mr. alexander. >> thank you, ma'am. mr. chairman. we're glad to have you here today. you submitted a budget to the congress about 2% above last year's budget and in washington standards that's good. but if you look at some of the other agencies ftc, for instance, 4% less than last year. since those that you regulate pay that bill, is there anything in your department that could be trimded back a little bit so we could get down to less than 2%? >> i'm concerned if we can accomplish our mission with the budget. we did a lot of work to develop the budget to save as much money as we can. we received a letter from apple and we heard from other device makers very concerned if we have the resources we need to deal with the proliferation of new devices like that ipad. each of those dices has to be certified by the fcc as compliant with missions obligation. i'm concerned about that. i'm concerned about the growing complexity of our word and some of the increase that you mentioned is directly related to saving money. for example, we proposed data center con some dags initiative

mr. alexander. what similarity or differences between the cvs,caremark merger can you identify for the sub committee? >> cvs -- caremark, we approved the merger in 2006, i want to say. somewhere around there, it was one pharmacy and one pbm, exscript s and medco, two pbms and then we went back we had complaints about whether cvs was violating terms of the consent, with we went back and looked at the practices and did an investigation and found that they were in violation, they had put consumers into the doughnut hole by miscalculating the amounts that they owed to seniors earlier than they should, so we got complete redress for those consumer s effected. coming back to your question, one was a merger of a pbm, and a retailer circumstantially, and this is a merger of proposed merger of two pbms. >> as is -- >> they are horizon competitors in other words. >> as has been mentioned because i have a military background, the tri-care program is important to me. mr. chairman, should the ftc approve the mer

mr. alexander. mr. womack, thanks for your patience down there. >> thank you, happy birthday, happy anniversary. my compliments to the secretary for his comments this morning at the rpe energy summit. i thought your comments, i found them to be enlightening. a well attended event by the way. my compliments to the host of the event. i want to stay on the natural gas subject for just a moment. i'm troubled by the fact when you look at the budget numbers, a little over $2 billion in renewable energy request, if i'm reading the numbers correctly, we're looking at just a few million dollars on the subject of natural gas. and as was indicated in that previous round of questioning, that money is dedicated, i think, to, if i heard correctly, to determining whether or not -- you said it's got promise. to make sure we're not doing something environmentally. can you help me -- i know those numbers, that's a wide range. the numbers from the information agency suggests natural gas use by 2035 will be equal to all th

mr. alexander: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. lexander: would it be problem to speak in morning business? the presiding officer: the senator is correct. mr. alexander: thank you. i listened with great interest to the senator from california. i thank her for her hard work on the transportation bill and her work with senator inhofe. i listened especially to her on her comments that it would be good for us to work together. it reminds me of the new speaker in the house of representatives in tennessee, a woman named beth harwell. she does a pretty good job, and she often reminds her colleagues in the tennessee legislature that the first lesson they all learned in kindergarten is work well together. and that's a good lesson for us as well. i'm here this morning to take four or five minutes simply to talk about a development that i think interferes with that. i came to the senate floor with a group of republicans and democrats not long ago, and we praised the majority leader,. mr. reid:, and the -- the majority leader senator reid and t

mr. alexander mentioned about maybe you could look at ways to reduce that 2% increase. when you have these increases in salaries, a number of individuals making this much money, these large increases that right there may be where in a 2% is alone and i'd like to sit down with you and further explore this. thank you, madam chairwoman. >> thank you, mr. diaz-balart. mr. yoder. >> thank you, madam chair. appreciate you both being here, appreciate your service to our country, a chance to have a conversation, how we move forward. certainly this committee and this congress continues to be focused on job creation, economic growth, reducing and bringing our federal expenditures in line with our available revenue. i'm sure you share those goals. i've appreciated your comments this morning. one of the questions that mr. diaz-balart was asking was related to light squared. i don't know that's been discussed today. it harkens back to last year while we were dealing with this issue. many of us were getting a flood of concerns, complaints from various industries across the country fr

