mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that all postcloture time now be considered expired and on monday, april 28 at 5:30 p.m. the senate proceed to vote with no intervening action or debate on calendar number 574. further following disposition of the nomination the senate proceed to vote on cloture on executive calendar number 613 and if cloture is invoked all postcloture time be yielded and the senate proceed to vote on confirmation of the nomination. that if confirmed the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table, with no intervening action or debate and no further motion be in order to the nominations. if any statements related to the nominations be printed in the record and that president obama be immediately notified of the senate's action and partisan -- the senate resume legislative session. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent on monday april 28 following disposition

mr. reid: is the senate in a quorum call? the presiding officer: it is. mr. reid: ask unanimous consent it be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 574. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion to proceed. all those in favor say aye. all those opposed, no. the ayes appear to have it. yiet do's have it. -- the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. mr. reid: i send a cloture motion to the desk. madam president, you must report the nomination. i'm sorry. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the nomination. the clerk: nomination, michelle t. freedland of california to be united states circuit judge for the ninth circuit. mr. reid: i send a cloture motion to the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the cloture motion. the clerk: cloture motion. we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, hereby move

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader is recognized. mr. reid: we have a couple more votes. the presiding officer: come to order. listen to the majority leader. mr. reid: we have a couple more votes scheduled, they're going by voice, i'm told but we're going to have a cloture vote an hour after we come in tomorrow morning. there is no reason we can't be finished tomorrow but that doesn't mean we will be finished tomorrow. we'll have to work out the time problems we have with the matters that will be pending after we complete the votes on these two things now. so we could finish tomorrow. it's just up to us. otherwise we may have to spill over a little into late on friday. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate will proceed to the consideration of the following nominations which the clerk will report. the clerk: department of transportation, debra l. miller of kansas to be a member of the surface transportation board. railroad retirement board, steven joel anthony of virginia, to be a member. department of state, daniel w

mr. reid: mr. president, this week the senate will begin consideration of increasing the federal minimum wage. over the next few days, members of this body will come to the floor to make case for or against increasing the minimum wage. most of the statements you will hear today will be in favor of it because the republicans are not anxious to come here and speak against raising the minimum-wage bill. they will be very silent most of the time and not talk much about increasing the minimum wage, which is so vitally important to our country. the american people written undated with figures and facts regarding the economic impact of an increase to $10.10 an hour. mr. president, why was that number chosen? it was chosen because that number, $10.10 an hour, for 40 hours, you were no longer in poverty. as supporters of this legislation, senate democrats have ample evidence to back up our position. it is good for america. a recent study from the economic policy institute indicate indict increasing the mini

mr. reid: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed -- first of all. the presiding officer: the senate is in a quorum call. mr. reid: ask consent the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid:: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to a period of morning business, senators during that time be allowed to speak for up to 10 minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that on wednesday, april 2, at a time to be determined by me, in consultation with senator mcconnell, the senate proceed to executive session to consider nominations numbered 520, 679, 705. there be two minutes for debate equally divided in the ural form on each -- usual form on each nomination, that the senate proceed to vote in the order listed, that all roll call votes after the first be 10 minutes in length, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table, with no intervening action or debate, that no furt

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i'm told s. 2223 is due for a second reading. is that right? the presiding officer: the clerk will read the title of the bill for a second time. the clerk: s. 2223, a bill to provide for an increase in the federal minimum wage, and so forth. mr. reid: mr. president, i would object to any proceedings with respect to this legislation at this time. the presiding officer: objection is heard. the bill will be placed on the calendar. mr. reid: i move to proceed to calendar number 345, s. 23199, paycheck fairness. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 345, s. 2199, a bill to amend the fair labor standards act of 1938, and so forth and for other purposes. mr. reid: mr. president, following leader remarks and those of senator mcconnell, the senate will -- the senate will be -- all time will be equally divided and controlled until 11:00 a.m., and at that time there will be a cloture vote on the motion to proceed to legislation now bef

