senator cruz: thank you very much. god bless you. >> thank you, senator. senator cruz: where is the camera? right here. >> thank you, senator. >> got it? >> can you get it for me? [laughter] >> there we go. senator cruz: i broke the camera. >> can i shake your hand while you are waiting? senator cruz: thank you very much. god bless you. hold on one second. >> thank you so much. >> thank you for supporting our second amendment rights. thank you 100%. senator cruz: my view is i support [indiscernible] on energy, all of the above. but i don't think the federal government [indiscernible] >> that is fine, but the oil companies own the [indiscernible] senator cruz: that may have been the case 20 years ago. >> it still is. senator cruz: at this point now, there is considerable demand. i think without a federal mandate, that will continue to be demanded by the refiners. it is a competitive market. we don't need it mandated by the federal government. by the way, we have mandates for everything else as well. >> the oil companies [indiscernible] senator cruz: we need

senator cruz: thank you very much. god bless you. >> thank you, senator. senator cruz: where is the camera? right here. >> thank you, senator. >> got it? >> can you get it for me? [laughter] >> there we go. i broke the: camera. >> can i shake your hand while you are waiting? senator cruz: thank you very much. god bless you. hold on one second. >> thank you so much. >> thank you for supporting our second amendment rights. thank you 100%. senator cruz: my view is i support [indiscernible] on energy, all of the above. but i don't think the federal government [indiscernible] >> that is fine, but the oil companies own the [indiscernible] that may have been the case 20 years ago. >> it still is. senator cruz: at this point now, there is considerable demand. i think without a federal mandate, that will continue to be demanded by the refiners. it is a competitive market. we don't need it mandated by the federal government. by the way, we have mandates for everything else as well. >> the oil companies [indiscernible] we need subsidies directed at any form of energy

senate. he was the only republican challenger that year in the country to defeat the incumbent democrat. he was the first republican to win a statewide race since 1968. ira member at the time -- i remember at the time we did not think he had a prayer to beat lee houston, and incumbent -- an incumbent, long-term or in the state. he told me later that he and his mother were the only two people that thought he could win. but do you remember the hound dog commercials deco -- commercials? i think they went a long way towards his election that year. there are six things that i think make them special. one, he is the majority leader of the united states senate. you are looking at the highest ranking republican in the united states. [applause] he is only the second kentuckian to serve as a majority leader. before he was elected majority leader, he was the republican leader for eight years. before that, i think four years as the republican whip in the senate. he has been elected by his colleagues in t

senator rubio: how are you? senator rubio: good to see you. thanks for having me here. >> [indiscernible] >> 30 minutes outside. >> [indiscernible] >> watch out behind you, man. >> quite a reception in her. what -- you have quite a reception here. what is your message? senator rubio: but i think his america -- that i think america is great. and i want to do what my parents did for me. >> let me ask you -- talking about immigration, trump finally putting out a paper. what are your thoughts on his plan? senator rubio: i have not read his plan. there are a couple ideas he shares with multiple people. i have not a -- i have not had a chance to read his plan. we need to start by enforcing immigration laws. once we do that, we need to modernize, so the people we allowed to come in come in on the basis of building a marriage. and then we have to deal with the reality that we have 13 million emigrants, many of whom have been here longer than 10 years. if there are criminals, they can't stay. that is the lesson from our efforts over the years. >> you w

senator: senator. senator: i want to thank the chairman and all the witnesses for being here i want to take this opportunity. it is probably going to be the last time general dempsey testifies. i want to thank you for your service and the service of your family. when you appeared before the committee i was the person who asked you about -- there had been floated some views in the press at that time iran was pushing for lifting of the resolution on ballistic missiles and the resolution of arms which we now know are in the agreement. when you can before the committee, you said under no circumstances should we relieve pressure on iran and those issues. was it your military recommendation that we not agree to lifting of those sanctions? martin dempsey: yes. i used the phrase "as long as possible," and that was the point renegotiation continued. that was my military advice. senator: thank you. i want to ask about an issue, i know senator ernst and talked about. the iranian cyber activity. a number of years

