mcconnell, proposes an amendment numbered 2754 to amendment numbered 2753. mr. mcconnell: now, mr. president -- now, mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the judiciary committee be discharged from further consideration and the senate now proceed to s. res. 293. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 293, supporting the goals and ideals of national domestic violence awareness month, and so forth. the presiding officer: without objection, the committee is discharged and the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: how i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of s. res. 300, submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 300, designating november 7, 2015, as national bison day. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without

mcconnell: now, mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to executive session for the consideration of calendar number 308 through 320, that the nominations be confirmed en bloc, the motions to reconsider be laid on the table, with no intervening action or debate, in a further motions be in order, that any statements related to the nominations be printed in the record, the president be immediately notified of the senate's action, and the senate then re-seou resume legislative. officethe presiding officer: ofr without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 202, s. 1493. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 202, s. 1493, a bill to provide for an increase effective december 1, 2015, in the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and so forth and for other purposes. the presiding officer: there objection to proceeding to the measure? no objection. mr. mcconnel

mcconnell: now, mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 234, h.r. 623. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 234, h.r. 23 -- 623, an act to amend the homeland security act of 2002 to authorize the department of homeland security to establish a social media working group, and for other purposes. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the matter? without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask consent the committee-reported substitute amendment be agreed to, the bill, as amended, be read a third time and passed and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: now, mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of s. 2162. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. mr. mcconnell: introduced earlier today. the clerk: s. 212, a bill to establish -- 2162, a bill to est

i am asking everybody in the united states to call mcconnell. >> but here is the thing, mcconnell is on your side. >> he is not doing the right thing here because he knows by coupling kate's law with the sanctuary cities, it's not even going to come to a vote. he knows that. americans are tired of playing the game, all right, and i'm fed up with the game. >> but i don't think mcconnell is your problem, the democrats are your problem. >> of course they are, but you put the democrats in an untenable position to vote against the law that would say if you're an aggravated felon, they vote against that -- >> the other thing they do in growing this bill is they add liability protection for law enforcement. that brought all the law enforcement to endorse the bill which actually brings more conservative democrats, to vote for it. >> the way to do this, the st d stand-alone kate's law, stand-alone sanctuary cities. that is the way to do it. get the momentum and for the next election -- americans want kate's law, regular americans of all parties want it. okay, and they're fed up with all of th

mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: i ask consent that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent a this the senate be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent that following leader remarks on tuesday october 20, the senate proceed to executive session to consider the following nomination, calendar number 139, that the time until is 1:00 a.m. be equally divided for debate on the nomination in the usual form, that upon the use or yielding back of time, the senate vote without intervening action or debate on the nomination, that following disposition of the nomination, the motion to reconsider be laid on the table, with no intervening action or debate; that no further motions be in order to the nomination,

mcconnell: now, mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today it adjourn until 9:30 a.m., wednesday, october 21. following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, the time for the leaders be reserved for use later in the day. following leader remarks the senate be in a period of morning business for one hour with senators permitted to speak therein. further, that the time during the morning business be equally divided with the majority controlling the first half and the democrats controlling the final half. finally, that following morning business the senate then resume consideration of s. 754. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: if there is no further business to come before the senate i ask it stand adjourned under the previous order. the presiding officer: the the presiding officer: the c-span has her coverage of the road to the white house 2016 where you will find the candid

mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. mcconnell: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent partisan senate proceed to h.r. 1624, which is at the desk, and that the bill be read a third time and the senate vote on passage of the bill with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the title. the clerk: h.r. 1624, an act to amend title 1 of the patient protection and affordable care act and so forth. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. if there is no further debate on the measure, all those in favor say aye. opposed say no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the bill is passed. mr. mcconnell: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the motion to reconsider be made and laid upon the table. the presiding offi

mcconnell: now, mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 10:00 a.m. thursday, october 22. following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day. following leader remarks, the senate resume consideration of s. 754 with the time until 11:00 a.m. equally divided between the two leaders or their designees. finally, that the filing deadline for all second-degree amendments to both the substitute amendment number 2716 and the underlying bill, s. 754, be at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: so if there's no further business to come before the senate, i ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. the presiding officer: the senate stands adjourned until senate stands adjourned until tomorrow former secretary of state hillary clinton will be on capitol hill. members o

leader mcconnell continued, the b.c.a. savings are such a big deal in fact that the president campaigned on it endlessly in 2012. and yet, the lone fiscal accomplishments supposedly of the republican majorities, this deal throws overboard. they didn't have much to point to but they had this one. we have the budget caps. guess what? we don't have those either. then there is the debt ceiling. you know, in 2011 then-minority leader mitch mcconnell talked about what the debt ceiling should be used for. thes a quote from an op-ed he wrote. what republicans want is simple. we want to cut spending now. do this is do this? no. we want to cap run-away spending in the future. does this do this? no. and we want to save our entitlements and our country from bankruptcy by requiring the nation to balance its budget. again, this does not do this. we want to get our economy growing again at a pace that will lead to significant job growth. well, surely there's some progrowth measures in this. no. that wasn't an isolated statement. earlier