quorum call: mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: ask con scene the call of the quorum be terminated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed for a period of morning business and senators allowed to speak up to 10 minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i now ask unanimous consent that at 5:00 p.m. tomorrow friday, april 11, all postcloture time be yielded back and the senate proceed to vote with no intervening action or debate on calendar number 574. further, that following disposition of that nomination, the senate proceed to vote on cloture on executive calendar number 613. if cloture is invoked all postcloture time be yielded and the senate proceed to vote on confirmation of the nomination, that if confirmed, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table with no intervening action or debate. no further motions be in order to the nominations that any statements related to the nominations be printed in the record, and president

mr. reid: mr. president, the committee of which i'm almost certain my friend is a member, the judiciary committee --, is that right? you're a member of the judiciary committee? former supreme court justice of texas. they've reported a bill out of the judiciary committee of which my friend was part of that reporting situation. and that part of what they reported out has the debbie smith language in it but it has more stuff in it than just that. i would be happy to take a look at that. you talk to the chair of the committee, the ranking member, who is on the floor here today and if they would be willing to separate this stuff here and have rather than what was reported out of the committee take a look at this, senator leahy was here on the floor, he's not here now but i'd be happy to take a look at that. mr. cornyn: mr. president, i'd -- if i may ask one further question of the majority leader. one followup question. mr. reid: i'm sorry. i can't hear that. mr. cornyn: i'd ask the majority leader whet

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 the senate proceed to a period of morning business with senators permitted allowed to speak for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to s. res. 430. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 430, expressing support for the designation of may 1, 2014, a silver star service banner day. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the motion to reconsider be label label -- be laid on the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask consent the senate proceed to s. res. 431. the pre

mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum call be terminated. i ask unanimous consent that we be in a period of morning business. i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to calendar number 346. the presiding officer: without objection. the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 346, s. res. 384 expressing the sense of the senate concerning humanitarian crisis in syria and neighboring countries and so forth. the presiding officer: without objection the senate will proceed to the measure. if there is no further debate on the measure, all those in favor say aye. all those opposed, nay. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the measure is agreed to. mr. reid: madam president, i would ask that the preamble be agreed to, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask consent the judiciary committee be discharged from further consideration of s. res. 3

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i move to proceed to calendar number 250. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the motion. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 250, s. 1737, a bill to provide for increase in the federal minimum wage, and so forth. mr. reid: mr. president, following my remarks and those of the republican leader the senate will resume consideration of h.r. 3979, which is a legislative vehicle for the unemployment insurance extension. the time until 10:00 will be equally divided and controlled. the filing deadline for second-degree amendments is 9:30 today. 9:30 a.m. today. at 10:00 a.m. there will be a cloture vote on the reid substitute amendment. additional votes are expected throughout the day. senators will be notified when we schedule them. there are two bills at the desk due for second reading, mr. president. the presiding officer: the clerk will read the titles of the bills for the second time. the clerk: s. 219

. >> you rented out your whole house to mr. reid. >> no, no i hadn't represented to mr. reid i knew him before. >> he was - >> you know from my attorney regardless of whether he was paying rent he still had tenants rights and on top of. >> are you knowledge there with him. >> on certainty occasions there was one bedroom i had retrieved stayed there. >> that's all right. i have nothing further. >> thank you. we'll hear from mr. duffey now. >> good evening commissioners. i'm glad mr. hansen kind of told the story about all the -- how this went on for several years. when i read the brief i couldn't figure out how it was so old and what was going on, but obviously there was issues with someone in the building. but needless to say, the department did write a notice of violation on the 28th of august, 2003, for windows and sliding glass door on the east side of 116 franconia street without the benefit of a permit. submit a copy of this notice for installation of sliding glass door and window complete all work and correct all violations within 90 days. and to abate this notice y

mr. reid: i would ask unanimous consent the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: madam president, yesterday, all america watched while commissioner adam silva and -- adam silver and the national basketball association punished donald sterling for his racist behavior. commissioner silver banned sterling from the nba for life and a $2 million fine. i with almost all of america applaud the nba's work to swiftly move to stamp out bigotry in its ranks. commissioner silver and the league have set the standard for how professional sports associations should act in the face of racism. i wonder today, madam president, how the leadership of the national football league, the nfl, that money-making machine, i wonder if they have taken notice of the nba's decisive action. how long will the nfl continue to do nothing, zero, as one of its teams bears a name that inflicts so much pain on native americans? madam president, i have 22 tribal organizations in nevada. all ov

