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 move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 839. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion to proceed. all those in favor say aye. mr. reid: aye. the presiding officer: all those opposed say no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. mr. reid: mr. president, there is a cloture motion at the desk. i would ask that it -- first of all, we haven't reported the nomination yet. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the nomination. the clerk: nomination, federal energy regulatory commission, norman c. bay of new mexico to be a member of the federal regulatory commission. mr. reid: mr. president, there is a cloture motion at the desk. i would ask the chair that it be reported. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the cloture motion. the clerk: cloture motion.

mr. reid: i ask that the call of the quorum be terminated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask that following leader remarks, tomorrow, july 17, the senate proceed to consideration of s. 2244, the debate time with respect to the bill and consideration of amendments in order to the bill be modified as follows: coburn 349, 30 minutes equally divided, vitter 3550, flake 3551, ten minutes equally divided. and tester 355230 minuteses equally divided. further, any reminder remaining time until noon be equally divided between two leaders or their designees. at noon, the senate proceed to vote on amendments in the previous order. the bill be read a third time and the senate proceed to vote on passage of the bill, as amended. there be two minutes equally divided prior to each vote and all after the first vote be 10 minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i move we proceed, mr. president, to executive session to consider calendar 859. -- 849. the presiding offi

mr. reid: i have a cloture motion at the desk, mr. president. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the cloture motion. 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 s. 2363, a bill to protect and enhance opportunities for recreational hunting, fishing and shooting, and for other purposes, signed by 17 senators as follows. reid, hagan, leahy, kaine, king, carper, nelson, tester, murray, mccaskill, begich, whitehouse, heinrich, stabenow, harkin, udall of new mexico and donnelly. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum under rule 22 be waived. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. reid: i now move to proceed to calendar number 438, s. 2244. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the motion. the clerk: motion to proceed to the consideration of s. 2244, bill to extend the termination date of the terrorism insurance program, and so forth and for other purposes. mr. reid

mr. reid: is the senate in a quorum call? the presiding officer: it is. mr. reid: i ask consent that it be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that at a time determined by me with the concurrence of senator mcconnell senate proceed to executive session to calendar number 952, that there be four hours for debate equally divided in the usual form, upon the use or yielding back of that time, the senate proceed to vote with no intervening action or debate on the nomination, that if confirmed the motion to reconsider will be considered and laid on the table with no intervening action or debate, no further motion be in order to the nomination, any statements related to the nomination be printed in the record, that the president be immediately notified of the senate's action, and the senate then resume legislative session. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: what is now before the senate? the presiding officer: the senate under previous order is now in leader time. mr. reid: mr. president, following my remarks and those of the republican leader, the senate will resume consideration of the motion to proceed to s. 2569, with the time until 11:00 a.m. equally divided and controlled between the two leaders or their designees. at 11:00 a.m., there will be a roll call vote on the motion to proceed to invoke cloture on the motion regarding the bring jobs home act, s. 2569, followed by voice votes on the following three nominations -- confirmation of julia aikins clark to be general counsel for

mr. reid: mr. president, following my remarks and those of the republican leader, the senate will resume consideration of the nomination of pamela harris to be united states circuit judge for the fourth circuit postcloture. the time until 5:30 p.m. will be equally divided between the two leaders or their designees. at 5:30 the senate will proceed to vote on confirmation of the nomination. immediately upon disposition of the harris nomination there will be four voice votes on the following nominations: elliot kaye to be commissioner of the consumer product safety commission. elliot kaye to be chairman of the consumer product safety commission. joseph p. mohorovic to be commissioner of consumer safety products, consumer product safety commission and brian p. mckeon, principal deputy undersecretary of defense. i ask unanimous consent that upon disposition of the mckeon nomination the senate resume legislative session in consideration of s. 2569. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: s. 2

