mr. harkin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. harkin: i ask unanimous consent that julianna richard and katherine burr be granted floor privileges for the duration of today's proceedings. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. harkin: mr. president, the so-called supercommittee created by the budget control act has begun their work. its mandate is to produce plan by november 23 that will reduce future deficits by at lethe 1.5 trillion. -- by at least $1.5 trillion. as the chair of the "help" committee, i've been invited to submit recommendations to the supercomeergts and i will do so in the days ahead. certainly, i wish this group well. however, mr. president, it is critically important that we define "success" in terms that really matter to working americans. frankly, aim deeply disturbed about thbythe washington group-. i've come to the floor to urge members of the supercommittee embrace a broader and more powerful definition of success. success must include boosting the economy and creating jobs. after all, the most effe

mr. harkin: i believe i have the floor. mr. bennet: mr. president. mr. paul: i'm asking to yield for a question. the presiding officer: the senator from iowa has the floor. mr. harkin: again, i recognize the senator wants to, let's do this in a logical, again, orderly manner. people want to be here to speak, i think the senator from colorado made some good points. i was yielding to him for a question. i would yield if the senator from minnesota has a question. then the senator from kentucky has every right to speak. the presiding officer: the senator from north carolina. mr. burr: under the current structure, how long before a member on this side can be recognized? the presiding officer: a senator cannot be recognized until the floor is relinquished. mr. burr: i thank the chair and i yield back. mr. harkin: i would yield to the senator from minnesota for a question. the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. mr. franken: thank you, mr. chairman, for allowing me to ask a question. i just really want to know, because i've only been here two-plus ye

brown of ohio, schumer franken shaheen, hagan casey durbin, blumenthal conrad, whitehouse, harkin and inouye. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the amendment under quorum call rule 2 be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to a period of morning business, senators allowed to speak for up to 10 minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to executive session and consider calendar number 361. the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table with no intervening action or debate, that no further motions be in order to the nomination, that any statements related to the nomination be printed in the record, that the president be immediately notified of the senate's action and the senate then resume legislative session. the presiding officer: without objection. the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 361 francis joseph rigadone jr. of massachusetts, a career member to be ambassador of the united states of america to the republic of turkey. the pres

harkin? >> no. >> the amendment is good adopted. >> mr. chairman? [inaudible conversations] [laughter] >> if i could be recognized for one minute? >> i wish my little state to be held harmless. >> senator? >> inform the chair and ranking members, we worked on a formula change to title one. we hoped to have it done for the mark up. we are not there, but i want all members to know the same disperties exist in title one formula as they do in title two. case in point, the dollars in title one range from a low of $1238 per poor child to a high of $3576 per poor child, and when you add in the additional stimulus money that was targeted towards title one in 2009, the range grew from a low of 21 # 25 per poor child to 644 per poor child in another state. though not at the bottom of the list, north carolina is in the bottom ten states in the a. of title -- amount of title one funding it receives per poor children. five of the states remitted on this committee, utah, iowa, north carolina, tennessee, and arizona make up the bottom ten. i hope to work with sena

mr. chairman. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> today, on open quote newsmakers, senator tom harkin talking about his work on the no child left behind act. also, a look at the status of jobs legislation at 6:00 p.m. eastern, here on c-span. republican presidential candidate, michele bachmann, is in iowa this weekend, for several campaign events. today we will show you her remarks to a bible church in south-central iowa. that is that 6:30 p.m., here on c-span. live, monday, c-span 3, independent financial analysts from around the world begin to discuss the impact of the global financial crisis. they will talk about what is happening in their region and the emerging trends that they see. the event is hosted by the american enterprise institute. you can watch live coverage on c-span 3. former republican presidential candidate, bob dole, honored i am friday -- honored on friday in washington, d.c. current and former government workers were on hand, including kathleen sebelius. he was a u.s. senator from 1969 to 1996. he served as the senate republican leader. this is 50 minutes. >> many

mr. secretary. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> senator tom harkin will talk about his committee's recent work on the reauthorization of the no child left behind that. also look at the status of jobs legislation. that is at 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> it is just to me very obvious that, with all the priorities we have, until further notice, every decision the national government makes, every close call should be made in favor of economic growth. every time should be broken in favor of growth of the private sector. >> he worked as an advisor in the reagan white house. he was omb director interest of the bush's administration. and as governor of indiana, he provided -- >> on monday, a congressional health care caucus briefing on state initiatives to help the uninsured. also, on monday, harvey levin, the creator of the celebrity news website tmz.com talks about the changing landscape in entertainment news coverage. that is live at 1:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. >> next, homeland security secretary janet napolitano. during her remarks, she told th

