mr. reid: mr. president, we were hopeful that today we could clear the nomination of john bryson to be secretary of commerce. this has been outstanding for a long time. we are told by our republican friends that as soon as we got the trade bills done we would work this out. the trade bills are done, so i hope that we can move forward on this. it's really unfortunate that one of the president's very important cabinet positions, that is secretary of commerce which is directly related to the jobs bill is not filled at this time. hopefully we can get the minority to work with us in processing this. i hope i don't have to file cloture on something like this. mr. president, i ask consent the senate proceed to calendar number 96. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 96, s. 275, a bill to amend title 49 of the united states code and so forth and for other purposes. the presiding officer: without objection the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. reid: mr. president, i

mr. reid: mr. president, i would object to any further proceedings with respect to this legislation. the presiding officer: objection having been heard, the bill will be placed on the calendar. mr. reid: i would note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i ask consent that the call for the quorum be terminated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: this morning, the senate will hold a vote to end the practice of currency manipulation by the chinese government. this prarks which gives chinese exports a tremendously unfair advantage, an advantage on all the global markets but especially the one with our relations with china, it hurts american manufacturers and cheats american workers oust jobs. it has helped balloon america's trade deficit with china from $10 billion to $273 billion in the last 20 years. costing upwards of 3 million jobs. 2 million of those lost jobs came from the

quorum call: mr. reid: mr. president? i ask that the consent of the call for the quorum be terminated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: in relation to the previous business conducted regarding calendar number 4010, i ask that that that be modified that the previous agreement to remove references to the motion to reconsider be that we take that oust my consent agreement. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: roll call votes at about 2:00 p.m. expect additional roll call votes tomorrow in relation to the appropriations bill. if there is -- we're going to do our utmost to complete that bill moc tomorrow. if there's no further business to come before the senate, i ask that it adjourn under the previous order. the presiding officer: the the presiding officer: the >> now, a hearing on detecting and treating concussions in student athletes. the transportation committee heard from a panel that including former soccer and football players testifying on the effect of brain injuries. this is a little

mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that at 4:00 p.m. monday, october 17, the senate proceed to the consideration of calendar number 155, h.r. 2112. that's the agriculture act for fiscal year 2012. that the committee amendment be withdrawn, the chairman of the appropriations committee for his designee be recognized to offer amendment number 738 which consists of the text of the withdrawn amendment of division a, the text of s. 1572, calendar number 170, division b, and the text of s. 1596, calendar number 177 as division c. provided further that h.r. 2596 as reported by the house and actually by the house appropriations committee and division c of amendment 738 be deemed house passed text to h.r. 2112 for purposes of rule 16. finally, that amendment number 738 for the purposes of paragraph 1, rule 16, be considered with a committee amendment. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. reid: i'm going to give the chair a written test on what i just read in a few minutes. the presiding officer: i'll pass with flying colors.

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. order in the chamber. mr. reid: i ask that we proceed it a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i understand senator moran -- the presiding officer: the senate will resume legislative session. mr. moran: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from kansas. mr. moran: mr. president, thank you. two weeks ago i spoke here on the senate floor with some of my concerns about the pending legislation that were -- we have been talking about now, a number of appropriations bills, including the committee report on agriculture. last time we visited about this i talked about the gipsa rules. i want to talk on one more -- i want to talk about one more area of rules. the nutrition requirements for the national school lunch and breakfast program. in its current form, the rule contains some impractical nutrition standards and goals. i don't

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: mr. president, the provision my friend talks about was placed in legislation as a result of a study made during the bush administration, the second bush administration. the g.a.o. did a study. they found that 33,000 contractors in effect cheated on their taxes and they owed some $3 billion. this money they also determined went mostly to giving the owners more salary and building them second and third homes. there is no question that a lot of people, in addition to the 33,000 who cheated, were found to be burdened by this withholding 3% of what they had come to them. what my friend fails to acknowledge, mr. president, is this bill that is -- amendment that my friend has before the senate has no chance of accomplishing anything. constitutionally it will be killed in the house in the matter of a milisecond because constitutionally it will be what we call blue slipped here. it's a revenue measure, it can't stop -- it can't s

