-- hirono, coons, tester, schock, gillibrand. mr. reid: i move to concur in the house amendment to the senate amendment to h.j. res. 59 with an amendment. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the motion. the clerk: the senator from nevada, mr. reid, moves to concur in the house amendment to the senate amendment to h.j. res. 59, with amendment number 2547. mr. reid: mr. president, i ask for the yeas and nays on my motion. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the yeas and nays are ordered. mr. reid: i have an amendment which is at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: the senator from nevada, mr. reid, proposes amendment numbered 2548 to the instructions of amendment 2547. mr. reid: i move to refer the house message with respect to h.j. res. 59 with instructions. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from nevada, mr. reid, moves to refer the house message on h.j. res. 59 to the committee on budget with instructions

coons, tester, udall of new mexico, rockefeller, carper, stabenow, manchin, king, hirono, heinrich, nelson and baucus. mr. reid: i move to concur in the house amendment to the senate amendment to h.r. 334 with an amendment. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from nevada, mr. reid, moves to concur in the house amendment to the senate amendment to h.r. 3304, with the following amendment numbered 2553. mr. reid: i ask for the yeas and nays on my motion. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the yeas and nays are ordered. mr. reid: i have an amendment that i have asked the chair to order reported. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: the senator from nevada, mr. reid, proposes an amendment numbered 2553 to the instructions of amendment numbered 2552. mr. reid: i now move to refer the house message with respect to h.r. 3304 with instructions. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the motions. the clerk: the senator from

they dropped coons because it is so ridiculous. cnn had to drop it. abc was the worst all the way through. to have the police surveillance video that shows george zimmerman. what they don't say from the investigative work the unpaid block paid the administration and seven are female did a better job on this case that all major media combined. they said let's look at the video the image is moving ahead this surveillance video does not move what you're looking at is the iphones a video taken by somebody on the inside in hope of clarity is lost. you can see anything. cbs takes that to read with the same story a the next day. not only the conservative treehouse but to save there the get at the trayvon martin body there is no bruises on his knuckles. the autopsy said what the wounds were but the funeral director turns out to be an activist. he was nine innocent bystander. how a conservative media are not much better. are there are some good liberal blancs but "national review" you could always count on them he hadn't article to see was right for once. no.

>> chairman coons midranking member thank you for the opportunity to be here before you. i appreciate your involvement in drawing attention to the crisis in the republic and look forward to the continued discussion on the u.s. government engagement. before i begin i would like to draw your attention to this map that is on the screen. it takes the geography and frequency of the conflict. senators, i would like to introduce a copy of this into the formal record. >> without objection. >> the areas in the northwest have experienced the greatest violence and are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance. prodir to the most recent attacks, the eight groups have a very limited presence in those areas and targeted attacks against humanitarian workers have further limited the response capacity. overcoming the operational constraints in these areas will take a significant amount of time and human and financial resources. this is arguably the worst crisis in the history. as of this week 680,000 central africans have fled their homes. that is 150,000 more than that december 9th es

to be more effectively engaged. >> senator chris coons, thank you for your time. speak more with you on this issue. >> thank you, tamron. >> a verdict reach in the trial of a former bp engineer charged with obstructing the oil spill probe tops our look around the news nation. found guilty of one charge of deleting text messages from the cell phone to obstruct an investigation into bp's massive oil spill in the gulf of mexico in 2010. a jury acquitted him of a second charge and the verdict comes after the jury said they were at a stand still and having trouble reaching the decision. the maximum sentence is 20 years in prison one of four current or former bp employees charged with crimes related to the spill. >>> police identified a doctor who was killed when a gunman open fire in reno nevada hospital yesterday. officials are still trying to figure out the motive of the gunman who open fire killing dr. charles and injuring two women before taking his own life. police say the gunman did not appear to be targeting people but the incident was not completely random eith

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i also want to thank david coon from leader reid's office and chris sari with the office of management and budget and doug elmendorf and all of the staff at the congressional budget office for their innumerable hard work and support. mr. president, we are at the end of the time for this and i urge all of our colleagues now to support this bipartisan budget act of 2013. we are about to put jobs and economic growth first, and most importantly, we are going to give the american people back some certainty that they do deserve. mr. president, has all postcloture time expired on the motion to concur with respect to h.j. res. 59? the presiding officer: it has. mrs. murray: i ask unanimous consent the motion to concur with an amendment be withdrawn. the presiding officer: is there objection? a senator: reserving the right to object. the presiding officer: the senator from alabama. mr. sessions: i would note this is the way the process -- the train that runs through this body and denies amendments to be allowed occurs. so at this point there will be a move to in effect clear the tree so this ca

