coons, tester, udall of new mexico, rockefeller, carper, stabenow, manchin, king, hirono, heinrich, nelson and baucus. mr. reid: i move to concur in the house amendment to the senate amendment to h.r. 334 with an amendment. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from nevada, mr. reid, moves to concur in the house amendment to the senate amendment to h.r. 3304, with the following amendment numbered 2553. mr. reid: i ask for the yeas and nays on my motion. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the yeas and nays are ordered. mr. reid: i have an amendment that i have asked the chair to order reported. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: the senator from nevada, mr. reid, proposes an amendment numbered 2553 to the instructions of amendment numbered 2552. mr. reid: i now move to refer the house message with respect to h.r. 3304 with instructions. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the motions. the clerk: the senator from

act, signed by 18 senators as follows -- reid of nevada, murray, baucus, begich, boxer, blumenthal, udall of new mexico, stabenow, whitehouse, mccaskill, hirn, coons -- hirono, coons, tester, schock, gillibrand. mr. reid: i move to concur in the house amendment to the senate amendment to h.j. res. 59 with an amendment. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the motion. the clerk: the senator from nevada, mr. reid, moves to concur in the house amendment to the senate amendment to h.j. res. 59, with amendment number 2547. mr. reid: mr. president, i ask for the yeas and nays on my motion. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the yeas and nays are ordered. mr. reid: i have an amendment which is at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: the senator from nevada, mr. reid, proposes amendment numbered 2548 to the instructions of amendment 2547. mr. reid: i move to refer the house message with respect to h.j. res. 59 with instructions. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from nevad

i think what edward snowden did, and you asked an appropriate question to senator udall.e have had this debate at all? in my view, we weren't having it before now we are. >> when it comes to national security, there has to be a middle ground between protecting the interests of the individual and making sure we protect the nation at large, there has to be a middle ground between edward snowden and dick cheney. and i think president obama is going to have to strike the right tone when he makes a definitive statement after all of these recommendations. but i think most americans are uncomfortable the knowledge that they're learning of the search and seizure of information, and they want some accountability. >> but here's the dilemma, want to bring it to bill kristol. >> the constitution is so plain on this. if you read the plain language of the fourth amendment. either get a warrant and you can get all of you want. or -- or -- >> this has been litigated over and over again. >> but apparently one judge -- >> even the commission didn't find any legality of these programs. >> d

udall of colorado.our staff is still waiting for several documents and these requests are not unreasonable. but the amount of time it has taken to produce them as. as much as anyone, i would like to see the committee said he would be enhanced interrogation program to be finished and released. but that cannot happen while the cia slow walks the documents we have requested and we do not have many options that are available to us to force the agency's cooperation, but i will not rule out any in order to give the agency the chance to cooperate with the request and i want to thank the chairman or her leadership in getting this study written. and i would like to mention something that happened today and this afternoon. i am outraged that the cia continues to make misleading statements about the study of the interrogation program and there is only one instance in which the cia pointed out a factual error in the study. a minor error that has been corrected. where the committee and the cia differ is with interpr

senator udall. >> good afternoon to you, welcome. ambassador, i'm going to direct a set of comments and question to you here today. i would note ambassador smith is from my home state and has done us proud. so thank you for your service. nice to see you again. we had a chance to sit down last week. among other things we discussed senate intelligence committee study on ci detention and interrogation program which this committee approved one year ago. you read the section pertaining to the role office of legal counsel department of justice played drafting legal opinion supportive of the cia's program. you also told me that you found the study to be hard reading. i think many of us who read it found it to be hard reading. the course and techniques used in that timeframe were, quote, not consistent with our values. i understand that while you were employed with the office of legal counsel you were not involved in drafting of opinions regarding cia detention and interrogation program. after our discussion last week, as well as after revie

i know mark udall, a congressman with me. he's a great guy but i strongly disagree on this. you're not taking the person's records but records from the phone companies. there's no expectation of privacy once you turn your records over to another company. no one listening to anyone's phone because, reading e-mails, phone number to phone number. no identification, address, location. >> congressman, when you look at polls two-thirds of americans aren't comfortable with this program. they want changes. don't they need to listen. >> what they are concerned about, think we're listening to phone calls, reading e-mails, they are not. if they knew maybe 1/1,000% listened to at all, after court orders, justice department. what president would do is explain. stronger leadership. i agree with his policies. somehow hiding behind it, blaming nsa, no abuses but need reforms what reforms do you need? to me he's sending a very mixed message. >> let me ask you about specifics. he seems to signal one of the reforms he's considering is having metadata stored by private companies. would you supp

