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mr. nelson: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. nelson: i ask that the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. nelson: mr. president, it looks like we have come to a resolution between the house and the senate, bipartisan, on a commercial space bill, an update this goes way back 31 years ago when this senator was a young congressman. i actually participated and sponsored the first commercial space act, and it was a piece of
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legislation that few could envision what would happen 30 years later, for indeed commercial companies launch services not only to commercial customers, such as all of our satellites, g.p.s., some communications satellites but also government payloads for the united states government. it's obvious air force payloads, various intel satellites and satellites for foreign countries. our american space launchers are putting these activities, these
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satellites up into space, and of course it has revolutionized our daily life. how many among us are so accustomed now to use this device to look up what is the location of an address that we would like to go to. well, of course, how do you think that's happening? it's happening because we have hundreds of satellites up there and the g.p.s. systems, scores of satellites that give you precise locations at any point on the globe of where you want to go. these devices have gotten so sophisticated that they talk to you and they say go 600 feet and turn right on such and such a street and then turn left. i mean, it's just amazing.
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well, this doesn't just happen. it happens because of our space industry and in particular our commercial stays industry. so since this senator as a young congressman got into this to begin with about 31 years ago, we've had to update it. a lot of things have happened. and now there are very significant things that are happening. for the past decade, we have had a national laboratory in space, but it is one component of what is known as the international space station. there are six human beings up there. there's an international crew. it includes american astronauts, and one of them, by the way, is
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is -- now has been up there about six months of what is going to be a whole one-year duration stay so that we can study the effects on the human body of long duration space flight as we are getting ready to go to mars in the decade of the 2030's with human beings. but other activities on the space station are commercial activities. there are all kinds of pharmaceutical experiments that go on. as a matter of fact, in drug trials right now in the f.d.a., having used the properties of zero g on the international space station, are vaccines for salmonella, for mrsa. if because of using the
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properties of zero g helps us to develop vaccines that help us with diseases and bacterias here on the earth, then that is a significant accomplishment. well, that is commercial activity in space. but as you think way into the future, you know, we could be mining other planets and certainly asteroids. now, wouldn't it be nice if we found an asteroid that was suddenly full of diamonds, but we don't even have to stretch our imaginations that far. there are all kinds of elements on these asteroids. and so in this legislation that is attempted to be cleared later
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on tonight and in the morning by both sides so that we can take the house bill that is down here amend on the senate bill and send it back to the house, which has been agreed with the house, in this bill is the far-reaching thought of mining on asteroids and whose property that's going to be from the standpoint of intellectual property. and so it is preserved for the commercial sector that that would be their property. this whole commercial space business today, including launching, including some of the activities unbelievably is a $330 billion industry. now, the commercial launch industry which started out all
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on american rockets, because over the course of those last three decades, our launchers more expensive and so international competitors came into this. the russians in some cases using old soviet rockets, the europeans, european's space agency, launching the aryan rocket which they developed, and other nations as well offering fierce competition to the american rockets, but now what has happened and the need for this legislation to be passed at this time updating the commercial space act is we are now seeing commercial ent prizes
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as set on a road in the nasa authorization bill of 2010 that are becoming so efficient and effective that they are bringing down the costs of launching payloads into orbit. that also is benefiting the u.s. government who is buying these launch services in order to get government payloads into orbit, and because of this, we are now seeing some of that international business that went to other people's rockets, other country's rockets, it's starting to come back. and so we see all those sciences, they have a commercial
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rocket. we see spacex. they have had a very successful program. and we're seeing now the amazon founder jeff bezos in a rocket company called blue origin is likewise getting into the commercial space business. and there are many others. and so, mr. president, this is an exciting time for us to be bringing a lot of this activity back to america and therefore at the end of the day what does that mean, more industry, more high tech, more research and development, more exploration and more jobs. so we are seeing increasingly the u.s. air force cooperate on their installation, the cape
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canaveral air force station, using government property but least through state or local space authorities who are then in turn leasing to these commercial operators. and a good example of that that has been tremendously successful for the past several years is elon mosk company called spacex. they contracted with space florida which had worked out an arrangement with the cape canaveral air force station for launch complex 40 for that to be the spacex launch pad. they have been enormously successful, have not only launched government payloads, the nasa cargo to and from the space station, but they have also launched other commercial
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payloads, government payloads of foreign countries as well as government payloads of the united states government. eventually that commercial space company, along with the boeing company, will be the ones that in just two years will be launching american astronauts on american rockets for the first time since the shutdown of the space shuttle back in 2011. american astronauts on american rockets to and from our international space station. those two companies are competing for it but it doesn't mean that just one of the two necessarily wins the
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competition. both could be the providers for nasa of ways for us to get our americans on american rockets to our own international space station instead of having to rely on the russian very proven and very dependable soyuz rocket, which is the only way to get our astronauts there at the moment, until we start flying these other new rockets. so, mr. president, i wanted to alert the senate that this is happening as we speak. i hope we get all of the clearances in the senate later tonight, if not early in the morning so that we can get this amended, on to the house bill. it would basically be, strike all after the enacting clause, put the senate bill on, which we've already negotiated with the house, get it down to the
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house, let them pass it and get it to the president for signature. i wanted to bring the senate up to date on what's happening. mr. president, i yield the floor. i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call:
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mr. mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: i ask that the quorum call be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask the chair to lay before the body the message to accompany h.r. 1314. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: resolved that the house agree to the amendment of the senate to the bill, h.r. 1314, entitled an act to amend
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the internl revenue code of 1986 and so forth with an amendment. mr. mcconnell: i move to concur in the house amendment to the senate amendment to h.r. 1314 and i send a cloture motion to the desk on the motion to concur. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: cloture motion. we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the motion to concur in the house amendment to the senate amendment to accompany h.r. 1314, a bill to amend the internal revenue code of 1986 and so forth. signed by 16 senators as follows. mr. mcconnell: i ask that reading of the named naimedz be dispensed with. -- names be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i move to concur in the house amendment to the senate amendment to h.r. 1314 with a further amendment. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from kentucky, mr. mcconnell, move to concur on the house amendment to the senate amendment with amendment number 2750. mack hack i ask that the reading be -- mr. mcconnell: i ask that the reading be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask for the
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yeas and nays on the motion to concur to the amendment. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the yeas and nays are ordered. mr. mcconnell: i have a second-degree amendment at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from kentucky, mr. mcconnell, proposes an amendment numbered 2751 to amendment numbered 2750. mr. mcconnell: i ask that the reading be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i move to refer the house message on h.r. 1314 to the cofinance with instructions to report back forthwith with an amendment number 2752. and i ask for the yeas and nays on my motion. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the yeas and nays are ordered. mr. mcconnell: i have an amendment to the instructions. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from kentucky, mr. mcconnell, proposes an amendment numbered 2753 to the instructions of the motion to refer. mr. mcconnell: i ask that the reading be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask for the yeas and nays on my amendment.
