durbin, proposes an amendment numbered 393 to amendment numbered 392. mr. durbin: mr. president, i ask consent the reading of the amendment be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. the presiding officer: the senator from montana. mr. tester: i -- over the last month, mr. president, senator corker and i have worked with several senators who are concerned about the unintended consequences of the debit interchange amendment that the senate adopted last year. we voted against that amendment. we were concerned about the impact of those consequences on folks, especially across rural america, who rely on their small banks and credit unions. the federal reserve's rules based on this amendment are about to go into effect, and the result is going to be bad for the small banks and credit unions and ultimately for the whole country, but especially rural america. even chairman bernanke admits the rule could result in some smaller banks being less profitable or even failing. i am proud to be joined in this effort by senators crapo, senator bennett, se

i do want to say this, you talk a lot about the durbin amendment. there is no durbin amendment. it's the law. the durbin amendment was included in the bill. it is now the law of the land. so it is a question of saying that we should essentially repeal it or delay it. you could study it, whatever the word is before they have a chance to actually go forward. i understand that and i just wanted to say for the record where i stand on it is that, you know, i have met with all sides. i've met with the retailers who were very strongly supportive of the durbin law. and i have met with the banks that are fiercely against it and the credit unions who are very worried that they are going to get hit with a situation where they won't be able to compete with the banks. and i have told them all the same thing, which is i think what's important when we pass a reform is to see if it's going to work. and if it doesn't work, i agree with senator durbin, we'll do everything in our power. and i understand that the fed says, help me. give me guidance. i think there's a lot of guidance in the law. and

durbin still stands, if tester-corker passes. durbin stands. all it does is allow the regulators to appropriately, just as happens in every state around this country that regulates industries, allows the fed to appropriately look at those costs that ought to be associated with the debit card. mr. president, i thank you. i urge my colleagues to vote in support of tester-corker. i thank you for the time, and i yield the floor. mrs. hagan: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from north carolina. mrs. hagan: thank you, mr. president. i, too, come to the floor in support of the amendment by senator tester and senator corker from tennessee. and let me tell you, i threw myself into these negotiations many weeks ago when i saw the great bipartisan work of my colleagues from montana and from tennessee, and you've just heard the senator from tennessee talking about this. they have worked tirelessly on this issue, and they've shown great leadership in their willingness to modify their approach. and what we have now is a bipartisan, balanced

the durbin amendment number 393 be withdrawn. the senate proceed to a vote in relation to the tester amendment number 392 with no amendments, motions or points of order in order prior to the vote other than budget points of order and the applicable motions to waive. the tester amendment be subject to a 60-vote threshold and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. reid: mr. president, i want to express my appreciation to senators durbin and tester for their warm relationship and to every senator here on this most difficult issue for allowing us to get this done tomorrow expeditiously. it's something that had to be done and it's the right thing to do and we'll move forward upon completing this to try to do other things on this very important piece of legislation. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent when the senate when the senate completes its business today it adjourn until tomorrow, wednesday, june 8 at 9:30 a.m. after the prayer and pledge, t

durbin: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today it adjourn until 9:30 a.m. on thursday, june 9 that following the prayer and pledge the journal of proceedings be approved to date, the morning hour deemed expired the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day that following any leader remarks the senate proceed to a period of morning business for one hour with senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each, with the time equally divided and controlled between the two leaders or their designees, with the republicans controlling the first half and the majority controlling the final half, and that following morning business the senate resume consideration of s. 782, the economic development act. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: mr. president there are several amendments pending to the e.d.a. bill on the floor. senators will be notified when votes are scheduled. mr. president, if there is no further

