mr. cardin: if my colleague would yield? mrs. boxer: yes. mr. cardin: let me say to my friend from california, senator boxer, that you're absolutely right. we've heard from a lot of contractors who employ individuals from the federal government, from large contractors such as lockheed to smaller companies that employee 30, 40, 50 employees. the range is around 25% of their workforce has been laid o. now, these workers, there is no assurance whatsoever that they'll ever get paid. and there are some contractors who don't know whether they're going to survive. it's that serious. so the private sector direct employment loss as a result of the shutdown is growing, and it's growing every day. and it's having an incredible impact throughout the country in every state. you mentioned maryland, which i have the honor of representing with senator phu cull i -- with senator mikulski. ten percent of our workforce works for the federal government directly. a majority of that number have been put on furlough. we've estimated that number to be 125,000 in the sta

mr. cardin: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from maryland. mr. cardin: madam president, let me sort of review where we are. i've been listening to my colleagues on both side of the aisle talk about the effects of a government shutdown. and i will admit, i'm pretty sensitive about this. my state of maryland that i have the honor of representing is home to 286,000 federal workers, 124,000 on furlough today. we have 172,000 federal workers who work in the state of maryland. i'm very much aware of what the consequences of what this government shutdown has been to our local economy. let me just sort of review where we are because i'm one who wants to get together. i want to get a government reached as soon as possible. i hope we can move forward, get rid of sequestration and get a budget that makes sense. but let me just review how we got to this point because it's been six months since the senate passed a budget. that's the blueprint for our committees to work. the house passed a budget which was different than the senate budget. and then it was impor

mr. cardin, and mr. cummings, help the republicans understand, it's time to get my husband and son back to work. >> i think it's very troubling that our congress can't make a decision to keep our government working. that's a basic responsibility that they have. >> i would tell them that it's not fair to lay off these people and you still get a paycheck. if the federal government workers don't get a paycheck because of the shuts down, you should not be able to also. >> and the people we spoke with felt that the affordable healthcare act is the law and should not be used as a bargaining chip by congress. >> stay with wjz. for complete coverage of the shutdown. we will keep you updated on deal negotiations and the impact here in maryland. >>> it is hard to believe that it's the beginning of october outside. it's warm and the sun is out with a few clouds around. athletes are taking full advantage of this opportunity to train and work out. people were out today in swarms, enjoying the warm weather. not only p

mr. cardin: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from maryland. mr. cardin: madam president, this afternoon, i joined with senator warner and senator klobuchar and senator casey to point out just how much harm was caused to this country because we are governing from one manufactured crisis to another. the cost of the government shutdown, the cost of coming so close to defaulting on our obligations, the fact that we are governing through automatic across-the-board cuts known as sequestration all have hurt our economy. it's been particularly difficult for the people in the state i represent of maryland, because in our region we have so many federal workers, so many federal facilities. we saw during the shutdown 10% of our work force worked for the federal government, so we saw so many small businesses in our community that depend upon the federal work force that couldn't -- literally had nobody in their restaurants and their shops. consumer confidence was at an all-time low. there have been national estimates as to the amount of harm caused by these gove

mr. cardin, and mr. cummings, help the republicans understand, it's time to get my son and husband back to work. >> i think it's troubling that our congress can't make a decision to keep our government working. that's a basic responsibility that they have. >> i would tell them, it's not fair to to lave off these people and you -- lay off these people and you still get a paycheck. if federal workers don't get a paycheck because of the shutdown, you should not also. >> people felt the affordable healthcare act is the law and should not be used as a bargaining chip by congress. >> for the latest information any time,ing loonto -- log onto cbsbaltimore.com. >>> we have an accident to tell you about. sky eye chopper 13 is over the scene. >> reporter: good afternoon, a single vehicle involved in this accident. you can see it, upside-down, in the bushes, on the left side of the road there. this is the ramp from i-70 westbound, inside the beltway, as it merges onto the inner loop of the beltway. we did see one p