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the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the yeas and nays are ordered. mr. mcconnell: i have a second-degree amendment at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from kentucky, mr. mcconnell, proposes an amendment numbered 2754 to amendment numbered 2753. mr. mcconnell: now, mr. president -- now, mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the judiciary committee be discharged from further consideration and the senate now proceed to s. res. 293. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 293, supporting the goals and ideals of national domestic violence awareness month, and so forth. the presiding officer: without objection, the committee is discharged and the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: how i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of s. res. 300, submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk
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will report. the clerk: senate resolution 300, designating november 7, 2015, as national bison day. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i understand there's a bill at the desk. i ask for its first reading. the presiding officer: the clerk wilthe clerkwill read the titlel for the first time. the clerk: h.r. 597, an act to authorize the export-import bank of the united states and for other purposes. mr. mcconnell: i now ask for its second reading and in order to place the boil the calendar under the provisions of rule 14, i object to my own request. the presiding officer: objection having been heard, the bill will be read for the second time on the next legislative day. mr. mcconnell: i now ask unanimous consent when the senate complete its business today, it adjourn until 10:00 a.m., thursday, october 29.
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following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day. finally, following leader remarks, the senate resume consideration of house message to accompany h.r. 1314. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: so if there's no further business to come before the senate, i ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. the presiding officer: the senate stands adjourned until senate stands adjourned until
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>> i have shown my colleagues will they think success looks like and what i think it takes unify and made and how mike manley -- fama commands come first. i have left this decision in their hands and should they agree with these requests, then i'm happy and willing to get to work to >> u.s. women's world cup soccer winner abby wambach spoke earlier today into questions of the national press club. this is on our.
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[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon and welcome to this special national press club luncheon here at georgetown university, special national press club luncheon on the road in the nation's capital. my name is john hughes i'm an editor for bloomberg's first word. as bloomberg's breaking news desk here in washington and i'm the president of the national press club. our guest today is u.s. women's world cup winner abby wambach the world's all-time international goalscoring leader but first i want to introduce her distinguished head table which includes club members and guests of the speaker. from the audience is right, pam
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lembo, senior public affairs officer at the canadian embassy. salome head of communications at the swiss embassy. rachel oswald, foreign-policy reporter for congressional quarterly and a native of rochester, new york. our speaker's hometown. judy wambach the mother of our speaker. angel live this, president of d.c. media connections and a member of the national press club softball team. sarah hoffman, the wife of our speaker. jerry jastremski washington bureaus chief from the buffalo news chairman of the national press club speakers committee and former president of the national press club. skipping over our speaker for a moment, angela grayling king, white house correspondent for "bloomberg news" that former
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president of the press club and the speakers committee member who organized today's lunch. thank you, angela. pete wambach, the father of our speaker. gail degeorge, a freelance journalist who has spent most of her career in south florida where football doesn't just mean the miami dolphins. anna miller, health and wellness reporter for "u.s. news & world report". kevin wincing, a retired navy captain and a member of the american sportscasters association. [applause] i also want to welcome our guest here in the room today at georgetown and our c-span and public radio audiences. you can follow the action on twitter. use the hashtag npc life. that's hashtag, npc life.
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our speaker today as i said is the all-time leading scorer in the history of international soccer. that's both men and women. abby wambach has also played onto olympic gold gold-medal teams. she was the 2012 fefa world player of the year and in may "time" magazine included her in its list of the 100 most influential people in the world. this summer or team brought the women's world cup back to the united states for the first time since 1999 by beating japan in that memorable match 5-2. yesterday president obama welcomed the women's national team to the white house. he said the players have taught us that quote playing like girl
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means you are a bad asked end quote. now that's not a word heard often in public at the white house or here at a national press club luncheon at the audience thought it was an appropriate way to describe wambach and her teammates. abby grew up as the youngest of seven children near rochester new york and she began playing soccer when she was five years old. she scored 27 goals in her first three games and was immediately moved to be competing against the boys. she helps put women's soccer in the spotlight throughout her career. she has never shied away and speaking her mind whether in talking about referees or turf or challenging in sports. yesterday after visiting the white house wambach made some huge news. she announced her retirement.
