mr. alexander: thank you, madam president. it seems as if every day there's some new action by the obama administration which throws a big, wet blanket over job creation in america. republicans haven't been hesitant to point this out. we talked about too many taxes, too many regulations, too much debt, $4 gasoline, high-tax energy prices, a health care law. even yesterday senator graham and senator demint and i introduced legislation to reaffirm section 14-b of the taft-hartly act to permit states if they so choose to have a right-to-work law creating a competitive environment in which -- in which we can create more jobs in this country. this is in reaction to an action by the national labor relations board that would basically say that -- that the boeing company couldn't expand into a nonunion state. and i ask unanimous consent to include in the record following my remarks an editorial in "the wall street journal," today called "the congress versus the nlrb." the presiding officer: without objection. mr. alexander: but, as im

mr. alexander: thank you. mr. president, senator corker and i had the privilege of being in chute into gay on monday for the -- in cht into gay on monday for the opening of a plant. here is a major manufacturer in the world making in the united states what it plans to sell in the united states. we salute volkswagen and i salute chatanooga. one-third of our manufacturing jobs in our state are auto gobbles. there was a new volkswagen passat that gets 43 miles a gallon and that's good news for americans who are paying $4 or more a gallon for gasoline. but as i was there at that celebration for these new fuel-efficient cars, and earlier in week at a hearing of the energy committee, i was thinking, what if i were to say to you or to anyone o i might seekers while you're worrying about $4 gasoline, did you know that we have signature over here unused -- sitting over here unused enough fuel that is not oil to power 40% of our light cars and trucks at a lower cost? that's right. we have unused every night enough power to

mr. alexander: i ask consent that the quorum call time be equally divided. the presiding officer: without mr. lieberman: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. lieberman: madam president, i ask unanimous consent that further proceedings under the quorum calldispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. -- quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. lieberman: madam president, i rise today to offer my full support for susan carney of my state of connecticut who is the president's nominee, now approved by the judiciary committee, to serve on a very important circuit court, the united states court of appeals for the second circuit. susan carney's legal education and long career of public service, i think, will make her a valuable addition to the federal bench. i thank president obama for his decision to nominate ms. carney, and i urge my colleagues across party lines to confirm her nomination when it comes to a vote in a short while today. ms. carney, as a matter of record, was quick

mr. alexander: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senior senator from tennessee is recognized. mr. alexander: thank you. i ask unanimous consent to vitiate the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. alexander: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i've come to the floor today to introduce on behalf of 34 senators the job protection act. the job protection act is occasioned by a decision of the acting general counsel of the national labor relations board to file a complaint to stop the boeing company from building airplanes at a nonunion plant in south carolina, suggesting that a unionized american company cannot expand its operations in one of 22 states with a right-to-work law. a right-to-work law protects a worker's right to join or not to join a union. for example, in tennessee, in the case -- we're a trite work state -- a right to work state. in the case of a saturn employee, a worker at the saturn plant doesn't have to join a union or pay due, but he or she does have to accept the u.a.w. arrest its bargaining -- u.a.w. as its bargaining p

to talk a little bit more about what his arrest means for the serbian people i'm joined live by mr alexander who is a political analyst here in belgrade thank you so much for talking to us now. what does it mean for the people of serbia are they happy about it are they not happy about it. because they don't first of all because. you're all somebody will protect and serve from another genocide like. the second thing is they don't think that any of those promises made to this. come into play with real life still there . it's just another sort of a national humiliation so anything tangible being gone. return they mention promises i am presuming you're referring to the promises of e.u. membership that was given to serbia for the actual people to see membership really matter but it might have several years ago the thing is it's it's become an old and tired story and the more people. listen about it the less they're actually includes them they actually believe because all they're seeing is any money that comes in from the outside winds up in the pockets of a very few people mostly the politicians

talk a little bit more about what his arrest means for their serbian people i'm joined live by mr alexander who is a political analyst here in belgrade thank you so much for talking to us now what is his arrest what does it mean for the people of serbia are they happy about it or are they not happy about it i think most people are not. because they don't first of all the considerable others they've been up on here all somebody to protect the serbs from another genocide like really the world war two and the second thing. as they don't think that any of those promises made to this government will actually come into play roulette should be realized so it's just another sort of a national humiliation so they think tangible being done in return a mission promises that they are presuming you're referring to the promises of e.u. membership that was given to serbia but of course the officials want that very badly i mean billions of dollars worth of aids grants and all that but for the actual people living in belgrade working in serbia at making their money making a living just even membership reall

