mr. alexander: thank you, susan. is swain: alyson klein "education week" reporter. ." -- els "cq roll call niels lesniewski, "cq roll call ." mr. lesniewski: what i wanted to ask first was having completed one big project with a rewrite of the law we had called no child left behind, you and senator murray, the democrat, the top democrat on the committee from washington state, formed what seem to be a very good working relationship at the committee. and i'm wondering what you think your next project is going to be and if there is a project you think you can ask like it done in 2016 despite it being a presidential election year. ms. swain: they still pay -- mr. alexander: they still pay our salaries next are, so i don't think we should take the year off. and you are right about senator murray, she is a terrific senator. but she understands what ,enators need to understand which is that all you want to do is make a speech, you can get your own radio show and do that. when you come to the senate, you should try to get a r

mr. alexander: mr. president, i ask consent that i be allowed to enter into a colloquy with senators ayotte, baldwin, casey, and portman -- the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. alexander: -- and ... thank you, mr. president. if it is agreeable to the senators, i will -- i will make a few remarks introducing the subject of the colloquy, and then the senators will speak in that order. i'm here today to talk about the federal perkins loan program extension act of 2015, which is a substitute to h.r. 3594, and i have a bill which has been taken to the desk, and the original sponsors of the bill, which i will ask to be considered at the conclusion of the colloquy, are senators ayotte, baldwin, johnson, casey, cochran, bozeman, and myself. mr. president, we've debated the perkins loan several times on the floor of the senate, and twice i have opposed -- i have objected to the house bill to extend the perkins loan program. this is a program that was set to expire in 2012. since the 1

mr. alexander: we yield back all time on our side. mrs. murray: madam president, we yield back all our time as well. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. the clerk: cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the conference report to accompany s. 1177, an act to reauthorize the elementary and secondary education act of 1965 to ensure that every child achieves. signed by 17 senators. the presiding officer: by unanimouunanimous consent, the y quorum call has been waived. the question is: is it the sense of the senate that debate on the conference report to accompany s. 1177, an original bill to reauthorize the elementary and secondary education act of 1965, to ensure that every child achieves, shall be brought to a close? the yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: quorum call:quorum call:quoru vote: vote: if not, on this vote the ye

mr. alexander: i yield the floor. mr. schumer: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from new york. mr. schumer: yeah. i ask unanimous consent that for the next 20 minutes, i be given four minutes, senator shaheen, four minutes, senator bloom blumenthal, four minutes, senator feinstein, four minutes and senator murphy four minutes concluding in a unanimous consent request. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: thank you, madam president. now, like so many americans, my thoughts are with the family and friends of those affected by the act of terror in san bernardino last week. our hearts go out to the victims and to their families. and as we learn more the suspects, it's becoming clear that san bernardino will serve as a sad but also a shocking reminder of what needs to be done to address what has become known as the terror gap. so, madam president, i rise today in support -- to support that most commonsense proposal to bar individuals on the terrorist watch list from being able to legally get a gun. the g.a.o. found

mr. alexander: mr. president, mr. alexander: mr. president, >> i asked consents to speak for up to 30 minutes in morning business. >> without objection. >> mr. president let me take you back five and a half years every 25th, 2010. white house health care summit at the blair house. the same place where senator arthur vandenberg sat down with general george marshall to discuss the post-war plans after world war ii. it became the marshall plan. it was the perfect setting. it is the perfect setting for a serious bipartisan discussion about how to give health care to millions of americans. .. here, too. it was televised continuously. both then-minority leader boehner and republican leader mcconnell asked me to lead off in speaking for the republicans. i said to the president that i was there to not only represent the view of republicans but i was there as a former governor and would like to have chance to speak for the governors as well because governors managing states had a big stake in all this. i said, too, that i was at the summit t

