portman and for mr. tester that i have to object to their amendment but i do object and i think that -- we got two and a half weeks that we could have been doing a lot of these things. we're going to have to rely upon the other body to get a decent bill to go 0 the president of the united states. i yield the floor. mr. leahy: mr. president? the presiding officer: objection is heard. mr. leahy: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from montana has the floor. mr. leahy: does the senator from montana yield for one minute? the presiding officer: without objection. mr. leahy: mr. president, i think of myself as one of the calmest people around here, but a lot of facts and numbers have been tossed around here. i think let's get a few in perspective. when this bill was before the judiciary committee, there were 300 amendments filed, 300. we put them online, every single person saw a week and a half before what the amendments were. we then brought them up. i'd bring up one from one party, then one f

portman: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i rise today to talk about the immigration bill that's before the senate this week. we just had a vote on the corker-hoeven amendment and i want to talk about why it's so important to fix our broken immigration system but also about a critical issue that i believe has to be addressed in order for the proposed ro reforms -- proposed reforms to work. i want to begin by annualing the hard work of a number of my colleagues including four republicans and four democrats who came together and spent months negotiating the bill year now considering. they showed a lot of courage in addressing a tough issue. it's a tough clue shyu politically, it's a difficult issue in terms of the policies. i also want to recognize senators hoeven and corker who offered that amendment today and many of the changes they have in that amendment i think are a step in the right direction because they provide more enforcement for immigration laws and i think we have to guarantee that there is a meaningful

so that applies to the portman amendment as well, and tester is a cosponsor of it. we had this setup where we were asked to put together amendments. it happens to be a republican senator, someone who just spoke, involved in this colloquy asked me to put together some amendments. so i worked hard with a lot of dissenting republicans about how we should do this process, put together 34 amendments, and gave them to that senator and he was going to go and negotiate with the leaders, or the majority. and it seems to me that i ended up giving my and amendments just to end errand boy. didn't do much negotiation. and so we are here where we are. and also for that senator, i want to tell him that he said, well, we can to 15 vote a member snowe and then maybe to 50 more, and then 50 more. well, the unanimous consent request said that after we do those amendments that were asked to do, the bill be read a third time and the senate proceed to the vote on final passage of the bill. so that wouldn't have been a bunch of so many, then another tranche. so here we are. even though i

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i'd love to see a vote on the portman amendment. my understanding is, some of the people who disagree with this bill don't want to see a vote on the portman amendment. the portman amendment will actually make this bill even better. so i hope we'll hear on the portman amendment and we'll do that after a vote in cloture tonight on a border security amend i know strengthens this bill, puts it in balance, creates trust with the american people, and creates the kind of pathaway that many people are seeking. with that, mr. president, i yield the floor. >> senator from alabama. >> the senator would surely acknowledge his amendment was filed friday noon when probably 90% of the senators had left town. it wasn't his 200 page amendment. that is his interest. all kind of special interests from senators interests have been added to the bill, and it was filed as part of the overall bill. so you would knowledge -- acknowledge that the replacement we would be voting cloture on tonight is 1,200 pages, about -- a little less than 200 pages more than

you have people like rob portman who have become strong supporters of gay marriage but i would say thatrepublicans are united in their conviction-- including portman-- that this should be done through legislative methods and not done through the imposition of courts. >> i don't argue that. but what it does is it energizes a base which is quite frankly representing a distinct minority of the country at this point. and it a shrinking minority. so you saw republican house members yesterday michele bachmann among others saying we're going to lead the fight here. to the degree that this becomes the face of the republican party when it doesn't have a national standard bearer or president, i think that's a problem for the party this is seen as narrow minded, that is seen as sort of mean spirited. so i think the other thing is over the past ten years, 15 years, more and more people because of the climate, because of the acceptance of gay people and gay status, gay identification have come out. and more people have relatives, friends, neighbors, coworkers so they have a greater stake in this. i

