so you can go first. >> like to thank senator klobuchar in the chair. here's a question that has been on my mind. i would like to direct this to the director. and i think i know some of the answers. this abdulmutallab was on a bigger list, 550,000 list. why -- and he wasn't on the no-fly list, but he was on this list. he gets to the airport. it's easy to access -- is just as these to access a list of 550,000 as it is to access a list of 18,000. nobody at a counter goes through 18,000 names. it's done through a computer. so he name checks just as fast if it's on a 550,000 person last as it does if it is on an 18,000 person list. why -- why don't we have access -- why don't the people who book these people in have access to that list? and simply say, okay, that means you're going to get another patdown or that means you're going to go through the full body scan? and i just came through dubai and you go through security ones and then asked the gate you go through security again. but at the gate, you could simply as to not slow down everybody at the first s

chairman. >> in that case, i will go and vote and returned during senator klobuchar's questioning. >> thank you very much to all of you hear it i was listening to the questions today and i think anyone that looks at the facts, i think about this person getting on the plane with 300 people with as close as it think about the misspelled name, the one-way ticket, that no baggage, the father coming in to express some very serious concerns and it just leads you to think, how could this happen? but i will say is a former prosecutor and i know director mueller knows what i'm talking about when you look at any primary problem, you always are hunted by what could've been and what could've changed, whether it's the police not following up on the lead or it's a prosecutor who made a deal ten years ago or as a judge that made the decision that led to someone being out. and so, the key for me is not as much this blame game, if they truly believe you're all devoted to fixing this. what we do fixes going forward. for the first thing that is appealing to me when i look at this as some of the scanners

klobuchar: mr. president, i ask for unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business for five minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. klobuchar: mr. president, i rise today to speak in support of amendment number 3302, the bipartisan task force for responsible fiscal action offered by my colleague, senator conrad, and senator gregg. i have been an early sponsor of this bill from the beginning, from when i first came to the senate, and i want to thank them for their leadership on this issue. mr. president, under the previous administration, we saw the debt of the united states double. they were basically handed -- they were handed a budget surplus, and they turned it into an enormous budget deficit. over the next eight years, sadly, with no work, if we do nothing, it is projected to double again. long-term projections vary, but it is clear that this course is not the course that we want to take. despite years of talk from both parties, little progress has been made, which is why i

wells, thank youi will turn over the questioning to senator sessions and the gavel over to senator klobuchar ms. wells, ms. campbell had described individuals, murderers, who had previous records that she readily believed should have been in jail and not able to commit these kind of crimes again. you are a professional and have been at this along time. i have come to believe that mathematics is a factor in all of desperate. there is not just that many people who sexually assault women. there are a certain number of those repeat offenders who are exceedingly dangerous. from a purely public safety point of view, is important we identify those persons early and that they be incarcerated in order to protect the people of this country from this kind of violence? >> senator, you said it as well as i could say it, yes, that is critical. there are many studies already battered helping us to identify those persons. as soon as we can identify them, our goal should be to incarcerate them for as long as possible >> you represent a very sophisticated department. you have been at this a long time. you hav

host: if you want to read more about the document so would klobuchar. host: if you want to read more about the president's first year in office, "a one-year report card." we found a lot of weariness, glimmers of optimism, not much good news for the democrats, writes "the wall street journal." back to the "financial times." "why obama should play to populism." "mr. obama's getting down and dirty with them and cox is a -- this taste for getting down and dirty with them and causes a fatal misunderstanding of american politics. it is his job to make it signify something. if he chooses, financial regulatory reform is the perfect theater for him to reclaim the populism heenes is president is to survive in any form were having. take it to the bad guys, barack. remind the country where it was when republicans were still in the white house. otherwise your government will expire from its own noble fastidiousness." that is simon shama in the "financial times." madison, illinois, democrats line. caller: good morning. i think that president obama is doing a good job

klobuchar: mr. president, i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. klobuchar: mr. president, i come to the floor today to call attention to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in haiti and to the plight of the many haitian children who have been adopted by american families and are still waiting to be brought from the disaster to loving homes, to families that are waiting to welcome them. many have been waiting for a year, two years. many of the families in my state have actually gone to haiti and they have met these children. in the days immediately following the earthquake, the united states, number u.n., and other nations and organizations have moved to provide food and water, medicine and clothing as well as international aid workers to assist in these disaster areas. the people of this country, the people all over the world have been extraordinarily generous. currently, thousands of american civilians as well as members of our federal agencies and armed