and we don't have to go back to 2006 to find examples of senate democrats using the rules of the senate to stop passage of what many of us deemed bad legislation. just last year, these recollections prevented an adoption of an amendment that would have essentially prevented the e.p.a. from protecting waters under the clean water act. we stopped an amendment to allow loaded and concealed weapons on lands managed by the army corps of engineers as a minority with minority votes. as minority votes, we stopped some -- we stopped legislation that would av allowed some individuals who were deemed mentally incompetent access to firearms. that's just the last year. removing these minority protections risks that in the future important civil and political rights might just disappear because a majority agree that they should. and let us not kid ourselves. the fact that we changed the rules today just to apply to judges and executive nominations does not mean the same precedent won't be used tomorrow or the next year or the year after to provide for the end of a filibuster on legislation, on bills

. >> reporter: senator reid's staff told us that the senator was not interested in any interview. three years ago he told cnn that yucca mountain was basically a dead issue to his. states with nuclear waste could keep it right where it is. >>. >> if you can't find a desert and a mountain in illinois that meets the qualifications for the safety for it to be stored a million years, i don't think we would have a business beef.

and we don't have to go back to 2006 to find examples of senate democrats using the rules of the senate to stop passage of what many of us deemed bad legislation. just last year, these recollections prevented an adoption of an amendment that would have essentially prevented the e.p.a. from protecting waters under the clean water act. we stopped an amendment to allow loaded and concealed weapons on lands managed by the army corps of engineers as a minority with minority votes. as minority votes, we stopped some -- we stopped legislation that would av allowed some individuals who were deemed mentally incompetent access to firearms. that's just the last year. removing these minority protections risks that in the future important civil and political rights might just disappear because a majority agree that they should. and let us not kid ourselves. the fact that we changed the rules today just to apply to judges and executive nominations does not mean the same precedent won't be used tomorrow or the next year or the year after to provide for the end of a filibuster on legislation, on bills

we have to get senator mcconnell's permission before they'll let us get an amendment. and i said, wait a minute, do you not understand that you are duly elected senator from a state of america, and you have to ask permission of the republican leader before you can get a vote on an amendment? i mean, how did this happen? so this is a background issue that we have that is undermining collegiality in this body. i'm tired of asking the majority leader for permission to give me a vote in the united states senate. a senator: would the senator yield? mr. sessions: yes. mr. roberts: i'd just like -- mr. sessions: senator from kansas, i yield for a question. mr. roberts: i'd like to point out, i'm assuming his situation is very similar to the situation that i find myself in. about a year ago we had a farm bill up. i was the ranking member of the committee. we voted 73 times. we had over 300 offered. as amendments came forth and the first amendment had nothing to do with agriculture, basically we got through it in two and a half days. now move ahead to this year's farm bill, i th

>> thank you, chairman cardin, thank you, ranking member rubio, and thank you also for joining us, senator flake and senator schatz, and thank you for the invitation to testify on the ongoing u.s. government response to typhoon haiyan, known locally in the philippines as typhoon l yolanda. and thank you also very much for your continued support of u.s. humanitarian programs around tht world, which every day, as ams r they're doing currently inou th philippines, are saving many, many lives. chairman cardin, i want to thank you, as well, for the invitation rm participate in the event in bowie.an it was enjoyable. and it was good to see the energy that exists in the filipino-american community and their deep, deep committee to helping with the response to this. s super typhoon haiyan was one of the most powerful storms ever tl make landfall.to and the government of the philippines estimates that around 10 million people have 0 been affected, of whom 4 million have been displaced from their homes and roughly 4,000 deaths have so far been confirmed. the devastation and the loss oft life is abso

