senator franken has sent us words that he's anxious to ask a few questions and he's on his way back from the capitol. so let me ask a question or two while he's on his way. i guess one obvious question is, if a semiconductor or sematech-like entity is created with regard to takes or any of the other clean energy tech sors, how does that translate into us actually manufacturing those products here? i mean, why -- frankly, my impression is that we don't have enough u.s. firms to make a sematech like we'd have to have a more global organization and if we did, why would that manufacturing not be performed elsewhere? mr. holladay? >> yes. when you create this type of hub, it creates a catalyst. it brings in the commitment suppliers. it grows new companies. it gives companies the opportunity -- it gives you business advantages that don't exist anywhere else in the world potentially unless like it brings the industry in. they know that it's going to be a huge market. so it and creates a catalyst and this production infrastructure that does not exist at most national labs. >> senator franken, i

franken: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. franken: as if in executive session, i ask unanimous consent that the action of reporting the nomination of erica lynn groshen be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. franken: i ask unanimous consent that on monday, june 18 2012, at 5:00 p.m. the senate proceed to executive session to consider the following nomination cal number 612 that there be 30 minutes for debate, equally divided in the usual form, that upon the use or yielding back of the time, the senate proceed to vote without intervening action or debate on the nomination, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate, that no further motions be in order that any related statements be printed in the record, that the president be immediately notifie

ninth templar, who draw inspiration from the medieval christian warriors of the same name who muled franken sense filled. but down in mexico, these knights of the "let's do coke off the roundtable" have gone too far. >> doritos, cheetos, ruffles under attack by mexican drug cartels. >> the pepsico subsidiary distributes snack foods in mexico. >> stephen: mistakeo-grandy, mi harm manose. just because you run around rocket-propelled a.k., and leave coolers filled with severed heads outside the city hall but you just crossed bot wrong aisle of the supermarkets, muchachos. you are small patoit'ses compared to the snack cartels who fry our potatoes. you do not ( bleep ) with pepsico. ( cheers and applause ) in fact, may i remind you, may i remind you back in 1984, michael jackson crossed them, and they set his head on fire. ( laughter ) nice temped lar. you have made anymores of the most powerful names in chip trafficking. of los fritos. and don pringle. make no mistake-- he will pop a cap in your asspositive. and once he pops, he cannot stop. ( applause ) and the products they push are far more

you mildly resemble character actor carol franken. boom! it's that easy! anyway your little plan didn't work because you forgot to suppress another powerful influx voters-- the newly registered. >> florida's republican governor rick scott signed a new law last year, anyone who registers voters in the state have to hand in all completed forms no later than 48 hours to the minute after the applicants have originally filled them out. >> jon: is that tour from law necessary? how would it even work? we sent john oliver to<íÑ floria to investigate. >> most rational people view florida's new tour from voter registration law as a common-sensed bulwark against fraud. but some crackpots like the league of women voters president diedre mcnabb fail to see how great it is. >> this tour from timeline i would describe it as an insurmountable barrier. our volunteers don't have time to run down to their supervisor of elections office every time we get voter registrations. >> but you can't be trusted with those forms for longer than 48 hours. >> i think our record of 72 yea

i also just want to follow up a bit on what senator franken said about minnesota. iowa in 2007, 14 years later after minnesota, i hate to admit that, but in 2007 we passed our employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity for all businesses with four or more employees. prior to the passage, several cities had company policies protecting gay and lesbian employers from discrimination. iowa shows concerns are not born out by actual experience. one ocht complaints is about costly litigation. last year of 1,539 total employment discrimination complaints to the iowa civil rights commission, only 74, 4.8% were based on sexual orientation and only 14.9% were based on gender identity. again, not an explosion of lawsuits based upon a law that we just passed in 2007. i think, again, that bears out that this idea there's going to be an explosion of litigation just isn't born out by our experience in iowa. what do you say to those that say identititle vii is enough? we've heard that criticism that this bill is an attack on the religious liberti

