ms. murkowski: mr. president, i request that proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. murkowski: mr. president, i would ask that two individuals from my office, noel levinson and andrea whitty, be granted floor privileges through july 15. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. murkowski: thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor and suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: and the clerk should call the roll. quorum call: #. the presiding officer: the senator from delaware. mr. carper: mr. president, good afternoon. i would ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. carper: thank you. thanks, mr. president, mr. president, i would also ask unanimous consent that following people: marion gibson, debra prescott, eric hanson and tim mccroson, detailees to the governmental affairs committee be granted privileges to the floor for the remainder of the second session of the

ms. murkowski: i recognize that while we haven't had a multiseries of votes on amendments on this bill, i know that the floor managers have been working aggressively to process amendments and make this appropriations bill not only the t-hud but the milcon bill, make it a good, good appropriations america. so i thank my colleagues for their respective efforts, and i'm pleased to see us processing appropriations bills here on the senate floor. mr. president, i wanted to take just a few minutes this evening to talk about the affordable care act and some of the impacts that we're seeing in my state of alaska. we treefer this as the -- we refer to this as the a.c.a., the affordable care act. but most folks when i talk to them back home call it the unaffordable care act because we just don't see how this is making health care affordable. last year we saw a dozen co-ops fail that were created by the a.c.a. which literally threw people into turmoil. united health, one of the largest providers in the country, has been forced off the exchanges in numerous states. just last week we had the news back