rob portman is the guy who decided he was suddenly for gay marriage after his son came out to him. so he is okay for marriage rights for his son, but not for nondiscrimination? i'm okay with you being forced out of your job, son, because of you who are? i just don't want you to go through it alone? if you're married, you can both be fired for being gay, together. how does that make sense? these maverick republicans that you see on your screen right here, these are the only three republicans in both houses of congress who support employment nondiscrimination for gay people. and while all of those members of congress are republicans in good standing, what you are not looking at there is the republican primary field for 2016. you apparently cannot support something like nondiscrimination for gay people and have any future in republican party politics. nobody who has any real prospects of being a national leader in republican politics in the next few years has anything other than 100% anti-gay policy position on something like nondiscrimination. that is apparently still a requirement i

portman cannot combat. senator highbridge is being grateful. senator portman if we can get you in before the break. >> thank you very much. was ays thought heinrich thoughtful guy. detail becauseo your time is so pressure. he is looking for something. [applause] thank you. , thankaulic fracking you for your testimony. it is a big deal. about 90% of the wells will be fracked. we do have a lot to fracking. we have been doing it for about 50 years. have good regulation. we have no documented cases of contaminated water. i would raise the point that on torage it takes 307 days get permits on federal lands. this one reason i've been work with colleagues for reform. th in the world for ease of doing business with building something. it affects everybody. whether it is oil and gas or , they are facing the same thing. you can go as long to six years. the uncertainty that is leading to the investors and being hesitant to make these kind of commitments to new capital investments. if you look at what the states are doing and our state of ohio where we do

so i hope we hear though portman amendment. i hope we hear from other senators as they seek to improve this bill. but i hope we'll do that after voting cloture tonight, on a border security amendment i know strength 's this bill, puts it in balance, creates trust with the american people, and creates the kind of pathaway that many people are seeking. with that, mr. president, i yield the floor. >> well, senator from alabama. >> the senator would surely acknowledge the amendment was filed friday, when probably most of our senators hat left town. it wasn't his 200 page amendment. all kinds of special interests and senators' interests have been added to the bill, and it was filed as part of the overall bill so you would knowledge that the replacement that we would be voting cloture on tonight is 1,200 pages -- about a little less than 200 pages more than the bill was on friday morning. ... >> the senator was a great jurist from the state of alabama. he worked on all kinds of legal documents, i'm sure, before he came to serve in su

but other members support the business senator rob portman would like to see natural gas fracking expanded to create jobs and increase you as dependence on foreign oil. we're really excited about this it's bringing back jobs good paying jobs allowing people to stay in these communities and be able to raise their families with not just a living wage but real hope for the future and it also will have an effect on our gas prices we have an opportunity here before things get worse to come up with a different solution a sensible national energy policy that stops our dangerous dependence on foreign oil and leads to more domestic production and therefore prices we can afford at the pump there are five hundred thousand active gas wells in the u.s. fracking produces about three hundred thousand barrels of natural gas a day but is that worth the environmental hazards that come along with fracking over one thousand cases of contaminated water has been documented in areas near fracking sides and only thirty to fifty percent of fracking fluid as recovered during the fracking process leaving the remaind

they're blocking the portman amendment. the portman amendment will actually make this bill even better. so i hope we'll hear on the portman amendment. i hope we'll hear from other senators as they seek to improve this bill. but i hope we'll do that after voting cloture tonight on a border security amendment that i know strengthens this bill, puts it in balance creates trust with the american people, and creates the kind of pathway that many people are seeking. with that, mr. president i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from alabama. mr. sessions: the senator would surely acknowledge that his amendment was filed friday noon where probably 90% of our senators had left town. it wasn't his 200-page amendment, or just his interests. all kinds of special interests and senators' interests have been added to the bill. and it was filed as part of the overall bill. so you would acknowledge that the replacement that we would be voting cloture on tonight is 1,200 pages about a little less than 200 pages more than the

like thank you, senator portman. i will turn it over to senator johnson. >> i would like to thank the witnesses for appearing. and is all about process how it works. coming from business, there are all kinds of processes we have standardized. iso certification -- certification, surveillance audits. i was reviewing information prior to this hearing. that cap jumping in my mind. if we could apply standardization processes the government, that would be in place. there was an article written in february 20, 2013, by a former deputy secretary of defense. i would like to enter that into the record. it describes how this gentleman this process.ugh it was somewhere on a government computer. he could not get access. the review process was basically a government employee or contract employee coming in and going through, question by question, where he was in the private sector business in a similar process, and the process of just asking five questions, they had a 99% reveal rate in terms of that person committing fraud. in the

