carper claim that he could not recollect making them.senator neeley remarked he found such a lapse in memory to be highly suspicious and said lieutenent i'm going to probably break the injunction of secrecy but i think i should tell you that this committee will hear evidence of payment after payment of cash that was made to you by dope peddlers for protection. this astonishing accusation shock some viewers but not others. for many black d.c. residents the remarkable thing about the carper testimony was not police corruption but the willingness to discuss it publicly. one african-american lawyer interviewed with fellow residents admitted that the hearings were brought to light were a large segment of the population known all along. senator nealy's charges against carper were vindicated the next day when dope peddler james roberts appeared before senators. the calm demeanor and saturn i space presented the public with the picture of a lawful if not rip morsel man as he told the story of dealing illicit drugs in his interactions with d.c.'s

carper, head of the narcotics squad. on march 17th, the day of carper's appearance before the senate, finally arrived. the lieutenant's ill health and recent hospitalization. two local television stations carried the program live and radio station wmal agreed to rebroadcast the interview in prime time evening hours. as with the legendary hearings on organized crime, an air of anticipation buzzed around the committee room. senators confronted carper with his own financial records and asked him to explain the more than $4,000 in deposits to one of his checking accounts. carper claimed he could not recollect making them. senator neely remarked he found it highly suspicious and then blurted: lieutenant, i'm going to probably break the injunction of secrecy, but i think i should tell you that in executive session, this committee will hear evidence of payment after payment of cash that was made to you by dope peddlers for protection. this astonishing accusation shocked some viewers but not others. for many black d.c. residents

carper: mr. president? picking up where i left off, i just want to say that i don't think we need -- we the congress need to micromanage this process. we don't need 535 congressional law enforcement officers, so to speak. rather, we need to spell out the goals, the priorities for border and port security, which this bill does. we need to give the department of homeland security the tools, the resources, flexibility it needs to get the job done, which this bill also does. then we need to let d.h.s. do its job, but while at the same time providing -- continuing to provide responsible and robust oversight. not just here, not just here from washington, but along the border itself. it's what i now do and what my committee on homeland security attempts to do and what my colleagues and i will ensure we do as this bill is implemented strongly and effectively. still, as strong as our border defenses have become and how stronger this bill will make them we cannot defend our nation entirely at the border. one of the w

carper: that was wonderful. i'm just sorry more of us weren't hear to hear those -- here to hear those words. the senator holds the seat held by robert bird, i believe was the longest serving person in the history of our country to serve in congress, a record maybe now eke claimed by john dingell from michigan. but most worthy successor. he and i know the -- another notable west virginian who has just rising out of national prominence to serve our country as a new director of the office of management and budget, grew up in west virginia, graduated from hinton high school, played on the girls' basketball team, she is a bobcat as i recall, sylvia mathews burwell. and it's a state that has produced certainly a lot of coal, natural resources, but also a lot of good people and a lot of good leaders. came to us from west virginia having been two-term governor, two-term governor of the governors' association. he was marked maybe for greatness. maybe for greatness. i think his wife -- his wife has a birthday tomorrow, w

chairman le leahy and senator carper agree. this legislation will make it virtually impossible for undocumented people to work so they'll no longer have an incentive to enter illegally. this is what my two colleagues said in their letter. "we need to stop focusing our attention on the symptoms and start dealing with the underlying root causes of illegal immigration in a way that's tough, practical, and fair." that says it all, mr. president. this bill does that. but there's one thing this bill does not do and should not do. it does not and should not make the path to citizenship contingent on attaining border security goals that are impossible to measure. that would leave millions who aspire to become citizens in indefinite limbo. we've got to move past this. six years ago we tried to do something about it and the situation only got worse. this legislation is critical. mr. president, if we made those goals impossible, the legislation would be a failure. this would give opponents of citizenship both in the senate and an opportun