mr. cardin: once again, i want to thank senator boxer for her comments and for her just strength of coming to the floor and pointing out what the danger and harm that's been caused by the government shutdown and the risk of defaulting on our debt. let me make it clear. open government, keep it open at the level that republicans had in their budget as we continue to negotiate. we want to negotiate a budget for f.y. fowrt. we want that budget to be fair. we have been trying to do that for seven months. we're not going to negotiate a budget in the next 48 hours. it's going to take more time than that. we need to extend the ability to pay our bills. that should be done for a long time, for a longer period of time because of the predictability here. we don't want to go from crisis to crisis. now, there should be no concessions for either one of those two issues. that's opening up government and paying our bills. let's work back and forth, democrats and republicans, on a budget in which there will be give and take, and that's what we are encouraging our colleagues to do. i join senator boxer in

mr. cardin: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator maryland. mr. cardin: i would ask that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cardin: skilled that we stand? recess subject to the call of the chair. the presiding officer: without objection. the senate stands in recess subject to the call of t >> we're going to share a portion of this morning's "washington journal." >> joining us republican of oklahoma, members of the finance committee. thanks for joining us. >> what are your thoughts on what's going on? >> leadership -- failed leadership all the way around. we considered one appropriations bill in the senate and it was withdrawn because they didn't want to give and maintenance on it. so we ignored the process to the house passed out of the committee and the senate appropriators by the way passed out of the committee appropriation bills but because we are playing politics for the next election we didn't ever considered any of those bills. all of a sudden the fiscal years over and we have to do a continuing

mr. october. cardinals are down 1 in the 8th. delivering the third home run of this post season.ame tied at 3. the pirates respond. getting,the infield in the bottom half of the 8th. taking the lead. fans are loving it because they have not played play off baseball since 1952. they lead the series two games to 1. pryor may not be the quarterback of the future after all. they are interested in signing freeman who was released earlier this week. seahawks fired off after building a huge lead against the cults, they block the punt. blocks the ballot end zone. calling it a safety instead of a touchdown because johnson did not control the ball before it went out-of-bounds, who knows how big that call turned out to be. they come all of the way back. brown scores the go-ahead run. seattle no longer undefeated. going down 34-28. alex smith, on the road in nashville. trying to remain undefeated. they put kansas city ahead. 1-yard touchdown ahead. 235 yards. no touchdown and an intersection. they are 5-0 that is their best start since 2003. manning and romo. man, they brought down the clini

mr. cardin: mr. president, i join my colleagues in taking the floor to stress the urgency of action. i agree with my colleague from massachusetts and her comments about the devastating impact that the failure to pay our bills would have on our economy, on our nation's reputation, and on the worldwide economy. that would make absolutely no sense at all and would put our nation at great risk. so i thank her or taking the time to explain the specific consequences if we were to allow the united states treasury to be put in the position where it couldn't honor all of the obligations that have already been incurred. this is not about increasing spending. this is about paying the bills that we've already incurred, whether it's those who hold our bonds or those who are entitled to a payroll check or those entitled to a contractor's check, we've got to honor our debt. that's -- our bills. that's what america's great reputation is all about. i thank her for bringing that up. i tell you, mr. president, the combination of a government shutdown combined with not paying our bills will have an impa

mr. cardin: i want to join most of my colleagues that have talked about the urgency of us getting government open. it's causing great harm to our country. make no mistake about it, it's hurting our economy and i could talk about my own state of maryland, our governor has estimated we're losing $15 million every day so every day is precious. i could talk over 100,000 federal workers in maryland who are furloughed out of the 800,000 nationally, having a huge impact on our economy. this morning senator boxer held the news briefing where we talked about the impact, the environmental protection agency where 93% of its employees have been furloughed. we can talk about the direct impact of those employees not being there. there is a representative from the ding darling refuge in florida saying not only did it hurt the local economy directly, but she talked about one of the contract services that are provide -- that provide the touring service to the refuge had to lay off 20-some employees employs. so there's private-sector jobs that are directly being lost as a result of this furlough, and it's goi

mr. chairman. >> thank -- thank you, senator. senator cardin? >> mr. chairman, thank you. secretary lew, thank you for being here and thank you for giving us -- it's our responsibility to pass the extension of the debt limit. it's congress' responsibility to do this. uncertainty is really hurting this country and we can't govern from crisis to crisis. so, i strongly support your view that the longer term is what we need here. my question would be what legal authority do you have to pick and choose? it seems to me that any analogy we use to a company or business that cannot pay its bills, there's a limit as to the discretion as to how you can make those judgments. i'd be interested as to the legal authority you have on prioritization. >> thank you, senator. other senators are not here, obviously, be able to submit-- >> i'd be happy to-- >> questions to the secretary-- >> [inaudible] >> secretary, you've been very generous with your time. we deeply appreciate it. thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> hearing's adjourned. [captioning performed by national captio

