you can't imagine the harder audience than a room full of united states senators who have 15 things on their minds and so forth. so, over the years i made them longer in the tradition of the senate. you need a few more words there up to about 450 words, and i think i can just about tell a story in 450 words. so, over the last 12 years, i've written myself, no one else has done them. i was the guy that was going to stand up and speak them, so you had to have your own pacing and tempo, i've written about over 300 of them. and then we put 200 of them together in a book. >> i don't know what you were thinking when you wrote this one but this was the 1921 to 1940 ea, february the 7th, 1933, senate fact, sergeant of arms. >> oh, dear. >> fire the sergeant of arms. do you remember this story? >> i do. he'd been a longtime washington reporter, his name was david barry, and he took on the job of sergeant of arms late in his career, and it was a heck of a time to be sergeant of arms because he had to help to prepare for fdr's inauguration in 1933, several senators died at the time, he had to tak

can you imagine the president of the united states has no opinion on whether the united states senate, his party, the democratic party in charge of the united states senate, should have a budget for this country. well, i ran for the united states senate to get our fiscal house in order. i have two children, and i know if we don't address this debt crisis now, that it's not just about us. it's about the legacy of debt that we are burdening our children with, and so i would say, mr. president, where is your leadership? you have no opinion that the united states senate budget committee won't do a budget? your own budget failed, as senator johnson said, zero votes in the house of representatives. 0-414. and finally we have a majority leader in the senate, the democrat-led senate by harry reid who last year said very clearly he thought it would be foolish for the united states senate budget committee to do its job and for us to pass a responsible fiscal blueprint for this country, a budget. that's what every american does at home, in our small businesses, and this is just absurd. you know,

the election, is the united states senate as important to them in effect as the white house? because then they control all nominations, they krcontrol all legislation if they have the united states senate. >> i think the view is if you win one, you win the other. realistically in 2012, there's no end where the democrats say lose the white house, white house, but pick up the house, at this point, all realistic scenarios are that the democrat also hang on in a squeaker to the presidency, probably hang on to the senate, but not the house. >> but they could win the white house and lose the senate and that's a disaster for the president. >> yeah, absolutely. and i think you're absolutely right about how important the senate is, and we don't always focus on it because partially we are so frustrated with the senate. >> and bob kerry's going to be here in and we're going to talk about that. >> robert draper and crystal ball, thank you very much. >>> you knew this one was coming, fox news is completely outraged that president obama appeared on late night with jimmy fallon. that republi

sincerely yours, diane feinstein, united states senator -- dianne feinstein, united states senator."plause] >> i don't know what to say. i'm so overwhelmed. it really feels good to get some recognition from the politicians and top politicians. i'm glad that i lived to see this day. [applause] and i want to thank all who have made this day possible, including all the people at the library that put this event together. thank you very much. [applause] >> now, i would like to introduce the driving force behind this program, and award- winning, internationally known storyteller, recording artist, and educator. she is a truth teller and an artist for social change. she has made it her life's work to tell history through the words of its off forgotten witnesses. zero two one-women shows -- she wrote two one-women shows. she told the true story of the 1955-1956 montgomery bus boycott through the eyes of four women. please help me welcome her. >> i guess you are wondering why i'm standing here. [inaudible] my teachers have been teaching me a lot about standing up for what is right. it was a w

and the united states' senate, there are two senators from california, and there are two senators from wyoming. so this is a tremendous disparity of -- in population. half of the population in the united states lives in ten states. they have 20 senators. the other half of the population lives in 40 states, and they have 80 senators. so a majority of the senators actually represent a very small minority of the population in the united states. so by definition, the u.s. senate has never been a majorititarian body. it operates differently from the -- from the house of representatives, and part of that is that the size of the two bodies require different things. the constitution is a very thin document. my students used to complain, because the first week i was teaching, i would always make my class read the entire text of the constitution. and they would complain bitterly. and i would say, you're lucky we're not studying any one of the states, because all of the state constitutions are huge documents. they tell you how tall a curb has to be. they're very much detail-oriented. the u.s. con