senate foreign relations committee. let me thank chairman menendez for allowing us to conduct this subcommittee hearing on such short notice. senator rubio, thank you very much for your help and your staff's help in arranging this hearing in record time. when we say the senate can't act quickly, we did act quickly on putting this hearing together, and i very much appreciate that, all the people who worked to make this possible. nice to see you again, we were together yesterday, billy, referred to that, but the filipino ambassador to the united states is a friend and has been extremely helpful to us. shortly after the typhoon, we had a chance to talk, and at that time i expressed our deep condolence on the loss of life as a result of the typhoon, and america's interest to exercise leadership internationally in assisting the filipinos in the recovery, saving lives, and dealing with the restorations that are going to be necessary for the people of the philippines. the tragic typhoon, yolanda, was horrible, tragic. the numbers that we have from yesterday, as of yesterday, from the usaid indicates that over 10 million people we

senator majority leader harry reid. something that both parties have threatened to do to use the nuclear option. and senator reid said he is just had enough. that the president needs his team in place. secretary hagel the defense secretary taking over a month to get confirmed. as president obama pointed out in his remark as few moments ago. so call it what you will, but democrats see it very differently, they say this is necessary to get the business of the country moving forward. >> libby casey on capitol hill, thank you very much. it's been a frustrating process for those nominees. it means. you work in a law firm, you could not take any cases until you wait for your confirmation. >> now to geneva. the e.u. saying negotiators from iran and six world powers including the u.s. now reviewing a draft copy of a working agreement. live in geneva, the lot rattling today by all sides is there still optimism there? >> we so know the meeting continue, it has been interesting to note that primarily they have been centered around the e. u. representative here. kathryn ashton, she has been the one having by

i recognize the need for the senate to be responsive to changing times and of work continually for necessary reforms aimed at modernizing this institution using the prescribed senate procedure for

joining me now is democratic senator jeff merkley of oregon, senator, thank you for joining us. >> you'reme, rachel, great to be with you. >> so it seems to me you are on to something here, even though it may be unpopular. do you think the senate has changed enough to support this idea? >> well, i absolutely do. the idea that we'll extend this war another ten years, make a commitment to have perhaps 7 to 12,000 troops during that period. to spend at least another $50 million, that is understating it by a factor of two. to do it without any form of a congressional dialogue to say yes, this makes sense, i think it is a bipartisan sense that absolutely congress should weigh in. and by the way, the u.s. house of representatives voted on this back in june, approving it 305. you finally found something both the house and senate can say yes to. >> i was just going to point that out. on every other issue in the world, when the senate gets close to doing something, unexpected from conservative ways in the past, in this case the house has already jumped. they considered the same issue. the bed fell

used by protesters critics of brand new senate bill as a way to legalize data collection. just after eight o'clock on saturday morning here in moscow it's on t.v. with me rule research. news team welcome to today's program october has become the bloodiest month in iraq in five years the data from the country's interior ministry the defense and health ministries as well putting the death toll at nine hundred sixty four people that's almost ninety percent of them being civilians and according to the government the number hasn't been this high since april two thousand and eight when more than a thousand were killed by the numbers don't quite correspond with the findings of the u.n. which puts july as the bloodiest this year but whatever the figures it's clear the country is facing an increasing security problem and no surprise then the iraqi prime minister is currently in washington asking for help let's get more now from. joining us live here on the program good morning to you all the way from moscow any results from his visit so far. well we know that the iraqi leadership h

senate today on their action. he said -- quote -- "the american people sent us here to be their voice. they understand that those voices can at times become lewd and argumentative, but they also hope we can disagree without being disagreeable." and then senator barack obama on april 1, 2005, went on to say -- "what they don't expect is for one party, be it republican or democrat, to change the rules in the middle of the game so that they can make all the decisions while the other party is told to sit down and keep quiet." i ask my colleagues, what were we just told to do today? he went on to say -- "the american people want less partisanship in this town, but everyone in this chamber knows that the majority chooses to end the filibuster." quote -- "if they choose to change the rules and put an end to the democratic debate, then the fighting and the gridlock will only get worse." he went on to say -- "now, i understand the republicans are getting a lot of pressure to do this from faxes outside the chamber, but we need to rise above the ends justifies the means mentality because we're her

