mccaskill: and i've got a new idea. instead of the measure of your worth being how much you can spend, i think the measure of your worth ought to be how much you can save. and this place turned on the notion that if you stayed here long enough, then you got to be an appropriator. if you got to be an appropriator, then you got more earmarks. if you got to be a ranking on an a subcommittee of an appropriations, you got even more. and then i found out about honey pots. i didn't even know about honey pots until i got here. honey pots are -- and i don't know that you're fum familiar wh that term. a honey pot is what the ranking minority member and chairman set aside as their special pot of money that they get to spend on earmarks that is greater than everyone else's and wha some of the subcommittee appropriations committees have honey pots and some don't. and the very notion that we're deciding how to divide up the money based on how long you've been here, what party you're in, what committees you serve on, you know, that's

it's not just senator mccaskill, dennis ross, a sponsor of this bill to stop internet piracy. this congressman put this cartoon picture of a fat piggy government on his website. unless you deliberately crop it out, congressman, that image comes with a big old obvious copyright mark belonging to a cartoonist he never gave this congressman permission to use his pig. elected officials previously supporting or signed on to sponsor anti-online piracy legislation nevertheless proudly displaying on their most visible web homes content either out right stolen or for which they at least should have provided attribution. which they did not. >> one way to look at this is hypocrisy hypocrisy. doing one thing and saying another. i think the more realistic way of seeing this is not hypocrisy. congress doesn't understand the internet. could we bring back ted stevens, he was from alaska, he served in congress most of us hope to be alive. but nothing in the late great senator stevens long, long legacy is more quotable than this. his explanation of how the internet works. >> you order your movi

. >> senator mccaskill thanked the force with making great advancements. >>> a virginia woman is back home tonight after spending time kidnapped in somalia. jessica buchanan and a dutch colleague were rescued in a daring nighttime raid by navy seals. >> now these aide workers were kidnapped. the sense of urgency really started to heighten this month. what was contributing to that? part of it was the deteriorating health of jessica buchanan. so on monday, president obama authorized the rescue mission and on tuesday, the military pushed forward with it. special operations teams, which included navy seals came to the compound there in somalia. we're told that there were nine kidnappers holding the two hostages, all nine of them were killed in the assault. we're also told that those kidnappers were armed and had explosives nearby. the team was able to get the hostages, get them on the helicopter and get them out of sew somalia safely. >> the man charged with murdering lauren giddings had a court date today. steven mcdaniel is accused of killing the law school graduate, and dismembering he

. >> i would love to, senator mccaskill, and thank you very much for leading the hearing and leading the charge to expose this issue. i want to thank the witnesses ahead of time. you know, when the issue of mismarked graves and mismanagement at arlington came to light initially, i said it was a black eye that needed to be made right. simply put, our nation is entrusted with certain sacred responsibilities. it's not only about honoring and taking care of those who wear the uniform, it's about being there for the families during their time of loss. and when entrusted with the remains of their loved ones, it is incumbent upon this nation to carry out its responsibility with the utmost respect and dignity. on too many occasions in recent member whether it's the mismanagement at arlington or the mishandling of the remains of american troops at dover air force base, that responsibility has been woonded, and that trust has been broken. ms. condon, as the chairman said, i'm happy to have you here along with mr. hanlon. by all accounts, you've stepped up to the plate and instituted a number o

senator mccaskill is silent on this. again, since i'm next door to the state of missouri, i know that the calloway nuclear power plant is in the state of missouri and senator mccaskill is silent on that issue. so what's our scorecard? where are we at with going around the country? because remember, mr. speaker, because of the senate rules, we have to get to 60 to really push something through. so, we've identified what we believe is actually 36 yes votes so far. we've identified 11, actually 10, this should be updated. we have 10 that we really don't know their position. in other words, they have no public statement. or they have not cast a vote. and then we have eight definite noes which means they have made public statements in opposition to moving nuclear waste underneath a mountain in a desert or they have cast a vote somewhere in some time or signed a letter. we're happy to be corrected on any of this analysis of where senators are. but i think it's time and -- that we start to get some accountability in this proces

it was mccaskill in missouri, it was sherrod brown in ohio and it was, of course, santorum. so he got kind of caught up in a whirlwind. not that i'm a conservative in any way, stretch of the imagination but having seen santorum on the stump, he is as good as president obama. i mean, he's good retail politic guy. he gets in that crowd and those people are believing what he is saying. he has got a very unique quality and he connects with people he is not a bus stop kind of candidate. he gets in their face, answers their question, gets away from the bullet points and gets very explanatory. there are qualities about him that i think conner is vat i have two really gravitate to >> i think the idea of ed schultz as rick santorum's surrogate is great. >> if he gets front runner, you will not see a candidate who is half as good as barack obama was his first time out, as a senator, he wasn't half as good on the senate floor. what you have here, rachel, i think you are absolutely -- what you're saying is how can rick santorum be a nominee? exactly the right question, how can any of th

toomey: i ask unanimous consent to call up amendment 1472, my amendment with senator mccaskill. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from pennsylvania, mr. toomey, for himself and others, proposes amendment numbered 1472. mr. toomey: i ask unanimous consent we dispense with the reading. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. toomey: mr. president, i'd like to make some comments about this amendment, but i will do it at a later time when time is more available. i just want to thank my colleague from maine, my colleague from ohio for their helpful cooperation in this process. the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. brown: i'd like to discuss for a moment detail about -- we'll do more detail about the amendments later. i want to say a few words about each of them. they are consistent first with the spirit of the underlying bill, a version which i cosponsored. i am particularly appreciative of senator gillibrand for her good work on this overall issue. the underlying stock act clarifies that insider trading laws apply the same way to

condon. >> senator mccaskill, if i could address the no year money.the arlington wise designated as a civil works that committee. and hence it was a no year find. one of the first names that i did with the help of our assistant secretary for financial management is to put in an accounting system. now that arlington is part of the general fund enterprise business system, we are not fiscally transparent. the financial management community can now see how we expand each and every dollar. the benefit is having no year money was one of the benefits of being able to recoup those on the corrugated obligations from prior years and be able to apply them to the projects we have ongoing right now. because of those on the corrugated obligations, we are able to start and finance and able to put in all of those i.t. is his shoes were able to address and put it to knowledge you buy the right equipment to get arlington where it is today. having no year money from my perspective has really been a benefit for myself to truly put in changes we need. not that we are fisc

it's why i worked with the distinguished senator from missouri, senator mccaskill, to end secret holdsere in the united states senate, why i've had more than 600 open town meetings, why we take legislative drafts and put them on-line so that citizens can comment wherever possible. it's all about transparency and accountability, mr. president. and today's campaign finance system is neither. it's not transparent. it's not possible for americans to see who is giving what sum to what particular candidate, and there's no accountability. certainly no accountability in the sense that when people go to the polls in vermont or new hampshire or new york or anywhere else, people know who's given a donation so that they can factor that into their political judgments. and with t -- with the explosion of mass comeed, the tradition of negative campaigning through pamphleteers and partisans has just grown and grown, to the point where the typical voter just can't find a way to avoid the flood of half-truths and out-right falsehoods, and it becomes even harder to send the message that voters want, and