proceed. all those in favor? all those opposed? they ayes have it. the motion is agreed to. the clerk will report the >> bureau of consumer financial protection, richard cordray to be director. click the clerk will report the closure motion. >> in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 hereby move to bring to a close the debate on nomination of richard cordray of ohio to be the director of the bureau of consumer financial protection signed by 18 senators as followed. we not read the names. >> is there objection? without objection. >> i now move to proceed to legislative session. >> the question is on the motion to proceed. all those in favor? all those opposed say no. the ayes do have it. >> the motion is agreed to. the question is on the motion to proceed. all those in favor say aye. all those opposed say no. they ayes have it. the clerk will report the nomination. >> richard f. griffin jr. of the district of columbia to be a member. >> the clerk will report the cloture motion. >> in accor

to proceed. all those in favor? all those opposed? the ayes have it. the motion is agreed to. the clerk will report the nomination. >> nomination, national labor relations board, richard f griffin junior, of the district of columbia, to be a member. >> a cloture motion. >> in accordance with rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate. on the nomination of a member of the labor relations board, signed by 17 senators, as followed. >> i motion that reading the names be waived. i moved to proceed. >> all those in favor? all those opposed? the motion is agreed to. the question is on the motion to proceed. all those in favor? all those opposed? the ayes have it. the motion is agreed to. the clerk will report the nomination. >> nomination, national labor relations board, sharon block of the district of columbia to be a member. >> i have a cloture motion. >> we hereby move to bring to a close the debate on the nomination of sharon block of the district of columbia to be laborer of the national relations

to proceed. all those in in favor say aye? aye. all those opposed say no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. >> so sorry to interrupt you. proper session, senate calendar 100. >> the question is on the motion to proceed. all those in favor say aye. aye. all those opposed say no? the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. the clerk will report the nomination. >> nomination. national labor relations board. richard f. griffin, jr. of the district of columbia to be a member. >> september a cloture motion to the desk. >> clerk will report the cloture motion. >> cloture motion. we the undersigned senators in accordance with provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate hereby move to bring to the close the dewasn't nomination of richard f. griffin, jr. of the district of columbia to be a member of the national labor relations board, as follows. >> i ask that the reading of names be waived. >> is there objection? without o

toi now move to proceed legislative session. >> the question is on the motion to proceed. all those in favor? all those opposed say no. .he ayes do have it >> the motion is agreed to. the question is on the motion to proceed. all those in favor say aye. all those opposed say no. .hey ayes have it the clerk will report the nomination. richard f. griffin jr. of the district of columbia to be a member. report thek will cloture motion. >> in accordance with provisions of rule 22 is about to to bring to a close the nomination of richard f. griffin jr. of the district of columbia to be a member of the national labor relations board signed by 17 senators as follows. >> i move to proceed to a legislative session. .> all those in favor say aye all those opposed say no. .he ayes have it the motion is agreed to. on the motionn is to proceed. all those opposed say no. .he ayes have it the motion is agreed to. nomination, sharon block of the district of columbia, to be a member. >> i have a cloture motion at the desk. we are by move to bring to a close the debate on the nomination of s

consent: i ask unanimous consent that on tuesday at 2:15 the senate proceed to consecutive votes on the confirmation of the following nominations. number 104, that's pearce to be a member of the nlrp. number 102, johnson to be a member of the nlrb, and number 103, mr. borrow to be a member of the nlrb. i might just say if those nominees were confirmed coupled with the two nominees illegally appointed, whose illegal appointments turn -- continue til the end of the year, the nlrb would have a full complement of five members and able to conduct its business. i further ask consent that following those votes the senate proceed as a cloture motion filed on perez to be secretary of labor and further, if cloture is invoked, the senate immediately proceed to a vote on the confirmation of the nomination. i would add parenthetically that would eliminate the post 30 hours assuming cloture were invoked on the very controversial nominee, perez, to be secretary of labor. further, the senate vote on the cloture motion filed on calendar number 98, mccarthy, to be epa director. and if cloture's invoked,

reid: i move to proceed to calendar number 101. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion to proceed. all those in favor say aye. all those opposed say no. the ayes peer to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. the clerk will report the nomination. the clerk: nomination, national labor relations board, sharon block of the district of columbia to be a member. mr. reid: i have a cloture motion at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the cloture motion. the clerk: cloture motion, we the undersigned senators in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate hereby mover to bring to a close the debate on the nomination of sharon block of the district of columbia to be a member of the national labor relations board signed by 17 senators as follows --. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the reading of the names be waived. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. reid: i now move to proceed to legislative session. the presiding officer: the

