mr. tilles to comment. or he is not here today. he was the only appointee to confirm. ok. i guess we will open up for public comment on this item, then. seeing none, it is now closed. colleagues, i am more than happy to continue this item. i realize you may be familiar with your appointees, if you would like to move them forward. i believe that all of them are rhee appointments -- are reappointments to the seats. i feel comfortable knowing -- ok, great. so we have a motion to move all four applicants for to come up with recommendation. i believe we can do that without opposition. they have all been nominated by their district supervisor and are currently members of the bicycle advisory committee and will be continuing on to another term. so we do that without opposition. thank you. madam clerk, item five? a>> item five, hearing to consider appointing four members, terms ending july 17, 2013, to the reentry council. but there are four seats, 15 applicants. supervisor kim: thank you. i want to express my appreciation for all of the work that was done in advance. we have 15 a

say the country is falling behind on its spending cut targets and as mr series of important deadline greece will now have to wait till october to find out whether it will get a second lower and says it's on the verge of being a unable to repay the interest on its massive debt or some experts though it's too late to save the greek economy and it must exit the euro zone. of the greek economy is in an outright depression now g.d.p. is shrinking at the moment seven to eight percent and you will basis unemployment is officially at sixteen percent but the reality is more close to twenty five percent what we hear from people from the i.m.f. informally is that the budget situation is out of control so there's no way did the greek and greece can escape from this situation unless there's a somewhat orderly exit from the eurozone followed by a huge devaluation of the new greek currency i think we have passed the point now where we can argue that we can see for greece within the euro zone greece to exit it can be organized in an orderly way but the risk is of course that there will be contagion in the direction of countries like

well as we just heard and as we know gadhafi as valid once again to fight till the end promising a longer real a war so mr francine how realistic is this and how strong are nato and the rebels at the moment. difficult to see from brussels about what we can see is that until now there was no military occupation or intervention in which the population didn't resist so i think when they leave it's up to the libyan people and it's up to them to decide if they want to follow. need to or if they want to keep on truckin the independent development of their country it's up to them. you know yesterday our group called friends of libya comprising sixty countries met in paris to thrash out levy is future so how do you see nato his role developing in the country post gadhafi. everybody is focusing now on this conference in paris about don't forget the war is still waging in libya. of nato still continue on several cities so we have to see this come from another means of the nato to impose their agenda. foreign minister of the belgium foreign affairs of belgium of or running governments was very clear this morning her

mr. fly! that's not him. his room is up there. you mean you've met him? what's he like? i've seen his file. he wet his bed till he was 34.use me. you were up there? yeah, is he okay? 'cause we heard he broke, like, seven ribs. yeah. what he broke was at least seven city ordinances. the cops won't press charges. they wouldn't dare. he's a real-life hero. he's a hero. he is not a hero! what is wrong with you people? i mean, he fell, right? a daredevil basically has one job-- not falling. i mean, i could fall. i bet i could fall 100 stories if i tried. why don't you, man? in fact, i'd be glad to help. whoa, whoa, whoa. what are you doing? now, don't hurt him. hey, ask yourself, what would harold do? yeah, i hate to tell you this. i've known harold krenshaw for 3 1/2 years, and he is a lot of things, but he is not the frisco flyer. oh, yeah, man? well, we were there. we saw him fall, so how do you explain that? we saw him fall. it's so quiet. (monk) it is quiet. which i prefer, actually. it makes it easier to hear the voices in my head, screaming and pleading. are you okay? i'm fine. how high are we? uh, 24 stories. yeah. al

mr. president, the matter that's now before the senate is really a nice piece of legislation. it funds the government tillr 18. that's what the house wanted. it also has money in the bill to take care of fema, and we recognize that even though we passed a bill here with bipartisan support that had $6.9 billion, which we believe is an appropriate figure, in an effort to compromise in this c.r., we have the number that the house thinks is a better number. that's what is before us. and so, mr. president, my suggestion to my friend -- and he is my friend -- is that the two democratic leaders, reid and pelosi, the two republican leaders -- mcconnell and boehner -- should cool off a little bit, work through this. there's a compromise here, and the compromise is now before the senate. everyone once in a while needs a little cooling off period. the government is not shutting down. fema is not out of money. we'll come here money. more reasonable heads will prevail and i would hope over the weekend that the four leaders can lead their troops in the right direction. so i again ask unanimous consent the vote on the m

