mr. reid: madam president? the presiding officer: recall the majority leader. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be terminated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: is the motion to proceed to s.j. res. 19 now pending? the presiding officer: it is pending. mr. reid: i have a cloture motion. i ask the chair to order it reported. 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 to bring to a close the debate on the motion to proceed to calendar number 471, s.j. res. 19, a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution of united states relating to contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections signed by 17 senators as follows --. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the reading of the names be waived. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. reid: i ask una

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: our good chaplain is still in the chamber and he has such a way with words. i'm so impressed with the prayer this morning where he recognized the only way we get things done around here, maybe as little as it, and if we could do more we could get more with the good staff we have. i appreciate the prayer of the chaplain and extend my appreciation for the hard work of this staff. everyone in this room works hard, whether they're police officers, enrolling clerks. they do everything. and i'm really grateful to what they do to help us all look better. i wish we did more so that we would look better, but that's the way it is. i move to proceed to calendar number 471. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 471, s.j. res. 19, joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution of the united states relating to contributions and expenditures intended to affect electio

been more than happy to let go forward with a nother year long increase as long as it's paid for mr reid decide it lasts. all i don't want to do that anymore and so we're now letting people lose their home over politics and that's you know that's exactly right but we have four things and that that's the bottom line no action here is don't do you want to hear all the bush had two wars and didn't pay for any of i don't blame you know you're going to be public is telling you we got to pay for things when george bush has put three trillion items are a card for crazy war i had this. idea and i think you're proving it right that democrats and liberals would rather have people on unemployment than have people have jobs and what we see that the longer people are on unemployment study shows studies studies by the left and the right show that the longer unemployment benefits last. that the longer unemployment last and then when they are it is right and so you're older you slightly if you're mistaking causation he says that it was a ca and while we saw the study islam is mistaking causality with co

harry reid astonished as how disengaged mr. obama seems. he told staffers, about the blocking of obama nominees, the president telling reid, he said, you and mitch work it out. that's according to "the new york times" which also report mr. obama is, quote, remarkably distant from his own party on capitol hill, citing nearly two dozen interviews with lawmakers and staffers. a disengaged president, an activist attorney general, rioting and looting and the politics of exploitation, not the stuff of which solutions are likely to be found and formed in ferguson, not the stuff of hope and change. we're coming right back. >>> al sharpton, jesse jackson and others are being blasted by fellow african-americans for their presence and their actions in ferguson. "wall street journal" editorial board member jason riley is one of those voices. he's here next. wondering what that is? that, my friends, is everything. and with the quicksilver card from capital one, you earn unlimited 1.5% cash back on everything you purchase. not just "everything at the hard

mr. fountain was appointed by senate majority leader harry reid to the u.s. world war i centennial commission. he was elected vice-chairman of the commission in july, 2014. mr. fountain is a graduate of the university of north carolina, and the university of virginia law school. [applause] >> thank you, tony. and good morning. my name is edwin fountain. i am vice-chairman of the u.s. world war i centennial commission. the commission was formed by congress in january, 2013 and given a mission of ensuring suitable observation in this country of a centennial of this great war, and more importantly, commemorating the service of american servicemen and women in educating the public about this causes and consequences of that war. it has 12 members, appointed the president, the majority and minority leaders of both houses of congress. i'm here this morning to talk about the commission's proposal to establish a new national world war i memorial in the nation's capital. i would like to start with some brief context about the history of this memorial and its wars. the t

mr. phillips. as you know, senator harry reid regularly goes on the scented or -- senate floor and a texture organization says you are basically mr. dressing the health care law in your ads aimed at democrats and you are trying to buy the senate

mr. chairman. >> thank you very much, senator reid. senator fischer. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you both for being here today. you've presented us with a lot of interesting information. in discussing the conclusion on the strategic choices and management review, secretary hagel said that chairman dempsey would lead an effort to find $50 billion in savings through changes to compensation. now, today you said that retirement changes won't be part of the coming budget request. but can you tell you what the status is of general dempsey's review on the compensation part? .. >> that we will consider submittins part of the president's budget request. and we're not ready to talk about those because they're not final, but we're not going to make the 40 or 50 or whatever it was. but it was a very good exercise for us in a stretch goal in trying to see where we could find savings. >> thank you. senator kaine raised an issue earlier, and i'd like to follow up on it, if i could, for a minute. is the department, including outside groups, in its are review of the compensati

