mr. lynn's house was different -- >> correct. one building was framed -- from mr. lynn's perspective and expecting this resident to be equal to the neighboring house and now three and a half feet taller. >> the other question i have would be for project sponsor but this has to do with the design guidelines and i am certainly appreciative of the st.

mr. lynn's house was different -- >> correct. one building was framed -- from mr. lynn's perspective and expecting this resident to be equal to the neighboring house and now three and a half feet taller. >> the other question i have would be for project sponsor but this has to do with the design guidelines and i am certainly appreciative of the st. francis wood design association because the renderings that i see of the proposed house are very tasteful and keeping with the rest of st. francis wood we could take a clue from some of the design guidelines in the future on our projects but in any case i am wondering if it's all right if we make it a couple feet lower or 3 feet lower as he asked and hip roof or flat portion. it would have to have a gaibl but it wouldn't come to a point. >> as i understand st. frarnis homeowner association they typically review projects before they come to the city. they have their own internal review process. we rarely get a project -- a dr project filed on a project in st. francis woods. it rarely happens because they do this. if change

. >> lynn, when you hear people like mr.hall peer row talking about a tyrannical regime, do you think that if the president issued an executive order, say, banning military-style assault weapons, that these individuals would regard such an order as tyrannical and would respond accordingly? >> martin, there is nothing president obama is going to do no matter how small a step that he is not going to be blasted for something he did not do. i mean, let's just face it, this is part of the permanent opposition to president obama. it forms and reforms over different issues. as karen said, yesterday it could be health care. today it's guns. let's face this for what this really is. this is not really -- the obama administration knows that the last thing they want to do is to portray themselves as anything even close to confiscating guns. that's why even in their language, they talk about curbing gun violence. they don't use the word gun control. they do that as a way to try and avoid some of this insane talk about hitler who you shou

a nice finish to the day. 62 in lynn mr. 62 degrees in gilroy.change. we'll drop off in temperatures to inclose temperatures wednesday to thursday. then the next round of rain moves in on sunday. we'll take a look at the drive with mike. >>> hey, look over here first to the san mateo bridge. a few things to address here. this is traffic heading westbound toward us coming off that high-rise to foster city. the earlier disabled vehicle causing a big backup has now cleared for a while and the traffic flow is very nice approaching 101. it is tying up the interchange still because of the southbound side of 101 slow past hills dale in san mateo. also the camera is shaking from time to time, the breeze is kicking up to clear the fog. this is fremont on the southbound side jamming up south of dakota. that's the dumbarton bridge where things are gumming up near mission boulevard. here's the bay bridge. we still have the cash lanes with a backup. we have not seen that for a couple of weeks. tuesday will be worse than today. back to you. >> we are back at 1

mr. harkin: secondly, i ask unanimous consent that stephanie lynn and justin clayton, law clerks, be granted floor privileges for the duration of today's session. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. harkin: i ask unanimous consent that the period of morning business be extended until 5:30 p.m. today and that all provisions of the previous order remain in effect. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. harkin: mr. president, i come to the floor today to give a -- give some remarks that i give about every two years, i guess, when the senate reconvenes for a new congress, and now this is a new congress. and so once again i come here to point out that we need to make some changes in the way we operate. i have been in this body for 28 years. i'm currently eighth in seniority. as soon as senator kerry becomes secretary of state, i will be seventh in seniority. i'm proud to represent the great state of iowa. i'm proud to be a united states senator to serve in this illustrious body. i have been in the majority and the minority, i think, up to five times in the senate. before that, i

mr. speaker, the inaugural speeches of president abraham lincoln. i am a huge fan of abraham lincoln. i wouldn't call myself an expert or scholar of lincoln. i am an amateur reard of everything about lynn -- reeder of everything about lincoln. -- reader of everything about lincoln. in his first speech, if you recall, mr. speaker, as soon as he was elected, southern states began to suss seed. south carolina, mississippi, they started susceding. they said, we're out of here. so when he came to his inaugural speech on the first one, he was trying to keep the southern states in and trying to keep the border states from leaving. so he said some things that were so conciliatory that even the abolitionists at the time thought he wasn't what they were hoping for. he wasn't really against slavery. he said he was but they thought he didn't prove it. they thought he was too cautious and they criticized him for this. but every the civil war broke out and so much blood was spilled and so much harm was done to our nation, 620,000 people died in the civil war, president lincoln came back four years later, and on that speech his second inaugural speech was a bold defense of the union cause and an argu

lynn regime. >> do you think that the north koreans are going to take governor richardson and mr.hose? i don't think so. and so what this does, it provides a propaganda kind of success for this four-star general saving americans coming to see us. finally, how many trips has bill richardson taken to north korea and what have been the results of it? >> he's pretty tough. he hated the fact you went there, that the north koreans could use you for propaganda purposes. >> let me tell you what i think i've been able to bring back. i've been able to bring back american soldiers, american hostages, the remains of seven of our warriors from the korean war. i don't know if senator mccain knows about that. i'm surprised at the personal nature of his comments. we weren't used for propaganda. is it propaganda for me and the head of google to be photographed with students expanding the internet to deliver these tough messages about the american detained there, about missile launches, about the free use of the internet? >> his concern is that you were being used for propaganda domestically. they