senator rubio: how are you? senator rubio: good to see you. thanks for having me here. >> [indiscernible] >> 30 minutes outside. >> [indiscernible] >> watch out behind you, man. >> quite a reception in her. what -- you have quite a reception here. what is your message? senator rubio: but i think his america -- that i think america is great. and i want to do what my parents did for me. >> let me ask you -- talking about immigration, trump finally putting out a paper. what are your thoughts on his plan? senator rubio: i have not read his plan. there are a couple ideas he shares with multiple people. i have not a -- i have not had a chance to read his plan. we need to start by enforcing immigration laws. once we do that, we need to modernize, so the people we allowed to come in come in on the basis of building a marriage. and then we have to deal with the reality that we have 13 million emigrants, many of whom have been here longer than 10 years. if there are criminals, they can't stay. that is the lesson from our efforts over theea

senator cruz: excellent. >> [indiscernible] senator cruz: how are you doing, sir?rnible] >> teach you how to eat a donut. senator cruz: you want to hop in? we will do all of them. here is your donut. >> look at this camera right here. great shot. there you go. senator cruz: thank you. how are you doing, ma'am? >> [indiscernible] senator cruz: how are you doing, sir? how are you doing? lia, i like your pretty pink hat. how old are you? >> [indiscernible] she is a little shy. senator cruz: are you having fun here with mom and dad? are you having fun at the state fair? >> oh, yeah. you, too. have fun. >> spider-man, senator. spider-man! senator cruz: let me shake your hand, connor. i like spiderman. can i get a fist bump? do you like spiderman? that is ok. i'm glad you're here. you know what? amanda, he is precious. >> thank you. senator cruz: good to meet you. what is your name? >> amelia. amelia, how old are you? happy birthday in two days. are you going to have a party? cake and ice cream? perfect. you are doing them both. what grade are you in? >> [indiscernible]

each senator will get an opportunity to speak and be listened to by other senators. this is an extraordinarily important issue for our country, not only now, but in the future. remember, the president will be gone in a year and a half, and the rest of us will be living with the consequences of this extraordinary agreement, which certainly has transformed the middle east. it certainly has. we are now entering into an agreement in which we are basically being asked to trust the biggest funder of terrorism in the world today, so it is appropriate to have some skepticism about the debate of this magnitude. regardless of how the president talks about it, regardless of what his incendiary rhetoric is, we are going to deal with this in a respectful way, dealing with the facts surrounding the issue, and treat it with the dignity and respect that it deserves here in the senate. with that, i will be happy to throw it open to what you would like to talk about. yeah. reporter: another thing you said right after you got reelected when you came back in january is we are going to a

senator rubio: they don't get to go on rides? >> later. senator rubio: oh, later. thank you, guys. >> [indiscernible] [laughter] senator rubio: i might have overcooked them, not undercooked to them. [laughter] senator rubio: thank you. thanks for having me. senator rubio: let me guess, they are having pork? [laughter] >> [indiscernible] >> hi. what is your plan to turn minnesota into a red state? senator rubio: you know, we have a plan for all americans. i think americans in minnesota and all of the country want their children to do better than themselves. the only way we will do that is to become globally competitive, modernize higher education, and make sure our military is the strongest in the world. we need to do at job of convincing them that we are the party that stands with them. >> thank you. >> [indiscernible] >> senator, what did you learn today, anything? >> [indiscernible] our coverage continues from the iowa state fair on c-span, and c-span.org as the candidates walk the fairgrounds in speaker the des moines register's soap box. on wednesday, rick perr

senators from kentucky. our commonwealth has a rich heritage and has contributed much to the nation's development. as such, i hope to convey a bit of that political history through the lives of some of the individuals who have served as senators from our state. 66 individuals have been chosen as senators from kentucky going back to 1792 when we came into the union. some are more distinguished than others shall i say. some enjoyed really outstanding careers. calvin barkley, the other majority leader from our state. but there are two to me, and i have looked at a lot of these folks over the years, two that really stand out for me. the first won't surprise you henry clay. many would argue he was the greatest lawmaker in american history. his body of work continues to set the standard for achievement in congress today. the second is the subject of today's speech. the man rightly termed by one biographer as the global kentuckian. he is a man whose bus sits in the state capital in franklin and whose portrait sits

