i know he voted against this bill. i wonder what role he might have played during this legislative period and whether he or any of the men who voted against it later repudiated their opposition to the bill. >> most notably, senator byrd did. he made it clear in later years he regretted his vote on the civil rights bill and said that many times. others did down the line. it took time for some of them. ervin played important role in the debate. they had these interesting colloquies throughout the process. they would get a person on the pro and con side that would go to the chamber. they would essentially take the title of the bill and debate it back and forth. it made for interesting debate. it makes interesting reading in the congressional reading, which is not usually the case. even for a street -- history geek like me. ervin was often chosen to present the constitutional arguments because he was an expert on constitutional law. he made these learned and eloquent arguments. that becomes his role through that process. h

in short, this bill is a good bill. i note that most of the transportation funding, a total of just over $50 billion, comes from our highway trust fund. and as we all know, right now the highway trust fund is headed towards a crisis. the department of transportation expects the balances in this fund to reach critical levels later this summer. to deal with this uncertainty, states now are already bracing for the worst-case scenario. some states, like arkansas, have already put their projects on hold. this crisis could also hurt workers in the construction industry who depend on jobs to repair our roads and bridges. if congress does not act, a shortfall in the highway trust fund will put at risk the funding that we have included here in our thud bill. we need immediate action to solve that crisis well before october, when the new fiscal year starts, and we need to work together to avoid that unnecessary and preventable crisis. but in the meantime, i'm glad we are turning to the transportation and housing bill and getting

cycle bills. it provides $20.9 billion in discretionary funding for important agriculture rural development and f.d.a. programs. with this legislation we ensure america's farmers and ranchers who contribute billions to our economy, as well as create jobs and put food on our table, have the resources this need to continue to remain successful. we have provided responsible funding for programs that work to stop crop, plant, and animal disease that can cripple u.s. producers and entire industries. funding is also directed to programs that help conserve and protect farmland and improve water quality and food safety. in addition, this bill also provides funding for infrastructure development, housing loans, and aren'tal assistance and economic opportunities -- and rental assistance and economic opportunities for america's communities. these vital loans and programs help foster an environment for economic growth and will help rural america thrive. the committee also prioritized the safety of our nation'

bill: dr. oz hitting quite a bruising on the senate bill.ctors claim certain weight loss products are "miracles." >> if you spent time when your show telling people that this is the seven things you should know, there isn't magic in bottles, there isn't a magic pill. >> i say the thing that my show all the time. >> why would you say something is a miracle in a bottle? >> my job is to be a cheerleader for the audience when they don't think they have hoped or don't think they can make it happen and i bring hope everywhere area did any evidence that may be supportive to them. bill: dr. oz says he will be more careful in the future with using his name to support products. i think the issue was the green coffee bean. it's just sheds weight. apparently not. martha: that is what you use, right? bill: i will have to try it. martha: more on that later. first the president said they will be no boots on the ground on the situation in iraq, now he is reportedly holding off on the issue of airstrikes as well, so what does that leave us with in this quest

this bill does all those things. and so we have a lot to thank you for, congressman gardner, for what this bill could accomplish. and i appreciate that. let me address a couple of points that i think have been erroneously made. some said that current users of natural gas won't benefit as much if this bill were to become law. that is simply not true. there is such an abundance of natural gas in this country that we can supply domestic needs and at the same time have liquefied natural gas exports to our friends and allies. we can do both and everyone will benefit. the shale gas revolution in this country is so amazing that that has made this possible. and secondly, someone -- some have said there will not be the same quality of environmental reviews of l.n.g. if this takes place, and that's simply not true either. the federal energy regulatory commission maintains its role to permit the citing of facilities just as under current law and ferc, as it's known, will have nepa to conduct an environmental assessment and e.i.