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that at a time to be determined by me, after consultation with senator mcconnell, the senate proceed to consideration of calendar number 438, s. 2244, that the committee-reported amendments be aged to, the bill as amended be considered original text for the purposes of further amendment, that the only amendments in order to the bill be coburn 3549, vitter 3550, flake 3551, tester 3552. that each amendment have an hour of debate equally divided between the proponents and opponents, and there be one hour of general debate on the bill equally divided between the two leaders or their designees. that upon the use or yielding back of that time the senate proceed to votes in relation to the amendments in the order listed. that there be no second-degree amendments in the order -- in order to any

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to s. res. 526. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 526, snoring israel's right to defend itself against hamas, and for other purposes. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: this resolution has been passed, is that right? the presiding officer: the resolution is pending. mr. reid: okay. i'm sorry. mr. president, i ask the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: is there okay? without objection. mr. reid: sorry. i was distracted, mr. president. this resolution is sponsored by me and the republican leader and senators menendez and corker and others. i want the record to reflect here that senator mcconnell and i have talked about thi

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. the quorum call is suspended. all postcloture time having expired, the question occurs on the motion to proceed. all those in favor say aye. any opposed, no. the motion to proceed carries. the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 488, s. 2648, a bill making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2014, and for other purposes. mr. reid: mr. president, i have an amendment at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from nevada, mr. reid, proposes an amendment numbered 3750. mr. reid: ask for the yeas and nays on that amendment. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the yeas and nays are ordered. mr. reid: i have a second-degree amendment at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the c

mr. reid: i'm sorry? mr. coburn: would the senator from nevada, the majority leader, the esteemed majority leader consider an amendment that would modify his request that would provide an offset for this bill? the presiding officer: does the majority leader agree to modify his request? mr. reid: reserving the right to object, mr. president, mr. president, this is an emergency. we have one of our -- our number one ally -- at least in my mind -- is under attack. if this isn't an emergency i don't know anything that is, so i refuse to modify my request. the presiding officer: the objection is heard. is there objection to the original request? the senator from oklahoma. mr. coburn: i object. the presiding officer: objection is heard. the majority leader. mr. reid: the senator's amendment would cut the united states assessed contributions to nato, world health organization and now as we speak they are fighting to control the ebola outbreak in central africa. our peace corps volunteers have been called home from th

mr. reid: i yield back whatever time is available. the presiding officer: is there objection? no objection. hearing no further debate, the question occurs on the kaye nomination. all in favor say aye. all opposed, no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the nomination is confirmed. under the previous order, the question occurs on the kaye nomination. hearing no further debate, all in favor say aye. all opposed, no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the nomination is confirmed. under the previous order, the question occurs on the mo who armohorovicnomination. those in say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the nomination is confirmed. the question occurs on the mckeon nomination. all in favor say aye. all opposed, no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have t the nomination is confirmed. under the previous order, the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table. the president will be immediately notified of the senate's action. under

mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the bill be read a third time, passed the motion to reconsider considered made and laid on the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask consent the senate proceed to h. con. res. 103. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h. con. res. 103, concurrent resolution authorizing the use of the capitol grounds for the district of columbia special olympics law enforcement torch run. 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 motion to reconsider be laid on the table and there be no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to h. con. res. 106. the clerk: the clerk will report. the clerk: concurrent resolution authorizing the use of emancipation hall in the capitol visitors' center and so forth. the presiding officer: is there objec

mr. reid: mr. president, i now ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to a period of morning business and during this time the senators be allowed to speak for up to 10 minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the senate now proceed to calendar number 469, s. res. 498. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 469, s. res. 498, expressing the sense of the senate regarding united states support for the state of israel as it defends itself against unprovoked rocket attacks from the hamas terrorist organization. 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, and the motion to reconsider be laid on the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the judiciary committee be discharged from further consideration and the senate proceed to s. res. 488. the

