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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 pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, ...

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 well together. And one of the troubling things for me, as im sure it is all of us, when someone who i...

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 site. And dr. Burgess, wel we will bn with five minutes of followup. Dr. Holtzeakin, i want to follow...

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 and that is the Defense Department and that is too severe and they need to be spread out across the e...

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 doctor, false. These are broken promises and easily the opportunity cost that americans are paying for fo...