mr. reid: mr. president, i now ask unanimous consent that notwithstanding lack of receipt of the papers with respect to the conference report to accompany h.r. 4348, at 12:55 p.m. today the senate proceed to a series of stacked votes, the time until then be equally divided between the two leaders or their designees and any points of order in order to the conference be budget points of order, that points of order relative to rule 28 or rule 28, paragraph 9, availability. if a rule 28 scope of conference point of order, rule 28 availability point of order is made against the conference report, an applicable motion to waive is made, the senate proceed to vote on the motion to waive in the order they were raised. if the motions to waive are successful, the senate proceed to vote on the adoption of the conference report. the adoption of the conference report be subject to a 60-affirmative vote threshold, there be two minutes equally divided prior to each vote, all after the first vote be ten minutes vot

mr. reid: mr. president, i now ask unanimous consent the remaining time postcloture be yielded back and the senate adopt the motion to proceed to s. 1940. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. the motion is agreed to. mr. reid: thank you, mr. president. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 250, s. 1940, a bill to amend the national flood insurance act of 1968, and so forth and for other purposes. mr. reid: mr. president, i was coming here today to propound a unanimous consent request on this most important piece of legislation dealing with flood insurance. but after having had some discussions with various people, at this time it would not be of any benefit. there's no need for me to stand up and ask unanimous consent when i know it's not going to go anyplace. so we're going to move this forward a little bit and hopefully with this that i'm doing now, we can move toward completing this bill at a very early team. on behalf of se

mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the all of the quorum be terminated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask the to lay before the house a message from the house with respect to s. 3187. the presiding officer: the chair lays before the senate a message from the house. the clerk: resolved, an act to amend the food, drug and cosmetic act and for other purposes do pass with an amendment. mr. reid: i moflt concur in the house amendment on s. 3187. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the yeas and nays are ordered. mr. reid: i have a cloture vote at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will please report. the clerk: cloture, we the undersigned senators in provisions with rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate hereby move to a close the debate on the read motion to concur to the f.d.a. safety and innovation act signed by 17 senators as followed, reid of nevada, harkin, whitehouse, conrad, reed of rhode island, coons, begich, kerry,

quorum call: mr. reid: madam president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid reid: is the senate ine process of calling the quorum? the presiding officer: that is correct. mr. dreed: i would ask -- mr. reid: i would ask consent that that quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that a stabenow-roberts perfecting amendment which is at the desk be agreed to, the bill as amended be considered original text for the purpose of further amendment, that the following lee motion to recommit with -- and four amendments to be first amendments and the motion to recommit in order to the bill with no other first-degree amendments or motions to recommit in order until these amendments are disposed of. these amendments and motion are disposed of. and that would be paul 2182, shaheen 2160, coburn 2353, cantwell, 2370, and lee motion to recommit. that there be 60 minutes of debate divided equally between the two leaders or their designees on each of these amendments and the lee motion, that upon the use or yielding

mr. reid:. mr. reid: mr. president, i'm sorry that it's taken so lodge there are a lot of things to do around here. the conference report has been filed. as i said earlier today, i appreciate very much the work of everyone, including our very, very hardworking staff on both sides of the capitol. but there's no need for us to wait anymore. we're not going to finish this tonight. we're going to have to come back tomorrow. i've talked to a number of people, and i wanted to make sure before anything was announced that the papers had been filed, and they have been. we have a number of issues that we're trying to work through procedurally, and we're not going to be able to do that tonight. i'm not going to be passing blame on anyone, because we all have a lot to do tomorrow, a lot of things that we are going to have to put on hold. this is a very big work period for us the next ten days. but i think it's appropriate to say we'll be back at 10:00 in the morning to finish this legislation. to do it as quickly as poss

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the leader. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent there be four minutes equally divided of debate prior to the vote. the presiding officer: the leader. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent there be four minutes of debate prior to the vote, time controlled by senator stabenow and -- the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from kentucky, and there will be order. mr. paul: our system of helping ensure that no one goes hungry in our country is a noble one, but we're now asking to spend $750 billion on food stamps. when we ask this, we need to remember that recently a woman in chicago faked the birth of triplets in order to receive $21,000 in food stamps. we need to remember that millionaires, including larry ficke, who won $2 million, are still receiving food stamps because he says he has got no income. he has got $2 million but no income. the presiding officer: order, please, and restore some of the senator's time. mr

