1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,000 starttime 1275055211.42316 2 00:00:41,001 --> 00:00:42,000 SENATE HERE ON CSPAN2. 3 00:00:42,001 --> 00:00:43,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 4 00:00:43,001 --> 00:00:45,000 SENATE WILL COME TO ORDER. 5 00:00:45,001 --> 00:00:54,000 THE CHAPLAIN DR. BARRY BLACK 6 00:00:54,001 --> 00:01:06,000 WILL LEAD THE SENATE IN PRAYER. 7 00:01:06,001 --> 00:01:09,000 GOD OF OUR FOREBEARS, WHOSE 8 00:01:09,001 --> 00:01:14,000 ALMIGHTY HANDS LEAD FORTH IN 9 00:01:14,001 --> 00:01:18,000 BEAUTY ALL THE STARRY BANDS. 10 00:01:18,001 --> 00:01:22,000 AS MEMORIAL DAY APPROACHES, WE 11 00:01:22,001 --> 00:01:25,000 REMEMBER THOSE WHO HAVE MADE 12 00:01:25,001 --> 00:01:30,000 ULTIMATE SACRIFICES FOR OUR 13 00:01:30,001 --> 00:01:32,000 FREEDOM. 14 00:01:32,001 --> 00:01:35,000 LORD, POUR YOUR RICHEST 15 00:01:35,001 --> 00:01:38,000 BLESSINGS ON OUR SERVICE MEN AND 16 00:01:38,001 --> 00:01:43,000 WOMEN AND THE MEMBERS OF THEIR 17 00:01:43,001 --> 00:01:47,000 FAMILIES SURROUNDING THEM WITH 18 00:01:47,001 --> 00:01:51,000 YOUR SHIELD OF PROTECTION. 19 00:01:51,001 --> 00:01:55,000 TEACH US, LORD, THIS DAY THROUGH 20 00:01:55,001 --> 00:01:58,000 ALL OUR EMPLOYMENTS TO SEE YOU 21 00:01:58,001 --> 00:02:02,000 WORKING FOR THE GOOD OF THOSE 22 00:02:02,001 --> 00:02:06,000 WHO LOVE YOU. 23 00:02:06,001 --> 00:02:10,000 DELIVER OUR LAWMAKERS FROM ALL 24 00:02:10,001 --> 00:02:13,000 DEJECTION OF SPIRIT AND FREE 25 00:02:13,001 --> 00:02:17,000 THEIR HEARTS TO GIVE YOU 26 00:02:17,001 --> 00:02:18,000 ZEALOUS, ACTIVE AND CHEERFUL 27 00:02:18,001 --> 00:02:21,000 SERVICE. 28 00:02:21,001 --> 00:02:26,000 MAY THEY VIGOROUSLY PERFORM 29 00:02:26,001 --> 00:02:29,000 WHATEVER YOU COMMAND, THANKFULLY 30 00:02:29,001 --> 00:02:32,000 ENDURING WHATEVER YOU 31 00:02:32,001 --> 00:02:35,000 HAVE CHOSEN FOR THEM TO SUFFER. 32 00:02:35,001 --> 00:02:39,000 GUARD THEIR DESIRES 33 00:02:39,001 --> 00:02:46,000 SO THAT THEY WILL NOT DEVIATE 34 00:02:46,001 --> 00:02:50,000 FROM THE PATH OF INTEGRITY. 35 00:02:50,001 --> 00:02:58,000 WE PRAY IN YOUR GREAT 36 00:02:58,001 --> 00:02:59,000 AMEN. 37 00:02:59,001 --> 00:03:00,000 E PRESIDING OFFICER: PLEASE 38 00:03:00,001 --> 00:03:02,000 JOIN ME IN RECITING THE PLEDGE 39 00:03:02,001 --> 00:03:03,000 OF ALLEGIANCE. 40 00:03:03,001 --> 00:03:05,000 I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE 41 00:03:05,001 --> 00:03:06,000 TO THE FLAG 42 00:03:06,001 --> 00:03:07,000 OF THE UNITED STATES 43 00:03:07,001 --> 00:03:08,000 OF AMERICA, 44 00:03:08,001 --> 00:03:09,000 AND TO THE REPUBLIC 45 00:03:09,001 --> 00:03:10,000 FOR WHICH IT STANDS, 46 00:03:10,001 --> 00:03:11,000 ONE NATION 47 00:03:11,001 --> 00:03:12,000 UNDER GOD, 48 00:03:12,001 --> 00:03:13,000 INDIVISIBLE, 49 00:03:13,001 --> 00:03:26,000 WITH LIBERTY 50 00:03:26,001 --> 00:03:27,000 AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. 51 00:03:27,001 --> 00:03:28,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 52 00:03:28,001 --> 00:03:29,000 CLERK WILL READ A COMMUNICATION 53 00:03:29,001 --> 00:03:30,000 TO THE SENATE. 54 00:03:30,001 --> 00:03:32,000 THE CLERK: WASHINGTON, D.C., 55 00:03:32,001 --> 00:03:33,000 MAY 28, 2010. 56 00:03:33,001 --> 00:03:34,000 TO THE SENATE: 57 00:03:34,001 --> 00:03:35,000 UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF 58 00:03:35,001 --> 00:03:36,000 RULE 1, PARAGRAPH 3, 59 00:03:36,001 --> 00:03:37,000 OF THE STANDING RULES 60 00:03:37,001 --> 00:03:38,000 OF THE SENATE, 61 00:03:38,001 --> 00:03:39,000 I HEREBY APPOINT THE HONORABLE 62 00:03:39,001 --> 00:03:40,000 MARK R. WARNER, A SENATOR FROM 63 00:03:40,001 --> 00:03:41,000 THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, 64 00:03:41,001 --> 00:03:42,000 TO PERFORM THE DUTIES OF THE 65 00:03:42,001 --> 00:03:47,000 CHAIR. SIGNED: ROBERT C. BYRD, PRESIDENT 66 00:03:47,001 --> 00:03:48,000 PRO TEMPORE. 67 00:03:48,001 --> 00:03:49,000 MR. REID: 68 00:03:49,001 --> 00:03:50,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 69 00:03:50,001 --> 00:03:52,000 MAJORITY LEADER. 70 00:03:52,001 --> 00:03:53,000 MR. REID: FOLLOWING LEADER 71 00:03:53,001 --> 00:03:54,000 REMARKS, THE SENATE WILL BE IN A 72 00:03:54,001 --> 00:03:55,000 PERIOD OF MORNING BUSINESS. 73 00:03:55,001 --> 00:03:56,000 SENATORS WILL BE ALLOWED TO 74 00:03:56,001 --> 00:03:57,000 SPEAK FOR UP TO TEN MINUTES EACH. 75 00:03:57,001 --> 00:03:58,000 THERE WILL BE NO ROLL CALL VOTES 76 00:03:58,001 --> 00:03:59,000 TODAY. 77 00:03:59,001 --> 00:04:01,000 WE'RE GOING TO HAVE -- OUR FIRST 78 00:04:01,001 --> 00:04:03,000 VOTE WILL BE A WEEK FROM MONDAY 79 00:04:03,001 --> 00:04:06,000 AT ABOUT 5:30. 80 00:04:06,001 --> 00:04:08,000 WE WILL HAVE A NUMBER OF VOTES, 81 00:04:08,001 --> 00:04:09,000 WE HOPE TWO OR THREE, BUT AT 82 00:04:09,001 --> 00:04:11,000 LEAST WE'LL HAVE ONE. 83 00:04:11,001 --> 00:04:12,000 MR. PRESIDENT, WE FINISHED A 84 00:04:12,001 --> 00:04:15,000 VERY DIFFICULT BILL YESTERDAY, 85 00:04:15,001 --> 00:04:17,000 THE SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS BILL. 86 00:04:17,001 --> 00:04:20,000 IT WAS TEDIOUS BUT IT WAS DONE 87 00:04:20,001 --> 00:04:22,000 VERY WELL. 88 00:04:22,001 --> 00:04:24,000 SENATORS INOUYE AND COCHRAN DID 89 00:04:24,001 --> 00:04:26,000 AN OUTSTANDING JOB. 90 00:04:26,001 --> 00:04:28,000 MEMBERS FROM BOTH SIDES WITH 91 00:04:28,001 --> 00:04:29,000 STRONG FEELINGS WERE ABLE TO 92 00:04:29,001 --> 00:04:32,000 COMPROMISE ON A NUMBER OF ISSUES 93 00:04:32,001 --> 00:04:33,000 AND ALLOWED US TO FINISH THIS 94 00:04:33,001 --> 00:04:35,000 BILL. 95 00:04:35,001 --> 00:04:37,000 THE SAME THING HAPPENED, IT JUST 96 00:04:37,001 --> 00:04:38,000 TOOK A LITTLE LONGER IN THE WALL 97 00:04:38,001 --> 00:04:39,000 STREET REFORM BILL. 98 00:04:39,001 --> 00:04:42,000 BOTH OF THOSE PIECES OF 99 00:04:42,001 --> 00:04:44,000 LEGISLATION ARE NOW IN 100 00:04:44,001 --> 00:04:50,000 CONFERENCE. 101 00:04:50,001 --> 00:04:51,000 WE ARE GOI TO WAIT THE ACTION 102 00:04:51,001 --> 00:04:53,000 OF THE HOUSE BEFORE WE CAN 103 00:04:53,001 --> 00:04:57,000 DETERMINE THE DIRECTION OF WHAT 104 00:04:57,001 --> 00:04:58,000 WE DO WITH THE EXTENDERS BILL, 105 00:04:58,001 --> 00:05:00,000 THE JOBS BILL. 106 00:05:00,001 --> 00:05:04,000 I WILL HAVE SOME MEETINGS DURG 107 00:05:04,001 --> 00:05:06,000 THIS COMING WEEK TO DETERMINE 108 00:05:06,001 --> 00:05:10,000 HOW WE WILL CHANGE THE BILL WE GET FROM THE HOUSE. 109 00:05:10,001 --> 00:05:12,000 I THINK THE CHANGES SHOULD NOT 110 00:05:12,001 --> 00:05:13,000 BE MAJOR, BUT THERE WILL BE SOME 111 00:05:13,001 --> 00:05:14,000 CHANGES AND WE'LL HAVE TO WORK 112 00:05:14,001 --> 00:05:15,000 THROUGH THAT. 113 00:05:15,001 --> 00:05:16,000 I HAVE SPOKEN TO THE REPUBLICAN 114 00:05:16,001 --> 00:05:17,000 LEADER. 115 00:05:17,001 --> 00:05:18,000 WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO HAVE A 116 00:05:18,001 --> 00:05:19,000 NUMBER OF AMENDMENTS. 117 00:05:19,001 --> 00:05:21,000 IT SHOULDN'T BE A LARGE NUMBER 118 00:05:21,001 --> 00:05:22,000 OF AMENDMENTS, BUT WE NEED TO 119 00:05:22,001 --> 00:05:25,000 WORK THROUGH THAT BECAUSE THE 120 00:05:25,001 --> 00:05:26,000 NEXT WORK PERIOD IS RELATIVELY 121 00:05:26,001 --> 00:05:29,000 SHORT. 122 00:05:29,001 --> 00:05:31,000 WE HAVE NOT MANY SPEAKERS COMING 123 00:05:31,001 --> 00:05:32,000 TODAY, SO THE SESSION SHOULD BE 124 00:05:32,001 --> 00:05:34,000 RELATIVELY SHORT. 125 00:05:34,001 --> 00:05:36,000 I WOULD ASK THE CHAIR TO 126 00:05:36,001 --> 00:05:37,000 ANNOUNCE MORNING 127 00:05:37,001 --> 00:05:38,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: UNDER THE 128 00:05:38,001 --> 00:05:39,000 PREVIOUS ORDER, THE LEADERSHIP 129 00:05:39,001 --> 00:05:41,000 TIME IS RESERVED. 130 00:05:41,001 --> 00:05:43,000 THERE WILL NOW BE A PERIOD OF 131 00:05:43,001 --> 00:05:45,000 MORNING BUSINESS WITH SENATORS 132 00:05:45,001 --> 00:06:12,000 PERMITTED TO SPEAK THEREIN FOR 133 00:06:12,001 --> 00:06:13,000 UP TO TEN 134 00:06:13,001 --> 00:06:14,000 MR. REID: MR. PRESIDENT, I WOULD 135 00:06:14,001 --> 00:06:16,000 ASK UNANIMOUS CONSENT THAT 136 00:06:16,001 --> 00:06:17,000 SENATOR UDALL OF NEW MEXIC BE 137 00:06:17,001 --> 00:06:20,000 AUTHORIZED TO SIGN THE 138 00:06:20,001 --> 00:06:21,000 ENROLLMENT OF H.R. 5128. 139 00:06:21,001 --> 00:06:22,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: WITHOUT 140 00:06:22,001 --> 00:06:23,000 OBJECTION. 141 00:06:23,001 --> 00:06:25,000 MR 142 00:06:25,001 --> 00:06:30,000 ABSENCE OF A QUORUM. 143 00:06:30,001 --> 00:15:15,000 WILL CALL THE ROLL. 144 00:15:15,001 --> 00:20:54,000 QUORUM CALL: 145 00:20:54,001 --> 00:20:55,000 QUORUM CALL: 146 00:20:55,001 --> 00:20:57,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 147 00:20:57,001 --> 00:20:58,000 SENATOR FROM MISSISSIPPI. 148 00:20:58,001 --> 00:21:00,000 A SENATOR: I ASK UNANIMOUS 149 00:21:00,001 --> 00:21:04,000 CONSENT THAT THE CALL FOR THE 150 00:21:04,001 --> 00:21:06,000 QUORUM CALL BE B 151 00:21:06,001 --> 00:21:07,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: WITHOUT OBJECTION. 152 00:21:07,001 --> 00:21:09,000 MR. WICKER: AND THAT I BE 153 00:21:09,001 --> 00:21:11,000 ALLOWED TO SPEAK IN MORNING BUSINESS. 154 00:21:11,001 --> 00:21:16,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: WITHOUT OBJECTION. 155 00:21:16,001 --> 00:21:18,000 MR. WICKER: MR. PRESIDENT, AND 156 00:21:18,001 --> 00:21:20,000 MEMBERS OF THEENATE, YESTERDAY 157 00:21:20,001 --> 00:21:22,000 THE SENATE ARMED SERVICES 158 00:21:22,001 --> 00:21:24,000 COMMITTEE COMPLETED ITS MARKUP 159 00:21:24,001 --> 00:21:25,000 OF THE DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION 160 00:21:25,001 --> 00:21:27,000 BILL. 161 00:21:27,001 --> 00:21:30,000 NORMALLY SENATORS ARE ASKED TO 162 00:21:30,001 --> 00:21:34,000 WAIT FOR A PERIOD OF DAYS UNTIL 163 00:21:34,001 --> 00:21:36,000 THE REPORT CAN BE ISSUED AND THE 164 00:21:36,001 --> 00:21:39,000 SPECIFICS ARE MADE PUBLIC, BUT 165 00:21:39,001 --> 00:21:43,000 THE CHAIRMAN YESTERDAY CLEARLY 166 00:21:43,001 --> 00:21:44,000 UNDERSTOOD WHEN WE WERE -- WHEN 167 00:21:44,001 --> 00:21:45,000 WE WERE FINISHED WITH BUSINESS 168 00:21:45,001 --> 00:21:48,000 THAT THERE WERE TWO ITEMS 169 00:21:48,001 --> 00:21:51,000 DEALING WITH SOCIAL POLICY THAT 170 00:21:51,001 --> 00:21:53,000 WOULD BE WIDELY KNOWN 171 00:21:53,001 --> 00:21:56,000 IMMEDIATELY, AND SO I SPEAK ON 172 00:21:56,001 --> 00:21:58,000 THOSE TOPICS TODAY WITH THE 173 00:21:58,001 --> 00:22:00,000 CLEAR UNDERSTANDING THAT THE 174 00:22:00,001 --> 00:22:06,000 CHAIR KNOWS THAT THESE ITEMS 175 00:22:06,001 --> 00:22:08,000 WILL BE TALKED ABOUT, AS AN 176 00:22:08,001 --> 00:22:09,000 EXCEPTION TO THE GENERAL RULE. 177 00:22:09,001 --> 00:22:11,000 YESTERDAY THE COMMITTEE, I 178 00:22:11,001 --> 00:22:13,000 BELIEVE, MADE A VERY GRAVE 179 00:22:13,001 --> 00:22:15,000 MISTAKE WITH REGARD TO THE 180 00:22:15,001 --> 00:22:19,000 PROVISION INVOLVING A REPEAL OF 181 00:22:19,001 --> 00:22:20,000 THE DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL 182 00:22:20,001 --> 00:22:22,000 POLICY. 183 00:22:22,001 --> 00:22:24,000 THIS HAD BEEN THE POLICY SINCE 184 00:22:24,001 --> 00:22:25,000 THE DAYS OF THE CLINTON 185 00:22:25,001 --> 00:22:32,000 ADMINISTRATION. 186 00:22:32,001 --> 00:22:34,000 IT HAS WORKED REASONABLY WELL, 187 00:22:34,001 --> 00:22:36,000 AND I AM OPPOSED TO THE REPEAL 188 00:22:36,001 --> 00:22:37,000 OF THE DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL 189 00:22:37,001 --> 00:22:41,000 POLICY. 190 00:22:41,001 --> 00:22:43,000 BUT IN FEBRUARY OF THIS YEAR, 191 00:22:43,001 --> 00:22:45,000 SECRETARY GATES ANNOUNCED THAT A 192 00:22:45,001 --> 00:22:48,000 SURVEY WOULD BE CONDUCTED WITH A 193 00:22:48,001 --> 00:22:51,000 VIEW TOWARD ASSESSING WHETHER OR 194 00:22:51,001 --> 00:22:53,000 NOT THIS POLICY SHOULD BE CHANGED. 195 00:22:53,001 --> 00:22:55,000 THERE WAS A WORKING GROUP THAT 196 00:22:55,001 --> 00:22:58,000 WAS GOING TO BE ESTABLISHED, A 197 00:22:58,001 --> 00:23:00,000 SURVEY OF SERVICE MEMBERS AND 198 00:23:00,001 --> 00:23:03,000 THEIR FAMILIES WOULD BE 199 00:23:03,001 --> 00:23:05,000 CONDUCTED, AND THIS SURY WOULD 200 00:23:05,001 --> 00:23:07,000 REPORT -- THIS WORKING GROUP 201 00:23:07,001 --> 00:23:10,000 WOULD REPORT THE RESULTS OF THIS 202 00:23:10,001 --> 00:23:11,000 ASSESSMENT BY DECEMBER OF THIS 203 00:23:11,001 --> 00:23:12,000 YEAR. 204 00:23:12,001 --> 00:23:14,000 AT THAT POINT THE CONGRESS AND 205 00:23:14,001 --> 00:23:16,000 THE ADMINISTRATION WOULD HAVE 206 00:23:16,001 --> 00:23:19,000 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT HOW 207 00:23:19,001 --> 00:23:22,000 TODAY'S SERVICE MEMBERS AND 208 00:23:22,001 --> 00:23:23,000 THEIR FAMILIES WOULD FEEL ABOUT 209 00:23:23,001 --> 00:23:26,000 THE -- ABOUT A CHANGE WHICH 210 00:23:26,001 --> 00:23:28,000 WOULD ALLOW GAYS AND LESBIANS TO 211 00:23:28,001 --> 00:23:30,000 SERVE OPENLY IN THE MILITARY. 212 00:23:30,001 --> 00:23:33,000 THIS WOULD OF COURSE BE A 213 00:23:33,001 --> 00:23:35,000 DRAMATIC CHANGE, BUT THAT WAS THE POLICY. 214 00:23:35,001 --> 00:23:38,000 A NUMBER OF US WERE SKEPTICAL 215 00:23:38,001 --> 00:23:39,000 ABOUT IT, BUT THAT WAS THE 216 00:23:39,001 --> 00:23:40,000 ANNOUNCED POLICY. 