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i move to proceed to calendar number 384, s. 2363, hagan sportsmen's bill. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number calendar 384, s. 2363, a bill to protect and enhance opportunities for recreational hunting, fishing, and shooting, and for other purposes. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: following leader remarks, the senate will be in a period of morning business until 5:30. senators during that period of time will be able to speak up to ten minutes each. at 5:30 there will be two roll call votes. the first will be on the confirmation of cheryl krause to be a circuit judge. the next will be on a mexico to invoke cloture on a motion to proceed to s. 2363, the hagueen sportsmen's bill. i'm told that s. 2562 is due for its second reading. the presiding officer: the clerk read the title for the second time. the clerk: a bill to

mr. reid: ahmadinejad? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the -- mr. reid: madam president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent very vitiate the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask the senate proceed to a period of morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to s. res. 462. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 441, senate resolution 462, recognizing the kami and laomung freedom fighters and so forth. 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 rubio amendment to the preamble be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the amendment to the title be agreed to and the motion to reconsider be made and laid on the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. re

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i applaud and commend my friend from arkansas. this is very visionary legislation, and i support what he's doing. and we're going to do everything we can to move afford on this legislation. we would do it more quickly, except we have a few problems with the people over here, so we're going to do our best to move afford with this. i now move to proceed to calendar 848. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion to proceed. all those in favor sayfy. all those opposed, say nay. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. mr. reid: i believe there is a cloture -- the presiding officer: and the clerk will report the motion -- sph he d. mr. reid: okay. sorry about that. the presiding officer: the judiciary, jill a. pryor of georgia. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: mr. president, there is a cloture motion at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: cloture motion: we, the undersigned senators, in acc

mr. reid: i would note the absence of a quorum. he presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. barrasso: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from wyoming. mr. barrasso: thank you, mr. president. i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. barrasso: mr. president, i rise today to discuss the nomination of norman bay. president obama has nominated mr. bay to be the commissioner or a commissioner of the federal energy regulatory commission, called ferc. the president had announced that if mr. bay is confirmed, that his plan is to elevate mr. bay to the position of chairman of ferc. for the last few months, there have been much discussion about whether the president should have nominated mr. bay to be chairman. i think there is very good reason for us to ask whether the president really should have nominated mr. bay at all. in my view, mr. bay is not qualified to be a commissioner, let alone to be chairman of ferc. mr. bay has only five years work

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i move to proceed to calendar number 438, s. 2234, the terrorism risk insurance. officer the clerk will report the motion. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 438, s. 2244, a bill to extend the termination date of the terrorism insurance program and so forth and for other purposes. mr. reid: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that at 11:45 earnlg the senate resume consideration of s. 2363, the bipartisan sportsmen's act, and the senate proceed to vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the bill. further, that notwithstanding rule 22 following the cloture vote, the senate proceed to executive session, as provided under our previous order. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: so following my remarks and those of the republican leader, there will be a period of morning business until 11:15 today. senators will be permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each during that time, with the time equally divided and controlled between the two leaders or their

mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be terminated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i now ask unanimous consent that not standing l rule 22 following the vote on the motion on the vote to proceed on wednesday, july 23, the senate proceed to executive session to consider calendar numbers 80 2, 786 and 599, there be two minutes for debate equally divided between the two leaders or their designees prior to each vote, that upon the use or yielding back of that time the senate proceed to vote with no intervening action or debate on the nominations in order listed, that any roll call votes following the first in the series be ten minutes in length, if any nomination is confirmed the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table with no intervening action or debate, no further motion be in order to the nomination, that any statements related to the nomination be printed in the record and that president obama be immediately notified of the senate

mr. reid: mr.president? the president pro tempore: majority leader. mr. reid: i move to proceed to calendar number 40, the emergency appropriations supplemental act. the president pro tempore: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 488, s. 2648, a bill making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2014, and for other purposes. mr. reid: mr. president, following my remarks and those of the republican leader, and there will be an hour for debate that is equally divided on s. 2569, the bring jobs home act. if cloture is not invoked, there will be an immediate cloarkt on the motion to proceed to s. 2648 -- an immediate cloture vote on the motion to proceed to s. 2648, the emergency supplemental act. following those votes there will be a vote on confirmation of akuetteh, moritsugu and kennedy nominations. i'm not sure i pronounced those names right, but i did my best. i ask unanimous consent that from the time from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m.

