lieberman: well, lealts cal--well, let's call it the lieberman-voinovich amendment.n the ohio case, it is the one that sometimes people say that the opportunity scholarship or vouchers or constitutionally success -- are constitutionally suspect or unconstitutional. not true. the supreme court has ruled that the ohio voucher program was a neutral private choice program that did not violate the establishment clause. but i tell you what rings in my ear is the questions that have been raised by my colleagues in support of this amendment. senator voinovich said, why would you vote against this amendment? why would you vote against this program? and senator -- the senator from california, senator feinstein, said, what is there to be afraid of in this program? it's -- it doesn't take money away from the public schools. the head of the d.c. public school system is for the program because she thinks it'll benefit the children who need it, who she knows she can't give a quality education over the five years of the authorization of the program. this program has been tested by a

senator lieberman, it is also indicative of the relationship between the u.s. and israel, where we are looking at some of the isralei capabilities we are looking at the. we in the united states do not have the market cornered on all the smart technology. we would be well served by reaching out to our allies and finding what can be integrated. mead is potentially a player in that. integrated and it is in fact a player in that. i will continue to follow the story. it is more important as an example as additional technologies can be adapted to the phased adapted approach. >> so at this point you are inclined to favor the continuation of the program? >> i don't know enough about it to make that statement, sir. >> okay, but i agree. there is a agreeing appreciation among allies in europe and in the mideast and in asia of the missile threat. particularly from iran and north korea. it makes a lot of sense to be cooperatively. the last time i was in israel i saw video of testing of the iron dome system, the defense against short range missiles in iraq and it was quite

lieberman: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispeed with. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. lieberman: i thank the chair. mr. president, i now ask unanimous consent that the pending amendment be set aside and that i be permitted to call up amendment number 3381, and that at the end of my statement, the amendment then be withdrawn. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. lieberman: i thank -- amend. khroeupl the senator from -- the clerk: the senator from connecticut for amendment proposes amendment 3381 to amendment 3386. at the end add the following -- mr. lieberman: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that further reading of the amendment be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. lieberman: i thank the chair. mr. president, this amendment that i rise to introduce has been cosponsored by a bipartisan group. i'm pleased to say senator collins of maine, byrd of west

. >> thank you very much, senator lieberman. >> thanks, mr. chairman. thanks to both of you for your leadership. general petraeus i want to ask a couple of quick question about iran first. i thought your statement, prepared testimony was very strong and clear here and you describe iran as, quote the primary state-level at the to stability in the region. add that its nuclear program is to use your word serious, end quote and part of the regime's broader effort to expand its influence, i agree, of course and you mentioned just in response to questions that president obama said the military option remains on the table, not our first choice, obviously and that is why we are pursuing economic sanctions. i want to reinforce the fact that i believe previously it was said that in the exercise of your responsibility, at centcom, you are working on actual military plans with regard to iran, which we all hope you never have to use, but, as the military works, on contingency plans for a host of scenarios around the world, is that correct? >> sir, again, probably be

that was the mccain-lieberman bill 2003, mccain-lieberman bill 2005, warner-lieberman 2008 and some of the rest of those. it says what would happen if we passed those? what would happen if we don't pass? you look at the chart. knowing. i asked the -- nothing. i asked the question of lisa jackson, administrator of obama's of the e.p.a. i said this chart up here, is this an accurate chart? in other words, to put it in plain words so we understand it. if we were to pass -- at that time it be might have been the markey bill it doesn't matter. cap-and-trade is cap-and-trade. if we passed that bill or any of the senate bills that we had talked about, how would that have reduced co2 worldwide? her response was it wouldn't really reduce it because we are doing that unilaterally in the united states of america. what happens when we reduce -- when we take away our ability to have energy in america, we have to have energy -- we have to manufacture somewhere. so they've estimated how many thousands of manufacturing jobs, if we were to pass any of these legislations -- let's put al gore back up the