for durbin, senator bennett from colorado who voted for durbin -- what people have realized is that the durbin amendment is way too narrow and doesn't allow appropriate cost to be set by these rates. and there are a number of rule of institutions and i have the same in my state and we all realize this is going to be highly detrimental to the financial system and so what we tried to do is come up with a compromise that works for both sides. as i mentioned, senator crapo, senator hagan, senator brown, senator carver, a you been in of individuals have gotten involved in this and have come up with a one-vote strategy. i know a number of people want to vote and get behind them. and i understand this is one of those issues where we got retailers on one side. you got bankers on the other side and you feel like in some way you're trying to deal, you know -- you're trying to pick between friends. what i think we're trying to do is just put a good, sound policy in place. a place the retailer should be very happy because they are going to end up with a regulated market. something i don't suppo

this morning between assistant majority leader in the senate, democrat from illinois, senator dick durbin, and republican senator from south carolina, member of the armed services committee, senator lindsey graham. then the race for the white house. and gop field taking center stage in new hampshire. >> i want to announce tonight, president obama is a one-term president. >> this president has failed. and he failed at a time when the american people counted on him to create jobs and get the economy going. >> this president is a declinist. he views america as one of equals around the world. >> as the candidates keep the focus on the president, who will emerge as obama's biggest challenge? >>> and the final act in the weiner scandal. >> so, today i'm aing my resignation from congress. >> how do democrats now refocus their agenda? this morning our political roundtable weighs in. the mayor of los angeles and president-elect of the u.s. conference of mayors, antonio villaraigosa, editorial page editor for wall street joernl, paul gigot, historian doris kearns goodwin, chief white house correspo

durbin: mr. president, there's a prohibition in the u.s.n amendment which you are offering is truly cruel and unusual, and i'm going to inflict it anyway. i will try to be as gentle as i can in the process. very briefly, i want to thank the senator from rhode island for his comments on the tax code and the need that we have in this country to address taxes in a responsible, humane, and i would add progressive way. i think he has made the point overed and over again, which i will make myself in just a few moments, and i think the senator from vermont may follow me, but before i'd like to address what is known affectionately as the tester-corker amendment, which was brought up on the floor earlier this morning by senator corker of tennessee, one year ago -- to be more specific, about 11 months, we had a big debate on the floor of the senate about wall street. what are we going to do about wall street and the practices on wall street which hurt our economy? especially we were worried about the last recession and some of the things that happene

roll with durbin on that. host: thank you. and we'll hear from senator durbin in a moment.he tweet says they must all be liquidated. next is annie from champaign, illinois. welcome to the conversation. caller: hello. it's mary. host: mary. caller: i believe the senators and basically congress have forgotten the common man. even the presidents who are running for president say i am going to come and i am going to reform this nation. i am going to break everything down, and i am going to make it so that the common man can live again. no one believes that. and i wish that they would realize just how hard it is for the person who makes a living 24-7 to make a living. and i agree that credit is out of check. but when you're using your own money to go forward and pay for goods and items that you're buying, and to have this tax, i think that that's unconstitutional. and i agree that even if we have to go back to paying for things with money, i see this as just taxation without representation. it goes back to the very core of our fundamental belief. host: mary, thank you for the ca

durbin: mr.i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: without objection, the clerk will call the roll. quorumquorum call: quorum call: mr. kerry: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from massachusetts. mr. kerry: i ask further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. kerry: mr. president, yesterday senator mccain and i introduced -- mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that we go to morning business. i ask unanimous consent that we be permitted to speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kerry: thank you. thank you, mr. president. mr. president, as i was saying, and now it makes an enormous difference because we're in morning business, yesterday senator mccain and i introduced a resolution with respect to our engagement in a support role in libya. that is now, i think the majority leader is making a determination about exactly when the senate might consider th

durbin: how much time is remaining? the presiding officer: 13 minutes, 52 seconds. mr. durbin: mr. president, if senator tester returns to the floor and wants to speak before the vote, i'm going to ask for unanimous consent to each have two minutes for that purpose. perhaps he does not want to but i want to make that a matter of record here because euplt him -- i want him to have a chance to close. did you ever pull out one of these cards to pay for something? if you're my age you don't do it as often as younger people. i was in the carry out this morning and a young woman who was a police officer put up a pack of chewing gum for $1.20 and put up her debit card. the average amount for a debit card is 44 cents for each transaction. how much money do you think the owner made? the answer is nothing. what happens is the banks issuing these debit cards are impose swipe fees on these transactions and merchants and retailers have no voice on the amount of that tpaoefplt the federal reserve did a study and asked how much does it actually cost them to process that debit transaction, and the