mr. reid: mr. president, we've worked long and hard -- the presiding officer: we're a in a quorum call. mr. reid: oh, i'm so sorry. didn't know the senator from new jersey called for a quorum. i ask that it be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, we've worked very hard this whole week trying to move forward on legislation dealing with our appropriations bills. it's been difficult. one reason it's been difficult is it's kind after new area we're working in. that is, legislating. i was very impressed to see senator mikulski talk with great clarity about how nice it was for her to again be legislating, but we're not there yet. we were thoapg have a number of votes today and tonight, but we haven't been able to do that. we're getting close. our staffs are working very hard to come up with an agreement. we hope we can do it tonight to set up a series of four to six votes in the morning and then hopefully a pathway to complete this legislation. we have other issues

mr. reid: mr. president, further reserving my right to object. 14 million people in this country are out of work. what a charade we have going on here. we're in the midst of some of the most important legislation we've done this entire year. china currency manipulation. and we now have a proposal that is ridiculous on its face. that is, we vote with no debate on the president's jobs bill. this is senseless, it's unfair to bring this up in this form, and we're going to get to this and we're going to do it either as soon as we finish this china currency or after we finish the trade bills, whatever i can work out with my republican colleagues so that i can move to it. it takes 60 votes to get to this legislation, 60 votes to get to it. and so the american people i'm sure can see through this very clearly that this is nothing more than a political stunt. it's clear that we need a full debate on this. we don't need a filibuster, and that time will come very, very soon. so i object. the presiding officer

mr. reid: mr. president i ask unanimous consent the homeland security and governmental affairs committee be discharged from the following post office naming bills en bloc and the senate proceed to their consideration en bloc. h.r. 771 h.r. 1632. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection the committee is discharged. and the senate will concede to consideration of the measures en bloc. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the bills be read a third time, passed en bloc, the motion to reconsider be laid on the table en bloc, there being no intervening action or debate and any related statements be printed in the record as if read. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the finance committee be discharged from further consideration of s. res. 266. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. res. 266 supporting the goals and ideals of national save for retirement week including raising public awareness of the various tax-preferred retir

mr. reid: thank you. i ask that the resolution be agreed to and the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i now ask consent that the senate proceed to s. res. 298. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 298, expressing support for the designation of october 20, 2011, as the national day on writing. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection, senate will proceed. mr. reid: i scu ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the motion to reconsider be laid on the table, there be no intervening action or debate, and n.i.h. related paimentds be praints printed in the rohr as if read. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that the when the senate completes its business today we adjourn until 9:30 a.m. on wednesday, october 19, the morning hour be deemed expired, the time for the two leaders be re

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader is recognized recognized.mr. rood mr. reid: we have worked very hard to move through this first tranche of appropriation bills that we have. progress is being made but not nearly enough progress. we're going to move on the -- i'm going to move in just a minute to the bryson nomination but i want everyone within the sound of my voice to understand this cannot go on forever. people sometimes are unreasonable. we cannot have votes on all these amendments that have been called up here. i would hope that everyone would understand that we -- there has to be some give and take here and we need to move through this. they need b to be cooperative wh their staffs, because when this matter is finished regarding the secretary of commerce nomination, we're going to have to make a decision as to whether we continue working on this appropriation bill. this was a noble experiment. i'm part of t. i want it to work very, very much. but it can't work

mr. reid: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i now ask unanimous consent that we move to a period of morning business, senators allowed to speak for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i now ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to s. res. 287. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 287, designating october, 2011, as filipino american history month. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the motion to reconsider be laid on the table, there being no intervening action or debate, and it printed in the appropriate place as if given. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i'm told s. 1660