cardinals with one last chance. mr.t the plate with a man on first. >> check on the runner and they pick him off. this game is over. >> he picks off pinch runny rookie and wins the game. this is after an obstruction call in the previous game which neither one of those had ever ended a game in world series history. they win 4-2 at two games a piece. the clencher will be at fenway park. all right. game five tonight, though, in st. louis. john lester versus adam -- >> what a great game five. >> all the game versus been great. donny deutsch watched baseball. >> he just hates the red sox. >> just let donny deutsch be donny deutsch. packings vikings sunday night. opening kick off. patterson with minnesota and he will go all the way. you can't go any farther than 109 yards. but unfortunately the vikings got the early lead and wouldn't keep it very long. aaron rogers, two touchdowns in the first half. green bay's offense dominated this game. the vikings had only three plays in the entire third quarter. packers win it 44-31 and

mr. chairman. >> senator cardin. >> thank you, mr. chairman. secretary lew, thank you for being an thank you for giving us -- is our responsibility to pass the debt limit its congresses is possible to do this. uncertainty is really hurting this country and we can't govern crisis to crisis. so i strongly support your view that the longer-term is what we need here. my question would be what legal authority they have to pick and choose? it seems to me that any analogy we use to a company or a business cannot pay its bill, there's a limit, discretion as to how you can make those chechens. i'd be interested into the legal authority you have on prioritization. >> other senators are not your obviously. >> i would be happy -- spanky been very generous with her time. we deeply appreciate it. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> the hearing is adjourned. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> as this thing comes to a close, some 20 top republicans will be me with president obama at the white h

mr. cardin: mr.resident, yesterday we had a hearing in the senate foreign relations committee, the gentleman, the presiding officer knows, and we had testimony by secretary sher sherman as to the enforcement of sanctions against iran in order to prevent iran from becoming a nuclear weapons state which would be a game changer. and during the course of that hearing, it came out that as a result of the government shutdown, we are not as effective as we could be, that there's always more that can be done in working with other countries and that the shutdown is affecting our full preparedness for enforcing the sanctions internationally against eye rafnlt now iran. now, one of my colleagues started to challenge the representative from the state department as to why they couldn't do more, and of course it was the treasury department's budget that was primarily affecting the attention here. and the secretary assured us that we are enforcing our sanctions. senator kaine made the observation -- and the right o

cardinals in st. louis. especially mr. carlos beltran. st. louis, the home of synchronized bullpen stretching. the middle, two runs score. 2-0, l.a. the lead didn't last long. bottom of three, former giant beltran crushes it to right center. that's off zack greinke. and joe kelly scored and we are tied at two. cardinals hoping to end it. bottom of nine. brian wilson on the strikes out. former athletic matt holiday. on to extras and plenty of them. top of ten. one out, runners at the corners. michael young, flies to beltran in right. former athletic mark ellis tagging up. yadier molina blocks the plate and he is out. no tag applied, but the ball clearly beat ellis. bottom of 13. first and second. one out, beltran laces a single off of l.a. closer kenley jensen to right, scoring daniel descalso. cardinals take the opener by a scarf 3-2 in thirteen. the a's will spend another winter wondering what they could have done to get past detroit in that series. they said they will pick up the option on coco crisp's contract. he would like to resign bartolo colon, as well. belfour, a free agent, may have

it is one more sign that cardinal dolan and mr. lbert might be having the most prominent friendship and catholicism today. last month, cardinal dolan made his debut on the colbert report. colbert declared himself america's most famous catholic. he said i know what the cardinal is thinking, stephen, pride is a sin. we are even. this is a 1500 a plate dinner. here are some of his jokes on mayor michael bloomberg. tiny, tiny man. drown in ad he might 16 ounce cup. new york city is the only place in the world where the lesbian canada is too conservative. raymond kelly, are you here alone or did you bring the whole biker gang? those are some of the jokes that he told at the dinner last night. dj is in wisconsin, republican line. listened to the last caller talking about the wars and the debt. that burned me up. problemspeople to 60 and when everyone -- to fix the problems. when everyone elected obama, he --e in doing what he wanted bring the deficit down, bring the debt down. get our finances in order, mr. president. put us on the right