lieberman, as flexible as you are about the possibilities of an agreement with the palestinians?t and i don't want to pass criticism on his expressions when he's out in the world. the israel deserves our backingr but behind closed doors when our inner cabinet meets and there's an exchange of views about how to conform to real issues i found it... i found it impressive that members of this cabinet, including lieberman, doesn't repeat what they were told, they use in public appearances. all of us are focused, including lieberman, on what should be done in order to navigate properly the concrete policies of israel. we have differences in ideology. we have differences in wishes and dreams and hopes, you name it. but when itÑi comes to the constraints of realities, we are closer than you would expect and what should be done. how to navigate the realities. and i can tell you from my experience and observations, leaders do not necessarily great decision out of sense of greatness that came out of the blue. in many cases greatness is a bone under the tyranny of circumstances. and we have.

lindsey graham, john kerry, joe lieberman. they are going to put some carbon caps on your industry. how that going to affect you? >> i don't really have a good read yet on how that would affect everything. obviously, to the degree that you raise the prices, does it hurt the economy, but it dampens demand. demand for oil could go down around the world if they do that, which i presume would lower the price except for the impact of taxes that raise it. >> the global demand in places like china that doesn't play with these caps might keep rises but the u.s. production might not so you would have an imbalance that could contribute to higher prices, couldn't you? >> absolutely. i mean, we have seen china and india and other countries that are industrializing, brazil as well, really continue to step up demands, and they take active steps to increase their supply. the discovery they have been making in brazil is tremendous. it's long-term prospect. china is doing some exploration but they're striking deals, investing in brazil, doing things to secure their supplies. >> just one last one. in

lieberman, for himself and others proposes amendment 3456 to amendment 3452. mr. lieberman: mr. president, i ask that further reading of the amendment be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. lieberman: i meant the pending amendment to be set aside to call up this amendment. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. lieberman: i introduce this amendment with senators collins of maine, byrd of west virginia, feinstein of california, voinovich of ohio, and ensign of nevada. its purpose is to reauthorize and, in fact, to save the opportunity scholarship program or o.s.p., for students here in the district of columbia. we are introducing our amendment to this legislation. and i use the word save, because without prompt action by congress, there is a reasonable probability that the o.s.p. program, the scholarship program, will not be just limited to the number of students who are in it now and, in fact, there haven't been any new students submitted in the last two years. but it will be doomed. as i explained here on the floor of the senate yesterday, the c

lieberman. mr. lieberman: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from connect second is recognized. mr. lieberman: this is a bipartisan amendment by collins, burr, feinstein, ensign and myself. it would benefit school children in the school district of columbia reauthorizing a program that we reyaitd seven years ago that -- recreated seven years ago that has worked, $20 million to d.c. public schools, $20 millionor charter schools, and $20 million to the opportunity scholarship program. the last part is the controversial part but it shouldn't be. as senator feinstein said? her remarks on this, what is there in this amendment to be afraid of? it's helped 1,300 economically disadvantaged children to have an opportunity to get out of a public school that the chancellor of the d.c. public school says is not working for them. this measure is supported by mayor fenty, chancellor michelle rhee, a majority of the members of the d.c. public schools and it's been judged by an independent evaluator to be the most effective p

good morning chairman lieberman and plenty under his collins and the committee. i thank you for the opportunity to appear today on behalf of the transportation security administration. i like to begin by saying the tsa's core mission as one of counterterrorism. we continue the work we began eight years ago with the establishment of tsa to close vulnerabilities with new technology and new processes and a complex aviation security regime. tsa operates in a high threat environment day in and day out, which drives our officers and ourselves to be ever vigilant. the attempted attack on northwest flight 253 on christmas day was a stark reminder that there are still those intent to do us harm. as we continue to harden elements of the system, we know that terrorists will look for gaps or exceptions they can exploit. the unthinkable is an opportunity for them. the can of the device used on december 25, it was very clearly -- cleverly constructed and was intentionally hid it in a very sensitive part of the individual's body to avert detection. we know that terrorists are s

