1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,000 starttime 1252432827.55566 2 00:00:32,001 --> 00:00:34,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 3 00:00:34,001 --> 00:00:40,000 SENATE WILL COME TO ORDER. 4 00:00:40,001 --> 00:00:44,000 WILL LEAD US IN PRAYER. 5 00:00:44,001 --> 00:00:47,000 DR. BLACK. 6 00:00:47,001 --> 00:00:50,000 THE CHAPLAIN: LET US PRAY. 7 00:00:50,001 --> 00:00:53,000 O MERCIFUL LORD, WE THANK YOU 8 00:00:53,001 --> 00:00:56,000 FOR THE REFRESHMENT AND 9 00:00:56,001 --> 00:01:00,000 ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF OUR TIME AWAY 10 00:01:00,001 --> 00:01:03,000 AND FOR YOUR CLEAR, SHINING 11 00:01:03,001 --> 00:01:06,000 INWARD LIGHT THAT DIRECTS OUR STEPS. 12 00:01:06,001 --> 00:01:12,000 MAY THE MEMBERS OF THIS BODY 13 00:01:12,001 --> 00:01:16,000 FEEL YOUR PEACE AND POWER TODAY. 14 00:01:16,001 --> 00:01:19,000 RESTRAIN WANDERING THOUGHTS AND 15 00:01:19,001 --> 00:01:21,000 BREAKING PIECES, THOSE 16 00:01:21,001 --> 00:01:23,000 TEMPTATIONS THAT LEAD THEM AWAY 17 00:01:23,001 --> 00:01:27,000 FROM YOUR WILL. 18 00:01:27,001 --> 00:01:29,000 LORD, JOIN OUR SENATORS TO 19 00:01:29,001 --> 00:01:33,000 YOURSELF WITH AN INSEPARABLE 20 00:01:33,001 --> 00:01:37,000 BOND OF LOVE. 21 00:01:37,001 --> 00:01:40,000 FOR YOU ALONE TRULY SATISFY. 22 00:01:40,001 --> 00:01:44,000 GRANT THAT THEIR LOVE MAY ABOUND 23 00:01:44,001 --> 00:01:46,000 MORE AND MORE IN KNOWLEDGE AND 24 00:01:46,001 --> 00:01:51,000 DEPTH OF INSIGHT SO THAT THEY 25 00:01:51,001 --> 00:01:55,000 MAY BE ABLE TO DISCERN WHAT IS 26 00:01:55,001 --> 00:01:59,000 BEST AND MAY BE PURE AND 27 00:01:59,001 --> 00:02:00,000 BLAMELESS WHEN THEY STAND BEFORE 28 00:02:00,001 --> 00:02:05,000 YOU. 29 00:02:05,001 --> 00:02:11,000 LORD, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN 30 00:02:11,001 --> 00:02:13,000 WILL CONVENE WITHOUT SENATOR 31 00:02:13,001 --> 00:02:16,000 EDWARD KENNEDY AS ONE OF ITS 32 00:02:16,001 --> 00:02:20,000 MEMBERS. 33 00:02:20,001 --> 00:02:22,000 THANK YOU FOR HIS LIFE AND 34 00:02:22,001 --> 00:02:27,000 LEGACY. 35 00:02:27,001 --> 00:02:33,000 WE PRAY IN YOUR SOVEREIGN 36 00:02:33,001 --> 00:02:34,000 AMEN. 37 00:02:34,001 --> 00:02:35,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: PLEASE 38 00:02:35,001 --> 00:02:36,000 JOIN ME IN REC 39 00:02:36,001 --> 00:02:39,000 OF ALLEGIANCE. 40 00:02:39,001 --> 00:02:40,000 I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO 41 00:02:40,001 --> 00:02:42,000 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 42 00:02:42,001 --> 00:02:43,000 AND TO THE REPUBLIC 43 00:02:43,001 --> 00:02:45,000 FOR WHICH IT STANDS, 44 00:02:45,001 --> 00:02:47,000 ONE NATION UER GOD, 45 00:02:47,001 --> 00:02:48,000 INDIVISIBLE, 46 00:02:48,001 --> 00:02:51,000 WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR 47 00:02:51,001 --> 00:02:53,000 ALL. 48 00:02:53,001 --> 00:02:56,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE CLERK 49 00:02:56,001 --> 00:02:58,000 SENATE. 50 00:02:58,001 --> 00:02:59,000 THE CLERK: WASHINGTON, D.C, 51 00:02:59,001 --> 00:03:01,000 SEPTEMBER 8, 2009, 52 00:03:01,001 --> 00:03:03,000 TO THE SENATE: 53 00:03:03,001 --> 00:03:04,000 UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF RULE 1, 54 00:03:04,001 --> 00:03:06,000 PARAGRAPH 3, O 55 00:03:06,001 --> 00:03:07,000 RULES OF THE SENATE, I HEREBY 56 00:03:07,001 --> 00:03:08,000 APPOINT THE HONORABLE TOM CARPER, 57 00:03:08,001 --> 00:03:09,000 A NATOR FROM THE STATE OF 58 00:03:09,001 --> 00:03:10,000 DELAWARE, TO PERFORM THE DUTIES 59 00:03:10,001 --> 00:03:15,000 OF THE CHAIR. SIGNED: ROBERT C. BYRD, PRESIDENT 60 00:03:15,001 --> 00:03:17,000 PRO TEMPORE. 61 00:03:17,001 --> 00:03:18,000 MR. REID: MR. PRESIDENT? THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 62 00:03:18,001 --> 00:03:19,000 MAJORITY LEAR. 63 00:03:19,001 --> 00:03:22,000 MR. REID: THE SENATE ARE WILL BE 64 00:03:22,001 --> 00:03:24,000 IN PERIOD OF MORNING BUSINESS UNTIL 40:30. 65 00:03:24,001 --> 00:03:26,000 SENATORS PER MID TO -- 66 00:03:26,001 --> 00:03:28,000 TO SPEAK UP TO 10 MINUTES EACH. 67 00:03:28,001 --> 00:03:31,000 FOLLOWING THE MORNING BUSINESS, 68 00:03:31,001 --> 00:03:33,000 THE SENATE WILL PROCEED 69 00:03:33,001 --> 00:03:37,000 S. 1073. 70 00:03:37,001 --> 00:03:38,000 AND, MR. PRESIDENT, I DESIGNATE 71 00:03:38,001 --> 00:03:40,000 SENATOR DORGAN CONTROLLING THE 72 00:03:40,001 --> 00:03:42,000 TIME ON OUR SIDE. 73 00:03:42,001 --> 00:03:45,000 AT 5:30 THE SENATE WILL PROCEED 74 00:03:45,001 --> 00:03:46,000 TO A CLOTURE VOTE ON THE DORGAN 75 00:03:46,001 --> 00:03:48,000 AMENDMENT 1347 TO THE TRAVEL 76 00:03:48,001 --> 00:03:50,000 PROMOTION ACT UNDER AN AGREEMENT 77 00:03:50,001 --> 00:03:53,000 REACHED PRIOR TO THE RECESS. 78 00:03:53,001 --> 00:03:55,000 IF CLOTURE IS INVOKED 79 00:03:55,001 --> 00:03:58,000 TIME YIELDING BACK, THE DORGAN 80 00:03:58,001 --> 00:03:59,000 ENDMENT WOULD BE AGREED TO AND 81 00:03:59,001 --> 00:04:01,000 SENATE W 82 00:04:01,001 --> 00:04:02,000 THAT VOTE IS EXPECTED TO OCCUR 83 00:04:02,001 --> 00:04:04,000 TOMORROW. 84 00:04:04,001 --> 00:04:05,000 MR. PRESIDENT, I WELCOME MY 85 00:04:05,001 --> 00:04:09,000 COLLEAGUES BACK TO SENATE AFTER 86 00:04:09,001 --> 00:04:11,000 AN AUGUST WORK PERIOD THAT SAW 87 00:04:11,001 --> 00:04:12,000 PROFOUND SADNESS ACROSS OUR COUNTRY. 88 00:04:12,001 --> 00:04:14,000 WE HEARD FROM OUR CONSTITUENTS 89 00:04:14,001 --> 00:04:17,000 OVER THE PAST FEW WEEKS. 