mrs. murray: thank you, mr. president. and i thank my senate colleagues and i remind all of us as americans we have to be vigilant about what's around us and when we are we can make a difference in the lives of a number of people. the trnl difficult that occurred ten years ago will remain with me always. and the families of bellingham but if we did our work and fund the office of pipeline safety and insist on strong protections we can protect families in the future. that's what's important about today. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. mrs. murray: i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mrs. murray: mr. president? i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be dispensed. .the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mrs. murray: earlier this morning i have been interested to hear commends from our republican counterparts on the issue of health care and they're talking about canada. that's interesting. and i appreciate that coming from a st

mrs. murray: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mrs. murray: mr. president, this morning i rise to remind all of us of a promise our government has made to the american people. it is an unspoken trust that certain things in our lives and communities are taking care of. that we don't have to think much about because we trust our government to keep us safe. mr. president, i think most americans turn on the tap each day and expect the water that they drink to be safe and they probably don't think a lot about it. we expect if there's an emergency, we'll be able to pick up the phone and dial 911, someone will answer and send help to us. well, mr. president, that's exactly what the people who lived in bellingham, washington, used to think about oil and gas pipelines, if they thought about them at all. but all of our sense of safety and innocence was shattered 10 years ago today when tragedy struck for three families in

mrs. murray: thank you, madam president. i ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mrs. murray: thank you, madam president. i rise today to draw attention to an event that is going on across the atlantic ocean and how it impacts thousands of good-paying family-wage jobs right here in the united states. madam president, as some of my colleagues know, the paris air show kicked off this week. the air show showcases many impressive displays of aviation, technology, and innovation. but there's something else that's going to be on display at this year's air show: the fruits of some 30-plus years of direct cash advances and illegal subsidies to the european aerospace company airbecause. foairbus, the european government who created airbus to specifically compete with the united states have aggressively funded, protected, and promoted their venture. since 1969, the european governments of france, germany, spain, and u.k., have supported airbus' commercial aircra

. >> thank you mr. chairman come i think mr. bush and mr. m murray -- month average. i wanted to start by thank you for the speed at which the crisis situation was dealt with in bankruptcy. as somebody who used to make his living restructuring companies in bankruptcy, nothing as complicated. it this has been a lightning quick and there are a lot of people who said it could have been done. you weren't going to come in and 30 days and you didn't budget came in pretty close to its and i think at least in my view that is a major step forward to try to create some credibility on these matters. i want to say congratulations on that. with all of that said, i wanted to echo the chairman's view that the american taxpayers want to be out of this company as soon as possible, as soon as practicable as a language that you have use and all i can say is i hope you are successful at that as you have been getting this bankruptcy accomplished. i guess mr. bloom and my first question for you is whether or not you'd be willing or could shed some light i'm sure is in the bankruptcy docume

senator murray. >> mr. chairman, thank you very much and i have to say i'm one of those people who are very delighted and that we are finally at the table working to get a health care bill out. i want to commend senator kennedy as we all have, we feel his arm on our shoulder today pushing as foreign because he knows and has worked on this for so long to get this right and knows that until we sit down and start working our way through a bill and to the legislative process we are not going to get where we need to be and we are going to keep pushing under your leadership going to get there and i want to thank you, senator harkin and senator mikulski and senator bingaman who spent time on this and especially our staff who really have worked hard to get us to the point that we can now begin this markup process. there's a lot of work ahead of us, absolutely. and by delaying it, that's not an option mr. chairman. the line is not an option. i am frankly a little disappointed with the town from the other side this m

. >> senator murray? >> mr. chairman, it's creative. but what it does is basically say there's only a small number of workforce shortages that the states need to deal with. and we're not going to fix these shortages by only addressing just a small number of them. we've talked today about shortages for primary health care, for social workers for mental health advocates, for home health care workers. states have a variety of issues that they are trying to address. i think that one of the things we do do in this bill, separate from this discussion, that is we have a commission that we are putting in place to begin to look at what some of the national shortages are. and i think it's important that we do that. but this amendment in front of us specifically will direct the states to address the three most acute health care workforce shortages and perhaps leave aside a number of other ones. i understand the senators trying to get our states to have more active involvement in deciding what their own issues are. but that is exactly what we have

senator murray? >> mr. chairman, we are now ready to accept murkowski number 23 as modified. ask unanimous consent it be accepted. >> any objections to senator murkowski number 23 as modified? without objection, the amendment is agreed to. next up? >> mr. chairman, we have a meeting. >> do you have a meeting. maybe it's just as wise at this juncture. my view would be as i said earlier, i know our republican friends have a meeting to attend. >> if i could ask, i know the republicans are going to leave, how many more amendments we expect on this? >> i have no idea where we are -- four? judd, do you have any further ones on this one? this section? >> on this title? >> so we have four -- >> we have four more. we will come back. i will aim to reconvene at 5:30 but ask the senators to keep me informed, if the meeting goes longer, let me know. we will try to come back in. if we finish up that and if the members are prepared as well, we may take a break for dinner. i will leave it up to the advice of my colleagues or just go straight through and deal with the fraud and abuse. >> am i

