senator inhofe has traveled to afghanistan, pakistan. other members have gone to serbia, sudan, belarus, albania. senator coburn, who's been in his news for his role in the c street house, was actually very clear what he was doing in lebanon. he was trying to set up christian prayer cells and the government of lebanon -- prayer cells just like the one that helped cover up his pal senator ensign's scandal and this in a country that's long been torn by christian/muslim tensions. everywhere you go, as i said, it's the political philosophy of jesus but what they understand that to mean is not democracy, but rule through an iron fist. >> so when senator inhofe use thad phrase, the political philosophy of jesus, something put together by doug, what he's talking about there is the familia famili family's essentially foreign policy as driven by this theocracy of power as we talked about so much in learning about c street? >> it really is. it's a faith-based foreign policy. it's not a faith i think any christians out there would be comfortable wi

i actually appreciate what senator demint said and senator inhofe. i'll different than everybody. i won't criticize them. i complement them. they're honest. now -- >> are you telling democrats there is actually some truth to that, if you guys don't stick -- >> no, no. you asked me about what they said. no, no. but they're being honest about what they see as the stakes. what i find interesting, i haven't heard a lot of people on their party criticize them. >> are you enjoying this fight? >> i'm enjoying this interview. am i enjoying this -- >> in my earlier discussion with robert gibbs, we looked at the politics behind the health care battle. >> i understand the need for a deadline, but with an early deadline the best idea here? haven't you spent political capital when you didn't need to? >> well, look, getting health care reform through is going to take a significant amount of political capital. whether we set a deadline or not, i think the president was clear and i think he was right about having a deadline to poke and prod congress to move and to act. i think we have seen that h

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senator inhofe? >> thank you, mr. chairman. after this as you know i have an amendment to the floor in the defense authorization bill so i have to excuse myself. first of all, since this is my first hearing, it's such an honor to be facing two people i strongly supported long before this meeting was held. was called. and i look forward to supporting your nominations. i'd like to start, governor huntsman, with you. as we said back in the anteroom the only area where you and i do not agree is the relationship between c02 methane and climate change. and while i'm relatively certain that nothing close to the house-passed cap-and-trade bill is going to pass the senate, it's not going to happen. one of the main reasons is -- is the discussion about china and what they might or might not do. and in your opening remarks, you talked about encouraging low carbon energy in china. the reason i say that is that two weeks ago we had the -- the new director of the environmental protection agency before our hearing right across the hall here i

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can you give me a take on where inhofe is coming from on this initial response and the backtracking?> i think he's coming from oklahoma which contains no county that voted for barack obama. look, the -- congressmen and senators don't get where they are by alienating voters. i think a mistake they make sometimes is not alienating anyone. i don't think there's a great political downside to taking the buzz aldrin approach to a conspiracy theorist and, well maybe not hauling off and whacking them like he did but saying, no, you're wrong. bill clinton is actually a master at knocking outs a heckler. ron reagan was good. taking it back to these people if they're not hecklers they're people who don't have a legitimate point and make you seem crazy by agreeing with them. a red state as oklahoma is, inhofe is really just appeasing a small part of his base and he's doing that as a politician but it's bizarre. i don't know why they can't get this right and say, no, you're wrong. here are the facts. >> i think this gets to the most important part of this story though. if the birther conspiracy m

inhofe: i ask to be recognized for such time as i shall consume.'s not the reason -- i have three sub jebts that i -- subjects that i think we need to talk about during the august recess. the senator from arizona has touched on the health care issue that's out there. and i know this. i don't think that arizona or virginia are all that different than my state of oklahoma. that's all people talk about when i go back. they want to know, are we really going to do this? are we really going to have a government bureaucrat standing between me and my health provider. those are huge issues that i never thought we would deal with in this country. but we are. what i would like, though, to pursue -- i get very upset when i hear people saying on the other side of the aisle, well, we've got to do something to stop our dependency on the middle east for our ability to run this machine called america. here's a group of people that they don't want to drill, they don't want gas, they don't want nuclear, they don't want coal, they don't want -- all of these things. if

senator inhofe? >> thank you, madam chairman.f we had time i had a lot of responses to make also but there's not time. i would only say the article that senator barrasso1gw referr to i want to ask that be made part of the record. >> without objection. >> it lists several countries who have been a part of the kyoto treaty who are having second thoughts. some are going to withdraw because the science is not there. and i think the article is an excellent article. now, i have a question for each of the members of the panel and i'll make this real quick. it's very obvious that china has said that they are not going to be involved in this thing. they are not going to -- in fact, they said in kyoto they g.d.p. of the developed nations to actually before they would play with us.=ñ that's $140 billion a year. we also know that china by the way is the largest emitter now. we also knowc closely behind them, india, will not do anything. i'm going to quote now the environmental minister. he said, quote, we will not accept any emission reducti

