into law a new tax overhaul bill that will cut the top tax rate in the state paid by the wealthiest kansans from six point four percent down to four point nine percent in order to pay for it brownback will have to fight eight hundred million dollars in cuts to education and social service programs steal from the poor to give to the rich so one clearly missed the point of the story of robin hood and the very very ugly fact so-called news another new study is out showing that fox viewers are substantially less informed about the news and those who watch no news at all harley davidson university published a study which found that when questions were asked about domestic news americans were usually able to answer two out of the five questions right but fox viewers on the other hand only able to get roughly one out of the five questions right very far worse than viewers of all the other cable networks as well as people who watch no t.v. at all this backs up a similar study conducted last year that also found parts viewers are less informed than everyone else so is it about time for fox to remove

the vice president a president with the public housing tenants association is not only kansan choice armstrong and right now i'm going to if i ask for a round of applause for the san cisco housing authority's executive director mr henry alvarez the third good morning everyone. for those of you who don't know me i'm just henry when i'm running around in our communities no one no one's running around calling me henry alvarez or mr alvarez most folks i get the shake their hands and see what they're doing i just am so excited that you're here today rosa parks we've been working on this center for some time and today we get to give it back to the residents in this community and say thank you absolutely i think it's stellar it's awfully exciting we have a lot of dignitaries here this morning and i'm going to try to get out of the way so we can get the program moving along so i want to take a moment to introduce the best mayor i've ever worked for our mayor ed lee. good afternoon everyone welcome the rosa parks community center. it's my pleasure to join with our police chief with our housin

just five months ago, kansans were grieved by the loss of another officer, sergeant david ensbrenner of achison, kansas. on december 9, 2001, david joined a fellow officer on a routine call to see a local resident. as they were turning to leave the front step of the home, a person suddenly appeared and opened fire on david without warning. this act of violence was unprovoked and forever robbed the ensbrenner family of their father and husband and the achison community of a loyal public servant. when we lose someone in a community in kansas, it's not just a name to us. it's somebody we go to church with. somebody we see at our kids' activities at school. somebody we know and care for. that is how achison felt about david. in remembering david, achison mayor alan rivas said this -- he was number one father, number one husband, number one partner to his fellow officers, number one son. en scribed on the national law enforcement memorial here in washington are these words -- it is not how these officers died that made them heroes. it is how they lived. police chief mike wilson served alo

bipartisan consensus on this legislation, and in addressing many of the issues that are affecting kansans and the rest of americans. i just talked to a fellow on the telephone last night that said, why can't you all work thought? why can't you pass something in a bipartisan way? this legislation is a good example of exactly what that gentleman was talking about, what a lot of americans are concerned about. in that regard, i really want to thank chairman harkin, ranking member enzi for awful their work -- for all of their work, for all of the work by their staffs and our staffs in putting together in important piece of legislation. this took a long time. it took a lot of effort, a lot of hard work. their commitment to a bipartisan process and their willingness to communicate with all the members of the help committee has led us through a relevantly noncontentious markup and i hope the same will happen as we consider this legislation on the floor. i yield back my time. mr. president, i note the absence of a quorum -- oh. mr. schumer: thank you, mr. president. i thank my colleague for finish