mr. reid: mr. president, i now ask we proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 607, the nomination of andrew david hurwitz to be united states district judge for the ninth circuit. the presiding officer: without objection, the clerk will report. the clerk: nomination, andrew david hurwitz of arizona to be united states circuit judge for the ninth circuit. plifd i send a cloture vote to the desk with respect to that nomination. can comploik cloture motion, in accordance with rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate move to bring to a close to the debate on the nomination of andrew david hurwitz, signed by 17 senators as follows --. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the reading of the names be waived. cons the mandatory quorum be waived, at 4:30 on june 11 there be up to 60 minutes of debate on the motion to invoke cloture, equally divided the two leaders or their designees. that the senate vote to invoke cloture. further, if cloture is not invoked, the motion to proceed to s. 2034

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader is recognized. mr. reid: i move to proceed to calendar number 3240. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. 3240 a bill to reauthorize agricultural programs through 2017 and for other purposes. mr. reid: mr. president, we're now on the motion to proceed to the farm bill. the presiding officer: the senator is crekd. mr. reid: the time until 10:30 will be equally divided between the leaders or their designees. at 10:30 there will be a cloture vote on the motion to proceed to the farm bill. we hope we'll reach agreement on amendments to the bill today. following the cloture vote will be equally divided with republicans 34ru7bs controlling the first half and the majority controlling the final half. mr. president, we're lee are -- here we are again, one of these endless wasted weeks because the republicans are preventing us from going to legislation. we should have been legislating on this bill. this is a good -

mr. reid: i move to reconsider the vote by which cloture was not invoked. the presiding officer: the motion is entered. mr. reid: i now withdraw my motion to proceed to calendar number 410, s. 3220. the presiding officer: the motion is withdrawn. mr. reid: i now move to proceed to calendar number 415, s. 3240. the presiding officer: the motion is pending and the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 415, s. 3240, a bill to reauthorize agricultural programs through 2017 and for other purposes. mr. reid: mr. president, i have a cloture motion at the desk on the motion to proceed to this matter. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: we the undersigned senators in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate hereby move to bring to a close the debate on the motion to proceed to s. 3240, a bill to reauthorize agricultural programs through 2017, and for other purposes, signed by 17 senators as follows -- reid of nevada,

mr. reid: madam president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. eid: i move to proceed to -- the clerk: motion to proceed to s. 1940, a bill to amend the national flood insurance act of 1968 and so forth and for other purposes. mr. reid: i have a cloture motion at the desk and wish to be reported. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: we the undersigned senators in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate 0 hereby move to bring to a close the debate on the motion to proceed to calendar number 250, s. 1940, a bill to amend the national flood insurance act of 1968 to restore the financial solvency of the flood insurance fund and for other purposes. signed bid 17 senators as follows: mr. reid: madam president, i would ask the consent of the chair that the names not be read. the presiding officer: without objection u. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum required under rule 22 be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: followings leader remarks today, the

he was harry reid's deputy chief of staff until 2005. so mr. thompson worked for harry reid. mr. anderson worked for harry reid. i would assume mr. bronicki, is that your husband? >> my son. >> and he was a donor to the reid re-election campaign. there's nothing wrong with that. here's my point. this is not to embarrass you. when we follow this judas goat of taking money from the government, there are strings attached to all this money we take. and there's re purr cushions. it gets to the point people start to wonder, as i said earlier, this feeding frenzy to come after this money. how in the world did 25 of you get to the table and the others were left out in the cold? you start to look, how did they get there? you think, geez, the guys worked for harry reid, and the other guy worked for harry reid, and all of a sudden harry reid gets involved in it, and the money starts to flow. again, this is the tough part of you sitting there. the american people have a right to know, how did this happen. >> if i may? >> absolutely. >> i sincerely believe that our project is one of the most f

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: before my friend leaves the floor, i express my appreciation really from our country for his tireless efforts in focusing attention on what's been going on in bur mavment he's come to the floor and given numerous statements to focus ateption on this. finally he got some fraction, that's why -- finally, he's gotten some traction. that's why progress has been made in burma. senator feinstein has also been very focused on this but no one has been to the floor as much as senator mcconnell talking on this issue, and as a result of that, we've made progress. it's been slow, but it's been deliberate. and i think we can see a new day for that country. mr. mcconnell: thank the snoer from nevada. -- thank the senator from nevada. mr. reid: i will talk about a number of things now. first, i want to mention my friend, the republican leader, talked about the fact that the president has done nothing to create jobs. mr. president, we've all heard that long-standing joke. in fact it wasn't a jok