so when we finish this bill and the ag bill, we will be half through the 12 bills. that's not happened in many years. we are moving at a remarkable pace and if our colleagues in the other body continue their good work as well, we stand a great chance of completing this important work on time. this is an even greater achievement because we've done so under regular order, with open rules that have allowed every member to have his or her voice heard. over the five bills we've considered on this floor so far, we've had more than 200 amendments and i'm sure we will add to that tally today. week of taken great care to weed out waste and excess and terminate duplicative programs. this year alone -- i ask for an additional one minute. mr. frelinghuysen: i yield the gentleman an additional minute. mr. rogers: we've done all of this while abiding by the ryan-murray budget agreement. before i finish, mr. chairman, i can't help but compliment the chairman, the new chairman of this subcommittee, this is his maiden voyage after becoming chairman of the defense appropriations subc

bill: and i'm bill healther.he court now winding down its session but the justices have a couple more days to do this, and today might be one of them. there are four big cases on the docket still, and we're expecting at least two of the rulings to be released today. martha: shannon bream is live at the supreme court. we got a couple big decisions yesterday which leads some watchers to think that we may get a couple of these big ones today as well. tell us about the two big ones. >> reporter: okay, the hobby lobby case, a for-profit company's challenge to the hhs contraception mandate. by law if these employers provide insurance to its employees -- and hobby lobby says it's what they want to do -- if they do, though, they have to make sure they have cost-free access to 20 different methods of contraception. hobby lobby objects to four of them they believe can cause abortions. so a big challenge to a key portion in the health care law. the second big case is a challenge to the president's use of executive power. he

thank >> thank you bill. bill has touched on the key to making things work in this country is that our political leaders who come with a partisan and philosophical perspective sit down and come together on an agreement that doesn't satisfy 100% either side. and i think through this whole process going through the budget there are a lot of actors with different perspectives on how to get that done. one of the individuals that made a huge difference was the leading republican on the house budget committee, someone who understood the details of the budget and someone who had enough respect among his colleagues to come along and that is former congressman william frenzel. >> thank you john. it is a real delight to be here. i always considered bush 41 to be my president. it is always wonderful among to be his friends. i'm grateful that i have been included. john said i knew what was in the budget that is why i cried a lot. [laughter] as bill hoagland pointed out it, it was obvious that the 1991 budget was a bone o

this is a tough bill. it's a good bill. but it's a tough bill. they had to squeeze some oversized feet into undersized shoes given the allocation that they had to work with. but they came through with flying colors. so i enthusiastically urge my colleagues in the house to vote for this bill because it's the best we can do, and it's a great bill. but also i want to say in closing as a tribute to these two fine public servants, i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from arizona is recognized. mr. pastor: mr. chairman, waints to thank chairman rogers for his kind words. we have worked together for many years and over those years we have been tible do appropriation bills, also developed great friendship. thank you, chairman rogers. i would like to yield to the ranking member, mrs. lowey, as much time as she may consume. the chair: the gentlelady from new york is recognized. mrs. lowey: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you to chairman latham, ranking member pastor for your outstanding service to the congress, to the country. t

bill: bill cowan, thank you for your input. your sense of history and your analysis what is happening in the world today. thank you, sir. we'll reach out to ed henry. we spoke to him a short time ago. he is traveling with the president in normandy. we'll get a better sense what the exchange was between vladmir putin and barack obama. arthel: first face-to-face exchange since the ukraine crisis started. so got to get details on that. >>> meanwhile there is growing concern that a prisoner exchange is making american troops less safe. is the bergdahl swap for five taliban leaders a setback in the fight against terror? replace your laptop? start with the best writing experience. make it incredibly thin. add an adjustable kickstand, a keyboard, a usb port, and the freedom of touch. and, of course, make it run microsoft office, with the power and speed to do real work. introducing surface pro 3. the tablet that can replace your laptop. add brand new belongings from nationwide insurance... ...and we'll replace destroyed or stolen item