. >> it was the sleaziest process i have ever seen in my years as a united states senator! the cornhusker kickback, the louisiana purchase, taking lobbyists in the blair house and blankettenning them into supporting obamacare. no wonder the american people are sick and tired of that. that wasn't the kind of government obama promised the

into the execution of deliberate and determined policy by the democratic leadership in the united states senate to a i void responsibility for the financial future of america. it's not acceptable of the senate leadership to not face up to the challenge of our time. the debt crisis facing america. we have a long-term systemic debt crisis. it's not going away anytime soon. we have got to make changes. it dwarfs all other issues facing our country. it is ased a plalg mullen said is the greatest threat oour national security. some might think it's smart when senator reid say it's foolish. and then to spend three years avoiding votes necessary to have a budget or lay out a financial plan for the future. but is it really okay to wait until after the election to vote? is that what the american people expect of us? are they satisfied that we say oh we can't take votes close to an election, that might be tough. we we don't want to do that, do we? i don't think so. i don't think that's where the american people heads are. i think it's a big deal to fail the responsibility that we've been given as an hono

with trillion dollar deficits and a record debt there is no budget in the united states congress because the democrats in the senate refuse to move forward. during the last three years the united states has incurred $4 trillion in additional debt. that's $33 thousand perhouse hold in america. they still aren't willing to move forward. including getting the deficit and debt under control but also growing the economy. it should be part of the budget that the united states congress passes. >> do you see any sort of opening for breakthrough where you guys end up voting on a budget this year? >> i think it's absolutely crystal clear that the majority leader has decided not to allow a budget to be brought up so it can be mondayamended to the nor process and avoid bringing it up as we did last year for a single vote. that's the policy. i don't expect that to change. >> is this committee sort of dooming itself? you are either not passing a budget or having a markup where you don't mark up a vote on anything. what is the point of having a budget committee? >> that raises serious questions. i think that that chairman conrad

"both parties have their eye on control in the united states senate after this year's election and our two guests this week have the responsibility for helping to make that happen for their respective parties and on my immediate right, guy cecil is executive director of the democratic senatorial committee. rob who is executive director of the national republican committee. two reporters asking questions this week, politico's national politics editor and reed wilson, the national journal's hotline editor in chief. let's start with you. >> maybe you both can address this question. with so many open seat races this year and so many races that handicapers see as toss-up seats, how is the presidential race going to affect all of these races in november? how do you see that playing out? >> look, i think the president is only going to be a factor in the agenda of the president's agenda is going to be a factor mainly because all these senate democrats are running against have voted for the things that are the most unpopular agenda items of the president. health care which is more unpopular tod

if we can find the right language working with all members of the united states senate, we hope that we will be able to advance that. so i thought it was a constructive hearing, and i could till i've already talked to the leadership on the floor today about this hearing, and looking for opportunities to try to get the bill ready for an actment, because i do think we have an opportunity in this congress to move this along. there was not a lot of comment about specifics that are in my legislation that i filed, and i want to thank senator feingold, the leader in the last congress on this issue. i was a co-sponsor. and when he didn't return to the united states senate i took up this issue, and i'm proud that we have 12 co-sponsors. i think as a result of today's hearing we're got to get more members who are interested in joining us. the language of the bill is pretty clear. it defines racial profiles. straightforward way. it makes it clear that in the random investigations law enforcement cannot use racial profiles. simple as that. you can't pull someone over because they look a certain

are out of the woods because of the reductions in earmark spending look at the vote in the united states senate that tom just referred to. 40-59. 59 members of the united states senate still would like to see the earmarks come back. they would like to see a bloated highway bills with pork barrel projects in them. they would like to see my all time favorite was the $50,000 to study the effect on the ozone layer of flatulence in cows. we can see that come back. i want to congratulate my colleagues. it's not easy. it's not easy when a constituent or important part of your state's economy comes and says we just need this small amount of additional money and if you'll just write a letter or just insert it in the appropriations bill, then we will be able to create jobs, to da-to da. it takes courage to stand up. i'm happy to see so many of my colleagues have followed their lead. the fact is that there's already conversations about well, we can't pass the highway bill because we haven't got enough earmarks in them. isn't that a damning indictment of the mind-set of members of congress that we can't pa

in fact, as i think we mentioned somewhere in there, the united states senate at the end of the 1950s appointed a committee of the senate to rank senators, and they ranked clay as the number one senator in u.s. history. >> that was the john f. kennedy committee? >> exactly, the committee. >> to pick the best? >> uh-huh. >> yeah. >> and he was the best according to that body. >> and as i read it, he was about 57 when he was re-elected to senate years later by the legislature and not by the people and stayed until he was roughly almost -- the whole time of 75. >> no. he retired in '42, so he was there about ten years. and then he retired during the tyler administration, because partly because he simply couldn't get anything done but also to run for president. >> what were the high points, though, when he was in the senate? what was the biggest thing he did? >> well, i think the compromise of 1833 where he solved the nullification crisis which prevented jackson from invading south carolina and then when he went back into the senate at the end of 1849 and was the architect of the compromi

