thank you, madam president. mr. leahy: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. leahy: i ask unanimous consent that the period for morning business for debate only be extended until 5:00 p.m., senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each, the majority leader be recognized following morning business, further, the republican side have the time from 2:00 to 2:45 p.m., the majority have the time from 2:45 to 3:30 p.m. ferrarthe presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. leahy: thank you. and, madam president, you thinkn listening to the distinguished senator from oregon, wha he said about regular order ... he remembers he was here with me at 5:00, 6:00 on a saturday morning to pass that budget bill. we'd gone all week long. dozens, dozens upon dozens of votes, and we passed it. wanted to go to conference with the house, where there'd actually be a lot more republicans sitting at the table than democrats. and why haven't we? because a republican -- one republican representing the

thank you, madam president. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from west virginia. mr. manchin: i, too, rise, very proudly, to be part of a group that, truly, i watched put their country first. and i have been here probably a shorter period of time than most of my colleagues, but not quite three years, and i think people know that i've been a little bit frustrated at times, if not sometimes quite frustrated, but i've heard the stories of how the senate used to work. and when the going got tough, the senators really got going. i haven't seen that too much in the last three years, so seeing a group of -- a dichotomy of senators coming from my dear friend angus king, an independent coming from maine, and then we had seven republicans, led by senator collins, and our democratic colleagues here -- so, coming together and maying off of each other's strengths. it wasn't playing off of egos at all. and two weeks ago i could not believe of the self-inflicted pain that was put upon the people of america by this congress b

madam president, i yield the floor. mrs. shaheen: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from new hampshire. mrs. shaheen: thank you, madam president. we're now in the 11th day of this unnecessary government shutdown. and just as my colleague from south dakota, senator thune, pointed out, there are some impacts in south dakota as a result of this shutdown. we're seeing those very real consequences in new hampshire as well, and i'm sure you're seeing those in north dakota. it's become clear to me by talking to people in new hampshire that the longer the shutdown goes on, the worse the impact on families, on small businesses, on people who need the services from this government. but as difficult as the shutdown is, there's actually another crisis that looms on the horizon that would have even more disastrous consequences for our economy. that's the possibility of a first ever default on this country's debt. for the first time ever, if we default, the country would not pay the bills that it has incurred, the bills that it has incurred becau

madam president, i yield the floor. ms. stabenow: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. ms. stabenow: thank you, madam president. i want to enter into a colloquy with my great friend from missouri, senator blunt, but you have to say, i just have to make a comment first, if i might, if my colleague will excuse me. i just have to say, i am amazed to hear that we're court-packing when what we're trying to do is fill three vacancies on a court. i didn't hear that before with -- with other presidents. so hopefully we can just fill vacancies and do it in a bipartisan way. madam president, i very much want to thank really a great friend and colleague, senator blunt, for joining me today on the floor and for joining me in leadership on some very important community mental health legislation. and i think we have a real opportunity to get something done and so with consent, we would like to proceed with a colloquy. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. stabenow: thank you. and we want to do this today because today marks th

let me be clear, madam president. by purchasing mi-17 from roseau boron export our department of defense is subsidizing the mass murder of syrian civilians which is by all accounts simply outrageous. to make matters worse, the mi-17 program is apparently plagued by internal corruption. according to published news reports, there are at least two separate ongoing criminal investigations into the u.s. army office that manages a procurement and sustainment contracts for the mi-17's. last month, i joined 31 of my congressional colleagues in a bipartisan letter to the attorney general of the united states urging him to utilize all available resources to support these criminal investigations. for that matter, i've also joined with 12 of my senate colleagues in a bipartisan letter to general dempsey, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff at the pentagon asking him for assurances that his contracts with rosoboron export are not being abused by corrupt russian officials. americans have good reason to be concerned. after all

but guess what, madam president? it still means that almost 50% of the men and women who work at the department of defense will be furloughed tomorrow. they're going to be told that they're nonessential. now, who's essential to defense and who isn't? we certainly know that our men and women who wear the uniform who are in harm's way need to get their pay, they need to get their supplies, they need to get what they need to do to defend america. but they also need a fully functioning department of defense. i think that there are other agencies that protect the united states of america, one of which is our federal law enforcement, whether it's the f.b.i., whether it's the martia the marshal sere drug enforcement agency,, and yes, the alcohol, tobacco and firearms agency. yes, they put themselves in the line of fire, too, along with our customs and our border agents, some of whom have already died. and what about our prison guards who are up there facing people who are ready to either kill them or break out or break them