>> only once. >> and what about bill? >> bill has i think five children by four different women. he's been married three times. and his kids range in age from i think late twenties to -- i think he has a toddler. >> they're not involved with coke industries? >> no, not at all. >> what about his twin brother, david? >> david has only been married once. his wife's name is julia. she hails from arkansas, i believe and was a former assistant to the fashion designer when he met her. they have three kids and their eldest is in their teens. >> david lives in new york and you say his wife had trouble when they first got married getting along with some new york city. >> david travelled in high circles and his wife was not -- she's -- by all accounts she's a down to earth person and not a society lady. and when you all of a sudden go from having to chair the met gala there's a bit of a learning curve and there is certainly some caddiness at the upper echelon of new york society. she was certainly on the receiving end of that. there were some nasty anonymous sniping in the gossip pages and

you don't get their billing. they get their billing. >> right. >> so they are going to have to set up systems comparable to what you are going to set up if you can set it up, which i'm not sure you can because of the comparison to nsa. what about them? they can't afford to do this. all of their customers and all that billing information is just free and clear. >> well, senator, they actually are subject to fisa and other authorities. the fbi could go to such, even very small companies with fisa orders. many of them don't have the infrastructure and just drawing from my fbi experience, law enforcement agencies and agencies like the fbi are used to dealing with that. in some cases they have to do more of the work on the government side. i think though that that is, these requirements, the security requirements, for example, already exist in fisa. it's not just peculiar to both collection. other kinds of fisa orders require that we handle this in a cleared environment, that we observe all the security procedures tha

this bill does that also. and we need the intelligence authorization acts to promote fiscal discipline. this bill makes cuts to certain areas and adds money in other areas in a responsible, well thought out, fiscally prudent way. the result is a budget below the president's request. since chairman rogers and i have taken charge of the committee, we have recused the budget by 20% without reducing capability. i do want to acknowledge also senator feinstein and chambliss if working together with us to do what's right for our country and national security. the unclassified legislative text in this bill is similar to what the chamber debated last month. it makes changes to the security clearance process, it requires detailed reports on matters like electronic waste and chemical weapons in syria and it promotes education in science, engineering, technology and math. it also added three substantive provisions that promote transparency, oversight and accountability. first the bill creates independent senate-confirmed

which one is bill? >> bill is bottom right corner. >> what you can tell us about him? he's 74 years old. >> he got a ph.d. in engineering in m.i.t. and ends up joining the family company in 1974. bill had always been sort of a gawky teenager and felt awkward and he had some childhood resentments against his brothers, bill and especially his -- his brothers david and especially charles. this derived from the fact that charles and david were always quite close and bill sort of felt like the third and lesser wheel. >> he's a twin. >> fraternal twin of david. he felt growing up that charles used to whip up a lot of resentments and hostilities between the twins and provoke fights between them. indeed when they were growing up they got into some real battles. some of them were so fierce that they had a property for man that used to carry around boxing gloves and would when these guys got into it he would put the boxing gloves on so they wouldn't injury each other. >> where does bill live is and what does he do? >> he lives in palm beach and created a successful energy compan

bill: and i'm bill hemmer.ing to have questions on the hills, angry lawmakers getting fed up with the excuses they're hearing too. the agency claims a computer crash wiped out more than two years of e-mails. lawmakers are not buying it. here is the chairman of the committee, dave camp, says the e-mails are not the only thing missing. >> what i didn't hear in that was an apology to this committee. >> i don't think an apology is owed. there are not a single e-mail has been lost since the start of this investigation. every e-mail has been preserved that we have. we have produced or will produce by the end of -- >> you don't think the time period between january 2009 and april 2011 is relevant to this investigation? >> it is a very relevant time frame -- >> all right, the letter we received on friday the 13th admitted that the lerner e-mails were lost for this two-and-a-half year period -- >> they were lost off her hard drive. >> let me finish, and i'll give you an opportunity to answer. >> that's fine. >> but you

pastor: this bill is below 2014 bill. so we had a number of our colleagues speak about the lack of funding about their particular program and throughout this evening we are going to have other speakers talk about the lack of funding and programs. and this amendment would cut programs in transportation and housing without any thought to the relative merit of the program contained in the bill. and so for that reason i would oppose this bill -- excuse me -- oppose this amendment and yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the question's on the amendment offered by the gentlelady from tennessee. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it. the amendment is not agreed to. mrs. blackburn: i ask for a recorded vote. the chair: pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlelady from tennessee will e postponed. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? the clerk will rea