90 00:04:17,001 --> 00:04:18,000 IN NEVADA, I HEARD FROM CITIZENS 91 00:04:18,001 --> 00:04:21,000 ACROSS MY STATE WHO ARE READY 92 00:04:21,001 --> 00:04:23,000 FOR US TO PICK UP WHERE WE OFF. 93 00:04:23,001 --> 00:04:25,000 READY FOR US TO GET BACK TO THE 94 00:04:25,001 --> 00:04:27,000 HARD WORK OF LEGISLATING. 95 00:04:27,001 --> 00:04:28,000 READY FOR US TO WORK FORWARD ON 96 00:04:28,001 --> 00:04:31,000 ONE OF THE MOST CRITICAL ISSUES 97 00:04:31,001 --> 00:04:36,000 OF OUR TIME AND OUR LIFE'S CAUSE 98 00:04:36,001 --> 00:04:37,000 OF OUR LATE COLLEAGUE SENATOR 99 00:04:37,001 --> 00:04:38,000 TED KENNEDY. 100 00:04:38,001 --> 00:04:39,000 I ASK UNANIMOUS CONSENT THAT THE 101 00:04:39,001 --> 00:04:42,000 SENATE 102 00:04:42,001 --> 00:04:45,000 SILENCE IN MEMORY OF OUR FRIEND 103 00:04:45,001 --> 00:04:47,000 AND DEPARTE 104 00:04:47,001 --> 00:06:29,000 SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY. 105 00:06:29,001 --> 00:06:31,000 ORDERED. 106 00:06:31,001 --> 00:06:32,000 MR. REID: MR. PRESIDENT? THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 107 00:06:32,001 --> 00:06:33,000 MAJOTY LEADER. 108 00:06:33,001 --> 00:06:35,000 MR. REID: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 109 00:06:35,001 --> 00:06:37,000 MR. PRESIDENT, I HAVE TO 110 00:06:37,001 --> 00:06:42,000 ACKNOWLEDGE THAT AS I CAME INTO 111 00:06:42,001 --> 00:06:43,000 THE CHAMBER THIS 112 00:06:43,001 --> 00:06:45,000 CAME UPON SENATOR KENNEDY'S 113 00:06:45,001 --> 00:06:48,000 DESK, WHICH IS COVERED WITH THE 114 00:06:48,001 --> 00:06:52,000 TRADITIONAL BLACK VELVET 115 00:06:52,001 --> 00:06:57,000 COVERING WITH THE VASE OF 116 00:06:57,001 --> 00:06:59,000 THE DESK, ONE 117 00:06:59,001 --> 00:07:02,000 POEMS, A TEAR OR TWO CAME TO MY EYE. 118 00:07:02,001 --> 00:07:03,000 MR. PRESIDENT, I CHERISHED THE 119 00:07:03,001 --> 00:07:05,000 TIME I HAD TO -- I GET TO SPEND 120 00:07:05,001 --> 00:07:07,000 WITH THE PEOPLE I NEVADA WHEN I 121 00:07:07,001 --> 00:07:08,000 GET TO GO HOME, LISTENING TO 122 00:07:08,001 --> 00:07:09,000 THEM, TALKING TO THEM AND 123 00:07:09,001 --> 00:07:11,000 LEARNING FROM THEM. 124 00:07:11,001 --> 00:07:13,000 THE PEOPLE OF NEVADA FEEL AS 125 00:07:13,001 --> 00:07:16,000 ACUTELY AS ANYONE IN AMERICA 126 00:07:16,001 --> 00:07:18,000 ABOUT THE VOLATILITY OUR TURBULENT ECONOMY. 127 00:07:18,001 --> 00:07:20,000 THE NEVADANS SEE AS CLEARLY AS 128 00:07:20,001 --> 00:07:22,000 ANYONE IN AMERICA THAT WE'RE GOING FORWARD. 129 00:07:22,001 --> 00:07:24,000 IN FACT, WE'RE 130 00:07:24,001 --> 00:07:27,000 OUR FEET AFTER LONG YEARS OF NEGLECT. 131 00:07:27,001 --> 00:07:29,000 THEY WATCHED US 132 00:07:29,001 --> 00:07:31,000 WENT WILD,ORECLOSURES REACHED 133 00:07:31,001 --> 00:07:33,000 RECORD HIGHS AND JOBS VANISHED 134 00:07:33,001 --> 00:07:35,000 INTO THIN AIR. 135 00:07:35,001 --> 00:07:36,000 TH 136 00:07:36,001 --> 00:07:39,000 PRESIDENT OBAMA, THE HARD WORK 137 00:07:39,001 --> 00:07:40,000 OF THE CONGRESS, AND T 138 00:07:40,001 --> 00:07:41,000 UNWAVERING DETERMINATION OF OUR 139 00:07:41,001 --> 00:07:44,000 CONSTITUENTS, THEY NOW SEE THE 140 00:07:44,001 --> 00:07:46,000 WOUNDS BEGINNING TO HEAL. 141 00:07:46,001 --> 00:07:47,000 THIS SENATE HAS RISEN TO THE 142 00:07:47,001 --> 00:07:50,000 CHALLENGE WE 143 00:07:50,001 --> 00:07:51,000 FACE OF UNPRECEDENTED 144 00:07:51,001 --> 00:07:53,000 CONDITIONS, WE RESPONDED WITH 145 00:07:53,001 --> 00:07:55,000 THE MOST SIGNIFICANT 146 00:07:55,001 --> 00:07:57,000 ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN OUR NATION'S HISTORY. 147 00:07:57,001 --> 00:07:59,000 WE ARE PROUD OF OUR IMPORTANT 148 00:07:59,001 --> 00:08:01,000 EFFORTS TO REVIVE OUR ECONOMY, 149 00:08:01,001 --> 00:08:04,000 PROTECT OUR ENVIRONMENT, DEMAND 150 00:08:04,001 --> 00:08:06,000 ACCOUNTABILITY, PROMOTE EQUALITY 151 00:08:06,001 --> 00:08:07,000 AN 152 00:08:07,001 --> 00:08:08,000 IN THE FIRST MONTHS OF THIS YEAR 153 00:08:08,001 --> 00:08:11,000 WE PASSED AN ECONOMIC RECOVERY 154 00:08:11,001 --> 00:08:12,000 PLAN THAT HAS CREATING JOBS AS 155 00:08:12,001 --> 00:08:14,000 WE SPEAK. 156 00:08:14,001 --> 00:08:15,000 STRENGTHENED THE MIDDLE CLASS 157 00:08:15,001 --> 00:08:17,000 AND INVESTING IN OUR FUTURE. 158 00:08:17,001 --> 00:08:18,000 JUST LAST WEEK "THE WALL STREET 159 00:08:18,001 --> 00:08:21,000 JOURNAL" ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE 160 00:08:21,001 --> 00:08:22,000 PLAN 161 00:08:22,001 --> 00:08:23,000 RECOVER FROM THE RECESSION 162 00:08:23,001 --> 00:08:24,000 FASTER THAN EXPECTED. 163 00:08:24,001 --> 00:08:26,000 THAT'S THE "WALL STREET 164 00:08:26,001 --> 00:08:28,000 JOURNAL". 165 00:08:28,001 --> 00:08:31,000 WE ALSO PUT PEOPLE AHEAD OF BIG 166 00:08:31,001 --> 00:08:34,000 BUSINESS BY PROTECTING CREDIT 167 00:08:34,001 --> 00:08:35,000 CARD USERS AND ROUTEING OUT 168 00:08:35,001 --> 00:08:37,000 CO 169 00:08:37,001 --> 00:08:40,000 WE HELPED MILLIONS OF CHILDREN 170 00:08:40,001 --> 00:08:41,000 TO STAY HEALTHY BY MAKING IT 171 00:08:41,001 --> 00:08:44,000 EASIER TO GET THE HEALTH CARE 172 00:08:44,001 --> 00:08:46,000 THEY NEED, THAT IS 173 00:08:46,001 --> 00:08:48,000 PROGRAM BY MAKING IT HARDER FOR 174 00:08:48,001 --> 00:08:50,000 TOBACCO C KIDS. 175 00:08:50,001 --> 00:08:52,000 WE MADE IT EASIER FOR AMERICANS 176 00:08:52,001 --> 00:08:55,000 TO SERVE THEIR COUNTRY, LIKE OUR 177 00:08:55,001 --> 00:08:56,000 HEROES OF GENERATIONS PAST 178 00:08:56,001 --> 00:08:57,000 PROTECTING OUR PUBLIC LANDS FOR 179 00:08:57,001 --> 00:09:01,000 GENERATIONS TO COME. 180 00:09:01,001 --> 00:09:04,000 WE PASSED APPROPRIATION BILLS, 181 00:09:04,001 --> 00:09:05,000 NEW APPROPRIATION BILLS AND AN 182 00:09:05,001 --> 00:09:06,000 HONEST RESPONSIBLE BUDGE 183 00:09:06,001 --> 00:09:08,000 MAKES SOUND INVESTMENTS IN EVERY 184 00:09:08,001 --> 00:09:10,000 PART OF OUR 185 00:09:10,001 --> 00:09:12,000 THIS CONGRESS MADE HISTORY BY 186 00:09:12,001 --> 00:09:13,000 PURSUING JUSTICE AND ENSURING 187 00:09:13,001 --> 00:09:14,000 EQUALITY FOR EVERY SINGLE 188 00:09:14,001 --> 00:09:18,000 AMERICAN. 