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Today inspire our lawmakers to walk in the light of your countenance, abide with them so that your wisdom will influence each decision. Keep them from evil so is that they will not be brought to grief, enabling them to avoid the pitfalls that lead to ruin. Empower them to glorify you in all they think, say, and do. And, lord, we thank you for our faithful senate pages. We pray in your loving name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pled...

Mr. Reid mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be terminated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid mr. President , this senate is a place where we make friends we have our differences on policy but we really are a senate family. And its just not that way with democrats who work here in the senate. Its also with republicans. When we work together, which we do outside the view of most of the public, we work w...

Funding. Mr. Kaplan, very quickly if you can add to that. My simple answer is that partnership, Publicprivate Partnership has been very successful and, therefore, in my mind we should invest in debt and make it better as opposed to cutting it back. Thank you so much. Thank you to all of you, and thank you to the chairman. I went over my time, so thank you for allowing me to do so. The chair thanks the gentleman appeared that concludes our first round of question. We will go to one followup per s...

C. B. O. Projects that we are entering a future in which our debt is so great that our Fastest Growing item in the budget will be Interest Payments. According to c. B. O. Annual interest costs will total 5. 4 trillion. By 2020, seven years from now, interest costs are expected to exceed the cost of National Defense. And i just left the Defense Committee hearing talking about the sequester and how damaging that will be to the Defense Department, because half of the cuts follow 1 6 of the budget a...

Cutting it back. Rex thank you so much. Thank you to all of you and thank you to the chairman. I went to my times of thank you for allowing me to do so. That concludes our first round of questions. We will go to one followup per side. Dr. Burgess will begin with five minutes of followup. I wanted to followup with talkingff we were about. There is a crisis of confidence. The president has sold the Affordable Care act on a raft of us premises. You can keep your plan, false. You can keep your docto...

Altogether. The New York Stock Exchange and the nasdaq have halted all possiblyday and possib tomorrow. Many of the Campaign Events that we are planning to cover today have been cancelled due to the storm. President obama is cutting back on his Campaign Appearances today. He was to appear with bill clinton in florida this morning. Instead he will be in washington monitoring the storm from the white house. Mitt romney is in the midwest today with stops in three battleground states, starting with ...

Any thoughts on the future of Child Advocacy . I was one of the people who started the childrens act here in washington, d. C. I know the impact that it has, positive impact it has on child victims of crime or the decision to eliminate this funding was a difficult one. Deficit issues, restoring fiscal sustainability were all the consideration. The office of Justice Programs as i talk to them after i spoke to you has come up with ways in which they think they can prioritize some grantmaking and t...

Start for little children. Big oil, over little children. Instead of closing tax loopholes for corporations that shipped jobs overseas, 750,000 jobs will be lost here. Because of the sequester and the continuing resolution that contains the sequester and the fix were in because of the refusal of the Republican Leadership to close those loopholes. Instead of ensuring americans pay their fair share, our military readiness will be impaired. Unless the defense we have kids who wont get proper traini...

Next week embattled secretary Kathleen Sebelius facing those tough questions. Did any of you come forth to the administration and say this thing may not be ready on october 1st . We might want a delay until we can get it right. Any hands up . Either you didnt know about these problems or you knew about them and chose not to disclose. Reform, reboot with shutdown behind him, president obama calls for immigration overhaul by the end of the year. Even he admits its hard to get anything done in toda...

He said the real demons are those moderate republicans who finally ended the shutdown on the edge of the government default. Senator cruz is the right wing zealot of the season. His attacks were relentless and have stirred resistance to the health care program. He has hurt economic growth. Even as he campaigns on a promise of, guess what, economic growth. He reminds me of the kid who kills his parents and begs the judge mercy on the ground hes an orphan. A perfect candidate for halloween week. H...