mr. reid: mr. president, through the chair to my friend from tennessee and others who wish to listen, we moved to this legislation with a very -- the china currency with a heavy vote. 79 senators who wish to proceed to that. once we were on the bill, i have -- i partially filled the tree, and why did i do that? because i found over the last congress and nine months that when i try to have an open amendment process, it is a road to nowhere. it just hasn't worked. we haven't been able to effectuate a single bill being passed that way. regardless whether that's right or wrong, that's what i did. senator mcconnell wanted to offer an amendment on the president's jobs bill. to do that, he -- and that in effect tied us down because he wasn't willing to let us move to any other amendments. i was willing to move to other amendments. specifically, everyone that was involved in this process thought that senator hatch was entitled to an amendment because his was clearly germane and relevant. but without going

mr. reid: mr. president i move to ask -- ask i ask unanimous consent we proceed to morning business senators permitted to speak for up to five minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to calendar number 290 and be in executive session. and that the nomination be confirmed, the motion to reconsider be considered made, laid on the table, no intervening action or debate and any statements appear in the record as if read. and the president be immediately notified of the senate's action. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. reid: mr. president i understand there's a bill at the desk due for its first reading. the presiding officer: the clerk will read the bill for the first time. the clerk: h.r. 2681, an act to provide additional time for the add minimum strayer of the environmental protection agency to issue achievable standards for cement manufacturing facilities and for other purposes. mr. reid: i ask for a secon

mr. reid: mr. president, i would object to any further proceedings with respect to each of these bills. the presiding officer: objections having been heard, the bills will be placed on the calendar under rule 14. mr. reid: madam president, america's education system is literally under siege. this terrible recession that we're involved in has put millions of families in our country in a desperate economic situation. it's also put our schools at risk. since 2008, we have lost 300,000 education jobs, 200,000 in the last year alone. without talented, dedicated teachers and support staff, our schools cannot provide the world-class education students need to succeed in today's difficult economic climate. as state and local governments are forced to slash education funding again and again, it jeopardizes the future of millions of children, regardless of where they live or how much money their parents make. nevada alone is facing a $1.2 billion budget shortfall in 2011, practically ensuring further cuts to

mr. reid: mr. president, mr. president. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate will now proceed to consideration of h.r. 2112, which the clerk will now report. the clerk: calendar number 155, h.r. 2112, an act making appropriations for agriculture, rural development, food and drug administration, and related agencies and so forth and for other purposes. mr. reid: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: senator kohl will be here momentarily, but until the managers of the bill are ready to proceed, i will on behalf of senator webb call up his amendment which is at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from nevada, mr. reid, for mr. webb, proposes an amendment numbered 750. at the appropriate place -- mr. reid: mr. president, i would ask further reading of the amendment be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: notwithstanding the previous action ju

mr. reid: i would note the absence of a quorum. what we'll do, we shouldn't do this but i'll go ahead and do this, -- so i would note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. mr. reid: before i note the absence of a quorum, whose time runs? the presiding officer: it's on the republican time. mr. reid: because they're first. okay. i would note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: a senator: are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: correct. a senator: and i also understand that we are in morning business. the presiding officer: correct. a senator: i ask the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. a senator: i also ask that i be allowed to speak in morning business, although i believe we're in the republican time. the presiding officer: without objection. a senator: thank you, madam president. in some ways, i hate to come to the floor today and talk about this because i very seldom do this, but i am announ

mr. reid: mr. president, further reserving my right to object. 14 million people in this country are out of work. what a charade we have going on here. we're in the midst of some of the most important legislation we've done this entire year. china currency manipulation. and we now have a proposal that is ridiculous on its face. that is, we vote with no debate on the president's jobs bill. this is senseless, it's unfair to bring this up in this form, and we're going to get to this and we're going to do it either as soon as we finish this china currency or after we finish the trade bills, whatever i can work out with my republican colleagues so that i can move to it. it takes 60 votes to get to this legislation, 60 votes to get to it. and so the american people i'm sure can see through this very clearly that this is nothing more than a political stunt. it's clear that we need a full debate on this. we don't need a filibuster, and that time will come very, very soon. so i object. the presiding officer

