senator carper mentioned innovation. we are very pleased with the innovation we've taken on listening to our customers. you've heard about flat rate boxes. if it fits, it ships is great because customers can use this in many different sizes, different prices. all you do is put your package and you can even ship it from your home with free carrier pickups. we've got other products coming to sample box coming out. we think there's a lot of growth in there. here's something that's really interesting. we've been talking to the mailers about this. it's called a qr code. this ties in some of the latest technology he heard here so it works. he was a mailer to send to somebody's house. they take it out of their mailbox on the message says for information take your phone is scan the barcode. what this does is ask you up to a website where you can find out more about the product and buy the product online to conduct a whole transaction within about five minutes. >> you going to get a piece about? >> yeah, we've even talked to peop

senator carper mentioned innovation. we are very pleased with the innovation we've taken on listening to our customers. you've heard about flat rate boxes. if it fits, it ships is great because customers can use this in many different sizes, different prices. all you do is put your package and you can even ship it from your home with free carrier pickups. we've got other products coming to sample box coming out. we think there's a lot of growth in there. here's something that's really interesting. we've been talking to the mailers about this. it's called a qr code. this ties in some of the latest technology he heard here so it works. he was a mailer to send to somebody's house. they take it out of their mailbox on the message says for information take your phone is scan the barcode. what this does is ask you up to a website where you can find out more about the product and buy the product online to conduct a whole transaction within about five minutes. >> you going to get a piece about? >> yeah, we've even talked to peop

senator collins, senator carper mr. chairman it is a pleasure to be had thank you for inviting me to testify on behalf of the department of congress and the national institute for standards and technology on the administration cybersecurity said -- proposal. to maximize the countries affected some protecting the security of critical infrastructure networks and systems that rely on the internet will also minimizing the rate of three burden on the entities that it covers and protecting the privacy and civil liberties of the public. i will be addressing five important pieces of the proposal. the first is creating a security plan as senator collins discussed in detail. second is promoting secure data centers. third is protecting federal systems. forth data breach reporting and fifth private protections. the accountability through disclosure. requiring security plans administration is promoting visa private sector expertise and innovation over top-down regulation. importantly the proposal only covers the core critical infras

senator carper mentioned innovation. we are very pleased with the innovation we've taken on listening to our customers. you've heard about flat rate boxes. if it fits, it ships is great because customers can use this in many different sizes, different prices. all you do is put your package and you can even ship it from your home with free carrier pickups. we've got other products coming to sample box coming out. we think there's a lot of growth in there. here's something that's really interesting. we've been talking to the mailers about this. it's called a qr code. this ties in some of the latest technology he heard here so it works. he was a mailer to send to somebody's house. they take it out of their mailbox on the message says for information take your phone is scan the barcode. what this does is ask you up to a website where you can find out more about the product and buy the product online to conduct a whole transaction within about five minutes. >> you going to get a piece about? >> yeah, we've even talked to peop

senator carper's bill would do this. this has a minimal problem of competition in the private-sector since there would be no local competitors in most of the rural areas. thank you for considering our views and i will take any questions. >> please proceed. >> good afternoon, senator carper. >> we have about 15 minutes. >> a leading trade organization for markers and nonprofits reaching consumers directly members represent about 78% of the mail and 80 present of the postal service revenues. they're an important communication channel for all of the members and those of the magazine publishers and nonprofit mailers and the 21st century. and it's in the financial crisis. we agree with you on what you've done on the pensions, the pension obligations for every hour that is worked in the postal service has been fully funded by postage that we've paid. we also pay between 50 to $75 billion in the pension obligations for the hours worked before the postal service was ever created and that is a tax base also overpaid in the paymen

. >> and as judge carper pointed out, the ruling and the arguments made the department of justice have great ramifications for the minor parties. i represent a candidate and then chairman of the party and judge carter talked at length and in the transcript stevan further and i argued that some of linked about how a ruling such as this where for whatever reason a minor party cannot challenge simply because they are a minor party. the ability of a major party to perform a candidate that isn't eligible can in fact deprived relevancy and status. >> he was sympathetic to the bristol had the same concern the judge was raising the we are not in the posture of a campaign. that is not the posture of this case. there is a campaign in which the minor parties feel that they are being unfairly disadvantaged for any number of reasons have in the past and there's no reason they couldn't in the future raise the challenge you're trying to make. you keep saying you are brought in that league and have to deal the hand you're dealt. we have to deal with the hand that exists, you didn't file a claim at the

