jervis murray. mr. omar applied for a medallion and was denied his permit, primarily because he has not fulfilled his full-time driving requirement. it is that simple. even by his own count, which was in the opening brief, where they say in 2005 he spent 77 ships, 2006, 76 ships, and 2008, 84 shifts, he would not have made a requirement for more than two out of the last four years. there is a question about whether or not mr. omar has been in the industry. he made drive a little bit, but the burden is on him to prove to us that he drove, and not for us to prove to anyone else that he drove. it is up to mr. omar to keep these records and to deliver his records accordingly in order to obtain a permit. the permit is not an entitlement. i recognize mr. omar has been on the list a long time, but it is not an entitlement. it is something he must work to obtain. as far as the test is concerned, each medallion applicant is given a test. they are all given a basic texaco driving test. the get three opportunities

mr. chase. he was 17 years old, kasmir. the study was conducted by henry murray. murray's job was to train spies to withstand intense interrogations. >> he was simply continuing what he had done for the oss. >> in the study, he and 21 other students were asked to write an easy say on their philosophy of life detailing their erotic fan it wasies. >> they were told they would meet with another undergraduate at a earn s place and and they will debate it. in fact, they were being duped. >> each student was brought into a room with bright lights, seated in a chair facing a one way mirror. they had electrodes attached to their body. the person they were supposed to debate turned out not to be an undergraduate. >> a law school student who had been prepared to tear into the student and who mocked and ridiculed their ideas and their values to get them as angry as they possibly could. after they did this film footage, they brought the students back and showed them the film. showed them being humiliated. they were rubbing salt into the wounds. >> in his book, he wrote that h

unfortunately, senator murray does not understand that. >> our next question is to mr. rossi. >> a federal judge reinstated a nurse back into her group after she was discharged from don't ask, don't tell. she was not disruptive to her unit. her discharge was. if these standards are to be applied across the military, the military will have to show an individual shall -- soldier discharge is better for the union, the entire brand. should congress repealed don't ask don't tell, or should it stand in the face of this standard? >> up until now, it appears to have been working but there will be a report coming out. i want to see what that says. i want to hear from the commanders and the military men and women. what will this mean to the military, how will it work? i am going to listen to what they have to say. i will thoroughly investigate this before making a decision. the way i look at this thing, my three r's of public service. reasonable, rational, responsible. those are the three things that i will look at. >> i am not only going to completely respect major which and tel

senator. >> senator murray. >> we have a clear choice in this election. and i want to thank mr. rossi for participating as well again tonight. but what mr. rossi did not tell you tonight is that he wants to repeal all street reform. i believe we have to keep those protections in place so that your mortgage in your finances are never in the hands of a wall street banker again. mr. rossi has told you that he will not fight for you for a locally targeted investment. he will leave those to a washington, d.c., a bureaucrat. i will fight for you every time. mr. rossi did not tell you he wants to go back to the bush economic policies that got us into this mess, and directed two wars without paying for it, passing tax cuts that are not paid for, and leaving us with tough decisions today that hurt all of us. i want to make sure that we pay for what we responsibly do as leaders. when i grew up in my father got sick in my family had to be frugal, i knew that we made tough choices but invested in the future. those are the types of decisions that will make is your senator. >> thank you to th

mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that joel murray, kia mohamanchi, kaelin dubois and kristin miller of my staff be granted floor privileges for the duration of today's session. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. harkin: mr. president, the day after tomorrow, on wednesd wednesday, we are going to have three cloture votes. these cloture petitions were filed before we broke in octob october, and those will be the first three votes of -- of our returning here this fall. those three cloture votes are, of course, motions to proceed. a motion to proceed on an energy bill, a motion to proceed on the paycheck fairness bill, and the motion to proceed on the food safety bill. mr. president, the food safety bill came out of my committee, out of our "help" committee, on november the 18th of last yea year. we've been working for a year to get this up. it has strong bipartisan suppo support. we tried to get it up before we broke in october but there was an objection levied on the republican side and we were not able to move forward, even though we had been working, senator enzi and i ha

mr. grant on the mary tyler moore show, ed asner is 81. law and order actor sam waterstone is 70. bill richardson is 63. nickel back frontman chad kroger 36. shawn murray 33 today. >>> 5:45, a live look this morning, at the capitol. you can see a little fog hanging over the dome. >> exactly 100 new members, the largest class in 60 years are coming up for orientation today inside the people's house. >>> and that fog, while it's coming in toward d.c. a little bit, queen anne's, dorchester county, delays there, 90 minutes due to heavier fog on the eastern shore. south and east of town some of the fog is rather dense. that's where we begin this morning with a look at your momslikeme.com bus stop forecast, queen annes and dorchester you have some time here. looking at partly cloudy to mostly cloudy skies with patchy fog mainly south and east. there is some here moving into the district as well. temperatures are for the most part in the 40s to around 50. sun's up at 6:51, setting at 4:54. the day planner for today partly sunny conditions. the winds will be north to northeast at 5 miles per hour. noontime temperature 59. here come the clouds this afternoon th

mrs. murray: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of s. 3987 introduced earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from -- s. 3987, a bill to amend the fair credit reporting act with respect to applicability of identity theft guidelines to creditors. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. mrs. murray: i ask unanimous consent that the bill be read a third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be laid on the table and that any statements relating to the bill appear at this point in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. murray: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: thank you, madam president. i came to the floor this afternoon to speak on behalf of thousands of families in my home state of washington who stand to lose everythin