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within minutes of the u.s. soccer posting the announcement, the new split up twitter and quickly spread around the world. now at age 35, wambach begins the next phase of her career and life. what's in store? we now get a chance to hear directly from the source. ladies and gentlemen, please join me and give them a warm the national press club welcome to abby wambach. [applause] >> thank you guys for being here. i very rarely and my mom can attest to this, write a speech. she has wanted me to do that for my whole life. she wants me to be prepared for everything and so for this day i
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actually put some stuff on paper. we will see if i stick to the script but first of all it does want to thank the national press club for having me and my family and my friends. it's truly an honor to be here and have the opportunity to share this moment with you. just a few months ago i was part of something special in representing my country winning a world cup championship. i have to send my sincere thanks to all of you who cover the world cup. without you pitching your ideas for articles, for videos, for any space you could put women in your respective outlets are championship could not have been shared in a positive light that it has great for that i be forever grateful. people don't realize how important media is to the success of events like that. it not only changed my life and my perspective but it changes the lives of all the kids out
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there dreaming whatever it is they want in life. you have that effect. note that i never forget it. bringing back the world cup to the u.s. with my teammates is the highlight of my career. it was special not just because we won but how we won and how we transcended the game itself. it was clear it wasn't just about soccer anymore but about how her team to find what is so beautiful about the sport and our country. if you dare to dream and you work towards that dream things you never thought possible could happen. winning at was our goal but as a byproduct of winning is what made it even more special. it was a unique opportunity to effect real change. i i believe this summer is another example of where we are and where we want to go with regards to women in sports. it's been an epic summer for many reasons. serena williams, the supreme court ruling, presidential
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candidates, all things that will go down in history as life-changing. i believe that winning the world cup will be among the things that we look back upon. not just because i experienced it or i got to hoist the trophy but because what it means to all those who get to cherish and the magnitude of the possibilities it will provide. millions of people with hope. so for a brighter future, a future full of equal opportunity. and then a strange thing happened when i started to consider my own future. i accomplished everything i set out to do. when a gold medal, broken record, hundreds of appearances for my country and that elusive world cup championship so on paper i did it all. it doesn't make it any easier to say to you today what i'm about to say. at the end of this year i will be retiring from the game of soccer. wow, there i said it out loud. it's actually appropriate because i started my career here
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in d.c. in 2002 so it's a very fitting and to be announcing this here in our nations capital. i was lucky enough to get drafted here from the university of florida by the washington freedom and i don't know if you guys know her but her name is -. she was on the team that i got drafted to play on and not many people know how vital it was to my success as a soccer player. but more come even as a person. she taught me so much on the field but they things i learned from her maybe more instrumental. she talked about it was and how many goals he scored championships he won but how you conducted yourself the middle of that glory that defines you. character is a funny thing. i found your character is tested the most when things don't go your way. me and all the 99 is taught me that. so many women came before me and
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it's my hope and believe that there will be many more that come after me. i was worried at one point that i wasn't going to be able to be in the game better than i found it let -- much like my idol nia and julia did. i feared, man this isn't going to turn out how i injured -- imagined. god only is that my time but i know deep down in my heart the game has grown and will continue to grow. in this culture and in our current climate i know it's no longer the feel-good thing to invest in women's sports but in fact it's a smart business decision. that is when it became clear to me that my time is an athlete on the field was over. i know this is the next generation of players will grow the game in different ways. my role will be different now but i still committed to committing to the growth in women's sports and beyond. it's hard to believe at this age i play the game for 30 years and
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during these 30 years there are so many people i need to thank the life i have been able to have. i honestly could probably take four days and how many people i need to thank so first and foremost if i miss you or don't say your name it doesn't mean that you weren't a part of that are part of my life but i have to think specifically a few people. an organization u.s. soccer. without you guys, without your support there is no way i'd be standing here having television cameras looking at me retiring. when i was a little girl and first started playing in the olympic development program and beyond in the youth national team program i didn't dream that this was even a possibility. i had no idea and without this environment, without your help to the abby wambach that you have all come to know would not
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be here. so thank you guys very much for giving me the platform to be able to do what i do to be able to do what i have done for so many years. sponsors like nike and gatorade that believed in me for over 10 years. i'm a loyal person and a firm believer in the concept of family. i've been so lucky to have the opportunity to call some of the greatest brands on the planet my family. you will never know how valued you have been to me and all i ask is that you keep investing in women and continue that fight it will pay off, i promise. i have to thank all the coaches i've had and there is a bunch all away from my high school days kathy boughton to college becky burley and the national team coaches that it given me the chance to represent my country for old these years. jerry smith to get me to believe i could play the highest level april hiner who gave me my first olympic gold medal so thank you
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for that. you created the best environment for any team i played on and let us to my second olympic gold medal and then of course our current coach who gave me the chance to hoist the world cup trophy. what a ride it's been in all of my head coaches you have made a huge impact and the difference in my life. it's not just about the head coaches. there are a ton of other people support staff that i have had help me throughout my journey and countless doctors, assistant coaches, strength trainers conditioning coaches which i'm not going to be too sad to say goodbye to. [laughter] they just helped me and cody greg rick kristin bruce powell damon tony paul billy tracy, and other sounds ridiculous but they will be excited that i set said their name. vic, lexi, dan and one on my
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best friends tara. you me healthy and able to do anything when i needed to. whether it was fixing my broken toe for helping me write speeches everybody had their part in play their part in gave me the chance to be the very best i could be when i needed to be. you guys are my unsung heroes and i couldn't thank you anymore. this one is going to be harder for me because i think not many people realize how important my teammates are. and anything you do whether it's work or team, you have people around you that help you and my teammates are that for me. my teammates said that the other day when she said we only know how to live life with each other probably more than with their
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own family members and their own partners. i think all of my teammates have made my career what it is. i would never have done anything that i have done on the field of that warrant for all of you. no goals, no assists, no record come in the championship if i didn't have any of you bite my site. whether played one time with u. r2 hundred times if you you made a difference in some way. the early days with mia julia brandy little to the original gangsters shannon, peniel, ash thanks for being here today. i really appreciate it. they didn't actually ask. they just told me they were going to come which shows you how amazing my teammates are. i came and get rid of them and that's the truth. everybody i have had a chance in a privileged of sharing the field with u. guys are all loved
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and special and important on so many levels of thank you for being here and supporting me. i want to thank my agent. i never remember to thank him ever. it's one of the things every time i do a big speech it's like i forgot. i want to thank you. over 10 years we worked together you keep me on schedule. you make sure that i know what i'm doing and you do it in a way that not only is professional they give me less stress about knowing what my schedule is over the next year or two years or five years or whatever it is. i love you dan very much and i appreciate all the support you have given me throughout the years. my friends and family, these are the people who shaped me and the
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people who supported my dreams. the people that saw something in me from when i was a little girl just trimming of something that wasn't even a possibility. i guess i'm know you know someone when you support someone and support someone in a dream that you don't even know can become a reality. i urge everyone out there that knows someone who has a gift and a passion and supports them in their dreams. i love you all for believing in me and showing me i could be whatever i wanted to be. i dared to dream because of all of you. mom, dad, all my brothers and sisters, i've got a ton of them, my in-laws as well, sarah there is no way that i would have been able to play for as long as i've been able to play if it weren't for the support of these people and what is so hard is not many people understand how often we are gone and how important it is
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that i have people that can help with not just paying the bills but in keeping the house in order. i miss a lot of birthdays and i have missed a lot of weddings. i had missed a lot of my families life and it's because of this one dream and this one belief and passion that i have had. so what i want to say to my family is that i am coming home now and be patient with me because it's going to be an interesting transition. i'm not going to be perfect but now that i will give it everything that i have god and do everything that i can to transition to hopefully what is a normal life. if you know me you know that i would not be that brief. i can talk for days.