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: following my remarks and those of the republican leader, the senate will be in a period of morning business until 5:30 this evening. senators during that period of time will be permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each, with the time equally divided and controlled in the usual fashion. at 5:30 p.m., the senate will proceed to executive session and vote on confirmation of the following nominations -- julie carnes of the united states circuit -- to be united states circuit judge for the 11th circuit, michael anderson lawson, eunice reddick to be ambassador to the republic of niger. we expect roll call votes on the carnes nomination and voice votes on the lawson and reddick nominations. mr. president, it's such a shame that we have had to go through this stalling on michael anderson lawson to be ambassador of the council of international civil aviation. there has been a terrible tragedy take place in the world, that shooting down of the malaysian airliner with 298 innocent peopl

mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to a period of nosh with senators allowed to speak for ten minutes. the presiding officer: the senate is in a quorum call. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent it be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to a period of morning business, during that morning business the senators be allowed to speak for ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask consent the senate proceed to s. res. 495. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. res. 495 designating july 2014 as summer meals awareness month. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection, the senate will proceed. 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 with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without obje

mr. reid: mr. president? the president pro tempore: majority leader. mr. reid: following my remarks and those of the republican leader there will be a period of morning business until noon today with senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each with the time equally divided and controlled between the two leaders or their designees. the majority will control the first half; republicans the final half. at noon today the senate will proceed to executive session to a series of two roll call votes on the following nominations: cloture on norman c. bay to be a member of the federal energy regulatory commission; cloture on cheryl a. lafleur to be a member of the federal energy regulatory commission. following the second vote the senate will recess until 2:15 to allow for our weekly caucus meetings. if cloture sin invoked on the nominations the time until 2:15 until 3:00 will be equally divided and controlled between the two leaders or their designees. at 3:00 the senate will proceed to vote on c

mr. reid: mr.resident? the president pro tempore: the majority leader. mr. reid: i move to calendar s. 2569. the clerk: a bill to provide incentive for businesss to bring jobs back to america. mr. reid: mr. president, following my remarks and those of the republican leader the senate will proceed to the consideration of s. 2244, an extremely important piece of legislation. there will be 30 minutes for debate on the coburn amendment and ten minutes on the flake amendment and 30 minutes on the tester amendment. any remaining time until noon will be for general debate on this legislation. at noon the senate will proceed to a sew ris of up to -- a series of up to five roll call votes, expected in relation to the coburn and flake amendments. however, we expect voice votes on the vitter and tester amendments. upon disposition of the amendments the senate will proceed to a roll call vote on passage of 2244 as amended. we expect to reach an agreement to vote at 2:00 p.m. on the motion to invoke cloture on

mr. reid: madam president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: for those -- are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: no, we're in a vote. mr. reid: madam president? [no audio] the presiding officer: are there any other senators wishing to vote or change their votes? on this vote, the yeas are 41, the nays are 56. three-fifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to. mr. reid: madam president, for those students that are out there trying to learn what goes on in the senate and for those professors who teach what goes on in the senate, this is not totally new but it's -- it's in the category of being fairly new. this is an example of republicans filibustering not one of our bills but their own bill. how about that? 26 republican cosponsors and they filibustered their own bi bill. we have asked on a number of occasions what we've done around this body for decades -- you come up with a list of amendments, you c

mr. reid: mr. president, following my remarks and those of the republican leerksd the senate will be in a period of morning business until 12:00 noon today. during that period of time, senators will be permitted to speak up to ten minutes each. the time will be equally divided and controlled between the leaders or their designees. at noon shall th, the senate wio executive session and provide to votes on three nominations: julian castro, mayor of san antonio, texas, to be the secretary of house being and urban development, darci vert, and william adams to be chairperson for the national endowment of the humanities. there will be roll caught votes on the nomination of the castro nomination and we expect voice votes on the vetter and adams nominations. following that there will be a motion to proceed to s. 2363. we expect that vote to be by voice also. senators should expect one roll call vote today at about noon. mr. president, s. 2569 is due for its second reading i'm told. the presiding officer: t