>> i appreciate the question, senator carper. >> before you do that, i have questions for you. this is a warm-up. is there anything in your background that might present a conflict of duties? >> no, i am not. >> is there anything that would prevent you from fully and honorably discharged in the office that you have been nominated for? >> no, i do not. >> these it was are out of the way. -- the easy ones are out of the way. thank you for your time. >> the three ingredients you need to cook anything up in washington are there. you have a proposal from the administration. you have a version of the bill from the house and you have your own version of a bill from the senate. the question is, can we work together to coalesce around some basic principles. we all share the view that we need to efficiently and effectively use these federal assets. we need to not only ensure we are fully utilizing the assets we have under our control, but that we are realizing the most value from them and disposing of them when we do not need them anymore. the disposal process is complicated because you

it's been introduced by tom carper. it goes to his committee. he introduced it on january 24th, durbin, boxer, murray, the two maryland senatorrings endorsed it. had goes to his committee, he authored the bill, and he refuses to hold hearings on his own bill. maybe you can address that. >> the idea is to have three people well supported on every member where they know everything about the member, back home, here, there, everywhere, and they coordinate with each other, and there's 1500 people whose hobby would be to keep. every month they say how many more do you have; right? how many more do you have? in other words, you have to have a laser beam. you have presidents -- i guess president obama, when you questioned him, did he say he was forit? >> he's never said he's for it, and it took him four years to put the license plate op. >> i don't think he'd veto it; right? >> i don't think he'd veto it, but do it at midnight. [laughter] >> anyway, we need the exercises. there's $11 million, get statehood in two years, what would you do? so much of the

i think it is senator carper in the sanner kc. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i've been another meeting on immigration reform and i see your sons and a daughter made well-done neo. how old are they? >> and is 11 if there is two and a half. >> the fact that they showed up with you is i think a compliment to them. when my boys about 22 at a colic spent time in the worked for about half the year they are in clean energy issues and so forth in a really challenging times with a good experience for him. we have to visit again and learn more about the country threw him into our own time there. a number of my colleagues have argued raise the issue of india. as you hear today the real concerns are important. we get along well and work with into part aren't a lot of ways what issues are i.t. aviles here. the house is very mindful of those. the other thing i would say when people ask how to make the economic pie figure for the united states might talk about investing in three areas. one is in a world-class workforce in the second is to invest in infrastructure in the thir

1408 talking about unauthorized immigration transiting through mexico; a carper-coburn 1344, d.h.s. office statistics; 125, a--1255, as modified. senator coats, 1288, changing alternatives to detention programs; feinstein-kirk 1250, authorization for the use of the c.r. trust fund; hagan 1386, reauthorizing the bulletproof vest program, something that began as a bipartisan bill, ben nighthorse campbell, a republican from colorado, and myself. heinrich 1342, extending the hours of operation at port of operation in new mexico; another requiring a report to d.h.s. to congress; biometric exit pilots weight times; kirk-coons 1239, allowing certain minority leaderrization requirements be waived for u.s. air force active duty members who receive military awards; klobuchar-coats, adoption amendment; landrieu 1338, talking about everify; landrieu-murkowski 1382, public-private partnerships expanding land ports of entry; landrieu-cochran 1383, requiring reports to a program; landrieu 1341, requiring d.h.s. to attempt to reduce detention daily bed rate; leahy-hatch -- i mentioned that one only

, senator carper from democratic, senator king from maine, myself from west virginia, senator alexander of tennessee. those are four former governors. we know we had to work together because we had to make things happen immediately. at the end of the year everything had to balance out. then we are senator burr and senator coburn who have been here and understand finances as well as any people in this body. so i respectfully ask as we go away -- and i want the students and all the people that have loans right now not to worry. july 1 will come. we'll come back here probably by i think the 9th or tenth of july. that will be the first order of business we both ask for. both of our bills will be on first order of business. i assure you we will come up with a compromise agreement that we can work out that will give the relief that the students, those who are desiring an education, those who want to better their lives will have that opportunity and be able to have some stability and not have the increased rate passed on because we'll make this retroactive. so with that, i would yield the floo

if we come back one year from now, chairman carper, and this that has not been done, and a contractor is not either fired or made to do what they are supposed to do, what we ought to do is see about cleaning house at cms. in ais another layer continuing saga of not applying common sense and recommendations to fix problems. i look forward to hearing the testimony. the problem is real. it is not a problem of waste of dollars. it is wasted lives. medicare is allowing that through cms. the fact that people have identification and medicare -- in medicare, and we have a contractor not catching the fraud, not prosecuting the are wastingys we that contract money based on what we have seen in the ig report versus what the contractor has done. my hope is we are not back here in new york, and we can say, way to go, cms. ,ou have put it into action and we will not see this happening again. >> a new member, the first hearing he has joined us. he comes from the state of new jersey. we are honored to have you join us in the u.s. senate. we are delighted that you have ended up on our committee. norma