mr. alexander: thanks, mr. president. mr. president, i ask consent to lead a colloquy with senators burr, isakson, cassidy and scott for up to 20 minutes. thank you, mr. president. today we're talking about repealing obamacare and moving in a complete direction toward more choices, lower costs for memberships as they search their health care plans. i came to the floor yesterday and brought back a memory from five and a half years ago, the president's health care summit. nationally televised at the blair house. 36 members of congress and the president of the united states all day long, at which i had a chance at leading off for the republican speakers that day of saying respectfully to president obama mr. president, this health care plan of yours is going to impose a huge medicaid unfunded mandate on state budgets which will raise tuitions and take money from others. it would take money out of medicare and spend it on something else. it will increase taxes. it will raise premiums, and it will cost jobs. unfortunately, mr. pres

mr. alexander: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. alexander: mr. president, if in a few minutes we'll be voting on the nomination -- the president's nominee nag of travis mcdonough to fill the vacancy on the eastern district of tennessee. mr. mcdonough is well-known to me, especially well-known to senator corker, my colleague. he received his undergraduate degree in suwanee before going on to law school at vanderbilt. he was the member of a prominent chattanooga law firm, chief of staff to chattanooga's mayor. we're fortunate he is willing to serve and we're forenational the president has nominated him. and i urge my colleagues to vote for him. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. mr. president, i yield back all time. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. question occurs on the mcdonough nomination. is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: vote: vote: the presiding officer: have all senators voted? does any senator wish to change their vote? on this nomination, the

mr. alexander: thank you, susan.is swain: alyson klein "education week" reporter. ." -- els "cq roll call niels lesniewski, "cq roll call ." mr. lesniewski: what i wanted to ask first was having completed one big project with a rewrite of the l w

tom hanks: on february 5th, 1865, abraham lincoln visits alexander gardner's photographic studio. abraham lincoln: are we ready, mr. gardner? alexander gardner: aye, that i am, mister president. now, if you wouldn't me mind moving to the other side of the table. that angle favors you. tom hanks: after four years and more casualties than in any conflict in the nation's history, the civil war is almost over. but the image made on this day will be the last official portrait ever taken of the 16th president of the united states. abraham lincoln has six weeks to live. abraham lincoln: taddy. with malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right as god gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. tom hanks: booth is there. a face in the crowd on the steps of the east portico. on march 17th, 1865, booth and two boyhood friends, along with confederate agent lewis powell and smuggler george atzerodt, lay in wait along the president's route

mr. alexander: i yield the floor. mr. schumer: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from new york. mr. schumer: yeah. i ask unanimous consent that for the next 20 minutes, i be given four minutes, senator shaheen, four minutes, senator bloom blumenthal, four minutes, senator feinstein, four minutes and senator murphy four minutes concluding in a unanimous consent request. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: thank you, madam president. now, like so many americans, my thoughts are with the family and friends of those affected by the act of terror in san bernardino last week. our hearts go out to the victims and to their families. and as we learn more the suspects, it's becoming clear that san bernardino will serve as a sad but also a shocking reminder of what needs to be done to address what has become known as the terror gap. so, madam president, i rise today in support -- to support that most commonsense proposal to bar individuals on the terrorist watch list from being able to legally get a gun. the g.a.o. found

mr. hitchcock, douglas trumbo, francis coppola, alexander paine, quinton tarantino. >> jimmy: quentin just ejaculated. yeah, to hear your name alongside hitchcock. >> that's pretty good, that's pretty cool. i'll take that. >> jimmy: well, the movie is very, very entertaining. another classic. one more thing from you. and of course i could talk to each one of you individually for three hours about this stuff. you said you're only going to make ten movies in your career, this is number eight. are you really only going to make two more movies after this one? >> well -- that's the idea. that's the idea. one of the things about it, though, where i'm coming from -- i actually think a lot of directors -- i don't think it's that much of a tragedy. it probably took me eight years everyone feels in eight years. a lot of directors talk about, i want to do this thing, that thing, i have time to do this that. i think they have far less time than they think they do. so i'm not going to think that i have four movies or six movies that i will eventually get around to doing. if i only think i have two movi

mr. mcconnell: i ask consent that alexander substitute amendment at the desk be agreed to, the bill as amended be read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i now ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 263, s. res. 148. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 263, senate resolution 148 condemning the government of iran state sponsored persecution and so forth. the presiding officer: without objection the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. mcconnell: i ask consent the kirk amendment to the resolution be agreed to, the resolution as amended be agreed to, the kirk amendment to the preamble be agreed to, the preamble as amended be agreed to and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 296, h.r. 515. the presiding office