mr. reid: madam president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i move to proceed to calendar number 415, s. 4320. the clerk: s. 3240, a bill to reauthorize agricultural programs through 2017 and for other purposes. mr. reid: mr. reid: we're now on a motion to proceed on the farm bill. i now ask unanimous consent that today at 4:00 p.m. the senate proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 610, there will be 90 minutes for debate, that will be equally divided in usual forum. the senate will proceed to vote with with no intervening action or debate, the motion to reconsider will be considered made and laid on the table, that there be no intervening action -- i'm sorry, looks like we have a little type owe graphical error here. there will be 90 minutes for debate, equally divided in the usual form, and the senate proceed to vote with no intervening action on the nomination. there be no intervening action or debate, no further motion be in order, and any statements

mr. reid: move to table that. mr. president? the presiding officer: without objection. the majority leader. mr. reid: we've made a lot of progress on this legislation. we're down to 10 or 11 amendments. we're going to come in tomorrow and finish this bill. we're going to try to get permission -- i understand we can -- to have the cloture vote tomorrow. we have to figure out where we're going on flood insurance. it's obvious with all the problems we're having with flood insurance, we're not going to finish that tomorrow or the next day. we have to work toward completing that as quickly as we can. the program expires at the end of the month and the end of the month is coming very quickly. we have no more votes tonight. wethis will be the last recorded vote. we'll come in tomorrow and work through these. we'll have the staff work with the requests people have for time on the floor, other things that need to be done. we don't know exactly what time we're coming in tomorrow or what time the votes will start; as soon as we can. there will be votes all through the lunch hour.

mr. reid: mr. president, i would object to any further proceedings with respect to this joint resolution. the presiding officer: the objection having been heard, the bill will be placed on the calendar. mr. reid: mr. president, back in 1963 when congress passed equal pay act, women at that time working full time took about 15 cents for every dollar paid to their male coworkers doing the same job. and while passage of this landmark legislation helped narrow the pay gap, today american women still take home 77 cents on the dollar compared to male colleagues for doing the exact same job. jane working at a job gets 77 cents, jack working at that job gets a dollar. that's why women are concerned about how they're being treated. it's simply not fair that i any woman working the same hours in the same job should make less money. often this inequity stretches over decades amend women don't even know they're victims. it took one woman, a las vegas woman, 15 years to find out that she made $20,000 per year l

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. i now move to proceed to calendar number 250 s. 1940. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 250 s. 1940 a bill to amend the national flood insurance act of 1968, and so forth and for other purposes. mr. reid: mr. president following my remarks and those of senator mcconnell if any the next hour will be divided and controlled between the two leaders. they will be equally divided. the majority will control the first half and the republicans the final half. we're still working to try to finish an agreement on the farm bill so we can move forward. it's really disappointing we don't already have something but hope is still here, and i hope we can get that done; a really important piece of legislation, but a few senators are holding this up, and that's too bad. i have agreed that we can have some amendments. i had a nice colloquy on the floor yesterday with senator coburn, who is concerned about this bill and legislation generally. he

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. eid: i now move to proceed to calendar number 250, s. 1940. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 250, s. 1940, a bill to amend the national flood insurance act of 1968 and so forth and for other purposes. mr. reid: mr. president? following my remarks and those of the republican leader, there will be two hours equally divided and controlled with the with the majority controlling the first half, the republicans controlling the final half. i ask consent now that senator kerry be recognized for the hour that we have allotted to us. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: that will be a full hour to senator kerry and are a full hour to the republicans. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: the senate recess from 12:30 to 2:15 for the weekly caucus meetings. there will be several roll call votevotes beginning at 2:15 tod. everyone should understand who has amendments here that -- that if you know the result of

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: mr. president, i now move to proceed to calendar number 341, s. 2237. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 341, s. 2237, a bill to provide a temporary income tax credit for increased payroll and extend bonus depreciation for an additional year and for other purposes. mr. reid: mr. president? i made a commitment to proceed to a five-year flood insurance bill following the farm bill, and we've done that. it's the right thing to do. it is an extremely important piece of legislation. so that commitment i have lived up to. i had hoped that the broad support we have for this extremely important bill will allow us to reach an agreement and finish the bill in a relatively short period of time. as everyone knows, the senior senator from arkansas has had some issues with the bill. i have suggested they've a vote -- that he have a vote. in talking to my republican friends, they don't have a problem with that, to give him a vote. unfortunately,

mr. reid: madam president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i ask that the remarks i am going to give in just a minute appear prior to the vote having been taken on this matter. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i'm really happy that the senate was able to confirm the nomination of aponte, mari aponte to be ambassador to el salvador. she has been waiting in the aisle too long. i'm so glad that she was able to -- she will be able to renew her old job. she was really an exemplary nominee of whom the puerto rican community and the hispanics in general can feel proud. she is an excellent ambassador. president obama recess appointed her as an acting ambassador to el salvador in 2010, and she served with distinction. that's why she was confirmed today. during her time as acting ambassador, miss aponte was an outspoken advocate for american values and democracy and a staunch supporter of the united states private enterprise. she persuaded the government of el sa