bill steiger -- you bet. bill and i had gone to college together. we had served in the legislature together. we served in congress until he died at an unfortunately early age. i remember in those days, when bill was explaining washington to me, he started talking about who he thought would be the top leaders of his party over the next 10 years. he said, and it proved to be correct, the best we have got is george bush. i think there are a lot of people in washington who worked with president bush who felt that way over the years. i say that not just because of leadership that he showed on this budget deal that we are talking about, but also because i was chairing the foreign operations subcommittee during those years. we worked very closely with the bush administration on the fall of the eastern european countries, helping move them from centrally controlled marxist economies into more market oriented democracies. we work closely with him on the middle east. that took courage. even on the war in iraq, when i differed with the president, he was master

they filibustered that bill. we warned at the beginning of this week that senator sanders was going to be bringing back up his bill again, today, on thursday. so senators who have been yelling so much about v.a. health care and bad access to health care, they would finally have a chance to put their money where their mouth is and not filibustering the thing and fix the problem. it then there was some weirdness. the committee wasn't going to be meeting on thursday at all. that their u meeting to discuss this bill had been moved, delayed. why, right? what funny business is going on. today was supposed to be the day that bernie sanders brought up the bill. turns out there was something fascinating going on behind the scenes. >> thank you. and i'd like to say the to senator from vermont that i respect a great deal the work that he has done on this legislation. i respect his commitment and his leadership of the veterans affairs committee. i respect the fact that bernie sanders is known as a fighter and it's been a ple

bill for workers. the idea was to do what we -- what is at the top of every governor, every governor's agenda in every state right now -- how can we -- how can we help more americans have the job skills to fit the jobs? when i was home in granger county last weekend, a concern of tennesseans was it's too hard to find a job, it's too hard to keep a house. what can i do to get a job? this legislation we're dealing with today for the first time since 2003 reauthorizes about nearly $10 billion of funds that will be spent through local councils, through community colleges, through state governments to help individuals in north dakota, in washington, in tennessee and georgia have the job skills to find a job. it will make it easier for them and it has the great advantage, madam president, of not doing it from washington but creating an environment where people can do this for themselves. our former democratic governor, phil braddison said to me, when he first became governor and went over to find about the $

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bill: 6:00, right? martha: exactly. bill: bring it home.egend pete rose band d from baseball for a gambling scandal not giving up on getting a second chance. the first time in 25 years he will manage a baseball team, he will be on the field for the bridgeport bluefish in connecticut. but it is not the world series but it is on the field. how are you doing, good morning to you. >> it might be the world series for some of those young players playing tonight. i don't know. bill: i will grant you that. you have in fighting for a second chance and you still think he will get one from the commissioner, but the league. this is the first step to reinstatement? >> all of a sudden we decided to ask what i like, i would love to be around young players looking for an opportunity making a big box, they are hungry and they want to play their game of baseball. if i can help them, so be it. i will bring a big crowd o out there tonight for them. i am sure but it is up to speed what is going on. we have baseball buzzing as far as me doing this tonight, which

take up the senate bill. doesn't make sense that we would do that in a normal course of legislative business. this is the way the process works. the house, the senate get together, we work out the issues that concern all of us. -- i d ask the minority would request the minority to not use this motion to instruct in one single political ad. i hope that i don't see this vote used in any political ads because our committee does things in a bipartisan fashion. congressman michaud and i have worked together diligently to keep the vote from becoming partisan. i cannot see any other reason to have the vote today on the motion to instruct conferees to accept the senate-passed legislation after we have done the same thing in the house, passed the same bills in the house that they could take up on our side, yet we are going to see to the senate position. -- cede to the senate position. with that i urge defeat of the motion to instruct, yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the chair re