and portman has indicated that he would support be final passage of the legislation if the amendment was put in. but he also asked for a separate vote. and in, as you're trying to count down toward legislation, asking for a separate vote is kind of a big deal. that means if there's somebody else on the democratic side who wants a separate vote on their amendment, they have to get that, and the next thing you know you've got somebody else raising their hand saying i want a vote on my amendment. so it's really a procedural issue. but they're still trying to figure it out, as far as i know. >> you wrote that electronic verification is an essential part of the bill. why is that? >> right. we have to back up a little bit. this is what is in the underlying bill which is it's a mandatory electronic verification of people's names, birth dates and social security numbers for everyone, not just immigrants, who are being hired into new jobs. it's, essentially, a way of checking to make sure they are who they say they are. right now a lot of employers just use a paper i-9 form, and that's subjec

german tester, ranking member portman, and ranking member johnson. thank you very much for the opportunity to testify today regarding opm's role in the federal backed government secret clearance process. in response to the 2004 legislation was the opium functions, opium is continuing to enhance the background investigation process by including quality and efficiency. our successes are due in large part to our partnership and department of defense and other agencies that require security measures. we have no backlogs, we have increased automation the best we can. the services conducted investigations to executive branch hirings, security clearances and others. the process supporting this is highly integrated, automated, consistently measured against timeliness and quality performance standards for federal hiring of the process reforms. this includes those that are largely recorded with the branch agency in congress. this includes suitability and fitness uncredentialed determinations by these agencies. since absorbing the background programs of the fis

the first rob portman of ohio and then mark kirk of illinois.s evolving. the timing on this likely not such an accident. the supreme court's going to rule on the constitutionality of the defense of marriage act and california's prop 8 before the end of this month. >>> meanwhile president obama gave a speech at the brandenburg gate in berlin this morning one week shy of the 50th anniversary of president kennedy's speech in which he famously said -- the famous address covered a range of topics including a call for reducing the world's stockpile of nuclear weapons. >> obama: after a comprehensive review, i determine that we can ensure the security of america and our allies and maintain a strong incredible strategic deterrent while losing our deployed strategic nuclear weapons by up to 1/3. i intend to seek negotiated cuts with russia to move beyond cold war nuclear postures. >> the new stark treaty ratified by the u.s. senate in december of 2010 put our current limit of nuclear weapons at 1,550 so reducing that by a third means both sides would hav

portman and mr. chester i had to object to there amendment but i do and i think we have to and half weeks we could have been doing a lot of these things we now have to rely on the other body to get a decent bill to go to the president of the united states i yield the floor. >> mr. president? >> the senator from montana would just yield for one minute? and i think of myself as one of the calmest people around here but a lot of facts and numbers have been passed around to getting into perspective, this bill was before the committee there were 300 amendments filed. 300. we put them on line. every single person saw hope we can have what the amendments were. we then brought them up. one from one party then another and did this day after day and tell people said we have no more amendments we want to bring up. we stopped at around 140. all but three of them were republican and democratic pros. to say nobody had a chance to amend this with nearly 140 amendments including the senator from iowa and others and

senator portman's statement came three days before secretary clinton's statement came.ement, we saw a flurry of democratic senators come out in support for the freedom to marry. we believe that's the case because often times when a republican makes a conservative case for the freedom to marry, it opens the flood gates or democrat who otherwise would be lacking the political cover and who are really afraid of being to the right of a conservative republican senator like senator portman. so these changes, whether they happen with her or the senate republicans in rhode island who helped convince an anti-gay leadership in rhode island and moved marriage forward, it's important. and the community now pursuing a bipartisan strategy is why we're seeing such major strides moving forward. >> thanks. >>> what went wrong. a deadly chemical blast practically levels a texas town. now the senate will investigate the dangerous chemicals that could be in your neighborhood. but are new laws needed? >>> plus a surprise win for sex workers. from the supreme court the justices ruled an anti