senator rubio: hey. >> hate. senator rubio: -- >> hey. senator rubio: you want a pork burger?> a little bit more on that. senator rubio: the other white meat. >> that's right. [indiscernible] so, what do you think? do you think these are already? >> just give them a little -- thetor rubio: what does grill get to? >> pardon? senator rubio: what does the grill get to? >> oh, about 350, 400 degrees. senator rubio: are they frozen when they go on? >> yes. senator rubio: these take a lot longer. start bleeding -- it's time to flip them. it, theer you cook lower -- [indiscernible] senator rubio: right. we roast a whole hog for christmas every year. [indiscernible] we spent 12 hours last year on the one we had. at some point, you're just guessing. you're just looking at it. >> my wife and i do a lot of cooking and i do a lot of smoking. senator rubio: you ever use a roaster? we roast with charcoal. they call it -- in spanish. they do it in cuba by digging a hole in the ground. no one was to dig a hole in the yard anymore. it takes a lot longer that way. >> right. senator rubio: we ar

senators. now it's one of three senate office buildings. less than half the senators are in this building. others are spread out in the heart building. it's a gorgeous building. this is built in the french bozart style popularized. the capital complex was neo classical. george washington wanted the city. he picked designs for white house and capital. he wanted a marble city. they had been in philadelphia. they renamed a lot physical features in the new washington d.c. after famous roman places so jenkins hill became capital hill. it was once called gooseberry creek and named tiber river that ran through washington. they wanted to give stature to the new government that would be the first major republic since the roman republic. this was a new city for a new government. it was mostly tobacco fields and empty spaces. they gave it grand names and planned out major streets. that was the style. it slowly built into the city. in the 1890s there was a major ex position in chicago, the white city they called it. it looked like a white marble roman

and senators -- u.s. senators were being elected by the state legislature. progressives all over the country advocated a direct election of senators. senate position opened up in wisconsin. he announced he would run for senator, but he would not resign his position as governor and tell his reforms were passed. he was successfully elected senator, stayed in wisconsin for the first 9-10 months of his term, and not until the lettuce later adjourned, after passing his program did he assume his seat in washington dc in 1906. a 20 year. of service in the senate. lafollete was trying to repeat on a national level some of his successes in wisconsin. persuading ag with majority of 96 senators to support his position. he was a master tactician, just he was a state level able to gather data on who would support him, who he needed to make contact. he was a master of rules in the senate. he used the filibuster to stop legislation that he felt was harmful. he was recognized in the u.s. senate as a leader of a small group of progressives there whose votes were needed by th

thank you, senator leahy. senator leahy: thank you. sometimes the press overlooks the fact that the public overlooks the fact that -- knows these things, but tend -- hawkins and democrat actually work together on a number of things in this body, as senator grassley and i on a long oversight. senator grassley: i will go across and vote on something that they got an executive session. i cannot tell me when to calm. senator leahy: as soon as he is out of the room, i will pass a law of. -- of stuff. [laughter] senator leahy: senator grassley and i have done things for a long time. past two weeks i have fought to protect our committee's jurisdiction: what is a cornerstone, transparency law the previous information blog. there been attempts to weaken the freedom of information act. i have fought against that. we have done a lot of -- senator cornyn of texas, the is of -- the assistant rebel leader, and i were close on this. we need to ensure that government law is strong and protected, and we do not hold that accountable. i have taken this p

senate. the president pro tempore: the senate will come to order. the chaplain, dr. barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. the chaplain: let us pray. eternal god our king, let the earth rejoice and righteousness and justice strengthen the land we love. lord, we live in a fugitive earthly scene, but it is permeated by your eternal presence. remind us that transiency will not have the last word in our universe. we're grateful that life's changefulness is underlain and penetrated by your unchanging purposes. guide our senators. in these days of upheaval, show them how to find the permanent amid the impermanent, the durable amid the fragile, and the truth amid the falsehood. thank you for continuing to be the rock of our salvation, sustaining us in the best and worst of times. we pray in your strong name. amen. the president pro tempore: please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for wh

senator sanders: javier: -- senator sanders: i do. check my record.hroughout my political life i have taken on special interests in this country. i have taken people over the border to purchase medicine in canada at 1/10 the price that women in vermont were paying for breast cancer drugs. taken on the military-industrial, like, where you have weapons systems with huge cost overruns. i've helped to lead the effort against wall street. on and on it goes. i think that it -- that at this particular moment in american history when so few have so much wealth and power if we are going to expand the middle class rather than seeing it shrink, if we are going to make sure that all the kids in this country get a good education and are able to get a higher education, it would be performed as a right to all the people. if we are going to be the kind of nation that allows all people to have a decent standard of living, we need leadership now. i know that sounds kind of scary, but what you have right now in my view -- i know that not everybody agrees with me -- i kn

