the magic put a spell on the spurs and a major suspension to ohio state's terrelle pryor. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning, and welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry. here are some of your top headlines this morning -- the u.n. is investigating a complaint that bradley manning, the army private suspected of giving documents to wikileaks has been mistreated in custody. a claim he spends 23 hours a day alone in a cell and the conditions he's being kept in amount to torture. the pentagon denies mistreating him. >>> according to u.s. times, america has allowed american companies to do billions of dollars worth of business with iran in support of state terrorism. the report says over the last decade, the treasury department granted nearly 10,000 documents to u.s. firms. the law behind the licenses says agricultural and humanitarian aid is an exemption. it was written so broadly, it allows for questionable items including cigarettes, gum and hot sauce. >>> in china, construction workers found a cellar full of 800-year-old chinese coins possibly at the site

thank you, chairman pryor. it was a very good exchange but i think one of the important things, ranking member wicker, when we talk about safety and talk about budgets at the same time -- i think it is very important that we give the agency the budget they need in order to product consumers and to product safety. and i think that's what the chairwoman is talking about. let me thank you, chairman tenenbaum for your testimony today and cpsc's work to protect consumers from unsafe products. i have some additional questions for the record but i'd like to focus on the safety issue that i brought up in my opening statement. you know, fall is football time in america. and every year more than a million high school kids put on their gear and take to the gridiron including about 8,000 in my home state of new mexico. this weekend, in fact, teams from our larger high schools will compete for the state championship. football is a uniquely american tradition. but football is a contact sport. and thousands of student athlete

. >>> meanwhile, ohio state quarterback, terrelle pryor, and four other buckeyes will be sitting out team's first five games of next season. they've been suspended by the ncaa for selling big ten conference title rings, jerseys and other items. the players also received improper ben.too parlor. the school will appeal their suspensions. and all five can still play in the upcoming sugar bowl against arkansas. >>> with that, it's time for last night's sports highlights. we get those from espn news. >> good morning. i' update. espn news update. and we start with the nfl. to pittsburgh we go. the steelers taking on the panthers. thursday night football. early in the second quarter, steelers up 3-0. ben roethlisberger, to mike wallace. and he is gone. that's a touchdown. roethlisberger, 307 yards in the air and that touchdown. third quarter we go, steelers up 20-0. roethlisberger with a quarterback sneak. the steelers win, 27-3. >>> moving on to the ice. sidney crosby and the pittsburgh penguins taking on alex ovechkin and the washington capitals. first period, no score. crosby, with the r

but i leave you with an unbelievable senator, and that is my good friend mark pryor. he is a statesman. he follows in the footsteps of all of those giants from arkansas. i am enormously grateful to him, for his friendship and more importantly for his great service to the people of arkansas. so i leave you in good hands, without a doubt, with my good friend senator mark pryor. i have been surrounded both in the past and currently by an unbelievably dedicated, loyal and hard-working staff, in both my personal senate office in the state of arkansas and our offices there in washington, and certainly in the agriculture committee. and to my staff, they know how much i love them. our state and this institution are better because of their hard work and their dedication and without a doubt their -- they are smart. they are a great group of people. i am so blessed to not only know them but to have worked with them. i am blessed by a loving and supportive family who have been my inspiration and without a doubt my bedrock all my life, and they continue to be and i am fortunate. f

david pryor was a superb representative of arkansas and the country. blanche lincoln has continued that long tradition of arkansans who come to washington to shape our nation and blanche has never forgotten from where she came. senator lincoln has been a trailblazer during her time in the senate. in 1998 she became the youngest woman who ever be elected to the senate. she was also the first woman elected to represent arkansas in the senate since world war ii, and she was the first woman and the first from arkansas to chair the senate agriculture committee. a dozen years ago blanche was one of the youngest people in this body. from day one she earned her represent taiftion being very wise, wise beyond her years. she's always understood that we're here to serve first and foremost and she's never gotten that. senator lincoln once said, "i'm not normally a betting pen, but icy that put you are your money on the american people is about as close to a sure bet as you're going to get." blanche lincoln always bet on the american people, and particularly the go

richard pryor. >> right. but i could not be the person that i am today. and i didn't see that person. but not speaking allowed me... and walking allowed me to go on this journey and to find myself as a human being-- not a black person, not a white person, not a person of color, but a human being. >> hinojosa: not even an american. >> not even an american. >> hinojosa: because you crossed borders. you walked all across south america. >> hinojosa: yeah, and that was the connection to find that, you know, we're connected to each other all the way. and my walk across the united states allowed me... and i studied. i got my masters in montana and a ph.d. in wisconsin. but what... my education, my informal education of listening and being with so many people, i realized that even though... when i stopped riding in cars, i thought environment was about trees and pollution and endangered species and all those things. and in my formal education, that's what it was. but my informal education taught me that we're all part of the environment. and if we want to treat t

