senator chambliss is exactly right.ome difficult choices and cuts that have to be made and reforms that need to be made, but it also means getting rid of a lot of these special interest tax loopholes that benefit special interests at the expense of the rest of the country. you need to have shared responsibility as we move forward. that's what we've said from the beginning. >> is there any sign of agreement coming out of your committee? is there white smoke puffing at least from capitol hill? >> well, we're at a critical time now. we've got until november 23rd, but everybody knows the real deadline is earlier because the congressional budget office needs time to analyze and score, look at the budget impact of whatever agreement may be reached. so we're working hard to do that. tomorrow we have a hearing with simpson and bowles, alan simpson and erskin bowles, both partisan groups that concluded, like the gang of six, that in order to reach a reduction deficit agreement, you need to take the balanced approach. you need cu

ayotte: thank you, senator chambliss. i would say this, you highlighted the importance, number one, as did senator mccain of passing the defense authorization. i have been to the floor twice on this issue because i think it's so important for our country. the notion that it's been half a century since we have failed to pass this authorization, what is at stake for our troops and for the troops and the message that it sends to them. we still are at war, in two wars. there are threats that face our country every day, and our military men and women, we owe it to them that they know that we're going to pass this authorization to address issues like pay increases and issues like weapons that they need, and all of the fundamental day-to-day issues to make sure that they know that we're behind them. but this issue of the detainee policy of this country, i would summarize over the last few months in the armed services committee, military leader after military leader has come before our committee, and we have asked them about this

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ayotte: thank you, senator chambliss. i would say this, you highlighted the importance, number one, as did senator mccain of passing the defense authorization. i have been to the floor twice on this issue because i think it's so important for our country. the notion that it's been half a century since we have failed to pass this authorization, what is at stake for our troops and for the troops and the message that it sends to them. we still are at war, in two wars. there are threats that face our country every day, and our military men and women, we owe it to them that they know that we're going to pass this authorization to address issues like pay increases and issues like weapons that they need, and all of the fundamental day-to-day issues to make sure that they know that we're behind them. but this issue of the detainee policy of this country, i would summarize over the last few months in the armed services committee, military leader after military leader has come before our committee, and we have asked them about this

they're very courageous they file a whistleblower suit you know they go to trial a korea turny john chambliss senator says the letters. this. all of the year and from there on him throughout an effort is made to talk to scientists or to distort the story in a way that we will benefit monsanto these folks refused to do in this weather for steve wilson played his own case you know what that story cost. two careers. and i want to say. there was only one way or wilson could win under judge roll steinberg instructed the jury for they'd have to prove w. t.v. station management had deliberately tried to distort the news proof of a violation requires that the plaintiffs establish that the via t.v. tease station or news management acted intentionally and deliberately to falsify or distort plainness proposed a news report on b g eight wilson last but janie cre won her case because she threatened to disclose to the federal communications commission on your oath the broadcast of a false distorted or slanted news report yes so a creep proved news distortion and you wouldn't know it from the spin on the t.

homeowner affordability act where senators akaka, begich, blumenthal, boxer, scott brown, cardin, chambliss, coons, lautenberg, mikulski, bell nelson and senator schumer have become cosponsors of. i want to thank the national association of realtors, the national association of home build,the mortgage bankers association, and all the other groups that have advocated and supported for this effort. this is an important tool that we can use to boost our housing market and economic recovery at no cost to the taxpayers. i see my distinguished colleague, senator isakson, on the floor and i certainly would invite him, as the cosponsor of this amendment, someone who has a long history in the private sector before he came to the congress on the whole question of real estate. i'd be happy to yield to him at this time. mr. isakson: i thank the distinguished senator from new jersey, mr. menendez, for his leadership on this issue. i ask to be recognized. the presiding officer: the senator is recognized. mr. isakson: thank you, mr. speaker -- mr. president. let me try to dispel what concern there may be