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he stayed on the ground after wards to make sure he was coon of all there but returned to action nows gives new meaning to the world pulled groin. vernon had the thoughts today in a since deleted tweet. it should be a league rule saying defender can not tackally player by his well general tell. most panful thing ever. former player i would agree i don't think i have ever seen that happen. i talk with vernon earlier today and he is fine. now the frai frainer offense had one of the better outings yesterday and part of the reason was to return king crab michael crabtree. only 2 reception but threat of the presence took double team away but davis and bolden. 9 reception. vernon caught 50th career touch down pass. and for kaepernick he threw for 275 yards. >> caught collin did very effective job of doing it in the game. receivers were catching the ball getting open. it was a very it was a good day the passing game. lick my dad was asking why do you run the ball better at the end of the game. i get it from my dad too. >> still get it from our dads. all right. to college rank stanford hoste

. >> certainly not used to this coon of work but having fun. >> i'm enjoying it. yes. i'm learning. have learned a lot about how to cut the paint and using the roller in the center. >>reporter: santa clara kit maker is ditching the holiday party. instead the company is using the money and 1500 of its employees to help transform a school. they get resurface blacktop to new baseball field. they caught a glimpse of improvement before heading out on a field trip. >> they were asking. is that going to be for us? yes it's for you. is this for you. the community is doing it for you. >>reporter: cost of the project is over 1 million dollars paid for by the city of san jose and school district and they have been doing this for effective years. idea to ditch the party came up shortly after 9/11. >> we all could eat dinner at night. good jobs. all few what we were employed in the morning. celebrate again didn't seem leak the right they think. >> idea stuck even as the economy improved. days fine the stair why type not all techie are entitled. self absorbed and especially awn aware. >> with the

>> brent coon is a texas lawyer representing several victims suing bp.at by failing to upgrade antiquated equipment with flares, the company knowingly put lives at risk. >> they knew that if they didn't fix these thing, they were increasing the risk, unnecessarily increasing the risk, of something major happening. >> so why were they still using them at texas city? >> because it cost several million dollars to get rid of them. >> but i mean, this was a plant that made how much in profit? >> they made about $1 billion a year at that plant. >> so there's money there to replace them. >> sure. well, ed, the deal is, you want to make $1 billion dollars, or do you want to make $998 million? they chose to make $1 billion. >> there is evidence that texas city's own plant manager, don parus, was dismayed by unsafe conditions at the refinery and even tried to get the attention of his bosses in london. he briefed them on a report revealing that most workers at the refinery felt the plant was unsafe. one worker wrote... another wrote... >> what do you do you when yo

on hedging, they can't hedge, they coon only hedge the proprietary risk. they can't speculate.correlation analysis. that is, what is the risk and then what is the hedge. they need to be similar. you can't say, i'm going to take a big flyer bet and this is my risk. it has got to be correlated. and we've done that on a number of things. so even though it may seem like there's exemptions here, there, and everywhere, i think it is actually fairly tightly drafted and it is in, keeping step with the law. david: all right. it is not just me that is a little skeptical as you well know. there was one dissenter, republican in the cftc dissented. and financial committee chairman republican jeb hensarling, three years and 11,000 comment letters, we're left with one more incomprehensible washington regulation weighing in at nearly a thousand pages that will do nothing to help the nation recover from the slowest, weakest, non-recovery since the great depegs. obviously there are politics involved in these statements however, however, there are a lot of small banking institution that is simply

. >> there is a coon census behind reforms which will take us regardless which political party comesnto power. but i think if -- what we need is stable coalitions. because stable coalitions can make decisions more easily. there's a small possibility that the coalition that comes in doesn't contain one of the big political parties, in which case there may be a little more sort of difficulty in getting together open policies but we must remember that, you know, some of the best budgets in indian mist, from the prospect the growth were presented at times of very fractured coalitions. >> so if the existing party doesn't remain in power does that mean that you extender your resignation. >> no. mine is a technocratic position. i'm not a political -- i don't owe allegiance to any complete dell party and therefore i don't have to. i think i can be removed but i don't have to tender my resignation. >> thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> ifill: finally, on this christmas day, a different take on the story of jesus. jeffrey brown has our book conversation. >> who was jesus? how have his w

