>> no, webb. >> webb second degree. >> if webb's is accepted, mine would not be relevant. it was slightly narrower and there was some question as to whether you -- no, you had questions as to whether you were going to accept webb before he came into the meeting and now that you are, that makes mine not necessary. >> i did. i was prepared to -- as long as we were able to revise it with respect to that support and we have so revised it, so i would be prepared to accept it. is there any further debate on it? >> i don't want to put a fly on the armor but i did have a question of mr. webber and mr. lugar. in reading this last night, both your second degree as well as the principle amendment, the thought occurred to me about the deployment of a seal team or a special operation that became necessary. is the exception in yal's opinion, that's a certain -- y'all's opinion, that's a southern term for both of you, is it y'all's opinion that the security of american personnel and/or the rescue of nato forces could be construed to be broad enough to give the latitude to deploy a seal t

armed services committee, senators jack reed and jim webb. it's up next after this brief commercial. >>> we are back, joined by two military veterans and members from the democrat armed services committee, jack reed and democrat from virginia, jack webb. this is what the president announced this week in his speech. i'll put it on our screen so our viewers can see in terms of the drawdown. due to be withdrawn by the end of this year is 10,000. the surge groups in total will be out by the end of next summer. public opinions on the side of a faster withdraw, the latest pew poll shows that clearly, 56% say remove troops as soon as possible. did the president make a political decision here and say it's time to get out? >> no, i don't think so. it was a difficult decision in 2009, a speech at west point about a strategy taking down al qaeda, building up the afghan army and beginning to reduce our forces in july of this year. he's falling through on that strategy. the pace is appropriate. it recognizes that we do have to maintain a presence. that pr

webb and mr. lugar. in reading this last night, the thought occurred to me about the deployment of the seal team or a special operation that became necessary. is the exception in y'all's opinion -- that is a southern term for both of you. [laughter] is it y'all's opinion that the security of american personnel or the rescue of nato forces could be construed broad enough that you could deploy a seal team for a targeted mission and bring them out, or would they have to come to congress for approval of that? >> it would be my reading of this amendment -- and also there are no terminologies in this amendment that address national command authority. >> so the answer is that restriction wouldn't exist by virtue of this language? >> in my reading of it, it would not. that wasn't the intention. >> it would be the same for you. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> can you just clarify the change in language that you are looking for? senator webb's amendment? >> the change of language is in line two, page two of webb am

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anyway today word on the webb was hash tag plenty more where this came from. congressman weiner scheduled a press conference for 4:00. i decided to tune in. and andrew breitbart the owner operator of the website big government was in the neighborhood in new york city, showed up and took over weiner's press conference. >> i'd like an apology from him. i'm here for some vindication. >> jon: this is the weirdest (beep) story i've ever seen in my life. or the greatest episode of maury ever. so, after breitbart's 4:00 p.m. press conference that was for congressman weiner, it was time for congressman weiner's post breitbart press conference. >> i have made terrible mistakes. i've hurt the people i care about the most and i am deeply sorry. >> jon: there you have it. at 4:25 eastern standard time this story officially became sad. you know, we forget sometimes... i certainly do-- that these people are human. and that's the lesson that is going to stay with me. until i turn back to the camera over there and do a little bit on the john edwards' story. all right. i don't

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maria elena, roberta turmah, rosita rojada, dorian webb. those are the first four names. [inaudible] >> i am melena herrerra. i am part of the bernal heights program. i am here to tell you about the after-school program and what it does for the youth. we go to school. what do we have to do after? we can go walk around. we have after-school programs with things we enjoy. they have activities. we are building our knowledge outside of school. it also ties in with violence. that is something we do not want to have a lot of in the city. this is our community. after-school programs kind of cuts it down. think about it, if we do not have after-school programs, where are we going to go? we need things that make us happy. we go to school. we work hard. we want fun things to do after. how about if we need help after? it is a place we feel safe at. why would we get rid of something that helps and builds our community? thank you. [applause] >> that is an excellent question. one of the agencies that deals with a lot of the after-school programs is the department of children, youth, an