schumer, murray, baucus, mikulski, warner, cardin, klobuchar, whitehouse, stabenow. mr. schumer: mr. president? the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from new york. mr. schumer: thank you, mr. president. and i rise here because we are getting very close to a time of crisis. perhaps one of the greatest economic crises this country has known. i have many good friends on the other side of the aisle, and i don't doubt for a moment their motivation, their desire and their love of country. it's every bit as strong as those of us on this side of the aisle. and so i make a heartfelt plea. we must come together and avoid a default of the united states. many have said, i've heard some even say on the other side that default doesn't matter. or it doesn't mean much. well, let me explain the danger. there is a very real chance that if we default, there will be a recession greater than what occurred in 2008 and all too real a possibility it could put us into a depression. let me explain why. what happened in 2008 was s

dodgers and cardinals are in st. louis and mr. carlos beltran. st.ly the home of synchronized bull pen stretching. bases loaded two outs and former giant juan uribe and 2-0 l.a. the lead didn't last long. former giant beltran crushes it to right center off greinke. joe kelly and matt carpenter scored and we are tied at two. bottom of 9 and cardinals hoping to end it. exgiant brian wilson on the hill and strikes out matt holiday and on to extras. one-out runners on the corners. not a former giant or a, but he flies to right. the former athletic tagging up. molina blocks the plate and he is out. no took applied, but the ball clearly beat ellis. one out and beltran laces a single off l.a. closer jenson to right. good night, game over, drive home safely. cardinals open the series opener with a score of 3-2 in 13. >> the a's will spend another winter wondering how they can get past detroit in the off series. they will pick up the option on cocoa crisp's contract and would like to resign bartolo colon. >> always want to come back to where you enjoy playing

cardinals. ortiz won mvp honors and many consider him to be the new mr. october.lthough people on twitter have said you can't take that away from reggie jackson. it brings us to our twitter question, though. who is your most clutch sports hero of all-time? tweet your answers using #way too heroic. we'll put the best answers on the area later. we'll have a whole lot more on the world champs. we have a whole cast of characters all morning. but we want to talk about news right now starting with the fact that it's not just the president's critics. his own cabinet secretary calls the website, quote, miserably frustrating. kathle sebelius struck an apologizing tone during testimony yesterday. she faced an almost four hour grilling. >> who is responsible for overseeing this project? is it you, or your designee? will. >> we own the site. the site has had serious problems. >> who is in charge, madame secretary? >> the person now in charge as an integrator is qssi, one of our -- >> who was in charge as it was being built? >> qssi was in charge up until -- >> at that team, w

. >> red sox cardinals. >> mr. lauer running for office. we appreciate it.urse, the game is going to be in fenway park. first pitch, cloudy skies, 40% shot at showers. 47. 30% by the end of the game and a temperature of 44 degrees. right now, you see temperatures, we're looking at a fantastic day out west. that's because we have a big ridge of high pressure dominating out west and with that high pressure you're going to see a fantastic day for our friends there. seattle after morning fog, a high of 63. salt lake city, sunshine, 67. vegas a comfortable 82. 91 in phoenix. los angeles with a temperature of 71 degrees. rest of the country, we have a stationary front across southern florida. look for showers in the southeast. a mess with rain, snow, high winds. lake effect snow of about nine inches in the upper portions of new york state. what we call the tug >>> 7:35 on tuesday morning. i'm meteorologist christina loren. we've got a good looking day shaping up. you can see above the clouds we've got a nice clear sky. but those low clouds extend all the way inlan

durbin, mikulski, whitehouse, udall of colorado, nelson, boxer, tester, schatz, cardin, gillibrand, cantwell, kaine and warren. mr. reid: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum under rule 22 be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that we now proceed to pay period of morning business, senators allowed to speak for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to calendar number 199. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 199, s. 1276, a bill to increase oversight of the revolving fund of the office of personnel management and so forth the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent -- the presiding officer: without objection. viemed a.m. sorry to interrupt. the i ask unanimous consent that the committee-reported amendment be agreed to, the carper title amendment at the desk be agreed to and the motion to reconsider be laid on the table, with no intervening action o

mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator. senator cardin. >> secretary lew, thank you for being here, and thank you for giving us -- it's our responsibility to pass an extension to the debt limit. it's congress' responsibility. uncertainty from hurting this country and we can't govern crisis to crisis. so i strongly support your view that the longer-term is what we need here. my question would be, what legal authority do you have to pick and choose? it seems to me that any analogy we use to a company or a business that cannot pay its bills, there's a limit as to discretion as how you can make those judgments. i'd be interested in the legal authority to have on prioritization. >> thank you, senator. the other senators are not your obviously to ask questions. you have been very generous with your time. we deeply appreciate it. thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> this hearing is adjourned. >> house speaker john boehner said today republicans would vote to extend the governments ability to borrow money for six weeks but only if

cardinals are in game five st. louis is leading 2-0. the bid hit came from mr. clutch hihimself and a two run home run and that is the score at the bottom of the third inning. we'll have more later tonight to see who has the rights to play in the national championship series against the dodgers. >>> the yankees have anowrchessed the anowrches -- announced they have given joe girardi a new contract. they missed the play office fora second time. girardi carried them to the win in 2009. >>> and in the n.f.l. the 1-and-3 washington red skins are trying to shake off their disappointing start. the players and coaches are having to deal with the distraction with the growing controversy surrounding the team's name. >> when it comes too names change we don't allow it to be a distraction. we don't allow anything going on. inside of these walls we have to focus on football and that is what the goal has to be. >> i'm not sure how many people saw the letter but personally i was glad he expressed how he feels in an ownership stand point. once the season starts i concentrate o

cardinals in december of 2011. how he got those in california, i don't know. >> they found the guns in smith's bedroom at a party which attracted numerous gang members. >> two people were shot and mr. smith was stabbed. the party was completely out of control. >> and he was allegedly busted last month for a dui. head coach jim harbaugh talked about it. >> we're all accountable for our actions, good and bad. there's due process other other processes that'll take place, and i don't really feel any need to comment further on it at san jose san jose state with talked with the african-american studies department and she said, regardless of how many children are slain, how many adults, it seems as though there's a strong support for guns and certainly for men to have guns. >> a former fbi agent told me that bringing the assault weapons from arizona to california could also been serious violations of federal law. i'm john sasaki, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> developing news in san francisco where police launched a manhunt for a gunman following a shooting at about 4:00 near the corner of mission and zal il and brazil street. a man shot multiple times was pronounced dead. the shooter ran from

mr. clean's new magic eraser handy grip. >>> so much discussion already about that last image to remember, the cardinals winning in surprisingthat controversial call last night. our images continue to remember this sunday. we'll be back next week. if it's sunday it's "meet the press." last night. our images continue

mr. clean's new magic eraser handy grip. >>> so much discussion already about that last image to remember, the cardinals winning in surprisingthat controversial call last night. our images continue to remember this sunday. we'll be back next week. if it's sunday it's "meet the press." last night. our images continue to remember this sunday. we'll be back next week. if it's sunday it's "meet the press." >>> there are more of us who believe working together works better than constant conflict. there is tons of evidence of it. >> right now in virginia, president bill clinton back on the campaign trail. i'm craig melvin. you're watching msnbc. also today, on defense and under fire. >> the democrats i think are at a point of high anxiety. >> the splopresident should sto apologizing. >> there will be plenty of time to place blame on who is responsible.

cardinals. we send it back down to the field for the mvp trophy presentation with erin andrews. >> thank you so much. and here to present that trophy, once again, the commissioner of baseball, mryou very much, erin. and it is my pleasure to present the most valuable player award in the 2013 world series presented by our partner chevrolet to a man who had a remarkable world series, remarkable year, his performance on and off the field is something that we're all very proud of. ladies and gentlemen, the most valuable player in the 013 world seri series, david ortiz! >> congratulations, david. and now to present with you a very special gift from chevrolet, the vice president of marketing, mr. chris perry. >> david, congratulations. as official vehicle of major league baseball, chevrolet is so excited to be part of this prestigious award. to honor your accomplishment today, we're donating a youth field makeover right here in the city of boston in your honor. and for your personal accomplishments, i want to give you the keys to the brand new 2014 chevrolet high country, the most prestigious and capable product we ever built. congratulations, david. >> thank you very much. >> papi,