189 00:09:18,001 --> 00:09:22,000 VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE BECAUSE OF 190 00:09:22,001 --> 00:09:23,000 THEIR RACE, ETHNICITY, SEXUAL 191 00:09:23,001 --> 00:09:26,000 ORIENTATION AND STOOD UP FOR 192 00:09:26,001 --> 00:09:28,000 THOSE WHO ARE TARTS OF 193 00:09:28,001 --> 00:09:30,000 DISCRIMINATION -- TARGETS 194 00:09:30,001 --> 00:09:32,000 DISCRIMINATION BECAUSE OF THEIR GENDER. 195 00:09:32,001 --> 00:09:34,000 AND THE SENATE CONFIRMED 196 00:09:34,001 --> 00:09:36,000 PRESIDEN 197 00:09:36,001 --> 00:09:38,000 NOMINEE FOR THE SUPREME COURT. 198 00:09:38,001 --> 00:09:40,000 SONIA SOTOMAYOR WILL BECOME THE 199 00:09:40,001 --> 00:09:41,000 FIRST HISPANIC AND THIRD WOMAN 200 00:09:41,001 --> 00:09:42,000 TO SIT ON THE HIGST BENCH IN 201 00:09:42,001 --> 00:09:44,000 THE LAND. 202 00:09:44,001 --> 00:09:46,000 TODAY -- I THINK MAYBE TOMORROW 203 00:09:46,001 --> 00:09:48,000 THE FIRST ARGUMENT SHE'LL 204 00:09:48,001 --> 00:09:50,000 PARTICIPATE IN WILL TAKE PLACE. 205 00:09:50,001 --> 00:09:52,000 THIS IS AN IMPRESSIVE RECORD FOR 206 00:09:52,001 --> 00:09:55,000 ANY CONGRESS, AN IMPRESSIVE RES. 207 00:09:55,001 --> 00:09:57,000 MAY FOR ANY -- CONGRESS. 208 00:09:57,001 --> 00:10:01,000 I'M PARTICULARLY PROUD THAT WE 209 00:10:01,001 --> 00:10:02,000 ACCOMPLISHED THIS IN ALL OF SIX 210 00:10:02,001 --> 00:10:04,000 MONTHS. 211 00:10:04,001 --> 00:10:05,000 HOW DID WE GET HERE? 212 00:10:05,001 --> 00:10:07,000 WE DID EACH CRITICAL THING 213 00:10:07,001 --> 00:10:08,000 BECAUSE WE FOUND OURSELVES IN 214 00:10:08,001 --> 00:10:12,000 EXCEPTIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES. 215 00:10:12,001 --> 00:10:14,000 WE FACED DAWBTING PATHS. 216 00:10:14,001 --> 00:10:15,000 IT IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND 217 00:10:15,001 --> 00:10:16,000 HOW WE GOT HERE. 218 00:10:16,001 --> 00:10:19,000 I'M NOT INTERESTED, MR. 219 00:10:19,001 --> 00:10:20,000 PRESIDENT, IN LOOKING BACKWARDS 220 00:10:20,001 --> 00:10:21,000 OR POINT FINGERS. 221 00:10:21,001 --> 00:10:24,000 IT IS IMPORTANT TO LEARN FROM 222 00:10:24,001 --> 00:10:25,000 PAST MISTAKES SO WE DON'T REPEAT 223 00:10:25,001 --> 00:10:28,000 THESE MISTAKES. 224 00:10:28,001 --> 00:10:29,000 AS I SEE IT THERE ARE TWO 225 00:10:29,001 --> 00:10:31,000 PRIMARY REASONS WE FOUND 226 00:10:31,001 --> 00:10:33,000 OURSELVES IN A DEEP HOLE. 227 00:10:33,001 --> 00:10:35,000 FOR FAR TOO LONG WE PUT OFF 228 00:10:35,001 --> 00:10:36,000 TODAY'S PROBLEMS UNTIL TOMORROW. 229 00:10:36,001 --> 00:10:38,000 SECOND, TOO MANY FOCUS ONLY ON 230 00:10:38,001 --> 00:10:39,000 WHERE WE 231 00:10:39,001 --> 00:10:41,000 AGREE. 232 00:10:41,001 --> 00:10:42,000 WE NO LONGER HAVE THE LUXURY OF 233 00:10:42,001 --> 00:10:44,000 DOING 234 00:10:44,001 --> 00:10:46,000 ONLY BY WORKING TOGETHER, NOT AS 235 00:10:46,001 --> 00:10:47,000 DEMOCRATS OR REPUBLICANS, BUT AS 236 00:10:47,001 --> 00:10:52,000 AMERICANS, NOT AS PARTISANS, BUT 237 00:10:52,001 --> 00:10:53,000 JOBLESS BACK TO WORK, MAKE SURE 238 00:10:53,001 --> 00:10:56,000 EVERYONE CAN AFFORD TO STAY 239 00:10:56,001 --> 00:10:57,000 HEALTHY AND CREATE A NEW 240 00:10:57,001 --> 00:10:58,000 CLEAN-ENERGY ECONOMY FOR THIS 241 00:10:58,001 --> 00:11:00,000 NEW CENTURY. 242 00:11:00,001 --> 00:11:02,000 HEALTH CARE, MR. PRESIDENT, 243 00:11:02,001 --> 00:11:05,000 LEARNING THESE TWO LESSONS THAT 244 00:11:05,001 --> 00:11:06,000 WE CAN NO LONGER PUT OFF TODAY'S 245 00:11:06,001 --> 00:11:08,000 PROBLEMS UNTIL TOMORROW AND THAT 246 00:11:08,001 --> 00:11:10,000 WE CANNOT AFFORD TO 247 00:11:10,001 --> 00:11:12,000 ON WHERE WE DISAGREE WILL BE THE 248 00:11:12,001 --> 00:11:13,000 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REFORMING 249 00:11:13,001 --> 00:11:17,000 HEALTH INSURANCE IN A 250 00:11:17,001 --> 00:11:19,000 WAY OR 251 00:11:19,001 --> 00:11:20,000 AND SCARE TACTICS HOLD US BACK. 252 00:11:20,001 --> 00:11:23,000 THANKS TO CHAIR BAUCUS AND 253 00:11:23,001 --> 00:11:26,000 SENATOR DODD, WE MADE PROGRESS 254 00:11:26,001 --> 00:11:29,000 TOWARD PASSING COMPREHENSIVE 255 00:11:29,001 --> 00:11:31,000 THERE ARE REPORTED BILLS THAT 256 00:11:31,001 --> 00:11:32,000 WILL SOON SEEN THE -- SEE THE 257 00:11:32,001 --> 00:11:34,000 SAME FROM THE FINANCE COMMITTEE. 258 00:11:34,001 --> 00:11:35,000 WHILE MANY IMPORTANT CHOICES 259 00:11:35,001 --> 00:11:37,000 REMAIN, WE'RE AS COMMITTED AS 260 00:11:37,001 --> 00:11:39,000 EVER TO A PLAN THAT WILL PROTECT 261 00:11:39,001 --> 00:11:42,000 WHAT WORKS, FIX WHAT DOESN'T AND 262 00:11:42,001 --> 00:11:43,000 HELP THE MIDDLE CLASS GET 263 00:11:43,001 --> 00:11:44,000 WE'LL STABLIZE HICK FOR THOSE 264 00:11:44,001 --> 00:11:47,000 WHO HAVE IT -- HEALTH INSURANCE 265 00:11:47,001 --> 00:11:49,000 FOR THOSE WHO HAVE IT AND HELP 266 00:11:49,001 --> 00:11:52,000 TO SECURE FOR 267 00:11:52,001 --> 00:11:55,000 WE'LL HELP TO KEEP THE INSURANCE 268 00:11:55,001 --> 00:11:56,000 INDUSTRY HONEST AND LOWER COSTS 269 00:11:56,001 --> 00:11:58,000 TO ENSURE THAT EVERY AMERICAN 270 00:11:58,001 --> 00:11:59,000 CAN STAY HEALTHY AND WE'RE 271 00:11:59,001 --> 00:12:01,000 DETERMINED TO PASS A GOOD 272 00:12:01,001 --> 00:12:05,000 BIPARTISAN BILL AND DO IT THIS YEAR. 273 00:12:05,001 --> 00:12:06,000 I LISTENED TO 274 00:12:06,001 --> 00:12:07,000 NEVADANS ACROSS THE STATE. 