one of the issues we are working on right now is the slilent hol.hey do not have the guts to tell the public that they are holding up the process, holding up amendments. i can tell you, this is not the way that democracy was meant to function, where you do things without taking responsibility. the system has been so abused this past year, it has really a broader sense that it is time to get rid of that practice. there are a lot of other functions that i think we need to wrestle with in the senate. we did not have a supermajority requirement until 1917. then there was a contract that said that that power would be invoked rarely, but it has been invoked on virtually every single bill since i became a senator. that routine does two things. every time you request a supermajority, it ties up the senate for weeks under the rules because of the amount of time it takes to hold the vote. in addition to telling of the senate, it sets a standard that was never constitutionally- intended, which is working people. the interest of ordinary the deep pockets of lob

we have with the very scae resource and some of the problems that is causing both economically, pot holsfrom the polis perspective and the potical perspective up and down our state. i would like to know what your thoughts or on that. >> first of all, thank you. with rspect to -- i think we are currently talking about transportation and infrastructure obviously is a much larger issue than just transportation and water in for stricter is critical. i supported the governor's water bond package. i did not becau it was perfect and i didn't want to let it get in the way. >> you are from southern california and i from northern california. >> one of the things we are doing to address the water infrastructure needs doesn't cost a lot of money as we are engaging a great deal of conservation. we are using the same amount of water today in l.a. that we did 31 years ago when we had 1.5 million people. i have reduced the ability to water the lawn for two days a week. not for a popular in southern california but necessary. what i said is we live in a desert and there is no question the kind of programs

that although i'm the onlyy republican, i'm proud of my hol record and have passed more pieces of legislation than any member of theul council over te last several years.il >> and ms. hanbusa. >> i want to be very clear that i'm honored with the fact that both senator akaka and senatorit inouye has given me their endorsement and the reason why they have is because they know e that i can work as a team.e reas they also know w my word is goo. i believe the statementhe made s ed is a great testament to theo. both of them, because they are statesmen. they are people who put their personal feelings below that of hawaii. hawaii has always come first to them. they the have the fight in theio soarts so when you hear what ed says, that is more a, reflection on them than it is on anyone else.flecti >> thank you to o her candidatee that includes tonightates. questioning. conclu our candidates now will have 90 seconds each for closing statements and we begin with mr. djou.tiidatav csi >> thank you. i want to thanked judy for hosting this and thank you each and everyone of you for taking time out of your

foundation, and funded it with others, as a way of taking the written testimony of people who survived the hol austin to preserve it for -- the holocaust to preserve it forever. groucho marx, we all know him. i won't do the imitation, i see my colleague from denver from colorado over there, isoing to make fun of me if i do that. graucho marx is one of the truly great -- there were all the marx brothers. they came from that background of, you know, that early vaudeville era and sort of expressed that great sense of humor. there are so many and i know that our colleagues are going to mention one after the other here. i'm just happy to be here tonight to celebrate this important milestone to celebrate it every year as part of this communi, to talk about it to learn about it, and to get our community to talk about it and teach others as well. i thank the gentlelady for bringing us together tonight. ms. wasserman schultzi thank the gentleman for his remarks and taking us through an important aspect of jewish life in america. now it's my pleasure to yield to another colleague from the west, a leader

in the middle of the night, hol mes nudges watson. look at those stars. what do you deduce? watson -- there are millions of stars. there must be life on other planets. holmes -- watson, you idiot. someone stole our tent. [laughter] by the way, very briefly, you did not make any kind of case as to what your argument about article 82 offsets, even if we accepted all that, which i do not, but if we expected that, why that offsets everything else and all the important security and economic interests of the united states of america. let me turn to article 82. the second argument -- you have only made two arguments. one is that there are bad members who are in violation. let's start with article 82. the problem with your starting premise is that you assume that united states had the continental shelf in that area. it did not. under the 1958 conventions, it goes out to the 200-mark, and then there is a very vague standard. the question in the international negotiations was, what is going to be the outer limit for the united states? we knew we had an extremely broad continental marg