it did involve frank lautenberg and now tom udall is in that position. we are a good bill that will pass into law in 2014. the ethanol mandate. >> correct. the program is broken. whether you want to continue it in some form or whether you want to repeal, i think there is a consensus that there are big problems with the program that thattened to hit the wall lead to spikes in fuel prices. i am working with abandon and we hope to have a bipartisan bill to introduce 2014 and starts. >> a couple of points that are surprising with the bipartisanship. asking about iran. negotiations continued. the threat of sanction continues in the senate. do you trust the iranian government when it comes to dismantling the nuclear program? >> i do not. sanctions are a necessary backdrop if we are to ore any chance of success any reasonable solution that does not involve war. because of that, i am part of a significant bipartisan group in the senate that will be introducing and passing early 2014. >> you have a minute or two. reserve -- ben bernanke announces past week that h

senator udall? >> good afternoon to both of you. welcome. ambassador, with all due respect, i'm going direct my set of comments and then a question to ms. krass. i would note for the record that emboss door smith is from my home state and has done us proud, so thank you for your service. ms. krass, nice to see you begin. we had a chance to sit down last week, and among other things, we discussed the senate intelligence study on the c.i.a. detention and interrogation program, which this committee approved one year ago. you've read a section pertaining to the role that the department of justice played in drafting legal opinions support itself of the c.i.a.'s program. you also told me that you found the study to be hard reading. i think any of us that have read it find it to be hard reading. and that the techniques used by the c.i.a. during the time frame were "not consistent" with our values. i understand that while you were employed with the office of legal counsel, you were not involved in the drafting of o.l.c. opinions regarding the detent

why are they being stigmatized with the words, living off the udall, not wanting to get a job? political brinksmanship. that's just mean. >> anyone who wants to work can. it's not just a job -- it's dignity have a quality of life. people who want to work should be able to get a job. >> 24 million have received the benefit since 2008. what's been the economic benefit of this in stimulating economic growth and lowering the unemployment rate? >> no doubt they go right into the economy. people absorb them and spend them right away. the congressional study that just came out said cutting the benefits would result in the loss of 240,000 jobs. around thehe debates country today involves the living wage. fast food workers were demonstrating they would like $15 per hour minimum wage and he was there talking about the .isparity how is the politics hurting our people? talk about united states and where it is in terms of lifting people into the middle class. >> this is the epicenter of what was the mayor's race with build the blowsy oh -- bill deblasio talking about affluent suburbs around

some of your colleagues up for election, mary landrieu, gene shaheen, mark udall and others are have a do over. are they stuck with their votes on this? >> what has a great chance of success is if they decide we have to start over, suspend this thing, we need a time-out on the law. they are stuck now with with with what they've got, unfortunately. we did what we could to protect american people. the truth is you can't just do minor corrective surgery on the law and have everything be okay. a lot of people who once they have gotten health insurance if they can afford it are seeing that the treatment they need and they have come to rely on will no longer be available. >> these doctors say they are having conversations about introducing a package of fixes at the ploept time. -- appropriate time. i can't see it passing in the house. is there anything you would support short of repealing and replacing the law? >> if there is a fix i haven't seen it. i can't foresee a scenario in which i could get excited about something that tinkers with obama care on the edges. i think you have to repeal

. >> big is udall. have a great 2014. hope the banking industry treats you well.g up, as alleged u.s. spying cost boeing $4.5 billion? that is the story we will look. stay with "on the move." ♪ >> i am manus cranny in london. this is "on the move" on bloomberg television, streaming live on bloomberg.com, your tablet, your phone and any windows phone. we do it globally. we have had to drug company does today. almost $7 billion. joining me now to break down the deals, he covers pharmaceuticals at bloomberg industries. he provides the research and data on all major sectors. you guys put it in english. that stuff about these deals. we have bayer going after al qaeda -- algeta. why now? what is driving these deals? >> first of all, there is a lot of stuff on the move. we have these two deals, a lot of them have been presaged if you look at some of the news flow. we expected astrazeneca to continue its deals. this is but they have been talking about. this makes a lot of sense. this relationship they have with chris myers, it is converting itself to a pharmaceutical comp

some of your colleagues up for election next year, mary landrieu and gene shaheen, mark udall and others are trying to come up with an obama care fix to fix the problems or do-over. does that have any chance of moving in the senate or are they stuck with their votes on this? >> what has a great chance of success is if they decide we need to start over, suspend this thing, we need a time-out on the law. >> they're not going to do it. >> that would have a chance as far as getting (support. of course, they passed this without any bipartisan support and they are stuck now with what they've got. unfortunately. we did what we could to protect american people. the truth is you can't just do minor corrective surgery on the law and have everything be okay. as you point out, it's not just people loseing health coverage r their job, it's people seeing their premiums go up and deductibles skyrocket and those who once they have gotten health insuran insurance, if they can afford it, are seeing that the treatment they need and they have come to rely on will no longer be available. >> these doctors say

