mrs. murray: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the time under quorum call be equally divided between the majority and minority. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. murray: i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. reed: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. reed: mr. president, i would ask unanimous consent to dispense with the calling of the quorum. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reed: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i rise today to urge my colleagues to support the bipartisan agreement that i have reached with five of our colleagues from across the aisle. senators heller, collins, portman, murkowski and kirk, to provide emergency unemployment insurance to 2.7 million americans. this commonsense bipartisan agreement is one of the main things the senate should do to help create jobs and strengthen our economic recovery so that it works for every american, so ev

mrs. murray: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business for four minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. murray: mr. president, again, the senate is not in order. the presiding officer: the senate will be in order. please clear the well, take conversations outside. the senator from washington. mrs. murray: mr. president, i'm sure all of our colleagues have seen the news over the past few days from my home state of washington where we are suffering a devastating natural disaster. for those of you who haven't seen it on saturday the town of oso, washington, it's a very small --. the presiding officer: the senate will be in order. please take your conversations out of the well. the senator from washington. mrs. murray: thank you, mr. president. and i appreciate the senate's seriousness now because this is a very difficult topic for all of us who have seen this. it's a small town of oso, washington, a small, tightly knit community. on saturday they were hit b

mrs. murray: madam president, i ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. murray: madam president, before i begin, i want to take a moment to address something that's been on the hearts and minds of those back home in my home state of washington. on saturday, as i'm sure many of you heard, the town of oso, walkers a small, tightly-knit town alongsidlongside the stilah river was hit with a landslide. that landlied cu landslide cut n of darrington. already, we know we've lost several people and yesterday we learned that there could be well more than 100 that are still missing. so, madam president, right now in washington state, there are dozens of families who just simply don't know if their loved ones are still alive. even though oso and darrington are 2,300 miles away from the nation's capital, our hearts and pairs are with them. in the coming days and weeks and even years if that's what it takes, all of us will stand with the people

mrs. murray: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: mr. president, i am very proud to be here with all of our colleagues to talk about an action that is needed. climate change is real. we've seen it in the overwhelming scientific evidence that is occurring today. it's not just about science. it is impacting all of us. we see the rise in asthma attacks. we see the impacts in my home state of washington. i hear this concern from my constituents. and we know that the rising sea levels are threatening all of us. we see it in our rural communities, where we're seeing severe droughts. we're eseeing it in our forests, where the dry weather is turning our woods into kindling. we see is it in our local fishing communities where ocean acid if i compages is hindering our -- aacid if i compages is hindering our shellfish development. they are devastating to our families and communities that are suffering from drought and superstorms and wildfires. but it's not just an envi

mrs. murray: mr. president, i come to the floor today, i wanted to thank the bipartisan leadership that has brought us to the place today where are where we are considering reauthorizing this important childcare and development block grant bill. in my home state of warrick there is a young woman named janelle and she was looking for opportunities to support her family but before she could go back to school or participate in a job training program so she could advance her career, she had to find affordable childcare for two of her children. thankfully, with the assistance of this childcare and development block grant program she was able to get subsidies to cover the cost and she now works. she works part time and she's attending school and becoming a surgical tech. this federal grant program expands opportunities to parents like jan el and so many across our country by helping them with the cost of childcare. and that's why i'm here today to support this effort to reauthorize the childcare and develop

mr. murray had replaced him. the unabomber was proud of himself. it didn't matter that his bomb had killed the wrong man. they were engaged in the same kind of work, which was anti-environment in his opinion. and so it was okay. >> i'd been to a number of bomb scenes over my career, and the last one in sacramento was probably one of the more horrific. the shrapnel is usually what maims or kills the victim. most of the cases, nails, staples, and screws were used. that's an antipersonnel device. that's used to maim or kill. >> when you go to those crime scenes or when you see the devastation that was left behind and then you read about what he says and how he felt about those bombs, it's really chilling. it's chilling that someone can think like that, behave like that, and do that kind of thing. >> by now, the unabomber had been at large for almost 17 years. >> we talk about lone actors a lot, how difficult they are to catch. the unabomber was the lone wolf in the most classic sense. >> socially, he defined himself as a social cripple. but technologi

mrs. murray: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: madam president, i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: the senate is not in a quorum call. mrs. murray: i ask unanimous consent to speak in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. murray: madam president, i want to take a moment to recognize our republican colleagues in the house of representatives who last week cast the 50th vote in their effort to dismantle the affordable care act. their 50th. and i know it's a tradition to gift gold in celebration of a 50th milestone. i instead would like to gift my colleagues on the other side of the aisle with a reality check. more specifically, today i'd like to talk about a certain group of people who arguably stand to lose if their antics continue. so i've come to the floor this afternoon to set the record straight on the affordable care act and how it is working for women of america. madam president,

