Vote the presiding officer anyone wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the ayes are 94. The nays are zero. The nomination is confirmed. The majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell could we have order in the senate. I ask unanimous consent that the cloture motion with respect to executive calendar number 550 be withdrawn. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. Mr. Mcconnell i further ask that following disposition of the davis nomination, the senate resume consideration of the vegan nomination and vote on the combination, confirmation. If confirmed, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table and the president be immediately notified of the senates action. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. Mr. Mcconnell i ask unanimous consent that following the disposition of the biegun nomination, we resume consideration of the house message to accompany 1158. If cloture invoked on the motion to concur on the house amendment t
Georgia who is already achieving national power. Watch afterward sunday night at 9 00 eastern on cspan2s booktv. Nafta renegotiations continue between the us, canada and mexico. Up next a panel looks at the politics of the north American Free trade agreement. We will hear from a former Us Ambassador to canada, Gordon Giffen and Republican House speaker Newt Gingrich. The International Law firm deadens hosted this conference. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome back from the break. Hope you enjoyed some coffee and refreshments. We had a terrific panel this morning. This afternoons panel earlier this afternoon and the next panel promises to be as informational and jampacked. I will turn things over to my partner and friend, Gordon Giffen, former ambassador to canada, the Global Leader of Public Policy practice and all around good guy. I hope somebody wrote that down. Welcome. I am biased but the presence of my friend, ambassador gary durum, this will be the most interesting panel of the da
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No, the green light, right . The classic green light. So anyway, im here to discuss one the critical questions, i think, of our times which is why the United States assumed the role of world defender after world war ii . The question of whether we must continue this role indefinitely. Now this conversation springs from my new book which i hope is available outside but also from an oped that i wrote for the New York Times last year with the title, come home america. This was subsequently the subject of a morning joe show on the same subject. In the essay, i observed that everybody talks about getting out of iraq and afghanistan but what about germany and japan . In essence what im trying to raise here is a very fund amentl question which is where do we go from here. Do we need to consider more basic changes in American Foreign policy at this turning point in our own national history. Because i think in many ways for me, im a historian that our nation suffers from a lack of historical se