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they gave me a time limit. i don't know if i've gone over that yet. what i really want to talk about is not just about my career because i can't stand talking about myself, i want to talk about where we can go and where we are headed. i want to talk about moving the ball forward. when i look around especially going through this victory tour and i look in the crowd and i see the fans and you see a twitter post from 15 years ago to this year and what our fans draw was from then until now and there was literally 800 people since 15 years ago and you fast-forward to 35 or 40,000 people coming to our games right now and during this victory tour. i know that we have made a huge drive. i know that we have made serious change happen but i also know
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there's so much more we can do. it's going to take a lot of effort. it's going to take people reaching into their pockets and investing in women and it's not about investing in me. it's about investing in the next generation. it's about making sure you feel like it's not like i said before, the feel-good thing to do. it's actually smart to invest in women's sports. last summer they killed it. they killed it and the reasons why they killed it is because they believed in it. they saw the potential growth that this game could have and that women could have. so i really want to transition my career from inspiring kids to play and do something that they never thought possible and to maybe doing something beyond that, something bigger than that i keep getting these questions
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asks what he is going to do next? i'm not kidding you, i'll wholeheartedly believe that i want to be a part of changing the world. i think the first part of my career definitely i've been able to do that. i've been able to change the landscape of women's soccer as we know it. it would be, and it will be my life's mission to make sure that off the field women are given all the opportunities that they can and deserve. we can talk about equal opportunities for everybody and is not just about women. everybody deserves a chance to do whatever they want to follow their dreams, to follow their passions. my life has evolved organically. i was a naturally gifted athlete. i'm an extrovert so i don't mind speaking in front of people. i'm a much better talker than reader obviously.
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i really do believe that i was put on this planet play sports and to be involved in sports and i do believe that sports can transcend and give people confidence and can change the world and make it actually a better place. it's possible and i have been a part of it. my teammates have been a part of that it and my family is seen it happen. i just want people to know and remember it's not about me and necessarily her team. it's about the next generation that is what i want to do. i want to be a part of positively effecting change for the next generation of kids out there who may not know what they want to do, and may not know who they are but they can look at our team and then the can look at me and i can say i'm going to be authentically who i need to be in this moment because that's all you need to be, is yourself. i'm so happy to have been able to sit here and talk to you guys a little bit about my journey.
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i thank all the people that i had to thank and i can't implore enough that our world cup wouldn't be as successful as it as it was a bit worried for the media and the people writing the stories in pitching the idea is to put it on television. take a chance. don't be late to the party. you will be kicking yourself if you do and i think that you will see in the coming months in the coming years that it's not just about women's sports but it's beyond. it's women in the business world it's women. having equal opportunity. thank you guys for having me. i really appreciate it. [applause]
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>> thank you so much as he. you are not quite done. come on back up. you talked about wanting to continue to change the world. there are so many different avenues you can pursue as you carry out that goal. do you have any thoughts on which types of ways you would like to move forward in bringing about that change? >> i think it's a good question and i think it's something that will eventually evolve but to answer it in a really quick way i want to change the world in every way. i want to change the world not just on the soccer field but off of it in the locker locker room, in the boardroom. we need to get women making decisions on how to allocate funds. we need to get more women in fefa on the executive board making decisions that will help
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not just my team but the next generation like i said. truthfully i am open to any idea i just want to be apart of anything i possibly can that will possibly influence women in sports and beyond. >> you also mentioned you expect to have a little bit more time, certainly time for your family but now that you have announced her retirement what is the first non-soccer related thing that you are going to do or enjoy doing? >> that is a really good question. i do not know. what am i doing tomorrow? i am flying home tonight which is going to be nice and i think that i have been working out for 30 years so i'm going to take a minute as it pertains to that. i'm not going to lift weights for a month or something.
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i don't know. i don't know what i'm going to do non-soccer related. i think i'm just going to spend time at my house for three days. >> president obama was pretty direct yesterday when talking about the level of play in women's sports and he's right about attention and money. how do asked to address the disparities? >> i think we all saw the summer there is plenty of talent around the world as it pertains to women's soccer and i think it is a problem there is so much disparity between women and men and how the money gets allocated. that's something that i want to do and i want to work towards to fix and make better. just seeing the glaring disparities is unnerving and frustrating and especially because we see women who deserve
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everything that the men get and women who deserve everything that they have earned. i think that is the most important thing that i want to keep driving home is women in sports. we showed that we were fun to watch this summer. we were the highest-rated soccer game that has ever been aired in the united states of america. that's pretty awesome, men or women and i think that's something companies, corporate sponsors, television, channels can't ignore it anymore. [applause] >> you mentioned all of the soccer fans. there are a lot of soccer fans out there. are there any actions of soccer fans can take in support of these more equitable playing conditions for female players compared with their male counterparts?