five buckeyes including star qb pryor will be suspended for five games for allegedly selling memorability say he told his big 10 championship ring and other items for cash and discounts at a tattoo parlor. others sold game jerseys, championship rings and shoes. as part of the punishment, the players will be required to make donations based on the value of the items sold or the discounts they received. >> the san francisco 49ers will not pack up and move any time soon. they renewed the lease at candlestick park and will play until at least 2014. the renewal was a given because the planned stadium is not supposed to be ready until 2015. if it's not ready then, they go year by year on a lease with san francisco until the new stadium is ready. it will be official when a proved by san francisco's parks and recreation department. . >>> 6:22, santa is handing out candy and hanning down justice. how a mafia member got taken down. >> christmas eve morning. sun has yet to come up over the bay. looking at the bay bridge with the forecast coming up. >>> my name is specialist timothy hilton and i'm in

signed by 18 senators as follow: reid of nevada, lieberman, rockefeller, dorgan, kerry, whitehouse, pryor, reed of rhode island, menendez, begich, cardin, conrad, nelson of florida, klobuchar, murray, mikulski, dodd and lugar. mr. reid: i ask the mandatory quorum be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, i ask unanimoui askunanimous consent y committee be discharged from the nominations of -- presidential nomination 235, darrell james bell, and presidential nomination 2348, edwin sloan, one to be united states marshall in -- martial in monday mob and the other to be united states marshal in the district of columbia. that the senate proceed en bloc to the nominations, they be confirmed en bloc, and the motions to reconsider be laid on the table, that any statements relating to the nominations appear in the record at the appropriate place as if read and the president of the united states be immediately notified of the senate's action and the senate then resume legislative session. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, for the

thank you, chairman pryor for having me before this committee today. it's an honor. my name is jill and i own a small handcrafted children's accessory business located in stanford, connecticut. i applauded your efforts. in december 2008 i began to read the fine print. i was acutely aware that this law meant to regulate law multibillion dollar laws that betrayed the country's trust could effectively put me out of business. not because my products are unsafe but because i simply couldn't afford the third-party testing and labeling requirements which disproportionately affect small manufacturers and retailers. i quickly joined a rising grassroots effort -- an organization that owes its very existence of today. the ata now represents 592 member businesses and and product manufacturers from across the country. i'm here today with fellow board members in massachusetts and randy hertzler of euro source in pennsylvania. the deadline -- just 10 weeks from now. after that -- after that that point our member businesses face extinction. although many of us have already paid for

there were others, but congressman markey and senator pryor, chairman waxman, senator rockefeller, representative barton and hutchinson, chairman boucher and kerry, representative, senator ensign. it was an important effort that sets us, for us now, a bar at the commission that we are taking very serious and. the law means nothing unless we implement it. we have been working on a, karen, as you indicated, first in connection with the national broadband plan. we made access by people with disabilities a priority. and, in fact, discussed, supported and endorsed the provisions that became law in the broadband plan. we are moving on implementation. and i think, let me just .1 reason why this is so important. one of the challenges in this phase historically has been that the idea of making technologies accessible to people with disabilities has often, well after the development, design, go to market stage of a product. and when that happens it's your typical, very difficult for everyone involved. we have all participate in meetings where people are looking at each other and say it would be good if thi

pryor: i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. brown: thank you. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to dispense with the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. brown: and i ask unanimous consent to address the house for up to five minutes as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. brown: thank you, mr. president. i -- i just stand here amazed at what just happened in the united states senate, although i probably shouldn't be. i stand here amazed because in this economic times -- in these economic times when senior citizens from -- from ashtabula to middletown to toledo in my state and from the iron range to rochester, minnesota, the presiding officer's state and all across this country, senior citizens who didn't get a cost of living adjustment this year, who are victims of inflation, medical inflation especially, but the cost of the inflation rate is not very high in our society so they doesn't get a cost of living

pryor: would the sr from arizona restate the sequence of speakers on the republican side, please. mr. mccain: sessions for 30 minutes, graham for 10 minutes, kirk, 15, demint, 15, kyl and myself, unspecified time, and senator sessions an additional 30 minutes when it's appropria appropriate, understanding that there will be other side speakers intervening in this sequence. mr. kerry: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from massachusetts. mr. kerry: mr. president, the other speakers on our side will be senator dodd, as stated -- he will come after senator graham -- and i am reserving time, such time as i will use, either after senator kyl or senator mccain. and can we -- i'd ask unanimous consent that that be the end of the speakers on this amendment and we will agree to set a time for a vote according to the leadership. the presiding officer: is there objection? mr. kyl: yes, mr. president, i object, and i hate to object. the -- what we were trying to do was simply get an order so people would know this evening roughly when they would be permitted to speak and what

act, signed by 18 senators as follows: baucus, lieberman, rockefeller, dorgan, kerry, whitehouse, pryor, casey, durbin, warner, shaheen, nelson of nebraska, bayh, dodd, conrad, webb, nelson of florida and klobuchar. mr. reid: i move to send it to the finance committee with instruction to report back with the following amendment. mr. reid: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from nevada, mr. reid, moves to refer the house message to the senate committee on finance with instructions to report back forth with with an amendment numbered 4755. mr. reid: i ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the yeas and nays are ordered. mr. reid: i have an amendment to my instructions that is at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from nevada, mr. reid, proposes an amendment numbered 4756 to the instructions to the motion to refer h.r. 4853. mr. reid: on that, mr. president, i ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the yeas and na