and of the united states senate to pass a budget by april 15th. did i say august 1st? i meant april 1st and april 159. that's a responsibility. we should take it seriously. i know mr. chairman, you said this might be the wrong time to vote on a plan. it is the wrong time. we should have been voting back in march. that's what the house did. two years in a row the house has met its responsibility. they subjected themselves to be accountable to the american people. we refused to do that here in the senate. senator warner mentioned the word embarrassment. we should be embarrassed. the american people deserve far better. we need to provide some leadership in this country. americans hunger for leadership. and it's getting none. no proposal to save medicare. we've heard last year's budget lost 0-97 in the senate so unserious that not one member of the president's own party voted for it. now 0-14 in the house. the american people need to understand what an abdication of responsibility that is. what an abdication of leadership that is. how can they make a choice. they don't kno

go on the shelf of sort of -- the small shelf of fundamental works about operation of the united states senate. it is -- by focusing on the rules and the fights -- i mean, the rules are how -- are essential to the operation of the senate. and it's possible to coax out all the blood and the thunder and the hurt feelings behind the changes in senate rules right from the very first time that thomas jefferson when he drafted the rules of the continental congress in 1776 which were then plagiarized in effect by the rules makers of the first senate in 1789 and have been evolving and tinkered with ever since that time. these rules exist for a purpose. and they, you know, for instance, talking about you only address the presiding officer. why is that? because if a senator looks at another senator in a heated moment and begins to use, you know, the word "you" and start pointing at that senator, the game is over. so, it's one way of lowering the level of the heat of the debate to speak through the presiding officer. they put that there because this was a chronic problem. >> when was your favorite time?

prior to being elected in the united states senate in 1976 as the chairman pointed out, i was a pima county attorney. i was appointed by governor raul castro to head up the arizona drug control district because of the tremendous problem we had along our border. this creation of this drug controlled district did not create laws that contradicted federal responsibility. it was a cooperative effort, put together by the legislature, republican legislature to address the problem, in accordance with the cooperation of the federal agencies and we did just that. i mentioned this because there is some similarity, but laws need to be in cooperation and not hostile to each other. when i came to the senate, i was appointed to this august committee, the judiciary committee, and the committee on appropriations. both had jurisdiction over border patrol, custom, general services. i used all the jurisdictions to focus law and resources on the u.s. southwest border, along with my many colleagues at the time, including some not from border states like allen simpson and mark hatfield of oregon. we worke

entry exit system in the united states and that allows the countries that are approved for visa waiver i think to have an unfair, unlimited entry to the united states. >> senator, we have gone back and looked at visa over stays and we have racked and stacked them according to biographic information we have about the over stays, turning that information over to i.c.e., to prioritize its enforcement operations. and that work is already under way. the problem or the logistical -- the reason why there is no biometuchen-edisb biometric system is quite frankly it is not easy at exits. the lanes and ports have always been designed for entry. the architecture has never really been designed for exit so that's an issue. and cost and man power are issues. >> maybe a briefing from your staff would be helpful to me. >> be happy to provide that. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator sessions. senator blumenthal? >> thank you for your service and for your very steadfast and effective work on behalf of our national security and your words earlier on behalf of the secret service. i think all of us share your view that they do, to use your word, a marvelous job of p

i thought we were going to try to get some place to the floor of the united states senate where all members have an opportunity to try and improve and strengthen and move us in a direction that will put our country on a more >> i thank the senator. senator warner is recognized for a statement. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i apologize about having to step out for a little while. you know, thank you for breaking a little glass. this was lord knows not the traditional approach. lots of probably ideas about how this came about or why it came about. but as a guy who's only been here three years, you know, kind of the process here around this document that seems to be more about gotcha for future -- for future electoral campaigning process than how you actually try to reach a common ground on a plan that 65%, 70% of us could actually agree upon that would solve the problem, you know, i think is a much better approach. i know -- lord knows i know this simpson-bowles plan which i have more than a passing familiarity with will make -- will make folks on both sides of the aisle, some folks on both sid

