mr. reid: madam president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that the call of the quorum be terminated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: now ask unanimous consent that at a time to be determined by the majority leader, with the consultation of the republican leader, the republican leader or his designee be recognized to move to proceed to the consideration of s.j. res. 6, a joint resolution disapproving the rules submitted by the federal electiofederalcommunication comh respect to regularring the broadband industry practices. there be up to four hours of debate with the time divided and controlled between the two leaders or their designees. the senate proceed to vote on the adoption of the motion to proceed and if the motion is successful, time for debate with respect to the motion be equally divided between two leaders or their designees. upon the use or yielding back of time, the joint resolution be read a third time, the senate

mr. reid: mr. president, i've been authorized by the chairman of the senate appropriations committee to withdraw the committee-reported substitute amendment. the presiding officer: the amendment is withdrawn. mr. reid: ta*u, mr. president. i have -- thank you, mr. president. i have a substitute amendment at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from nevada, mr. reid, proposes amendment 596 -- 956. add the following division a, energy related agencies -- mr. reid: i ask further reading be waived, mr. president. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. menendez: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from new jersey is recognized. mr. menendez: mr. president, i rise to raise concerns about this amendment that would constitute a significant change to u.s. foreign and banking policies that should be carefully considered by the senate foreign relations committee and the senate banking committee. these provisions have far-reaching policy implicatio

mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be terminated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, as i indicated, senator feinstein and senator alexander are working very hard to come up with a -- an agreement that we can move forward on the energy and water bill. i'm terribly disappointed that we weren't able to do the so-called minibus consisting of three appropriations bills, as we did a couple of weeks ago. it's too bad, it's unfortunate that we're not able to do that, but objection was raised that caused us not to be able to do that. they have not been able to reach an agreement tonight. they're going to continue working on this, and hopefully tomorrow something good will happen. it's my understanding the republicans have run a hotline with their members to see if they can reduce the number of amendments on the energy and water bill. remember, with that bill, you can't legislate on an appropriation bill and it has to be germane, so at least we have

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be terminated. i say to the two managers of the bill -- the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. reid: pardon me? the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. reid: i'm sorry, mr. president. i say to the marines of the defense -- to the managers of the defense bill, the republican leader is going to be here to give a speech. i'm going to give one but it shouldn't take long. we'll move immediately to the bill. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. mr. reid: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: following leader remarks, the senate will resume consideration of 1867, the defense authorization bill. at 5:00 p.m. the senate will be in executive session to consider the nomination of christopher droney to be united states circuit judge for the second circuit. at 5:30 there will

mr. reid: madam president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: following leader remarks the senate will be in morning business until 10:30 this morning. following morning business the senate will resume consideration of s. 1867. the filing deadline for second-degree amendments to the defense bill is 10:30 a.m. today. at about 11:00 there will be a cloture vote on 1867. it's my understanding the vote will be at 11:00. is that right, madam president? the presiding officer: the senator is correct. mr. reid: not about 11:00 it will be at 11:00. we'll continue work through the pending amendments. senators levin and mccain are the managers of this bill. senators will be notified when votes are scheduled. madam president, there was a little void here from 10:30 till the vote. that will be debate time on the motion to invoke cloture on the defense bill. madam president, the republicans love to talk about taxes. they like them low. we like them high. or so they would have you believe. by that logic, republicans ought to be lining up to support our pa

mr. reid: following leader remarks the senate will resume consideration of h.r. 2112. there could be as many as seven roll call votes. it's likely there will only be six. senate will recess from 12:30 to 2:15:25 for our weekly caucus meetings. there will be a senators-only national security briefing at 3:30. p.m. i haven't had an opportunity to speak with the republican leader but we will discuss whether we should be out of session during that hour. it's a very important briefing. i'll talk to my counterpart at the earliest possible-term time to determine if we should be out of session during that important briefing. also i want to put -- all senators on notice that we're going to stick to our timelines on these votes. the first vote will be 15 points minutes, there will be a five-minute grace period, the rest of the votes will be 10 minutes with a five commitment grace period. if people are not here, we're turning in the vote. we have two very important caucuses today and we need to start tho