mr. murray, who is a known racist and -- that's exactly right, sir, and he uses science to try to support his positions. he also didn't talk about the fact that these very same republicans, including him, the chair of the budget committee, has gutted public education. he has cut dollars for job training there is no transportation money for people to get to where jobs are. there has been no jobs bill there has been nothing done but to say that people who don't work are lazy. and i think that he should be not only ashamed of himself, but to go and drive in his own community and talk to the 29,000 households in his community who receive food stamps and ask them if they're lazy? ask them if they want to work. ask them if it's okay to feel bad about not being able to feed their families. i think it will give him an earful and very different from what he said in his interview the other say. >> now, krystal, one of the things -- and all of us have said things we regretted. all of us have. >> sure. >> what i noticed he did not do that many have done, and many of us have done, he never said he was

money is spent in the most efficient and effective way possible is the apple michael murray and john murray mr is a vice chairman of the gpt group of responsibility the budget and structural policies. he wants the various stakeholders in this debate to develop more common ground in order to ensure adequate eu results is coming policy in the future we owe the discussions around the top of the moment of the budget. nobody with their ministries that we went to the end and the budget would be very good and engineers for cp to the pool and hope to have a consensus in the end. among the key actors in tp because that would be so stupid as to when he competes in the o'shea are you going to vote. of course is to some poker wise. we got going in that. the chp is divided into two circle cutters and just kind of relates to agricultural markets for farm products are regulated to what are called common market organizations will see and it was effectively a way of stabilizing markets free somewhat painful almost guaranteed prices for imposing tariffs on imports the commission is now proposing to roll all cnn

it's as if mark rufrsberg is bill murray and the hearing is the date. mr. rufrsberg first date didn't go so well but he was able to do it again in january and he was able to wake up and have a third crack tonight all without having the burden of proof shift to him and without having to approve manifest injustice and without having to garner four votes. please do not let him become bill murray. you voted on december 11th. your subsequent votes must be on the findings and conditions. thank you for your time. >> we can hear from mr. williamson behalf of the other appellant. >> good evening again, steven williams. i tried to exhaust the issues from the board thank you for the time to do that. the law cited by mr. genius last time government code section 65589.5. the housing accountability act has been the law in california for more than 32 years. let me say that again, 32 years. in my brief i discussed every case which is touched on or interpreted that code section. and there has only been seven of them. let me repeat that. there has been 7 cases in 32 years. i

mrs. coulter? even charles murray agrees that america is coming apart. wing friends agreed that, my left-wing friends agree with that. culturally, the rich are growing very distant from the port in behavioral terms as well as money terms. this is murray's thesis. the rich have two-parent families, the poor don't anymore. does anyone on the right have a solution to this problem? >> yes, i think murray does. i think part of the problem is -- and i completely agree with him on this -- you leave these -- you read these terrifying divorce statistics and you find out they're completely different for college-educated people and those with only a high school degree. rate justmotherhood feeds upon itself. the one thing that has really changed besides -- you have the government subsidizing bad behavior, you have hollywood rewarding bad behavior, but there's also an overwhelming cultural sense, there is a political correctness to and shaming. no, shaming is good. it is almost a cruel and selfish thing, for lack of a better term, for the upper classes to be educated

mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that senator murray's budget committee legal extern elizabeth mendoza be granted floor privileges beginning today, march 26 and ending april 30, 2014. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. blumenthal: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today, that it adjourn until 10:00 a.m., wednesday, march 26, 2014. that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date and the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day. that following any leader remarks, the senate be in a period of morning business until 11:00 a.m. with senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each, and the time equally divided and controlled by the two leaders or their designees, with the republicans controlling the first half and the majority controlling the final half. and that following morning business, the senate proceed to executive session under the previous order. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. blumenthal: there wi

mr. chairman, our levels are above the current congressional levels. they're above the current ryan/murray agreement. they're above the current legislative law. and if the question is that we believe nondefense discretionary spending and defense spending should be even higher than the president's budget levels -- >> so that's back to my original point. >> if that's a question and the point being made, that's one we would be open to having a conversation about. >> on defense only is what we're asking. if you can only get the guns and not the butter, would you take that? >> and what i've said, mr. chairman, is we believe that keeping the two things together are very important. it was the philosophy that your approach and the deal that you led with chairman murray on kept the two things together. and that's the way we can make progress as a nation. both are important. we need to do both. both are important for our national security and for our economy. >> i've got two more. i see my clock going. i want to be mindful of time. i've got a number of concerns. my other one is you're beginning to t

mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent christopher sharp, a fellow in senator murray's office be granted floor privileges during the remainder of this session. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: today is an important day for ukraine. and for all nations who support international law, democracy and decency. today the senate will pass a bipartisan bill to provide aid to stabilize the ukraine and for those russian leaders who played a role in the destabilization of ukraine, this contains much-needed repercussions against them. remember russia is run by an 80ic arcky. one of the 80 ig,a -- oleic,a is the -- oligarchs is the president of that, putin, it's a reality check the senate will not stand idly by while russia plays the role of a schoolyard bully. it seems president putin does not understand the way the world works today. it's almost as if putin yearns for the days of joseph stallen. -- joseph stalin. the world has changed since stalin was around and it's changed for the better. the cold war is over, along with fixtures like the iron curtain, and brinksmanship. yet it's almo