restructured and ran what i think is one of the best intern if not the best internship program in the united states senate. for which the summer interns at the end of the summer got to have a terrific intern pool party at her home. office managers all over the senate constantly consulted her on how to run an effective intern program and she was always ready to help because she understood how important it was for young interns to have a positive experience, and part of that came out of the fact that she was only 17 when she came to work full time for the united states senate. younger, obviously, than some of the interns who come here and work with us. when i said she could do the impossible, she helped me move my office not once by twice, which is an enormous undertaking here in the senate, and she has worked for the senate, mr. president, since 1981. in those 31 years i will tell you she's become a fixture on capitol hill, well known by everybody, perhaps legendary with some. if you needed a room at the last minute, to host a function, people would call mary tarr from outside of our office, i might add. i

i want to state parenthetically, i ran for the united states senate when i was 28 years old. and no one in my family and my dad's had ever been involved in public life. as one of my colleagues said, i'm the first united states senator i ever knew. and i ran at the time because i thought the policy we had in vietnam, i didn't argue it was immoral, but i thought it just didn't make sense, the notion of dominos and so on and so forth. and i came to washington as a 29-year-old kid. i got elected before i was eligible to serve. i had to literally wait to be sworn in because i wasn't eligible under the constitution. you must be 30 years old. and my image of the military commanders at the time was -- if you ever saw that old movie, if you ever rented it where slim pickens is on the back of an atom bomb dropping out of an aircraft yelling yippee kai yay and "dr. strange love" was the movie. but i have to tell you after all the time i've served in public office, if you ask me who the most impressive women and men that i've met in government in the last 40 years, six of them would be me

and of the united states senate to pass a budget by april 15th. did i say august 1st? i meant april 1st. then april 15th. that's a responsibility. we should take it seriously. i know mr. chairman, you said

vote on amendments and try to get to a place where we can get something to the floor of the united states senate were all members have an opportunity to try and improve and strengthen and move us in a direction that will put our country on a more sustainable fiscal track. >> i think the sender. senator warner is recognized for a state of. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i apologize about having to step up for a while. thank you for breaking a little glass. this was, lord knows, not the traditional approach. and loss probably ideas about how this came about or why it came about, but as a guy who's only been here three years, you know, kind of the process here a round of document that is simply not you were future electoral campaigning process and how you actually try to reach common ground on a plan, 65, 70% of us could actually agree upon that would solve the problem. i think it's a much better approach. lord knows i know this simpson-bowles plan, which i've more than a passing familiarity with common will make folks on both side of the aisle, some folks on both sides of the aisle really upset. i th

bob dole served kansas in the united states senate for 27 years.th is, had he stopped serving his country at age 21, that would have been enough. more than enough. we all know the story. fighting in northern italy in 1945, bob was wounded severely, in fact, near fatally. for nine hours, he was left unattended and willed himself to survive. maybe that is why the enormous challenges he faced in the senate were once he faced with such inner confidence, but it also should give you a sense as it gives me a quiet courage. bob has always demonstrated that. during the 18 months we served together as leader, i have to say i was always impressed when he insisted on coming to my office for a meeting. a seasoned leader coming to the newcomer, a majority leader, to the minority leader's office -- only later did i realize it was a strategic move on his part. when he wanted the meeting over, he could just get up and leave. [laughter] of course, that did not stop me from falling him as i did after leaving the senate to join him in private life. bob dole is one of

bipartisan managers of this legislation, senator lieberman, senator collins, senator carper for their tireless work to save the united states postal service. i was proud to join a group of 28 senators who pushed for important changes to the bill in an attempt to better protect rural post offices, to develop new sources of business and maintain the reliable and timely service americans have come to expect. some of these changes have been incorporated into the legislation, and i think they are an important step toward improving it. now, with that said, i think we have more work to do and i know that there are a lot of people in this body who would like to see us debate a number of amendments related to the bill and try and make changes to improve the work that's already been done. rural communities rely on the postal service, and i think congress and this senate should improve the legislation to make sure that people have a real voice in the process when their post office is threatened. but if we don't act, the postal service could go bankrupt or it could be forced to make devastating service cuts, and so while this legislati

