>> would my right honorable friend join me in welcoming good news on jobs this morning announced by kp & g that february saw the fastest rate of permanent positions being filled for 10 months and that those jobs came from the private sector? >> well, i think the honorable lady is right to draw attention as well as the trade figures but we are engaged in a very difficult operation to rebalance the economy which for too long was dependent on government, on housing, on finance, and, frankly, on immigration as well and we need an economy that is more based on manufacturing, on technology, on exports, on enterprise and small business and it is going to be difficult but there is good signs that the private sector economy is growing and growing well. >> thank you, last year the cab dealt with over 27,000 cases supported by 75 volunteers. yet it has a slash project and no clarity from lipton city council on its funding from the end of this month. how can this situation actually contribute toward a big society? >> well, this government has actually made sure that the national funding for c.a.b.

there was a kp and g study that said that would gyp rate $19 billion in economic development. but i believe all of us have to do a much better job of articulating why we need resources to explain to people what you will lose if you don't. the other change that i see us making is the part of government that interacts with people's lives, that people see, feel and touch, it has to get done right now. so that the other parts are okay. but when folks making 9/11 phone call trash service, that actually has to function better in these tough times or really null apart because there's so much price in substituted. >> charlie: where are you cutting spending in atlanta? >> well, we did a number of things. well police and fire are off limits. but first of all, the pension reform is actually going to have a positive cash yield. so my first six months in office, the reforms we made allowed me to hire another hundred police officers. it allowed me to give police and fire step increases. so we're cutting in certain areas, reforming in other areas and putting them into the part that governmen

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o the sbir program must be one important part of our overall kp strategy to encourage the american innovation that will keep the american economy strong throughe the 21st century so i'm pleased to be here to support the perhae and i encosurage all of our colleagues to join me in muc supporting this important program. the thank you very much call th rol. mr. president. quorum call: quorum call: quorum call: mr. coburn: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. coburn: i ask the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. coburn: and i understand we're under a unanimous consent for ten minutes and i'd like unanimous consent for 20 minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. coburn: thank you. i'm coming to the floor because we've not seen much action on the floor on this bill because we're hung up over the right of senators to offer amendments. the senate works best when we have a free and open process of offering amendments, and one of the amendments in particular that i was going to offer on the blending requirements for e