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the presiding officer: the senior senator from south dakota. mr. thune: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i urge my colleagues today to support the motion to end debate so that the senate can vote and pass the pro-security and pro-consumer provisions within the bipartisan federal aviation administration reauthorization act of 2016. for the past two weeks on the senate floor and earlier at the commerce committee, we have engaged in a constructive and open process to consider amendments making important changes to this legislation that sets aviation policies for our country. on the senate floor, we added 19 amendments, ten from democrats and nine from republican senators, and at the commerce committee we approved 57 amendments, 34 from democrats and 23 from republicans. a number of these amendments were substantial, including the vast majority of the aviation security provisions within the legislation. we ve also agreed to set aside discussion ....
the 19 year old replied yes, sir. there are no winners in this situation. it was a tragic incident and reflected in what seemed to be the remorse of this man coming forward and taking responsibility for his actions. reporter: ellis lawyer says his client is devastated and filled with remorse. ellis was a recent graduate as were two teens who died in the violent crash. alex m erk and calvin lee. the papers of alex issued a statement, calling the plea bittersweet. they wrote, while it relieves us from having to endure the endless pain of sitting through days of trial, it drives home the cold hard fact that our son died at the hands of human being. sentencing guidelines for this case are between 3 months and 8 years, that s not binding. ellis could face up to 10 years in prison on each count. coming up at 6:00, we will bring you more from the merck family. ellis will be sentenced on june 3rd. we posted the family s statement in entirety on the website, you can read ....
certain information. yes. but when it comes to priorities, he sets those priorities, not you. we re responsive to the committee s priorities. and tell me, when tell me the priority list right now. what is that list? number one. it is, number one is the production of documents that were requested regarding former officials, and the top of the list was for former secretary clinton. number two are the interviews of the four diplomatic security agents we referenced. that s not to say that the other requests are forgotten. that s not it at all. what it is is to say those are the issues those are the items that we have worked most diligently on and we will be. we have good story that we are producing within several days we will begin producing to the committee those beginning of those documents that were requested. it s only been six weeks, roughly, since the initial request. and then a few about a month of the finalization of that. and in between that, we v ....
state came forward with a startling allegation. that allegation was that former secretary of state hillary clinton s aides ordered the destruction of documents to prevent congress and the arb from ever seeing them. chairman dowdy called these allegations that the committee would be investigating this. what he failed to admit was that at the time of the chairman s fox news interview republicans had already investigated the maxwell claim and only found evidence against it. but when democratic staff spoke to that witness he said he didn t recall having been in the document review session that mr. maxwell described. he also denied ever being instructed to flag information and documents that might be unfavorable to the department. he further reported that he never edge gauged in or was ever aware of any destruction of documents. that witness was perfectly willing to talk to democrats and has always been willing to talk to us. he also never asked to be treated as a confidenti ....
would like them to be prioritized, it s january 27th today. there is no date yet scheduled for an interview of any of these people. we re not going to wait to receive now all of these documents, which would have been the more efficient way for a real investigation to be done. so we d like to know what date, and because we want to preserve the safety and security of these personnel, we d like to know, i would say within the next 24 hours, which witnesses will be made available next week, and which witnesses will be made available the following week? and which witnesses will be made available the following week and so on? and we all have a certain number of staff, but our staff will go to these witnesses, or we will work with you to make arrangements to get these staff back to washington, d.c., to conduct these interviews. are you in agreement that that can be done? to provide a bit of context and we will be working with the justice department on all of this as well ....