there were others with congressman markey and senator pryor, chairman waxman, represented turkmens and hodgman, chairman boucher kerry, representative stearns, senator and then. it was a -- an important effort that sets for us now a buyer at the commission that we are taking very seriously. the law means nothing unless we implement it. we have been working on it, karen come as he vindicated. first and the broadband plan. we made access by people with disabilities a priority and in fact discussed, supported and endorsed to the provisions that became law in the broadband plan. for moving on implementation. and let me just point out one reason why this is so important. one of the challenges in this space historically a man that the idea of making technologies accessible to people with disabilities has often come well after the development design go to market stage of a product. and when that happens, it's very difficult. it's very difficult for everyone involved. duval participated in meetings and it would be good at this type ologies had the feature that would make it accessible to milli

so we'll have to count on senator pryor. [inaudible] good idea when i was talking about senator ben about his father's long commitment. it's been a pleasure serving with you. and although our time here will come to conclusion, our friendship would not. so thank you. thanks for two of you for your service. any sacrifice in many ways personally and i just want to, particularly during the last couple years now we've been through, i'm sure you've been putting in humans are thought to team back in your family fermina challenges that face america. i just had two or three quick questions. mr. tarullo, they could start with you. let me just give you some introductory comments. we avoided the worst possible outcome with the downturn. the fed is now engaged in some other extraordinary efforts, which i support you prevent a lapse back into a more sluggish economy. i'm referring to quantitative easing. yet we have other drugs in the economy. we have lack of consumer confidence. there retrenching. businesses are sitting on a couple tryin

there were others with congressman markey and senator pryor, chairman waxman, represented turkmens andhodgman, chairman boucher kerry, representative stearns, senator and then. it was a -- an important effort that sets for us now a buyer at the commission that we are taking very seriously. the law means nothing unless we implement it. we have been working on it, karen come as he vindicated. first and the broadband plan. we made access by people with disabilities a priority and in fact discussed, supported and endorsed to the provisions that became law in the broadband plan. for moving on implementation. and let me just point out one reason why this is so important. one of the challenges in this space historically a man that the idea of making technologies accessible to people with disabilities has often come well after the development design go to market stage of a product. and when that happens, it's very difficult. it's very difficult for everyone involved. duval participated in meetings and it would be good at this type ologies had the feature that would make it accessible to millio

indictment, try on the judgment and punishmentording t according to the law criminal law.nts, in many pryor impeachments there have been no criminal trial, no ior prior criminal trial and in the hastings case impeachment c followedas a acquittal in the criminal case. so plainly, the constitutionequire a doesn't require a prior criminaltrial o trial of conviction to impeach. whether the conduct occurredn before or while service. bause nonetheless, council argues itcriminalrial w is unfair here because afully brou criminal trial would havease brought out the facts in the case and provided a more very detailed record.re co but this ignores the full record in the fifth circuit proceeding t the depositions in this case ashe was the comprehensive trial point before the senate committee to read it is worth pointing outal that during the trial judge porteous represented the only by the cable mr. curley by at least eight attorneys from the law from firm of bryan cave. c moreover, the team of attorneys attneys did not feel it was necessary toire amo use theun entire amount of time to put permitted to

provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable mark pryor, a senator from the state of arkansas, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: daniel k. inouye, president pro tempore. ao mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: following leader remarks the senate will proceed to executive session and resume consideration of the new start treaty. we have two amendments now pending to the treaty, the thune amendment regarding delivery vehicles and the inhofe amendment dealing with inspections. we hope to vote in relation to the thune amendment between 12:00 and 1:00 p.m. today and dispose of the inhofe amendment later this afternoon. at 1:30 the senate will recess and reconvene at 2:00 p.m. in closed session in the old senate chamber. following closed session the senate will reconvene in open session in the senate chamber. we are going to be out of session for that one half-hour period of time, mr. president, to allow this, final sweeps so this will be completed. as a reminder last night, cloture was filed o

but i leave you with an unbelievable senator, and that is my good friend mark pryor. he is a statesman. he follows in the footsteps of all of those giants from arkansas. i am enormously grateful to him, for his friendship and more importantly for his great service to the people of arkansas. so i leave you in good hands, without a doubt, with my good friend senator mark pryor. i have been surrounded both in the past and currently by an unbelievably dedicated, loyal and hard-working staff, in both my personal senate office in the state of arkansas and our offices there in washington, and certainly in the agriculture committee. and to my staff, they know how much i love them. our state and this institution are better because of their hard work and their dedication and without a doubt their -- they are smart. they are a great group of people. i am so blessed to not only know them but to have worked with them. i am blessed by a loving and supportive family who have been my inspiration and without a doubt my bedrock all my life, and they continue to be and i am fortunate. f