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The chair on this vote the yeas are 236. The nays are 193. He amendment is adopted. The Unfinished Business is a request for recorded vote on amendment number 3 printed in part b of house report 11614 by the gentleman from california, ms. Speier, on on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by voice vote. The clerk will redesignate the amendment. The clerk amendment number 3 printed in part b of house report 116143 offered by ms. Peier of california. The chair a recorded vote has been requested. Those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and...

Reach a bipartisan agreement on the Strategic Forces subcommittee mark and that was a sad day for us on that subcommittee. My amendment would restore the authority of the department of defense to deploy the low yield variant of the w 762 warhead. Our deterrence requires that the United States have a proportional response available for any miscalculation. Low yield weapons are critical to our security because they give us a credible deterrent. Russias confidence that if they were to strike us we would have the capability and the will to respond in a proportional manners makes a strike by the ru...

Much. Things a lot. You can watch live coverage of the u. S. House on cspan. The senate is about to gavel back in for more debate on defense programs and policy this afternoon. Shortly we take live to the floor of the u. S. Senate for more debate. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The presiding officer the senator from texas. Mr. Cornyn madam president , are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer we are not. Mr. Cornyn madam president , yesterday the Senate Overwhelmingly voted to proceed to the National Defense authorization act by a vote of 868. Excuse me, 866. Thats ...

January. Mr. Esper, currently Army Secretary, was asked about u. S. Policy toward iran, cybersecurity, and Nuclear Deterrence, among other topics. This is just over 2. 5 hours. Requirede the 8 questions you will have to respond to audibly so we can get that in the record. If you would hear to the regulations of interest . Yes sir. Have you taken any actions that would appear to presume the outcome of the confirmation process . No, sir. Exercising your responsibility makes it important that this committee, subcommittees, and other appropriate committees if congress received testimony briefings,...

Encourage members to come down and talk about their amendments it is an awkward situation that we have here and we are all aware of this that the senate rules state that amendments cannot come to the floor except by unanimous consent. Well that means if there is one person who objects to having an amendment come up in being considered, then all that person has to do is object and frankly, that happened last year. We had a couple of members that were holding out for an amendment, non germane amendment that they wanted considered and they stated they held up all other amendments. Well, that happ...