mr. alexander. >> can i go before the mayor? >> yes, because you are more senior. >> okay. thank you and good morning, miss chairman. i'd like to ask you a question about the vocal rule and how it applies to insurance companies. i'm kind of concerned that the rule doesn't capture the congressional intent or follow the statute by exempting from the vocal rule an insurance company's ability to engage in proprietary trading, or it doesn't extend the exemption to the invest mement and recover funds. cutting off that ability to make those investments in those covered funds would directly impact the constituent who is we represent to rely on -- the goal of the rule was not to make retirement or long-term care more costly for americans but that would be the result if the regulators embraced the proposed rule as it is. so my question is can you give us your thoughts on whether there is any flexibility within the statute which would allow the agencies to extend the exemptment to extend to allow consumers to invest in funds? >> proposed rules expressly permitted proprietary trading b

mr. alexander mentioned about, you know, maybe you can look at ways to reduce that 2% increase. when you have these increases in salaries, number of individuals making this much money, it these large increases, that right there may be where the 2% is a little but i'd like to sit down with you and further explore t the. thank you, madam chairwoman,. >> thank you, mr. diaz-balart. mr. your? >> thank you, madam chair. appreciate you both being a. appreciate your service to our country. chance of a conversation deception of look at what our budget parties are, how would before. sortinstarting this committee as congress continues to be focused on job creation, economic growth, reducing federal expenditures in line with the available revenue. i'm sure you sure those goals, and so i appreciate your comments this morning. one of the questions that mr. diaz-balart was asking was related to lightsquared. i don't know if that's been discussing any kind of, hardened active last you were dealing with this issue. me of us were getting flooded concerns, complaints from the very same issues acr

mr. alexander: well, thank you, senator johanns. i listened with interest to the governor -- former governor of nebraska, former governor of nebraska. let me give you a specific example. i met -- in response to your question, i met after the passage of the health care law with a number of representatives from -- from chain restaurants. chain restaurants -- and we all -- the kind we go out to dinner at modest costs -- are among the largest employers in america. they employ largely low-income and young people, people who are the waiters and the waitresses that you see when you go into ruby tuesday's or o'charley's or one of these places is someone with a part-time job or someone working their way up. many of these companies offer some health insurance to their -- to their employees. at one of the companies, ruby tuesday's, which is headquartered in tennessee, the chief executive officer told me that the cost of the health care law to his company would exactly equal the profit of the company that year. now, this is a company of several

mr. rodney alexander. >> thank you, mr. secretary. the president's budget includes interagency study that says the department of energy, epa and usgs are partnering to study environmental and health effects of hydraulic fracturing. can you tell us a little about what that might be leading to? >> as you know, the president tasked us to look at hydraulic fracturing. the conclusions of that subcommittee report were that we believe that hydraulic fracturing can be done in an environmentally responsible way, so you can take

mr. alexander? >> thank you. mr. chairman, good to have you here today. you submitted a budget and to the contras about two per cent above last year in the budget of the washington standards that's good when but you get to other agencies for instance 4% less than last year to regulate that bill. is their anything in your deployment that could be turned back a little bit so we could get down into less than 2%? >> we can accomplish our mission with the budget and did a lot of ford in developing the budget to save as much money as we can. we received a letter example from apple and we heard from some other device makers. very concerned about whether we have the resources we need to deal with the proliferation of new devices like the ipad because each of those devices has to be certified by the fcc has compliant with the missions obligations. concerned about the growing complexity of the war in some of the increase that you mention is strictly related to saving money. so, for example, we proposed data center consolidation initiatives and cloud computing initi

mr. chairman. thank you, general alexander and thank you, general kehler for being here today and for your service. general kehler, the senate support for the new s.t.a.r.t. treaty was tied to modernization of the united states nuclear complex and strategic delivery system, and specifically during the senate confirmation, the president committed to modernization in what became known as the 1251 plan that was incorporated in the 2010 ndaa, isn't that right? >> senator, yes. >> okay. and if you look at that commitment in the 1251 plan, there was an initial plan submitted in may of 2010, and then a month before the ratification of the senate treaty, there was $4.1 billion added over five years to the plan. isn't that right? >> yes. you're talking about the d.o.d. -- >> yes. but that was specifically reflected a month before the ratification of the s.t.a.r.t. treaty put into the 1251 plan as incorporated in the 2010 ndaa. >> senator, i think that's right. that's a little before my time but i think that's right. >> the reason that was done is because modernization was such an important issue to getting