i'm going to recognize senator murray since senator murray didn't have a chance as last time. >> thank you, mr. chairman. it's such an important hearing that you're having a really appreciate all of the thoughts from the panelists, discussion on this. just so telling when we have so may people in our country today who are spending all of their extra income came back -- pingback is to own and do not paying -- and it is really prohibiting young people from even thinking about the future and college. i think this is a port and appreciate all of our panelists for being here. one of my priorities during the negotiations last went on a bipartisan budget act was to maintain our investments in student aid and not ask for students to contribute even more toward deficit reduction. unfortunately, as you know, congressman ryan and i were able to work together and provide some relief to struggling borrowers to we've reduced the collection fees that guarantee agencies charged on defaults of loves. ms. loonin, i'm glad you here and i wanted you to talk a little bit more about how these guarantee agencies col

mr. chairman, our levels are above the current congressional levels. they're above the current ryan/murray agreement. they're above the current legislative law. and if the question is that we believe nondefense discretionary spending and defense spending should be even higher than the president's budget levels -- >> so that's back to my original point. >> if that's a question and the point being made, that's one we would be open to having a conversation about. >> on defense only is what we're asking. if you can only get the guns and not the butter, would you take that? >> and what i've said, mr. chairman, is we believe that keeping the two things together are very important. it was the philosophy that your approach and the deal that you led with chairman murray on kept the two things together. and that's the way we can make progress as a nation. both are important. we need to do both. both are important for our national security and for our economy. >> i've got two more. i see my clock going. i want to be mindful of time. i've got a number of concerns. my other one is you're beginning to t

mr. leader, that the budget number that the committee will mark to is the budget number that was included in the ryan-murray agreement that was adopted by the congress and signed by the president at one -- $1.014 billion in discretionary spending. is that accurate? i'd yield to my friend. mr. cantor: mr. speaker, that is accurate. mr. hoyer: furthermore, i ask the majority leader -- i appreciate that's being honored. can the gentleman tell me whether or not the firewall that's also included in the ryan-murray agreement will be honored as well? and i yield to my my friend. the firewall, as the majority leader knows, between discretionary, defense spending and discretionary, nondefense spending and i yield to my friend. mr. cantor: mr. speaker, i'd say to the gentleman, i have not had the discussion with the chairman on that particular issue. i'm aware of the gentleman's concern. and i think the gentleman represents his caucus in the desire. unfortunately, to limit the defense spending, i think the question is aimed that we have differences in that. given what's going on in the world right now, feel very stro

mr. ryan, talks about this revamping of social programs, but also sticks with the amount of money that he and ms. murrayled on last fall and that congress approved, it is going to be difficult for some of the most conservative republicans to vote for that amount of spending, even with a remaking of the social safety net that they might approve of. it is going to be one of the big challenges of the year will be how the republicans find that sweet spot that attracts virtually all of them, the super conservative members as well as the very conservative members, because note democrats are going to join that effort. hawkings authors a blog and column. thank you for being with us on this snowy day. >> thank you. john kerry is expected live at the american israel public affairs committee meeting shortly. hisetary kerry making report before he heads to ukraine tonight. resident obama talked about -- president obama talked about russia and ukraine today. he talked about the closeness of israel and the u.s.. -- u.s. it is a pleasure to welcome prime minister netanyahu to the oval office. there's nobody who i have

mr. speaker, i rise today to honor the life of the respected community leader and great friend to so many in central illinois. on february 26, long-time broadcaster, weatherman and radio host bob murray lost his battle to brain cancer at the age of 66. throughout his career, bob took his work incredibly seriously. he used to be my weatherman that i would watch on tv growing up. but in his later life, he was a radio broadcaster. mr. davis: he arrived at the radio station at 1:30 in the morning to prepare for the day ecause he felt an informed community was important from community fundraisers to what was happening with the government and the weather and the local breaking news. i had the privilege of being interviewed by bob dozens of times over the last 18 months and i can tell you without a doubt that he was one of the most honest, respectful and professional members of the media that i have ever met. bob's family is honoring his life but having mem als made to the illinois -- memorials made to the illinois news broadcasters association foundcationer -- foundation for a scholarshipper to awarded in his name. i can't think of a better way to ensure that he's remembered for years to c

mrs. murray: madam president, our work force has changed a lot in the last few decades. 30 years ago, the majority of families with children had only one parent working outside the home. more of the country's low-wage workers were teenagers earning some extra spending money. but today, today two-thirds of families with children rely on earnings from both parents. and the millions of low-wage workers in our country are far less likely to be teens supplementing this allowance and far more likely to be adults struggling to support their family. it's also gotten a lot harder for young people just starting out to find work that puts them on a strong path, and there is a very concerning pattern of young people dropping out of the labor force rather than keeping up their search. madam president, these are the kinds of trends that we need to be thinking about as we look for ways to help today's work force succeed in today's economy and there are many steps we can and absolutely should take to tackle the