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senator inhofe's hometown paper is having none of it. they say, "oh, senator, you could have done the right thing and dismissed this goofiness for what it is." the paper goes on to compare the birthers to, "alien abduction believers, kennedy conspiracy adherents, big foot hunters and those who believe in the bogeyman." in florida, even as the author of the legislation bill posey says he only introduced that legislation because his constituents wanted him to the "orlando sentinel" is calling on senator posey to with draw history his ridiculous bill. roy blount who wants to be the next u.s. senator from the state of missouri is now refusing to bat this conspiracy down. telling mike star of firedog lake this week that questions of the president's citizenship are legitimate. a viewer just forwarded us a spectacularly kooky letter from tim murphy of pennsylvania. this was nuts enough that "rachel maddow show" staff members spent the day today doing melodramatic readings of this letter to crack us up. i asked our executive producer bill wolf t

meanwhile, senator james inhofe , who has been criticized for his denial of global warming, is calling al franken a clown. he says, he does not mean to be disrespectful, but al franken is a clown. that is what he does for a living. finally, representative henry waxman, chairman of the house energy and commerce commission is in the hospital after fainting tuesday in his los angeles office. today, he is in good spirits and is turning his attention to turning on -- to working on health care reform. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. host: here is our last half-hour in our final test of the morning. we're pleased to welcome edward montgomery, the director of monk -- the director of recovery at the office of autoworkers. what is your job mission? >> my job is to try and bring together people from the communities that have been impacted by the significant decline in the auto industry that has occurred over the coast -- the course of the last eight years, to work with community leaders, work with state governments, figure out what they need in terms of how to move forward

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inhofe: i ask unanimous consent we set aside the pending amendment for the consideration of the inhofe amendment number 1559. the presiding officer: is there objection? mr. levin: i object. the presiding officer: the objection is heard. the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. mr. levin: madam president, i ask unanimous consent the pending amendment be laid aside temporarily and it be in order to offer an amendment on behalf of myself, senator graham, senator mccain. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. levin: amendment 1710. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from mitch, mr. levin, for himself and others proposed an amendment numbered 1710. on page 321, strike the items relating to subchapters five, six, and seven and insert the following -- mr. levin: i ask unanimous consent further reading be dispensed. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. levin: i offer on behalf of senator graham, mccain and myself an amendment modifying the procedures for handling of classified evidence by military commis

inhofe is doing the same thing. and all the journalists who are talking about "let's kill this," using that language, they are showing their hands. they are not interested in the fact that 47 million americans do not have all insurance or that the cost is trickling did what they are interested in is scoring political points. >> we are making sausages year, friends. it is not pretty. the president involves himself in a local police matter. >> he acted in a way consistent with his training. i do not believe his actions in any way were racially motivated. >> there is a long history in this country of african- americans and latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. that does not lessen the incredible progress being made. i am standing here as testimony to the progress that has been made. >> you can buy t-shirts in cabbage, massachusetts, saying "the world's most opinionated is a code." everybody has an opinion on what happened at the cambridge, of the nation's most famous black scholar last week as he

chambliss: senator inhofe had indicated a desire to come speak. he is tied up in an e.p.w.committee hearing. he may able to get here. we of course whriek to -- mr. levin: we of course would like to finish, so we'd like to be at the end of the line here, senator mccain and i. mr. chambliss: i will be happy to go ahead and make some comments. and then senator mccain and senator dodd and you can close it out. if senator inhofe comes in, we'll give him a couple minutes. is that satisfactory? mr. levin: okay. mr. chambliss: madam president, would you notify me when i have used six minutes, please. the presiding officer: the chair will notify. mr. chambliss: excuse me. five minutes. i'm sorry. and i would like to ask unanimous consent for the army fellow in my office, david evans to have floor privileges during the consideration of this bill. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. chambliss: madam president, i want to make just a couple of quick comments relative to some things that have been said up here. first of all, with regard to senator wyden's comments concerning th

