so we know the story, new castle county executive coons is now senator coons. ladies and gentlemen, he's not a witch. [laughter] but he may be warlock. please welcome the angry birds champion of the senate, chris coons. [applause] >> thank you, jake. i a understand this is the biggest washington press club foundation dinner ever. the biggest dinner with the shortest speaker. i take this is in the first time that jake has been the second choice to fill a job first offered to chris. [laughter] no good deed goes unpunished. you are doing a great job filling in. [laughter] i would like to start this evening by thanking the people who made it possible for me to be here in the united states senate, the republican primary voters of delaware. [laughter] and i'd like to extend a special and personal thank you to sarah palin and jim demint. without whose timely endorsement i would not be here either. [laughter] much like my colleague, senator kelly. this is an amazing experience though. i must say never in my wildest dreams was like convinced i would be united states sen

so we know the story, new castle county executive coons is now senator coons. ladies and gentlemen, he's not a witch. [laughter] but he may be warlock. please welcome the angry birds champion of the senate, chris coons. [applause] >> thank you, jake. i a understand this is the biggest washington press club foundation dinner ever. the biggest dinner with the shortest speaker. i take this is in the first time that jake has been the second choice to fill a job first offered to chris. [laughter] no good deed goes unpunished. you are doing a great job filling in. [laughter] i would like to start this evening by thanking the people who made it possible for me to be here in the united states senate, the republican primary voters of delaware. [laughter] and i'd like to extend a special and personal thank you to sarah palin and jim demint. without whose timely endorsement i would not be here either. [laughter] much like my colleague, senator kelly. this is an amazing experience though. i must say never in my wildest dreams was like convinced i would be united states sen

let me go to senator coons. senator coons i want to welcome to the committee. he's a new member here. actually filling out the term of senator biden who was a founding member of the senate budget committee. and senator coons was the county executive ofnewcastle, the largest county in delaware. so he has actually balanced budgets and worked on ways to promote economic growth. we're delighted to have you join the committee, senator coons, a graduate of amherst, bachelor of science in cm tree and political science. holds a graduate degree from yale in law and divinity. maybe we can get spiritual guidance as well. it would be valuable to the budget committee. the first truman scholar to serve in the senate. senator coons, welcome to the committee. >> thank you very much, chairman. thank you for your leadership on these very important issues. i very much look forward to working with you and with senator sessiontion. as you both said in your opening statements, we recognize across the partisan divide of the congress and badly across the country regardless of region,

let me go to senator coons. senator coons i want to welcome to the committee. he's a new member here. actually filling out the term of senator biden who was a founding member of the senate budget committee. and senator coons was the county executive of newcastle, the largest county in delaware. so he has actually balanced budgets and worked on ways to promote economic growth. we're delighted to have you join the committee, senator coons, a graduate of amherst, bachelor of science in chem tree and political science. holds a graduate degree from yale in law and divinity. maybe we can get spiritual guidance as well. it would be valuable to the budget committee. the first truman scholar to serve in the senate. senator coons, welcome to the committe >> thank you very much, chairman. thank you for your leadership on these very iortant issues. i very much look forward to working with you and with senator sessiontion. as you both said in your opening statements, we recognize across the partisan divide of the congress and broadly across the country regardless of region,

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let me go to senator coons. senator coons i want to welcome to the committee. he's a new member here. actually filling out the term of senator biden who was a founding member of the senate budget committee. and senator coons was the county executive of newcastle, the largest county in delaware. so he has actually balanced budgets and worked on ways to promote economic growth. we're delighted to have you join the committee, senator coons, a graduate of amherst, bachelor of science in chem tree and political science. holds a graduate degree from yale in law and divinity. maybe we can get spiritual guidance as well. it would be valuable to the budget committee. the first truman scholar to serve in the senate. senator coons, welcome to the committee. >> thank you very much, chairman. thank you for your leadership on these very important issues. i very much look forward to working with you and with senator sessiontion. as you both said in your opening statements, we recognize across the partisan divide of the congress and broadly across the country regardless of reg

