were going to sign percy hervin or michael bennet or other key players. they will tell you about the players and show me some tape and walk through it. these are significant amounts of money. not just the cost of but the impact of what is what half your salary cap for a number of years. it willake a misstep, take your franchise back. unfortunately, they have worked out really well. >> what is philosophy that john and pete has put together that make the seahawks in the super bowl? them are out of the box thinkers. speed and in some cases like cornerbacks, receivers, larger players, faster players. and -- in the case of russell wilson, they loved his skill. even though most people had ruled him out as a first round draft pick. today, hea draft would be taken in the first around. they have the ability to think outside of the box. you have to have a golden sense of what is inside of a player and what will get them over the top. amazing, such an competitive sports. they saw that amoroso wilson and many of the players -- russell wilson and many of the players.

and michael bennet seemed to have blinked a bit. and later martin indyk was quoted as telling u.s. jewish leaders that the bulk of the settlers would remain in israel in any settlement. now, one result of this combination of fact is that some israelis begin to wonder if perhaps netanyahu might be willing to take some political risks. we did not have the opportunity to discuss these events with palestinians. toward the end of our visit a boycott by the eu of products produced in settlements, remember the famous soda stream ad for the super bowl for you football fans. and disinvestment in banks operating in the settlement was having an impact on the israeli public and on the body politic. kerry's warning in munich about the potential for israeli isolation helped bring this pot to a boil. tom friedman, reporting from ramallah, devoted his latest column to the subject. and the forthcoming visit of german leader angela merkel who is considered israel's best friend in europe will be important in this discussion. what she says, how she says it before and after the forum. now, for the mill

and -- michael bennet and others, and it was worth commenting on that meeting with the president about his address that he gave a week ago to the congress and to the nation. he addressed congress and the nation and described the challenges facing families in america, wages that are far too low, cost of education far too high, and simply there are far too few jobs. each of these challenges places another stumbling block in front of americans striving to enter the middle class and also middle class trying to do their best to hang onto their status as part of the middle class. the middle class is being squeezed, mr. president. the rich are getting richer. the poor are getting poorer. the middle class is being squeezed, squeezed really hard. unless we open the doors of opportunity, every child in this nation, our grandchildren will no longer be able to do what we expect our grandchildren to be able to accomplish. every child in this nation, our grandchildren, will have to work longer and harder than we did just to get by, let alone just to get ahead. yesterday i read with interest th

[laughter] strange comparison there, but michael bennet joining us now. just how divided our rebuttal can right now -- are reported right now -- just how divided our republicans now? >> they are scrambling, speaker boehner cannot get enough votes to do anything on the debt limit. he could not get the support to force a rider that would the president to approve the keystone pipeline. if republicans cannot find 218 votes to do that, they are not going to be able to do anything. they are scrambling and time is running out. >> time is running out, jack lew said the time should run out by the middle of this month. go into extraordinary measures, which we have done before, right? in october,back they had a partial shutdown in washington. they suspended the debt limit until today. the treasury has extraordinary measures that should get us through the end of the month. -- congress has seven workdays for the rest of this month. >> republicans love to fight with each other, fight with democrats. we have indications that on the immigration reform bill, we would get

the great work of senator lamar alexander of tennessee, senator orrin hatch of utah, senator michael bennet of colorado, and others who have undertaken this in the past. these senators have helped to lay the groundwork for the development of a risk-based framework for health are i.t. -- health i.t. the ideas included in the protect act would not be possible without the progress that they secured in previous congresses and in the f.d.a.'s safety and innovation act. i'm committed to working with anyone on these issues to exchange views, to exchange ideas so we can get the right policy balance our country needs and deserves. and, again, i thank my friends, senator king from maine and senator rubio from florida, for joining me in this important effort. together, we can achieve our shared vision of protecting patient safety, protecting innovation, and protecting u.s. economic jobs growth and opportunity. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from maine. mr. king: before joining senator fisher, i'd like to ask unanimous consent t