this is why senator durbin tried to establish a two-tier system. under his proposal, big banks, wall street banks could charge s one rate at 12 cents per transaction, the small community banks, credit unions couldon, continue to charge a percentage of the transaction, 44 cents one .verage.an but there is a big flaw in the plan. the two-tiered system simplyt. will not work. let me repeat that.idn'take the two-tiered system simply ch will not work and i didn't make that up."its here's the chairman of thehantsw federal reserve said. it is possible the merchants will reject the more expensiveis cards from smaller institutionst or because networks are not olling to differentiate the different size.ot it is possible that thein extension will not be effective in the marketplace. it was ben bernanke who saidecae that.l he went on to say that because the exemption will not be even effective, small banks could bei heard or even fail. said. requirg them t the community banks requiring them to increase the fees they charge for accounts is much greater than any

so today you have the durbin proposal and the court proposal. >> senator durbin wants to bring it down to 12 cents. what's the other proposal? >> the corporate tester plan keeps getting revised. the latest revision. initially they wanted to delay the rules a couple of years and water it down significantly. that had a lot of initial opposition seen as a way to kill it altogether. this one they say is more of a compromise even though none of the retailers agree with that. if this one delays any implementation for about a implementation for about a year, and it also gives the banks a lot more flexibility when they go to the regulators and say, hey, we need to justify a higher charge, you know? something closer to the 44 cents instead of the 12 cents. if the tester amendment passes, they'll be able to include a lot more expenses to justify a higher rate. and all kinds of overhead expenses that they can say, hey, well, we need to leverage this fee in order to pay all this overhead. and durbin -- his argument on that is that they can technically sneak all kinds of things into their justifica

durbin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the assistant majority leader is recognized. mr. durbin: i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be suspended and ask to speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: it's my honor to come to the senate floor this evening to speak on the issue of the dream act and to have among those in attendance on the floor of the united states senate a group of senators from mexico who are part of the mexican-american interparliamentary union. they are here on the floor with the majority leader, harry reid, as well as senator tom udall who is coordinating their visit to the united states over the next several days. we are honored that they are here and that they are allowed to come on the floor and to witness our senate, at least in this proceeding where i will make a brief statement. the issue that i'm going to raise in the course of this evening is one that is of importance to many people around the world, certainly in th

this is why senator durbin trier to establish a two-tieredroposa system. under his proposal, the big strn banks, big banks, while st. banks could charge one great ld well as a cost perdit union u transaction.ntinue to the small banks, community t percentage, 44% on average.plan. tet there is a big flaw in theds plan. the two-tiered system simply will not work. let me repeat that. what t it simply will not work and ie didn't make that up. here's what the chairman of the it's possible the remarks willwe they wouldn't be able to issuehe for a different size. exemption will not be effective that was ben bernanke who said u that.tionill he went on to say because the bd exemption will not be effective, small banks could be hurt or even fail. said- "th hurting community banks and requiring them to increase the fees that they charge for accounts is much greater than any tiny benefit that the retail customer may get." again, madam president, everyone agrees that if the fed rules go into effect, the small banks and credit unions will suffer because the exemption sim

