coburn had an incredible career. he was a very successful businessperson, he did that for a number of years, and then he decided, i'd like to become a doctor. he became an ob/gyn and delivered tens of thousands of babies. he did that for a number of years and then he said, i think i'd like to become a congressman. he became a congressman for oklahoma and did that for a while. then he said, maybe i'd like to be a senator. he did that for ten years and he's going to step down about two years early before the end of his term this year. god knows what he'll do next. maybe he's going to land a plane. we'll find out before he gets here, but he should be here before too much longer. ms. kennedy, same line of thought we have. one of the things dr. coburn really insisted on, pushed for when we introduced our initial bill a year ago last august, this past august, and he basically said, the postal service is not foolish, they're not stupid, they're not deaf to the marketplace. let's give them the flexibility of set rates. if th

senator coburn will offer an amendment on recoupment timing of the coburn amendment would give the -- timing. the coburn amendment would give the treasury secretary the ability to extend the recoupment period up to 10 years. the problem is, the way senator coburn has drafted his amendment, it would create a significant score. he offered in the banking committee -- he offered it in the banking committee. it failed on a bipartisan vote, with the majority of both parties voting against it, but he wanted to offer it on the floor and so he will. there is a point of order, a paygo point of order that will be raised against the coburn amendment and i will raise that because it does break the budget. doesn't have a pay-for in exchange for it. and so chairman johnson and i and i believe the sponsors of the legislation recommend a "no" vote on waiving paygo against the coburn amendment. the tester amendment, as modified by senator coburn, i believe will be voice voted. senator tester and senator johanns described that adequately but it's something long overdue that would create a national assoc

coburn. i want to provide brief introductions for our witnesses and listen to you and we'll have a good conversation. our first witness is no stranger here, craig fugate. william craig fugate. and mr. few grait is the administrator of the federal emergency management industry. mr. fugate has helped coordinate emergency management efforts between all levels of government. external partners in the private and community sectors prior to joining fema, mr. fugate served as the director of florida division of emergency management. craig, nice to see you. thanks for joining us and for your service. second witness today is gale kerlikowske. in this position, he oversees this nation's dual mission of protecting national and security objectives while promoting economic security. as commissioner, he runs the largest federal law enforcement agency and the second largest revenue collecting source in the federal government. prior to joining cbp, mr. kerlikowske was the director of white house office of nat

coburn when he arrives. so i have a prepared statement i'd like to go through if i may. >> each of your entire statement will be made part of the record. feel free to summarize as you wish. >> it is my pleasure to be here before you this afternoon. i want to thank president obama for his decision to nominate me to become a member of the united states postal service board of governors. i believe that the board of governors is a critical role in our postal service and ultimately to the american people. so with integrity, pride and diligence, will i serve on the board. i'm committed to exercising every aspect of my legal, business and technology experience to help the united states postal service continue to evolve with america. a long time resident of our nation's capital and native north carolinian, proud -- >> native north carolinian? >> yes. >> where? >> charlotte. >> ever hear of boone? >> yes. >> my wife is from there. >> okay. so i'm a north carolinian, prior graduate of duke university and the george wa

coburn? >> mr. hale, let's assume that gao is right on improper payments, and the statistical validation. you disagree with them, and you said you've made some changes in how you're doing that. so let's assume they're right and you're wrong. so we don't know, if we make that assumption, we don't know how all the money is spent, right? we don't know the accuracy of the improper payments. and 1% of $700 billion is $7 billion in oklahoma. i don't know what it is up here, but that's what it is. $7 billion is a lot of money. and i can tell you, i'm skeptical at ever hearing on the improper payments for the dod, simply because of the massive side of it. let's talk for a minute about plugs. tell me what -- tell me what plugs are, in your mind. in terms of the pentagon's financial statements. >> the jargon we use, which i think is more explicit is journal vouchers. there are circumstances that we need to fix when i'll use the analogy, got 1,000 people on your phone -- on your bank account. by the end of the