that they believe terrorists are using. senator frachken also mentioned a comment by former nsa director michael hayden. put simply, these generals recognize that saying someone on a service is being surveilled is very different from identifying who on that service is being surveilled and only the latter is dangerous to national security. therefore, the less transparent alternatives to the bill the government has suggested are unnecessary to protect national security. more than that, they would actually be worse than the current transparency status quo. on the government reporting side the dni has announced he will voluntarily public new statistics reflecting how many people have been, quote, targeted, unquote under various surveillance authorities. but such limited reporting would actually be misleading. for example, the dni's reporting for 2012 would only have indicated that around 300 people had their telephony metadata targeted under section 215 of the patriot act. w yet we know now know the government has used section 215 to o

dow is indeed i quite easy to configure their investors also were cheered by the approval by the us senate banking committee for a picture nominee janet gallon that was the sentiment is well let's look at the opening doubles for the nick in the topics that fifteen thousand four hundred seventy eight. it actually broke above fifteen thousand five hundred by the open. but a pretty strong stock you know we may see them make it to sixteen thousand level soon here as well the closest we came to that was intra day high up on may twenty third when it is fifteen thousand nine hundred and forty two and all the stronger dollar right now and does be it with a heavily weighted of blue chip exporters. that may push it higher as well we will continue to watch that and vindicate at the opera for asian indexes yesterday. and a close up of nearly two percent. so with a record closing highs we've seen in the us at the moment so deftly looks favorable i now want a headwind all that we should look out for every leads to china's economy and the pmi that we saw yesterday was that it is the sneaky manufacturing

more brings us more from the capital here leigh two months ago the senate foreign relations committee approved using military force in syria to respond to alleged chemical weapons use it was a close vote in the committee ten senators supporting using force seven senators against but ultimately u.s. military strikes were averted after the russian stepped in and negotiated a deal approved by the assad government in syria and the un security council to turn over chemical weapons to the international body for destruction war was averted well today that same senate foreign relations committee met again to be updated on the situation in syria at this hearing comes just as the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons announced that syria will meet the imposed november first deadline to have all chemical weapons production and mixing facilities destroyed given the progress made over the intervening months using diplomacy instead of committee approved military strikes some senators question the ability of the u.s. military to solve problems around the wo

it's a huge pleasure and an honor to have senator warren joining us as our final speaker. i'll be very brief because she really truly does not need any introductions and to leave time for her remarks. let me just say that senator warren's leadership was at the heart of the creation of the consumer financial protection bureau which was a accomplishment of financial reform so far. and her continuing focus on holding wall street and wall street's regulators accountable to working families gets to the heart of the task ahead as well. to many of the issues that people described in their remarks today. the financial crisis and the economic crisis that followed have made it sadly obvious in many, many people's lived experience that the rules and design of the financial system may look obscure, complicated, off to one side but they in fact have enormous consequence for all of us. what senator warren does so remarkably, her clarity penetrating that on security and her tenacity for main street makes it easier to be hopeful that together we can actually do something about a number of

ratty that we've seen in the making lovely of course as he sat there are this big focus on of the us senate banking committee of course and the nomination. or to hearing from a dead cat or a vice chair janet gallon on the receivers can be the focus is widely seen continuing the fed's current aggressive monetary easing of policy and of course the fed officials really trying to make their own forces her to swell lot of them have been on the news lately in the last twenty four hours suggesting is that the tightening of the tapering of the car on buying program but which frankly has really been the main driving force behind global financial markets since he was mentioned earlier this year so they focus on that as well. and i mean the dollar is staying strong against the yen. not so much against the euro with the story here today. yet the degrees of the year on performance but first let's have a look at the some of the paris hear that all of course remains high and instead began speculation that the fed may taper sooner rather than later. as a reduction in the flow of dollars up from the current

