officials. 87% of voters wanted to out of the mayor and 80% are asking for city councilmember donald toomey. they were accused being involved with no bid contracts. toomey admitted to lying on his resume to having a college degree and an mba. >> no waiting on that forecast. let's check in with mike. let's see what is going on out there. >> no waiting on the marine layer this morning. >> south bay, it's running pretty well. ten miles an hour, down to 5 at half moon bay, 2347 novato so keeping the fog from forming but with the marine layer, i would expect flight arrival delays. check out flight tracker at abc7news.com, 24-hour temperature change, 78 degrees warmer in fairfield to about 4 degrees cooler in are hadwood city. but temperatures are pretty close to homogenized, 56 in mountain view. that is when you get it tends to keep in it a small range. you can see what the sunshine does, antioch, ukiah, cloverdale near 80 degrees there. mid to upper 70s in most of our than land valleys of the north bay and east bay with low to mid-70s fremont, palo alto down into the south bay and mid to upper

toomey: thank you. i rise to retain confirmation process for two positions: the position of governor and alternate governor of the i.m.f. and the bank for reconstruction and development. the board of governors at the i.m.f. is the highest level of governance at the i.m.f. and currently the governor and alternate governor are subject to senate confirmation th-fplt bill would change that. this bill would remove them from the senate confirmation process. and i think i understand the rationale behind that thinking. it's probably because by custom, the u.s. has appointed the secretary of the treasury as the governor designate to the i.m.f. and the chairman of the federal reserve as the alternate governor. and since those folks have already been through a senate confirmation process, no doubt the thought was we didn't need to have a separate one. here's the reason for my amendment, and that is the decision to appoint these two individuals to these two posts has been by custom, and there's nothing in statute o

results show 87% of voters want to oust the mayor and 80% was to oust donald toomey, the lone candidate to replace him admitted to lying on his resume. he said he would wait until after the election to decide on his future. >> the family of missing student michelle le is refusing to accept a police conclusion that she is dead they are pleading with the community to keep searching. police are searching for the body now. investigators say they found blood evidence in le's car and more than one person may be involved with the murder. 26-year-old was last seen on may 27th at kaiser permanente in hayward. the family has been critical of the police investigation. >>> early this morning, the head of the ntsb is going to visit the site of the deadly san bruno pipeline explosion. officials are expected to give an update of the pipeline rupture. n.t.s.b. investigators are looking into what caused the pipeline to explode last september. the report is due out later this year. >> the highway patrol is investigating how a big rig driver plunged off an on-ramp off of i-80. the truck fell 30 feet. the

the speech and position lacks clarity toomey. i do not know -- to me. do not know right now why we are continuing to stay there for two more fighting seasons. to get to the negotiating table with the taliban? is that what it is about? i don't know anyone who realistically think that afghanistan will stand alone when this is over. >> colby? >> what i heard him say is that he will keep 68,000 troops on the ground and afghanistan for the next three years. he is going to have a 70,000 troops out there to help stabilize the situation so that the corrupt, it karzai regime can have negotiations with the taliban. the of what we pay in iraq. 40,000 people -- 4000 people killed, 30,000 wounded. we get the word this week that the iranians and iraqis enter into economic cooperative agreements, syria and iran and the iraqis are building a pipeline into arab countries. we did all that for that? out of afghanistan, what are we going to get out of that? >> nina? >> what you hear from this panel is not just a reflection of the body politic, but from the public. presiden

and those who want to escape that issue by saying -- i heard senator toomey, i think he is wrong.e cannot take a chance. >> even on the very short term, there was an article in "the wall street journal" claiming a short-term lapse of the debt ceiling would not be catastrophic. it would be acceptable. >> i do not want to take a chance. it is the country. to disrupt our sterling credit rate because of some theory? >> how do you think it plays out? they went up until 11:30 p.m. on a government shutdown earlier this year. there's an august 2 deadline to raise the debt ceiling according to treasury. do you expect a bill to come sooner than that or do you think we will go right up until august 2? >> no, it has to be sooner, and that is what moody's says. you cannot always wait. i guess you're used to deadlines being the end, and then we move them, but we cannot play around. >> do you think the message has been muddied a little since the treasury has the ability to move around funds? >> no, i think -- i do not think the message is muddied. except those who do not want to face up to it. >