david webb, what do you say to that?just want to go with the numbers, and let's talk about massachusetts. where the uninsured rate dropped to 2 percent from 6 percent, but the cost, spending in the state has grown from 16 percent to 30 percent, 40 percent today and the national state average, 25 percent. subsidy, about $830 million in 2011, which by the way are not being paid back by the states. the problem with this plan, martha, is that it is a -- it makes it sound good if you drop the numbers but if you increase the costs you lessen the access to health care and that is the key here, when you have a lack of doctors, when you have hospitals being closed, when you have the lack of access for those 10 percent of kids who now can't even get to it, it's going to grow in the numbers. martha: you know, one other point that i would just raise and get your thoughts on is this: when all of this began, when the omabacare movement began, there was a lot of question about whether or not in these economic times this was a good time

they came after the american senator jim webb and called for multilateral negotiations. washington drew criticism from china last year by asserting that the u.s. had in national security interest in the region. you're watching newsday on the bbc, live from singapore and london. still to come -- the name of the east. formountry's clamoring to a new middle lines. >> much under-used a red carpet has been rolled out in puerto rico as barack obama became the first u.s. president to visit the territory in 50 years. while residents listened to him caylee m.i.a. it is the key hispanic vote in the united states -- listen to him keenly, it is the key hispanic vote in the and it states that he is after . >> he had pledged to return to pr as a sitting president. u.s. presidents don't come here very often appeared >> the residents of the island can determine their own future. and when the people of puerto rico make a clear decision, my administration will stand by you. >> that endorsement was music to the years of the porter ricans who sometimes feel ignored by washington. >> everybo

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catch up on friday a group of five more experienced golfers are great chasing the youngster nine under webbsimpson nearest rivals after the twenty five year old almost aced the sixteenth. couldn't quite see it but believe me he almost did the light surgery to come on or perhaps off later on saturday in germany with two premier middleweight boxers set to face off feel xterm holds the w.b. a title with irish challenger must you must play in the slide i decided to capture the germans belt in cologne though he hasn't lost in eleven fights after moving up from the likes of middleweight ranks the twenty nine year old overall record standing twenty eight wins two losses with an impressive nine being. the slightly more season sturm thirty five victories two losses on the all held the title since two thousand and seven mufon the ever sees the thirty two year old is going to get tired quickly while the german title holder has heard the same criticism but his opponent and agrees with that. it was to talk openly his opponents through the work he's worth right is relatively low really going comparison s

and on to the men's game now webb says gosh dredging langdon has announced his retirement from the sport the decision may just days after the muscovites clinched the ninth straight domestic league title the american had played the meets league in the n.b.a. with a cavalier as before signing up with says guy in two thousand and five he also spent one season with novel moscow thirty five year old langdon has won the russian championship six times would says he was part of the euro league winning sport in two thousand and eight and was named the final full most valuable player that season. in the meantime the dallas mavericks a continuing to soak in glory after winning their first ever championship in the team's thirty one the history dirk nowitzki and company hitting all the right notes as a team to upset the star packed miami heat in six games. it's been full moons in the finals. that was just a touch better than his rendition of the famous victory song and now the long tenured thirty two yr old gets to add to his legacy by helping bring the title to the mavericks all pours of two hundred

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. >>> virginia's mark warner and jim webb are two of six senators calling for stricter driving standards in the bus industry. they sent a message to ray lahood. this less than a week after the bus crash in virginia. that letter comes on a day with two more bus crashes. the first early this morning on interstate 10 in alabama. more than 20 people were injured when a bus there hit a tractor trailer around 12:30 a.m. and more than three dozen people injured when a bus carrying members of a youth marching band crashed in western iowa this morning. that bus blew a tire along i-80 just before 8:00 a.m. >>> well let's take a look at our own evening rush hour. monica with your time saving traffic. the yellow light is still there. >> we have some incidents to show you. first of all, start off south of town on the eisenhower connector. an accident with the center lane getting thru. you can see the slow traffic because of it. let's take you over to the west side of town. on the outer loop of the beltway, you'll have to trust me on this one. things are looking good at river road. it's a little bit s