. >>> docenas de ellos fueron como protesta el senador durbin que lucha a favor del dream act dice queenador republicano abordo para apoyarlo, enfatizan los aspectos y beneficios y de seguridad nacional, en el capitolio l lourdes mensa. >>>. h la gobernador sucio na martínez dimg que no deben utilizar juegos pirotécnico durante el fin de semi noa de 4 de julio al regreso, votantes de miami dade despiden un alcalde hispano y hoy reciben su sucesor también latino. . y les contamos el más reciente . . . . . >> ¿dijo que la muerte fue un accidente? >> para clarificar su pregunta nunca encontrÉ a mi nieta el dia de hoy. >> eotro testimonio dramÁtico fue el de roy faun que avisÓ a las autoridades. >> big un objeto que parecÍa un crÁneo. >> el es un testigo clave de la defensa cuya estrategia ha quedado bien clara. desprestigiar las evidencias en el caso. crumm contaminÓ los restos de la niÑa. >> como si el juicio no fuera suficientemente complicado, la defensa pide un miss trial. el juicio regresarÍa a punto 0. >> la defensa sustenta su solicitud porque la semana pasada declararon la muerte

senador dick durbin/ senador de illinois :05 they criticize the bill and offer no alternative.l autor dijo que los republicanos critican el proyecto de ley, pero no ofrecen una alternativa. s.o.t. jazmin segura/siren 4:18:00 mientras no consigan los votos, los 60 votos, las audiencias no va a realmente cambiar nada y no nos van a mover hacia adelante.. la organizacin siren comparte la opinin de observadores de que dada la desventaja de demcratas en el congreso, es improbable que el proyecto sea aprobado.. s.o.t. 3:52:00 el senado está teniendo audiencias pero creo que necesitamos un plan completo... nats.. francisca quisiera que la ley se aprobara para que sus 4 hermanos menores no sufran lo que ella ha vivido.. s.o.t. francisca melchor/quisiera en dream act 11:35:00 que pues no tienes un buen trabajo, siempre pides trabajo y no te lo dan por falta de papeles .. nats.. la audiencia marca el ms reciente captulo de lo que ha sido un trayecto lleno de emociones y decepciones para unos 2 millones de soÑadores cuyos anhelos dependen de una eventual aprobacin.. take sot - animated op

durbin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from illinois. mr. durbin: mr. president, most americans have a credit score. we don't know much about it until we start to borrow money. and then you find out what your score is and the score may determine whether or not you're going to get a loan or if you get a loan, how much interest you're going to pay on it. several years ago, about ten years ago, i got a phone call from a bill collection agency to my home in springfield, illinois, saying durbin, we finally caught up with you, i don't know how you thought you could get away from us, but the charges that you have run up here at the home depot in denver, colorado, haven't been paid for months. and i said i've never been to the home depot in denver, colorado. i was a victim of identity theft. somebody got enough information about me to apply for an account there and to run up some charges. and they said prove it. so i sent them some information and they came back to me and said well, we're satisfied you weren't the person who ran up the charges, but you better c

. >> lehrer: as you know, there are some democratic colleague,including senator durbin, who feel differently about it. why do you think the fact that u.s. troops are not on the ground, but u.s. military hardware and equipment and personnel are being-- are involved, why-- >> i think you can see what the problem is. superior court boehner, they did something in the house, and qaddafi wrote a letter and said thanks. i mean, i think very clearly what we're doing there is the right thing to do. i would much rather have qaddafi gone. i don't think the draft-- act when drafted took this into consideration. >> lehrer: there is going to be a vote? >> i don't know. in the senate there's nothing very definite about votes. i had a long conversation with john kerry, and john mccain has strong feelings on this. >> lehrer: speaker boehner says if they don't do something like this in the house, he may try to keep the. away from being spent on the libya operation. >> i don't think john really believes we should stop our inaction libya. i mean, this madman is just that. he's a mad man. the sooner he goes, the