senator toomey. >> thank you, mr. chairman, for holding another hearing on this very important topic. i appreciate that, and i agree with senator kerry's characterization that data security is one subset of consumer privacy, which is itself, though, a very broad topic. on data security, there seems to be broad support among industries stakeholders, consumer advocates, many members of congress, for a national standard, and it is an issue that congress is likely to address legislatively in the near future. in recent years, there have been a number of high-profile data breach is affecting consumers nationwide, and establishing a single federal standard for notifying victims of date of bridges and protecting sensitive information is something i do think we should consider seriously. i look forward to working with the chairman and other members of the committee i hope felipe addressing this in a constructive and bipartisan manner. on the broader issue of privacy, however, i am not sure there is yet a consensus on how to be

the presiding officer: there are now two minutes equally divided for debate on the toomey amendment. mr. lieberman: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. lieberman: i believe there is an agreement on this amendment on both sides. the amendment makes serpbgs and, therefore -- the amendment makes sense and therefore i would yield back all time on both sides. the presiding officer: without objection. the question is on the amendment. all in favor say aye. all opposed say no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed to. the clerk will read the bill for the third time. the clerk: calendar number 75, s. 679, a bill to reduce the number of executive positions subject to senate confirmation. mr. lieberman: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. lieberman: this would be final passage, and i ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote:

toomey, the system is at a minimum cracking the door. if there is a crack in the door, by my hard work and innovation i can make the most of it. but this is a shut the door, a locked door. i am not going to be in these debates on monday. it is upsetting. it is not fair. >> what is your strategy, moving beyond the single debate in new hampshire? how do you get the nomination? who is your biggest competitor? >> the strategy is to do well in new hampshire and these primary states, particularly new hampshire, where it is a retail politics state. people in new hampshire -- it is a terrific political environment in new hampshire. it is terrific. the joke is, "what do you think about mitt romney?" "i have met him a couple of times and am having him over for dinner thursday night, but i am undecided until i meet the candidates." that is a great environment. it is about getting out and talking with as many groups of individuals as you possibly can. i have visited new hampshire 10 times and will be living in new hampshire. that will be my second h

demint number 511, toomey number 514. further, the cornyn amendment number 04, mccain and the paul amendment 502 be withdrawn, that no amendments be in order to any of the amendments prior to the votes. upon disposition of the amendments, the bill be read a third time and the senate proceed to vote on passage of the bill as amended. that there be no motions or points of order in order. the bill or any of the amendments other than the budget points of order and applicable motion toss waive. finally, that all other provisions of the previous orders with respect to s. 679 remain in effect. the presiding officer: is there objection? a senator: mr. president, reserving my right -- the presiding officer: the senator from wisconsin. mr. johnson: reserving my right to object, i may not object to this motion. it certainly is not addressing the primary problem facing our nation today, and that's the fact that we're bankrupting this nation. we need to start actually addressing that here in the united states senate, but i realize tha

when i look at matt toomey and others, so what if it goes down. it's going to mean much. others say we're in the middle of the revolution. you got to spill some blood. then i hear john boehner and mitch mcconnell say taxes are completely off of the table on the deal. then i hear others say this is no deadline. typical end-game negotiations like with the cr. you know the clock strikes at midnight, you better strike a deal. it might be august 2, it might not be, it leaves me very, very nervous that we might have to go through at least one iteration where we do hit something that the markets don't believe could possibly happen because it can happen before we come around to some kind of a deal. even there it's pretty dicey. >> i don't expect anything nearly as important as norm does. i think we will not default on the end, even temporarily. but the only way i see around that is not a debate over specific government programs so much or even specific taxes, but i'm looking for some sort of formula approach. some sort of automatic mechanism like graham rudman that gradually cuts