bill: you're okay with this deal?he end president obama did something celebrating in the rose garden secon second-guessit position. it is not all about politics because the men who served with him have serious questions about this as well. there are a host of people with concerns you cannot write off. bill: thank you. martha: new fallout of the rules to deal with climate change. why lawmakers are calling this a job killer. bill: controversy over one of the best known around. okay, listen up! i'm re-workin' the menu. mayo? corn dogs? you are so outta here! aah! [ female announcer ] the complete balanced nutrition of great-tasting ensure. 24 vitamins and minerals, antioxidants, and 9 grams of protein. [ bottle ] ensure®. nutrition inharge™. does your mouth often feel dry? a dry mouth can be a side effect of many medications but it can also lead to tooth decay and bad breath. that's why there's biotene. available as an oral rinse, toothpaste, spray or gel, biotene can provide soothing relief, and it helps keep your mouth

your cable bill or your electricity bill because in the past we really haven't seen any mass shut off in detroit like we are seeing currently if you ask people on the other side however people like the detroit water brigade they will say this people simply cannot pay their bills because of what is going on this city so right now in the city there is a forty percent poverty rate and an eight percent unemployment rate and people are really having a hard time kind of paying those bills off now just to give you an idea of how high those bills are those bills have gone up one hundred twenty percent in the past ten years so it is much higher than the national average here and there are a bunch of reasons for that including aging water infrastructure and fewer people actually using the water but the national average is about forty dollars for a monthly water bill here in detroit it is sixty five dollars every month for your water bill and on top of that the detroit city council just approved another measure that will raise rates another eight point seven percent on july first adding five mor

now, there are bills in congress. i am wondering if you can talk about why they are making traction then and why we should be discussing that. >> breaking up the banks is entirely a reasonable idea. i do have questions for those who ask it. aid to what side? if we are going to break institution so no one institution is big enough to threaten us, then they all have to be no bigger than lehman brothers was in september of 2008 because that failure was one of the precipitating causes. secondly, how are we going to do it? who is going to buy them? i don't understand what the mechanism is. there is the volcker rule. as i look at the causes of this, i think 100% securitization is a big part of the problem. nothing in glass-steagall would've prevented countrywide from making all those lousy loans and securitizing the 100%. nothing would've stopped a idea from screwing up as badly as it did -- aig from screwing up as badly as it did with derivatives. if people want to break up the banks -- they may be too big to manage. as i

bill: and i'm bill hemmer. the white house considering its next step.cing closer to baghdad. the jihadist rebels today targeting a town about 37 miles north of baghdad. meanwhile, in washington several options on the table, one said to be calling for sending up to a hundred special forces to help train iraqi troops. martha: a lot on the table. chief white house correspondent ed henry is live on the north lawn, so what are you hearing today at the white house? >> reporter: well, martha, what's interesting is all these options that you say are on the table. think about the fact that we've already sent, now, 275 troops to help secure the vast u.s. embassy in baghdad. so remember on friday, before the president headed out of town, he was standing in front of marine one on the south lawn and saying, look, i'm not sending any combat troops back to iraq, very carefully adding that word "combat." he is sending troops, technically not combat troops, 275 of them to help secure the u.s. embassy, relocate employees, make sure there's not another benghazi-type situa

reform bill muc. the house of representatives acted decisively to bring greater accountability to the v.a. three weeks ago. today they are moving forward on a bill that includes many of the provisions introduced in the senate last night. now that we have a bipartisan v.a. reform bill in the senate, we should be acting with th acth the same sense of urgency. if democratic leaders really want to make things better for families, they wouldn't be focused on gimmicky show boats. they would be working with republicans to fix the v.a. crisis. they would back a repeal of the obamacare medical device tax, which has already cost tens of thousands of jobs and will cost many more if it isn't repealed. they would support republican efforts to repeal the obamacare 30-hour workweek, which has resulted in last hours and decreased wages for way too many workers in this country. and they would embrace legislation to halt the devastating e.p.a. rules the president has proposed and to protect millions of american familie

this bill extends children's advocacy centers. let me talk for a few minutes about what children's advocacy centers are and why it's so vital to public safety in our country. children's advocacy centers allow communities to bring child abusers to justice without retraumatizing their victims. children's advocacy centers are unique because it's a model that brings together under one roof in one place law enforcement, prosecutors, counselors and child service professionals, all focusing on how to best care for and move forward with a child who has been a victim of abuse. in delaware, we have three senators, one in each of our three counties. although i wish we didn't need them, the fact is that they are indispensable. in my experience, in a decade of local government, i was exposed over and over again to the critical role that they play in helping law enforcement secure critical evidence and move forward to conviction against the monsters who commit abuse against our children. since the creation of these centers, they have transforme

