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Have had very long careers in Public Service. I know you were in the house in 1994 and senator warner 1989 worked with doug wilder and before becoming governor in yourself virginia so what inspired your career in Public Service . What would you say to young people today who like to pursue a career in Public Service . I like to think i was or icactually am older than richard but i never acknowledge that. He dies his hair. [laughter] at least i got hair. [laughter] i would like to think i was old enough to touch by the idealism of the 60s but not old enough to be jaded. I had grown up in the midwest, indiana and illinois, connecticut and bent at thean se company for 35 years and first in my family to graduate from college. Somehow my parents were political, involved in pta, boy scouts but i always had the bug. Took some time or when offhanded business came back to politics because i did politics during college and law school but one of the things is all the frustrations and politics when you absolutely get stuff done which unfortunately becomes rarer and rarer in our day job the ability to affect peoples lives in an extraordinary positive way emboldens me more now and now. Many in this room who my father and mother. They instilled in me theres a time to complain and when that is over with you sign up or shut up. I remember the day i told my wife i would run for congress and im still reminded of it, 25 years later. [laughter] the reality is weve all got to pick where wed like to make an impact and mark and i serve in an incredibly close and challenging time and i think weve talked about it and one look at how we conducted the intelligence and how we interacted with 17 intelligence agencies anden we and hopefully they will follow that. It just so happens we do it at a time when theres a completely print approach on the house side has been set off back. But the obvious thing is you cant do it if we dont trust each other. We dont agree on everything and when we dont agree we get together and hammer that out if in fact its a german win. [laughter] but to my knowledge we have never exercised that. The reality is that i think the institution and certainly the complete possibilities of the committee are better off because we do it that you mention trust so how do you engender that trust between the two of you . A few glasses of wine to them center and never been to Peter Bennett by what to be gone for years and loved that rock realize you will not wait but richard and a good friend of richards senator from georgia became good friends and we do not agree on everything but i think at thei end of the secret sauce that is missing politics is a trust in the means at some point you got to be willing to do you think is right even if your team not agree with. Until joe you will even the frankly does not agree with you dont fully earn that trust. Richard and i have tried to earn that with each other and give each other plenty of grief along the way and we have traveled in some of these times around the world but it starts with a personal relationship and a recognition that the friendship and relationship is more important than shortterm partisan political points. Mark does not know what is like to subpoena the president son. [laughter] but he did turned to me and say you will do what . And the fact is that doing things like that is not something you expect to do when you take this job. But it is part of the process that he and i committed to at the beginning which was we will iffollow the facts. If you cant talk to everybodyth that might be connected what world can you determine what is factual. I think well talk later on about social media and about the world we are in now but imd asked what am i scared about and scared about what i dont know tnd what i dont understand. What you see on the National Media is not indicative of the relationships we have in washington. Mark and i have a Good Relationship and its curious that you would believe 90 other people dont and the truth is i, that was case we would get nothing done. The senate rules allow one person to stop anything at any time. We do new guys are the designated jerks on both teams thoughat and they would be in ay kind of poll. [laughter] i was asked earlier by students how do you get things done and you identified the people that you have a common interest with. You may disagree with them 60 ll but 40 you can assign agreement on. So im doing education and if its healthcare im doing by a vocation. It used to be i was doing deals with ted kennedy. Why . Because we believed in the same things on those issues but also we are looking for someone to cover the others back and i think in the case of the Intelligence Committee we do an extremely good job of communicating with each other and covering our backs with our members even on the committee when we are taking a tough position. To give him there would have been so much easier in todays world for richard just to say i will go with the flow as opposed to where we started where we said we will go after the facts but we will follow them wherever they lead and the fact one of the things im proud of is the folks that we had do the investigation the folks they talk to do not realize which ones were democrats orf republicans in terms of staff and there have beenn a host of other areas that draw him into the 21st century on technology. He had a flip phone. [laughter] but on technologies hes organized in many ways there is no committee of technology and he can speak to this better than i that we carved out that area and a whole host of issues. It is not liberal conservative or red and blue but future past and this is a guy who is willing to grapple with those issues and its important. You all painted a rosy picture of washington but we have 2015 study of millennials, harvard study, 74 expressed distrust in the government and there was a more recent gallup poll where americans approval of congress remained hat 20 from 2019 and they remained at 20 for the second consecutive month for congress and this having declined after two