Bring to a close the debate on the nomination of lee martin may of georgia to be United States district judge for the district of columbia. Signed by 17 senators. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent the reading of the names be waived. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i ask consent the mandatory quorum under rule 22 be waived. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i now move to proceed to legislative session. The presiding officer the question is on the motion to proceed. All those in favor say aye. All those opposed say nay. The ayes have it. The motion is agreed to. Mr. Reid mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that notwithstanding rule 22 on wednesday, november 12, at 5 30 p. M. , senate proceed to executive session and vote on cloture on executive calendars number 853, 855. Further, that if cloture is invoked on either of these nominations, that on thursday, november 13, 2014, at 2 15 p. M. , all postcloture time be considered expired and the senate proceed to vote on confirmation of the nominations in the order upon which cloture was invoked fumplet, that there be two minutes for debate prior to each vote and that the first in sequence be 10 minutes in length. Further, with respect to the nominations in this agreement, if any nomination is confirmed, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table and president obama be immediately notified of the senates action and the senate then resume legislative session. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid mr. President , i ask the chair to lay before the senate a message from the house with respect to s. 1086. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk resolved that the bill from the senate, s. 1086, entitled an act to reauthorize and improve the child care and Development Block grant act of 1990 and for other purposes, do pass with an amendment. Mr. Reid i move to concur in the house amendment to s. 1086. The presiding officer the clerk will report the motion. The clerk the senator from nevada, mr. Reid, moves to concur in the house amendment to s. 1086. Mr. Reid mr. President , i have filed a cloture motion at the desk. The presiding officer the clerk will report the cloture motion. The clerk cloture motion. We, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, hereby move to wring tbring to a close the debn the motion to concur on the house amendment to s. 1086, an act to reauthorize and improve the child care and Development Block grant act of 1990 and for other purposes. Signed by 17 senators as follows. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent the reading of the names be waived. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i move to concur on the house amendments to s. 1086 with an amendment. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk the senator from nevada, mr. Reid, moves to concur in the house amendment to s. 1086 with the following amendment numbered 3923. Mr. Reid i ask for the yeas and nays on that motion. The presiding officer is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The yeas and nays are ordered. Mr. Reid i have an amendment at the desk. The presiding officer the clerk will report the amendment. The clerk the senator from nevada, mr. Reid, proposes an amendment numbered 3924 to amendment numbered 3923. Mr. Reid i have a motion to refer the house message with respect to s. 1086 with instructions. The presiding officer report report the motion. The clerk the clerk will report the motion. The clerk the senator from nevada, mr. Reid, moves to refer the house message on s. 1086 to the committee on health, education, labor and pensions with instructions to report back forthwith amendment numbered 3925. Mr. Reid i ask for the yeas and nays on that motion. The presiding officer is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The yeas and nays are ordered. Mr. Reid i have an amendment to the instructions that has been filed. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk the senator from nevada, mr. Reid, proposes amendment numbered 3926 to the instructions of the motion to refer with amendment s. A. 3925. Mr. Reid i ask for the yeas and nays on that amendment. The presiding officer is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The yeas and nays are ordered. Mr. Reid i have a seconddegree amendment that has been filed. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk the senator from nevada, mr. Reid, proposes an amendment numbered 3927 to amendment numbered 3926. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent the mandatory quorum under rule 22 be waived. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid mr. President , note the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call quorum call sfwlee are waiting member to come to the floor to speak. Early today Senate Lawmakers approving a bill to temporarily fund the federal government and related agencies through december 11th. It included the plan to train and arm Syrian Rebels. 