levin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. mr. levin: i understand the situation is as follows, that the time between now and 4:00 is under majority control and then between 4:00 and 5:00 we not -- have not resolved that issue as to who would control time. am i correct? the presiding officer: that is correct, sir. mr. levin: i think there may be more time available between 4:00 and 5:00. mr. chambliss: would the chairman repeat that? mr. levin: under the existing u.c. the time between now and 4:00 is under the control of the majority because the minority has used the time and at 4:00 we have to enter into another u.c. or we can do it now deciding what the situation will be for the hour between 4:00 and the time of the vote. mr. chambliss: thank you. mr. levin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. mr. levin: mr. president, i support the provisions in this bill relating to the guantanamo detention facility or gitmo and oppose the amendment t

but i met a woman in a dress who resembled adam levine.nd man voted most meed yolker gentleman by field and stream i understand the pressure with the awards. you feel the need to behave in a sexy way. it is body facism, that's what it is. >> couldn't agree more. >> by the way. he has always walked around without a shirt. look, i have abs. if you have abs when you are 50, then you can saunter around. you are supposed to look like that. i am obviously very angry over this. i think they made the wrong choice. who would have been your sexiest man alive, and don't say pat buchanan because that's what you said last year. >> no pat buchanan. >> mitt romney? joy well there is bill schulz. i would like you to go back to telling dean how sexy he is. i enjoyed that portion of the evening. this is the same complaint that the left always has about these things. the only concept of diversity is the color of faces on the cover of the magazine are on writing the articles. in these sexiest articles why is there never a single female on air on fox news? you

levin: of course, while reserving the right to object, i will not. but i will say this -- i can't tell everybody in this body how disappointing it would be if we do not finish this bill tomorrow night or friday because the issue is this -- we all ought to face it. there is only one week left where both the house and the senate are going to be in session. if we don't finish this bill this week, there cannot be a conference report, and then for the first time in 52 years there will not be a defense authorization bill in the absence of some miracle. i would plead with our colleagues to let us vote on this amendment. the alternative was a list of 13 amendments which we were willing to then move to. that wasn't satisfactory. i mean, we have got to do this a step at a time. we have done it that way before. we can't even get cleared amendments agreed to where both sides have cleared them into a manager's package. now, if senators want to vote tomorrow or friday against the cloture petition because their amendments haven't been reached they're free to do so.

levin: madam president? the presidingthe presiding offie senator from michigan. mr. levin: madam president, we will soon vote on whether to invoke cloture on s. 1197, the national defense authorization act. this bill was reported out of the armed services committee with a strong bipartisan vote of 23-3. we have enacted a national defense authorization act every year for more than 50 years. it is critically important that we do so this year. we spent all day yesterday debating two amendments, addressing sexual assault in the military, but we have not been allowed to vote on them. there was objection on the other side to voting even on those two amendments which have now been fully debated. we were told that senators wouldn't let us vote on the sexual assault amendments because they were afraid that those would be the only votes. we offered to lock in additional amendments, six for democrats, six for republicans. that got an objection. staff had built up a clear amendment package of 39 additional amendments on a bipartisan basis, about half for each side, that were all

levin: there are no democratic amendments on his list -- mr. inhofe: i said 25 for -- this is your list, you come up with your list. the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. mr. levin: we cannot agree to a list of amendments, many of which are not agreed to on this side, many which would be filibustered on this side which would result in just making it impossible for us to get to a defense authorization bill conclusion. i would ask unanimous consent, madam president, that a unanimous consent request which i was going to make but i will withhold that lists 25 -- 26 amendments, half democratic and half republican, that i was going to ask unanimous consent be adopted because they've been cleared but which i understand will be objected to so i won't make the unanimous consent request, instead i will put this request in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. inhofe: i just reserving the right to object -- mr. levin: i'm not. mr. inhofe: okay. the presiding officer: there is no unanimous consent request. yes, the senator f