years. You said washington is not broken but the statistics suggest otherwise. What can we do to restore faith in our government . Look at the last 20 years. The majority of millennials or americans its get their news as an alert on their phone. Look at the alerts you get at 8 00 a. M. Or the alerts at 8 00 p. M. At night to see if its different than the likelihood is it is. Maybe we ought to be having a journalism class about the standards of journalism where historically they came out and you had to have two sources and one had to be named. Every source today is anonymous. Doesnt matter whether its right or left but its in an anonymous source. Imagine if we had to operate in a world where everybody was anonymous to us. Weve interviewed over 200 people in the Russian Investigation and there may be 13 that you know who interviewed because they came out publicly or there was acknowledgment. There were 180 plus people that you will never read about hopefully. They came in and we interviewed because we do twowo things kind close doors. We are not ashamed of that. We think america is safer because we do our business behind closed doors in our members dont talk about it but i will tell you as the vice chairman our biggest challenge when this is over is to get back to our members dont talk to the press and where we do our business which is oversight over 17 agencies so mark and i can look at you and absolutely assure you everything we do lives within the letter of the law or the order of the president. If in fact weve reached the confidence that we have with 17 intelligence agencies that we will not get information from them that we need to do correct oversight. Though he would like to be in the press every day . The fact is that is not where our committee operates and its not regain the trust of the people that we do get oversight on. First of all i would say some of those statistics in terms of congress we have earned it. I thought it was 9 . [laughter] but i think there are these inherent contradictions whether 9 or 20 yet we still see the election rates on individual members that i top 75 until the last couple of cycles. It is easy to take congress but love your congressman. Number two i do think that an institutional problem that we have at this time is that we have driven too much power in both the house or the senate to the respectiveuc leadership. Majority leader, minority leaders, speaker andnd when you dont legislate most of the year and wait until these big hairy balls of mass that happens at the of the year whether budget wise that is not a rational way to do this for the largest institution in the u. S. Government. Number three, i think we too often and i think there was less of this when there were lots of separate bases of power rather than power going through majority leader and does not matter which team but he or she raises the money and to be first and foremost loyal to your team and more than loyal to your country and thats a huge flaw but i spent longer in business than i did in politics and biggest difference in business is get measured by what you get done. Many people regret and politics can tell what they have been against most of their life. Rarely can they tell you what they are for. On till we hire people who are willing to get the yes even if that yes may not be ideologically perfect then we will continue to have those. My fear is because i dont think we can continue and i think were got a unique relationship in the realm of the intelligence oversight we have a little more freedom to get things done and they dont this is fairly [inaudible] but i think theres a huge problem in a world moving as quickly as our world is moving in a mention on the way we see news, 65 of americans get some or all of their news from facebook and google. That has no editorial regulator at all. If we dont show again that we can get the yes on certain items than millennials and generations of people will tune out in my fear had times and i say this is someone who does like press more than richard heino you want to sure the tv when the news comes on but i feel the same way when im inside that tv. If you tune out and if you tune out and say all your doing is turning [inaudible] orchid policy is not made. Theres a host of issues that may be reformulated or certain areas with economic incentives that arent relitigating traditional healthcare, infra structure where everyone has their establishment goingng easr to get common agreement and in certain areas we should put points on the board so that even if theyre not the worlds Biggest Issue the congress can say we have fixed that and move on to something else. I think there are a host of variables that we canan get into tonight. You mentioned social media and i know you felt strongly about social media and theyre playing a big role in political discourse and are you concerned about this role that social media is plain . We differ a little on our approach. This is valuable platforms for the americans. What we do see is a collaboration with government and we like to see a willingness to participate with Election Security and i might say if it had not been what we uncovered over two years we might have had a big problem in 2018 and we didnt because we had a level of cooperation and collaboration between social mediand and we we able to put together an architecture that made it out of the election without instances. Some of it was a policy change on the part of the administration and 20 will be a much more challenging thing. We are fairly confident right now to expand this collaborative agreement and i think mark has different thoughts to regulating the platforms but when we saw social media to create societal chaos in the United States there was no legislative remedy because they are under a first moment issue so they could have rushed out inside we will regulate this and it mightve been a a big splash but the twof us realized we could do that and we will not get overturned in the Supreme Court so it is better in this case its the private sector and academia collaborate together for the good of the country and