i have co-sponsored legislation with senator toomey that tells the president pay interest as a primaryur tax receive knew and you would never have a problem with default. >> you can save about $100 billion a year. maybe $130 billion a year if the u.s. were to just pull out -- pull its forces, 100,000 troops out of afghanistan. are you in favor of that? >> what we have to do is debate it. actual troop deployments, lot of times a president gets to make those decisions. we need to debate whether or not after a decade in afghanistan it is still in our national security interest and after -- >> what do you think? >> after killing bin laden, is it still in our national security interest? i want the afghan soldiers to do a lot more and american soldiers to do a lot less. i think that would mean drawing down the troops. i will bring that as part of a debate. but the big thing up here is -- we haven't debated afghanistan in a decade. let's debate it. let's debate whether it is or isn't. if those people here who believe it is international security interest, let's have a full debate on. >> it sh

i am going to throw a thought and if you could respond, i am not sure, toomey brac is day and night. we have to deal with it. towns disappearing, commercial centers, these are buildings and facilities, who owned that? there's a window broken, we get the calls when i was mayor all the time. all these properties, 14,000, protect tidal 5. we put these 14,000 properties or whatever else might occur over the years. the board's purpose is to have two or three goals. look at these 4 public purpose and put these aside. those are then to be inventoried or put on the market to sell and there is usually the third capped, there may or may not be as to more analysis that needs to be done and the board continually looks at the inventory that occurs that goes up and down but depending on what is going on in the industry's we are right now consolidating homeland security into one building. maybe they are, maybe there are government buildings that will be surplus. i want to keep it that simple. that is what we do. keep the concept of title 5 in play but also get rid of properties that let me guarante

toomey is at another hearing but i want to record to at least reflect the answers to this and i know his staff will help make sure that he sees them. he stated very clearly the question -- he raised the question whether or not this is a solution in search of a problem and in addition wondering what the harm is out there. i think it is really important for the three of you to address that very directly. what is the harm? is there harm or isn't there harm? is this worth a national response? is it imperative to have a national response? if so, can one be constructed without the unintended consequences? i've been on this committee for a long time now and i have fought diligently to protect the open architecture. do all the things necessary but i do believe that it is imperative to have some kind of standard by which people are acting here. so i want to begin with you, commissioner brill, since your regulatory agency is particularly in the line of fire on this and then go to the communications with the commerce department if we could. what is the harm? is there harm? is it real? is this i

they are coburn, cardin, webb, corker, lieberman, collins, shaheen, burr, risch, and toomey.nd so i wanted to have the record straight that this amendment is in response to a bill which we have crafted. on tuesday, the senate voted on the proposal, but unfortunately we saw a process battle which i spoke to on the floor, which i think overwhelmed in some respects the debate. that is not the case today. there are ongoing negotiations to see if it's possible to put together a solution which can bring all sides together on this amendment that we will be voting on at 2:00. thus far we do not have an agreement. however, at least one of our cosponsors of this has said to me -- this is senator webb -- that he would very much appreciate a straight up-or-down vote on coburn-feinstein so that we know exactly where the senate stands. it is still possible even after that cloture vote that if we can reach a successful conclusion to the negotiation that we could have another vote and change that. today this is really the first vote that the senate has taken based on the merits of repealing

i have cosponsored along with senators burr, cardin, collins, corker, lieberman, risch, shaheen, toomey and webb. madam president, i know that the fact that this amendment is on the floor, scheduled to be voted on at 2:15 this afternoon, has caused some deep consternation on my side of the aisle. there is objection to the procedures used. i am not going to get into that. i am going to say a vote is a vote and we are facing a vote at 2:15 unless something changes. now, to be candid, if there were an offer to bring this to the floor next week or the week after for a time specific and a commitment specific, i believe that the author and myself and our cosponsors would certainly agree to that, but in the absence of that offer, it is important that the united states -- the united states senate takes a position on a program that has become both gross and egregious, and i want to explain why i feel that way. madam president, no other product i know of has the triple crown of government support that corn ethanol enjoys in this country. its use is mandated by law. oil companies are paid by the f