talk a little bit more about what his arrest means for their serbian people i'm joined live by mr alexander who is a political analyst thank you so much for talking to us now. what does it mean for the people of serbia are they happy about it are they not happy about it. because first of all because. your old. boy. many of those promises made. comments are playing with you realize. it's just another sort of national humiliation. you think will be. a mission promises presume you're referring to the promises of membership that was given to serbia for the actual people membership really matter well. it might have several years ago the thing is it's become an old and tired story and the more people. listen about it here about the less they're actually enthused and they actually believe because all they're seeing is any money that comes in from the outside winds up in the pockets of very few people mostly the politicians they try to you know of course i understand that many people here in serbia are very dissatisfied with the tribe you know and don't actually believe it can be objective absolute

mr. alexander: mr. president, i would like to congratulate the men and women of our military for a courageous mission and our intelligence community for accurate and important intelligence. i would like to congratulate the president for his persistence in bringing a mass murderer to justice, and i would especially like to salute the men and women of our military services who for the last ten years have fought as indispensable consequences of the actions of terrorism. and all of us, as has been said by many senators today, expressly having our hearts -- having in our hearts and minds the families of the victims of 9/11 and hope that somehow in a small way this event helps bring some conclusion to what has happened to their lives. mr. president, i have just returned from visiting eastern tennessee where there were devastating tornadoes last week. the president at the request of our entire congressional delegation has declared four of our counties -- washington, green, hamilton, bradley -- as disaster area

mr. alexander: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. alexander: mr. president, on friday, i visited memphis to see the flooding along the mississippi river myself -- on friday, visited memphis to see the flooding along the mississippi river myself and to visit with volunteers who were helping and to see the tremendously well-coordinated effort of emergency workers who are meeting and working every day, long into the evenings, and have been doing so for the last two weeks and will continue to do so for the next few. i want to make sure that, as the federal government's role for helping arrives, that we're doing everything that we should be doing. it's quite a sight in memphis. i mean, the mississippi river today is 14 feet above flood stage. it's at a level that nearly equals the level in 1937. the river is normally a half mile wide. today it is three miles wide. and a great many people in tennessee and arkansas have been evacuated because their homes are flooded with water. as we saw a year ago in the tennessee floods which stretched from nashville to

mr. alexander describes his life working as an ice cream skipper, pizza delivery man, a construction worker and fast food jockey. from florida this is about 45 minutes. >> thank you so much for coming. this is amazing. thank you on c-span for watching. you all can't see it, but there are about 700 people here. [laughter] the thing the was the killer i appreciate you giving the people being willing to turn in traffic, the copps, a highway patrol, i don't know if you saw there was a swat team out there to try to control some of the people of the upper deck who were going to get unruly. [laughter] so thank you all very much for coming. the name of my book is you want fries with that a white collar experience life at minimum wage. i was in the advertising profession for about 14 years, and year 13i started daydreaming about other jobs, and i went on-line as if one of those professional personality profiles, and i put in my likes and dislikes, and the only to jobs they could come up with me that fit me for snipers and beer tasters. they were not hiring any one of those categories. sali talk to m

mr. alexander: thank you. and i'd like to add i saw today a -- a a representative -- a representative of the whirlpool company which has 2,500 employees in tennessee. he said that whirlpool makes 82% of what they sell in the united states here in the united states, but that they have a choice. they have plants in mexico as well. one more example of why allowing states to have a right-to-work law keeps jobs in our -- in our country. now, madam president, i see on the floor senator demint whose state is directly affected by this nlrb decision. he and i are working together on this legislation and -- and i'm sure that he has comments on the legislation and on the decision of the nlrb. the presiding officer: the senator from south carolina. demint demint thank you, madam president -- mr. demint: i want to associate myself with the senator from tennessee. i appreciate him bringing this up. it is important to us here in the senate and as well as everyone around the country to understand what this administration is d