that is the thing we are going out with. I agree and disagree. I think i said this was my background in technology and a Venture Capitalist and i think we became totally infatuated with these platforms and way over the top techno optimist and we had a traditional were republic and party the business and innovative in the democrats and obama fell in love that google and facebook said they will be Good Companies and they do not even realize we were completely off guard as a government how how the dark underbelly could get us to hate each other and to be manipulated by outside forces in a way that i think everybody fully understood and i partially disagree with richard. Im not one 100 sure the First Amendment rights and the reason why these companies have no response ability in the Media Company has in the late 90s and lets consider thesehe companies as dumb pipes or Telecom Companies and maybe that made sense in the late 90s but when 65 of americans get their news from facebook or google we should give them an exception may be a need to be rethought and we have already said you can to child pornography or sex trafficking and other countries the uk, austria to look at content. [inaudible] maybe we ought to have a discussion that saidou we could had to own your content and put your real identity next to that that might decrease countries like estonia have seen so much outside intervention that the only way to get on the internet and on social media is ouestonia if you validate who yu are. That may work in america or less in egypt but i think there are things where some of my things on the democrat side i dont want to turn the i do think i would not take that off the table but i do think we should know for example what data is collected on us and i think we ought to know if we get tired of facebook we ought to be able to easily move all the data from facebook including our cat videos and data portability still be able to talk that remain on facebook. Theres a whole conversation about portability and transparency in certain rules of the road that i think in the end there will be right partisan consensus in each logician i have out there that there are bipartisan in the puffer companies are starting to realize that they are plain robe a dope with an inefficient congress and will come back and bite them because what america doesnt lead in the standards now given that leadership to states like california and nevada and we seen europeans move on privacy and on content and all weve done is the new ceiling or floor when we do regulate. This is an area where there is a lot of Common Ground but we should not have rushton if we had rushton to quickly. We have no jurisdiction. [laughter] thank goodness. Thats the conundrum that we talk privately about the fact that we have no committee for technology in congress and we are the only ones that look at the intelligence that everyone else is doing and the telegram policy or getting involved they dont have what we have. I can tell you the architecture of government is not conducive to the century. You may look at academia and we generate now the output for the Economic Opportunities that are there but government the institution that is the head because we just dont allow technology to be pulling in realtime. What he has done and ive got to give you credit because an area whether its the architecture of our satellites overhead or where we where nextgeneration telecom, called 5g, moving television from 4g to 5g and it has taken incredibly dug in deep and we are because you get a chance to see this where cuttingedge research is done which comes out of the dod world and we earn credibility with our colleagues that if we come up with colleagues and stay tuned some areas will posell challenges beyond anything weve imagined in the last 50 or 60 years and i think we will have thoughts thank goodness you dont have your committee does not have jurisdiction on that because theres broad bipartisan consensus you cannot get cat videos from. [laughter] [inaudible conversations] moving on, thinking about the work with your committee and i know senator warner is the vice chair and october 8 your committee issued a report entitled russians and social media and lets read a little bit about what you said in your statement. You say that russia is waging an Information Warfare campaign against the u. S. That did not start and did not end with a 2016 election. Senator warner, in your statement you note that now with the 2020 election on the horizon there is no doubt that bad actors will continue to try to weapon eyes the scale and research of social media platforms to erode Public Confidence and foster chaos. Actually senator warner you wano to say the techniques the russians are using our only becoming more sophisticated so what are the threats or what threats do foreign powers pose to our democracy and we talk a little bit about what we can do to protect our country but say more about how briefly so weve done this tagteam a few times but one of the reasons why and its not just iran and china and north korea but we are spending 750 box on the fence and russians spend 70 and in most areas if you take cyber or miss information china and russia are nearly our peers and lets i fear and maybe in north carina in virginia where we had huge investments in military with by too much 20th century stuff in the world with conflict will be more cyber disinformation. One of the reasons we know that russia and others will be back if you add up intervene in our elections the bracket vote that the brits have now known what the french president ial elections and you add that together and its less than the cost of one new f35 airplane. This is both cheap and enormously effective and they come at us and in a way which is always been our strength and openers and richard made the comment and i give him kudos to the trauma demonstration on this that under both bush and obama we were always reluctant to push back and we have been willing to push back which is helpful but in 2016 was firstgeneration in the next iteration of technology is debate where richard burr will