--tuesday, senate democrat democratic senator mark udall of colorado said the ca plus withheld study -- edward stone has published an open letter offering to help the brazilian government investigate nsa surveillance. his leaks revealed the nsa spied on the personal communications of brazilian president dilma rousseff as well as on brazil's state-run oil company, petrobras. in his letter, snowden said he needs political asylum in order to assist countries like brazil targeted by nsa spying, writing -- brazilian officials say they have no plans to grant snowden's request. at the white house, press secretary jay carney rejected snowden's call for asylum abroad. as i said earlier, has not changed. ought toe mr. snowden be returned to, ought to return to the united states where he faces charges for leaking classified information, and where he will receive full due process and protections. the broader issues with regards inbrazil and other nations the disclosures are ones that we discussed directly with those nations through diplomatic channels and with our brazilian counterparts, and tha

court and i respect dianne feinstein in this process but i also respect ron wyden and mark udall whoave been raising compassionate issues. it's not that the judge is dealing with klayman. you've got to get this balance right. >> in edward snowden's letter to brazil, john schindler, he actually says to brazil about these nsa programs, "these programs were never about terrorism. they are about economic spying, social control and diplomatic manipulation. they are about power." to say that these programs were never about terrorism is about one of the wildest things snowden has said. >> yeah, it is. and it tells me a lot that the brazilians immediately said, no, thank, we're not interested. look, what edward snowden has done is glom together a lot of different intelligence programs, glenn greenwald has done the same, to be fair, some of them are about counterterrorism and and i think we need to separate this out. it's not helpful for the debate. there are utterly legitimate issues about domestic surveillance here. pushing it together with issues of foreign intelligence is not helpful and

who have actually looked at classified information and those include three senators, senators widen, udalland filed a friend of the court brief in the challenge to massive phone records surveillance recently and they said they have got no evidence this program is necessary let alone that it has been effective in thwarting a single plot. that was one of the issues in the case that judge leon decided yesterday finding that the program of dragnet surveillance is unconstitutional. he said that the government simply hadn't been able to make its case, hasn't provided evidence that the dragnet surveillance of all americans has been effective incur tailing any imminent attack or time sensitive goal the government says it might have. >> what would you suggest -- how would you reconfigure the current situation? would you have the phone companies hold the records and nsa dip in once they get a court order or have probable cause of a target? would that slow down the process too much potentially? >> well, actually, andrea, one answer is to be found in legislation that's making its way through congress

. >> let's listen to mark udall talking about the debate. >> it's time to have real reform. we have on rebuild the american people's trust in our intelligence community so we can be safe, so we can meet the threats that are all over the world. but we don't do that by bulk data collection that violates the privacy of americans, that is unconstitutional and is shown to not be effective. >> how politically charged is this about to be? you have republicans and democrats saying we need to keep a lot of these things in place and also others like the center there saying we need reform. >> this was an interesting one because it's not a clear part son divide. you have pressure from the left on the president to shore up this program. and to make it more transparent and to curb it back. and also less talked about but also important is that the obama administration behind the scenes as they deal with health care and the bunl and other priorities have spent a lot of time having to deal with foreign leaders and other countries that are very upset about this leader of g germany, france, br

. >> i want to play a little sound here from colorado senator mark udall on this subject. take a listen. >> it's time to have real reform, not a veneer of reform. we've got to rebuild the american people's trust in our intelligence community so we can be safe. >> so, philip, what needs to be done and by when? >> there are a lot of subject i've answers. the nsa review panel said that they need to reform how this phone meta data is collected. president obama has one take. representative rogers had another. from a political standpoint, president obama is not up for re-election but he understands this is doing political damage to him. it's very unlikely the president will advocate any sweeping reforms and it's pretty unlikely congress will pass anything that substantially undermines the nsa. because the nsa can say what happens if we have a terrorist attack. >> thank you so much. >>> a wild weekend of weather is being blamed for nine deaths across the u.s. and made holiday travel very difficult. at the height of an ice storm, 300,000 people in michigan were without power. that

jim matheson and senators harry reid and tom udall. by using one less trash bag each month, we can.y're full.* so you can take them out less often. you're talking to the guy who hasn't approved a new stapler purchase in three years. but then i saw the new windows tablet, with a real keyboard, usb port, and full office. it's a tablet that works for work. plus, it's got apps and games, for after hours, of course. compared to an ipad -- way more value. these tablets are such a steal; i couldn't find a reason not to buy them. ♪ honestly, i wanna see you be brave ♪ >>> my takeaway today, a look at the broken trust between the intelligence community and congress. it's been ten years since the biggest intelligence failure of this decade, when the u.s. failed to find any weapons of mass destruction in iraq. now whether it's the nsa or the cia, america's intelligence apparatus is coming under more fire in the wake of revelations about robert levinson's role as a cia contractor. but it's bigger than that. the u.s. government has denied to this day that levinson was working for them. it's been

