mr. cochran: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from mississippi. mr. cochran: madam president, i first of all want to commend the distinguished senator from michigan for her outstanding leadership of the agriculture committee. as we proceed from the hearings to review those suggestions being made for change and modernization of our agriculture act to the final days of committee hearings and now full debate in the senate and in the house, and now it comes to this final vote. last night, there was a decisive vote of 72-22 to end debate on the farm bill. that reflects the appreciation and reflect the committee -- the senate has for the work of this committee led by our distinguished chairman, the senator from michigan. i want to thank her as well as our house committee counterpart, frank lucas of oklahoma, and ranking member colin peterson of minnesota as well as the members of their staff as we worked our way through the conference between the house and senate agriculture committee leadership. i want to thank, too, our majority staff director, chris odomo

mr. cochran: mr. president, i would ask the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. the senator from georgia. mr. chambliss: i rise today to address the persistent and significant national security threats stemming from iran's unchecked nuclear program. i urge my colleagues to support the amendment to s. 1982 from the senior senator from north carolina, which include provisions to strengthen our sanctions against iran should they fail to comply with their obligations under the joint plan of action. last november, the obama administration without sufficient consultation with congress committed to an interim nuclear agreement with the islamic republic of iran. under this agreement, we are granting to iran over $7 billion in sanction relief in exchange for their commitments to decelerate their nuclear program, commitments which will be difficult if not impossible to verify or enforce. in effect, we are delivering billions of dollars in repatriateed oil sale proceeds, additional foreign trade and currency, all in exchange for hol

mr. cochran: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from mississippi. mr. cochran: mr. president, i am honored to be invited by the distinguished chairman to proceed in describing our work product, the farm bill conference report. it's been a true pleasure working with her and the members of her staff. it seems like over a long period of time, with her coming to my state of mississippi and traveling to other regions of the country, to get a firsthand impression and a lot of knowledge about the challenges being faced by the agriculture sector in our country. she has brought to this effort a lot of enthusiasm and common sense, intelligence and new pure hard work, and personal courtesy that abound, all of us who serve on the agriculture committee in the senate during hearings preparing for the markup of an agriculture bill, during conference with our colleagues in the house to produce a conference report. i'm pleased that this conference report is a five-year -- represents a five-year mash. it is very important to production agriculture and to all americans, as a matter of

mr. cochran a question since we have him here. that is, are you familiar with the language in the baldwin second-degree as well as the carper second degree? >> to some extent. >> well, the question i want to ask you is pretty specific. that is, what is the difference and the two proposals as those differences relates to the prc? how did these two amendments, proposed amendments treat the prc and how they treat them differently? >> well, under -- as i understand the baldwin second amendment, if you will, that preserves the lectern to governance. and under the -- center carper and k-9 second degree, it provides -- it has no pre implementation review of postal service market dominant rates, and it would, for their review and 2017 the postal service would come in with a proposal and a choice for the commission which would have a hearing and comments from affected stakeholders to approve it without modification or rejected so it is an either or -- as i understand it is an either or decision. >> and that is different than the status quo

cochran. six-term incumbent and got lowest score for the american conservative union in the entire obama era. 63%. virtually every other senate republican facing a challenge scored in the '80s. mrfaces a tea party backed candidate who could be biggest threat but in mississippi he could defend the seat for republican as well. jenna: interesting die nam make at play. carl, thank you very much. jon: passing notes in class doesn't seem to cut it in one massachusetts high school embroiled in a sexting scandal and police are sending a message of their own after racy texts were discovered in the state. in the state the seductive notes could put you in serious legal trouble. arthel neville live in the newsroom with more. >> pretty serious when you take away smartphones from teenagers and even more so if the reason is due to criminal investigation into the what the teens are doing with those phones. it is all going down at walpol high school in massachusetts, 30 miles southwest of boston. 10 students there between the ages of 14 and 18 were called into the office for questioning. now police have already taken their phones and they're trying to obtain search warrants to review the conten

mr. president. i would like to talk today briefly about the farm bill, a measure that, thanks to months and months, actually years of tireless work by chairman -- chairwoman stabenow, ranking member cochran, and the other conferees on the bill, democrats and republicans in both houses of congress, thanks to all of that work we're going to be able to pass this bill this afternoon. there's 16 million people, mr. president, working in agriculture in our country today. these workers in our rural communities are demanding the certainty that comes with a long-term bill, and i'll pleased to say that we are patchin passa two-month extension, not a 10-minute extension, not a "i hope we get it done tomorrow before we leave tomorrow" sterntion but extension, but a e extension. this bill guarantees direct payments to farmers and friers what is working for producers, namely crop insurance. i've spoken about colorado's battle against historic drought conditionsment some oconditions. some of our farmers have lost half their corn yields in 2012. it's hard to imagine any business losing half its production in one year, but that's what's happened to many colorado corn producers. 2013 was a little better f