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. eid: we're on the motion to proceed to paycheck fairness act. following my remarks and those of the republican leader the time until 12:30 will be a equally divided, the majority will control the first 30 minutes and the republicans will control the second 30 minutes. the senate will recess from 12:30 and i ask, mr. president, unanimous consent that the clerk, on the motion to proceed to s. 3220 at 2:30, rather than 2:15 with the time from 2:15 until 2:30 to be equally divided between the two leaders with the majority controlling the final half. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, we're on as i indicated, the paycheck fairness act. and we'll have that cloture vote at 2:30 today. most americans believe they get an education, they work hard and play by the rules, they'll have a fair shot at success. but for millions of american women, no amount of talent or dedication will bring pay equality with male coworkers. in tindz the minds of many employers they sim

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: we're going to move shortly to confirm the judge we had last night. i ask the senator from oklahoma how long do you want to speak? mr. coburn: i will speak in conjunction with the majority whip for a short period of time. i don't have a long speech. mr. reid: if you'll be patient we'll get this done very quickly . mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: the matter now before the court is the -- before the court. it goes back a few years. the matter now before this body is the nomination of judge hurwitz. is that right? the presiding officer: the senator is correct. mr. reid: i yield back all time on this nomination. the presiding officer: hearing no further debate, all further time is yielded back. the question is on the nomination. all those in favor say aye. all those opposed, no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the nomination is confirmed. a senator: if the majority leader would permit me to make a brief statement? mr. re

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i move to proceed to calendar number 341, s. 3327. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 341, s. 2237, a bill to provide a temporary income tax credit for increased payroll and extend bonus depreciation for an additional year and for other purposes. mr. reid: i snow -- know the senators are anxious as to what is going to happen today. the republican leader and i have been in close contact the last several days. we're fortunate that we're now in a position to complete work today. we should be able to do it quickly. it all depends on the cooperation of senators. we actually know that the house is planning to vote around 12:30 today. they could do it more quickly. they could do it as late as 1:00. we have the ability now that the papers have been filed over in the house, we could act before they do, as we've done before. we'll have to see how the morning moves on, but we are working on a consent to have votes in relation to the

mr. reid: madam president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. ove to move to calendar number 250, s. 1940. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 250, s. 1940, a bill to amend the national flood insurance act of 1968, and so forth and for other purposes. mr. reid: madam president, the senate will continue to debate the farm bill today. we have a couple of votes lined up. we expect to have those this morning. last week in a moment of candor, house republicans led by representative cantor admitted they have given up legislating until after the election, although there is far more work to be done, they have said we're going to have a time-out. there is so much to be done -- i repeat -- especially building on 27 straight months of private-sector job growth. republicans in the house are lurching from one recess to the next recess. long recess. they don't take short ones. they take long ones. last week an unscripted moment was a window into today's republican party, a party that obviously cares mor

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. id: i now move we proceed to calendar numbered 250, s. 1940. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar numbered 250, s. 1940, a bill to amend the national flood insurance act of 1968, and so forth and for other purposes. mr. reid: mr. president, the senate will continue debate on the farm bill today. at 5:00, we will proceed to executive session to consider the nomination of mary lewis to be united states district judge for the district of south carolina. at 5:30 this evening, there will be a roll call vote on confirmation of the lewis nomination. i have spoken to senator stabenow several times in the last couple of days. in fact, we got back today at about 2:00 and she indicated to me they have made progress on the bill. there was one amendment she was concerned about. i told her we could have that as part of the consent agreement. so i have worked very hard to try to make life for senators stabenow and roberts easier and work through some