they're playing into harry reid's hands. mr. rogers: madam speaker, i yield the gentleman an extra minute and wonder if he'd yield? mr. salmon: yes, i'll yield. mr. rogers: do you understand that if we do nothing the experts have told us, if we don't change the law, experts have told us that another 145,000 people will be with us next year alone, is that not correct? mr. salmon: that's correct. conservative estimates said it will cost $2.6 billion to care for the nearly 60,000 that are already here. we're talking about billions and billions of dollars, not to mention the fact that these children are being sexually molested along the way, that they're being killed along the way, that they're being sold into slavery and we can stop it. mr. rogers: if the gentleman will yield? mr. salmon: yes, sir. mr. rogers: i'm focusing on the money part of it. if we don't change the law, you're saying we can expect to pay another few billions of dollars a year -- mr. salmon: just to care for those people. mr. rogers: to care for those people co

mr. chairman. [applause] >> senate majority leader reid issued a statement on the death saying: jeffords jim jeffordswas 80. are some of the highlight for this weekend. timey on c-span in prime we'll visit important sigh thens the history of the civil right movement. at 8:00 highlight from this year's new york ideas forum, including cancer andrew hessel. on sunday, q and awe with charlie wrangle. indepthight at 8:00, aslan.th reza and sunday night at 11:00 p.m., on thee gold stone competition between the write blowerses and glen curtis to be name in mannednt flight. look at hollywood's portrayal of slavery, saturday night at of0, the 200th anniversary bladensburg. former chiefs of staff discussion how presidents make decisions. find our schedule at c-span.org know what you think about the programs you're watching. call or e-mail us. join the c-span conversation, like us on facebook, follow us twitter. >> a couple of live events from heritage foundation to tell you about. at noon eastern a look at the of philanthropy in defense funding. c-span.ive today on and later in the day, a conversation on u.s.

john reid from "the financial times." >> thank you very much. mr. prime minister, are you prepared to give abu mazen and the palestinians, palestinian authority, a leading role in the post war order in gaza, and if so, can you talk about that, specifics including policing the borders? >> we have cooperated with the palestinian authority on matters that you raised. there are other matters as well. and the answer is we're cooperating with them and are prepared to see a role for them. >> all right, so there you hear the prime minister of israel, benjamin netanyahu, saying he's willing to cooperate with the palestinian authority, president abbas, a strong israeli coordination on the west bank. we'll see if that can be replicated in gaza. you did hear a very, very powerful strong statement from the prime minister of israel, condemning hamas, going after hamas, and is basically accusing hamas of being responsible for all those civilian deaths that have occurred in gaza over these past four weeks. bottom line point, if hamas had accepted the egyptian spons

mrs. bachmann: now in the united states senate, the majority leader harry reid left town. he's left town. not only did he fail to complete an immigration bill, but he knows full well that president obama may illegally grant amnesty to five million to six million foreign nationals illegally in the united states. without doing anything. what harry reid has the opportunity to do is come back and join us. we'll be here any time, any day, anywhere, any how. we'll join him here in august, september, whenever. he needs to put the other hang cuff on this lawless president's hands. so that we can strain this president from granting amnesty. that's what the american people want us to do. we do that tonight with this bill. we invite harry reid to bring the senate back and put the handcuff on the president's other hand so we can have sovereignty again on our southern border. and i yield back to the gentleman from virginia. the speaker pro tempore: the chair wishes to remind members to refrain from engaging in personalities toward the president. he gentleman from the speaker pro tempor

mr. obama heads for his a week late, congressman webber says maybe he should call the senate back and everybody should keep working. >> i would hope he, the american people, senator reid, i would hope all of them call the senate back to vote on this bill. >> reporter: on the broader question of immigration reform, mr. obama says lawmakers should pass a bill that would tighten security, draw current illegals out of the shadows, and encourage talented people from other countries to stay. republicans point to his executive orders delaying obamacare mandates and say they couldn't entrust him to enforce a new immigration law. the president says the problem is not his relationship with congress, it's internal republican divisions. >> no doubt i can always do better on everything, including, you know, making additional calls to speaker boehner and having more conversations with some of the house republican leadership. but in the end, the the challenge i have right now is they are not able to act even on what they say their priorities are. >> reporter: mr. obama down plays his own differences with house republicans. he said they agree on 80% of the issues involving the child

mr. obama talks frequently with democrats on the hill. the senate's top democrat, majority leader harry reidld reporters he spoke to the president said and, quote, everything is fine. bret? >> james, thank you. >>> stocks were up again today, the dow gained 11. the s&p 500 finished ahead 10 and the nasdaq picked up 19. >>> it's election day in wyoming and alaska. there is a big three-way republican senate primary in alaska that will determine who goes up against supposedly vulnerable democrat iktd mark begich, as republicans try to pick up the necessary six senate seats to take control that have chamber next year. >>> no grapevine tonight so we can bring you more on the ferguson violence. when we come back, the media, it appears, is becoming a part of this story in missouri. >>> tonight's top story at the bottom of the hour, the violence in ferguson, missouri. local officials are praising for another night of preface over the fatal police shooting of an unarmed 1-year-old african-american ten days ago. last night national guard troops were present but violence escalated into roughly a dozen