senator shelby: senator heitkamp. senator heitkamp: thank you, mr. chairman, thank you for your patience today. i have watched you let members get to the heart of what they need to examine, and i wanted personally thank you for that. we have a lot of attempt here to unbake the cake, right? i've been somebody engaged in multiparty negotiations, including some of the largest civil settlements that this country has seen, and i know how difficult it is to unbake a cake and say that this could be better. i think elizabeth, senator warren, just took us through the paces in terms of what the real options are. i will tell you that one thing i don't believe has been talk a lot about is the fact of lifting the sanctions regime will in fact build a bigger, better, more economically stable iran into the future. as long as iran is on the terrorism list, creates incredible opportunity. as i think mr. secretary, you have so appropriately talked about the challenges that they have economically today, it is -- if in fact the sanctions regime is lifted and we look 10

a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. lankford: mr. president we're facing the days ahead one of the most consequential issues we'll face as a nation. this issue about an agreement with iran. some people want to make this into a partisan conversation. it's not a partisan conversation. it's a national security issue and it's a world security issue. the senate has already held multiple hearings on iran and on this particular agreement. the intel committee that i sit on the armed services committee, the foreign relations committee, i personally met with secretary of treasury jack lew secretary of energy earnest moniz, secretary of state john kerry. i have been through the agreement and through the classified portion of this agreement in every detail. i wish i could also go through the iaea information about how the inspections will actually occur because the agreement itself gives broad statements, the iaea agreement will be how they are actually going to do inspections. but i have been told over and over again by the administration and b

mcconnell: i ask that the senate be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to executive session for the consideration of executive calendar 272 through 295. and all of the nominations on the secretary's desk in the air force, army, and navy and that the commerce committee be discharged from further consideration of p.n. 601 and nh 64 1457bdz that all the nominations be confirmed en bloc, motion to, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table, with no intervening action or debate, that no further motions be in order, any statements relating toed nominee nailts be printed in the record and the president immediately be notified of the senate's action and the senate then resume legislative session. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to executive session to consider the following nominations en bloc calendar number 198

as a senator, a former chairman of the judiciary committee, as a ranking member, senator leahy alwaysuips himself as a man of principle and commitment and somebody who believes in the rule of law and the constitutional rules that we set for ourselves. most recently, together with another one of our honorees this evening, senator rand paul, senator leahy is a cosponsor of measure which is intended to restore a measure of fairness and discretion to judges as they seek to sentence people in the context of mandatory minimums. in a post-9/11 world senator leahy had lent his voice to the rule of law and the tensions that we face with respect to our constitution and the need to keep our nation safe. senator leahy has been in all of and his staff and i know it would not have been signed but for his efforts. in another context collaborating the senator orrin hatch, he's made sure there's access for post-conviction people who are sentenced to capital crimes to have dna testing done to bring a greater measure of fairness where people face the most severe penalty that our criminal justice system

in the senate, senator's blunt and -- senator blunt and senator murray are working on a $350 million increase. guest: this would be a major step toward what we need to address what alzheimer's is bringing to our country today and into the future. host: let's talk about that. here are the costs as projected in 2014 dollars. 28 million baby boomers will likely develop alzheimer's by 2050. by 2020, the projected costs will reach $11 billion. by 2040 -- what does the projected increase mean? guest: let's start with the trend outlines. alzheimer's is already the most expensive disease in america. the reason for that is not because of expensive treatments or other factors like that. it is because alzheimer's requires so much care, not just by families, but the health care system, long-term care. we also know the numbers of people with alzheimer's disease increases dramatically in coming years, unless we have research breakthroughs that will break that trend. that's the opportunity of it -- opportunity that congress is seizing. they are hoping to change the trend line we are on, especially

