mr. reid: i ask the call of the quorum be terminated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. predent, we're trying to finish all the issues, work through the issues we need to address before we can finish this work period. i want to make it very clear to everyone, as i said a couple hours ago here on the floor, we can finish all of our work tomorrow. but if we don't finish it tomorrow, we're going to continue to work on friday, saturday, sunday, monday and tuesday until late in the afternoon. we have to get done a few things that are important. i know there are a lot of things that we aren't going to be able to do, but that's the way it's been all congress. i'm prepared to consent to move along on one very significant part of what we need to do. the consent that i will read into the record in a short time addresses voting on the continuing resolution that we need to do to keep the government running. it addresses gets voting on the very different concerns of others who have so

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. id: the senator from kentucky that says there's no input from the minority, but, in fact, the substitute amendment we're going to vote on in the next day or two that's now pending before us has numerous provisions authored by senate republicans. i respect the senator from kentucky's interest in the relations with pakistan, egypt and libya. but every now and then, the senate should be able to focus on a small good thing. to veterans, this is a big thi thing. like helping them. and so i understand my friend's tenacity but i understand also how the senate operates. i just think that my friend from kentucky maybe should have bee been -- should have run for secretary of state rather than the senate. a senator: i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: mr. reid: i ask consent that the call of the quorum be terminated. officer without objection. mr. reid: i ask that we proceed to a period of morning business, senators all

mr. reid: mr. president reserving the right -- the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: the house bill is this big has three provisions. the bill we're going to vote on has 20 supported by over 50 groups. n.r.a. ducks unlimited and more than 50 others. a wonderful piece of legislation that is robust. it's conclusive and it's not partisan. it's a very good piece of legislation. it should be widely accepted. it's a fine piece of legislation supported by conservation groups sportsmen's groups all over america. i object. the presiding officer: the objection is heard. the republican leader. mr. mcconnell: mr. president very briefly, we could have tonight passed the house-passed sportsmen's bill. it would have gone straight to the president for signature. that having been thwarted by our friends on the other side, i certainly think it's appropriate to vote to proceed to the measure before us, and i intend to vote on it. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: there are two minutes equ

mr. reid: i appreciate very much my friend from rhode island yielding and i so appreciate his focusing attention on something we don't focus on nearly enough. and that's a gross understatement and that is our oceans. and i admire the work that he's done on so many different things. we thought we had a path forward to do some really good things for oceans and things didn't work out the way that senator whitehouse and i wanted it but we're going to be back more because we have to do something about our oceans. we study everything else but not our oceans and most everything else depends on what happens in the ocean. mr. president, we currently have 17 district judges on the calendar. 14 reported by voice vote, and for the people within the sound of my voice, what that means, they're noncontroversial. and 12 will fill judicial emergencies. these are places around the country where we have judges who are tremendously overworked on these important cases. you know, we've heard this kind of a joke, "w

mr. reid: mr.e the secretary of veterans affairs to establish a veterans job corps, and for other purposes. mr. reid: mr. president, the first hour will be equally divided between the two leaders or their designees. the majority will control the first half. republicans the final half. at 11:00 this morning there will be a moment of silence here in the senate in observance of the 11th anniversary of the attacks on september 11. the senate will recess from 12:30 until 2:15 for our weekly caucus meetings that will occur today. at 2:15 there will be a cloture vote on the motion to proceed to s. 3457, the veterans job corps act. mr. presiden i am told there are three bills at the desk due for their second reading. the presiding officer: the clerk will read the title of the bills for the second time. the clerk: h.r. 8, an act to extend certain tax relief provisions enacted in 2001 and 2003 and so forth and for other purposes. s. 3522, a bill to provide for the expansion of affordable refinancing of mortg

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: mr. president, this has been a remarkable show of hubris or arrogance. from the republican side of the aisle, one after another you th- the h. one after another, the republicans have stood complaining aboucomplainabout ht an lot done. mr. president, the presiding officer has been one of the leaders in having a more effective senate, because my friend, the presiding officer, has watched what the republicans have done. we're going to do something about t the presiding officer knows that. i know that. what they have done is the very definition of chutzpah. nerve -- what nerve, mr. president. they're complaining about a result that they themselves created? they've created the fact we haven't gotten anything done. they're good at it, from stopping a bill -- mr. president, stopping a bill that would allow veterans to get jobs. they stopped it on a technicality. they have conducted filibuster after filibuster, blocking one bill after another, and then they complaining the senate can't pass anyth

