levin: mr. president, i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mrs. shaheen: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator new hampshire. mrs. shaheen: thank you, mr. president. i ask that the quorum call being lifted. the presiding officer: the senate will be in order. the senator from new hampshire. mrs. shaheen: i ask that the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection. hurricane katrina thank you. mr. president, i rise today in support of the 2012 national defense authorization act. the critical piece of legislation that we're now working on that will strengthen our national security, provide four our troops and their -- for our troops and their families and provide oversight of american taxpayer dollars. over the last half strirks the senate has -- over the last half strirks the as soon as has successfully passed a defense authorization bill without fail every year. this strong tradition of bipartisanship cont

levin. mr. levin: how much time is there left, please? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan, mr. levin, has three minutes. the gentleman from michigan, mr. camp, has 1 1/2 minutes. the gentleman from michigan, mr. levin. mr. levin: mr. camp, are you going to close? i yield myself the balance of our time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. levin: you know, i remember when i was doing arguments before a court and a judge would ask me a very salient question that would get to the heart of the matter. and that's where we are today. there's this question to the republican majority. if you're so sure of your arguments, why not allow a vote on the senate bill? otherwise everything you've said is a smoke screen. it's because you're afraid you'd lose it. or you don't want some people voting no on the record. that's really what this is about . and there's a second question. if you believe in bipartisanship , why not allow a vote on a bipartisan bill in the senate? i quoted three senators and three more now hav

levin. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan, two minutes. mr. levin: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. levin: you know, when there's an issue as serious as this, you'd think the majority would let us introduce the substitute. instead the answer is a stone wall. so i want --- mr. dreier: will the gentleman yield? mr. levin: i want to explain in my substitute. you won't let us introduce it. let me finish. i want the american public to know what would be in it. a one-year extension of the employee payroll, 3.1%, as the president proposed. a one-year extension on the bones freshation -- bonus depreciation, and a one year extension of the unemployment insurance as in the bill mr. doggett and a lot of us introduced, 3346, and a 10-year s.g.r. fix. and i want the american public to understand what's at stake here and how we pay for it. this chart shows very vividly what the republicans essentially are doing. i wa

levin. mr. levin: how much time is there left, please? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan, mr. levin, has three minutes. the gentleman from michigan, mr. camp, has 1 1/2 minutes. the gentleman from michigan, mr. levin. mr. levin: mr. camp, are you going to close? i yield myself the balance of our time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. levin: you know, i remember when i was doing arguments before a court and a judge would ask me a very salient question that would get to the heart of the matter. and that's where we are today. there's this question to the republican majority. if you're so sure of your arguments, why not allow a vote on the senate bill? otherwise everything you've said is a smoke screen. it's because you're afraid you'd lose it. or you don't want some people voting no on the record. that's really what this is about . and there's a second question. if you believe in bipartisanship , why not allow a vote on a bipartisan bill in the senate? i quoted three senators and three more now hav

levin: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. mr. levin: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. levin: mr. president, i would now ask unanimous consent that the following senators be recognized for up to four minutes each to address the depot provisions in the bill and at the end of their remarks, senator mccain and i be recognized to address the same issue. this is the order we were given. they may want to change it. but senator sessions, senator chambliss, senator inhofe, senator shaheen, senator ayotte, senator hagan. the presiding officer: is there objection? is there objection? without objection. mr. inhofe: mr. president, let me thank you. the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. inhofe: and the chairman of the committee, i appreciate the opportunity to have this colloquy because something has happened that shouldn't have happened, and it ha

levin. mr. levin: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. levin: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. levin: there are fewer than three weeks until the new year and yet here they go again. republicans are seeking a path of confrontation instead of collaboration. if republicans were serious, truly serious about trying to come together on behalf of american families, they would have reached out to democrats in this house. they've done nothing of the sort. they've made a sham out of bipartisanship. instead, they once again targeted millions of seniors and middle-class families for cuts without asking essentially anything of millionaires and billionaires. they've singled out medicare premium increases. they've permanently increased seniors' costs by $31 billion. the bill also, when you look at it carefully, spends $300 million on a special interest provision that helps a handful