. >> senators tom coburn and rob portman said the letter to the secretary of the veterans affairs a ministrationweek. basically they are essentially saying 180 wkers are working full time for unions, not military veterans. emma was striking is the list of whaa these workers are doing. senators blasting the viejo saying this is troubling. the comppomise, and data from -- i undoubtedly negatively impacts. v8 nurs, medical staers, psychologists, therapists, security guards who were supposed to be protecting buildings. doing full-time union work. this is based on government affirmation and documents. and what the senators want to know is, what exactly are they doing in terms of union work. we know that this bylaw federal workers are not allowed to strike. by law the pay and benefits are set. what are they doing essentially in terms of grievances and disciplinary matters? at that time when the viejo is also saying that the unemployment rate for 18 to 24 ye-old military veterans is higher than the national average. we are also seeing rapid homelessness among military veterans. gerri:hat is a great poi

i checked in with one republican senator who supports gay marriage, rob portman of ohio. he's fine with the rest of doma. in washington, jacqueline fell, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> president obama telephoned the plaintiff in the doma case and congratulated her. mr. obama issued a statement praising the decision. he said quote, this was discrimination enshrined in law. it treated loving couples as a separate and lesser class of people. the supreme court has righted that wrong and our country is better off for it. >>> wedding plans are underway at san francisco home of a gay couple who we met up with this morning. >> where do you to get married -- >> reporter: home of joey and matt. they watched the supreme court decision come down. when all was said and done they texted their families with the good news. should the wedding be next summer or next fall? >>> potentially damaging evidence for george zimmerman from two women who testified at his murder trial. the friend of trayvon martin who was on the phone with him before he was killed. martin told her he noticed when he called

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with senator portman although he left us to run for elective office which we certainly appreciate as well. there is no question that we have a significant deferred maintenance backlog estimated to be over $11 billion in our national parks and that is really something that has been accumulating over many many years of not treating our assets in the public lands in the way we might do in the private sector in terms of setting aside depreciation and that is more to do with appropriations and less to do with at the national park would like to do. they would like to maintain these facilities but it is a challenge in budgetary times and we need your help to put the federal government's part in the budget to supplement what we might do for the private sector. there are opportunities for private sector engagement. one of the things the second century commission worked on was public-private partnerships and recognizing that people love their national parks and there is an opportunity, of leverage for love of parks to find ways to support and recognize private donations but i think it is fair

. >> was it hard for you when natalie portman said what she said? >> she was right to say what she said. what i said was disgusting. >> so you understood immediately when she said i am disassociating myself? >> >> yes. >> rose: have you made amends to try to come back and apologize and reconnect? >> with natalie, not yet but i will be, yes. >> rose: rotate the tape again, there is what made you who you were, here it is. >> rose: when you see that, what do you think? >> >> i mean, there is a certain joy. i can see the joy, i can also feel the trouble. >> rose: the trouble there? >> yes. >> rose: what do you mean? >> to produce collections like that, charlie, it takes so much, so much from you, and that is the press one has to do after that, so you don't sleep several night and it is quite a tradition to work all night for you and all through the night the girls were arriving. it is enormous pressure and then there are all of the interviews, 25 film crews afterwards and -- and i just kept going. >> rose: just kept going? >> yes. >> rose: this is part

conservative scenario, if you get senators flake, rubio, mcgain who are the gang of 8 collins heller, portman are blue state republicans, you are still scratching. they might not get all of them. so, the word is they don't have the 60. a lot has to change but there is time for that to change. >> bret: senator ted cruz took to the senate floor seat and here is what he said about the bill. i believe the bills are already recooked that this bill is going to pass the u.s. senate. absent major revisions. absent the revisions along the lines i introduced in committee and intend to introduce on the floor again, this bill will crash and burn in the house. it is designed to do so. so how do we safe it. >> bret: designed to do so. >> yeah. it was interesting. he had a very different view than the one that we just heard from a.b. i was interested in the discussions today on the floor. there is almost seemed to be an assumption that this would pass. now, maybe this is proponents being optimistic and opponents being pessimistic. they seem to be coming from the same place. i thought what senator cruz did w