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senator coons and i have something in common. we are seceding distinguished veteran senators to read and succeeding judd gregg, and chris is succeeding joe biden. chris, those are some pretty big shoes to fill. actually, vice president biden has been so great, god love him. he presided over my swearing in ceremony, and i had my entire family with me. and this is a true story. i had my husband, my two children, and the vice president kneeled down and said to my 6-year-old daughter how were you? she said are you 17? she laughed and said 96. the vice president and said you're not allowed to date on till you're 40. i smiled at him and said mr. vice president, keep your individual mandates away from my daughter. [laughter] i do respect the vice president and of course president obama, and i appreciate president's overtures to work with republicans. but we have some real disagreements. i mean, the health care law we should clearly be overturned by the court. the precedent is right there in bush v. gore. we win, they lose. it's in the c

aging scientists cutting edge research welcome to the pioneering new wells of farming from the sea to coons. this is where the animals keps now these ones ordinary rabbits but if we gaze through into the next three and you've got the chance genic or genetically modified ones these guys are proving so vital in the discovery and development of new treatments for diseases. whilst it might sound strange the milk of transgenic animals has already been used to successfully treat patients and it's not just rabbits around the world dish and farming it's now more thing into by a farming pharmaceutical companies are now turning to other domestic animals and new ways to produce drugs it's a breakthrough in fairness you know we want to get to the point where we can have goals and goals producing the same drug in their milk. at the moment this research center doesn't have the funding to produce more than a few of the genetically modified species that rabbits remain the main source of research by kill a tree bodies in the e.u. and the us slowly starting to allow drugs produced by transgenic animals onto

chairman. >> senator coons. >> thank you. i would like to follow-up on the colloquy with both senator hoeven and senator franken. you're talking about the value of debt and other nice ways to describe the challenges of the early stage commercialization and scale of innovations to the exchanges with senator franken. mr. burkhard, there is a question in my mind about the appropriate role of the federal government in either subsidizing ongoing oil and gas exploration development or alternative energy technologies. the projections that are made in the world energy outlook for the makeup of the total support of global energy picture in 2035 is a reminder that this is largely a petroleum based economy and it will remain so for much of the next few decades. you mentioned a conversation with senator hoeven come he asked for some insight about how we could be more effective, what other countries are doing. i would welcome input from any member of those in front of us, the panel how we are most likely to be successful in securing capit

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thank you very much. >> thank you very much, senator coons. we'll begin the second round now. let me bear down a little bit on a few things if i can. it is my understanding that some requests for critical nonexcess equipment such as helicopters has been denied. ambassador, how -- if that's true, how does that impact the question of readiness and capacity for this civilian side to manage this. >> there has been a great many security-related requests we have made. i mentioned the mraps. we're working on the cram system for early warning and alarms related to direct fire attacks which is important to get people under cover. in addition, while it is not as easy to summarize, we're getting an extraordinary amount of effort by the u.s. military on all of the locations where we will be taking over because there are locations where the u.s. military and we are jointly present at this time to do engineering, do joint planning, provide equipment, provide, for example, the containerized trailers if you will that people are living in. we're getting extraordinary support. the only thing th

chairman. >> senator coons. >> thank you. i would like to follow-up on the colloquy with both senator hoeven and senator franken. you're talking about the value of debt and other nice ways to describe the challenges of the early stage commercialization and scale of innovations to the exchanges with senator franken. mr. burkhard, there is a question in my mind about the appropriate role of the federal government in either subsidizing ongoing oil and gas exploration development or alternative energy technologies. the projections that are made in the world energy outlook for the makeup of the total support of global energy picture in 2035 is a reminder that this is largely a petroleum based economy and it will remain so for much of the next few decades. you mentioned a conversation with senator hoeven come he asked for some insight about how we could be more effective, what other countries are doing. i would welcome input from any member of those in front of us, the panel how we are most likely to be successful in securing capit

thank you very much. >> thank you very much, senator coons. we'll begin the second round now. let me bear down a little bit on a few things if i can. its my understanding that some requests for critical nonexcess equipment such as helicopters has been denied. bassador, how -- if that's true, how does that impact t question of readiness and capacity for this civilian side to manage this. >> there has been a great many security-related requests we have made. i mentioned the mraps. we're working on the cram system for early warning and alarms related to direct fire attacks which is important to get people under cover. in addition, while it is not as easy to summarize, we're getting an extraordinary amount of effort by the u.s. military all of the locations where we will be taking over because there are cations where the u.s. military and we are jointly present at this time to do engineering, do joint planning, provide equipment, provide, for example, the containerized trailers if you will that people are living in. we're getting extraordinary support. the only ting that i'm aware