mrs. reid supporting house, brown's hotel, for the gentleman from tennessee. i don't know what happened to the gentleman from missouri, he must be living under a bridge. this is exactly the sort of ephemeral material that i really like. it was designed to be used and thrown away at the time. nobody thought about saving it. now it is here. in scenic wichita, kansas. [laughter] this is an album. a photograph album. in this case, it is a latin term. in this case, it is civil war related. this was presented to frank wayne, who was a lieutenant of the fifth iowa calvary. he was in command of company, well, i don't remember what company offhand. what is nice about it is that yes, it has all the generals and officers. you always find those in these things. this was down to a troop level, and it also includes the troopers and the private. the surgeons. always in uniform. you can see their sabers bare. in many cases, many photographs were printed on the back. many of them are signed by the person depicted in the picture. the binding on this is typically decrepit, but i

mr. reid: madam president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i move to proceed to calendar number 341, s. 2237. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 341, s. 2237, a bill to provide a temporary income tax credit for increased payroll and extend bonus depreciation for an additional year and for other purposes. mr. reid: madam president, the next hour will be equally divided with the majority controlling the first half and the republicans controlling the final half. we'll continue to debate flood insurance. i hope we can reach an agreement to complete action on this bill. we also need to consider the transportation bill and the student loan extensions before the end of this week. there is a lot going on here on capitol hill today. we've been in touch with the speaker's office. our staffs have been meeting. when we come to these kind of bills, the finance committee is extremely important, and senator baucus, i've had many

mr. reid: mr. president, following leader remarks, the time until 11 this morning will be equally divided and controlled. at 11:00, there will be the beginning of up to ten roll call votes, and we'll complete the farm bill today. in the recallly afternoon. we also have a cloture vote on the motion to proceed to proceed to flood insurance today. mr. president, i think that we come here and lament all the bad things happening here in the senate. it's not out of order once in a while to talk about some of the good things happening in the senate. i think we should look at how difficult it is to get things done, we're making progress. we had the postal bill, the highway bill worked out extremely well. we have this five-year farm bill, very difficult. but it is now near pass, which is really good for the country. we have to make sure that we do before the end of the month we finish our work on the flood insurance program, which is so extremely important to the country. with the construction picking up a

mr. chairman. >> senator reid? >> thank you very much. mr. curry, you have 65 personnel devo devoted to supervision. how many are in london? >> we have five individuals who uh, reside or house in our london office. >> and they're responsible for how many institutions in london? >> they're responsible for, uh, any national bank that has a global operation, especially with the presence in london, like a london branch office. >> so, how many would that be roughly? >> that would be -- my -- i couldn't give you the exact number, but half a dozen institutions. >> half a dozen. how common is it to have the risk office of a national bank located outside of the united states? >> in this particular case, the risk office is actually housed in new york where the global operations of the cio office are housed. from a supervisory standpoint, our focus is in supervising that and other global issues is really, uh,

these were generally boarding houses, mrs. reid's boarding house, mrs.ummings' boarding house or brown's hotel for the gentleman from tennessee. apparently, he couldn't get boarding house. i don't know what happened to the gentleman from missouri, he's not living -- he's living under a bridge. this is exactly the sort of ephemeral material that i really like. it was designed to be used, to be thrown away at the time, nobody thought about saving it, and now it's here. in scenic wichita, kansas. [laughter] this is an album, a photograph album. in this case it is of cdvs, what are called cdvs. you're going to have to bear with me, it stands for -- [speaking in native tongue] in this case they are all civil war-related. this album was assembled or presented to lieutenant frank wing of the fifth iowa cavalry. he was in command of company -- well, i don't remember what company offhand. but what's nice about it is that, yes, it has all the generals and officers which is, you always find in these things. but because this was down to a troop level, it also includ

mr. reid: mr. president, we have before us what -- why we're here. this was very difficult to get to the point we are now where we have a very important bill. we do these every five years. and senators stabenow and roberts have worked very, very hard to get us to this point. i congratulate them both. but we have a long, long ways to go. and first of all, everyone understand, all the next votes are going to be 10-minute votes. that means at the end of 15 minutes we're going to cut off the vote. doesn't matter if democrats are missing or republicans missing. it doesn't matter. if it's really a close vote we always are careful with that and we understand but let's understand when the time's up we're going to turn in the vote. and secondly, i've instructed all of the presiders we're going to have one-minute speeches, one minute for democrat, one minute for republicans and when that time is up, the time is going to end. everyone will be treated the same. we have 73 amendments we have to work through. we have a lot to do the rest of this week. but this is