mr. alexander: thank you. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from kansas. mr. roberts: thank you, madam president. i rise to speak in favor of the legislation that has been introduced by my friend and our republican leader, senator mcconnell, that would take our country in the direction of greater domestic energy production and certainly robust job creation, as opposed to taxing or trying to the very people who provide our energy. madam president, as every american knows, few issues today are more critical to the american taxpayer than the price of energy. whether it's powering our homes or fueling farm equipment or filling up our cars at the pump, the price of energy directly impacts the cost of goods and operating expenses for our american producers. now, while there is a multitude of variables that impact the cost of gasoline, it's important we don't overlook the main factor impacting prices at the pump. and one more time for my colleagues across the aisle, that is the global supply and demand of crude. with roughly 70% of the price of gasoline and diesel

in district 1 -- in district two, alexander ong, district three, mr.ng, district four, the store manager of the sunset district good will, martin lamb, in district 5, rodney chen, district 6, steven lee, the leader of aspire, district 7, a longtime democratic activist, district 8, the founding executive director of the chinatown community development center gordon chen, strychnine shirley chen, district 10, a community leader and visitation valley, and last but not least, the business woman and president of an iron works co., florence kong. could you join me in thanking all of their leadership? [applause] the last thing i want to say is we have been celebrating our heritage for 163 years, and i look forward to another 163 years of celebration. thank you very much for being here. >> supervisor chiu, thank you very much. this is the seventh year that san francisco has held an official celebration for asian americans. the plans are the culminated efforts of the members of the mayor's asian-pacific american heritage celebration committee. please welcome me

mr. alexander: thank you very much, mr. president. to make a few remarks about the actions that have caused this, i just left a hearing in the health, education, labor and pensions committee on the middle class in america. and one of the witnesses there was the general counsel of the boeing company. and as might be expected, given the notoriety of this case and the breathtaking scope of it, he got a lot of the questions. let me first say why there's such a breathtaking scope here. up until the filing of the complaint, one would assume that a manufacturing company such as boeing, or a smaller company, who wanted to open a new plant to create new jobs could make its own decision about where to do that. and that in doing so, it could take into account such factors as the cost of labor. it could take into account such factors as the labor relations within a state, as well as the geographical location of the -- of the state. and many other factors. but the reason the decision by the acting general counsel has attracted so much attention is

more cuts in the beleaguered country well let's get some insight on this from the economist alexander law mr la thank you very much for being here with us on the program so tell us what are the chances that greece will pull out of the eurozone and also mind that sound the death knell for the euro itself. well the chances that greece exiting the euro zone mounting by the day we had some very strong statements from one of greece's representatives yesterday yet the european commission who is saying basically we've got two choices either we could truly agreements with our creditors we take severe austerity measures which will keep you popular in the country or else we return to the drachma the issue here is can greece actually go any further in its restructuring can greece actually take all the measures which are necessary i'm not totally sure because when you look at the interest rate it's got to pay the extra you need punitive in a way the markets have already fucked to did the fact that they believe that's reschedule to give the debt is only cards or at least if not a partial default if that

. >> thank you very much, senator alexander. mr. secretary, welcome. i'm here to focus your attention on the gas plan, which i believe, you know, has been enriching uranium for 60 years. it happens to be the economic engine of far western kentucky. many people think of kentucky as a coal state, which we are, but we're also a nuclear state. the plant has 1,200 employees. it is in the process of closing down. there are, however, 40,000 cylinders of depleted uranium in paducah, which are typically referred to in the business as tails. if they were reenriched, it would be a profitable venture. these are government-owned resources, highly valued, stored in a lot, which could be sold to create revenue for the government. and in the meantime, happily enough for western kentucky i can't say, keep 1,200 people from collecting unemployment. so an avoidance of unemployment for 1,200 people. are you familiar with the issue at the uranium enrichment plant? >> yes, i am. it's my understanding the department does not have a plan for enriching that at paducah, is that

. >> thank you very much, senator alexander. mr. secretary, welcome. i'm here to focus your attention on the diffusion plant. it has been enriching uranium for 60 years. it happens to be economic engine of far western kentucky. many people think of kentucky as a coal state, which we are. but we're also a nuclear state. the plant has 1200 employees. it is in the process of closing down. there are, however, 40,000 cylinders of depleted uranium, which are typically referred to in the business as details. if they were real enriched -- reenriched, it would be profitable. these are government resources that could be stored to make revenue for the government. in the meantime, happily enough for zero western kentuckians, keep 1200 people from collecting unemployment. so it could raise revenue for the government and avoid unemployment for 1200 people. are you familiar with the tales issue at the uranium enrichment plant? >> yes, i am. >> it is my and steny that the department does not have the current plan for -- it is my understanding that the department does