so he might not yet have been the united states senator. e math here but he was a senator in illinois getting ready to run for the united states senate and he was -- he barack obama and michelle obama, were still paying off their student loans. unbelievable and the president yesterday said, look. here is what you have got to do and students know how to do this is get busy and start tweeting members of congress which the students in north carolina and colorado had already done very successfully the day before. >> we have students at north carolina then at the university of colorado, they got it trending worldwide. see if you guys can do better. >> peter i am not sure. what does it mind, "trending worldwide"? >> if a lot of people are talking about it on twitter the more people talking about it, the more it trends. if you get a lot of people talking, it trends all around the world. >> which means more and more people pick it up? >> exactly. >> that's what it needs. >> that's what it needs because you have got this massive denial on the part of

the united states united states senate has not fulfilled a basic responsibilities. it is required by law to pass a budget by april 15 of every year. it's a reasonable requirement. it's a reasonable responsibility. the house republicans fulfilled this responsibility. they put forward a plan. they've shown the american people what they would do to solve our looming debt and deficit problem. the united states senate hasn't. why hasn't the majority here in the senate passed a budget? they have all the votes. they have them in the budget committee to refer a budget to the floor. they have the votes. they have the number of members on the floor of the senate to pass a budget. why do they refuse? is it because they have no solutions to our problem? or is it they have a solution, they simply don't want the american people to know what it is. trust us, we'll take care of us. is it also because they don't want their fingerprints on that solution? they don't want to be held accountable? i think more likely that's the reason we haven't passed a budget here in the senate for t

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introduce my very close friend and confidant in many ways in the four years i served in the united states senator as majority leader, my closest friend, the longest serving senator in kentucky, the second kentuckian to lead his party in the united states senate my friend and your friend republican leader mitch mcconnell. [applause] >> good evening. and bob and howard what a wonderful honor for both of you tonight. i'm happy to be a part of it. the presence of so many distinguished guests from across the political spectrum testifies not only to the highest esteem we all haveer for bob and howard but as for the growing reputation and influence of the bipartisan policy center, which of course he helped create. it is alsos a powerful validation of the center's mission. it's a genuine honor and a humbling one to be abe to participate in the tradition of two truly remarkable men. to reflect on the century of service between them and to draw lessons from that service as we inch toward the bipartisan solutions that we know will be needed if we're ever to address the looming crisis that cast a longer and

>> this is the united states senate youth program. two delegates were chosen from each state to represent, it shows our leadership and an interest in public service. >> i need to know your name and where you're from. >> i am callie porter from oregon. >> who would like to add to that? what did you do? >> number one, we met the president. >> the big deal. where did you meet him? >> at the white house. he got off the helicopter. he met us. we took a picture with him. he talked to was a little bit and answered questions. >> were you nervous at? >> oh yeah. >> you can fill the blanks of who you were able to meet? >> we met some alumni. chief justice roberts and henry. >> what did you learn from being in the supreme court? >> we learned about how our justice system works at a more personal level, how they have to separate their own believes from what is in the constitution in order to ensure proper proceedings. >> who can tell me how you get to be one of these delegates over here? where are you from? >> i am from new mexico. >> how did you

i'm joined by tammy baldwin of wisconsin now running for the united states senate seat in the state of wisconsin. appreciate your time. equality. that's really what we're talking about. equality for women in society. we're talking about jobs. we're talking about health care. in the state of wisconsin they have repealed a law that would make it -- would force the state to make sure that women get paid properly in the workplace. how can the republican party recover from this? >> well, it's shocking. all these things that we thought were very well settled equal pay for equal work, settled decades ago, access to birth control, settled decades ago. we see these issues being relitigated today. it's shocking to me. women make important decisions all the time about their own health care, about their family's health care, education and family budget. people have to start trusting women. these comments you have been sharing with your viewers tonight from republican leaders show just how out of touch they are with wisconsin women for sure. >> what impression does it leave on you when you have mit

honor to introduce my friend and confident in many ways in the four years i served in the united states senatesest friend, the longest serving senator in kentucky, the second kentucky and to lead his party in the united states senate. my friend and your friend, republican leader mitch mcconnell. [applause] [music playing] ♪ ♪ >> good evening. bob and howard, what a wonderful honor for both of you tonight. i am happy to be a part of it. the presence of so many distinguished guests from across the political spectrum testifies not only to the high esteem that we all have for bob and howard, but also for the growing reputation and influence of the bipartisan policy center. which of course, leads to help create. it is also a powerful validation of the senator's mission. it is a genuine honor and a humbling one to be able to participate in the celebration of two truly remarkable men. to reflect on this century of service between them, and to draw lessons from that service as we inched towards the bipartisan solutions that we know will be needed, if we are ever to address a looming crisis that casts