reid: i ask consent the senate proceed to calendar number 85. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 58, h.r. 251 an act to direct the secretary of the interior to convey certain federal features of the electric distribution system to the south utah valley electric service district and for other purposes. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. mr. reid: i now ask consent the bill be read a third time, passed, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table, with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask consent the senate proceed to h.r. 254. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 254, an act to authorize the secretary of the interior to facilitate the development of hydroelectric power on the diamond fork system of the central utah project. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the bill

to proceed. those in favor, say aye. all those opposed, say no. the ayes have it. quick senate cloture motion. >> the motion is agreed to. the clerk will report the nominations. >> bureau of consumer financial protection, richard cordray of ohio to be director. report theill cloture motion. >> we the undersigned senators hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of richard cordray of ohio to be director of the bureau of consumer financial protection, signed by 18 senators, as follows. the names.t read >> is there objection? without objection. >> i moved to proceed to legislative session. aye.l those in favor, say all those opposed, say no. the ayes have it. the motion is agreed to. >> sorry to interrupt you. i proceed to the next session. >> the question is on the motion to proceed. all those in favor? all those opposed? the ayes have it. the motion is agreed to. the clerk will report the nomination. >> nomination, national labor relations board, richard f griffin junior, of the di

reid: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to calendar number 87. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 87, s. 793 a bill to support revitalization and reform of the organization of american states, and for other purposes. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed with the measure. mr. reid: mr. president, i now ask that the bill be read a third time, passed, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table, that there be no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 10:00 a.m. on tuesday, july 9, that following the prayer and the pledge, morning business be deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day, and that the majority leader then be recognized, that following the remarks of the two leaders, the time until 11:00 be equally divided and controlled betwe

. -- on the adoption of the motion to proceed.we hope that will be a voice vote and we can begin consideration of the bill immediately following the vote at noon. the senate will recess until 12:30 -- recess from 12:30 to 2:15 today for our weekly caucus meetings. i ask unanimous consent that the senator chiesa be recognized for up to 15 minutes at 2:15 today to deliver his maiden speech. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. reid: mr. president, so happy to see the presiding officer. you could have presided before, but i haven't been able to witness that. so i'm very happy to have you here. we're so fortunate to have you here with your wide-ranging experience as a member of congress. my time in the house was some of the most pleasant times of my career. i just so admire and respect the house of representatives. and for the presiding officer to have spent almost four decades there indicates the people of massachusetts will have someone here to hit the ground runedding, and -- to hit the ground running, and we'r

proceed. all those in favor? all those opposed say no. the ayes do have it. >> the motion is agreed to. the question is on the motion to proceed. all those in favor say aye. all those opposed say no. they ayes have it. the clerk will report the nomination>>ichard f. griffin je district of columbia to be a member. >> the clerk will report the cloture motion. >> in accordance with provisions of rule 22 is about to to bring to a close the nomination of richard f. griffin jr. of the district of columbia to be a member of the national labor relations board signed by 17 senators as follows. >> i move to proceed to a legislative session. >> all those in favor say aye. all those opposed say no. the ayes have it. the motion is agreed to. >> the question is on the motion to proceed. all those opposed say no. the ayes have it. the motion is agreed to. >> nomination, sharon block of the district of columbia, to be a member. >> i have a cloture motion at the desk. >> we are by move to bring to a close the

th was the first time the senate voted in favor of a simple-majority proceed to your end debate. the senate reversed the vice president's ruling on appeal but as senator kennedy later noted, "is subsequen vote only cemented the principle that a simple-majority determine the senate's rules. these were senator kennedy's words "although the ruling may have been reversed, the reversal was accomplished by a majority of the senate. in other words majority rule prevailed on the issue of the senate's power to change its rules." senator kennedy made this observation in 1975 when reformers were still trying to reduce the level for cloture from 67 down 60. reformers had been thwarted in their effort to leer this standard for several years. in 1975, once again, senate democrats asserted the constitutional authority of the stkwro*rt determine senate procedure in order to insure an up-or-down vote. the senate eventually adopted a three-fifths cloture rule, that 160 votes to cut off debate but only after the senate voted on three separate occasions in favor of the peupbs principle that a simple