275 00:12:07,001 --> 00:12:09,000 THEY KNOW THE 276 00:12:09,001 --> 00:12:10,000 THE MISINFORMATION SPREAD BY 277 00:12:10,001 --> 00:12:12,000 AOPPONENTS OF PROGRESS AND THE 278 00:12:12,001 --> 00:12:17,000 REALITY THAT OUR VISION OF 279 00:12:17,001 --> 00:12:19,000 REFORM NEEDS PATIENCE AND ONLY 280 00:12:19,001 --> 00:12:21,000 DOCTORS 281 00:12:21,001 --> 00:12:22,000 ABOUT THEIR MEDICAL CARE. 282 00:12:22,001 --> 00:12:24,000 THAT BELONG TO THE PEOPLE, NOT 283 00:12:24,001 --> 00:12:27,000 TO THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY. 284 00:12:27,001 --> 00:12:28,000 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE KNOWS THAT 285 00:12:28,001 --> 00:12:30,000 REFORM MEANS KEEPING INSURANCE 286 00:12:30,001 --> 00:12:32,000 COMPANIES HONEST AND NOT LETTING 287 00:12:32,001 --> 00:12:34,000 THEM DENY YOU CARE BECAUSE OF 288 00:12:34,001 --> 00:12:35,000 YOU ARE A PREEXISTING CONDITION. 289 00:12:35,001 --> 00:12:39,000 IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING FROM HEART 290 00:12:39,001 --> 00:12:41,000 DISEASE TO HIGH 291 00:12:41,001 --> 00:12:42,000 HAY FEVER, YOU MAY BE OUT OF LUCK. 292 00:12:42,001 --> 00:12:44,000 THAT IS JUST NOT RIGHT. 293 00:12:44,001 --> 00:12:46,000 THEY KNOW OUR VISION RF REFORM 294 00:12:46,001 --> 00:12:47,000 MEANS NOT ALLOWING HEALTH 295 00:12:47,001 --> 00:12:50,000 INSURANCE COMPANIES TO DROP YOUR 296 00:12:50,001 --> 00:12:52,000 COVERAGE IF YOU'RE SERIOUSLY ILL. 297 00:12:52,001 --> 00:12:55,000 IF YOU 298 00:12:55,001 --> 00:12:58,000 YOU WILL HAVE AFFORDABLE OPTIONS OPTIONS TO COVER YOUR FAMILY. 299 00:12:58,001 --> 00:13:00,000 THEY KNOW THAT 300 00:13:00,001 --> 00:13:01,000 FOR REFORM THAT WILL MAKE 301 00:13:01,001 --> 00:13:03,000 QUALITY AFFORDABLE CARE 302 00:13:03,001 --> 00:13:04,000 AVAILABL TO EVERY SINGLE 303 00:13:04,001 --> 00:13:06,000 AMERICAN CITIZEN. 304 00:13:06,001 --> 00:13:08,000 IT IS EASY TO FOCUS ON THE PART 305 00:13:08,001 --> 00:13:12,000 OF THE ROAD WE HAVE YET TO GO. 306 00:13:12,001 --> 00:13:14,000 IT IS IMPORTANT TO 307 00:13:14,001 --> 00:13:15,000 COMMON GROUND THAT WE ALREADY SHARE. 308 00:13:15,001 --> 00:13:16,000 WE HEARD A LOT FROM THE 309 00:13:16,001 --> 00:13:19,000 PROPONENTS OF PROGRESS. 310 00:13:19,001 --> 00:13:21,000 THEY THINK THAT WE CAN'T AFFORD 311 00:13:21,001 --> 00:13:22,000 HEALTH INSURANCE 312 00:13:22,001 --> 00:13:24,000 MY RESPONSE IS THAT WE CAN'T 313 00:13:24,001 --> 00:13:26,000 AFFORD NOT TO MAKE IT EASIER TO 314 00:13:26,001 --> 00:13:27,000 LIVE HEALTHY IN AMERICA. 315 00:13:27,001 --> 00:13:29,000 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE 316 00:13:29,001 --> 00:13:30,000 REJECTED THOSE 317 00:13:30,001 --> 00:13:31,000 THINGS ARE FINE THE WAY THEY 318 00:13:31,001 --> 00:13:32,000 ARE. 319 00:13:32,001 --> 00:13:33,000 THEY KNOW UNLESS WE GET THIS 320 00:13:33,001 --> 00:13:35,000 DONE, THEY COULD LOSE THEIR 321 00:13:35,001 --> 00:13:36,000 HEALTH CARE AND SO MUCH MORE 322 00:13:36,001 --> 00:13:37,000 ALONG WITH THE HEALTH 323 00:13:37,001 --> 00:13:39,000 LOSE. 324 00:13:39,001 --> 00:13:42,000 AND THEY KNOW THAT AMERICA IS NO 325 00:13:42,001 --> 00:13:44,000 PLACE FOR THOSE WHO HOPE FOR FAILURE. 326 00:13:44,001 --> 00:13:45,000 INACTION IS NOT AN OPTION. 327 00:13:45,001 --> 00:13:46,000 I'VE ALREADY 328 00:13:46,001 --> 00:13:48,000 WHEN WE DO NOTHING. 329 00:13:48,001 --> 00:13:49,000 OVER THE PAST EIGHT YEARS OF 330 00:13:49,001 --> 00:13:51,000 INACTION THE COST OF HEALTH CARE 331 00:13:51,001 --> 00:13:53,000 ROSE TO RECORD LEVELS. 332 00:13:53,001 --> 00:13:54,000 AND THE NUMBER OF AMERICANS WHO 333 00:13:54,001 --> 00:13:55,000 CAN'T AFFORD INSURANCE DID THE 334 00:13:55,001 --> 00:13:57,000 SAME. 335 00:13:57,001 --> 00:13:58,000 FOR THE MILLIONS O FAMILIES WHO 336 00:13:58,001 --> 00:14:01,000 FILED FOR FORECLOSURE BECAUSE 337 00:14:01,001 --> 00:14:02,000 THEY CAN'T AFFORD BOTH THEIR 338 00:14:02,001 --> 00:14:04,000 HOUSE AND THE HEALTH CARE, NOT 339 00:14:04,001 --> 00:14:05,000 ACTING IS NOT AN OPTION. 340 00:14:05,001 --> 00:14:07,000 FOR THE MILLIONS OF AMERICANS 341 00:14:07,001 --> 00:14:10,000 WHO FILE FOR BANKRUPTCY BECAUSE 342 00:14:10,001 --> 00:14:13,000 THEIR MEDICAL BILLS GROW HIGHER 343 00:14:13,001 --> 00:14:14,000 AND HIGHER, NOT ACTING IS NOT AN OPTION. 344 00:14:14,001 --> 00:14:17,000 FOR THE MILLIONS OF AMERICANS 345 00:14:17,001 --> 00:14:18,000 WHO SKIP DOCTORS' VISITS OR THE 346 00:14:18,001 --> 00:14:20,000 TREEPTS THEY NEED TO STAY 347 00:14:20,001 --> 00:14:21,000 HEALTHY OR NEVER FILL A 348 00:14:21,001 --> 00:14:23,000 PRESCRIPTION THAT THEIR DOCTORS 349 00:14:23,001 --> 00:14:25,000 GIVE THEM BEC 350 00:14:25,001 --> 00:14:26,000 TOO EXPENSIVE, NOT ACTING IS NOT 351 00:14:26,001 --> 00:14:28,000 AN OPTION. 352 00:14:28,001 --> 00:14:30,000 OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IS NOT 353 00:14:30,001 --> 00:14:31,000 HEALTHY. 354 00:14:31,001 --> 00:14:33,000 AMERICA'S FISCAL HEALTH IS AT 355 00:14:33,001 --> 00:14:35,000 STAKE AND NOT ACTING IS NOT AN 356 00:14:35,001 --> 00:14:36,000 OPTION MUCH WE HAVE TO WORK IN 357 00:14:36,001 --> 00:14:37,000 GOOD FAITH. 