levin, mr. speaker, is that single mothers, women, are suffering and they are some of the most hardest hit. as you recall, as you recall, mr. levin this institution on a bipartisan basis, i understand i was not here when mr. newt gingrich was speaker of the house, they decided that the most important legislative initiative they could undertake is end aid to families with dependent children and put women and children under the vagaries and vi sis tuesday of a cyclic -- and vicissitudes of a cyclical economy. now that we have an economy that is as bad as it was during the great depression, we can look at the unemployment numbers aamong women, especially sickle women and we'll find that some very, very distressing data, poverty among women climbed from 14.5% in 2010 to 13.9%. the highest in 17 years. and according to a recent report by legal momentum, recent census data on poverty paints a bleak picture for single mother families. this report finds that the poverty rate for single moms, people who,

levin. when you all had hearing last year before you created this had policy, what did you find -- i was not here -- was going to be the impact of this 2% reduction wale, 33% reduction in an individual's contribution to their retirement? >> the answer is that there are differences of opinion but no one has come up with a better proposal relating to trying to stimulate job growth than this, and while there's some disagreement mark zandi, for example, has estimated that this can add a percentage point to gdp and add over a million jobs. and he's not the only one. so my guess is that, look, i think most republican ss -- i think -- will vote for it. >> i've read that literature as well, folks inoutside the hill who have made those estimates. but the chairman is telling me he didn't have a hearing on it because all he was doing was extending the policy that you created when you brought in the social security experts last year before implementing this policy. what did they it say this was going to

levin. mr. levin: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: does the gentleman wish to yield time? mr. camp: i yield to the gentleman from louisiana, mr. scalise. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. scalise: i thank the gentleman from michigan for yielding and i think one of the strongest components of this bill we are bringing to the floor today is the component in the keystone pipeline bill. we have some options here. the american people want jobs. we have the ability to force president obama to get off the sidelines. the president has been good about running around the country and giving political speeches and campaigning and talking about jobs and the middle class but yet here we have the opportunity to create 20,000 middle-class jobs in america and the president said he will say no and will veto the bill over this one provision. this is a bill that deals with unemployment benefits and he said he would have people be unemployed than have a job. they would rathe

actually does thanks to the provisions of the on the mccain levin bill they now have codified into u.s. law indefinite military detention of terrorist suspects and that includes monetary detention of foreigners as well as u.s. citizens suspected in crimes related to terrorism so basically what this does is bring the war on terror even closer to every single one of our doorsteps it puts the battlefield right into your own backyard as some of said lately it strips the entire idea from the constitution. that you have civil liberties that you have the right to a trial by jury to see your day in court and to get due process it's the same thing that we've been doing for years in guantanamo bay with the form of the tension order of the french president signed and that's wrong either way but we all know the us americans we can be a little bit insensitive about those kinds of things thanks to the constant fear mongering that's always thrown in our faces to the point where people think well you know what if it's the bad guys it's those foreign terrorists that it's ok it's not like my government

author hillel levin interviewed larry hall. >> it was a very cluttered household. they were raised with dysfunction. >> the neighbors say the mother was domineering. the father drank and sometimes turned violent. he worked at the local cemetery. what was it like growing up to a cemetery? was it creepy? >> no, not at all, not for me. at 12 years of age, larry and i started working at the cemetery. >> as he grew older, larry had problems fitting in at school. >> he was always the backward twin. i was the more dominant out going twin. he hung out with what my wife and i and a lot of fellow classmates, called "the misfits" or the "stinky" crowd. >> still, the boys were best friends and as young men gary and larry developed an unusual hobby as civil war re-enactors. >> during that time period, i was able to travel around and meet him at battlefields and go on tours and stuff. it was a lot of fun. >> larry was hooked, even growing the mutton chops from his hairline to his jowell. though the re-enactment helped larry make friends he still struggled with women. >> what was

so i just hope that this comp remise the carl levin and john mccain have crafted and to carl levin, haveeen in your h shoes. when john and i were on the talking about don't te waterboardrb people. gather intelligence but don't become likeom the anomie. a lot of americans believe that we should waterboard thesed to , people, whatever we need to do'o because they are so vicious and hateful. john mccain knows better than anybody in this body what it's like to be tortured. i want to protect america without changing who we are andn it has always been the law that when an american citizen takes up arms and joins the enemy that is not a criminal act, that is an act of war. w they can be held and interrogated about what they did and what they know because thats keeps us safe. u if you take that off the table,t with homegrown terrorism becoming the greatest threat we face we love done something nowl other congress has done in any other war. so to senator levin and senatord mccain --.am:o >> senator the original 30evin minutes has expired. d >> to senator mccain and thi senator levin thank you for