madam speaker. to move us closerle to ending this government shutdown by providing regular appropriations for all government programs, to achee that, we got to have an adult conversation about what this might entail and how we can get there. and i've got a great suggestion, madam speaker. monday night, the house passed an amendment over to the senate, to the c.r., and asked for a conference with the senate. the speaker named house conferees. now the normal tra digs of this body, as all of us know, is when the house and the senate pass differing versions of the same bill, how do we resolve the difference? we acomponent conferees. we have some house members and some senate members selected by the respective leaders and they go off and argue and debate and amend and they come up with an agreement that they then bring back to each body for approval and that becomes the law. the house has apointed conferees and have a table arranged downstairs for the snars to join us in resolving the shutdown. what do w

leahy: madam president? madam president? the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. under the previous order, the senate will be in a period of morning business for debate only until 4:00 p.m., with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. mr. leahy: madam president? the presiding officer: the president pro tempore is recognized. mr. leahy: madam president, i thank the tkweurd majority leader for how he spoke -- the distinguished majority leader for how he spoke today. he has stayed strong on this issue. he also spoke about what this is doing to law enforcement. as chairman of the senate judiciary committee i'm going to speak further on that. i couldn't help but think i was asked by a friend in vermont, what's going on? i said, well, you know we had hundreds of hours of committee meetings and votes and all. hours and hours of debate in the house and senate, and we passed the affordable care act. the tea party is totally opposed to it, even though it passed in the

>> thank you, madam, secretary, for being here. last week we had a guess and the president talked about the alternatives to the website. his phone calling or using paper applications. what he said, i think you said it with the phone, they take the paper applications but they enter them in the same web portal. i know you get the issue of being logged on and off:but there rish u there a -- but there are still issues. it is six to eight weeks to be processed. so if this will be ready in november 30th, you're getting close to january 1st if it's eight weeks and somebody does lose their insurance so they're signing up for this. even though you have a march 31st open enrollment, what happens to these? is there a contingency plan for the people to continue their insurance? >> sir, i think that we have improvements every day on the speed of the site. circo was giving you early snapshots of difficulty of accessing the site. i think that's greatly improved. >> they said just processing the paper, actually. >> i understand. but it is the site

madam president, i yield the floor. mrs. murray: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: madam president, i woke up this morning feeling like i think most americans feel today -- pretty disappointed in the antics of washington, d.c. as my colleague from new york just pointed out, we all know why we're here. speaker boehner and the republicans in the house demanded a ransom in order to keep our government open. and their ransom was to repeal a law that they do not support, obamacare. and they made it very clear that government was going to shut down, and my constituents in washington state, who are -- were supposed to go to work today, thousands of them, aren't going to get their paycheck because of that ransom. they made it very clear that they were not going to open government over a policy that they cared passionately about. well, madam president, i just have to say, i started my morning thorning talking to people involved in the construction industry in the state of washington. they told me this unserchts

welcome, madame secretary. you're a distinguished woman. you have distinguished yourself and your state, the offices that you've held, and now working for the american people, and i salute you for it. i want to really congratulate my republican pals for being absolutely, 1,000% consistent. you love what's wrong with the website, and you detest what's working in the affordable care act. and i think that is on full display here. but let's get back to the website, because that's what the hearing is about. it's my understanding that november 31st is a hard date for having everything up and running. do you have -- now hhs did testify in september that they were 100% confident that the site would be launched and fully functional on time on october 1st. do you have full confidence in this new date? >> -- it will take until november for an optimally functioning website. the only way i can restore confidence to get it right is to get it right. so i have confidence, but i know that it isn't fair to ask the american publi

madam president, i yield the floor. ms. murkowski: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from alaska. ms. murkowski: madam president, i want to follow the comments of the chairman of the appropriations committee. this has been a tough week. it's been a tough weekend. it's been a tough day. and i think as -- as members of the senate, as we approach really the -- the showdown of a potential shutdown, it's important for us to recognize really what is at stake. this is not just -- does not just mean us staying here holding the floor late on a monday evening. i've got neighbors here in washington, d.c., who work for the federal government. one works for homeland security. one works for department of defense. they asked me over the weekend, am i working on tuesday? what's happening on tuesday? are we shutting the government down? when we talk about those who are uncertain about what happens this next week with their jobs, i think it's important to recognize that it's not just jobs that we're talking about, it's the reality that if i'm not at w