coburn. i want to provide brief introductions for our witnesses and listen to you and we'll have a good conversation. our first witness is no stranger here, craig fugate. william craig fugate. and mr. few grait is the administrator of the federal emergency management industry. mr. fugate has helped coordinate emergency management efforts between all levels of government. external partners in the private and community sectors prior to joining fema, mr. fugate served as the director of florida division of emergency management. craig, nice to see you. thanks for joining us and for your service. second witness today is gale kerlikowske. in this position, he oversees this nation's dual mission of protecting national and security objectives while promoting economic security. as commissioner, he runs the largest federal law enforcement agency and the second largest revenue collecting source in the federal government. prior to joining cbp, mr. kerlikowske was the director of white house office of nat

coburn: mr. president, reserving the right to object, i wonder if the senator would modify his request to include a coburn amendment to provide an offset for this bill? mr. reid: i'm sorry? mr. coburn: would the senator from nevada, the majority leader, the esteemed majority leader consider an amendment that would modify his request that would provide an offset for this bill? the presiding officer: does the majority leader agree to modify his request? mr. reid: reserving the right to object, mr. president, mr. president, this is an emergency. we have one of our -- our number one ally -- at least in my mind -- is under attack. if this isn't an emergency i don't know anything that is, so i refuse to modify my request. the presiding officer: the objection is heard. is there objection to the original request? the senator from oklahoma. mr. coburn: i object. the presiding officer: objection is heard. the majority leader. mr. reid: the senator's amendment would cut the united states assessed contributi

we reached out to senator coburn's office. they did get back later in the day. senator coburn is not going to support the v.a. bill. he's criticizing its co. he said it is business as usual. we'll post this whole statement on our website which we got from senator coburn tonight. leading up to this, though, i should tell you that senator coburn told the local press in oklahoma about some of his concerns about the "fix the v.a." bill. he said the concerns for the plan to build a new facility for health care for veterans in oklahoma, new facility in tulsa, he said he rejected those plans in his home state because what they were planning to build in tulsa for the veterans was too nice. tom coburn told the oklahoman, they're building a taj mahal when they should be building a medical clinic. they should scale back. if you're in oklahoma, that's what the senator thinks of you. you shouldn't get something too nice. the others all signed on to it last night. with the timing of it they just might get there ahead of the deadline on thursday to get this thing voted on and

coburn, dr. coburn has had an incredible career. he was a very successful business person. did he that for a number of years. he decided i'd like to be a doctor. he became an ob-gyn. very successful there. given birth to -- delivered thousands of ban babies. not given birth to them. he said, i think i'd like to be a congressman. he became a congressman from oklahoma. did that for a while. he said, no, maybe i'd like to be a senator. he's done that now for ten years. he has a signal he will step down two years early before the end of his term this year. god only knows what he is he'll do next. maybe he's going to land the plane. he should be here before too much longer. miss kennedy, same line of thought we have. let me just say before you -- one of the things that dr. coburn really insisted on, pushed for when we introduced our initial bill a year ago this past august, he basically said the postal service is not foolish, not stupid, they're not deaf to the marketplace. let's get the flexibility to set rates. if they charge too much, customers will stop using them. and if th

i have to agree with senator coburn.as those posters look like they will do nothing, nothing in comparison to what plain load after plane load of children being returned to their families in honduras and guatemala will do. that is the most important thing we can do detour parents doing this to their children. i understand you folks are working hard and we appreciate your service and you're constrained by the laws which we must change expeditiously. and you're also constrained by executive orders i think were misguided. so you're following the law. understand that appreciate your efforts but wey. have to change those laws. we have to undo many so of these executive orders so we have a more rational system to reduceia or eliminate those incentives for illegal immigration. i want toe go back a little bit to t mexico in terms of what they're doing to help stem the tide. you know, if we've got busloads of children, i've seen the pictures of children hanging on to trains. i'm actually surprised they have turned back 85,000. is

senators ben carden and ben coburn and tom since you're a medical doctor, i will put you on the spotst. >> okay. >> in your background as a doctor, forget politics, what is your reaction to the experiment with marijuana -- >> i think it will end up a tragedy. i researched this. there's never been a positive study on recreational marijuana. the connection to depression, connection to lack of motivation. there is nothing positive that comes out of it. the second point i'd make is when you smoke a marijuana joint, it is like smoking 18 cigarettes. that's the amount of carcinogens that you intake and so, it's really very harmful to your physiology of your body and very damaging over the long run. there's long-term studies to show what happened. the third point is when you use medical marijuana to smoke it, versus take a pill, we have two prescription drugs that work. and the fourth point i'd make, is marijuana is still a controlled substances. which is raising the irony again that president is not enforcing the law. legally under drug enforcement administration and under the law, states