i go back to when senator dole was majority leader. he ran the senate well, i thought. people didn't surprise each other. i don't recall senators on either side attacking each other. this is a different game today. victoria: why do you think that is, what has changed? sen. shelby: that is a good question. i don't really know what has changed other than there are a lot of people trying to run for president. there are a lot of people that have got different issues. they want it now. they want it to happen immediately. they want to change things immediately. people come to the senate sometimes, and they want to run the senate. it doesn't work that way. there is a lot of tradition here. host: you said he don't think anyone wants to shut the government out, but some republicans, including senator ted cruz, have raised the possibility of doing just that when it comes to this effort to defund planned parenthood. you think that is a scenario that could play out? sen. shelby: i would hope not. i would hope we never shut the government down. it is not good for the republicans. it

senator cardin?> the trafficking victims protection act is meant for the ratings to be based solely on the circumstances on the ground. as you pointed out, we evaluate all countries including the united states. it is not meant to have any considerations of political factors and other bilateral issues between countries. that was the clear intent of congress. i know that secretary kerry has reported that that was true in this case. and the perception here is to the contrary. it may require us to look at changes in the statute, to preserve the integrity of this report. i'm going to ask you to provide to this senator ways that we can strengthen the law to make sure that those who are closest to the ground and understand what is going on, using international standards, have the most to say about how the rankings are done. let me get to malaysia. i could go to other countries. what concerns me about malaysia and maybe you can give me other examples of where this has happened -- in 2014 we downgraded malays

to sen temperature senator mccarthy for conduct unbecoming a senator. and all the republicans, including prescott bush, who was a father and grandfather of two presidents ended up to censure senator mccarthy. senator mccarthy was never able to regain his national standing after that. he went into a tailspin and he died at the age of 48 just a few years later. when roy cohen stepped down as the council of that committee, the committee hired robert kennedy to replace him. you can go through the records at the national archives. you can tell at the moment cohen leaves and kennedy takes over. . this mishmash of paper is by definition and it looks like a serious attorney is in charge at this point. kennedy brought together a very talented staff and they began investigating. they continued some of the investigations that mccarthy allowed to twist up, including an a investigation of general electric and it's -- it had a union that was a communist dominated union. and general electric, as a result of this, tried to improve its public relations and hired an acto

i think senator donnelly senator warner, senator tester senator schumer, senator menendez all know that i have been very open to supporting an agreement. i had one of the few conversations i have ever had with secretary kerry. i think we all know him well where i felt like he was listening to what i was saying. it was in my driveway on a saturday. talking about these last pieces, and i am talking about the inspections. i'm talking about the previous military dimensions. i know it is possible military dimensions. we all know they are involved militarily. and how important that was not just from the standpoint of what it said, at the indication to us that we were really going to apply this thing, dtf and make this stand. when i got the documents, and i went through them extensively there is the missile ban in eight years, and on the front end, and on top of what these agreements said, i was very troubled. now, i want to get the sanctions first of all in perspective. i know you were saying 50, and most people would say 56, but overall it is 100, and some of that is tied up in money for thi

senator murray. sen. murray: i admire you and your courage and the work you have done to empower other students and survivors and creating the organization is just really valuable. thank you for that. given the fact that sexual assault is such an underreported crime, what do you think is the most important step for universities to create to get a survivor focused approached? ms. bolger: thank you. first off, survivors need to know what they can expect to receive out of the reporting process and schools need to ensure that the existence of accommodations and how to access them is clear, well publicized, and well understood on campus and need to follow-up and actually issue those accommodations and protections to students who request them. i know a number of survivors on my campus simply did not report because they did not understand that the school could be useful in helping them change a dorm they shared with the perpetrator or switch out of a class they shared with their abuser. the second point i would

then senator mitch mcconnell on the iran nuclear agreement and the senator -- senate record so far this session. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] this week on newsmakers, frank alone joins us from new york. they do for being with us. we also have in studio with us , energy reporter for politico, and emma dumain. certified could begin with what the president announced earlier on his climate change plan. do to ourat it would viewers, and what impact it would have on the state. and reaction it got from republicans. : the main thing i would stress with this clean power plan is it is going to make for a healthier environment. there are many people now who suffer from dirty air and pollution, particularly those that have asthma. they are negatively impacted in terms of their health. admissions from its own plants but i is also downstate fronts it's like ohio with a have a lot of coal power plants, we would benefit because there would