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michael levine. believe it or not we're going to take another break, we're going to say good-bye to michael and howard and welcome two other authors here in just a moment here on mosaic. >>> good morning and welcome back to mosaic. we're in the middle of a wonderful conversation in honor of november as jewish book month about writing and reading and the nature of communication in today's world. the jewish community library book club this year is called one bay one book. that's the name of the program for the year, and the book that they are going to be reading and discussing for the entire year is a book called "a guide for the perplexed" by dara horn, and it's part of the one bay one book club with the jewish community library here in san fransisco. we're joined now by jason cay friedman who is a short story writer whose book is just now published. it's called "fire year" and by joan the poetry editor for the j, our local weekly newspaper and two of her poetry books are a dreamers guide to cities an

levin: i ask unanimous consent that the time until 4:00 p.m. be for debate only with the time equally divided and controlled between the two leaders or their designees. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. levin: madam president, i would hope members would now come down and debate particularly if we can start off again with the legislation on guantanamo, there will be two amendments here, one will be an amendment by senator ayotte, and the other one would be an amendment by myself with senator mccain, the levin-mccain amendment. i would hope that those who are bed interested in this subject particularly would come down between now and then and that we could perhaps even reach a vote on guantanamo, the two amendments side by side later this afternoon. that's the goal, it's not part of the unanimous consent proposal but that would be a goal, and i know my friend from oklahoma and i are able to work things out most often and we'll try to figure out some way hopefully to get to votes on these two amendments we have identified as being the

caleb levine built these raptor traps for his eagle scout project and showed them off at the airport today. the usda is now using those traps to capture, band and relocate birds like red-tailed hawks which are often spotted in the airport. >>> coming up in the next half hour the call for a criminal investigation into the deaths

considering the armed services chairman, carl levin and claire mccaskill are pushing their plan, how do you think this plays out? >> i don't think it's going to pass. she's going to need 60 votes. even if she does get 60 votes, getting that through a house senate conference committee is extremely grim. given the opposition from a lot of the defense hawks, from the pentagon to her proposal, there probably will be some changes to how the military prosecutes

but the night is young for vanesa levine.it the dance floor nearly every weekend. but there's a twist. nicole is vanesa's mother. >> you like the music? >> i like you. >> whoa. >> reporter: that's right. 22-year-old vanesa parties with her 47-year-old mom. >> i'm sure you've had this before. but you do not look like mother and daughter. >> thank you so much. when we travel and we go out, we usually say that we're -- we usually say that we're here for business. and out for the night. yeah, we're co-workers. but we don't say we're mother-daughter. >> reporter: forget traditional sunday dinner or the old school mani-pedi outing. for some mothers and daughters, modern-day mommy and me time now means partying together till dawn. >> let's go. >> there are some people who say you shouldn't cross that line, you should always be mother-daughter, not best friends. >> what's wrong with going out with your daughter, having fun, dancing, enjoying amazing moments together? i don't see anything wrong with it. >> reporter: and it's not just

levin is here to talk about pending changes to federal unemployment insurance. is an add-on :00 a.m. this morning. a.m. this morning and a ."hour "washington journal you can join the already lively conversation on facebook or twitter as well. us.can always e-mail new york times. obama proposal worries insurers and regulators. obama tries to quite a political uproar by suggesting on thursday that consumers can keep their current health care. he said they had not been consulted in advance about the proposal. might seriously damage the new insurance marketplace. after the insurance announce the changes, insurance regulators participated in a heated conference call where many expressed deep unhappiness about the proposal. some felt the president threw them under the bus on the condition -- after the insurance announce -- some felt the president threw them under the bus. it may lead to market disruptions, said the president of the national association of insurance commissioners. 9:00ouse is coming in at to debate keeping your health care. a formal house issued veto t

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senator levin? >> well, thank you, jon. we appreciate the invitation to join you this morning and look forward to that conversation as well. i'm not just here to share my ideas but hopefully to receive some of the ideas that we all need in this kind of a world that we live in. as jon mentioned, i recently returned from afghanistan where we spent a couple days meeting with our commanders, with our troops, with president karzai. we also met with the foreign minister there and the defense minister in brussels before we went to afghanistan. and basically feel that things have significantly improved and changed for the better during the last ten-year period. i have been there perhaps 12 times or so. my staff who is with me today will tell me later on it was only 11 or it was really 13. but i have been there a lot. and the changes are pretty striking, particularly in the last few years. that is not the impression which the american people have and i will get into that in a moment. but that to me is the obvious fact that things ha

