kaine: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from virginia. mr. kaine: madam president, i thank my colleagues, the senator from minnesota and the senator from hawaii, for joining me on the floor. this is a matter that i feel very strongly about and -- and i do want to offer a few words to basically just raise a question whether there is a double standard for appointment of women to this particular court, the d.c. circuit. before i tackle that question, i will just say one thing, knowing that i'm speaking to a law professor, i am concerned more broadly about what i consider sort of a pattern of nullification. if there's a law we don't like, well, maybe we -- and we can't get it overturned, there seems to be efforts to defund it or even shut down government, or in this case what i would call the decapitation strategy. if you don't like the national labor relations board, just don't appoint people to run the business. or the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms. or in this case the d.c. circuit. the d.c. circuit has an allotted number of judicial

[applause] under governor tim kaine we were honored as the best state to do business, the best spanishtes and prudently graded -- guided us through the great recession. let me say this, under governor bob mcdonald, the unemployment is one of the lowest on the east coast tom and we have passed the first transportation funding in 27 years with bipartisan support. now, during the next four years it will be my obligation and honored to continue the tradition. to get started, over the next three months i will work hard to reach out to every single republican in the general assembly. i want to listen to them, work with them so we can advance our shared goals. [applause] the economic challenges facing virginia are daunting. sequestration for another year and more federal budget cuts on the horizon. for those of you who know me well, i believe a daunting challenge is always a great opportunity. working together we will protect the jobs we have, but we will work to diversify the economy. first is work worse training. for me, the best part is to visit every single, all 20 three community college

kaine: i would ask that the quorum call be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kaine: i have nine unanimous consent requests for committees to meet during today's session of the senate. they have the approval of both the majority and minority leaders. i ask unanimous consent these requests be agreed to and printed in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kaine: madam president, i rise today to speak in the midst of our budget conference about a topic that has consumed a lot of time here in this chamber in the last number of months and that is the effect of sequestration on the national economy and in particular the effect sequestration is having on defense. this was the subject of my first speech, my maiden speech as a senator on february 27 talking about the particular effect of defense scwechtion cuts on virginia and the nation as a whole and i return to it today not just to be repetitive but because we now finally are at the table in a budget conference and as you know, i think this conference gives us an excellent opportunity to find a be

. >> joining me now, senator tim kaine, democrat from virginia. and senator, one of the reasons i wanted to speak to you this evening is that you have the good fortune of having not actually been in the united states senate during the last time this fight went down. and so, there is no tape of you, as far as i know, defending the filibuster, its nobility, its importance for the minorities to speak, so you are free of the charges of procedural hypocrisy. but those charges abound. the question is, was then-senator barack obama and harry reid, were they wrong in 2005 as a general matter about the use of the filibuster? >> well, you know, i wasn't here, so i don't know how it was being -- >> well, you can render a judgment. >> i can render a judgment, my judgment is, we needed to make this change. the way i pitched it, the senate rules were being used to nullify american law. this is what i have objected to in being here for ten months. when the republicans don't like something, but they can't muster the votes to kill a program or a project or an agen

virginia senator tim kaine. it's a busy week in foreign relations committee. thanks for spending time with us. >> absolutely. >> obama administration marks international breakthrough gop lawmakers say nuclear deal is actually an attempt to quote detract attention from barack obama. we'll tackle that up next on "now." as a business owner, i'm constantly putting out fires. so i deserve a small business credit card with amazing rewards. with the spark cash card from capital one, i get 2% cash back on every purchase, every day. i break my back around here. finally someone's recognizing me with unlimited rewards! meetings start at 11, cindy. [ male announcer ] get the spark business card from capital one. choose 2% cash back or double miles on every purchase, every day. what's in your wallet? i need your timesheets, larry! before using her new bank of america credit card, which rewards her for responsibly managing her card balance. before receiving $25 toward her balance each quarter for making more than her minimum payment on time each month. tracey got the bankam

senator kaine. >> thank you, mr. chair and to the witnesses. i appreciate your patience with us. the effect of sequester on virginia is just so palpable in all the communities that i visit. i gave a speech on the 27th of february as a senator. i think most maiden speeches are sort of here's who i am or let me tell you about my state or let me tell you what i want to do. i don't think many maiden speeches were like mine. let's not do something stupid. i had to make my maiden speech about let's not do something stupid because it was right on the eve of the sequester kicking in. we cast a vote in the senate to turn off the sequester, and there were 53 votes for that. because of the ability to insist upon 60 votes, 53 votes wasn't enough to turn off the sequester. and i just think it's always very important that we say this, and you couldn't be more diplomatic than i'll be. it's because of congress. sequester is because congress hasn't done a budget. sequester is because we haven't been able to find a deal in normal order. we haven't been able to find a deal in super committees. we h