us senator chris murphy and congressman gregory meeks were in berlin for damage control. their visit was part of an ongoing effort to restore trust between transatlantic partners. meeks told german policy makers to us takes german privacy concerns seriously. we don't take the actions of what has taken place within the state likely we are working diligently it is of concern in it matters to the people of the united states of america sharon has reacted angrily to revelations that the us has been spying on german e mails and phone calls. it's believed us intelligence listened in on tap american cell phone conversations for years. foreign minister to go best non stressed the need for clear walls in the future the euro. we want to find the right balance between security and privacy. that is the spirit of today's meeting he's a good question senator murphy said many americans were also concerned about overreach by intelligence services and there was momentum in congress toward new curbs. to be about setting new ground rules by which we jointly engage in only enough surveillance

for now in the program on r t the us senate committee has passed a bill to rein in the n.s.a. following the revelations of edward snowden the document was aimed at scaling down the amount of records the intelligence agency will be able to obtain in the critics say the measure could actually do exactly the opposite. senator feinstein's bill is an effort to codified the n.s.a.'s bulk collection of americans telephone records which is in fact on shaky legal footing right now and there's another program that's being legalized in this bill which has not gotten as much attention as it really should which is the back door searches of international communications and so what has been happening is that the n.s.a. is allowed under the limits act to go collect huge amounts of communications of people who are suspected to be foreigners overseas without any individual warrant because they are foreigners overseas what ends up happening is the n.s.a. scoops up a lot of communications between people overseas and americans and also ends up scooping a lot of purely domestic communications of am

senator john mccain will be joining us later, among others, including bob menendez, the democratic chairmanf the senate foreign relations committee, they have just issued a statement saying a nuclear weapons capable iran presents a grave threat to the national security of the united states and its allies, and we are committed to preventing iran from acquiring this capability. we will work together to reconcile democratic and republican proposals over the coming weeks and to pass bipartisan iran sanctions legislation as soon as possible. it's significant because if the senate, if congress were to go ahead and strengthen sanctions at this time, intensify those sanctions, the administration believes that could be a deal killer as far as a nuclear arrangement with iran. >> reporter: absolutely. administration officials tell me, they say listen, this threatens our good faith in these negotiations, not only for the americans with the iranians but even the american side with its european partners, that if new sanctions are added, that would threaten good faith. but it's one reason they feel they r

the us senate committee has passed a bill to rein in the nsa following the revelations of the car adverts noted the doctor i was aimed at scaling down the amount of records the intelligence agency will be able to obtain it. critics say the measure will do quite the opposite. senator feinstein civilians and after two codified the nsa is an old collection of americans' telephone records which is in fact on shaky legal footing right now and it's another program that's being legalized in the spell which has not got as much attention as this is really shed which is the back door search is on international communications and to what is happening is that the nsa is allowed under the eyes and an exact to go collapse huge amounts of communications of people who are suspected to be foreigners overseas without any individual court because they are foreigners overseas what ends up happening is cns the school site a lot of communications between people overseas and americans and also ends up scooping a lot of purely domestic communications of americans into that pile as well. on the sort of communicat

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senate. >> so-called nuclear option. >> using a 51 vote majority. >> change the rules of the senate. >> stopping filibusters of presidential nominee. >> utterly absurd. >> republicans are concerned. >> frustration has been concerned. >> congress is broken. >> the democrats are just at their wits end. >> i believe the american people are right. >> the democrats are fed up. >> sound like harry reid is trying to change the subject. >> obstruction. >> obstruction in congress. >> so much obstruction in the senate. >> this gridlock has not served the cause of justice. >> that story line is patently ridiculous ridiculous. >> the red phone is ringing. >> will republicans pick it up? >> absolutely not. >> the camel's back was broken in the united states senate today by this straw. patricia millet nominated to be one of 11 judges on the washington, d.c. court off peels second most important court in the country. that court has jurisdiction over some of the most important appeals that find their way down the street to the united states supreme court. it its the place where presidents most often look for th