and peter webb. >> thank you, directors. i want to thank you for your roll today. i have noticed that you voted in favor of identically what i proposed at the beginning of the town hall meeting. there was five meetings of a round-up that we were on the same page if you were both in favor of a meter increase. that would be something that i don't ask for. i'd liking to say that your -- if i were to be wrong that they're ever relevant or make sense, do i not believe that i'm wrong. i'd like to appeal to you especially to director ford to reconsider developing the o.t.a. that's the open task. ray side from the good will, you'll be ability to ghons strait by receiving 4% of the money. the o.t.a. will receive many problems that have never been solved by releasing more medallions. open taxi accent will encourage the people. it will reduce the log jam at conventional dispatch. several things fall into place very nicely and that's should be the very next item of business, not more cast. basically you're finding a political solution to a business problem. another business so

webb: thank you, mr. president. mr.president, i'm pleased to come down to the senate floor along with my colleague senator corker, a fellow member of the senate foreign relations committee, to speak about a joint resolution that we introduced earlier today that deals with the situation in libya. this was introduced as a joint resolution rather than as an amendment on the current legislation because i believe that this matter is serious enough that our body should actually consider this as a stand-alone piece of legislation and coordinate it with the house and get this passed with due speed. this resolution, first of all, contains a statement of policy that american armed forces should be used exclusively to defend and advance our national security interests. second, it prohibits the deployment, establishment or maintenance of ground troops in libya with two notable exceptions. the first would be for the purpose of immediate personal defense of american government officials, including diplomatic representatives, which i

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jimmy webb did one of his songs-- and liza minnelli, michael feinstein.d and have fallen in love with the writing of janis ian. i think janis ian's one of the great unsung writers of our time. her song on the other side is a song that i really champion. the writing of beth nielsen chapman, which you may remember from an issue-- rather, an episode of e.r. it's a song called sand and water, i believe. beautiful song. and through the years, i have found joni mitchell at the right time when she didn't have a recording contract and was able to sing her songs. and of course leonard cohen, who is one of the great all-time writers of all time. i think he's a marvelous, marvelous poet-- spiritual, social, poetic, political, searing writer of great songs. now, you encouraged him to perform as well. i did. in fact, we were doing a benefit for wbai, the radio station here in new york, which is still thriving. and i said, "well, i want you to come and be on the show." and i had sung his first two songs that he'd written-- suzanne and a song called dress rehearsal rag.

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

it's good to see senator webb has reintroduced the bill in the senate. we passed in the house last year and we've got to do it again. >> thank you, hillary. were going to coach our next question to keep our response is kind of grief. >> i want to respond briefly on the media, which is quite frankly that we need to accept the fact we have a corporate media now. we no longer have to stay committed to informing the populace. as a result of that, we actually have a democracy very much compromise. i want to just make the point of the civil rights movement didn't come about because we were able to change the media conversation about white people that have been believed they needed to change the laws. it changed when we as a community decided we wanted something different. and we're at a place in this country where that's going to be true not just with respect to the narrative or on criminal justice. look at the narrative around labor. look at the narrative around work. that's intentional. it's intentional in order to keep a status that group, as a country. we

. >> senator webb. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate you coming by my office to have detailed conversations on a number of areas. having had the honor and privilege of meeting with weinberger when he was secretary of defense for four years, i'm well aware of the challenges of your job. i honestly believe that other than the presidency itself, this is probably the most difficult and complicated job in our federal government. i wish you the best. i also appreciate -- was gratified to hear your response to senator collins with respect to the need to rebuild our navy and get the navy's numbers up. the situation in afghanistan and iraq, as it allows us more leeway on how we shape the department of defense budget, we really need to do that. the size of the navy right now is about 282 ships. the ground floor goal of 313 and all of the vital national interests that we have with respect to the stability of east and southeast asia will be very important for us to look at. in that regard, i would like to raise two points with respect

i'm judge webb, the harris county magistrate court. >> the undercover operation in fortson, georgia ishe suspects caught in our sting are appearing before a local judge. >> i'm not here to determine if you're guilty or innocent. >> for most of the men the judge sets a bond of $40,000, restricts their use of a computer and interactions with minors, including their own children. >> you're not to have any unsupervised contact with your children. do they live with you full time? >> yes, ma'am. >> all right. as a condition of your bond, i'm going to permit the contact but it needs to be supervised. >> that was july 2006. a few months later, only two suspects remained in jail unable to make bond. george cleary and william raul. just about all the men who showed up at our sting house said they weren't going to do anything illegal. this man tries to argue his case at his bond hearing. >> i don't know for sure. i hear a little bit of talk about this girl. she's an actor. she's 20 years old, actually. >> the judge explains that this is not the time to submit a defense. that will be at a later he

