, want to plug my colleague senator rockefeller for making significant efforts to bridge the chasm between the committee and the director on some of these issues. It does not appear to be in the directors nature to accept these overtures, frankly. I think that is incredibly unfortunate. I am fully confident in the factual accuracy of the report and nothing in your response so far has persuaded me otherwise. Director brennan, let me get to a few questions. On march 16 2009, 1 of your predecessors leon panetta announced the creation of a directors review group for rendition, detention, and interrogation. To be led by well respected senior cia officer and supervisor supervised by senator [inaudible] who passed away. Do you know when and why the pen review group was disbanded . First of all i respectfully but vehemently disagree with your characterization of the cias cooperation with this committee. I am fully prepared to come forward to this committee any time it requests my appearance. I
Consolidation and production in agriculture, going to continue to drive up land values. Going to make it harder for new beginning farmers to enter the occupation. Its not responsible to thee family farmers and not responsible to the american taxpayer. Weve got historically high commodity target prices in this bill, so any slight dip going to mean huge payments going out in the future. We have the multiple entity rule now that we worked on in the previous farm bill being rolled back in one. We have payment limitation caps being increased rather than brought down to where the will of this congress was last year when we had that debate on the floor. Most of that money is being shifted now into the Crop Insurance program which what i feel is overly generous preemyuss Crop Insurance subsidies to producers which has the potential of taking risk out of production decisions, but were telling the Crop Insurance companies, re going to guarantee a 14 profit margin. Were going to pay your entirely
Big debate to come. Republican leader eric cantor is here with details. Whitehouse chief of staff Denis Mcdonough will tell us about the prospects for compromise. And well have analysis on all this 6 years o 60 years of newse this is face the nation. Captioning sponsored by cbs the question seems to be what good the governor know and when did he know it. As you know those two questions have sort of a historical echo to them. Right, they sure do. Dave willsteins Attorney Says governor christie knew more than he disclosed and new earlier than he disclosed. Thinking about it as your former role ons a u. S. Thorn does this strike you as legally significant. I think sometimes kind of acknowledged that when they kind of pulled back on the story. They purse played it as a big bomb shell evidence. Heres what it is. Its an offer from a guy who says he has evidence, hasnt given the evidence yet. However you have to take that in context. This is a lawyer who is writing for a man who wants somebod
Is a very reasonable people here in congress. There are many who want to do what is right. There are many who want to Work Together to conduct the business of our nation. I would say to them in all my colleagues, now is the time. Now its time for for congress to stop fighting battles. Now is the time for congress to come together to do what is right for the nation and now is the time for congress to come together and fulfill americas financial obligations. I began my remarks and i thought appropriate to conclude with another one. Lincoln once said, and i quote him, i am a Firm Believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to begin a national crisis. And bo. That is why we are here today. We need to give the American People the truth. The real fact, only then, whenever one understands the facts on the church would be able to meet this financial crisis. Senator hatch. Thank you, mr. Chairman. 20 thank you for holding todays hearing on the debt limit. I also want t
The presiding officer are there any members wishing to vote or dhaing their vote . If not, on this can yeas are 99, the nays are zero. Threefifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn having vote fed the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from oklahoma. Mr. Coburn i wanted to spend a little bit of Time Offering a viewpoint different than the chairman of the committee on this bill. First of all, i want to say by context, my father and two brothers served in world war ii, my brothers during the vietnam era. There is no question we have an obligation to meet our commitments to those that have put their life and future on the line for this country. But it pains me that although weve increased spending 58 in the v. A. Program since 2009, which is fiscal 2010, what we have seen is a complete lack of oversight of whats happening. Let me give you an example. The v. A. Community in the Senate Committee in the Senate Last Year held