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so forth and for other purposes, signed by 17 senators as follows -- reid of nevada, levin, durbin, kaine, feinstein, hagan, mikulski, donnelly, udall of colorado, mccaskill, coons, shaheen, warner, reed of rhode island, murray, nelson, king. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the mandatory quorum under rule 22 be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask consent that we now proceed to a period of morning business, senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of s. res. 304, 305, 306, 307 and 308. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. the senate will proceed. mr. reid: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the resolutions be agreed to, the preambles be agreed to, the motion to reconsider be laid on the table and blocked with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i'm told that s. 1752 is due for its first reading. the presiding officer

senator kaine. >> thank you. good to be with colleagues on this. one thing i want to do is confound the cynics who have low expectations of us. there have been years of budgetary dysfunction and has not been a budget conference and a divided congress since 19 86. we start with a low expectation bar. the budgetary dysfunction has hurt us dramatically in virginia. the combination of shutdown and sequester are hurting defense and other key priorities. we feel it, i know you feel it. i want to focus on four areas where i think we are closer together than we might think as an encouragement to finding compromise. first, we should acknowledge the 2014 budget numbers are not that different. the senate sets discretionary trillion.t $1.058 senate number is 1.508. the difference is about 2.5%. i think you would argue it is smaller, because the republicans would argue the senate numbers might be artificially high because we assume there would be no continuation of sequester. we assume the house number is artificially low. so i think the real difference is abou

kaine: thank you. i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. blumenthal: mr. president, i ask that the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. blumenthal: thank you, mr. president. i want to, first of all, thank the chairman of the armed services committee and the ranking member, senator levin and senator inhofe, for the leadership they've provided to this body and to our nation in fashioning a bill, the national defense authorization act for fiscal year 2014, that truly serves our national security and preserves and enhances our national defense. and i want to thank my colleague, senator mccaskill, for the leadership that she has provided along with others like senator reed and senator gillibrand, all who have focused on the issues that are raised by the military justice improvement act, the need to reform and strengthen our system of prosecuting and providing justice to the survivors of sexual assault. i have joined with senator gillibrand in su

military to solve problems around the world there were senators ed markey in tim kaine both democrats we have to approach all of this with a lot of humility given what we've learned after we intervened in iraq in libya in afghanistan. after what we've seen go on in egypt so we should just have a little humility in the united states terms of our ability to control events on the ground in these countries there's a fatigue that the american public are feeling now about the limits of our efforts in this part of the world as senator mark you mentioned the kind of we've we we've had you brits and now we have you melody about the effects of our outcomes ultimately though disarming syria of chemical weapons is just one issue the other is the civil war that has claimed the lives of more than one hundred thousand people and created a humanitarian crisis while raging for more than two years with another round of talks in geneva slated for next month the american ambassador to syria robert ford argued that the u.s. must continue its support to the syrian opposition to strengthen their hand headin

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senator kaine, ranking member corker, thank you so much for your invitation. i'm delighted that you think i can contribute to something to your deliberations on what is truly a problem from hell, this problem of syria. you have my full statement, so i'll just compress things a bit in the interest of time. first point i'd like to make, if i may, is that the chemical weapons framework agreement recently arrived at and blessed by the united nations security council is most definitely a good thing. we have news this morning that syria has beaten the deadline for the destruction of its production facilities. much work obviously lies ahead, but an assad regime that's deprived of these materials is a good thing for 23 million syrians and for the entire neighborhood. and yet, the problem of syria at its root is not an arms control problem. chemicals are the tip of a very deep and very deadly iceberg, one that will surely, if left unattended, kill all attempts to create a political path, a negotiated settlement to this problem. the iceberg itself is a deliberate, syste

. >> thank you, chairman kaine and thank you all those who helped organize the panel. as you mentioned, i just spent two years in the region witnessing all this from up close, and a although i'll only be able to cover so much in five minutes, i'm happy to answer questions you have about individual countries and any of the questions you asked the first panel insofar as it doesn't get into the nitty-gritty of u.s. programs. we're still living in what historians call a world historical moment where change happens fast and profound but cacophonous ways. history accelerates, and we often miss most of which is going on and get distracted by things over here and miss what's going on over there. apt comparisons have been made to 1989 and eastern europe and to 1945, but i think the best comparison is to 1848 in which the authoritarians play themselves, the liberals play themselves, the street plays itself, and the marxist spoiler is replaced by islamist spoilers. even though one country had a regime change in 1848, about 20 countries were profoundly affected, and this began the