angie: ...los senadores robert menÉndez, patrick leahy y dick durbin vuelven a la carga, esperando quera una reforma de inmigraciÓn -que incluye el dream act- sÍ sea aceptada por sus colegas republicanos. >>es para impulsar una oportunidad de decir que esto es de suma importacia, de que queremos una oportunidad, que nuestros colegas republicanos se unan a nosotros. angie: este proyecto incluye el refuerzo de la seguridad en la frontera, lo que siempre han frontera, lo que siempre han exigido los republicanos, al igual que la verificaciÓn del estatus de los trabajadores. tambiÉn se exigirÁ a los 11 tambiÉn se exigirÁ a los 11 millones de indocumentados a inscribirse con el gobierno, pagar impuestos, multas y aprender inglÉs. despuÉs de haber aprobado un chequeo de su historial delictivo. >>es razonable. se enfoca en una legalizaciÓn para las personas que lo merecen y, al mismo tiempo, asegura a frontera. >>en una Época en la que hemos visto tantas propuestas de ley anti inmigrantes, este es un recordatorio de una forma de darle un anÁlisis sincero con sentido comÚn al especto migratorio

durbin: thank you, madam president. madam president, there was a vote yesterday on the senate floor about a bill that was pending that goes directly to the topic just raised by the senator from iowa. it was the economic development administration. it's an agency created almost a half a century ago to create incentives for businesses to build, expand and locate in places across america where there is high unemployment. it's been a success in illinois and almost every other state. for every dollar the federal government puts on the table, it generates $7 in economic activity. there isn't a lot to go around, so they pick those projects that are the most promising, and it's a good agency. it's an agency that has enjoyed wide bipartisan support, and yet when it came time yesterday to vote on whether or not to go ahead and pass the bill to reauthorize the agency, unfortunately we couldn't find 60 senators on the floor to vote yes. and so the bill languished and basically was pulled from the calendar. it's the second time this

those harsh words come from senator dick durbin via woodrow wilson.crat in the senate and he's talking about congressman anthony weiner. congressman weiner says he has no plans to resign and he can point to a new poll released this evening to make his case. 56% of voters in weiner's congressional district say he should not resign from congress. but his political destiny aside, does congressman weiner have some legal problems ahead of him? one prominent legal scholar thinks he certainly should be concerned. joining me now is jonathan turley, a constitutional law professor at george washington university, also a criminal defense attorney, a practitioner who knows the courtroom and principles. jonathan, welcome. >> thank you. >> so you are a criminal defense attorney, well regarded. if anthony weiner walked in as a client, how would you assess his potential exposure. >> i think it's unlikely he'll face a criminal charge on these facts, but we don't have a lot of the facts. he already did a very clever thing in avoiding the area where most politicians are

senar richard durbin said a delay would be a big kiss for the nation's biggest banks. >> this delay could be significant, and from the banks' point of view, the longer the delay, the better. what's it worth? $1.3 billion a month for every month they can delay it. how long would they like to delay it? forever. >> reporter: the new rules do contain a special exemption for small banks, but montana's jon tester said regulators were not confident it would work. that's why tester is pushing to delay the new rules, which he said would force some small banks out of business. >> and i could care less about the wall street banks, they're going to do fine. but i'll tell you what, we lose the banks of our small towns of montana, or wyoming, or tennessee and you can put another nail in the coffin of rural america. >> reporter: retailers were relieved after the vote failed. the national retail federation's mallory duncan says consumers should see a difference after the fees fall next month. >> consumers can drive up and down the highway now and see that retailers are offering a discount for cash. this

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senator durbin. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and i think it for the record bears at least repeating how we got to the war powers act over the see are tofe of president nixon -- over the veto of president nixon. congress decided the president's opinion of constitutional notwithstanding, we overrode his veto. the congress overrode his veto. i think that that is something we should think about as we address your particular concern here. there's no question that presidents as commanders in chief don't necessarily want to wait on congress and they're worried about what might happen if congress has to decide issues of national security. last week in the house of representatives they made a dog's breakfast out of the war powers act and our situation in libya. because they refused to authorize the activity and then refused to defund the activity. and you can understand why commanders in chief usually ask congress just to get out of the way when it comes to national security. when the house reaches a conclusion like that. i would say wit