all right, mr. reid, we're finished with the reports to this evening. thank you. >> jimmy's otherwise good behavior record over the past year helps him catch a break. he receives seven days loss of recreation time. his prison job wages and access to his cash account to buy supplies and snacks from the canteen. >> you're okay with it? >> for five reports, yes, i'm okay. >> jimmy is escorted back to his cell in d hall. the prison's protective custody wing. >> jimmy's done a lot of time in the jail. he's not a young chap anymore. jimmy has enemies in different establishments. and the mainstream halls. so that's why he's kept separate. >> i'm just getting medication off a doctor and a prisoner tried to take them off me and he sent another prisoner to my cell. i told the guy to [ bleep ] off. do me or i'll do you. i said, you're 30 years younger than me, but i will [ bleep ] murder you. so either [ bleep ] off or shut the door. he [ bleep ] off. if they want to fight with me they'll fight with my rules. knife. then he -- then he won't fight. because he knows

mr. reid: thank you very much. mr. president, i would say as my friend leaves -- i know he has an appointment -- the work that has been done in the last few weeks in the senate has been very, very important. we've been able to work on the fema bill, which we worked through the problems with that. china currency, we worked there that. and even though, as my friend the distinguished republican leader, knows, i didn't agree with the trade bills, what they do, i think it's a good sign of our working together in spite of strong feelings on both sides, people put that aside. there were no dilatory efforts made to hold this up, and we moved forward. i think that's commendable. that should be the pattern for the rest of this congress. and i also want the record to be spread with the fact that as far as congressional action, this legislation would not have happened but for the republican leader. he has been laser focused on this for a long time, and there were some things we had to work through to get here. but one of the reaso

mr. reid: madam president? the presiding officer: majority leader. mr. reid: following leader remarks, the senate will be in consideration of the free trade agreements. there are three of them. there will be up to 12 hours of debate on these matters. the senate will have their normal recess from 12:30 to 2:15 today for our caucus meetings. expect to yield back some of the time. i certainly hope so, on the trade agreements. although people can speak as much as they want on these matters. but we are going to complete the action tonight, whether it's at 4:00 or at midnight. we will complete action on these bills today. the house is waiting our action. madam president, h.r. 2681 is at the desk and due for a second reading. the presiding officer: the clerk will read the title of the bill for the second time. the clerk: h.r. 2681, an act to provide additional time for the administrator of the environmental protection agency to issue achievable standards for cement manufacturing facilities and for other purposes. mr. reid: i would object to any further proceedi

quorum call: reid mr. president? the presiding officer: majority leader. mr. reid: are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: yes, we are. reid scried that be vitiated. officer without objection. reid rioted call for consideration of amendment 750. the amendment be modified with the changes at the desk many. the presiding officer: the amendment is pending and will be so modified. mr. reid: i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. reid: i ask that the quorum call be terminated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask that the senate return to amendment number 775. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: >> the senator from montana. -- the presiding officer: the senator from montana. mr. baucus: i ask unanimous consent further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. baucus: a native american expression on the c

mr. reid: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i now ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to a period of morning business, senators be allowed to speak for up to ten minutes each during that time. the presiding officer: without objection. a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from illinois. mr. kirk: i ask unanimous consent to proceed as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kirk: mr. president, with regard to our policy towards iran and the recent revelation of a potential attack involving not just foreign embassies and ambassadors but americans, potentially senators being killed by a plot hatched by the eye rainian revolutionary guard, there should be consequences, not just concerns expressed from the administration. we have witnessed a growing aggressiveness by the iranian regime towards the united states and towards their own people. for example, recently, an iranian actress who appeared uncovered in an australian film was then sentenced to 90 lashes for her so-c

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: following leader remarks, the senate will be in morning business until 5:30 this evening. at 5:30 there will be three roll cal votes. the first will be confirmation of jane margaret triche-milazzo. that's a vote for a judge. we appreciate the cooperation we've gotten on that. the seconds will be on passage of 1619, china currency and the third will be on 1616, the american jobs act. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. the majority leader is still recognized. mr. corker: i would like to ask a question if i could. mr. reid: i'll be happy to yield to my friend for a question. mr. corker: mr. president, fall, i think most -- first of all, i think most people know to spend 995 days on the free trade agreements just coming to the floor, i had a good conversation with the majority leader and i thank him for his courtesy. but it's my understanding for all those who want to see the free tr