there are other people within the likud party who are much tougher on these issues than lieberman.e able to get the majority in the knesset if he had a deal to pursue. one thing that's important on both sides is that because it is such a sensitive issue, neither side can afford do this in public. any issue you get an agreement on will have detractors. what you have to do is reach an overall agreement, present it to the parliament, present it to the palestinian world and they'll accept it in the context of it being an overall agreement and not fighting over every detail of it. that's why the negotiations have to be held in private and not public. i couldn't disagree more strongly with martin about that. it inhibits what both sides have to do. >> all right. we will have to end on this note, in this particular context between these two people it was very useful to have a public disagreement because the rest of us got a chance to be educated as a result of it. mort zuckerman, martin indyk, thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> when you look back at what happened, there was so much pro

for today, janice lieberman, new jersey. >>> and joining us now is nick thompson from "wired" magazined with these phones throughout that entire piece he could not stop fiddling with it. so much offered with these phones are they really worth the money people are investing in them? >> depends whether there are specific things you can't do with your phones right now that you would like to do. >> for example, what we were doing in the restaurant. we were looking up nutritional information as we ate or at the movie theater where you could order your tickets in advance or the phones with gps that you could navigate in your car. >> let's sort of break these down a little bit and go through it. let's start with the most popular one out there. is the iphone worth it or not becoming obsolete or better phones out there? >> the iphone was the first one that has the incredible interface and very intuitive and easy to use and people are familiar with it and wonderful phone. it's no longer the obvious, huge market leader. >> two phones that run on the same software one is the droid from verizon and

graham, lieberman and kerry are talk about lying that down in three weeks. >> we'll squeeze in a quick before we know to the president. trish, i'll send it over to you. >>> when we come back, investors closing the books on the first quarter today. we'll tell you where you need to put your money in order to have it work. >>> the latest job's data denting optimism ahead of friday's all-important report. where we are on that road to recovery. >>> welcome back to "the call," everyone. interior secretary speaking right now and he will introduce the president who intends to speak on energy policy. we will come back to that just as soon as we see president obama. in the meantime, let's talk about this market. the first quarter coming to a close today. s&p up nearly 3% and what are the smart plays for the second quarter? we want it bring in mark madison founder and ceo of madison money. good to see you. >> good to be here. >> one thing we keep discussing ad nauseam is whether the policies in washington will have an effect on this market and you say no because at the end of the day capitalism w

the three former undersecretaries who were participating are he havely lieberman -- evelyn lieberman, karen hughes and james glassman. i'm grateful they will be able to be here for the hearing today. not only are they important voices on public diplomacy, they are dedicated public servants in the clinton and bush administrations. they don't -- like the vast majority of the people we talked about have spent 10, 15, 25, 35 years in the government. these three come from a different group. they're the group that come for a short period of time many times and bring incredible expertise. and intelligence to issues that we -- that we serve. and, by the way, expertise and intelligence that we in the federal government could never afford to pay. and these three are a perfect example of that and that's one of the reasons why i want to recognize them today. during the years of service as undersecretary of state for public diplomacy they oversaw our state department's efforts to promote american foreign policies abroad using tools such as educational exchanges, public affairs and embassy outreach

they want to accomplish what they want to accomplish, shutting down fossil fuels, you had mccain, lieberman, warner, boxer, sanders, all of those bills. now you have got this thing with john kerry? they're all the same. look at the evaluation that was put on by the wharton school, mit, the cia. what would it cost america? somewhere between $3,000,000,000.-294966343 dollars every year. constituting the largest tax increase in the history of america. what do you get for it? the people understand. even lee said jackson says that if you pass it, it will not reduce co2. obviously. that is only the united states. china, india, mexico, they have no restrictions, so it would increase co2. honestly, when i look at what little i have seen specifically from lindsay gramm and john kerry, there's nothing specific they're, but what they are trying to do is pick. they tried this before. start out with natural gas. the idea of cap and trade, if you stop to think about it, if your desire was to reduce co2 emissions, just put a tax on the emissions, right? that is what james hansen said, the only thing i've