the other part is stephen carper himself.. those who don't like him don't like him a helluva lot in here he is tonight, 165. he's proved he does know how to but whether someone has that many ingalls even with a majority of this is another dynamic at play and i watched mr. ignatieff and his speech and it's a very effective -- >> you just make these things up. >> and mr. ray is over to the possibility that liberal party is of absolute crucial moments. it could cease to exist and that's an amazing thing. the last point i will make is the same as the panel in quebec they will be much more examined party and why it was the complete dissolution almost went exclusively is because the ndp already has a progressive number of positions that slide close to nationalism in quebec. what party is the ndp after tonight? it's a very good question. >> why don't we go and ask the panel? start with chanterelle on that one. [laughter] >> well, we are only a couple minutes away from jack layton taking the stage on a triumphant might. there is no q

i know that michelle joins me in saluting debra mullen and sandy carper for their decades of extraordinary service, especially as champions of our aspiring military families. with the advice and consent of the senate, it is our hope and expectation that leon panetta will soon take the reins as secretary of defense. general corporate's term ends this summer, admiral mullen's term ends this fall. i am announcing my choice for the successors today because it is essential this transition be seamless and we stay focused on the verge of national security challenges before us. i want to thank deputy secretary of defense bill lynn. with nearly 40 years in uniform, martin dempsey is one of our nation's most respected and, at best tested generals. in iraq, he led our soldiers against the brutal insurgency. having trained iraqi forces coming in as the nation must ultimately take responsibility for their own security. having served as acting commander of central command, he understands that in iraq and afghanistan, a security gains must go hand in hand. just as he challenged the army to embrace new do

butler. >> thank you, senator carper. him?do you call >> phil. >> for the department of defense, it is about today and tomorrow. secretary gates has made that a big priority. we work through pilot initiatives, state complicate -- state competitions. bute building competitions mentoring and coaching programs. those programs become the heart and soul of a we need to recruit from a national security base and the homeland security base. whether they going to the public-private sector, they are developing an aptitude and an attitude about cyber security. i was recently speaking for the cyber picture competition about a year ago predicted a month ago. we are now noctis polling from military institutions and high schools and colleges but greeting -- we are now not just calling from military institutions but we're going across the country to inspire kids to the next level. we're working through with limited funding, different ways to continue those programs. to me, those are the important elements. >> i am out of time. >> i have been

. >> good morning, chairman carper. i thank you for the opportunity to present to you the commission in addressing the financial crisis. the chairman regrets been unable to testify today. she has prepared written comments. i ask that these comments be made part of the official hearing record. >> without objection. >> in four months the usps will conclude its fiscal year and will not have sufficient borrowing authority to pay its bills. analysis for rate increase is related to a requirement to fund its health benefit premium. the postal service has paid $21.9 billion to fund these benefits through it all other things equal, without the requirement, the postal service would have achieved a net, the -- a net profit of that type instead it has accumulated losses exceeding $20 billion. this year it will exhaust its borrowing authority. you have proposed legislation to address this crisis and to build on a model of the puzzle accountability enhancement act. the commission supports the approach of your bill and in addressing t

. >> and as judge carper pointed out, the ruling and the arguments made the department of justice have great ramifications for the minor parties. i represent a candidate and then chairman of the party and judge carter talked at length and in the transcript stevan further and i argued that some of linked about how a ruling such as this where for whatever reason a minor party cannot challenge simply because they are a minor party. the ability of a major party to perform a candidate that isn't eligible can in fact deprived relevancy and status. >> he was sympathetic to the bristol had the same concern the judge was raising the we are not in the posture of a campaign. that is not the posture of this case. there is a campaign in which the minor parties feel that they are being unfairly disadvantaged for any number of reasons have in the past and there's no reason they couldn't in the future raise the challenge you're trying to make. you keep saying you are brought in that league and have to deal the hand you're dealt. we have to deal with the hand that exists, you didn't file a claim at the

additionally, judge carper wrote the letter that came to enter his chambers and in his final rulingsand to have access to those letters and have a hearing to provide my part of the story. my livelihood was affected, my provisions of the state bar were affected because the judge included in his order letters sent to him directly to his chamber and had no opportunity to respond to read this of the discussion and for all of those reasons, and i'm running out of time, this has to be the decision has to be overturned and i should get my right for the judgment and the discovery of the documents [inaudible] more information. >> thank you very much. >> may i please the court? the appearance of my counsel assistant u.s. attorney and of myself representing president obama and the other federal defendant. this is a limit to the matter before the courts -- >> where are you from? the u.s. attorney's office. in los angeles, yes. it is a limit to the matter before the courts and unless the court directs otherwise i wouldn't respond outside of the purview that there was no undue influence addressed