virginia democrat jim webb: >> how much do people want to achieve that may be above what we need to? and we're getting into... into this area of nation building. how much can we achieve? it should only be done if we can articulate a vital national interest because we... we quite frankly need to be doing... doing a lot more of that here. >> woodruff: similar skepticism came from indiana senator richard lugar, the committee's ranking republican. >> despite ten years of investment and attempts to better understand the culture and the region's actors, we remain in a cycle that produces relative progress but fails to deliver a secure political or military resolution. in afghanistan, measuring success according to relative progress has very little meaning. >> woodruff: the doubts were fed by a report from the committee's democratic staff. after a two-year review, it concluded that: the report suggested, in fact, that u.s. aid is only encouraging afghan dependency and corruption. the renewed discussion over progress in afghanistan comes at the same time as the debate over how quickly to beg

this morning a view from outside the beltway from new jersey governor chris christie and jim webb andin us. it's all coming up this morning on "meet the press." >>> that will do it for us on this sunday morning. thomas roberts, thank you so much. >>> our continuing coverage of the casey anthony trial. i'll see you back here later tonight for nbc "nightly news." until then, so long. enjoy the rest of your sunday, everybody.

it's good to see senator webb has reintroduced the bill. we passed in the house last year. we've got to do it again. >> thank you hilary. never wants to respond and then we'll go to the next question. keep our responses brief. >> i want to respond briefly on the issue of the media, which is quite frank i think we need to accept the fact that we have a corporate media now. we no longer have a force of state has committed to informing the populace. as a result of that, we have a democracy that is very much compromised. i want to just make the point that the civil rights movement didn't come about because we were able to change the immediate conversation about white people that had been believed they needed to change the laws. it changed when we as a community decided that we wanted something different. and we are at a place in this country with that's going to be true not just with respect with a narrative around criminal justice. look at the narrative around labor. look at the narrative around work. none of it is set in reality. and that's intentional. it's intentional in or

when you've got jim webb out there, who would be a national security democrat, spend a little time with him, explain him the mission. dick lugar, republican, spend a little time with him, explain the mission. he's not done the personal politics of this. joe biden, it's usually outsourced to joe biden, the way this white house works. he's been in the middle of the debt negotiations in this whole debt commission. so, i think yes, you have congress all over the place, yes, there's all these issues with the republican party inside congress right now, and yes, i do think there's some opportunism. the president hasn't made a good faith effort at just good, old-fashioned back-slapping -- >> not only within congress, but to the american public. i mean, he doesn't want to talk about afghanistan or libya, because i think they feel that in the white house, he needs to focus only on domestic issues. there's only down side on foreign policy, but if you're going to send american forces into battle, you have to make the sale. >> all right. i'm going to take a break here. couple things i want to do whe

i understand that senator webb and senator corker have introduced a resolution with these prohibitions and exceptions to protect our troops, and i support these efforts to limit the mission in libya. it is important that we do not escalate military actions in libya. an escalation would be a dangerous course, and it would be costly to the region and our country. while the markup has been postponed, it's my understanding that senator kerry and others are working on language that would fulfill our constitutional obligations and comply with the war powers act. i look forward to consideration of a resolution of this kind in the foreign relations committee and strongly believe it should include language similar to the amendment that i was going to offer. i've been proud to serve in the united states congress for more than a decade. we have fought two lengthy wars during this period of time. i have seen the impacts on our military, on their families, on our national deficit. before the united states escalates its involvement in another overseas conflict, congress must weigh in. it is our cons

