i asked, who do not take the music from our students. my son also says, do not get rid of the teachers. i know i was not supposed to say any names, but those were important teachers. good she has given away our instrument. and for me, i believe our schools should continue the music. now we have nothing, and you are the only one who can help our school. >> thank you. >> i am the dean asket mlk. i have been there six years. i have been in the district for 36 years. i want to show you the california standards for educational leaders, an element one, sustain an efficient and productive school environment. administrative has a good staff and students on unsafe environment which campus security. goothe staff has been hired ands new to the district. another teacher was hired, and finally a female at our site. we also have a person on site highly qualified, who knows our students and applied for the job but was not even considered a cure your -- was not even considered. our school has a high suspension rate. we have had two males injured. i was i

i am asking for your support. a waiver can be requested from the board of education, getting a clear credentials through the program. thank you. >> can we have some follow-up so we can better understand? >> i would be a good idea. i have the same thought. who is next? are you next? >> yes, i am. i come here from time to time. i come here, not just as a teacher, but as last year's building representative on behalf of the faculty and staff. gooare brought 15 copies of a complaint, regarding our administrators. one of whom was given a three- year contract and moved into a metal cage, where they are having problems replicating what we experienced last year. it rose to the level of filing a uniform complaint. that should speak volumes. as a teacher, i want to relate to you one experience not referenced in the uniform complain. that is we scheduled a meeting, which are dutifully attended zero good -- which i dutifully attended, until it became the individual in charge was not happy with getting his way, and we were told,

i asked about a school and i know thisd the kids disappeared and i asked about school and they were very embarrassed and finally took me behind the village and i saw 84 children sitting in the dirt during school lessons. five girls and 79 boys and writing with sticks in the sand. i've seen a lot of poverty in africa but when i saw those kids and a young girl came up to me and - it was a cold autumn day and he or she said will you help us build a school and i made a very rash promise and promised to build a school. i was very broke and had to raise 12 thousand dollars and i didn't have a clue how to raise money like that. so i went to the local library. any librarians here. there's one. let's all give them a big and. [applause] so i went to the library, the resource librarian and talked to her and we looked up the name of 580 celebrities and movie stars and i didn't know how to use a computer so i and typed 580 letters. dear michael jordan, dear sylvester stallone. guess what happened? nothing. then at christmas time i got one check for $100 from tom brokaw and then i saw my climbing ger

this administration and i ask all those involved in this initiative to ask japan to do the right thing before they join us at the table and embark upon a greater period of prosperity for our nations. and finally, mr. speaker, i would just like to point out as i did when the obamacare legislation on health care was passed, so this is what change looks like. as an irish catholic, i remind my co-religionists and all americans that no government can come between you and your conscience and the -- your creed. what we're seeing now is the cesspool of the religion whereby which your true religion was tolerated as song as it was subservient to the state. that is not what this nation is about. it is a clear violation of your constitutional right to freely exercise your religion. there is no debate. there is nothing to be worked out. this odious regulation must be withdrawn. less this administration or those who support it go back on their word to protect and defend your rights under that said constitution and as a practical matter, the less myth that little not enforce their morality onto you.

i don't know what context secretary clinton was asked. >> the gentleman will suspend. if you'll make that question available to the attorney general staff so they can brief him. we will return to that out of order to get an answer. but i think in fairness, we've given sufficient time. if you'll make it available to staff. we'll make sure we get to it before the end of the hearing. and with that, we go to the gentle lady from the district of columbia, miss norton, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i don't know if conversations with theed secretary of state and secretary clinton or secretary napolitano are of major importance here. but i do know this. after calling the attorney general of the united states six times before the congress, i think the public would have expected that we would have begun to talk about remedy by this time. and, yet, there has been no remedy to give the justice department the tools it needs to prosecute, store purchases or gun trafficking. so here we go again for sixth hearing, mr. attorney general. i want to commend you for the chan

i am here on behalf of the nurses in the district to encourage and to ask for your support. two hours for school nurses to get clear credentials through national certification instead of going through a credential program, which i think does not support professional growth amongst us nurses. i was hired in february 2009. in august, 2011, i received a letter saying i was 10 years. in order for my employment to continue working, i had to have clear credentials. that includes 27 to 24 units that as a nurse, i know already. most abbas -- most of us have master's degrees. personally i am board-satisfied. -- b