will really well internationally and ended up with $128 o-- 280 million in sales, she have brave and franken wean year coming out. and the theme parks, people are going to the parks, attendance is up and spending money when they are there, more than last year. >> tom: just where the low gas provideses come no play certainly for the theme parks. you also have pointed to irgs, ignite restaurant group. kind of a new stock. just started trading back last month this is a company behind the joe crab shack franchise it went public at 14 tonight, over 17.5, it already had a nice rally. >> it has done well but a lot of people don't really know this companiment because as you mentioned it's relatively new. but if you know joe's crab shack, isn't that place great. you can go, eat, get a lot of food for not a ton of money. and here's what i love about this company. 15 consecutive quarters of increasing sales. and this is when, again, things are supposed to be tough out there but people are going to eat at joe's crab shack. >> certainly some impressive numbers there for ignite restaurant. and then finall

the show takes fans behind the scenes of franken weany which opens in theaters in october. it's an animated story of a boy who tries to bring his dog back from the dead. the exhibit will include props, sets and puppets. it will visit seven countries opening in spain next week. then risk in the u.s. in july. the movie rock of ages opens this week. tom cruise stars as stacy jacks. he got a big welcome the at london premiere. but his 6-year-old daughter isn't so sure about her dad's new character. cruise told radio host ryan seacrest that surrey was taken a-- surri was taken aback by his makeup. >> rock of ages, howard can't wait. good morning. you're watching 9news now at 5:00 a.m. i'm andrea roane. >> tom cruise, i'm not sure. >> it will be interesting to see. >> he'll do well. i have no doubt. >> really? >> i'm a fan of the stage production. i'm not sure about the movie. there were people in the audience that had seen it 85 times. now those people are whacky. >> so you're not as insane as the others. >>> thank you for joining us at 5:00. we're rocking here. >> we sure are.

. >> thank you very much, senator franken. and then we have mr. craig partial, senior vice president and general council of the national religious broadcasters association. he's an attorney and has practiced first amendment law and employment law representing clients in the supreme court. and this is your second appearance here. he was at our last hearing two years ago. and we welcome you back. with that, i will just say that all of your statements, which i read last night, are very good. and i will ask permission they all be inserted in the record in their entirety. we'll just go from left to right. if you could just maybe sum up in five or six minutes or so, seven minutes, something like that, and then we can get into a discussion. i would appreciate it. so ms. badgette, we'll start with you. welcome, and please proceed. >> thank you. is the microphone on? >> no, you've got to punch -- >> okay. good morning, senator harkin and members of the committee. today i will just is up rise three basic points in my written testimony that will document the

a smooth ride coming down from franken boulevard all the way down towards owings mills and the beltway. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. now let's get the latest on the buses and the trains. for that we go to kurt kronke of the mta system. good morning. >>>> light rail is operating without any delays. shuttle buses between timonium and hunt valley. metro subway on schedule. the 15 bus is diverting near bloomingdale's. i'm kurt kronke. now back to tony pann. >> thank you. we got a good rain out of the system yesterday. some people picked up close to two inches of rain. it will be a slow climb to get the clouds out and the humidity to go away. it will be a fairly comfortable by this afternoon. we have some clouds and the dew points are still in the 60's. they will drop off as we get past lunchtime. the dew point is almost 70 in annapolis. they drop off into the 50's in western maryland. that drier air is blocking its way to the east. 68 degrees in rising sun. 70 in rock hall. we will caught a mixture of clouds and sunshine. clouds this morning and sunshine this afternoon. -- will

if you grow up at the jewish american i have holocaust literature reading the diary of anne franken imaginingt and what i would do. i was raptured by the excess. a friend of mine is a professor and asks the kids if you know, anything about holocaust. the vast majority raise their hand. what about the palestinian term that talks about the catastrophe for the displacement that the heat -- began in the wake of the creation of may be a smattering of kids. there is a huge gap of knowledge of the zero this story was ordinary it was because of that reason. the other part this he is so extraordinary out of that narrative came from one whoso deeply committed and there could be peace are reconciliation but sammy is not unique that he seeks non-violence. many people are committed to principles of nonviolence. we say we do not want to kill each other so we have to live together with peace. that is not extraordinary but sammy goes beyond that with the belief if the situation was true equality where everybody's lives were equally respected not only could they live together but create an incredible society

