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By the house for a conference and authorize the presiding officer to appoint conferees. Mr. Cornyn ask for the yeas and nays. The presiding officer is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not the ayes are 54 and the nays are 43. The motion is agreed to. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from arkansas. Mr. Boozman i ask for unanimous consent to speak for up to 15 minutes. The presiding officer with...

Resources that would go to prosecutors, and federal agents to be able to investigate and prosecute crimes, are being diverted to the bureau of prisons. The bureau of prisons now takes up almost twothirds of the departments budget. Thats really untenable and unsustainable. So i believe that mandatory minimum sentences are an important tool. But we but that we need to use that tool effectively. Senator blumenthal . Thanks, mr. Chairman. At the outset id like to ask permission to include in the record a statement from senator patrick leahy, our colleague from vermont, in support of ms. Yates nomi...

But they didnt say exactly where. What happened was, the individual, the commissary sergeant, or whoever was in charge of the supplies in richmond, then sent a message back to the turnbull house, to lees headquarters, asking for more specific instructions. But what had happened as tracy again mentioned, these Union Sixth Army corps that morning had broken through the confederate lines,j basically were pamplin park is if youre familiar with that area, they broke through the union lines and lee was then forced to abandon his headquarters, so when that second message came for where do we send the...

This forum on u. S. Customs and Border Protection. And this event is being broadcast live by cspan. And as many of you may know customs and Border Protection is the largest federal Law Enforcement agency and also it provides the second largest revenue collecting source for the federal government. On a typical day, cbp seizes over 10,000 pounds of drugs, 650,000 dollars in undeclared or illicit currency, and 3. 4 million of products with intellectual property right violations. So needless to say this agency is working very hard to safeguard americas borders while also enhancing legitimate trade...

Conversation. It could lead to collaboration and better results for our cities and our country. So thank you all very much. Thank you. Thanks for that ending. Thanks everyone for participating. [applause] Hillary Clinton obviously part of this discussion here at the center for american progress. This is questions continuing over emails she sent during her tenure as secretary of state. The House Committee on benghazi revealing yesterday the server that contained those emails was wiped clean. The committee learned of this from a clinton attorney after requesting the server be turned over to a th...