i am asking them to kindly remove this. t is for engineering and should not get past the health apartment. this shows the different countries. i think this is really pour for the health apartment to except this and not simply reject it, because they are leaving on russia, india, china, switzerland. it is just two graphs. i am kindly requesting it is protected from the package, and it is very simple. >> i want to ask, what is your issue with the absence of certain countries? say that again. >> my issue is it is marketing. is to try to convince that everyone is on the boat, but not everyone is on the boat. >> let's say these graphs are erroneous. information is left out you would like to provide. you would like to assume is in error. does it not go to that regulation? you have given us nothing on the merits that go toward anything i can design. >> you would not want one of your appliances to break, so asking them to simply put correct data. there was a follow up, and i did not want to overload you. >> let's assume you have all

i would ask myself if i would get caught. in california, half of the people who commit murder are not caught. we need to catch the people committing murder. this is what she means when punishment must be firm, if people get away with murder, they learn that they can and the community learns that they can. this is really the fundamental problem. we can do much better job if we were actually to replace the death penalty to life without parole and invest the money saved in solving homicides. every victim's family should have some justice. >> i wanted to ask you to perhaps tell the audience about the controversy related to the death qualified jury. many people did not realize that when we select a jury for the death penalty case, this is comprised of different members of the city. >> people look to california as we continue to send a lot of people to death row every year, with the highest number of new death sentences. people look at the state and they see how many people in california are moving away from the death penalty, who

i will ask for your support. it is a measure that would allow 5-foot height increases to create more attractive store fronts in the neighborhood commercial districts. it would really help us revitalize our richmond district. it will also help the storefronts to be more attractive for our neighborhood. it is consistent, as emery rogers and others have pointed out, the urban design standard, it is great policy to have higher, more livable storefronts for people in our neighborhoods. i have met with and had really great conversations with a number of neighbors who live in and jordan heights, north of geary from palm to parker. palm is where the post offices and carper is where the roosevelt middle school is. i am asking for a small amendment today. you have a letter in front of view that is asking for the stretch of geary boulevard from palm to parker, 1062-1065, to be removed from the legislation. it is at the urging of supervisor mar and supervisor farrell. also from the activists in the jordan heights neighborhoo

>> i simply was asked. i can run but the phrasing of the question, what did he spend a lot of time thinking about this. i have not asked to that question, but i think you can understand from the views that he has expressed about citizens united and the impact of that decision on the process that he takes a dim view of it. but, it is also the case, and, again, plenty to the campaign era where a lot of these questions are more apt to be addressed. as the campaign has said, the rules are what they are and the president will continue to change the rules. effective the matter is not only is there not a constituency among republicans in congress to overturn or take action against citizens united, there is not even a constituency among republicans in congress to allow the american people to know who the donors are. they blocked the disclosing. that is the reality, and he will continue to press for change and he will continue to press for change, even if it requires a constitutional amendment. >> a very simple quest

i've been in perhaps 120 cities over the past 14 months talking to maybe 50,000 people and i ask this question most places i go and i'll ask you today. how many of you are aware of the fact in afghanistan today, there's 5 point 2 million children going to school and 1 point 8 million of those are female and in 2000 there was only 8 hundred 6,000 kids in school. how many of you know that fact? one, two, you? so that makes my total now - i've counted 21 people in america. to me that's single most incredible inspiring news to come out of that country. that alone is justification for the sacrifice and cost and the investment in that country and nobody in america is aware of that. the media, government, the people. to me that news should be broadcast from every mountain top in this publication called hope we write about that. go and tell people there's some really good things happening and it's related to employ kabs and the number of kids in afghanistan it's gone up six fold since 2000. unfortunately there's other forces at work. in the last year the taliban have bombed more than 400 most

i ask for this motion to pass. the speaker pro tempore: members are reminded to address their remarks to the chair. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> mr. speaker, i rise in opposition to the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. mcclintock: mr. speaker, it is odd, very odd, to hear the argument again in this hall that a state's right to deny basic freedoms to its citizens trumps the 14th amendment to our constitution. the last time we heard this argument in this hall, it involved citizens' civil rights. now, it is the citizens' water rights. but make no mistake, it is the same old song. the reason we have a 14th amendment to our constitution is because its framers recognized that states could become abusive of the rights of their citizens, including their property rights, including their water rights, and the federal government had a responsibility and a duty to protect them. a responsibility and a duty. [applause] specifically veste

