mr. reed: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise tonight to join here this evening with six of my colleagues or more from the freshman class to talk about a very important issue that we face in this nation and that is the need for our country to engage in an open and honest debate about comprehensive tax reform as we come to the end of the year with the expiration of our individual tax rates, our corporate tax rates, the potential exposure of the estate tax being reinitiated at levels that would decimate family farmers, families all across america. and i am pleased to be joined by so many of my colleagues who understand the importance and the critical nature of this issue to put us on a path to make america competitive when it comes to the world economy and also to come up with a tax code that is simpler, easier for people to understand and we don't have to spend thousands of dollars, hundreds of dollars paying advisors to fill out forms just to meet the obligation of the tax burden that is out of con

mr. reed: mr. president, i rise today, along with my colleague, the presiding officer, to pay tribute to lance corporal abraham taro, a rhode islander who served this the united states marine exoarmt on april 12, lance corporal taro was killed in hell helmand province, afghanistan. in a memorial service will be held saturday to honor his self-sacrifice and he'll be laid to rest in his native liberia. when he was 7 years old, he left liberia and started a new life in the united states. he was one among thousands of liberians who came to the united states seeking safety from a civil war. we are proud that so many of these brave individuals and families now call rhode island their home and our state continues to be enriched by this strong community. lance corporal taro enlisted in the united states marine corps in june, 2009. he was other than-on his second deployment to afghanistan, assigned to the second bat battalion, second marine division of the second marine expeditionary force, serving as a mor

thank you, mr. reed. >> correct. >> i am grateful for your time and incredibly sorry for the loss in your community. i appreciate that you have taken this time out to speak with us. >>> now turning to politics and a breaking scandal for the obama administration. a top government official resigned today after revel liegss that nearly a million taxpayer dollars were spent on a training conference that included airfares to las vegas and according to the washington post a mind reader, a clown, and a comedian. let's go to white house correspondent brianna koehler. you have been tluming through the government outlining the extravagant expenditures. we don't often hear stories like this these days. what have you uncovered. >> what we know, judgest ka, we're talking about marsha johnson, the head of the general services administration which is basically in part the landlord to the federal government because the federal government owns thousands of buildings across the u.s. this was a training conference and it t

evolutionary agenda and the coming back to give square to gimbal preloaded here after their prisons in mr reed has been obviously shaken over the last few months is when people started to think ecliptic a new abode the dominance of the problem and what's in the liver to. be wisely didn't fulfill of the promises for people to change is a reality to me. and nothing is happening i do apologize if i just jump in here because our i mean personally i'm just having a tough time understanding this the muslim brotherhood now dominates both houses of egypt's parliament and they were democratically voted in their majority of the people putting them into power your telling me that in such a short time people are already fed up with the muslim brotherhood. zippered up people for the beck show he was muslim brotherhood because the. election parliamentary elections are promised people to do a lot of thanks but no. they are acting as a disorder of the national democratic party doing mubarak era as you would like to do beneath everything. they would like to limit is the influence of other political forces they

. >> then perhaps we could -- >> mr. reedwhat we need -- what we need is for you and me, and i'm willing to do it, i don't think you would, but when that happens, do what i do. i condemn it. if it's a democrat, if it's my cousin, it's wrong. and i think we need to stop that. it is damaging the body politic and it's further separating the people in this country. >> what i've said is the administration has shown an insensitivity if not outright hostility. i'm certainly glad to hear what you're saying this morning, but the president's own senior advisers are saying the republican party is engaged in a war on women and he's the head of the party. so i think, you know, there's a little bit of selective outrage here. >> ralph reed, david brody and congressman cleaver, we'll congressman cleaver, we'll thank you very much. thankses for watching "state of the union." i'm candy crowley in washington. look for exclusives at sotu on cnn. stay with cnn on newsman mike wallace dead at the age of 93. for our viewers here in the united state

