under the previous order, the question is on bennet-isakson 2824. if there is no further debate, all those in favor please say aye. all those against say nay. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the amendment is agreed to. mr. harkin: move to reconsider that vote and to lay that motion on the table. the presiding officer: without objection. under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session to consider the following nominations en bloc which the clerk will report. the clerk: nominations, occupational safety and health review commission, heather l. mcdougal of florida to be a member. national science foundation, france a. cordovo of new mexico to be director. department of education, james h. shelton, iii, of the district of columbia to be deputy secretary of education. department of state, bruce himan of illinois to be ambassador to canada. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the question is on the mcdougal nomination. if there is no further debate, all those in favor please say aye. all those opposed sa

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kron four chief meteorologist jacqueline bennet is tracking the storm lingering over the bay area tonight. >> >> reporter:a low speed chase that gave a lot of commuters high blood pressure. we have the strange story of the stolen truck. the chase ended after the this is a full hour of your choice for prime time news. (male announcer): this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. >> catherine: a transgendered student has been assaulted. police are investigating the attack as a sexual assault and hate crime. it happened this morning at a hercules school. kron4s alecia reid is standing by with the latest. >> catherine: alexia - what are we learning about the attack.? >> reporter: victim has taken been taken in for sexual assault exam he will be we interviewed when he is a bit, but right now he does not remember his a tall attackers. attackers >> he made his way over to the health center where the police was notified. >> reporter:this comes after another fight involving a transgender student at hercules high school last november. >> reporter: live in her cleese. fish for >> cath

senator bennet. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'd like to thank you and the ranking member for holding this important hearing. commissioner, welcome back. i want to take a minute before ask my question to thank you for the fda's work over the last few years. it hasn't been easy to intimate a conference of fda reform bill while beginning to also -- compounding bill. you came out to my home state of colorado in 2011 and listened to many people in our bioscience committee all across the state or having difficulty communicating back and forth with the fda, and you made a commitment than that things are going to get better. and i can tell you that honestly, i've heard this to many people back home. facing a very positive change at the fda and i think a lot of that is due to your leadership. nothing is perfect, but i hear consistently how much things have improved at the fda and other have of my constituents i want to thank you. >> thank you. >> i also was pleased to see the imitation of a bill that i worked on with senators byrd and h

casting their net for shrimp but not always the catch they are looking for, for decades he has bennettingthe south of bangladesh except today there is pretty much no freshwater fish left to catch and it has been flooded with salt. >> translator: it's really sad, the freshwater fish here have a great taste and very sweet and flavorful and used to be very easy to catch. >> reporter: activists say saltwater intrusion is arming the rain forest, the largest in the world. >> translator: shrimp farming ruined our environment and neighbors and destroyed the communities in the area. >> reporter: and the damage doesn't end there. many shrimp farmers have gas and flood barriers like this one so water can flow in from the river to irrigate the fields. this weakens the barrier and making it more likely to break down when disaster strikes. he says all the salt in the area left her land useful for only one thing, shrimp farming. >> translator: all our rivers are full of salt. there is no option for us to grow rice on this land anymore so we have to farm shrimp otherwise we might as well sell off our lan

clearly, he was comfortable with bill bennet and probably went a little bit too far but the essence isunity for many years now. >> okay. jason, your thoughts on what robert has just said? >> yeah reince prebias is having a headache right now. when you say people in the inner city don't want to work it's a same thing as saying illegals. you are talking about latinos, not asian or middle eastern who are illegal immigrants. that's the meaning of the statement. it's a problem. going in to talk to the cbc not going to change the republican party's reputation with black voters. >> what do you think members want to hear? he's said that it was an inar it can late comment. what do you think they want to hear? >> changes into the budget because i don't think they change his heart. most of the people know paul ryan. they want to see changes in policy, not just rhetoric. >> bafdaphne, do you think the democrats sit back and wait for these comments? do you think some of the outrage could have an element of political maneuvering, too? >> they don't have to wait very long. if that's the strategy it w

ceo steve bennet has been fired. the company says the decision to let go of bennet was, quote, the result of an ongoing deliberative process and not printed by any event or impropriety. that stock is down by about 9% right now, down $1.90 to $19. >> nike shares taking a hit this morning. they reported fiscal third quarter profit of 76 cents per shares. that did beat estimates by 4 cents and it said sales were surging ahead of this summer's world cup soccer tournament in brazil. that gave an initial boost to the shares. the company reversed shares after the company's ceo cautioned currency headwinds would -- for this quarter. in the last week or so, we've had a number of companies come out .talk about currency head winds. we've heard venezuela and currency trend ratio there mentioned a number of times. companies such as general mills and others. so watch -- we always talk about currencies and people say, why do i care about the dollar? i don't trade it or whatever. this is why you care. >> and overall, it's been a hit

i ask unanimous consent that the bennet amendment which is at the desk be agreed to, the bill as amended be read three times, passed, motion to reconsider be made and laid on the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection, the committee has discharged on the various requests. the measures, they are agreed to. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to s. 2147. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. 2147, a bill to amend public law 112-59, and so forth. the presiding officer: is there an objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the bill be read a third time, passed, the motion to reconsider be laid on the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to h.r. 4076. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 4076, an act to address shortages and interruptions in the availability of propane and so forth, and for other purposes. the presiding officer: is th