but this was a coalition of myself, joe lieberman, delores tucker, koln was for black women, we saw the vehicle call ourselves a mod squad and we've reached the point we just said this is crazy. some of the music the killers. i am a favor to the cousin of rock-and-roll, i was abandoned we said i want to call i need you, elvis was one thing i'm going to slice you up, i'm going to cut you, you're going to believe. that's crazy. we were not for federal regulation or legislation, but for self regulation. so we went to time warner. >> host: do you still worry about the course of the culture? >> guest: sure i do. one has to but the amazing thing about america is the self corrective capacities and the capacity for self rule. i also convinced after the two jobs satori the chickens in and drug czar that the key is to make the institutions that are supposed to be the positive ones positive. better families, better churches, better schools, i will get you back 90% of the pathology of american life. the whole thing was interesting and became bipartisan. that was a good thing. kent conrad and a bunc

chairman lieberman, ranking member collins, senator brown, senator burris, thank you for the opportunity to talk about the terrorist screening center and the watch listing process. the attempted terrorist attack to northwest 253 summer 25th highlight the ever present terrorist threat to our homeland. over the past seven years the tse has played a vital role in the fight against terrorism reintegrating terrorist information from law enforcement and intelligence communities into a single nondatabase known as the terrorist screening center database, tsd beat for the terrorist watch list. this watchlist populates various screening systems used by the government. following the christmas they attack or attempted attack come intense scrutiny has been placed on the requirement to nominate individuals to the watchlist, particularly the no-fly or select the list which are subsets at tsdb. this requirement or standard has gone over time with the watchlist community and the issuance of additional presidential elect us. throughout this process the tsd while simultaneously protecting privacy and civil

as you mentioned, we've got senator kerry, democrat, senator lieberman, independent, and senator graham, republican, that's a cross-section of the senate, who through all accounts looks like this has some favorable showing in the senate and that gives political cover to the president to raise taxes on the middle class of everybody else. martha: just a quick question for you, it seems there's a growing relationship between lindsey graham and rahm emanuel, talk about a gitmo deal between the two of them in themselves of -- in terms of how to deal -- i wonder if there's a hand in the white house from this, a political hand from the white house emerging from this as well. >> martha, i follow the mope! i'm not sure about -- >> martha: a reasonable question, something to think about over coffee. >> i don't know about lindsey graham, i don't know, but lindsey graham is appealing to a new demographic. he's going along with the concept of climate change. he doesn't mention global warming. it's all climate change. so you could say he's appealing to the younger voters who are very much interested

this was an odd coalition of myself, joe lieberman, delores tucker, the national congress for black womenwe call ourselves the kind of modest what and we reached a point where we just said this is crazy. some of the lyrics and music, cop killer stuff, other stuff. all i am a fan of rock and roll. i was in a band and we so i want you need to i love you, elvis was one thing i'm going to slice you up and cut you or you're going to believe, that's crazy. we were not for federal regulation or legislation, but for self regulation. so we went to time warner. >> host: do you still worry about the culture of? >> guest: sure i do. one has to. but the amazing thing about america is itself corrective capacities and capacity for self rule. i'm also convinced after the two jobs of secretary of education and the drug czar that the key is to make the institutions that are supposed to be the positive ones positive, to be better families come better churches and schools i will give you that 90% of the polish american life. any way that whole thing was interesting and it became bipartisan, the was a good th

but this was at myself, joe lieberman, delores tucker, the national congress for -- we call ourselves a mod squad, and we reached the point we just set this is crazy. some of the lyrics and music, cop killers, other stuff. i'm a fan of rock and roll. i was in a band and we said i want to, i need you, i love you. elvis is one thing, but i'm going to slice you, i'm going to cut you, you're going to bleed, that's crazy. we were not for federal regulation or legislation, but for self regulation so we went to time warner. crusco do you still worry about the course of the culture? >> guest: sure i do. one has to. but the amazing thing about america is its self corrective capacities, and the capacity for self review will. i'm also convinced after the two jobs, said the reva education and the drugs are that the key is to make the institutions that are supposed to be the positive ones positive can be better families, better churches, better schools, i will get you back 90 per cent of the pathology of american life. in a way, that was interesting and decanter a bipartisan. that was a good thing