358 00:14:37,001 --> 00:14:40,000 THIS PAST APRIL, MR. PRESIDENT, 359 00:14:40,001 --> 00:14:42,000 I SENT MY REPUBLICAN COUNTERPART 360 00:14:42,001 --> 00:14:43,000 A LETTER OUTLINING OUR 361 00:14:43,001 --> 00:14:44,000 PRIORITIES FOR THE HEALTH CARE 362 00:14:44,001 --> 00:14:47,000 DEBATE. 363 00:14:47,001 --> 00:14:48,000 I WROTE, OF COURSE, THAT 364 00:14:48,001 --> 00:14:50,000 DEMOCRATS ARE COMMITTED TO 365 00:14:50,001 --> 00:14:51,000 LOWERING HEALTH CARE COSTS, 366 00:14:51,001 --> 00:14:52,000 EXPANDING ACCESS AND IMPROVING 367 00:14:52,001 --> 00:14:54,000 THE QUALITY OF CARE. 368 00:14:54,001 --> 00:14:57,000 I SAID IN THAT LETTER THAT WE 369 00:14:57,001 --> 00:14:59,000 LOOK FORWARD TO A DIALOGUE OF 370 00:14:59,001 --> 00:15:02,000 HOW TO REDUCE DISEASE AND 371 00:15:02,001 --> 00:15:03,000 ENCOURAGE EARLY DETECTION AND 372 00:15:03,001 --> 00:15:04,000 EFFECT TREATMENTS THAT 373 00:15:04,001 --> 00:15:07,000 LIVES. 374 00:15:07,001 --> 00:15:09,000 IN A LETTER OF FOUR 375 00:15:09,001 --> 00:15:11,000 I SAID TO HELP STRUGGLING 376 00:15:11,001 --> 00:15:12,000 AMERICANS, WE CANNOT DROWN IN 377 00:15:12,001 --> 00:15:15,000 DISTRACTIONS AND DISTORGSES. 378 00:15:15,001 --> 00:15:16,000 I MADE CLEAR THAT BIPARTISAN 379 00:15:16,001 --> 00:15:18,000 MEANS REPUBLICANS DEMON 380 00:15:18,001 --> 00:15:20,000 A SINCERE INTEREST IN 381 00:15:20,001 --> 00:15:21,000 LEGISLATING OFFERING 382 00:15:21,001 --> 00:15:23,000 CONSTRUCTIVE PROPOSALS AND THAT 383 00:15:23,001 --> 00:15:24,000 WORKING GETHER IS OUR COMMON 384 00:15:24,001 --> 00:15:26,000 INTEREST RATHER THAN AGAINST 385 00:15:26,001 --> 00:15:27,000 EACH OTHER AND AGAINST TRILLIONS 386 00:15:27,001 --> 00:15:29,000 INTERESTS OF THE AMERICAN 387 00:15:29,001 --> 00:15:31,000 PEOPLE. 388 00:15:31,001 --> 00:15:32,000 I STAND BY THAT ASSESSMENT AS 389 00:15:32,001 --> 00:15:34,000 STRONGLY AS I DID THIS SPRING, FOUR MONTHS AGO. 390 00:15:34,001 --> 00:15:35,000 AND IT IS PAINFULLY CLEAR TO 391 00:15:35,001 --> 00:15:37,000 EVERYONE WHO HAS SEEN THIS 392 00:15:37,001 --> 00:15:39,000 DEBATE, DISTURBING TURNS AND 393 00:15:39,001 --> 00:15:40,000 DISHONEST TACTICS, THAT 394 00:15:40,001 --> 00:15:43,000 THAN EVER WE NEED PEOPLE WILLING 395 00:15:43,001 --> 00:15:46,000 TO WORK TOGETHER IN GOOD FAITH. 396 00:15:46,001 --> 00:15:49,000 TODAY IS THE FIRST DAY SINCE 397 00:15:49,001 --> 00:15:51,000 JANUARY 2, 1953, THAT A MAN 398 00:15:51,001 --> 00:15:52,000 NAMED 399 00:15:52,001 --> 00:15:56,000 DESK ON THE FLOOR OF THE UNITED 400 00:15:56,001 --> 00:15:58,000 STATES SENATE OR IN THE OVAL 401 00:15:58,001 --> 00:15:59,000 OFFICE AT THE WHITE HOUSE. 402 00:15:59,001 --> 00:16:03,000 GROUNDBREAKING PROGRESS WE'VE 403 00:16:03,001 --> 00:16:05,000 MADE OVER THOSE 56 1/2 YEARS -- 404 00:16:05,001 --> 00:16:07,000 CIVIL RIGHTS, EDUCATION, HEALTH 405 00:16:07,001 --> 00:16:08,000 CARE, AND AMERICA'S GLOBAL 406 00:16:08,001 --> 00:16:10,000 LEADERSHIP -- I KNOW WE 407 00:16:10,001 --> 00:16:13,000 CHOICE BUT T 408 00:16:13,001 --> 00:16:14,000 NOW IS NO TIME TO LET UP. 409 00:16:14,001 --> 00:16:15,000 TOMORROW NIGHT, THE PRESIDENT OF 410 00:16:15,001 --> 00:16:17,000 THE UNITED STATES WILL STAND ON 411 00:16:17,001 --> 00:16:18,000 THE OTHER SIDE OF 412 00:16:18,001 --> 00:16:21,000 AND TELL A JOINT SESSION OF 413 00:16:21,001 --> 00:16:23,000 CONGRESS HIS VISION FOR THE 414 00:16:23,001 --> 00:16:25,000 HEALTH CARE DEBATE THAT'S ENSUING. 415 00:16:25,001 --> 00:16:27,000 HE'LL DO THAT AND 416 00:16:27,001 --> 00:16:28,000 COMING WEEKS AND MONTHS, WE WILL 417 00:16:28,001 --> 00:16:29,000 CONTEMPLATE AND THINK ABOUT WHAT 418 00:16:29,001 --> 00:16:31,000 HE 419 00:16:31,001 --> 00:16:33,000 IT'S NOT INSIGNIFICANT THAT 420 00:16:33,001 --> 00:16:35,000 PRESIDENT OBAMA WILL SPEAKING -- 421 00:16:35,001 --> 00:16:38,000 WILL BE SPEAKING TO SUCH A 422 00:16:38,001 --> 00:16:39,000 GATHERING WE'L. 423 00:16:39,001 --> 00:16:40,000 WE'LL COME TOGETHER IN JOINT 424 00:16:40,001 --> 00:16:44,000 SESSION BECAUSE WE SHARE A JOINT 425 00:16:44,001 --> 00:16:46,000 FUTU 426 00:16:46,001 --> 00:16:47,000 WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER: 427 00:16:47,001 --> 00:16:48,000 PUBLICANS, DEMOCRATS AND INDEPENDENTS. 428 00:16:48,001 --> 00:16:50,000 EVERY AMERICANITIZEN AND EACH 429 00:16:50,001 --> 00:16:51,000 THEIR REPRESENTATIVES HERE, 430 00:16:51,001 --> 00:16:52,000 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, SENATORS, 431 00:16:52,001 --> 00:16:55,000 AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED 432 00:16:55,001 --> 00:16:56,000 STATES. 433 00:16:56,001 --> 00:16:57,000 SENATOR TED KENNEDY SAID LAST 434 00:16:57,001 --> 00:16:59,000 DECEMBER, JUST MONTHS AGO -- AND 435 00:16:59,001 --> 00:17:02,000 I QUOTE -- "WE KNOW THE FUTURE 436 00:17:02,001 --> 00:17:04,000 WILL OUTLAST ALL OF US, BUT I 437 00:17:04,001 --> 00:17:07,000 BELIEVE THAT ALL OF US WILL LIVE 438 00:17:07,001 --> 00:17:09,000 ON IN THE FUTURE WE MAKE." 439 00:17:09,001 --> 00:17:10,000 MR. PRESIDENT, THIS IS A 440 00:17:10,001 --> 00:17:12,000 HISTORIC MOMENT. 441 00:17:12,001 --> 00:17:14,000 THIS IS OUR TIME TO 442 00:17:14,001 --> 00:17:16,000 FUTURE. 443 00:17:16,001 --> 00:17:17,000 WE STAND CLOSE TO A REAL HEALTH 444 00:17:17,001 --> 00:17:18,000 INSURANCE REFORM THAN EVER 445 00:17:18,001 --> 00:17:19,000 BEFORE. 446 00:17:19,001 --> 00:17:22,000 WE'RE CLOSER THAN EVER TO GETTING THIS RIGHT. 