Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 92, the nays are 4. And the nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table. The president will be immediately notified of the senates action. The presiding officer the clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of john w. Holcomb of california to be United States district judge for the Central District of california. The presiding officer by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. The question is, is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of john w. Holcomb of california to be United States district judge for the Central District of california shall
So we want to thank you all you have done at the department. And at this point for your willingness to step up in a higher capacity. We have our colleagues here this evening texas and louisiana are well represented. Mister deputy secretary you should feel verydu welcome by having these gentlemenmp next to you. We will start with senator cassidy followed by senators cruz and senator kennedy to introduce deputy secretary this morning. Would like to proceed we do have a full complement here this morning and a full house behind you so the introductions do not consume the full morning but we do welcome all the good comments s comments. What a wonderful way to tell me to be brief. [laughter] its a privilegege to represent my friend Dan Brouillette eminently qualified as United States leads the world in all sorts of energy. He shared a longer showed a commitment to Energy Security and understands the importance of us Energy Exports to lower Greenhouse Gas emissions abroad. Committed to innova
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At least 26. 00 people have died after lobster fishing boat overturned in the caribbean off the Atlantic Coast of honduras dozens more were rescued near the town of port olympia its the 2nd boating accident there in recent days. Greenpeace is calling on the un to create a new global ocean treaty to protect International Marine environments from deep sea mining and the reports by the group warns the practice could cause irreversible damage to the sensitive ecosystems it also says it would worsen Climate Change by releasing vast quantities of Carbon Dioxide the hearts cost of operations have so far prevented deep mining projects from International Waters but new technology could change that only about 5 percent of the sea floor has been mapped and the growing number of countries are now eyeing it as a possible source of wealth. We dont know very much about the deep ocean this is why quantifying the damage is a very tricky task and its why scientists have one that you know irreversible da
The former headquarters of feisal among the 200 corpses 5 who are dressed in orange jumpsuits warmed by the armed hostages in a hotter has more from the neighbor from neighboring beirut. Mass graves continue to be a nurse enric of these syrian city used to be the defacto capital of ice still the armed group was defeated almost 2 years ago but the bodies continue to be exude it is a painstaking and challenging process but these mass graves hold the answers as thousands of people went missing jury isolates rule family is still looking for their loved ones many of these people were either imprisoned or executed so far nearly 5000 bodies have been exuma in recent months a few 100 of them have been identified in the latest mass graves discovered what we understand is that there are a number of bodies belonging to men who were wearing orange jumpsuits it is not clear if these were people who were beheaded in those infamous videos that i sold release of be heading there or a prisoner is among