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. id: we're now considering the motion to proceed to the flood insurance. that's postcloture. we'll begin consideration of that bill today. at 5:30 there will be a cloture vote on the motion to concur in the house message with respect to s. 3187, which is the food and drug administration, extremely important bill. our work has been completed 0en that. we should be okay tonight and have that as something we can look to as having accomplished this week. we also need to complete work on student loans, flood insurance, and transportation this week. we have lots to do and a very short time to do t mr. president, today the supreme court correctly struck down the vast majority of the mean-spirited arizona law. that's of course the immigration law. while i agree with the court's provision to eliminate three troubling provisions of arizona's flawed law, there were actually four provision provisie they were held unconstitutional. one was hundred held. i am concerned about the section they upheld t

the you know who he worked for put he was harry reid's deputy chief of staff. mr. thompson worked for harry reid. mr. anderson work for harry reid. that is your son? he was a big donor to senator reid's reelection campaign? there is nothing wrong with this. here's my point. this is not to embarrass you. when we consider taking money from the cover, there are strings attached and repercussions, and it gets the point where people start to wonder. this feeding frenzy to come after this money -- how in the world did 25 of you get to the table and others were left out the cold? how did they get there? the guys worked for kerry reid and the other guy worked for harry reid and all this and harry reid gets involved in it and the money starts to flow, and people start wondering. that tough part of the sitting there, the american people have a right to know how did this happen. >> if i may prove been absolutely. >> i sincerely believe our record is one [unintelligible] it was advanced. the construction started when we submitted the application. the financing was not available

mr. reed. ky anderson is an outside lobbyist for your firm. did you know that? >> yes. >> do you know who he worked for? he was harry reid's deputy staff until 2005. mr. anderson worked for harry reid. is that your husband or who would that be? >> my son. >> he was a donor to the senate reid re-election campaign. there's nothing wrong with this. here is the point. here is my point. this is not to embarrass you. when we follow this judist goat. there are strings attached to this money and we start to wonder, as i said early this feeding frenzy to come after this money, how in the world did 25 of you get to the table and the others were left out in the cold? you say how did they get there? the guys worked for harry reid and the other guy and all of a suddenhe money starts to flow. people sta to wonder w did it get gamed. this is what theop part of you sitting there. the american people have a right to know how did this happen. >> if i may. >> absolutely. >> i sincerely believe that our project is one of the fit project for let me ask you. mr. crane, bright source, california valley, solar ranch, project am, where did they se

mr. thompson worked for harry reid. mr. anderson worked for harry reid. who would that be? >> that's my son. >> he was a donor to senator reid's reelection campaign. and there's nothing wrong with this. there's nothing wrong. here's my point. this is not to embarrass you. when we follow this, taking money from the government, there are strings attached to all this money we take him and there's repercussions. tickets to the poor people start to wonder, as i said earlier, this feeding frenzy to come out of this money money, how in the world did 25 of you get to the table and the others were left out in the cold? how did they get there and you said well, gee, the guy his work for harry reid, and the other guy work for every reid, and all of a sudden kerry breed gets involved in and all of a sudden the money starts to flow. people start to wonder, again, this is the tough part iv sitting there. the american people have a right to know how did this happen. spink if i may. >> absolutely. >> i sincerely believe that our project is one of the most fit projects for the program. it w

mr. reid: we're currently considering the motion to concur on the house message to accompany the f.d.a. bill postcloture. we hope to work something out on that that we can move to it early evening. the first hour of debate this morning will be equally divided and controlled with republicans controlling the first half and the majority controlling the final half. at 11:30 the senate will proceed to executive session to consider the nomination of robin rosenbaum to be a district judge for the southern district of florida. at noon there will be a roll call vote on confirmation of the rosenbaum nomination. we're going to recess today from 12:30 to 2:15 as we normally do on tuesdays for our weekly caucus meetings. at 2:15 there will be 6 thours and 15 -- 6 hours and 15 minutes remaining on the motion to concur with the house message with respect to the f.d.a. bill. we hope a significant amount of time will be yielded back and we can complete action on the bill today. there is a briefing at 5:00. all

mr. reid: i appreciate very much the wonderful statements by senators durbin, schumer and murray. we have a problem in this country, based on what cantor said. here are the headlines." congress switching from policy to politicking." all that we said here today has been based on fact, and that's too bad. it's too bad, madam president, that we have somebody who is running the house of representatives who is trying to kill these important pieces of legislation that senator schumer outlined we have passed over here. we have passed all these things, worked very hard to get them done, and because of politicking , not policy, the majority leader of the house of representatives is killing all this legislation for reasons that we all understand. madam president, cloture has been invoked on the motion to proceed to the farm bill by an overwhelming vote of 90-8. senators stabenow and roberts are now as we speak working on agreements on amendments to the bill, and i am hopeful they can make significant progress over the weekend. there will be no roll call votes today. monday at 5:30, we'll ha