. >> that's dominic kaine live for us in cairo with events taking place right now. >>> a number of majorel groups in syria are merge going one. the fighters represent rebel forces from across the country, and are calling themselves the islamic front. the statement was made after assad forces progress. >> translator: this aims to topple the assad regime completely, and build a sovereign state where god alone will be our leader. >> the fact they are by doing this effectively distances themselves from what is known as the free syrian army, suggests further schisms, which could make any more negotiations more difficult. >> that's true. and the other notable names are of course the islamic state of iraq, and an [ inaudible ] known as [ inaudible ]. what you are seeing is the islamic middle ground. these aren't the groups that particularly like the united states. they are all notably silent when the prospect of american air strikes were on the cards, but neither are they despite the comments about wanting to see on islamic state in syria necessarily always the closest allies of the extreme isl

i had done a lot of research on my own and kaine with a stack of a bunch of questions and i was particularly interested in the prognosis to it so this chart as the number of years you are expected to live. so i gave them this number and i said what does this mean? he said it means exactly what it says. that was a confusing moment for me because it gave me the number and what i wanted the chart to tell me is whether i would be alive or dead in five years if i would have a recurrence or not. how to plan my life, but they gave me a number and i just became incredibly intrigued by these numbers and how they actually influenced very much what cancer is. it's a little about the actual fighting cells than about the infrastructure's through which we know cancer. >> host: how did we get to be such a number centered statistical profession where our communication with patience is similar to our communication with cleaves. i'm a cancer surgeon and when i talk to recall the good of a patient, it should be different than the way that i talked to the patient. we are talking about a different scientific lev

of tim d as secretary kaine. she spent 25 years working for the hospital corporation of america. and she began her career as a nurse as the johnson willis hospital in richmond. she hold as bachelor's in nursing and health administration both from the virginia common wealth university. i know you're very, very busy these days but i thank you to share your experience and answer questions here today. and now what i'd like to do because this is such an intricate subject we usually give the witness five minutes. i would like to give you up to but no more than 10 minutes to make your opening statement and then we'll have our questions. so welcome. and your statement will be made a part hoff this record in its entirety. please proceed. >> thank you, chairman harkin, ranking member alexander and members of the committee. on october 1st, we watched one of the key provisions of the affordable care act, the new marketplace where people without health insurance including those who cannot afford health insurance and those who were not part of a group plan could actually go get affordable heal

[applause] kaine we were tim honored as the best state to do business, the best spanish states and prudentlyraded -- guided us through the great recession. this, under governor bob mcdonald, the unemployment is one of the lowest on the east passed thend we have first transportation funding in 27 years with bipartisan support. now, during the next four years it will be my obligation and honored to continue the tradition. to get started, over the next three months i will work hard to reach out to every single republican in the general assembly. i want to listen to them, work with them so we can advance our shared goals. [applause] the economic challenges facing virginia are daunting. sequestration for another year and more federal budget cuts on the horizon. for those of you who know me well, i believe a daunting challenge is always a great opportunity. working together we will protect the jobs we have, but we will work to diversify the economy. first is work worse training. is to, the best part visit every single, all 20 three community colleges and the commonwealth of virginia. whomeet peopl

under governor tim kaine, we were honored as the best state to do business, the best man in the state, he prudently gaded us -- guided us through the great recession. and let me say this -- under governor bob mcdonald, our unemployment is one of the lowest on the east coast. and we passed the first transportation funding in 27 years with bipartisan support. now, during the next four years it will be my obligation and honor to continue that tradition and to get started over the next three months i am going to work hard to reach out to every single republican in the general assembly. i want to listen to them. i want to work with them. so we can advance our shared goals. the economic challenges facing virginia are daunting. sequestration for another year. and more federal budget cuts on the horizon. but for those of you who know me well, i believe that a daunting challenge is always a great opportunity. working together we will protect the jobs we have but we well work to diversify our economy. first is work force training. for me the best part of this campaign i was able to visit every

