you could also know what he was cooking the problem was that inhofe is a soldier of industry. fact is in-house brother even used to work for the insurance agency owned by the mining companies inhofe is indeed with polluters so he can't just order a buyout because that would prove this land is not fit for people and it's not fit and someone's got to pay for what got done and that could get expensive so they just pay in hard to make this buyout talk is appear in the citizens at stake but to prove that he was working for auto accounting folksy put together an eighteen million dollar cleanup plan to stand in for a buyout made everyone wait three years while they pulled it together using the move all the check they were in the math on the plan the same day it was released if you are in fifty trucks a day all day he would take forty years just to move a check forty years doing the job would cost two hundred twenty five million not eighteen but complete by i was estimated at fifty million and everyone knows inhofe not much of a science and could it be that manmade global warming is t

and inhofe oversaw the committee as far as environmental buyout money goes in half was the faucet you have a place like this in your home state you're carrying the kind of committee that can actually help people and you refuse well i could also know what he was going to the problem was that inhofe is a soldier industry. fact is inhouse brother even used to work for the insurance agency owned by the mining companies inhofe is indeed with polluters so he can't just order a buyout because that would prove this land is not fit for people and it's not fit and someone's got to pay for what got done and they could get expensive so they just pay enough to make this buyout talk disappear and the citizens that stay but to prove that he was working for auto walk county folks he put together an eighteen million dollar cleanup plan to stand in for a buyout made everyone wait three years while they pulled it together he was going to move all the check they were in the math on the planet same day it was released if you are in fifty trucks a day all day he would take forty years just to move the chec

senator inhofe. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i recall general mckinley, back when we are working on the 09 nda committee issue at that time was a three-star versus four start. i was strange to remember him to remember him talking to misstep a minute ago about what the arguments were. i do recall the perception argument that those in the field and i heard that firsthand, but also recall that -- i got the impression that if we made that change and that within conine, that that would resolve a lot of these problems. i didn't care that we would want to come along with another change in the relationship. do you remember that originate to comment as to what benefits came a change and not from a three to four start? >> thank you, senator inhofe. i honestly took this position in november 2008. i was the beneficiary of the legislation that passed before he became chief of the national guard bureau cared much has improved and much has been given to me in terms of my access to the chairman and to participate in nature and meaning affecting

senator inhofe? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i recall, general mckinley, back when we were working on the zero naim nda issue at that time was a three-star verses of four-star and i was trying to remember talking to my staff about what the arguments were. i do recall the perception of the argument that those in the field and i've heard that firsthand but also recall a got the impression that if we made that change and that was an 09 ndaa that would resolve a lot of the problems. i didn't hear that we would want to come along with another change in the relationship. do you remember that or would you like to comment that has to what bate can with a three or four star? >> thank you, senator, and i obviously took this position and november of 2008. i was a beneficiary of the legislation of the past before i became the chief of the national guard bureau. much has improved and much has been given to me in terms of my access to the chairman, and to participate in the major meetings affecting the services, the national guard, the army a

inhofe: all right. mr. president, i have currently four amendments that i will withdraw at this time so we unclog some of this. they would be -- i ask unanimous consent to withdraw amendment number 1094, 1095, 1096 and 1101. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. mr. levin: mr. president, let me just thank -- the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. mr. levin: let me thank the senator from oklahoma for helping to us get our list of amendments whittled down to where we can hopefully have a manageable group for tomorrow. we're going to have a very busy day tomorrow. we have a lot of amendments to address and dispose of but it's doable because we've had the cooperation of senators and it's our goal -- we must finish this by 6:00. hopefully everybody -- everyone has a right to a vote if their amendment is germane and is pending and that's what our list is. we hope we'll have a chance to debate all of these amendments as well as have a vote on them but we're starting -

inhofe: i yield the floor. mr. franken: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. mr. franken: mr. president, the amendment i offer, number 1197, will help small businesses. small businesses often serve as subcontractors or suppliers to large corporations that have a primary government contract. my amendment would help guarantee that small businesses get paid by these large corporation nasa timely way. more specifically, my amendment would require the office of management and budget to issue regulations in the next year to do this. this amendment sounds simple. there is a reason for that. it is something that we can do here today that will offer real and significant help for small businesses. it's going to offer predictability and certainty to them. anyone who owns a small business will tell you that they can't hire more people or plan for the future if they don't know when their next paycheck is coming. getting their money more predictably and quickly will enable them to make investments that they need to grow, th