bills.they say they want more border security but what do they know about the border that our republican colleagues from arizona -- john mccain and jeff flake -- don't know? what do they know about the border that senator flake and senator mccain don't know? we have 21,000 border agents. we're putting another 21,000 on the border if this bill were passed. we spend more money on the border than we do all other federal law enforcement combined. but they say that there's not enough border security. not that they've passed a border security bill. the only folks who have are here in the united states senate. we should be asking how many more agents do they need? how many more billions of dollars should we spend? if the house wants to secure the border first, which the senate bill does, let's see their legislation. we're waiting. i for one would like to see them think about customs agents and trade instead of adding more billions of dollars at the border. the most common excuse we've heard is the

i am bill hemmer.lcome to a brand new hour of "america's newsroom." >> i am in for martha this morning. government forces are scrambling to protect the capital city as thousands are fleeing from sections under military control. president obama is considering all options to support iraq's central government. u.s. lawmakers are pushing for a swift action before the situation is worse. >> i don't know what the president is being told but what i heard today scared the hell out of me. the worst is yet to come and this place has fallen apart. >> get a new national team in place. you have been ill served by the national security team and the discussions you have placed now and the decisions you made. >> windly gold is live. it is going to be a big day. is there any indication people are looking to what people like senator mccain are saying and calling a new national security team? >> not really bill. he is always unsure of changinging the people during pressure but they are doing what we wanted. it is malkies

our bill is simple. it requires that the president prove that this rule will not cause job losses, that it will not increase energy rates, that it will not hurt our country's economic output. we know the president's regulations will put america at an economic disadvantage, but i worry that we won't get a vote on this commonsense bill or even done as an amendment. and that's a real shame because i think a majority of this body would support the bill and oppose the president's proposal. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. portman: mr. president, thank you for recognizing me. a momentous occasion is occurring tomorrow, and that is the 70th anniversary of d-day. 70 years ago tomorrow as the american people slept in their beds, the greatest naval invasion in history was underway. on d-day, june 6, 1944, tens of thousands of american soldiers, sailors and airmen joined allies from around the free world to begin what general eisenhower called a great cr

this bill, mr. speaker, protects the interests of taxpayers and allows the federal government to manage its property portfolio more efficiently. i urge my colleagues to join me in supporting this bill. mr. speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from alaska is recognized. mr. young: mr. speaker, i have no further speakers and at this time i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from alaska yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from indiana is recognized. mr. carson: mr. speaker, may i ask my colleague, mr. young, if he has any other speakers? mr. young: i have no other speakers. mr. carson: all right. mr. speaker, i continue to reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from alaska has yielded back. mr. carson: well, i yield back the balance of my time as well, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from indiana yields back the balance of his ti

i'm grateful i've moved bills through here, highway bills, water bills. my friend knows that the two big amendments that his side wands to offer don't deal with -- wants to offer don't deal with ordinary matters; deal with matters that have jurisdiction in the environment committee. deal with a repeal of parts of the clean air act and a repeal of parts of the clean water act. so my friend wants to move forward. i'm sure he would agree that to repeal parts of landmark laws on an appropriations bill is legislating on appropriations and ought to require 60 votes. it's wrong. now, i would say to my friend why the other side is so determined to repeal a law or two laws -- one dealing with the clean water act and the safe drinking water act, and then the other one is the clean air act. why my friends on the other side continue to go against these laws, these landmark laws, which, by the way, were signed into law by republican presidents, he has to explain. because i don't understand why people want to put children at risk and families at risk, pollute our river