when i look at matt toomey and others, so what if it goes down. it's going to mean much. others say we're in the middle of the revolution. you got to spill some blood. then i hear john boehner and mitch mcconnell say taxes are completely off of the table on the deal. then i hear others say this is no deadline. typical end-game negotiations like with the cr. you know the clock strikes at midnight, you better strike a deal. it might be august 2, it might not be, it leaves me very, very nervous that we might have to go through at least one iteration where we do hit something that the markets don't believe could possibly happen because it can happen before we come around to some kind of a deal. even there it's pretty dicey. >> i don't expect anything nearly as important as norm does. i think we will not default on the end, even temporarily. but the only way i see around that is not a debate over specific government programs so much or even specific taxes, but i'm looking for some sort of formula approach. some sort of automatic mechanism like graham rudman that gradually cuts

my colleagues, senators cornyn, kyl, toomey, demint, paul, and many others were all essential in the development of this amendment. but it really is special for me to be working with my friend, senator lee, on this critical constitutional amendment. he is a legitimate constitutional scholar, a steadfast advocate of our constitutionally limited government and a hero to many, and i could not be prouder to stand with him and lead this fight for the people of utah and the taxpayers of this country. if the american people said anything last fall, it is that they want their representatives in washington to listen to them. they know that we won't get it right every time, but they know that we should always do our best to represent their values and their interests. this congress needs to listen to the people. it needs to get these trade agreements done without holding them hostage to unrelated spending. it needs to say no to more bailouts, and it needs to pass a balanced budget constitutional amendment. in this country, the people are sovereign. i would have to say if we would pass that cons

nelson: i ask consent that the toomey amendment number 514 be considered as having been adopted before the managers' amendment to s. 679. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. mr. nelson: mr. president, i ask consent that be allowed to speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection, the senator is recognized. mr. nelson: mr. president, thank you. mr. president, i want to give you a quote from a publication. "days after working at guantanamo naval base prison in cuba, a u.s. navy veteran found himself behind bars where he could remain for a decade for alleged passport fraud." end of quote. mr. president, i had to read that article from cnn's web site -- i had to read it twice. i couldn't believe it. but that's what it said. former u.s. army specialist, now navy reservist, u.s. petty officer second class elijah dawkins, 26-year resident of florida, was arrested in april, and he spent now more than two months behind bars in federal detention center in miami. and a federal indictment says that the serviceman failed to acknowled

toomey of pennsylvania, mr. paul of kentucky, both failed. the only budget that has passed either body is the ryan budget. and that's what we are looking at today. those numbers. i understand that there's a lot of reluctance to make some of these tough decisions. today in america, 61 million people receive monthly government checks. that's anything from welfare to medicare to farm payments to veteran retirement to social security. lots of people receiving lots of money. these programs are enormously popular. and they are deeply integrated into our economic system and culture. therefore reforming these programs is very, very difficult. and to further complicate things, 47% of american households do not pay income taxes. for them the status quo is working just fine. so addressing these things is very difficult. if you look at the spending pattern the last several years it's frightening. march, 2008, $29 billion to bail out bear stearns. may of 2008, $168 million stimulus package from the bush administration. in july of 2008, $200 billion to bai

spenders, but he told me -- i was dressed down in my own republican conference when i endorse pat toomey senate. with fingers pointed at me, you do not understand how this place works. it is not about principle, it is about numbers. when the press asked me about that, i made things worse when i set out rather have 30 republicans who believe in the principles of freedom and 60 republicans who believe in nothing at all. jthan 60 republicans who believe in nothing at all. as it turns out, the people of pennsylvania stood with us, as well as thousands of people all across the country. we got the principles and the numbers. a lot of you stood with me when i stood with marco rubio in florida against washington's pick. they said he did not have a chance, but because you and all the others around the country still quit reject stuck with us, i now serve with marco rubio. if you think john paul is something, you ought to meet his son, senator rand paul. washington had another pick, but a lot of you stood with us to get behind rand paul, and i now serve with senator rand paul. he pointed at me when