mr. alexander: mr. president, last wednesday i had the privilege, as did many in this body, of attending a tribute to two former majority leaders of the united states senate. howard baker and bob dole. it was a great evening. president clinton sent a video. the vice president attended. the secretary defense, the secretary of health and human services. all the former majority leaders of the united states senate except one. it was a long evening, but it was a good evening. and along with senator baker was former senator nancy kassebaum-baker, his wife. and along with senator dole came senator elizabeth dole, his wyoming so it was -- his wife. so it was a wonderful evening. it was sponsored by the bipartisan policy center. and it was a reminder that while in this body, we have differences. in fact, this body was created to resolve differences. people sometimes say to me, oh, my goodness, you senators are arguing. that's what we're supposed to do. we're supposed to -- the kick up to us or over to us issues

mr. alexander. >> to do i go before the mayor? >> yes. >> thank you and good morning. i would like to ask you a question about the vogel rule and how it applies to insurance companies. i am concerned that the rule does not capture the congressional intent or follow the statute by exempting insurance company's ability to engage in trading. while it exams or it does not extend the exemption to the investment. because of that ability to interest companies to make those investments and would impact the constituents. they depend on interest companies to guarantee protection from the uncertainties in life. the goal of the volcker rule was not to make retirement or long- term care better for americans but that would be the result if the regulators embraced the proposed rule as it is. my question is, i can you give us your thoughts on whether there is any flexibility within the statute which would allow the agencies to extend the exemption to allow insurers to invest in covered fines? >> i am happy to do that. as you point out, the proposed rule expressly permitted proprietary

mr. alexander: well, thank you, senator johanns. i listened with interest to the governor -- former governor of nebraska, former governor of nebraska. let me give you a specific example. i met -- in response to your question, i met after the passage of the health care law with a number of representatives from -- from chain restaurants. chain restaurants -- and we all -- the kind we go out to dinner at modest costs -- are among the largest employers in america. they employ largely low-income and young people, people who are the waiters and the waitresses that you see when you go into ruby tuesday's or o'charley's or one of these places is someone with a part-time job or someone working their way up. many of these companies offer some health insurance to their -- to their employees. at one of the companies, ruby tuesday's, which is headquartered in tennessee, the chief executive officer told me that the cost of the health care law to his company would exactly equal the profit of the company that year. now, this is a company of several

mr. alexander, what are some of the differences between the cvs caremark deliberations and the concerns around the pending merger? can you identify them for the subcommittee? >> sure. cvs caremark, well, we approved the cvs caremark merger may be in 28 06. -- 2006, somewhere around there. that was one pharmacy and one pbm medco and the other, two. then we went back after we had some complaints about whether std's was violating some of the terms of the consent, we went back and looked at their practices and did an investigation and found that they were in violation. they put some consumers into the doughnut hole by miscalculating the amounts that they owed. some seniors, earlier than they should, so we got complete redress for the consumers who were affected. so going back to your question, one was a merger of a retailer essentially and a pbm, and this is a proposed merger of two pbm's, retail. >> i have a military background, and this is important to me. if the ftc should approve the merger, do you believe that the control over 30% of the retail drug market and a huge percentage of the mail or

mr. alexander proposes amendment number 1779. and for mr. demint proposes en bloc amendments 1589 and 1756. mr. coats: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from indiana. mr. coats: i call up my amendment numbered 1517 which is at the desk and ask it be reported by number. the presiding officer: without objection, the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from indiana mr. coats proposes amendment numbered 1517. mr. coats: mr. president, this amendment 1517 is major significance to my home state of indiana as well as a majority of the states across this country. most people are familiar with the fact when they pull up to the gas pump, they are not only paying for the cost of gas, they are paying the tax on the cost of that gas. the federal tax pumped into the tank is sent into washington and put into a so-called federal gas tax fund trust. the word trust is really somewhat of a misgnomer because like so many trusts we create, it doesn't live up to its name. trust means that it's safeguarded, no one else can touch it, no one el

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

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mr. chairman. gentlemen, thank you for your service. general alexander, i thank you particularly for your recent trip down to fort garden, where you gave a pat on the back and a morale boost to some of the smartest, hardest working, most committed americans who are doing a great job of helping protect our great country and i thank you for doing that at nsa fort gordon. general alexander, cybercom, you said, had 13,000 employees. let me make sure i get this right in my mind. it's actually, you have 13,000 personnel under your direction. cybercom itself has, what, maybe 1,000 or so personnel? >> little under 1,000 authorized, about 900 some. that does not only cybercommand staff but also operates and directs the defense of the d.o.d. networks. but that's correct. what i counted in that other 12,000 is our cyber, army cybercommand, air force cybercommand. >> various forces. >> that's right. >> okay. i want to make sure i understood that. nsa today does a pretty good job of intercepting and protecting the dot-gov, dot-mail networks. in fact, i heard you say