. >> thank you, the very patient michael bennet. >> at long last. mr. chairman, first, i'd like to welcome my friend, senator warner from virginia to the kid's table. nice to be sitting at the big kids table but that will happen in time >> i feel like i'm getting younger and younger. >> mr. chairman, congratulations to you. we're all delight you're chairing the committee. my hope for you and for all of us is that this committee can become the model of bipartisanship this senate and this congress needs. i met, before i came here this morning, with my county commissioners in colorado. it's the most diverse array of people you can imagine. every political party was represented. urban and rural represented. people with very strong convictions and disagreements, who very easily came together on the six priorities they have for the state of colorado and the discussion we had suggested that the next 15 things on the list, if there were room for it, we could all agree on. i think one of those things, mr. secretary, welcome back, by the way, really is infrastruc

farmers are casting their net for shrimp but not always the catch they look for, for decades he has bennettingr in bangladesh but there is none to catch, shrimp flooded the areas with salt. >> translator: it's really sad, the freshwater fish here have a great taste and very sweet and flavorful and used to be very easy to catch. >> reporter: saltwater intrusion is harming the rain forest, the largest in the world. >> translator: shr i mp farming ruined or environment and neighbors and destroyed the communities in the area and the damage doesn't end there. many farmers create gas and flood barriers like this so water can flow in from the river toer gait their fields and this weakens the barrier and more likely to break down when disaster strikes and all the salt in the area has left their land useful for only one thing, shrimp farming. >> translator: rivers is full of salt and no option to grow rice on the land anymore and we have to farm shrimp or we might as well sell off our land. >> reporter: and he is the executive director of the bangladesh shrimp foundation and it's not fair to blame it.

joining us with his thought is bef bennet. jeff, what's been interesting is the micex rebounding.ou think? >> i think clearly the markets are assuming, for the time being anyway, that the geopolitical situation doesn't get any worse. and i think what the market is successfully doing is pricing in events as they are today. so the rebound in the index clearly assumes that we don't get an invasion from russia of the ukraine and whether that will happen or the sanctions tit for tat between the west and russia escalated significantly. the markets did come under pressure once again. so i think the markets are doing a pretty good job of pricing in what's going on now, but it's still obviously very dependent on how these events play out. >> what would you tell investors, if you're willing to take a risk, go back in. if not, steer clear? >> no. we're not telling investors to build positions in russia. he's given the rules of our game and a lot of emerging markets around the world. we're looking at a neutral position in russia. we think what the market has done is essentially priced in even

telling me our government can't run up twelve percent of the gross national product your fate can't bennet's trying to replace them way too reasonable for anyone in this government to be supporting jesse that's why i. came out i guess that's there will be that's why i brought up the good. you have the right if you made the right moves i wanted to really quickly i know that you you've talked about this kind of cold war resurrection and i just can't let you go without addressing it i know that you dedicated one of the off the grid to discussing this i mean i just feel i mean i can't imagine how you feel actually living through the cold war and then seeing us go back to how do you think this situation going to play out and how can we stop this fear mongering and warmongering in terms of russia versus the us right now before the frustration is nobody is paying attention to history it's. that simple and that old cliche if you don't read your history you're doomed to repeat it trust me it's happening in decades now not just in lifetimes people start reading your history people started studying wha

bennet. all knows in favor say aye. all opposed, say nay. the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed to. -- as modified. mr. harkin: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. harkin: madam, i move to table all the previous voice votes that we just had and then to lay that on the table. the presiding officer: does the senator wish to move to reconsider? mr. harkin: i move to reconsider and then move to lay that reconsideration on the table. the presiding officer: without objection. under the previous order, the senate proceed to executive session to consider the following nominations which the clerk will report. the clerk: dment of state, puneet talwar to benant secretary. legal services corporation, joseph pius pietrzyk to be a member of the board of directors. department of state, dwight l. bush sr., of the district of columbia, to be ambassador of the united states of america to the kingdom of morocco. the presiding officer: under the previous order, there will be two minutes of debate equally divided in the usual form prior to a vot