. >> senator lieberman. >> thank you. thank you to both of you for your service.et me add my personal think you -- let me add my personal thank you for 40 years of service. i wish you the best in the next chapter. your wife will be happy with your retirement. having watched others retire, i would say on her behalf that i hope you get a part-time job. >> i will work on that. >> let me begin with you, general. as chair of the homeland security committee, i am very interested and appreciative of the way in which the northern command has organized a consolidated the involvement in homeland defense. you bring a unique and critically important skills together with the homeland security department. the department of defense has been standing up three brigades as a response forces to respond to chemical, biological, or nuclear attack on the homeland. i have been very impressed by that. i am appreciative of that. i was on settled a bit in the recent qdr said that it would scrap the second and third of those and replace them in with 10 smaller a homeland response forces to

i will turn the gavel over to senator lieberman. thank you for your service. >> generally gistel to say first how impressed i am and how as i hear you answer the questions about what's happening within the african continent and your involvement and knowledge of aid and how important it is i think that we created this african command because i think we were paying too little attention to this critically important content, and i did that you are bringing to it the same kind of critical different relationship with the leaders and some of the regions of the world the most important person in the region really is the regional commander. as you said to me when i began the conversation before the hearing it's only the in a sense of the door in and hope for the leads to other relationships to political, economic etc. but in the way i want to speak to you for the way that you have done your job and been very important admiral stavridis, i know you've been asked a little bit about missile defense, and your role you were going to be responsibl

senator lieberman. >> i apologize i had a couple of other meetings. think i have the drift of the testimony. i have a question that is simple but is central. what will the $2.8 billion increase in the jsf budget and to what degree of confidence we you have in that estimate for a total cost by the april 26 completion date you have said et? >> senator, i'll ask either general -- >> the holocaust will be $50 billion -- the total cost will be $50 billion. >> that is by the april date we're talking about. >> think you. >> he is talking about the total cost from the beginning of the program. the to $20 billion is in addition -- the $2.8 billion is in addition. >> i understand. thank you for the clarification. as you know, the consensus of support there has been for the joint strike fighter here in congress, there is a sub-part of this much in conflict and that is the question of whether there is an alternative engine built. it looks like we will have that again. the conflict again. some questions. this conflict and the idea of building an alternate engine a

democrats who have been leery about voting for reconciliation, people like mary landau of lose lurkz joe lieberman. kent conrad, the chairman of the budget committee -- >> moderate or conservative democrats. >> they're now coming on board. so the likelihood of getting the 50 votes will be there. and along the way, they've got to come up with a substantive package of changes that everybody find acceptable. i think they've probably got that close to being in the bag. >> lehrer: i don't want to go too much into the weeds on this, but the process in the senate, the way you then move to-- a way where you don't need the 60 votes, you can do it on 51 votes does that mean no filibusters? >> it does mean that there are no filibusters, and it's interesting because, of course , we've been hearing everyone use the phrase "super majority." i would like to remind that there will be nothing simple about this process. can have amendments, and we know for sure the republicans are already preparing quite a stack of amendmentes . there will also be a lot of arguments over parliamentary procedure, and now in washingt

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warner-lieberman, mccain- lieberman, all these bills that were cap and trade. doing it through regulations. what is the cost? i do not claim to be an economist. and 90, the wharton school, cia, and all of the rest say that in the range of $300-$400 billion in by the admission of administrator jackson this would not reduce carbon dioxide production if we passed any of these bills. the same is true with doing the same thing for regulation. here we have endangerment report based on the science of the ipcc which has been discredited. i think someone needs to say this. when the hard times come and there is overregulation because this will not decrease carbon dioxide that someone will need to stand and say the science is wrong. >> my answer is i disagree. let me respond to three things senator -- three things, senator. i do not agree. i do not believe the ipcc has been discredited. it is important to understand that it is a body that is impartial, open, and objectives. they have had concerns about email. i do not defended the conduct of those who sent the emails. the

