mr. carney of delaware. the chair: the gentleman from delaware, mr. carney, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from delaware. mr. carney: over the past week, officials have announced preliminary intelligence gathered from osama bin laden, pakistan hideout shows al qaeda had been plotting a terrorist attack on our nation's rail system. while roughly 1.7 million passengers ride in domestic and international flights daily, every week day, 34 million americans ride on trains and transit systems. the issue of rail security is more relevant now than ever and i'm here today to argue for making rail security a national intelligence priority. on march 11, 2004, nearly 200 people were killed in madrid as a result of a terrorist bombing while riding the commuter rail to work. in 2005, over 50 people were killed and 700 people injured on the london transit system in a series of explosions during the morning rush hour. an attack on our rail system here in the united states would be devastating. and would almost c

mr. carney of delaware. the chair: a recorded vote's been requested. those in support of the request for recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the chair: on this vote the yeas are 221. the nays are 189. zero present. the amendment is adopted. the house will come to order. the committee will be in order. members will cease their conversations or take them off the floor and they will take their seats. the committee will be in order. the well will also be cleared. for what purpose does the gentleman from washington rise? >> mr. chairman, i humbly ask for unanimous consent to speak out of order for one minute. the cha

mr. carney from delaware for five minutes. >> thank you, madam chair and thank you for being here today. i want to add my voice to those who expressed concern about banks' being told they have to do away with performing loans and not creditworthy borrowers getting access to that. and like to take you up on your offer to entertain those -- that discussion. i have heard a number of times from borrowers and thanks. i want to touch on a follow-up on a couple questions. the first one is you addressed the issue of bailout of banks and with the tools are that you have today that you didn't have over dodd-frank. the question is are you better position today, are regulators better position today to prevent government bailout of troubled financial institutions than they were before? if you could highlight those things, how the incentives have changed and tools have been strengthened. >> we have the authority to resolve the entire financial institution before the reviewer authority went to the bank. now it is a large bank holding company with a list of authority to put into receivership. if that wo

mr. carney, had been postponed. it is now in order to consider amendment number 9, printed in house report 112-75. for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? mr. reed: mr. chairman, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 9, printed in house report number 112-75, offered by mr. reed of new york. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 264, the gentleman from new york, mr. reed, and a member opposed, will each control 15 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new york. mr. reed: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. speaker, i rise today to join with my colleague, mr. grim -- grimm, from new york, to offer an amendment for the brave members of the intelligence community for their role to kill osama bin laden on may 1, 2011. as we know osama bin laden was killed on may 1 by members of seal team 6. the heroics of this seal team have been well documented in the press over the past weeks. but the work of other professionals i

mr. carney: thank you, mr. speaker. today i'd like to recognize two significant athletic achievements that were recently announced in my home state of delaware. in march, the st. marks high school fool team was named team of the year by the delaware sports writers and broadcasters association. this fall st. marks finished with an undefeated 12-0 record and captured their first football title since 1978. also last month, university of delaware sophomore alana was named player of the year in delaware after earning first team all-c.a.a. honors in basketball for the second straight year. as the st. marks alumnist and former high school and college athlete and coach, i know the hard work and commitment that goes into achieving success at such a high level. i also know that high school and college athletes learn lessons about teamwork, competition and leadership that will serve them well for the rest of their lives. and so i'd like to once again congratulate alana, st. marks high school football coach, jim wilson and his staf

mr. carney: thank you, mr. speaker. i have the great pleasure today of recognizing a very special delawarian who recently celebrated his 90th birthday. charles p. west is one of a kind who served our state and nation with distinction as a soldier, legislator, businessman, and advocate for the values that are important to his community. charlie was first elected to the delaware house of representatives in 1956, serving one two-year term. he returned to the statehouse in 1978 and served for 24 years before retiring in 2002. charlie took great pride in helping his constituents. as he used to tell me all the time he fought for the little guy. he was a fierce advocate for those in the backbone of his district. chicken and grain farmers, small business owners e. and sportsmen. charlie and his wife are good friend of mine and helped me better understand what's important to our state. it's my pleasure today to wish charles p. west happy 90th birthday and wish him and his family many more years together. thank you. i yield back.

mr. president, today the senate is finally considering the mo nomination of susan carney of connecticut to fill a seat on the court of appeals for the second circuit a seat that is actually judicial emergency vacancy. now, i raise this because i've expressed concern on -- on the floor about these judicial emergency vacancies that are going unfilled. not because the president hasn't sent the nomination up here, but because it's delayed. in her case she was twice considered by the judiciary committee. twice reported a strong bipartisan support. first last year, and months ago in february. the majority of the republicans on the judiciary committee have twice voted in supporting this nomination. i expect she's going to be confirmed with significant bipartisan support, but it should have been done last year. it's one of several judicial nominations that minority republicans refuse to consider even though she's reported favorably by the judiciary committee last year. hers will be the 16th -- only the 16th nomination confirmed this year that could, in my view, should have been considered last y

senators are encouraged to come to the floor on monday to debate the carney nomination. mr. president, i believe there is no further business to come before the senate. if that is traourbgs and i believe it is -- if that is true, and i believe it is, i ask we adjourn under the previous order. the presiding officer: the senate stands adjourned until senate stands adjourned until >> today a senate attended a meeting with president obama at the white house to talk about the negotiations. we've have more live senate coverage here on c-span2. >> now senior military chiefs questioned by the house of commons defense committee in london on operations in afghanistan. the united kingdom has 10,000 troops deployed. they covered events in 2006 when british forces took responsibility of helmand provinces in the south, the most violence region in the country. they reflect on issues like u.s.-u.k. military relations on the ground and the impact of bin laden's death with the afghan conflict. this haven't runs about an hour and a half. [inaudible conversations] >> gentlemen, we have a commis

carney. he was joined by john brennan. mr. brennan told reporters that the killing of osama bin laden -- osama bin laden was a defining moment in the war against al qaeda and the war on terrorism. he described how he and the president informed other members of the national security team. from the one house briefing room, it -- this is about an hour. >> i have with me today john brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism. he will take questions from you about the events of last night and yesterday afternoon. and what preceded those events. then if you have any questions on other subjects, i will do about 10 minutes after mr. brennan is finished to take those questions. i just want to make a point before john comes up that as many of you know, the president's coming even before he was president, had a very clear idea about the approach he would take as president toward osama bin laden. in august of 2007, he said if we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and presiden

mr. president there, will be a roll call vote around noon tomorrow on the confirmation of susan carney of connecticut to be a circuit judge. additionally, there will be a roll call vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to s. 940, the close big oil tax loopholes act. that vote will occur at approximately 6:15 tomorrow night. if there's no further business to come before the senate, i ask that it adjourn under the previous order following the remarks of senator merkley. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. merkley: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. merkley: thank you, mr. president. i rise to speak to senate bill 940. tomorrow evening, we're going to have a vote on whether to proceed to debate this bill which closes oil and gas tax loopholes, thereby raising a significant amount of additional revenue for important projects here in the united states of america. i rise in favor of this cloture motion tomorrow, because if we have a successful vote tomorrow evening, we will finally get to debate this issue of whether or not we sh