mr. stol will be michael nolty, lawrence reid, evans, and rose hilton. >> hello, my name is kevin stall and i live at 875 post street which, right now, you kept in district six and i wanted to say i thank you for that. i am a tenant organizer in my building and we worked with the bristol hotel, helping deal with issues with the tenants who live there that have problems that they did not solve. so we helped solve their issues for them. and we would like to continue to work with them as long as they stay in district six. it's only like a hundred people though, which is a very insignificant population addition to district three, but it would still be most important to keep the tenderloin as a community intact. to keep the tenderloin intact. he also just said that he with hopefully not having to take anything else away from district six as well. thank you for your hard work and hopefully this will be the last of your meeting. thank you, and go giants. >> hi, i'm lawrence lee -- >> hold on, it's actually mr. nolty first. >> oh, i'm sorry. >> can you do everything at once? all right, thank you ve

mr. chairman. >> senator reid. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to commend you and ranking member shelby for holding this hearing because looking back over the last several years there are many be, many issues that had potential dire consequences to the financial system which were not examined even though they were small, small risks appeared, but the consequences were, as we discovered in 2008 and '9, extraordinary. i think that this is a very, very important topic. and let me follow up a question that senator shelby posed. that is, the financial stability council has not designated a mutual fund as systemically important and subject to regulation, but they can do that, is that correct? >> i believe that, um, we could designate individual, um, funds as systemically important or, um, the activity of maturity transfer, credit mediation or whatever as systemically important activities. >> and that raises the possibility if the sec did not promulgate a rule that would apply to all mutual funds, then the fsoc could pick out, presumably, the lar

the clerk: amendment offered by mr. reid of new york. page 25 -- reed of new york. page 25, line 5, insert, increase by $36 million. page 28, line 16, after the dollar amount insert, reduce by $18 million. page 3 1, line 23, after the second dollar amount, insert, reduced by $18 million. the chair: pursuant to the order of the house of today, the gentleman from new york, mr. reed, and a member opposed will each control five minutes. the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. reed: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, i rise today to offer this amendment in a bipartisan fashion for my colleague from new york, mr. higgins. what we are looking toward here, mr. chairman, is amend the proposal before the committee, to restore $36 million in funding to nondefense environmental cleanup. a similar amendment, mr. chairman, last year passed the house with a total votes of 261 people voting in favor of the proposed amendment. mr. chairman, i understand the dire fiscal situation that we find ourselves in america today. but what i have proposed here is putting that $36 mil

reid. >> thank you very much. mr. curry. you have 65 personnel devoted to supervision, how many are in london? >> we have five individuals who reside or are housed in our lorn don office. >> and they're responsible for how many insti toogss? >> they're responsible for any national bank that has a global operation. especially with the presence in london, a london branch office. >> how many would that be roughly? >> that would be roughly a half dozen institutions. >> a half dozen? >> how common is it to have the risk office of the national bank located outside of the united states? >> in this particular case, the risk office is actually housed in new york, where the global operations of the cio office are housed. so from a supervisory standpoint, or focus in supervising that and other global issues is really directed from our resident team in new york. >> one of the impressions you get from the press, though, is that the office in london actually was -- had significant responsibilities with the overall bank. the justification

mr. thompson right now is busy. i know that harry reid visits facilities throughout pennsylvania too. i want to know what's going on. the american people are starting to wonder, billions and billions of dollars invested. by a government that picks winners and losers and a lot of it based on highly suspect ways of how do you get there? i wish i had more time. this is an interesting suspect. at the end of the day, people want to know where their money went and how it got there. this is a difficult mab to navigate. you and i know that. free money is free money. this feeding frenzy he to be phenomenal. when you guys got that information, let's get our share. it's amazing of how they got their share. it's the old story. if you are not at the table, you are probably on the menu. somebody got to the table in a hurry and got a bigger share of the pooi than other people. hardworking american taxpayers deserve to know how that worked out and how it happened. >> i thank the gentlemen. we will come for a second round and get more time. >> i hope so. >> yield to the ranking member, my friend from

mr. thompson right now is busy. and i know that harry reid, business format -- i visit a lot of facilities throughout western pennsylvania, too, because i want to know what's going on. but the american people are starting to wonder, billions and billions and billions of dollars invested by a government that picks winners and losers, and a lot of it based on highly suspect ways of, how do you get there. i wish i had more time. this is an interesting subject. and i know people don't want to hear about this, but at the end of the day, people want to know how their money get there. free money is free money. this feeding frenzy had to be phenomenal. when you guys got that information, it had to be, wow, man, let's get our share. it was amazing who got their share and how they got their share. it's the old table, if you're not on the table, you're probably on the menu. somebody got a bigger share of the pie than other people. who funded it all? hard working american taxpayers. and they deserve to know how that worked out and how that happened. >> i

