mr. kirk: withmake.kirk mr. kirk: with the help of senator blumenthal that would also help us find these exploiters. let me say that the amendment that i was trying to offer early this week on the save act i intended to go after backpage.com, which would be the largest provider of slavery-related services in the country, making about $30 million a year off of slavery. we really ought to be able to charge them for the costs of cleaning up the mess that they create. mr. cornyn: the senator from illinois his focus is actually where we ought to be having this focus, which is how do you take some of the profits out of this modern-day slavery and redirect it to help the victims? that's what this bill does. and it ends some of the impunity that some of these purveyors of human flesh are -- that they're reaping, the rewards they're reaping and plows it back in to help the victims. but i know the save act to be a particular focus. in talking to the senator from california senator feinstein i know she is very concerned abo

mr. kirk: i yield back, mr. president. mr. kirk: i ask the senator from vermont if he opposes the bill, that it was also cosponsored by dianne feinstein. mr. leahy: i don't know who has cosponsored -- madam president addressing the senator through the chair as we are required to under the senate rules i would say that my objection is to setting aside the pending amendment, and i would address further that the senator from illinois the chair that when the amendment is up here, i will be glad to look at it and take a position on it, and of course he and i have known each other for a long time. i will be happy to tell him whether i am going to vote for it or not. mr. kirk: i would say this amendment is directed at backpage.com probably the largest provider of online slavery service in the united states. i would hope that the member is not defending lacey and larkin who make $30 million a year off of slavery. mr. leahy: madam president to respond to the senator i may very well be supporting his amendment. the technical question is

. >> mr. kirk. >> thank you, mr. chairman. general, i want to commend you and your testimony, your years of service and combat. what i wanted to address is something that isn't here and it is concerned and that is the situation of the drugs and corruption from an irrational viewpoint, how are we doing and can you comment on the status of that and where it's going right now. >> to give thank you for the question, there have been a lot of different report on this. a lot of that coming out of the area. it deals with the producers, the insurgents the user for their game, they look at different options down there and they do have quite a good record and it sees these different places with different drug labs producing a lot of what comes out of there quite frankly it has not been enough in the tragedy there has not taken that away from the insurgents, that is not part of my ct mission, so i cannot comment for that. but it does provide financial assistance to the taliban and the government is taking a look at how they combat that. >

mr. kirk:i would like to speak on my amendment which is 545, building on the menendez legislation to call for consequences if iran should cheat on its obligation on its agreement with the united states. the presiding officer: the senator is recognized. mr. kirk: we should stand for the principle remembering the 290 americans who have died at the hands of iranian terror, including 13 americans from illinois. let me read their names: james lewis from illinois. adam shell from illinois. calvin balmer and david gray from illinois and johnny phillips jr. who went to church with me in wilmmete and gary pullman killed at the hands of iran terror. in the memory of these americans we want to make sure we carry out a sense of the senate that expresses our views that if iran cheats on this agreement there should be sanctions. i would call on all members to make sure they back the old bipartisan coalition of menendez -kirk, and i would yield back my time. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: t

enzi, proposes amendment numbered 545 for mr. kirk. mr. enzi: i ask the reading be dispensed with. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from south dakota. mr. rounds: i ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending amendment and call up my amendment number 412. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. the clerk will report the amendment. mr. rounds: mr. president i ask consent the reading of the amendment be dispensed with. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the amendment by number. the clerk: the senator from south dakota, mr. rounds, proposes amendment number 412. the presiding officer: the senator from south dakota. mr. rounds: thank you mr. president. my amendment aims to prevent the environmental protection agency and u.s. fish and wildlife service from entering into settlement agreements without seeking approval from state counties and local governments that would be affected by the settlement. all too often rather than writing and implementing environmental regulations in an open transparent process environmental regulations a

kirk skips spoke's funeral. the nasty headlines, the truth today from william shatner himself. >> mr. shatner, just wanted to see if you had any comments. >>> bruce jenner behind the wheel and on the phone. how many tny times he's been caught since his deadly car crash. >>> plus is khloe kardashian replacing kelly osborn on "fashion police requests requests? >>> howard stern grills heidi klum about her boyfriend. >> did he ask you to marry him? >> shush it. >>> the first photo of leo and rihanna partying together and lady gaga and taylor kinney take the plunge. >>> is britney getting hitched again in vegas? >> see you at the chapel one time with him you before in know. >> you never know. >> brit is opening up to paulie d. to her new romance to surprise regret. >> i don't know what the hell i was thinking. >>> pluss mario and his little princess gia. >> i'm at the premiere of "cinderella" with my daddy. why so mean to cind

as costars on star trek captain kirk and mr.boldly going where no man it gone before. >> live long and prosper. >> some were surprised that he would not attend leonard nimoy's funeral in california because he was at a previously scheduled fund-raiser in florida. i feel really awful, he wrote. here i am doing charity work and one of my dearest friends is being buried. >> today came the backlash. these two guys were so identified with each other, how could william shatner not go to his funeral? >> nimoy died friday after a long battle with lung disease prompting condolences from the sbram world and beyond. some said get to the funeral, one wrote. this is one moment you can never do again. the daily news labeled him captain jerk. you are helping other people. seemed he would approve. shadner said his daughters were attended the service and he led his twitter followers on a healing conversation about his life and legacy writing he was serious and practical and warm and loving unlike spock. born four days apart, they seemed to be bou