alexander bradley kept out of the trial. he claims hernandez shot him in nordstrom four years ago. >> if the court rules that this alleged shooting of mr. bradley is essentially off the table for the murder trial. >> hernandez is accused of killing daniel day and -- outside a boston night club in 2012. the former patriot is already serving a life sentence for the murder of oden lloyd in 2013. >> loved-ones of the math teacher killed by one of her students will her killer's sentencing. according to the herald a judge will allow her family and friends to wear pink at his sentencing next month. pink was her favorite color. chism was convict in her murder last week. sentencing is set for january 29th. >> happening today, a man accused of killing a brother and sister in worcester will be arraigned. on monday a grand jury indicted daniel depew on manslaughter and motorcycle charges. prosecutors say he was drunk when he hit gina and george burdic in november. >> he was arrested shortly after the crash and has been held without bail. >> a lowell man. he was arrested just after midnight yesterday. this is a picture of the knife that police took

mr. scott, senators alexander and murray, and their staffs. we would absolutely not be here today without their hard work. today is a big day. we have an important opportunity to approve a bill that will replace no child left behind with new policies that reduce the federal role, restore local control and empower parents. it will help every child in every school receive a quality education. this effort began in earnest almost five years ago. february 10, 2011. when the education work force committee held its first hearing under the new republican majority to examine the challenges and opportunities facing k-12 classrooms. since that first hearing we have heard dozens of hearing and spent many hour os on the floor debating competing ideas for education. all those ideas are reflected in the final bill we have today. behind all of that hard work was a team of dedicated staff. they put in long hours and sacrificed a great deal to draft the house and senate proposals, move them through our respective committees and chambers, and got to work develop

alexander from pra vda. i'd like to give the floor to him right now. >> thank you very much, mr. putin, for the 11th conference. studied the reports of the previous press conference and we discussed the difficult situation in the russian economy. we asked you how long it will take to overcome this challenging situation. you say that in the worst case scenario, we would need about two years. so it must be the end of 2016, beginning of 2017, according to your estimates. has your mood changed? have your projections changed? the situation in the country is very difficult and i'm sure you're well aware of that. what is next? >> thank you. president putin: first of all, i'll tell you an old joke. two guys meet. one says, how are you doing? [indiscernible] they meet again six months later. again, black. you said black was last time. no, that turned out to be white. it is black now. that is kind of like the situation we are in today. when we discuss our plans for the future and what we were going to do to come out of the ,risis, what our prospects were we knew that unfortunately our econ

alexander bradley kept out of trial. bradley claims hernandez shot him in florida nearly three years ago. >> if the court rules alleged shooting of mr. bradley is essentially off the table for the murder trial. >> catherine: hernandez is accused of killing daniel applegate and safiro furtado outside a boston nightclub and aaron hernandez is already serving a life sentence for murder in 2013. >> gene: according to herald judge will allow colleen ritzer family and friends to wear pink at the sentencing next month. >> gene: police say massive york was found in massachusetts. police say the stash was in a rental car with massachusetts plates, two suspects, both of arrested. police say the stash was worth about $3 million. >>> gene: emergency drug to help people overdosing on heroin now available over-the-counter in new hampshire. health officials partnered with rite aid to offer narcan in a pharmacy across the state and drug has been used to save more than 3,000 people from overdoses this year. addiction specialists said immediate action to narcan is key. >> thank god they are listening, thank god they are listening. lives will be saved

alexander from pravda your. >> i like to get afford to him right now. >> translator: thank you very much. thank you very much, mr. putin, for the 11th congress and for the 11th key when they. -- q&a. i studied the reports of the previous press conference, and we discussed the difficult situation in the russian economy, and we ask you how long it will take to overcome this challenging situation. and you said that in the worst-case scenario we would need about two years, quote-unquote. so it must be the end of 2016, the beginning of 2017, according to your estimates. now, as your mood changed? have your projections of changed about the end of crisis? because the situation of the country is very difficult, and i'm sure you are well aware of that. what is your next forecast? >> translator: first of all, i'll tell you an old joke. two guys meet, to friends and meet. someone says how are you? the other one says, like black and white, then they meet again six months later. so what's the current batch? again it is black. you said block was last to know, that turned out to be white. it's black now. so that's kind of like

