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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 senate. They have the approval of the majority and minority leaders and i ask unanimous consent the reque...

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 defense Inspector General stumbled and fell and lost sight of the goal, and the need for independence. Peo...

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 years has been a real pleasure on my part and grown to have a great friendship with the chairman of ...

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 some of the immigrants that came here who were underage immigrants on the trains that obama let com...

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, senator mikulski of maryland. It passed finally as part of the National Defense authorization act. ...