as the only bipartisan provision in the so-called obamacare bill, senator tom carper and i worked against some powerful interest groups to get the healthy behaviors act added to the health reform bill. our provision was modeled after efforts by safeway in the private sector to both improve health care quality and to reduce the costs of health care. essentially our provision rewards people in the form of lower health care premiums for making healthy choices such as quitting smoking. if we, as americans, continue to eat too much, exercise too little, and to smoke, it really doesn't matter what kind of health care reform we enact in this country. costs will continue to escalate. i hope that this provision will highlight the individual contribution that we can all make to reduce our health care costs, and certainly this legislation would not have become law if it were not for the spectacular job that michelle spence from my office did. as i mentioned earlier, i simply cannot list the number of things or the number of people on my staff who have helped me with legislation. we have accomplished

yeah, next is senator carper. >> thank you so much for joining us today. a month ago sitting right in the middle there was allen blinder who used to be the vice chairman of the federal reserve, and he was on a three or four person panel talking about deficit reduction and we asked a group of smart people of what they thought we ought to be doing. he said the 800-pound gorilla in the room is health care costs. we live in a country where we spend twice as much on health care than japan and they get better results. i followed up with the comment with respect to health care payments, what's your advice? he said, i don't know much about that. he said, but as a layperson, i say this, find out what works, and do more of that. that's what he said. find out what works, do more of that. democratic senators were at the white house yesterday with the president, and our republican friends were there today. we had a conversation about deficit reduction, and i shared that comment which i think are not only appropriate for health care, but really for the way we spend mone

additionally, judge carper wrote the letter that came to enter his chambers and in his final rulings he called for the plaintiff's attorney for the consideration and to have access to those letters and have a hearing to provide my part of e story. my livelihood was affected, my provisions of the state bar were affected because the judge included in his order letters sent to him directly to his chamber and had no opportunity to respond to read this of the discussion and for all of those reasons, and i'm running out of time, this has to be the decision has to be overturned and i should get my right for the judgment and the discovery of the documents [inaudible] more information. >> thank you very much. >> may i please the court? the appearance of my counsel assistant u.s. attorney and of myself representing president obama and the other federal defendant. this is a limit to the matter before the courts -- >> where are you from? the u.s. attorney's office. in los angeles, yes. it is a limit to the matter before the courts and unless the court directs otherwise i wouldn't respond outside

. >> senator carper. >> i just want to follow on that last question that senator collins was pursuing. i mention that senator bennett of utah had worked on disclosure legislation. it was maybe two congresses ago and this is an area where the banking committee had jurisdiction. do either of you know in the administration's proposal what legislation you drew from in order to prepare the administration's proposal in this regard? sure if we drew from that particular proposal. i think a number of different bills and ideas in this area were looked at. i suspect that was one. >> there was jurisdiction spread around. we had never moved anything forward. >> coming back to the partnership between the different agencies involved here, we had all of our equities lined up to work together to try and develop this in a way that worked for all the different kind of jurisdictions you have to have issues with. this is where we could have this kind of conversation move past some of those concerns. >> ok, another point that senator calls was making in talking about the name and shame discussion and how t

senator tom carper, "the president's budget is an important step forward." senator frank lautenberg, "president obama's budget presents a careful evaluation of what our nation needs." they all voted "no" last night. well, with frentdzs like that, you -- well, with friends like that you don't need enemies, as they like to saivment we will, , mr. bowles talked about the budget. he was rather stunned actually when it came out. came out i think on friday. and on sunday mr. bowles said, "it comes nowhere close to where they will have to go to avoid a fiscal night maimplet -- nightm" this is a man that president obama chose to head the deficit commission and he hammered this budget. said it is nowhere close. and it's nowhere close to doing what we have to do. so i just believe that what we went through yesterday was a sham, a mockery, a joke, had no meaning, it was nothing but politics, nothing but an avoidance of responsibility to help provide leadership. now, look ... we all know some serious choices have been made, and -- have to be made and i close with these