reid getting into it on local tv. allegations that those supporting mr. bundy are, in his view, domestic terrorists. >> senator reid you called mr. bundy and his supporters domestic terrorists what. did you mean by that? >> perplexing since what triggered the pullout? you're privy to intelligence what was that they were doing that would make you call them domestic terrorists? >> a wonderful branch here that i met with them last week. they pay their taxes and pay their fees they follow the law. bundy doesn't believe that they, the american government is valid he believes the united states is a foreign government. he doesn't pay taxes he doesn't follow the law. he doesn't pay his fees. and if anyone thinks that in a figment of their imagination is what happened is people rallying people, 600 people came in. they had trucks and they knew what they're doing they set up snipers in strategic locations and assault weapons and automatic weapons they based it upon the fact they put women and children, one retired sheriff from arizona close to women and children say

senator reid doubling down on allegations that those supporting mr. y are in his view domestic terrorists. >> senator reid yesterday you called mr. bundy and his supporters domestic terrorists. i thought we were trying to calm the situation down, so what did you mean by that? >> just what i said. >> talk to me a little bit more about that, senator, in the sense of what triggered the pullout? you're obviously privy to intelligence. what was it they were doing up there that would make you call them domestic terrorists? >> the cattle men association has a wonderful branch here in nevada. i met with them last week. they pay their taxes. they pay their fees, they follow the law. bundy doesn't believe that the american government is valid. he believes the united states is a foreign government. he doesn't pay his taxes. he doesn't follow the law. he doesn't pay his fees. if anyone thinks by any figment of their imagination what happened up there last week was just people rallying to somebody that was oppressed, 600 people came in armed. they had practiced, ma

mr. reid: are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: we are not. mr. reid: at 4:30 today, the senate proceed to executive calendar 556, 502, there will two minutes of debate equally devoided between the two leaders or her designee. the senate proceed to vote on the nominations. ththe motion tothe motion to red on the table, with no intervening action or debate, and the nominations be printed from the record and president obama be notified's senate's action and the ha senate return to legislative session. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the republican leader. mr. mcconnell: for weeks republicans have been trying to get democrats to focus on the one issue that americans say they care the most about, and that's jobs and the economy. everyone agrees we're in the midst of a jobs crisis in our country. what republicans have been saying is, here are some concrete things, some concrete things we can actually do abo

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: the order that's now in effect in the senate, executive we move to executive session to consider the malinowski, wu, and birx nominations and ask that all time be yielded back on all of these nominations. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. the senate will proceed to executive session. the clerk will report the nomination. the clerk: nominations, department of state, toms p. malinowski of the district of columbia to be assistant secretary. department of labor, portia y. wu of the district of columbia to be an assistant secretary. department of state, deborah l. birx of maryland to be ambassador at large and coordinator of united states government activities to combat hiv-aids globally. the presiding officer: the question is on the malinowski nomination. all in favor say aye. all opposed, no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes to have it. the nomination is confirmed. the question is on the wu nomination. all in favor say aye. all opposed, no

mr. reid: mr. president, i from time to time have to express my apologies to everyone, staff, presiding officer. i just can't come to the floor until we know what we're going to do tomorrow. and that takes a lot of time. i've had meetings going on in my office. and i apologize to everyone. i'm sorry that things take so long and it appears we're doing nothing but there are things being done. i ask consent the senate proceed to consideration of s. res. 409. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 4 409, congratulating the penn state university wrestling team for winning the 2014 national collegiate athletic association wrestle championships. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the motion to reconsider be laid on the table, there be no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask un

mr. reid: i object. the presiding officer: objection is heard. the senator from south dakota. mr. thune: mr. president, i have a unanimous consent request i'd like to put forward as well. i would ask unanimous consent that if cloture is invoked on the motion to proceed to senate bill 2199 that all postcloture time be yielded back and the senate proceed to the consideration of the bill, and that it be in order for me to offer amendment 2964, and then for the majority leader or his designee to offer an amendment and it be in order for the leaders or their designees to continue to offer amendments in an alternating fashion with the following amendments on the republican side in order: mcconnell 2162, fisher 2963, alexander 2965, and lee number 2966. the presiding officer: is there objection? mr. reid: would my friend give me the subject matter of those three amendments? the four amendments. the presiding officer: can you give the subject matter. mr. thune: the mcconnell amendment has to do with f