mr. reed: i thank the -- the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. reed: madam president, let me thank the leader for yielding. let me say how honored it is to be here today to welcome his excellence archbishop choloyan. he serves for the arrest -- armenian apostolic church of america. he plays a significant role as the shepherd for many from florida to texas. my state of rhode island is blessed to have the archbishop as a strong spiritual and community leader. we continue to benefit from his wisdom, his compassion and his generous spirit. it is an honor to have him here today as we not only listen to his moving and thoughtful words, but also as we commemorate the 97th anniversary of the armenian genocide. 9 # years ago -- 97 years ago on april 24, 1915, the young turk leaders of the ottoman empire summoned and executed over 200 armenian intellectuals. by 1923, nearly 1.5 million armenians were killed and over half a million survivors were compiled. these at -- ex-saoeuld. these atrocities affected lives in asia minor and throughout the world. due to

mr. reed: mr. president, after months of working to ensure student loan interest rates don't double this summer, i think we finally reached a consensus that that position is absolutely correct, that middle-income families in america can't afford a huge increase, a doubling of the interest rates on student loans. those who were previously opposed or indifferent to our proposal now are in favor of stopping a doubling of rates. the most prominent, of course, is the former governor of massachusetts, mitt romney, who said "i fully support the effort to extend the low interest rate on student loans. " i think that is the consensus. i submitted the legislation in january and now we reached that consensus. the debate now is how to pay for it. what i have proposed has been to close the loophole that has allowed a self-selected few to avoid paying their fair share of payroll taxes. the alternatives proposed on the other side go to critical health care benefits to low- or middle-income families. it seems to m

mr. reed: mr.resident, we are engaged in a very important debate, while the clock is ticking literally on the future of the poaflt office. -- of the post office. i want to alert my colleagues to another issue that is rapidly approaching. on july 1 if we do not act, the interest rate on subsidized student loans will double from 3 boy 4% -- from 3.4% to 6.8%, impacting more than 7 million students, including more than 36,000 in my home state of rhode island. i've introduced legislation, the student loan affordability act, to stop the doubling of student loan interest rates as of july 1this year. my colleagues have already joined, many of them -- senators begich, sherrod brown, durbin, senator franken, the presiding officer, tim johnson, leahy, murray, stabenow, whitehouse, and wyden as cosponsors of the legislation. i thank them and i urge all of my colleagues to join us in supporting this legislation. if we do not act, the average borrower will have to pay aprex $2 -- approximately $2,800 more in in

reed. senator wicker? >> thank you very much. mr. secretary, i was very pleased to receive word the other day that a memorandum of agreement had been signed for the lha 7 american class amphibious ship. it is very important for our future freedom of the seas as we leave -- well, as we draw down forces in some areas of the world and focus on the asia pacific region. this will be a lynch pin in the american force. i assume we will see that final contract concluded within a matter of weeks? >> senator, we anticipate that final contract before the end of april. >> excellent. thank you very much. well, let me ask you, then, both of you, secretary mabus and admiral greenert, about the ship isbuildi -- shipbuilding indust base. your main concern is getting the job done, but we also have to be concerned about the employment peaks and valleys that we may see, and i noticed in your testimony, secretary mabus, we're not going to be back to 300 ships till 2019. the current report says we'll have new construction of 41 ships. this is a decrease o

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the two left netflix reed hastings and kodak's antonio perez. we welcome back mr. herb greenberg. and we've also got jim cramer. >> i want to say something important here. >> i hope you're not saying something unimportant. >> on antonio, i want to point out, of the guys that are left, he's got to go. i don't understand how the guy can still be there when the company's already filed for bankruptcy. i do not believe reed hastings is going to lose his job. i don't think unless he really screws up by the end of the year he's there because he screwed up last year. a public debacle. i want to be public on that. point it out, he ain't going anywhere as best i know. so that's the old guys. the new guys, we'll start with my two picks and then we'll add one pick of yours. >> we have the same pick. >> well, we have -- >> the two. we'll split a fabulous pick. >> you know what, this is the best pick ever and it's only in april. dan hessey of sprint. >> it's a terrible situation with nextel. he's doing everything -- it's true. he didn't make that stupid buy. that's what is reall