mr. october, with all apologies to jackie robinson. the cardinalsame back from 3-2 and won the world series. it can be done. >> game seven, mlb, nhl, nba -- >> and john berman would be m.i.a. >> i'd be hearing his screams from up there where he lived. >> berman goes out and buys seven more teams. >> let's spark controversy. >> yes. >> how we separate sports and life. o.j. simpson, a phenomenal college football player for usc, had two huge rose bowl games. great performances. they want to give him an honor for the rose bowl. can you separate football and the man? >> what you're trying to do is put together an all-rose bowl team and take one representative from every decade. he's been nominated to be one of the three -- they'll pick one out of three from the 1960s. he rushed for 100 yards both times. hard to argue he wasn't the best player on the field in the 1960s. it is a controversy. a lot of people saying you shouldn't honor o.j. he's in the college football hall of fame but he was inducted to all of those before the controversy. >> why was the ro

ninth inning, cardinals are routing. guess who is at bat? mr. clutch in the post season.me five tonight 8:00 on fox destined to be a seven gamer. nfl football sunday round, the best of the best of the best. we had a record-setting day in the tph*fplt -- in the nfl. sunday night football -- >> number one -- >> there you go. recorderall go all the way -- corderall goes all the way. packers win 44-31. best clutch play of the day, no doubt about it. time running down. lions receiver calvin johnson, second best overall day in the history of the nfl. that catch obviously the biggest. they go on to beat the cowboys 31-30. best run of the day, we head to the west coast. oakland raiders quarterback terrell prior would go 93 yards, longest run of the day by a quarterback ever. raiders win by a score of 21-18. let's go to nascar. race is over but not the action. two racers go after it after the match. jimmie johnson, steve says he looks handsome. bumped into greg biffell sunday morning. jimmie johnson comes in second. biffle finishes back and blames him for bumping him and causing h

mr. october what is beltran? >> in a game lasting almost five hours a fitting hero wins game 1 of the nlcs for the cardinals. bottom of the 13th inning in fact he drove in all three runs for st. louis,. >> i try not to keep up with the numbers, because when you try to keep up with the numbers you know, you could get caught up there trying to do a lot of bad things. you know and trying to look for homers and trying to you know change your approach so i know that i'm aware of what i have done. at the end of the day i understand this is not about me, it's about the team because in order for a team to win a ballgame, a lot of things have to turn out the right way, we have got to pitch and hit and come around defensively. i've been able to do that god willing. >> the cardinals will send the rookie back to the mound michael waca. will face clayton kerrshaw who suffered two losses. >> game 2 is at fenway while tigers go with anibal sanchez. >> this is the final 4, they're putting a real good team out there, we're putting a really great team out there. and congratulations, it's tough to get here believe me and now o

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mr. cardin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from maryland. mr. cardin: i would ask consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cardin: mr. president, we're obviously pleased that our senate leaders -- senator mcconnell and senator reid -- have negotiated a bipartisan way to end this crisis. this agreement will open government, will allow us to honor our bills, and sets up a mechanism using the regular order of the united states senate to resolve the budget impasse, to hopefully negotiate a budget for this country. the good news that in passing this compromise agreement we will end this self-inflicted harm on our country that's been caused by the government shutdown and the threatened failure for us to honor the obligations of this country. mr. president, make no mistake about it, we have harmed our country. the shutdown that started on october 1 has hurt america's economy. the threatened default on our obligations has hurt america's creditworthiness reputation. consumer confidence has been damaged.

begich, leahy, coons, heinrich, murray, sanders, shaheen, cardin, franken, brown, harkin, reed of rhode island, carper, whitehouse, nelson and schumer. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the mandatory quorum under rule 22 be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i now move to proceed to legislative session. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion. all in favor say aye. all opposed nay. the ayes appear to have it. the motion is agreed to. mr. reid: i now move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 327. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion. all in favor say aye. all opposed, nay. all in favor say aye. all opposed say nay. the ayes appear to have it. the motion is agreed to. mr. reid: there is another cloture motion at the desk. i ask that it be reported. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the nomination. the clerk: nomination, patricia ann millett of virginia to be united states circuit judge for the district of columbia circuit. mr. reid: madam president, i ask unanimous consent that reading of the names be waived. the presiding officer: the clerk will repor