tom coburn mientras que el senador tom coburn dijo que el mensaje ms importante para detener la crisises y devolverlos a honduras. jamil sunsen de 13 aÑos sabe muy bien lo que significa eso. tanto su padre como su madre fueron deportados a honduras hace tres aÑos. s/jamil sunsen, padres deportados "he tenido que soportar estar sin mis padres. no soy el único que está en esta situación hay miles de personas en situaciones peor" l, junto con otros, particip esta maÑana en una reunin en el senado donde se habl de la separacin familiar a consecuencia de la deportacin. por otra parte en el congreso. el presidente de la cmara de representantes john boehner tambin habl de la situacin en la frontera. s/cong. john boehner . dijo que esta deba ser sellada y agreg que la solicitud de dinero que hizo el presidente barack obama ayer no solucionara el problema. s/sen. robert menéndez, "si los republicanos en la cámara quieren parar asistencia para reforzar la frontera entonces tiene que estar listos para la crítica que no quieren asegurar la frontera". s/randy serrano, @randytelemundo el presidente

coburn when he arrives. so i have a prepared statement i'd like to go through if i may. >> each of your entire statement will be made part of the record. feel free to summarize as you wish. >> it is my pleasure to be here before you this afternoon. i want to thank president obama for his decision to nominate me to become a member of the united states postal service board of governors. i believe that the board of governors is a critical role in our postal service and ultimately to the american people. so with integrity, pride and diligence, will i serve on the board. i'm committed to exercising every aspect of my legal, business and technology experience to help the united states postal service continue to evolve with america. a long time resident of our nation's capital and native north carolinian, proud -- >> native north carolinian? >> yes. >> where? >> charlotte. >> ever hear of boone? >> yes. >> my wife is from there. >> okay. so i'm a north carolinian, prior graduate of duke university and the george wa

if it doesn't, tom coburn was right, we need to figure out how to get the kids back to their country of origin as soon as possible because that will shut down the flow rather quickly. >> there are a lot lot people concerned about these kids. do you think at the end of the day the message has to be sent that a majority of these kids will get sent back? that is not the history. history offugee influx, a majority end of staying. >> i think there is $300 million in this roam for getting that message out. and i think that message is very important to get out.roam for g message out. and i think that message is very important to get out. these drug cartels and folks who are making deals with these families to take their kids north aren't particularly reputable people. and we need to make sure folks have the right message so they know this is the wrong decision to make for their kids. >> when it comes to immigration reform, your views have shifted a bit. you were inclined to be against the idea of comprehensive immigration reform in general. what changed your mind on this? >> i was against t

coburn: i ask the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. coburn: i wish to speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. coburn: this is my tenth year in the senate, and every time we come to a close of a session for a summer break or for a holiday break, all of a sudden you start hearing all these unanimous consent requests that come to the senate. for those of you listening to this and for my colleagues, those are requests that bills be passed without a vote. and i'm fine with that as long as they meet certain characteristics and considerations. but what the american public doesn't know is about 70% of the work the senate does happens by unanimous consent with no recorded vote on the back of any one senator. and today's no different much i've heard five or six requests for unanimous consent requests, and they're fine with a couple of provisions. and the first provision is they ought to be within the powers of the congress as enumerated by the constitution and the enumerated powers. the tendency is, oh, we

but republican senator tom coburn talks about corporate tax dollars. -- dodgers.he says it is time to rethink how everybody is taxed. ♪ >> mcdonald's, which has been taking heat for worker pay, just suffered another blow. this time, the national river -- labor relations board. if upheld, a new decision could make it easier for unionization fight for and a better wages. mcdonald said they also believe this decision changes the rules for thousands of small businesses and goes against decades of established law regarding the franchise model in the united states. joining us is someone else who also opposes this decision, steve caldera, the president of the international franchise association. for those who are not ensconced in this industry, tell us why this will hurt the franchisees. >> first and foremost, franchisees are independent owners. they put their own skin in the game. they take out loans. they use their investment savings, their regular savings, to take a shot at the american dream. they have the ability to hire, theire, and they process own payroll. they p

