bennet, you said he had a problem with the military. take the whole fiasco, the bay of pigs, from that day on people have plans to kill him. some even called him a traitor. guest: again, i did not portend to be an expert on all the different theories of the kennedy assassination. in this issue, we found in our archives -- and it is just a very short, surprising little nugget of lyndon johnson quoted in a piece we ran, i believe, in 1973. in his view, some kind of cuban connection, not necessarily for the bay of pigs but other attempts to destabilize the regime or even kill castro. beyond that, we also published in this issue a wonderful short story by a man who is an expert on the assassination and has written voluminously on it for us and for others, in which he imagines a counterfactual and tells a story in which oswald loses his nerve and does not she kennedy and what could have transpired. host: connecticut, democratic caller. you are on the air. caller: hello, how are you? i am a subscriber to your magazine. i love your magazine. y

bennet: thank you. i we have to move this along to the president's desk. there are a lot of times when people wonder whether anybody in this place is listening to them at home and whether we're doing something other than just playing politics with each other. this is a clear case where people here have listened to the people in colorado who have generously from time to time helped people in other states that were confronting disasters, now it's our turn to ask for help and that help has been granded. so i want to thank senator udall for his leadership in particular but also all the members of the senate that made this possible. with that, mr. president, i yield the floor. i suggest the absence of a quorum. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from colorado. mr. bennet: thank you. i ask unanimous consent that all quorum calls during the period of morning business be equal -- charge equally to both sides and i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: without objectio

bennet: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from colorado. mr. bennet: thank you.e to thank my colleague mark udall for summarizing so well what we're facing out in colorado. i thought i'd share a few of my thoughts too. as senator udall said, our state is in the midst of unprecedented flooding that has wiped out entire communities in over a dozen counties across colorado. last week rain began to fall across our state, across the colorado -- our front range, and it didn't let up. a lot of reports have called this historic. but to get your head around the scale and scope of the damage, it's important to express what that means in hard numbers. in the course of one week, madam president, 21 inches of rain fell in parts of boulder, including over 9 inches on september 12 alone. the previous all-time high for a single day in boulder was 4.8 inches in 1919, and they kept records since 1893. the average annual precip ation in denver is 14.9 inches, for an entire year. on september 12, 11.5 inches poured down on aurora, to give you a sense of the order of magnitude here.

bennet: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that reading of the amendment be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. the clerk: the senator from colorado mr. bennet proposes amendment 1847. mr. bennet: thank you, mr. president. mr. vitter: mr. president? mr. president? mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from louisiana. mr. vitter: as i made clear previously but i will restate, i objected to, i continue to object to laying aside any amendment and making another amendment pending. we made that clear between floor staff of the minority and majority side. that was crystal clear. so i object. the presiding officer: we are on the amendment from the senator from colorado. mr. bennet: mr. president, i'd ask that my calling up of the amendment be vitiated out of respect for my colleague from louisiana. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. vitter: mr. president, if i can just very briefly thank the senator. that is a very generous and gentlemanly thing to do. th

jacqueline bennet has a look at the areas affected. >> pam, the areas affected will largely be the higher terrain. right now, wind gusts are still in the 20 mile an hour range in a number of places. fairfield, 20 miles an hour. winds on the peninsula have been fairly breezy. here's a look at the winds in effect from thursday until friday. winds could be as strong as 35 miles an hour we'll talk more about the fire danger and show you how long the winds will last coming up. >>> police have arrested and charged a man they say shot and quailed san francisco state student as he was getting off a muni. this is a photograph of the suspect taken right off a shooting. it happened at brandon. bryce says it appears this attack was random and unprovoked. the man is identified as justin valdez. >> reporter: very nice and approachable. that's how the people who knew justin valdez described him. he was a sophomore at san francisco state university. >> there's not a lot to say. it's sad to know someone's a victim of circumstance. >> reporter: students having a tough time understanding why valdez was kill

and i note senator bennet's here. i think he and i would agree, this is moderate damage represented in this photograph. there are many, many other scenes in our state where the roads are completely gone. you don't even know there was a road in the canyon like this one here. but this gives you a sense of what we have to do to repair all of this infrastructure. many towns, as i'm implying, have seen their roads that provide access in and out of their communities severely limited. in fact, there are a couple of communities that have literally been cut off. but the good news is that there are emergency relief dollars for transportation projects that have already been exproapped they'rappropriatedand they're a. why do i come to the floor then if that's the situation? well, there's an arbitrary statutory cap of $100 million per disaster that applies to these funds, and this could limit the flood relief that we receive and then unnecessarily delay repairs not just this year or next year but for decades. but historically -- a