twenty five million not eighteen but complete by i was estimated at fifty million and everyone knows inhofe not much of a science man could it be that manmade global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the american people i believe in his but it turned out he wasn't a math guy either i think came news that not even enough can spin if you go away from. i didn't hear a new noise or anything. else always a pup i'm going to just said. and i surprised. pitcher isn't just a little feeling and they looked at water and i looked at lad and all the trouble is they forgot to look at subsidence risk which is of course the undermining because along with hard rock mining you know it turns out that there are a significant other mark which really shouldn't be a surprise to anybody since they took out i don't know two hundred fifty million tons of or maybe more you know this underground mining was done sometimes clear up to where they were till they saw a tree roots. when you have a several hundred foot my room it's going almost to the surface guess what it's going to collapse on these days and

inhofe: thank you, madam president. i ask unanimous consent that i be considered as if in morning business. the presiding officer: the senate is in morning business, senator, and the senator is recognized. mr. inhofe: madam president, after the vote today, i -- i think that any effort to pass a bill such as the ones that we just now voted on would be very difficult, but something good does happen from that, and that is that we had the vast majority of people in this chamber recognizing that we need to do something that would be stimulative to the economy, something like -- or i should say something unlike the stimulus bill that we had before where only 3% of the money actually went to building roads, highways and maintenance and that type of thing. so i do appreciate the fact that we are now in a position where i think with this behind us we can be looking at a good, legitimate highway transportation and reauthorization bill. i have been working very closely with senators boxer, vitter and baucus. we are considered the

scarier reading at them know what the library there was an outcry a and that was published by can inhofe but many pieces were published by the press that was obscure enough they would not have been found in other places. the most in ideological stuff would have such a small circulation of the time it did not generate much of an outcry that the counter intuitive idea that it would be an escape for mccarthyism we refit -- we think that as police but it is mostly controlled by women and it has never been given that much attention and even today talking to a friend to this year in some of them are a great artist and great writers today are writing children's books but so that is not considered literature in the way that the adult is that creates problems also the openness in the field that may not exist in other fields where one author said you could say things in children's books you could not say for 20 years zinn edo books white kid down black kid who our best friends. there were definitely instances the biggest i found was three centrist -- censorship in the biggest instance related to r

inhofe: all right. you know -- and i appreciate very much what has just been described, and i think people, perhaps it can be simplified to look at it in terms of the overregulation that we're doing in this country. the fact that there is a direct relationship between the amount of revenue that comes into government and the amount of regulations. and i just -- i have always used -- in fact, it's still permissible to use it, according to o.m.b. for each 1% reduction or addition to the g.d.p., that creates an additional $50 billion of reason. so there are other ways of doing it other than tax increases. so to turn it around the other way if you look at what this administration has done, they have such regulations the greenhouse gas regulations would be somewhere between $300 billion and $400 billion lost each year, the ozone which they postponed but nonetheless they proposed it, would be $676 billion in lost g.d.p. -- do your math on that, for each $50 billion -- for each 1% -- and 1% is $140 billion so f

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inhofe: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. inhofe: mr. president, i had a number of amendments that i was just wanting to discuss, unless the -- the chairman is planning to -- mr. levin: mr. president, it would be fine to discuss the amendments without attempting to offer any amendment. mr. inhofe: that's not my intention. i just wanted to talk about some of these. mr. levin: if i could ask my friend about how long. mr. inhofe: until you're ready to talk. mr. levin: that sounds good. mr. inhofe: there are a number of amendments that probably will not come up but they should have. we talked about this some time ago, the federal aviation administration came up with a change for their sub s nonscheduled carriers that is going to make them comply with certain of the wage and hour -- crew rest requirements. here's the problem that we have: about 95% of the passengers that go in -- this is our troops -- go into afghanis