447 00:17:22,001 --> 00:17:24,000 WE WILL NOT GIVE UP, WE WILL NOT 448 00:17:24,001 --> 00:17:28,000 BET ON FAILURE, WE WILL NOT LET 449 00:17:28,001 --> 00:17:29,000 THE OBSCURE FACTS, WILL NOT LET 450 00:17:29,001 --> 00:17:31,000 FEAR, I'M SORRY, OBSCURE THE 451 00:17:31,001 --> 00:17:33,000 FACTS, AND 452 00:17:33,001 --> 00:17:35,000 PRIORITIES OF THE PARTISAN 453 00:17:35,001 --> 00:17:37,000 OVERPOWER, WE CAN'T LET THAT HAPPEN. 454 00:17:37,001 --> 00:17:39,000 WE WILL NOT LET THE PRIORITIES 455 00:17:39,001 --> 00:17:40,000 OF THE PARTISAN OVERPOWER THE 456 00:17:40,001 --> 00:17:41,000 PRIORITIES OF THE PEOPLE. 457 00:17:41,001 --> 00:17:42,000 THE GOAL LINE'S AHEAD OF US, 458 00:17:42,001 --> 00:17:43,000 MR. PRESIDENT. 459 00:17:43,001 --> 00:17:44,000 I SAY TO THE PRESIDING OFFICER, 460 00:17:44,001 --> 00:17:45,000 A MEMBER OF THE FINANCE 461 00:17:45,001 --> 00:17:47,000 COMMITTEE, WE HAVE TO DO 462 00:17:47,001 --> 00:17:50,000 EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN TO JOIN 463 00:17:50,001 --> 00:17:51,000 TOGETHER TO DO HEALTH CARE 464 00:17:51,001 --> 00:17:52,000 REFORM THAT'S MEANINGFUL TO THIS 465 00:17:52,001 --> 00:17:55,000 COUNTRY. 466 00:17:55,001 --> 00:17:57,000 I THINK I SPEAK FOR EVERYONE IN 467 00:17:57,001 --> 00:17:58,000 NEVADA AND I THINK I SPEAK FOR 468 00:17:58,001 --> 00:18:00,000 EVERYONE ON THIS SE OF THE 469 00:18:00,001 --> 00:18:01,000 AISLE, AND I'M CONFIDENT 470 00:18:01,001 --> 00:18:03,000 FRIEND, THE DISTINGUISHED 471 00:18:03,001 --> 00:18:12,000 REPUBLICAN LEADER, AGREES 472 00:18:12,001 --> 00:18:13,000 MEN IT. 473 00:18:13,001 --> 00:18:17,000 MR. McCONNELL: MR. PRESIDENT? THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 474 00:18:17,001 --> 00:18:18,000 REPUBLICAN LEADER. 475 00:18:18,001 --> 00:18:19,000 MR. McCONNELL: MR. PRESIDENT, 476 00:18:19,001 --> 00:18:22,000 THE SENATE GRIEVES OVER THE LOSS 477 00:18:22,001 --> 00:18:24,000 OF ONE OF ITS GIANTS 478 00:18:24,001 --> 00:18:26,000 OUR GREAT FRIENDS. 479 00:18:26,001 --> 00:18:28,000 ALL OF US WERE, OF COURSE, MOVED 480 00:18:28,001 --> 00:18:30,000 BY THE MANY TRIBUTES THAT HAVE 481 00:18:30,001 --> 00:18:31,000 POURED IN SINCE SENATOR 482 00:18:31,001 --> 00:18:34,000 KENNEDY'S PASSING AND WE'LL MAKE 483 00:18:34,001 --> 00:18:36,000 TIMEATER IN THE 484 00:18:36,001 --> 00:18:38,000 SENATORS, INCLUDING MYSELF, TO 485 00:18:38,001 --> 00:18:41,000 DELIVER TRIBUTES OF OUR OWN HERE 486 00:18:41,001 --> 00:18:44,000 ON THE SENATE FLOOR. 487 00:18:44,001 --> 00:18:45,000 MR. PRESIDENT, I PREVIOUSLY HAD 488 00:18:45,001 --> 00:18:46,000 AN OPPORTUNITY TO WELCOME MY 489 00:18:46,001 --> 00:18:49,000 FRIEND, THE MAJORITY LEADER, 490 00:18:49,001 --> 00:18:50,000 BACK AND WELCOME ALL OF OUR 491 00:18:50,001 --> 00:18:52,000 OTHER COLLEAGUES FROM AN ACTIVE 492 00:18:52,001 --> 00:18:54,000 MONTH IN AUGUST. 493 00:18:54,001 --> 00:18:58,000 I KNOW WE ALWAYS ENJOY SPENDING 494 00:18:58,001 --> 00:19:01,000 THIS TIME 495 00:19:01,001 --> 00:19:02,000 AND HEARING THEIR PARTICULAR 496 00:19:02,001 --> 00:19:03,000 CONCERNS. 497 00:19:03,001 --> 00:19:06,000 THIS YEAR, MOST OF US REALLGOT 498 00:19:06,001 --> 00:19:08,000 AN EARFUL. 499 00:19:08,001 --> 00:19:10,000 AND I HOPE THE EXPERIENCE HAS AN 500 00:19:10,001 --> 00:19:11,000 AFFECT ON OUR WORK HERE AS WE 501 00:19:11,001 --> 00:19:13,000 MOVE FORWARD. 502 00:19:13,001 --> 00:19:16,000 HEALTH CARE REFORM IS CLEARLY A 503 00:19:16,001 --> 00:19:19,000 CRITICAL ISSUE FOR MANY 504 00:19:19,001 --> 00:19:22,000 OBLIGATION TO SHOW THEM WE'VE 505 00:19:22,001 --> 00:19:23,000 BEEN LISTENING CLOSELY TO THEIR 506 00:19:23,001 --> 00:19:24,000 CONCERNS. 507 00:19:24,001 --> 00:19:25,000 AT THIS POINT, THERE REALLY 508 00:19:25,001 --> 00:19:29,000 SHOULD BE NO DOUBT ABOUT WHERE 509 00:19:29,001 --> 00:19:32,000 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE STAND. 510 00:19:32,001 --> 00:19:33,000 THE STATUS QUO IS NOT ACCEPTABLE 511 00:19:33,001 --> 00:19:36,000 BUT NEITHER ARE ANY OF THE 512 00:19:36,001 --> 00:19:38,000 PROPOSALS WE'VE SEEN FROM THE 513 00:19:38,001 --> 00:19:39,000 WHITE 514 00:19:39,001 --> 00:19:41,000 CONGRESS SO FAR. 515 00:19:41,001 --> 00:19:44,000 THE WHITE HOUSE HAS ATTEMPTED TO 516 00:19:44,001 --> 00:19:45,000 RETOOL ITS MESSAGE ON HEALTH 517 00:19:45,001 --> 00:19:47,000 CARE MANY TIMES. 518 00:19:47,001 --> 00:19:49,000 IT SHOULD BE CLEAR BY NOW THAT 519 00:19:49,001 --> 00:19:52,000 THE PROBLEM ISN'T THE SALES PITCH. 520 00:19:52,001 --> 00:19:53,000 THE PROBLEM IS WHAT THEY'RE 521 00:19:53,001 --> 00:19:55,000 SELLING. 522 00:19:55,001 --> 00:19:58,000 OVER THE PAST SEVERAL WEEKS, I 523 00:19:58,001 --> 00:20:01,000 VISITED A LOT OF DOCTORS, 524 00:20:01,001 --> 00:20:02,000 NURSES, SENIORS, HOSPITAL 525 00:20:02,001 --> 00:20:04,000 WORKERS, SMALL BUSINESSMEN AND 526 00:20:04,001 --> 00:20:05,000 WOMEN 527 00:20:05,001 --> 00:20:07,000 CITIZENS ACROSS KENTUCKY AND, 528 00:20:07,001 --> 00:20:08,000 FOR THAT MATTER, THROUGHOUT THE 529 00:20:08,001 --> 00:20:10,000 COUNTRY. 530 00:20:10,001 --> 00:20:12,000 NONE OF THEM WOULD CALL OUR 531 00:20:12,001 --> 00:20:13,000 CURRENT HEALTH CARE SYSTEM 532 00:20:13,001 --> 00:20:15,000 PERFECT. 533 00:20:15,001 --> 00:20:16,000 BUT ALL OF THEM ARE WORRIED 534 00:20:16,001 --> 00:20:18,000 ABOUT SO-CALLED REFORMS THAT 535 00:20:18,001 --> 00:20:20,000 WOULD UNDERMINE THE THINGS THEY 536 00:20:20,001 --> 00:20:22,000 LI 537 00:20:22,001 --> 00:20:24,000 CARE SYSTEM. 