7822 was for vote on that. Nine democrats and 12 republicans and 1 independent opposed it. We will show you some of the debate from ron paul today while we are waiting for the speaker to come to the podium. One of the most important duties is to decide if we will be involved in war. This would be debated as part of a spending bill and not independent Free Standing bill. There was a Free Standing amendment. It takes 15 extra minutes. One might wonder why the United States senate and delivered by the world doesnt have 15 minutes to debate separately a question of war. It will be thrown into an amendment and we will have a debate over spending instead of war. I think this is a sad day for the United States senate. It goes against our history and the history of the country and i i asked the amendment will separate the votes so we will have a debate over war and then over spending. I have an amendment that would queue up the votes and allow the inclusion to vote on the language as a separate question. I ask consent for it to be in order to call up my amendment numbered 3856. Is there objection . Madam president , i want to acknowledge the gentlemen from kentucky is a long standing views on Foreign Policy and also on this process. What i want to just say is that number one the senate bill and the authorivation in title ten takes us only to december 11th. This is temporary. We hope the appropriate committees have additional legislation they are working on that we can look at other matters like greater authorization on the war and that the greater refinement of the title ten. I acknowledge there is much to be debated. I said in my colleague from kentucky. We have allowed four and a half hours of debate and if he has views i look forward to them. I am not trying to be pugnacious but there is where we stand. I look forward to hearing the deba debate. Senator from kentucky. If there is a theme that connects the dots in the middle east it is that chaos breeds terrorism. Intertension to topple secular dictators. All of them have the same history. Intervention topples the secular dictator. Chaos ensues and radical jihadist emerge. There is a failure to understand here. A failure to reflect on the outcome of our involvement in civil wars. They say nature upholds a vacuum. The extremist fill the vacuum and they terrorize their own people replaced by radicals who seek terror at home and abroad. Intervention when both choices are bad is a mistake. Intervention when both sides are evil is a mistake. Intervention that destabalizes the middle east is a mistake. Here we are again. Waiting into a civil war. I warned a year ago that involving us in serious civil war was a mistake. That the irony is that some day the arms we supply would be used against us or israel. That day is now. Isis has grabbed up from the United States, from the Saudi Arabian weapons by the truckloads. Now you want to throw more weapons in the mix. Even those of us who are not sure about getting involved in middle eastern wars feel we are threatened now. And we feel that if isis is left to its own devices maybe they will fufill what they are boasting on attack on the homeland. But lets not compound the problem by arming feckless rebels in ciancsyria who seem ta pit stop for weapons on their way to isis. Remember clearly the president and his republican allies have been clamoring for over a year for airstrikes against asad. That was our enemy last year. This year he is our friend. Had the airstrikes occurred last year in syria today isis might be in damascus. Realize the unintended consequences of involving ourselves in these complicated, thousand year long civil wars leads to unintended consequences. Isis maybe in damascus had we bombed syria last year. Had the talks been successful last year we would be facing a stronger isis likely in charge of all syria and iraq. Intervention isnt always the answer and often leads to unintended consequences. But some argue, no, no, it isnt intervention that led the chaos. There wasnt enough. We gave 600 tons of weapons to the Syrian Rebels in 2013 alone. 600 tons of weapons and they cried out and said we havent done enough. Perhaps we are giving them to people that dont want to fight. Perhaps the people are taking the weapons we give to the socalled moderate rebels. It is a mistake to send more arms to the syrian. There are rumors the turks are not discriminating and they went to the people threatening us. Is it a lack of weapon that causes the moderate Syrian Rebels to not be good at fighting . There are videos online of the free syrian army. The army our government wants to give more arms to. We see them with helicopters and shoulder launch missiles but they leave battle after battle. We see american weapons in the hands of a moderate group. The wall street journal reported that saudi arabia has been providing weapons like this to the rebels and it detailed millions in direct u. S. Aid to the rebels. We have not been sitting around doing nothing. 600 tons of weapons have been given to the syria rebels. What happened during the period of time we give 600 tons of weapons to the moderate rebels in syria . Isis grew stronger. They say the definition of in n insanity is doing the same thing over with the same results. We gave 600 tons of weapons and they got stronger. We degraded their ability to counter them. Perhaps we have created a save haven. The other night the president said in his speech, he said that it will be a policy of his administration to leave no save haven for anyone who threatening america. Sounds good but we have created a save haven for isis. They are getting stronger we was are arming the resistance they are a part of it. Qutar has moved shoulder fire into the rebels and saudi arabia partnered with pakistan to provide a pakistan version of a chinese shoulder launch missile. That sounds like an abundance of weapons. The Saudi Arabians accused qutar of funding isis at the same time. Kuwait has fund hundreds of millions. According to the new york tiechlz ovtimes the cia began training people in jordan. Thousands of them. Over this period of time, isis has grown stronger and perhaps sending more weapons into the Syrian Civil War isnt working. They also report that beginning as early as three years ago this started. No one knows where the arms are going to wind up. James Terrorism Center notice the transfer of qutar weapons have the same affect of tran transferring them to a violent terrorist group. The the New York Times further detailed that even sudan has armed them. There is accusations by the fami family steves family that he was sold by moderate rebels to the jihadist. Quorum call quorum call quorum call quorum call quorum call quorum call quorum call