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: is the senate now having a quorum call? the presiding officer: it is. mr. reid: i ask consent that be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i move to proceed to calendar number 213, s. 1769. the presiding officer: without objection. the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from nevada, mr. reid, moves to proceed to s. 1769, a bill to put workers back on the job while rebuilding and modernizing america. mr. reid: i have a cloture motion at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the motion. the clerk: cloture motion. wet theth the undersigned senators in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing ruled of the senate, hereby move to bring to a close the debate on the motion to proceed to calendar number 213, s. 1769, a bill to put workers back on the job while rebuilding and modernizing america. signed by 18 senators as follows. reid of nevada -- mr. reid: mr.

mr. reid: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: reno, nevada, is a beautiful place. it's right below the great lake tahoe, the beautiful sierra nevada mountains. it's really a picturesque, beautiful place. i was very troubled this morning to wake up and find that reno, nevada, is in trouble because of a devastating fire. we have about more than 500 acres that have been burned. we have a number of homes that have been des tried. the problem we have is because of these beautiful sierra nevada mountains, we get winds that are -- mr. president, could we have order in the senate? the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. mr. reid: because of those beautiful mountains that are towering over reno, we get devastating winds, and those winds are blowing now. the winds are at 60 miles an hour, and they are trying to control this fire. it's really ravaging. it's -- my thoughts are certainly with the families who have lost their homes and the thousands of residents who have been evacuated. the pine haven kaufman ranch neighborh

mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent to motion to proceed to h.r. 6 4 be adopted and after the motion is adopted the majority leader be recognized to introduce, senator mccain or his designee be offered to offer second-degree amendment, 928, no oo other than budget poifnts order. following morning business on wednesday, november 9, the senate proceed to a consideration -- to the consideration of the motion to proceed to s.j. res. 6, under the previous order. upon the use or yielding back of that time, the senate resume consideration of h.r. 674. further, that 10:00 a.m. thursday, november 10, senate proceed to the consideration of the motion to proceed to s.j. res. 27 as provided under the previous order. that at noon the senate resume consideration of the motion to proceed to s.j. res. 6, there be up to five minutes of debate equally divided and controlled by the leaders or their designees prior to the motion to proceed on s.j. res. 6. following the vote the senate proceed to a motion to proceed

mr. reid: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be terminated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that on thursday, november 3, 2011, when the senate resumes consideration of the motion to proceed to the rebuild america jobs act, that it be in order for the republican leader or his designee to move to proceed to s. 1786, a motion to proceed be debated concurrently, with the time until 3:00 p.m. equally divided between the two leaders or their designees prior to votes on the motion to proceed in the following order -- reid motion to proceed to s. 1769, mcconnell or designee motion to proceed to s. 1786, the motion to proceed each be subject to a 60-vote threshold, that if the reid motion to proceed is agreed to, the vote on the mcconnell or designee motion to proceed be delayed until disposition of s. 1769. finally, that the cloture motion with respect to the motion to proceed

mr. reid: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: the highway bill has been worked on for months by senator boxer, the chairman and the ranking member, senator inhofe. and they've arrived at a conclusion. i had a are conversation yesterday with senator inhofe and they've worked out almost all the details on that bill. that bill we have to do something on that, because it expires at the end of this year. first of february i believe. mr. president, my friend the republican leader who i care a great deal about personally is absolutely wrong. the american people support our approach, 76% of the american people like it, of all political definitions support it. why? because it's so fair. we're asking the top .2% of people who make money in this country to contribute a surtax of .7% of the money they make over a million dollars. job creators? i don't think so. the funding mechanism that the republicans use this time is in violation of the agreement that we made last july. we have an agreement. we have cut domestic screngs enough -- dis

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: we'll be in a period of morning business until 3:00 p.m. today. during that period of time, senators will be allowed to speak for up to tenmans each. following that morning business, the senate will adopt the motion to proceed to h.r. 2345 -- actually, 2354. there will be no roll call votes today. the next roll call votes will be tuesday morning in relation to two district court judges. mr. president, last week something wonderful and unusual happened here in the senate. we passed a worthy piece of legislation with a nearly unanimous vote. we honored this nation's servicemen and women by passing legislation to support hiring of almost 900,000 out-of-work veterans. 250,000 of these unemployed veterans became members of the armed services because of the threat of global terror. i trust our action last week meant as much or more than our words of thanks and praise for the dedicated men and women who serve us so well. but th