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader smed. mr. reid: i had move to proceed to calendar number 504. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 504, s. 3525, a bill to protect and enhance opportunities for recreational hunting, fish, and shooting and for other purposes. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: the next hour will be equally divided between the two leader leaders who are their designees. thas i think we should know andi will be happy to restate it, the next roll call vote will occur at about 1:00 a.m. this morning, an hour after we come in. i'm, of course, hopeful that we can work something out to complete our work. either do it all tonight, tomorrow, or if that doesn't work out, as you know, mr. president, under the rules of the senate, we would have that vote at 1:00 a.m. and we'd have another vote on the c.r., final passage of that would be sunday morning around 7:

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i now move to withdraw my motion to proceed to calendar number 499. the presiding officer: the senator has that right. the motion is withdrawn. mr. reid reid: i now, mr. presi, move to proceed to calendar number 511, h.j. res. 117, which is the continuing resolution. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to the consideration of calendar number 511, h.j. res. 117, making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2013 and for other purposes. mr. reid: mr. president, i'm momentarily going to send to the desk a cloture motion that i would ask be reported, but prior to that, i'm filing cloture on this. what a shame. why would we have to file cloture on the continuing resolution? i mean, it's absurd. but i'll go through the process and do it. i think it's just such a shame. i have a cloture a motion at the desk and i ask that it be reported. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. eid: last night cloture cle was filed on the substitute amendment on the underlying bill, the veterans job bill. if we're unable to reach agreement to move the time of the cloture vote up, we'll have to have these votes as early as we can under rule 22. here's what that would be. the first roll call vote on cloture on the substitute amendment would occur shortly after 1:00 a.m. friday morning -- that is tonight. there are 60 cuts to vote off the filibuster on the substitute amendment, there would be up to 30 hours postcloture on the substitute amendment prior to adoption which would occur on 7:30 a.m. saturday morning. following adoption of the substitute amendment the senate would proceed to the cloture vote on the underlying bill as amended. if cloture is invoked on the bill as amended there would be up to 30 hours postcloture prior to the vote on passage of the bill as amended. this vote would occur about 2:30 p.m. sunday afternoon. that's for the information of all senators. until

. >> okay, the second report, mr. reiderials for taking notes? >> nope. >> you've swore at an officer for coming to your cell. >> aye. >> is that charge correct? >> yes. >> do you plead guilty or not guilty? >> guilty. >> when being served with a report, james reid became abusive to me. this is officer stewart milton, tell me to get [ bleep ]. he then threatened to set fire to his cell. >> lock me up if you want. if you do i'll burn my peter. >> you'll burn your peter? >> aye. >> and you've been charged with disobeying a lawful order, and this was continually placing a buzzer throughout the control period. when responded to the buzzer and when asked what was wrong, he was met with the response of, [ bleep ] off. how do you plead? >> guilty. >> i'll find you guilty on that one. two more to go. the fourth charge then is disobeying again a rule where you've been continually pressing your cell button again for no reason. >> guilty. >> the last report of the evening was where you've intentionally endangered the health and safet

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: mr. president, i welcome everyone back, staff, of course, and the presiding officer. i hope you all had a restful and productive one, and i look forward to this work period which will be very short and compact, and i hope we can accomplish a few things. mr. president, i want to take just a minute and talk about congressman ryan's math, polarized math, his arithmetic. it is very interesting. he said he ran a marathon and a marathon is 22 miles long. being questioned by the press he said he ran that in about two hours and 15 minutes. that's pretty fast. i'd like to take a minute and apply the ryan math to my marathon times. i'll just pick one marathon time. i ran the boston marathon. and using the ryan math, my time would not have been a world's record, but within minutes -- minutes -- of a world record. i could have made the olympic team. using ryan math, i would have been superb. well, ryan math doesn't work in marathons because you know what, mr. president, you can always check someone's

mr. reid: madam president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i now move to proceed to calendar number 499, s. 3521, which is the tax extenders legislation reported out of the finance committee previously. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 4, s. 3521, a bill amend the internal revenue code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions. mr. reid: madam president, following my remarks and those of my distinguished friend be, the republican leader, the senate will resume consideration of s. 3457, the veterans jobs corps act. the time until noon will be equally divided on that matter. at noon there will be a roll call vote on the motion to waive ththe budget act with respect to the veterans jobs bill. the senate will then recess until 2:15 for the weekly caucus meetings. at 2:15, there will be a vote. there could be additional votes this afternoon or subsequent to the vote at noon. the republican leader and i have had a

