mrs. mccaskill: mr. president? i thank my colleague, senator landrieu, -- mr. coburna senator: we are joi- ms. klobuchar: we are joined by senator mccaskill, and i wanted to thank the senator from kansas for allowing us to take an additional five minutes year. thank you, mr. president, and i yield the floor. mrs. mccaskill: thank you, mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from missouri. mrs. mccaskill: i want to thank my friend, the senator from minnesota, for helping us get organized this afternoon to spend a little time talking about an outstanding -- outstanding federal judge. i also want to thank my colleague from kansas in giving us a few minutes to -- to make these remarks. i -- as i started looking, i'll confess, that i wasn't familiar with judge sotomayor, before she was nominated, and i started looking at her resume. and there are so many things in her resume that are, frankly, amazing, that you can get distracted by where she went to school and where she got her law degree and the fact that she has been at several levels of the federal benc

mccaskill. >> thank you mr. chairman. i like to talk a little about maintenance. and i have worked on this issue since i came to the senate on foreign repair stations and i am sure you all are aware that the ig has determined the that regional carriers are depending on outsourcing maintenance to a large extent and my question to you, mr. cohen, is how much of a allosaurs maintenance. i believe that the ig said 50 percent of the maintenance is being outsourced. what percentage of that outsourced maintenance work is going to faa certified repair stations? >> i'm glad to ask that because it's a good opportunity to clarify some things in the ig report that i think the hearing in the other body didn't quite get straight. first of all, 100 percent of all the maintenance is being done in a faa certified maintenance operation. otherwise it would not be allowed to fly. number two, i think that there is, if i can clarify what the idps study is, actually the regional airline's outsource less of it overseas than even in the mainline carriers do. virtually all of the maintenan

mr. chairman. >> thank you sarah. senator mccaskill. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i think you're start it's starting to hit all of us in the face what government-managed economies feel like. if this was a normal bankruptcy situation it would be none of our business what you did with your union contracts or whatever but this is a political bankruptcy and the government has been a part of picking winners and losers. so we're concerned. but also strotch blame for the process that's taken place if we want to look at who to blame as far as how we ended up in bankrupt sifment certainly we have to look at management, maybe the government policies, high levels of taxation and at federal and state levels, regulation that is we put on our companies. certainly union contracts have to be in with that mix because some of it got way over board as far as what was affordable. we can see those are some of the mix that maybe caused some of the problems, but we can't blame the stock holders, the ones who believeed in your company and put money in it and we can't blame the customers w

mccaskill. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i think mr. press, one thing we discovered today is that there is -- has been a significant breakdown in communication as it relates to your plans to relieve these dealers of their cars and replace them with the dealers going forward. these two gentlemen have said they didn't know it. i'm betting there is others that don't have all the accurate information so i think one of the things you -- we have learned from this hearing is you have a task in the next 24 hours and that is to check the phone log and the e-mail log and make sure that you have communicated clearly with all of the dealers that you have, in fact, moved 97% of the vehicles and are on a path to provide some kind of specific assistance as it relates to tools and parts. >> i will do that, senator. obviously mr. lopez, i'd like to work with him. he had somebody contact him because he did refuse to sign our agreement and i would like to work with him so we could communicate. >> fair enough. quickly, mr. wattly and mr. lopez, what brands

mr. chairman. >> senator mccaskill. >> who we see is a bad guy it depends on where we sent and other considerationsd guys for treating a business model that depended on treating artificial demand. some will say that it is the unions that are the bad guys for working hard to get agreements that allow them and their families to aspire to a comfortable place in a middle-class. allow us to consume a lot of goods in this country and allow us to have the trajectory of growth we've had in some will say it is the president, some say it is congress for authorizing the funds in the first place that are being utilized to invest in these companies and some will say it is the people who promote with some primary this theory when bottom line is we'reç going to build today in a quarter backing. the alternative two what has happened is a much more drastic results and if we are honest about it would have to knowledge that if the actions have not been taken which will last 30 days voir, two giantç manufacturers would cease to assess and there would be no dealers of standing and would be no families that would go