mccain: not the senator from new mexico, the senator from florida. mr. president, i rise in strong support of s.754, the cybersecurity information-sharing act. i want to thank my colleagues, senator burr and vice chairwoman feinstein for their leadership on this legislation. this bill was over-wellcomeingly approved by 14-1 vote in the senate select committee on intelligence in march. enacting legislation to confront the accumulating dangers of cyber threats must be among the highest national security priorities of the congress. cyber attacks on our nation have become disturbingly common. more recently, it was the office of personnel management. a few weeks before that, it was the pentagon network, the white house, and the state department. before that it was anthem and sonny, jussewnsony, just to nam. the president as our nation's commander in chief must do his part to deter the belligerence of our adversaries in cyberspace. the threats from china, russia, north korea, and iran, not to mention isil and al qaeda are steadily growing in number and severit

senator graham: i am. i will take less from social security because i can afford it and give it to people who need it the most. i am willing to sit down with democrats and fix immigration instead of yelling about it all of the dam time. ce you secure the border and control can get a job, with the 11 million, let's be practical. nobody wants the crooks. the rest can stay but you have to learn our language. pay taxes and get in the back of the line and keep your nose clean. the reason i want to be president is that this country has been incredibly good to me. as a young man, i was bitter. why was my life turned upside down? why was i affected by losing my parents when i was 22? the older i got, the more i appreciated that it was not about what i lost. it is what i had. i had two parents who love me. how many people in this country have one parent maybe? i have family. how many people have nobody? i have friends and was loved and was taken care of. i am a republican, i believe in limited government, but most

nice to see you, senator. gardner: we have to prove to the american people that we can govern truly. that means we put practical ideas on the desk of the president. ideas that have support of the democrats and vulcans alike to prove we can regain the trust of the american -- democrats and republicans alike to prove we can regain the trust of the american people. al: have you been able to do that? senator gardner: we have voted more on one day of this year than we did in all of 2014. if you look at the numbers we passed over 60 bills, most of which are bipartisan, 25 have been signed into law. when i presided over the debate over the keystone xl project. a senator offered an amendment lost the amendment and came up to the clerk and asked them for a copy of it tallied. don't you just usually keep a copy of the winning votes? he said he yet never offered an amendment on the floor today. i know the senator served in the majority. i know that it's a great sign that we have made a difference and open the process. al

senator gardner: we do. we have to. i think all senators do. if they don't, they should.] al: that is not always true. senator gardner: colorado is a place where you did not expect to go to washington and retreat to our political corners. they expect us to do the work they sent us here to do. al: he is up for reelection next year and there is no real competition. are you going to try to beat the drums? senator gardner: there will be an opponent. i think he will focus on the work we need to do. al: you are very much an optimist. you talk about the good things that have happened. there is a sense of some of the greatest tensions in this congress have not been between obama and the congress but within the republican party. the other day, senator cruz called the majority leader a liar. he denied senator cruz a vote. someone in the house was calling on the speaker to vacate. does that happen in your party? senator gardner: there is a great deal of pent up angst to get something done bigger than what we have been able to do. what we haven't been able to do is because of a 60-vo

each senator will get an opportunity to speak and actually be listened to by other senators.his is an extraordinarily important issue for our country. not only now but in the future. president will be gone in the year and a half and the rest of us will be living with the confidences of this extraordinary agreement. which certainly has transformed the middle east. it certainly has. we're now entering into an agreement in which we are basically being asked to trust the biggest funder of terrorism in the world today, and so it's. appropriate to have some skepticism about a debate of this magnitude. regardless of how the president talks about it, regardless of what his incendiary rhetoric is, we are going to deal with this in a respectful way. dealing with the facts , andunding the issue treated with the dignity and respect that it deserves here in the senate. so with that, i'll be happy to throw it open and see what you'd like to talk about. >> senator? another thing that you said right after you got re- elected, i guess, when you came back in january, was we're not going to --

senator warner. mr. warner: thank you, senator schumer. thank you for letting me go a little bit of -- a little bit out of order. i have to go to another issue of medicaid. many states, including virginia, we have not gone had and taken our medicaid dollars. we want to make sure that in light of this decision, we move forward on that. one issue i want to touch on is the reluctance of our republican colleagues to come to the table about our budget. there is nothing that was set up to be a more stupid option than sequestration. yet to that stupidity is going to hold back in to america, october 1 of this year. we all know it is coming. we are already seeing talk of another government shutdown. the last thing this economy needs is another manufactured political crisis driven by the extremes and the republican party. so as a state that is more relied on defense dollars than perhaps any other state -- the only way we are going to avoid the nature of sequestration is to provide relief for both defense and nondefense. we have to keep our nation st