. >> before i call senator alexander, if it is ok with the committee, senator inhofe and i said that if we had a form, we could -- if we had a forum -- >> senator bond has to leave, and i was going to ask if he could go before me, if that would be all right. it would be all right with me if he wanted to go ahead. well, now, i need to go before -- >> [inaudible] >> thank you, madam chairman. thank you very much. >> thank you, madam chair. i am indebted to my colleague. thank you for holding this hearing and for the commitment to hold additional hearings on the very important legislative matters that we will be marking up when we have an opportunity to learn about them because i think the american people and the constituents need to know how the legislation we consider will impose new energy taxes on them, kill their jobs, punish the midwest and the south, help china and india, and construct a new bureaucratic nightmare to and from a carbon cap and trade program. some say we should just look to build a house passed this month, and to that i would have to say which one? we have the 648-

inhofe: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. hof i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call -- mr. inhofe: i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call in progress be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. inhofe: i notice no one on the floor and i was going to address those three subjects. i do want to make a couple of comments, and if anyone comes in and seeks the floor, i will draw to a close. one other major issue that we are dealing with right now, and we've had a number of hearings, and i'd like to kind of put it in perspective so people understand, there's a lot of complaints around the country that the cap-and-trade bill that was passed by the house of representatives interestingly by one vote over the majority -- and that's 219 -- when the bill was passed 3:00 in the morning and -- was written 3:00 in the morning and passed the same day. i applaud john boehner over there for saying we want to establish some kind of a program whereby anything that we're going to consider on the floor should

inhofe: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. inhofe: mr. president, i want to pose for a moment. i know we're on a bill. i'm most anxious to proceed with the defense authorization bill having served on the committee since 1994 and before then in the house. and it's imperative now that we get this ro bust a bill as possible. but before doing, that let me mention one thing. because i haven't done anything yet about this. i have been watching several of our colleagues who have come to the floor and talked bra great -- a great -- a great -- a great senator, norm coleman, who is no longer in the senate, but one is -- that is just a remarkable character of the a good friend of mine, paul wireck, who recently died, wrote an op-ed piece called "the workhorses and the show horses." he talked about so many members of the house and senate that are out there just to make themselves look good. they're the ones, mr. president who are show horses, and then there are the workhorses. and we talk about someone like norm coleman who is always there and gettin

i thank my ranking member, senator inhofe, for his support of the amendment. and i thank our chair for her kind words even though we disagree with this, we do -- we -- all three of us strongly support the need to get the highway fund moving to build the infrastructure that we need on our transportation much because -- and this is a -- transportation. and this is a critical time. right now our economy is struggling to recover from the worst recession in generations. hundreds in my home state of missouri are losing jobs of our states are straining to fund projects that are critical to our constituents. unfortunately, unless we act now, our economy, workers and our states will be dealt another heavy blow. at the end of september, millions will be cut in ongoing shovel-ready highway projects. that doesn't have to happen. the drastic cut will cause critical -- for critical transportation projects like the repair of bridges and highways across the nation. in addition, it will halt critical infrastructure projects. this cut will cost jobs in 50 states. that is an est

leaving senator james inhofe telling politico, quote, they have a point and congressman pete hoekstracus on bigger issues but adding, quote, not that this isn't important. how important? mike stark of fire dog leg and the huffington post surveyed republicans to see just how far and powerfully this little story has spread. >> if barack obama was a natural born citizen of the united states and constitutionally permitted to serve as president? >> the courts have said so. >> thanks very much. what do you believe personally? >> we're all going to find out. >> it's certainly being looked at. >> i'd like to see the documents. >> what do you personally believe? do you think there is a question here? >> i think there are questions. we'll have to wait and see. >> you do believe there are questions. thanks very much. we're asking republicans if they believe barack obama was born in the united states. it doesn't matter to you? you swore an oath to uphold the constitution. you can tell me what you think. do you think he was? >> he said he was. >> we're in america. i think we are free. we allow peo

