mr. alexander if he wants to move the hearing date out for that reason. >> i apologize. are you going to be looking at obtaining yellow's records as well? commissioner garcia: whatever is necessary for us to determine. what i am interested in is if we had a complete record and knew that sometime in 2011 or thereafter his name would come up on the medallion list. does it look as though -- it does not have to be a final determination -- he would qualify? >> right, but i was asking something a little bit different. commissioner fung: driving records for 2009 and 2010. commissioner garcia: that has been stipulated to by the taxi commission. >vice president goh: yellow cab was 2004. it is off the table. commissioner garcia: have been stuck with february 9, or is that too soon? >> can go to march 9? -- can we go to march 9? >> i want to make sure the parties and of the deadlines they have. if we are going to move this to march 9, the citadel would be due the thursday prior -- the submittal would be due the thursday prior. >> i apologize for interrupting, but i can tell you rig

mr. alexander: mr. president, i notice my good friend from new york -- the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. alexander: i thank the presiding officer. i thank the -- the -- i thank the senator from new york for mentioning me. there's a little problem -- there's a little hem with our negotiating -- little problem with our negotiating, we weren't invited to the meeting, mr. president. we were in the capitol tending to constituencies while the president and the democrats leaders and the republican leaders were at the white house. and they had a very constructive meeting from what i understood and they designated certain democrats and certain republicans to see if -- if they could come up with a compromise. now one of those who might have been at the meeting may have just walked on to senate floor, mr. president. and maybe he can inform us. but -- but the negotiations are -- are continuing where they should continue. i was delighted to see the president invite the leaders down for such a go

heidi alexander. >> number one, mr. speaker. >> thank you, mr. speaker. this point i had meetings and in addition to my duties in this house i shall have further such meetings later today. >> heidi alexander. >> thank you, mr. speaker. time and time again the prime minister has said he wants to

mr. alexander: thank you, mr. president. i see the senator from alabama here and i don't want to take time from hirnlings but let me see if i can go back to the beginning here. the government runs out of money friday. taxes go up at the end of the month. republicans have written a letter to the majority leader that say, let's focus on those two things. let's fund the government, keep the tax rates where they are, which woul would be the single t thing we can do in the middle of a downturn to help create jobs. we think we heard the results of the election. our friends on the other side are, like, they keep insignificance or an encore after a concert which attracted a lot of boos i think what the american people were saying to us is fund the government, keep the tax rates where they are, freeze the spending and go home. bring the new congress back in january and let's begin to work on the priorities of the american people. which are to make it easier and cheaper to create private-sector jobs, number one; bring spending closer

mr. alexander: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. alexander: i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. alexander: good to see the distinguished presiding officer. he must have been here all day. he was here yesterday, and i'm grad to see him again. mr. president, how long do i have -- are there limits on my speaking time at the moment? the presiding officer: we've we have a 10-minute grant at this time. mr. alexander: thank you very much. i'll use -- would you please le me know what i've consumed nine. the presiding officer: questionyes.mr. alexander: and else appears, i'll continue a little bit after that. mr. president, i just returned from the hudson institute, a distinguished think tank dow downtown where i made an addres called the new program of american life, less of washington and more of ourselv ourselves. it included a panel of -- foll following my address there was panel of kate o. burn of the "national review," ch

mr. alexander, no. >> reporter: the deadline is looming. the tax cuts expire at the end of the month. if they do, someone making $65,000 a year would see their taxes go up $2,200. for someone making $600,000, they'll see their taxes increase $14,000. so, the senate showdown, or just show, let democrats try to paint the republicans as protecting the rich. republicans were having none of it. >> here we are, on a saturday. we don't need a dog and pony show going on on a saturday. >> reporter: now that democrats have made their point, negotiations begin again. the outlines of a possible deal, the president breaks a campaign promise and allows all the tax cuts, even for the rich, to be extended. at least for a couple of years. in exchange, the republicans then agree to extend unemployment benefits, pass some tax credits the president wants and possibly agree to a ratification vote on the s.t.a.r.t. nuclear treaty with russia. the president says he's ready to roll up his sleeves, redouble his efforts. we're hearing from some hill sources, next week the outlines of that deal could come toget

mr. alexander described his visits to pastor henry's school for low income school in savannah, and the shelter for the fragile homeless in dallas, and the job training program, the qinton learning center in east l.a.. looking to street level problem solvers, solvers for wisdom, rather than elites was the tea party before tea party was cool. [laughter] if things are to be different in 2010, our new congressional servicers have to follow that example and turn again todd wisdom and experience of our grass roots leaders, but they have to show a steadiness of purpose that failed them in 1994 once they had their own hands on the national power. as we seek ways to roll back government, the problems they sought to address are not going away. alternatives are going to have to be found and are going to look again at the more effective, less expensive decentralized solutions that as bob woodson argued for 30 years appear in profusion across network's neighborhoods. this is perhaps, another version of the step-by-step approach you were describing. for conservatives, the next successful journey to the whit