217 00:23:40,001 --> 00:23:44,000 NOW, SOMEHOW IN THE LAST FEW 218 00:23:44,001 --> 00:23:47,000 DAYS THAT HAS CHANGED, AND A 219 00:23:47,001 --> 00:23:50,000 SO-CALLED COMPROMISE HAS BEEN 220 00:23:50,001 --> 00:23:52,000 PUT FORWARD AND ADOPTED NOW BY 221 00:23:52,001 --> 00:23:54,000 THE COMMITTEE AND APPARENTLY BY 222 00:23:54,001 --> 00:23:56,000 THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 223 00:23:56,001 --> 00:24:00,000 ALSO THAT WOULD SAY WHILE THE 224 00:24:00,001 --> 00:24:02,000 ASSESSMENT IS GOING ON, WHICH, 225 00:24:02,001 --> 00:24:06,000 AS I SAID, MR. PRESIDENT, TO END 226 00:24:06,001 --> 00:24:10,000 IN DECEMBER THAT WE WOULD VOTE 227 00:24:10,001 --> 00:24:13,000 IN THIS BILL THIS SUMMER, 228 00:24:13,001 --> 00:24:15,000 POSSIBLY IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS, 229 00:24:15,001 --> 00:24:17,000 TO GO AHEAD AND REPEAL THE DON'T 230 00:24:17,001 --> 00:24:22,000 ASK, DON'T TELL POLICY AND THEN 231 00:24:22,001 --> 00:24:23,000 TO ALLOW THE PRESIDENT, THE 232 00:24:23,001 --> 00:24:25,000 SECRETARY OF DEFENSE AND THE 233 00:24:25,001 --> 00:24:27,000 CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF 234 00:24:27,001 --> 00:24:30,000 STAFF TO REVIEW THE ASSESSMENT 235 00:24:30,001 --> 00:24:33,000 IN DECEMBER AND SEE WHETH 236 00:24:33,001 --> 00:24:35,000 INDEED THE ENACTMENT OF THE 237 00:24:35,001 --> 00:24:36,000 SENATE AND HOUSE SHOULD GO 238 00:24:36,001 --> 00:24:37,000 FORWARD. 239 00:24:37,001 --> 00:24:40,000 THIS SEEMS TO BE GETTING THE 240 00:24:40,001 --> 00:24:42,000 CART BEFORE THE HORSE. 241 00:24:42,001 --> 00:24:45,000 AND I WANT TO MAKE SEVERAL 242 00:24:45,001 --> 00:24:48,000 POINTS HERE. 243 00:24:48,001 --> 00:24:50,000 THIS SO-CALLED COMPROMISE IS NOT 244 00:24:50,001 --> 00:24:53,000 A COMPROMISE I. 245 00:24:53,001 --> 00:24:55,000 IT IS EFFECT, FOR ALL INTENTS 246 00:24:55,001 --> 00:25:00,000 AND PURPOSES, A REPEAL OF THE 247 00:25:00,001 --> 00:25:04,000 DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL POLICY. 248 00:25:04,001 --> 00:25:06,000 GIVING THE PRESIDENT AND THE TWO 249 00:25:06,001 --> 00:25:09,000 MILITARY PEOPLE WHO ARE MOST 250 00:25:09,001 --> 00:25:11,000 ANSWERABLE TO HIM THE AUTHORITY 251 00:25:11,001 --> 00:25:14,000 TO MAKE THIS DECISION AND 252 00:25:14,001 --> 00:25:18,000 PRETEND THAT THEY MIGHT DECIDE 253 00:25:18,001 --> 00:25:19,000 AGAINST IT IS A MOCKERY AND IT'S 254 00:25:19,001 --> 00:25:21,000 A FIG LEAF. 255 00:25:21,001 --> 00:25:22,000 DOES ANYONE DOUBT WHAT THEIR 256 00:25:22,001 --> 00:25:24,000 DECISION WOULD BE? 257 00:25:24,001 --> 00:25:26,000 AFTER ALL, THE PRESIDENT OF THE 258 00:25:26,001 --> 00:25:29,000 UNITED STATES CAMPAIGNED THAT HE 259 00:25:29,001 --> 00:25:34,000 WANTED TO DO AWAY WITH THE DON'T 260 00:25:34,001 --> 00:25:38,000 ASK, DON'T TELL POLICY. 261 00:25:38,001 --> 00:25:40,000 NO QUESTION THAT HE FAVORS THIS. 262 00:25:40,001 --> 00:25:41,000 THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ANSWERS 263 00:25:41,001 --> 00:25:43,000 DIRECTLY TO HIM. 264 00:25:43,001 --> 00:25:44,000 THE CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS 265 00:25:44,001 --> 00:25:46,000 OF STAFF ANSWERS DIRECTLY TO THE 266 00:25:46,001 --> 00:25:49,000 PRIDENOF THE UNITED STATES. 267 00:25:49,001 --> 00:25:52,000 IT'S FOOLHARDY FOR ANYONE IN THIS SENATE TO SUGGEST THAT 268 00:25:52,001 --> 00:25:54,000 THERE WILL BE ANY DECISION OTHER 269 00:25:54,001 --> 00:25:55,000 THAN THE REPEAL OF THE DON'T 270 00:25:55,001 --> 00:25:57,000 ASK, DON'T TELL POLICY. 271 00:25:57,001 --> 00:25:59,000 IT IS SAID THAT THESE THREE 272 00:25:59,001 --> 00:26:01,000 PEOPLE WILL WAIT FOR THE 273 00:26:01,001 --> 00:26:04,000 ASSESSMENT TO SEE WHAT MILITARY 274 00:26:04,001 --> 00:26:05,000 MEMBERS AND THEIR FAMILIES 275 00:26:05,001 --> 00:26:06,000 THINK. 276 00:26:06,001 --> 00:26:07,000 I THINK CONGRESS HAS THE 277 00:26:07,001 --> 00:26:10,000 AUTHORITY TO DO THIS. 278 00:26:10,001 --> 00:26:13,000 CONGRESS SHOULD WAIT FOR THE ASSESSMENT. 279 00:26:13,001 --> 00:26:16,000 WE MIGHT BE SURPRISED. 280 00:26:16,001 --> 00:26:18,000 WE MIGHT BE TROUBLED BY WHAT THE 281 00:26:18,001 --> 00:26:23,000 ASSESSMENT SHOWS. 282 00:26:23,001 --> 00:26:29,000 BUT IT IS, AS I SAID, A MOCKERY 283 00:26:29,001 --> 00:26:32,000 TO MAKE THE DECISION NOW IN MAY 284 00:26:32,001 --> 00:26:34,000 OR JUNE OR JULY AND THEN LOOK 285 00:26:34,001 --> 00:26:36,000 FORWARD TO AN ASSESSMENT WHICH 286 00:26:36,001 --> 00:26:37,000 IS DUE IN DECEMBER. 287 00:26:37,001 --> 00:26:41,000 WHAT HAS CHANGED? 288 00:26:41,001 --> 00:26:43,000 I WOULD ASK MY FELLOW MEMBERS, 289 00:26:43,001 --> 00:26:45,000 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, WHAT HAS CHANGED? 290 00:26:45,001 --> 00:26:49,000 WHAT BROUGHT ABOUT THIS SUDDEN 291 00:26:49,001 --> 00:26:51,000 COMPROMISE OVER THE PAST 292 00:26:51,001 --> 00:26:53,000 WEEKEND, ATTACHING THIS BIT OF 293 00:26:53,001 --> 00:26:54,000 SOCIAL ENGINEERING TO THE 294 00:26:54,001 --> 00:26:58,000 NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION 295 00:26:58,001 --> 00:26:59,000 BILL, I THINK, FRANKLY, A LOT OF 296 00:26:59,001 --> 00:27:02,000 AMERICANS, MR. PRESIDENT, ARE 297 00:27:02,001 --> 00:27:05,000 GOING TO CONCLUDE THAT POLITICS CHANGED. 298 00:27:05,001 --> 00:27:07,000 YOU CAN LOOK AT REAL CLEAR 299 00:27:07,001 --> 00:27:09,000 POLITICS THAT ESTIMATES THAT 300 00:27:09,001 --> 00:27:13,000 REPUBLICANS MAY GAIN SIX SEATS 301 00:27:13,001 --> 00:27:14,000 IN THE NOVEMBER ELECTION. 302 00:27:14,001 --> 00:27:16,000 THAT WOULD BE BEFORE THE 303 00:27:16,001 --> 00:27:18,000 DECEMBER ASSESSMENT IS DUE. 304 00:27:18,001 --> 00:27:20,000 SOME PEOPLE SAY REPUBLICANS MAY 305 00:27:20,001 --> 00:27:22,000 GAIN EIGHT TO TEN SEATS. 306 00:27:22,001 --> 00:27:24,000 THAT WOULD CHANGE ATTITUDES 307 00:27:24,001 --> 00:27:25,000 CONSIDERABLY WITH REGARD TO 308 00:27:25,001 --> 00:27:27,000 DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL. 309 00:27:27,001 --> 00:27:29,000 IT WOULD ALLOW THE PEOPLE OF THE 310 00:27:29,001 --> 00:27:31,000 UNITED STATES TO BE HEARD ON 311 00:27:31,001 --> 00:27:34,000 THIS ISSUE. 312 00:27:34,001 --> 00:27:36,000 AND I THINK AMERICANS ARE 313 00:27:36,001 --> 00:27:38,000 JUSTIFIED IN CONCLUDING THAT 314 00:27:38,001 --> 00:27:40,000 WITH THIS ELECTION LOOMING, 315 00:27:40,001 --> 00:27:41,000 THAT'S WHAT CHANGED. 316 00:27:41,001 --> 00:27:45,000 THERE'S BEEN NO CHANGE IN THE 317 00:27:45,001 --> 00:27:48,000 NATIONAL SECURITY NEEDS TO RUSH 318 00:27:48,001 --> 00:27:50,000 THIS PROCESS AHEAD AND MAKE 319 00:27:50,001 --> 00:27:51,000 TH-- GET THE CART BEFORE THE 320 00:27:51,001 --> 00:27:56,000 HORSE AND MAKE THE DECISION 321 00:27:56,001 --> 00:27:59,000 BEFORE THE ASSESSMENT IS MADE. 322 00:27:59,001 --> 00:28:01,000 NOW, THE POINT OF VIEW OF THOSE 323 00:28:01,001 --> 00:28:03,000 OF US IN THE COMMITTEE WHO VOTED 324 00:28:03,001 --> 00:28:06,000 AGAINST THE LIEBERMAN AMENDMENT 325 00:28:06,001 --> 00:28:10,000 YESTERDAY IS SUPPORTED BY THE 326 00:28:10,001 --> 00:28:12,000 HEADS OF THE FOUR BRANCHES OF 327 00:28:12,001 --> 00:28:15,000 OUR SERVICE. 328 00:28:15,001 --> 00:28:17,000 THEY SUPPORT THE ORIGINAL PLAN 329 00:28:17,001 --> 00:28:21,000 OF SECRETARY GATES ANNOUNCED IN 330 00:28:21,001 --> 00:28:22,000 FEBRUARY TO DO AN ASSESSMENT AND 331 00:28:22,001 --> 00:28:24,000 THEN TO MAKE A DECISION BAS ON 332 00:28:24,001 --> 00:28:25,000 WHAT WE FIND OUT IN THE 333 00:28:25,001 --> 00:28:27,000 ASSESSMENT. 334 00:28:27,001 --> 00:28:31,000 HERE'S A LETTER DATED MAY 26, 335 00:28:31,001 --> 00:28:34,000 2010, TO SENATOR JOHN McCAIN 336 00:28:34,001 --> 00:28:37,000 FROM GEORGE CASEY, GENERAL 337 00:28:37,001 --> 00:28:39,000 UNITED STATES ARMY, THE CHIEF OF 338 00:28:39,001 --> 00:28:42,000 STAFF OF THE ARMY. 339 00:28:42,001 --> 00:28:44,000 IN THIS, HE SAYS TO SENATOR 340 00:28:44,001 --> 00:28:47,000 McCAIN THAT HIS VIEWS HAVE NOT 341 00:28:47,001 --> 00:28:50,000 CHANGED SINCE HIS TESTIMONY. 342 00:28:50,001 --> 00:28:51,000 AND I QUOTE DIRECTLY -- "I 343 00:28:51,001 --> 00:28:53,000 CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THE REVIEW 344 00:28:53,001 --> 00:28:55,000 AND TIME LINE OFFERED BY 345 00:28:55,001 --> 00:28:57,000 SECRETARY GATES. 346 00:28:57,001 --> 00:28:59,000 I REMAIN CONVINCED THAT IT IS 347 00:28:59,001 --> 00:29:00,000 CRITICALLY IMPORTANT TO GET A 348 00:29:00,001 --> 00:29:03,000 BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF WHERE 349 00:29:03,001 --> 00:29:06,000 OUR SOLDIERS AND FAMILIES ARE ON 350 00:29:06,001 --> 00:29:07,000 THIS ISSUE." 351 00:29:07,001 --> 00:29:09,000 YESTERDAY, IN THEIR WISDOM, 352 00:29:09,001 --> 00:29:13,000 MEMBERS OF THE ARMED SERVICES 353 00:29:13,001 --> 00:29:17,000 COMMITTEE DECIDED THAT THEY KNEW 354 00:29:17,001 --> 00:29:18,000 BETTER THAN OUR SOLDIERS AND OUR 355 00:29:18,001 --> 00:29:19,000 FAMILIES. 356 00:29:19,001 --> 00:29:22,000 GENERAL CASEY SAID WE NEED TO 357 00:29:22,001 --> 00:29:25,000 KNOW WHETHER THIS IMPACTS ON 358 00:29:25,001 --> 00:29:28,000 READINESS AND UNIT COHESION. 359 00:29:28,001 --> 00:29:30,000 HE CONCLUDES BY SAYING, "I ALSO 360 00:29:30,001 --> 00:29:31,000 BELIEVE THAT REPEALING THEAW 361 00:29:31,001 --> 00:29:34,000 BEFORE THE COMPLETION OF THE 362 00:29:34,001 --> 00:29:36,000 REVIEW WILL BE SEEN BY THE MEN 363 00:29:36,001 --> 00:29:39,000 AND WOMEN OF THE ARMY AS A 364 00:29:39,001 --> 00:29:42,000 REVERSAL OF OUR COMMITMENT TO 365 00:29:42,001 --> 00:29:49,000 HEAR THEIR VIEWS BEFORE MOVING 366 00:29:49,001 --> 00:29:53,000 FORWARD." 367 00:29:53,001 --> 00:29:56,000 ADMIRAL GARY RUFFHEAD, THE CHIEF 368 00:29:56,001 --> 00:29:58,000 OF NAVAL OPERATIONS IN A LETTER 369 00:29:58,001 --> 00:30:00,000 TO SENATOR McCAIN DATED MAY 26 370 00:30:00,001 --> 00:30:02,000 SAYS, AMONG OTHER THINGS -- 371 00:30:02,001 --> 00:30:04,000 QUOTE -- "I 372 00:30:04,001 --> 00:30:05,000 FEBRUARY ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF 373 00:30:05,001 --> 00:30:10,000 THE COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW THAT 374 00:30:10,001 --> 00:30:13,000 BEGAN IN MARCH. 375 00:30:13,001 --> 00:30:14,000 AND IS NOW WELL UNDER WAY WITHIN 376 00:30:14,001 --> 00:30:16,000 THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE. 377 00:30:16,001 --> 00:30:19,000 WE NEED THIS REVIEW TO FULLY 378 00:30:19,001 --> 00:30:21,000 ASSESS OUR FORCE AND CAREFULLY 379 00:30:21,001 --> 00:30:23,000 EXAMINE POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF A 380 00:30:23,001 --> 00:30:25,000 CHANGE IN THIS LAW. 381 00:30:25,001 --> 00:30:26,000 THE MEMBERS OF THE ARMED 382 00:30:26,001 --> 00:30:32,000 SERVICES COMMITTEE MR. PRESIDENT, YESTERDAY SAID 383 00:30:32,001 --> 00:30:34,000 NO, WE DISAGREE WITH ADMIRAL 384 00:30:34,001 --> 00:30:35,000 RUFFHEAD, CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS. 385 00:30:35,001 --> 00:30:38,000 WE DON'T NEED THIS REVIEW. 386 00:30:38,001 --> 00:30:39,000 WE AS THE ELECTED 387 00:30:39,001 --> 00:30:41,000 REPRESENTATIVES OF THE 50 STATES 388 00:30:41,001 --> 00:30:43,000 ARE GOING TO PUNT THAT DECISION 389 00:30:43,001 --> 00:30:47,000 TO SOMEONE WHOSE MIND IS ALREADY 390 00:30:47,001 --> 00:30:50,000 MADE UP. 391 00:30:50,001 --> 00:30:52,000 THE ADMIRAL GOES ON TO SAY, "I 392 00:30:52,001 --> 00:30:53,000 HAVE SPOKEN WITH SAILORS AND 393 00:30:53,001 --> 00:30:55,000 FELLOW FLAG OFFICERS ALIKE ABOUT 394 00:30:55,001 --> 00:30:57,000 THE IMPORTANCE OF CONDUCTING THE 395 00:30:57,001 --> 00:31:01,000 REVIEW IN A THOUGHTFUL AND 396 00:31:01,001 --> 00:31:03,000 DELIBERATE MANNER. 397 00:31:03,001 --> 00:31:05,000 IN THIS QUICK REVERSAL THAT 398 00:31:05,001 --> 00:31:07,000 OCCURRED JUST YESTERDAY IN THE 399 00:31:07,001 --> 00:31:14,000 ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE, WE 400 00:31:14,001 --> 00:31:18,000 ABANDONED THE THOUGHTFUL REVIEW. 401 00:31:18,001 --> 00:31:19,000 NOW, GENERAL JAMES T. CONWAY, 402 00:31:19,001 --> 00:31:21,000 COMMANDANT OF THE MARINE CORPS, 403 00:31:21,001 --> 00:31:24,000 SAID TO SENATOR McCAIN IN A 404 00:31:24,001 --> 00:31:25,000 LETTER OF 2010, "DURING 405 00:31:25,001 --> 00:31:27,000 TESTIMONY I SPOKE OF THE 406 00:31:27,001 --> 00:31:29,000 CONFIDENCE I HAD AS A SERVICE 407 00:31:29,001 --> 00:31:31,000 CHIEF IN THE D.O.D. WORKING 408 00:31:31,001 --> 00:31:32,000 GROUP THAT SECRETARY GATES LAID 409 00:31:32,001 --> 00:31:34,000 OUT IN THE WAKE OF PRESIDENT 410 00:31:34,001 --> 00:31:35,000 OBAMA'S GUIDANCE ON DON'T ASK, 411 00:31:35,001 --> 00:31:39,000 DON'T TELL. 412 00:31:39,001 --> 00:31:41,000 I FELT THAT AN ORGANIZED AND 413 00:31:41,001 --> 00:31:42,000 SYSTEMATIC APPROACH ON SUCH AN 414 00:31:42,001 --> 00:31:47,000 IMPORTANT ISSUE WAS PRECISELY 415 00:31:47,001 --> 00:31:48,000 THE WAY TO DEVELOP THE BEST 416 00:31:48,001 --> 00:31:50,000 MILITARY ADVICE." 417 00:31:50,001 --> 00:31:53,000 HE GOES ON TO SAY, "I ENCOURAGE 418 00:31:53,001 --> 00:31:55,000 THE CONGRESS TO LET THE PROCESS 419 00:31:55,001 --> 00:31:56,000 THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE CREATED 420 00:31:56,001 --> 00:32:02,000 RUN ITS COURSE. 421 00:32:02,001 --> 00:32:04,000 THE COMMANDANT OF -- RUN ITS COURSE." 422 00:32:04,001 --> 00:32:07,000 THE COMMANDANT OF THE MARINE CORPS. 