us apart. the age-old rules of the senate are being used to paralyze us. the public is begging us to act. approval, it is giving advantage to those who want to prevent the senate from achieving anything. that theynnell says have tried to change the subject, but i beg to differ. he doesn't want to address the all about earth or the rule changes. the filibuster were the rule changes. he does not want to discuss the dysfunction and the way republicans have used the rules to tie this place in one big knot. sides, and one is opposed, give the opposition a head start. republicans have abuse that advantage for years now. they have refused to confirm or qualified judges. they are preventing executive agencies from having the leaders they deserve. it is a new world. people demand action. the rules will need to be modified and that is what we have done today. up, we not ripped them have modified them in ways that make things work. not thinkica does that a president, democrat or republican, deserves his artwork picks for who should run the agency. nobody. but there's a long list of cabinet and sub-ca

those every other tax cuts worked really really good and yes veterans groups are trying to convince us senators to finally ratify an international treaty intended to raise the standards of living people with disabilities united nations agreed to the convention on the rights of people with disabilities in two thousand and seven and the obama administration signed on and two thousand and nine but last year the senate failed to ratify the seemingly bipartisan treaty even though former republican senator bob dole lobbied republican senators from his own wheelchair now veterans are stepping up the pressure on washington to finally ratify the treatment don't the men and women who courageously fought for our country and who have the scars and wounds to prove it deserve to live the rest of their lives with dignity and respect absolutely but let me tell you this that why every news to report out there says that our laws are the strongest in the world and that the only reason we want to meet i go into this strong for the rest of the world is you encourage other countries basically we don't need to sign o

. >> today, senate majority leader reid used his vine account to point out senator mcconnell's frequent calls for up or down votes on judicial nominees. >> up or down vote should be given to presidential nominees. up or down vote. up or down vote. all we're looking for is an up or down vote. >> what is not clear is what this means for the future of the filibuster or for the senate going for or for the politics of president obama's second term. what is clear that as of now, we have entered a new era in the united states senate. joining me now, senator tom u udall, and it was you who said, we have to reform the filibuster, and you are in a distinct minority, i think of the caucus at that point. did you ever think you would see this day? >> i thought we were going to see this day, because this was a victory for democracy and we've returned to the constitution, and i think it's very important that we do that, so that we can do the things we promised the american people we would do when we got elected. >> how did it come about? i mean, i know from talking to senator reid's staff, from talkin

. >>> us senate allies are looking at a 2 step process to freeze the nuclear program in exchange for sanction relief. >>> pakistan's interior ministry announce that day the former president faces treason charges. it was imposing emergency rule in 2007. he will be investigated. mmmm..... sharrif is facing other criminal caseincluding one relate today the death of the former prime minister 6 years ago. >>> people aboard a russian airline is dead tonight. it took off and went down while trying to land in the city of cazan. it carried 44 passengers and a crew of 6. >>> services are crippled due to a storm. over 50 flights were cancelled. the snow fall is scheduled top continue all the way into monday. there are no plans of delays or cancellations from san francisco. >>> a drone m'am functions off the coast of southern california sending two sailors to the sick bay. we find out what went wrong. >> coming up, a clean up is planned for homeless encamp. s in east bay city but is it needed? i'll investigate in the next edition of people behaving badly. >>> a new hotel is offering you can chan

every other tax cuts worked really really good and the adventure and arabs are trying to convince us senators to finally ratify an international treaty intended to raise the standards of living people with disabilities the united nations agreed to the convention on the rights of people with disabilities in two thousand and seven and the obama administration signed on and two thousand and nine but last year the senate failed to ratify the seemingly bipartisan treaty even though former republican senator bob dole lobbied republican senators from his own wheelchair now veterans are stepping up the pressure on washington to finally ratify the treatment don't the men and women who courageously fought for our country and who have the scars and wounds to prove it. deserve to live the rest of their lives with dignity and respect absolutely but let me tell you this then why every news to report out there says that our laws are the strongest in the world and that the only reason we want to meet i don't want to this gives a strong for the rest of the world as you encourage other countries basically we d

