kyl: -- the louisville, kentucky, newspaper published a paper on owsley brown and ask it be printed in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. the senate will now be in morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for ten minutes each with the time equally divided and controlled between the two leaders or their designees with the republicans controlling the first half and the majority controlling the second half. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. alexander: our country has endured a 9% unemployment rate for a longer time than since the great depression yet the majority leader is reluctant to address this joblessness in a serious way. one way to address it would have been to take the three trade agreements northed four and five years -- negotiated four and five years ago and send them up to the senate and house and let us ratify them and let us move ahead to avoid losing 350,000 jobs, as an estimate of the united states chamber of commerce, or create as many as a quarter million jobs. that's an estimate of the w