reid, moves to refer the house message on h.j. res. 59 to the committee on budget with instructions to report back with the following amendment numbered 2549. mr. reid: i ask for the yeas and nays on that 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 to the instructions. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from nevada, mr. reid, proposes amendment numbered 2550 to the instructions on the motion to refer of amendment numbered 2549. mr. reid: i ask for the yeas and nays on that amendment. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the yeas and nays are ordered. mr. reid: i have a second-degree amendment. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from nevada, mr. reid, proposes amendment numbered 2551 to amendment numbered 2550. mr. reid: i ask the chair lay before the senate a message from the house with respect to h.r. 3304. the presiding officer: the

the clerk: house message to accompany h.j. res. 59. the presiding officer: cloture having been invoked on the motion to concur on the house amendment to the senate amendment the motion to concur falls as it is inconsistent with cloture. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from maryland. mr. cardin: mr. president, am i correct we're in postcloture now? the presiding officer: the senator is correct. mr. cardin: mr. president, i wanted to take this time to talk about the budget agreement that was negotiated by senator murray and congressman ryan, the work that they did. i first want to relate to my colleagues conversations i had with numerous marylanders over this past weekend, people i didn't know who came up to me and said how pleased they were that congress was on the verge of getting something done, something that would make a difference in our budget for the next two years, that democrats and republicans actually were able to reach a compromise and that we were actually able to get our business done in some r

the motion to concur in the house amendment to the senate amendment to house -- h.j. res. 59 is agreed to. mrs. murray: to have to reconsider. the presiding officer: is there objection? a senator: lay on the table. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. the clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. the clerk: cloture motion: we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the motion to concur in the house amendment to the senate amendment to h.r. 3304, the department of defense authorization act for fiscal year 2014, signed by 17 senators. mr. sessions: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from alabama. mr. sessions: i move to waive the quorum. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. the mandatory quorum has been waived. the question is, is it the sense of the senate that debate on the motion to concur in the house amendment to the senate amendment to h.r. 33 40* shall be brought to -- 3304 shall be brought to

the clerk: house message to accompany h.j. res. 59. mr. vitter: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to speak for two minutes. the presiding officer: without objection, the senator from louisiana is recognized. mr. vitter: thank you, mr. president. obviously, i'll be brief. i was simply trying to engage the majority leader in a simple question and i'll add the question here and i think it deserves an answer, not to me but to the american people. last week, i had written the majority leader noting that several press reports have stated that he has exempted much of his staff specifically his leadership staff from obamacare, from the mandate of the obamacare statute that he and our staffs go to the exchanges for our health care and he has exempted much of his staff from that. so i laid out some specific and pertinent and important questions related to that in a letter to him dated december 10, last week, got no response, i obviously got no response this morning, in fact, he wouldn't even yield for any question, i think that's unfortunate. it's unfortun

remarks, the senate resume consideration of the motion to concur on the house message to accompany h.j. res. 59. furthered, that all time during adjournment count postcloture on the motion to concur. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, we hope votes are possible throughout date tomorrow. senators will be notified when they're scheduled. if there's no further business to come before the senate, i ask it stand adjourned under the previous order. previous order. >> so i'm standing in front of the 1905 wright flyer three the world's most practical airplane. this was the third and final experimental airplane that the wright or others build and today survives as a second of their airplanes today. this airplane which orville wright consider the world's first practical airplane was constructed and flown in less than six years time between the time that they have dealt their kite and the success of this particular airplane. this is also a plane that was built less than two years after their first flight at kitty hawk north carolina on december 17, 1903. what's interest

adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to take from the speaker's table the joint resolution h.j. res. 59, making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2014, and for other purposes, with the house amendment to the senate amendment thereto, and to consider in the house, without intervention of any point of order, a motion offered by the chair of the committee on the budget or his designee that the house recede from its amendment and concur in the senate amendment with the amendment printed in part a of the report of the committee on rules accompanying this resolution modified by the amendment printed in part b of that report. the senate amendment and the motion shall be considered as read. the motion shall be debatable for 70 minutes, with 60 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on the budget and 10 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on energy and commerce. the previous question shall be considered as ordered on the motion to its adoption without intervening mot