>> no, senator. on this point and maybe it's the only one i'd respectfully beg to differ with former assistant secretary zarate. the business empire will remain under sanctions. the companies it controls will remain under sanctions and obviously its senior officers will remain under sanctions as well. and thanks to congress that will have international effect, meaning any international bank that does business with that. let me give a specific example. the largest construction engineering firm in iran, we've designated for being owned or controlled by the irgc. it's a revenue source for the irgc. it's not coming off. not at five years, eight years, 15 years under this deal. any international bank that hosts accounts will face cutoff from the u.s. financial system. those are very tough aggressive sanctions and they remain in place. now there are companies who have done what i would call arms length transactions with the irgc over time that we've designated for conducting business for the irgc. we have

senator bennett: we heard senator alexander's charge to us.e initiated this three point five months ago. they're lots of different issues. people have tried to modernize the fda before to accelerate medical innovation. the progress has been made, that it has an inmate, and the results overall in these attempts have been some successful, but many have not. example of great success is what was passed in 2012. it had results trickle for breakthrough therapies in 2014 compared to 2013. that track record is continuing into 2015. we know by identifying problems and action legislatively we can have fantastic results, which is encouraging. we mention the regenerative medicine field, precision medicine, we mentioned the compounds. we need these to have further acceleration. if not all at risk for being rained back by overzealous regulation or vague regulation. all of the areas, as we look ahead. this superbug area that i mentioned, where we know we can do it. we know people are being hurt and if we focus on it we can make a big difference. we have alzh

see, we've already passed it in the senate. we might not pass it in the senate anymore. if we lose moss, if we lose mcgee, we lose new york or three or four of these places, we might just not have the votes. new york would make a difference but some of the other places would. moss would and mcgee would. some of those. now, we've got it passed. and i'm calling congress back november. but we don't have to cross that till the 15th. after the election, everybody's threw. by outgive a little salt to it and we'll talk later. >> i'll abide by your decision on that. >> i want your judgment. we'll have to see how the election jumps out, i guess. see if we think we'll have trouble passing the senate again. >> from october 2nd, 1964, tennessee democratic senator albert gore senior telling president johnson that the conference committee has deadlocked on resolving differences between the house and senate versions of medicare. on november 6th, three days after lbj defeats barry goldwater in the election, the president has a call with medicare supporter and well-known pediatrician ben

a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from georgia. mr. perdue: i'd like to talk about seizing the the country for real growth today today. first i'd like to give a little more context. decades of overspending by both parties and mismanagement by both parties have led to a crushing $18 trillion of federal debt. even more sobering to me is the upcoming $100 trillion coming at us like a freight train. we have a fiscal crisis in this country, everybody can see it and feel it. as an outsider my role is to bring a new sense of urgency to washington to help solve this fiscal crisis. i'm encouraged by the work my colleagues on the budget committee completed this year, we completed a balanced budget for the first time since 2001. it was merely a good first step in the right direction. but we've got a lot of heavy lifting to do. we must act right now to get our fiscal house in order before it's too late. yes, we must cut unnecessary spending. yes, there are redundant agencies and programs that should be eliminated. and yes, we do need to have a nat

the impetus for this was originally in the senate with senator lautenberg who is from new jersey and worked long and hard on this. i believe that i don't think there's going to be much of a bridge. if they can take an issue that we did not, and there is bipartisan support in the senate, i think we can get that same support in the house. >> you mentioned that this is something the late senator lautenberg worked very hard on. it was a long-term project of his goal is something that he wanted to see as his legacy, certainly as a fellow new jersey resident and someone from the delegation who worked closely with him. how meaningful is it for you to sort of finish what he started? how much of it is a part of your legacy as the top democrat on this committee to sort of fulfill this for your late colleague? frank pallone: it's very important to me. as you know the bill and senate , is named after him. we have an agreement that the final bill will have his name. the house version did not but the final version will. we have all agreed on that. that is an important part of getting this done. >>