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i would like to be a co-sponsor to senator webb's amended. i appreciate the opportunity to make this statement. >> you have served on this committee longer than i have, and i am always pleased to be able to work with you on these issues. i am grateful to you for the cooperation that we get in doing so. i believe that there is -- and i thank you for the contribution of these amendments. i think if they had been very important. i think there is broad consensus on four of your five amendments. potentially with some second- degree amendment. what i would like to do is say that the amendments on the libyan assets, if we can, to be considered at the end of the business meeting. but if we start with lugar amendment no. 1, regarding consent of congress aren't reconstruction and stabilization costs, i am not aware of second- degree amendments. senator lugar, if you want to speak your amendment, please do -- >> the purpose is to express the sense of the congress about funding, we construction, stabilization costs in libya. it would provide that such co

ats special agent in charge d e dewey webb showed us the group's favorite hardware. >> there's probablyen versions on the market today. >> hernandez purchased four weapons here hat this shop. we spoke with the owner. he didn't want to go on camera. he said a few weeks after that hernandez returned flashing $20,000 in cash and ready to buy 20 more weapons. the owner says he rejected the sale. >> people that are buying drugs in the united states have just as much blood on their hands as the people pulling the trigger in mexico. >> john phillip hernandez is now serving an eight-year prison sentence after pleading guilty. he says as one ring opens up, new rings can quickly emerge on the gun trail from america to mexico. atf investigators also say they didn't realize how big the group was until they sat down one day and compared notes. and that's when different inv t investigating teams realized it. >>> it is a growing problems that senators say needs to be addressed right now. jeanne meserve joins me from washington now. jeanne, 70% seems like a very big number. how many guns are we really

[laughter] >> five seconds, senator webb, we're working hard to get china to play a more productive role someday i'd love to talk to you about, you know, analogies whether or not we agree with them, but to just go through them. i appreciate what you said. >> any time. thank you very much. >> secretary clinton, thank you for being here, and i join my colleagues in all of our appreciation for the job you're doing as secretary of state. a little earlier in responding to senator rubio and the decision about what happens after 2014, you talked about the continuing presence of nato, and shortly after the president's speech last night, france announced two plans to begin drawing down troops, and obviously, several weeks ago secretary gates talked about the challenges with our nato allies and so given that situation, do you believe that our allies in nato will continue to step up and to help us in afghanistan through 2014 and what assurances do we have that that will happen? >> well, senator, that was the agreement at lisbon,ing and i think -- lisbon, and i think a number of our nato staff allie

cited by your predecessor could not have anticipated and reflect some of the points raised by center webb, or the threat of escalation might be limited and the very real understanding of hostilities would be if engaged in war. that's my main concern of the strained and narrow reading of hostilities we have in front of us today. how would you updated to take account of these modern developments in the war capabilities of our nation? >> thank you, senator, and i appreciate your thoughtful remarks. the number one, if we are concerned about unmanned uses of weapons that can deliver huge volumes of violence, festive a -- a statute that deals with the introduction armed forces does not deal with that situation. at times the war powers act passed, they were not -- or think about vietnam. they were not thinking about drones or cyber attacks. to change the law to reflect the modern realities of conflict. second, the war powers resolution functions in a way to promote dialogue by a deadline. while it is unclear what triggers the deadline and where the state of affairs is supposed to trigger the dea

. >> senator webb. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate you coming by my office to have detailed conversations on a number of areas. having had the honor and privilege of meeting with weinberger when he was sretary of defense for four years, i'm well aware of the challenges of your job. i honestly believe that other than the presidency itself, this is probably the most difficult and complicated job in our federal government. i wish you the best. i also appreciate -- was gratified to hear your respoe to senator collins with respect to the need to rebuild our navy and get the navy's numbers up. the situation in afghanistan and iraq, as it allows us more leeway on how we shape the department of defense budget, we ally need to do that. the size of the na right now is about 282 ships. the ground floor goal of 313 and all of the vital national interests that we have with respect to the stability of east and southeast asia will be very important for us to look at. in that regard, i wld like to raise two points with respect to the sit

cited by your predecessor could not have anticipated and reflect some of the points raised by center webb, or the threat of escalation might be limited and the very real understanding of hostilities would be if engaged in war. that's my main concern of the strained and narrow reading of hostilities we have in front of us today. how would you updated to take account of these modern developments in the war capabilities of our nation? >> thank you, senator, and i appreciate your thoughtful remarks. the number one, if we are concerned about unmanned uses of weapons that can deliver huge volumes of violence, festive a -- a statute that deals with the introduction armed forces does not deal with that situation. at times the war powers act passed, they were not -- or think about vietnam. they were not thinking about drones or cyber attacks. to change the law to reflect the modern realities of conflict. second, the war powers resolution functions in a way to promote dialogue by a deadline. while it is unclear what triggers the deadline and where the state of affairs is supposed to trigger the dea