klobuchar of minnesota, senator gillibrand of new york, the distinguished presiding officer senator coonsof delaware, as we will as senator ciecialg the assistant republican leader; senator sessions of alabama, senator lieberman of connecticut, senator franken of minnesota, senator blumenthal of connecticut, and senator harkin of iowa. republicans and democrats in big states and small are coming together to support american innovation. the senate judiciary committee, as i said, unanimously approved this legislation on february 3 of this year. but this effort extends back several years. our current congressional efforts reform the nation's patent system began in 2005. in fact, this bill is the result of years of hard work and compromise. the senate judiciary committee has reported patent reform legislation to the senate in each of the last three congresses. in the house it's seen efforts over the same period, led by congressman lamar smith of texas. and howard berman of california. the legislation we're considering today in fact is structured on the original house bill and contains many of

now, i can't go into a lot of the data for that, but there's a book coming up my felix coon in aprilurgency developing, and they have a lot of data supporting the conclusions that there is quite a dangerous new local atonmy developing. now, general petraeus disagrees with this view of the military campaign i presented, and he speaks of impressive progress. he also highlights cases where taliban fighters come over to the government's side as part of the reintegration program. there's said to be 900 excome baptings involved in the program, and a vast majority of them come from president karzai vineses in the central and northern parts of afghanistanings away from the heavy -- afghanistan, i away from the heavy fighting. it's hard to say where it's going, but i say the hard core taliban is not tantalized by this offer. it may not be a productive debate to engage in. the military have asserted that negotiations should be only conducted from a position of strength, and if they now claim to be making impressive progress, i think we should be asking the question of them, does that not mean

senator franken, senator coon, senator mansion, senator portman, senator lee, welcome to the committee. senator coats, interpol and senator hoben. let me go through a short statement and then we will begin our testimony. this is an oversight hearing on the energy and oil market outlook for the 111th -- 112, chris. as you know, we usually try to start each new congress by having a sort of scene setting hearing of this kind which will look at the broad energy trends that we expect to influence our thoughts on energy policy also more specifically on the agenda items that come before the committee during this two-year congress. today we will start the discussion by hearing from dr. richard newell, the administrator of the department of energy's information -- energy information administration. he's going to give us highlights eia's short- and longer-term forecast and we appreciate him being here. he just returned from a trip to the middle east, to stand, and perhaps he can give some insight from that trip to the committee is a heavy consumer eia information and product, so we always apprec

we are well prepared to protect our essential lines in this field, at the banking, stock exchange coon defense. it happened here, it happened in the subway in tokyo. then we worry by what is the greatest nightmare, which is the lone wolf. what happened in [inaudible] recently. it is a very interesting program in the framework of the european union. copra was salvaged back in 2008. 14 countries are working in participating in that. it tries to work on the early detection of these velone wolves terrorists. apparently they follow the same pattern of evolution. in any case, what is very important is that anything to combat terrorism has tbe done within the rule of law, creating a balance between security, pprofessional freedoms. our world is more secure than 50 years ago, but it is more than certain on a private and personal level, the risk is overreacting. security is impossible -=- the other day i was listening to radio attack talking about the program talking about a terrorist attack. we should do something in order to go through security at the airport. we have to go through security o

rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable christopher coons, a senator from the state of delaware, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: daniel k. inouye, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that the order of the votes scheduled at 5:30 be as follows: the remainder of the consent remain in effect. calendar number 6 would be first. calendar number 3 would be second. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. reid: mr. president, following leader remarks, there will be a period of morning business until 3:00 p.m. at 3:00 p.m., the senate will resume consideration of the federal aviation administration bill. there will be a short recess around 4:20 p.m. in order to welcome the prime minister of slovenia to the senate floor. at 4:30, the senate will turn to executive session to debate concurrently three district court nominations. those nominations are paul holmes of arkansas, diana saldana of texas and marco hernandez of oregon. at 5:30,