mr. alexander: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. alexander: i'm here tonight in the spirit of my late friend, the author of roots "roots," alex haley, who lived and died by these words, "find the good and praise it." i'm here to commend senator warner, senator chambliss, and the bipartisan group of senators who have focused their attention on this urgent crisis that our country faces, the national debt. this is the way our nation is supposed to work, to see an urgent need, to develop a bipartisan consensus to go to work on it, come up with a strategy to deal with it and get a result. not just make speeches but get a result. we've heard the evidence. we've had the good examples set by five members of our body, two democrats, three republicans, who took a courageous step in their action o on the fiscal commission the other day. we should follow that example. but i'm so encouraged by what i hear. this is the way the senate is supposed to work. let me conclude with just one example from history. i was -- picked up a book the other night

mr. alexander: thank you, mr. president. i was glad i had a chance to hear the senator from colorado and the senator from oklahoma congratulate the senator from colorado on his rer reelection. he mentioned working across party lines, one area where we can do that in this next year where he can make a significant contribution is in the area of fixing "no child left behind", the elementary and education act. he has lots of experience earned the hard way on the ground in that area and he's on the relevant committees and i look forward to working with him. second, i join the senator from colorado in support for the tax plan agreed upon by the president and democratic and republican leaders. i've noticed that over the last couple of days a large number of the news stories is about who wins. you know, who gets political points for this tax agreement. i think the story is the american people win. i mean, the focus of this congress should be, number one, how can we make it easier and cheaper to create private-sector jobs? virtually

alexander. >> number one, mr. speaker. >> thank you, mr. speaker. this point i had meetings and in addition to my duties in this house i shall have further such meetings later today. >> heidi alexander. >> thank you, mr. speaker. time and time again the prime minister has said he wants to protect the poorest and most vulnerable whilst reducing the budget deficit. so -- [shouting] >> so can the prime minister -- [shouting] >> so can the prime minister explain to me and residents of my constituencywhy he is keeping huge cuts upon local he tends to spend half of the federal budget on child fundingon, and servic for the in our schools, the per pupil funding will be maintained at 6951 pounds per pupil. that is the 10th highest in the country, recognizing the level of deprivation. on top of that for the first time in our history we will be adding a pupil premium. >> the bbc reports that german finance minister wants to set an interest rate to punish ireland. will the prime minister confirm that this country wants to help ireland? >> my right honorable frie

mr. alexander sinclair. mr. sinclair is an experience traffic safety and communications professional life of the national highway traffic safety administration. for more than a decade he's been a leader in efforts to protect the nation's child passengers. in this capacity, he promotes educational, promotional, and law enforcement activities. please begin with your opening remarks, mr. sinclair. >> thank you. first, it is a pleasure and privilege to be here. thanks to german hersman and the entire board of the ntsb and whose staff works hard on this issue and has for many years. people often mistake us for ntsb and we take that as flattery. irmanhanks to schermcha hersman. the ntsb has been very consistent about keeping child safety at the forefront of the agenda. whether it is testifying locally or using the bully pulpit that you have or keeping on the most- wanted list, we appreciate the support from ntsb to keep us on the public consciousness. let me just -- ok. the first thing i want to talk about, we are loo

mr. alexander: mr. president, during the 1980's, somehow the united states senators took a survey among themselves about who was the most admired member of the united states senate, and according to press reports, senator howard baker of tennessee was the most admired senator, both by republicans and by democrats. if such a survey were to be taken today, judd gregg would certainly be at the top of that list for most of us. there is not a better member of the united states senate. much has been said about him so i'll say three things quickly because there are other senators who wish to speak. first, judd gregg is of new hampshire, not from new hampshire. we say well, sometimes senator so and so is from tennessee or from new york or from south dakota or from maine, but a senator whose roots are really where roots are supposed to be is of his state. judd gregg sounds like new hampshire, he acts like he's from new hampshire, he is from new hampshire, he votes like he's from new hampshire. the old man of the

mr. alexander described his visits to a school in savannah for low-income children, a shelter in dallas,training program and learning center in east los angeles. this notion that we must look at street level problem solvers for wisdom rather than credentialed elites was part of the tea party before the deportee was cool. [laughter] our new congressional conservatives will have to follow the alexander principal and turned once again to the wisdom and experience of our grassroots leaders. this time they will have to show a steadiness of purpose that failed them in 1994 once they had their own hands on the levers of national power. as we seek ways to roll back government, the problems are not going away. alternatives will have to be found. we'll have to look at the more effective, less expensive, decentralized solutions that appeared in glorious protrusion across america's neighborhoods. this is another step-by-step approach. the next successful journey to the white house for conservatives will begin with lamar. we will explore ways to sweep aside failed solutions of progressivism's arrogan