. >> senator webb. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate you coming by my office to have detailed conversations on a number of areas. having had the honor and privilege of meeting with weinberger when he was secretary of defense for four years, i'm well aware of the challenges of your job. i honestly believe that other than the presidency itself, this is probably the most difficult and complicated job in our federal government. i wish you the best. i also appreciate -- was gratified to hear your response to senator collins with respect to the need to rebuild our navy and get the navy's numbers up. the situation in afghanistan and iraq, as it allows us more leeway on how we shape the department of defense budget, we really need to do that. the size of the navy right now is about 282 ships. the ground floor goal of 313 and all of the vital national interests that we have with respect to the stability of east and southeast asia will be very important for us to look at. in that regard, i would like to raise two points with respect

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

. >> senator webb. >> thank you mr. chairman. ambassador, let me pylon with everybody else. you're clearly a national treasure here and we are happy to see you going over into that part of the world. i think what my major concern is in you and i had the opportunity to discuss this when he visited with me is how we really define our strategic objectives in afghanistan and how that matches up with what we are able to actually accomplish in a cost-benefit way. i think that's what you're hearing from a lot of people right now. how much do we actually need to achieve in afghanistan with respect to our national interest? how much do people want to achieve that may be above what we need to and were getting into this area is building. how much can we achieve? and how much of that actually benefit persecuted project is. that is what i've been struggling with for more than a year now. i don't know if you saw the column but taking your name wrote recently for "the wall street journal" a few weeks. i don't have it in front of me, but she clearly is not a radical. she's one of the privat

war two, and i thought it was time did we did that, and with after what i learned in iraq, and jim webb and i worked hard to get that established, but we are a long way from where we need to be. i want the department of defense to take this seriously, and i want a.i.d. to take this seriously, because the american people are going to turn off the spigot, if we do not do this right. and they have the right to turn off the spigot, if we do not do this right there is so much work to be done if all of you would study the works that has been done. we could make huge progress, but somehow it never happens. it is painful how long it's taking to get the accountability that we need, and even get the accurate information turned i will continue to follow will put the new secretary of defense on this. he and i have discussed it. i have had many conversations with commanders on the subject matter, and everybody now as their head, and says they get it, but it is not getting done right, unused to improve care if thank you very much for being here today. -- and it needs to improve. thank you for being h

provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3 of the standing rules of the senate i appoint the honorable jim webbrom the commonwealth of virginia signed daniel k. inouye, president is >> we'll return now to live coverage of the faith and freedom coalition conference. more remarks from congressman tom wright. >> they said that we may not allow you, government, we may not allow you to move one of our manufacturing facilities from the state of washington to the state of south carolina because it might make it so that union activity would be compromised. can you believe that? and you talk about a federal government agency that's out of control. you can name all sorts of them but the epa, the environmental protection agency, is out of control. these are politicians picking winners and losers and making it stick and obamacare -- as a physician, i can tell you the obamacare is the furthest reach of oppression that this society has ever seen and that's why it's wrong. [applause] >> and then you all well know that the spending -- the spending that has gone on has been immoral. not just wrong. it is immora

i think most people in this body are aware that senator webb and i then authored a resolution asking 21 questions of the administration regarding libya. i thank them for yesterday transmitting to us some information on libya. we haven't yet gotten access to the classified versions of it. we have obviously, like everyone else here, i'm sure, read the unclassified version. but i think the reason we find ourselves in the place that we are is we just haven't been able to get information from the administration regarding this conflict. so i know the senator from arizona and the senator from massachusetts are working on an authorization request, a limited authorization. i hope that they will potentially wait until we have the answers to all 21 questions, the same questions that many of the same house members wanted the answer to. but i share with him the frustration that congress has not taken any action on this. and i would say i'm just really stunned by the fact that the administration has chosen not to give responses to questions until yesterday, and eelly this was done in request -- an