[applause] i want to stay parenthetically, i ran for the united states senate when i was 28 years old. nobody in my family or my dad had never been involved in public life. as one of my colleagues said, i am the first united states senator i ever knew. i ran at the time because i thought the policy that we had in vietnam, i thought it did doubt makes sense, the notion of dominoes and so forth. i came to washington as a 29- year-old kid. i was elected before i was eligible to serve. i had to wait until i was sworn in because i was not eligible under the constitution. my image of the military commanders at the time was, if you ever saw the old movie -- if you ever rented it, slim pickens is on the back of an atom bomb dropping out of a airplane yelling yippie kai yea. dr. strangelove was the movie. if you ask me to is the most impressive man and woman i have met in government, six of them would be men, women wearing the uniform. it is a different military. this guy was not only a great warrior, this guy is a diplomat discuss -- described as an incredibly bright man. he understands the r

broken record, i humbly come before you cable news watchers of america to report that in the united states senate once again, republicans have filibustered a piece of legislation that's both good policy and also wildly popular. >> breaking news, the senate voting right now on the buffet rule and the bill failing tonight. they called for a vote or the buffet rule today knowing it would never muster the 60 votes needed to pass. >> you probably heard a lot about the buffet rule. it would create an effective tax rate for people making a million dollars or more a year. it would do that to avoid a scenario in an x private bar republican president candidate drawing $20 million a year in capital games, let's call him kit dumbny would pay an efktive tax rate of 14% while middle class pays a tax rate higher than that. that's the buffet rule in a nutshell. it won't solve the deficit. it won't make all that much dent in and of itself. it should show something important which is our political institutions at the federal level we retain the capability of raising taxes on the wealthy. it's an open question whet

this allows for electronics surveillance of targets outside the united states. senator mikulski and i both serve on the senator intelligence committee, and we've done extensive oversight of the government's use of these surveillance authorities. and look forward to working with you to make sure congress can reauthorize title 7 well before the end of 2012. we need to maintain the collection of critical foreign intelligence and provide certainty to intelligence professionals in that regard. for members of this committee, that don't follow this issue closely, could you explain the need to reauthorize title 7 of fisa, and the efforts taken to protect the civil liberties and privacy of americans as this title is carried out? >> well, the surveillance authorities that are in the fisa amendments act are absolutely critical to our national security on a day-to-day basis. i authorize fisas, head of the national security division does, sometimes the deputy attorney general. it is a critical tool we have in keeping the american people safe, and so the administration strongly suppo

this is who we elect to the united states senate. that's incredible, folks.st elite clubs. 100 members. if that speaks of the mind set of that membership, i want in, okay? i just want in. incredible. incredible. i don't care whether you're left or right on this. it's coming home to reality. anyway, i thought about coming home to reality, ralph nader is and he is not happy with any of the guys ripping away at the president of the united states. and more to the point the new jobs guy, he says won't create jobs at all. now ralph rarely talks a lot of folks these days but he is going long with us, because he said we give him a fair hearing, we let him explain. we go back and forth. we are always respectful regardless. he is going to go long with us tonight. ralph nader taking on the president and two-par system, letting mitt romney have it, letting rick santorum have it, let washington have it. ralph nader tonight on fbn. suddenly a storm in my head. i'm thinking wait a minute, not only do you not have a hybrid vehicle, you don't have fbn. what do you do? >> dema

, a democratic president of the united states, a president of the united states on april 21, 1959, united states senator john fitzgerald kennedy in his campaign for president declared elections should have at least 30 days between their call and the vote so employees can be fully informed in their choices from both sides of the issue. if it what was right for john kennedy on april 21 of 1959, it's right for the united states senate today on april 24, 2012. and i commend the senator from wyoming on his presentation, his intensity and his ability to bring this issue before the american people and before the floor of the united states senate. and i yield back my time. mr. harkin: mr. president inquiry, how much time is remaining? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa has 20 minutes. the senator from wyoming has 12 minutes. mr. harkin: first mr. president, i have six unanimous consent requests for committees to meet during today's session of the senate. they have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. i ask unanimous consent these requests be greenwood grooth and printed in the record. th

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