but it is at the end of the day far more political as senator inhofe tried to talk about in his comments. >> jeff sharlet, author of the book "the family, the secret fundamentalism at the heart of american power" and a man we've been keeping very busy lately. thanks for joining us tonight. >> thank you, rachel. >>> coming up on "countdown" president obama called the republican party on the carpet for their crusade against health care reform and next on this show you may have caught my rather heated conversation with my colleague pat buchanan last week about judge sotomayor's supreme court nomination. we have a very specific kind of followup to that conversation up next.t, medical bills will wipe out their savings. if we don't act, she'll be denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition. and he won't get the chemotherapy he needs. if we don't act, health care costs will rise 70%. and he'll have to cut benefits for his employees. but we can act. the president and congress have a plan to lower your costs and stop denials for pre-existing conditions. it's time to act. two identical roo

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listen to senator jim inhofe from oklahoma in a recent radio interview. >> i just hope the presidenteeps talking about it. he's trying to rush it through. we can stall it. and that's going to be a huge gain for those of us who want to turn this thing over in the 2010 election. >> oh, yes. it's all about the 2010 election, isn't it. let's just stall, make obama a failure on this deal. it doesn't stop there. republican governors are now getting into the act. minnesota governor tim pawlenty, who has definite aspirations for 2012, nailed obama on fox news. >> this whole health care proposal by president obama is really quite a joke on a number of levels. i think he's scamming the american people. and just on this payment issue alone. even if you believe that he's only going to tax people over $1 million, which i don't think is true, what's going to happen is he's proposing it, that's only going to cover about one-third or 25% of the total cost of the package. the rest of it is going to be paid for, quote-unquote, by savings, waste fraud, and abuse. if you believe that, i've got january t

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. >> before i call senator alexander, if it is ok with the committee, senator inhofe and i said thatif we had a form, we could -- if we had a forum -- >> senator bond has to leave, and i was going to ask if he could go before me, if that would be all right. it would be all right with me if he wanted to go ahead. well, now, i need to go before -- >> [inaudible] >> thank you, madam chairman. thank you very much. >> thank you, madam chair. i am indebted to my colleague. thank you for holding this hearing and for the commitment to hold additional hearings on the very important legislative matters that we will be marking up when we have an opportunity to learn about them because i think the american people and the constituents need to know how the legislation we consider will impose new energy taxes on them, kill their jobs, punish the midwest and the south, help china and india, and construct a new bureaucratic nightmare to and from a carbon cap and trade program. some say we should just look to build a house passed this month, and to that i would have to say which one? we have the 648-p

i will turn to our minority leader, our republican leader of the committee, senator inhofe. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and, governor, thank you for being here and sorry for all of the mixup in the scheduling. let me just share with you. first of all, on this science, and we're going to go back to talking about that because in the last three times we had this bill on the floor, i was the one who led the opposition. one reason was i was the chairman of the environment and public works committee, this very committee, when we were in the majority. one of the things that we are seeing is that people realize and that the science is mixed, and the louder they say that science is settled, the greater to me is they have nothing else to say because right now if you look at the changes that have taken place, senator barrasso entered senator in the record this morning. it was an article that was reprinted in "the wall street journal" and it listed five countries where they're changing their position now because they realized that the co-2 is not the villain that they thought it was. the public

chairman giving thank you very much, senator inhofe. we have a number of our colleagues who have taken time out of their wine to be here today. it senators mccain, hatch and bennett will be introducing governor huntsman and senator mccain and, well, and the floor is yours.

kim and the senator from georgia and gimmicks senator inhofe indicated a desire to speak in his hat in the committee and may be able to get here. we, of course, would like to finish so we rely to be at the end of the line here. >> i'll be happy to make, -- comments. when senator inhofe comes then he can give a few, as if that would be ok. >> madam president, would you notify me when i have used six minutes please? >> the chair will notify new. >> five minutes, i am sorry. our lead to as unanimous consent of the army and travel privileges in the consideration of this bill. >> without objection. madam president, a one to make a couple of quick comments relative to some things that have been said in an, first of all, were with regard to senator widens with comments concerning the national guard of us want to make sure that we equip our guard and reserve and i've been doing a forest of albany's they have and i was simply signed him to the letter which is ahead of the army guard and air force colonel. and he says that this f-22 is uniquely qualified to fill the needs that baggara has for it