durbin: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from illinois. mr. durbin: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: madam president, i have actually three items that i'd like to ask be entered in the record in separate places. i ask consent that that be allowed. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: madam president, i think most of us involved in public life realize that few people meet us and many more people meet those who represent us, and that's why if you're a success as a congressman or senator or as an elected official, you really have to rely on the people who work for you, who time and again will represent you. their approach, their sense of caring, their promptness, their courtesy will reflect on you, and if you're lucky, really lucky, you will have some extraordinary people who work for you, who cover you with glory every single day and even when you don't know it. now, i start

i've actually litigated a small piece of this known as the durbin amendment, and what you see is there you're giving a charge to set interchange rates in the market that it does not understand, and there's complete paralysis. they are late on their deadline by a week. it was supposed to be in effect january 21. there's a $15 billion shift in cash put together by a senator who is sublime that the name senator durbin should not be ever uttered in polite company, and that's what you talk about as centralized planning. this is a complete interest group deal. there is absolutely nothing structural about this industry which is failed. in fact, it's one of the great success stories in america, the rise of the debit card, and, you know, that's the kind of self-inflicted wound that i hope george agrees, but i don't know if you know much about debit cards, george, but i want your views on the subject. [laughter] >> map in the corner. >> the federal reserve exclusively has arbitrary powers. it has position of reserving the financial system from collapse, and when the system is endangered it, it h

durbin: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, if people have been following the debate on the senate floor this afternoon, they understand that it's focused almost exclusively on the federal budget deficit and what we're going to do about it. it's a legitimate question and a timely question, because we are now in negotiations at the highest levels between the president and leaders in the house and senate to try to find some way through our impasse. the challenge is to find a way to reduce america's deficit and at the end of the day to extend our debt ceiling. the debt ceiling has a deadline of august 2. we have never in our history failed to extend our debt ceiling. to fail to do so would be the equivalent of defaulting on a mortgage payment. and of course we know the consequences to any home or family if that occurs. you understand that your credit rating is not going to be the best after you've defaulted. the same thing would be true with america. you also may find the next time you need a mortgage, that particular b

durbin: mr. president, very briefly, i've come to know senator rubio. we have early morning seminars. and we've come to know one another a little better. but i want to especially thank you for that speech because it was compleerl a speech with a lot of personal reflection on your own life and on the life of america. what you said will endure. there are things in there that we all should remember about this nation and about our responsibility as senators. thank you for that fine speech, and i'm glad i was here to be a witness to it. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. durbin: i ask contessa the quorum call be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to a period of morning business for until 5:00 p.m., with senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each, and at 5:00 p.m., the majority leader be recognized. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. mr. sessions: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from a

shulman, the floor is yours. >> thank you, chairman durbin, ranking member moran. i appreciate the opportunity to testify about our 20 told budget. this was crafted in a time of fiscal austerity and belt- tightening for the nation. it is incumbent upon all of us in the government to be as efficient as possible and spend taxpayer dollars wisely. this means, in my mind, of finding savings where we can and continuing to invest in it strategic priorities that allow us to improve the service and voluntary compliance. the fiscal year 2012 budget includes almost $190 million in efficiency savings and reductions, and you have got my commitment to continue to look for ways to save the federal government money. against this backdrop, is also clear that the irs is vital to both of the function of the government and keeping our nation and economy strong. in fiscal year 2010, at the irs collected, the chairman noted, 2.35 trillion in gross revenues to fund the federal government, approximately 93% of all federal receipts. for every dollar spent on the irs, we collect approximat