bennet said he had a problem with the military.ake the whole fiasco, the bay of pigs, from that day on people have plans to kill him. some even called him a traitor. again, i did not portend to be an expert on all the different theories of the kennedy assassination. , we found in our just as -- and it is very short, surprising little nugget of lyndon johnson quoted in a piece we ran i believe and 9073 saying he never believed that oswald acted alone. a piece we r, i believe, in 1973. in his view, some kind of cuban connection, not necessarily for the bay of pigs but other attempts to destabilize the regime or even kill castro. beyond that, we also published in this issue a wonderful short story by a man who is an expert on the assassination and has written voluminously on it for us and for others, in which he imagines aount cfactual and tells a story in which oswald ands his learn -- nerve does not she kennedy and what could have transpired. host: connecticut, democratic caller. you are on the air. caller: hello, how are you? tom s

senator inhofe, senator carper, senator hoeven, senator bennet, senator ayotte, senators collins and others over the last 24 hours. and i look forward to getting the amendment actually called up so that we can move forward on this. and i would urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to find unanimous consent agreement so we can move forward. it seems to me we're pretty close to that, having followed the proceedings this morning it seems like every time we get closer there is another concern that gets raised. i think we need to figure out how to resolve the health care issue in a way that does permit this chamber to have its voice heard but then get back to this underlying legislation and to these amendments. this is something we've worked on now for two and a half years. it's something that i think is the result of the kind of bipartisan effort we ought to be doing around here. how can you find common ground to actually move the country forward on things that help create jobs, help our economy, and make us more competitive as a country, but also have an environmental and energy

when you look at a guy like robert bennet, in the senate for several terms, look at orin hatch, he ultimately prevailed, you know, when you look at the entire party infrastructure in kentucky, mobileizing against rand paul and losing, i think that sends a large message to other republicans, and i think its influenced of the republican leadership that sent the republican leadership a message that the tea party is a faction to be reckoned with. >> mitchell, attending middle state university. in listening to everything you said, i have a variety of questions about spending and how that might be affected by inflation, and about parties, ect., but there was one that seems like this whole issue in general, not just what you talked about, but including that and everything else seems to come down to something that has very deep implications. vast question with a great deal of gravity because of the implications. at what point would you say, if ever, we go past the point of political fighting and start a real fight to actually perform some suction on the government going past merely the political proc

financial dam in the flow of what would normally be a flowing economy that has many stakeholders and many bennet many beneficiaries but when you put in a an artificial dam like quantitative easing and you give away all the power to people like warren buffet you create what we have now you've got a few people to have yachts and the have nots what he does also mention that is that earlier as you saw that he said that you know this artificial wealth the fact . like the dam the dam will one day break and it all just evens out and it goes back to where it was and perhaps even worse because quite a few villages got wiped out along the way as you know the water keep flowing down once you stop the quantitative easing you're going to have that well that won't then that amount of extortion and it's a matter of what i call financial terrorism because he's saying that look if we if you want to take this dam away that gives warren buffet free money every day then you're going to suffer the consequences of a torrent of cash which comes into the system and causes hyper inflation so they're threatening people o

bennet: and that's my point. i think we're dealing with something that's so far out of the mainstream of what political actors, at least in my state that are elected that are republicans or democrats would support. i think it's important for us to call attention to that because that's what we're dealing with. and i see the senator from minnesota is here. my last observation on this is, i can tell you this -- if one of us represented a state government that opened and closed its doors or threatened to open and close its doors every single year, i can assure you that they would look to do business -- business would look to do business in some other state, not in the state of which we work, and that's what we're doing to the united states of america right now. we've got so much going for us. the innovators throughout the economy, innovating. natural gas is cheaper than it's ever been. we can build this economy if only washington or a few actors in washington would get out of the way. with that, i yield the floor. ms

i am joined by representatives and my good buddy michael bennet, and i just want to say to them, you have been andedibly responsive, thanks for letting me take a look. . i wantissioner is here to thank them for being incredibly responsive. we were in the air about an hour touring the devastation. it is devastation. the stories i have heard about the sacrifices individuals have made, about a sense of community and how individuals have pulled together is pretty amazing but not at all surprising. group to thank the fema and the red cross, all the people here. one thing i was saying to the director of fema -- i have been doing this a long time and visited an awful lot of disaster site in my career, and the difference with today as opposed to 5, 6, 7 years ago, and they were good then, but the difference is you walk in here, and it is one-stop shopping. peoplee a group of inside and and other centers around this state that they're looking to find an answer for you. you are not giving telephone number. they are not saying, call this number. they are saying, walked three end of the to the t