[shouting] now, i did ask him a specific question. i know by now he does a lot to answer the questions, but i just asked him a simple voice which is to support his bill, and answer came there none from the prime minister. let me refresh his memory who opposes -- the deputy primers or is smirking or i don't know whether he opposes it or support it. [shouting] oh, he supports it, mr. speaker. there's firm leadership for you, right. now, mr. speaker, let me refresh his memory as to those who want the bill with the drone. the royal college of gp's, the royal college of nursing, the royal college of midwives, the royal college of radiologists, the faculty of public health, the chancellor society of physiotherapists on the community practitioners and health visitors association, and the patients association here mr. speaker, doesn't it ever occur to him, mr. speaker, mr. speaker, does it ever occur to him that just maybe they are right and he's wrong? >> he didn't mention the national association of primary care supporting the bill, in nhs a

a senator: i ask that the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection, the senator is recognized. mrs. boxer: i call up amendment 149 and ask for its immediate consideration. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from california, mrs. boample for herself and mr. isakson proposes amendment numbered 1489 to amendment numbered 1470. at the end add the following, section 9, requiring mortgage disclosure, section 102-a-4-a of the ethics and government act of 1978, 5 u.s.c. is amended by inner ising after spouse the following, except that this exception shall not apply to a reporting individual report described in section 101-f-9. mrs. boxer: i'm sure listening to that it's hard to understand what this is all about so let me just take a moment. i want to first thank senators lieberman and collins for all their hard work on this and i want to thank senator gillibrand for writing the stock act, and i -- i come to the floor as the chairman of the ethics committee with an amendment that we wro

i want. they don't ask me for i.d. because i got everything memorized. even if they do ask me for i.d., i got your driver's license. and if i don't look like you, i'll make myself look like you. >> but she told us she did take some mercy on her victims. >> if i steal your purse, i'm going to leave your car keys, because i don't want you to be stranded. >> now she's hoping for some sympathy herself as she faces a disciplinary hearing for allegedly possessing a homemade sex toy. >> let's go see. let me do my job. >> she's assisted in her defense by an inmate advocate. >> this is so embarrassing. >> how do you plead? >> not guilty. >> the hearing quickly turns to the evidence. and whether the sum of their parts equals a whole. >> they're not constructed together. the ace bandages were for my ankles. the glove was to clean my toilet. trash bags we get every day and the tampons i get at the commissary. >> and what about the highlighter? >> i got that from field day. >> what were you doing with a highlighter in the tampon? >> i had no idea it was in there. >> w

. >> i asked that question. when i was contemplating is the idea that he brings up, which is, if you frame this from the point of view, under what conditions would you want to stay to be able to kill you, a supporter of the death penalty may form an answer that says, if i were found guilty of a heinous murder, and i was done -- as was done in a certain mental state, and i created a certain amount of harm, you may go down the spaces. this was the spirit in which i presented this, asking it this way does cause a certain amount of recoil away from the question. none of us would want to be in this position. harris has come up as somebody -- and jerry brown was also the governor of the state of california, he was the attorney general and they have at times in the history when they were personally against the death penalty. when they ran for attorney general they both said that they would not interfere with the state law, and they would allow the death penalty to be carried out on their watch. this is correct? in fairn

i ask as respectfully i know how, to act with haste. many think this is impossible in 2012. i'm prepared to prove the critics wrong. american farm families need your help now. thank you and god bless you for what you do. >> thank you, mr. black. mr. wenger. >> good morning, chairman smith and ranking members and distinguished members of the committee. i'm here today because farmers and ranchers are in critical need of a legal work force to cultivate our crops and tend or livestock. in california, we rely on 400,000 workers alone. the agriculture work force consists of 1.83 million hired workers. some estimated as much as 50% to 70% of the hired workers are not authorized to work in the united states. different regions produce different commodities. these needs cannot be addressed with a one-sized fits all solution. it is not a problem confined to agriculture in the northeast, southern border states or western states. this is not just a problem for large farmers. according to the united states department of agriculture, 60% of hired farm labor is hired by farms with sales of

and i hope you will ask your constituents, mr. chairman, why is it that folks would oppose giving the american people these answers? you heard me read the bill. all this bill does is provide that information. i will say to the sponsor of this legislation, that information has been missing for far, far too long. i plan to lend my strong support to this legislation. i thank the gentleman for the time and for his courage in bringing this bill forward. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from maryland. mr. van hollen: mr. chairman, the gentleman's mistaken. we do get analyses now with respect to the economic impact. there's a provision in the house rules that i referenced earlier that asks for that and in fact joint tax has done exactly that. the figures i was reading with respect to the impact -- negative impact on growth in the outyears was from a dynamic analysis of the joint tax committee has done pursuant to house rules. what this does, again, is -- i will not on my time.