>> senator durbin? >> please go ahe. i will follow you. >> let me try to describe for colleagues why i think senator lugar's amendment, which i will support, addresses this question but without creating a dilemma that frankly the administration simply can't resolve. in the testimony today, many of you were here and heard it. some of you were not able to be here, but the legal advisor, harold koh, said the following. because the war powers resolution represented a broad compromise between competing views on the proper division of constitutional authorities, the question of whether a particular set of facts constitutes hostilities for the purposes of the resolution has been determined more by interbranch practice than by a narrow parsing of dictionary deaf nations. both branches recognize that different situations may call for different responses. specifically he pointed to how, under president forward -- president ford, when this question came up, lee and hoffman, the folks working then on the issue said the term should n

durbin: mr. president, later this week, we're going to consider an issue which is complicateed, but it's an issue that affects every single american that ever takes a piece of plastic and pays for anything, at a hotel, at a restaurant, at a convenience store, tuition at a school, a charitable deduction to red cross in the midst of a disaster. if you use plastic, every time that debit card -- we're talking just about debit cards for this conversation -- every time that debit card is swiped, there is a fee that goes to the bank that issued the card. and you think to yourself, well, i wonder how they negotiate those fees, and the answer is they don't. what happens is the credit card companies, the two giants, visa and mastercard, working through the issuing banks determine what's going to be charged every time you swipe the card. so what does the local grocery store have to say about it? nothing. their alternative is to not accept plastic at all. visa and mastercard say you want to use our card, you

that's been going on for a why this has been lobbied heavily i think even who was a senator dick durbin says this has been full employment for washington d.c. tell us more about exactly how much money each side really shelled out here tens of millions of dollars it's hard to even tabulate because they're they're donating directly to congressman they're putting out expensive ad campaigns we see them all over the subway here in d.c. you know each side has spent probably will say fifty to sixty million and that's something that makes senators make very difficult choices one senator said today that he doesn't like choosing between good friends because these are two very powerful districts wall street and then retailers like wal-mart home depot target lot of money food and also that's the thing is the end of the day is that this has been a. really difficult one for all the lawmakers because both of these industries while they have all of our congress in their pockets right i mean how much do you think that these interviews actually contribute when it comes to you at home or more of these loc

durbin: mr. president? i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: and i ask for consent to speak in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: mr. president, like yourself, i've served both in the house of representatives and in the united states senate, and during the course of my career have been called on to make many votes, most of them fade into obscurity after they're cast and are never recalled again. but there are a few that you'll remember for a lifetime, and i would say that at the highest level in that category are the times when we're called upon, as members of congress, to consider a declaration of war. many of us have lost sleep over those decisions. i've thought about those votes long and hard. no matter how just the war may be or how important it may be, you cannot help but reflect on the fact that at the end of the day, people will die as a result of your decision if you go forward

. >> chairman durbin, thanks for the hearing today, and welcome, commissioner shulman. tand the irs is tasked with the responsibility to collect the revenue the funds the government that administers the tax law. the ira's goal of increasing services making military compliance easier and enforcing the law to ensure everyone pays their fair share of taxes is all laudable. we all agree we should make sure our tax code and irs compliance efforts don't make it harder for taxpayers and small businessmen and women to meet their tax obligations to the as we know the american economy is facing difficult times and we need to get the economy moving again. americans are struggling and overly burdensome regulations and requirements and for the ability of the small businesses to grow and create jobs. i was pleased to see congress address the uncertainty by passing legislation to repeal the unprecedented 1099 reporting mandate in the health care law. this marks a significant change in the health care law and the repeal of the 1099 requirement is good news for small business and agricu

durbin: i thank my colleague from rhode island. so people understand this debate, we have a deficit problem. serious. we borrow 40 cents from other countries for every dollar we spend. we can't sustain that. our economy may be the strongest in the world, but it's being called into question every day. look what's happening on the streets of athens, greece, and in portugal and in ireland, because they went too far. they crossed the point beyond which their creditors would not go. they were so deeply in debt that their creditors basically said we're not going to loan you any more money unless you change dramatically the way you run your country. that's the pain that's going through these countries today. we want to avoid that pain in the united states. and to do it, we've got to address the deficit honestly. we've got to take a look at this debt that we have and deal with it in honest terms. most people, v forgotten the fact that ten years ago, ten years ago we were running a surplus in the federal budget. the last three years of the