kirk skips spoke's funeral. the nasty headlines, the truth today from william shatner himself. >> mr.d to see if you had any comments. >>> bruce jenner behind the wheel and on the phone. how many times he's been caught since his deadly car crash. >>> plus is khloe kardashian replacing kelly osborn on "fashion police requests requests? >>> howard stern g

kirk amendment and i yield the floor. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. grassley: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. grassley: i have a unanimous consent request from the leaders. i ask unanimous consent that the senate be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. grassley: i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from pennsylvania. mr. casey: thank you mr. president. mr. president, i ask consent to speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: the senate is in morchlt morning business. mr. casey: thank you mr. president. i rise today to talk about the nomination that will be before the entire senate next week, the nomination of loretta lynch to be the attorney general of the united states of america and to urge all of my senate colleagues to quickly confirm united states attorney lynch to this position. loretta lynch has dedicated much of her life, many, many years of her life, to public service serving twice as the united

mr. president, in addition the alexander-kirk amendment adopts the 2014 general accountability office report which recommended establishing the united states department of education as the lead agency to inform states of best practices. it authorizes the u.s. education secretary to make reporting of student sexual abuse by school personnel a part of the annual secretary's report card. and finally mr. president it protects schools and school districts from being sued if in compliance with state regulations and requirements. mr. president, this is an enormously important subject and one of interest to every single member of the united states senate. there's at least one other amendment on the subject by the senator from pennsylvania, the senator from west virginia. i expect there may be more amendments on the same subject. they all have the same goal. trying to prevent sexual abuse by school personnel. for the 50 million children in our schools. in our 100,000 public schools. these amendments all are in the jurisdiction of the health, education labor and pensions committee of which i am the ch

kirk good man, see you later. hillary is in hot water over those e-mails, doesn't matter, she will still be the democrat nominee. more on the untouchable mrsn after the break. stuart: welcome to the rally. dow jones industrial average is up 192 points putting it at 17,800. we would like to come of with a big reason why we have 1% rally. there is no single reason here but it is a nice rebound from earlier in the week when we had a big drop for the dow. call it volatility 17-8 is where we are. or 401(k) is doing well. especially with the dow stocks all those big-name blue chips from the dow all of the nicely higher. lumber liquidators putting out a robust defense against the attack mounted on it by 60 minutes coming back nicely $36 per share, a levon% gain today. the federal reserve some have, some didn't, some up, some down. it is not all good. stuart: an update from ferguson. this from fox news. less than 12 hours after being shot in the face and shoulder both of those police officers of been released from the hospital. the officer shot in the face will have to go back for evaluation at a later day. doctors didn't feel the need to remove t

mr. president, i understand there is a bipartisan agreement in the works to modify the kirk amendment number 545 and therefore i ask unanimous consent that the vote on the amendment 545 occur after the vote on inhofe amendment number 649. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. there are now two minutes of debate prior to a vote on the stabenow amendment number 523. ms. stabenow: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator prosecute michigan. ms. stabenow: mr. president, i would hope we could all come together and agree that we want to bring jobs back to america -- the presiding officer: let's have order. ms. stabenow: thank you very much. this is about saying if you are a business in america and you want to pretend to move offshore on paper but have the benefits of clean air and clean water and roads and all of the benefits of our american way of life, you ought to be contributing to that way of life. so this closes tax loopholes that are being used by companies right now to avoid paying their fair share. small businesses are here paying their fair share. individ

mr. kirk: mr. president the coming amendment is the kirk-brown amendment which is the key iran vote of this session of congress. if you are upset about the intel-sharing arrangement with the state of israel, if you feel that we should rebalance our policy with regard to the united states potentially voting against israel in the u.n., this is the time to rebalance our policy with regard to our allies and the state of israel. i would urge the body to support this brown-kirk bipartisan amendment which has been worked out with the other side. i just talked to the senior senator mrs. boxer from california, who assured me that she supports this amendment. also, the senior senator from new jersey, mr. menendez who i built such a long bipartisan partnership on the iran issue. i would urge adoption of this amendment and yield back the time. mrs. boxer: mr. president i would just take 20 seconds and yield the rest. i hope we can all vote for this because it doesn't do anything to cause disarray in the negotia

kirk amendment. the presiding officer: the senator from 0 the senator from vermont. mr. sanders: frankly, i don't quite understand this amendment. this is what it says -- and i quote -- "this amendment would create a deficit neutral fund to reaffirm can raise the minimum wage while relieving mandates." states do do not permission from the federal government to raise the minimum wage. in fact, 29 states have already raised the minimum wage and in the last election when that question was on the ballot in four states, all four of those states voted to raise the minimum wage. people all over this country want us to raise the federal minimum wage, which is now a starvation wage of $7.25 an hour. so this amendment quite frankly does not make a whole lot of sense to me and i would hope that it will be defeated. states are looking to the federal government to raise the minimum wage. we don't have to tell them what to do. they're doing just fine. mr. cornyn: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority whip. mr. cornyn: this is a reafter a mission of the 10th amendment of t