they claim that lieberman was always his choice, but that the right wing forced him to make a last-minutemean forced him? put pressure, forced? he's the man. this was his campaign, this was his turn. that's what the republicans do. you wait your turn and you get it. they gave it to bob dole, they gave it to goldwater. he could have made a different decision. it was his decision to make. what do you mean, they forced him? they held a gun to his head? this guy was tortured for 5 1/2 years, and we admire him a lot for that. if he could withstand that, he couldn't withstand the pressure of them telling him to choose this nut from alaska? >> larry: in the next portion we'll try to get him to have an opinion. does the american political system suck? a member of the president's transition team says so. what does bill think? i'll ask. it's ahead. try. i heard eating whole grain oats can help lower my cholesterol. it's gonna be tough...so tough. my wife and i want to lower our cholesterol, but finding healthy food that tastes good is torturous. your father is suffering. [ male announcer ] honey nu

we have a bipartisan group of senators that include senator kerry and senator graham and senator lieberman, helping us move forward to see how we can move forward to energy independence, create jobs here in america, and also how we create a better environment, cleaner air for our planet. so those efforts are under way. but they are separate from what we are doing today here. >> brown: and what's the timeline here? we mentioned some things could happen fairly quickly, but in your best-case scenario, is this a matter of years, a few years, a lot of years? what happens next. >> jeff, in the gulf of mexico we're moving forward, so you'll see development there as we have seen for the last 20 years. much of our energy comes from the gulf. in the atlantic, we will know a lot more within a couple of years, as well as in the arctic and the pacific is off-limits. this is an unfolding issue because what we need to do is make sure decisions that are made are made based on science and based on the best available information that we have. and right now, we don't have it. along the atlantic, all the info

>> well, it wouldn't be bernie sanders and it wouldn't be joe lieberman.he most important thing about the summit is back to process. overall, the next step we're going to see is going to be on reconciliation. and what worries me about reconciliation is if they push that through it is going to be an indication from the administration that they don't want independents and they don't want republicans. they're disenfranchising a huge section of the american public. i don't know if we need a star, but we definitely need to be involved in the process, period. >> nicole kurokawa, omar ali, and joe gandelman, thank you. >>> a father's pain and joy after the chile earthquake. you can see he feared the worst. but he got the best possible news. a family reunited after the chile quake. >>> also, fit to serve. the president makes a trip to the doctor. the results are in. a.j.? (alarm blasting) (screaming) (phone rings) hello? this is bill with broadview security. is everything okay? no. there's this guy - he just smashed in my door. i'm sending help right now. thank yo

lieberman: i thank the chair. madam president, a good friend once wisely said to me that it's only a very short road that has no turns. the road that health care reform has traveled to get to the senate has been very long and has had many turns. its path to us might well be described as tortious with all that word has come to mean. as i said when i explained in december why i was voting for the senate health care reform bill, any piece of legislation this big, this complicated and this transformational is unlikely to be perfectly pleasing to anyone. that is true for me. in the end, each of us, i think, has to ask ourselves do the positives in this legislation outweigh the negatives? does what pleases us in it outweigh what worries us? let me begin with the beginning before us now. the reconciliation act that is before us preserves most but not all of the health care reform the senate adopted and i voted for in december. i concluded then and repeat now that together these measures achieve real change in the three b

. >> i know that senators kerry and gramm and lieberman are working hard to fashion a proposal that cans in the senate and we'll see whether... what form it takes. but i know that we're going to have to work on energy. it's just a... it's a great challenge of this century. we have to face it. and, you know, the chinese are working on it. india's working on it. brazil is working on it. we can't hang back. we have to continue to lead and to do that we have to get serious about energy. i believe that we will do something on energy. >> rose: give me a sense of what you having come to washington have seen. how is it different than you expected? how long will you stay? and where are your... >> you know, it's not different than i expected. jack kennedy said after he became president, i said what surprised you he said i were surprised that things were add because as i said they were. i knew what washington's idiosyncrasies were. i will also tell you i think i have the greatest job in the world. i'm working for a president who i deeply, deeply respect and it's a thrill to be by his side. i have

