Human Services Secretary on cspan. Org. And you can see the vote for mr. Azar at 2 15 eastern. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Our father, the center of our joy, we thank you that you are in the midst of lifes battles with us, bringing good even from the abnormalities of our pilgrimage. Lord, we are grateful that throh the struggles and tear you stand thin the shadows, keeping watch over your people. Lord, even though our lawmakers may not know how all the pieces fit together, we are grateful that they can still strive with grateful hearts to do your will. May they remember your command in 1 thessalonians 5 18; in everything give thanks for this is gods will for your life. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the rep
Oil, yawn, pummel market. China devalues its currency. The yuans value cut by 1. 1 . Ill show a tweet, mr. Trump and i dont agree on many issues but hes right, chinas currency manipulation hurts u. S. Jobs. It must stop. Here we go to lawrence in montgomery, alabama, on our republican line. Good morning. Caller good morning. Thanks so much for cspans continuing informative programs. I wanted to ask your guest about the socalled u. S. Pivot to asia, the broad policy stroke that the Obama Administration is heralding. Heres the question. How does air sea battle fit into that . And what is the actual capability change or projected capability changes within the u. S. Pivot to asia . Thank you so much. Thats a really great question. And there are some simple answers. As the u. S. Pivot to asia, Obama Administrations pivot to asia, Public Policy now is to increase trade, maritime trade with asia and to build our relationships our economic relationships with these countries. But to protect tha
You. Our main job is to get out of your way because we believe that every single one of you has a dream that is somehow been buried by the absolute certainty that its never going to happen. And we both know its not going to happen. Not the way things are going now. We are going to get out of your way and provide an opportunity for those of you to work as hard as you want to for as long as you want to. But if you decide to pick up that little golden nugget, it will put you back in charge of your own destiny and you will be a fully human man just like the rest of us. Every single one of us feels the same way, if i was in your situation i would vote exactly the way you do too. But theres a better life out there for you. There is. And i know its true. And you know its true. Any way, my names mitt romney, id like to have your vote and if i dont get it, i understand. I do. But i wanted to tell you at least that i respect all of you enough to come here in person and endure the rage and endure
Lowhanging fruit and that face the movement became a victim of its own success because nationally people thought thats got everything they want. Racism still exists in american society. Shelby county notwithstanding and you know if you got the Civil Rights Act and people dont want to see the nuances of racism even in the 1980s when people were talking about south africa. People were like you should be focused on problems domestically so i think we can do many things and also people are naturally inclined to have certain causes that they care about. People are naturally going to focus more attention on some things than others and what you care about the most might not be what i care about the most but what i care about the most may not be what you care about the most and i think we should encourage people to take up their passion and cause not turn their noses up when somebody is doing Something Else because basically we can cover everything through a specialization. So many times a foc
Training posture and both for military and rest of the economy. Again i think weve not been arguing for a certain size of the military been arguing for the competitiveness of the nation. Both on the military sides and also economically. I think that is a huge question that youre hearing in innovation space but also in skills and then the defense Manufacturing Base which i think were seeing there a, the Technology Side is now, i think lifted. The Manufacturing Base to an extent where it is now much more competitive than it was even though it is not hiring, to the same extent. There is real transition that is about the trend or, for Defense Budget but then what about the rest of the budget if and or, are there other sources for delivering these services that are needed so that we can leverage. Unless there are any final words, well recognize there are a lot more topics where we havent come up with industrial policy for solving the was ton nationals decline among other topics. We have ful