thank you, madam secretary, for being here today. i'm sure there are other things you'd rather be doing but we welcome the opportunity to have this conversation. i'm going to ask the clerk to bring you a document for you to look at so i can ask you a couple of questions. if you can go to page 8 on that, i have highlighted an item there. but this is a copy of a cgi slide show from october 11th discussing technical issues that must be addressed within the website. on page 8 of what i've handed you, cgi recommended that cgi and cms have a review board to agree on which issues can technically be solved and which should politically be solved. was such a review board convened? >> sir, i cannot tell you. i've never seen this document and i'm not aware of this recommendation. >> but cgi is responsible for the website, correct? >> cgi is responsible for the application. >> for the application of this. >> yes, sir. >> does it surprise you that in a slide show that they gave october 11th they acknowledged political reasons for trying to solve t

thank you, madam secretary, for being here today. i'm sure there are other things you would rather be doing but we welcome the opportunity to have this conversation. i'm going to ask the clerk to bring you a document for you to look at so i can ask you a couple of questions. if you can go to page 8 on that, i have highlighted an item there. but this is a copy of a c.g.i. slide show from october 11 discussing technical issues that must be addressed within the website. on page 8 of what i handed you, c.g.i. recommended that c.g.i. and c.m.s. have a review board to agree on which issues can technically be solved and which hould politically be solved. would such a review board convene? >> i can't tell you. i have never seen this document and am not aware of this recommendation. >> c.g.i. is responsible for the website, correct? >> c.g.i. is responsible for the application. >> for the application. does it surprise you that in the slide show that they gave on october 11, they acknowledge political reasons for -- >> sir, again. i have never

thank you, madam secretary.i yield back. >>> madam secretary, thank you for being here with us today. cms was the integrator of the website, correct? sebelius: that is correct. >> you have now testified he hired an company. who is that? sebelius: qssi. they built the hub. >> they were not only the developer of the hub and the pipeline, but also an independent tester of the system. you've acknowledged inadequate testing played a significant role in the failed launchcommas aren't you concerned to qssi has lost its ability to be an objective arbitrary administrator? because they are part of the problem. sebelius: no, haven't lost my confidence in them. i think the test and they did is validating the piece of equipment what we said since the launch. we did not do adequate end-to-end testing. that was not the qssi's is possibility. >> will you be paying qssi more than they were to be paid under their original contract? sebelius: that discussion is underway in what the role will entail, yes, sir. >> hard-working ameri

welcome, madam secretary. you're a distinguished woman. you have distinguished yourself and your state, the offices that you've held and now working for the american people and i salute you for it. i want to really congratulate my republican pals for being absolutely, 1,000% consistent. you love what's wrong with the website and you detest what's working in the affordable care act. and i think that is on full display here. but let's get back to the website because that is what the hearing is about. it's my understanding that november 31st is the, is a hard date for having everything up and running. do you have, now, hhs did testify in september that they were 100% confident that the site would be launched and fully functional on time on october 1st. that didn't work. do you have full confidence in this new hard date? >> congresswoman, i can tell thaw the assessment that we have made is that it will take until the indof november for an optimally functioning website. i know that the only way i can restore confid

madame secretary, welcome. those of us who fought for this law, who voted for this law, have a vested interest in its success, and the concerns that you here expressed on this side of the panel are real, because we want to see americans get health care. i think it's somewhat disingenuous for my colleagues on the other side of the podium here to have this faux anger and this faux concern over a bill that they absolutely want to fail and have rooted for its failure and have voted over 40-some times to repeal this bill, never putting an alternative plan on the floor for the american people, but just to simply say they want to make sure this plan doesn't succeed. and i think the real fear is, that the plan will succeed and the american people will learn of the real benefits of this plan, not the propaganda campaign that's gone on by the republicans for the last three years. madame secretary, i think one of the keys to success of this plan is that we get young people to enroll in this plan. and i have some questions

lucas: thank you, madam speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. lucas: thank you, madam speaker. first, i would note, again, to my colleagues, this is one of the final stages of this long challenging process of putting a comprehensive farm bill together. with the conclusion of this debate on this sense of the congress resolution and the votes that i suspect will come sometime later today or tomorrow, we'll begin then with the appointment of conferees, the formal process of working out the differences between house and senate bill. that's no small accomplishment considering how many years that ranking member peterson and i and the members of the house agriculture committee have put into this effort. as a matter of fact, when we started the process of gathering information and putting the hearing record together, i was the ranking member and mr. peterson was the chairman. so this has been a long, long process. ow, i must say that i am obligated to ri

