mr. coburn: i was going to go on -- mrs. boxer: i think colleagues should hear the debate. mr. coburn: okay. mrs. boxer: i think so. mr. coburn: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. coburn amendment 816 expands the review commission so that in fact it can look at everything we've given in responsibility -- mrs. boxer: madam president, the senate is not in order. this is an important amendment and both sides need to be heard. the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. mr. coburn: what the bill does is a great first step but it protects earmarks from 1996 forward. we're not going to look at any of those and not going to allow the review commission, the deauthorizing commission to make good recommendations on everything. we're going to select out what they can look at. if we trust them to look at other things, we ought to trust them to look at all of it and we have an opportunity to turn them down if they're trying to deauthorize something congress thinks shouldn't be deauthorized. mrs. boxer: madam president, i urge a "no" vote. colleagues,

mr. coburn: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. coburn: i don't have any intention of withdrawing the amendment. there is a federal statute that prohibits the carrying of firearms on federal building and structures and we will get you the statute. that's very clear. we were advised by leg council we did not have to put that in there because it's already prohibited. i will challenge the statement of the c.r.s. and give you the reference for the code, the section of the code that provides that. again, the point is as critical infrastructure is already being beefed up, we're going to be doing that in homeland security, we are doing that in homeland security, and it has no bearing whatsoever on the second-amendment rights to unify our policies across government-owned land in this country. i yield the floor. mrs. boxer: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from california. mrs. boxer: i ask unanimous consent to place into the record the c.r.s. report done on this identical bill which clearly states in their analysis that t

mr. coburn: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. : first of all, i would like to thank my colleagues for the opportunity to have regular order in the senate. and it's my -- the ranking member of the committee would like to have two minutes i believe before i start so i'd like to yield him two minutes. mr. vitter: i thank the chair. the presiding officer: the senator from louisiana. mr. vitter: and through the chair i thank the senator from oklahoma. i just wanted to briefly say two things. number one, i, too, am very supportive of this bill which i do think is a strong, bipartisan reform oriented effort and i think the best proof of that is it came out of our e.p.w. committee 18-0 and we have a committee that reflects the wide spectrum of opinion of the entire u.s. senate. it is an important job waterway infrastructure bill so i'm very supportive. but number two, i'm also very glad we have this open amendment process and i think it reflects a lot of work and goodwill on a lot of folks' part, certainly including the chair and myself,

mr. coburn's consistency, even in the wake of a devastating tornado that claimed the lives of ten children he might keep one thing in mind. if we don't help the youngest in the midst of disaster, then they won't have a future to speak of. and in the list of priorities, survival on this occasion may just be more important than the deficit. we'll be right back. and some superheroes need complete and balanced meals with 23 vitamins and minerals. purina dog chow. help keep him strong. dog chow strong. do you guys ride? well... no. sometimes, yeah. yes. well, if you know anybody else who also rides, send them here -- we got great coverage. it's not like bikers love their bikes more than life itself. i doubt anyone will even notice. leading the pack in motorcycle insurance. now, that's progressive. call or click today. aarrggh! if yand you're talking toevere rheuyour rheumatologistike me, about trying or adding a biologic. this is humira, adalimumab. this is humira working to help relieve my pain. this is humira helping me through the twists and turns. this is humira helping to protect my joints

mr. coburn chose the very day that this tornado wreaked havoc to rehearse his consistent position on theall emergency aid for the victims, he said, must be paid for by cuts in the budget elsewhere. how could he say such a thing? well, according to senator coburn's logic, it's actually because of those children who survived the storm that he's taking this somewhat strange position. he says that if he help them now without offsetting the expense, then it's they who will end up carrying a massive financial burden in the future. i guess we should salute mr. coburn's consistency, even in the wake of a devastating tornado that claimed the lives of ten children. but he might keep one thing in mind. if we don't help the youngest in the midst of disaster, then they won't have a future to speak of. and in the list of priorities, survival on this occasion may just be more important than the deficit. we'll be right back. and some superheroes need complete and balanced meals with 23 vitamins and minerals. purina dog chow. help keep him strong. dog chow strong. do you guys ride? well... no. sometimes,