mr. president, the unique reason we're coming in tomorrow -- i would like to come in very early -- but the -- senator harkin and senator endescree working very hard -- and senator enzi are working very hard in the committee to come up with a rewrite of the no child left behind." they've -- of the leave no child behind. they've worked very, very hard. there's 140 amendments pending. more than 70 of them have been offered by one senator and that senator has objected to the committee meeting. it's hard how they're going to be considered when you to be a committee meeting. under the rules of the senate autograph right to object, if -- if the meeting takes more than two hours. after the senate comes into session. so, anyway, that's where we are. i think it's absolutely hard to comprehend how anyone could rationally do that. but that's what we have. so, anyway, we're coming in at 10:00 tomorrow morning. toll following the prayer and pledge, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, the morning hour be deemed expired, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day. because of that, t

mr. chairman, i would like to -- i did neglect to say, i do appreciate all the hard work that chairman harkin has put into this bill and i appreciate the efforts of both of you. thank you. i have a second amendment i would like to discuss, and this is hagan amendment title 2. this is about the low-performing schools receiving school improvement grant funding. when they are looking at 1-6 strategies for turning around their schools, this is discussing the replacement of the principals. i think we have all been in schools, and we know when you see a good principal. you can see it in the school, you can see it in the students. i want to be sure that under -- when we look at our consistently low-performing schools, it doesn't do good to replace one effective leader with an ineffective leader. what this does is the support and foster program that will train school leaders. what this amendment does, it enshures when a school or district selects a turn-around strategy, then the new principal has to have a demonstrated record of success in increasing student achievement or training and experience in

harkin-enzi draft are 517 pages. i would urge that we follow congressman miller's advice in the final result and be much more succinct than that. so, mr. president, despite these concerns, i will vote on wednesday or thursday -- whenever we finish -- in favor of bringing this base bill out of the "help" committee and onto the senate floor where we can have full amendments. i'm going to do my best to improve it in committee and on the senate floor to make it more like the legislation we introduced a month ago. i am going to continue to do that in the conference that we have with the house of representatives. i think it's time that we recognize that the american people expect us to step up to major issues, put our best ideas together, and come up with a result. we're part-way there. this is a good place to stamplet i thank senator harkin and senator enzi for the work they've done as well as representative klein and representative miller, and i thank the president and secretary duncan for their attitude. i look forward to working with them to come to a conclusion. one last thing. we talk a lot about jobs around here. every american knows

mr. chairman, i agree with the general concept of combining many of the existing programs coming and i know that the bill, the underlying bill that senator harkin and senator enzi have developed does a lot of that. i do think that there are some areas of that if we don't specify the continuation of a program it is likely that will not be continued, and that funding will not be provided by the federal government for these purposes, and i think this is one area in in the assisting schools to obtain and properly used new technology i think that's one area that the federal government has made a significant contribution and i would very much like to see us continue with that. i think that would go a way unless we adopt the amendment that i am offering today. >> mr. chairman? >> senator murkowski. >> to keep the conversation going. by the time that it takes us to get this bill to the floor, the technologies that our kids are using have changed and they are moving on to the next thing. as we talk about those dropout factors and things that cause our kids to kind of check out of education, we need to remember that we've got to be delivering education t

mr. harkin: i believe i have the floor. mr. bennet: mr. president. mr. paul: i'm asking to yield for a question. the presiding officer: the senator from iowa has the floor. mr. harkin: again, i recognize the senator wants to, let's do this in a logical, again, orderly manner. people want to be here to speak, i think the senator from colorado made some good points. i was yielding to him for a question. i would yield if the senator from minnesota has a question. then the senator from kentucky has every right to speak. the presiding officer: the senator from north carolina. mr. burr: under the current structure, how long before a member on this side can be recognized? the presiding officer: a senator cannot be recognized until the floor is relinquished. mr. burr: i thank the chair and i yield back. mr. harkin: i would yield to the senator from minnesota for a question. the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. mr. franken: thank you, mr. chairman, for allowing me to ask a question. i just really want to know, because i've only been here two-plus ye