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>> i think that any kind of inequity that we see you have to support whether it's your local team, the washington spirit is here. they play at the sports plaques in germantown, whether it's going to a game, whether it's being in a position to make decisions that women have a trickle-down positive effect for women in sports. whatever it is everybody has a chance. you have a choice and for me that's something that i want to make more readily available. oftentimes i hear people say you are not on television. sometimes it's going to take you to go to an actual event, buy a ticket and go and support your local women's teams were if you do turn on the television and the women's program is on, watch
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it. watch how amazing some of these athletes are. the women who are playing now, the younger kids that are coming up on the team now that i have watched are far better than i was at their age. you know and it's going to be really awesome to see them in 10 years because the game has gotten so much better. i can't wait to see 10 years from now how amazing the game is going to be. >> fee for the governing body of soccer has been under fire and investigation for corruption. how does the shadow effect the women's game at the international level? >> well i think it's been made clear that the corruption that fefa is maybe in large part because there aren't enough women in fefa. maybe there's some sort of correlation there? i don't know but obviously there
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are so many things that i don't know about fefa but what i do know is i'm going to fight to get women more involved not just in the decision-making things that happen within fefa but the executive committee getting more women involved will i think make fefa a much better organization and one that i know that my teammates would be proud to play under. >> would you ever consider standing as the north american soccer's governing body's rep resented it to fefa? >> sure, i will do it. [laughter] >> you say that you never saw the need to be in the closet as a soccer player but some sports are a lot less accepting of same-sex couples. what will it take for locker rooms for more men's sports to
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wait except players? >> i think for me it's just going to take time and you have players like michael finn who came out and i don't know what it's like to be in a male locker room and i do know what it's like to be in a female locker room so i had an experience that's probably going to be very different than most gay men have and will have in terms of coming out. i just want them to know that they are not alone. i support them as to so many people out there and that's absolutely something else i want to be able to fight for. for so many years i never wanted to be the person who put myself on a mountain and screamed from the mountain tops about my sexuality because it didn't matter to the way that i played the game. but it does matter to who i am as a person that does matter in terms of where we are as a
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culture and being open-minded and giving everybody the respect and equal opportunity. for all those kids out there who might be struggling with some sort of identity issues themselves, it's okay to be yourself. it's okay to be authentically who you are no matter what period and that's definitely something i want to be a promoting person for an advocate for those kids out there who may not know, who may not feel comfortable in their own skin. i want to advocate for them because if they don't feel comfortable i will be -- be the person to tell them that you are loved and you are heard. >> you mention your talk about reconnecting with your family. what about your hometown of rochester new york? do you see yourself using your celebrity status in rochester in support of any particular civic causes there?
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>> i am a huge believer that you have to always remember where you came from in order to move forward in life especially in a successful way. i have always remembered my childhood and being from rochester and how amazing rochester has been throughout my entire career. i would gladly love to be a part of attaching myself to any civic causes because rochester made me who i am and i would love nothing more than to get back to the city that raised me and that loved me and that showed me nothing but love and respect throughout my entire career. >> besides athletic talent, what is the most essential characteristic you would say that is vital to success on the field? >> i would say and tell it is probably one of the most important things that has given me the success that i have had.
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at this stage in this level everybody is good and everybody can run fast. everybody can run forever but it's your mentality and the complements you bring to your team and to yourself and that moment where you maybe have messed an open goal and the next play and do you want the ball or are you the one that shies away? i have always planned in environment whether ms 10 shots in a row i want the 11th or the 12th shot and i think that made the career i have had what was. mentality for sure and the confidence no matter what happens that you can do it. you have just got to keep trying. >> how do you balance the individual recognition and glory and yet still keep together as a team plex.
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>> i think this is one of the most fascinating questions ever because i've grown up and gotten older and the team. i have become a leader in taking on more of a leadership role. i had to start considering how to manage some of the spirits and egos on the same team. we are all type a competitive women. we all want to be the best and we all want to be the one that scores the goal and had the manage of these people and put them in a position to move in the same direction. i think as a leader you have to be able to have this selflessness about the way in which you connect to people. you have to be able to individually connect and i know this kind of goes even beyond the soccer field as it pertains to the millennial generation. you have to make sure that in
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order for any championship team to happen, in order for any success to happen with a collective everybody has to have the same ideals. for us it was winning -- winning at all costs. i think we are committed to that one goal and no matter how we work our way towards it, everybody was committed and it took every single person 100% commitment in order to win. >> who on the team do you think you have had the biggest impact on and who will be in a position to take your leadership position forward? >> i definitely have the biggest impact on sid. she's right there and she has had one of the biggest impacts on me. look at how i'm dressed. she is my stylist so to speak.
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what does your twitter handle say? as sidney lerew or what have you. in all seriousness i think i have had the opportunity in playing with so many people and i hope that i have impacted them on a positive level. you would have to ask all of them. if it was good or not but i love the fact that i try to connect with everybody on an individual level and i really try to be honest and authentic and real. there is so much when you get to a certain level that can become daunting and unreal and almost surreal that moment then i think it's something i've always tried to do is make sure people know that i'm on it and i will tell you what i think, how i feel at all times. so is it pertains to who the
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next leader of the team is i guess that will have to be seen. we have an and pond who has been my captain for so many years and it will be fun to watch. i get to retire so it will be fun to see what happens and see how it goes. >> this question specifically says what advice would you give promising teen athlete who lacks drive on their academics but there are many young people here , soccer players clearly. what advice would you give to these young people who want to keep playing the game and be successful going forward? how can they accomplish that? >> i think everybody knows in order to be a successful person you have to have a well-balanced life. in order for me and every player on the national team to get a scholarship to college you obviously have to do some
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homework and you have to do well in school, enough so that they would give you a scholarship. that's one thing i always try to employ and the kids out there is a it could be the first and best give -- gift you ever give your parents come a college scholarship. my parents had seven children. i was the youngest and they pay for all of my brothers and sisters to go to college. by all intents and purposes that's a blessing in another self. when i got to college i was really happy to be able to give them the gift. i think my dad was really happy to map. [laughter] but the reality is you have to be a well-balanced person in order to achieve any level of success whether some the national team were wanting to become an author or chef or a musician. you have to have that balance in order to be successful.