mr. coles has never been a suspect. >> instead of rushing the sa in to court we have this new important evidence. they pocketed it. they waited till from that? we learn from that in my opinion that the affidavits of recanation were of more value to the attorneys as a device for delay than they were valuable to the attorneys as a device for substantive argument. it has been a game with delay throughout. the longer the delay, the more time they have to create doubt, not honest doubt, real doubt, but the appearance of doubt. there's no evidence against sylvester coles. in fact it's the height of cynicism for them to claim on one thanhand that the evidence against troy davis is enough to convict him but they're willing to convict him on less evidence than that, again, substantially no evidence at all other than he was a person that was there and he makes a good person to shuffle the blame off onto. >> reverend, i'd like your feelings on that. >> as i look into quianna's face i ask what does she have at steak? spencer lawton knows that in chatham county there have been three exonerations, three death row exonerations. there have been e

mr. president, the matter that's now before the senate is really a nice piece of legislation. it funds the government till november 18. that's what the house wanted. it also has money in the bill to take care of fema, and we recognize that even though we passed a bill here with bipartisan support that had $6.9 billion, which we believe is an appropriate figure, in an effort to compromise in this c.r., we have the number that the house thinks is a better number. that's what is before us. and so, mr. president, my suggestion to my friend -- and he is my friend -- is that the two democratic leaders, reid and pelosi, the two republican leaders -- mcconnell and boehner -- should cool off a little bit, work through this. there's a compromise here, and the compromise is now before the senate. everyone once in a while needs a little cooling off period. the government is not shutting down. fema is not out of money. we'll come here money. more reasonable heads will prevail and i would hope over the weekend that the four leaders can lead their troops in the right direction. so i again ask unanimous consent the vote

mr. president, the matter that's now before the senate is really a nice piece of legislation. it funds the government till november 18. that's what the house wanted. it also has money in the bill to take care of fema, and we recognize that even though we passed a bill here with bipartisan support that had $6.9 billion, which we believe is an appropriate figure, in an effort to compromise in this c.r., we have the number that the house thinks is a better number. that's what is before us. and so, mr. president, my suggestion to my friend -- and he is my friend -- is that the two democratic leaders, reid and pelosi, the two republican leaders -- mcconnell and boehner -- should cool off a little bit, work through this. there's a compromise here, and the compromise is now before the senate. everyone once in a while needs a little cooling off period. the government is not shutting down. fema is not out of money. we'll come here money. more reasonable heads will prevail and i would hope over the weekend that the four leaders can lead their troops in the right direction. so i again ask unanimous consent the vote

till 5:00 p.m. today so senators can speak regarding the tributes they wish to make to former senator charles percy of illinois. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, i am told we would like to end morning business at 4:45 so i ask unanimous consent morning business expire at that time. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, i was saddened to hear the terrible accident on friday which killed ten people and injured many more. we just received word an hour ago another person had died in the hospital. my heart goes out to those who were hurt and my thoughts are with the families of those who lost their lives. including the pilot of the world war ii era plane that crashed into the spectators. i commend the many responders who rushed to the scene friday, their quick thinking and skillful assistance saved lives. while this crash was devastating, and it was, it's fortunate and i'm glad the pilot took quick action to prevent additional loss of life. by avoiding a grandstand packed with thousands of expect taters. -- spectators. my four children and my son attended the show on thursday. my oldest grandson, m

mr. reid: with the time till 4:00 equally divided between the majority and minority. the presiding officer: without objection. quorum call: senator from alabama. mr. sessions: i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. sessions: mr. president, we are looking at a fema emergency supplemental, and there is no doubt that this country has sustained a series of disasters that will require federal support and funding. we've seen those in alabama, my home state, where we had the worst series of tornadoes in history and some of the most powerful that completely demolished two-story brick homes, nothing but foundations left and lives were lost to an extraordinary degree, and people were injured. we've had floods and we've got fires around the country and droughts. so we have some of that every year, and some of this is unusual, and it's incumbent upon us in congress to wrestle with that to try to figure out what should be done, how can we best supplement the insurance and state actions and local people's abiliti