. >> executive order no. 1 as then governor kaine did no discrimination base upon sexual orientation in the state workplace. executive order no. 2 will be a reply to myself and my family that we can take no gift over $100. i will do that immediately upon receiving office. >> coming on the heels of governor mcdonnell's ethics problems mcauliffe wants to take the gift ban further and ban all statewide elected officials from accepting any gift overs $100. >>> virginia's attorney general race is still too close to call. it may be headed toward a recount. right now about 1,000 votes separate the two candidates. >> peggy fox is here with a look at what's being done to figure out the winner. >> that's right. there's a lot at stake here. the attorney general is the state's top law enforcer. ken cuccinelli is the current attorney general who sued the federal government over the affordable care act and other measures. the two competing now for the job are both in the state senate, democrat mark hearing and republican mark obenshane who has more votes, but that could change because county elect

senator kaine, ranking member corker, thank you so much for your invitation.m delighted that you think i can contribute to something to your deliberations on what is truly a problem from hell, this problem of syria. you have my full statement, so i'll just compress things a bit in the interest of time. first point i'd like to make, if i may, is that the chemical weapons framework agreement recently arrived at and blessed by the united nations security council is most definitely a good thing. we have news this morning that syria has beaten the deadline for the destruction of its production facilities. much work obviously lies ahead, but an assad regime that's deprived of these materials is a good thing for 23 million syrians and for the entire neighborhood. and yet, the problem of syria at its root is not an arms control problem. chemicals are the tip of a very deep and very deadly iceberg, one that will surely, if left unattended, kill all attempts to create a political path, a negotiated settlement to this problem. the iceberg itself is a deliberate, systemat

tim kaine says everybody must give to get a deal. >> we have to tackle some reforms of the entitlement programs, especially medicare. so we'll have to be reducing some spending and potentially by closing loopholes getting some more revenue. >> reporter: lawmakers say with both the senate and the house back in session, negotiations could move quickly if both sides are open-minded. a senate gop confer key acknowledges it won't be easy. >> there's not to be a sweet spot out there. i have to think there is a point at which conservative republicans can get liberal democrats to agree to some savings in entitlement programs. that's where the money is. >> there's a lot on the line for patty murray and paul ryan. murray led the failed supercommittee and ryan the gop budget guru hasn't been able to get the senate to take up his plans, so they would both like to deliver. >> mike, thank you. >>> stocks today were mixed. the dow lost 32, the s&p 500 was down 4, the nasdaq finished a fraction ahead. >>> still ahead, jfk, the conservative. we'll explain. >>> first the mainstream media seems ready for

joining us now from richmond, we have democratic senator tim kaine, democrat from virginia, who in the the republican blocking of patricia millett an abuse of the filibuster. thank you for joining us this morning. we have how you have characterized what is happening in the last few days and have this threat that pat leahy just sort of, you know, laid on the floor there about changing the rules. is that something you as a senator would support right now? would you support in the face of what is happening changing the rules of the filibuster in the senate? >> steve, i would. let me tell you why. you got my historian wheels turning by talking about court packing and fdr. this is bigger than that. there is a discredited legal theory called nullification that goes back into the 1800s. if there is a law on the books, and you can't change it legislatively, and you can't change it by winning at the ballot box, and you can't even get the courts to rule your way, then congress or states have taken steps to try to nullify laws and that happened with respect to slavery laws, with integration in th

get the gun guys, got to be culturally conservative, show them you're tough on death penalty, tim kaine went through this whole thing in 2005. and the message of the mcauliffe campaign has really been, no, it's ken cuccinelli who's out of step, he's too conservative, especially on these cultural issues, and it seems to me that reflects more of a national tipping the point on cultural issues. >> i think there's that and i think virginia is an increasingly suburban state. and those rural areas are less important than they used to be. and i think ken cuccinelli has read as so culturally alien to those suburban areas around washington, d.c. that all mcauliffe had to do was be a warm body that those people didn't hate and he could win the election. and i think that's especially interesting, because cuccinelli isn't actually that much more conservative than bob mcdonnell, who won pretty soundly four years ago. he's become unpopular because of some influence peddling scandals, but that's not really related to his social conservatism, but mcdonnell seems like this suburban, business-oriented co

-- bob mcdonnell is the republican governor now, three out of the four governors, mark werner, tim kaine, mcauliffe, three of the last four governors have been democrats. barack obama carried the state in 2008. he carried the state in 2012. so there's an argument to be made that virginia is definitely a toss-up state and maybe thumb on the scale toward democrats, which is a remarkable change in the last six year. >> all right. chris cillizza, thanks for joining us this afternoon. appreciate it. >>> up next senator patrick leahy. we will be right back. stay with us. [ male announcer ] 1.21 gigawatts. today, that's easy. ge is revolutionizing power. supercharging turbines with advanced hardware and innovative software. using data predictively to help power entire cities. so the turbines of today... will power us all... into the future. ♪ into the future. i started part-time, now i'm a manager.n. my employer matches my charitable giving. really. i get bonuses even working part-time. where i work, over 400 people are promoted every day. healthcare starting under $40 a month. i got education