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i move to proceed to calendar number 354, the minimum wage legislation. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the motion. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 354, s. 2223, a bill to provide for an increase in the federal minimum wage, and so forth. mr. reid: mr. president, following my remarks and those of the republican leader the time until 10:30 will be equally divided and controlled. at 10:30 there will be a vote on the ninth circuit judge whose name is michelle friedland. if cloture is ininvoke cloture there will be up to 30 hours of debate prior to a vote on the confirmation of the nomination. we have two votes we need to have before we leave here this week. we can have the vote at 4:00 tomorrow afternoon, and the second vote would be around 7:00 or thereabouts tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow evening. we have to finish these two matters before we leave here this week. the schedule is up to not republicans, but a few republicans. so i would suggest republican

mr. reid: madam president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i have seven unanimous consent requests for committees to meet during today's session. they have both been approved by me and by senator mcconnell. i ask consent these requests be agreed to and printed in the record. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. reid: this will be the last vote this morning. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. the clerk: cloture motion, we the undersigned senators hereby move to bring to a close the debate on jon david levy of maine to be district judge of maine, signed by 17 senators. the presiding officer: is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of jon david levy of maine to be united states district court judge for the district of maine shall be brought to a close. the yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: the presiding officer: are there any senators wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote? if not, the ayes ar

so harry reid is leveling a new acquisition against mr. bundy that he doesn't pay taxes? >> exactly, in the same sentence he says he doesn't pay grazing fees and he doesn't pay his taxes. it's not a matter if he mistook one for the other. he used both in the same sentence. he's accusing cliven bundy of not paying his taxes. cliven bundy says that's just not true. >> with all due respect, what does anyone care what harry reid's son says about this? he called for cliven bundy to e be -- using the terms like domestic terrorists? >> i'm not sure why people would care. rory reid does have his own tv show here in the market and as such, he's on tv every day or three, four days a week and the fact is a lot of people believe that he or one of the other reid brothers maybe apparent to harry reid if he decides to step down and leave the senate. >> big in nevada politics. thank you. >> thank you, megyn. >>> joining me now, dennis michael lynch, a film maker on the ground at the ranch during the standoff with the agents. what do you make of it, domestic terrorists? >> i don't know wh

mr. reid: madam 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 today at 2:15, the senate pedestrian to executive session to consider calendars number 582 and 683, that there be 15 minutes for debate equally divided between the two leaders or their designees. upon the use or yielding back of that time, the senate proceed to vote with no intervening action or debate on the nominations in the order listed. that two minutes for debate equally divided in the usual form. that all after the first vote be 10 minutes in length. the motion toss reconsider be considered made and laid on the table with no intervening action or debate.jjy we hope to also reach agreement on that nomination. mr. reid: so i have nothing further. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate previous order, the senate >> well the u.s. senate has recessed

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i move to proceed to calendar number 354, the minimum wage legislation. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 354, s. 2223, a bill to provide for an increase in the federal minimum wage and so forth. mr. reid: mr. president, following my remarks and those of the republican leader, the senate will be in morning business until 10:30 this morning. the republicans will control the first half. the majority will control the final half. following that morning business, the time until noon will be equally divided and controlled between the two leaders or their designees prior to a cloture vote on the minimum wage. at 4:00 there will be votes on nominations. later today, as i just announced, we're going to have, we hope, the beginning of a debate on the increase of the federal minimum wage. mr. president, millions -- millions of american workers will be watching how each senator votes today. to them, it is a matter of survival. they'

mr. reid: mr. president? the president pro tempore: the majority leader. mr. reid: i move to proceed to calendar number 250. the president pro tempore: respect -- mr. reid:. the clerk: a bill to provide for increase in the federal minimum wage and so forth. mr. reid: following my remarks and those of the republican leader the senate will be in a period of morning business for an hour. the majority will control the first half, republicans the final half. following morning business the senate will resume consideration of the legislate vehicle for the unemployment insurance extension legislation. the senate will recess today as we do every he tuesday, from 12:30 to 2:15, for our caucus meetings. mr. president, as i went about my business here in the senate yesterday, i was informed the koch brothers are at it again. we know they're at it, but now they're at it in nevada, among other places. one of their puppet organizations is, i'm told, going to run commercials against me in nevada. that's quite interesting, mr. president. as i understand it, they have focused on