democratic senator diane finestein and republican senator saxby chambliss, the leaders of the senate commending the move. they said, "anwar al awlaki posed a significant and imminent threat to the united states as a senior leader of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and an extremist preacher intent on recruiting radicals inside and outside this country. awlaki declared war on the united states and inspired and planned attacks against us." well, some libertarians argued, however, that as an american citizen, awlaki should not have been targeted for assassination without any due process. here was republican presidential candidate ron paul on friday. >> awlaki was born here, he's an american citizen, he was never tried or charges for any crimes. nobody knows if he ever killed anybody. we know that he might have been associated with the underwear bomber, but if the american people accept this blindly and casually, that we now have an accepted practice of the president assassinating people who he thinks are bad guys, i think it's sad. >> well, was it legal and was it sad? does it set a da

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in support of this because there is such a need to address how we treat detainee, and as senator chambliss highlighted, we have a 27% recidivism rate of those released from guantanamo. a couple examples of what those individuals are doing right now against us, our troop, and our allies. for example, the number two in al-qaeda in the ararian peninsula was someone we released from guantanamo. another top commander of the taliban is out planning attacks against us as someone we release the from guantanamo. that's where this issue cries out for a detention policy for our country. this is a very important issue to be brought to the floor along with the entire authorization, and i see my colleague from south carolina here, senator grahm, who i know has worked very closely on these detention issues as a jag attorney and someone who visited afghanistan just in august, and i would ask him to -- have you ever seen, first of all in your time in the senate, us acting like this with respect to the defense authorization, the senate in this way, and second, how important do you think it is we address thi

. >> and what the gang of six was doing, too, with saxby chambliss -- >> right. >> mike acrepo a veryen the tax base, fix the entitlements but also close some of the tax loop holes. >> what happens with the super committee? did we get a deal the 23rd? was there a vote or do we have mandatory cuts after the 23rd? >> i don't know. there is a group of us who signed the letter the other day asking him to go big to the $4 trillion level. some people feel if you only do the 1.2 or 1.5 moody's could very well downgrade us. i don't know what they're going to do. i'm hopeful but i don't know. >> for people who don't live or work in washington they hear this tax pledge and want to know why, you can speak to this, too, why a united states congressman or woman would sign a pledge to a guy who is not in the government that handcuffs them to certain policy. that just doesn't make sense to people who watch. shouldn't you serve the best interests of your voters and not that of grover norquist? >> well of course. edmund burke said, who is an original conservative founder frankly of the conservatives a

senator chambliss says, we have long advocated that the department of energy immediately halt all actions to dismantle operations at yucca mountain. he supports. senator graham, no one should be required to pay for an empty hole in the nevada desert. the decision by the obama administration to close yucca mountain was ill-advised and leaves our nation without a disposal plan for spent nuclear fuel. or cold war waste. that's what hanford is. cold war nuclear waste from our weapons sector. what does senator demint say? without yucca mountain, america will not have safe and secure place to permanently store nuclear waste and instead waste will pile up at existing reactors. we will continue and i will continue to come down on the floor and go through the nation highlighting, high level nuclear waste all over this country. when the federal law under the nuclear waste policy act of 1972 says we should have one site. and the law says that site is -- yucca mountain. and so as we continue to go through the states, hopefully some senators will get off the dime and state their position, culminating

over the years here in the senate, i have been honored to have senator chams, -- senator chambliss, senatorburr, a number of colleagues on both sides of the aisle say that this makes sense, both for older people and for taxpayers. so in the next few days, madam president, senators are each going to hear from about a hundred health care groups around the country, making the case for the congress, starting with the super committee, going on through our work in both the senate and the house, to have the congress get serious about dramatically expanding, massively expanding the number of older people who are cared for at home where they want to be, which will result in savings to the taxpayers at the same time. and this is something that should not be allowed to be delayed or put off any further. after decades of talking about how it made sense and studying it and having some pilot projects and some demonstration projects, i think at a time when doctors come to the senate president's office, patients come to the senate president's office and say, you know, i'm very concerned about these cuts, i