mr. chairman. >> senator mccaskill, thank you very much. we will attempt to get all of the information.on the inspection and repair stations. we have in fact written about one of the carriers that flies an empty airbus 322 el salvador for repair and implies an empty 320 back to united states after having it repaired in el salvador, or inspected or maintained. my guess is that's probably another issue of dollars and cents. let me go back to just a moment ago on icing. i just pulled the transcript again. this copilots that i have never seen icing conditions. i have never deiced. i have never deiced. i have never experienced any of that. i don't want to have to experience that, make those kind of call. i freaked out, i haven't seen this much ice and thought oh, my gosh, we're going to crash. the actual transcript is of a copilot that appears to me to have at minimum training in icing conditions. now, the reason i mention this is because the training issue has been on the table here. what kind of training does someone have in that cockpit to fly in the conditions into which the airline is h

mr. reid: in accordance to the resolution, i recommend to the chair the appointment of senators mccaskill as chair, klobuchar, whitehouse, udall of new mexico, shaheen and kaufman. the presiding officer: the republican leader is recognized. mr. mcconnell: mr. president, in accordance with the resolution on the appointment of an impeachment trial committee, i recommend to the chair the appointment of senators martinez, demint, barrasso, wicker, johanns, and risch. the presiding officer: pursuant to the resolution on the appointment of an impeachment trial committee and impeachment rule 11, the chair appoints upon the recommends of the two leaders the following senators to be members of the committee to receive and report evidence in the impeachment of judge samuel b. kent: senators mccaskill, klobuchar, whitehouse, udall, shaheen, kaufman, martinez, demint, barrasso, wicker, johanns and risch. the majority leader is recognized. mr. reid: the resolution on will meet at a time to be determined. the presiding officer: the senate will take proper order and notify the house of representatives a

mr. lindh record as controller and confronted him with some of that history. and i also particularly like claire mccaskill from missouri. the only democrat who voted against that nomination. in the normal scheme of things, there would have been a gaggle of democrats voting against that nomination, had that been a republican administration. she demonstrated great character i thought to separate herself out from that. >> i think senator coleman was one of the other ones. clec senator colburn, i disagree with senator colburn on a lot of social issues but he is fantastic. i would vote for him early and often if i had a chance. he's been a real tiger in court.

senators amy klobuchar, jean chretien, barry blanchett encorps mccaskill spoke about the nomination on the senate floor. this is about 20 minutes. >> mr. president, i will be joined on the floor by some of my fellow women senators to talk about the president's nominee for the supreme court. aldus some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle came to the floor yesterday and went to as one news report described it to kick off their campaign and against her. so we want to take this opportunity to get the tax out, to correct any misconceptions and to set the record straight. the supreme court confirmation hearing for judge sotomayor will begin on july 13th. , but my consideration of her will not begin then. i began considering her the day she was announced because of the member of judiciary committee, i want to learn as much as i can and will be about president thomas was to fill one of the most important jobs in our country. even though there are many questions that will be asked in many areas we want to focus on i would like to speak today in about how judge sotomayor appears to be based on my initial review. and after meeting wi

mr. lindh record as controller and confronted him with some of that history. and i also particularly like claire mccaskill from missouri. the only democrat who voted against that nomination. in the normal scheme of things, there would have been a gaggle of democrats voting against that nomination, had that been a republican administration. she demonstrated great character i thought to separate herself out from that. >> i think senator coleman was one of the other ones. clec senator colburn, i disagree with senator colburn on a lot of social issues but he is fantastic. i would vote for him early and often if i had a chance. he's been a real tiger in court. he understands what the problem is. he was apprised of some of the history of this nomination, and he did the right thing. more power to him. >> after senator mccaskill's comment, senator levin was breathing some of the press about he thought the nomination hearing has gone, what was going to happen in the next two months. and he very clearly criticized her for speaking out. >> i think of for the senator was senator mccain. >> no, it wasn't john cornyn.

mr. president? >> minnesota. >> i thank my colleague, senator landrieu, for her kind remarks and thoughtful remarks about the nominee, and we are now joined by the senator from missouri, senator mccaskill, who as a former prosecutor i sure will shed some light on the subject. i also want to thank the senator from kansas for allowing us to take an additional five minutes. thank you, mr. president and i yield the floor. >> thank you, mr. president. >> senator from missouri. >> i want to thank my friend, the senator from minnesota, for helping get us organized this afternoon to spend a little time talking about an outstanding -- outstanding federal judge. i also want to thank my colleague from kansas and giving us a few minutes to make these remarks. as i started looking i will confess i wasn't familiar with julca sotomayor the issue was nominated and i started looking at her resume and there are some things in a resume frankly amazing that you can get distracted by where she went to school and where she got her law degree and the fact that she has been at several levels of the federal bench and also of course she had a very big job with complex litigation and a law firm the part of her r