i was so dumb to ask her. i realize i was out of line. a friendly way and she picked up on that. hey, you were just lonely. it happens. this rebecca thing might be something we should talk about. definitely... but not now. um... we've both got work to do and these chats are great, but not on company time. all right. see you. all right. see you. this is christmastime. alex is going to l.a. you'll have a great time. you'll be back for new year's and we'll celebrate christmas then, o.k.? and you'll get together with vincent. promise? mr. wang got an important offer that could seriously improve his family's business-- to go to taiwan. this is the letter we've been waiting for. the letter? yes, from the company in taiwan. mr. wang: it's a definite offer. mrs. wang: they want you? mr. wang: they want me to work for them. mrs. wang: in taiwan? mr. wang: yes. vincent is really bothered by that because that would mean losing everything he knows. i think they should explain to him the situation and what is about to come and all that because kids...

celene would give me exactly what i asked for, which just thrilled me. fferent than i asked for. and 99% of the time, it would be something better than what i asked for. at first, i would go, no, that's not what i -- whoa, that's really something. and i'd forget about the idea i had. and that was the genius, part of the genius, of whitney houston. >> reporter: their first collaboration in 1992 was for the film "the bodyguard." a massive box office success, outdone only by the soundtrack, which sold 44 million copies. including hits like "run to you." ♪ i want to run to you ooh ooh >> reporter: and "i have nothing." ♪ nothing nothing >> reporter: but surprisingly, "i will always love you" almost didn't make the movie. >> i didn't even know the song. i'd never heard of it before. we had picked the song "what becomes of the brokenhearted." although on the surface, ♪ what becomes of the brokenhearted ♪ i sat in my studio and i did not one but two demos of that song, played the demos for her. she would go, really, do we really have to do this song? it's a nice

president, i would ask unanimous consent that i be able to enter into a colloquy with my colleagues from north dakota and nebraska. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. thune: mr. president, the president of the united states says every morning when he gets up, he thinks of what he can do to create jobs. just in the last couple of weeks, he turned thumbs down on a project that would create 20,000 shovel-ready jobs, the keystone x.l. pipeline is a problg that is teed -- is a project that is teed and ready to go. it would create 20,000 jobs immediately. and address a really important issue for this country, and that is energy security. we get up and talk about getting away from the dangerous dependence we have on foreign sources of energy, becoming energy independent. and now here we have an opportunity to do just that and at the same time create lots of economic activity here in this country, create lots of jobs and get people in this country back to work. and so it's a mystery to many of us as to why the administration and the president would not find this particular

i wonder if she bakes i never asked her but. this is a buddhist heart. each time i burned my body for you my heart remanipulained in . i watched the saffron flames engulf me seer my skin, flesh of a plum stripped of it's peel. tender and glowing like mars, i would rise to the sky for you to see me. in those moments i was your torch and we were united. united by the scents the heat the shutter. for love of another i'd say to myself, faithful in muted pain. my hope, my heart extinguishing as you stood there paralyzed each time like a still camera unable to look away. infraction. if my love were smooth and lustrous would you spit me open and fill me up again. would you kiss the scar you made of me name it and claim me like a mountain. bear witness to holiness where 2 rocks collide. if my was unpenetrable and clear would you search your whole life destroying me just to hold me to the light? i am listening you like rain that slips through fingers missing you like childhood dreams and mother's mill ik. like an earing under a bed. links of moon that pass. with y

green: i am -- can i ask for unanimous consent now, mr. chairman? the chair: there's been an objection to that request. >> i don't want to make an objection but i do -- the chair: the gentlewoman from the district of columbia is recognized. ms. norton: is it true that 5:40 is the end -- there will be no members heard on this issue after 5:40? i ask the chair. mr. gingrey: mr. speaker, i am going to have to insist on regular order here. mr. green: thank you, mr. chairman. the chair: the gentlelady's parliamentary inquiry is a three-hour time limit that has not been reached. for what purpose does the gentlelady from illinois rise? >> strike the last word. the chair: the gentlelady from illinois is recognized for five minutes. ms. schakowsky: you know, roughly 70% of us at some point are going to have difficulty taking care of ourselves independently and we're going to need some sort of long-term care or support, and as the population ages, of course, the need for these services only increases. you know, i've been listening to this debate and on the sub