it's a great bill. a 95-3 vote i think indicates that people worked hard, put together a great bill that -- that meets the needs of our country in training our new work force for the future. again, i just want to thank senator alexander, our ranking member, for a very, very close working relationship on our committee. i would note for the record that this passage of this bill marks the 14th bill reported out of our committee during this session of congress -- during this congress that will go to the president for his signature. our committee just met a little bit ago and we are now reporting another bill, the -- the autism cures bill, which we hope to have again before the senate very shortly also for passage. so our committee has worked very hard across party lines to reach these agreements. again, i thank senator alexand alexander. on this bill especially i want to thank senator isakson and senator murray for just sticking with it. this bill took five years and a lot of ups and downs, a lot of knots t

my bill closes the loopholes. if a company wants to share your location, it has to get your permission first and put up a post online what the company is doing with your data. once the company is tracking you, it has to be transparent or else has to send you a reminder that you are being tracked. those requirements apply only to company getting your location of your device. all they have to do is put up a post explaining online what they are doing with their data. that is it. these rules are built on existing industry best practices , and they have exceptions for emergencies, theft prevention, and parents tracking their kids. the bill is backed by the leading anti-domestic violence and consumer groups. without objection, i will add letters for the record from the minnesota anti-dramatic views: anti-domestic abuse coalition, and other supporters of my bill. this bill is just common sense. before i turn it over to my friend, the ranking member, i want to make one thing clear. location-based services are terrific. i

bill. live coverage of the senate is on c-span2. guest chaplain, gloria chaney-robinson who is a senior pastor, shiloh baptist church in scranton, pennsylvania. pastor. the guest chaplain: let us pray. eternal lord god, we pause in these revered halls to give thanks and to offer petition. we acknowledge in this place, you have called all humankind to exhibit righteousness and justice. you desire harmony, accord, peace and wholeness. bless now, the representatives who gather in this place of policy and procedure. we ask oh god that you would impart the gift of now vision and future sights. we pray for your gifts of discernment, sensitivity and perceptiveness. for those assembled, present, give and grant the posture 6 of patience of cooperation. to those in debate, discussion, discourse and duty, allow calm clarity. allow truth to reign, justice to reside, and mercy to resonate. keep ever before us the broken, the disappointed, those in despair, and the destitute. set ears to hear the cries o

this bill, mr. gardner's bill, achieves that goal. the passage of this bill will move the united states yet another step closer to both assisting our allies abroad as well as creating a more robust domestic industry at home. the second bill included in today's rule, h.r. 3301, the north american energy infrastructure act, authored by chairman upton of the energy and commerce committee, further improves the laws governing the permitting of oil and gas pipelines which cross the united states border between either mexico or canada. the country has witnessed over the past few years, despite overwhelming support from the american people for the project, that president obama and his secretary of state, first hillary clinton and now john kerry, have refused to approve the keystone pipeline to bring oil from canada to the gulf of mexico. those of us who have followed this process over the many years that this administration has had the keystone application under its review know that the delays which the president has imposed on this approval

>> the bill had to be written by the legislature. no bills are written by other folks. >> then, do we have that... so this is scott fitzgerald, and he says on this that, well, you can see for yourself. >> so he says, no, they wrote it. and scott fitzgerald, as i understand, is a conservative republican that voted for the bill. >> yeah, but you'd have to look at the, uh, the draft of the bill that comes out comes from the legislative reference bureau. >> how important was the money spent on lobbying to getting the bill passed? >> i mean, i lobbied on the bill, i think that uh, i'd like to think that i had a, had an impact in it. >> to ensure passage of the mining bill that gtac helped write and lobby for, the company's allies spent almost $900,000 on tv spots alone to defeat jessica king, one of the mine's opponents in the state senate. >> ... mine, and 3000 high-paying jobs. >> the money spent to defeat king made it the most expensive wisconsin state senate race of 2012. it also secured the majority gtac and its allies needed to pass