. >> pamela levin, department of building inspection. on the friday before we were going to implement, we were notified by the unions that they wanted an opportunity to sit down with us and to essentially a meet and confer on the impact of change in work that they anticipate will occur as a result of implementing q-matic. we have implemented the training and notification of the public, we were all ready to go, and we had to delay it based on that. we haven't met with one of the unions. we have the meeting where we invited all the unions -- had the meeting were reinvented all of the unions that represented dbi. some of the unions had decided it would not have an impact on them, but two of the unions could not attend the meeting. one union did come to the meeting, and they were ok with it. >> will there be a meeting before the end of the year, or does it get extended to were part of this activation or perpetual implementation is not to occur this year? >> from what i understand in trying to get a meeting with one union, the union that requ

levin. is not about politics. it is not even about policy. it is about trying to make sure that bad things to do not happen to good people 10 days from now. the senate has agreed overwhelmingly, the democrats in the house of representatives to a person support this extension, it unanimously supports this extension. the president of the united states supports this extension. which means that if you try to make percentages of it, and 4/5 of the decision makers agree on moving this forward now. to prevent habad things happening from good people. yes, we can deal with the politics, but let us not hold hostage those 160 million, 2.2 million, 48 million people over the next nine days until one side is bludgeoned, which is what is being attempted, into agreeing on that which 4/5 of the decision makers have said we don't have agreement on. we do have agreement on this. let's move forward. questions. >> senate minority leader mcconnell has come out with a compromise. he says that if harry reid would agree to appoint conferees, house republicans would

levin: i thank everybody and thank the chair. the presiding officer: the question is on passage of the bill as amended. is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: the presiding officer: are there any senators in the chamber who wish to vote or to change a vote? if not, on this vote, the yeas are 93, the nays are 7. the bill, as amended, is passed. mr. levin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. mr. levin: i will be very, very brief for obvious reasons, but this is a golden moment for us. the proud tradition of the senate armed services committee has been maintained every year since 1961, continues with senate passage of the 50th consecutive national defense authorization bill. it always takes a huge amount of work to get a bill of this magnitude done. it could not have happened without the support of all the senators on the committee. i won't thank each and every one, the subcommittee chairs, the ranking members, our staff, the floor staff here which do

professor sumida, who was carl levin clausewitz? >> he was a prussian officer who fought against napoleon in the words of the french revolution and by becky first win in action as a teenager in the 1790s. later rose to be a made great officer, was present at the great battle in 1806. was a subordinate of the chief of staff andy army, and was a participant in the reform of the prussian army after its great defeat. in 1812 he resigned his commission because he disagrees with the king in terms of the decision to be an ally of france, the former any. so he goes over to the russian army, serves as an advisor to the czar, and is attached to senior russian commanders, fights at some of the great battles of 1812. it was at the retreat of the french army when his trap in the late fall of 1812 goes on when the prussians changed sides to fight at the great battles, and then in 1815 campaign, the waterloo

the nick congressman sandy levin of michigan joins us.ranking member on the ways and means committee. we've heard the president, we've heard mitch mcconnell, there any pressure that senate or house democrats can exert in this debate, or do you have to sit on your hands and wait to see what happens? >> the last thing we're doing is sitting on our hands. we're speak out. i was at home yesterday and talked about this issue. you know, i was reading a story from michigan about a michigan vet, a marine veteran who has been looking for work, who has had just odd jobs since '08, and he ended up afterwards saying he has to move out of his apartment. it's really touch-and-go. and the republicans in the house are out of touch, and we're speaking up, and insisting that we come back here and pass the bipartisan bill that passed the senate. for the lives of people, it's inexcusable, and we're speaking out on that. >> congressman, i want to ask you, the main pushback from house republicans is that two months doesn't provide any certainty for small busin