423 00:32:07,001 --> 00:32:08,000 FINALLY A LETTER BY NORTON A. 424 00:32:08,001 --> 00:32:11,000 SCHWARZ, CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE 425 00:32:11,001 --> 00:32:15,000 AIR FORCE, SAYS, "MY POSITION 426 00:32:15,001 --> 00:32:17,000 REMAINS THAT D.O.D. SHOULD 427 00:32:17,001 --> 00:32:19,000 CONDUCT A REVIEW THAT CAREFULLY 428 00:32:19,001 --> 00:32:21,000 INVESTIGATES AND EVALUATES THE 429 00:32:21,001 --> 00:32:22,000 FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES, THE 430 00:32:22,001 --> 00:32:25,000 POTENTIAL IMPLICATIONS, THE 431 00:32:25,001 --> 00:32:27,000 POSSIBLE COMPLICATIONS AND 432 00:32:27,001 --> 00:32:29,000 POTENTIAL MITIGATIONS TO 433 00:32:29,001 --> 00:32:33,000 REPEALING THIS LAW." 434 00:32:33,001 --> 00:32:35,000 ALL FOUR OF OUR SERVICE HEADS 435 00:32:35,001 --> 00:32:37,000 WERE EXPLICIT IN ASKING THE 436 00:32:37,001 --> 00:32:40,000 COMMITTEE TO LET THE PROCESS 437 00:32:40,001 --> 00:32:44,000 CONTINUE, AND YET IN OUR WISDOM, 438 00:32:44,001 --> 00:32:49,000 WITH AN ELECTION LOOMING, THE 439 00:32:49,001 --> 00:32:51,000 COMMITE VOTED WITH A MAJORITY 440 00:32:51,001 --> 00:32:53,000 VOTE TO GO AHEAD AND SAY WE 441 00:32:53,001 --> 00:32:55,000 REALLY DON'T CARE TO HEAR WHAT 442 00:32:55,001 --> 00:32:57,000 THE ASSESSMENT SAID. 443 00:32:57,001 --> 00:32:59,000 WE'RE JUST GOING TO LET THREE 444 00:32:59,001 --> 00:33:00,000 PEOPLE MAKE THAT DECISION ON 445 00:33:00,001 --> 00:33:02,000 THEIR OWN. 446 00:33:02,001 --> 00:33:04,000 I HAVE THIS QUESTION FOR MEMBERS 447 00:33:04,001 --> 00:33:08,000 OF THE SENATE WHO WILL BE ASKED 448 00:33:08,001 --> 00:33:10,000 TO VOTE ON THIS AFTER THE BREAK. 449 00:33:10,001 --> 00:33:15,000 WHAT IF THE ASSESSMENT COMES 450 00:33:15,001 --> 00:33:17,000 BACK AND SAYS THAT SOLDIERS AND 451 00:33:17,001 --> 00:33:20,000 MARINES IN SIGNIFICANT NUMBERS 452 00:33:20,001 --> 00:33:23,000 ARE NOT WILLING TO CONTINUE IN A 453 00:33:23,001 --> 00:33:27,000 VOLUNTARY SERVICE UNDER THESE CONDITIONS? 454 00:33:27,001 --> 00:33:29,000 WHAT IF THAT'S THE RESULT OF THE 455 00:33:29,001 --> 00:33:31,000 ASSESSMENT, THAT IT WILL BE TOO 456 00:33:31,001 --> 00:33:33,000 LATE FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE 457 00:33:33,001 --> 00:33:36,000 HOUSE AND SENATE TO MAKE A 458 00:33:36,001 --> 00:33:38,000 CHANGE IN THIS POLICY? 459 00:33:38,001 --> 00:33:41,000 THE TIME TO TAKE A PAUSE AND THE 460 00:33:41,001 --> 00:33:43,000 TIME TO SEE WHAT OUR MEMBERS 461 00:33:43,001 --> 00:33:48,000 ACTUALLY THINK IS NOW. 462 00:33:48,001 --> 00:33:51,000 YOU KNOW, WE CAN FORCE THIS ON 463 00:33:51,001 --> 00:33:53,000 THE SERVICES, BUT IN A VOLUNTARY 464 00:33:53,001 --> 00:33:56,000 ARMED FORCE, WE CANNOT FORCE 465 00:33:56,001 --> 00:33:58,000 MEMBERS TO ENLIST. 466 00:33:58,001 --> 00:34:01,000 WE CANNOT FORCE MARINES WHO ARE 467 00:34:01,001 --> 00:34:03,000 PUTTING THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE 468 00:34:03,001 --> 00:34:05,000 FOR WHAT THEY BELIEVE IS THE 469 00:34:05,001 --> 00:34:08,000 AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE AND FOR OUR 470 00:34:08,001 --> 00:34:09,000 FREEDOM AND FOR THE SECURITY OF 471 00:34:09,001 --> 00:34:11,000 ALL AMERINS, WE CAN'T FORCE 472 00:34:11,001 --> 00:34:12,000 THEM TO RE-ENLIST WHEN THEIR 473 00:34:12,001 --> 00:34:13,000 TIME IS UP. 474 00:34:13,001 --> 00:34:15,000 WE NEED TO KNOW IF THEY ARE 475 00:34:15,001 --> 00:34:16,000 GOING TO BE WILLING TO STAY IN 476 00:34:16,001 --> 00:34:17,000 THE SERVICE AND TO MAKE THAT 477 00:34:17,001 --> 00:34:23,000 COMMITMENT AND TO PUT THEMSELVES 478 00:34:23,001 --> 00:34:25,000 IN HARM'S WAY UNDER THIS VERY 479 00:34:25,001 --> 00:34:31,000 DRASTIC, DRAMATIC CHANGE. 480 00:34:31,001 --> 00:34:34,000 WE SHOULD NOT SUBSTITUTE OUR 481 00:34:34,001 --> 00:34:36,000 JUDGMENT FOR WHAT THE MEMBERS OF 482 00:34:36,001 --> 00:34:37,000 THE SERVICE AND THEIR FAMILIES 483 00:34:37,001 --> 00:34:40,000 THINK. 484 00:34:40,001 --> 00:34:42,000 AND I -- I REGRET THAT WE HAVE 485 00:34:42,001 --> 00:34:43,000 GONE THIS FAR AND REGRET THE 486 00:34:43,001 --> 00:34:47,000 ACTION OF THE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE. 487 00:34:47,001 --> 00:34:51,000 THERE IS ONE OTHER ISSUE THAT -- 488 00:34:51,001 --> 00:34:54,000 THAT WAS REGRETTABLY VOTED ON IN 489 00:34:54,001 --> 00:34:55,000 THE AFFIRMATIVE BY THE COMMITTEE 490 00:34:55,001 --> 00:34:59,000 YESTERDAY, AND THAT'S WITH 491 00:34:59,001 --> 00:35:02,000 REGARD T ABORTION POLICY. 492 00:35:02,001 --> 00:35:05,000 SINCE 1996, WE HAVE HAD A POLICY 493 00:35:05,001 --> 00:35:08,000 THAT ABORTIONS -- ELECTIVE 494 00:35:08,001 --> 00:35:10,000 ABORTIONS WILL NOT BE PERFORMED 495 00:35:10,001 --> 00:35:12,000 ON OUR MILITARY INSTALLATIONS. 496 00:35:12,001 --> 00:35:14,000 THIS IS A POLICY THAT WAS PASSED 497 00:35:14,001 --> 00:35:17,000 BY THE HOUSE AND SENATE AND 498 00:35:17,001 --> 00:35:18,000 SIGNED INTO LAW BY A DEMOCRATIC 499 00:35:18,001 --> 00:35:21,000 PRESIDENT, BY PRESIDENT CLINTON. 500 00:35:21,001 --> 00:35:26,000 AND FOR THE PAST 14 YEARS, IT 501 00:35:26,001 --> 00:35:27,000 HAS BEEN OUR POLICY THAT 502 00:35:27,001 --> 00:35:30,000 ELECTIVE ABORTIONS WILL NOT BE 503 00:35:30,001 --> 00:35:32,000 PERFORMED IN OUR MILITARY INSTALLATIONS. 504 00:35:32,001 --> 00:35:34,000 THE COMMITTEE YESTERDAY DECIDED 505 00:35:34,001 --> 00:35:38,000 TO REVERSE THIS LONG-STANDING 506 00:35:38,001 --> 00:35:40,000 POLI AND TO SAY THAT INDEED 507 00:35:40,001 --> 00:35:42,000 ABORTIONS, FOR WHATEVER REASON, 508 00:35:42,001 --> 00:35:46,000 WILL BE PERFORMED IN THESE 509 00:35:46,001 --> 00:35:47,000 FACILITIES THAT ARE PAID FOR BY 510 00:35:47,001 --> 00:35:50,000 TAXPAYER EXPENSE THAT ARE THERE 511 00:35:50,001 --> 00:35:54,000 FOR THE CARE OF OUR SERVICE 512 00:35:54,001 --> 00:35:56,000 MEMBERS TO KEEP THEM HEALTHY AND 513 00:35:56,001 --> 00:35:58,000 TO REPAIR THEIR INJURIES. 514 00:35:58,001 --> 00:35:59,000 WE'RE GOING TO USE THOSE 515 00:35:59,001 --> 00:36:00,000 FACILITIES FOR ELECTIVE 516 00:36:00,001 --> 00:36:01,000 ABORTIONS. 517 00:36:01,001 --> 00:36:04,000 IF THIS AMENDMENT STANDS -- AND 518 00:36:04,001 --> 00:36:08,000 I GUARANTEE YOU IT WILL BE 519 00:36:08,001 --> 00:36:11,000 CHALLENGED ON THE FLOOR OF THE 520 00:36:11,001 --> 00:36:12,000 HOUSE AND SENATE, WITH SEPARATE 521 00:36:12,001 --> 00:36:13,000 AMENDMENTS. 522 00:36:13,001 --> 00:36:16,000 MEMBERS WILL BE GIVEN A CHANCE 523 00:36:16,001 --> 00:36:20,000 TO VOTE ON THIS SEPARATE ISSUE. 524 00:36:20,001 --> 00:36:22,000 BUT IF THIS STANDS, OUR MILITARY 525 00:36:22,001 --> 00:36:26,000 INSTALLATIONS, FORT BRAGG, 526 00:36:26,001 --> 00:36:28,000 COLUMBUS AIR FORCE BASE, KIESLER 527 00:36:28,001 --> 00:36:30,000 AIR FORCE BASE IN MY HOME STATE 528 00:36:30,001 --> 00:36:31,000 OF MISSISSIPPI, THEIR MEDICAL 529 00:36:31,001 --> 00:36:35,000 FACILITIES WILL BE ABLE TO BE 530 00:36:35,001 --> 00:36:38,000 USED FOR ABORTIONS PERFORMED 531 00:36:38,001 --> 00:36:40,000 LATE TERM, ABORTIONS PERFORMED 532 00:36:40,001 --> 00:36:44,000 FOR PURPOSES OF SEX SELECTI, 533 00:36:44,001 --> 00:36:47,000 ABORTIONS PERFORMED FOR ANY REASON. 534 00:36:47,001 --> 00:36:49,000 ABORTION AT WILL WILL BE THE 535 00:36:49,001 --> 00:36:50,000 REQUIREMENT FOR OUR MILITARY 536 00:36:50,001 --> 00:36:52,000 INSTALLATIONS AND THE MEDICAL 537 00:36:52,001 --> 00:36:54,000 FACILITIES ON THOSE 538 00:36:54,001 --> 00:37:00,000 INSTALLATIONS. 539 00:37:00,001 --> 00:37:05,000 AGAIN, ANOTHER PIECE OF SOCIAL 540 00:37:05,001 --> 00:37:08,000 ENGINEERG, ANOTHER VAST AND 541 00:37:08,001 --> 00:37:11,000 SERIOUS AND CONSEQUENTIAL 542 00:37:11,001 --> 00:37:13,000 DEPARTURE FROM LONG-STANDING 543 00:37:13,001 --> 00:37:16,000 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE POLICY. 544 00:37:16,001 --> 00:37:19,000 I REGRET THESE TWO POSITIONS. 545 00:37:19,001 --> 00:37:21,000 I CALL ON MY COLLEAGUES, 546 00:37:21,001 --> 00:37:23,000 MR. PRESIDENT, DURING THIS 547 00:37:23,001 --> 00:37:27,000 MEMORIAL DAY BREAK WHEN WE'RE 548 00:37:27,001 --> 00:37:28,000 TALKING TO THOSE WHO HAVE 549 00:37:28,001 --> 00:37:29,000 SERVED, PUT THEMSELVES IN HARM'S 550 00:37:29,001 --> 00:37:32,000 WAY, WE'RE TALKING TO THE 551 00:37:32,001 --> 00:37:35,000 FAMILIES OF THOSE WHO 552 00:37:35,001 --> 00:37:39,000 PROVIDED -- WHO HAVE GIVEN THE 553 00:37:39,001 --> 00:37:40,000 ULTIMATE SACRIFICE, THAT WE 554 00:37:40,001 --> 00:37:43,000 SERIOUSLY CONSIDER WHETHER THE 555 00:37:43,001 --> 00:37:46,000 COMMITTEE HAS MADE THE RIGHT 556 00:37:46,001 --> 00:37:49,000 DECISION, AND THAT WE COME BACK 557 00:37:49,001 --> 00:37:51,000 TO WASHINGTON, D.C. WITH A 558 00:37:51,001 --> 00:37:54,000 DETERMINATION TO REVERSE THESE 559 00:37:54,001 --> 00:37:55,000 TWO VERY HARMFUL AND, IN MY 560 00:37:55,001 --> 00:37:57,000 VIEW, MISTAKEN ACTIONS BY THE 561 00:37:57,001 --> 00:38:03,000 ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE. 562 00:38:03,001 --> 00:38:04,000 WITH THAT, I WISH MY FRIEND, THE 563 00:38:04,001 --> 00:38:07,000 PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE 564 00:38:07,001 --> 00:38:09,000 SENATE, A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS 565 00:38:09,001 --> 00:38:12,000 MEMORIAL DAY, AND I 566 00:38:12,001 --> 00:38:17,000 ABSENCE OF A QUORUM. THE PRESIDIN 567 00:38:17,001 --> 00:45:11,000 WILL CALL THE 568 00:45:11,001 --> 00:54:20,000 QUORUM CALL: 569 00:54:20,001 --> 00:54:21,000 QUORUM CALL: 570 00:54:21,001 --> 00:54:22,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 571 00:54:22,001 --> 00:54:23,000 SENATOR FROM RHODE ISLAND. 572 00:54:23,001 --> 00:54:24,000 MR. REED: MR. PRESIDENT, I ASK 573 00:54:24,001 --> 00:54:27,000 UNANIMOUS CONSENT THAT THE 574 00:54:27,001 --> 00:54:28,000 QUORUM BE DISPENSED WITH. 575 00:54:28,001 --> 00:54:29,000 THE 576 00:54:29,001 --> 00:54:30,000 OBJECTION. 577 00:54:30,001 --> 00:54:32,000 MR. REED: THANK YOU. 578 00:54:32,001 --> 00:54:35,000 MR. PRESIDENT, IN MARCH, MY 579 00:54:35,001 --> 00:54:38,000 STATE WAS HIT BY BACK-TO-BACK 580 00:54:38,001 --> 00:54:40,000 HISTORIC FLOODS THAT COST 581 00:54:40,001 --> 00:54:41,000 HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS 582 00:54:41,001 --> 00:54:43,000 OF DAMAGE IN RHODE ISLAND. 583 00:54:43,001 --> 00:54:44,000 I WANT TO THANK THE CHAIRMAN OF 584 00:54:44,001 --> 00:54:47,000 THE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE, 585 00:54:47,001 --> 00:54:49,000 SENATOR INOUYE, AND THE RANKING 586 00:54:49,001 --> 00:54:52,000 MEMBER, SENATOR COCHRAN, AND MY 587 00:54:52,001 --> 00:54:55,000 COLLEAGUES ON THE COMMITTEE ESPECIALLY WHO HAVE RECOGNIZED 588 00:54:55,001 --> 00:54:57,000 THE NEEDS OF RHODE ISLAND IN THE 589 00:54:57,001 --> 00:54:58,000 APPROPRIATIONS BILL WE RECENTLY 590 00:54:58,001 --> 00:54:59,000 COMPLETED. 591 00:54:59,001 --> 00:55:01,000 WE ARE STRUGGLING TO OVERCOME 592 00:55:01,001 --> 00:55:03,000 THE EFFECTS OF THE WORST 593 00:55:03,001 --> 00:55:05,000 FLOODING IN CENTURIES IN THE 594 00:55:05,001 --> 00:55:09,000 MIDST OF THE WORST ECONOMIC 595 00:55:09,001 --> 00:55:10,000 ENVIRONMENT WE'VE SEENINCE THE 1930'S. 596 00:55:10,001 --> 00:55:12,000 INDEED, RHODE ISLAND WAS AMONG 597 00:55:12,001 --> 00:55:14,000 THE FIRST STATES TO SINK INTO 598 00:55:14,001 --> 00:55:15,000 THIS LATEST RECESSION. 599 00:55:15,001 --> 00:55:17,000 IN THE LAST TWO YEARS RHODE 600 00:55:17,001 --> 00:55:19,000 ISLAND HAS CONSISTENTLY RANKED 601 00:55:19,001 --> 00:55:21,000 AMONG THE TOP THREE STATES IN 602 00:55:21,001 --> 00:55:24,000 UNEMPLOYMENT, WITH AS MANY AS 603 00:55:24,001 --> 00:55:25,000 13% OF OUR WORKFORCE WITHOUT 604 00:55:25,001 --> 00:55:27,000 JOBS. 605 00:55:27,001 --> 00:55:31,000 BY THE LATEST ESTIMATES, 12.5% 606 00:55:31,001 --> 00:55:33,000 OF THE STATE IS OUT OF WORK, AND 607 00:55:33,001 --> 00:55:34,000 THIS IS NOT INCLUDING THE JOBS 608 00:55:34,001 --> 00:55:36,000 THAT HAVE BEEN LOST IN THE 609 00:55:36,001 --> 00:55:40,000 FLOODI. 610 00:55:40,001 --> 00:55:42,000 OUR MAJOR COMMERCIAL MALL IN 611 00:55:42,001 --> 00:55:43,000 WARWICK, RHODE ISLAND, HAS BEEN 612 00:55:43,001 --> 00:55:45,000 CLOSED SINCE MARCH. 613 00:55:45,001 --> 00:55:46,000 HUNDREDS, PERHAPS EVEN 1,000 OR 614 00:55:46,001 --> 00:55:49,000 MORE JOBS HAVE BEEN LOST. 615 00:55:49,001 --> 00:55:53,000 THEY ARE RAPIDLY TRYING TO 616 00:55:53,001 --> 00:55:56,000 REOPEN THIS FACILITY UNDER THE 617 00:55:56,001 --> 00:56:00,000 INCREDIBLE LEADERSHIP OF THE 618 00:56:00,001 --> 00:56:05,000 OWNER, ARREST RAN GARABIANIN. 619 00:56:05,001 --> 00:56:06,000 BUT TODAY WE'VE OPENED ONE 620 00:56:06,001 --> 00:56:09,000 STORE. 621 00:56:09,001 --> 00:56:10,000 SOON WE HOPE TO OPEN ANOTHER. 622 00:56:10,001 --> 00:56:11,000 FOR THOSE HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE, 623 00:56:11,001 --> 00:56:13,000 THEY HAVE LOST THEIR JOBS AND 624 00:56:13,001 --> 00:56:17,000 ARE WAITING TO GO BACK TO WORK. 625 00:56:17,001 --> 00:56:18,000 THE REACH OF THE FLOOD WAS 626 00:56:18,001 --> 00:56:19,000 WIDESPREAD, COVERING EVERY 627 00:56:19,001 --> 00:56:26,000 COUNTY OF THE STAEUFPLT IN THE 628 00:56:26,001 --> 00:56:29,000 SPACE OF TWO WEEKS, THERE WERE 629 00:56:29,001 --> 00:56:33,000 RIVERS THAT WENT ABOVE FLOOD STAGE. 630 00:56:33,001 --> 00:56:35,000 INTERSTATE 9 5, THE MAJOR NORTH-SOUTH ROUTE IN THE 631 00:56:35,001 --> 00:56:36,000 NORTHEAST OF THIS COUNTRY, WAS 632 00:56:36,001 --> 00:56:38,000 CLOSED FOR TWO DAYS. 633 00:56:38,001 --> 00:56:39,000 IT'S NEVER BEEN CLOSED FOR THAT 634 00:56:39,001 --> 00:56:41,000 LENGTH OF TIME. 635 00:56:41,001 --> 00:56:43,000 THE LAST TIME I CAN RECL IT 636 00:56:43,001 --> 00:56:46,000 BEING CLOSED WAS IN 1978 DURING 637 00:56:46,001 --> 00:56:48,000 A HUGE BLIZZARD WHICH SHUT DOWN 638 00:56:48,001 --> 00:56:50,000 TRAFFIC FOR ABOUT A DAY OR SO. 639 00:56:50,001 --> 00:56:52,000 PRESIDENT OBAMA AND FEMA ISSUED 640 00:56:52,001 --> 00:56:54,000 MAJOR DISASTER DECLARATIONS FOR 641 00:56:54,001 --> 00:56:55,000 THE ENTIRE STATE, AND I THANK 642 00:56:55,001 --> 00:56:57,000 THE PRESIDENT. 643 00:56:57,001 --> 00:56:58,000 HE MOVED VERY QUICKLY AND VERY 644 00:56:58,001 --> 00:57:00,000 AGGRESSIVELY. 