chairman, madam secretary. i appreciate your coming here today to answer questions about the affordable health care act. you know, my republican colleagues' actions here remind me of a story i read when i was a little boy and that's the story of chicken little who ran around yelling the sky is falling, the sky is falling. but unlike chicken little, my republican colleagues are actually rooting for the sky to fall. republicans are holding this hearing today under the auspices of an investigative hearing as if they want to get to the bottom of what went wrong with the website in order to help fix it. but i don't think, madam secretary, there's one person in this room who is naive enough to actually think that the republicans want to see this law work. they voted over 40 times to repeal the law. they shut down the government and threatened to force a default in order to stop it. they're rooting for failure. madam secretary, can you tell us what would be the impact on americans health insurance if republicans had b

dent: thank you, madam speaker. i rise tonight in support of the senate compromise legislation being considered to end this unnecessary government shutdown and few tile exercise in brinks -- futile exercise in brinksmanship. this would prevent a catastrophic default and downgrade that would spur another recession. i'm generally pleased that the cooler heads have finally prevailed. however, it is very disappointing that we're in this situation. that after more than two weeks of a government shutdown and on the eve of the default of our nation's obligations, we have finally reached an agreement. this legislation must be supported. but it should not be celebrated. no high-fives or spiking of the football. it is a temporary government funding bill and a short-term debt limit increase. it's not a win for anyone, particularly the institution of congress or the presidency for that matter. the bill represents the conclusion of a difficult period from which i hope that many can draw important lessons. i hope that this sad ep

thank you. >> madam president? >> senator from oregon. >> the thing that puzzles me, if my colleague would still consider responding, that would be fine. is there's a process on this floor of giving instructions to a conference committee. and so my colleague left the floor, but the question i would have followed up with is: give there's a specific process in the senate for doing budget instructions to a conference committee, why not utilize that specific process, hold a vote on the conference committee instructions rather than brocading the conference committee from starting? i guess i'll have to rhetorically answer the question that there's really no good explanation. no good explanation for -- not going through the normal process of proposing a budget committee -- under the budget act so we can, indeed, get the job done. and not be paralyzed. i think, madam president, i believe the story, and i believe have liked to have the perspective of my colleague -- to instead allow the minor toy do so. i believe also it's

ryan: madam speaker, with this i'll yield such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. ryan: first of all, i'd like to thank chairman lucas for his work on passing a farm bill through the house. it was not an easy task. and the farm bill got a lot right in my judgment. it eliminated direct payments.

madam president, i yield the floor. a senator: madam president? madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from colorado. mr. udall: i have four unanimous consent requests for committees to meet today during today's session of the senate. they have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. i'd ask unanimous consent that these requests be agreed to and that these requests be printed in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. udall: madam president, i yield the floor. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from idaho. mr. crapo: thank you, madam president. i rise today to discuss the multiple issues that have now presented themselves to us here in the senate and to the united states congress and, frankly, the american people. i've been in several hearings this morning. the first was with secretary of treasury jack lew, where the finance committee discussed with him the pending expiration of our debt ceiling and what his understanding is of how that will impact the country. he raised a lot of serious concern

madam president, i yield the floor. mr. barrasso: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from wyoming. mr. barrasso: thank you, madam president. i appreciate the comments of my colleague from illinois. i heard him make reference to the insurance exchanges that opened last week because it was one week ago that president obama's health insurance exchanges opened. by all accounts, madam president, it was a complete disaster. the administration had three and a half years to prepare for the big launch. it spent months, spent millions of dollars advertising the start date, and yet on october 1, the american people had their first chance to sign up, and the exchanges flopped. it was a complete fiasco. the administration tried to say it was caught off guard. they say they were caught off guard by too many people going to the web site on the first day. madam president, even saturday night liveried ciewld the excuse. they -- ridiculed the excuse. they said that's like 1-800-flowers getting caught off guard on valentine's day. there were glitches t

