senator cantwell. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you for this hearing and i thank the witnesses. i think combined, at least three of you employ about 100,000 people related to washington state, so thank you very much for that, and thank you for continuing to innovate in the business models. while we could have a lot of discusses here about a wide number of issues from net neutrality and bandwidth caps and online distribution rights and piracy and privacy and what the fcc is capable of doing and not capable of doing and simplicity. one of the things that i wanted to discuss or get your input on is just as we're talking about business models related to entertainment and the changes and what congress needs to do, to me there's one incredible opportunity with the advent of online content and distribution of that content, and that's in the area of education. and particularly when you talk about konnect and two-way devices, i'm curious about what you see, mr. westlake, as opportunities in the area of education. i could say healt

cantwell: thank you. i thank the senator from minnesota for her leadership on this issue and for her great service on the senate judiciary committee. i know as a former prosecutor she's provided a great deal of leadership on many, many issues, but having her voice on the senate judiciary committee has been very, very important for our country. i come here to stand with my colleagues who are here, the women of the senate, to say that we are standing up for women across america. we want the reauthorization of the violence against women act, and today we want to tell victims of domestic violence that they are not alone. we have to make sure that we are giving the tools to local governments, to law enforcement, the things that they need to protect the victims of domestic violence. today we're here with a clear message to the victims of domestic violence, and that is we will stand with you. and that we haven't forgotten and we're not going to let this bill be bogged down in political fighting, but we are going

one day i dressed up in my black suit which my roommate, john cantwell, an australian told me i lookedamn close to wearing black pajamas. but you see, i wanted to be cool because i was going out to meet my wife whom i had convinced to come in to saigon, even though the city was under rocket attack. i also put on black elephant hide boots, black shoulder holster and black shades. i carried a matching black elephant hide briefcase which was, of course, empty, but impressive nonetheless. and as i approached the entrance to the air base, two gis intercepted me. hey, man, are you part of that new secret force we heard was coming in country to turn this sucker around, they asked me and without batting an eye, i replied yes, son, but i can't talk about that right now. the truly cool guys i met were the black soldiers that we called bloods. but i think they carried being cool a bit too far like the brothers who wore black shades in the jungle when i, for one, wanted to see like i had never seen before. other brother who did not wear a flak jacket because it might wrinkle his shirt. there were

john cantwell joined in the early reports to say the enemy had gotten inside the embassy. if true, it would have been a major embarrassment to the united states. when american officials denied it later in the day, we in the press had to back down. we were accused for years to come of irresponsible reporting in that episode. but i eventually learned from veterans of a secret commando team who had been there that the embassy had indeed been invaded. john and all of the rest of us were right. john never lived to know it. it was killed in the may of fen sive along with two fellow aussies. i loved john just like a brother, too. over the years all we've heard is how we lost vietnam and what a great failure it was, and i hear this at every college campus i go to. but i suggested there was at least one great untold story from which we all can learn. i remember a sergeant major, a black sergeant major, a senior sergeant major in the marine corps, his name was edgar huff. he risked his life during the tet offensive when he decided to go out into machine gunfire to fall over the body

with ted stev stevens, his campaign, had used it to -- to set up a humor use site involved maria cantwell, both members of the commerce committee. and this was not humorous to maria or to ted, by the way. i would say there's probably some resource, let me get back to you on that. but the biggest problem is that most of the people who do th this -- they either can't be reached, because, you know, they are in romania or in southeast ease ya and registering a goe main name for $3 or if they are in america, registering with inaccurate information, you are going to be harold-pressed to track them down. or, they registered it before a more legitimate person and then they just want some money for it. so, it is -- if we could -- i wasn't involved in this when they started the domain name, the internet corporation for names and numbers, i worked on the senate side then. if i had been a little -- if i -- in retrospect, there are things we should have done differently. and we're hoping that we can, one of the areas where we have been involved, just because we saw so many problems, is trying to encou

i think we're told by senator cantwell in her state last year, two years ago in the election, they had 72% voter turnout. this year they're expecting 84% voter turnout. this is a country where we're lucky to have 50% of the people who actually turn out to vote and we can see what it can do in those two states. they can be laboratories of democracy for our nation. encourage voter turnout, maybe do it in a more cost-effective way and, get this, provide a new source of revenue. they are a great source *f revenue for the postal service. that's the sort of they think we need to keep in mind. i don't think there is any one silver bullet but i like to say there are a lot of silver b.b.'s and those are pretty big. those are ideas we haven't thought of yet we ought to do. let me just say, again, fairly close to the end, mr. president, but i don't mean to suggest that what the managers amendment to the underlying bill, the underlying bill reported out of the committee by about a 9-1 vote. the managers amendment craft bid senators lieberman, collins, brown, myself is not perfect. very few things

senator cantwell and others pushed very hard to get the tax provisions to be reinstated.he republicans refuse to do that. i assume, and this was something i'll take your word for, it appears that what they are doing is waiting until after the election to find out if they can use that as leverage. they are called the bush tax cuts. we would rather they are not called that, but that is what they're called. i think they're planning to read after -- to wait until after the election. >> there is nothing to debate until there is some agreement. we wanted to do that. we still want to do that. >> was wondering if you could give an update on another job still [inaudible question] >> yes, i still haven't worked out with senator mcconnell on what the ratio will be, but i hope to talk about it this afternoon. >> [inaudible question] >> we're not going to be the conference here. the speaker needed to get that in the bill so he could get his people to vote for this. but it is very clear now how we stand on this issue. we have voted on at a number of times. but maybe someone will come u

wyden: on behalf of senator feinstein senator cantwell, other colleagues and myself, i call up amendment number 020 and ask that it be modified with the changes that are at the desk. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. the clerk will report the amendment as modified. the clerk: the senator from oregon mr. wyden for himself and others proposes amendment number 2020. the presiding officer: under the previous order, there will now be two minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote on the wyden-feinstein amendment number 2020 as amended. mr. wyden: mr. president and colleagues, this amendment is for the more than 25 million americans, more than 800,000 of them serving in the military -- the presiding officer: the senate will be in order. mr. wyden: thank you mr. president. this amendment is for the millions of americans more than 800,000 of them, who served in the military and vote by mail in our system of government, the most open and free system of government in the world. mr. president, those millions of americans may vote absentee. they may vote in what's

cantwell: thank you, madam president. i ask that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. cantwell: thank you, madam president. this saturday marks the 51st verse of seattle's world's fair. the fair is a presentation of what the world would be like in the 21st century. the space needle was built and it gave us an iconic symbol that defines our skyline today. more than nine million people visited the world's fair in 1962. elvis presley stopped by during the film of a movie because the movie was called "it all happened at the world's fair." and all the visitors saw a very futuristic rendition of what boundless energy and innovative spirit in america would be all about. president kennedy opened the fair, highlighting the innovation and science in technology, and said is that these accomplishments are a bridge which will carry us confidently towards the 21st century. indeed, the world's fair was a bridge towards the 21st century especially for our washington state economy. the fair foreshadowed puget sound and the entire state as a