senator thank you, senator : ayotte. while we're quick on this subject, apparently only 10,000 out of the 210,000 population participating in that re-entry program, could you quickly describe, both of you? it sounds like a very successful program. why aren't more people engaged in it? senator johnson: in total we reached 45,000 prisoners every year. director samuels: if it's in references to the vocational training programs, we only have a limited number of opportunities that we could provide based on the number of inmates in our system. and that goes back to the crowding with increased crowding. you have waiting lists in the federal prison system no different than any other system. and the goal is to try to push as many of these inmates through and as we complete classes we bring more, you know individuals in for participation. senator johnson: inspector general? inspector general horowitz: there are limited resources meaning a limited number of classes. senator johnson: senator booker. senator booker: director samuels,

senator cornyn? >> i am sorry that the chairman is not here so i can tell him how important is hearing us. this could be one of the most important hearings that we have had in the united states congress in a long time. people forget the fact that we have a duty and a constitutional obligation to do investigations as well as oversight. what the olc does, i don't know why general lynch, the new attorney general, can't just change the underlying policy back to what it was in 2010 so complies with the inspector general statue. how someone can come up with a legal opinion of 66 pages, 67, and say that the law since 1978 has somehow preempted these carvel carvel provisions with any legal theory that i'm aware of. it's the responsibility of a judge and lawyer to try to reconcile as well as harmonize the law. not to say that this trumps it and we decided in 2010 that we were going to trump or preempt and this means all provisions of 1978. i find it very disturbing. but frankly it continues a trend that we ha

thank you, senator franken and senator cassidy. aqó2s# a elgaod'w9ñ report in @ dod3lçxiiikf must do much kwoç hmw;[m@> senator, the dod's acquisition of a new electronic health record, you are correct, is one of the most important things that's going to happen on the i.t. landscape. we are intimately involved in that. the department of defense for example has seen that we're communicating and the department of defense has agreed to lead the way in pointing to the standards. the senator asked me earlier what are the steps we should take. if i could for a second -- >> only have three and a half minutes. >> one of the most important things is to move away from proprietary standards which is getting in the way. >>

senator bennet as their active member of the senate h.e.l.p. committee and we've talked about some of the legislation that is introduced, senator, today. and a wonderful advocate for medical innovation. so please join me in welcoming senator bennet. [applause] >> well, i appreciate it. i'm a little hesitant to even read one of these notes, the long day you guys better let me start by saying to senator frist, we'd be happy to have you back anytime you want to come back to the united states senate. it's been unbelievable couple of days here, and it continues to be. actually i might say, because when a voting in till 10 tonight, so happy to go in the time between now and then. i wanted to come by to congratulate the bipartisan policy center on the release of this report, advancing medical innovation for healthier america. i know senator alexander was here earlier today, and he has done an astonishing job leading the help committee as chair. he and patty murray came together around no child left behind, which was a bill we were supposed to past sev

of senator tester and senator mccaskill were quoted in the story saying that senator schumer decision would have no impact on there's. and i think it was even senator tester who hoped that the reporter wouldn't tell senator schumer that his vote wouldn't factor into his own decision-making i think the other data point that i can point you to point out to you rich, is that senator schumer is the senior senator from new york. the junior senator from new york also came out yesterday and she announced her support for the deal. and since the senator schumer made his announcement at least based on my talent based on my toe and nothing would have made any statements since i walked out of, but as far as i can tell there's one democratic senator who has announced an opinion since then and senator baldwin who came out in support of the agreement. i think there's a preponderance of evidence to indicate that democrats are going to make up their mind not based on senator schumer's conclusions but they saw their own conclusions about the merits of this agreement and the strategy to prevent iran fro

following senator alexander senate model i will face of it anyway. as you know senator, when we work together on the peace act we found that after world war ii to the end of last century the united states pretty much lead the world in all academic areas, and the way we recently did that was we had a simple formula. the invested in education we had a skilled workforce and we invested in research. for new ideas, improved ideas, new services and by many reports half of our gdp resulted from our investments in that research so, then comes the next century and we see a couple things happen. our investments are starting to either be snagged it going down and the rest of the world is increasing investments. a read the book and figured out what the secret formula was. this is a quick example, in the area of rnd in the healthcare or in the pharma school-- pharmaceutical and medical device area from 2007 to 2012, our share of the world's investment went 50% to 44%. at the same time, asia went from 16% to 23%. so, we have to get our competitiveness back again.