mrs. bush. playing with kaleidoscopes in the diplomatic reception room with his little sister rachel. visiting the wounded in walter reed. as a white house photographer, i was always aware of the fact that i was part of the gray area between public and private and i was there as one of the witnesses, and to honor. but i was also sometimes an intruder. i felt very responsible for how i went about trying to document and what i did with the privilege of being there in those private times. i tried really hard to get it right and to show the multi-faceted people and to make the pictures about the individuals who were there. here is the president blowing a kiss to mrs. bush as we leave to go back to the united states and he stays with his delegation in mexico. just a quick moment after the state of the union with family. flying home for christmas, when your guard is down. coming back from europe with jenna. i would say that it's not always a seamless thing to be a white house photographer. nobody tried to strangle me, though. it's not a seamless thing. i don't believe that you're ever a fly on the wall as a photographer. you

handing it over to him renie it was henry reed hindery me was a little skinny chinese guy who worked there and. he was illegal he was an illegal alien tuesday mrs yang i understand says that henry need never work to yang enterprises inc one of the reasons you can prove that he was working on a project was the fact that they actually build for him they're sending time she's to you saying here's who worst crimes and how many hours they work and so for correct one of them was clint curtis one of them was quite current one of them was henry me one of them was handling me. if you got every environmental group every group you have just say we're not going to do anything else we're going to make the boat system we're going to fix it and you can fix it in two months but you've got to be in it everything else from those months and not save the whales and not do anything else picks that problem because if you don't fix that problem nothing else you want to do will matter. with. thank you i am pleased to follow that liar clint curtis. bay in case anybody missed it this morning clint curtis passed a lie detector test and it ran in this morning st petersbur

mr. obama will be joined by christian leaders from across the u.s. the president is also expected to sign a bill today regarding insider trading by congressional members. >>> first lady michelle obama will be visiting walter reednational military medical center for a preeaster with military families and their children. later she'll visit the wounded warriors being cared for at the center. >>> stay teuped, there's such an uproar over the pink slime beef filler. >> now the government is taking action to make it easier for you to know if your package or that package of ground beef contains the pink slime. >>> batman, we go behind the mask of the man pulled over in montgomery county and his real- life superhero mission. >>> also a student at the university of michigan is now suing her school to keep her furry friend in her dorm room. >> we have lots of clouds around and a stray shower is possible. when will we see the sunshine again? we'll have those details coming up. reporter: as we get closer to 6:00, traffic patterns starting to increase. we'll let you know where you can find delays on your wednesday morning drive. wow. this is new. yep, i'm sending the dancing chicken to every store in the franchise to get th

reed would follow me. i ask unanimous consent for that order. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, the senator from louisiana. ms. landrieu: thank you, mr. president. i appreciate the courtesy of the senator from montana and the senator from massachusetts just for me to put into the record the names of 13 young women that accompanied me to washington today to work with me in the senate in honor of take our daughters and sons to work. ms foundation started this 20 years ago. it's a tradition we have held dear here in the senate. in fact, mr. president, over 100 young people came to the capitol today with their parents, grandparents, guardians to participate in work in the senate, and important work we did today. i want to particularly thank leader reid and leader mcconnell for opening up the senate floor today for over 75 children and their parents that had the special opportunity to be here on the floor, and i will put my entire statement into the record, but i want to acknowledge dominique cravens, martine cruz, amaya dawson, katia and anna fontana, anna riley, sarah sternberg, haley trahan and caroline and bailey watts from pineville,

reed of rhode island, rockefeller, franken, boxer, durbin and levin for cosponsor this measure, and i would ask unanimous consent to add senator lautenberg as an additional cosponsor. the presiding officer: without objection. mr whitehouse: the structure of the bill is pretty simple. if your total income, capital gains included, is over $2 million, you calculate your taxes under the regular system. and if your effective rate turns out to be greater than 30%, you pay that rate. if, on the other hand, your effective tax rate is below 30% 30% -- like the 11% tax rate warren buffett paid in 2010 -- then you'd pay the fair share tax of 30% instead. taxpayers earning less than $1 million -- which is more than 99.8% of americans -- would not be affected by the bill at all. for taxpayers earning between $1 million and $2 million, the fair share tax gets gradually phased in so that ultimately when you earn over $2 million, you're subject to the full 30% minimum rate. the one exception the bill makes to the 30% minimum is maintain the provision for charity giving. taxpayers are permitted to subtract the same amount of contributions allowed under the regular income tax from their tashingable income. the reason for this