mr. reid: i note the absence of a quorum, madam president. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. reid: madam president, i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be terminated. officer without objection. mr. reid: following morning business, the senate will be in morning business for an hour. the republicans will control the first half, the majority will control the second half. following that the senate will resume consideration of s. 1619. cloture was filed on the bill last night. as a result, filing deadline for first-degree amendments is 1:00 p.m. today. unless agreement is reached, a cloture vote on the bill will occur tomorrow morning. the republican leader and i have had a number of discussions and we'll decide if there will be amendments on the china trade. it is my understanding that both democrats and republicans want to offer some amendments, and certainly we can do that, even though there's a cloture petition having been filed. madam president, franklin roosevelt said that no man can truly be fre

his proposal, a 5.6% surtax on individuals of -- mr. reid says it would raise $445 billion. just about the price tag for the president's jobs bill. naturally, republicans who control the house met the proposal with scorn. >> here we go again. continued insistence that somehow washington needs to raise taxes on job creators right now. that's not what we need. most think it's counterintuitive to raise taxes if you want economic growth. >> no. most people in america do not think that. a recent cbs poll shows 64% of americans thinks taxes should be raised on millionaires to lower the deficit. just 18% think such a tax would hurt job creation. now to put this in perspective, let's take a person making just over a million dollars. say 1.1 million a year. that would mean a tax of $5600 on that extra $100,000. but no say the republicans, don't take that money. they need it to buy, well, let's take a look at e-bay to see what we could buy. mrs. millionaire, what she could do without a pair of $5600 hearts on fire diamond earrings. mr. millionaire, needs a new $5600 trech coat. i supp

[cheers and applause] >> mr. reid. >> good afternoon. i appreciate jack yoder and his number to me. my name is rodney school. i am a member of local unions 657 right here in the. [cheers and applause] i am also the president teared a playful untrendy pregames 654. i am also a lay leader within my church, where a lot of are union members, construction men and women is out of work of the community in which i listen our denomination of churches then they look to s. to provide jobs for those construction members within the church. so we are reaching out to the community within our community to put people back to work and we need construction jobs like this keystone pipeline so to put our members and our churches to her. building the keystone pipeline creates thousands of good jobs here in america that will allow men and women to provide for their families, pay their bills and support local businesses. this pipeline will create prevailing wage is, health benefits in the key things to a lot of are construction workers this help benefit insurance for our members. to grow without insurance,

mr. reid: mr. president. the speech given to my friend, the senior senator from arizona, is a speech that i could give because he's absolutely right. we have so much we have to do. but we have had a problem because of the republicans in the senate. we have said basically -- we have spent basically 100% of our time these last nine months on two issues that should have taken a matter of a few hours. it's taken months and months. the continuing resolutions -- excuse me, mr. president -- we voted on a continuing resolution for one week, two weeks, went on and on for months trying to fund government two, three days ago, the first of october. that took months to get that done. and then as soon as we finished that, that little exercise was only preparation for the long-standing time that we had to spend on raising the debt ceiling. some of it we had done with ease on scores of other times. just during the eight years of president reagan, for example, we raised the debt ceiling for him 18 times. we spent months, mont

why lou dobbs says mr. reid has suffered a reality break. all that plus the latest in the baby lisa investigation. we'll see you 14 minutes away. jon: fox news alert. we have just learned that president obama will address the nation on the developments coming out of libya at 2:00 p.m. eastern time, a little bit more than an hour from now at the rose garden. this follows the libyan prime minister saying muammar qaddafi is dead. it echoes other reports that the so-called mad dog of the middle east, a man who has been a thorn in the side of the united states for decade, finally met his demise. the dictator who's 42-year reign of terror is linked to deadly attacks on americans including most famously the bombing of pan am flight 103. we have the former spokesman for the last four u.n. ambassadors to the united nations. rick your thought on finally the passing of this long-time dick indicator. >> my initial thoughts are thank god that the in 2003 he gave up his nuclear weapons. if he had those weapons today we would have a struggle where those we