i don't know because, you know, i remember talking to al franken at one point who said it's a lot harder than you think to get anything done. >> more than this? >> i went in there -- and he's, you know, in my opinion one of the -- you know -- >> funniest senators out there. >> exactly. he's able -- he's still -- he's a human being. you can sense that he sold out to the machine. he's a good guy. he's very candid about it. it's very hard to get things done. so i don't know. i think in the simplest -- >> but gay marriage, he turned on that. >> how much of that was biden? i don't know. >> at the end of the day he did seem to do the right thing. that's a big cause for you. >> of all the causes, not that we don't agree that that should have been done, but why that? >> good a time as any to make this announcement. >> no, i could vouch for that. you're not a homosexual. i wish. never happen. there's diseases, there's pestilence, poverty. >> is there still pestilence? >> maybe in beverly hills. >> thanks heavens we don't have to deal with any of that nonsense, do we? not behind the magnificently

and i can tell you the democrats quietly confirmed that they have talked to mark alias, who did the franken recount in minnesota and the dayton recount. so both campaigns are seriously looking at a very, very close result. >> what's the lesson here? i feel like the voters of wisconsin haven't basically given direction to either party because everything every one of these fights has been by a handful of votes. whether it was the supreme court proxy war that took place. they recalled just enough state senators to keep the republicans in charge. everything -- the voters have not delivered a mandate either way. and it doesn't look like you're going to see a mandate delivered tomorrow. help me out with the fall out from this. >>. it's a deeply, deeply divided state. and remember, chuck, that in 2000 al gore won wisconsin by 5,000 votes. in 2004 john kerry won wisconsin by about 12,000 votes. this is a deeply divided state. it has been for a long time. they have gone to their camps. the battle is an intense one. but we do have the possibility tomorrow, and this is one to keep in mind, that the co

they can't tell us if al franken was the elected senator by the people of minnesota. >> eric: well, hes -- officially elected. by 312 votes. so we have to go. but the lawsuit, judge will decide within 60 days. andy selick of minnesota, thank sose much. we will be keeping an eye on this. >> thanks, eric. >> jamie: today's an historic day in egypt. the first free presidential election, putting a muslim brotherhood candidate in power. should the u.s. be worryd? will egypt become a stronger ally or something snels we are live in tahrir square in cairo. if you have copd like i do, you know how hard it can be to breathe and what that feels like. copd iludes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiva helps corol my copd symptoms by keeping my airways open a full 24 hours. plus, it reduces copd flare-ups. spiriva is the only once-daily inhaled copd maintenance treatment that does both. and it's steroid-free spiriva does not replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms. tell yr doctor if you have kidy problems, glaucoma, trouble urinating, or an enlarged prostate. these may worsen with spiriva

you have to go to franken commission and they approve it.in, democrats, republicans and they're making sure that these are official notices. they can direct you to your own website. most members have their own websites. so it seems strange to single out this new social media where the world seems to be going, that's how people get the information and it's a lot cheaper to communicate on the internet than it is by mailing a letter or mailing a postcard. so it seems to me this is an effort to micromanage how the members use their m.r.a.'s and so it's a step backward to you can communicate. you can buy advertising on the radio. you can buy an ad in a newspaper as long as you comply with these rules but can't do it with the internet. it seems like a strange way to go. all of this is subject to review to make sure all of that is appropriate. with that i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from florida reserves his time. the gentleman from arizona. mr. flake: i would simply respond, the gentleman mentioned people want to annou