ceo kirk coon back on december 2nd. >> we continue to be efficient and routing on the ground so we can meet increased demand. >> that was then. diana olick has the now. she's in washington with the latest. good to see you, diana. >> reporter: you no, sara, it was a major miscalculation, but we've just a few moments ago gotten a new statement from u.p.s. they said u.p.s. apologizes to both shipping and receiving customers who may have delays. we have additional sorting problems at the international air hub in louisville, kentucky, on christmas and are making deliveries and pickups today. customers should continue to access u.p.s.com for the most updated information. so here's what happened. an unexpected surge in online sales that u.p.s. simply couldn't handle. they had pictured 7.75 million packages would enter the system over the holidays. they handle about 45% of all u.s. packages. what they didn't know, again, was that online sales would jump 37% just last weekend as consumer sales fell at the mall. so the trucks are rolling again today. u.p.s. beefing up staff last night and promis

2013, motorola withdrew their insurance coverage for retirees and said under obamacare they simply coon after -- could not afford it. i could go on and on. i know the senator from mississippi has anecdotes he'd like to mention and i'll engage in some others on my side shortly. the presiding officer: the senator from mississippi. mr. wicker: i thank my colleague from go gea. let me mention -- georgia. let me mention a husband and wife in mississippi. they are small business people. as the chair is well aware, that's how we create jobs in the united states of america. we love it when a big manufacturing plant moves in but it's the small businesses flout this great land that create the bulk of the jobs and we appreciate it. obamacare has hit the small businesses so hard, and hurt their ability to create jobs. this particular small business couple in hearn and dough -- hernando, mississippi, tell me the private insurance plan they have offered their employees in the past, it will not be grandfathered and the new plan they are forced to offer their employees will have a 7% premium increase i

liz: ford unveiled the new version of eye coon nick mustang, it will go on sale at the 50th anniversary of the launch of iconic mustang. time fore"after the bell." david: i have should mention by the way the floorboard of the '67 mustang that chris noth had was not there. it rusted out. we were looking at road beneath our feet. what you do in college, crazy stuff. we have lee munson, portfolio manager, chief investment officer will explain why he doesn't think the fed will taper soon no matter how strong the economic data. we have tim mullen in the pits. tim i want to start with you. the looks like the market is ready for a good jobs report, perhaps, as a result earlier tapering than we thought, correct. >> that is the thought in the market action but when you look at bond market and the way the selloff ended i think there is hesitation. if we get a jobs number there is no certainty fed will stop anytime soon. even if they do they're adding liquidity. david: it is not certainty. they're hedging their bet. there is a little bet hedging going on, right? >> i think so. the other main point

we'll coone more. okay, good. [laughter] yeah. we're going do four questions. >> my name is rodney priewt. i'm a displaced teacher. i stood on the stage at the auditorium and helped convince the teachers to walk out. i joined you in front of full torns on the river to deal with them. one thing i will say, i used to be head of one of the committees then i resigned. i felt like we were doing anything. until this city addresses race and call it as it is, nothing positive will happen in this city. that mayor will be re-elected. because many of the grassroots protesters do not vote. i'm one of the black displaced teachers until recently nothing has been put out in the media that has named us by name. as a black male teacher, we're collateral damage. until this city addresses race, nothing is going happen. and this city is a microcause m of the entire country. [applause] as long as you have politics, that is deliberately vague trying to cover everybody, the people that need to vote will never vote. thank you. [applause] thank you. thank

a reallyne coon, but big cat. i wanted to pass an ordinance banning dangerous big animals. they healthy work it out. we did a laundry list of lions, tigers, bears, guerrillas, things that you could have. the last item on the list was fair. they were going to ban ferrets. i don't know if your member when york city bans ferrets, and people took to the street, marching with their pets. ferrets on this list? and snakes that are five feet too long. [laughter] there was a legitimate reason. they said there was no right -- no rabies vaccine for ferrets. it is not appropriate for people to have ferrets. i look up in an ordinance that bans ferrets and puts ferrets in the same category as tigers. we were going back and forth and back and forth. they got they found a rabies vaccine for ferrets before i had to do that. it is often hard to know. things that we do better in our , but may impact others in ways that we don't expect. the unintended consequences. prohibition. not something that affects the city of houston, but when we put prohibition in, we jumpstarted organized crime in the

the judge coon sentence her up to life in prison. i put my personal feelings aside. intellectually i think it is the right decision. jenna: fred mentioned the point i would ask you about is the sentence. what difference does this plea make? she still faces life in prison? >> now that she pled to second degree the judge can take that into account this was not a premeditated act that would go to whether he wants to enhance her sentence, to go higher, to vary her sentence, to go up over the sentencing guidelines or reduce it and go below the sentencing guidelines. more of a point of mitigation. the interesting part i found out about this story was reading between the lines that the defense attorney made a comment in some of these reports that the government made this offer. so i'm wondering if the government was concerned by reading the jury that they may not have gotten a conviction for first or second-degree murder. jenna: let me ask you on that. because as someone that worked as a defense attorney in cases like this how does this come about? i mean depending on who m