. >> senator murray. >> thinks mr. chairman. we worked hard at the issue on the fact we need people to go into some of these professions. it's very costly, and we need these people that do go into these professions to work in some of the targeted areas. we know we are short on primary care physicians and other areas so we put together a program to make sure people had access to these programs and stayed in them. working with some of our colleagues on the other side we have resolved some of the issues senator enzi is mentioned in the statements, senator enzi i'm not sure if you know but in the maria and but adopted before we went to the vote we fixed the family issue you were worried about students having parental information and we did put in the word in dependent so if you are an independent student it eliminates the provisions of that is taken care of. also the issue that you mentioned regarding the beginning of a loan. we had of originally written this amendment that the loan would start at less interest for students in this

. >> mr. chairman. >> senator brown. >> thank you. senator murray for your leadership on this. this sets us into ways the enzi amendment and i appreciate his genuine concern for primary-care physicians, but we had a hearing three or four weeks ago in a row position representing academy of pediatrics and to talk about how the of all that was not just for finding specialists and rural areas but simply an of specialists generally pediatrics specialist for all kinds of various iran diseases are relatively rare disease as she was already looking in a long way from a children's hospital and she also could i get patients in because of a long wait here and there is example, a 3% of children's hospitals report a gain over nine went to schedule their relative is a it's and i can give a six examples of gastroenterology and a whole host of a sub specialists that we find in short supply in pediatrics, so that would be a help eliminated and also as some said the issue of community health workers and others, not md is, who are so important providing less expensive for direct and more importan

mr. reid: i ask that the mandatory quorum be waived. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. reid: i ask the senate resume legislative session. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask now that we proceed to a period of monk business, senators allowed to speak -- of morning business, senators allowed to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: madam president, let me just say a brief word on the cloture that was not invoked on the travel bill. i hope that everyone understands what obstructionism is. this is obstructionism at its best, and it goes along with what the republicans said they wanted to do and that is stop everything. as indicated in "roll call" newspaper last week. this is a bill that saves the government money, almost a half a billion dollars over ten years. it would create in the first year of the -- after passage of the bill 40,000 jobs. the republicans just killed th this. over the most fictitious amount of reasoning. they said they weren't allowed to offer amendments.

klobuchar: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. cloib cloi i want to -- ms. klobuchar: i want to thank the senator from kansas, and i know that senators feinstein, boxer, and murray will speak -- may have already and will in the next few weeks on this nominee as will many of my colleagues, but i really appreciate this, mr. president. we're very excited for this upcoming hearing and we're glad to be here as ambassadors of truth. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from kansas. a senator: thank you very much. i believe under a previous agreement i have time allotted at the present time. is that correct, if i could inquire of the chair? the presiding officer: the senator may be recognized under cloture. mr. brownback: thank you very much, mr. president. mr. president, i rise today to discuss the nomination of judge sonia sotomayor to the united states supreme court. i've had the opportunity to meet with judge sotomayor two weeks ago. i was in the senate when she was

mr. levin: madam president, first i want to thank senators harkin and brownback for the initiative that they have taken, for their leadership in bringing before the senate this healing resolution, this formal apology for slavery and racial segregation. the resolution before us presents us with the opportunity to address face-to-face the unconscionable, the object horpbt acts of slave -- abhorrent acts of slavery and its aftermath. the apology resolution describes some of the gravest injustices of slavery. families enslaved and torn further apart after family members were sold separately, stripped of their names and heritage, a system of forced labor that persisted for 250 years, brutal and unspeakable acts of violence against slaves. the injustices continued well after the 13th amendment to the constitution ended slavery in our nation because jim-crow laws disenfranchised former slaves and subjugated them as second-class citizens. after presenting detailed findings regarding slavery in th

., and alan murray, the assistant managing editor of "the wall street journal." jewels, the first question for the director comes from you. >> thank you mr. director. and thank you for the work that you perform for our country. that's the easy part. >> i thought so. >> i want to focus on two areas. number one, the focus on financial fraud, and raise some questions having to do with the fbi as a preventable organization or the fbi as a crime-fighting organization. my second question will deal with the whole counterterrorism issue and the role the fbi should most effectively play, the crime-fighting piece versus the intelligence piece, an issue that i know you are very comely with and have been very involved in examining and considering. so to the first question, for my own experience, which is of course in the corporate sector. i find that there is certain organizations i culture, by orientation and by training are better at prevention and detection. i would say that's true of the auditing profession, in my view. the fbi has a great and well-earned reputation as a