yeah we are sorry to see a few numbers the three main candidates are one philip levine he is the c.e.o. of royal royal partners and that is a multibillion dollar media conglomerate and local being himself as a multimillionaire he has spent about one point five million dollars on his alexion for a seat that only pays ten thousand dollars and he has hired the best people money can absolutely buy to run his campaign and he even got former us president bill clinton to come down to miami beach and endorse him and he looks like he's doing pretty well the second candidate that i've been following around is steve burke he is thirty two years old a former pro tennis player he suffered a very serious back injury lost his entire athletic career to it and turned to medicinal marijuana as a natural means of treatment and has been a big advocate for legalizing marijuana and he's running on a platform of decriminalizing marijuana and miami beach but has made him a very alternative candidate he's also only raised a small fraction of the amount of money that levine has spent and he doesn't have the sam

president bill clinton steve says he's in the pocket of corporate and dogs levine have spent at least one point two million dollars of his own money on his campaign for seems that only pays ten thousand dollars he has outspent burke one hundred to one but they're nearly tied in the polls i spoke to some residents and asked them who they think is the best candidate to clean up the city for a course steve burke is if he was my son i'd say oh you're adorable you're headed toward the comedy circuit he has absolutely no interest in being mayor a lot of people think like my vote doesn't even matter anyways and so they don't vote what you're saying. vote for really they're all corrupt she says no they're going to run she says they're all corrupt the young people are in fact she waited with him covered this demographic is so disenfranchised by the political system that very few vote in miami beach elections work even has trouble getting his best friends to vote are you going to vote on tuesday. i'm going to try to go one day and you're bored if you need a board i'm going to kick you in the ro

while his eyes hiding in the polls with levine even though levine has abstention nearly one hundred to one so he does have a good chance that he ran in two thousand eleven for the first time. annie got thirty percent of the boat van so that today is gonna be you know various things see exactly how this got him set up of the sunken eyed non traditional tactics of reaching voters have entered comedy which has proven to be extremely successful for him he had these youtube videos that have gotten millions and millions of hits on the twenty five fifty million hits. i dunno people from all across the country are listening to his message. i ended and that you've gotten the attention of anti be too late into the few has been falling in around for the past couple months and are making an entire documentary on this campaign whether or not he wins today for a night you still have been extremely successful and has brought so much attention to its clients. alright so luckily around the country this election as archie correspondence made in lopez in virginia. ss teacher can in your compare and borin

. >> it was adam levine. >> i still think you are sexy, nole. >> adam levine. >> really?e shelton giving him ribbing before announcing. check it out. >> blake shelton, i'm sorry about "people" magazine, buddy. sorry about "people" magazine. i know you are bummed. >> you're the sexiest man alive. >> man, in my book -- adam, i know -- i know you are now the sexiest man alive. >> bring it on. bring it on. bring it on. here we go. >> i think you are beautiful for what's on the inside. >> adam levine, according to "people" magazine. he reveals in the article that he cries at movies, loves to be naked and looking forward to settling down with his fiance, victoria's secret model behati prinsloo. >> he is on a roll with that one. >> he's a good-looking guy. sexiest man alive -- i don't know about all that. i think it's the idea of adam levine. he sings these throaty great songs. >> that makes you sexy. >> yeah. i think it is more than his looks. >>> okay, so "forbes" is out with the highest paid musicians of 2013. drum roll please, number three, bon jovi 79 million. lady gaga fol

levin: mr. president, i have a very brief statement that i will nominate, and i thank the senators from maryland and maine for allowing me to do this. i would ask the very brief statement that i will be making not count against morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. levin: mr. president, later this morning, the senate is going to resume consideration of senate bill 1197, the national defense authorization act for fiscal year 2014. i will have a full statement to make on this legislation later today. however, i'd like to take just a moment to talk to my colleagues about where we are on the bill and how we would like to proceed. last night, the majority leader asked for unanimous consent to bring up side-by-side amendments on subjects that we know we need to debate and vote on -- military detention at guantanamo and sexual assault and misconduct in the military. each amendment and side by side is to be subject to a 60-vote threshold. unfortunately, there was an objection t

chairman levin has been fair to us in committee so we had a good committee process. but there are some disagreements over a number of issues that the full senate needs to discuss and vote on. they just should be able to do that. and we're drifting into a process that's absolutely contrary to the history of the senate, the real concept of the united states senate where we bring matters up and vote on them. and just because it cleared our committee doesn't mean that the full senate doesn't get to vote on some of these differing opinions. i voted in the committee on a number of amendments that didn't pass, we had amendments up in committee that we decided not to vote on, and the phrase was, well, we will carry that to the floor. in other words, it will be brought up and the whole senate will vote on it, not just the committee. maybe in the interim something can be worked out but if not, it would go to the full senate and the full senate would work its will. it would have its debate and vote. and we're going days now with nothing happening, no amendments being voted on.