i'm here in the kron4 weather center with chief meteorologist jacqueline bennet. >> jacqueline: it will get out of their summer is not over yet! '60s at the media cosign and 66 with half moon bay and 69 with seven cisco. things are loaded cooler in livermore with being in the eighties before in now and the '70s. looking at our satellite ryder picture we have clear skies of the bay area and keeping our eye on the storm to the north. once it passes through we will see warmer temperatures for friday in the week end. patchy low cloud coverage and for thursday in a little bit more money into that. with a look at how one with your extended forecast coming up. you can see the blue skies and call coverage but not much. i will be showing you throughout the show. >> pam: >> jacqueline: and lots of viewers sending their nice weather pictures to us. here is one of them. like our kron4 facebook page -- and send us yours -- i'll be showing of them throughout the show. >> pam: how much will people be pain for obama care under the new plan? but first. firefighters now getting the unbelievable. shhhhh!

i talked to senator bennet yesterday. he said the floods were biblic biblical. in one part of colorado, it rained 12 inches in two hours. i can't imagine that. fires all over the west ... climate change is here. i met with the foreign minister of bangladesh. they don't know what they're going to do with the rise of the sea, which is taking place. that country has no place -- there's no high ground. it's that way all over the wor world. martial islands -- 1,000 islands manx the martial islands. -1,000 islands make up the martial islands. these people are being washed away. they're spending all of our time, the american taxpayers' time, trying to repeal a law that's been in effect for four years. we should be doing is something about immigration reform. they talk about wanting to do something for the economy. try passing immigration reform. it creates to the positive $1 trillion. it would reduce our debt by $1 trillion. let's do that. let's fix our broken tax system. we should be doing those things, not relitigating a four-year-old policy battle. instead of workin

>> i am michael michael bennet from the air force. he said that khrushchev respected strength. what did he think of eisenhower after the minimal u.s. response to the hungarian uprising and when pleading for help, with the wall have gone up during the eisenhower administration? >> well, one moment, i think we don't know what he said exactly after that. and i cannot answer that question directly. but i do know that in the context of berlin, that there was this moment when they have been negotiating it a little bit and had turned out nothing useful. so eisenhower decided i would like to get to know this man a little bit better. and he invited him to washington and to camp david. he had been escorted around the country. and then khrushchev met with eisenhower at camp david. essentially he did what he always did, which was to talk in such a backward way that nobody quite knew what he was saying. but they thought might be okay, but they weren't sure. and you know how it is. the famous moment when everybody was confused about what they should say. because i said i will describe and co

host: james bennet is the editor-in-chief of "the atlantic." iq for sharing the stories part of the special, rented -- thank you for sharing the stories part of the special commemorative edition. now we turn to the house of representatives, about to come in. they will be observing a moment of silence to mark the 12 anniversary of the september 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's room, washington, d.c., september 11, 2013. i hereby appoint the honorable tom reed to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, john a. boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the house will now observe a moment of silence in memory of the victims of the terrorist attacks on september 11, 2001. will all present please rise for a moment of silence. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to

reid of nevada, mikulski, donnelly, durbin, whitehouse, bennet, leahy, heitkamp, schumer, warner, heinrich, kaine, baldwin, coons, king. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum required under rule 22 be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, i now ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to a period of morning business, senators permitted to speak therein for ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to executive session to consider the nominations on the seetary's desk in the air army, ny,hat thenominations ben bloc, the motion to reconsider made and laid on the table with no intervening action or debate, that no further motion be in order to any of the nominations, any related statements are printed in the record and president obama immediately notified of the senate's action and the senate resume legislative session. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to calendar number 13, s. 252. the presiding of

>> i am michael michael bennet from the air force. he said that khrushchev respected strength. what did he think of eisenhower after the minimal u.s. response to the hungarian uprising and when pleading for help, with the wall have gone up during the eisenhower administration? >> well, one moment, i think we don't know what he said exactly after that. and i cannot answer that question directly. but i do know that in the context of berlin, that there was this moment when they have been negotiating it a little bit and had turned out nothing useful. so eisenhower decided i would like to get to know this man a little bit better. and he invited him to washington and to camp david. he had been escorted around the country. and then khrushchev met with eisenhower at camp david. essentially he did what he always did, which was to talk in such a backward way that nobody quite knew what he was saying. but they thought might be okay, but they weren't sure. and you know how it is. the famous moment when everybody was confused about what they should say. because i said i will describe and co