mr. chairman. gentlemen, thank you for your service. general alexander, i thank you particularly for your recent trip down to fort garden, where you gave a pat on the back and a morale boost to some of the smartest, hardest working, most committed americans who are doing a great job of helping protect our great country and i thank you for doing that at nsa fort gordon. general alexander, cybercom, you said, had 13,000 employees. let me make sure i get this right in my mind. it's actually, you have 13,000 personnel under your direction. cybercom itself has, what, maybe 1,000 or so personnel? >> little under 1,000 authorized, about 900 some. that does not only cybercommand staff but also operates and directs the defense of the d.o.d. networks. but that's correct. what i counted in that other 12,000 is our cyber, army cybercommand, air force cybercommand. >> various forces. >> that's right. >> okay. i want to make sure i understood that. nsa today does a pretty good job of intercepting and protecting the dot-gov, dot-mail networks. in fact, i heard you say

a powerful left foot on the twenty first minute second half substitute sneaky to mr of standard now chick keeper alexander protocol for with half an hour to go to put daylight between the two sides the home team pulled one back nine minutes from time serbian midfielder the over college admission of a corner from close range it was too little too late for an l.j. to remain second bottom without pulling themselves further away from the drop zone . this well in the champions league two thousand and ten winners into milan are looking to overturn a one nil better since from the first leg of their last sixteen tie with french club marsay the french team arrived in italy with the advantage thanks to a solitary goal from andre iow they said giants will be without suspended defender christian t.v. paul center back on the rare around archaea and with phil ricardo alvarez injured however into received a timely pushed by b. by beating carried over to nil domestically on friday it was their first win in ten games in all competitions a move coach cloudier ranieri to tease me feel today and stand courageous prepare for

alexander haig calling up mr. nixon and then henry kissinger who at first was also not determined to pursue this were the ones who finally raised the issue to something of importance for mr. nixon. and then the question is so how did he respond? the first thing he did was to seek prior injunction against "the new york times" to suppress the public press from reporting the immediate story. not simply what american presidents typically do in a leak case which is order an investigation for the leaker, but to actually enjoin the american society from discussing the subject. it was the same kind of an approach to an issue that mr. nixon displayed when he ordered air attacks on north korea when a reconnaissance plane was shot down. now, since i thought about this point earlier, i ran and looked for this little piece of paper, which happens to be the record of the national security counsel meeting, the first and only national security council meeting that mr. nixon held in the context of the pentagon papers leak. it was

alexander hague calling up mr. nixon and then henry kissinger who at first was also not determined to pursue this were the ones

mr. chairman. gentlemen, thank you for your service. general alexander, i thank you particularly for your recent trip down to fort garden, where you gave a pat on the back and a morale boost to some of the smartest, hardest working, most committed americans who are doing a great job of helping protect our great country and i thank you for doing that at nsa fort gordon. general alexander, cybercom, you said, had 13,000 employees. let me make sure i get this right in my mind. it's actually, you have 13,000 personnel under your direction. cybercom itself has, what, maybe 1,000 or so personnel? >> little under 1,000 authorized, about 900 some. that does not only cybercommand staff but also operates and directs the defense of the d.o.d. networks. but that's correct. what i counted in that other 12,000 is our cyber, army cybercommand, air force cybercommand. >> various forces. >> that's right. >> okay. i want to make sure i understood that. nsa today does a pretty good job of intercepting and protecting the dot-gov, dot-mail networks. in fact, i heard you say

mrs merrett. but now one of the answer is that general alexander haig there was that we don't do this if we don't have the capability and if somebody wants to do it at home it's the f.b.i. that fills out the paperwork they go as and cats the warrant and so in that sense i mean i guess we get it as both make us feel any better if it's a family's doing it's just that the i don't worry they're going to a judge can we even be so sure. sometimes we can be but even then it's not that it's our boys we seem to. own research on privacy issues before so really what we're looking at is you know a lot of you were concerned about who heard in all their services and individual privacy contracts well this is time playing for the u.s. government u.s. government's intelligence. sims are sharing information so it could prove well. in order to enable an n.s.a. system to wiretap somebody but we don't know but it's not just the government agency is right what we found out is that this is private industry that's also in part not only the companies out there that are actually creating some of these technologies but it'

