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A senator mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from colorado is recognized. Mr. Bennet thank you mr. President. Id like to congratulate you for sitting in that chair. The presiding officer the senate is in a quorum call. Mr. Bennet i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Bennet and id like to congratulate the presiding officer. Mr. President , id like to speak about the fischer amendment that were slated to vote on at some point around her...

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 ...

Today a 62 to 36 but was passed on the keystone pipeline. How Speaker John Boehner read the statement that we hope president obama will drop his threat to veto this commonsense bill that would strengthen Energy Security and create thousands and thousands of good new paying american jobs. More reaction to the senate votes available on our website at cspan. Org. Former secretary of state Henry Kissinger, Madeleine Albright and George Shultz testified to the Senate Armed Services committee hearing....

Panel and our panelists. I would love to be able to vote for the final package and i hope that we can Work Together to find something that will work. I sympathize with your concerns about the overregulation raising the costs to the providers. However i also have concerns about the Enforcement Authority raising the cost of reducing Enforcement Authority for the endusers. My first question has to do with the forbearance of the title to requirements as hes indicated that he is one of the forebears ...

And how the world has changed but it is also the industries that have changed in the sense that this is a Corporate Structure that is out there now as well a lot of consolidation going on in Companies Getting into various areas of the business of at one point they are acting like a commentary, including a content provider and so forth. You mentioned the distinction between Information Services and Telecommunications Services in this law. Is that a meaningful distinction today . I think over time...

Noted in my testimony in 2013 as a result of spending and Information Technology the Information Technology business, modernization problem for the irs was taken of the highrisk list having been there for 14 years. It was proven in the i t area that if we have the funding we can make significant progress. Is great for the i t area but other areas need to be addressed and 25 years is far too long. Time to put some teeth into it. I now recognize the gentleman from florida for five minutes. Commiss...

Senators mark kirk and Robert Menendez have introduced a bill which adds economic sanctions against iran for its nuclear program. It restores some sanctions that were lifted when i ran into negotiations with the u. S. And imposes new sanctions on Senior Iranian officials and their families. The Senate Banking committee met today to work on the bill. This is an hour. [inaudible conversations] the meeting will come to order. As we are getting a quorum here we will move to Opening Statements. We wi...

To 62 primarily because of early voting. We make it easier to register, easier to vote by mail and, therefore, people turned out at a higher rate. But this turn out in this election showed that there is a huge enthusiasm gap, i think, about the candidates, especially for the democrats. It hurt them. It looks like its about 37 for the last 30 years, its 38. 8 . You know, the real election for the house of representatives and to a certain extent in the senate is the primary election in america. Th...

Would recognize them. The counties, you never would. Gardner ran behind romney. It was a rural issue, not an acrosstheboard issue. The same thing is true in other places as well. Iowa, its less obvious but the same distinction prevails. Then the question is, what does this mean for 2016 if what were seeing is not a uniform swing but a localized swing . And is this a turnout question . Well, ive done two states, colorado and iowa, and colorado keeps moving up. But the differential, if you compare...

Would authorize that, nor am i aware of a policy seeking authorization to do that. If could you share more information with me . My question is about the constitutional limits on the federal governments power. Attorney general holder repeatedly declined to answer the question about whether it is constitutional for a drone to use lethal force against an american citizen on u. S. Soil if that individual doesnt pose imminent threat. Now, let me be clear, i think the answer to this is very easy. My ...