mr. reid: to my friend and to others who are listening, so everybody understands a little bit of the frustration that i have, we all went through the battle on the fema bill. everyone remembers that. people in the dark bowels of this building someplace typed that bill up. they made a mistake and had a comma, a comma in the wrong place, a comma in the wrong place. i asked consent, that was a technical correction, could we get that done. there were already press releases out from my republican friends, we're not going to agree to any consent on anything. so you talk about frustration, there is plenty of it to go around. mr. president, i want to try to end this on a high note. i love this institution. i've devoted most of my life here in this building. not only as a long-time member of the house and the senate but i lived here going to law school. i worked in this building. i was a cop in this building. i love this building, i love this institution. i don't want to do anything to denigrate t

mr. reid: the senate will be in morning business for one hour. the majority will control the first half. the republicans will control the final half. following morning business, the senate will resume consideration of the motion to proceed to s. 1619. the senate will recess from 12:30 to 2:15 today to allow for our weekly caucus meetings. at 2:30, the senate will begin consideration of s. 1619, which is the china currency legislation -- that's how it's referred. roll call votes are possible during today's session. we'll notify senators when they're scheduled. and i would hope that senators, both democrats and republicans, will want to offer amendments, and would contact the managers of the bill. we need to get these amendments moving as quickly as possible. hopefully on most of them we can do time agreements. this is important legislation and we need to expedite it as quickly as possible. this is a busy work period we have, and we have a couple of important holidays. we have yom kippur, which starts friday at sundown, which is the last of all the

mr. reid: following lead refresh remarks the it? will be in a period of morning business until 4:30 today. at 4:30 the senate will proceed to executive session to consider the nomination of stephen higginson to be united states district judge for the fifth circuit. at 5:30 there will be a roll call vote on the von firmation of stephen higginson. today i join millions of nevadans in commemoratingthe day 147 years ago that nevada joined the union. granted statehood during the bitter years of the civil war in 1864 our mettle was tested from the very beginning. today our state is once again tested. too many nevadans are out of work, upped water in their homes and this is during these rough times, it's all over the state of nevada. but i know by facing our challenges together, we'll once again demonstrate the collective strength that comes from our state's motto, "battle born." mr. president, this chart here appeared in last week's "new yorker" magazine. i think it's pretty evident what it shows. i've got mine, change mange, leave well e

therefore, another point -- people mr. reid that this was a small town. it is a tourist resort. people go and stay there in hotels. it is absolutely open. anybody going to the mountains goes through there. the training centers are open for people to go and come use it as open. therefore, it was not complicity. it was a terrible case of negligence which must be explained by pakistan. white was there such negligence? - why? we must not believe it was complicity because that would be very serious. maybe we are not together in the war against terror. >> because we are out of time, let me explain that he is under an arrest warrant in pakistan but intends to go back in march of 2012 and intends to win the presidential election in 2013. i will be returning to my office where i will be very busy with important things. thank you so much for coming. >> thank you. >> and now for something different, we have had a lot of very accomplished and famous people, there have been many friends in the room. there is overlap here in that chris is one of my friends in washington. i met him when i firs

mr. garamendi: now, over on the senate side, the leader of the senate, mr. reid, brought the issue to the senate floor and was unable to even get a vote on the senate floor because of the republican threat of a filibuster and the 60-vote requirement to end that filibuster. and so even though on the senate side they almost came to a vote, they were stopped short by a filibuster, and the reason apparently was that the republicans did not want to raise a .5% tax on those very small number, the top 1% of americans that are earning more than $1 million of adjusted gross income a year. and so with that small tax increase, they refuse to go along, and so here we are in this house without a vote and on the other side because of a threat of a filibuster 280,000 teachers are not going to be hired unless we're able to break through. and the only way to break through is for the american public to rise up, the 99ers out there and say enough. give us our jobs. give us the opportunity to go back to work. mrs. maloney: it could not be stated more appropriately. the 99'ers a

