manchin: mr. president, i rise today to applaud my colleagues for being in the christmas spirit. i've never seen so many gifts and presents given out in one bill. let's be clear -- we aren't voting on just a $1.1 trillion spending bill called the omnibus. we're not voting on just that bill. that bill by itself could have been acceptable because it helps veterans, middle-class families, our defense department, our border security and a host of other valuable federal programs. but we aren't voting on just the omnibus bill. we are forced to vote on both the omnibus and the tax extender package that adds an additional unpaid-for $680 billion of gifts for special interest groups. we're giving out $680 billion in irresponsible tax breaks, christmas gifts to every special interest and corporation that asked for one. we gave christmas presents to millionaire race car drivers and motorcycle riders, film and television theater producers, and even racehorse owners. now, don't get me wrong, mr. president. i l

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you know, senator manchin talked about going to rural communities. you got a heavy dose of that in my state. you talk about quick wins, okay. i thought we were going to have a quick win in alaska. and you laid out a plan. you know, one thing i emphasized when i came up there to the veterans was i know you are frustrated but please be camp, you didn't create the problem you're here to fix the problem. but i need to tell you that now i'm the one getting frustrated. because it's been 100 days since you guys were up there. you talked about your six points, which i still have here. i appreciated it. where are they? here they are. on the alaska pilot program. and i am getting hit every day in my state. i was on a plane coming down here two weeks ago. three veterans within a circle of two rows on the airplane were complaining to me. i was telling then, hey, don't worry, we're on it, the va's got a pilot program. it's going to have a win, a quick win, in alaska. and then my staff gets told today that a lot of what you told me and committed to me, and i'm tel

joe manchin and pat toomey reintroduced their plan to expand gun background checks. it failed in the months after new towne a newtown and failed again yesterday. they also rejected senator dianne feinstein's amendment to prevent people on the government no fly list from buying guns. the house voted down that same measure earlier this week. more than a dozen white house hopefuls descended on washington, d.c. yesterday for a forum hosted by the republican jewish coalition. the candidates seemed to for the most part stick to their scripts, but the event did produce a number of awkward moments. take a look. >> last night, i was watching schindler's list, and everybody here has seen schindler's list. >> my mother told me one time, she said, johnny, when i was a young man, she said, johnny, if you want to look for a really good friend, get somebody who is jewish. and you know why she said that? she said no matter what happens to you, your friend, your jewish friend will stick by your side and fight right with you and stand by you. >> look, i'm going to go -- some of us her

let's bring in democratic senator joe manchin of west virginia.he show. >> joerks we talked about this since newtown. i saw a new poll that shows 89% of americans still support expanded background checks. sort of thing we talked about since the day after newtown. that 80% of republicans in early primary states iowa, new hampshire and south carolina also support background checks. 80%. why can't this get passed through congress? >> joe, i can give you that answer. i wish i could. i think that's why people are disgusted with what's going on, a lack of what's not going on. when something makes this much common sense and let me reiterate, joe. this is not private transactions, as a law-abiding gun owner we won't sell guns to strangers, to criminal, to shows severely mentally ill. but shouldn't we close down a loophole when you can go a gun show, not knowing the person for whatever purpose and be able to sell and trade back and forth or on the internet. does it make any sense at all if i order a gun on the internet from another state that has to be sen

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patrick toomey of pennsylvania, joe manchin of west virginia. neither one of them liberal by self-definition. they have come forward and said, as joe manchin said, i learned a long time ago, if you want to own a gun in west virginia in my family, you didn't sell it to a stranger, you didn't sell it to a criminal and you certainly didn't sell it to someone who was mentally unstable. he says, that's just common sense. well, it's common sense that escaped the support and attention of the senate republicans. they voted against that provision overwhelmingly, against background checks to keep firearms out of the hands of convicted felons and those who respect mentally unstable. how would you explain that? well, it might be easier to explain that than to explain the other amendment they voted against. listen to this one. if our government comes up with a name by their investigation that they believe is involved, a person, involved in terrorism -- terrorism -- and they put him on a no-fly slois they can't get o- no-fly slois they can't goat an -- list s