well he is tied in the polls with levine even though levine has outspent him nearly one hundred to one so he does have a good chance and he ran in two thousand and eleven for the first time and he got thirty percent of the vote then so today is going to be you know very interesting to see exactly how this. up with some of his nontraditional tactics of reaching voters has been through comedy which has proven to be extremely successful for him he has these you tube videos that have gotten millions and millions of hits on them have twenty five fifty million hits young people from all across the country are listening to his message and he's gotten the attention of m.t.v. too and m.t.v. too has been following him around for the past several months and they're making an entire documentary on this campaign so whether or not he wins today or not he still has been extremely successful and has brought so much attention to his cause or a whole lot going around the country this election day those are t. correspondents megan lopez and virginia honest as you turn to new york and boring in miami flor

levin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. mr. levin: first i would ask unanimous consent that after my remarks, the senator from alabama be recognized. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. levin: mr. president, in the past, a few senate majorities, frustrated by their inability to get certain bills and nominations to a vote, have threatened to ignore the rules and to change them by fiat and to change rules to a majority vote change. rule 22 of the senate requires two-thirds of the senate to amend our rules. a new precedent has thousand been set, which is that a majority -- a new precedent has now been set, which is that a majority can now change the rules. because that step will change the rule into a legislative body that the majority, whenever it wishes, can change the rules, it has been dubbed the nuclear option. arguments about the nuclear option are not new. senator arthur vandenberg, confronting the same question in 1949, senator vandenberg, who was a

levin, if i could go back to your question with respect to benghazi. a 1.i would like to offer to the immittee -- the one point want to offer for the committee, sent to the benghazi attacks were presented a number of briefings to members of this committee as well as other members. probably over a dozen briefings that presented a multimedia presentation, including surveillance video, overhead imagery, witness statements, describing every facet we have from an intelligence perspective about the attacks. so, we have had a number of activities to present everything we know from the intelligence community party perspective about the attacks in benghazi and we would offer that again if the committee were interested in seeing that. >> i am curious about the direct deposit comment about not having talked to the prosecutors, whether or not that might impact his opinion whether or not for some reason congress should not have access to those of survivors. i don't know of any reason, either, by the way. i have to tell you. notink this whole thing has been handled

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pamela levine. >> i'm sorry for jumping the gun. i'm so excited. as i mentioned we ended up with a balance of $77.3 in net assets. before anybody gets excited about that, we have in terms of reserves and obligations, we have $68.6 million. when you net those out, you are just looking at $8.7 million that is quasi free, but it's not, but, so that's our room if every obligation is realized and reserve is realized in the next fiscal year. so, that, you know, we are not a wash with money. let's put it that way. so the $24 million increase in net assets between 2011-2012 and 2013, consist of $20.5 million in a combination of utilization in a city health plans reserve which we call -- what you may have heard before and the savings conversion from the pharmacy medicare benefits. there was $1.5 million in the flex plan for 2013. $3.1 million net decrease in the blue shield's fully in insured's plan from july through december by the 2 percent premium pledge and $1.6 million net increase in other benefits. so, that nets you -- us out to the $77.3 million. we

it wants any time it senator levin said, after world. war ii, the senate, the united states senate, in which the majority can do anything it wants, anytime it wants, is a senate without rules. it would be like the red sox falling behind boston and saying, the cardinals, we are the home team, so we will add innings until we can score runs. senate without rules. it is done based on the flimsiest of excuses. the ideas filibusters were used to deny seats to presidential seats. in the history of the senate, the number of supreme court nominees who have been denied their seat by a filibuster is zero. district judges denied their seat by filibuster is zero. the number of cabinet members denied their seat by filibuster is zero. that is according to the congressional research service. the number of circuit judges denied their seat by filibuster is five democrats and five publicans, all because democrats for the first time in 2003, the time i was coming to the senate, filibustered 10 of president bush's judges and that was the first time in histor