158, as modified, with changes that are at the desk; carper 1590, coats 1288, coats 1373, coburn 1509, coons 1715, flake 1472, heinrich 1432, heinrich 1417, heinrich 1559, heitkamp 1593, klobuchar-landrieu-coats-blunt 12 61, klobuchar coats landrieu blunt 1956. landrieu-cochran 1383, leahy 1454, leahy 1455 morty 1451, murray-crapo 1368, nelson-wicker 1618, reid 1223, reid 1608, schatz-kirk 1416, shaheen-ayotte 12372, stabenow 1405, toomey 1236, udall of new mexico 1241, udall of new mexico 1242. the presiding officer: is there objection? mr. cornyn: mr. president? the presiding officer: the republican whip. mr. cornyn: reserving the right to object, i want to compliment the distinguished chairman of the judiciary committee for the open process that he conducted in committee to process amendments on both sides of the aisle and the open and transparent way that was done. that stands in stark contrast to what's happened here on the floor where we've only had ten amendments that have had roll call votes compared to 46 roll call votes the last time we debated comprehensive immigration refo

i spoke this morning with the chairman of the homeland affairs committee, senator carper. he has some ideas. he's preparing amendments. senator carper is very thoughtful and i'm sure he will do something that he feels will improve the situation on the border. he's gone as a member of that committee and chairman of that committee all over the southern part of this country looking at what's happening on the border. so, the bipartisan proposal before the senate takes important steps to strengthen border security. it also makes crucial improvements to our broken immigration system. so families like james and sharon's are never subject to this kind of anguish again. while this legislation isn't an instant fix for immigrant families, it does provide a pathway towards earned citizenship. it doesn't put them at the front of the line. it puts them at the back of the line. they have to stay out of trouble. they have to work, pay taxes. and focus on learning english. that's what it's about. passing meaningful immigration reform will be good for our national security. it will be good

1408, carper-coburn 1314, collins as modified 1255, coats 1288, feinstein 1250, hagan 1386, hendrick 1281, heller, kirk and coons 1239, klobuchar and coats 1216, landrieu 1338, landrieu 1382, leahy and hatch 1183, a leahy technical amendment that has no number, leahy eb-5 clarification that has no number but is technical, murray-crapo 1638, landrieu 1341, and landrieu-cochran 1383 -- i'm almost finished -- nelson 1253, reed 1223, schwarz and kirk 1615, shaheen 1222, stabenow, collins and king, udall 1241 and udall 1242. to my knowledge, none of these amendments are contested. some of them are democratic amendments, some of them are republican amendments. at some point, i'm going to ask for these amendments to be included in the base of this bill. i'm not going to ask that at this exact moment, but i am going to ask that the -- well, i might. i might ask the chair, the ranking member is this a list that you recognize, and if not, is there another list that i could see and observe and put to the record for this discussion? i ask the ranking member from iowa. ranking member of the commi

authors of this bill, the chair and ranking member of the committee on homeland security, senators carper and coburn. the amendment by senator cochran , senator landrieu. i mean, i could go on and on. i see the distinguished majority leader on the floor, and i'm going to yield the floor. i'm going to speak on this further, but my whole point is we have all kinds of noncontroversial amendments cosponsored by republicans and democrats alike, both republicans and democrats on the scene of amendments. we ought to be just adopting them and not the stall, because the stall says i want to vote maybe. i don't want to vote yes or no. i want to vote maybe. mr. president, i have served longer in this body than any current member. i have served here when nearly 1/5 of the senators who had the privilege of serving in this body since the beginning of the country. i have known great republicans and great democrats who must be wondering in the past what are we doing. mr. president, i yield the floor. mr. reid: mr. president, i haven't heard all my friend's statement, but i was -- i hope i don't get his s