make some comments and then senator mccain and senator dodd and you to close it out and if senator inhofe comes in, we'll give him a couple minutes. is that satisfactory? okay. madam president, would you notify me when i have used 6 minutes, please. >> the chair will notify you. >> excuse me, 5 minutes. i'm sorry. and i would like to ask unanimous consent for the army fellow in my office, david evans to have floor privileges in consideration for this nbbill. >> without objection. >> madam president i want to make a couple of quick comments relative to some things that have been said up here. first of all, with regard to senator wyden's comments concerning the national guard, sure, all of us want to make sure that we equip our guard, as but i would simply cite him to the letter of general wyatt, who is the to the letter of general wide who is the head of the army guard -- excuse me, the air force guard. and general white says the f-22 is uniquely qualified to fill the needs that the guard has for its national security mission so to even slightly indicate that the guard has issues with its

. >> senator inhofe had indicated a desire to come

of the debate of guantanamo bay and what we should do with the detainees and the amendment by jim inhofe that would prevent any detainees from coming to the united states for trial. host: in the "wall street journal" there is a story saying a enthusiastic team may be formed to figure out how to go forward with how to interrogate those terror suspects. guest: the obama administrat n administration, we are almost into august, they have to come up with some answers on this, what they are going to do. they have to close this facility by the beginning of the year. so, the decisions need to be made now both on where they are going to go and how they are going to interrogate them. host: as far as that is concerned, will that debate take place even though healthcare is going to be one of those things that makes the agenda before the end or could it be punted? i think you will hear a lot about it next week and probably the two weeks after that. can congress walk and chew gum at the same time? we will see. host: one more call from arizona, zack on the republican line. sfwloo good morning and thank

morning business for the purpose of introducing a bill called "families for orphans act," that senator inhofe and i are sponsoring together and to comment about a bill that i've already introduced, the foreign adopted children's equity act. i understand we have up to 10 minutes? the presiding officer: that is correct. ms. landrieu: thank you, madam president. we are very fortunate, indeed to have a secretary of state that is quite knowledgeable about this subject. and the office that we seek to create would be housed within the department of state under the watchful eye of secretary hillary clinton, who did so much work on this subject when she was a member of the senate and even prior to her service in the senate as first lady of arkansas and the united states. so i am particularly happy that we would be recommending what is a very appropriate i think establishment of an office within the office of the secretary of state. this bill has been discussed for several years here. we've had several opportunities for debate on the floor, but a great coalition has come together representing advocates

group of cosponsors, including senator reed of rhode island, senator snowe, senator schumer, senator inhofe, senator dodd, senator hutchison, senator collins, senator kyl, and senator cornyn, and i'm very grateful for that support. to state it briefly and then to go into some detail, this amendment would remove funding from this bill that was add by way of amendment in the armed services committee -- $438.9 million -- $439 million -- to build a second engine for the joint strike fighter plane. and i will argue on behalf of the amendment i've introduced with senator mccain and others that this is a waste of $439 million to buy a second engine for a plane that we don't need. in fact, estimates are that continuing the acquisition of this second engine will cost over $6 billion of taxpayer money that we don't need to spend because there has been a competition for the engine to be used in the joint strike fighter, which is now the heart and soul of our -- of america's hopes for the future when it comes to tactical aviation, particularly after the senate terminated the f-22 program the other day.

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chairman, senator inhofe has asked to make a brief comment. >> of a chorus of. >> i think the rankingcourtesy unfortunately i and the ranking member on environment and we have a hearing that is going on the same time so i do have a list of non lawyer questions i will be submitted for the record in with the impact of facing detainees in the u.s. prisons system pretrial and poster child, the security risks of escape, or these detainees will be tried and would risk, the advantages of using a complex we have all seen down there at the expeditionary legal complex designed for tribunals the other rules of evidence that are between the tribunal and the federal court system, and lastly the discussion has questioned about the advisability of a reading miranda rights to captured terrorists. so i thank you and i will be submitting these and i appreciate the opportunity to make the statement. >> thank you, senator mccain. >> mr. chairman, i want to join you in welcoming their witnesses on both panels, i appreciate your scheduling the hearings and appreciate the expert and vice the inexperienced i

