as to the issue raised by ms. clark, that would not be anything we would be involved in. i am sure they will take that into consideration. when they plant trees or are involved in the planting of trees, they give you pretty explicit instruction on how to care for it, so there would be asked to increase the amount of water that goes today -- goes to it, so i think this is an extremely reasonable compromise, and my intention is to support it. >> i think we lose sight the permit had been granted. there are public policies, but there is some sympathy with the school year and promoting settlement, so i would concur and uphold the proposed settlement your good -- who proposed settlement. >> i am leaning towards of holding. i appreciate the comments from the public as to why nine and a half months is problematic, and my inclination to support the settlement is because you have come this far, and for this to be a sticking point, i would not like to see the agreement undone because of fat, and while -- because of that, while the work can be done, they would make it happen like fas

i will yield to ms. clark for five minutes. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. want to thank the catalyst for letting their expertise today. my first question is, many potential agency users of the cloud believe it is not secure enough for their needs. from your perspective, are they right? >> well, excuse me. i'm a provisioner, so i say amen to everything mr. brown just said, and it is a question of building up trust. i think with the relationship we have, that is essentially how we got there was through building the trust of the end user and the community that we are provisioning for. the first thing i did five years ago when i went to clemson university was consolidate 43 i.t. departments into one. that is building a cloud for 43 departments. so over time you have to build that trust and that true performance. i think directly answering your question -- is it secure enough -- we get tested in a number of ways. i think the end user has to figure are how the trust but verify. and i mentioned that we run the medicaid system for the state of south carolina. we gi

clarke: thank you. i just want to thank the gentlewoman from hawaii, ms. hanabusa, for her commitment to growing our economy not only here in this country but we can help the world by -- we in the united states manufacturing the best products and creating the best technologies. i have introduced a bill called the detroit jobs trust fund. it will create jobs in detroit. and detroiters really need it because we've got the highest unemployment rate. we have lost more jobs than any metropolitan region in this country during the last 10 years, but as ms. hanabusa pointed out, investing in detroit not only creates jobs for detroiters, it will put americans throughout this country back to work. and that's because in spite of detroit's troubling economic situation, high unemployment rate, we still have the manufacturing know how and we have the well trained work force to put americans back to work, especially in the area of advanced manufacturing. so when detroit makes its streets safer by hiring more police officers, more firefighters, and properly employing them

i ask unanimous consent that michael clark, a detailee be granted floor privileges during the consideration of h.r. 2112. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. collins: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i suggest the absence of a quorum until senator murray arrives. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mrs. murray: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. murray: i am pleased that the house is considering the housing urban development appropriations bill. this bill has been supported by broad bipartisan majorities. the transportation, housing, and urban development subcommittee has 19 members, that's almost 1/5 of the senate, it is one of the largest subcommittees in the senate. but despite the diversity of views off our very large subcommittee, back on september 20, we voted unanimously to report the bill to the full appropriations committee. the next day, members of our committee voted 28-2 to report the bill here to the senate. this bill has strong bipartisan support