645 00:57:00,001 --> 00:57:02,000 AND I THANK FEMA ALSO. 646 00:57:02,001 --> 00:57:06,000 THEY DISPATCHED IMMEDIATELY 647 00:57:06,001 --> 00:57:07,000 THEIR DEPUTY FOR DISASTER OPERATIONS. 648 00:57:07,001 --> 00:57:13,000 THEY HAD ON THE GROUND WITHIN, 649 00:57:13,001 --> 00:57:14,000 IT SEEMED, HOURS KEY PERSONNEL 650 00:57:14,001 --> 00:57:17,000 WHO WERE THERE. 651 00:57:17,001 --> 00:57:22,000 AND I PARTICULARLY WANT TO 652 00:57:22,001 --> 00:57:24,000 RECOGNIZE GRACIA CZECH, AN 653 00:57:24,001 --> 00:57:25,000 INCREDIBLE WOMAN WHO, FRANKLY, 654 00:57:25,001 --> 00:57:28,000 LEFT RHODE ISLAND TO BE SENT 655 00:57:28,001 --> 00:57:29,000 DOWN TO THE NEXT GREAT FLOOD IN 656 00:57:29,001 --> 00:57:30,000 TENNESSEE. 657 00:57:30,001 --> 00:57:31,000 SENATOR ALEXANDER AND SENATOR 658 00:57:31,001 --> 00:57:32,000 CORKER HAVE SPOKEN ABOUT THEIR 659 00:57:32,001 --> 00:57:33,000 PROBLEMS. 660 00:57:33,001 --> 00:57:35,000 SO I WANT TO THANK BOTH THE 661 00:57:35,001 --> 00:57:36,000 PRESIDENT AND FEMA FOR AN 662 00:57:36,001 --> 00:57:37,000 INCREDIBLE RESPONSE. 663 00:57:37,001 --> 00:57:39,000 BUT WHAT YOU FIND IN A FLOOD 664 00:57:39,001 --> 00:57:41,000 LIKE THIS -- AND ALL OF MY 665 00:57:41,001 --> 00:57:44,000 COLLEAGUES WHO HAVE BEEN SUBJECT 666 00:57:44,001 --> 00:57:45,000 TO THEM -- FRANKLY, THIS IS A 667 00:57:45,001 --> 00:57:47,000 PHENOMENON USUALLY FOUND IN 668 00:57:47,001 --> 00:57:49,000 OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTRY. 669 00:57:49,001 --> 00:57:53,000 BUT WHAT YOU FIND IN A FLOOD IS 670 00:57:53,001 --> 00:57:58,000 THE WATER RECREEDS, THE SUN -- 671 00:57:58,001 --> 00:57:59,000 THE WATER RECEDES BUT THE DAMAGE REMAINS. 672 00:57:59,001 --> 00:58:02,000 WE HAVE ABOUT 2,000 HOUSEHOLDS 673 00:58:02,001 --> 00:58:03,000 STILL NOT ABLE TO LIVE IN THEIR HOMES. 674 00:58:03,001 --> 00:58:04,000 THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAS 675 00:58:04,001 --> 00:58:06,000 CAUSED TREMENDOUS SHOCK TO OUR 676 00:58:06,001 --> 00:58:08,000 ECONOMY AND TO OUR WORKFORCE AND 677 00:58:08,001 --> 00:58:13,000 TO THE PEOPLE OF RHODE ISLAND. 678 00:58:13,001 --> 00:58:16,000 AFTER TWO MONTHS, HOMEOWNERS AND 679 00:58:16,001 --> 00:58:20,000 BUSINESSES IN MUCH OF THE STATE 680 00:58:20,001 --> 00:58:24,000 ARE STILL STRUGGLING. 681 00:58:24,001 --> 00:58:25,000 FLOODING CAUSED JOB LOSS IN MUCH 682 00:58:25,001 --> 00:58:28,000 OF THE SECTORS. 683 00:58:28,001 --> 00:58:30,000 I MENTION THE WARWICK MALL. 684 00:58:30,001 --> 00:58:32,000 ACTUALLY IT APPEARS ABOUT 1,100 685 00:58:32,001 --> 00:58:37,000 PEOPLE HAVE LOST THEIR JOB 686 00:58:37,001 --> 00:58:38,000 BECAUSE OF THE SHUTDOWN OF THAT 687 00:58:38,001 --> 00:58:40,000 COMMERCIAL CENTER. 688 00:58:40,001 --> 00:58:41,000 HEALTH, EDUCATION, ARTS, 689 00:58:41,001 --> 00:58:43,000 RECREATION, MANUFACTURING, ALL 690 00:58:43,001 --> 00:58:44,000 EXPERIENCED SIGNIFICANT JOB LOSSES. 691 00:58:44,001 --> 00:58:46,000 AS MY COLLEAGUES KNOW, RHODE 692 00:58:46,001 --> 00:58:48,000 ISLAND HAS BEEN FORTUNATE FOR 693 00:58:48,001 --> 00:58:50,000 MANY DECADES TO HAVE AIDED 694 00:58:50,001 --> 00:58:52,000 THIS KIND OF NATURAL DISASTER, 695 00:58:52,001 --> 00:58:55,000 PARTICULARLY FROM FLOODING. 696 00:58:55,001 --> 00:58:58,000 THE LAST MAJOR NATURAL DISASTER 697 00:58:58,001 --> 00:59:00,000 IN THE STATE WAS HURRICANE BOB 698 00:59:00,001 --> 00:59:02,000 IN 1952. 699 00:59:02,001 --> 00:59:04,000 IT ROARED UP AND IT HIT OUR 700 00:59:04,001 --> 00:59:06,000 STATES LIKE OTHER PARTS OF THE 701 00:59:06,001 --> 00:59:09,000 NORTHEAST AND WE SUFFERED SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE. 702 00:59:09,001 --> 00:59:11,000 BUT IN THAT TIME WE'VE BEEN RATHER FORTUNATE. 703 00:59:11,001 --> 00:59:13,000 BUT OUR FORTUNE RAN OUT WITH 704 00:59:13,001 --> 00:59:15,000 THESE FLOODS THIS SPRING. 705 00:59:15,001 --> 00:59:18,000 THERE'S BEEN NO QUESTION ABOUT 706 00:59:18,001 --> 00:59:19,000 THE SUPPORT OF THE PEOPLE OF 707 00:59:19,001 --> 00:59:21,000 RHODE ISLAND OF MY COLLEAGUES 708 00:59:21,001 --> 00:59:23,000 AND THIS DELEGATION WHEN THIS 709 00:59:23,001 --> 00:59:25,000 TYPE OF DISASTER HITS ELSEWHERE. 710 00:59:25,001 --> 00:59:27,000 THE MIDWEST FLOODING, KATRINA 711 00:59:27,001 --> 00:59:28,000 AND LOUISIANA ALONG THE GULF 712 00:59:28,001 --> 00:59:33,000 COAST, WE'RE THERE BECAUSE WE 713 00:59:33,001 --> 00:59:34,000 KNOW, ONE, AMERICANS, OUR 714 00:59:34,001 --> 00:59:36,000 NEIGHBORS, ARE SUFFERING. 715 00:59:36,001 --> 00:59:38,000 AND THAT'S WHEN WE ALL HAVE TO 716 00:59:38,001 --> 00:59:41,000 PULL TOGETHER AND HELP THEM. 717 00:59:41,001 --> 00:59:43,000 AND WE ALSO KNOW TOO AND EXPECT 718 00:59:43,001 --> 00:59:45,000 THAT WHEN IT HAPPENS IN OUR HOME 719 00:59:45,001 --> 00:59:47,000 STATE THAT THAT SAME SPIRIT O 720 00:59:47,001 --> 00:59:49,000 PULLING TOGETHER, OF HELPING 721 00:59:49,001 --> 00:59:51,000 OUT, OF GETTING PEOPLE BACK IN 722 00:59:51,001 --> 00:59:53,000 THEIR HOMES AND OPENING UP 723 00:59:53,001 --> 00:59:55,000 BUSINESSES WOULD BE SOMETHING 724 00:59:55,001 --> 00:59:56,000 WE'D EXPERIENCE AND WE'D SEE 725 00:59:56,001 --> 00:59:57,000 TOO. 726 00:59:57,001 --> 01:00:01,000 AND I'M GRATEFUL AGAIN IN THE 727 01:00:01,001 --> 01:00:02,000 MIDST OF THIS CHALLENGING FISCAL 728 01:00:02,001 --> 01:00:06,000 ENVIRONMENT THE APPROPRIATIONS 729 01:00:06,001 --> 01:00:10,000 COMMITTEE ON A BIPARTISAN BASIS HAS INCLUDED ASSISTANCE FOR 730 01:00:10,001 --> 01:00:14,000 RHODE ISLAND AND FOR TENNESSEE. 731 01:00:14,001 --> 01:00:15,000 THEY HAVE 732 01:00:15,001 --> 01:00:16,000 RESPONDED AS THEY HAVE SO MANY 733 01:00:16,001 --> 01:00:18,000 TIMES BEFORE TO THE NEEDS OF 734 01:00:18,001 --> 01:00:19,000 PEOPLE WHO LOST HOMES, LOST JOBS. 735 01:00:19,001 --> 01:00:20,000 ONE THING THEY DON'T WANT THEM 736 01:00:20,001 --> 01:00:21,000 TO LOSE IS HE. 737 01:00:21,001 --> 01:00:22,000 SO THEY STEPPED FORWARD TO 738 01:00:22,001 --> 01:00:26,000 PROVIDE THE RESOURCES NECESSARY 739 01:00:26,001 --> 01:00:30,000 TO BEGIN THE DIFFICULT TASK OF REBUILDING. 740 01:00:30,001 --> 01:00:34,000 I WANT TO THANK, AGAIN, CHAIRMAN 741 01:00:34,001 --> 01:00:35,000 INOUYE AND VICE CHAIRMAN COCHRAN 742 01:00:35,001 --> 01:00:38,000 , GENTLEMEN OF 743 01:00:38,001 --> 01:00:40,000 EXTRAORDINARY KINDNESS BUT 744 01:00:40,001 --> 01:00:42,000 EXTRAORDINARY FAITHFULNESS TO 745 01:00:42,001 --> 01:00:45,000 THE CORE VALUES OF THIS COUNTRY 746 01:00:45,001 --> 01:00:46,000 AND ONE OF THE BASIC VALUES IS 747 01:00:46,001 --> 01:00:47,000 WHEN DIFFICULT TIMES AFFECT 748 01:00:47,001 --> 01:00:49,000 PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY, WE'RE 749 01:00:49,001 --> 01:00:51,000 NOT GOING TO LOOK AWAY. 750 01:00:51,001 --> 01:00:52,000 WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO HELP THEM. 751 01:00:52,001 --> 01:00:53,000 THEY HAVE DONE IT AGAIN FOR 752 01:00:53,001 --> 01:00:57,000 RHODE ISLAND AND TENNESSEE. 753 01:00:57,001 --> 01:00:58,000 WE STILL HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO 754 01:00:58,001 --> 01:00:59,000 TO RECOVERY. 755 01:00:59,001 --> 01:01:01,000 I LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING TO 756 01:01:01,001 --> 01:01:05,000 WORK WITH THE CHAIRMAN AND OTHER 757 01:01:05,001 --> 01:01:06,000 MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEES AS WE 758 01:01:06,001 --> 01:01:07,000 GO FORWARD, BUT THEIR EFFORTS 759 01:01:07,001 --> 01:01:09,000 WILL PROVIDE MEANINGFUL AND 760 01:01:09,001 --> 01:01:11,000 MATERIAL SUPPORT TO THE PEOPLE 761 01:01:11,001 --> 01:01:15,000 OF RHODE ISLAND, AND I THANK 762 01:01:15,001 --> 01:01:18,000 THEM VERY MUCH. 763 01:01:18,001 --> 01:01:20,000 NOW, THIS IS A MOMENT ALSO AS WE 764 01:01:20,001 --> 01:01:23,000 REFLECT UPON THE DAMAGE CAUSED 765 01:01:23,001 --> 01:01:24,000 BY THE FLOOD TO ONCE AGAIN 766 01:01:24,001 --> 01:01:27,000 UNDERSCORE THE DAMAGE THAT HAS 767 01:01:27,001 --> 01:01:29,000 BEEN CAUSED FOR NOW SEVERAL 768 01:01:29,001 --> 01:01:32,000 YEARS BY AN ECONOMY THAT'S NOT 769 01:01:32,001 --> 01:01:34,000 PRODUCING JOBS, IN FACT, UNTIL 770 01:01:34,001 --> 01:01:36,000 VERY RECENTLY IN RHODE ISLAND 771 01:01:36,001 --> 01:01:39,000 HAS BEEN CLAIMING JOBS. 772 01:01:39,001 --> 01:01:40,000 FEW STATES, AS I MENTIONED 773 01:01:40,001 --> 01:01:44,000 BEFORE, HAVE FELT THE IMPACT OF 774 01:01:44,001 --> 01:01:46,000 THIS JOB LOSS MORE SEVERELY THAN 775 01:01:46,001 --> 01:01:49,000 RHODE ISLAND. 776 01:01:49,001 --> 01:01:53,000 IF WE FAIL TO ACT ON 777 01:01:53,001 --> 01:01:57,000 UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION BEFORE 778 01:01:57,001 --> 01:01:59,000 JUNE 2 -- AND I AM SO DISAPPOINTED. 779 01:01:59,001 --> 01:02:01,000 IT SEEMS, QUITE OBVIOUSLY, WE 780 01:02:01,001 --> 01:02:03,000 WILL NOT ACT EFFECTIVELY -- 781 01:02:03,001 --> 01:02:04,000 WE'RE GOING TO ONCE AGAIN PUT 782 01:02:04,001 --> 01:02:06,000 THOUSANDS OF RHODE ISLANDERS, 783 01:02:06,001 --> 01:02:08,000 HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS, MILLIONS 784 01:02:08,001 --> 01:02:09,000 OF AMERICANS WHO ARE LOOKING FOR 785 01:02:09,001 --> 01:02:11,000 WORK AND CAN'T FINDT IN 786 01:02:11,001 --> 01:02:14,000 JEOPARDY OF NOT BEING ABLE TO AT 787 01:02:14,001 --> 01:02:15,000 LEAST GET SOME UNEMPLOYMENT 788 01:02:15,001 --> 01:02:18,000 COMPENSATION. 789 01:02:18,001 --> 01:02:20,000 ALL THE ECONOMIC ARGUMENTS ABOUT 790 01:02:20,001 --> 01:02:22,000 UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION ARE 791 01:02:22,001 --> 01:02:23,000 OBVIOUS BUT BEAR REPEATING. 792 01:02:23,001 --> 01:02:24,000 THIS IS ONE OF THOSE SORT OF 793 01:02:24,001 --> 01:02:27,000 PROGRAMS THAT FOR EVERY DOLLAR 794 01:02:27,001 --> 01:02:29,000 WE INVEST, WE GET MORE IN TERMS 795 01:02:29,001 --> 01:02:30,000 OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN THE 796 01:02:30,001 --> 01:02:32,000 COUNTRY. 797 01:02:32,001 --> 01:02:35,000 SO IT IS PART OF OUR RECOVERY 798 01:02:35,001 --> 01:02:36,000 PACKAGE AS WELL AS PART OF 799 01:02:36,001 --> 01:02:38,000 KEEPING FAITH WITH PEOPLE WHO 800 01:02:38,001 --> 01:02:41,000 HAVE WORKED HARD, PAID THEIR 801 01:02:41,001 --> 01:02:44,000 DUES LITERALLY AND NOW ARE 802 01:02:44,001 --> 01:02:47,000 LOOKING FOR THE BENEFITS OF THIS PROGRAM. 803 01:02:47,001 --> 01:02:49,000 IN MARCH, THE SENATE PASSED ON A 804 01:02:49,001 --> 01:02:50,000 BIPARTISAN BASIS WITH SIX OF MY 805 01:02:50,001 --> 01:02:54,000 REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES AN EXTENSION OF UNEMPLOYMENT 806 01:02:54,001 --> 01:02:55,000 BENEFITS AS PART OF AN EARLY 807 01:02:55,001 --> 01:02:58,000 EXTENDERS PACKAGE THROUGH THE 808 01:02:58,001 --> 01:03:00,000 END OF THE YEAR, 62-36. 809 01:03:00,001 --> 01:03:02,000 THE UNEMPLOYMENT EXTENSION AS IT 810 01:03:02,001 --> 01:03:03,000 WAS THEN AND H BEEN IN THE 811 01:03:03,001 --> 01:03:05,000 PAST, IT WAS UNPAID FOR. 812 01:03:05,001 --> 01:03:06,000 IT WAS DEEMED EMERGENCY 813 01:03:06,001 --> 01:03:08,000 SPENDING. 814 01:03:08,001 --> 01:03:12,000 I FIND IT IRONIC AND INTERESTING 815 01:03:12,001 --> 01:03:13,000 THAT WE CAN DEEM BILLIONS OF 816 01:03:13,001 --> 01:03:14,000 DOLLARS AS AN EMERGENCY TO 817 01:03:14,001 --> 01:03:16,000 SUPPORT OUR TROOPS IN 818 01:03:16,001 --> 01:03:19,000 AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ AND, 819 01:03:19,001 --> 01:03:21,000 FRANKLY,ART OF THAT SUPPORT IS 820 01:03:21,001 --> 01:03:24,000 NOT SIMPLY TO BUY AMMUNITIONS 821 01:03:24,001 --> 01:03:26,000 AND FUEL PRODUCTS AND HUMVEES 822 01:03:26,001 --> 01:03:30,000 FOR AMERICAN TROOPS. 823 01:03:30,001 --> 01:03:33,000 IT'S TO GIVE OUR COMMANDERS SURF 824 01:03:33,001 --> 01:03:36,000 MONEY SO THEY CAN GO INTO THE 825 01:03:36,001 --> 01:03:38,000 COMMUNITIES COMMUNITIES OF 826 01:03:38,001 --> 01:03:39,000 AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ AND PUT 827 01:03:39,001 --> 01:03:40,000 PEOPLE TO WORK. 828 01:03:40,001 --> 01:03:42,000 IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO GO BACK 829 01:03:42,001 --> 01:03:44,000 TO RHODE ISLAND AND TELL PEOPLE 830 01:03:44,001 --> 01:03:46,000 IT'S AN EMERGENCY TO PUT PEOPLE 831 01:03:46,001 --> 01:03:48,000 IN ACCOUNTABLE TO WORK, PEOPLE 832 01:03:48,001 --> 01:03:49,000 IN KANDAHAR TO WORK, PEOPLE IN 833 01:03:49,001 --> 01:03:51,000 BASRA AND BAGHDAD TO WORK, BUT 834 01:03:51,001 --> 01:03:54,000 IT'S NOT AN EMERGENCY TO PUT 835 01:03:54,001 --> 01:03:58,000 OPLE TO WORK IN BOISE, NOT AN 836 01:03:58,001 --> 01:04:02,000 EMERGENCY TO PUT PEOPLE TO WORK 837 01:04:02,001 --> 01:04:05,000 IN KEELHOOK, IOWA, AND CERTAINLY 838 01:04:05,001 --> 01:04:08,000 IN PLACES LIKE PRODENCE, 839 01:04:08,001 --> 01:04:10,000 CRANSTON, ALL THROUGH MY STATE. 840 01:04:10,001 --> 01:04:13,000 IT'S TRULY UNFORTUNATE THAT WE 841 01:04:13,001 --> 01:04:14,000 ARE NOW AT THIS JUNCTURE IN A 842 01:04:14,001 --> 01:04:16,000 POSITION WHERE THESE BENEFITS 843 01:04:16,001 --> 01:04:17,000 FOR WHICH A LONG-TERM EXTENSION 844 01:04:17,001 --> 01:04:20,000 HAS BEEN PASSED SEPARATELY IN 845 01:04:20,001 --> 01:04:22,000 BOTH HOUSES WILL LAPSE. 846 01:04:22,001 --> 01:04:25,000 THAT IS REGRETTABLE, TO SAY THE LEAST. 847 01:04:25,001 --> 01:04:30,000 IN FACT, IT'S DEPLORABLE. 848 01:04:30,001 --> 01:04:32,000 NOW, I'M OPTIMISTIC THAT WE WILL 849 01:04:32,001 --> 01:04:33,000 AS IN THE PAST -- WHEN WE COME 850 01:04:33,001 --> 01:04:35,000 BACK AFTER THIS MEMORIAL DAY 851 01:04:35,001 --> 01:04:36,000 RECESS, WE'LL CRAFT AN EXTENSION. 852 01:04:36,001 --> 01:04:37,000 I'M AFRAID IT'S GOING TO BE A 853 01:04:37,001 --> 01:04:39,000 SHORT-TERM EXTENSION. 