i would call joe lieberman and others in my office and say, joe, okay, i'm not good with math, but iyour state of connecticut, they like me up there, joe. and i'll tell you what, you can keep voting against this or we can strike a deal. tell me what you need and i'll give it to you, but if you stop health care, i'm going up to your state and i'm going to grind your political bones to dust. and if you don't believe me, look over your shoulder. you're going to see me in connecticut every week. you're going to see my people up there. we're going to primary you, we're going to pour hundreds of -- >> he's scary. >> no! listen, that's how you do it! >> can we come back to this. >> i think it's a point well taken. i agree with you. the proof is in the pudding. >> we've got to go one step further too. he's trying to let me finish this. >> good. >> there's one more part of it too, mika. that is that this president has been too disconnected. he got olympia snowe from the hill to vote him on the jobs bill. do you know why she did? >> why? >> because he called her up and asked her to. >> he spen

a centerpiece of this legislation is the iran petroleum sanctions act sponsored by senators liebermanh and myself. although iran is replete with oil as you know, they have trouble refining it. they import 45% of their gasoline. the iranian people have a lot of cars. they want and need gasoline. our bill says that any country that exports gasoline to iran or helps them refine their -- helps them refine their own is barred from doing any business with the united states. no ifs, ands or buts. already european oil companies that traffic with iran are beginning to pull out. even before our legislation is passed. so several months ago we pushed to get this broad senate package which includes the petroleum bill and many other tough provisions marked up by the banking committee. then we pushed to get it to the floor. things move very slowly in the senate these days. but we told majority leader reid that the iranian threat is an issue that demands fast action and much to his credit, he heeded the call. he moved this legislation to the floor and on january 28th, the comprehensive iran sanctions

. >> brown: and today, foreign minister avigdor lieberman said that demands that israel stop housing construction are "unreasonable". in the meantime, u.s. military commanders are raising concerns about ripple effects on american troops fighting two wars in the arab and muslim world. at a senate hearing today, general david petraeus denied a published report that he'd sought to formally add the west bank and gaza to his central command. but he did say the conflict is a real issue for his forces. >> clearly, the tensions and the issues and so forth have an enormous effect. they set the strategic context within which we operate in the central command area of responsibility. >> brown: the effect on u.s. domestic politics will be felt next week when the top u.s.- based pro-israel lobbying organization, aipac, meets in washington. yesterday, the group denounced the white house reaction to the israeli settlement move, an issue sure to be front and center when both secretary clinton and prime minister netanyahu address the group next week. for more on all of this, we get two views: from dav

we have two amendments pending, the sessions amendment and the lieberman amendment.ators will be notified when any votes are scheduled. mr. mcconnell: madam president? the presiding officer: the republican leader. mr. mcconnell: as democratic leaders in congress continue to insist we're at some make or break moment in the health care debate and that for some reason we need to pass a bill that raises taxes, raises premiums and cuts medicare, i'd like to call attention to a notice received just yesterday from the congressional budget office informing us that they plan to issue a cost estimate today for the senate-passed health care bill. in other words, sometime today, the c.b.o. will release its final cost estimate on the health spending bill that the majority passed here on christmas eve. this is march 11. we passed that bill on christmas eve. we're now getting a cost estimate from the congressional budget office. so our friends on the other side, every single one of them, voted for this enormous bill, a bill affecting the cost and quality of health care for every si

senator lieberman ended on bright note.i'll start on a bright note, some of the things that are working. e talked tab before or every meeting in private. the programs, 1206, 1207, 1208, the inet program, serb program, ccif, those programs are working well. admiral stavridis, i would ask you, with some of these things that have been changed recently, like in the 1207, the whole reason for structuring these programs the way they're structured with d.o.d. is so they can be activated quickly, and get an immediate response. now, we're kind of going in the other direction with the 1207. you want to comment on that? >> senator, first of all i completely agree that the 1206 and the inet programs have been superb. i think each of the combatant commanders has testified to that over the last couple of years and i benefitted from them greatly in the three years that the command continued to be a strong advocate here at u.s. european command. 1207 money is kind of dual key between state and department of defense. i think that any time t