and today, at the white house, key members of the us senate met with president obama to hear the latestthe lawmakers are skeptical iran will actually offer anything acceptable to the us, and some of the us lawmakers believe the best approach is to impose new sanctions on iran. white house officials say the president asked the lawmakers to hold off and give the talks more time. mike viqueira joins me now from washington. mike, give us a read-out on the president's meeting? any indication that the president tipped off to members of congress that there is a deal. >> what the president was saying is give negotiate yateses a chance. many are unhappy and they think that iran is duping the west. and the six powers that are in talks about iran. by sharply curtailing their poa potential to have a nuclear weapon. he had these members of congress and the members of the senate and both republican and democrat from the white house for two hours. there was a comprehensive presentation asking them to load back on even tougher sanctions. >> the white house has said time and time again it's sanctions th

. >> republican senator rand paul joins us. good evening, sir. >> hey, greta, glad to be with you. >> nice to have you. so the medicare chief marilyn tafner testified today she said that the web site is continuing to improve. that brings some sort of sense of contentment to you? i don't know what other words describe. >> well, i guess she could have said it can't get any worse and that would have been accurate as well. no, i'm quite concerned that more people are being cancelled from their insurance than are able to sign up for insurance. in my state of kentucky, which some people are touting as a success, 10 times as many people have lost their insurance as have signed up for obamacare. and the ones that have signed up for obamacare, 8 a% of the people in my state have signed up for medicaid, free healthcare. so i think we are headed towards a lot of problems each if they eventually, you know, figure out the web site, then it's going to hit home how much this is going to cost. >> you know, i just don't get. this everyone is ve

senator. >> madame secretary, thank you for joining us this morning. the problems we are facing with the marketplace website are unacceptable, they need to be fixed immediately. i would like to put things in a historical perspective. the age-old plan is facing hurdles. problems the set show soul security. medicare is facing trouble. new problems in medicare bug trend it -- drug benefit. those are headlines from the early part of this decade. major programs that have come below in terms of the social safety net in this country and health care security. while this is an excusable, it is a challenge that has been faced time and time when any program has been unveiled. i find it amazing that those that seek to ascribe blame have spent every waking hour of the last four years working to dismantle, destroy, obstruct, and impede the success of the affordable care act. they are concerned not about its failure, but about its success. what i hope we will focus on is how to succeed. i want to get a sense when those of us on the committee worked to put this togeth

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us apart. the age old rules of the senate are being used to paralyze us and the public is asking, is begging us to act. are at 9% approval because the rules give advantage to those who want to prevent the senate from achieving anything. mitch mcconnell says we tried to would -- we try to change the subject? i beg to differ. isee quarters of his speech dedicated to obamacare. we are not changing the subject. he is. theoes not want to discuss dysfunction and the way republicans have used the rules to tie this place in one big not . if you have 2 sides, one that is for action and one that is opposed, the senate rules give the opposition a head start. republicans have abused that advantage for years now, refusing to confirm qualified judges, preventing executive agencies from having the leaders they deserve. it is a new world. people demand action. the old rules need to be modified. that is what we have done today. we have not ripped them up. we have modified them in ways that can make rings work. not think aca does president, democrat or republican, deserves his or her pick for who should run the

it was a close vote in the committee. 10 senators supported using force. seven senators against. but ultimately u.s. military steps were averted. approved by syria and the u.n. security council to turn over chemical weapons for destruction. war was averted. well, today that same senate foreign relations committee met again to be updated on the situation. this comes after the prohibition of chemical weapons announced syria will meet to have all chemical weapon production and mixing facilities destroyed. given the progress made over the intervening months cruising diplomacy instead of military strikes, some senators question the ability of the u.s. military to solve problems around the world. >> we have to approach all of this with a lot of humility given what we've learned after we intervened in iraq and libya in afghanistan after what would go on in syria. and we would have a little bit of humility. >> there's a fatigue that the american public are feeling now about the limits of our efforts in this part of the world as senator markey mentioned. we need to have humility about the