i ask my colleagues to support the jackson lee amendment. stand up and be counted for the values of long-term care support here in america. i yield back, madam chair. the chair: the gentlewoman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? pethspeths madam chair, i rise in opposition -- mr. pitts: madam chair, i rise in opposition to the amendment. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. pitts: madam chair, this amendment continues to ignore the reality. the class program is simply not workable. keeping the class program and pretending that it will ever work does absolutely nothing and offers no help to he millions of americans who want to maintain their health. any effort to preserve a failed program on the books simply delays any real attempt to ensure every american has access to affordable long-term care coverage. from the start, the class program was a big government idea that independent analysts believed was flawed and unworkable. in fact, the obama administration officials pointed

i didn't know that's what you were asking. yeah, i would more than welcome your input or a decision on that particular -- that matter, and i'm happy to provide you with more detail about it if you'd like to the extent that i know it and again, so, please, yeah, i'd be more than happy for you to do that. and i can answer whatever questions that i can answer that may be relevant to it. chairperson hur: i suggest we take public comment and then perhaps we'll invite you back up, mr. selna. >> thanks very much. i understand this is unprecedented and there are unknowns for you but i truly do believe, given the limited amount of time and limited contacts that i had, it's a unique situation. so i appreciate your time. i appreciate you considering it seriously and i understand the challenge you're confronting. chairperson hur: thanks very much. >> good evening, commissioners, my name is joe boss, i'm a native of san francisco. i'm here because i saw rob selna's name on your agenda as i was perusing my favorite thing, city government. wh

i was asked to put together a collection of my transcriptions in 1990. was the first time that i had to sit down and transcribe all my music. until then, i had done it in my head. i learned things so fundamental that i did not know i was doing. sometimes i did not realize that there were extra beats, i would change the meter for two bars. in that process, i learned a lot. also, of teaching. when you start to teach, you have to think about what you're doing so you can explain it to somebody else in a meaningful way. i think it was that process of having to write and transcribe music that made me aware that you can analyze something, to benefit, but one needs to be careful that the analytical side does not wipe out the initial impulse to write music. >> there is that famous story where a music ecologist told john lennon that he ended a song in an alien cadence, and he says, i did? this program is provided by the commonwealth club in forum. tonight we are presenting music. i am here with alex degrassi, a grammy award winning guitarist. we will continue with

commissioner murphy: can i ask you one question? why don't you let the inspectors in? cause i believe in freedom. i have rights, just like i have a right to free speech. i do not have to explain to anyone why. it says in the fourth amendment i have these rights. it says i have a right to privacy in the california constitution, a right to dignity. i do not need to be exposed to unsolicited accusations. if they have a problem, they have no remedies. i am insisting on my rights. i think we would be a better country, quite frankly, if more people did that. commissioner walker: i am ready to talk about it. >> thank you for your time. the point is, there is nothing to abate, so the order is polonius. >> is the public comment on this item? commissioner walker: i appreciate the passion by which you deliver your position. however, in the city, thankfully, we have some losawsn making surew÷nnpr that apartmed spaces we rent to tenants, as a landlord, are inspected. that is called a routine inspection. when you rent to people, you agree to do that. a lot of landlords in the city d

secretary, that i wanted to ask. and then i will see if others do as well. and then senator hoeven can ask his questions when he's ready. i wanted to ask about the department's plans at los alamos national lab now that the chemistry and metal you are gy nuclear facility has been put on hold. for many years we've been total the replacement nuclear facility was necessary. now we are told there may be alternatives that the department wants to pursue. could you describe what changes in operations and staffing you anticipate at los alamos now that the cmrr has been delayed? >> well, much of the staffing, i don't think is directly -- so what we plan to do is go ahead and complete substantially the design of that building. so what we have been putting in previously was mostly engineering design. we're going to get to perhaps 90% of the engineering design part of it. that's very prudent for a number of reasons, because before you start construction, it's best that you have most of it designed. but you're correct. we are now putting that on hold while -- because of th

