mr. lieberman: mr. president, the way i understand this -- it is a bit confusing -- i think there's 15 minutes for the opponents of the pending measure and 15 minutes fo for the the proponents. ms. collins: mr. president, it is my understanding that i am managing the time on the republican side. i, of course, want to make sure that the senator from texas is treated fairly and is given an opportunity to present her views, but it was my understanding that the 15 minutes is allocated to me to dole out on our -- or to ah allocate ton our side. mrs. hutchison: mr. president, then how much time would the proponents have with senator collins and senator lieberman on the proponents' side, in that case? the presiding officer: the time is divided between the two sides. not between the proponents and the opponents. mrs. hutchison: so, mr. president, how much time then would be left on the -- senator collins' side? the presiding officer: seven minutes is left on the republican side. the majority side has 15 1/2 min

mr. lieberman: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. lieberman: i thank the chair. madam president, i rise to speak about the cybersecurity act of 2012, which is numbered s. 3414. last night the majority leader, senator reid, filed a cloture petition which would ripen for a vote tomorrow. senator reid said that he was saddened to have to file that cloture petition. he used the word which we don't hear used around here anymore but it seems right, he was tphrupl -- flummoxed on the need to file a cloture petition on bipartisan legislation that responds to what all of the experts in security in our country from the last administration and this one say is a critical threat to our security, which is the lack of defenses in the cyber infrastructure that is owned by the private sector. and senator reid was saddened, as i was, that he had to file for cloture because, of course, there can be disagreements about how to respond to this threat to our security and our prosperity, because hundreds of billions of dollars of american ingenuity, american

mr. lieberman, mr.h for being here. i appreciate your time, gentlemen. >> thank you. >> mr. lieberman, let me start with you. how important was early voting on weekends in your county, in montgomery county, the last time around in the 2008 presidential race? >> it was exceptionally important. you know, i can give you some numbers, we had 28,000 people that voted early. of those, one third of them voted on weekends. in fact, there was the weekend beforehand in which we had almost 8,000 people, the weekend before the election. i remember standing out on the lawn and because there were so many people that they actually were lining up on the lawn, and there was a college student who had a guitar and he was playing songs. and my republican counterpart on the board at the time looked at me with tears in his eyes and he said, this is what america's about. and he was right. it is. early voting in montgomery county is critical. >> let me ask about working with your republican colleagues here. obviously all the e

mr. lieberman, mr.ie, democratic members of the montgomery county ohio board of elections, i know that this is as of yet unresolved, this is still a pending matter, and i know it, therefore, takes some guts to talk about it publicly in terms of what's going on, but thank you for being willing to explain it to us and good luck this week. please keep us posted. the whole country's paying a lot of attention to ohio for good reason. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thanks, gentleman. okay. >>> do you want to know who won the news lottery today? the republican congressman whose own scandal was squeezed out of the headlines by the mr. legitimate rape todd akin scandal today. the guy who got squeezed out of the headlines and who is very thankful to mr. akin, we've got his story next. humans -- sometimes life trips us up. and sometimes, we trip ourselves up, but that's okay. at liberty mutual insurance we can "untrip" you as you go through your life with personalized policies and discounts when you need

mr. lieberman, former democrat, made his comments on the same day a political action committee debuted an advertisement that featured a steelworker linking bain capital's closure to the death of his wife to cancer. president obama campaigns today in colorado, while mitt romney will be campaigning in iowa. more on the campaign from reince priebus. in an announcement, he released more names of the scheduled speakers. they are the florida attorney general, the florida first female attorney general, the texas republican senator nominee, the porter rican governor, the first republican elected governor of puerto rico since 1969, and finally wisconsin gov. scott walker. the rnc national convention begins august 27 in tampa. c-span will cover the conventions live gavel to gavel. >> sunday, look for our interview. >> i had no idea about the experience from people who were my predecessors in berlin. despite all the time i spend in germany, i have not spent a lot of time thinking about what it would be like to be a correspondent there in the 1930's and 1940's. what would you have noticed or not noti

lieberman that i hit dodd with. >> you okay with that cartoon, sir? >> of course not. that's not the issue, mr. o'reilly. >> of course it's the issue that's what they do on the site. they do that hate stuff all the time. >> you suggested that we ought not to participate. >> bill: correct. >> because six or eight or ten people here have said something. >> bill: there is thousands of vial postings on that web site. >> mr. o'reilly there are thousands on your posting. >> bill: there aren't any. we take them off right away. >> talking about al qaeda attacking san francisco? blowing up. >> bill: when did i say that senator. >> you said that in 2006. where, what forum, when. >> right here i believe on your own show. >> bill: you are wrong. i didn't say it here. you don't know what the hell i said. you got it from media matters. you don't know. >> bill: finally rod blagojevich currently serving 14 years in federal prison for trying to sell barack obama's senate seat. before he was found guilty, the former illinois governor talked to me about his conversations surrounding the corruption charge. >> bill

and she has worked with senator lieberman on so many issues. mr. mccain: i accept your definition of bipartisan. mr. durbin: to raise the question of dodd-frank and appropriate government oversight and regulation, i suggest you reflect on three things -- libor, peregrine investments and the chase loss of $6 billion to say that we shouldn't have government oversight of our financial institutions that dragged us into this recession we're still trying to recover from, i would say it differently. we vote differently when it comes to that. but i think there is a continuing need for government oversight of these institutions. mr. mccain: these institutions are not averse to government oversight. they are averse to legislation which harms their ability to share that information because if they face the threat of being taken into court for that, then obviously that -- there is some reluctance. they also know how much has been lost because of the lack of cybersecurity to china and other countries. they're the ones the most directly affected. so they are int

and she has worked with senator lieberman on so many issues. mr. mccain: i accept your definition of bipartisan. mr. durbin: to raise the question of dodd-frank and appropriate government oversight and regulation, i suggest you reflect on three things -- libor, peregrine investments and the chase loss of $6 billion to say that we shouldn't have government oversight of our financial institutions that dragged us into this recession we're still trying to recover from, i would say it differently. we vote differently when it comes to that. but i think there is a continuing need for government oversight of these institutions. mr. mccain: these institutions are not averse to government oversight. they are averse to legislation which harms their ability to share that information because if they face the threat of being taken into court for that, then obviously that -- there is some reluctance. they also know how much has been lost because of the lack of cybersecurity to china and other countries. they're the ones the most directly affected. so they are int

lieberman. they are friends with republican senator john mccain, and you might know that fellow to the right of him. he was his top economic advisor when mr. mccain was running for president of the he is the former cbo chief. gentlemen, welcome to both of you. senator, what do you make of take this off the table, take this whole debt thing off the table and at least the debt commission stuff off the table. >> the debt commission covers a good rogue -- road map on how we can address the debt. it ain't gonna happen. we should move on to other things like the tenor of the campaign, like the fact that joe biden who is a nice guy and who i have known and have been friendly with for many years continues to say things that are unacceptable in american politics, and yet he gets away with it because it is sort of a joke -- well, he crossed the line again with this statement about being in chains or putting people back in chains. he should be held accountable. the obama administration should be held accountable for this ad that basically alleges that mitt romney is responsible for the tragic death of a man's wife. and neil let me just say what do y