now some are questioning why mr. reid is weighing in at this point after staying silent for so long in this dispute. asking whether he has a vested interest in this fight, just yesterday after it was over he issued this warning. >> it's not over. we can't have american people that violate the law and walk away from it. so it's not over. >> our digital politics editor. good to see you chris. harry reid is out there saying it's not over. this is the first time he weighs in once it's over. >> right. he's got his sunglasses on so you know he means business about the whole thing. i'll be back. >> what is going on? if you tread internet there's all sorts of conspiracy theories what his role is in this nevada ranch dispute. what do we know? >> nevada is different than a lot of states in the union that harry reid is the undisputed political honcho of that state. he's backed by the glambling industry and unions. but and here's a big but, in nevada the federal government runs about 44 million acres of that state. that makes the bur

now, if mr. reid can say to his people in the senate and if he can look to this country and go on tv and tell people, these things you're hearing about the health care law are all lies, these things that have been coninjured up by people who don't really exist, the stories that they're spreading are lies, there's not a shred of evidence that would support what they've said. now, he stands in front of the american people and says you are all liars and that we're not going to tolerate that type of behavior and then he goes behind his desk at the senate and he says, all of those pieces of legislation, those 220 house-passed bills put on a table because we're not going to talk about it. we're not going to debate them. we're not going to amend them. and you know why we're not? because there's an election coming. there's a third of the senate members that are up for re-election. a third and a third. a third of the senate is re-elected or new senators come in. he has placed the re-election above the redirect

mr. reid: i have seven unanimous consent requests for committees to meet during today's session of the senate. they have at approval of the majority and minority leaders. i ask consent the request be agreed to and spread on the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that at 2:30 p.m. today, all postcloture time on the reed of rhode island amendment number 2874 be considered expired, that it is following amendments be -- the following amendments be withdrawn, 2875, 2877, and 2878. that senator sessions be recognized to raise a point of order against the reed of rhode island amendment 2874. that once the budget point of order is raised, senator murray or designee be recognized to make a motion to waive. that the senate then proceed to vote on the motion to waive. that if the motion to waive is agreed to, the senate then proceed to vote on the adoption of the reed of rhode island amendment 2874. and upon the disposition of that amendment, the senate pr

mr. reid: madam president? madam president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: we hope this is the last vote of the day. the next vote we hope will be by voice. there could be other votes procedural in nature this afternoon. we hope not, but you never know. i'm not going to agree to anything. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, all time has expired for debate. is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. there is. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: vote: vote: the presiding officer: are there any senators wishing to vote or change their vote? the ayes are 99, the nays are 1. the nomination is confirmed. under the previous order, there will be two minutes of debate equally divided in the usual form prior to a vote on the lu nomination. the presiding officer: without objection, all time is yielded back. under the previous order, the question occurs on the lu nomination. all those in favor signify by saying aye. opposed? the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the nomination is confirmed. under the previous order

. >> mr. reidon of senator harry reid and if i can get him on the program which i would never do. i would ask him are you a hard line immigration guy then? how about that? broke the law, right? something more here. joining us from washington kate obenshain and kirsten powers, both fox news analysts. what do you think, powers? >> well, look. first of all, i agree with you on the fact that his claim that the land, you know, doesn't belong to the federal government, isn't true. he has broken the law. okay. that's all true. but why does this law even exist in the first place? there were other people who actually took -- removed their cattle, sold their grazing rights and this one person said no, i'm not going to sell my grazing rights and the federal government has been persecuting him ever since. so the question is why can't these cattle stay on this land and i think the claim that it's because of some endangered species i just don't think holds water. why are they harassing this man? you know, what h