alexander on his view of those issues as well. we thank you both again for your service, for your being here this morning and we call on senator mccain. >> thank you, mr. chairman. let me thank our distinguished witnesses for joining us this morning and their many years of service to our nation. u.s. strategic command is in the midst of pivotal change has we proceed why the modernization of the nuclear weapons complex and nuclear try add and further imbred cyber defense and cyber attack and the core mission competencies of 21st century warfare. nuclear modernization i'm encominged even with the unpress didn'ted level of defense spending uncertainty, the department has maintained its commitment of modernizing the try add of nuclear delivery vehicles. unfortunately the same cannot be said for the national nuclear strurt administration and proposal to abandon or delay key elements of their plan. modernization is universally recognized as essential to the future viability of the nuclear weapons complex and a prerequisite for future reductions. it's now been over a year since the treaty entered into force and we don't see any sign of the administration kee

alexander on his view of those issues as well. we thank you both again for your service, for your being here this morning and we call on senator mccain. >> thank you, mr. chairman. let me thank our distinguished witnesses for joining us this morning and their many years of service to our nation. u.s. strategic command is in the midst of pivotal change has we proceed why the modernization of the nuclear weapons complex and nuclear try add and further imbred cyber defense and cyber attack and the core mission competencies of 21st century warfare. nuclear modernization i'm encominged even with the unpress didn'ted level of defense spending uncertainty, the department has maintained its commitment of modernizing the try add of nuclear delivery vehicles. unfortunately the same cannot be said for the national nuclear strurt administration and proposal to abandon or delay key elements of their plan. modernization is universally recognized as essential to the future viability of the nuclear weapons complex and a prerequisite for future reductions. it's now been over a year since the treaty entered into force and we don't see any sign of the administration kee

mr. elliott give this great speech and watching the elderly alexander stephens deliver a very dry speech from his wheelchair in the will of the house. they reported that elliott had a harmony of delivery that resonated with the entire chamber. mr. elliott has demonstrated a real force of a new order of things. elliott left the 40 third congress for greater political opportunity. he became speaker of the south carolina state legislature. state house of representatives. like so many african-americans believe it would very soon struggle later in life with the opportunity to participate in politics at the state level. he died in obscurity in 1884 after jim crow laws and segregation have defended in the house. with very little public notice. i want to move to the second-generation we profiled in the book. this generation of african-americans, this is a story that really is one. we dated between 1887 and 1989 and it is one of contraction and exclusion as african-americans are pushed out of the political process in the south and it is unique from the narrative of women and hispanic americans and

mr. chairman. thank to both of you for your service and for your kind remarks this morning. i appreciate that very much. general kehler, and general alexander, the comments today and all of the discussion for some periods of time has indicated the growing threat of cyberwarfare to the threat to the united states national security. as we engage in this discussion there is an ongoing restructuring of stratcom's headquarters with the new headquarters. general kehler, can you give us some indication why an aging facility would not be an appropriate facility as we take on new responsibilities but particularly as it relates to the high-tech cybersituation? general alexander if you had some thoughts about that, it would be helpful, too. >> sir, the activities that go on at stratcom are unique activities. we perform those activities particularly the command and control that we have of our strategic forces, the planning that we do for our strategic forces, the intelligence support that's required behind our continuing need for strategic level deterrence and being able to command and control forces under high stress. all of those really come together

alexander hamilton award, the highest honor the department gives. capitol hill beckoned next in our last financial crisis when senator paul sarbanes, the head of the senate banking committee, recruited mr. gensler to help craft the financial reform legislation of that period in 2002 called the sarbanes-oxley act. in between this busy time, mr. gensler managed to co-author a fine book targeted to ordinary americans about investing and finance called "the mutual fund trap." it guides ordinary americans in the sometimes complex world of investment. it's a critique of the mutual fund industry and some of its practices. and an endorsement for an approach to investing called indexing. i won't elaborate on the book here, but you can buy the book for yourselves at your favorite book seller. but we are delighted and honored to have chairman gensler with us today to talk about financial reform and what it means. so thanks very much, chairman gensler. [ applause ] >> thank you very much -- let's just make sure we got that. thank you very much for that very kind introduction. the mention of the book. i'm wondering whether -- i don't think it's in any bookstores anymore. it's kind of a -- am zon. y