mr. reid: following leader remarks, the senate will be in morning business for one hour, the republicans will control the first half and the majority will control the final half. following morning business, the senate will begin consideration of s. 1867, the defense -- the department of defense authorization bill. we expect to receive the conference report to accompany h.r. 2112, the agriculture, c.j.s., and transportation appropriations bill, which also contains the c.r. relating to today's session. the information i've gotten from the house that could change, as iisthat it will be late. i've spoken with senator levin earlier today. it appears that we'll have to be in session to work some of that bill tomorrow, so we may not be able to complete the conference report and the continuing resolution today. we'll see what develops as the day goes on. this week the nonpartisan congressional budget office, known as the watchdog of the senate, confirmed that -- confirmed what we've been saying for mo

mr. reid's and mr. towers. i very much appreciate the way mr. reeds presented in it. i see on your application -- you did not mention this -- your professional work at san francisco state. thank you for all the work you do there. that said, i think we really have made a focus of bringing in some post-9/11 of debts to that commission, and i think hearing about mr. towers' involvement already, respectfully, i think he is the choice today -- we really have made a focus of bringing in some post-9/11 that's -- vets. >> i would be happy to support that. i think everyone here knew this was coming today, but this was one of those things where we cannot do enough for our veterans, and to have veterans come forward and apply for commissions like this, it is a horrible decision we have to make, but this is also a commission with these seats come up, and i am start your experience was turning in an application a year ago and just hearing about it. maybe it was not your specific seat that came up but others did, so we would love to consider you for wendy's, again. to all the appli

mr. reid: mr. president? could i ask my friend from new hampshire to allow me to ask a unanimous consent request? ms. ayotte: mr. president, i would grant that request. thank you. the presiding officer: the majority leader is recognized. mr. reid: the reason senator levin and i have a briefing, a classified briefing that starts at 5:30. i ask unanimous consent that following the statement of the senator from new hampshire -- is the senator from listening? how much longer are you going to speak? it doesn't matter. ms. ayotte: i would say, leader, that probably five minutes. mr. reid: mr. president, i would ask unanimous consent that following her statement of ten minutes -- because she's been around long enough. she's learned to keep senator's time. five minutes really isn't five minutes. the senator from connecticut wish to speak? mr. lieberman: mr. president, i'd say to the leader i'm in this with the senator from new hampshire. we'll complete our colloquy within the ten minutes. mr. reid: following the coll

quorum call: mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be terminated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, we would yield back whatever time was left here with the -- on the democratic side. the presiding officer: without objection, the time is yielded back on the democratic side. mr. reid: mr. president, we're going to continue to work tomorrow on the d.o.d. authorization bill. everyone has been told by the two managers of this bill if they have amendments, they should offer them. we're working on the energy and water bill. we're making progress on that with senators feinstein and lamar alexander. we have some nominations we're working on. the next vote will be 5:30 p.m. on november 28. we will be in session tomorrow. a senator: mr. president, i'd yield back the republican time. the presiding officer: all time is yielded backment -- yielded back. the question is -- is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. there is. the question is on the adoption

mr. reid mr. president, would my dear friend from south carolina allow a being in -- alw a unanimous consent request? mr. graham: absolutely. mr. reid: i would ask my friend's statement not appear interrupted in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to consideration of the conference report to accompany h.r. 2112, an act making consolidated appropriations for the departments of agriculture, commerce, justice, transportation and housing and related programs. there be up to 90 minutes of debate equally divided between the two leaders or their designees, upon use or yielding back of their time, the senate proceed to vote on adoption of the conference report with 60-vote affirmative threshold. before there is response to my request, i would tell everyone we're going to be in session tomorrow. i have spoken to the two managers of the bill. we will likely not have votes tomorrow. in fact, i don't think we will have votes tomorrow,

mr. reid:. mr. reid: the vote of this morning, tomorrow we're going to have a vote around 11:00 on cloture on this bill and we'll work with the managers to see how they're going to work through the germane amendments. the presiding officer: under the previous order, there will now be two minutes of debate equally divided on the landrieu amendment. ms. landrieu: mr. president, could we have order, please? the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. please take your conversations from the well. ms. landrieu: mr. president, thank you very much. we only will take a minute. i'd like to yield the majority of my time to the ranking member, who has worked so hard on this bill. i want to thank all the members of the senate for working on the -- the presiding officer: the senator will suspend. the senate will come to order. the senator from louisiana is recognized. ms. landrieu: i'd like to thank the cosponsors and thank all of my colleagues for supporting a very balanced extension of the sbir progra