i have to agree with senator coburn. as nice as those posters look, they'll do nothing, nothing in comparison to what plane load after plane load of children being returned to their families in guatemala, honduras, and el salvador would do. that is the most important thing we could do to deter parents from doing this to their children. i do want to get back to -- also, i understand that, you know, you folks are working hard and we appreciate your service and you are constrained by the laws, which we must change expeditiously. you're also constrained by executive orders that i think were misguided. so you're following the law. i understand that. appreciate your efforts. but we have to change those laws. we have to undo some of these executive orders so we have a more rational system to reduce or eliminate those incentives for illegal immigration. i want to go back a little bit to mexico in terms of what they're doing to help stem the tide. if we've got bus loads of children -- i've seen the pictures of children hanging on

tom coburn of oklahoma was at that hearing and he joins me now from capitol hill. good to see you as always. >> i want to play an exchange you had with marc greenberg for children and families. you asked greenberg if they're checking on the legal status of the families with whom these children are being placed. >> i'm asking you why you do not ask that question? of the -- sir -- >> is it the policy of hhs not to ask the status of those people with whom you are placing the child? >> we do not specifically -- >> is that the policy? >> ask the immigration status. >> is that the policy of hhs of this country? >> yes, it is -- that is the case. yes. >> so, senator, i guess the follow-up is if it became the policy that you find out the legal status and if they were not legal, what do you think the children -- should be done with those children. >> that's not where i was going, jake is they're never going to show up for their hearing on whether or not they're eligible to stay here and that's our problem. we have two sets of laws for the same groups of people that try to c

coburn did that's available today. it's a report that he's releasing called friendly fire, death, delay and dismay at the v.a. an in-depth study of some of the additional problems that we must follow. we'll be going out of session here at the end of this week. i hope that we can, at a minimum, lay out the parameters of what needs to be resolved. i don't think this issue can wait. and i appreciate the participation of all members who are here today. and i thank my colleagues. >> thank you, senator mccain. >> thank you. thank you, chairman miller and chairman sanders. at this conference committee, we have an opportunity to enact real solutions at the v.a. the things that we can accomplish here will mean the world to the braver veteran that is have given so much for our freedom. together, we have to fight for them and help ensure that they have the access to the care they have earned and deserved. as a doctor who served at the v.a. in iron mountain for 20 years, as the father of a veteran, i take this issue personally. ou

as humane as we all want to be, it's inhumane to send them on this journey. >> senator, if senator coburn wouldn't mind if we could also show the poster that's an example of one of the posters. >> dplees. >> that's going up all over in central america. they are going up in bus placards and overheads on highways. this essentially says, i thought it would be -- i thought my son would be able to get his papers in the united states, in the usa. thatstates. that wasn't true. there are other posters, radio spots, television spots being broadcasts. these three countries, by the way, working with their embassies are also very supportive in doing their own messages. two parts. it's dangerous to try and make this journey, and you will not be given a free pass. >> well, i appreciate that we're doing this public information campaign, but our leaders need to be clear. and i saw that secretary johnson on the sunday shows was pressed no less than six times if these minors, if they came here through this deadly journey whether they would be returned to their countries, and he would not answer that questi

is senator coburn right? would that stop the surge? >> i have great deal of respect for all of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, but i don't think that's a serious proposal. the fact is that in 2008, president bush signed into law a provision that was agreed to by every single member of the house and senate. many of these people are sitting here today. so it's the 2008 law that regulates what we do with these children. i believe that we need to give children from central america and mexico a due process right to make their appropriate claims under immigration laughs. it's going take time, like said. it's a complex situation. we'll deal with it step by step. i'm confident that we, as a country, can come together and get this one right. >> congressman, it sounds as if you might be saying that they should stay here until the process can work itself out. and to those who say the longer that some of these children and some of these adults stay, the longer they stay the tougher it's going to be to deport them. what would your respons