538 00:20:24,001 --> 00:20:27,000 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE ASKING 539 00:20:27,001 --> 00:20:28,000 US TO START OVER. 540 00:20:28,001 --> 00:20:30,000 THEY WANT REFORMS BUT THEY WANT 541 00:20:30,001 --> 00:20:33,000 THE RIGHT REFORMS, NOT SOME 542 00:20:33,001 --> 00:20:35,000 GRAND SCHEME THAT INCASES THE 543 00:20:35,001 --> 00:20:39,000 NATIONAL DEBT, EXPANDS THE 544 00:20:39,001 --> 00:20:42,000 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, RAISES 545 00:20:42,001 --> 00:20:43,000 TAXES, CUTS SENIORS' BENEFITS, 546 00:20:43,001 --> 00:20:47,000 AND FORCES AMERICANS OFF THE 547 00:20:47,001 --> 00:20:49,000 PLANS THEY CURRENTLY 548 00:20:49,001 --> 00:20:53,000 LIKE. 549 00:20:53,001 --> 00:20:54,000 THEY WANT REFORMS THAT WO 550 00:20:54,001 --> 00:20:57,000 WE HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO IN 551 00:20:57,001 --> 00:20:59,000 THE WEEKS AHEAD,UT THESE PAST 552 00:20:59,001 --> 00:21:01,000 FEW WEEKS HAVE GIVEN US ALL 553 00:21:01,001 --> 00:21:02,000 SOMETHING VALUABLE. 554 00:21:02,001 --> 00:21:04,000 THEY'VE GIVEN US REAL CLARITY 555 00:21:04,001 --> 00:21:06,000 ABOUT THE DIRECTION AMERICANS 556 00:21:06,001 --> 00:21:08,000 WANT 557 00:21:08,001 --> 00:21:10,000 AND JUST AS IMPORTANTLY, THE 558 00:21:10,001 --> 00:21:12,000 DIRECTION THEY DON'T WANT US TO 559 00:21:12,001 --> 00:21:16,000 TAKE. 560 00:21:16,001 --> 00:21:18,000 NOW IT'S OUR 561 00:21:18,001 --> 00:21:20,000 WE'VE BEEN LISTENING AND TO ACT. MR. PRESIDENT, I SUGGEST THE 562 00:21:20,001 --> 00:21:21,000 ABSENCE OF A QUORUM. 563 00:21:21,001 --> 00:21:27,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE CLERK 564 00:21:27,001 --> 00:29:47,000 WILL CALL THE ROLL. 565 00:29:47,001 --> 00:29:49,000 QUORUM CALL: THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 566 00:29:49,001 --> 00:29:50,000 SENA 567 00:29:50,001 --> 00:29:51,000 MR. ALEXANDER: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. 568 00:29:51,001 --> 00:29:53,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: AND WE'RE 569 00:29:53,001 --> 00:29:54,000 IN A QUORUM CALL. MR. ALEXANDER: THANK YOU. 570 00:29:54,001 --> 00:29:55,000 THANK 571 00:29:55,001 --> 00:29:57,000 WITHOUT MY EVEN 572 00:29:57,001 --> 00:29:58,000 QUORUM CALL HAS BEEN VITIATED. 573 00:29:58,001 --> 00:29:59,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: WITHOUT OBJECTION. 574 00:29:59,001 --> 00:30:00,000 THE SENATOR IS RECOGNIZED. 575 00:30:00,001 --> 00:30:03,000 MR. ALEXANDER: THANK YOU VERY 576 00:30:03,001 --> 00:30:04,000 MUCH. 577 00:30:04,001 --> 00:30:05,000 MR. PRESIDENT, I BELIEVE I HAVE 578 00:30:05,001 --> 00:30:08,000 15 MINUTES AND I WOULD ASK THE 579 00:30:08,001 --> 00:30:09,000 CHAIR TO LET ME KNOW WHEN TWO IS 580 00:30:09,001 --> 00:30:10,000 REMAING. 581 00:30:10,001 --> 00:30:11,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: WITHOUT 582 00:30:11,001 --> 00:30:13,000 OBJECTION. 583 00:30:13,001 --> 00:30:14,000 MR. ALEXANDER: THANK YOU, VERY MUCH. 584 00:30:14,001 --> 00:30:15,000 MR. PRESIDENT, WE HAVE TWO 585 00:30:15,001 --> 00:30:18,000 SPEECHES BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE 586 00:30:18,001 --> 00:30:19,000 UNITED STATES TODAY A 587 00:30:19,001 --> 00:30:20,000 TOMORROW. 588 00:30:20,001 --> 00:30:22,000 THE ONE TODAY IS TO T SCHOOLCHILDREN OF AMERICA. 589 00:30:22,001 --> 00:30:24,000 THE ONE TOMORROW NIGHT IS TO US, 590 00:30:24,001 --> 00:30:27,000 TO A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS 591 00:30:27,001 --> 00:30:28,000 AND TO THE COUNTRY. 592 00:30:28,001 --> 00:30:30,000 FOR THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS, 593 00:30:30,001 --> 00:30:31,000 THERE'S BEEN A SMALL 594 00:30:31,001 --> 00:30:32,000 ABOUT THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH TO 595 00:30:32,001 --> 00:30:35,000 SCHOOLCHILDREN AND IN SOME WAYS 596 00:30:35,001 --> 00:30:37,000 THAT'S VERY UNDERSTANDABLE 597 00:30:37,001 --> 00:30:40,000 THE COUNTRY'S VERY WARY RIGHT 598 00:30:40,001 --> 00:30:41,000 NOW OF MORE WASHINGTON TAKEOVERS. 599 00:30:41,001 --> 00:30:43,000 WE'VE SEEN TAKEOVERS OF BANKS 600 00:30:43,001 --> 00:30:47,000 AND INSURANCE COMPANIES AND -- 601 00:30:47,001 --> 00:30:50,000 AND CAR COMPANIES AND STUDENT 602 00:30:50,001 --> 00:30:51,000 LOANS AND EVEN FARM PONDS AND 603 00:30:51,001 --> 00:30:53,000 HEALTH CARE AND ALL OF A 604 00:30:53,001 --> 00:30:54,000 SOME PEOPLE MAY HAVE THOUGHT 605 00:30:54,001 --> 00:30:56,000 THAT THE PRESIDENT WAS INTENDING 606 00:30:56,001 --> 00:31:00,000 TO TAKE OVER THE CLASSROOMS OF 607 00:31:00,001 --> 00:31:01,000 AMERICA AS WELL. 608 00:31:01,001 --> 00:31:04,000 AND THAT WAS COMPOUNDED BY THE 609 00:31:04,001 --> 00:31:05,000 FACT THAT THE EARLY LESSON 610 00:31:05,001 --> 00:31:06,000 PLANS, PROBABLY DRAWN UP BY 611 00:31:06,001 --> 00:31:10,000 SOMEONE EITHER IN THE WHITE 612 00:31:10,001 --> 00:31:11,000 HOUSE OR WAN DEPARTMENT OF 613 00:31:11,001 --> 00:31:12,000 EDUCATION, MADE THE SPEECH 614 00:31:12,001 --> 00:31:13,000 MORE ABOUT THE PRESIDENT THAN 615 00:31:13,001 --> 00:31:14,000 ABOUT THE CHILDREN AND INVITING 616 00:31:14,001 --> 00:31:16,000 THE CHILDREN TO HELP THE 617 00:31:16,001 --> 00:31:18,000 PRESIDENT FULFILL HIS GOAL THE 618 00:31:18,001 --> 00:31:20,000 WAY HE WANTS TO TRANSFORM 619 00:31:20,001 --> 00:31:23,000 AMERICA. 620 00:31:23,001 --> 00:31:25,000 WELL, ALL THAT'S BEEN CHANGED. 621 00:31:25,001 --> 00:31:28,000 THE LESSON PLAN HAS BEEN ALTERED ALTERED. 622 00:31:28,001 --> 00:31:29,000 THE PRE 623 00:31:29,001 --> 00:31:31,000 OF HIS SPEECH. 624 00:31:31,001 --> 00:31:32,000 I READ IT THIS MORNING IN 625 00:31:32,001 --> 00:31:33,000 TENNESSEE ON MY WAY COMING UP. 626 00:31:33,001 --> 00:31:36,000 IT'S A GOOD SPEECH. 