Allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Gutierrez, for five minutes. Shortly after the president returned from his trip to puerto rico, i received a shipment in my office of paper towels t didnt come with a note or an explanation, just 2 rolls of viva. A little irony because its in spanish. Maybe after watching the president entertain himself by tossing paper towels at hurricane victims a little iron because its in spanish. In pue rico, some wellintentioned person thought that giving paper towels to Puerto Ricans was an appropriate sign of respect. The gift you give to Puerto Ricans after a major disaster to kind of cheer us up, viva. Having returned from my secretary trip to puerto rico since the hurricane, i can tell you one thing for sure we need than paper towels than paper t
Vote vote vote the presiding officer is there anyone wishing to change their vote . Is there anyone remaining to vote . On this motion the yeas are 87. The nays are 9. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report. The clerk nomination, department of transportation, derek kan of california to be under secretary fo secretary of transportation for policy. A senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. Mr. Thune madam president , i rise to voice my strong support for the nomination of derek kan. The Commerce Committee held a hearing on his nomination on june 8 in 2017 and reported his nomination favorably out of the committee on june 29 of 2017 by voice vote. Its now november 9. Over four months since the nomination was reported out of committee. This noncontroversial well qualified nominee has been languishing in the senate for far too long. Its truly unfortunate, madam president , when we have to go through the cloture process on this particular nomine
We went friday night to a restaurant i hadnt been to in years. And they had totally redone it. Being in malibu was beautiful. We had a great night. He is so cute. I got to see my little niece this weekend. I took the train to virginia. And one of thehe things e eryone loves to do is they both have soccer games, okay . So we went, first we went to both of their games, we got to see hannah and ella both play. This is one thing i learned about when a preschooler is playing soccer, like ella. What you dont do when theyre playing is yell out their name. Oh. Have you because im like, ella, and they all stop, and theyre like this, hi. All the kininrgartners do that. Ke when someone says their name, scotty hi. Dont yell out peoples names. But we had a great time. Went to this cool diner called silver whats it called . Silver diner. I dont know. Its awesome. We hung out there and had a fun time. And you were on the way home with chris christie. Did you hear the scandal . He got on and started t
Morning for you. Its a great show today. If you missed all of the scoops, we have it for you, including how some fun is being had with adeles new song hello, as well as news of a secret engagement. Some of elviss songs have been rediscovered and Pricilla Presley is here to sing along in the kitchen. And beth stern is here, she was joined by james denton. The hero dog awards on the hallmark channel. And shes brought a bunch of those awardwinning cutis. How was your weekend . You and i both went down on different days to maryland to visit our families, yours in virginia. And anytimeki see my mom of course and my sister and her husband. And my niece. My niece when she was firstborn. I would go out of my way to fly home just so i could smell her. You know. Thats the way i feel about my aaron, who i call sheki. This was him having a little lunch on friday, i think. Ooh it gets really good. It gets really good. I thought he was having a little movement, but that wasnt the case. [ laughter ]
And anytimeki see my mom of course and my sister and her husband. And my niece. Im so in love like i was with my niece when she was firstborn. I would go out of my way to fly home just so i could smell her. You know. Thats the way i feel about my aaron, who i call sheki. This was him having a little lunch on friday, i think. Ooh it gets really good. It gets really good. I thought he was having a little movement, but that wasnt the case. [ laughter ] he mimics everything. Now this is the good part. I come in for a close up. Mm oh. Oh. Bite your hand, bite your hand. I spent a day and an of ha thats him going eeee. Thats all he does. We went friday night to a restaurant i hadnt been to in years. And they had totally redone it. Being in malibu was beautiful. We had a great night. He is so cute. I got to see my little niece this weekend. I took the train to virginia. And one of the things everyone loves to do is they both have soccer games, okay . So we went, first we went to both of their