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coons: mr. president, i came to the floor today to speak to a bipartisan bill, which i hope to take a few minutes to talk to, but first i have to comment on what's going on here or not going on here on the floor and the comments of the majority leader. i have just been a senator for only three years. as you know well, as the presiding officer, we were sworn in as a group of those elected in the class of 2010, and i just came from an inspiring event with the vice president who previously held this seat on behalf of delaware gave an award to the former majority leader, a real patriot, a veteran, former senator bob dole, and they talked about how compromise, printed compromise made it possible for senator mcgovern and senator dole, folks from opposite ends of the political spectrum to work together in the interest of hungry children here in the united states. and frankly, what i have seen in the three years that i have been here in the senate, the three years that we have served together on the jud

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a number of them senators, including chris coons, from delaware. governor of, the connecticut.f the great things that happens because of the clinton years is a whole generation of leaders adopted this politics. is not always obvious on the congressional level. country where people have to deliver services, you have this breed of young elected officials that i think bodes well for the country, and i hope that holds well on the republican side. host: "the new democrats and the return to power" is the name of the book. al from is the author. susan from herndon, virginia. caller: i am a conservative, fiscal person as a democrat. i would like to see more of our party focus on the emerging minorities in this country that do not have a voice, especially at the local elections where they are not being heard from. we need to have the voice of women. the names you just listed, i did not hear any women except hillary clinton. we have a huge talent pool of women and minorities, male and female. in our transparency government finances. i do not care what party it is. people are starving for

have been crowded with people, as he describes in the book and there were people playing card, some coon reporter: the whole house, indeed, seemed abandoned to merriment, literally loaded with good cheer. people just seemed to let loose back then, radioity? >> exactly. they played all sorts of games that he describes, like hoodman's bluff. traditional cust forms that he really tried to keep alive. >> reporter: irving, from manhattan who also wrote "the legend of sleepy hollow" and "rip van winkle" so impressed a mr. charles dingens with his adoration of a proper christmastime, it inspired his "a christmas carol." >> god bless us, everyone! >> reporter: shaping our christmases, even today. ♪ irving's holiday would have been full of joyful dancing, the twerking of its time. and so you could actually get to know somebody this way? >> would you, indeed. >> reporter: and hospitality, grand homes like this would open their doors to the poor and everyone. wow, the stairs are so worn, you just picture all of the feet that happily went up and down. and what a sensation to sit and read in the very

coons: i ask unanimous consent that -- the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. coons: i come to the floor once again to talk about jobs, mr. manufacturing jobs. this week under senator amy klobuchar's leadership, the joint economic can committee released a report that lays out thoroughly and thoughtfully why manufacturing jobs have such promise and how congress can act to help spur manufacturing job creation now and into the future. the report shows that today manufacturing jobs are high quality jobs, that they pay better than jobs in any other sector in wages and benefits that they help create more local service sector jobs, that they contribute more to the local economy and that manufacturers invest the most in private r&d of any sector in our country. manufacturing as you well know, mr. president, has long played an important role in our nation's economy. it has spurred the postwar economic boom and served as an economic backbone that built the american middle class. but over the past 60 years in our country has c

>> chairman coons, and ranking member flake, thank you for the opportunity to be here.i appreciate you drawing attention to the situation in the central african republic and look forward to a continued discussion. we have the map loaded. i would like you -- i would like to draw your attention to this map on the screen, the geography and the frequency of conflict in the c.a.r. senators, i would like to introduce a copy of this map into the formal record. >> without objection. >> the areas in the northwest have to date experienced the greatest violence are -- and are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance. prior to the most recent attack, aid groups had a limited presence and targeted attacks against humanitarian workers have further limited our response capacity. overcoming the operational constraints in these areas will take a significant amount of time in human and financial resources. this is arguably the worst crisis in the c.a.r.'s history. as of this week, 680,000 central africans have fled their homes, 150,000 more than the u.n. december 9 estimate. moreover