feinstein, franken, coons, blumenthal, klobuchar, whitehouse, brown of ohio, udall of colorado, durbin, carper, sanders, rockefeller, shaheen, schumer. mr. reid: mr. president, i ask consent that the mandatory quorum under rule 22 be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the senate resume legislative session and then proceed to a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that a time to be determined by the majority leader in consultation with the republican leader, the senate proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 61, there be three hours of debate equally divided in the usual form, that upon the use or yielding back of that time, the senate proceed to vote without intervening action or debate on calendar number number 61, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table with no intervening action or debate, that no further statements be in order to the nomination, these statements related to the n

and the second is that -- inconsistent with the first, that -- in some ways following senator carper'suestion -- is it necessary for the d.n.i. to be the senior intelligence advisor to the president in order for the d.n.i. to have the capability to be the leader of the intelligence community, two different questions related to that same dual responsibility. >> i think the d.n.i. should have both of those responsibilities. i don't think the d. nmple i. can have the additional responsibility of directing the c.i.a. that was a hand we dealt the d.c.i. and c.i.a. integrate the community and advise the president and i think it was extremely wise to cut those two off. but i think it is essential that leading the community and advising the president be combined in one person so it can be realistic as to what the community can do, number one. and number two, so that the director seeing the sorts of information the president needs can turn around and say we have got to work harder on problem x. it's important to the president. we aren't there yet. do it. sometimes people forget that the intelli

we have snow shower carper who is the chairman of our oversight subcommittee in the senate, and he had said one of the great regrettable outcomes of these events would be if we fail to learn from them. i imagine after 9/11, i'm sure there will be an international spirit of coming together and really wanting to learn these lessons after these tragic events. if i were to turn now to a couple of specific questions that i had, charlie, you had mentioned that the task team's efforts are very separate from our office of looking at lessons learned in terms of the kind of response we mustered internally, operation center and, again, some of these may be kind of procedural things of how we conducted these things. is there a time frame for review? is it going to be at all coincident with any of the lessons learned or recommendations that you bring forward, or is it entirely a separate effort? >> commissioner, it is running in parallel. it started while we were still in the operations center, and would i probably say it was last month that we concluded the information-gathering exercise from -- p

on october 29, 2008, before the honorable judge alexandre carper of the superior court of the new jersey i was awarded custody of my children. on that day, george carver clearly ordered three times that the children's passports both american and japanese be turned over to the attorney because she was an obvious flight risk. i did everything i could to ensure the safety and well-being of my children. i felt confident and had every reasonable expectation in the legal system with the ruling of judge carter and the strength of the united states government that my american-born children would be protected from being kicked out to japan. i was wrong. she was an employee of the japanese consulate in new york city issuing visas and passports. she used her position in the consulate as a tool to carefully collaborate the abduction of our children. she had replacement passports issued in the japanese consulate in chicago where she and her boyfriend and exited the country through chicago's o'hare airport. they carried out the abduction of our children on the japanese airline flight number nine build

president, that senator carper has looked into this also in his subcommittee. he has looked into this. and we have discussed the possibility of looking at something to get the department of defense to start taking better care of their -- of their active duty personnel and the veterans affairs -- veterans affairs department, department of veterans affairs to take better care of the veterans. we need to have better assessment of what's happening to these students and what's happening to the money and how much debt they're accumulating and what's happening to their education. what we're doing is we're basically handing over huge and growing sums of military money to for-profit schools without any ability to assess whether these schools are giving our active duty members or veterans any kind of a quality education that they deserved. the complaints i have gathered in the course of our investigation point to a deeply disturbing willingness on the part of for-profit schools to exploit veterans. i want to repeat that. our investigation shows clearly that a number of t

with senator carper on the subcommittee that deals in fraud, waste and abuse, trying to zero in on all that stuff, is there a way not to reinvent the wheel can work with companies like google and facebook, the social media? i know the entity is not to not reinvent the wheel at the base level and have to spend a tremendous amount of money and maybe incorporate a lot of what dirty out there so we can just add on and potentially save dollars. is that possible? >> having served at the county level, where i was actually responsible for the 9-1-1 system and knowing that history of prey merely the wired telcos as both providers of technology and equipment, i think this'll be one of the challenges as we move forward to next-generation one is to incorporate the other technology players into that in a way that does a system that we can continue to enhance without necessarily limiting ourselves to just what we know now. we look at the architecture of the systems them up to where we were and where we are going. they actually call them public safety answering points. it's not a network. you dial a