this kind of request, tom coburn points out that we're going to spend about $60,000 per child at this point. why not repeal the law that allows these kids to apply for asylum? mexican kids don't get this kind of treatment. why should kids from other countries get it? >> i think part of it is the challenge of making sure you're not sending kids back who do have legal ability to stay in the united states, whether they have an asylum claim, whether they are entitled to be here. and quite frankly, thing is some politics here. the administration is facing some complicated democratic politics as well of treating kids from latin american countries in what would be viewed as pretty harsh terms if you don't provide them some process. so i think you have a policy reason for this differentiation and a political reason for why the administration is asking for more discretion, but not asking for a repeal of the law. >> that's interesting. david, do you agree with that, there is a political dimension to not asking for repeal? tom coburn is saying look, you could probably get a repeal in two week. >

so thank you. >> thank you, senator coburn. and excuse me, senator carper. >> i've been called worse, even this week. >> thank you. i want you to know as i've indicated, because we had a hearing on disability insurance, where there is fraud we are going to find it and fight it. this program is so important for people. she did everything right, she just got clobbered by one disease after another. and she was sitting there at the end of the table where chairman mccull ski was with medications piled one box after another that she takes every day. we owe it to her, to taxpayers, i also have this document about service about improper payments. it would indicate in in the overwhelming number of instances, the agency gets it right. your point is, when they don't and when there's particularly fraud, we have to find it, we have to fight it, we have to root it out in a bipartisan way. let me recognize senator hatch. i think would you like to say anything else? >> just welcome and happy to have you testify here today and enjoyed our meeti

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i want to echo what senator coburn said. if you listen to the confirmation testimony of bob mcdonald yesterday, you heard from a man that delineated point by point specifically what he's going to do to open up the v.a. to bring about a new attitude in the v.a. and deal with the v.a. in whatever way he has to do it. with the absence of title xxxviii, it will be a problem for him big time. we have somebody who has been there, done it, done his homework. i agree with senator coburn, i will work with you anyway i can to bring this to a successful conclusion so we can invest in our veterans and change the culture at the v.a.. >> and the ranking member also supports amending the bill to allow title xxxviii. >> let me say briefly i appreciate the work everyone has done, what i also appreciate is that on the house side, you have looef leaned forward to accept the senate bill. i think the senate bill was thoughtfully put together. there are a lot of things about the senate bill we can like. the other thing you've done with this propo

original text for the purposes of further amendment, that the only amendments in order to the bill be coburn 3549, vitter 3550, flake 3551, tester 3552. that each amendment have an hour of debate equally divided between the proponents and opponents, and there be one hour of general debate on the bill equally divided between the two leaders or their designees. that upon the use or yielding back of that time the senate proceed to votes in relation to the amendments in the order listed. that there be no second-degree amendments in the order -- in order to any of the amendments prior to the votes. that upon disposition of the tester amendment, the bill be read a third time, consent to proceed to vote on passage of the bill as amended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: so, mr. president, we understand that getting this agreement, senators should expect a roll call vote in relation to the coburn amendment, another roll call vote on passage of the bill as amended. other amendments in this agreement are expected to be subject to voice votes. mr. president, we whipped right through

oklahoma senator tom coburn is expected to release reform legislation today. the report names more than 4,000 high risk facilities. half of them in ten states. dallas, and texas and new york and north carolina and michigan and new jersey. >> the deadly fighting continues. and that is near the rebel strong hold of donetsk. and ukraine accuses rebels of laying land mines there and taking up firing positions on the road leading to the site. meanwhile, president obama slaps new sanctions on moscow for allegedly arming the rebels and insisting that it is not the start of a new cold war. major general bob scales is retired from the army and now a fox news contractor. the russians are aiding the russian rebels and firing from ukrainian territory to the troops. is that enough to tip the balance away from the war in ukraine? >> it doesn't look like it, jon. the russians are beginning to panic a bit. they said the separatist will win. well, if you watch what has happen recently. it looks like the ukrainian military is closing off donetsk from russia. it is a pinsor movi

we anticipate three roll call votes in relation to the coburn-flake amendments and passage of the tria bill. we expect an agreement to vote in relation to the circuit judge nomination at 2:00 p.m. tomorrow. if there is no further business to come before the senate i ask it adjourn under the previous order. the presiding officer: the senate stands adjourned until senate stands adjourned until as well as leading russian financial institutions. "the associated press" says the u.s. has asked any of the effort to stop the insurgents the eastern ukraine, which is widely believed to be backed by moscow. the president's press conference on the way here i espn2. until then, the prime minister's question spent today. in his last question time before summer recess, british prime minister david cameron talked about his recent cabinet shuffle. >> order. >> questions to the prime minister. >> mr. speaker. >> thank you ministers eager. i had meetings with colleagues and others in additions to my duties i shut her their meetings today. >> mrs. anna guo bob. >> thank you, mr. speaker. >> will the prime

