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A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from delaware. Mr. Coons i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Coons mr. President , i have 11 unanimous consent requests for committees to meet during todays session of the senate. They have the approval of both the majority and minority leaders. I ask unanimous consent that these requests be agreed to and that these requests be printed in the record. The presiding office...

Speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2013, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip each, to five minutes but in no event shall the debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Th...

Vote the presiding officer is there any senator wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote . If not, the yeas are 62 and the nays are 35, and the motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the nomination. The clerk John Joseph Tuchi of arizona to be United States district judge for the district of arizona. The presiding officer under the previous order, there will be two minutes of debate prior to the vote to invoke cloture on the humetewa nomination. [inaudible] the presiding officer witho...

What the last generation did for us. Thank goodness i have a friend on the other side saying that. He pointed out, to whom much is given to, much is required. We have been given much, we have been blessed more than any nation in the world. We have more freedoms than solomons israel could have dreamed of, more individual assets that any nation in history. We have been given much and as a result, this generation has ecome so selfcentered, so selfindulgent, so obese, that we want to engeorge oursel...

Being held up for no reason other than they want to make sure that if we have somebody is going to be a Circuit Court judge we have to file cloture, thats two hours, i mean two days and then we have 30 hours and then and then we have on a simply moving to a piece of legislation we waste a week getting on that because of their obstruction and delay. So, madam president , its unfortunate that my friends talk about all the great things theyve done. Ill tell you the great things theyve done. This is...

I dont know what they are afraid of. They have 55 votes. This is not the way the senate used to operate. My members that the price of being the majority is that you have to get the minority roots votes to get the bill across the floor. We would look longer days work longer days and weeks using the clock is consensus. If a leader brings up the bill on monday and really wants to finish it, the fatigue factor is the best tool you have. Rather than try to shut everyone out and make everyone mad, you...

Ets that live 202 5853880 you can also email us. Veterans only this morning. Your experience with the ba system. The congressional reporter for the military times joined us on the phone now to talk ulk about the situation. Why are their calls for the secretary to step down . Caller there has been a lot of controversy lately stemming from the allegations against administrators at the phoenix veterans hospital. There are allegations and reports that they were keeping two lists. actualt had veteran...

Couple of years to increase the numbers, then let him come to congress so that we can meet our constitutional responsibility and vote either yes or no and then with pride know we did what the constitution required. Next wednesday, i will go to walter reed at bethesda to see three marines who were severely injured in afghanistan in the last month. I dont know how severely they are. It might be legs are gone. It might be brain injuries, and yet we in congress continue to advocate our constitutiona...

Holding hearings on fixing a broken tax code and building a new system that works in todays Global Digital economy. On tuesday we are going to have a hearing on how to protect taxpayers from incompetent and fraudulent repairs. Now there are other issues like Identity Theft and taxpayers rights that we will have to examine. Senators nelson and harden have put a lot of time and effort into solving these challenges in this committee will need to take a hard look at the issues surrounding multiemplo...

So its slightly different Business Model in terms of the way southern libya is operating. Clearly, the displacement of groups across borders is very challenging [inaudible] [inaudible] just to follow up. When the International Community decided to force gadhafi out of power, overturn that government, did they, did the International Community, the u. S. , not foresee this outcome given the fact that the Libyan Government really had no reach, much reach beyond tripoli . I think it would be hard fr...