mr. reid: mr.president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i move to proceed to calendar number 488. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 488, s. 2648, a bill making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2014, and for other purposes. mr. reid: following my remarks and those of the republican leader the senate will resume consideration of the motion to proceed to the emergency supplemental appropriations bill postcloture. the time until 10:00 will be equally divided between the two leaders or their designees. the majority will control the time from 11 until 12:00. we will notify all senators when votes are scheduled. s. 2709 is due for its second reading, mr. president. the presiding officer: the clerk will read the title of the bill for the second time. the clerk: s. 2709, a bill to extend and reauthorize the export-import bank of the united states and and for other purposes. mr. rei

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i move to proceed to calendar number number 459, s. 2578, protect women's health from corporate interference. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 459, s. 2578, a bill to ensure that employers cannot interfere in their employees birth control and other health care decisions. mr. reid: 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. 2609, a bill to restore states sovereign rights to enforce state and local sales and use tax laws, and for other purposes. h.r. 5021, an act to provide an extension of federal aid highway, and so forth and for other purposes. mr. reid: i would object to any further proceedings regarding these bills at this time. the presiding officer: objection having been heard, the bill will be placed upon the calendar. mr.

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. id: following my remarks and those of the republican leader, the senate will resume consideration of the motion to proceed to calendar number 453, the bring jobs home act. this will be postcloture time. cloture has been invoked on this measure. at 1:45 this afternoon, there will be a voice vote on adoption of the motion to proceed to the bring jobs home act. there will be a roll call vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of pamela harris to be united states circuit judge for the fourth circuit, followed by a voice vote on confirmation of the nomination of lisa disbrow to be an assistant secretary of the air force. i ask unanimous consent that at 3:40 this afternoon, the senate conduct a moment of silence in member of the 1998 capitol shooting that resulted in the deaths of special agents john gibson and officer jacob chestnut. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: s. 2649 is due for a second reading here in the senate. the presiding officer: the clerk wil

mr. reid: i now move to proceed to calendar number 488, the emergency appropriations supplemental act dealing with the border crisis. the president pro tempore: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 488, s. 2648, a bill making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2014, and for other purposes. mr. reid: following my remarks and those of the republican leader the senate will be in a period of morning business until noon with senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each with the republicans controlling the first half, the majority controlling the final half. at noon the senate will vote on robert mcdonald to be secretary of veterans affairs. the senate will recess as we do every tuesday from 12:30 to 2:15 for weekly caucus meetings. at 2:45 there will be a roll call vote on the confirmation of mcdonald followed by several votes to confirm a number of very important nominations for ambassadors around the country.

mr. reid: there are eight unanimous consent requests for committees to meet during today's session. they have been approved by senator mcconnell and by me. i ask consent that these requests be agreed to and be printed in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that notwithstanding the rule 22, following the confirmation vote on calendar number 777, disbrow, the senate consider and vote on calendar number 919, mendez, 920, rogoff and 921, andrews. further, at a time to be determined by me in consultation with senator mcconnell, the senate consider calendars number 915, kaye -- okay. i was a little stunned there. same person. one is to be member of the commission, the other is to be chair. that's 915, 916, kaye, 913 mohorovic, 744 mckie i don't know. that there be two minutes for debate equally divided between the two leaders or their designees prior to each vote. that upon the use or yielding back of that time the senate proceed to vote with no in

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mr. reid ask unanimous consent that following the vote on confirmation of executive calendar 842 the senate consider calendar number 894, 704 and 508 that there be two minutes of debate confide between the two leaders or their designees prior to each vote and that upon the use or yielding back of that time the senate proceed to vote without action or debate on the nominations in the order listed, any roll call votes following the first in the series be ten minutes in length, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table with no intervening action or debate, and no further motions be in order to the nominations, any statements related to the nominations be printed in the record and the president be immediately notified of the senate's action and the senate resume legislative session. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. reid: the president may expect the nominations to be considered and then confirmed by voice vote. ms. landrieu: mr. president? t