mr. reid: madam president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: the senate is now considering the motion to proceed to s. 3547, the veterans job corps act. 70 minutes will be equally divided this morning between the two leaders or their designees with the republicans controlling the first half and the majority controlling the final half. we'll begin consideration of veterans jobs bill today. it's unfortunate that we're having to go through all this, another couple of filibusters on this bill. but that's what we've been through. i mentioned yesterday here on the floor, madam president, that we, for the six years that we've had a democratic majority, there's been 380 -- this makes now 381 filibusters. during the time of lyndon johnson, six years, same period of time -- 1. 381 to 1. that's how the obstructionism has taken place in this body on the part of the republicans. there has never been anything close to this. now, madam president, i was very disturbed when late last night, and really saddened to learn of the death of ambassador chris stev

we don't know what the evidence is mr. reid has. why would he say that? remember a while back, actually kept romney on the defensive by saying something outrageous, he had no evidence and senator reid said i've heard a rumor that mitt romney didn't pay taxes one or more years. he had no information, no evidence to accuse him of such a thing. but mitt romney and his campaign spent days distracted by it. answering to it, and so what reid did was succeeded in dragging out a story that wasn't a real story. he's back at it, attacking mitt romney. he likes to do this. i don't think it makes much difference, the most important thing here is to the new voters who remain. he's looking for new voters. romney has all of the people who are desperate to destreet president obama, but is it going to change the minds of new voters? >> romney is in california fund-raising. his partner paul ryan is in the very important swing state of florida campaigning. a couple interesting things have happened involving ryan over the course of the past 24 hours. he was booed when in fron

hand, did say that the nation has come to expect these sort of, quote, overthe top comments from mr. reid and they weren't going to dignify it with anything worse than that. it is by far away from reid the toughest thing yesterday. he said romney hadn't paid taxes and disproven. this assertion is in the republican view, a new low. shep. >> shep: carl cameron in ohio, not far from dayton. thank you. twitter blew up last night after the nfl's replacement ref got at it again. wait until you hear how much last night's call cost gamblers. >> i never seen anything like that in all my years of football. >> shep: another crazy call that cost one team the game. ahead, the decision that infuriated players and coaches and a whole lot of packers fans and what officials said about it today. plus, truck stopped. a collision caught on camera that sent one driver flying onto the road. that's coming up [ laughing ] [ laughing ] [ laughing ] [ laughing ] ♪ so let's talk about coverage. based on this chart, who would you choose ? wow. you guys take a minute. verizon, hands down. i'm going to show you guys a

mr. reid: madam president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: discussions continue on processing the business we need to address before we leave. as i've said repeatedly, we need to do just a couple of things before we break for the elections. we need to pass a c.r. we need to vote on proceeding to the sportsman's package. to help move the c.r., we have been told that the republicans now have decided they are willing to vote sometime on the paul bill, on foreign aid and also the iran containment resolution. as i said yesterday, we're willing to do that. in the worst case, under the rules, a cloture vote on the c.r. would occur tomorrow night at 1:00 a.m. on saturday. once we invoke cloture on the continuing resolution, the 30 hours postcloture would run out at about 7:30 or 8:00 in the morning sunday, and we would vote then to pass the c.r. which would be immediately followed by a vote on the sportsman's package. i am happy to continue these discussions. we are working to see if we can schedule these votes to occur at a time that is more co

. >> mr. reid, you've got a reputation for integrity and morality with thousands of supporters. do you have anything to apologize for regarding the indians and the abramoff double-dealing? >> no. i don't think so. that was thoroughly looked at and it was thoroughly investigated and i was never accused of doing anything wrong. >> have you visited him in prison? >> i did not. >> have you written to him? >> i did not. but i prayed for him constantly and i wish nothing but the best for him and his family. and i believe that god can cause something really good to come out of all of this. >> that remains to be seen. meanwhile, "the "right hand of god," still mixes politics, religion, and money for party and profit. still covers his tracks in a fogbank of secrecy, complexity, and sleight-of-hand. still says to his flock, "trust me." you heard reed boast earlier about how his faith and freedom coalition reached out to 600,000 voters to keep scott walker from being recalled. the organization's tax forms show no compensation to reed. however, the washington bureau chief for alternet.org,