hutchison 1568, mccain 1669, alexander 1779, boxer 1816, paul 1556, and shaheen 1678. mrs. boxer: i just want to thank the president for this because i wanted members to know. now, it's very likely that several of these will not require votes. but i think we will expect at least -- between i'd say three and five votes. i think that's a fair indication of where we're going. so i will be back to discuss those amendments at the appropriate time. i thank you, i yield the floor. mr. merkley: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. merkley: i ask unanimous consent that my intern andy heckbirth bein be allowed privis of the floor. the presiding officer: without objection. perk america you rise tmr. merkk about the senate's constitutional responsibility to advice and consent. senators on both sides of the aisle have taken that duty very seriously, because if they do not honor that, the judiciary does not function. we talk about the three branches of government, but in no possible way did the writers of our constitution envision that the senate could use

alexander knew both both men from the neighbourhood. >>> i have never seen this violence i am shocked. >>> the council woman was speaking about the stuff mr. culvert was a volunteer with the campaign of kevin chavis junior running for council. he said he is one of 100 neighbourhood volunteers he does not have a neighbourhood or leadership making role in the campaign they both new mr. culvert but had never seen any sort of violence like this from him in the past. >> an apology from conservative talk show radio host rush limbaugh for calling a georgetown student a slut he also referred to sandra fluke as a prostitute after she testified to lawmakers about the difficulty students have because contraceptives are not included in student health plans at the jesuit university. on saturday he apologized to fluke despite that, a second advertiser is pulling ads from limbaugh's show. >> coming up a former red skins defensive coordinator in the hot seat. >> greg williams, admitted to running a bounty program in new orleans and paid players to knock their opponents out of games. whether or not it happened while he was at the red skins we have the lat

mr. president, i rise today to offer the regulatory relief act which is amendment 1660 to the highway reauthorization bill. i'm very pleased to have senator alexander, senator pryor, senator toomey, senator landrieu, and senator mccaskill joining me as cosponsors of this amendment. mr. president, last year i introduced the legislation very similar to this amendment to provide the e.p.a. with the time that the agency itself says that it needed to rewrite the proposed boiler mact rules, to better serve the public interest and protect vulnerable manufacturing jobs. the legislation had the support of 41 of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, and an identical bill, nearly identical bill, passed the house of representatives with broad bipartisan support this fall. the e.p.a. regulatory relief act is straightforward. it will help ensure that the final boiler mact regulations will be achievable and affordable, and that manufacturers will have adequate time to bring their facilities into compliance, thus preserving jobs. mr. president, we hear over and over again that the top priority of the senate should be to create an environment where jobs are cre

alexander song. >> a recipient of the die long who went on to say if you are joking, dude, speak up, because you are scaring me. and i'm going to alert some authorities. and mrack, lol, go ahead, you don't even know what campus i am talking about. >>trace: but they did and now she under going psychological examination. >>shepard: what do we know about this guy? >>trace: everyone says he is a brilliant student and not only the dean's list but a member of the gemstone club an oncampus group of elite students in science and technology. police say he had no previous problems on campus, no criminal record, but a lot of campus shooters have no control record, and it is believed he was a threat. listen. >> this is no surprise because it is always the case that a large percentage of people who go on to commit acts of violence or to be violent toward themselves have told somebody. or there have been multiple signs before. even long before social networking. >>trace: this threat is a misdemeanor punishable by $2,500 fine and up to six months in jail. not a felony. >>shepard: thank you trace, and now to the legal pain. $2,500 fine and no jail. what if he was really lan

alexander have joined in this effort. i hope that the marine corps will give the wives what they're asking for. and, mr. speaker, if we could ever bring this journey to an end, i suspend to go to the cemetery -- intend to go to the cemetery in jacksonville, north carolina, with connie gruber and her daughter brooks and i want to walk to the grave of the husband and the father and say, major brooks gruber, rest in peace. the blame game is over. you're not to blame for the accident. and then, mr. speaker, i would like to go with trish brow and her sons, matthew and michael, to arlington and say the same thing to colonel brow. colonel, you have earned the rest, you did nothing wrong to cause that accident. mr. speaker, it makes no sense that these wives and the children have -- had to carry this burden because, mr. speaker, too many times articles are written, books are written that say one accident in the history of the osprey was caused by pilot error and they're talking about john brow and brooks gruber and they're talking about the accident in arizona and i give you one quick example, mr. speaker. the