mr. alexander: i thank the senator from arizona for his extreme courtesy to interrupt just for one minute so that the senator from new mexico can be recognized to -- on a matter. the presiding officer: the senator from new mexico. mr. bingaman: mr. president, as if in legislative session and morning business, i would ask unanimous consent that the commerce committee be discharged from further consideration of h.r. 5116, and the senate proceed to its immediate consideration. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 5116, an act to invest in innovation through research and development to improve the competitiveness of the united states, and for other purposes. the presiding officer: without objection, the committee is discharged and the senate proceeds to the measure. mr. bingaman: mr. president, i would ask unanimous consent that the rockefeller-hutchison substitute amendment which is at the desk be agreed to, the bill as amended be read a third time, that a budget paygo statement be read. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. bingaman: i would also -- would th

mr. alexander: i want to congratulate my colleague from tennessee, senator corker, for his usual common sense as well as the assistant democratic leader, senator durbin, for his courage on the debt commission. i -- i believe that the decision made tonight about the omnibus bill is the best for the country but there could have been a better result. a better result. it would have been along the lines that the senator from illinois described. it would have been better to agree as a senate earlier. which is how much are we going to spend. if we had gone committee by committee, we both serve on the appropriations committee we decided more on this, less on that, but at a limit, we could have brought those to the floor by august, got on with it so the government could run, that would be by far a better result. there's no need, really, to say why that didn't happen whether it was a democratic fault or republican fault. it didn't happen. so that's on all of us to make -- to look ahead and see if it can't happen in the future. i believe that it can. i believe that it must. we have a time coming up next

mr. alexander: i thank the senator from arizona for his extreme courtesy to interrupt just for one minute so that the senator from new mexico can be recognized to -- on a matter. the presiding officer: the senator from new mexico. mr. bingaman: mr. president, as if in legislative session and morning business, i would ask unanimous consent that the commerce committee be discharged from further consideration of h.r. 5116, and the senate proceed to its immediate consideration. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 5116, an act to invest in innovation through research and development to improve the competitiveness of the united states, and for other purposes. the presiding officer: without objection, the committee is discharged and the senate proceeds to the measure. mr. bingaman: mr. president, i would ask unanimous consent that the rockefeller-hutchison substitute amendment which is at the desk be agreed to, the bill as amended be read a third time, that a budget paygo statement be read. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. bingaman: i would also -- would th

alexander haigen. what is your opinion, mr. secretary? he said, i quote, alexander haig word by word, "mr.sident, before we know it we'll be on our knees to thank the lord and to thank the israelis for what they have done. and the same sentence he continued by saying to me try to what could have happened in the gulf war in saddam hussein had a nuclear facility during the gulf war, if it had become so victorious as we came with schwarzkopf -- that's it. actor with an actor schwartzes negger. it's ok. so anyway, just want to tell you the whole thing is we have to rely on ourselves and brothers and sisters. let me say -- and i will finish soon, let me say one important thing -- israel is the frontier of the jewish people but more than that, the jewish people are the frontier of israel. as long as we march together, we will overcome every obstacle in this world once we are united. don't let other people decide the unity between you and the israeli people. that's -- [applause] thank you. thank you. last but really not least, it's great to be here. and i'm waiting for your questions. but one thi

mr. president, i would also like to enter into the record a on letter signed on december 16th by the chairman inouye, diannela feinstein and lamar alexander lk and i'd like unanimous consent record.je >> without objection. >> mr. president, that letter says to the president they will ask for the money necessary to modernize the nuclear a arsenalr that they agree to ask for the money as a part of their you appropriations bill. then you might say what about willac the president and hishat budget ask congress to ask for , that money? -- so o mr. president, our presidig officer, i would like to ask unanimous consent to have athe e letter from the president of the united states on december thepps 20th to the appropriators thaten just wrote the letter it, mentioned seeing that he in facf would ask for those funds in thn budget that he puts forth in the next few months.unanimou i would ask unanimous consenthe for those to be entered into the record. >> without objection. l >> mr. president, they're has there's been a lot of discussion about many things come and i ame going to move to missile defense in just a moment, but i dsn nuclear issues thr

alexander haigen. what is your opinion, mr. secretary? he said, i quote, alexander haig wd by word, "mr.sident, before we know it we'll be on our knees to thank the lord and to thank the israelis for what they have done. and the same sentence he continued by saying to me try to what could have happened in the gulf war in saddam hussein had a nuclear facility during the gulf war, if it had become so victorus as we came with schwarzkopf -- that's it. actor with an actor schwartzes negger. it's ok. so anyway, just want to tell you the whole thing is we have to rely on ourselves and brothers and sisters. let me say -- and i will finish soon, let me say one important thing -- israel is the frontier of the jewish people but more than tha the jewish people are the frontier of israel. as long as we march together, we will overcome every obstacle in this world once we are united. don't let other people decide the unity between you and the israeli people. that's -- [applause] thank you. thank you. last but really not least, it's great to be here. and i'm waiting for your questions. but one thing i