the fence we're going to build, senator carper, senator coburn, senator mccain and i is a real and virtual fence that's actually going to work. and we will have this debate further. i have got to yield the floor. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session to consider the following nominations which the clerk will report. the clerk: nominations, the judiciary, nitza i. quinones alejandro of pennsylvania to be united states district judge for the eastern district of pennsylvania. jeffrey l. schmehl of pennsylvania to be united states district judge for the eastern district of pennsylvania. the presiding officer: under the previous order, there will be 20 minutes of debate equally divided in the usual form. ms. landrieu: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from louisiana. ms. landrieu: may i ask unanimous consent that we go into quorum call and the time be allocated equally as previously agreed to? the presiding officer: without objection, the clerk will call the roll. ms. landrieu: thank you. quorum call: a senator: mr. preside

senator carper's comment about the person not making the decision until the point of execution, we need the deputy secretary chief operating officer at the table, human capital people training the next generation of professionals in this space to make that happen. it has got to be a village approach. >> we have become interchangeable parts. that is a good thing. it is kind of scary. any other witnesses want to respond to the question? , the keyy perspective is not necessarily to centralize the entire organization's budget into a single budget management one individual. from my perspective, i think much of the benefit should be obtained by improving visibility and transparency and providing enough authority that the cio can influence the right types of decisions across the organization. from the centralization perspective, the key is a focus on commodity i.t. agencies do not need to have well over a dozen e-mail systems, which the department had a couple of years ago. had 10 loansureau consolidated down to one and the rest of the department is moving to the cloud. that replication in com

i have friends like senator begich, senator carper, senator hagan, senator heinrich, senator coons, senator kirk, senator coats, from both sides of the aisle, senator hatch, senator, you know, shaheen, i could go on and on, that are in the same boat that i am in. we fashioned amendments with bipartisan support, we have gone and done our due diligence with the leaders of the committees of jurisdiction which is what you're supposed to do, which is normal. we have gotten their blessing, if you will. we have published the details of our amendment. we have circulated the amendment. there is no opposition. so as i said, the senator from vermont, i want to be very clear, yes, i would love to have, i have four amendments on this list but i want to make this crystal clear: i am not here just arguing for the four landrieu amendments. i'm here arguing for all amendments by anybody, republican or democrat, that are noncontroversial, uncontested, germane to this bill. they should go on the bill. we need to get back to legislating in the senate. as i said, this is not a theater, it is a legislative body.

i was with senator carper on monday. we had a good-news press conference on the eastern shore of maryland talking about some of the positive results that we've done on the bay. we've worked to reduce the nutrient levels in the bay. that's a very positive element. it reduces the oxygen deprivation of the chesapeake bay, and we've had fewer dead zones since we've had in the 1980's sm. that's due to the work we've had with farmers and developers to reduce the nutrient pollution. we also have to deal with the realities of climate change. warmer water kills seagrass. seagrasss are critically important for the diversity of the check peek bay. this issue affects my region, affects our entire country and inaction can cause extreme damage. the biggest sources of carbon pollution -- my colleagues have already talked about it -- are power plants. he president talked about that -- th the president talked about that. number one should be energy conservation. the less energy we iewrks the easiest way we can reduce our carbon footprint

reid, leahy bennet, schumer, durbin, menendez, feinstein, whitehouse, murray, stabenow casey warner, carper, blumenthal king, coons and murphy. mr. reid: madam president, what are we on now? the presiding officer: we are currently in leader remarks. mr. reid: i would therefore ask -- the presiding officer: no bill is currently pending. mr. reid: i would therefore ask the chair to close the morning business and move to whatever the business of the day is. the presiding officer: under the previous order the leadership time is reserved. under the previous order the senate will resume consideration of s. 744 which the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 80, s. 744 a bill to provide for comprehensive immigration reform and for other purposes. the presiding officer: under the previous order the time until 5:30 p.m. will be equally divided between the two managers or their designees. mr. reid: madam president i do have a cloture motion at the desk and i ask that it be reported. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the cloture motion. the clerk: we the undersigned senators in acco