at the moment of impact, lucas mcconnell was seated in the back truck. do you remember the sound of metal crunching, of glass breaking? >> glass breaking, and tires screeching. the car that we were in got hit, and we got shot across the road, and we nailed a tree. the back window was completely shattered. and a lot of that glass was in the back of our heads. >> reporter: just seconds later, lucas' father kevin, part of a caravan coming back from that party, pulls up on the scene. >> i see taillights up ahead, as i got a little closer, i see debris in the road and i'm thinking, that's not a party, that's a wreck. the debris in the road tt i saw was the chairs that we had been taking back to the church and my heart just sank. i was like, oh, my god. >>>> reporte eric boyles is in his house when he feels the explosion, rusheout his front door to where he left his wife and daughter. he starts dialing the phone. >> i was on n the phonwith 911. >> tarrant county 911. what is your emergency? >> there's a multicar accident out in front of my house. >> reporter:

mcconnell: i ask consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: for the information of our colleagues, the cloture vote on the house-passed budget and debt limit package will occur an hour after we reconvene, which is 1:00 a.m. under the regular order. once cloture's invoked, the senate will remain in session and on the message until we've voted on passage. senators will be permitted for up to an hour to speak postcloture -- that is, after 1:00 a.m. -- under the rules. it's my hope that the debate time will be extremely limited and that we'll be able to move to passage -- to a passage vote almost immediately after the 1:00 a.m. the timing, however, is up to any individual senator who claims debate time after the 1:00 a.m. vote. so, mr. president, i ask unanimous consent when the senate completes its business today, or at 11:55 p.m. today, whichever comes first, it adjourn until 12:00 01 friday, october 30. following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the journal of pr

leader mcconnell continued. bca savings are such a big deal in fact, that the president campaigned on it endlessly in 2012. and yet, the lone fiscalshme accomplishment of the republican majorities, this deal throws overboard. they didn't have much to point we have budget caps. guess what, we don't have thosee either. and then there is the debt youyo know, in 2011, then minory mitch mcconnell talkedll about what the debt ceiling should be usedou for. this is quote from op-ed he wrote. quote, what republican want is simple. we want to cut spending now. does this do this? no. we want to cap runaway spending in the future. does this do this? no. and we want to save ourts a entitlements, and our countryby from bankruptcy by requiring the nation to balance its budget. again, this does not do this. wn we want to get our economyin growing again at a pace thatwill will lead to significant job growth.urel surely, there are some pro-growth mesh in this. no. that wasn't an isolated statement. earlier in 2011, leaderconn mcc

mcconnell: now, mr. president as in executive session, i ask unanimous consent that the injunction of secrecy be removed from the following treaty transmitted to the senate on october 5, 2015 by the president of the united states: treaty with algeria on neutral legal assistance in criminal matters. i further ask that the treaty be considered as having been read the first time, that it be referred with accompanying papers to the committee on foreign relations in order to be printed, that the president's message be printed in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i now ask unanimous consent that the appointment at the desk appear separately in the record as if made by the chair. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i understand there are four bills at the desk and i ask for their reading en bloc. the presiding officer: the clerk will read the titles of the amendments -- of the bills for the first time en bloc. the clerk: s. 2129, a bill making appropriatio

mcconnell: i move to proceed to calendar number 96, h.r. 2028. the president pro tempore: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to the consideration of h.r. 2028, an act making appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2016, and for other purposes. mr. mcconnell: i send a cloture motion to the desk. the president pro tempore: the clerk will report. the clerk: cloture motion, we the undersigned senators in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate move to bring to a close dependent on the motion to proceed, an act making appropriations for water development for 2016. mr. mcconnell: i ask consent the reading of the names be dispensed with. the president pro tempore: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask consent the mandatory quorum call be waived. the president pro tempore: without objection. mr. mcconnell: henry kissinger recently said that our country faces the most diverse and complex array of crises since world war ii. and it'

i think mitch mcconnell will finally put it up for a stand alone.encourage all americans to call his office in washington. we have number on bill o'reilly.com to suggest that he do that. you think it's going to be up for a vote, too. right? the most effective. so and way to make that happen is for the american people to hold our politicians accountable. >> absolutely. all right. paul ripe, looks like is he going to run for speaker of the house. do you support that? >> you know, i'm staying out of that. >> come on, come on, come on. you are a powerful senator. you are a conservative guy. do you support paul ryan or not? >> it's a question for house republicans to make but i will tell you this. >> i'm going to say no because if you support him i know you would have said look, i think the guy you is right for the job so you don't want him there? >> actually, bill, i have consistently stayed out of house leadership elections. let me tell you what i think the next speaker should be. the next speaker should be someone who takes seriously honoring the prom

mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: i ask that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: mr. president, i said the senate would take up the fiscal agreement after the house acted, and we are. this agreement isn't perfect. i share some concerns other colleagues have raised, but here's the bottom line: this is a fully offset agreement that rejects tax hikes, secures long-term savings through entitlement reforms, and provides increased support for our military. all this at a time when we confront threats in multiple theaters. each of these items was a republican goal heading into the negotiation. each of these items was achieved in the agreement before us. i'm encouraged that it would enact the most significant reform to social security since 1983, resulting in $168 billion in long-term savings. i'm encouraged that it would repeal more of obamacare, and i am real estate encourage

should mitch mcconnell leave? >> look, that's a question for the republican conference to make. >> you're a member of the republican conference. >> what i have said -- >> have you called -- why don't you challenge him? why don't you call for him to step down? >> what i have said repeatedly chuck, both publicly and privately -- and when i say publicly and privately, that's the same thing -- we need leaders who will honor the promises that men and women have made to us. >> if you're glad john boehner is leaving, how come you don't call out mitch mcconnell? >> listen, at the end of the day -- >> he is your leader. >> at the end of the day it depends on where the votes are in the conference. mitch has the votes to remain as majority leader. >> i'm going to read you quotes from your fellow republicans. senator lamar alexander said this about you. "in kindergarten you learn to work well together and play by the rules. another thing you learn in kindergarten is to respect one another." senator orrin hatch "squabbling and

mcconnell, john boehner, myself, nancy pelosi, and harry reid, we have all spoken and talk about trying to negotiate a budget agreement. and, yes, speaker boehner's decision to step down complicates it, but i do think there is still a path or us to come up with a reasonable agreement that raises the spending caps to make sure we can properly finance both our defense and non-defense needs, controlntains a prudent of our deficits and that we can do that in short order. it's not that complicated. .ou know, the math is the math what i have encouraged is that we get started on that work immediately and we pushed through over the next several outs and try to leave extraneous issues that may prevent us from getting a budget agreement. i know, for example, that there are many republicans who are angry about planned parenthood. i deeply disagree with them on that issue, and i think that it is mischaracterized -- it has mischaracterized what planned .arenthood does but you cannot have an issue like that potentially wreck the entire u.s. economy any more than i should hold the entire budget hostag

earlier this summer he made headlines when he called mitch mcconnell a liar charging that mcconnell strucka deal after telling him otherwise. >> the majority leader looked at me and said there is no deal. there is no deal. there is no deal. like st. peter he repeated it three times. that's what we just saw today was an absolute demonstration that not only what he told every republican senator but what he told the press over and over and over again was a simple lie. we now know that when the majority leader looks us in the eyes and makes an explicit commitment that he is willing to say things that he knows are false. >> with the potential for another fiscal crisis this fall the gamble may be the stricken government will give his presidential campaign a boost in the home stretch to iowa. i am joined by kathleen parker and republican strategist. i think this is where the parallel realities are meeting now. cruz is in the running, one of the top five people that might win. he has basically become an ied blowing up things in the house of representatives. >> he's short of created this image of h

after it passed, mcconnell issued a statement applauding what this might mean for kentucky, saying: "this is an important victory for kentucky's farmers, and i was pleased to be able to secure this language on behalf of our state. we are laying the groundwork for a new commodity market for kentucky farmers." brian furnish was one of the first kentucky farmers approved last year to grow hemp, but it wasn't that simple. because the state lacked a controlled substance import permit, the drug enforcement administration held up the first batch of seed for weeks. >> they seized one of our shipments and we had to go to court in louisville to get the seed released and to lay out the framework of what we would have to do to get our licensing permits. last year was a really slow process. this season it wasn't so bad. they only delayed us about maybe ten days. >> reporter: even with seeds in hand, furnish was monitored from planting to harvest. >> everything we do has to be reported. we have to go through a criminal background check. all of our fields have to be g.p.s. when they're planted. samp