mr. reid: mr. president, i just by chance last night was reading a book, and it had a page in there -- a speech that was given by john mccain, our fellow senator. what senator mccain talked about was some of his experiences in the prison camp in vietnam, where a man by the name of mike christian had spent an inordinate amount of time sewing on the inside of the pajama-like outfit they gave him had wear. he put a flag inside his jacket, his shirt. and this jacket was discovered -- the flag was discovered by the prison officials, and he was beaten really very, very much. he was beaten severely. and of course they ripped that out of his coat. we take for granted our saluting the flag. we come in here and we do it every morning, we stand and do t and i a i'm not so sure we shout think a little more when we salute the flag. i'm going to bring that from home, and i'm going to put it in the congress copping for ive to sigh -- in the "congressional record" for everybody to see, what people who have been --

get just out of these do it takes an hour to have a filibuster demonstrate that a bill can't pass mr reid refuses to bring up bills not because he's afraid they will be filibustered he is afraid they won't be filibustered now let's talk about the house of representatives i used to work there for more than fifteen years and absolutely it's the case that the majority leader of the party sets the floor schedule so when you say i said when you say to me he's not doing his job and he should be sued for there's no such theory when you look in the constitution you don't see any role for the speaker to be the person that said ok let me let me rephrase that he's doing his job for a purely partisan political reason to destroy the presidency of barack obama rather than doing his job to serve the people of the united suitable leave bat read the preamble to the if you believe that and if the president supporters believe that what they would have done on the unemployment bill is take the actual raw in unemployment bill and pass it while they negotiate an alternative you guys refuse to come out and tell

mr. reid: i would ask consent to do that. i'm sorry. the presiding officer: the question is now on the disbrow nomination. all in favor say aye. all opposed, nay. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the nomination is agreed to. -- is confirmed. the clerk will report the men dez nomination. -- the mendez nomination. the clerk: department of transportation, victor m. mendez of arizona to be deputy secretary. the presiding officer: the question is on the nomination. all in favor say aye. all opposed, nay. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the nomination is confirmed. the clerk will report the rogoff nomination. the clerk: department of transportation, peter m. rogoff of virginia to be under secretary. the presiding officer: the question is on the nomination. all in favor say aye. all opposed, nay. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the nomination is confirmed. the clerk will report the andrews nomination. the clerk: department of commerce, bruce h. andrews of new york to be deputy secretary. the pr

. >> senate majority leader mr. reid, five white men. did you forget about this guy?ence thomas clearly not one of the five white guys you referenced. you are the fool of the week. k.g. you're up. >> that wasn't good. all right. so let's talk about the united states of america and how amazing it is. >> we never do that. we constantly bash america. >> i want to talk to you about something i'm proud of and it's incredible and speaks to the greatness of this country. we have the united states naval hospital ship, the uss mercy and participating in the world's largest maritime exercise rim 2014 and this marks the first time in the 24 history that a hospital ship has joined the mission. keep in mind they can house up to 1100 medical personnel, ct scanners, four radioology machines. that's what this country is capable of in disaster relief. >> i just wanted to say, i think i have to speak up on behalf of all of us, this show -- >> don't speak for me. >> okay. the reason this show is a success is because of you all. you are loyal viewers. you get in twouch us about a lot of

mr. reid's case, all of his senior staff within his office are male.s chief of staff, his head legal counsel. if you're going to talk about males speaking decisions, maybe hire some women on your own staff, harry reid. >> i'll send it to scotus. >> justices don't use email. i'm pretty sure they're not tweeting, either. an update on the controversial case involving a war memorial cross in san diego. what the supreme court just decided. we'll have a live report. amanda knox's ex-boyfriend adopting a new defense strategy in the case. what it is and why some legal analysts say it could mean an acquittal for him but more trouble for her. >> we are about 16 minutes away from "outnumbered" at the top of the hour. what do you have? >> one state's largest newspaper, get this, apologizing for endorsing president barack obama back in 2008 and listing the reasons why. >> plus the kissing congressman and running for re-election. he was caught making out with a married staffer, just not married to him. he wouldn't be the first politician to recover from such a scand