alexander hamilton award, the highest honor the department gives. capitol hill back and next in our less financial crisis when senator paul sarbanes, the head of the senate banking committee, recruited mr. gensler to help craft the financial reform legislation of that period in 2002, called the sarbanes-oxley act. in between this busy time, mr. gensler managed to co-opt or a fine book, targeted to ordinary americans about investing and finance, called the mutual fund trap. it guides ordinary americans in the sometimes complex world of investment, a critique of the mutual fund industry and some of its practices and an endorsement for an approach to investing called indexing. i won't elaborate on the book here, but you can buy the book for yourselves at your favorite bookseller. but we are delighted and honored to have chairman gensler with us today to talk about financial reform and what it means. so thanks very much, chairman gensler. [applause] >> thank you very much -- make sure we had that. thank you very much for the very kind introduction, and mission of the book. i'm wondering whether, i don't think it's in any bookstores anymore. [laughter] [inaudible] >> amazon, yeah. it was ki

alexander hamilton award the highest honor of the department. capitol hill backend next in our next financial crisis when senator paul sarbanes, the head of the senate banking committee, recruited mr. gensler to craft the reform legislation of that period in 2002, called the sarbanes oxley act. in between this busy time, mr. gensler managed to co-author a fine book targeted to ordinary americans about investing and finance called "the mutual fund trap." at bipeds americans in the ordinary complex world of investment as a critique of the mutual-fund industry and some of its practices and an endorsement for an approach to investing called indexing. i won't elaborate on the book but you can buy the book for yourselves at your favorite book seller. but we are delighted and honored to have chairman gensler with us to talk about financial reform and what it means. so, thanks very much, chairman gensler. [applause] thank you very much for that very kind introduction and mentioning of the book. i'm wondering whether -- i don't think it is in bookstores anymore. [laughter] amazon, yeah. was kind of a neat experience. my kids will read it one day. but good morning. i'd like to thank all of

mr. president. everyone knows there is going to be no repeal of the health care bill this year. and so the republican leader who talked abouthis yesterday was talking about maybe doing what senator alexander and senator pryor think we should do -- spend our time on things that are constructive like getting our appropriation bills done. no, the tea party stepped in and now there is going to be efforts made to repeal theealth care bill. in fact, i read in the paper today a complete flip-flop from yesterday. instead of not dealing with starting to repeal the health care bill the rest of this legislative year, now the word is the entire month of march is going to be spent dealing with health care. so, mr. president, it's time to move forward on this bill. hopefully seven -- that's all we need. there are 47 republicans. we need seven of them to invoke cloture on this bill. that vote will occur tuesday morning. all the nongermane, nonrelevant amendments, let them do it on a piece of legislation, mr. president, that is not so vital to the economy of this country. so we're going to move forward on this bill. i certainly hope that we can get seven republicans to join with us. there are 53 of us, s

mr. president. everyone knows there's not going to be a repeal of the health care bill. and so the republican leader who talked about this yesterday was talking about what maybe what senator alexandern things that are constructive like getting our appropriations bills done. no, the tea party stepped in and now there's going to be efforts made to repeal the health care bill. in fact, i read in the paper today, the complete flip-flop from yesterday, instead of not trying to rebill a health care bill the rest of this legislative year. now the year the entire rest of the march will be dealing with health care. so, mr. president, it's time to move forward on this bill. hopefully, seven, that's all we need -- there's 47 republicans. we need seven of them to invoke cloture on this bill. that vote will occur tuesday morning. all the nongermane, nonrelevant amendments -- let them do it on a piece of legislation, mr. president, that is not so vital to the economy of this country. so we will move forward on this bill and i certainly hope we can get seven republicans to join with us -- there's 53 of us, 7 of them. now -- mr. president, of course, i've always said i would be happy to come up wi

mr. alexander: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee is recognized. mr. alexander: madam president, i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. alexander: madam president, i ask to speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. alexander: thanks, madam president. madam president, today in the "wall street journal," there coincidentally was an editorial on the subject about which i speak, and this was entitled "republicans blow with the wind another industry wants to keep its tax subsidies." it's about the possibility that the senate will be asked maybe as early as the next few days, during the debate on the transportation bill, to extend yet one more year the federal taxpayers subsidy for large wind turbines. i would like to take a few minutes to say why i don't believe we should do that. and i'd like to ask consent that following my remarks that the "wall street journal" editorial be included. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. alexande