very much, senator. >> 10,000 people a day and the baby boomers are retiring. there are 80 million of us over the next 40 years are going to go into retirement. when i was born in 1955 there were 16 workers for every retiree. today, how many are there? >> a few, senator. >> three. in 20 years, how many will it be? >> two. >> right. so here's the big dilemma. if 80 million people are going to retire and the numbers are going to change from three now and 20 years two, we have a problem. you agree with that? >> yes, senator. >> so when it comes to a general treasury obligations in the future, i just don't see how we can avoid entitlement reform. do you gr agree with that? raise taxes a lot or cut benefits a lot. >> they have to cut even further what is scheduled in current law into the other benefits and services of the government provides. >> that will amount to a smaller share of gdp than it has in many decades. logically, that is your number. >> we have a prom that can't be ignored. that is the retirement of the babyboomers. is that correct? >> that's correct, senator. >> is that why pre

. >>> now, new york democratic senator kirsten gillibrand join us now. i'm going to ask you the same question, can president obama regain the trust of american people? >> of course, he can. martha, what is this about, everyday people needing access to affordable health care. they don't want their coverage drop due to a pre-existing conditions. they want their kids covered up to 26. they want to have preventive care covered. once we get over this implementation issue. they can fix this. it's a fixable problem. once they fix it, people will see, i have an opportunity to cover my family. martha, i was in the emergency room with my son who had an asthma attack. i looked in the eyes of all of the mothers in the emergency room. these are mothers who don't have health care, this may be their only access. >> but whose trust has been shattered. >> that's just an implementation issue. once you get beyond it. >> you think we'll get beyond it by november 30th. >> we will. what they'll see is, emergency room is covered. >> i want to go back to this implementation. di

us. >> senator silvio berlusconi's election is declared void. >> the supporters call it a coup. the majority say this is democracy. the laws of the land being enforced. even if the senate voted, silvio berlusconi supporters came out to cheer their man. >> translation: the judiciary, dishonest politicians are on one side. we are with silvio berlusconi. we'll always be with him. >> he's been the master of media manipulation. don't be fooled by the smile. power is ebbing away from him. >> translation: we are here in what is a bitter day, a day of mourning for italian democracy. we must stay on the field and not despair if the leader of the center right is not the senator any more. there are leaders of other parties who are not parliamentarians. >> silvio berlusconi will still have a loud voice here in italy. he's a weather man and controls newspapers and television stations. but it's clear that his hold over italian politics is not what it was. >> silvio berlusconi's chosen successor on the center right, angelino alfano, has broken away and supports the government. that means silvio

landrieu: senator hoeven has joined us. e's been particularly forceful on the issue of basements in a state that doesn't have an ocean anywhere around it, but has some serious flooding challenges, and i would hope the senator would take a minute to explain what he's been telling us and how important this particular piece of this bill is for the basement situations in your state. mr. hoeven: madam president, i'd like to thank the good senator from louisiana, very pleased to join in this colloquy with my cosponsors in this very important legislation. this is about affordability of homeownership. the american dream is about homeownership, always has been, we need to make sure that continues. it is about fortunate but it's also about -- affordability but it's also about getting it right. if we're going to reset flood insurance rates we need to get it right. this affects people across this great nation, it affects their ability to own and continue to own their own home. we need to make sure as we make this transition -- which we'

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a good friend to a lot of us senator ted stevens who first asked for prostate cancer research go to dod. several years later, he announced on the floor of the senate he made a mistake. he should never have done that and that money ought to be spent on research, but it ought to be spent at nih and not the department of defense. as we go forward, gentlemen, with the defense authorization bill and the next couple of weeks, i look forward to seeing that list that general dempsey gets to us with respect to items that come out of each of your budgets that hopefully we can have the spine to stand up and say, irrespective of parochial interests, we've got to look after our men and women and they need this money to be spent in our areas rather than areas the military themselves say we don't need to spend it. thank you very much. >> thank you, senator chambliss. senator now senator shaheen. >> thank you, chairman for holding this hearing today. thank you gentlemen for being here. i would hope as the sentiments expressed by some of our colleagues that this congress would deal with sequestration in