alexander, visit his web site at www.southernfriedwriter.com. >>> the author of armed humanitarian is the rise of the nation builders. mr. hodge, defined nation-building. >> it's one of those tricky terms nobody ever really wants to own a and that's one of the reasons i chose to write about it. i'm not using it as a political science to the development sense. using the replete george tebeau bush, barack obama or david petraeus would have used it was just describing the kind of mission of armed nation building but we are involved in that sort of been described in ways as the armed social work and i am trying to describe the phenomenon to the reader that might have this idea that when they look at the news and see what journalists call the bank and from places like iraq and afghanistan and show another picture of what goes on, as of three cups of tea side of the war which is what the military calls the non-kinetic side of things and what i wanted to get was the experience of people who were getting their hands dirty doing these kind of things, rebuilding schools, digging wells and roads, in places like iraq and afghanistan

. >> thank you senator alexander and chairman feinstein. mr. secretary, welcome. i am here to focus your attention on the diffusion plant which is i believe as you know has been enriching uranium for 60 years. it happens to be the economic engine for our western kentucky. many people think of kentucky has a coal state, which we are but we are also in lear state. the plant has 1200 employees. it is in the process of closing down. there are however 40000 cylinders of depleted uranium at paducah which are typically referred to in the business as tales. if they were re-enraged, it would be a profitable venture. these are government owned resources, highly valued, stored in a locked which can be sold to create revenue for the government. and in the meantime, for western kentuckians keith 1200 people from collecting unemployment. so a revenue raiser for the government and an avoidance of unemployment for 1200 t. pull. are you familiar with the tales issue at the uranium enrichment plant? >> yes, i am. >> is my understanding the department at least at the moment does not

alexander lukashenko. spny -- sony is continuing to work on an attack that compromised millions of its users. that is your business update. now, back over to meggin. >> aide to mrwhat through missouri, three-quarters of the buildings destroyed -- a twister went through missouri. >> this is how the town of missouri looked after the tornado passed through. between 25% and 35% of the town was destroyed by the twister. the tornado went through this hospital, killing four people. the surviving patients had been moved to emergency shelters. >> it had taken a whole place out. you could not identify anything. >> rescue crews picked their way through the rubble, looking for survivors. at least 600 people were injured, and treating them has put a strain on local medical care. the governor has mobilized the national guard to help with the cleanup. the tornado was one of 46 storms which ravaged the u.s. midwest over the weekend. experts say the one that went through this down was the single most deadly tornado to go through the country in nearly 60 years, and it came nearly one month after a series of similar storms devastated parts of the u.s. >> the german museum of hist

mr. lenin there in the right-hand corner and behind him, one of your feature interviews with alexander "sasha" brianski. he lived... >> guest: mm-hmm. born 1882, targeted for execution by the white guards. c-span: fellow there with the beard and the cap on. >> guest: that's right. that's right. but managed to escape. c-span: did you interview him? >> guest: no, i didn't. one of our producers did. he died in 1995. a--a great many of our eyewitnesses are still living, but some of them have died. but if--if you--and i know you've read this one. here's a--here's somebody who just makes lenin's arrival back in russia so incredibly dramatic for us and i think in many ways works better in the book even than he does on--on television because you can take the leisure of looking through it again. c-span: there's a--the--the next photo is of women in a railroad car smoking cigarettes. and one of the things it points out in the cutline of it is that men had leather seats, women have cloth seats, as you can see there. what's that picture say to you? >> guest: well, this begins to talk about the -- the --

mr. cochran: madam president, i am pleased to introduce a resolution today to honor the distinguished 39-year career of admiral thad allen, comment daunt of the united states -- ma --alexander hamilton observet a few armed vessels judicially stationed at the entrance of our ports might at a small expense be made useful centinels of the law. this words inspired the united states coast guard. more than 200 years later the coast guard today is dutifully executing its diverse and challenging missions. demonstrating their dual functionality as both a military service and a law enforcement authority. despite limited resources and a broadened scope of responsibility, the coast guard has risen to the increased challenges it faces. time and time again the men and women of the coast guard prove the value of their presence and their important role in protecting the public as well as the environmental economic and security interests of the united states. for almost four decades admiral allen dedicated himself to these missions and kept his -- capped his career by providing meritorious leadership to our nation's oldest, continuous sea-going service. thad allen was born and raised in tuc