manchin: as we finish up, the house is going to vote twice. they're going to vote on the extenders and on this i will about. for the second time we're going to roll them into one. we won't have the opportunity to vote twice. so the omnibus bill is something that i could have supported. the extender bill is absolutely something that i cannot for the future of our country and our chin. it is a shame that we don't have a separate vote. with that, i want to thank the senator from maine and the senator from virginia for this colloquy. with that, we yield the floor. mr. mccain: madam president? officerrethe presiding officer:r the senator from arizona. mr. mccain: i ask unanimous consent to address the senate as if in morning business and take as much time as i may consume. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mccain: 70 years ago a group of american leaders forged the rules-based international order out of the ashes of world war ii. those that were there recall that they were -- quote -- "present at the creation." we may well look back at

i do want to thank my cosponsors, senators manchin, mcconnell, cornyn, inhofe, kirk, and vitter. and before i make the formal unanimous consent request, mr. president, i will yield to the senior senator from pennsylvania, who has joined me in this effort from the beginning, senator casey. mr. casey: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from pennsylvania. mr. casey: thank you, mr. president. i want to thank senator toomey for his work on this legislation, and our work together, and i especially want to commend, as senator toomey did as well, don and jean williams, the parents of corrections officer eric williams. i won't reiterate the horrific nature of his death. senator toomey outlined that. i can't imagine more of a nightmare for a corrections officer and for his or her family. we can bring some measure of protection to these officers by making sure that every possible circumstance is one in which the officer has pepper spray to be able to prevent an attack or to slow an attack down -- slow it down enough, i should say, until that corrections officer gets help. so

. >> joe manchin, the democratic senator from west virginia, was saying the same thing, when it camel shift gears as a litt s s here. the takeoff with ted cruz country christmas tour. i will not make you say that five times fast. but i'll ask you this, donald trump had a huge rally in alabama, big, big numbers, tens of thousands of folks turned out. is ted cruz going to get those numbers in alabama this afternoon? >> i don't know that any republican that has the entertainment aspect that enabled them to draw such huge crowds as donald trump. but in the state of alabama, i base this on my judgment as having served in public office for 30 years in a variety of different positions, in alabama, it is down to two people, donald trump and ted cruz. just as ted cruz has overtaken donald trump in iowa by as many as nine points, i anticipate you'll see the same kind of surge for ted cruz in the southeastern states, not just alabama, but the southeastern states because of our common sharing of values, the kind of values that made america a great nation. ted cruz is spot on and right there. >>

sandra: meantime republican senator mark kirk of illinois and democrat joe manchin of west virginia sent a letter to president obama pushing him to include vetting of social media account as regular part of visa background checks. arizona senator john mccain introduced a bill requiring the department of homeland security to search facebook and twitter as part of any screening. >> he looks so mad. sandra: rightly so. many americans wondering how is this not already part of process? >> i can't believe it either. i was actually shocked to hear this i didn't know not checking so one facebook or social media before they enter the country was not already in place. we wonder why people are filtering into the country and that's why people are pet -- petrified right now. sandra: we're not talk talking about sharing private information. they were not looking at public information. >> public posts. president sees these people as extremist, not radical islammists. they are not willing to draw logical deductions to find out where these people are and identify them as radical islammists. certain place

. >> to manchin and passing to be running for mayor and it is nids thought of before says the chairman of the conservative party actually suggested it to me a long time ago now and like a man of many good ideas it was one of them. but i did briefly think about it and it gave me some insight how to professional politicians and operate because during the time i was thinking about this i was in my apartment building and then to say are you rich are you thinking of running for mayor? yes. i am she said in the mailroom i am sure the of the conservative and with those conspiracy theories that of which that i agreed with the you can find in my book. but to ask me what is your position on rent control? that is one of the worst socialist boondoggles known to man. the only reason i ask is because i lived. [laughter] and if you oppose rent control he will never ever get my vote and it was a complicated issue. with the blue river commission and if there is any changes of the rent control regime. add quite satisfied with this answer i walk down the street saddam quite pleased with myself. i got a g

you know, senator manchin talked about going to rural communities.you got a heavy dose of that in my state. you talk about quick wins, okay. i thought we were going to have a quick win in alaska. and you laid out a plan. you know, one thing i emphasized when i came up there to the veterans was i know you are frustrated but please be camp, you didn't create the problem you're here to fix the problem. but i need to tell you that now i'm the one getting frustrated. because it's been 100 days since you guys were up there. you talked about your six points, which i still have here. i appreciated it. where are they? here they are. on the alaska pilot program. and i am getting hit every day in my state. i was on a plane coming down here two weeks ago. three veterans within a circle of two rows on the airplane were complaining to me. i was telling then, hey, don't worry, we're on it, the va's got a pilot program. it's going to have a win, a quick win, in alaska. and then my staff gets told today that a lot of what you told me and committed to me, and i'm tell

