It seems the purpose of this investigation is to deduce two things: first, the process that led this decision to be made, how was it that this decision was made, so that you never do that again.

clarification regarding the recent announcement that NTIA intends to relinquish responsibility of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions to the global multistakeholder community.

But, again, my question is, will you look to see if, in fact, there was a decision made by a group of individuals not to move forward on this because of its cost?

Based on what you know over the last few weeks, having dealt with this issue, can you tell us whether General Motors intentionally misled its customers and Federal regulators when someone decided to delay disclosing or fixing the faulty…

But if someone was negligent, if someone said, 'We have this information, we don't think it is a big deal, we shouldn't do anything about it,' that is negligence, and certainly someone like that should not continue to work for the company.

Will you also look for evidence in that investigation that, in fact, people knew that this was a problem but decided that the costs weren't worth it?

I have one last question. Will you fully cooperate with the Justice Department if they want to conduct a concurrent investigation alongside the internal one?

the reason I come to the floor is to call attention to a crisis that has fallen off the front pages over the last few weeks; that is, the situation in our own hemisphere that is occurring in Venezuela. I recognize there have been news…

I wanted to speak about the issue of Ukraine. I get a lot of questions, phone calls, emails about it. It has certainly been on the minds of a lot of people across the country. The most common question that I get is: What do we do about it…

my understanding is we are on the motion to proceed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. We are.

What we present to you today are people that are definitely qualified for a lifetime appointment to serve in the Federal judiciary.

I want to talk about each of them briefly, because they have an extraordinary amount of experience in different fields.