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reid. >> thank you mr. chairman. i think this is a very important hearing, because the issues as they are raised go right to the capability of large institutions to manage risks and complimenting that is the ability of regulators to oversight. i think it also is a strong case, in my view, for a very clear but very strong volcker rule. and also for standing up finally a director at the austin financial research, i know i've talked to chairman johnson and also ranking member shelby about that. let me ask you a question. this goes to rest management. in your proxy materials, risk management seems to be the operation of the c.i.l. was this -- i know there were several changes, but investigating the c.i.o., the chief investment officer? >> we have a risk committee and the heads point to the head of the risk of the committee and the risk committees and head of the risk exposure will be out there. obviously that chain of command didn't work in this case either. so you can blame it on anyone in that chain that if we had been

enforcement officials -- >> congressional reaction include comments from senate majority leader, harry reid. >> mr. president, today the supreme court struck down the spirit of the arizona law. that's of course the immigration law. while i agree with the court's decision to invalidate three troubling provisions of arizona's flawed law, there are actually four provisions declared unconstitutional. one was upheld. i really am concerned about the section they upheld and i'm surprised they did, but they did. they just upheld a mesh that you are allows police to conduct immigration checks on anyone they suspect of being in the country illegally, even if the evidence is only an accent or the color of their skin. it gives arizona officials pre-reign to detain anyone they suspect of being in arizona without documentation. as long as this provision remains, innocent american citizens are in danger of being detained by police, unless they carry immigration papers with them at all times will it's reassuring the court left the door open to court charges on its unsound decision. i just say to you, mr. presiden

reid. he had strong words about the provision the court left standing today. >> i just say to you, mr. president and to anyone and the sound of my voice, someone with my skin color or yours, i don't think you're going to be carrying your immigration papers with you ever place you go, but if you're in arizona and you speak with a little bit of an accent or your skin color the brown, you better have your papers with you. that's unfortunate. >> thank you so much for joining us and also chairman of the democratic national convention, it's an honor to have you on the show. how did you react? maybe bigger question, how will the democratic party react today on the ruling on the arizona law? >> this was a partial victory for the idea that president obama, the justice department articulated, that there is federal preemption with respect to the laws. that they left standing the one that says when they're stopped for a legal stop, they can ask for your papers. i don't see any way to implement that decision without profiling. and without violating the constitution but what they left open are court

reid and minority leader mitch mcconnell. >> i'm happy, i'm pleased, the supreme court put the rule of law ahead of partisanship and ruled that affordable care act as constitutional. mr. president, long opinion, and we know that when we come back here after the elections there may be some things we need to do to improve the law and we'll do that working together, but today, millionses of americans are already seeing the benefits of the law we passed. seniors are saving money on their prescriptions and checkups. children can no longer be denied insurance because they have a preexisting condition. protection that will soon extend to every american. no longer will american families be a car accident or heart attack away from bankruptcy. every thursday i have a welcome to washington. today a group of people from nevada who have or have relatives that have cystic fibrosis. it's been so hard for these young people to get insurance. not going to be that way anymore, mr. president. no longer will americans live in fear of losing their health insurance because they lose a job. no longer will tens of millions of americans rely on emergency room care or go without care entirely

reid. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. think this is a very important hearing because the issues that have been raised go right to the capability of large, complex international financial institutions to manage risk. and complementing that is the ability of regulators to oversight the management of the risk by those corporations. i think it also is a strong case in my view for a very clear, but very strong volcker rule. and also for standing up finally to director at the office of financial research. i know i've been talking to chairman johnson and also ranking member shelby about that. but let me ask a question. this goes to risk management. in your proxy materials, risk management seems to be the responsibility of the office of risk management. which is an individual different than the cio. was this individual -- and i know there was several changes -- monitoring and supervising the cio, the chief investment officer, on a regular basis? did he or she approve the change in modeling for the var? >> every business we have h