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amendment tom you all michael bennett tom harkin dick durbin chuck schumer sheldon whitehouse and jeff merkley all saw what happened. in last year's elections as the result of citizens united they saw how the amount of secret outside spending skyrocketed from just sixty sixty eight million dollars in the two thousand and six midterms to over three hundred four million in the two thousand and ten midterms that's a four hundred percent increase in corporate cash influencing elections and buying politicians just ten months after the citizens united decision and as you'd expect when corporations get to hand pick their members of congress republicans win big well with occupy wall street at their back now these senators are saying enough is enough and this constitutional amendment will give power back to congress and to the states to set their own election laws so that they can keep corporations and extreme wealth in check in the political process that means they can start by passing laws like this old wisconsin law that was on the books through most of the nineteenth century and it's basically what

provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable jeff merkley, a senator from the state of oregon, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: daniel k. inouye, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: following leader remarks the senate will be in morning business until 11:00 a.m. this morning. following morning business the senate will resume consideration of the defense department authorization bill. this will be postcloture debate. we expect to complete action on the defense bill today. we may give everyone as much notice as we can when we have votes that are coming. additionally, yesterday i filed cloture on a motion to proceed to s. 1917, middle-class tax cut, if no agreement is reached the vote will be tomorrow morning. there are six measures, mr. president, at the desk due for second reading. the presiding officer: the clerk will read the titles of the measures for the second time en bloc. the clerk: s.j. res. 30, joint resolution extending the cooling off period under section 10 of the railway labor a

about electric vehicles, alternative fuels, where the system really is going and also senator jeff merkleywho's a democrat from oregon, will be sitting here talking about energy independence, and again, he has some initiatives on electric vehicles. leader in the month, early november, we have dan reichert from stanford and richard from mit talking about what is coming on at the three leading institutions on energy innovation. leader in the month we have dan sugar, ceo, and, of some power were talking about solar energy. dan miller is here in november talking about a boom or bust. he's invested a lot in biofuel. and in december we will have authors talking to that extreme weather events and ipcc chair -- the authors talking about extreme weather events and the chair. the best way to obtain contracts to sign up for our e-mail newsletter or go to climate-one.org. i would like to thank the key supporter of climate one. now i would like to begin the radio program and get going with our conversation. what did america learn from the dp oil disaster in the gulf of mexico? the crude oil spill from