that amendment came to the floor under the sponsorship of senator manchin, democrat of west virginia and senator toomey, a republican of pennsylvania. what it said is very basic. if we are going to sell firearms in america, we are going to make every reasonable effort not to sell them to convicted felons nor people who are mentally unstable. that makes sense. in fact, it should be a standard we all accept. the vast majority of gun owners accept that standard. they don't want guns in the hands of people who would use them in crime nor people who are mentally unstable and can't manage a firearm. that amendment came to the floor again, defeated by the republicans in the united states senate. and it's unfortunate. in the state of il, in the city of chicago too many crime guns cross the border into the city of chicago, coming into that city when they're traced to gun shows and indiana where there are no background checks where people can fill up the trarchgz trarchgz -- trunks of that are cars with ammunition and tros -- cross that border into chicago and engage in deadly violent contact.

. >> senator manchin. >> thank you very much. thank all of you for the work you do.e all have the concerns of va. we want to make sure they get the best service possible. cbocs right now count within that 40 miles. that seems to be our problem. in rural west virginia and i know in rural america. when that situation happens, we don't have the expertise as you can imagine. there's a time lapse that goes on before they can get to the proper care they need. i know you all want to move in that direction. do you believe that the steps you're going in the direction right now is going to relieve that veteran who cannot get the expertise service that he or she will now have to partition and wait and go through a period of time before they can get the services they need? you understand the frustration, right? >> that is precisely the objective. when we describe the existing system as being broken. what you're subscribe describing is the brokenness of the system. >> i think we all have it, don't we? all of us have it? and this takes effect when? >> i'm sorry? >> when -- the new

well, you know, we came very close on expanding the background check legislation with the toomey manchinidn't get enough votes in the senate but again background checks to me make common sense and people who are dangerously mentally ill, convicted felons and on a terrorist watch list. i don't know anybody -- i don't understand why anybody, law-abiding gun owner would be worried about that kind of use of a background check just to make it make sense but as you say it's a presidential election year. it's going to be a hot issue. but it's one that we have to continue to talk about as we try to work through this issue of terrorism. >> talking about that, do you think that the president did a good job in answering and all allaying fears last night his speech and a strategy to fight isis and whether or not congress is going to authorize a new use of force agreement to do battle with isis? >> there's been criticism today of the president's speech but you haven't heard too many people talk about what they would do. and that's what bothers me about this whole debate about so-called authorization

it probably has somewhat different pay, benefits, back to senator manchin's question a moment ago are we paying right people the right amount. this may be a highly paid cadre. closest analog we have quite obviously is special forces. that is roughly what it would look like. i do believe it is time we get after this because i our vulnerabilities are significant in this area. >> second question, to another idea you had, i thought intriguing, idea of ambassadorial level. sort of civilian deputy within the cocomes. i could gather there is unstated discussion, nature of military mission that so much of it is diplomacy. nations want us to send a special purpose people around africa to train their militaries. so much is on the border between diplomacy and military or working out with the japanese the okinawa situation. that is diplomatic as much as it is military. is that sort of your thinking behind the recommendation? >> it is. the structure, as it was in effect when i was at southern command and while i was at u.s. european command i had a military deputy. i think you need to continue to

guest: absolutely. .ike joe manchin host: he ran on guns. one of his campaign as was him shooting at a target. guest: exactly. where, in astration lot of states, it is a different culture. a lot of critics of president obama on gun control, even within his own party, say he does not a knowledge that culture enough or the right of people to own guns. host: we will get one last call, fred, a republican. caller: hello. by all means, but in the same fashion, there should also be gun laws -- just like seatbelts in the car. it should be mandated, just like seatbelts in a car. whether or not people use it is a second story. all guns should have a gun lock before they are sold. it is a safety issue and could keep 30,000 people per year shot by about guns and owners. host: what is coming next on this issue from the white house? within theink next month, or little longer, we will see the president, how and try to release this executive action they are working on. i think we can expect the president to keep speaking out issues.ontrol he wants to keep t