mr. reid, please do your job. pass the budget. thank you, sir. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will remind members to direct their remarks to the chair. the gentleman from north carolina. mr. butterfield: i ask permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. butterfield: thank you, mr. speaker. it is very disappointing to me that the gentleman from south carolina a few moments ago, mr. wilson, took north carolina governor, governor perdue's words completely out of context. every day the governor is urging this congress to work in a bipartisan manner to create jobs by passing the american jobs act. we need, mr. speaker, to help create jobs. we need to help job creators by offering new tax cuts that insent the hiring of workers and cut payroll taxes. the tax cuts that president obama's american jobs act will save employees $50,000 a year and give them an additional $1,500 per year each in take-home pay. it is real money. it equates to real job growth in the near term. the american jobs

let's see if we've got the votes, mr. president. harry reid said, no, we're not going to do that. you know why? because senate democrats don't like the president's package. they don't like the tax increases because they know it's going to kill jobs. >> gentlemen, we've got to leave it there. good to see you both this morning. thank you. >>> right now the ntsb is about to give a briefing on that deadly crash on a helicopter crash in the east river. it went down near the united nations, and a tourist from sfra australia, celebrating her 40th birthday, was killed. police rescued three of his loved ones. they have dramatic video of them bringing them to safety. >> there was danger from the first takeoff. as soon as it lifted off, everything was normal. all of a sudden, it started spinning around. and it looked like, uh-oh. >> now, the other three passengers on board were hospitalized, two of them are listed in critical condition. >>> kansas city police are expressing frustration today over a lack of clues in the case of a missing 10-month-old baby girl after a day-long search on tuesd

brady: again, i appreciate you, mr. reid, for your leadership on -- mr. reed, for your leadership on this key jobs issue. so many americans out of work, the president standing in this chamber not too many days ago urging republicans, democrats to come together to create new jobs. can you imagine if there was an issue that the white house and congress both agreed on? that republicans an democrats across the spectrum supported? a bill that created jobs not by government spending, by allowing the free market to do its work, to granting economic freedom to americans to buy and sell and compete in key markets throughout the world? well, today we have that issue. it is the three pending sales agreements with korea, colombia and panama. as we've said tonight, almost $13 billion of new sales for american companies, because we know we have to seek and compete and win around the world for these new customers. we know, too, that these agreements have been delayed far too long. colombia's an old and trusted friend who has been remarkable progress in the economy and l

mr. reid filed it. mr. speaker, it is s. 1549. that's a senate number, s. 1549. that's a senate bill. leader reid did not bother to do what would be required, even though the gamesmanship of capitol hill to strip out a house bill and the only reason he wouldn't do that and only one reason the president wouldn't request he do that and that's because they have no intention of this bill ever passing. i only have the first few pages, because the president's bill is actually 155 pages i have here, but that came before i -- that came before i got a copy before it was filed by anybody. and then i heard that leader reid had actually filed an amendment so the president's so-called jobs bill. and i thought, agh, he is no longer going to play this ridiculous charade of acting like a bill to a pass that he knows will never become law. owe, ok, he has filed an amendment, the new bill has surely got to be some house bill that was stripped of every word, but it turns out it was senate bill number 1660. . . it is still a senate number, it is still originating in the senate. ther

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grippo, because what you just said i think is the crux of this matter to reid is that the reason, mr. grippo, in your opinion, that the department of treasury said to the department of energy look, there is a tab here, there is a red flag, and it is our strong advice that you consult the department of justice before going ahead with this restructuring? >> we didn't know what all of the department of energy's authorities were. we didn't even know the details of the restructuring. we had heard that there would be a restructuring, and it seemed like good advice in our role to tell them to seek to go to the department of justice which is customary. >> i commend you for that i think you're absolutely correct in doing that. either one of you what do you think could though doe was hesitant to seek the approval to get a little bit more security to cover their back -- why do you think they didn't do that? >> i don't have an answer for you. >> do you have an opinion on that? >> i'm sure they had their reasons. i'm not really sure if they had a legal theory on this. >> yeah, well, if doe departm