>> and shouldn't senator mcconnell say that there is no default? >> i think that the senate majority leader is wrong. and i disagree with them, and we will figure out how to hold the line, and change the trajectory and not just gravitate to the lower common denominator and to signal that you will cave at the en end, and that is what i am interested in doing. >> and he said the same thing about the no shutdown, and you believe he is wrong about that? >> yes, our role and responsibility is to put the bill on the president's desk, and then he has to decide if he wants to shut it down. >> so you think that mcconnell is wrong about the shutdown? >> yes. shand one of the challenges is to not be working together to put a bill on the president's desk. the president really has had to veto next to nothing. and i think that if we had good bills broad bills on both sides of the house and the senate, to get them to the president's desk, that is what we were elected to do. >> is senator mcconnell a good leader of the party? >> yes, i have the greatest respect fo

mcconnell: i send a cloture motion to the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. the clerk: cloture motion: we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the conference report to accompany h.r. 1735, an act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities of the department of defense and for military construction, to proscribe military personnel strepgs for such fiscal year and other purposes, signed by 1 senators as follows -- mr. mcconnell: i ask that reading of the names be dispensed with. officer without objection. -- the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from delaware. mr. coons: mr. president i ask unanimous consent that proceedings under the quorum call be vitiated. the pre

boehner was pushing a three month extension and mcconnell was saying a here extension. they are not even talking to each other. that is much more frustrating because it seems we are treading water and doing got you politics way more in congress. i think that is why so many voters are attracted to a donald trump who is all about i can be different. it is obvious he is different. odd, i would say. >> host: it is not just the hair. >> guest: but because of bernie's philosophy, not because he is odd, but he feels like he is going to shake it up, that is why you see the voters attracted to those candidates. they want someone to grab the status quo by its lapel and shake it into submission. i get that feeling. very frustrating. >> host: interesting enough that aspect of the dysfunction, the winging of authority among the party leadership, in part that is what is fueling these outsider candidates. there is an irony and you are begging for leadership internally and that is a little bit of what voters are looking for, too. you are begging for leadership but part of the problem i

leader mcconnell, chairman inhofe and senator daines from montana. i think we've presented a clear picture of the impact of these rules. so i would ask unanimous consent that any time spent in a quorum call before the 4:00 p.m. vote series be charged equally against both sides. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mrs. capito: i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. nelson: mr. president, i want to talk about the crisis, the financial crisis that's going on in puerto rico. we've all heard about the current situation that puerto rico finds itself, and they are suffering. they're having trouble paying their bills, and their economy is in shambles. and some people had the attitude, well, that's not our problem. but they're forgetting the fact that puerto rico is part of the united states. it's a territory. it is not a foreign country. puerto ricans are american citizens. if a problem exists in puerto rico, it exists in the united states. it isn't something that we can jus

senator mcconnell: we'll talk about it further. they started at the staff level, the first meeting occurred yesterday and we are getting started. [inaudible] >> washington ideas forum which began yesterday. at 8:00 p.m. we will hear from senator warren and the 2016 presidential race. right after that, rodgers will alk about the resignation of planned parenthood and government spending. watch both of those events. earlier prime minister netanyahu iranian nuclear eal and here's a look. prime minister netanyahu: i have said the greatest dangerer facing our world is the couming of islam. and i'm grateful concerned that the nuclear deal with iran will prove to be the marriage certificate of that unwholly union. i know that some well intentioned people sincerely believe that this deal is the best way to block iran's path to the bottom. but one of the history's most important yet least learned lessons is this. the best intentions don't present the worst outcome. the vast majority of israelis believe that this nuclear deal with iran is a v

mcconnell: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that notwithstanding rule 22, that at 11:00 a.m. on tuesday, october 27, the postcloture time be considered expired on amendment number 2716 and the senate vote in relation to the following naments the order listed -- amendments in the order listed -- wyden, 2621, as modified; heller, 2548, as modified; leahy, 2587, as modified; flake, 2582; franken, 26,12, -- 26azerbaijan further modified. that following the disposition of the franken amendment, the senate recess until 2. 156789 for the weekly conference meetings. that the time from 2:15 until 4:00 p.m. be equally divided in the usual form. and that at 4:00 p.m. on tuesday, the senate vote in relation to the following amendments in the order listed. coons 2552 as modified. cotton 2581 as modified. burr-fine stein substitute 2716 as amended if amended. if cloture is invoked on s. 754, all postcloture time be yielded back, the bill be read a third time, the senate vote on passage of s. 754 as amended

if mitch mcconnell wants to keep the majority senate.e has to defend the seats, there's 10 democratic seats up for re-election. that's a problem that he faces. a second problem, getting his counterparts to internalize the fact that the rules for the senate means for most things, a filibuster in the senate is not going anywhere. it's been around for a long time. we have heard calls in recent days from senator and house members. it may be time to revisit the rule. for now, we have the filibuster, and that will keep democratic voices is on the senate side in the conversation because of way the institution. you mentioned real policies that they say people have, but they want to be in the majority when the spoke clears in 2017, and people like kelly, who ran in a republican year, but have to defend in a presidential year when the shape of the electorate is different. are they going to start putting pressure on the house. help me out here? >> the fundamental change is we don't talk a lot of politics and principle. >> these folks, a lot come he