fan the flames now comedian and author we camp like i mentioned before he joins me to talk about dillinger pennsylvania dilemma where one of chevron's natural gas wells exploded starting a fire that lasted for days not hours deeds one contractor was killed another injured so chevron decided to apologize if it seems fitting. they might as well now here's a letter chevron sent to you about one hundred local residents and that right there that you see in here upper right hand corner that is a gift certificate for the pizza is chevron doing some best business practices with this coupon for pizza so i mean that is that is insulting to me and i'm not a resident of i think this is a great idea this is this is how far a parent we fall in that if you go up to some of these people that look your town is being destroyed there's explosions people are dying there's smoke over but you're going to get a pizza yes. just don't mention it or they might take away the pizza. ok about it they could pull that pizza right out from under it the town is on fire but they get pizzas it's all you're looking at is a g

dillinger said said today -- that's wednesday -- that sanctions against iran have no place in the united states senate a debate over legislation that aims to expand health care, educational opportunities, employment and other benefits for veterans. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that his complete statement be made part of the record. he goes --. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. reid: it goes into detail as to how wrong-headed this is that the republicans are trying to divert attention from an issue that is so very, very important to the american people. by their continued obstruction, it has been so detrimental to our country. mr. president, on another topic, mr. president, i can't say that everyone of the koch brothers ads are a lie but i'll say this -- mr. president, the vast, vast majority of them are. now, enough editorial comments. i am going to read verbatim a column that appeared in today's "hill" magazines -- newspaper i should call it here on the hill. it's entitled "koch brothers ads shameful." let me read this. having a right is not the same th

and i think commander dillinger hit the nail right on the head. what he is saying, fine, we can debate iran at some point. we can debate obamacare -- it's going on day after day after day. but this is a bill that deals with veterans' issues. and i thin thank the american ln not only for their support -- and they along with vitterly is every other veteran -- with virtually every other veterans organization in the country supports this legislation, the v.f.w., d.a. vie, the iraq-afghanistan veterans of america, just dozens of organizations. but i thank the american legion in particular for their statement in making it clear that our job is to debate a veterans bill, not kill this bill, because of an extraneous issue like iran sanctions. i wanted to say one other word before i proceed to my remarks. my colleague from north carolina mentioned that -- quoted from a group called the concern the veterans of america -- concerned veterans of america. in support of our legislation, we have the largest veterans organization in america, second-largest, third-

people like commander daniel dillinger who said iran is a serious issue congress needs to be to* address but cannot be tied to the bill which is extremely important as our nation prepares to welcome millions of u.s. service men and women from war. or v.a. founder and c.e.o. paul rykoff who called this comprehensive legislation -- and i quote -- "a game changer that will change the trajectory for veterans for years to come." as serious and as timely as they may be, unrelated issues like iran sanctions are just calculated attempts to intentionally dismantle our bipartisan effort to expand health care, education opportunities, employment and benefits for our nation's heroes. we can't allow our commitment to them to lapse or to get caught up in separate issues or political grand standing. so, mr. president, i want to thank the senator from vermont and all of his staff for their tireless work on this comprehensive legislation that they brought to the floor. and i really hope that our colleagues will reconsider opposing this commonsense and important step to give those who have sacrificed ever