854 01:04:39,001 --> 01:04:41,000 I'M AFRAID ONCE AGAIN, 855 01:04:41,001 --> 01:04:42,000 THOUSANDS, MILLIONS OF AMERICANS 856 01:04:42,001 --> 01:04:44,000 ARE GOING TO BE LIVING MONTH TO 857 01:04:44,001 --> 01:04:46,000 MONTH WITH AN OCEAN OF I HAVE 858 01:04:46,001 --> 01:04:49,000 BENEFITS BUT HOW LONG CAN I KEEP 859 01:04:49,001 --> 01:04:51,000 THEM? 860 01:04:51,001 --> 01:04:52,000 THAT'S UN-- THAT UNCERTAINTY IS 861 01:04:52,001 --> 01:04:55,000 WE CAN DO BETTER. 862 01:04:55,001 --> 01:04:58,000 WE HAVE DONE IT INDIVIDUALLY BY EXTENDING BENEFITS AT LEAST 863 01:04:58,001 --> 01:05:00,000 UNTIL THE END OF THIS YEAR. 864 01:05:00,001 --> 01:05:02,000 WE HAVE TO DO THAT. 865 01:05:02,001 --> 01:05:04,000 IF WE DON'T EXTEND THEM AT LEAST 866 01:05:04,001 --> 01:05:06,000 FOR A SHORT PERIOD, MILLIONS OF 867 01:05:06,001 --> 01:05:10,000 UNEMPLOYED WORKERS WILL LOSE 868 01:05:10,001 --> 01:05:13,000 BENEFITS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, 869 01:05:13,001 --> 01:05:14,000 INCLUDING 2,000 RHODE ISLANDERS. 870 01:05:14,001 --> 01:05:16,000 SINCE THE PASSAGE OF LAST YEAR'S 871 01:05:16,001 --> 01:05:17,000 RECOVERY ACT, I WOULD POINT OUT 872 01:05:17,001 --> 01:05:18,000 THERE HAVE BEEN EIGHT 873 01:05:18,001 --> 01:05:20,000 FILIBUSTERS OF LEGISLATION TO 874 01:05:20,001 --> 01:05:26,000 EXTEND UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS. 875 01:05:26,001 --> 01:05:32,000 NOW, I THINK THE PEOPLE IN THIS 876 01:05:32,001 --> 01:05:34,000 COUNTRY THAT NEED HELP,OT JUST 877 01:05:34,001 --> 01:05:35,000 POINTLESS DEBATE, ARE THOSE WHO 878 01:05:35,001 --> 01:05:37,000 ARE OUT OF WORK, LOOKING FOR IT 879 01:05:37,001 --> 01:05:38,000 AND NEEDING THE SUPPORT OF 880 01:05:38,001 --> 01:05:40,000 UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION. 881 01:05:40,001 --> 01:05:42,000 WE HAVE ALLOWED IT TO LAPSE 882 01:05:42,001 --> 01:05:43,000 TWICE THIS YEAR. 883 01:05:43,001 --> 01:05:45,000 THE WEEKS HAVE GONE BY AS THEY 884 01:05:45,001 --> 01:05:46,000 WILL GO BY, UNFORTUNATELY, IN 885 01:05:46,001 --> 01:05:48,000 THE NEXT FEW WEEKS WHERE THERE 886 01:05:48,001 --> 01:05:51,000 IS UNCERTAINTY AND DOUBT ABOUT 887 01:05:51,001 --> 01:05:54,000 PAYMENTS BEING MAINTAINED. 888 01:05:54,001 --> 01:05:56,000 NOW, I JUST THINK IT'S 889 01:05:56,001 --> 01:05:58,000 OUTRAGEOUS THAT HAVING MY 890 01:05:58,001 --> 01:06:02,000 COLLEAGUES ON THIS SIDE 891 01:06:02,001 --> 01:06:05,000 REPEATEDLY APPROVE BUDGETS SENT 892 01:06:05,001 --> 01:06:07,000 BY PRESIDENT BUSH THAT WERE 893 01:06:07,001 --> 01:06:11,000 UNPAID FOR. 894 01:06:11,001 --> 01:06:13,000 NOT EN AN ATTEMPT TO PAY FOR 895 01:06:13,001 --> 01:06:17,000 THEM THAT PROVIDED TAX CUTS FOR 896 01:06:17,001 --> 01:06:22,000 THE WEALTHIEST CITIZENS, THAT 897 01:06:22,001 --> 01:06:23,000 CONDUCTED TWO MAJOR MILITARY CON 898 01:06:23,001 --> 01:06:25,000 FLICTS WITHOUT PAYING FOR THEM 899 01:06:25,001 --> 01:06:26,000 NOW SUDDENLY FEEL THEY HAVE TO 900 01:06:26,001 --> 01:06:29,000 PAY FOR UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS 901 01:06:29,001 --> 01:06:33,000 FOR WORKERS IN AMERICA. 902 01:06:33,001 --> 01:06:34,000 WE HAVE TO BE FOCUSED ON THIS DEFICIT. 903 01:06:34,001 --> 01:06:36,000 THAT'S CORRECT. 904 01:06:36,001 --> 01:06:39,000 LET ME REMIND MY COLLEAGUES, WE 905 01:06:39,001 --> 01:06:41,000 DID FOCUS ON 906 01:06:41,001 --> 01:06:42,000 IN THE 1990'S WHEN I WAS A 907 01:06:42,001 --> 01:06:44,000 MEMBER OF THE HOUSE, WE FOCUSED 908 01:06:44,001 --> 01:06:46,000 ON IT TO THE EXTENT THAT WE 909 01:06:46,001 --> 01:06:47,000 REVERSED THE DEFICIT AND CREATED 910 01:06:47,001 --> 01:06:48,000 A SURPLUS. 911 01:06:48,001 --> 01:06:50,000 CRITICAL VOTES UNDER PRESIDENT 912 01:06:50,001 --> 01:06:52,000 CLINTON WITHOUT ANY REPUBLICAN SUPPORT. 913 01:06:52,001 --> 01:06:54,000 WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE, WHEN 914 01:06:54,001 --> 01:06:57,000 IT'S NOT ABOUT THE RHETORIC BUT 915 01:06:57,001 --> 01:06:58,000 IT'S ABOUT STANDING UP AND DOING 916 01:06:58,001 --> 01:06:59,000 TOUGH THINGS TO ELIMINATE THE 917 01:06:59,001 --> 01:07:02,000 DEFICIT, MANY OF MY COLLEAGUES 918 01:07:02,001 --> 01:07:07,000 ON THE OTHER SIDE ARE MISSING IN ACTION. 919 01:07:07,001 --> 01:07:10,000 WE CAN AND WE MUST REVERSE THIS DEFICIT. 920 01:07:10,001 --> 01:07:12,000 IT WILL TAKE DIFFICULT VOTES, 921 01:07:12,001 --> 01:07:14,000 NOT RHETORIC ALONE. 922 01:07:14,001 --> 01:07:17,000 BUT AT THIS JUNCTURE TO ONCE 923 01:07:17,001 --> 01:07:19,000 AGAIN ENGAGE IN RHETORICAL 924 01:07:19,001 --> 01:07:22,000 DEBATE RATHER THAN ACTIVELY 925 01:07:22,001 --> 01:07:25,000 HELPING OUR COUNTRYMEN AND OUR 926 01:07:25,001 --> 01:07:26,000 CONSTITUENTS IS MISSING THE 927 01:07:26,001 --> 01:07:28,000 POINT. 928 01:07:28,001 --> 01:07:30,000 I THINK WE HAVE TO GO FORWARD. 929 01:07:30,001 --> 01:07:33,000 I THINK WE MUST GO FORWARD TO 930 01:07:33,001 --> 01:07:35,000 PROVIDE THESE SHORT-TM 931 01:07:35,001 --> 01:07:37,000 BENEFITS, AND TO DO IT IN A WAY 932 01:07:37,001 --> 01:07:40,000 THAT'S CONSISTENT WITH OUR 933 01:07:40,001 --> 01:07:43,000 HISTORY AND OUR VALUES. 934 01:07:43,001 --> 01:07:45,000 WHEN TIMES ARE TOUGH, YES, WE'VE 935 01:07:45,001 --> 01:07:47,000 ALWAYS TALKED AUT THE DEFICIT 936 01:07:47,001 --> 01:07:50,000 AND EVERYTHING ELSE, BUT WE HAVE 937 01:07:50,001 --> 01:07:52,000 REACHED OUT AND HELPED OUR 938 01:07:52,001 --> 01:07:55,000 CITIZENS WHO NEED THIS KIND OF HELP. 939 01:07:55,001 --> 01:07:56,000 CONGRESS HAS NEVER ENDED 940 01:07:56,001 --> 01:08:00,000 EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS, 941 01:08:00,001 --> 01:08:02,000 THOSE BENEFITS THAT ARE NOT PAID 942 01:08:02,001 --> 01:08:07,000 FOR UNTIL UNEMPLOYMENT HAS 943 01:08:07,001 --> 01:08:09,000 DECLINED TO AT LEAST 7.4%. 944 01:08:09,001 --> 01:08:12,000 IN THIS NATION, IN RHODE ISLAND, 945 01:08:12,001 --> 01:08:14,000 AT LEAST, IT'S 12.5%. 946 01:08:14,001 --> 01:08:16,000 WE HAVE GOT A LONG WAY TO GO 947 01:08:16,001 --> 01:08:19,000 BEFORE WE GET TO THE POINT WHERE 948 01:08:19,001 --> 01:08:20,000 WE CAN TALK ABOUT A 949 01:08:20,001 --> 01:08:22,000 SELF-CORRECTING ECONOMY. 950 01:08:22,001 --> 01:08:23,000 AND IF YOU LOOK 951 01:08:23,001 --> 01:08:25,000 THROUGH EVERY ADMINISTRATION, 952 01:08:25,001 --> 01:08:26,000 REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCTS, WHEN 953 01:08:26,001 --> 01:08:29,000 WE HAD UNEMPLOYMENT AT THIS 954 01:08:29,001 --> 01:08:31,000 LEVEL AFFECTING SO MANY 955 01:08:31,001 --> 01:08:34,000 AMERICANS, AFFECTING NOT JUST 956 01:08:34,001 --> 01:08:38,000 THEIR WALLETS BUT THEIR FUTURE 957 01:08:38,001 --> 01:08:40,000 AND THEIR HOPES FOR A FUTURE, W 958 01:08:40,001 --> 01:08:41,000 HAVE EXTENDED ALMOST 959 01:08:41,001 --> 01:08:42,000 AUTOMATICALL EMERGENCY 960 01:08:42,001 --> 01:08:46,000 UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS. 961 01:08:46,001 --> 01:08:47,000 THE RATE TODAY IS 9.9% 962 01:08:47,001 --> 01:08:48,000 NATIONALLY, 12.5% IN RHODE 963 01:08:48,001 --> 01:08:49,000 ISLAND. 964 01:08:49,001 --> 01:08:52,000 WE HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO BEFORE 965 01:08:52,001 --> 01:08:53,000 WE CAN START TALKING ABOUT THIS 966 01:08:53,001 --> 01:08:54,000 UNEMPLOYMENT CRISIS AS SOMETHING 967 01:08:54,001 --> 01:08:57,000 OF THE PAST. 968 01:08:57,001 --> 01:08:58,000 WE NEED TO EXPAND UNEMPLOYMENT 969 01:08:58,001 --> 01:08:59,000 BENEFITS, AT LEAST THROUGH THE 970 01:08:59,001 --> 01:09:01,000 END OF THIS YEAR. 971 01:09:01,001 --> 01:09:03,000 WE HAVE GOT TO DO IT BECAUSE WE 972 01:09:03,001 --> 01:09:07,000 NEED TO HELP PEOPLE AND GIVE 973 01:09:07,001 --> 01:09:08,000 THEM THE CERTAINTY OF THAT HELP. 974 01:09:08,001 --> 01:09:09,000 WE HAVE TO MOVE. 975 01:09:09,001 --> 01:09:12,000 WE HAVE TO ACT. 976 01:09:12,001 --> 01:09:14,000 IT'S GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT 977 01:09:14,001 --> 01:09:15,000 WE WILL DO, AND I THINK WE 978 01:09:15,001 --> 01:09:19,000 SHOULD DO IT NOW. 979 01:09:19,001 --> 01:09:21,000 I THINK WE SHOULD PUT ASIDE THE 980 01:09:21,001 --> 01:09:24,000 POSTURING AND EXTEND BENEFITS 981 01:09:24,001 --> 01:09:26,000 AND THEN GET ON TO THE REALLY DIFFICULT WORK. 982 01:09:26,001 --> 01:09:28,000 NOT JUST THE EASY TALK BUT THE 983 01:09:28,001 --> 01:09:32,000 DIFFICULT WORK OF DEFICIT REDUCTION. 984 01:09:32,001 --> 01:09:34,000 I'VE DONE THAT WORK. 985 01:09:34,001 --> 01:09:36,000 I HAVE LISTENED TO COMPLAINTS IN 986 01:09:36,001 --> 01:09:38,000 CAMPAIGNS REPEATEDLY ABOUT TOUGH 987 01:09:38,001 --> 01:09:40,000 VOTES WE TOOK IN THE 1990'S. 988 01:09:40,001 --> 01:09:42,000 BUT BECAUSE WE TOOK THOSE TOUGH 989 01:09:42,001 --> 01:09:45,000 VOTES, BY 2000 WE HAD AN ECONOMY 990 01:09:45,001 --> 01:09:47,000 THAT WAS PRODUCING JOBS, NOT LOSING THEM. 991 01:09:47,001 --> 01:09:48,000 WE HAD A BUDGET THAT WAS IN 992 01:09:48,001 --> 01:09:51,000 SURPLUS, NOT IN DEFICIT. 993 01:09:51,001 --> 01:09:53,000 WE HAD THE WHEREWITHAL TO MAKE 994 01:09:53,001 --> 01:09:54,000 INVESTMENTS IN EDUCATION, IN 995 01:09:54,001 --> 01:09:57,000 ENERGY, IN HEALTH CARE THAT 996 01:09:57,001 --> 01:10:00,000 WOULD MAKE US EVEN MORE 997 01:10:00,001 --> 01:10:03,000 PRODUCTIVE AND MORE SUCCESSFUL 998 01:10:03,001 --> 01:10:05,000 AND MORE EQUITABLE IN TERMS OF 999 01:10:05,001 --> 01:10:06,000 THE BENEFITS OF THIS COUNTRY. 1000 01:10:06,001 --> 01:10:08,000 BUT MANY OF THE SAME PEOPLE THAT 1001 01:10:08,001 --> 01:10:10,000 ARE NOW TALKING ABOUT THE 1002 01:10:10,001 --> 01:10:12,000 DEFICIT SORT OF CAVALIERLY SAID 1003 01:10:12,001 --> 01:10:16,000 LET'S CUT TAXES FOR THE RICH. 1004 01:10:16,001 --> 01:10:17,000 LET'S ENGAGE IN A MILITARY -- 1005 01:10:17,001 --> 01:10:18,000 MILITARY OPERATIONS THAT ARE NOT 1006 01:10:18,001 --> 01:10:21,000 PAID FOR. 1007 01:10:21,001 --> 01:10:25,000 AND SO FROM 2000-2008, THE 1008 01:10:25,001 --> 01:10:29,000 ECONOMY COLLAPSED, THE DEFICIT 1009 01:10:29,001 --> 01:10:31,000 SOARED, OPPORTUNITIES NARROWED, 1010 01:10:31,001 --> 01:10:33,000 UNEMPLOYMENT GREW. 1011 01:10:33,001 --> 01:10:37,000 I DON'T THINK THAT'S COINCIDENCE. 1012 01:10:37,001 --> 01:10:41,000 LET'S GET BACK T BUSINESS. 1013 01:10:41,001 --> 01:10:43,000 LET'S FIRST GIVE PEOPLEHO NEED 1014 01:10:43,001 --> 01:10:44,000 UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS, GIVE THEM 1015 01:10:44,001 --> 01:10:45,000 THOSE BENEFITS AND LET'S TAKE 1016 01:10:45,001 --> 01:10:47,000 THOSE TOUGH SPS. 1017 01:10:47,001 --> 01:10:48,000 AND IT WON'T BE EASY TO REDUCE 1018 01:10:48,001 --> 01:10:50,000 THE DEFICIT. 1019 01:10:50,001 --> 01:10:53,000 DON'T USE THE DEFICIT AS AN 1020 01:10:53,001 --> 01:10:54,000 EXCUSE TO BREAK FAITH WITH THE 1021 01:10:54,001 --> 01:10:57,000 AMERICAN PUBLIC. 1022 01:10:57,001 --> 01:10:58,000 AND ONE ARTICLE OF FAITH IS WHEN 1023 01:10:58,001 --> 01:11:02,000 WE HAVE UNEMPLOYMENT LEVELS THAT 1024 01:11:02,001 --> 01:11:05,000 ARE OVER 10% OR AT LEAST 10% 1025 01:11:05,001 --> 01:11:11,000 NATIONALLY, WE HAVE NEVER FAILED 1026 01:11:11,001 --> 01:11:12,000 TO EXTEND IN A ROUTINE FASHION 1027 01:11:12,001 --> 01:11:13,000 EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT 1028 01:11:13,001 --> 01:11:14,000 COMPENSATION. 1029 01:11:14,001 --> 01:11:19,000 MR. PRESIDENT, WE HAVE GOT A LOT 1030 01:11:19,001 --> 01:11:21,000 OF WORK TO DO WHEN WE GET BACK, 1031 01:11:21,001 --> 01:11:23,000 AND I'M SORELY DISAPPOINT THAD 1032 01:11:23,001 --> 01:11:24,000 WE COULD NOT CONCLUDE THIS WORK 1033 01:11:24,001 --> 01:11:26,000 BEFORE WE LEFT. 1034 01:11:26,001 --> 01:11:28,000 I WOULD YIELD THE FLOOR A 1035 01:11:28,001 --> 01:11:29,000 THE ABSENCE OF A QUORUM. 1036 01:11:29,001 --> 01:11:33,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE CLERK 1037 01:11:33,001 --> 01:15:10,000 WILL CALL THE 1038 01:15:10,001 --> 01:17:49,000 QUORUM CALL: 1039 01:17:49,001 --> 01:17:50,000 QUORUM CALL: 1040 01:17:50,001 --> 01:17:51,000 MR. SESSIONS: MR. PRESIDENT? 1041 01:17:51,001 --> 01:17:52,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 1042 01:17:52,001 --> 01:17:53,000 SENATOR FROM ALABAMA. 1043 01:17:53,001 --> 01:17:54,000 MR. SESSIONS: I WOULD ASK THAT 1044 01:17:54,001 --> 01:17:55,000 THE QUORUM CALL BE 1045 01:17:55,001 --> 01:17:56,000 WITH. THE PRESIDING OFFICER: WITHOUT 1046 01:17:56,001 --> 01:17:58,000 OBJECTION. MR. SESSIONS: MR. PRESIDENT, 1047 01:17:58,001 --> 01:17:59,000 WE'VE HAD A NUMBER OF VOTES THIS 1048 01:17:59,001 --> 01:18:03,000 WEEK, INCLUDING ONE LAST NIGHT 1049 01:18:03,001 --> 01:18:04,000 IN THE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE, 1050 01:18:04,001 --> 01:18:09,000 CONCERNING WHETHER OR NOT TO 1051 01:18:09,001 --> 01:18:12,000 UTILIZE THE NATIONAL GUARD TO 1052 01:18:12,001 --> 01:18:15,000 CONFRONT THE RAGING ILLEGALITY 1053 01:18:15,001 --> 01:18:16,000 THAT'S OCCURRING PARTICULARLY IN 1054 01:18:16,001 --> 01:18:18,000 THE ARIZONA, TUCSON SECTOR. 1055 01:18:18,001 --> 01:18:20,000 IT IS A NATIONAL CRISIS. 1056 01:18:20,001 --> 01:18:22,000 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FULLY 1057 01:18:22,001 --> 01:18:24,000 UNDERSTAND THAT. 1058 01:18:24,001 --> 01:18:28,000 PRESIDENT OBAMA ANNOUNCED WITH 1059 01:18:28,001 --> 01:18:30,000 SOME FANFARE THAT HE WOULD SEND 1060 01:18:30,001 --> 01:18:31,000 1,200 NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS TO 1061 01:18:31,001 --> 01:18:34,000 THE BORDER. 1062 01:18:34,001 --> 01:18:36,000 AND TO SOME, THAT MAY HAVE 1063 01:18:36,001 --> 01:18:39,000 SOUNDED LIKE A GOOD THING. 