olson. >> welcome, madame secretary. i'd like to open with a quote from an american icon and hold up a poster. it says, if the user is having a problem, it's our problem. i'm glad to hear that you embrace this is philosophy during your testimony today, ma'am. obama care was signed into law 1,000256 days ago. and since then, there's been user problem after user problem after user problem. regarding healthcare.gov, your deputy administrator for consumer information, gary cohen, testified one month ago right where you're sitting that and this i quote, cms has worked hard to test the infrastructure that will allow americans to enroll in coverage confidently, simply, and securely end quote. yet, according to forbes, and "the wall street journal," you told them that you need five years of construction and one year of testing. the program has crashed and burned at least three times. and the user is still having problems. get up here, ma'am. it's been down the whole time you've been testifying. system is down at this moment. my

madam president, i yield the floor. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from wyoming. mr. enzi: i appreciate all of the speeches that are being given and all of them have a seed of possibility, but evidently we're not going to water them or try and grow them. we're just going to talk about possibilities. and there is enough blame to go around. it isn't just on one side. but i like to remind people of why we're here, hoping that we won't be here again. the reason that we're here is we didn't do the appropriations bills the way we're supposed to. now, i know that we had a budget process and the budget process got bogged down between the house and the senate, but obviously we have gotten past that problem because i noticed that on the calendar that we have a whole bunch of appropriations bills. i think actually all 12 of them that were supposed to pass. and the first one i think went on on june 27, so obviously they didn't feel constrained by not having a budget that was agreed to by the house and the senate. they set some

brown: thank you, madam president.l remain hopeful, as the hours unfortunately click down -- tick down towards what could happen in this country if we don't pay our debts. it's never happened in american history before. i know that when we woke up this morning, when america woke up, they saw leader reid, the democratic leader, the majority leader, and leader mcconnell coming together in discussion, the republican leader from kentucky, senator mcconnell, coming together on a plan, and they are pretty close to agreement. we know that there are still problems in the house of representatives, and i think that some of di -- some of new s body are fans of abr abraham lincoln. lincoln used to talk about when his staff wanted him to stay in the white house and win the war and free the slaves and preserve the union, he said, i have to go out and get my public opinion bath. and i think some of my colleagues in the house could learn something from going out and listening to real people, not just going on talk radio, not just goin

thank you, madam president. mr. cornyn: madam president? the presiding officer: the sphoer from texas. mr. cornyn: madam president, four times the house of representatives has sent over continuing resolutions with various additions for consideration in the united states senate. each time senator reid has tabled those provisions, shutting them down without giving them a vote. the last time i believe senator reid really led his colleagues down a very treacherous path because the provisions of this otherwise clean c.r. would have repealed the provision that carves out congress and members of of our staff and gives us preferential treatment under obamacare. the second part of it has to do with delaying the penalties on individuals, just like the president has done in delaying the penalties on employers unilaterally. there is no good reason for us not to pass both of those provisions. but instead of trying to deal constructively with the house of representatives, which has sent four separate bills over here on the continuing resolution, the majo

and madame secretary, thanks for your time. i just want to ask on the issue of the fixes to healthcare.gov, we've had a lot of conversation about that today. and we've talked about confidence levels for being ready by a certain time. i think one question a lot of us have is, can you define what the magnitude of the problem is? is there a scale or metric by which we can understand how bad this is today and how we're going to get to where we go to have it fixeded? >> again, sir, i've been informed that the problems are in and the reports i've seen are really in two areas. they are in the performance area which is speed and reliability. it's too slow. it doesn't have reliable transfers and in functionality. there are parts of the system that don't make accurate transfers. so we have done an extensive assessment. they are prioritized as i indicated earlier. one of the priorities is the enrollment features which pass individual information to the companies where they want to enroll. that is not reliable at this point. companies are

but, madam secretary. prior to the aca, when people applied for insurance coverage, did insurers make them provide a long detailed and basic medical history that now, because the law bans discrimination based on pre-existing conditions, individuals will not have to provide information in their applications, regardless of this clause, please comment on the privacy issue. stuart: liz, you've got to say something about this. >> quickly, the irs said 10 million people could see their policies canceled. i don't think that's a red herring to the people who are going to see their policies canceled. again, congressman pallone hits it out of the park and clearly he's in an alternative universe to the people who are now seeing policies canceled that they wanted. stuart: he used the comment, lousy skeleton policies that people want and chosen. lousy skeleton coverage. >> this is the defensive lie they've created. the fact is the american people are intelligent enough to choose between the plan they have now and the o