mr. durbin: madam president, how much time is remaining for the durbin-coburn or coburn-durbin amendment? the presiding officer: 10 minutes. mr. durbin: would you please notify me when i've used two minutes. the presiding officer: yes. mr. durbin: the coburn-durbin amendment says this. we have a crop insurance program in america. if you're a farmer, you can buy crop insurance because you can have a flood, or the market price can fall to nothing. but it isn't really insurance like we understand insurance, not like fire insurance or auto insurance because you see, the farmers don't pay enough in premiums to cover the actual losses paid out by crop insurance. in fact, the farmers' contribution to crop insurance is only 38% of the actual premium cost. who pays the rest? hold up your hand, america. all the taxpayers in this country subsidize crop insurance. 62%. what did it cost us last year? over $7 billion. and then an additional billion dollars to administer the program. here's what this amendment says. we stand behind crop insurance. we believe in crop insurance. but for that tiny 1% of fa

mr. coburn: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. coburn: as ranking member, we know there are a lot of problems with fema and the stafford grant. but this is an earmark for an improvement before fema has even determined if they're going to give grant money to the state of vermont. we need to overdo a lot of changes with fema and the grants and the starngdz stafford. but this starts a process that sets is precedence that will be terrible and it is nothing right now but an earmark on one area to benefit one state when we need to make improvements in the whole process. i would hope my colleagues would look at the big picture rather than the small picture. i yield back. i ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be a sufficient second. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: the presiding officer: anyone wishes -- any senator wishes to change a vote or to vote? hearing none, on this vote the yeas are 56. the nays are 40. under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption

mr. coburn and inhofe want to make it a tit for tat and tax those receiving the benefits by saying we haveo take something else out of the federal budget and replace it with this. of course, president obama deserves all the credit in the world because he's governing in an ungovernable situation. where people refuse to acknowledge that the other side has the legitimate viewpoint, that they don't want him to get any credit. thank god at least governor christie understands for the virtue and the benefit of his own constituents that he can work with the president where he agrees with him and disagree with him where he doesn't. that's what we call american politics at its best. that's the governing principle by which we should be regulated. unfortunately the republicans are so far to the right and outside of the bailiwick of the common interest of america that i don't think they have anything interesting to offer. >> final question to you, dana. dana, i've read you on repeatedly on ted cruz. here's a man who is opposed by his own party on a number of kind of critical issues. but he is totemic,

mrs. clinton. >> it's certainly more likely to what we heard yesterday. we heard senator tom coburn that he had serious concerns about discrepancies in the testimony and he would like to hear from secretary clinton himself. so the ball is moving forward as it relates to hillary clinton, what she said, what her credibility is as it relates to her previous testimony in light of what more hicks said and in light what all the witnesses said. >> megyn: since the benghazi attack happened, it was the roughest week for mrs. clinton. steve hayes how intricately involved how the state department was involved. the talking points on this that told the truth that said the al-qaeda and sharia and it's a terrorist attack -- all scrubbed among the leadership. mr. hicks talking about she didn't want to hear what led to those attacks. you know, all of this comes out of the time that hillary clinton to the stood in front of the caskets and talked about the awful internet video which she knew that wasn't the cause of attack and had nothing to do with it. >> standing in front of the remains of those ame

coburn. >> senator johnson, please proceed. >> thank you, mr. chairman. secretary, you mentioned our exit policy. before i get into other border security issues of a lot to talk a little bit about the boston city bomber. as best i can understand, we have a system that should be tracking antenna should be paying, and we have the tax system, the treasury enforcement communication system where suspect number one, i guess, was pained and that information came to an individual apartment c'mon let security. describe that process. >> sure. what you have is a 90 system that in advance of a person's departure or rival to or from the united states , usually somewhere around 72 hours in advance of that, sends a message called the hot list. if there is an individual to take a look at or take a second look at. this is all done in cpb land. a customs official in that case if there is an active case, something that deserves an additional look, it is sent to the specific joint terrorism task force focusing and that is what happened. >> in this specific case he was actual