mrs. bachmann: now in the united states senate, the majority leader harry reid left town. he's left town. not only did he fail to complete an immigration bill, but he knows full well that president obama may illegally grant amnesty to five million to six million foreign nationals illegally in the united states. without doing anything. what harry reid has the opportunity to do is come back and join us. we'll be here any time, any day, anywhere, any how. we'll join him here in august, september, whenever. he needs to put the other hang cuff on this lawless president's hands. so that we can strain this president from granting amnesty. that's what the american people want us to do. we do that tonight with this bill. we invite harry reid to bring the senate back and put the handcuff on the president's other hand so we can have sovereignty again on our southern border. and i yield back to the gentleman from virginia. the speaker pro tempore: the chair wishes to remind members to refrain from engaging in personalities toward the president. he gentleman from the speaker pro tempor

mr. obama heads for his a week later, congressman weber says that maybe he should call the senate back in everyone should keep working. >> i hope that he and senator reid and all of them call the senate back on this about. >> and the broader question of immigration reform, obama says lawmakers should pass a bill that would tighten security and draw current illegals out of the shadows and encourage talented people from other countries to stay rich republicans point to executive orders delaying obamacare mandates and say that they couldn't trust him to enforce immigration laws. the presidents of the problem is not his relationship with congress but the internal republican divisions. >> there's no doubt that i can do better on everything, including making additional calls to speaker boehner and having more conversations with the house republicans leadership . but in the end the challenge that i have right now is that they are not able to act even on what they say their priorities are. reporter: mr. obama downplayed differences with house republicans, saying that they agree on 80% of the issues dealing with child migrants but republicans want to give them

reid and senator ted kennedy. he also brings prosecutorial experience to our discussion. so please welcome mr.on weich. [ applause ] >> i'd like to thank tim for that introduction and thank the cato institute for inviting me to be here. these are very important issues that sidney has raised in her book and i'm very pleased to be part of the discussion. these are issues that should be aired. i want to start by commending sidney powell for writing this book. i said to her that there are lots of lawyers who see injustice in matters that they've handled and they deal with it by going out and having a drink and what sidney has done in writing this book is taking her passion for justice and putting it out there for the world to see and to judge and it requires great discipline to write a book like this. it's a very detailed book, 400 pages, and she deserves great credit for bringing her concerns to a wider audience. having said that, i want to say that my reaction to the book is somewhat mixed. i think that there are overall themes in the book that i agree with. and i'll speak about those and i thin

senator harry reid, majority leader tom had this to say earlier in august. we'll be heading of mr. foley highlights the role of foreigners with isis. any americans involved in isis will be dealt with as traders. and also this from bernie sanders, independent senator from vermont. that coming from ber so that coming from bernie sanders, independent, from vermont. and then also this from the speaker of the house john boehner had this to say on august 8 when the president begins these airstrikes against isis in iraq. >> host: poll, independent caller. what are your thoughts? >> caller: good morning. i think he should go to congress because the are two things that the gop will not sunday to -- will not say no to but it's tax credits and war. this is what they are all about. this is what they represent. they are always willing to fight wars. they don't worry about how it's a four anything. the president should go to them and let's see if they send no this time to him. >> host: j. in clearwater, florida. what do you think country i do believe the president should call an emergency sessio

reid and before that to senator ted kennedy. he began his career as an assistant district attorney in new york city so he brings prosecutorial experience to the discussion. please welcome mr. ron weich. [applause] >> i would like to thank hi timr the introduction and the cato institute for inviting me to be here. these are important issues sydney has raised in the book. i want to commend her for writing this book. there are lots of lawyers who see injustice in matters they handled and they deal with it by going out and having a drink but what sydney has done is taking her passion for justice and putting it out there for the world to see and to judge and it requires a great discipline to write a book like this is a detailed look 400 pages and she deserves a great credit for bringing her concerns to the audience. having said that i want to say my reaction to the book is some what next. i think that there are overall themes in the book that i agree with and i will speak about those and i think as i said sidney deserves great credit for highlighting those into publicizing the problems in the criminal justice system. at the same time i find her and indictment if you will love

mr. reid: mr. president, yes. we request two minutes debate on this side, one minute to the chairman of the finance committee, another minute for the chairman of the environment and public works committee. is there any time requested over here? the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. reid: following that i ask 18 minutes be dispensed with. the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. wyden: senator reid, thank you. colleagues, it's no secret that this transportation bill is not the senate's first choice. however, the alternative to acting tonight on transportation is to put at risk america's economy, our communities, and our quality of life. as senator hatch noted earlier tonight, the senate had a real transportation debate this week with amendments, alternatives, and bipartisan initiatives. this will serve us well as we begin to work as soon as the senate returns to develop a long-term bipartisan transportation plan that ensures that our big-league economy is not plagued by little-league