provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable benjamin cardin, a senator from the state of maryland, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the previous order, the >> the u.s. senate holding this brief sessions between now and the november midterm elections. no votes are plant into a monday, november 14. as always you can find the senate live here on c-span2. and now we take you back to our booktv programming. >> likely for me they didn't because, you know, i thought every day was going to be like, get the scoop. >> okay. so ass i was reading the book i had a running dialogue with myself like, , well, which are e worst, you know? i kept going back and forth. clearly there are a kind of varying degrees of guilt but i'm wondering if you had a thought about which one you thought was the worst? ng about the patriarcs or the like the entire family's or yeah both. yeah. i mean in terms of patriarchs, i think that i can't really distinguish. i think there are

provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable benjamin cardinsenator from the state of maryland, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the previous order, the >> the u.s. senate holding this brief sessions between now and the november midterm elections. no votes are