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Vote you. The presiding officer the nays are 28 and the motion is flood. The clerk will report the nomination. The clerk gerald j. Pappert of pennsylvania to be United States district judge for the Eastern District of pennsylvania. The presiding officer under the previous order, the time until 5 30 p. M. Will be equally divided in the usual form. The senator from virginia. Mr. Kaine madam president , i have nine unanimous consent requests for committees to meet during todays session of the senat...

Quorum call the presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley i ask that the calling of the quorum be suspended. The presiding officer without objection, so ordered. The senator from iowa is recognized. Mr. Grassley i come to the floor today to talk about zero dark 30. Not the movie, but a report on the movie. The report was supposed to tell us how the movies producers obtained topsecret information from the federal government. But the report never took us there, the department of defens...

A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from oklahoma. Mr. Coburn i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. Mr. Coburn and i ask unanimous consent to speak for at least five minutes. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Coburn first of all, id like to spend a few minutes just talking about my colleague and chairman of the Homeland Security and the Government Affairs committee. The last two ...

Florida. Were a border state, so im going to ask about immigration. I know that Washington State and florida have several things in common in terms of being border states [laughter] and i have been to canada, and i do love it up there. I wish i was back there. But florida is different in that we have a large immigration problem here that has now gone to another level. The representative bilirakis has decided to look the other way here in Newport Ritchie when weve had New Buildings built to house...

Tart start. Ms. Collins madam president , i ask unanimous consent that the calling of the quorum be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Collins and, madam president , i ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Collins thank you, madam president. Madam president , last week the Senate Passed the National Womens History Museum commission act, a bill that i authored with the dean of the Democratic Women senators,...

These nominations, at 3 00 p. M. Tomorrow, all postcloture time be considered expired and the senate proceed to vote on confirmation of the nominations on which cloture was invoked. Further, there be two minutes for debate prior to each vote and all roll call votes be ten minutes in length. Further, with respect to the nominations in this agreement, that in any nomination is confirmed, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table. And the president be notified of the senates...

A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from delaware. Mr. Coons mr. President , are we currently in a quorum call . The presiding officer the senator is correct. Mr. Coons i ask unanimous consent the proceedings of the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Coons mr. President , as we come to the close of the 113th congress id like to speak for a few minutes about why i think we should be optimistic about the future and what we can and must do ...

Wit vote . The presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not the ayes are 53. The nays are 41. And the motion to invoke cloture is agreed to. Under the previous order, all postcloture time is expired. The question occurs on the saldana nomination. Is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote the presiding officer does any member wish to change their vote or to vote . If not, on this the yeas ar...

Challenging. And if you could visualize an educational system where a child is continuously challenged if they cant achieve a level theyre shunted off to a different challenge or theyre asked to do it over again. You now have education thats tailored to the individual. And i am absolutely convinced that that is going to create a class of smarter people. Our children are going to be smarter than we are and their children will be smarter than they are. And is that a good thing . Yeah, i think so. ...

And now live to london for british punishes question time. Each week the house of commons is in session we bring you Prime Minister David Cameron taking questions from members of the house of commons live wednesday mornings on cspan2. We invite you for to station via twitter using hashtag pmqs. Prior to question time members are finishing up a business. And now live to the floor of the british house of commons. If you look at the cash flow, as you know were working hard in place like somalia to ...