sound like him, liquid him but will not be his face or body. If you watch madam secretary last night then they did a deep fake video and this is a challenge to his credit mark hae been all over this and im not sure that we have a mechanism that will distinguish that d and broadcast that and we are still trying to figure out how legitimately we make notifications of campaigns or candidates that are the target because weve got this rich history in this country because the fbi is the notification node and that may not be consistent with what were up against because of the way things funnel down from a timing standpoint and we are under a restructuring of that right now to where we think that campaigns are notified to the activities weve seen up to date. When you get into deep fakes, if that happens, and we expect it will that weve got mechanisms win place but we just dont know they work. I think where you will see things like debate may not be initially politics but if someone looks like jay powell or for that matter Mark Zuckerberg makes looks like Mark Zuckerberg and j says something and it will have huge market effects. Ksi think its remarkable you nt seen these tools already been used to manipulate markets. Again, i would say we are blessed with the fact that theyve targeted elections and not the economy, so far. So to shift gears from the gain about [laughter] i think a little bit aboutho whats happening domestically in our country and our country is quite polarized right now and id say along racial and economic lines with President Trump one just a of the a black vote in 2016 and 81 of africanamerican voters disapproved of his job as president but the h gop historically had problems diversifying the party but senator warner folks who say Democrats Party racial minorities during election season and then once in office theres a minorities loath to see results ones person is elected. What can they do to better represent the interests of all americans . Ay while, i think things are i have a good news story and bad news story. Good news is you may have read just had s major state elections in virginia and Loudoun County which is right outside of dc, 400,000, outer suburb, i came to a group of candidates all the Democratic Candidates in the local government and allegedly to candidates but 30 candidates and it was pretty amazing. I was the only old white guy and only two white guys in their 30s and is suddenly the candidates look like the community they hope to represent. In many of those folks were then successful in elections. That is the good news aside. The bad news side is as someone who believes in Economic Empowerment has to be done in a broadway you got a country right now where 90 of all venturef capitalisms go to the white guy and one 100 or 75 goes to white guys mostly in three states, not including virginia or North Carolina. Thus than 10 are women and [inaudible] that is a bad longterm economic deal for our country. I would argue that for the most part Neither Political Party has an economic theory of the case based in the 21st century. I think what has been missing particularly with folks of color get the short end of the stick in our Current System we ought to recognize people will work for 35 years like my dad did. And there they should get benefits and they will be portable and move from god job to job. Do you want a more radical idea than what bernie is talking lets make investment in Human Capital and tax wise and accounting wise and investment in right now if he 5000 on robot you get in robot and asset and put on Balance Sheet and if you spend it on people you do not get the same tax advantage but view it as a cost. Some of the things happening in the Business Community where theyre starting to think maybe we need to do a business guy ive been a business guy longer than a politician but some things that could destroy capitalism is the sonorous focus on shortterm profits over longterm valuation. The more enlightened part of the Business Community is getting that but we ought to move to a stakeholder capitalism and you still need to make money for your shareholders but consider your employees and community as others. That was the capitalism postworld war ii visit more people out of poverty than any other system but its got o to e in a sense some of these incentives need to be redesigned and i think if we do that hes never given me this long to get that whole spiel out. He was so polite. I will stop right there because hes got to come back to me but i think we need to ship the incentives so that people feel and i fear that if they dont feel likeel working hard and playing by the rules will get them a chance to be that was a good mantra in the 90s but there are a heck of a lot of americans that are working harder than ever complain for the roles a and are not getting their fair shake. I wont disagree that not everyone is getting a fair shake but africanamerican on appointment is the lowest its been since it was recorded latino, same thing. The economy is humming, 3. 6 of the rec people are unemployed and these are numbers that nobody ever dreamed we could get to and does work for everybody . No. The challenges how we take what has worked and expand that out and as mark alluded to that is yrning the t ceos into business and saying you got more responsibly than just your bottom line at the end of a quarter and the end of the year. From a politicalal standpoint mk should and does crow about virginia. We lost a governors race there and 13 candidate ballots want as well as an africanamerican and will the attorney general slot in kentucky for the first time in the history of kentucky. Republicans swept the ballot in kentucky and you look at that and say what you read out of that and they hated the govern governor. [laughter]pl so, i think there are people out there that are benefiting from the economic model that is in place but not everybody is doing it. Rather than say this is the wrong model they say how do you tweak it so more people benefit from it and that does not require just the act of congress and it means the private sector has to engage in this as mark knows we believe that the model in the future is not the federal government being just a Venture Capital for academia or for the private sector handing over a check insane do this heres money but its been an active participant in means embedding federal employees into ventures that we are doing anded we did a venture 2. 