even claire mccaskill, democrats and an independent who caucus together, saying, mr. reid, bring these to the floor. and how can harry reid for one minute stop any movement on that va reform bill is beyond me. >> one thing that lawmakers are saying that are working on the bill, they're waiting to get the proper projects from the congressional budget office so they have the numbers right and can put forward a proposal that makes sense. craig, what do you think about that? do we need to take that sometime you're a business guy. >> you know, jenna, you know as well as i do, because you have covered it more, since when is cbo ever gotten it right? the reality is they're projecting 44 to $50 billion worth of costs. let's just assume that is right. and everybody is balking at the number. it's not going to just take money. it's going to take somebody that is empowered to make the tough decisions, and here's where i think the glitch is. i think you -- senator mccain and bernie sanders of all people, came together and said, let's empower the new secretary with the ability to fire s

but now the speaker -- the former speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, the leader in the senate, mr. reidothers have said that they don't support changing the 2008 law. so we're willing to work with him to do those targeted changes that may be necessary to help what he has to do to carry out the law, and we are willing to do targeted appropriations. but we have a list of practically ten things that he can do right now before anything else happens, and they would be the number one thing to do to solve this problem. >> mr. chairman, thank you very much. i appreciate your time. and we've been talking about immigration. it's just one of many issues republicans accuse the president of bungling. and many of their complaints could be detailed in an upcoming lawsuit we were just talking about. just ahead, house speaker john boehner speaks out about his plans to sue the president. >>> and again in the middle east, hamas rockets fired into israel provoked ferocious and deadly airstrikes by the israeli military. cnn correspondents are live in jerusalem and on the border between israel and gaza. uali

there are now out there not enough republicans to stop any of the closing of the amendment tree that mr reid can do whenever he wants to so i'm not going to play this game about why they decided to not let a vocal border. because there is. no like a secret out when he lost to put people on the d.c. circuit he can figure it out what they can't figure out is an agenda the track to that will fix the problems that the american people are experiencing and to my point i was making earlier i was moderate for you so you are not those or other in this town say that they are getting the white house talking points about impeachment from the white house all apologies are calling to really impeach don't you show you know yet out here is a bottom line they understand that the republicans are getting closer and closer to getting the six seats in the senate they need to take control so they don't get a campaign this is all politics we got ninety nine days til november fourth election day they're trying to find something else to talk about and more importantly they're trying to find something that raises a l

boehner, mr. reid, mr. mcconnell -- ms. nancy pelosi. we want this to happen for national security reasons. it needs to be focused on the leadership and if they are hearing from other members in the senate and house that they would give up jurisdiction, they would give up a subcommittee and they tell their leadership and are willing to do that, it may happen. it has a better chance. lastly, i would say the great thing about our system in is when the people weigh in. not just a third-party interest groups but the people. c-span viewers, if they call and say we are not going to take this anymore, we want congress to do its job. we will not reelect 95 cents of the congressmen and women if they are not doing basic national security issues. they do their collins and they weigh in, that -- if they will do that, then i think you would see an even bigger chance for this change. >> those are great thoughts to end on. i'm sorry. we've run out of time. i'm very sorry. unfortunately we do have to move yourcause i know most of probably very hungry. i

mr. reid: mr. president last week my friend, the republican leader essentially declared victory for american women in their struggle for equality by saying -- quote -- "we've come a long way in pay equity, and there are a ton of women c.e.o.'s now running major corporations. i'd be wrong but i think most come a long way and pay equity and there are women now in the major corporations. i would be wrong but i think most of the barriers have beeneventing lowered. "-end-double-quote. >> republican leader seems to be suggesting that they are preventing women from seeking equal treatment of the law and conquered the struggle for equal pay for women is over. the thing missing a declaration would begin aircraft carrier. we all remember that. remember that was president bush declaring the war in iraq was basically over with. in the war regarding women is not over. a republican leader suggested the notion of ensuring rights can amount to preferential treatment. that was his opinion. they are very real and ve