. >> and "people" magazine announces its sexiest man alive is -- adam levine. boy has he changed.g us. how far would you go for your faith. tonight over 100 churches stand in defiance of local laws banning the use of something shocking from their services. poisonous serpents. snakes on a pulpit. christians say they're true believers and vipers are as vital to the religion as the bible itself. the tradition dates back more than a century. law makers aren't so sure it should survive. i headed down south for our series "faith matters." >> reporter: what pastor jamie kutz is doing with the snake is either a christian ritual or criminal conduct depending on who you ask? ♪ ♪ >> he is a new preacher! >> reporter: in tiny churches in rural appalachia what began generations ago as an expression of faith is turning into a fight over religious freedom in america. they believe they are called by god to handle venomous serpents and comes from a passage straight from the bible which they take literally. they pick up serpents. if they drink any deadly poison it will not hurt them. in this small

senator levin. >> thank you -- >> senator levin and senator begich. >> thanks, very much, mr. chairman. first, let me thank you mr. johnson, for your answer to the call to public service again and answer being yes and your family. we thank them for the support which is so essential to all of you who have taken these jobs with such responsibility. you and i have talked in my office about a number of things and one of them i want to get into some detail on this morning has to do with the fact that we have about two million corporations that are created every year in in united states, by our 50 states. that is more than the rest of the world combined. the states approve these incorporations without ever asking who the real owners of the corporations are who are the beneficial owners of these corporations. some of these corporations get involved with medicare fraud tax evasion terrorism smuggling, drug trafficking and other wrongdoing. now just a few months ago, in june, at the g20 summit, 20 leaders including president obama reached the consensus that it was time to stop creating

we particularly want to thank chairman levin for his leadership, and we want to acknowledge the role of senator inhofe, and by the way all of the women of the senate wish to express our sincere condolences to senator inhofe on the loss of his beloved son dr. peter inhofe. so this is not just a women-only fight. this is a fight to make sure that our military continues to be the best in the world, and when you serve on it, there is an enemy outside that we will always face but there is an enemy within that we need to now end. we, the women of the senate, all of us, agree on the goals. we want to be able to provide prosecutorial tours for punishment. we want to make sure we get help to the victims. the national defense authorization act has more than 30 reforms in it to accomplish that. 13 relate to prosecutorial reforms. ten are to reform victim services. and two reforms are to improve training of first responders. five also deal with various kinds of reporting. i am so pleased that the bill works to prevent retaliation against someone who reports a crime. so if you feel that you have

join mark levin on c-span 2. >>> up next, author and historian byron price describes the history of the cattle dwriechlt because of the rigorous nature of the job, men only participated in a few drive. he is the director of the charles m russell center for the study of art of the american west at the university of oklahoma. this event was hosted by the cherokee strip regional heritag. >> tonight, professor byron price is going to tell us about exploration in the cattle drive era, 1865 and 1893. professor price currently holds the charles m russell memorial chair and is director of the charles m. russell sent ter university of oklahoma. he is also director of the university of oklahoma press. he is also director of the university of oklahoma press. he graduated from the united states military academy at west point in 1970. he earned an m.a. in museum science at the texas tech university in 1977. we'll have to forgive him that s

levin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. mr. levin: first i would ask unanimous consent that after my remarks, the senator from alabama be recognized. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. levin: mr. president, in the past, a few senate majorities, frustrated by their inability to get certain bills and nominations to a vote, have threatened to ignore the rules and to change them by fiat and to change rules to a majority vote change. rule 22 of the senate requires two-thirds of the senate to amend our rules. a new precedent has thousand been set, which is that a majority -- a new precedent has now been set, which is that a majority can now change the rules. because that step will change the rule into a legislative body that the majority, whenever it wishes, can change the rules, it has been dubbed the nuclear option. arguments about the nuclear option are not new. senator arthur vandenberg, confronting the same question in 1949, senator vandenberg, who was a

looking ahead to the new year on in-depth, join radio talk show host mark levin, book tv in depth, the first sunday of every month, on c-span 2. >>> next, the political career of eleanor roosevelt, with insight from her granddaughter, tracy roosevelt. first lady from 1933 to 1945, eleanor roosevelt became a key player, an advocate for women and civil rights and president kennedy appointed her to chair a special commission on the

karl levin voted against it this week and said that very same thing is that you have to think of this as an institution and not just as your personal prerogative right now. to think that -- and republicans have been rather candid in saying when we take over, and eventually we will take over, that we are going -- we have every right -- you have set the precedent that the majority can change the rules with just the majority vote and mitch mcconnell said on the floor, it may happen sooner than you think. >> talking about hinting the 51 votes roll back health care. gwen: the white house has made the case they've been subject to more filibuster or obstruction than any other president in the history of the world. is he right? the numbers are hard. >> it's hard and i shy away from using extreme numbers as they use because not all filibuster is the same and not all closure votes are the same but it is true barack obama has had a more difficult time getting his nominees on the court and more importantly if he's going to have the affordable care act protected and sustained, he's going to need j