legislation have received broad, bipartisan support from the beginning, including senators begich, inhofe, wyden, vitter, and hutchison. and i would note, mr. president, we've also worked closely with leaders in the house of representatives, especially congressman kevin mccarthy and duncan hunter. but our work wasn't done all here in washington. we relied on technical assistance from the texas secretary of state's office, especially our director of elections ann mcgeehan, dozens of veterans service organizations, and many other citizens and patriots who want our troops right to enjoy -- to enjoy their right to their vote that it be protected, particularly for those who defend all of us. mr. president, i would urge all of 0 our colleagues to support this amendment when it comes to the floor, i hope later on today, and to give this important amendment our unanimous consent. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. mr. durbin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from illinois. mr. durbin: i ask consent to speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objec

governor, great to see you, just following up on what senator inhofe said, what could the impacts of this be on families in mississippi, i know what it's going to do to families in wyoming. >> there are a number of studies on this. the brookings institution said it will cost 600 or 7,000 -- 600,000 or 700,000 jobs a year, to another study that 2.25 million to 3.25 million jobs a year. every study says it will cost jobs. there will be some green jobs created, but they will be far outnumbered by the lost jobs. the house bill has a huge unemployment section in it for the people who lose their jobs because of this bill. it's generous, three years of unemployment, the government will pay 80% of your health insurance when this costs you your job. talk about this as a jobs bill and then have huge unemployment benefits in it is to me, a little bit disconcerting. we do, in our state, we try very hard to do all the above. we're trying to build a new nuclear power plant no greenhouse gas emissions. the first commercial-scale carbon capture sesquest, -- squest ration sprodget in kemper county, m

and i ask unanimous consent that senators kyl and inhofe be allowed to be added as cosponsors to the amendment. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. brownback: mr. president, this is a bipartisan resolution and sense of the senate that the administration should reenlist north korea as a state sponsor of terrorism. as my colleagues know, the bush administration, to a great deal of hoopla delisted north korea as a state sponsor of terrorism. they took them off the list in spite of north korea continuing to do terrible and erratic behavior in nuclear weapons and missile technology, now taking u.s. citizens hostage and holding them. the bush administration did an agreement, a deal to delist them as a state sponsor of terrorism. all that got us was more nuclear weapons being detonated, more missiles being sent off, more provocative action by the north koreans and a dismal situation. what we are asking with this amendment is that it is a sense of the senate that north korea should be relisted as a state sponsor of terrorism. and i want to, in that regard, enter a couple of things

inhofe: all right. madam president, i only wanted to be on the floor for one reason, and that is that it's my intention next week, probably tuesday or wednesday -- whenever i can get the floor time -- to give a rather long history of the whole issue of the cap-and-trade. and what i intend to do is start in the very beginning. and while the occupyer of the chair was not in that position during the kyoto treaty several years ago, i was. at that time the republicans were a majority, and i happened to be the chairman of the committee that had the jurisdiction. and i have to tell you, madam president, that at that time i was a believer that man-made gases, co2, methane, were the cause of global warming. and the reason i was was because everybody said it. nobody had a dissenting view. and it wasn't until the wharton school came out with the wharton econometrics survey and said if we were to pass, to ratify the kyoto treaty and live by its emission requirements, that it would cost the, somewhere between $300 b

nelson of florida, nelson of nebraska, bayh, webb, mccaskill, routele, hagan, begich, burris, mccain, inhofe, sessions, graham, thune, wicker, burr, vitter, and collins. the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. mr. levin: mr. president, i wondered -- i wonder if the senator from new york mighting recognized for a brief call we can with me -- colloquy with me. the presiding officer: without objection. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from new york. a senator: it has passed in the house, it is about the issue of autism. mrs. gillibrand: we have a significant issue with autism. it affects one in every 150 american children, one in every 90 boys. a new case of autism is diagnosed one in every 20 minutes making it the fastest growing serious developmental condition in the united states. and if this continues the autism could reach four million americans in the next 10 years. in the military autism is even more prevalent. there are currently over 13,000 children with active duty service member with autism, representing about 1% of the nation's total population.