doyle. >> madam secretary, welcome.e of us who fought for this law and voted for this law -- >> those are what you call some fireworks as the house committee continues testifying. we are in a bet of the weeds, talking about hot swapping codes, security risks as they rewrite that code as the fix continues. the dow is roughly flat, s&p is roughly flat as well. we're watching a lot of earnings come in. fed statement in just a few hours. our bob pisani joins us on post nine with a special guest. >> good morning. stanley druckenmiller is here. he's speaking on the subject of retirement. i want to get your thoughts on this. you have very passionate ideas about it. but first we have a federal reserve day. the fomc is meeting today. i want to get your thoughts on that. do you think right now that the fed made a mistake or not by deciding essentially to defer the tapering process did they blow it given the fact that a lot of people down here feel tapering was already starting to be built into the market? >> i think they made a b

thank you, madam president. mr. thune: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from south dakota. mr. thune: madam president, yesterday, the white house said it is "winning" -- "winning" the shutdown debate. understand that it is "not concerned how long the shutdown lasts." well, the democrats may be content with playing political games, republicans remain focused on find a solution to reopen the federal government. when the white house says it is winning, madam president, maybe winning the political debate, winning the political game, if you will, it is the american people who are losing. the obama administration said dwhread it would support a measure providing retroactive compensation to furloughed federal workers, yet it continues to oppose funding for the national guard and reserve. veterans services, nutrition assistance for low-income americans, fema, lifesaving medicines and cures at the n.i.h., national parks and museums. mr. president, what i would simply say is that there are bills that have been sent here by the hou

chairman, madam secretary. i appreciate your coming here today to answer questions about the affordable health care act. you know, my republican colleagues' actions here remind me of a story i read when i was a little boy and that's the story of chicken little who ran around yelling the sky is falling, the sky is falling. but unlike chicken little, my republican colleagues are actually rooting for the sky to fall. republicans are holding this hearing today under the auspices of an investigative hearing as if they want to get to the bottom of what went wrong with the website in order to help fix it. but i don't think, madam secretary, there's one person in this room who is naive enough to actually think that the republicans want to see this law work. they voted over 40 times to repeal the law. they shut down the government and

. >> nos queda poco tiempo, madame. >> si puerta no da resultados, seguro que la madame, despuÉs de estela era, era toda una dama y era decente. >> bueno, entonces ya voy para allÁ. >> no, no, no, ¿cÓmo se le ocurre? lo que pasa es que aquÍ hay un detective que estÁ hablando con todas las niÑas. >> la mujer de la que le estoy hablando es camila, su exnovia. fue prepago; trabajaba para mÍ. ♪ hay mujeres tan fuertes . >> ¿camila una prepago? >> me parece muy sorprendido, sergio. ¿o me va a decir que nunca se dio cuenta? >> no, eso no puede ser posible, ella no era... >> ¿no era quÉ? ¿acaso camila no era comparable con tatiana? piense bien, sergio, revise sus recuerdos. >> mire, eso que usted me estÁ diciendo no es verdad. >> tan cierto como que camila fue la que introdujo a tatiana en esta profesiÓn. >> ¡ya cÁllese! callese. >> y camila fue peor que tatiana, porque ella no solo cometiÓ el error de dejarse seducir por el dinero fÁcil, sino que arrastrÓ a su mejor amiga, a su casi hermanita; aÍi fue como las dos trabajaron para mÍ. >> madame, tengo que darle una noticia, es sobre su negocio.

madam president, i yield the floor. mrs. boxer: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from california. mrs. boxer: i want to ask that i could use as much time as i might consume. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. boxer: madam president, the senator from south dakota has pointed out how concerned he is about jobs, about economic growth. he's concerned about our not doing enough appropriations bills. he's concerned that we haven't resolved our differences in the conference. i want him to know, since he asked for partisanship, -- asked for bipartisanship, i'm concerned as a democrat, about pay and jobs and economic growth, and i'm concerned that we haven't had any appropriations bills, and i'm concerned that we haven't gone to the budget. but i need to speak the truth. and the truth is in the record. why don't we have appropriations bills? because the republicans filibustered our very first bill, and when we tried to get it done, they wouldn't give us the votes, and it was taken off the floor. and senator murray and senator