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listen to your teachers and your parents. go to school and do your homework. >> this question asked about digital devices. what advice do you have for young boys and girls to get them off the digital devices and go outside and play? is that a trend that concerns you? >> i think this is probably one of the biggest concerning trends out there. you know even right now i can see in the audience some people with their cell phone and i think what i want to challenge people to do is to look up and get some sort of personal connection. look people in the eyes. i know it sounds stupid but this posture is not good for your body. we are going to have some serious neck issues that come upon us in the next decade or so the reality is yes social media
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can give us some amazing things and positive change but it also has its tipping point where it becomes absolutely a digression. we need to make sure that our kids are active, are healthy. my parents, there are seven of us so there were times when i was younger when my mom, sorry mom for telling the story that she would literally lock us out of the house and tell us to go play. you know this is back in the day for kids weren't getting abducted and all that stuff. that was like the norm for us so we could just be outside for the whole day playing. i would love to get back to that. i would love to get back to where kids in the neighborhood are ball playing together. my brothers and sisters who all have children they have found that kind of lifestyle is no
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longer the case. >> i think that we can re-create that because that's a good thing, getting kids out and being active especially being active in your community. playing kick the can in your neighborhood, wasn't that the best? it was like the best. >> would the's been your most discouraging moment of gender inequity or discrimination and how did you react and/or overcome that? >> i think it's a great question especially since winning the world cup and i'm not going to talk about specific numbers but i know that for an aim mail that has won the world cup during my career, none of them would have to have another job after they retired. now i am retiring and i am telling you, and i would have been one of the dash on this team for over 10 years now that
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i want to change the landscape for women, not just women soccer players for women athletes. have another job openings towards an retire and sail into the sunset without having to have another job because she didn't make enough money so to speak. that's a goal that i have and that's something i'm sure all of my teammates will be excited that i follow through and actually have come through with. hurry up, hurry up. >> as we learn more about concussions how did you and your teammates the way you play soccer change if at all as you learn more about concussions and what if anything do you think should be done to protect soccer players from head injuries? >> obviously concussions are a major issue not just in soccer but across all sports. i partnered with a company. there's this awesome headband
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that has a sensor in the back of your head that measures the head and packs that you take and if it goes above a certain threshold you can watch it real time. parents can, trainers can, doctors can on your iphone or whatever device you have. you can get real-time information to make a good decision on whether or not you should be let back into the game. for me, i've been lucky. i've only had one concussion. i do know it's definitely a hot topic right now. the number one thing is to make sure that our kids are put in a healthy environment where the airplanes works that they love and they are not being put in danger. teaching kids how to properly head the ball, make sure their body is developed well enough in her neck muscles are developed well enough that they are going to do damage to themselves. these are all really big topics, things that i want to keep advancing and keep talking about. all of these questions and everything that i've talked
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about today for me, it's all about keeping the conversation going. whether you agree with me or not , keep the conversation going because that is what this is all about. that's why we are here. we are here on this planet to survive together and evolve as a population and humanity. for me let's just have a conversation. if we disagree, that's okay. we can disagree and we can do it peacefully. we just have to be able to be willing to do it and put ourselves in positions to have the conversations. sometimes they are hard. sometimes it is hard to disagree with somebody but it's those disagreements is and still capable of being in the same room, that's the beauty of life and something i want to keep driving. >> this question wants to know what is your very earliest soccer memory and how did you get hooked on the game?
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>> a think i said earlier about my earliest soccer memory was probably scoring those 27 goals in the first three games. i think that speaks for itself why i love it. >> what advice do you wish you would have been given at the start of your professional career that you would now give to young professionals? >> that's a really good question actually. i think the advice i would give myself, my younger self is maybe if i had focused a little bit more attention and put more of my mind and heart into staying fit and getting fit and learning how to be fit at a younger age. nowadays there is so much science in so much information about health and nutrition. back when i was growing up there
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really wasn't that. people didn't even tell you to be hydrated so now with all the hydration techniques in the nutrition techniques and with every bit of information in all the technology that we have i would definitely tell my younger self, use as much information as you can to learn and to be the best athlete that you can be because your athletic career isn't going to be, you know until you are 60 there is a time clock that stops and that's something that i would probably tell myself. 30 years ago. >> if you want to change the world might you consider running for public office someday? >> i don't know. this is ask the kind of a funny story. i really love jokes. i love to be funny. i love to laugh and i realized yesterday after meeting
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president obama that no matter what he says people just laugh at everything he says. some of the things that he was saying work that funny. [laughter] you just laugh so i don't know about you going to public office because i don't know people will be genuine about laughing at my jokes. because i am funny. in all seriousness i would definitely be open to any and all possibilities to create an effect positive change to in fact change the world. if it's public office than them might be an interesting route. i don't know. don't just laugh at my jokes because i'm in public office, okay? at all that i ask. >> if you could specialize in one sport when did you stop playing other sports presuming you to play others as a kid? >> i think this is one of the
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best questions that i get these days. nowadays parents and kids are forced to choose one sport at a young age and to all the parents out there that think their kid is going to be the next professional, just be smart. know your kid and know what your kid is like and what they're into. for me, i played basketball and soccer and i played all the sports growing up but i was on organized teams playing basketball and soccer. i needed basketball as a brake to take some of my mind off of playing soccer. after every season i would tell my mom i'm quitting. and never want to play soccer again. two weeks later would be in the backyard playing with this soccer ball and that sort of thing. as a kid our attention spans are so short that we need to create
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and give them the opportunity to not only play different sports and be happy and enjoy what they're doing but also develop physically different muscle sets and different skill sets because the reality is not every kid out there is going to make it to become a professional athlete. oftentimes they think the clubs especially and soccer are saying you need to play year-round. while they want your year-round money. know your kids. if they want to play another sport, let them play another sport. i'm not standing here if i didn't play basketball and learned how to jump in if i didn't learn it time i jump. i'm not standing here learning how to score goals on my head if i didn't play basketball and had the opportunity to separate myself from playing ask a ball
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or soccer. i urge all parents out there to get your kids involved in as many sports as possible because then of course it will get them even more for an opportunity to be a healthy adult because they will have more opportunity and have learned how to play in different sports at a young age so as they grow up and become adults maybe you will get involved in a co-ed league or whatever it is an adult because you learn those skills as a young kid. >> what about artificial turf? you said it's not as good as grass. you subscribe to the health concerns about robert turf fields? >> i think that we all know my stance on turf. i'm not a huge fan of it at all. our world cup was played on turf this last summer and i personally believe that there were many goals not scored because of the turf. not only is it not as fun to