i think the best thing for a person is to ask you directly so i think people have to ask barack obama, he has saying he's a christian. so i think the question is what is a christian? a christian is a person that believes jesus christ is god's son who died on the cross who god raised to life if we put our faith and trust in him that god will forgive us of our sins. that is the definition of a christian. >> by graham's definition sounds like president obama is a christian, but graham isn't willing to accept it. >> i asked him when he was running, when he was a senator i asked him how he came to faith in christ. he said that he was working on the south side of chicago, in the community, and they asked him, the community asked him what church he went to, he said i don't go to church. they said if you work in our community you have to join one of our churches, then he joined the reverend jeremiah's church. >> by your definition he's not a christian? >> you have to ask him. >> this is becoming a pattern, is it not? last weekend rick santorum implying the president's christianity isn't legit

i ask my colleagues to oppose this amendment. mr. grassley: do i have time to tell people not to vote for wall street, vote for my amendment. the presiding officer: there's no time left, sir. mr. grassley: thank you. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there is. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: the presiding officer: are there any senators wishing to vote or change a vote? the presiding officer: are there any senators wishing to vote or change their vote? if not, the ayes are 60. the nays are 39. and the amendment passes. under the previous order, there will be two minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote in relation to amendment number 1481 as modified, offered by the senator from ohio, mr. brown. this amendment is subject to a 60-vote threshold. mr. brown: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. may we have order. mr. brown: mr. president, the amendment that senator merkley and i propose would require all senators and senior staff to sell individual stocks that create conflicts

i asked her to trust me and she said she would. hat made her great and the part that caused her to stumble in the end. whitney, if you could hear me now, i would tell you, you weren't just good enough, you were great. you sang the whole damn song without a band. you made the picture what it was. a lot of leading men could have played my part. a lot of guys -- a lot of guys could have filled that role, but you, whitney, i truly believe that you were the only one that could have played rachel marin at that time. [ applause ] you weren't just pretty, you were as beautiful as a woman could be. and people didn't just like you, whitney, they loved you. i was your pretend bodyguard once not so long ago, and now you're gone. too soon, leaving us with memories, memories of a little girl who stepped bravely in front of this church, in front of the ones that loved you first, in front of the ones that loved you best and loved you the longest. then boldly you stepped into the white-hot light of the world stage. and what you did is the rarest of

i asked him about the proposed cuts to the home energy assistance program. it is up to everybody to make the phone calls. it is a crucial program not that we don't want cut. i hope you can stay around for the upcoming sessions because we have great conversations coming out. a number of multinational corporations are actually approaching municipalities that are broke, why don't you let us take it over it will take off like wildfire. a4:45 for those of you that have to leave, thank you so much for coming. be sure to check out the incredible photos tonight. women all over the globe are taking to the streets to demand equal rights. [applause] supervisor chiu: i fully appreciate the concerns raised by some tenant leaders. i would never supported the project if i did not feel comfortable that tenant rights have been protected here with parker said -- part merced. i say this as one of the few tenants on the board of supervisors, who has been a staunch advocate of tenants before i was elected and with my votes on this board. my parents immigrated to the united states

president, i ask for the -- i ask for the second reading and object to my own request. the presiding officer: objection is heard. the bill will be read the second time on the next legislative day. mr. brown: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that notwithstanding the resolution of the senate of january 24, 1901, the traditional reading of washington's farewell address take place on monday, february 27, 2012, at a time to be determined by the majority leader in consultation with the republican leader. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. brown: and one of the great traditions in -- in this body. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the appointment at the desk appear separately in the record as if made by the chair. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. brown: i ask unanimous consent the senate adjourn until 9:30 on wednesday, february 15. that following the prayer and the pledge, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, the morning hour be deemed expired and the time twor the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day. that

i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. shimkus: thank you mr. speaker. i come back to the floor again this week to continue to bach about high level nuclear waste and its location around the country. and this week, you know, really sadens me because in the weeks past when i've identified the u.s. senators from the appropriate states, usually i would have more in support of moving their high level nuclear waste out of their state than who wants to vote to keep it in their state. and as i go to connecticut today and the states surrounding connecticut, it's really amazing mr. speaker, how many senators have gone on record to say, no, it's ok, we'll just keep this nuclear waste in our state for 15, 20, 25 more years. so with that let's look at the options we have here. the nuclear power plant that i'm addressing today is called millstone. it's in connecticut. and i always like to compare where the high level nuclear waste should be which is underneath a mountain in a desert in nev