there's a lot of people i'd like to thaifnlg i got to start with senator joe manchin from west virginia to joined me at the very beginning. we introduced this legislation over two years ago as a free-standing bill. it also, in addition to banning passing the trash, it would require background checks, rigorous background checks for any school worker who has unsupervised access to schoolchildren. that part was not included in this. i'm not giving up on that. we're going to have that fight again. but the part that bans passion the trash did -- passing the trash, that did succeed. i'd also like to thank the other cosponsors of this legislation, senators mcconnell, alexander, capito, senator gardner, heller, inhofe, johnson, mccain, vitter, and wicker, and i particularly would like to thank the chairman of the help committee, chairman alexander, and the ranking member, senator murray. we spent a lot of time negotiating exactly how we would make this work mechanically, make sure that we had legislation that would in fact achieve the desired outcome. i also need to send out a huge thank you to

on the floor, though they are bipartisan, at least the senate in a bill sponsored by senator joe manchin, senator at toomey, put forward a reasonable proposition. and whether you believe that 's a panacea or not, or that it will somehow help, or maybe not, aren't the citizens of this country, aren't the families of the victims entitled to a vote? hat do we owe our constituents if not a vote? if the united states congress as nues to remain silent, we are i submit .omplicit in these deaths , ry time we remain silent and every time we take no action. it doesn't take a lot of courage, frankly -- frankly, to vote. we are protected in this building by police, we are surrounded by armed guards, there's nothing that threatens any member of congress from doing its constitutional esponsibility to vote. at takes courage is what officer garrett swayze did just last week, to give his life in and ine of duty, defending under siege.ople you want to talk about ?errorist threats there's real terrorism happening in america every day. re than 1,000 mass shootings since sandy hook, deaths on our streets due

let's support manchin-toomey. please vote no on grassley. the presiding officer: the senator from illinois. mr. durbin: i raise a point of order the pending amendment violates chan 313-1-b-sea of the congressional budget office of 1974. the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. grassley: pursuant to the waiver provisions of applicable budget resolution, i move to waive all applicable sections of that act and applicable budget resolutions for the purpose of this amendment 2914 and ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote:

manchin: mr. president, as a law-abiding gun owner, i can assure you that basically i have been taught not to sell my gun to a stranger, not to sell my gun to a criminal and not to sell my gun to someone who is severely mentally ill. that's how we were trained and that's how most american law-abiding gun owners have trained. all this bill does, does not infringe on the rights of a personal transaction. the only thing this piece of legislation does, it closes the loophole at commercial transactions, such as a gun show and internet sales. i don't know if that person's a credit. i don't know if that person is severely mentally ill. i just don't know that person. i was taught not to sell to that person or give to that person unless i knew them. this is the most commonsense, supported by a majority -- overwhelming majority of americans and an overwhelming majority of american law-abiding gun owners in america. i urge all of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle on this bipartisan legislation to plea

manchin: madam president? i raise a point of order that the pending motion to concur violates section 311-a-2-b of the congressional budget act of 1974. mr. wyden: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. wyden: pursuant to section 904 of the congressional budget act of 1974 and the waiver provisions of applicable budget resolutions, i move to waive all applicable sections of that act and applicable budget resolutions for purposes of the house message to accompany h.r. 2029, and i ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the yeas and nays are ordered. there are two minutes debate on the motion. mr. manchin: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from west virginia. mr. manchin: all i'm asking for in raising this point of order is because tax extender legislation would reduce revenues below the fiscal year 2016 budget agreement and would violate section 311. all i am asking for is separate the votes. if you're p

colleagues, i expect that the next amendments in order after those will be grassley 4914 followed by manchin number 2908, but that's not locked in yet. the presiding officer: the senate is not in order. the senate is not in order. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from new hampshire. mrs. shaheen: i call up amendment 2892. the presiding officer: op op. the clerk: the senator from new hampshire, mrs. shaheen, for herself and others proposes an amendment numbered 2892 to amendment number 2874. mrs. shaheen: mr. president, i ask that further reading be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. shaheen: mr. president, we are facing a public health emergency. in new hampshire and states across the country heroin and opioid are at epidemic levels. the senate is not in order. the presiding officer: the senate will be in order. mrs. shaheen: this is important because it affects every state that's represented here on the senate floor, because each day 120 americans die of drug overdoses. that is two deaths every hour. in new hampshire we're losing one p