i proceed to the -- count number 100. >> the notion proceed. all those in favor say aye. >> aye. >> all those opposed say no. the aye appear to have it. the motion is agreed to. the clerk will report the nomination. nomination national labor relations board richard f griffin junior of the district of columbia to be a member. >> a cloture motion at the desk. >> the clerk will report the cloture motion. >> in other -- to be a member of the national labor relations board signed by 17 senators adds follows. >> reid -- >> unanimous consent that the reading of the names be waived. >> without objection. >> questions on the motion to proceed? all those in favor say aye. >> aye. >> all those opposed say no. the aye appear to have. the aye have it. >> counter number 101. >> the questions on the motion to proceed. all those in favor say aye. >> aye. >> all those opposed say no. the aye appear to have it. the motion is agreed to. the clerk will report the nomination. sharon block of the district of columbia to be a member. >> i have a cloture motion, ma'am

i think that most people who have gotten their permits and had the legal right to proceed would have. is there a number that months or days that you would be willing to commit with and you might want to speak with your council? >> i would say can you pause for about 90 seconds? >> while you all confer. go ahead. i don't have any questions of you. i want to offer my comments. this is a jurisdiction request, the written submissions as well as the testimony today, i found compelling in that the capacity to understand the notice and it's implications and the need to actually file the appeal within the time period, and that's what, they missed it by 20 days and i read in the submissions that part of it was a challenge and actually visibleably seeing the sign and the challenge on the part of the speaker tonight was reading it in the manner that it would reflect an actual impact on them such that they would need to take action within that period. so for those reasons, i would actually be amenable to granting the jurisdiction request. as to whether they can sort something out would be great,

if i may proceed to the charges or can i answer questions? >> honestly it's very hard to understand the position of the arts commission simply because we are reading the appeal of the appellant without the basis for the denial by the arts commission. so if you can lay it out for me, that will be useful. >> thank you, i will appreciate that. in outline here it is in charge no. 1, selling in illegal locations not approved by the board of supervisors. charge no. 2, selling items not examined and not certified by the arts commission. you just saw that, that happened on december 7, 2012, december 11 and february 11. charge no. 3, exceeding the display size regulations. december 7, 2012, and february 11. charge no. 4, selling outside of an entrance. she was opposite direct to that bart entrance and that wasn't a designated space. no. 5, harassing another street artist and interfering with the business of another street artist and january and february 2. we had a street artist who was a complaint who testified that when he asked her to move her chai

and i believe this is the proper way to proceed. so that we can have experts come in and tell us, okay, if you jig tkpwel this number a little bit, if you do this on student loans, how does that affect pell grants? if you do something on pell grants, how does that affect college work-study? all of these things fit together. we need to address a comprehensive measure on college affordability on making sure college costs are transparent to our students and their families. comparisons. why does one course of study at one college cost $200 a credit hour and another college, the same course costs $400 a credit hour? why is that? and shouldn't parents have a good comparison chart? what can we do to encourage colleges to have a better graduation rate in four years or five years? secretary duncan has talked a lot about promoting an idea of having high schools graduate kids after four years, and they can get an associate's degree if they study hard and do advanced placement and stuff, they might graduate from high school or shortly thereafte

want to nominate and what you want to do and let's try to make it a quick and easy process so we can proceed to the party >> do we nominate there. >> yes, we nominate and vote there. okay. so have you not been to an election bryant >> yes. >> all right. yes, sir. >> i want to commit that after the last meeting i went home and had a warm feeling about how the commission has been working and i want to extend to any fellow commissioners i would say the last couple of months i felt very proud to be here as a commissioner i want to let you guys know. >> anyone else. >> new business items for august 6th. >> yes. >> any new business items on the 6. do you want to make public comment really >> i want to congratulate the conspires now you guys are truly like the a team. >> they didn't before come on. it's invites to not be the only woman on the commission >> all right. we are >> good afternoon, welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors land use and economic development committee. i'm scott wiener, the chairman of the committee, to my right is commissioner kim, supervisor chiu is not able to a

. >> supervisor kim, how would you like to proceed? >>i would like to proceed by moving this out of committee. to get it out of committee unanimously we do that without recommendation i am forward moving forward with that recommendation. i wanted to clarify my statement about heights. heights has not been the strongest consideration i have made in regard to developments in the district. it's a district that has a lot of height in comparison to the rest of the city but what is important is that we mitigate for the height and density and in this project it's comparable to the heights that we approved last year for the transit district plan and ranging from 600 to thousand feet and the 600 feet is across the street from 706 mission street. as long as we do the best to mitigate for the additional density and there was a difference in 706 mission street and prior and they agreed to pay into a open space fee and mitigate for the additional shadows in the park and they agreed to pay into the fee structure as well so on a policy level for me i