horrified internet viewers in new zealand a helicopter getting time build up in cables and snapping inhofe the pilot was thrown around the cabin but incredibly managed to survive the crash the chopper was an ice storm in a giant christmas tree on oakland's waterfront when its main rotor appears to have clipped a wire by local media reports the save the pilot escaped any major injuries and said that he was doing fine. amazing footage right there crosstalk is just ahead here on r t as well as a recap of the headlines but both after you with a business. thanks rory barreling vulcan for the program for a direct investment in russia is up forty three percent in the year through september at twelve billion dollars however the most of the front still coming from cyprus where many big domestic forums are registered the emerging markets private equity association says russia remains one of the nice to have tracks of investment destinations among developing economies but the head of russia's newly created direct investment fund is optimistic this will soon change speaking exclusively to our cheeky r

the progress that's being made now with senator boxer and senator inhofe on the transportation bill. the build america bonds effort, which produced a 30-fold increase over what was anticipated, literally revolutionizing the municipal bond market and for projects big like the new jersey turnpike and small like roads in southern oregon. and now we're seeing that if we can go to this bill -- and that's what the vote is really all about, whether we can actually get on the bill, be able to offer alternatives and ideas and frankly, there are provisions in the bill that is in its current form i don't see how anybody can be against. the question of highway repair? i mean that's about as fundamental a function of government as anything you can imagine. so there's plenty in this bill that i think colleagues on both sides of the aisle could support. i've cited a number of examples of bipartisanship in this area where we can do more in the infrastructure field, while we save money and i just hope colleagues will vote, and i gather the vote will be tomorrow, to move -- move to the bill and give u

senator inhofe? >> in my years in the house and senate, this is the first time that all members of the joint chiefs are here. this is a pretty neat deal. i think the greatest just -- provide for their security maintain a strong national defense. our constitution gives congress specific national security authorities to declare war, raise and support armies, provide navy, to establish rules and regulations for our military forces and organize armed militias in the state. >> i hate to interrupt the we do have a quorum now appeared we have some business we need to attend to. as a quorum is not present, we were about to lose the quorum, so that is why i interrupted. i asked the committee to consider a list of 4020 pending military nominations. all of these nominations have been before the committee. iroquois length of time. is there a motion to verily report these? all in favor say aye? the motion carried. thank you. >> anyways, let me just mention that we are all close to the military. the branches, and

i had a are conversation yesterday with senator inhofe and they've worked out almost all the details on that bill. that bill we have to do something on that, because it expires at the end of this year. first of february i believe. mr. president, my friend the republican leader who i care a great deal about personally is absolutely wrong. the american people support our approach, 76% of the american people like it, of all political definitions support it. why? because it's so fair. we're asking the top .2% of people who make money in this country to contribute a surtax of .7% of the money they make over a million dollars. job creators? i don't think so. the funding mechanism that the republicans use this time is in violation of the agreement that we made last july. we have an agreement. we have cut domestic screngs enough -- discretionary spending enough. that was the agreement we made and they come back and they whack it more which i repeat is going back on our august agreement on how much we're spending on appropriations. not only that, but the republicans do what they've done, time

inhofe: i thank the senator from texas for that. she has -- it is a critical subject she's dealing with right now. the problem we're having right now with regulation, i think we're going to be talking about that this afternoon. i only wanted to get one thing in and that is something as the chair is fully aware because he was there all morning, something very significant happened this morning in our environment and public works committee, we passed out a highway bill. a highway reauthorization bill. we have not done this since 2005, and this morning we did. this is one where we sat down, one of the few times that democrats, republicans, liberals, conservatives, can get in a room and hammer out the differences and get things done. i wish the committee would be successful in doing that as we were this morning in getting a highway bill. so we are going to have a highway bill at the current spending level, which if you remember back in 2005, it was $286.4 billion, and that was for a five-year bill. that spending level right now would be

senator inhofe and i have worked very closely as we reauthorized the highway bill to make sure that we're not frivolous in what we fund. please vote this down. we voted down a similar amendment before. the presiding officer: the senator has flee seconds. mra senator: $3 million was spent on a turtle tunnel. the presiding officer: the senator's time has expired. under the previous order, 60 votes are required for the adoption of this amendment o am. is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. there is. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: the presiding officer: are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote? hearing none, on this vote the yeas are 38, the nays are 60. under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is not agreed to. a senator: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from wisconsin. mr. kohl: i move to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed. the presiding officer: without objection. the senator from missouri. mr. blunt: madam president, -- the speaker pro t