house, that was very, very difficult and you had to thread the needle the way mark warner and tim kaine did not that long ago. terry mcauliffe is a very flawed candidate, as his allies even in the democratic party, will acknowledge. for him to win and possibly win somewhat convincingly and possibly to have a democratic sweep of the statewide offices, that would really be a sign of the state moving maybe not just to swing state status but maybe even slightly to lean democrat status or at least it would be a sign that republicans really need to think seriously about how they're going to compete in statewide elections if they're going to get back in the game in some of these offices, even for lieutenant governor an attorney general. i think linkage to the health care law is a little more tenuous. maybe it's not a silver bullet for a candidate like cuccinelli, but it's not as if terry mcauliffe staked his entire campaign on staunch support for every provision of the affordable care act. >> alex, liz, thanks. >>> this morning we're getting our first look at the man who opened fire inside one

now has two democratic senators, mark worner and tim kaine. it's become, i think, a bluer state and ken cuccinnelli i don't think is the kind of republican who -- and kwame's point is right. robert sarvis, the libertarian, complicated his life and if, in fact, what happens and he has to hope that cucchinelli folks that the third party does better in the polls than election day when people say well, i have to make a choice between these two leading candidate he is has to hope that sarvis voters say cucchinelli is the best chance. >> if mark's going with darwin i'm going with the suffragette movements. women can vote now, it's been 100 years or so. women have the vote and the republican party doesn't seem to be aware of that. >> woodruff: actually, not quite a hundred years but who's counting. >> roughly 100 years, thank you for saving me from a thousand letters from angry suffragettes all over the country. >> the truth it is' 93. >> okay, that's rough. >> woodruff: thank you, we've got that straight. >> the fact is he's doing terribly among wom

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largest investment in k-12 education in virginia history. [ cheers and applause ] >> under governor tim kaine -- >> terry mcauliffe who won a closer race than a lot of people anticipated against cucinnelli. we'll check in with john king at the magic wall in d.c. >> you just heard at the end terry mcauliffe talking about two democratic governors. doing what they did to win their races by turning the d.c. suburbs, you see all the blue right there, that is enough for the margin of victory terry mcauliffe winning a narrow race despite most of the state red for the republican ken cucinnelli but much more of a population up here key voting blocs, northern virginia suburbs north of d.c. making a difference for mcauliffe. now a quick look at the exit polls. ken cucinnelli overforming the late polls is because 53% of the elect otherate opposing oklahoma care. ken cucinnelli closing in on this race because he won more than eight in ten of the opponents of obama care in virginia. that helped him close, anderson, but not close enough. let's look this over. you just heard terry mcauliffe saying virginians

what's the difference between cuccinelli and -- >> tim kaine was personally pro life and was able toin in virginia, too. there are ways of being pro-life and not affecting large portions of the female electorate. ken cuccinelli has not pulled it off. chris christie has. terry is not what one would call a right fit candidate for the old virginia. one of the things that's true about virginia is it's changed a lot. there is a reason barack obama was able to win in 2008 and 2012. there are transient voters, young, hispanic voters there. the state profile is different than it was even ten years ago. it puts him in the position mark said because of the financial vanl he's had in a position to win. i don't ting he'll win by eight points. >> yeah. >> he's going to end up closer to three or four. it looks like he was going to win. >> so much of politics has to do with personal style. bob mcdonald, every bit as conservative as cuccinelli. every bit as conservative. and the guy won by, what, 20 points? the year after barack obama had his massive victory. even before all the obama care dust-up o

senators enzi, rubio, blunt, and moran, who are all republicans, and senators schumer, stabenow and kaine, all, like me, democrats. although we represent different parties, come from different parts of the country and have different backgrounds, we've all come together to strengthen our economy and, in ti to support in-- and in particular, to support innovation and entrepreneurship. one way we do that now is to support private-sector innovation in manufacturing through the research and development tax credit. the r&d tax credit generates new products and industries, benefiting other sectors. but there's a critical gap in the existing, in the long-standing r&d tax credit. it isn't available to start-ups because they're not yet profitable. this is a tax credit that you can only take if you have a tax liability and are profitable. so we worked together, senator enzi and i and the other cosponsors, to fix this hole with a relatively simple tweak. that's what the start-up innovation credit act does. it allows companies to claim the r&d tax credit against their employment tax liability rather t