janice lieberman has some tips. janice, good morning.fore we get to the tips, this particular scam isn't a new one, it's just becoming popular all over again, correct? >> that's correct and it's international and it's very high-tech, and it's very hard to catch these guys, it's africa, it's can da and the u.s. it's almost impossible to get your money back or to find the crooks. >> once you've been had you're not getting your money back. i think most people would say i know my grandchild's voice. >> sometimes it sounds a little bit muffled on the phone if they're in mexico or in canada, so you say it could be there. ask the scammer or the caller something about your family that they wouldn't know, ask middle names, ask the parents name. you say why didn't you call your own parents? because what kid isn't going to call their parents before they call their grandparents. >> you said ask the personal questions, but make sure that this is something that you wouldn't do, once you maybe aren't sure, you want to check with a relative even, go the

up for reelection, ben nelson of nebraska, russ feingold all supported senator bunning as did joe lieberman, the independent from connecticut. >> the bill at the short-term extension of the government program that did pass, what is the bill cover? >> sure, the bill covers a series of extensions of cobra benefit benefit, medicare provisions and there's a satellite television law that extended health care subsidies for the unemployed, job creating highway funding. essentially, a whole range of very popular programs. senator durbin has been warning for days going into that all of these expire sunday night, that by not moving the bill and assigning it into law, that 15,000 people in his home state of illinois would be out of unemployment checks because of the program. >> and what about nationally? there has been a lot of talk about the employment benefits in this legislation. >> on a national scale, as i said, the unemployment program, those programs had congress not acted, would have been cut off until they could actually get a law signed in. and they figure the unemployment rate is almost a 1

. >> thank you, senator lieberman. senator inhofe? >> thank you for your comments. let me tell you what i will not ask. i will not ask you if we should close gitmo, but i would like to get something in the record. my personal feeling, having had a chance to really get into it, having studied it, the conditions of the people being good down there in that secure location, there are approximately 200 terrorists, the low hanging fruit is gone. about 20% of that low hanging fruit have gone back to the fight according to reports. physically in the united states there should be no doubt to anyone in this room, the attack leading up to 9/11 was not the results of gitmo, and the repeated attempts to attack a board of the results of holding detainees. that it would not stop future terrorist attacks. they hate us and want to kill everyone in this room. americans across the country understand that. all these people coming up with great ideas of what we could do to bring terrorists to the united states for incarceration or trial, going through all these elaborate details, how we

centerpiece of this legislation is the iran refined petroleum sanctions act sponsored by senators lieberman myself. although iran is replete with oil as you know, they have trouble refining it. they import 45% of their gasoline. the iranian people have a lot of cars. they want and need gasoline. our bill says that any country that exports gasoline to iran or helps them refine, helps them refine their own is barred from doing any business with the united states, no gifts, and sort lutz. already, european oil companies that traffic with iran are beginning to pull out. even before legislation is passed. so several months ago we push to get this rod senate package which includes a petroleum bill and many tough provisions marked up by the banking committee. then we push to get it to the floor. things move very slowly in the senate these days. but, we told majority leader reid that the iranian threat is an issue that demands fast action and much to his credit he heeded the call. he moved this legislation to the floor and on january 28 of the comprehensive iran sanctions accountability and divestm

senator gramm, senator kerry, senator lieberman are all working on a proposal like that in the senate and i know the president is hopeful to get an update not just from them but again from others in the house and senate. >> is cap and trade doable this year? >> i think putting together a coalition of somebody like senator kerry and senator gramm who represent obviously different political philosophies demonstrates that, yes, it is certainly possible to do that. >> robert, the president didn't go to the gridiron dinner last year and he's not going this year, is there any message he's sending to the media or the gridiron club? >> he's going to indonesia. >> is it just scheduling? >> i think he went to the radio correspondent's dinner last year and will go to the white house correspondents dinner as well. >> the energy meeting today, if health care passes, we shouldn't expect the president to pivot and really start pushing cap and trade in the coming months? >> let me not get ahead of the oath that the president gives from the -- from those involved in these negotiations. i know the pres