if not, we'll see how things proceed and we'll have to make our decisions at that point. >> thank you. i will reiterate everyone has an absolute right to come out and make public comment again or bring other people with them. i think between today and also we had a pretty extensive ceqa hearing, i think we all very, very aware of the strong views on both sides. and, so, everyone is welcome to come out again. i know we all had today's public comment very much in mind. city attorney first of all to confirm, there will be no issues with putting this out as a committee report next monday or the following day? >> that's right. you can put it out as a committee report. >> even if there's tweaks or changes? >> sorry, it depends on what the tweaks or changes are. if the only issue that the two sides are discussing is height and the height comes down [speaker not understood] without other changes out of [speaker not understood], that could come out of committee. i can't comment on what other changes may -- >> okay. >> and that will actually be the same issue, whether we put it out today or as

, if to proceed. >> he said that we're a nation of laws.lorida stand your ground law should change? >> i mean, this is a state law that you're referring to. and again, within the context of this case, i just don't have any comment from the president to provide to you. that's something, again, that would be more appropriately re -- answered by the department of justice. >> finally, is there any concern about what kind of message the verdict sends? >> i think the president's statement reflects his views about the verdict, about the tragic loss of trayvon martin for his family, his community and for the country. the fact that his loss reflecs s symbolized the loss we see daily in this country of young people to gun violence. and, you know, that's why i think the president's statement contained within it the elements that i described. >> jay, should the martin family be encouraged to pursue a wrongful death lawsuit rather than wait for a decision by the justice department regarding civil rights investigation? >> april, i am just not going to co

to proceed, the motion to proceed to calendar number 99, 1243 is adopted, the text of h.r. 2610 as reported by the house, begin the house-passed text for the purposes of rule 16. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the senate now proceed to a period of morning business, senators allowed to speak for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask consent the following bills be considered read twice and placed on the calendar. mr. reid: the matters that i wish to be placed on the calendar is s. 1334, 1335 and 1336. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid:: i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 12:15 on friday, july 19, for a pro forma session only with no business conducted. that following the pro forma session, the senate adjourn until 10:00 a.m. tuesday, july 23. following the prayer and pledge, the morning business be deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day, and

essentially without getting too legalese own whether or not this case is allowed to proceed, whether or not you'll see the challenges against the bankruptcy hold water and maybe delay or stop that bankruptcy filing, that's what we're waiting on. let's go back to steven rat next. again, you make excellent points, and we say there's no money for pensions, right? when i was there in detroit, i talked to people all over the city and they kind of echoed steven -- okay. just getting into my ear. the judge has halted the state lawsuits. won headline here so i want to make sure i get it right, but if the judge has halted the state lawsuits, that would mean, that is the correct head line, that's what i'm getting in my ear, that means the bankruptcy filing would be allowed to proceed. that period of time where no challenges could go against the bankruptcy filing would be upheld. basically what they call it is a breathing room clause in a bankruptcy, and i'm trying to go back to ten years ago from law school, got a b-minus in bankruptcy law, a breathing room -- we still have michael sweet, an a

reid: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to calendar number 167. the clerk: reaffirming the strong support of the united states for the peaceful resolution of territorial sovereignty and jurisdictional disputes in the asia pacific maritime domains. the the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure. without objection. mr. reid: i ask the resolution be agreed to, the feinstein amendment to the preamble at the desk be agreed to, the amendment be agreed to and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the judiciary committee be discharged from further consideration of s. res. 153. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 1 153, recognizing the 200th anniversary of the battle of lake erie. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, the committee is discharged and the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the r

the representative is in charge of how the house will proceed on the issue. "newsmakers."then the confirmation hearing of to becomey, nominated the director of the fbi. .hat is at 10:30 a.m. eastern on monday, the senate will meet behind closed doors to discuss possible changes to filibuster rules. senate majority leader harry reid says he has the votes needed to change the rules. democrats say the present -- the republicans are using the filibuster to block many of president obama's nominees. it first came up in 2005. here is some of that debate. it is one hour, 40 minutes. >> there are a lot of things one can do to gum up the works in the senate. what typically happens is that we exercise self restraint and we do not engaged in that behavior. is --ng of suction obstructionist tactics would upset the senate. in the 214 years, we could have done it, but we did not. by filibustering can qualify judicial nominees in 16 months, our democratic colleagues have broken this on written rule. this is not the first time a minority of cenci's have upset a traditional practice. have u