mr. reid says governor romney is quote not the face of mormonism and went on from there.s a democrat in the highest ranking and the highest ranking mormon in u.s. elected office and said you can judge mitt romney as you will but do not judge mormonism by quote the mitt romney that was unveiled to the public. and he went on from there. he's clearly trying to inject this as an inyou in this race. -- as an issue in this race. according to politico governor romney now hold a 9-point advantage over president obama with middle class families. 53-44%. joining me to discuss it leslie marshall and lars larson. we were told by the mainstream media, lars, that governor romney was having major campaign issues and they were rooted to the middle class so how do you explain this poll? >> i think it's easy to explain. i can't wait for leslie to explain why middle class voters should like a guy -- watching middle class incomes -- megyn family incomes -- not the incomes of doctor's wives like leslie. but family incomes have gone down $5,000 under this guy. obama-care was supposed to bring

mobutu who i mentioned who comied mr. reid: these atrocious aspects of -- who committed these atrocious aspects of torture. mr. paul: but after 30 years of torturing his own money and stealing everyone blind. foreign aid from developed countries in 2006 totaled $100 billion a year. over the past 50 years, we've given $2 trillion to developed countries in foreign aid. over the past 42 years, easterly states that $568 billion that has flowed to africa, that the per capita growth in income in africa has been flat. in fact, some countries like glimb what abouty where miew gab way was in charge for several decades, the growth rate has been negative. those who say i simply want to help people, help poor people around the world by sending them money, it is stolen by their leaders, doesn't get to the poor people, and besides you may have heard, we're a trillion dollars short in our budget here. how are we sending money overseas? some academics have argued with the arab spring the democracies will require even more foreign aid. hillary

those who lose their lives defending our country and the family and calendar.r lives defending our mr. reida short ways from this chamber, s.209, we've been meeting for many, many years as a senate, democratic leadership to discuss the issues of the week. we just finished a meeting. part of the discussion today in that meeting was what happened 11 years ago the exact same time as we remember meeting there. i can remember that so clearly, i will never, never forget that. it's implanted in my mind so clearly. i was the first one to get to that meeting, and senator breaux from louisiana came in and said there's something going on in new york. let's turn on the tv, and we did. senators started coming in, and it appeared that an airplane hit the, one of the towers, and we were wondering why it would have done that. something obviously was wrong. and so the meeting, senator daschle was the leader and he started the meeting, and the tv was off. and the meeting was just getting started, and someone came in to take senator daschle out of that meeting. and he came back very quickly, and he said there

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

secretary panetta and he should be over here to the congress providing some leadership and saying mr. reid, fix this sequester. we cannot allow it to happen. i'm the chief executive officer of the government. i'm the commander in chief of the united states military. you're going to do damage to the military of the united states. it's my responsibility as president to insist that you and congress get this thing done. i'm tpraoepd provide leadership and suggestions and help to get it done. has he done that? no. he's not said one word about us advancing or put any effort into leadership that would lead us to fix this problem. i think that's a disappointing thing; just have to say it is. maybe others think it's all right for him to lead from behind, to sit in the white house and go make speeches and not worry about the sequester, not worry about the fact we haven't passed a defense bill. i don't think so. i think you're still president of the united states even when you're running for reelection. but, i think a phone call or two to the senate leadership would get the ball moving. that's about

mr. chairman? >> senator reid. thank you very much, mr. chairman, and thank you, mr.rdray for your excellent work. by my rough count, you or your colleagues have been before the committee 26 times. i know holly's been here a number of times leading the section with respect to military personnel doing a great job. your interaction with congress is frequent, and i think that represents your, not only willingness, but understanding of the need to communicate with us and our understanding of the need to supervise your activities, and so the second point i want to mention is you mentioned is that that's the know before you owe program, and one of the great powers that you wield is the power informing consumers about choices they can make. when you go econ101, one of the things is to both buyers and sellers have, quote, "perfect knowledge" of what's going on, and frankly, one of the observations that is obvious from the crisis of 2008 and 2009 was that it was a one-sided operation of consumers with very little knowledge of products. there was no real serious attempt to refo

mr. chairman. >> senator reid. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you, mr. cordray. by my rough count, collects before the committee 26 times and beating the reception with respect to military personnel doing his job. your interaction with conference is quite frequent and represents your willingness but understanding of the need to communicate with us and are understanding the need to supervisor dvds. so the second point i want to mention is the mention to know before you know program one of the great powers he will is the power informing consumers about choices they can make when you go econ 101, one of the assumptions is to have perfect knowledge of what is going on. and frankly, one of the observations that'sbvious from the crisis of zero latecomer 09, as it was a one-sided operation. consumers had little knowledge or projects. they will make markets more efficient and more competitive and as a result, benefited not only the consumers, but the markets in general. so with those planes to make it to the question. he recently settle your first major enforcement actio