alexander and bradley claims hernandez shot him in florida nearly three years ago. >> going forward on nine thousand nine hundred nineteenth if the court rules the alleged shooting of mr. bradley it is trial. >> julie: hernandez is accused killing of daniel abreau and safiro furtado outside a nightclub in 2012 and aaron hernandez is serving time for murder in 2013. >>> julie: judge will allow colleen ritzer's family and friends to wear pink at philip chism's sentencing next month. christa mcauliffe was convicted last week and sentencing set for january 29th. >> daniel: police say massive load from cocaine came from massachusetts. here is photo of 135-pound of they found stash in rental car with massachusetts plates. the stash was worth $3 million. >> julie: it is 9:37. man accused of killing a brother and sister in worcester will be arraigned. on monday a grand jury indicted daniel dapew on manslaughter and motor vehicle homicide charges. prosecutors say he was drunk when he hit gina and injured burdennic. he was arrested shortly after the crash and held without bail. >>> julie: local man accused kitchen knife. this is a picture of the knife police took from him. offi

alexander. i'd like to give the floor to him right now. >> translator: thank you very much. thank you very much, mr.putin, from the 11th conference, for the 11th q&a. i studied the reports of the previous press conference, and we discussed the difficult situation in the russian economy, and we asked you how long it will take to overcome this challenging situation. and you said that in the worst-case scenario we would need about two years, quote/unquote. so it must be the end of 2016, the beginning of 2017, according to your estimate. now, has your mood changed? have your projections changed about the end of crisis, because the situation of the country is very difficult, and i'm sure you're well aware of that? what is your next forecast? thank you. >> translator: first of all, i'll tell you an old joke. two guys meet, two friends meet, one says how are you. the other one says it is black and white patches. then they meet again six months later. what's the current patch? it's black. you said black was last time. no, that turned out to be whitened. it's black now. so that's kind of like the situation w

alexander bradley kept out of the trial. in florida nearly four years ago. >> we will be prepared to go forward on january 19th if the court rules that this alleged shooting of mr. bradley is essentially off the table for the murder trial. >> hernandez is accused of killing daniel de abreu and safiro furtado outside a boston nightclub in 2012. the former patriot is already serving a murder sentence for the murder of owed enlloyd in 2013. >> loved one of a math teacher killed by one of her students will be allowed to honor her hermione mother. a judge will allow clean fritz's family and friends to wear pink. it was her favorite color. he was convicted in her murder last week. sentencing is set for january 29th. police say a massive load of cocaine found in new york came from massachusetts. here's a photo of the 135 pounds of coke found in the bronx last week. police found the stash in a rental two suspects, both of them fraudulently puerto rico were arrested. the stash is worth about $3 million. happening today a man accused of killing a brother and sister in worcester will be arraigned. on monday a grand jury indicted him on manslaughter and motor vehicle homic

alexander bradley kept out of the trial. bradley claims hernandez shot him in florida nearly four years ago. we will be ready to go forward if the court rules that the alleged shooting of mr. bradley is essentially off the table for the murder trial. >> hernandez is accused of killing daniel debrew and safiro furtado row he's already serving a life sentence for the murder of owed enlloyd. >> a math teacher killed by one of her students will be allowed to honor her memory at her sentencing. the judge will allow her family and friends to wear pink at the sentencing next month. it was her favorite color. which hism was convicted for her murder. >> happening today a man accused of killing a brother and sister in worcester will be arraigned. daniel depew on manslaughter and motor vehicle homicide charges. prosecutors say he was drunk when he hit gina and george burdic in september. the villages were unloading groceries from a car when they were killed. est arrested shortly after the crash and has been held without bail. >> if i have 38:00 this morning. a worcester man faces assault charges this morning. he's accused of threatening dunkin' donuts employees with a knife. 29-year