reed of rhode island, rockefeller, franken, boxer, durbin and levin for cosponsor this measure, and i would ask unanimous consent to add senator lautenberg as an additional cosponsor. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: the structure of the bill is pretty simple. if your total income, capital gains included, is over $2 million, you calculate your taxes under the regular system. and if your effective rate turns out to be greater than 30%, you pay that rate. if, on the other hand, your effective tax rate is below 30% 30% -- like the 11% tax rate warren buffett paid in 2010 -- then you'd pay the fair share tax of 30% instead. taxpayers earning less than $1 million -- which is more than 99.8% of americans -- would not be affected by the bill at all. for taxpayers earning between $1 million and $2 million, the fair share tax gets gradually phased in so that ultimately when you earn over $2 million, you're subject to the full 30% minimum rate. the one exception the bill makes to the 30% minimum is maintain the provision for charity giving. taxpayers are permitted to subtract the same amount of contributions allowed under the regular income tax from their tashingable income. the reason for this

mr. romney said the president's remarks were "full of distortions." >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome naa chairman mike reeduse] ♪ >> good afternoon, everybody. welcome to this very special naa luncheon today. before we get started, i would like to give special thanks to fti consulting, a global business with specialized services in the newspaper and publishing sectors. their practices focused on thought leadership and digital strategy, and audience yield, combined with expertise in organizational design, advertising performance, news and content, and fulfillment operations. ken harding from fti is here today if anyone would like to discuss their services further. for anyone who was opened a newspaper or turn on a television in recent months, our speaker does not need much in terms of an introduction. he is in good shape from a recognition standpoint and he is happy today given the events of last night with a clean sweep of the three primaries and a further widening of his delegate votes. however, his recognition is build some the on a career of accomplishment. as a businessman, he founded bain capital, a h

reed of rhode island, rockefeller, franken, boxer, durbin and levin for cosponsor this measure, and i would ask unanimous consent to add senator lautenberg as an additional cosponsor. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: the structure of the bill is pretty simple. if your total income, capital gains included, is over $2 million, you calculate your taxes under the regular system. and if your effective rate turns out to be greater than 30%, you pay that rate. if, on the other hand, your effective tax rate is below 30% 30% -- like the 11% tax rate warren buffett paid in 2010 -- then you'd pay the fair share tax of 30% instead. taxpayers earning less than $1 million -- which is more than 99.8% of americans -- would not be affected by the bill at all. for taxpayers earning between $1 million and $2 million, the fair share tax gets gradually phased in so that ultimately when you earn over $2 million, you're subject to the full 30% minimum rate. the one exception the bill makes to the 30% minimum is maintain the provision for charity giving. taxpayers are permitted to subtract the same amount of contributions allowed under the regular income tax from their tashingable income. the reason for this

mr. reed: mr. president, we are engaged in a very important debate, while the clock is ticking literally on the future of the poaflt office. -- of the post office. i want to alert my colleagues to another issue that is rapidly approaching. on july 1 if we do not act, the interest rate on subsidized student loans will double from 3 boy 4% -- from 3.4% to 6.8%, impacting more than 7 million students, including more than 36,000 in my home state of rhode island. i've introduced legislation, the student loan affordability act, to stop the doubling of student loan interest rates as of july 1this year. my colleagues have already joined, many of them -s begich, sherrod brown, durbin, senator franken, the presiding officer, tim johnson, leahy, murray, stabenow, whitehouse, and wyden as cosponsors of the legislation. i thank them and i urge all of my colleagues to join us in supporting this legislation. if we do not act, the average borrower will have to pay aprex $2 -- approximately $2,800 more in interest