1064 01:18:39,001 --> 01:18:40,000 AND I GUESS IT'S CERTAINLY NOT A 1065 01:18:40,001 --> 01:18:41,000 BAD THING. 1066 01:18:41,001 --> 01:18:45,000 BUT THE TRUTH IS PRESIDENT BUSH 1067 01:18:45,001 --> 01:18:50,000 HAD 6,000 AT THE BORDER AT ONE 1068 01:18:50,001 --> 01:18:51,000 POINT, AND THEY MADE A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE. 1069 01:18:51,001 --> 01:18:54,000 THE IMMIGRATION AND BORDER 1070 01:18:54,001 --> 01:18:55,000 PATROL PEOPLE WERE VERY 1071 01:18:55,001 --> 01:18:56,000 COMPLIMENTARY OF THE NATIONAL 1072 01:18:56,001 --> 01:18:57,000 GUARD. 1073 01:18:57,001 --> 01:19:01,000 THEY REPEATEDLY STATED HOW MUCH 1074 01:19:01,001 --> 01:19:04,000 IT HELPED THEM DO THEIR JOB. 1075 01:19:04,001 --> 01:19:06,000 AND SINCE THAT PERIOD OF TIME, A 1076 01:19:06,001 --> 01:19:08,000 LOT OF DEVELOPMENTS HAVE 1077 01:19:08,001 --> 01:19:11,000 OCCURRED ON THE BORDER THAT HAVE 1078 01:19:11,001 --> 01:19:15,000 PUT US IN A MUCH BETTER POSITION 1079 01:19:15,001 --> 01:19:16,000 TO BE EFFECTIVE IN ENDING THIS 1080 01:19:16,001 --> 01:19:17,000 MASSIVE ILLEGALITY THAN HAD BEEN 1081 01:19:17,001 --> 01:19:19,000 THE CASE PREVIOUSLY. 1082 01:19:19,001 --> 01:19:22,000 FOR EXAMPLE, WE'VE COME CLOSE 1083 01:19:22,001 --> 01:19:27,000 NOW TO COMPLETING THE FENCING 1084 01:19:27,001 --> 01:19:28,000 THAT WAS MANDATED BY CONGRESS, 1085 01:19:28,001 --> 01:19:31,000 AND PRESIDENT BUSH RELUCTANTLY 1086 01:19:31,001 --> 01:19:34,000 GOT STARTED WITH DOING THAT, AND 1087 01:19:34,001 --> 01:19:36,000 HE WENT AHEAD, AND MUCH OF IT 1088 01:19:36,001 --> 01:19:39,000 HAS BEEN COMPLETED NOW. 1089 01:19:39,001 --> 01:19:40,000 WE STILL NEED SOME MORE FENCING. 1090 01:19:40,001 --> 01:19:42,000 BUT THAT HAS REALLY MULTIPLIED 1091 01:19:42,001 --> 01:19:44,000 THE CAPABILITIES OF OUR LAW 1092 01:19:44,001 --> 01:19:47,000 ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS. 1093 01:19:47,001 --> 01:19:49,000 IN ADDITION, THE OPERATION 1094 01:19:49,001 --> 01:19:51,000 STREAMLINE CONCEPT THAT HAD 1095 01:19:51,001 --> 01:19:52,000 BEGUN UNDER THE BUSH 1096 01:19:52,001 --> 01:19:55,000 ADMINISTRATION IN CERTAIN 1097 01:19:55,001 --> 01:19:58,000 SECTORS OF THE BORDER ARE 1098 01:19:58,001 --> 01:19:59,000 WORKING SUPERBLY AND BEING VERY 1099 01:19:59,001 --> 01:20:01,000 VALUABLE. 1100 01:20:01,001 --> 01:20:03,000 OTHER STEPS HAVE BEE TAKEN, 1101 01:20:03,001 --> 01:20:05,000 INCLUDING INCREASING THE NUMBER 1102 01:20:05,001 --> 01:20:07,000 OF BORDERATROL AGENTS WE 1103 01:20:07,001 --> 01:20:09,000 AUTHORIZED SEVERAL YEARS AGO. 1104 01:20:09,001 --> 01:20:11,000 THEY'RE JUST NOW COMING ON LINE 1105 01:20:11,001 --> 01:20:14,000 AND HAVING BEEN TRAINED, AND SO 1106 01:20:14,001 --> 01:20:15,000 WE HAVE A LOT MORE PEOPLE AT THE BORDER. 1107 01:20:15,001 --> 01:20:17,000 THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE BEING 1108 01:20:17,001 --> 01:20:20,000 ARRESTED AT THE BORDER REMAINS 1109 01:20:20,001 --> 01:20:21,000 UNACCEPTABLE, BUT IT IS BETTER 1110 01:20:21,001 --> 01:20:24,000 THAN IT HAS BEEN. 1111 01:20:24,001 --> 01:20:26,000 THE NUMBERS ARE DOWN, AND IN 1112 01:20:26,001 --> 01:20:27,000 SOME SECTIONS THEY'RE DOWN 1113 01:20:27,001 --> 01:20:29,000 DRAMATICALLY. 1114 01:20:29,001 --> 01:20:31,000 FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE TUCSON 1115 01:20:31,001 --> 01:20:36,000 SECTOR, ABOUT 5,000 PEOPLE WERE 1116 01:20:36,001 --> 01:20:38,000 ARRESTED LAST YEAR -- EXCUSE 1117 01:20:38,001 --> 01:20:40,000 ME -- IN THE YUMA SECTOR OF 1118 01:20:40,001 --> 01:20:42,000 ARIZONA, ABOUT 5,000 PEOPLE WERE 1119 01:20:42,001 --> 01:20:44,000 ARRESTED AT THE BORDER TRYING TO 1120 01:20:44,001 --> 01:20:46,000 ENTER THE COUNTRY ILLEGALLY. 1121 01:20:46,001 --> 01:20:49,000 THAT MAY SOUND LIKE A LOT -- AND 1122 01:20:49,001 --> 01:20:51,000 IT IS A LOT -- BUT IT IS MUCH 1123 01:20:51,001 --> 01:20:53,000 LESS THAN HAS BEEN SO IN THE PAST. 1124 01:20:53,001 --> 01:20:56,000 BUT IN THE TUCSON SECTOR, WHERE 1125 01:20:56,001 --> 01:21:00,000 WE DON'T HAVE THE FENCING AND WE 1126 01:21:00,001 --> 01:21:03,000 DON'T HAVE THE OPERATION 1127 01:21:03,001 --> 01:21:07,000 STREAMLINE IN EFFECT, 240,000 1128 01:21:07,001 --> 01:21:08,000 WERE ARRESTED LAST YEAR, A 1129 01:21:08,001 --> 01:21:10,000 STUNNING NUMBER. 1130 01:21:10,001 --> 01:21:13,000 OVER A MILLION POUNDS OF 1131 01:21:13,001 --> 01:21:15,000 MARIJUANA ARE SEIZED AS PART OF 1132 01:21:15,001 --> 01:21:17,000 THAT ENFORCEMENT EFFORT IN THE 1133 01:21:17,001 --> 01:21:20,000 TUCSON SECTOR. 1134 01:21:20,001 --> 01:21:23,000 AND IT'S IN THAT -- THAT IS WHAT 1135 01:21:23,001 --> 01:21:25,000 HAS CAUSED SUCH A PUSH BACK BY 1136 01:21:25,001 --> 01:21:28,000 THE GOOD PEOPLE OF ARIZONA. 1137 01:21:28,001 --> 01:21:30,000 SO T PRESIDENT AND WASHINGTON 1138 01:21:30,001 --> 01:21:31,000 SAYS WELL, IT'S OUR JOB TO END 1139 01:21:31,001 --> 01:21:32,000 ILLEGALITY AT THE BORDER. 1140 01:21:32,001 --> 01:21:34,000 YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING. 1141 01:21:34,001 --> 01:21:36,000 YOU HAVE NO JURISDICTION. 1142 01:21:36,001 --> 01:21:39,000 WE DON'T WANT YOU TO DO 1143 01:21:39,001 --> 01:21:40,000 ANYTHING, WHICH IS NOT CORRECT 1144 01:21:40,001 --> 01:21:43,000 LEGALLY. 1145 01:21:43,001 --> 01:21:46,000 I'VE DONE THE RESEARCH ON THAT. 1146 01:21:46,001 --> 01:21:49,000 A LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER 1147 01:21:49,001 --> 01:21:51,000 CAN STOP AND DETAIN -- HE CAN 1148 01:21:51,001 --> 01:21:53,000 DETAIN A PERSON THAT HE 1149 01:21:53,001 --> 01:21:55,000 IDENTIFIES AS BEING IN THE 1150 01:21:55,001 --> 01:21:58,000 COUNTRY ILLEGALLY AND TURN THEM 1151 01:21:58,001 --> 01:22:00,000 OVER TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1152 01:22:00,001 --> 01:22:01,000 R THE CRIME OF ENTERING THE 1153 01:22:01,001 --> 01:22:04,000 COUNTRY ILLEGALLY AND FOR THE 1154 01:22:04,001 --> 01:22:06,000 CRIME OF ANY OER 1155 01:22:06,001 --> 01:22:07,000 OFFENSE THAT THEY ASCERTAIN. 1156 01:22:07,001 --> 01:22:09,000 THIS IS CLASSICAL LAW, AND IT'S 1157 01:22:09,001 --> 01:22:11,000 WELL RECOGNIZED, AND THERE'S 1158 01:22:11,001 --> 01:22:13,000 JUST NO DISPUTEBOUT IT. 1159 01:22:13,001 --> 01:22:16,000 BUT THE PEOPLE OF ARIZONA 1160 01:22:16,001 --> 01:22:19,000 RIGHTLY HAVE JUST GOTTEN A BELLY FULL. 1161 01:22:19,001 --> 01:22:22,000 THEIR HOSPITALS ARE BEING OVERRUN. 1162 01:22:22,001 --> 01:22:26,000 CRIME IS UP. 1163 01:22:26,001 --> 01:22:27,000 PHOENIX IS NOW THE 1164 01:22:27,001 --> 01:22:30,000 SECOND-LEADING KIDNAPPING CENTER 1165 01:22:30,001 --> 01:22:33,000 IN THE WORLD. 1166 01:22:33,001 --> 01:22:37,000 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, SECOND 1167 01:22:37,001 --> 01:22:41,000 MEXICO CITY IN KIDNAPPINGS APPARENTLY. 1168 01:22:41,001 --> 01:22:44,000 SO IT'S NOT ACCEPTABLE. 1169 01:22:44,001 --> 01:22:49,000 IT IS A FEDERAL RESPONSIBILITY. 1170 01:22:49,001 --> 01:22:50,000 AND IT'S THE PRESIDENT'S 1171 01:22:50,001 --> 01:22:51,000 RESPONSIBILITY, THE PRESIDENT OF 1172 01:22:51,001 --> 01:22:54,000 THE UNITED STATES IS THE CHIEF 1173 01:22:54,001 --> 01:22:58,000 LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER. 1174 01:22:58,001 --> 01:22:59,000 THE ICE AGENTS, BORDER PATROL 1175 01:22:59,001 --> 01:23:01,000 AGENTS, HOMELAND SECURITY, THE 1176 01:23:01,001 --> 01:23:02,000 DEFENSE DEPARTMENT ARE UNDER THE 1177 01:23:02,001 --> 01:23:06,000 EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF WHICH THE 1178 01:23:06,001 --> 01:23:07,000 PRESIDENT IS THE HEAD. 1179 01:23:07,001 --> 01:23:09,000 I'VE BEEN THROUGH THIS. 1180 01:23:09,001 --> 01:23:12,000 WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS. 1181 01:23:12,001 --> 01:23:15,000 I MADE A SPEECH BEFORE THE LAST 1182 01:23:15,001 --> 01:23:17,000 ELECTION AND WENT INTO DETAIL 1183 01:23:17,001 --> 01:23:19,000 ABOUT WHAT IT WOULD TAKE TO END 1184 01:23:19,001 --> 01:23:20,000 THE ILLEGALITY OF THE BORDER. 1185 01:23:20,001 --> 01:23:22,000 AND IT'S NOT HARD. 1186 01:23:22,001 --> 01:23:23,000 IT CAN BE DONE. 1187 01:23:23,001 --> 01:23:26,000 BUT YOU HAVE TO HAVE THE 1188 01:23:26,001 --> 01:23:29,000 PRESIDENT COMMITTED. 1189 01:23:29,001 --> 01:23:32,000 CONGRESS CAN PASS LAWS AND WE 1190 01:23:32,001 --> 01:23:34,000 CAN SEND MONEY AND THAT KIND OF 1191 01:23:34,001 --> 01:23:35,000 THING AND FORCE IT ON THE 1192 01:23:35,001 --> 01:23:37,000 DEPARTMENT, BUT IF THEY'RE NOT 1193 01:23:37,001 --> 01:23:40,000 WILLING TO UTILIZE IT AND TO 1194 01:23:40,001 --> 01:23:42,000 APPLY IT IN AN EFFECTIVE WAY, 1195 01:23:42,001 --> 01:23:44,000 THEN WE'VE GOT PROBLEMS. 1196 01:23:44,001 --> 01:23:48,000 THEY CAME UP 1197 01:23:48,001 --> 01:23:50,000 HAVING A VIRTUAL FENCE, MAYBE WE 1198 01:23:50,001 --> 01:23:54,000 WANT -- WE'RE NOW SPENDING $1 1199 01:23:54,001 --> 01:23:56,000 BILLION TO CREATE THIS VIDEO 1200 01:23:56,001 --> 01:23:57,000 SYSTEMS AND ALL OF THAT, AND IT 1201 01:23:57,001 --> 01:23:59,000 DIDN'T WORK. 1202 01:23:59,001 --> 01:24:03,000 BUT YOU BUILD A FENCE WITH A 1203 01:24:03,001 --> 01:24:05,000 GOOD RESPONSE TIME FROM BORDER 1204 01:24:05,001 --> 01:24:09,000 PATROL AGENTS, MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE. 1205 01:24:09,001 --> 01:24:11,000 GO TO YUMA IF YOU'D LIKE TO SEE WHAT THAT MEANS. 1206 01:24:11,001 --> 01:24:14,000 I GUESS WHAT I'M SAYING IS THE 1207 01:24:14,001 --> 01:24:17,000 PRESIDENT NEEDS TO LEAD. 1208 01:24:17,001 --> 01:24:21,000 WHAT WOULD YOU EXPECT TO HAPPEN? 1209 01:24:21,001 --> 01:24:22,000 I'VE ALWAYS FELT THAT THE NORMAL 1210 01:24:22,001 --> 01:24:26,000 NATURAL THING IS THAT THE 1211 01:24:26,001 --> 01:24:28,000 PRESIDENT WOULD COME TO 1212 01:24:28,001 --> 01:24:29,000 CONGRESSES AND SAY, LOOK, THE 1213 01:24:29,001 --> 01:24:31,000 BORDERS ARE WIDE OPEN. 1214 01:24:31,001 --> 01:24:33,000 WE'VE GOT 240,000 PEOPLE 1215 01:24:33,001 --> 01:24:34,000 ARRESTED IN ARIZONA ALONE IN THE 1216 01:24:34,001 --> 01:24:36,000 TUCSON SECTOR. 1217 01:24:36,001 --> 01:24:39,000 THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE. 1218 01:24:39,001 --> 01:24:41,000 I NEED A, B, C, AND D, CONGRESS. 1219 01:24:41,001 --> 01:24:42,000 GIVE IT TO ME, AND WE'LL END 1220 01:24:42,001 --> 01:24:45,000 THIS. 1221 01:24:45,001 --> 01:24:46,000 HE SHOULD BE TELLING US WHAT HE 1222 01:24:46,001 --> 01:24:50,000 NEEDS UNLESS, OF COURSE, YOU 1223 01:24:50,001 --> 01:24:59,000 VE NO REAL DESIRE TO END 1224 01:24:59,001 --> 01:25:04,000 ILLEGALITY, WHICH IS THE CASE. WHY? 1225 01:25:04,001 --> 01:25:06,000 BECAUSE OF POLITICS APPARENTLY 1226 01:25:06,001 --> 01:25:07,000 AND SOME PROMISE, IT SEEMS TO 1227 01:25:07,001 --> 01:25:09,000 ME, MUST HAVE BEEN MADE 1228 01:25:09,001 --> 01:25:12,000 SOMEWHERE IN THIS LAST CAMPAIGN 1229 01:25:12,001 --> 01:25:14,000 THAT WE'RE NOT GOING TO DO 1230 01:25:14,001 --> 01:25:17,000 ANYTHING SIGNIFICANT AT THE 1231 01:25:17,001 --> 01:25:21,000 BORDER UNTIL THOSE PEOPLE IN 1232 01:25:21,001 --> 01:25:22,000 CONGRESS GIVE US AMNESTY. 1233 01:25:22,001 --> 01:25:26,000 THAT'S WHAT COMPREHENSIVE IS IN 1234 01:25:26,001 --> 01:25:29,000 THE MINDS OF THE PRO-IMMIGRATION 1235 01:25:29,001 --> 01:25:31,000 CROWD, IS THAT WE USE -- WE SAY 1236 01:25:31,001 --> 01:25:34,000 WE WON'T FIX THE BORDER UNTIL 1237 01:25:34,001 --> 01:25:35,000 YOU AGREE TO GIVE US AMNESTY. 1238 01:25:35,001 --> 01:25:37,000 AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE 1239 01:25:37,001 --> 01:25:39,000 SEEN THAT BEFORE. 1240 01:25:39,001 --> 01:25:43,000 THAT DOESN'T WK. 1241 01:25:43,001 --> 01:25:46,000 WE DID THAT IN 1986. 1242 01:25:46,001 --> 01:25:48,000 IF YOU DON'T END THE ILLEGALITY 1243 01:25:48,001 --> 01:25:50,000 AND YOU GRANT AMNESTY, THIS 1244 01:25:50,001 --> 01:25:51,000 SENDS A MESSAGE TO THE WHOLE 1245 01:25:51,001 --> 01:25:54,000 WORLD. 1246 01:25:54,001 --> 01:25:57,000 WHAT MESSAGE IS IT THAT IT SENDS? 1247 01:25:57,001 --> 01:25:58,000 IF YOU CAN GET INTO THE UNITED 1248 01:25:58,001 --> 01:26:00,000 STATES, YOU CAN BURROW IN A 1249 01:26:00,001 --> 01:26:03,000 LITTLE BIT AND HOLD ON, PRETTY 1250 01:26:03,001 --> 01:26:05,000 SOON YOU'RE GOING TO GET AMNESTY TOO. 1251 01:26:05,001 --> 01:26:07,000 YOU COME IN, YOU GET TO WORK, 1252 01:26:07,001 --> 01:26:08,000 NOBODY COMPLAINS IF YOU'RE 1253 01:26:08,001 --> 01:26:11,000 WORKING, AND YOU HANG ON AND 1254 01:26:11,001 --> 01:26:12,000 HANG ON, AND YOU GET YOUR 1255 01:26:12,001 --> 01:26:15,000 AMNESTY. 1256 01:26:15,001 --> 01:26:17,000 THIS EVISCERATES THE AMERICAN 1257 01:26:17,001 --> 01:26:20,000 LEGAL SYSTEM. 1258 01:26:20,001 --> 01:26:23,000 IT JUST MAKES A MOCKERY OF LAW. 1259 01:26:23,001 --> 01:26:25,000 IT SENDS A MESSAGE TO THE WHOLE 1260 01:26:25,001 --> 01:26:28,000 WORLD, COME ON DOWN, COME ON 1261 01:26:28,001 --> 01:26:31,000 INTO OUR COUNTRY, AND YOU CAN, 1262 01:26:31,001 --> 01:26:33,000 YOU CAN -- WE'LL WELCOME YOU AND 1263 01:26:33,001 --> 01:26:34,000 EVENTUALLY WE'LL MAKE YOU A 1264 01:26:34,001 --> 01:26:36,000 CITIZEN. 1265 01:26:36,001 --> 01:26:37,000 THOSE OF YOU WHO WANT TO COME 1266 01:26:37,001 --> 01:26:39,000 LAWFULLY, WELL, IT TAKES -- 1267 01:26:39,001 --> 01:26:41,000 YOU'VE GOT TO FILL OUT PAPERWORK 1268 01:26:41,001 --> 01:26:43,000 AND YOU'VE GOT TO WAIT. 1269 01:26:43,001 --> 01:26:45,000 AND IF YOU'VE GOT A RELATIVE 1270 01:26:45,001 --> 01:26:46,000 WITH THE RIGHT DEGREE, YOU CAN 1271 01:26:46,001 --> 01:26:49,000 GET IN. 1272 01:26:49,001 --> 01:26:51,000 BUT IF YOU GRADUATED THE TOP OF 1273 01:26:51,001 --> 01:26:52,000 YOUR HIGH SCHOOL CLASS IN 1274 01:26:52,001 --> 01:26:54,000 HONDURAS AND YOU LEARNED ENGLISH 1275 01:26:54,001 --> 01:26:55,000 AND YOU'VE GOT A YEAR OF COLLEGE 1276 01:26:55,001 --> 01:26:59,000 NOW, YOU DON'T HAVE A RELATIVE 1277 01:26:59,001 --> 01:27:01,000 OR WHATEVER, YOU CAN'T GET IN 1278 01:27:01,001 --> 01:27:02,000 UNLESS OF COURSE YOU COME IN AND 1279 01:27:02,001 --> 01:27:07,000 ENTER ILLEGALLY. 