spotlight and just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is alexander deputy prime minister and president of the russian olympic committee. mr zucker after our team's success in the junior games in singapore you said the following i quote in the future we would like to host such games in russia for example and cazan will have a whole infrastructure's for that end of quote when can we be ready for that. quite recently the general assembly of olympic committee as in mexico we met with mr rog president of the audio cd and discussed this issue. he suggested that we should think about hosting the youth winter olympics of twenty eighteen in salt. and possibly the youth summer olympics in ca's on twenty twenty. unlike big events like the winter and summer olympics and world cup championship on which they usually choose the country is aware infrastructure recently developing your sport if you're in the i.o.c. has another opinion about the youth of dance they think that there are to be held at minimum costs then there's the money because they're less profitable bright they're not profitable and besides there are four children so in t

mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that after any leader time on tuesday, decemb december 21st, senator alexander be recognized for up to 10 minutes. ing that following his remarks, the senate the house message with respect to h.r. 3082 and that the time until 10:15 a.m. be divided as follows: 10 minutes under the control of senator inouye or designee, 15 minutes under the control of senator mccain. that upon the use or yielding back of time, the senate then proceed to vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the reid motion to concur in the house amendment to the senate amendment to h.r. 3082 with amendment number 4885. further that upon the conclusion of the vote, senator specter then be recognized for his farewell speech. that any time utilized by senator specter count postcloture if applicable. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kerry: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 9:30 a.m. on tuesday, december 21st, that following the prayer and pledge, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, the morning hour be d

there's that i need to spell oh mrs olson it's not thank you so much for being with us today it's an honor. to the works of alexander solzhenitsyn i remember that when he was alive you plan to publish a complete thirty volume collected works by two thousand and ten which is this year actually. and this year is come internet and it was the progress that. well as usual we are late and we will not manage to publish the entire thirty volumes by the end of the year however we've just published another three volumes so you can find fourteen volumes in bookstores already another two will be ready in a short while with those two the total amount will be sixteen which is after all more than a half there are there are the volumes which require a lot of work on them and written comments so i'm hopeful that in three years it will finish in three years there will still be the same petroleum. content of the collected works was prepared together by me and. it's done exactly as he wanted but there are only complete novels there. and it's the most complete edition of the complete works is something a bit different a complete works e

mr. doyle: i say to my friend, senator inhofe and senator alexander are co-sponsors of this bill. so i think those two gentleman, very conservative gentlemen, i think my friend would agree, are -- have looked at the bill and are co-sponsors of the bill. i'd also say to my friend that i'd be happy to share a copy of my letter from the plumbing manufacturers institute with him, if he'd like to share a letter that he has from anyone that contradicts this. i believe we have shared this letter with your staff, and i hope that you'll look it over. i would just say to the gentleman, to my colleagues, mr. speaker, that i think we should -- we should try to do the best we can do for the american people when it comes to their health. it's true that a handful of states have already adopted lower standards, but it's just a handful of states. we have 50 states, and over 40 still have not done this. so i think it's important that we set a national standard. this will in effect set a national standard that uses the best technologies available to get us as low as we can based on what we know toda

mr. crocker from tennessee, johnny haitham -- john a. isaacson. we have just heard that senator alexander will vote for this. that brings them to eight. you can watch the vote on, c- span2. house representatives are about to come in and will take of that continuing resolution to fund the government. we are expecting their votes today. thanks for watching. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] . . the speaker: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, monsignor steven rosetti, catholic university of america, washington, d.c. the chaplain: good and gracious god, as we enter upon this joyous season, we are also aware of so much hurt and pain, conflict and violence around the world. and even in our own land. we know that as long as we live in the world, such signs of our fallen humanity will always be with us. we do not pray they will all magically disappear, however in this season of grace, we pray that you might be with us in an especially poignant way. may each of us come to know

mrs. ferschke is the only way to right this wrong. i commend senators webb, alexander, corker, and udall for introducing this bill in the senate and representative john duncan for his work on a companion bill in the house. i would also recognize judiciary committee chairman john conyers, immigration subcommittee chairwoman zoe lofgren, and judiciary committee ranking member lamar smith for helping to move this bill to the floor. i ask unanimous consent that the report prepared by u.s. immigration and customs enforcement on the beneficiary of this bill be entered into the record at this point. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. chu: i urge my colleagues to support this important legislation and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas. >> madam speaker, i'm pleased to support this bill and i would like to yield as much time as he wishes to consume to the gentleman from tennessee, mr. duncan, for all of his efforts on companion legislation. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. duncan: thank you,