durbin: mr. president, i ask ct that the quorum call be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: and i ask unanimous consent to speak in morning business. the presiding officer: wownchts. mr. durbin: mr. president, it was about ten years ago that i received a call to my office in chicago from a korean-american mother who was concerned about her daughter. her daughter had been brought to the united states at the age of 2, had grown up in the united states. all her brothers and sisters were born here as well. and her daughter had been accepted on a music scholarship. it turns out she was an extraordinarily talented concert pianist. and she was graduating from high school, and she had been accepted at juilliard school of music in the manhattan observatory school of music. and in filling out the application, there was a question about her daughter's citizenship. since she brought her daughter here on a visi visitor's visas t that at the age of 2 and never filed any papers, she

udall: senator durbin, thank you very much for your statement. i believe that all of us working together, our chairman at the foreign relations committee, senator cardin, others, the presiding officer, who is also on the foreign relations committee, with us, i think we can come to a resolution which complies with what the president has stated. and the president says he has no intention of sending ground forces into libya, but it's important at this point in time, as you have pointed out, as the constitution mandates, that we step in and express the will of the american people on this issue, and that is the whole purpose of -- of what i'm on the floor for today and i look forward to working very closely with you. with that, i would note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from indiana. a senator: i know the full time allotted csh. the presiding officer: the senator should know the senate is in a quorum call. mr. coats: i ask to vit

today with senate democratic leadership, including harry reid, chuck schumer, patty murray and dick durbinis to get down into the democratic message what is going to be happening with these debt and deficit agreements. this is serious stuff at the white house today. >> yeah, it's so serious and we're about a month away from this deadline where we start having to stop paying bills. the clinton global initiative begins. what gunk we'll see there? >> well, it's fascinating to see who is at this because you have republican governors like haley barbour and mitch daniels taking part. this in the context of the latest mcclasp which i poll which shows that 58% don't way the way the president is handling the deficit and the economy, and yet president clinton is saying that he believes even with 9% unemployment, that barack obama could be reelected. he'd be surprised if he were not. >> that's got something to do with who is in the republican field at the hospital. >> i guess that's a big part of it. it depends on who is pitching when you're hitting. >> we'll keep an eye out for those things. good to

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senator kay bailey hutchison just told kiran look what is happening in the streets of athens and dick durbinoo. they are watching what is happening there. it is at the core of a story that lived beyond its means and now has on get things -- get things back into balance. >> reporter: that's basically it. i mean, greece has to learn to live within its means. if you ask the protesters, they will shout abuse of goldman sachs, barclays, all of the banks that lent money in the good times. the more i they say, the more reasoned protesters and the anarchists will destroy the city, all they are here for. but the more reasoned protesters say what they want is a credible plan to reduce greece's debts, and that means banks taking haircuts, cutting the debts, cutting the loans. that, of course, is a default in the words of the financial community and that creates the bigger problems. so you have this catch-22. how does greece move forward without moving back? >> richard, we will stay on top of this with you. that vote is expected at some point this afternoon. your time this morning, our time. >> reporter

joining me this morning to debate, dick durbin and republican senator lindsey graham.n "meet the press." >> david, thanks very much. >>> that's going to do it for us on a father's day sunday. happy father's day. melissa francis, thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >>> our interview with michael jackson's sister,

we have to do something as senator durbin said by august 2nd. we're going to do something by august 2nd. but the republicans should stop playing chicken and pushing us too close to that line. it's not doing any good for our country or the world. >> woodruff: both republicans and democrats now say they expect president obama himself to get more directly involved in talks with boehner, reid and others. we look at all this with two reporters closely following the action at the white house and on capitol hill. lori montgomery of the "washington post" and damien paletta of the "wall street journal." we thank you two for being with us. >> thank you. >> woodruff: damien, i will start with you. did the white house see this coming. did they know it was going to happen. >> the white house knew talks were starting to hit a wall this week. but they planned as recently as last night to continue talks today an possibly even friday. so it really caught everybody by surprise when congressman cantor said this morning he was done talking and it was really up to t