mr. speaker, as i move forward with this special order hour, because the a.j.c. has been very close in houston, texas, to a leading citizen, the honorable william a. lawson, william alexander lawson, i think it appropriate to let it be known that the a.j.c. stands in sympathy with a good many persons with reference to pastor lawson's loss of his wife. . audrey lawson. she will be funeralized friday at 11:00 a.m. at the wheeler baptist church. pastor lawson has worked closely with the a.j.c. and many other jewish organizations and i dare say he has been a nexus between various communities and the jewish community. so i'm saddened by his loss and want him to know that the a.j.c. as well as my good offices that we all send him our condolences. today, mr. speaker, we are here to present h.res. 518. h.res. 518 honors and praises the american jewish community on the occasion of its 109th anniversary. and i'm proud to tell you, mr. speaker, that here on the campus today, here at the capitol we have visitors from the a.j.c. we have richard fulton, who is the director of national and legislative affairs in the a.j.c.'s office of government and international affairs in washington, d

mr. alexander: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, let me take you back five and a half years. february 25, 2010, the white house health care summit at the blair house, the same place where senator arthur vandenberg sat down with general george marshall. they met privately to discuss the postwar plans after world war ii. that became the marshall plan. it is the perfect setting for a serious bipartisan discussion about how to improve health care for millions of americans. so 36 members of congress, 36of us went to the blair house at the invitation of president obama. we were there to discuss the health care bill passed by the democrats, what's now known as obamacare. we stayed there all day. l the president stayed there, too. it was televised continuously. both then-minority leader boehner and republican leader mcconnell asked me to lead off in speaking for the republicans. i said to the president that i was there to not only represent the view of republicans but i was there as a former governor and would like to have chance to speak for the governors as well because governors m

mr. alexander: i yield the floor. mr. schumer: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from new york. mr. schumer: yeah. i ask unanimous consent that for the next 20 minutes, i be given four minutes, senator shaheen, four minutes, senator bloom blumenthal, four minutes, senator feinstein, four minutes and senator murphy four minutes concluding in a unanimous consent request. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: thank you, madam president. now, like so many americans, my thoughts are with the family and friends of those affected by the act of terror in san bernardino last week. our hearts go out to the victims and to their families. and as we learn more the suspects, it's becoming clear that san bernardino will serve as a sad but also a shocking reminder of what needs to be done to address what has become known as the terror gap. so, madam president, i rise today in support -- to support that most commonsense proposal to bar individuals on the terrorist watch list from being able to legally get a gun. the g.a.o. found

mr. alexander: thank you, mr. president. i'll wrap up. i see the senator from washington here. throughout the obamacare debate, senator mcconnell, who was the minority leader at the time, was criticized for not coming up with a comprehensive plan of his own. we told the president and the congressional democrats not to hold their breath waiting for mcconnell-care. don't hold your breath waiting for senator mcconnell to come in with a wheelbarrow filled with a 2,700-page of his own because that's now how we thought obamacare ought to be fixed. we're policy skeptics. we doubt anyone here in washington -- republicans, democrats, independents -- have the wisdom to fix such a complex system every in america all at once. the wisest course to try to fix our health care system step by step in a way that emphasizes more choices and lower costs. this approach to health care reform is not something that republicans cooked up last month. in fact, if you will examine the "congressional record," you will find republican senators proposed a step-by-step approach to confronting our nation's hea

as i've heard senator alexandria talk so -- senator alexander talk so often about -- for higher ed and other things. it would be smart budgeting, mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from idaho. mr. enzi: i refuse to ask more of american taxpayers who have sacrificed so much already to satiate the boundless washington appetite for spending. spending on medicaid has experienced a 137% increase to $476 billion in 2014. and many expect those figures to increase. we all want individuals to have access to high-quality health insurance. however, a 2011 study found that 31% -- the presiding officer: could we have order in the chamber, please. mr. enzi: a 2011 study found that 31% of doctors are unwilling to accept new medicaid patients. how can americans access quality health care if doctors will not tree them? most importantly, adding more people to medicaid will lead to a loss of jobs. 2013 study concluded that for every 21 million adult whose join medicaid, the economy will complee 511,000 to 2.2 million fewer people. i rei refuse to exaggerate the unemployment. instead of adding more and more people to the roles of a fai