as the only bipartisan provision in the so-called obamacare bill, senator tom carper and i worked against interest groups to get the healthy behaviors act added to the health reform bill. our provision was modeled after efforts by safeway in the private sector to both improve health care quality and to reduce the costs of health care. essentially our provision rewards people in the form of lower health care premiums for making healthy choices such as quitting smoking. if we, as americans, continue to eat too much, exercise too little, and to smoke, it really doesn't matter what kind of health care reform we enact in this country. costs will continue to escalate. i hope that this provision will highlight the individual contribution that we can all make to reduce our health care costs, and certainly this legislation would not have become law if it were not for the spectacular job that michelle spence from my office did. as i mentioned earlier, i simply cannot list the number of things or the number of people on my staff who have helped me with legislation. we have accomplished a lot. i wish

carper: i'm always happy to yield a little more time to the chairman of the judiciary committee. i -- i just want to start off today -- i hadn't planned to say this, but i want to start off today -- i'm here to talk about business, small businesses, and how to incentivize job creation and job preservation. before i do that, i just want to take a moment of personal privilege and just to talk about the navy seals. i'm a retired navy captain. i spent 23 years of my life as a naval flight officer. before that i was a midshipman, naval rotc midshipman out of ohio state. we would do our summer tour as midshipmen being trained to be naval officers. one of our tours was down in little creek where we learned a little bit about storming the beaches of virginia and learned how to become marines or pretend that we were. we also later on as a -- this is a -- lieutenant j.g. being out in coronado before we went to southeast asia and having a chance to see in both places, both the little creek naval station and over at -- on coronado, north island naval station to watch the seals train, navy se

as the only bipartisan provision in the so-called obamacare bill, senator tom carper and i worked againstome powerful interest groups to get the healthy behaviors act added to the health reform bill. our provision was modeled after efforts safeway in the private sector to both improve health care quality and to reduce the costs of health care. essentially our provision rewards people in the form of lower health care premiums for making healthy choices such as quitting smoking. if we, as americans, continue to eat too much, exercise too little, and to smoke, it really doesn't matter what kind of health care reform we enact in this country. costs will continue to escalate. i hope that this provision will highlight t individual contribution that we canll make to reduce our health care costs, and certainly this legislation would not have become law if it were not for thepectacular job that michellepence from my office did. as i mentioned earlier, i simply cannot list the number of things or the number of people on my staff who have helped me with legislation. we have accomplished a lot. i wis

they want carper to lead on an interim basis. he has got interests to promote.r 12 months. that means the liberal party will not have a new leader before 18 months. the liberal party is broke now. they spent about $21 million during the election. they have less money to pay that. >> i heard the party president in alluding to that. they do not want to have a real leadership race. >> this is a party that has been searching for a leader for many years now. they cannot have one immediately. they rush into it and end up with similar problems. they need to take the time to rebuild and to look back at what they did wrong and why the voters have done this and said, we do not want you as official opposition. a lot of enough >-- soul-searching to do. >> the media analysis of the campaign showed that 70% was about the race and very little was focused on policy. their frustration was that, this was an elaborate plot form. there were platform option spelled out. they tried to articulate them. but it did not work. was it the attack ads? was it that the leader was crucified be

thank you chaplain carper for that wonderful invocation. i think we can all agree that this is a good day for america. our country has kept its commitment to see that justice is done, the world is safer, it is a better place because of the death of osama bin laden. today we are reminded that as a nation, there is nothing we can't do when we put our shoulders to the wheel, when we work together, when we remember the sense of unity that defines us as americans. we have seen that spirit, that patriotism in the crowds that have gathered here outside the white house, at ground zero in new york, and across the country, people holding candles, waving the flag, singing the national anthem, people proud to live in the united states of america and we are reminded that we are fortunate to have americans who dedicate their lives to protecting ours. they volunteer. they train. they endure separation from their families. they take extraordinary risks so that we can be safeguarded they get the job done. we may not always know their names. we may not alway

number five in my arguments, if we vote no on cloture, i just want to remind senators, senator carper and senator vitter's amendment will see no light of day. they have a good amendment they have been working on for three years that has had committee review to help expedite the sale of federal buildings that could save taxpayers millions of dollars. that amendment will go down. the cornyn amendment which establishes a commission to cut spending, which will also save taxpayer money and reduce the burden on taxpayers, that amendment will go down. senator paul's amendment to reduce spending by $200 billion, he will not get the majority of our votes, but there will be an interesting debate on whether we can cut $200 billion out of the federal government. we lose that amendment. senator hutchison has an amendment for us to debate all of the regulations in the entire universe on health care. people are complaining about regulations for health care. we're giving a vote on that. that amendment will not be voted on. senator carnd has an amendment -- senator cardin has an amendment to fix suret