a tale of two bills. one is an example of how we can get things done to address the need to get things done in our country and the other is a missed opportunity to address one of the single i am pedestrianments in the -- impediments in the american dream and that is higher education. today higher education is no longer an option. we need to make that more accessible and more affordable. and it is my hope in the weeks and months to come we will be able to put aside the desire to turn this thing into a political tool and come together to solve this problem because there is $1 trillion of student loan debt sitting out there and there are hundreds of thousands of americans who desperately need to acquire some sort of higher education, and they can't afford it or they can't access it or both. and they deserve, they need us to address this issue. because this cannot be an american century and the american dream will continue to slip out of reach for millions of people in this new century unless we make the acqu

offered on the bill. however, in no way does this rule restrict members from offering any and all amendments to the underlying bill. the rule further provides for 4457, sideration of h.r. america's small business tax relief act of 2014, and h.r. 4453, the permanent s corp built-in gains recognition period act of 2014, both under a closed rule. by bringing these two bills here today, members will be allowed to debate the policy of each of these tax provisions individually rather than as a single omnibus tax extender legislation currently passed at the end of the year that would not allow members to weigh in individually on each extender. h.r. 4800, the agriculture and related agencieses appropriations act of 2015 provides almost $24 billion for the department agencies in the bill. this is funded at the same evel as fiscal year 2014 and $457 million above the president's request. the bill provides critical funding for agricultural research, animal and plant health, conservation programs, the farm service ag

call the bill. for goodness sake, call the bill. debate it, vote on it. i'll accept whatever comes, but what i won't accept is ignoring these problems, blaming them on someone else and putting off to sometime in the future the reality of the responsibility we should face today. i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from arkansas. mr. boozman: i ask permission to speak for five minutes as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. boo.: as a son of an air force master sergeant and a member of the senate committee on veterans' affairs, i take very seriously my responsibility to represent the interest of those who have served our country in uniform. when it comes to our nation's veterans, their commitment to country is without question and our country's commitment to them should be the same. put simply, our veterans deserve better. that is why i'm pleased to see that we have come together to address this crisis in the senate. these men and women have served and sacrificed on our behalf as a

to do three bills wrapped into one.version of transportation, housing and urban development bill and science and criminal justice. they may have a third bill, that's not certain yet. over in house this week, they're planning on doing next week -- they planning done doing the defense spending bill. they're a little ahead. as time ticks away, looks like neither chamber will complete all 12 bills. we probably see the hurry up carryover bill. >> also on capitol hill next week, g.m. ceo mary berra will be back to testify. she will be testifying on gm ignition switch recall. she was there in april. what do they want to hear from her now? >> they want to hear why aren't things going better. she came in with the reputation she will fix things. they want to know details what exactly she's got planned going on from now. >> you write about other issues congress will be looking at this year including the release of sergeant bergdahl. what's the status? >> they will be long running and never ending until 2016. the benghazi investiga

as a big part of the bill that i support. stalking legislation is part of about i remain concerned some of the stifling innovation. do you want to address back? senator flake, thank you. we see that self-regulation has been effect is and up to the and up to theive task giving control on the desk top environment and we're bringing it to the mobile environment. the desktop environment we have been in for over three years and later this year we will be releasing the mobile choice app which has been a work in progress now for about a year. we released a mobile guidance and an industry code for how to display notice. earlier this year, it has been a four-step process that will actually make that guidance and forcible. >> do you share mr. atkinson's concern that some of these new are interactive and that there is no way even for best actresses or businesses to band together for notification if there is no interaction with the user. in your view, does that stifle innovation? >> one reason we think self-regulation works -- i want to

bill is 100% right. there are fewer people starving, fewer people sleeping without a roof over their head. fewer people that are illiterate. life expectancy is generally longer. by any rational measure, things are better. that doesn't mean every place or every person and there will always be a bottom 20% and we will always redefine what that means, but to say that all of the foreign aid and the moneys that the bill and melinda gates foundation or bloomberg or lots of other generous people have invested, hasn't done anything -- that is just not true at all. we have a guy, a doctor in africa, who is trying to get numbers and find out what people are dying from. if you can't measure it, you can't manage it. we don't know. a lot of times you look at birth certificates that will say act of god. that doesn't tell you where you want to put your money to save people's lives. bill and melinda working on polio, this is the chance of really eradicating this disease like smallpox or both of us working on malaria, or