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play on and not as pretty to watch but it's also a gender equality issue. fefa never would have made the men play on turf for their full world cup and for that and not just that reason, i was upset and clearly you could see throughout the tournament that the turf definitely played a role in some ways for some teams positive and another not so positive rate people can argue he won the world cup and i will be the first one to say it was not because of the turf. it was because of the players and athletes the athletes on the field or able to do that. there are serious health concerns. it's not just about injury either. what's in those little rubber pellets? i don't know and i don't want my kids to be the one to suffer because their -- they are the
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guinea pigs of some of these big turf companies wanting to make a ton of money. i think it's not okay. i think it's irresponsible actually so that's also something i'm going to get into. get rid of turf everywhere. >> will you help david that come start a soccer team in miami? [laughter] >> yeah if he wants me, sure. love it. >> to wish her all time favorite soccer player? >> that is a good question. i would say my all time favorite soccer player is sarah hoffman. i have to say that, right? i'm at sirrah playing for the washington freedom and she was one of those people that worked so hard and it's has always been
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there for me and supported me in my dreams and my journey but is it pertains to players mia hamm was not only a team a bit of someone i look up to. i have pictures of a for on my wall when she was my teammate. that was a little bit weird, probably more for her than me and on the men's side i would say i think matsui is one of my favorite players to watch because he so different than the way i play. he really does play beautiful beautiful soccer. >> before you ask if the final questions i have some housekeeping. the national press club is the world's leading professional organization for journalists and we fight for a free press worldwide to learn more about the press club visit our web site press.org. to donate to our nonprofit journalism institute visit
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press.org/institute. i also want to remind you about some upcoming events. former congressman patrick kennedy will discuss mental illness and addiction at a national press club newsmaker on thursday, november 5. on november 6, veteran affairs secretary robert mcdonald will it just a national press club luncheon and on november 10, p.j. o'rourke, one of america's most celebrated humorists will discuss his new book, thrown under the omnibus. i would now like to present our speaker with the national press club's world cup. that is our national press club mug. [applause] so happy, you said in your
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speech, you said the words that you are retiring from soccer and as you think about stepping away what is the one thing or two things you will miss the most about not playing any more? >> i think the number one thing i will miss the most absolutely is the time that i get to spend with some of my teammates. like i said earlier, some of my teammates know me so well. some know me better than even some of my family members do because we have spent so much time together. it's not the time when we are on the field playing. it's usually, my favorite time is off the field whether it be staying up late nights talking in bed or watching movies together or sitting around having discussions on who the next president should be. these are the moments that i
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cherish and that have kind of created my personality and shaped who i have become as a person. it's bits and pieces of not just my family but my teammates. i think it's amazing to set goals and to be able to achieve championships in gold medals and whatnot but it's always a process in which you get to those championships that make it all the sweeter. that's why my teammates, they are like my sisters. there are moments when i get really upset at them and we talk about it and i have shared some of the most memorable moments that people on the planet can never have with my teammates so that will for sure be the number one thing that i'm going to miss the mouse about retiring and the one thing that i will miss the least is the running. >> finally we talked about how we are in a connected world now
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digitally so i wanted thank you questioner from twitter for this question just a short while ago. why did the u.s. men's team failed to bring home the gold like the women did in the world cup? [laughter] >> well, this is a tough question to answer. i think that our men made a fantastic run in their world cup but respectfully speaking our women's team to start the has been more successful as it pertains to winning championships. we are very proud of the third star regis won this last summer and we support them in. we want them to do well. we want them to learn and win their first star in winning a world cup championship and hopefully that happens fairly soon. i note the president would love
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for that to happen. >> can we get give a round of applause for our speaker? [applause] i would like to thank staff members of the national press club and the national press club journalism institute for their work in preparing for today's event. again i want to thank georgetown university for hosting this special national press club event on the road today and remember to learn more about the national press club visit our web site, that's press.org. you can also get a copy of today's program by visiting the same web site. thank you very much. we are adjourned. [applause]
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house lawmakers in both parties helped pass a two-year budget agreement today 266-167 that raises the debt ceiling. the senate begins work on it thursday.
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>> yesterday the senate voted overwhelmingly to pass another important piece of legislation for our country by a vote of 74- 21. the senate said yes to protecting the private information of every american. the significant bill we passed would do so through the sharing of threat information on cyber attacks. it could have passed without the
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hard work of senators from both sides of the aisle. i particularly want to thank senator mccain, senator ron johnson, senator tom carper who worked hard to move this bill forward. i appreciate in particular the outstanding work of our chairman senator burke from north carolina and our vice chair senator feinstein from california. they work together seamlessly to move this challenging bill forward. it's worth noting something the vice chair recently said. she said one of the things i've learned from two prior bills of this type is that you really want to get a bill done it's got to be bipartisan particularly if the bill is technical and difficult and hard to put together. after watching the senate failed to act on cyber threat information sharing for years the new senate majority resolve to move forward instead.
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as a democratic colleague from california put it we stood shoulder-to-shoulder in the right things happen. yesterday's bipartisan vote was an important step or work for her country. it represents the latest notable comp was not bad but the american people. we remained determined to keep pushing ahead as congress continues its work to send a strong cybersecurity bill to the president's desk. on another matter the housing can senate will consider the fiscal agreements after the house asked the senate will take the measure of. republicans approached the recent fiscal negotiations with several goals. number one, project the tax increases proposed by democrats. number two, secure long-term
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savings by structural entitlement reforms and number three protect our troops and strengthen national security. the agreement pending before the house meets those goals. it is not perfect but here is what we know. it's offset with other savings. it would enact the most significant reform to social security since 1983 resulting in 168 odeon dollars in long-term savings. it would repeal obamacare and it would provide greater certainty to our military planners to help ensure readiness and preparedness for our troops. at a time of devotion and challenging global threats when we see isil consolidating gains in iraq and syria and russian
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aircraft flying over syria marching along side a rainy and soldiers, the importance of this cannot be overstated. our all-volunteer force loyally comes into harm's way and commanders tell us additional resources are required to ensure their safety and preparedness. i would urge my colleagues to consider these important issues as they continue to examine the agreement. we plan to consider it after the house acts. >> our goals regarding the budget agreement is to make sure we get rid of sequestration. we did that for two years.