pelosi and reid thanked him, but then mr. obama launched in a lengthier speech.o the book, pelosi hit the mute button and the democrats went back to the work leafing the president speaking in the ozone, which pelosi denies. >> i don't even have any idea where they could have gotten the thought. usually i don't have anybody in the room. >> there were two white house officials in the room as well, rahm emanuel and budget director peter one of them eventually talked. it passed without a single republican vote. eric cantor later looked back and said he was surprised, the book says, at "how badly the white house played what should have been a winning hand." obama won the vote but cantor thought he unified and energized the losers. not only had obama missed an opportunity to work with republicans, he had pushed them away, republicans grumbled. squandered opportunity to work across the aisle. bret? >> bret: jim, thank you. let's get some thoughts now from syndicated columnist charles krauthammer who is also in washington tonight. good evening, charles. i want to start w

unger whose new book is "boss rove: inside karl rove's secret kingdom of power," joy reid, and julian epstein. is mrh a poorly performing candidate that karl rove is likely to say, you know what, let's forget about the presidency and let's go for seats in the house and in the senate? >> he's absolutely at the edge of that point. rove is the king-maker. he's king of the super pacs. he's put together about a billion dollars which he has to spend in the next few weeks. you're starting to see some money go to senate races, even some of the congressional races from the american crossroads and other super pacs. meanwhile you can also see rove trying to shake up things in the romney camp. the fall guy is a man named stewart stevens. a lot of critical stories trying to blame him for the miscue. >> of course, he was responsible for the clint eastwood escapade. there's still time for romney to become a human being, perhaps even a decent presidential candidate. but it's only two weeks. it's only two weeks till the first debate. does he have enough time? >> well, not -- well, that's going to be difficult becaus

pelosi and reid who thanks mr. obama who started a lengthier speech.e book, pelosi hit the mute button and democrats went back to the their work, leaving the president speaking into the ozone. the bill eventually passed without a single republican vote. eric cantor looked back saying he was really surprised the book says, quote, how badly the white house played what should have been a winning hand. though obama won the vote, cantor vote, he had unified and energized losers. in its earliest moments mr. obama succeeded squandering any good will and the chance to cooperate with republicans. jon? jenna: always interesting nuggets in a bob woodward book. thank you. jenna: campaign leaders are telling our very own james rosen that tonights speech will not be about magic but mr. obama vision to move the america forward. we're your election headquarters and we'll be right back ven 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today. jenna: a traffic cop in charlotte having some

mr. obama the edge he needed. this time, their vote isn't a sure thing. chip reid reports. >> reporter: four years ago, computer system installer, larry phillips, bought into barack obama's message of hope and change four years ago. now phillips has buyer's remorse. >> what he promised, we never got those promises. >> phillips is frustrated by washington gridlock and the growing federal debt. >> a leader should come in, doesn't matter what party you're on, should compromise to get something accomplished. >> this year, phillips is switching his vote from mr. obama to mitt romney. >> we need somebody with a business background. somebody that knows that if you've got a million dollars to work with, you can't spend $2 million. >> in 2004, democratic presidential candidate john kerry won just one in four white male votes here in north carolina. four years later, barack obama won one in three white male votes. that improvement was key to his victory in this important battleground state. now, with the president struggling to hang on to those votes, he's counting on people

harry reid went on a tear loudly and publically accusing mr.mney based on a hearsay source of having paid zero taxes for ten years. mr. romney denies that. he says he's never paid less than 13% in taxes. he does just say that. we're supposed to trust him that that's true. the problem with us just trusting, the problem with us not seeing the evidence of what's in his taxes is that the last time mr. romney asked voters to trust him about what was in his taxes that he didn't want to show, we just had to trust him, was when he told massachusetts voters in 2002 when he was running for governor that he was a massachusetts resident and you could tell this because he never filed taxes for the state of utah. it turns out he did file taxes the romney campaign said, you're going to have to take my word for it. and it it turned out anybody who did take their word for it was a sucker. >> the democrat's point to romney's house in utah which was listed as his primary residence to support a challenge. they also want to see his tax returns. >> we have now learn