block motions to proceed to block out extreme efforts to get votes on things. filing cloture on the same day a bill is brought to the floor. you still have to entice and force through public pressure a few republican senators in the minority to join with you. once that breaks down, there is only one other place to go and that is to get rid of the cloture rule. i don't think you will be able to find sustainable order in this mode. >> if i could add, you say the vice president could become like the speaker. i can remember robert byrd when he was majority leader informing the vice president, senator mondale, who was speaking at the time that he had no right to speak to the senate. and only through unanimous consent could the vice president speak. i can tell you the senate has done everything in its power to minimize the role of the vice president. and they have been quite successful at that. i don't think the vice president ever could play the role of the speaker. i can tell you one former speaker of the house who tried and that was john garner when he was vice pr

and so slave owners proceed it would increase the bite of the sites they already own because it would limit the influx of slaves and the ability of their neighbors to buy new slave. so it was an odd coalition. >> host: you have a chart in your book. it shows, and i want to use the word importation of slaves, correct? what is the showing? >> guest: there's a real strong spike the number of slaves entering the u.s. right before we ban it because everyone knew that as soon as the clock turned in 1808 that congress was going to ban slate trade. >> host: the other half of your book is about the international human rights law. when did human rights laws start becoming part of this discussion on the slave trade? >> guest: really around the turn of the 19th century but what's interesting is that people think that international human rights law is entirely a product of the 20th century. that is, in most of the conventional accounts people say it was right after world war ii. so the holocaust happened. as news of that came out, a bunch of things happen right after world war ii. there were the n

what happens with the debate ceases because we don't get motions to proceed. so we don't vote on a jobs program, we vote on whether or not we can proceed to a jobs program to create millions of jobs. we don't vote on whether we can keep interest rates for college students or borrowing money low, we vote on whether we can proceed to have the vote. and what we have seen now in the last several years is an unprecedented level of obstructionism and of filibustering. between 1917 and 1967 there was a more or less agreement in the senate that a filibuster would only be used under exceptional circumstances, and in that 50-year period there were only some 40, 45 filibusters in a 50-year period. when lyndon johnson was majority leader in the late 1950s, in his six-year seven your as -- tenure as majority leader, he had to overcome a filibuster on one occasion. since harry reid has been majority leader in the last six and a half years, he hasad overcome over 400 filibusters or at least requirements for 60 votes. the amount of time we are wasting is unconscionable. and f

they wouldn't have to do anything proceed actively. it would be building permits filed, building applications filed after that date. the second question regarding flexibility and training would be just -- and i wasn't specific enough. these are existing in environmental health working in soil and hazardous materials currently. i'm happy to talk to dph now to ensure that trigger or advance work is in place to have the type of flexibility that we are discussing of course it's more than complicated than moving someone's desk. i'm happy to ask them to move that as soon as possible. >> no more questions. >> commissioners, i would like to thank the staff from environmental for working on this. in this stage, is this an action item? do we vote on it? >> it is an action item. is there any public comment on this item? okay. seeing none, there is a roll call vote. >> question, i want to follow up on the timing. so it would move from, if we approve it, it moves from us to the board of supervisors and would there be a land use hearing and from her

what has been said is the family might proceed with some legal procedures or steps either inside or outside the country. >> how does this fit into the picture of division? it is a very divided country. does this pushed the division even further and drive a wedge into any possibility of working together, with the military government says it wants to do, to work with the opposition? >> the current government has said it is ready to work seriously for reconciliation. but if we look to the statement issued by the muslim brothers, it seems there is a total rejection because the muslim brothers put as condition the reinstatement of mohamed morsi first and then proceed to reconciliation, which is unlikely to happen at all. the division will continue. the demonstration will continue. to ae this will not lead major confrontation in the streets. >> thank you very much. >> the philippine president has delivered his annual state of the nation address. he says he needs more time to implement his promises to tackle poverty and corruption. we have this report from manila. >> in his state of the nation spe

declaring the intent of the city and county of san francisco to reimburse certain expenditures from proceeds of future bonded indebtedness; authorizing the director of the mayor's office of housing to submit an application and related documents to the california debt limit allocation committee cdlacc to permit the issuance of qualified mortgage revenue bonds in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $30,000,000 for 1239 turk street rosa parks ii senior housingg; authorizing and directing the director to direct the controller's office to hold in trust an amount not to exceed $100,000 in accordance with cdlac procedures; authorizing the director to certify to cdlac that the city has on deposit the required amount; authorizing the director to pay an amount equal to such deposit to the state of california if the city fails to issue the qualified mortgage revenue bonds; approving, for purposes of the internal revenue code of 1986, as amended, the issuance and sale of mortgage revenue bonds by the city in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $30,000,000; authorizing and directing the e