. >> reporter: majority leader harry reid defended the tactic, though, here he is. >> mr. president, we have to make the senate a better place, and i think a better place is to do what was done tonight, to get rid of these dehe story amendment. >> reporter: make no mistake, this move is political warfare. democrat senator charles schumer said republicans lost their power, quote, because you filibuster everything. mcconnell closed the chapter by saying, quote, i think we made a big mistake tonight. indeed, it may haunt democrats should they become the minority party. as the saying goes, what goes around comes around. jamie? jamie: we report, our viewers definitely will decide. thanks, doug, good to see you. >> reporter: you too. jon: breaking developments in the search for a missing baby girl in missouri. the latest developments from police and what they are now saying about lisa irwin's parents. >>> plus, it has been ten years since the war in afghanistan began. what progress has been made? and when will our troops be coming home? a ranking member of the house armed servic

our country can't wait any longer. >> questions. >> mr. speaker, the rumor is you've been talking to harry reid and also been talking -- talking with reid and with leaders of the joint committee about possible framework for the supercommittee moving forward. can you confirm that and can you agree on a framework? >> well, i think we've asked the supercommittee to do a big job. and i'm going to thank the 12 members who've agreed to serve on this committee for taking on as big as task as i've seen since i've been here. i've had lots of conversations with lots of people, trying to ensure that we do in fact get to something. i'm not surprised that, you know, we're having some difficulty because this isn't -- this isn't easy. it's going to be very, very hard, but i do think it's time for everybody to get serious about this. when i see our news reports of some of what was put on the table, democrats wanting $3 trillion worth of tax increases, this is the same number that was in the president's budget. the same number that i don't know that they f

harry reid wouldn't let us. listen. >> i have gone out of my way in every instance, sometimes at my own political peril and to the frustration of democrats to work with republicans to find common ground. >> worried about your own powers of persuasion and maybe that the american public is not listening to you anymore? >> well, no, you know, what we've seen is the american people respond very enthusiastically to the specific provisions of the jobs bill. they are very skeptical about congress' ability to act right now. will congress do something? if congress does something, i can't run against a do nothing congress. if congress does nothing, then it's not a matter of me running against them. i think the american people will run them out of town! >> first of all, let me say it's not a jobs bill in our view. it's another stimulus bill. one of my favorite old rural kentucky sayings is there's no education in the second kick of a mule. president has said on 12 different occasions out on the campaign trail, he wanted a

has done the same thing with this jobs bill saying i know you would like it passed in one piece, mr. president, we're going to cut it up in pieces. we're going to change the way we fund it we're going to make these changes and then we will get it done. they are really in charge here. >> greta: i thought last week we he had ed henry getting slapped around a little bit saying are you the governor romney spokesperson and then today white house press secretary making comment not having a jobs plan. whether you like the jobs plan i know senator bachmann had one last may. portman, paul had one last week. speaker boehner had one he showed me last week. it would be different to say look their ideas just aren't any good. they are not effective. instead, being a little bit lame. >> to be fair, the president, if you read both of his speeches today in north carolina, he said here's my jobs plan. it's really great. here's their jobs plan have dirtier air, dirtier water and lose a lot of jobs. did he do a comparative part of his speech. but it was not really the whole part. by the way, i talked to

. >> mr. cain, thank you. i hope you come back. i think it will be a long race. thank you, sir. >> thank you, greta. i always enjoy. >> straight ahead, harry reid sends the republicans into a frenzy, republicans saying the in theic leader is disconnected from reality. why? that's next. and threatening illegal immigrants at gunpoint. did an arizona rancher go too far? the case goes to the supreme court and the rancher goes on the record, coming up. did you hear what the senate just voted about fast & furious? here's the really weird part. the vote was unanimous. what could all of them possibly agree about? senator john cornyn will tell you when he goes "on the record." capital one's new cash rewards card gives you a 50 percent annual bonus. so you earn 50 percent more cash. if you're not satisfied with 50% more cash, send it back! i'll be right here, waiting for it. who wouldn't want more cash? [ insects chirping ] i'll take it. i'll make it rain up in here. [ male announcer ] the new capital one cash rewards card. the card for people who want 50% more cash. what'