according to this user, levine is arrogant, irritating, smug. not sexy.e has the title and the victoria's secret model. we doubt he went home crying. he is not above self deprecation, appearing on jimmy kimmel poking fun of the honor. >> becoming this cool, confident and seductive has been quite a journey. woah, this k l! the tour. give him the tour. let me show you! soft-close drawers, farm sink! where's my room? we had to take just a little bit for the kitchen. because your kitchen dreams can be big. ikea has it all. , this k l! the tour. give him the tour. let me show you! soft-close drawers, farm sink! where's my room? we had to take just a little bit for the kitchen. because your kitchen dreams can be big. ikea has it all. >> that breaking news deadly winds ripping through the bay area tonight. this is live look from our roof cam you can see the wind whipping the fla flags. >> winds topple tree knocking out power and delaying bart because of debris on the track. chp warning drivers to be careful. >> and tonight those winds have turned deadly and have

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i joined with our distinguished chairman, carl levin, hosted a sayers of meetings with senators -- a hosted a series of meeting with senators to find common ground. none was to be found. so here we are, my friends, with an obvious impact for next year of sequestration, which would dramatically impact our ability to defend this nation. so in desperation, i'm asking my colleagues to at least agree to smoothing out this path, which would end up with the same reductions into spending -- in spending, but at least not hit this bottom level, which will cause us to have planes that won't fly, ships that can't sail, and men and women in the military unable to train and operate. and once we reduce and impact operations and maintenance, readiness suffers and readiness incapability only shows up over time. i spent last sunday with my friend from tennessee, senator -- the senator from tennessee and i were in, at fort campbell, kentucky, where we spent some time with the men and women who are serving in the military. we were

carl levin from michigan who voted against it, spoke out a against about the dangers. this makes it a majority rule chamber whether you like it or not. i think reid felt as though he was out of options. he thought that the blockading, particular particularly the blockading, the republicans didn't like things like the consumer product safety board. not that they didn't think the people being nominated were a good or at least sort of an adequate fit there. they didn't like the idea of it. i think you heard harry reid say that. look, you don't have to like the laws but you have to acknowledge them. so i think he had reached the breaking point and we saw the vote today. remarkable day. >> joining us now is chuck todd in the briefing room. we can see you, chuck, in the wide shot as we wait for the president to come in. what is the president likely to say because this does mean that if the democrats are going to lose in the midterms, pay back is going to be very sweet for mitch mcconnell. majority will rule. >> i mean, that's clearly the threat that the republicans are throw

senate armed services chairman levin urged colleagues to keep the bill is defense only.hey're worried that if it doesn't get finished this week the senate doesn't come back from its two-week recess until december 9 in the house right now supposed to be adjourned for the year on december 13 which gives them almost no time to actually conference of bill with the house and get it finished. >> jeremy herb covers the dense policy for the hill. thank you. >> thank you. >> over a billion people and they know your political preference your sexual preference your friends are what you like and what your dog's name is all the source of hingson in fact one security analyst said if the government had asked you directly for that sort of information, it would have taken money, it would have taken lawyers and might have even taken guns to get you to cough up the information but we routinely do so on social networks. we also don't think about the fact that our google searches are tracked and so i also write mystery books. my google searches and if the fbi chose to look at that would be v

three senators including karl levin broke with democrats to vote against the change.an unscheduled visit to the white house briefing room, president obama argued that the move was necessary to break an unprecedented level of gridlock. >> the vote today is an indication that senators believe as i believe that enough is enough. what's at stake is not my ability to fulfill my constitutional duty. what's at stake is the ability of any president to fulfill his or her constitutional duty. >> the senate fight has been mostly over the president's picks for federal judgeships as republicans fear. these appointments will tip the balance in the courts away from the gop, particularly in the d.c. circuit. while democrats have a 55-45 majority, the 45 republicans can hold up and stop any presidential appointment they choose. things have escalated in the past few weeks after republicans successfully blocked three nominees to the d.c. circuit. this is the country's second highest court. they hear a lot of challenges to regulations made by the federal government. pretty important to a