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: mr. president, every time that i see the presiding officer lead the senate in prayer and certainly introducing the prayer, but directing the attention to us all to follow the presiding officer in reciting the pledge of allegiance brings back to me a lot of memories. when i first came to the senate, we had lots of members of congress who had been to war. now that's not the case. we all look at john mccain with such idealism of what he did in the vietnam war. and there are others, but there aren't many. and to have now the presiding officer having not only been to war but being a general and leading hundreds of people from montana to war, when that pledge of allegiance, i'm sure is said by the presiding officer, your feeling is a little different than everyone else's, because during those bitter battles in iraq, members of your unit were killed and injured. so even though we don't say much publicly about the new addition to the senate, i want the record to reflect that the people of montana

. >> mr. reid is the one who is calling more attention to this. it was over, people were moving on.is the one who keeps stoking this fire. >> no, megan, wrong, wrong again. fox news keeps stoking this fire. this is fox news anchors putting their backwards anti-government ideology right into the story. fox news has ripped every single scab off of doubt that this is what it's all about. they hate the federal government now. they're trying to make harry reid the target. he's the bad guy for telling the truth. consume this, my friends. this is a picture of a sniper. we showed this earlier this week this is what harry is talking about. this is a sniper on saturday aiming his rifle at federal agents. are you curious what motivated this guy to assume a combat position? a trained combat position? is this got paranoid? who has he got in the crosshairs? what's he thinking? i want fox news anchors to defend this guy right there. tell me this is standard operating procedure when you are at opposition with the representative government. what do you think average americans think of this picture?

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it's to mr. reid so there is a little hypocrisy is there. the good news is for tom stier, while he's putting $100 million in there, as long as democrats support stopping the pipeline, friday, he won. >> he did win. you know, that's the most striking thing. all of the negative campaign ads against the koch brothers have been saying they're trying to buy elections. but if you look at what happened on friday, it's pretty clear that mr. stier has been successful, that he actually has bought presidential policy for $100 million. and it's really pretty striking. >> it is striking. what happens now is the democrats get to have it both ways. they get the $100 million from the billionaire lefty guy, and then at the same time, these 11 senate democrats they can go, well, we're opposed to it, so we're going to do everything we can to make sure it doesn't happen. >> right. and they do. i was speaking to a friend of mine who was saying to the election year, what do you expect? but the problem here is that keystone

byron york from the washington examiner is a chief political correspondent said mr. reidon't reid reserve the use of the word terrorist for people who have knocked down the world trade center or blown up the boston marathon? this is a completely inappropriate use of the word terrorist. if these people were occupying a small park in lower manhattan, would harry reid be calling them terrorists? my guess is no. >> when we picture terrorist, we don't picture bundy. it's very sensitive word and do you have to be careful when you tuesday. bundy said last night, these are just citizens that are riled up. we are most loving people here and we're upset with the government that's pulling guns on us. these are harry reid's individuals. this is his state. this is nevada. these are his people. >> yeah, whether or not it was a police state, suddenly people were there protesting peacefully, arguing against government intervention here, coming out to save a tortoise overt cattle rights of these folks who have been there since the late 1800s and all of these police and folks roll in with

senator reid said not only did he not pay the grazing fees, that mr. bundy did not pay taxes either. what's really going on here? >> if bundy didn't pay his taxes for 20 years, i suspect something would have happened to him. i don't think that's likely. you have to handle it in the courts and you can attach property. you can attach bank accounts. you don't have to get his cattle. there are ways of doing this without sending armed s.w.a.t. teams in from the federal government. it can be handled quietly. >> those were scary from the f government. >> those were scary pictures for sure. this is not ending so we're going to keep an eye on that. when we come back, pope francis welcoming thousands of the faithful celebrating easter weekend services. we're live at the vatican. that's coming up next. if i told you that a free ten-second test could mean less waiting for things like security backups and file downloads you'd take that test, right? what are you waiting for? you could literally be done with the test by now. now you could have done it twice. this is

mr. reid's party so he wouldn't be the majority leader so we could get someone who would bring that bill to the floor so we don't have another attack at fort hood or another navy yard or somewhere else and have to go gee, what could we have done? and some of the rest of us repeat for the ump teent time, you should -- for the umpteenth time, you should let people who are qualified to carry firearms, carry firearms. we have seen over and over, killers go to where they know firearms are prohibited like the colorado shooter going to a theater farther away than some close because those that were closer allowed firearms. and it will be terrific if we could do that for our military and i know there are some commanders who take the [inaudible] from our commander in chief and say -- nod from our commander in chief and say, oh, we don't think that's a good idea. but it is a good idea. it's something we should do and it's time we moved in that direction. and, mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. under the speaker's announced policy of january 5, 2011