levin. ranking member, mr. levin. but in light of the fact we have a quorum here, i don't want to keep any of our members wait sog we'll say any prepared statement will without objection appear in the record and we appreciate your summary. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. thank you for having me here. the middle class tax relief and job creation act. there are four important facts about this bill. it's about strengthening our economy and getting americans back to work. two, it prevents massive cuts to doctors working in the medicare program to protect america's seniors and the disabled. three, it adopts a number of the president's legislative initiatives which represent the bipartisan cooperation americans are demanding and fourth it's fully paid for with spending cuts, not job-killing tax cuts. the cbo table shows the bill saves about a billion dollars and adding in the flood prevention savings, the savings is closer to a billion dollars. many provisions are in the ways and means commit tee and here today to out

role in the price of oil they control the senate they control the agenda they wrote the bill carl levin how are levin is the is the chairman going to give that you're going to get you're going to get an increase in the heating assistance program for low income people through the house of representatives with paul ryan and enjoying always early in the republicans even though democrats control this all fall if only legislation has to originate out how is this has nothing to do why does the president veto it if it's so bad if he's got a problem having our present to be telecast has to get it yes or you so do you think the president if there is a cohesive he'll say nothing is better than a little bit and so what you're suggesting comes up if it comes up in the supplemental bill probably add money and right at the end of the year when they do want to play mimics attention and all these budget busting programs that they're going to do right at the end of the year and and you are so you're predicting this is an average of a thousand to fifteen hundred dollars a person for a relatively small nu

. >>> tmzs harvey levin joins us from l.a. and that is looking like the help is turning on the family? what is this about? >> this is terrible. the kardashian his a nanny -- actually, the jenner ins had a nanny. she was then, i guess, went to the kardashians and knows the family, writing a tell-all book and is trashing breedy and brandon jenner in, calling them spoiled brats. we know she's doing that and that she is going to reveal intimate details about kim. kim was 11 when she was a nanny and she even said that bruce helped her out of a bad situation with a dui and is turning on the family. >> why is she writing the book? >> seems sleezy. >> i know. >> and this is -- >> -- . >> and the paparazzi snaps pictures inside paris hilton's suv covered in a suspicious white powder. i couldn't make it. what do you think that is is? >> here's what i can tell you she said it is. >> uh-huh. >> and a photographer shot these on rodeo drive in beverly hills and tells us it's makeup. >> okay. >> and gives us a picture of the makeup with powd

. >>> dave levine joins me now for other headlines.early. >> i notice you're up early too, so how great is this? >> i know, right. is stevie wonder headed to "dancing with the stars"? >> now, talk about great, stevie wonder has been making noises about wanting to do "dancing with the stars" for a few years now. but it's something he just said to ellen degeneres on a so that everybody is saying, wait a minute, minute he'll do it. he started talking about how he's losing weight because ellen was pressuring him and saying, stevie, are you going to do it. he said i'm getting in shape and said when i get to where i feel like i'm going good enough, i'll do that. and he even predicted and said i'll look good in the beginning and even getter at the end. everybody loses weight when they're competing on "dancing with the stars." now, it's not a big deal just because somebody is impaired. let's not forget marlee matlin who is hearing impaired competed and came in seventh place during season six. just because he is blind does not mean that's going

but levin is a guy who -- he's not -- i don't know. we'll call him, rob. you call him.e'll find out what he thinks about this. but this is serious business. we can't have these vehicles going over there made by people who are stoned out of their minds. good work, rob. we appreciate it. plenty more ahead as "the factor" moves along. one of the women who accused herman cain of bad stuff getting evicted from her home. megyn kelly on the story. then the great american news quiz, the war on christmas edition. you'll like it. we hope you stay tuned for those reports [ male announcer ] every day, thousands of people archoosing advil®. [ regis we love to play tennis. and with it comes some aches and pains. and one way to relieve them all is to go right to the advil®. tennis is our game and advil® has become part of our game! [ male announcer ] take action. take advil®. ♪ [ engine revs ] ♪ [ male announcer ] ohhat fun it is to ride. get the mercedes-benz on your wish list at the winter event going on now -- but hurry, the offer ends soon. [ santa ] ho, ho, ho, ho! >> bill: cultu