i agree with senator coburn. i will work with you any way i can, chairman miller, to bring this to a successful conclusion so we can invest in our veterans' future and change the culture of the v.a. >> i will also add ranking member, who is zill in the hearing, also supports amending the bill to allow title 38 to be subject to the accountability portion of these bills. >> mr. chairman, let me just say briefly, i appreciate the work everyone has done but i also appreciate on the house side you have really leaned forward to accept the senate bill. i think the senate bill is thoughtfully put together. i think there's a lot of things about the senate bill we can like. the other thing that you have done with this proposal is you have built in a system whereby this puts burden on us to provide even more significant oversight of the v.a. because what you're saying is look, we will make a major down payment here. we will give them the money that they need now. but we want to see results. what that means for the senate ve

tomko -- tom coburn said the same thing.ion in malpractice suits and 200 million in wrongful deaths. the doctors in the private sector work with twice as many patients a year as the veterans administration hospital. it's not going to get better unless this administration gives mr. mcdonald the power to hire and fire he needs to have. has to get rid of deadwood. i recommend he replace the deadwood with veterans. veterans take care of their own. you replace every one of those bad apples that ought to leave with a va and that thing will get better -- >> i don't know. his predecessor was a veteran. >> i'm not talking about the top of the pyramid. i'm talking at the bottom where it begins. >> here's what moyers me the more that comes to light on this crisis. the reward system in place for va staff members, higher-ups, et cetera. if they met the numbers, or they beat the numbers 0, they were saving on costs, presumably incentivized to skip on vets, would get bonuses. what is most troublesome a lot of these applications were thrown

the president started with $2 billion and now is $3.7 billion, senator tom coburn made the point thatst $20 million to fly, in first-class. if that makes sense or is feasible or humanitarian, and $20 million, how do you get $3.7 billion? >> this is the washington does matters. we put extra zeros on the cost of everything. a lot of the money president obama has requested is not for the kinds of things americans might support. and the costs that the federal government wasn't doing its job. and forcing the border but i will go back to my main point, anyone who thinks this is a money problem it is not. i would say this is of problem where you have an administration that turned a blind eye to the problem of illegal immigration for the last several years and has been encouraging through its rhetoric, and this goes back to the george bush administration were you can't deport children when they come into the country. melissa: another question about dollars, the obama administration, plans to renovate the white house bowling alley in the midst of all this, suddenly two hours after the project

senator tom coburn of oklahoma is ranking member. we do expect this to get underway shortly. by the way, it was scheduled to go until 1:00. we're hearing no

republican senator tom coburn says it is not just about the money, quote federal tax cheats with securityrances jeopardize both our national and economic security and could unnecessarily put our nation's classified information at risk. the gao found that less than half of the delinquents are in a repayment plan right now. >>> california is a big state. so big it needs four governors this week. right now california's acting governor is actually the state's lieutenant governor. yesterday elected governor jerry brown released his power before he left for mexico. tomorrow the leadershipcarousel leaving the governor pro temp. then the speaker gets the power for nine hours. the succession rules are outlined in the state's constitution. many states actually have similar procedures to handle a governor's absence. >>> finally a michigan state senate primary is getting very personal. wayne schmidt has been endorsed by his opponent's mother who says schmidt is the better candidate. schmidt gladly accepted the endorsement quote politics can bring out many differences among friends and families. greg