mr. bundy's confiscated scat l were released back to him. then, after it was over harry reid decided to jump in on this vowing that the fight was not over and labeling mr. bundy supporters as domestic terrorists. >> they hold themselves out to be patriots are not. they are nothing more than domestic terrorists, and i think that we are a country that people should follow the law, and what went up in mesquite is not very good. i repeat what went on up there is domestic terrorism. >> joining me is dana lash, hosts the dana show on the blaze television network. dana, good to see you. tonight, harry reid comes out and says today mr. bundy revealed himself to be a hateful racist and talked about how to advance his extreme hateful views, he's endangered the lives of innocent women and children. he says national republican leaders could help show a united front against this, this is not the statement, this is not the one i'm reading. he goes on to say national republican leaders can help show a united front against this hateful and dangerous extremism but publicly condemning bundy. i

mr. koch clearly had in mind is senator harry reid who has taken to the senate floor to criticize the koch brothers' political spending. >> came from the great senator pat moynihan who said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts. but i guess the koch brother the have been able to buy their facts over the years, not paying any attention to whether they were true or false. and here's the truth. millions in political adds sponsored by these two multibillionaires are misleading at best and outright false in many instances. >> mr. koch's op-ed piece did not mention harry reid by name, but there was little doubt who he was referring to when he wrote, rather than trying to understand my vision for a free society or accurately report the facts about koch industries, our critics would have you believe we're unnorthwestern and trying to rig the system, that we're against environmental protection or eager to end workplace safety standards. these falsehoods remind me of daniel patrick moynihan's observations, everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not his own facts

i want to play harry reid talking about mr. bundy and the language that he uses and then mr. ndy's response to harry reid and then get your response. let's listen to both of those. >> there were hundreds, hundreds of people from around the country that came there. they had sniper rifles on the freeway, they had assault weapon, they had automatic weapons. these people who hold themselves out to be patriots are not. they're nothing more than domestic terrorists. >> when you hear senator harry reid call you a domestic terrorist, what do you have to say to the senator? >> well, i guess he's right. i don't know what else we'd be. we're definitely citizens riled up. i don't know whether you could call us terrorists. they're the most loving people i ever spent my life. i just can't see how he gets that type of description out of these people. >> your responses to hear mr. bundy, say, well, i guess i'll be that domestic terrorist for you. these are loving people. >> it's funny that he would even say that he'd take that because the way that the media portrays people like miller and oth

mr. chairman. >> thank you very much. senator reid. >> thanks very much mr mr. chairman, and secretary and chief, thank you, too. this is a tragic situation at ft. hood, and a comment, one of the things that strikes me is that this is a particular situation i have no insight on, but you had an individual who had like so many others in the service, deployment. in fact, his deployment wasn't as extensive and as multiple as many people serving. he's already been identified as having mental health problems. he was being treated, et cetera, so the army was doing its best for one of its own. yet we still have the tragic consequences. one of the great leaderships in the face of the next years is that there are other young men and women who have these issues who may even be treated, some may not even be identified. and we have to obviously get to the bottom of this and learn from it, et cetera, but this isn't a consequence of ten years of warfare from the army. and many things you have to do and think about are going to have to be in the context of how do we deal with s

mr. chairman and senator reid and senator durbin are not members of the health committee so they are not with us here today that they have been working hard on student debt issues. so i would ask unanimous consent to submit their statements on the record about student debt. without objection, so ordered. thank you all very much. first let me introduce our first panelist mr. james runcie. mr. runcie serves at the department of education and the chief operating officer for student student aid a performance-based organization created to modernize the delivery of student financial systems. mr. runcie advises the secretary of education on matters in the departments operation of student financial assistance programs under title for three before turning to depart mr. runcie service company head of equity corporate finance of ubs investment bank held numerous executive positions of american securities corp. and the xerox corporation. mr. runcie is a graduate of the college of holy cross the bashur's degree in mathematics earned his masters in business of administration with distinction from harv