mr. reid: it would seem appropriate, mr. president, we move to a period of morning business, senators allowed to speak for up to minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. the senator from louisiana. ms. landrieu:, mr. president, --. mr. reid: if i could ask my friend to withhold for a minute. it's important to announce because of this there will be no roll call votes tonight. the presiding officer: the senator from louisiana. ms. landrieu: thank you, mr. president. i'd like to ask that miles ceety from senator grassley's office have floor privileges for the remainder of the day. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. landrieu: i ask unanimous consent that the health committee be discharged from further consideration of s. res. 302 and the senate proceed to its consideration. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. res. 302 expressing support for the goals of national adoption day and national adoption month and so forth. ms. landrieu: i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed t

if not, turned to mr. reid strostrom. supervisor campos: i have a quick question. i know at some point we will have a discussion and hear from some folks in the community about what the proper scope of the program should be. you outlined the original objectives of the 2007 ordinance, and i am wondering if you can generally speak to why this approach, as opposed to a larger program for the benefit of those who have not heard about the program, and one of the reasons we wanted to have this hearing, is because for those members of the boards that are not part of lafco, this is the first time they are hearing about this. >> we're really looking at this program offering as an opportunity to provide san francisco and with choice. over time, as we develop a consistent revenue stream and began to demonstrate on going sustainable nature of the program, we hope to include resources that are locally built. renewable resources that are on our san francisco-controlled land with san francisco in performing the work to own and operate them. the overall goal of the program really

mr. reid madam president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: following leader remarks, the senate will be in a period of morning business for an hour. the majority will control the first half. following morning business we will resume consideration of the motion to proceed to h.r. 674. at noon the senate will be in executive session to consider the nomination of evan wallach to be united states circuit judge for the federal circuit. at 2:15 p.m. the united states will -- i'm sorry. i was behind myself a little bit. sorry about that. at 12:15 the senate will vote on the confirmation of the wallach nomination. following that vote the senate will be in recess until 2:15. expect to be in consideration of h.r. 674 today. senators will be notified when additional votes are scheduled. madam president, there are two bills at the desk. they're both due for a second reading. the presiding officer: the clerk will read the title of the bills for the second time. the clerk: h.r. 2930, an

quorum call: mr. reid: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be terminate evidence. following the morning business the senate will be in morning business until 5:00 p.m., senators permitted to speak up to ten minutes each. then resume consideration of h.r. 674 at approximately 5:30 the senate will vote on a motion to cloture to proceed to that matter. mr. president, every man or woman who puts on the uniform of the united states armed forces takes a solemn oath to defend it against all enemies. with that comes an obligation, upon which it was founded without regard to personal price. and for this service united states makes a promise to our soldiers, mail lowers, marines, and airmen in return. that promise isn't about flag waving or yellow ribbons. it lasts long after the parades and holidays are over through every day of every year of their lives. it's a guarantee that the american dream for which every service mib fights -- member fights for which many of their comrades have died will be waiting for them

daily is he doesn't get along with mr. reid. harry reid over in the senate, the senate majority leader doesn't like bill daley according to the reports and things like the interview daley gave to politico last month help explain why. in particular they site one of his comments, this is daily who is getting some of his duties shifted, not a demotion, that he told both democrats and republicans have made it very difficult for mr. obama to govern, "wall street journal" reporting mr. reid was livid. is that not just true that the president has had a tough time with both sides of the aisle, you get fired, demoted and duties shifted over that? >> reporter: you get your duties shifted because you're echoing the same line you read from bill clinton in his new book, other centrist democrats, saying what the president needs to do is reach out to the middle, and instead they are going the other direction. it's worth pointing out here harry reid is about the only really valuable ally that president obama has in congress. he's about the only