madam secretary please call the next item. c. >> five c adopting environmental review findings pursuant to the california environmental quality act, and conditionally approving combined basic conceptual and schematic designs for block 49, a 60 unit affordable housing project on parcel a pursuant to the hunters point shipyard phase 1 development and disposition agreement; hunters point shipyard redevelopment project area. >> five c adopting environmental review findings pursuant to the california environmental quality act, and conditionally approving combined basic conceptual and schematic designs for block 49, a 60 unit affordable housing project on parcel a pursuant to the hunters point shipyard phase 1 development and disposition agreement; hunters point shipyard redevelopment project area. discussion and action is solution number 50-2013. madam director. >> good afternoon commissioners and good afternoon to the members of the public. thank you for joining us. commissioners at your first meeting of last year you approved the

madam president, i yield the floor. the presiding officer: under the previous order, all postcloture time is yielded back and the question occurs on the nomination. the senior senator from iowa. mr. harkin: madam president, i ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. mr. hatch: i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: at the moment, there is not. mr. hatch: madam president, i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. mcconnell: madam president? the presiding officer: the republican leader. mr. mcconnell: i ask consent that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: madam president, our good friend, the senior senator from mississippi, is about to cast his 12,000th vote, a truly remarkable accomplishment by a remarkable man. he was the first republican to be elected to the united states senate from mississippi si

>> madam president? >> the republican. >> i would ask the distinguished majority leader if modifying the con sent request if we can alternate across the aisle with the modification. i have no objection. >> no. but after we get it out of the way, you mean? >> madam president, the majority leader asked for us a number of democratic senators to speak without intervening speeches or remarks by republicans. all i'm suggesting is after he -- [inaudible conversations] i. >> say foy my friend. >> and after senator mccain speaks and a democrat speaks that a republican gets to speak and so forth. >> madam president, to my friend, three democrats, two republicans that doesn't sound too outrageous to me. >> i object. >> objection is -- >> okay. following senator -- i'll call upon senator -- >> miami president. the republican leader? >> the appreciate the comment of my good friend the majority leader. i might say; however, that as much as i appreciate his comments all of us the real challenge is his relationship with

young: madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? mr. young: i reserve a point of order on the gentleman's motion. the speaker pro tempore: the point of order is reserved. the clerk: mr. enyart of illinois moves to recommit the bill h.r. 3230 to the committee on appropriations with instructions to report the same back to the house forthwith with the following amendment, strike all after the enacting clouds and insert the follow, that upon passage of this bill by the house of representatives, the joint resolution, house joint resolution 59, making continuing propings for fiscal year 2014 and for other purposes as amended by the senate amendment on september 27, 2013, shall be considered as to have been taken from the speaker's table and the house shall be considered to have, one, receded from its amendment and two, concurred in the senate amendment. the speaker pro tempore: purr sune to the rule, the gentleman from illinois is recognized for five minutes i

madam secretary. it's my understanding that these decisions of a business character are most common in the individual insurance market and that much turnover already exists and existed prior to the enactment of the legislation. >> that's correct. >> is that correct? >> yes, sir. >> is it correct that 35 to 67% of the enrollees in the individual market leave their plan after one year for different reasons? >> a third are in about -- less than six months in the individual market. and over 50% are in for less than a year, yes, sir. >> in the cancellation letters, which move around from the insurance companies, some insurance companies are suggesting an alternative plan at a higher price. do they have the right to do that? >> they have a right to do that, sir, but consumers have a right to shop anywhere to compare plans and they have choices now that they have never had before, and some financial assistance -- >> and they have no right to enforce -- >> oh, absolutely not. no one is rolled over into a plan

madame secretary, welcome. those of us who fought for this law who voted for this law have a vested interest in its success. and the concerns that you hear expressed on this side of the panel are real. went to see americans get health care. i think it's somewhat disingenuous for my colleagues on the other side of the podium here to have this faux anger and this faux concern over a bill that they absolutely want to fail and have rooted for its failure and voted over 40-something times to repeal this bill, never putting an alternative plan on the floor for the american people, but just to simply say they want to make sure this plan doesn't skied. and i think their real fear is is that the plan will skied and the american people will learn of the benefits of this plan an not the campaign that's gone on by the republicans for the last three years. madame secretary, i think one of the keys to the success of this man is that we get young people to enroll in this plan. i have questions about enrollment concerns that i