you know, after al franken came in after the long battle, you know, and they got 60 votes, how come the democrats didn't do it then? what do you think? >> i was so glad to hear representative gutierrez lay it out like that with the number of votes passing that it did pass the house, ed, and that it should have passed the senate if we were abiding by real democratic rules, but it couldn't get closure, and it was abandoned by some republicans who had traditionally supported it. it's very important to remember that the president acted because he couldn't get action from the republicans in congress. >> exactly. >> so critical. >> this is harry reid on the senate floor today. he made that point. here it is. >> i was stunned listening to the republican nominee for president say why doesn't congress do this? mr. president, we tried. we can't get republican votes. >> when you look at what the here it is. >> i was stunned listening to the republican nominee for president say why doesn't congress do this? mr. president, we tried. we can't get republican votes. >> when you look at what the democra

and bob franken, featured syndicated columnist. thank you for joining me. >> thank you. don't hate on golf. golf is fun. >> out there playing golf while we're here in steamy washington. let me ask you, how do you say success the president's economic argument against romney's? i mean, in terms of do you feel it's effective? >> i think he's done exactly here what needs to be done which is to say there is no there there. there's no actual economic plan from the romney camp. the economic plan is solely a plan about cutting taxes. you know, there can be disagreements about how we stimulate the economy, about sort of what creates more jobs, that kind of thing. but what is important here is for the president to keep pointing out here is my multi-point agenda. here are the things i believe can work to create a safety net to generate jobs. to give tax relief to the middle class. and all that governor romney is offering is more tax cuts. >> and as he does this, bob, we're told by a report in bloomberg that he's actually -- he being romney -- he's actually asking republican governo

>> i'm franken woman. when you're out here in l.a., i'll give you a peek.iberal. the other channels, i have to contend with conservatives here and there. not here. >> stephanie: you can let your freak flag fly here. >> i like that. >> stephanie: that's what irritates us about the mainstream media like cnn there's two sides of facts. there's wolf blitzer in the middle of everything saying we'll have to leave it there before the liberal gets a chance to make a point. >> they say that they're balanced but in fact they don't really go there do they? >> they're dying. they have no numbers at cnn. >> stephanie: they were stupid enough to let you go and now you're on current. you will be filling in every night this week for governor spitzer, 8:00 p.m. eastern, 5:00 p.m. pacific. you join us with your own show in the fall, right? >> in the fall at 6:00. at 6:00, 9:00 and 12:00. they air it again and again and again for those people who have missed it. the main thing with the current television is people have trouble finding it, don't they? >> stephanie: well a guy

. >> i want to play a clip from tuesday's hearing when democratic senator al franken of minnesota asked charles samuels about the long-term effects of solitary confinement. >> what effect does this have on the mental-health of people who are placed in solitary? if they are released, do they present more of a danger to society for having been in solitary? i don't think i will get -- you know, a definitive answer for that. >> if i may, i will respond that it was brought to my attention the most recent the most rigorous study that has been done was completed by the colorado department of corrections as recent as 2009. with their steady, they identified no negative effect on individuals and restricted housing has occurred. >> this is a clip of senator dick durbin questioning the federal bureau of prisons director charles the mills about the number of mental health care providers a the supermax prison in florence, colorado, where there are about 490 prisoners. >> i'm going to zero in to supermax here and ask you to separate those who would handle routine physical issues and those who were ch

senator franken sent word that he is anxious to ask a couple of questions, and he is on his way back from the capital, so let me ask a couple of questions while he is on the way. i guess one obvious question is if a semiconductor or a sematech-type of entity is created for these sectors, how does that translate into us actually manufacturing those products here? i mean, why -- frankly, my impression is that we do not have enough u.s. firms to make a sematech-type of entity on photovoltaics. we would have to have a more global organization, and if we did, why would that manufacturing not be performed elsewhere? mr. holliday? >> yes, sir. when you create this type of hub, this manufacturing and development facility, it creates a catalyst. it brings in suppliers, and it brings opportunities and gives business advantages that do not exist anywhere else in the world potentially, like one you replicated their energy peace, but what it does is it brings the industry in, and there is a lot of industry that is anxious. it will be a huge market. and it creates hundreds of thousands of jobs. su