mr. reid: madam president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: following leader remarks, the senate will be in a period of morning business for an hour. the majority will control the first half. the republicans the final half. following morning business, the senate resume consideration of h.r. 2354, which is the energy and water appropriations bill. we need to work on an agreement for the bill. i'll advise senators when votes are scheduled. madam president, we are -- we have a lot of work to do in the next few days. we cannot have the defense authorization bill eat up a lot of time after we get back from the recess that we have for thanksgiving, so everyone should understand we're going to move forward on the defense authorization bill. it may not be tomorrow, it may not be the next day, but we have to do it before we have easter -- i'm sorry, easter ... thanksgiving. i hope everyone understands. i know everyone wants to get home for thanks giving. we all do. but we have an obligation here. the christmas period -- that is, after thanksgiving

mr. reid: mr. president, senate democrats' number-one priority of this congress is to pass commonsense legislation. for example, tax cuts, infrastructure investments. all of these ideas that we have will put americans back to work and revive our economy. republicans in the house, on the other hand, are focused on gutting the safeguards that keep our air clean, make our workplaces safe and check the greed of big wall street firms. never mind this whole package has no chance of passing in the senate. never mind experts say the so-called jobs agenda will create not a single job. house republicans complain we've not taken up and passed these policies which would risk american lives while doing nothing to improve our economy. they insist we should waste weeks or month to pass legislation that is dangerous and proven to fail. but the senate has too much work to do on legislation that will create jobs without risking american lives, to waste time on these ineffectual, purely partisan measures. unlike repu

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mr. reid: lay that on the table. mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i had a conversation with the republican leader. we have a very, very important briefing today at 3:30. it will be in the classified area of the visitors' center. we're going to have secretary burns, general clapper will be there, head of the joint chiefs of staff, secretary panetta, will be there to talk about a number of countries around the world that we need to focus our attention on. i hope we have good attendance at that meeting. it will be very, very important that we have senators listen to what these gentlemen have to say. so i ask unanimous consent that we be in recess today from 3:30 until 4:30. the presiding officer: without s there objection? without objection, so ordered. mr. reid: mr. president, the experiment that we just completed, these appropriations bills, has worked out traoepblgsly well. -- extremely well. one reason is because of senator kohl. senator kohl has been in the senate more than two decades. those of us who watched him know he doesn't spend a lot

mr. reid: madam president, i ask unanimous consent 25 the senator from connecticut,, a man who is an everyday example to all of us and whose observance to his religion is something we all admire, senator lieberman. the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. lieberman: i thank the chair, i thank our leader and i would say he and i have had many conversations about things political which will not surprise anyone hearing me speak but perhaps people will be surprised senator reid and i have probably had as many conversations about matters spiritual and personal and those conversations tie us together really forever. it is my honor to welcome to the senate jonathan sacks, the chief rabbi of the united kingdom, and to thank our extraordinary chaplain, barry black, for joining me in hosting the chief rabbi. the truth is that i knew commander in chief rabbi sacks from his writings before i knew him personally. he's written 24 books, the most recent of which was published earlier this yea

mr. reid: with this agreement, mr. president, the senate will resume consideration of the bill at 1:30 with up to 15 minutes of debate prior to the votes. there will be a series of up to four roll call votes beginning at 1:45. unanimous consent unanimous consent requests mr. president, that caroline tess, a state department detailee are granted floor privileges during the remainder of this congress. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the republican leader is recognized. mr. mcconnell: i'd like to start today on a positive note. later this very day the two parties will come together to do something we haven't been doing enough of around here. we'll pass a jobs bill on a bipartisan basis. then we'll send it back to the house where we hope it will pass shortly. in other words, we're going to legislate. i know that might sound like a little of a groundbreaking idea to some on my side who would rather spend their time on legislation sending a political message. as

speaker, mr. reid, mr. mcconnell, ms., distinguished guests, we gather in this remarkable monument to american history, this room, connecting the houses of congress. this room, where ideological differences fade in the presence of the overpowering force of pride in what we do and what americans have achieved. it is a privilege to be in this rotunda. high above us below the windows stretches a freeze with 19 panels -- friese with 19 panels depicting moments of american history. than most recent of them, number 19 just above -- the most recent of them, number 19 just above me here, the picks the first successful flight of a man in a powered aircraft. by the brothers wright 108 years ago. the depiction, indeed -- in addition to the craft and the responsible individuals, includes an american bald eagle carrying an olive branch. the wright brothers were the 45th recipient of the congressional gold medal, and the first for achievement in the world of flight. subsequently, congressional gold medals have been presented to nine ti