this is quite a record, madam president. now, he's been a sitting councilman and mayor for more than a decade. he's lived with his constituents and kept in touch with them like no mayor i've ever come in contact with. i mean, we're so fortunate to have him here. he stayed in touch with his constituents because he has been with them in the inner city of newark. i commend him for his dedicated service to the people of new jersey and the people of newark. part of his job was to highlight the difficulties of working poor families, and did he that and did that very well. he's done everything he can to highlight to everyone that would listen to him and watch him to indicate that ne newark residen, many of them are struggling to know where their next meal will come from. he, in the time of this country where we have so many people who are needing so much, while the rich are guesting richer and the poor are getting poorer and the middle class is being squeezed, we're very, very fortunate to have this good man in the united states se

thank you, madam president. a senator: madam president?the presiding officer: the senator from indiana. mr. coats: madam president, like my colleague from indiana, senator donnelly, i also want to take a moment before i deliver my remarks here to thank capitol police and all of our law enforcement and first responders that put themselves in the line -- on the line to protect others. i know i speak for every republican and every democrat and all of our staffs that we deeply appreciate their work and their sacrifice. these brave men and women are here every day, whether they are paid or not, and we appreciate that. there's one thing that we're united here, and i wish there were more, it's our respect for those who serve to protect. those serving us here at home as well as those serving us in harm's way abroad. we owe them our support and we owe them our thanks. madam president, i am hearing from a number of hoosiers, as my colleague has from indiana. they're tired of political gamesmanship. they are tired of paying taxes to a government that

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by the way, it's not illegal, madam secretary, for you to go into the exchange. then she was asked if the president is to blame if the buck stops with her boss. her response was whatever. she couldn't answer any of the questions. i thought it was a terrible testimony. but again, obama using a woman in his cabinet as a human shield. >> by the way, we'll get a lot of that sound on tape in a couple of minutes. but bob, go ahead, your thoughts on sebelius' testimony today. >> all i can say is free at last, free at last, good god almighty, free at last. i'm not for this, i'm for a single payer plan. let me say this about it. if i was sebelius, i would not have gone up there today in that kind of environment. you got these guys, these republican congressmen who ask all these horrible things. why go do it. but yesterday i said -- when i was i was for single payer, you said really? what about medicare, $200 billion in fraud -- >> your imitation of eric. >> sort of like that. blue cross blue shield association said in private insurance, there's $226 billion a year in wast

thank you, madam president. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from virginia. mr. kaine: madam president, i rise to talk about the need to reopen government, and not to reopen government in a piecemeal way, one bit this week and then another bit next week, which seems to be the newest gambit on the table, but to reopen government because government of this country should never have shut down in the first place. few states are feeling the impact of the shutdown more than virginia, and i just want to tell two stories, a personal one and then a story about one community in my state. many federal employees live in virginia. about 150,000 federal employees are jeopardized currently by this shutdown. and 70,000 of them are d.o.d. civilians who were already furloughed earlier this year. one of the employees who is jeopardized is a major in the air force reserves by the name of eric bryan who lives in northern virginia, married and has four children. eric had a distinguished career in the air force and then retired and

welcome, madame secretary.'re a distinguished woman. you have distinguished yourself and your state, the offices that you've held, and now working for the american people, and i salute you for it. i want to really congratulate my republican pals for being absolutely, 1,000% consistent. you love what's wrong with the website, and you detest what's working in the affordable care act. and i think that is on full display here. but let's get back to the website, because that's what the hearing is about. it's my understanding that november 31st is a hard date for having everything up and running. do you have -- now hhs did testify in september that they were 100% confident that the site would be launched and fully functional on time on october 1st. do you have full confidence in this new date? >> -- it will take until november for an optimally functioning website. the only way i can restore confidence to get it right is to get it right. so i have confidence, but i know that it isn't fair to ask the american public to

shimkis. >> welcome, madam secretary. before i start my questions, "the washington post" gave the administration, the president, yourself, four pinnochios on this whole debate of if you like the insurance you have, you can keep it. would you recommend to the president that he stop using that term? wouldn't that be helpful in this debate? >> sir, i think he used the term at the time that the law was passed -- >> and as of september 26th also. >> that's why we wrote -- >> so the answer is you don't believe -- >> i haven't read the "washington post." >> we'll hand this down to you so you can see it. have you ever shopped -- i know you have, but for a -- at a grocery store with a coupon? have you ever used a coupon? >> yes. >> so the coupon gives you the terms and conditions when you go to the checkout to get whatever is off the price of the goods. when you all added the c plan -- see plans now option, you in essence gave the user a coupon based on what they were seeing. the desire is let people know what the price is. howeve