. >> i want to get this sound on tape from senator coburn. we're spending billions of dollars of our money on all sorts of stuff for these children, to take care of them and get them back. he has an interesting message here. let's listen. >> what about the kids that are already here?52,000 of them, by the year is projected to be 80,000. we have to find a way to deal with the kids that are already here. that's mostly what the -- you know, half of the money the president requested today goes towards the kids that are already here. >> that's the wrong approach. put them on a first class seat back to their homes. that's $8 million. first class seat, one way, to each of their homes. >> does that make sense, just $8 million as opposed to a couple of billion? >> sure. but the government has become a big fat blundering behemoth that can't figure anything out. do you really think that $4 billion is going to be appropriated in the right way to get these kids back? if pr campaigns in the central american countries, what's that going to do. t you're just

tom coburn is saying a repeal is getting passed and two weeks. >> the president is walking not only one fine line but two, one is domestic politics. he wants to be tough about the boarders but compassion et, especially towards the latino community and show he cares about people who have a desperate plate. america's reputation in the world, are we both competent and compassi compassion? people are asking whether we can handle that. we talk about the laws who how they ought to be changed. there has to be an administrative process, and they need to be sent back. the program, i think the program, the president's program is as good as it goes. it doesn't deal with the root cause and that's how much violence there is in these countries, honduras, guatemala and el salvador are the highest homicide countries in the world. >> you look at mexico which had tremendous drug violence, mexican kids don't get this special treatment. >> they don't get the special treatment but we have done a better job with the mexican flow. in fact, i think we almost went to sleep on this question over the last two yea

i just heard from senator coburn in oklahoma that just said we should fly all of these kids first classid they managed to make this track so they could get on a plane to get a first-class seat. shame on you, senator. and since we are here in texas, we cannot speak of today without talking about governor perry. who has been in the news quite a lot to past few days now. with many republican leaders like senator ted cruz and senator cornyn here from texas, governor perry has been saying ist a directive called daca ofountable for the surge the central american children. knowing, by the way, this is the same governor, governor perry, who has said that these surges haven't it happen in three years. before daca, before it was even instituted. a lot of these republican leaders are saying that this is happening because president obama is not enforcing immigration laws. even the same president obama that supported nearly julian immigrants in five years -- deported nearly 2 million immigrants and five years? if that is not clear to you but then you're not paying attention. politics aside, texans a

senator tom coburn who spoke earlier was engaged in that conference. he's a doctor. he understands these matters. he cares about them and was actively engaged, as we all know. and let me just say, in tom coburn, we have one of the senate's finest, committed senators. he loves this country. every day he tries to save us money and make us more productive. there's nobody here that works harder and is more effective in that. and he says we need to do better. he's not able to support the conference report, and that it will add, we know, at least $10 billion to the debt in three years. better than before, i will acknowledge. and as a result, he will raise a point of order against it. and i would say i have to support that. let me just say this. doctors do not carry the kinds of patient caseloads that private doctors do. while we have some policy changes that are good, more are needed. are we going to have this new administrator -- we're going to have this new administrator, very impressed with him. west point, five years in the military, procter & gamble c.e.o. he's got bi

that if the motion to waive is made, there be up to 10 minutes equally divide between senators coburn and sanders or their designees. that upon the use or yielding back of that time, the senate proceed to vote on the motion to waive. that if the motion to waive is agreed to, the senate immediately proceed to vote on adoption of the conference report. that the vote on adoption be subject to a 60-affirmative vote threshold that. if the conference report is adopted, the senate then proceed to the consideration of h. con. res. 111, that the concurrent resolution be agreed to and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table. the presiding officer: is there objection? seeing no objection, so ordered. mr. reid: i now ask unanimous consent that upon disposition of the conference report to accompany h.r. 3230, the chair lay before the senate a message from the house with respect to h.r. 5021. following the reporting of the message, that i be recognized to make a motion to recede from the senate amendment. that there be a person recognized for raising a point of order again

there will be 30 minutes for debate on the coburn amendment and ten minutes on the flake amendment and0 minutes on the tester amendment. any remaining time until noon will be for general debate on this legislation. at noon the senate will proceed to a sew ris of up to -- a series of up to five roll call votes, expected in relation to the coburn and flake amendments. however, we expect voice votes on the vitter and tester amendments. upon disposition of the amendments the senate will proceed to a roll call vote on passage of 2244 as amended. we expect to reach an agreement to vote at 2:00 p.m. on the motion to invoke cloture on the executive calendar number 849 the nomination of julie carnes of georgia to be united states dj for the 11 circuit. senators will be notified when an agreement is reached. mr. president? the distinguished president pro tempore of the senate who just opened the senate has been for many, many years the chair of the foreign operations subcommittee on appropriations as chairman of the judiciary committee. mr. president, i, during -- and i wanted to note that while