being married was just not meant for me so i can't explain that i'm sure there's many reasons but mr y. all you know you just you can't let it bother you because god has a plan for everyone and so i think. you know gay maybe that day will come for me but it hasn't come and so it bothers me but it's just something i just can't explain. i understand that i've been placed in these situations for a reason maybe i don't understand why perhaps it's because i have the ability to withstand what has happened i'm glad i volunteered i'm glad i was assigned to go on time oh i'm sure that was part of god's plan even if. i don't always understand it and i don't always agree with the outcome. but. that's what happened and i just really have no regrets. the resigned joy and serving in the military still only job i knew the only life i knew for my entire adult life. my childhood was living in poverty. and i made a decision to join the military because otherwise i don't know what will become of me. i had a sense of why. i did everything to support the mission down. and did what they wanted me to do but that

mr. speaker, y: in the midst of all our difficult debates that are occurring in this body and throughoutashington, whether it's about the right type of health care reform or how to stop the ever-expanding federal debt, which threatens both our economic as well as national security, and as important as these debates are, it should not be lost on us, though, that there is a grave struggle for the protection of a fundamental proposition of human dignity and a basis for civilization itself. this is the protection of the rights of conscience and religious freedom. even in the midst of all of our other debates, many americans are concerned about the heartwrenching stories of individuals who have been detained, condemned, incarcerated, often tore turd, sometimes for years throughout the world, even under the sentence of death for some simply for the peaceful exercise of their religious rights. mr. speaker, given the scale of human suffering endured and extensively documented in this past century alone, it is often difficult to grasp that humanity in the 21st century, with all of its technologic

y el tema de la necesidad de una reforma lo mencion de entrada. s.o.t. interruptions mr president, please use your executive order to halt deportations for all 11.5 undocumentedigrants. pero en medio del discurso, un joven soÑador lo interrumpi y le grit que usara su poder ejecutivo para frenara las deportaciones. nats.. otros jvenes se unieron en coro. el presidente respondi que legalmente no poda hacerlo. s.o.t. ju hong/manifestante i didn't get the response that i wanted to he just treated it like a kid, he dind't directly answer jque obama no le dio una li por la tannte.. otros jovenes soÑadores que fueron invitados a discurso coinciden. s.o.t. 1:12: eque no le contestó muy regunta, y eéme que estoy silucionada por su respuesta. o. samantha romero/soñadora yo creo que él sí tiene el poder ra cambiarlo, él tiene el s deportaciones ahorita. el abogado indocumentad mbieuvo en el discurso. s.o.t. garcía/abogado indocumentado en realidad un discurso bastante illado, es algo que no hayoescuchado antes, lo foma está atorada por la culpa , pero este presidente especialmente ahorita para la navidad y para el día de acción de gracia podria parar las deportaciones.

we have continued to monitor but at this time, all we know is that that plan has fallen apart. >> ok, thank you. y next question would be for mr. pieletti and mr. lewis. according to some news reports, the company that hired alexis, a company called the experts, had phoned his hotel room in rhode island in august saying he was unstable and that the company was bringing him home. according to news reports, the human resources director of question the experts talked to the mother of aaron alexis on august 9 and she informed the company of her son's past pair noid behavior and state head probably needed therapy. i would ask first of all if the company had hired alexis had become aware of the increasingly troubled behavior, do you think the contractor should have a duty to report the behavior to the department of defense? and did they report it? >> senator, in this particular case that you just described, in terms of a national security perspective, it behaves everyone to report any unusual activity they see, whether it be a colleague, a co-worker or a subordinate that works for you. >> and the second half of my question was, did

mr. chao, you said this, when asked about october 1, my marching orders were, get the system up by october 1. right? >> correct. >> why? if you got all these problems y. not wait? >> i didn't ask why. i said that's -- >> what i'm suggesting is the folks at the white house knew this thing had problems. evidence by the testing that wasn't done end-to-end. they for political reason picked this date. for political reasons they had to adhere to this date anti-end result is, americans' personal information is put at risk. >> i tried to correct your perception of what this excerpt is from. it's about a long will chain of systems that needs to be built. and this is a point -- >> mr. chairman, i have two seconds. let me finish with this. we have asked, you and i have asked, ms. depaul, ms. lam breaux to come in front of this committee next year and the letter we got back yesterday was they aren't going to come. they are the people we need because they are the political people in charge. they are the ones who determined october 1 was the date that needed to move forward on. they are the ones who i think ultimately are responsible putting at risk americans' per

wants to debate, in any way to imply sig anything -y anything other than a very positive relationship that we have. mr. reid: i ask consent to yield back all postcloture time. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. the question is on the motion to proceed. all in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes appear to have it. mr. reid: mr. president -- the presiding officer: the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. the clerk will report. the clerk: s. is 197, a bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2014 for military activities of the department of defense and so forth and for other purposes. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: on behalf of senator levin be, i have an amendment at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: th the senator from nevada, mr. reid, for mr. he have levin proposes amendment 2123. mr. reid: i ask for the yeas and nays on that amendment. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the yeas and nays are ordered. mr. reid: on senator levin's barvetion i have a second-degree