for accountability going forward. and also to speak with two experts on stablization in syria, a conversation that s been spurred by a new atlantic council report. but which, i ll say more. and finally, last but not least, you ll hear from ambassador james jeffrey, special representative for syria engagement. there will be opportunities after the discussions to pose questions to the speakers and to ambassador jeffrey. but for now, let me turn to mr. graham booky. he is the director of the atlantic council s digital forensics research