senator franken. >> i second that. dr. jamison come in your answer you primarily went to teachers, and i think stem teachers are really important. you know, if you are east and teacher and a really good one, your value on the marketplace if you have those skills might be higher than the great english teacher that teaches moby dick but if you have engineering and mathematics skills and talent, you're in value on the open market is higher. so i put a piece of legislation called the stem master teacher corps, which is basically to support the master arts to support excellent stem teachers and to give them a little bit of elevated salary but also to give them the responsibility to mentor the less accomplished teachers. we are spending money to recruit them let's retain the stem teachers in our junior high and high school. what do you think of that approach? >> i think the approach of having the teachers is a very important. yes it's important in high school, but i'm going to hearken back to the elementary school because it's e

franken: madam president, i'd like to the senator from alaska and the senator from rhode island.esident, i'd like to emphasize the need to pass a long-term reauthorization of this surface transportation bill. it's time for congress to do our job. thanks to the leadership of senators boxer and inhofe, this body passed a bill with 74 votes. actually it probably would have been 76 votes. senator kirk is back at home recovering, and we wish him very well. and senator lautenberg couldn't vote that day. i think he was at the funeral of a friend. it would have been 76 votes. unfortunately, our colleagues in the house were not able to pass a comprehensive reauthorization bill and were only able to join a conference committee after passing yet another short-term extension. i'll repeat myself, it's time for the congress to do its job. as the senator from alaska was saying, my good colleague was saying, the summer construction season is now upon us. in minnesota, that's when we know we can build roads and bridges and build light rail because in november and december it gets cold and snowy.

he did that here in this town, franken muth. that is the theme of this town here.what romney has done during this bus tour. he's tried to loosen the collar and show the lighter side of his personality. sometimes that has gotten him into some trouble. he poked some fun at himself on the airplane yesterday talking about how he said during the primaries the trees are the right height in michigan. when they were landing yesterday, if you noticed when we were landing the trees are the right height. he made an odd, corny cultural message talking about the ba varian message. chicken and noodles. some people in the press core were scratching their heads, chicken and noodles. during the speech he took a self-deprecating tone talking about how he's not the best public speaker trying to draw the contrast a little bit with the president who is, as he said, pretty eloquent. here's what romney had to said. >> you're not here because i'm some spectacular speaker. y'all know better than that. you're not here just because the republican party is the answer to all things. you know b

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together to get a bill done and when you can have michele bachmann and our united states senator, al franken, agree to get something done, you know you've had a good day of compromise. so of course it can happen and i just want to give you and c-span viewers an opportunity to know that we did get it done, and i am just on the cusp of introducing a brand new bipartisan bill. i'm reaching out to democrat co-sponsors first on my bill because this is very important. one thing that we see is that a lot of poor people need to have health care services. they're suffering. but what we discovered in minnesota, there's a stunning amount of fraud going on in medicaid. not medicare. medicaid. that's health care for poor people. and so we're coming together because we found out something really shocking, cheryl little. it's that in literally decades there hasn't been a third party audit of where this money is being spent. it's not going to the poor people who need it but somebody is getting this money and so i'm trying to bring republicans and democrats together, get this bill on the floor because when t

what a wonderful place -- how many people are here from franken booth? >> other times like in pennsylvania he needed help from the crowd. >> where do you get your hoagies here? >> he also mixed it up with the media leaving it on the press bus kidding with reporters he erased their hard drives. he poked fun at himself for one of his more odd sounding moments in the campaign when he commented on the trees. ask what advice he gets from voters? >> stop trying to be like yourself and be someone else. just don't be you. just kidding. >> but the campaign was really trying to show a side of the candidate the public has rarely seen. which is why on father's day his staff released home videos of a young romney goofing around with his sons. >> he loved to horse around. >> no picking your nose at the table. >> how are you doing, knuckle snorts? >> the obama campaign complained the republican's bus tour was short on specifics and failed to acknowledge the progress being made on some of the states on romney's itinerary, like in michigan. unemployment rate has plunged