5 years ago with North Carolina state through the nsa where we built a skiff and this was Public Knowledge and 75 million and we put 26 nsa employees in the skiff and embedded them there as employees and map them with graduate level mathematicians and engineers to write a specific algorithm we needed to score big data. The story started there but did not end there. We saw after that was a knock at the door and 70 other agencies saying we like to embed an employee in this model. Then we saw the private sector saying we would like to put people in this model and to date, theyve provided 30, 35 solutions to the federal government. In addition to the algorithm that they are still trying to write. When the general hadwh a problem in syria were drones were dropping explosives and saw that as the number one threat to his troops he did not go to dartmouth or dod and said find a solution because he knew the architecture cannot produce it. He went to nc state and found Analytical Lab and said find the solution that a solution in syria that completely eliminated the recreational drugs. And a copy that in virginia. [laughter] we cant take that example an exercise to where we make every commercial airport in america because we cant Deploy Technology even though weve got it. This isgy something we are wrestling with right now that we both got fairly obsessed about the challenges from china and china is a great nation and has a great history but what president xi has done and lost four, five years in terms of the power of the commonest party when you look at how the people of hong kong are being treated what we may be dealing with with a china that will pose an economic threat unlike anything weve ever faced in our lifetime where china is laid out in the china 25 document that the Technology Areas where they hope to dominate and waive all grown up with sputnik where we assumed even if we invented and lest we set the protocol in china now that the rules of the protocol and they have a National Champion that has technology and they have no market restraints because they are willing to fund that and have any price point and do a limited financing then we have a different economic model that the old notion of the market sorted out and may not be the solution and i give richard credit on this where he dug in to this question around huawei and a lot more russians and chapters to be written but they will be like holy heck this is a lot different than the challenges we faced. Dont leave tonight but believe in the americas lost its innovative edge. We are still the best innovator in the world. We dont deploy it real well but we innovate extremely well. Now we have to figure out the architecture we need for the innovation to automatically flow over to deployment and we do that within the Intelligence Committee because it goes through us. [laughter] we cant do it through the department of defense because we dont have the capabilities to change their architecture or for that part the whole of government. We have specifically questions of Current College students and recent graduates and law students as well and to give you an idea of what is on their mind and talk about impeachment so many people view the impeachment process or at least the possibility as impeachment as an important check on our democracy and some would say that republicans view this as may be political or democrats are saying or trying to find the truth and what say you . I been through impeachment and nobody wins. End of sentence. No party wins. American people do not win. The stage is set and they will go down something but listen, mark and i traveled the world and we go to every vacation spot you always wanted to go but its usually hot in sandy and its not fun. The one thing that we are struck with is everywhere else in the world is a coalition government. They could have a special election and their leadership would be gone in 90 days. Th we had four prime ministers in the last four years in britain. How do you set an Economic Policy or do anything when you have leadership that changes like that . The great thing about america we know how long a president and senator will serve short of death or impeachment. The bar for impeachment was extreme a high. I would only say to you out ofre the test we will have and i think we will be presented with it doesnt reach the level of removal from office . And ive heard a lot of people say this president says outrageous things. There were outrageous things said before the last election. That did not raise to the flesh older people thought he was unqualified to president. Im not going to make this statement about what the outcome is because the likelihood is he and i will be jurors and let me tell you what that means. It means that the day we take it up we go into session six days a week, 12 30 until 6 30 and cant say anything. The house and the prosecutors and the president s lawyers and Defense Attorneys hash it out and the chief justice is crimson. We basically hear the case and then we have to come to a verdict. That will probably be six or eight weeksba process and at the end of the day will there be more than what they reckon people know today . I dont know. Maybe we will learn something as it goes public tomorrow but everything has been public up to this point. I would say the biggest distinction between the house and senate is weve gone through twin of Years Service investigation and until you read a report you dont know what we will say and thats intentional and intentional because we wanted to protect the integrity of the committee that weve been asked to be in charge of and we are stewards of it as long as we are there atse the president we set will be picked up 20 years on the road. I would simply add i wish we [inaudible] wish