levin, when you think of what they have, they have pride.are cool, they don't show emotion, and it is the only way that you can show strength and really be respected. the lyrics that i choose our that stuck below where you do speak about what those things, the loss in the pain without pride. tavis: this is a simple point to make, but i make it because i am struck by this reality. the notion of love, the concept of love is inexhaustible. every year, every month, every day, somebody is putting out a record about love and is the most inexhaustible subject in the history of the world. >> because it is inexplicable, everybody is trying to explain it. tavis: i have figured out why that is, because people are trying to explain it. when you guys were doing paper airplane, was the content selected prior to what we hear, these 11 songs? or did that happen organically? got it had been awhile since we recorded and i am always collecting things. we hadn't recorded together as a band for about six years at that point. i had just come off the record with r

but levin is a guy who -- he's not -- i don't know. we'll call him, rob. you call him. we'll find out what he thinks about this. but this is serious business. we can't have these vehicles going over there made by people who are stoned out of their minds. good work, rob. we appreciate it. plenty more ahead as "the factor" moves along. one of the women who accused herman cain of bad stuff getting evicted from her home. megyn kelly on the story. then the great american news quiz, the war on christmas edition. you'll like it. we hope you stay tuned for those reports >> bill: culture warrior segment. "60 minutes" profiled taylor swift who said that she believes she has an obligation to provide a good wholesome imto american teen-agers, especially girls. but another pop idol, 19-year-old miley cyrus, taking another path. >> bill: you may remember she was cut on tape smoking something from a bong. margaret hoover, here in the studio, gretchen carlson. miss cyrus says she does not have an obligation to tell kids how to act and she was hannah montana in the disney cycle and a lo

. >> pamela levin. the goal is to end up with a system at the end of the project that will serve the needs of the department, the other departments, in the fashion they are currently doing. in other words, the p.w. -- dpw input information, as well as others. i do not know who inputs dph, i do not know that they have direct access. the second phase of the process -- project is to move forward and start looking at the other things that the other departments want to do. dpw may want, and they have expressed the enthusiasm to look at all sorts of processes to see how they fit in to and they can use the features of the permit tracking system. using the system for business taxes. the board of appeals wants to use the system. initially, we need to look at what we are currently doing well and who is currently using it. and then we have every intention, having expressed in this to the board of supervisors and the mayor's office, working with other departments to get them to maximize their use of the features th

. >> pamela levin, department of building inspection. i want to go over the digitization project and then turn it over to the records management staff, if you have questions, and they will talk about how the project will aid the process for 3-r reports. currently, we have two positions in our budget for this project. we have looked at the volume of what needs to be done and we think we need an additional five more. we will be bringing justification to you for that during the budget process. the funding through 2011-12, we have set aside $1.7 million. we estimate that we will need a total of $5 million for this project. this is based on experience of other jurisdictions. we've also have estimated the project duration, once we get a contract and start the project, between three years and five years. as i said, and the volume of records to be digitized is quite large. we have 16 millimeter microfilm. i have examples of what they are. 1200 rolls of 16 millimeter microfilm, which is this. they have job cards, certificates of final completion

xg marc levine 32:20 we are going to continue to invest in the canal we just received another 60000 dollar grand -- el concejal de la cuidad indico que pronto se hara una inversionen el canal de 600 mil dolares para ampliar las aceras que son transitadas por los niÑos en su camino a la escuela y tambien esperan otras donaciones. --- luego de la reunin se acordo de que en enero prximo se hara otra convocatoria con el nuevo alcalde de san rafael y la nueva jefa de polica para asegurar de que el compromiso de mejorar esta situacin se cumpla..... este es mi informe cesar regreso contigo. cu ---ya se encuentra tras las rejas un hombre que se atrinchero por varias horas en una casa de gilroy... take vo ---anthony villalobos era buscado por tener varias ordenes de aprehension en su contra y por incumplir su libertad condicional... ---cuando la policia lo detecto ayer cerca de una casa de la avenida welburn, el sospechoso se metio al hogar e intento escapar por la puerta trasera pero ya estaba rodeado.. ---villalobos se mantuvo atrincherado por casi seis horas hasta que se rindio poco antes de las