1280 01:27:07,001 --> 01:27:12,000 THIS IS A DYSFUNCTIONAL LEGAL 1281 01:27:12,001 --> 01:27:14,000 SYSTEM. 1282 01:27:14,001 --> 01:27:18,000 WE CONTINUE TO SEE THESE THINGS 1283 01:27:18,001 --> 01:27:22,000 DEVELOP THAT INDICATE TO ME THAT 1284 01:27:22,001 --> 01:27:24,000 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, THEIR 1285 01:27:24,001 --> 01:27:25,000 VIEWS, WHICH ARE SO SOUND AND SO 1286 01:27:25,001 --> 01:27:29,000 REASONABLE, THEY JUST WANT A 1287 01:27:29,001 --> 01:27:31,000 LAWFUL SYSTEM OF IMMIGRATION. 1288 01:27:31,001 --> 01:27:33,000 THEY'RE NOT AGAINST IMMIGRATION. 1289 01:27:33,001 --> 01:27:35,000 THEY'RE NOT AGAINST IMMIGRANTS, 1290 01:27:35,001 --> 01:27:36,000 BUT THEY'RE TIRED OF THIS 1291 01:27:36,001 --> 01:27:38,000 MASSIVE ILLEGALITY. 1292 01:27:38,001 --> 01:27:41,000 AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE NOT 1293 01:27:41,001 --> 01:27:47,000 BEING LISTENED TO BY THE POLITICIANS. 1294 01:27:47,001 --> 01:27:51,000 THE POLITICIANS HAVE -- ARE 1295 01:27:51,001 --> 01:27:53,000 SAYING THINGS THAT ARE INCORRECT. 1296 01:27:53,001 --> 01:27:56,000 PRESIDENT OBAMA SAID HE CARES 1297 01:27:56,001 --> 01:27:57,000 ABOUT WORKPLACE ENFORCEMENT, BUT 1298 01:27:57,001 --> 01:28:01,000 WHAT HAPPENED RIGHT AFTER HE 1299 01:28:01,001 --> 01:28:04,000 TOOK OFFICE? 1300 01:28:04,001 --> 01:28:07,000 APPARENTLY A RAID PLANNED MAYBE 1301 01:28:07,001 --> 01:28:09,000 BEFORE HE TOOK OFFICE IN WASHINGTON STATE OF A COMPANY 1302 01:28:09,001 --> 01:28:15,000 THAT HAD A LARGE NUMBER OF 1303 01:28:15,001 --> 01:28:16,000 ILLEGAL WORKERS THERE OCCURRED 1304 01:28:16,001 --> 01:28:19,000 WHAT 1305 01:28:19,001 --> 01:28:21,000 THE ANTI -- THE PRO-IMMIGRATION 1306 01:28:21,001 --> 01:28:23,000 CROWD, THE LA RAZA, THE 1307 01:28:23,001 --> 01:28:24,000 ACTIVISTS, THEY ALL WENT UP IN 1308 01:28:24,001 --> 01:28:25,000 ARMS. 1309 01:28:25,001 --> 01:28:27,000 BASICALLY YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAID? 1310 01:28:27,001 --> 01:28:30,000 THEY BASICALLY SAID YOU PROMISED 1311 01:28:30,001 --> 01:28:32,000 US YOU WOULDN'T DO THIS, 1312 01:28:32,001 --> 01:28:33,000 MR. PRESIDENT. 1313 01:28:33,001 --> 01:28:35,000 NOW, WAIT A MINUTE. 1314 01:28:35,001 --> 01:28:38,000 SO I THOUGHT WE HAD ALL THE 1315 01:28:38,001 --> 01:28:40,000 CANDIDATES SAYING WE NEED TO DO 1316 01:28:40,001 --> 01:28:44,000 BETTER ENFORCEMENT IN THE 1317 01:28:44,001 --> 01:28:47,000 WORKPLACE. 1318 01:28:47,001 --> 01:28:48,000 THE JOBS MAGNET DOES ATTRACT 1319 01:28:48,001 --> 01:28:50,000 PEOPLE INTO OUR COUNTRY. 1320 01:28:50,001 --> 01:28:51,000 BUT DID THEY HAVE A SECRET 1321 01:28:51,001 --> 01:28:53,000 AGREEMENT SOMEWHERE? 1322 01:28:53,001 --> 01:28:56,000 AND YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED? 1323 01:28:56,001 --> 01:28:58,000 SECRETARY NAPOLITANO SAID SHE 1324 01:28:58,001 --> 01:28:59,000 WAS GOING TO HAVE AN 1325 01:28:59,001 --> 01:29:01,000 INVESTIGATION AND GET TO THE 1326 01:29:01,001 --> 01:29:03,000 BOTTOM OF IT. 1327 01:29:03,001 --> 01:29:05,000 WAS SHE INVESTIGATING THE 1328 01:29:05,001 --> 01:29:06,000 COMPANY THAT HAD HIRED PEOPLE 1329 01:29:06,001 --> 01:29:10,000 ILLEGALLY? NO. 1330 01:29:10,001 --> 01:29:14,000 SHE WAS INVESTIGATING THE I.C.E. 1331 01:29:14,001 --> 01:29:15,000 AGENTS WHO CONDUCTED THE RAID. 1332 01:29:15,001 --> 01:29:16,000 YOU THINK THAT DIDN'T SEND A 1333 01:29:16,001 --> 01:29:18,000 MESSAGE THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE 1334 01:29:18,001 --> 01:29:20,000 UNITED STATES WHAT THIS 1335 01:29:20,001 --> 01:29:23,000 ADMINISTRATION'S POLICY IS ABOUT 1336 01:29:23,001 --> 01:29:26,000 AGGRESSIVE WORK SITE ENFORCEMENT? 1337 01:29:26,001 --> 01:29:27,000 THAT WAS THE POLICY OF THE 1338 01:29:27,001 --> 01:29:30,000 UNITED STATES ESTABLISHED AT THAT POINT. 1339 01:29:30,001 --> 01:29:33,000 WE'RE NOT GOING TO DO IT IN ANY 1340 01:29:33,001 --> 01:29:35,000 EFFECTIVE WAY. 1341 01:29:35,001 --> 01:29:37,000 IT'S INDISPUTABLE. 1342 01:29:37,001 --> 01:29:39,000 THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED. 1343 01:29:39,001 --> 01:29:42,000 WELL,HIS KIND OF DUPLICITY IS 1344 01:29:42,001 --> 01:29:43,000 GOING TO COME HOME TO ROOST. 1345 01:29:43,001 --> 01:29:47,000 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE NOT 1346 01:29:47,001 --> 01:29:49,000 GOING TO CONTINUE TO PUT UP WITH 1347 01:29:49,001 --> 01:29:50,000 IT, AND MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHO 1348 01:29:50,001 --> 01:29:55,000 VOTED AGAINST SENATOR McCAIN'S 1349 01:29:55,001 --> 01:29:56,000 AMENDMENT TO PUT 6,000 PEOPLE ON 1350 01:29:56,001 --> 01:29:58,000 THE NATIONAL -- NATIONAL GUARD 1351 01:29:58,001 --> 01:30:00,000 ON THE BORDER TO END THIS 1352 01:30:00,001 --> 01:30:01,000 VIOLENCE AND ILLEGALITY THAT'S 1353 01:30:01,001 --> 01:30:05,000 OCCURRING AND THREATENING THE 1354 01:30:05,001 --> 01:30:07,000 VERY VIABILITY OF THE STATE OF 1355 01:30:07,001 --> 01:30:08,000 ARIZONA, PEOPLE ARE GOING TO, 1356 01:30:08,001 --> 01:30:11,000 THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO ANSWER 1357 01:30:11,001 --> 01:30:13,000 FOR THOSE VOTES. 1358 01:30:13,001 --> 01:30:15,000 THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY IS ALL 1359 01:30:15,001 --> 01:30:20,000 ABOUT. 1360 01:30:20,001 --> 01:30:30,000 WELL, ALL OF WHICH LEADS ME TO 1361 01:30:30,001 --> 01:30:31,000 AN ARTICLE, I GUESS, YESTERDAY 1362 01:30:31,001 --> 01:30:35,000 AND A REPORT FROM WASHINGTON. 1363 01:30:35,001 --> 01:30:38,000 THIS IS WHAT THE NEWS ARTICLE 1364 01:30:38,001 --> 01:30:39,000 SAYS, "U.S. NATIONAL GUARD 1365 01:30:39,001 --> 01:30:42,000 TROOPS BEING SENT TO THE BORDER 1366 01:30:42,001 --> 01:30:46,000 WILL BE USED TO STEM THE FLOW OF 1367 01:30:46,001 --> 01:30:49,000 GUNS AND DRUGS ACROSS THE 1368 01:30:49,001 --> 01:30:53,000 FRONTIER AND NOT TO ENFORCE U.S. 1369 01:30:53,001 --> 01:30:56,000 IMMIGRATION LAWS, THE STATE 1370 01:30:56,001 --> 01:31:01,000 DEPARTMENT SAID YESTERDAY." 1371 01:31:01,001 --> 01:31:03,000 WELL, YOU KNOW, FOOL ME ONCE, 1372 01:31:03,001 --> 01:31:07,000 SHAME ON YOU. 1373 01:31:07,001 --> 01:31:09,000 FOOL ME TWICE, SHAME ON ME. 1374 01:31:09,001 --> 01:31:12,000 SO I THOUGHT THE PRESIDENT WAS 1375 01:31:12,001 --> 01:31:14,000 SAYING HE WAS SENDING 1,200 1376 01:31:14,001 --> 01:31:17,000 TROOPS TO THE BORDER TO HELP END 1377 01:31:17,001 --> 01:31:20,000 LOWELLITY AT THE BORDER. 1378 01:31:20,001 --> 01:31:23,000 BUT OH, NO, THEY'RE NOT DOING THAT. 1379 01:31:23,001 --> 01:31:24,000 WE WANT TO BE SURE EVERYBODY 1380 01:31:24,001 --> 01:31:25,000 UNDERSTANDS IT'S ONLY GOING TO 1381 01:31:25,001 --> 01:31:30,000 BE FOR GUNS AND DRUGS. 1382 01:31:30,001 --> 01:31:33,000 WHO DO THEY WANT TO UNDERSTAND THIS? 1383 01:31:33,001 --> 01:31:34,000 DO THEY WANT THE MEEMP 1384 01:31:34,001 --> 01:31:38,000 AMERICAN PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND IT? 1385 01:31:38,001 --> 01:31:41,000 I DON'T THINK SO. 1386 01:31:41,001 --> 01:31:45,000 THE NEXT SENTENCE IN THE 1387 01:31:45,001 --> 01:31:47,000 ARTICLE, AND I QUOTE FROM IT -- 1388 01:31:47,001 --> 01:31:50,000 HE CLARIFICATION CAME AFTER 1389 01:31:50,001 --> 01:31:52,000 THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT URGED 1390 01:31:52,001 --> 01:31:59,000 WASHINGTON NOT TO USE THE TROOPS 1391 01:31:59,001 --> 01:32:02,000 TO GO AFTER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS," 1392 01:32:02,001 --> 01:32:04,000 CLOSE QUOTE. 1393 01:32:04,001 --> 01:32:06,000 PHILLIP CROWLEY, A STATE 1394 01:32:06,001 --> 01:32:11,000 DEPARTMENT SPOKESPERSON, A FLAK 1395 01:32:11,001 --> 01:32:14,000 FROM THE ESTATE DEPARTMENT, TOLD 1396 01:32:14,001 --> 01:32:18,000 REPORTERS -- QUOTE -- "IT'S NOT 1397 01:32:18,001 --> 01:32:19,000 ABOUT IMMIGRATION" -- CLOSE 1398 01:32:19,001 --> 01:32:20,000 QUOTE. 1399 01:32:20,001 --> 01:32:21,000 "WE HAVE EXPLAINED THE 1400 01:32:21,001 --> 01:32:22,000 PRESIDENT'S ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE 1401 01:32:22,001 --> 01:32:24,000 GOVERNMENT OF MEXICO AND THEY 1402 01:32:24,001 --> 01:32:29,000 TRULY UNDERSTAND THE RATIONALE 1403 01:32:29,001 --> 01:32:30,000 BEHIND IT, MR. CROWELEY SAID. 1404 01:32:30,001 --> 01:32:31,000 OBAMA'S ANNOUNCEMENT CAME LESS 1405 01:32:31,001 --> 01:32:34,000 THAN A WEEAFTER A STATE VISIT 1406 01:32:34,001 --> 01:32:36,000 TO WASHINGTON BY MEXICAN 1407 01:32:36,001 --> 01:32:40,000 PRESIDENT FELIPE CALDERON WHO 1408 01:32:40,001 --> 01:32:44,000 ASKED FOR GREATER U.S. BACKING 1409 01:32:44,001 --> 01:32:48,000 ON DRUG CARTELS." 1410 01:32:48,001 --> 01:32:51,000 WELL, I MEAN, WHO ARE WE 1411 01:32:51,001 --> 01:32:53,000 REPRESENTING HERE, MR. CALDERON 1412 01:32:53,001 --> 01:32:54,000 AND THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT OR 1413 01:32:54,001 --> 01:32:56,000 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE? 1414 01:32:56,001 --> 01:32:59,000 IS THIS ANOTHER FLIMFLAM VIEW? 1415 01:32:59,001 --> 01:33:01,000 I'M AFRAID IT IS. 1416 01:33:01,001 --> 01:33:03,000 I CAN SAY IT APPEARS QUITE 1417 01:33:03,001 --> 01:33:05,000 CLEARLY THAT IT IS. 1418 01:33:05,001 --> 01:33:07,000 IT'S NOT ACCEPTABLE. 1419 01:33:07,001 --> 01:33:08,000 SO I THINK CONGRESS IS GOING TO 1420 01:33:08,001 --> 01:33:11,000 HAVE TO ACT. 1421 01:33:11,001 --> 01:33:12,000 THEY DIDN'T WANT THE FENCE. 1422 01:33:12,001 --> 01:33:15,000 PRESIDENT BUSH REALLY DIDN'T 1423 01:33:15,001 --> 01:33:17,000 WANT THE FENCE, BUT 1424 01:33:17,001 --> 01:33:19,000 AFTER THE SITUATION GOT SO BAD 1425 01:33:19,001 --> 01:33:21,000 THAT WE APPROPRIATED THE MONEY 1426 01:33:21,001 --> 01:33:23,000 AND DIRECTED IT BE BUILT, IT HAS 1427 01:33:23,001 --> 01:33:26,000 HAD A GREAT AND POSITIVE BENEFIT 1428 01:33:26,001 --> 01:33:27,000 WHEREVER THE FENCE HAS BEEN. 1429 01:33:27,001 --> 01:33:32,000 WE KNOW THE HISTORY IN SAN DIEGO 1430 01:33:32,001 --> 01:33:33,000 WHEN THERE WAS MASSIVE VIOLENCE, 1431 01:33:33,001 --> 01:33:34,000 MASSIVE ILLEGALITY GOING ON AT 1432 01:33:34,001 --> 01:33:35,000 THE BORDER. 1433 01:33:35,001 --> 01:33:37,000 WE KNOW THAT OCCURRED AND WE 1434 01:33:37,001 --> 01:33:39,000 BUILT THE FENCE THERE, AND THE 1435 01:33:39,001 --> 01:33:40,000 VIOLENCE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE 1436 01:33:40,001 --> 01:33:42,000 BORDER WENT DOWN, ECONOMIC 1437 01:33:42,001 --> 01:33:45,000 GROWTH ON BOTH SIDES OF THE 1438 01:33:45,001 --> 01:33:48,000 BORDER WENT UP. 1439 01:33:48,001 --> 01:33:51,000 DRUGS AND PROSTITUTION AND OTHER 1440 01:33:51,001 --> 01:33:55,000 KIND OF ILLEGALITIES ENDED AND 1441 01:33:55,001 --> 01:33:57,000 SOLID PROSPERITY BEGAN TO RECUR. 1442 01:33:57,001 --> 01:34:04,000 YOU CAN'T OPERATE EFFECTIVELY IN 1443 01:34:04,001 --> 01:34:05,000 AN AREA OF VIOLENCE AND 1444 01:34:05,001 --> 01:34:09,000 ILLEGALITY AND DRUGS. 1445 01:34:09,001 --> 01:34:11,000 SO, MR. PRESIDENT, THE FLOW OF 1446 01:34:11,001 --> 01:34:13,000 GUNS IS A MEXICAN COMPLAINT THAT 1447 01:34:13,001 --> 01:34:15,000 TOO MANY GUNS ARE BEING BOUGHT 1448 01:34:15,001 --> 01:34:18,000 IN THE UNITED STATES AND TAKEN 1449 01:34:18,001 --> 01:34:22,000 TO MEXICO. 1450 01:34:22,001 --> 01:34:25,000 AND I DON'T DISPUTE THAT WE 1451 01:34:25,001 --> 01:34:29,000 SHOULD BE EFFECTIVE IN ENFORCING 1452 01:34:29,001 --> 01:34:32,000 THOSE LAWS, BUT I WOULD SUGGEST, 1453 01:34:32,001 --> 01:34:37,000 HAVING BEEN A -- HAVING 1454 01:34:37,001 --> 01:34:38,000 PROSECUTED MORE FEDERAL GUN 1455 01:34:38,001 --> 01:34:41,000 VIOLATIONS THAN ALL OTHER 1456 01:34:41,001 --> 01:34:42,000 MEMBERS OF THIS SENATE PUT 1457 01:34:42,001 --> 01:34:44,000 TOGETHER, THAT THE NATIONAL 1458 01:34:44,001 --> 01:34:48,000 GUARD IS NOT THE KIND OF FOLKS 1459 01:34:48,001 --> 01:34:51,000 YOU NEED TO PROSECUTE GUNS GOING INTO MEXICO. 1460 01:34:51,001 --> 01:34:59,000 THAT SHOULD BE DONE BY A.T.F. 1461 01:34:59,001 --> 01:35:02,000 AND THE BORDER PATROL. 1462 01:35:02,001 --> 01:35:03,000 THE -- SO TO SAY THAT -- SO WHAT 1463 01:35:03,001 --> 01:35:05,000 DOES THIS SAY ABOUT THE DECISION 1464 01:35:05,001 --> 01:35:07,000 THAT THE PRESIDENT SAID HE'S 1465 01:35:07,001 --> 01:35:09,000 GOING TO DEPLOY 1,200? 1466 01:35:09,001 --> 01:35:11,000 I SAY IT'S JUST FURTHER PROOF 1467 01:35:11,001 --> 01:35:12,000 THAT IT'S NOT A SERIOUS 1468 01:35:12,001 --> 01:35:13,000 COMMITMENT IN ANY WAY. 1469 01:35:13,001 --> 01:35:14,000 I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE GOING 1470 01:35:14,001 --> 01:35:16,000 TO BE DOING. 1471 01:35:16,001 --> 01:35:20,000 I DON'T SEE HOW THEY CAN BE 1472 01:35:20,001 --> 01:35:23,000 HELPFUL IN THIS, AND I'M NOT 1473 01:35:23,001 --> 01:35:30,000 BEING TAKEN IN BY WHAT APPEARS 1474 01:35:30,001 --> 01:35:32,000 TO BE A RUSE. 1475 01:35:32,001 --> 01:35:33,000 SO THAT THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BE 1476 01:35:33,001 --> 01:35:34,000 USED FOR IMMIGRATION. 1477 01:35:34,001 --> 01:35:37,000 THEY'RE GOING TO BE USED FOR 1478 01:35:37,001 --> 01:35:38,000 DRUGS AND GUNS, WHICH I THINK 1479 01:35:38,001 --> 01:35:40,000 THEY WON'T BE THAT PARTICULARLY 1480 01:35:40,001 --> 01:35:41,000 EFFECTIVE ABOUT. 