we are not where we are at and i think its incumbent and we will all make judgments. This is not just [inaudible] you will all make a judgment to and i think its extraordinarily important and e i hope and prayf what richard just said that we need to take a deep breath and recognize we have a constitutional response fully. This is a serious problem in our government and it needs to be treated with this level of seriousness. What upsets me is the men and women i work with on either team who are jumping to conclusions either saying ive already made my decision that hes guilty or not. Lets let this play out but we should be doing it with a sense of sobriety and seriousness t tt it warrants. This is finally the last question of the evening and its mostly mean is what is on your iphone or what are you listening days . Se i will start my kids have made up the fact that my music tastes ended in the late 60s. [laughter] ive got bob dylan, motown and peter, paul and mary. [laughter] [inaudible conversations] [laughter] you can tell a guy that flies s too many airplanes. I set the damn thing off. [laughter] let me make one last statement. Thank you for having me back. Richard made the comment he gets the last word as chair but not only have we not lost the ability to innovate but i still would not trade our position with anyone else in the world. Its never been a good bet to bet against america. I would argue at the National Level but we got dysfunction buv somehow at the state level with the local or universal there is still ratings happening and there are a lot more of us that actually like each other and get along and you dont have to agree on everything but lord knows no one agrees on everything but they are still trying every day to take what is incredibly we are blessed to be americans and take it vantagt of these opportunities so please, please, back to that shoe and the tv. I dont care what party you support but dont opt out andre higher rational people. I will end on the importance of the day, veterans day. Tonight there are many women serving to defend this country in places they did not choose and they are part of our military for the chain of command is the single most important thing. They are challenging and they leave the military and say and take that g. I. Money and come to wake forest or chapel hill or to state and they are a little bit dysfunctional to start with because theyre used to being woken up and being told what to do and what to do it. The institutions that a figure that out and put someone in charge of s that generates wonderful people that is out of their institutions. But mark and i have the good fortune of meeting a lot of these people in the war zones and to actually go into iraq and afghanistan and s syria. I love to fly with them and have them take care of us and keep us safe. To date, one of them is complaining about what they are doing. They areey there to make sure america is protected and dont ask and dont watch the media and of the differences we do as a society because they signed up to do a job and they do it. Though mark and i may have different views on certain things we are also in an important role, chair and vice chair of the Intelligence Committee. We have a job to do but we try not to get lost in the debate happening between republicans and democrats in impeachment but we will have to deal with it at some point but we cant neglect the response ability that we have been given and the response ability is to you, the American People that we will conduct ourselves in a fashion that makes you loud and that will be effective at the end of the day. That is all that matters. I love to think that 535 people you could get 535 that are perfect and the two of us are not perfect so theres no hope for the other 533. [laughter] i was asked this afternoon how will we solve the problem that weve got and i will challenge you the same way i did the students. It is with you. It is not with us. Its the American People. If you are intolerant and you cant find that 20 with the person next to you that you agree with and thats enough to make you shut up and go away we will not solve this problem. There is not an issue in washington that i can think of except for president ial nominee where there could be one 100 because theres always a rand paul or a bernie i should not have picked bernie. Hes a president ial candidate. W there will always be someone that objects and the reality is sometimes walking weight with 80 of what she wanted is good for the American People versus to take nothing because you cannot get one 100 . The reality is if weve got to get back in that mode and part of it is the generational change we seen and ive been up there longer than mark and my seniority mixture will be i think, 18. That is unheard of after 15 years in the United States senate. If you are proponents of term limits, drop it. It is happening. They reckon people are doing it at the ballot box and that is where it should happen. But with it we lose individuals and have people retire because theyre frustrated and quality individuals they make people lose. They really do. Part of mark and my job outside of the committee is finding people on the other side of the aisle that we can deal with and work with that actually pass things that have a positive impact last thing i will say to you because i think we both do the same thing. If we cant see the human face behind what were doing dont spend time on it. That is the only true motivator that will get you through the process that you can see the person that is affected by the decisions we make. Thank you very much for being here. [applause] [applause] u. S. Senate is about to gavel in on this monday afternoon. Lawmakers are planning to work on the nomination of the u. S. Court of appeals judge for the 11th circuit which covers alabama, florida and georgia. Now live coverage of the senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead us in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, your truth endures forever. Make us conscious of our

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