i checked in with one republican senator who supports gay marriage, rob portman of ohio. he tells me he's fine with the rest of doma. in washington, jacqueline fell, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> president obama telephoned the plaintiff in the doma case and congratulated her. mr. obama issued a statement praising the decision. he said quote, this was discrimination enshrined in law. it treated loving couples as a separate and lesser class of people. the supreme court has righted that wrong and our country is better off for it. >>> wedding plans are underway at san francisco home of a gay couple who we met up with this morning. >> where do you to get married -- >> reporter: home of joey and matt. they watched the supreme court decision come down. when all was said and done they texted their families with the good news. should the wedding be next summer or next fall? >>> potentially damaging evidence for george zimmerman from two women who testified at his murder trial. the friend of trayvon martin who was on the phone with him before he was killed. martin told her he noticed wh

that's why your seeing senators like rob portman in ohio moving against it, thinking of a presidentialone thing i would pay attention to is in massachusetts, gabriel gomez is running as a republican against ed markey in the senate race, and gomez faces a lot of heat from republicans for having a position on immigration reform that is much closer to the gang of eight than to the opponent, and i think he -- certainly doesn't have the enthusiasm that scott brown had in 2010 behind him, i think in part because of that. >> neil: voting is underway as we speak. saying a republican can't win in massachusetts? this whole immigration debate notwithstanding, they said the same about this guy in massachusetts. i think they did. o 25 devices on one easy to manage plan. that means your smartphone, her blackberry, his laptop, mark's smartphone... but i'm still on vacation... ...stilln the plan. nice! so is his tablet, that guy's hotspot, thentern's tablet. the intern gets a tablet? everyone's devices. his, hers, oh sorry... all easier to manage on the share everything plan for small business. connec

senator murkowski jones senator portman supporting same sex marriage.kowski argued it was her conservatism that led her to the decision. do you think that's the road to win over republicans to emphasize limited government, keeping uncle sam out of people's private decisions? >> well, absolutely. and that notion of commitment and commitment to the family unit. and keeping the government out of the way, i think those are great arguments that marriage is at the end of the day a conservative principle. think about how far we've come since 2004 when president bush made campaigning against gay marriage a centerpiece of his campaign. you've actually seen karl rove within the past year saying in 2016 he could a republican president being for gay marriage. hundreds of republicans have signed the amicus brief on gay marriage. >> senator murkowski's announcement shows how republicans are evolving and president obama evolved as well. may 9th last year he announced his support for gay marriage ahead of the 2012 election. what can you tell us about discussions leadin

ohio senator rob portman, accusing them of bullying small, conservative groups that can't afford lawyers. and he's not the only one. but an ohio newspaper is reporting that irs was targeting smaller groups without legal representation. nice to see you, sir. >> thank you for having me. >> tell me, what is the information you have to suggest that the irs targeted smaller groups without lawyers? >> we looked at the nine groups from ohio and kentucky that went through the process and were indeed finally did tax exempt status approved, and, you know, we had been interviewing them all along and one them mentioned the fact that he was involved with two of them, and one of them that had a lawyer, had a lawyer and did a more professional application that theirs did not get the level of scrutiny his first attempt did, so that kin of pulled a trigger in my head, and i said, well, maybe i should ask the other ones what they went through and we determined that two of the nine groups from the ohio and kentucky indeed did not have a lawyer when they first started and they did get the extra questioning,

and then there's ohio senator bob -- rob portman. the senate, he slammed his opponent's support of the health care law. >> he's a strong supporter of washington's health care law. it's not working for ohio. >> not working for ohio. then why did you write a letter saying a grant from the law would provide, quote, essential services to an additional 8,966 uninsured individuals? senator, there's your name right there. i guess you thought it was working well after all. and hypocrisy is not just in the senate. ears south dakota congresswoman christy knome. >> we owe it to every that don't put washington in charge of our health care. >> repeal this law. really, congresswoman? then why did you ask for a grant from a health center for a health center in your district? did you think we won't notice their unhealthy hypocrisy? nice try, but here's my diagnosis. we got you. i've noticed a huge improvement. [ male announcer ] go pro for a clean that's up to four times better, try these crest pro-health products together. the toothpaste is really