tom coburn has been a great job looking through all of these in finding these. it is amazing. you can imagine how much waste there is an government. mrpresident, if you want to tell us we have to fire the air traffic controllers but we're going to get rollup beef jerky, we are not going to tolerate it. [applause] now, i got on the foreign affairs committee this year, so i got to ask a few questions. i did not get finished, so i have still got a few. we will hopefully get them relayed through the media to them. the first question for hillary clinton -- where in the hell were the marines? [applause] you know what her answer is? the marines are to guard the paper. ofay look, i know a lot marines, and i think they can do more than guard paper. she said, that is the role. their to guard paper not personnel. do thathey're going to in baghdad. the point is that benghazi is more like baghdad than it is paris. we did a review board of all of this, and there were a lot of mistakes made at the time, after the time, there is all of this cover-up. but what has always been most important to me is what happened in the six months leading up to this,

mrs. boxer: and further, i ask unanimous consent that the following amendments which have been cleared by both sides be considered and agreed to en bloc -- blunt numberral 00, sessions number 811 as modified, coburn number 823 and warner 873. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. mrs. boxer: well, thank you so much, madam president. the presiding officer: the amendments are agreed to en bloc. mrs. boxer: thank you so much. do i have to move to reconsider? i move to reconsider and lay it on the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. boxer: i just want to thank everybody. we have made great progress on this bill. we are working very hard, senator vitter and i, still over tomorrow, saturday, sunday, monday, we urge you if you have amendments -- and we're just saying let them be relevant and not controversial. we can't solve every problem in america on this water bill, but we're trying our best to get a really good bill through the united states senate. and i understand from the house they intend to look at our bill, work off our bill, make their changes, and then we'll go to conference and hopefully have a very good result. so i want to say it's abo

tom coburn has done a great job looking through these and finding these. it is an amazing how much waste there is in government. so, mr. president, if you want to tell us we've got to fire the air traffic controllers but we're going to get rollup beef jerky, we're not going to tolerate it. now, i got on the foreign affairs committee this year so i got to ask clinton a few questions but i didn't get finished so i've still got a few. i hope we'll get them replayed through the media to her. first question for hillary clinton. where in the hell where the marines? [cheers and applause] you know what her answer is? oh, the marines are to guard the paper. i said look, i know a lot of marines and i think they can do more than guard paper. she said that's the rule. they're to guard the paper not the personnel. well, they don't do that in baghdad. the point is that benghazi is a lot more like baghdad than it is paris. we did a review booshed and there were a lot of mistakes made maybe at the time, after the time there's always this coverup. but what's always been most important to me is what happened in the six months leading u

coburn has done great job looking through all of these and finding these. it is amazing the amount of waste. you can't imagine how much waste there is in government. so, mr.sident, if you want to tell us we've got to fire the air traffic controllers but we're still going to get roll-up beef jerky, we're not, we're not going to tolerate it. [applause] now, i got on the foreign affairs committee this year, and so i got to ask hillary clinton a few questions. but i didn't get finished. i've still got a few. we'll hopefully get them relayed through the media to her. first question in hillary clinton, where the hell were the marines? be. [cheers and applause] now, you know what her answer is, her answer is, oh, the marines are to guard the paper. and i said, look, i know a lot of marines, and i think they can do more than guard paper. she said, well, that's the rule. they're to guard the paper, not the personnel. and i said, well, they don't do that in baghdad. the point is that benghazi is a lot more like baghdad than it is paris. we did a review board of all of, and there were a lot of mistakes made maybe at the time, after the time, there's all this, you kn