now, senator inhofe has joined us and he had filed a stand-alone bill, and i joined him on that, s. 260, and it's cosponsored -- get this -- by 49 senators. the senate has supported eliminating this offset for years and i hope that in the senate on this defense authorization bill, we're going to remain steadfast in support of the military widows and the family members. why? because the survivor benefit plan is an optional program for military retirees offered by the defense department it's like an insurance plan. military retirees pay premiums out of their retirement pay to ensure that their survivors will have adequate support when that retired military person passes away. for many retirees, reasonably priced insurance from the public marketplace is not available due to their service-related disabilities and their health issues, and, thus, the reason for this insurance plan, the survivors' benefit plan. and s.v.p. is a way for retirees to provide some income insurance for their survivors, and it pays them 55% of their retired pay. that's for the survivors from the retired military pers

is a very important resolution that senator grassley and i are proud to support along with senator inhofe and others. and that is a resolution commending -- recognizing that this saturday is national adoption day. and i'm happy to report, mr. president, that on this saturday there will be over 3,500 children that will be adopted into permanent families. and this day was start bed ten years ago by some very enterprising organizations and the senate, and i believe the house of representatives has been helping to promote the concept of national adoption day for many years now, maybe as long as ten. we sure have been working to help highlight this special day. but it was started by nonprofit organizations to highlight the fact that we have in the united states orphans. people don't believe this, but there are over 100,000 children in our foster care system between the ages of zero and 21 who were in our foster care system, whose parental rights have been terminated for good reason, maybe terrible or gross abuse or neglect, parents just unable or unwilling to raise biological -- their biologic

senators boxer, inhofe, baucus and vitter, who've taken the first steps on a bipartisan proposal to do just that. mr. president, i note that many of my republican colleagues object to the rebuild america jobs act on the grounds that we would pay for it with additional revenue from those who make annually more than a million dollars. but i want to just point out that the american people disagree with them. polls show close to 70% of americans support offsetting the cost of the bill, because we're going to pay for this. we've heard that message loud and clear. that those who make over $1 million a year could help shoulder more of the burden. and i know i talk to people who've done quite well at home in colorado who are willing to make that kind of investment if they see the return on the investment. and the american people are ahead of us on this. they know that it's a matter of simple fairness. now, if i were in an ideal world, therefore, i'm running the show, i would make some changes to the bill to address our broad infrastructure challenges. i would fold in the f.a.a. i would fold in

i've been working for the last several weeks with my colleagues, senators isakson, hatch, lee, inhofe, and coburn, on an issue related to the reorganization of the air force materiel command. let me say first that i support this reorganization. it's the first major reorganization of the materiel command by the air force in some 60 years. i support it and i think the air force's need and desire to make themselves more efficient and more effective and for the most part i believe the proposed reorganization will do that. in these tight budget times where we are all going to have to accept streamlined budgets and resources, some loss of jobs and positions is unfortunately inevitable, and i realize that. powfer there is one issue with respect to -- however, there is one issue with respect to this proposed reorganization i think we are all having a hard time understanding and that relates to how the reorganization may affect the air force -- the way the air force organizes for sustainment of weapons systems. the proposed reorganization would take some of the key personnel who are currently

corker, crapo, durbin, enzi, feinstein, franken, gillibrand, grassley, hagan, harkin, heller, hoeven, inhofe, inouye, johanns, ron johnson, tim johnson, klobuchar, landrieu, lautenberg, lee, lug lugar, manchin, mccaskill, menendez, merkley, mikulski, moran, murray, ben nelson, pryor, risch, sanders, schumer, shaheen, snowe, stabenow, test tester, toomey, mark udall, vitter, warner, whitehouse, and wyden. and it's been called up. i ask consent to have it set aside so we can go on and continue with the pending matter. the presiding officer: without objection. without objection, the foregoing request from the senator from arizona is granted. mr. levin: well, reserving the right to object. the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. mr. levin: and i don't object because that is the way we should proceed, going back and forth. i just -- usually we do that informally and i don't know whether or not if the senator -- whether there may be implications because i don't know who's -- mr. levin: i have no objection. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. mccain: i thank my frien