senator mccaskill will be here shortly and i'm sure senator portman will, too. the title is safeguarding the country's securities, examining the security clearance process. i want to thank our witnesses for being here today and joining us. thank you for your time. recent re -- events have forced us to take a closer look at the pams carried out by the government in the name of napt security, whether they properly balance our security and essential liberties. it is also incumbent on us to raise critical ez -- questions about how the government is vetting the individuals, whether employees or contractors, who have access to our most sensitive data. i asked keith alexander a pretty straight up question. after the outcry of wiki leaks and executive order calling for improved classified network security and after spending tens if not hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to update networks to keep our secrets, how on earth does an employee on, a contractor on he job less than four months get access this way? terms -- in terms of securing classified information we j

20th century fox had production interns on the movie "black swan," the ballet movie with natalie portman a couple years ago that essentially did what regular employees would do but they were unpaid but that they were integral to the actual production. >> an unpaid internship has to be educational and could even be demanding of the company's time and take away from their production. >> the company is going to say, look, you have a choice. we can scrap our internship program and deny the kids on the job if you make us pay money. >> kayla, do you pay all your interns? you have like, what -- >> i will decide once i have interns. not there yet. >> i don't need an entourage. >> i think these interns are on to something. i think the whole racket is totally unfair. when i was a college student, hi an unpaid internship at the magazine, worked for the government and at the peace corps, unpaid and i learned important skills. if my parents couldn't affair'd ford to put me up or give me lunch money i wouldn't have access to this. what about everybody else? >> it's for only those people whose families

she joins her gop colleagues mark kirk of illinois and rob portman of ohio.low their lead? my answer might be a bit predictable. but of course i think they should. think about t marriage equality has something for liberals and conservatives alike. freedom, family, oh, yeah, keeping the government out of our bedrooms. it's a no brainer, but i just have to say that -- i have to add something that lisa murkowski added in her statement and that was and out of our families. i think too often the discussion on gay rights, marriage equality boils down to, oh, being gay is only about sex. it's only about what happens in the bedroom when really this whole conversation, this fight is about legal protection for lgbt families so they have the stability and protection just like everybody else under the law. >> yeah, agreed. i'll add to murkowski's comments as a conservative who's advocated for gay marriage and gay rights. for me, marriage should be promoted. it's a stabilizing factor and gets people less dependent on government when they're in a marriage. two, we should w

i hope this is the first of many joint hearings hearings wi have with senator portman and senator johnson. i think all four of us have demonstrated problems that are sometimes embedded within our government. i am happy to work with the three of you on this effort today. earlier this month a contractor edward snowden released classified information regarding the n.s.a. program. mr. snowden had access to this information because he received a security clearance. that was issued following an investigation of his background. over 90% of the background investigations are conducted by the office of personnel management including all background investigations for members of the military and defense department, civilian and contractors. in preparation for today's hearing we received information regarding how the government plans, conducts oversees and pays for background investigations. this information portrays a government agency where there is fraud, limited accountability and no respect for taxpayer dollars. cost the federal government over a billion per year. uses a reinvolving fund struck c

recently when rob portman came out in support of gay marriage, chambliss refused to endorse marriage equality. he said i'm not gay so i'm not going to marry one prompting millions of gay american men to say not on your best day saxby. he might be extremely right wing. since he doesn't hate all democrats, he's facing a primary challenge from the jackal wing of the g.o.p. when he announced he would not seek re-election some felt sorry for him and then came this week. when the senate armed services committee held hearings on military sexual assault. which featured two witnesses who want reform and 18 witnesses who endorse the current military policy on sexual assault of covering one's ears and going la, la la, la, la, la. now, we don't doubt that saxby chambliss cares deeply about this issue. he's clearly as devoted to supporting the women who serve in our wars as he was once devoted to not having to serve in that war he supported. but then, he had to go and say this. i'm going to quote. the young folks who are coming into each of your services are anywhere from 17 to 22 or 23. gee, whi