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it's been an issue with me and she is not the ceo of the udall foundation and specialist new specialized is how much do what they show a personal perspective of like what is light minty you. yes it's what they can take the eldest out like everyone else acting like it's just like him sing it to a tv turn on the town in an ice cool and we enjoyed it when he's sober on the whistle on the back nine minutes though. aware of it in on it. now i think night ten pm. they the men what to medium heat. a powerful tool in the back can be up by a knife in the line not increase of sicily as well as the society. i've not spent as long as we were willing to try the new gossip and the tickets of a sandwich and i lick it like being in the course of the development of any city. as the essential part of the cabal of presents yet. absolutely not. not just in the scope of the cd because we knew we think about cities whiny or cities like paris people a say in paris it's a moment to see the line but i feel like things that crucial part in the city urban development so we can make it out of city government to sta

udall: i want to rise today and associate myself with the remarks of my colleague, the senator from shaheen that she delivered earlier today. she's a fierce supporter of our men and women in uniform, both while they serve our nation and when they retire or leave the military. and i'm an original cosponsor of her military retirement restoration act and i'm also supportive of passing a bipartisan budget deal that prevents our government from shutting down and prevents our defense budget from being slashed. mr. president, the american people have made it very clear, crystal clear, in fact, that they're tired of gridlock here in washington. they're tired of the bipartisan bickering, they're tired of the fact that that's led us to sequestration and the kind of crisis budgeting that's prevented us from getting our fiscal house in order. like i think every one of us i don't support every provision in the bipartisan budget agreement. but i want to give great credit to senator murray and congressman ryan for their willingness to sit down together, negotiate in good faith and come up with a deal that

as you know the international norm i think as you know, the international norm is that entering tom udall report if you intended to enter the sovereign airspace of the country that declared that. so it wasn't a declaration that us was destabilizing. it was their assertion that they would cause all aircraft entering the district report regard to whether they were intending to enter into the sovereign airspace of china. and that is destabilizing. >> i have a question on syria. mr. secretary and chairman dempsey, you have both expressed in the past about extremist groups, and mainly in syria. where you see now militants aligned with al qaeda and some of them supported by saudi arabia, are capable of threatening the regional security. by question is, how can you see a way out of this crisis? and do you agree with what the ambassador said today about the united states has to start talking with president assad? >> well first, it's been the position of the united states that a political settlement is the appropriate and responsible way out of this. and as you know, there is a geneva ii conferenc

senate candidate in montana, lieutenant governor john walsh, colorado marks udall. mark begich.eakdown. it's a win-win for democrats because they get a chance to distance themselves from president obama. his popularity is slipping in the states and get to appeal to liberals who are pretty skeptical of this nsa program and make inroads with libertarians who make up a pretty significant chunk of the electorate in these intermountain west states and alaska. >> yeah. very interesting point you make in this article. eleanor, with rafrd to the great divide in america, the dow is going to end the year likely in record territory. but on main street, 1.3 million americans today losing unemployment benefits. ing ahead to 2014, is that contrast between the haves and have nots going to be even greater? >> i think the president has said it's the defining issue of our time. i think we could see a backlash against the republicans if they refuse to move on extending unemployment benefits. i think the minimum wage is now at such a low point, nobody can be commit anywhere near to living with it.

i've already taken back your concerns about, um, the pieces of information particularly that senator udall mentioned were outstanding after i had met with him. >> good. well, if you would, please, let me know what the response is, i would appreciate that very much. >> okay. i'll make sure that happens. >> thank you. and i will also note if there's no response. so thank you. mr. vice chairman, any other comments or -- >> only thing i would add is that we have, the chairman and i have made a request of the entire community about all programs that are operational-type programs within the agency as well as other entities within the intelligence community, and we intend to do a full overview of all of those programs, some of which we may find we didn't even know about. so once your confirmation is complete, then we'll look forward to working with you in that respect to make sure that we have access to the details of all programs at the agency and other entities within the jurisdiction of the intelligence community are provided to us so that we can make sure that we have the tools with which to