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and we had treatment and this legislation with their defense which is so important to our country is treated no better or no worse in non-defense and we accomplished that. we are a month behind in the preparation process because the republican leader decided he was going to push forward and not take care of the middle class. i was stunned, i shouldn't say, that's not appropriate. i was not surprised when he laid out his goals. not a single word about the middle class. the negotiators for coming up with something that is really good. it's a two-year deal that allows more money to be spent for
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defense and non-defense. doesn't affect the deficit in any way so it's a great agreement. but before we start the back-slapping and congratulations let's make sure we first of all pass the budget agreement and i think we will. i was happy to see the new speaker to be the came out for the budget agreement today. he complained about it yesterday and when he was reminded it was the same pattern that he and senator murray came up with two years ago i guess he changed his mind and he said now he's he is in favor of this. i think that's good congressman ryan said that. mr. president after we pass the budget framework by december 11 we have to make sure we are able to move forward on legislation and consideration of the budget agreement we have and i'm sure that can be done but it's not a given based on all the
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finger-pointing by the republicans. this is a significant agreement. a repeat we have relief from the sequestration and there are no destructive riders in a since when we work together as we are supposed to do as a republican leader just mentioned on legislation it works out well. now i would suggest this. we had the house of representatives yesterday after years of for choosing to move forward on an important piece of legislation that is to reestablish the import-export bank. it only came about as a result of courageous republicans saying we have had enough of this. this was one of the most important business directed initiatives that we have here and it's been held up for years
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in the house of representatives. it was because of these gracious republicans who have said we have had enough of this and they joined with democrats to do what is rarely done in the house of representatives. they signed it discharged giving more than 218 boats to say it we have had enough of this stalling and we want to move forward. and they didn't answer that passed by a vote of 318 or 313 i'm sorry, 313 votes. that's a tremendous push so i would hope over here the republican leader would move forward on this now. there are stories coming out everyday where american companies are moving their business overseas because the export-import bank is gone. 160,000 people work in this industry. it's important to our country and right now businesses are moving out of the united states because this legislation never
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came forward. the bank had to close. it's basically closed right now so i would hope the package deal with a highway bills could stand to fall on its own merits and this legislation if we have an opportunity to vote on it here we are pleading with republicans to allow us to have a vote on this. we have republicans who vote with us on virtually every democrat will vote for it. every day held up as a bad day for the american business community. mr. president i would ask the chair to announce the business for today. >> under the previous order the leadership time is reserved under the previous order the senate will be in a period appoint business until 12 noon with senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each.
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the democratic leader. >> mr. president it is possible this week that we will pass a budget agreement for the fiscal year that we are currently in. that year started october 1 and runs of course until the end of september in the next calendar year. if we do reach that agreement and i hope we do, it's going to give us some opportunities. one opportunity we have is to spare ourselves the possibility of this congress failing to enact a new budget ceiling to basically guarantee the full faith and credit of the united states of america. so we'll will face a showdown in the possibility of a budget shutdown will be relieved by the passage of this budget agreement. those are good positive rings for this institution and the economy of america. there are specifics that also need to be noted because this budget agreement gives us a chance to invest in areas of our budget that sadly are going to
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be overlooked if we haven't reached an agreement. this morning we had an extraordinary presentation by the national institutes of health. 20 senators came to hear the presentation above research at the national institutes of health and what it means to us. dr. francis collins is the director. an extraordinarily man, medical doctor who was given the task that -- task of mapping the human genome. he did an extraordinary way. he a new information and new opportunities. a doctor from mayo clinic explained what it meant. it meant that we have now reached the point where we can map the genome of individuals for dna and we can then make decisions on the appropriate prescriptions for illnesses and diseases they face. in doing that to be more effective and to save lives. that is what medical research can mean.
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it will not only have a basic lack of fan or medical record when we were born and some of the basic illnesses we face but also our individual map of our dna which will instruct doctors when it comes to treatment of cancer if it should strike us or some other disease. it's an amazing leap forward. it's a leap forward that would not be possible without medical research they get in the 12 years we have seen a downturn in investment in medical research of more than 20%. more than 20% and it has meant a lot of research has been scourged and has walked away and said there is no future in medical research. what a loss. they don't make a lot of money, many of them don't but they are inspired to do things that make a difference. if they don't think we are going to support them with our investment in nih in medical research then look at other places so this morning we considered where we are.
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the senate under the leadership of senator blanco of missouri and appropriations subcommittee on health and human services has provided basically a 7% increase in funding for the national institutes of health next year. that's a good thing. i will say quickly that senator blunt cut a lot of other areas that i think in his bill need to have held that i hope you will stand tall and tough when it comes to that 7% increase as we approach this budget negotiation. the house conversely did not give such an increase to the nih they increase the center for disease control which is a companion sister agency that's important for medical research so we have a chance to come together on a bipartisan basis to come up with a number that gives 5% of growth in spending at both the national institute of health and the centers for disease control. it will pay us back many times
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over. most americans say what are we going to do about the cost of medicare? medicare is an important program to 40 million americans and the cost keep going up. two factors we learned this morning. one out of every five dollar spent under medicare system, one out of every five is spent on alzheimer's and dementia. if we could have means of early detection, prevention, treatment or cure he would dramatically change the lives, of millions of americans and millions of families and it would dramatically reduce the cost of medicare and medicaid of these horrible diseases. one out of $3 in medicare is spent for the treatment of people with diabetes. if we put the research into finding cures for diabetes and can alleviate the suffering associated with that disease is
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not only will help lives across america but it will save us money and are important health care programs. investment in research, medical research by the united states of america has been the pillar for the world when it comes to looking to a better day for the people who live in these countries. this initiative which was described to us this morning by the national institutes of health needs to be funded. it's not adequately funded now. we dedicated some $350 million to alzheimer's and bring research. it sounds like a lot of money. it's about one third of what researchers need. they have that many opportunities waiting to be funded. will they all succeed? know but that's the nature research but each one of them they find to be a good investment that lead us to the day of prevention, treatment and cure when it comes to alzheimer's. so mr. president i hope that we
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can come together on a bipartisan basis when it comes to this budget. in this area of medical research there is plenty of room for us to work together. there has very only been leadership shown on the other side of the aisle. we are going to help to try to move that forward both in the senate and in the house on a bipartisan basis. .. doors. people of all political stripes agree this is a good investment for the future of america. mr. president, i ask that the following remarks i'm about to

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