now we'll proceed to comment on this item. >> thank you. good afternoon everyone. supervisor you basically took half my comments away because basically i'm on sixth street. i live in one of the hotels there. in the last 14 years, redevelopment was in the area, i was a chair in the redevelopment pack for most of that time. and the redevelopment area, we were able to bring some of the services of the cbd especially like the community ambassadors that we referred to over to cover this. they provided huge services along that stretch. there were streets cleaning, street sweeping and high pressure street cleaning also. when redevelopment was shut down, the whole thing went away and those services aren't there. these would bring them back and among other things we would be able to bring other issues that we can raise in the streets. when we lost the pack, we lost the community forum above and beyond redevelopment of specific issues. it's 20 people from different parts of aspects in the community sit around the table once a month and this will bring that dynamic back. so d

should i proceed with the rest of my time or do i have a response about that? >> have you spoken to the permit holder? >> no. i just found out. >> your request for continuance is raised for the first time and the responder should have an opportunity to respond. >> thank you. on behalf of the permit holder. we don't believe there is any cause for a rehearing and certainly no cause to rehear this matter. we would object. thank you. >> the board's practice is that we would continue if it an appears based on our discussion that the commissioner that vote would have an impact on this position. so, normally we don't grant these types of requests under our normal practice. what that means is after you present your case on the merits for the rehearing request, if during our discussion it appears that the absent commissioner's vote is going to be a positive vote, we then continue. >> sure. did you under what i said? >> i believe so. that we'll proceed with the hearing tonight if in fact there is three votes tonight it will be continued for commissioner hurtado to contin

once you've got your routing slip, you proceed either one of two places. if you have -- if it's intake, if it's a larger project, you are on the first floor and sent to ctb and you sign in and they process your paperwork right there. you pay a partial fee for your permit and it's taken in. these are large projects. we can do them anywhere from a few weeks to a few months like the high rises. most of the action, however is directed to go to the fifth floor over the counter permit services. once you get to the fifth floor, if you have no plans for instance if i have a reroofing replacement of windows, kitchen and baths, small dry rot, this hits things of that nature, you proceed to plan check. you sign a list and taken in the order that you sign. the building inspector or engineer on duty calls you and most of these permits i would say don't get comments. they get approved over the counter because they are very small in nature and they don't have plans and they are pretty self explanatory. on there you pay for your permit and you are out the door. depending

military, and other municipalities, we can proceed effectively with search and rescue. saving lives is the priority. >> japanese defense ministry officials want to draw up a ting entcy plan. they hope they won't need to use them. >>> trade officials have wrapped up a second round of talks on a free trade deal. they failed to narrow their differences but agreed to continue the talks. the two sides ended the ten days of negotiations and the eu negotiators urged japan's to use safety standards on autos and regulation on food and drugs. japanese officials explain that they working to ease restrictions in those areas but both sides fail to strike a deal. the two sides also discussed how to proceed with negotiations on removing or lowering tariffs on japan's industrial products for export to the eu. the japanese negotiators hope to continue working level talks before the third round of discussion scheduled for october. >>> the tokyo district court has given a three-year prison term suspended for fives years to the president of olympus. he and other executives set up funds ove

without objection, the committee is discharged and the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. blumenthal: i ask unanimous consent, mr. president, that the bill be read a third time, passed, and that the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. blumenthal: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the consideration of house congressional resolution 44, which was received from the house and is at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: house concurrent resolution 44, authorizing the use of the capitol grounds for the district of columbia special olympics law enforcement torch run. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. mr. blumenthal: i ask unanimous consent that the concurrent resolution be agreed to and the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. blumenthal: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration en b

it's a fair list, and i had hoped that we would be able to proceed tonight. regrettably, there is an objection on our side from senator coburn. i am, however, optimistic that with further work we will be able to deal with that objection, and my hope is that in the morning we will have an agreement that will allow me to agree on, as the manager on our side, to this list. but, unfortunately, at this time, i do need to object fnl. the presiding officer: objection is heard. mrs. murray: madam president, i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: yes. mr. reid: ask unanimous consent that we vitiate it. fer sph without objection. mr. reid: so s. 1243 is now pending? the presiding officer: sthear ts correct. mr. reid: i ask that the cloture motion be reported. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: cloture motion: we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of