1481 01:35:41,001 --> 01:35:45,000 THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT GUNS GOING 1482 01:35:45,001 --> 01:35:47,000 FROM THE UNITED STATES TO 1483 01:35:47,001 --> 01:35:50,000 MEXICO, SO THOSE ARE THE 1484 01:35:50,001 --> 01:35:54,000 QUESTIONS I HAVE ABOUT THIS. 1485 01:35:54,001 --> 01:35:57,000 WHAT CONGRESS NEEDS TO DO, WHAT 1486 01:35:57,001 --> 01:36:01,000 THE PRESIDENT NEEDS TO 1487 01:36:01,001 --> 01:36:03,000 MAKE A CLEAR STATEMENT THAT 1488 01:36:03,001 --> 01:36:06,000 ILLEGALITY AT OUR BORDER WILL END. 1489 01:36:06,001 --> 01:36:07,000 WE WILL DO WHAT IT TAK TO END 1490 01:36:07,001 --> 01:36:11,000 IT. 1491 01:36:11,001 --> 01:36:12,000 IT'S WITHIN OUR POWER TO DO SO. 1492 01:36:12,001 --> 01:36:13,000 WE HAVE MADE SOME PROGRESS 1493 01:36:13,001 --> 01:36:15,000 ALREADY. 1494 01:36:15,001 --> 01:36:17,000 WE HAVE ABOUT HALF AS MANY 1495 01:36:17,001 --> 01:36:19,000 ARRESTS TODAY ALONG THE WHOLE 1496 01:36:19,001 --> 01:36:21,000 BORDER AS WE DID JUST THREE OR 1497 01:36:21,001 --> 01:36:22,000 FOUR YEARS AGO BECAUSE 1498 01:36:22,001 --> 01:36:24,000 ENFORCEMENT IS MUCH BETTER THAN 1499 01:36:24,001 --> 01:36:26,000 IT WAS, AND WE'RE GOING TO 1500 01:36:26,001 --> 01:36:30,000 CONTINUE THAT AND WE'RE GOING TO 1501 01:36:30,001 --> 01:36:32,000 DRIVE 1502 01:36:32,001 --> 01:36:35,000 ILLEGALITY AND WE'RE GOING TO 1503 01:36:35,001 --> 01:36:38,000 EFFECTIVELY IMPROVE OUR 1504 01:36:38,001 --> 01:36:40,000 IMMIGRATION LEGAL SYSTEM AND SO 1505 01:36:40,001 --> 01:36:41,000 PEOPLE CAN HAVE SOME CERTAINTY 1506 01:36:41,001 --> 01:36:44,000 ABOUT THAT AND CREATE A SYSTEM 1507 01:36:44,001 --> 01:36:47,000 THAT SERVES OUR NATIONAL 1508 01:36:47,001 --> 01:36:49,000 INTEREST IN THE PROCESS, AND 1509 01:36:49,001 --> 01:36:51,000 WE'RE GOING TO TELL EVERYBODY IN 1510 01:36:51,001 --> 01:36:53,000 THE WORLD DON'T COME TO THE 1511 01:36:53,001 --> 01:36:55,000 BORDER EXPECT TO GO WALK IN. 1512 01:36:55,001 --> 01:36:57,000 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE 1513 01:36:57,001 --> 01:37:01,000 SUCCESSFUL, AND IT WILL STOP. 1514 01:37:01,001 --> 01:37:03,000 IT WILL GO DOWN DRAMATICALLY. 1515 01:37:03,001 --> 01:37:04,000 IT ALREADY HAS IN CERTAIN SECTORS. 1516 01:37:04,001 --> 01:37:06,000 THE WORD GETS OUT. 1517 01:37:06,001 --> 01:37:08,000 THE WORD IS OUT, WAS OUT THAT 1518 01:37:08,001 --> 01:37:11,000 THE BORDER WAS WIDE OPEN AND 1519 01:37:11,001 --> 01:37:12,000 ANYBODY COULD ENTER. 1520 01:37:12,001 --> 01:37:15,000 WHEN THE WORD GS OUT THAT THE 1521 01:37:15,001 --> 01:37:16,000 BORDER IS CLOSED, PEOPLE WILL 1522 01:37:16,001 --> 01:37:18,000 STOP TRYING. 1523 01:37:18,001 --> 01:37:22,000 SO WE'LL HAVE A MASSIVE 1524 01:37:22,001 --> 01:37:23,000 REDUCTION IN THE AMENDMENTS 1525 01:37:23,001 --> 01:37:25,000 ENTER, LEAVING FEWER PEOPLE FOR 1526 01:37:25,001 --> 01:37:27,000 THE BORDER PATROL TO APPREHEND, 1527 01:37:27,001 --> 01:37:29,000 AND WE'LL BE HAVING A SPIRAL IN 1528 01:37:29,001 --> 01:37:31,000 THE RIGHT WAY INSTEAD OF THE 1529 01:37:31,001 --> 01:37:32,000 WRONG WAY. 1530 01:37:32,001 --> 01:37:34,000 SO, MR. PRESIDENT, I THINK WE'RE 1531 01:37:34,001 --> 01:37:36,000 GOING TO HAVE MORE VOTES. 1532 01:37:36,001 --> 01:37:38,000 I THINK PEOPLE WHO CAST A VOTE 1533 01:37:38,001 --> 01:37:40,000 IN OPPOSITION TO SENATOR 1534 01:37:40,001 --> 01:37:42,000 McCAIN'S AMENDMENT, SENATOR 1535 01:37:42,001 --> 01:37:47,000 KYL'S AMENDMENT, SENATOR 1536 01:37:47,001 --> 01:37:50,000 CORNYN'S AMENDMENT TO TAKE THE 1537 01:37:50,001 --> 01:37:51,000 STEPS THAT CAN ACTUALLY WORK TO 1538 01:37:51,001 --> 01:37:53,000 ELIMINATE ILLEGALITY AT THE 1539 01:37:53,001 --> 01:37:55,000 BORDER NEED TO BE ANSWERING TO 1540 01:37:55,001 --> 01:37:58,000 THEIR CONSTITUENTS. 1541 01:37:58,001 --> 01:38:01,000 LAST NHT IN THE ARMED SERVICES 1542 01:38:01,001 --> 01:38:02,000 COMMITTEE, WHICH I AM A MEMBER, 1543 01:38:02,001 --> 01:38:04,000 SENATOR McCAIN IS OUR RANKING 1544 01:38:04,001 --> 01:38:06,000 REPUBLICAN, HIS STATE IS IN 1545 01:38:06,001 --> 01:38:10,000 SERIOUS DIFFICULTIES AND HE MADE 1546 01:38:10,001 --> 01:38:13,000 A STRONG PLEA FOR THE 1547 01:38:13,001 --> 01:38:18,000 AUTHORIZATION OF TROOPS TO THE BORDER. 1548 01:38:18,001 --> 01:38:20,000 IT WAS VOTED DOWN ON A PRETTY 1549 01:38:20,001 --> 01:38:21,000 PARTY-LINE VOTE. 1550 01:38:21,001 --> 01:38:23,000 SO I THINK IT'S TIME FOR 1551 01:38:23,001 --> 01:38:25,000 CONGRESS TO STEP UP, TOO. 1552 01:38:25,001 --> 01:38:27,000 THE PRESIDENT IS NOT STEPPING UP. 1553 01:38:27,001 --> 01:38:30,000 CONGRESS WAS ABLE TO MAKE REAL 1554 01:38:30,001 --> 01:38:31,000 PROGRESS A FEW YEARS AGO WHEN WE 1555 01:38:31,001 --> 01:38:33,000 BUILT THE FENCE AND DID SOME 1556 01:38:33,001 --> 01:38:34,000 OTHER THINGS THAT I WORKED VERY 1557 01:38:34,001 --> 01:38:36,000 HARD ON. 1558 01:38:36,001 --> 01:38:37,000 I BELIEVE WE CAN MAKE PROGRESS AGAIN. 1559 01:38:37,001 --> 01:38:40,000 I THINK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE 1560 01:38:40,001 --> 01:38:41,000 A WAY EVENTUALLY OF HAVING THEIR 1561 01:38:41,001 --> 01:38:46,000 VOICES HEARD, AND I THINK WE'RE 1562 01:38:46,001 --> 01:38:49,000 GOING TO HEAR THOSE VOICES MORE 1563 01:38:49,001 --> 01:38:51,000 LOUDLY, WITH MORE CLARITY IN THE 1564 01:38:51,001 --> 01:38:53,000 FUTURE, AND SOMEHOW, SOME WAY, I 1565 01:38:53,001 --> 01:38:54,000 BELIEVE THE COUNTRY -- I BELIEVE 1566 01:38:54,001 --> 01:39:00,000 THE GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO COME 1567 01:39:00,001 --> 01:39:02,000 AROUND TO AFFIRM LEGITIMATE 1568 01:39:02,001 --> 01:39:04,000 DEMANDS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 1569 01:39:04,001 --> 01:39:05,000 THEY HAVE BEEN RIGHT FROM THE 1570 01:39:05,001 --> 01:39:07,000 BEGINNING. 1571 01:39:07,001 --> 01:39:08,000 THEIR INSTINCTS, THEIR CHARACTER 1572 01:39:08,001 --> 01:39:10,000 SHOULDN'T BE QUESTIONED. 1573 01:39:10,001 --> 01:39:12,000 THEY SIMPLY WANT AN EFFECTIVE 1574 01:39:12,001 --> 01:39:13,000 IMMIGRATION SYSTEM, A LAWFUL 1575 01:39:13,001 --> 01:39:15,000 IMMIGRATION SYSTEM, AND THEY 1576 01:39:15,001 --> 01:39:17,000 BELIEVE IT'S AN EMBARRASSMENT 1577 01:39:17,001 --> 01:39:20,000 AND A DISGRACE TO OUR COUNTRY TO 1578 01:39:20,001 --> 01:39:21,000 HAVE MASSIVE ILLEGALITY GOING ON 1579 01:39:21,001 --> 01:39:22,000 AS IT IS TODAY. 1580 01:39:22,001 --> 01:39:23,000 I WOULD THANK THE CHAIR AND 1581 01:39:23,001 --> 01:39:25,000 YIELD THE FLOOR A 1582 01:39:25,001 --> 01:39:26,000 ABSENCE OF A QUORUM. 1583 01:39:26,001 --> 01:39:30,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE CLERK 1584 01:39:30,001 --> 01:45:13,000 WILL CALL 1585 01:45:13,001 --> 02:00:05,000 QUORUM CALL: QUORUM CALL: 1586 02:00:05,001 --> 02:07:42,000 QUORUM CAL 1587 02:07:42,001 --> 02:08:27,000 QUORUM CALL: 1588 02:08:27,001 --> 02:08:32,000 CAN. 1589 02:08:32,001 --> 02:08:33,000 MR. REID: MR. PRESIDENT? 1590 02:08:33,001 --> 02:08:34,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 1591 02:08:34,001 --> 02:08:35,000 MAJORITY LEADER. 1592 02:08:35,001 --> 02:08:36,000 MR. REID: I ASK UNANIMOUS 1593 02:08:36,001 --> 02:08:38,000 CONSENT THE CALL OF THE QUORUM 1594 02:08:38,001 --> 02:08:40,000 BE TERMINATED. THE PRESIDING OFFICER: WITHOUT 1595 02:08:40,001 --> 02:08:42,000 OBJECTION. 1596 02:08:42,001 --> 02:08:43,000 MR. REID: MR. PRESIDENT, AS IF 1597 02:08:43,001 --> 02:08:44,000 IN EXECUTIVE SESSION, I ASK 1598 02:08:44,001 --> 02:08:48,000 UNANIMOUS CONSENT THAT ON 1599 02:08:48,001 --> 02:08:50,000 MONDAY, JUNE, AT 4:30 P.M., THE SENATE PROCEED TO EXECUTIVE 1600 02:08:50,001 --> 02:08:51,000 SESSION TO CONSIDER THE 1601 02:08:51,001 --> 02:08:53,000 FOLLOWING NOMINATIONS ON THE 1602 02:08:53,001 --> 02:08:55,000 CALENDAR, THAT THEY BE DEBATED 1603 02:08:55,001 --> 02:08:57,000 UNTIL 5:30 P.M., WITH THE TIME 1604 02:08:57,001 --> 02:08:58,000 EQUALLY DIVIDED AND CONTROLLED 1605 02:08:58,001 --> 02:08:59,000 BETWEEN SENATORS SESSIONS AND 1606 02:08:59,001 --> 02:09:06,000 LEAHY OR THEIR DESIGNEES. 1607 02:09:06,001 --> 02:09:11,000 NUMBER 730, AUDREY FLISIG, 731, 1608 02:09:11,001 --> 02:09:15,000 LUCY COE, JUDGE IN CALIFORNIA, 1609 02:09:15,001 --> 02:09:16,000 759, JANE MAGNUS STENSON, 1610 02:09:16,001 --> 02:09:19,000 DISTRICT COURT JUDGE INDIANA. 1611 02:09:19,001 --> 02:09:20,000 AT 5:30 P.M., THE SENATE VOTE ON 1612 02:09:20,001 --> 02:09:22,000 THE CONFIRMATION OF THE 1613 02:09:22,001 --> 02:09:24,000 NOMINATIONS LISTED. THE MOTION TO RECONSIDER BE LAID 1614 02:09:24,001 --> 02:09:25,000 ON THE TABLE BE MADE, LAID UPON 1615 02:09:25,001 --> 02:09:27,000 THE TABLE, THE PRESIDENT BE 1616 02:09:27,001 --> 02:09:28,000 IMMEDIATELY NOTIFIED OF THE 1617 02:09:28,001 --> 02:09:31,000 SENATE'S ACTION. 1618 02:09:31,001 --> 02:09:33,000 AFTER THE FIRST VOTE, THERE BE 1619 02:09:33,001 --> 02:09:35,000 TWO MINUTES OF DEBATE EQUALLY 1620 02:09:35,001 --> 02:09:37,000 DIVIDE AND THE SUCCEEDING VOTES 1621 02:09:37,001 --> 02:09:39,000 BE 10 MINUTES EACH. 1622 02:09:39,001 --> 02:09:40,000 UPON DISPOSITION, THE SENATE RESU LEGISLATIVE SESSION. 1623 02:09:40,001 --> 02:09:41,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: WITHOUT 1624 02:09:41,001 --> 02:09:42,000 OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. 1625 02:09:42,001 --> 02:09:43,000 MR. REID: I NOW ASK UNANIMOUS 1626 02:09:43,001 --> 02:09:45,000 CONSENT THAT THE SENATE PROCEED 1627 02:09:45,001 --> 02:09:46,000 TO EXECUTIVE SESSION TO CONSIDER 1628 02:09:46,001 --> 02:09:47,000 EN BLOC THE FOLLOWING 1629 02:09:47,001 --> 02:09:52,000 NOMINATIONS: 1630 02:09:52,001 --> 02:09:56,000 909, 910, 911, 913, 914, 915, 1631 02:09:56,001 --> 02:09:57,000 918, -9D 19, 920, 921, AND 9223. 1632 02:09:57,001 --> 02:09:58,000 ALL NOMINATIONS ON THE 1633 02:09:58,001 --> 02:10:00,000 SECRETARY'S DESK IN THE AIR 1634 02:10:00,001 --> 02:10:02,000 FORCE, ARMY, FOREIGN SERVICE, 1635 02:10:02,001 --> 02:10:05,000 MORE THAN CORPS AND NEAVMENT THE 1636 02:10:05,001 --> 02:10:06,000 NOMINATIONS BE CONFIRMED EN 1637 02:10:06,001 --> 02:10:08,000 BLOC, THE MOTION TO RECONSIDER BE LAID ON THE TABLE, AND LAID 1638 02:10:08,001 --> 02:10:10,000 UPON THE TABLE EN BLOC, ANY 1639 02:10:10,001 --> 02:10:11,000 STATEMENTS RELATED TO THE NOMINATIONS APPEAR AT THE 1640 02:10:11,001 --> 02:10:14,000 APPROPRIATE PLACE IN THE RECORD 1641 02:10:14,001 --> 02:10:16,000 AS IF READ AND THE PRESIDENT BE 1642 02:10:16,001 --> 02:10:17,000 IMMEDIATELY NOTIFIED OF THE 1643 02:10:17,001 --> 02:10:19,000 SENATE'S ACTION AND THE SENATE 1644 02:10:19,001 --> 02:10:23,000 THEN RESUME LEGISLATIVE SESSION. THE PRESIDING OFFICER: WITHOUT 1645 02:10:23,001 --> 02:10:24,000 OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. 1646 02:10:24,001 --> 02:10:29,000 CONSENT THAT THE RECORD REMAIN 1647 02:10:29,001 --> 02:10:31,000 OPEN UNTIL 1:30 P.M. TODAY FOR 1648 02:10:31,001 --> 02:10:33,000 THE INTRODUCTION OF LEGISLATION, 1649 02:10:33,001 --> 02:10:34,000 SUBMISSION OF STATEMENTS AND 1650 02:10:34,001 --> 02:10:35,000 COSPONSORSHIPS. 1651 02:10:35,001 --> 02:10:36,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: WITHOUT OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. 1652 02:10:36,001 --> 02:10:37,000 MR. REID: I ASK UNANIMOUS 1653 02:10:37,001 --> 02:10:39,000 CONSENT THATURING THE 1654 02:10:39,001 --> 02:10:42,000 RECESS/ADJOURNMENT OF THE 1655 02:10:42,001 --> 02:10:45,000 SENATE, THE COMMITTEE-REPORTED 1656 02:10:45,001 --> 02:10:48,000 BUSINESS ON FRIDAY, JUNE 4 FROM 1657 02:10:48,001 --> 02:10:49,000 THE HOURS 126:00 NOON TO 1658 02:10:49,001 --> 02:10:50,000 2:00 P.M. THE PRESIDING OFFICER: WITHOUT 1659 02:10:50,001 --> 02:10:51,000 OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. 1660 02:10:51,001 --> 02:10:52,000 MR. REID: I ASK UNANIMOUS 1661 02:10:52,001 --> 02:10:54,000 CONSENT THAT WHEN THE SENATE 1662 02:10:54,001 --> 02:10:58,000 COMPLETES ITS BUSINESS TODAY, IT 1663 02:10:58,001 --> 02:10:59,000 ADJOURN UNTIL 2 CLOCK P.M. ON 1664 02:10:59,001 --> 02:11:05,000 MONDAY, JUNE 7. 1665 02:11:05,001 --> 02:11:06,000 FOLLOWING THE PRAYER AND PLEDGE, THE JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS BE 1666 02:11:06,001 --> 02:11:07,000 APPROVED TO DATE, THE MORNING 1667 02:11:07,001 --> 02:11:09,000 HOUR BE DEEMED EXPIRED AND THE SENATE PROCEED TO A PERIOD OF 1668 02:11:09,001 --> 02:11:10,000 MORNING BUSINESS WITH SENATORS 1669 02:11:10,001 --> 02:11:11,000 PERMITTED TO SPEAK UP TO 10 1670 02:11:11,001 --> 02:11:12,000 MINUTES EACH. 1671 02:11:12,001 --> 02:11:14,000 FURTHER THAT AT 4:30 P.M., THE 1672 02:11:14,001 --> 02:11:15,000 SENATE PROCEED TO EXECUTIVE 1673 02:11:15,001 --> 02:11:17,000 SESSION AS+ PROVIDED UNDER THE 1674 02:11:17,001 --> 02:11:19,000 PREVIOUS ORDER. THE PRESIDING OFFICER: WITHOUT 1675 02:11:19,001 --> 02:11:20,000 OBJECTION. MR. REID: UNDER THE PREVIOUS 1676 02:11:20,001 --> 02:11:22,000 ORDER, THERE WILL BE A SERIES OF 1677 02:11:22,001 --> 02:11:24,000 VOTES AT 5:30 P.M. ON THE 1678 02:11:24,001 --> 02:11:26,000 CONFIRMATION OF NOMINATION OF 1679 02:11:26,001 --> 02:11:28,000 THREE DISTRICT COURT JUDGES ON 1680 02:11:28,001 --> 02:11:29,000 THE AMONG DAY THAT WE GET BACK, 1681 02:11:29,001 --> 02:11:30,000 A WEEK FROM MONDAY. 1682 02:11:30,001 --> 02:11:32,000 IF THERE'S NO FURTHER BUSINESS 1683 02:11:32,001 --> 02:11:33,000 TO COME BEFORE THE SENATE, I ASK THAT IT ADJOURN UNDER THE 1684 02:11:33,001 --> 02:11:34,000 PREVIOUS ORDER. 1685 02:11:34,001 --> 02:11:36,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: WITHOUT OBJECTION. 1686 02:11:36,001 --> 02:11:45,000 UNDER THE PREVIOUS ORDER, AND 1687 02:11:45,001 --> 02:11:46,000 PURSUANT TO THE -- H. CON. RES. 1688 02:11:46,001 --> 02:11:48,000 282, THE SENATE STANDS ADJOURNED