627 00:31:36,001 --> 00:31:38,000 IT'S ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF 628 00:31:38,001 --> 00:31:39,000 STUDYING AND EDUCATION. 629 00:31:39,001 --> 00:31:42,000 IT'S ABOUT HOW THE PRESIDENT 630 00:31:42,001 --> 00:31:43,000 GREW UP, WHICH IS AN INSPIRING 631 00:31:43,001 --> 00:31:45,000 STORY, AS IS THE CASE WITH 632 00:31:45,001 --> 00:31:46,000 ALMOST ALL OF OUR PRESIDENTS. 633 00:31:46,001 --> 00:31:48,000 AND SO I'M GLAD THAT THE 634 00:31:48,001 --> 00:31:49,000 PRESIDENT HAS SPOKEN TO 635 00:31:49,001 --> 00:31:50,000 SCHOOLCHILDREN OF THIS COUNTRY. 636 00:31:50,001 --> 00:31:51,000 OF COURSE THE PRESIDENT OF THE 637 00:31:51,001 --> 00:31:52,000 UNITED STATES OUGHT TO BE ABLE 638 00:31:52,001 --> 00:31:54,000 TO SPEAK TO THE SCHOOLCHILDREN 639 00:31:54,001 --> 00:31:56,000 OF AMERICA. 640 00:31:56,001 --> 00:31:58,000 PRESIDENT REAGAN DID IT NOT LONG 641 00:31:58,001 --> 00:32:00,000 AFTER HE WAS ELECTED, HE TALKED 642 00:32:00,001 --> 00:32:01,000 ABOUT HOW OUR COUNTRY WAS 643 00:32:01,001 --> 00:32:03,000 FOUNDED. 644 00:32:03,001 --> 00:32:04,000 WHEN I WAS EDUCATION SECRETARY 645 00:32:04,001 --> 00:32:05,000 IN 1991, THE FIRST PRESIDENT 646 00:32:05,001 --> 00:32:08,000 BUSH DID IT. 647 00:32:08,001 --> 00:32:11,000 HE TALKED PRIMARILY ABOUT -- 648 00:32:11,001 --> 00:32:12,000 ABOUT DRUGS AND AS A WARPING 649 00:32:12,001 --> 00:32:14,000 ABOUT THE DANGERS OF DRUG -- 650 00:32:14,001 --> 00:32:15,000 WARNING ABOUT THE DANGERS OF 651 00:32:15,001 --> 00:32:17,000 DRUG OF COURSE PRESIDENTS SHOULD 652 00:32:17,001 --> 00:32:20,000 SPEAK TO OUR STUDENTS. 653 00:32:20,001 --> 00:32:21,000 BUT, OF COURSE, PARENTS AND 654 00:32:21,001 --> 00:32:23,000 TEACHERS SHOULD DECIDE WHETHER 655 00:32:23,001 --> 00:32:27,000 THE CHILDREN HEAR THE SPEECH AND 656 00:32:27,001 --> 00:32:28,000 IN WHAT CONTEXT THEY HEAR IT. 657 00:32:28,001 --> 00:32:29,000 TOMORROW NIGHT, WHEN THE 658 00:32:29,001 --> 00:32:31,000 PRESIDENT ADDRESSES THE COUNTRY, 659 00:32:31,001 --> 00:32:34,000 NO ONE HAS TO LISTEN TOIM 660 00:32:34,001 --> 00:32:37,000 EXCEPT THOSE OF US VOLUNTEERED TO SERVE IN THE 661 00:32:37,001 --> 00:32:39,000 UNITED STATES CONGRESS. 662 00:32:39,001 --> 00:32:41,000 WE'LL BE HERE. 663 00:32:41,001 --> 00:32:44,000 BUT MILLIONS WILL LISTEN OUT OF 664 00:32:44,001 --> 00:32:45,000 RESPECT TO THE OFFICE, BUT SOME 665 00:32:45,001 --> 00:32:47,000 COULD TURN OFF THEIR TELEVISIONS. 666 00:32:47,001 --> 00:32:48,000 SOME COULD JUST READ ABOUT IT. 667 00:32:48,001 --> 00:32:50,000 SOME COULD LISTEN TO THE MANY 668 00:32:50,001 --> 00:32:52,000 COMMENTATORS TALK ABOUT IT. 669 00:32:52,001 --> 00:32:54,000 SOME COULD WATCH PARTS OF IT ON THE WEB. 670 00:32:54,001 --> 00:32:56,000 ADULTS HAVE THOSE 671 00:32:56,001 --> 00:32:58,000 CHILDREN ARE IN A DIFFERENT SITUATION. 672 00:32:58,001 --> 00:33:00,000 THEY'RE CAPTIVES IN THEIR 673 00:33:00,001 --> 00:33:01,000 CLASSROOMS AND THEY'RE 674 00:33:01,001 --> 00:33:03,000 INEXPERIENCED, SO WE RELY ON 675 00:33:03,001 --> 00:33:04,000 RENTS AND T 676 00:33:04,001 --> 00:33:05,000 THEIR GOOD JUDGMENT TO DECIDE 677 00:33:05,001 --> 00:33:07,000 WHETHER ANY SPEECH IS 678 00:33:07,001 --> 00:33:12,000 APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN TO HEAR 679 00:33:12,001 --> 00:33:14,000 AND IN WHAT CONTEXT. 680 00:33:14,001 --> 00:33:15,000 NOW, IF I WERE A TEACHER, I'D 681 00:33:15,001 --> 00:33:18,000 JUMP AT THE CHANCE TO TAKE 682 00:33:18,001 --> 00:33:20,000 ADVANTAGE OF THIS -- OF THIS SPEECH. 683 00:33:20,001 --> 00:33:23,000 I BELIE 684 00:33:23,001 --> 00:33:25,000 PICTURE OF REAGAN AND ONE OF 685 00:33:25,001 --> 00:33:26,000 F.D.R. AND ONE OF ABRAHAM 686 00:33:26,001 --> 00:33:27,000 LINCOLN. 687 00:33:27,001 --> 00:33:29,000 AND I WOULD TALK ABOUT THE PRESIDENCY. 688 00:33:29,001 --> 00:33:33,000 AND I'D TALK ABOUT HOW HE IS THE 689 00:33:33,001 --> 00:33:35,000 AGENDA SETTER AND HOW -- HOW THE 690 00:33:35,001 --> 00:33:37,000 PRESIDENT'S ELECTION, THIS 691 00:33:37,001 --> 00:33:39,000 PRESIDENT AND OTHER PRESIDENTS, 692 00:33:39,001 --> 00:33:40,000 REPRESENTS THE UNIQUE 693 00:33:40,001 --> 00:33:43,000 CHARACTERIST 694 00:33:43,001 --> 00:33:46,000 POSSIBLE FOR ANY AMERICAN OF ANY 695 00:33:46,001 --> 00:33:47,000 BACKGROUND. 696 00:33:47,001 --> 00:33:49,000 AND I WOULD POINT OUT THAT 697 00:33:49,001 --> 00:33:50,000 THERE'S A CONGRESS AS WELL, AND 698 00:33:50,001 --> 00:33:51,000 THE CONGRESS OFTEN DISAGREES 699 00:33:51,001 --> 00:33:52,000 WITH THE PRESIDENT. 700 00:33:52,001 --> 00:33:54,000 AND THEN I WOULD PUT UP A 701 00:33:54,001 --> 00:33:55,000 PICTURE OF THE LEADER OF NORTH 702 00:33:55,001 --> 00:33:57,000 KOREA AND I WOULD SAY 703 00:33:57,001 --> 00:33:59,000 THE DEAR LEADER OF NORTH KOREA. 704 00:33:59,001 --> 00:34:00,000 IF YOU CRITICIZE HIM, YOU GO TO JAIL. 705 00:34:00,001 --> 00:34:02,000 YOU CRITICIZE THE PRESIDENT OF 706 00:34:02,001 --> 00:34:05,000 THE UNITED STATES, YOU HAVE A 707 00:34:05,001 --> 00:34:07,000 CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DO THAT. 708 00:34:07,001 --> 00:34:12,000 I THINK WE NEED MORE TEACHING OF 709 00:34:12,001 --> 00:34:13,000 IN OUR CLASSROOMS SO OUR 710 00:34:13,001 --> 00:34:15,000 CHILDREN CAN GROW UP LEARNING 711 00:34:15,001 --> 00:34:17,000 WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN AMERICAN. 712 00:34:17,001 --> 00:34:18,000 THE LOWEST SCORES THAT HIGH 713 00:34:18,001 --> 00:34:19,000 SCHOOL SENIORS HAVE IN AMERICA 714 00:34:19,001 --> 00:34:22,000 ARE NOT IN MATH. 715 00:34:22,001 --> 00:34:23,000 THEY'RE NOT IN SCIENCE 716 00:34:23,001 --> 00:34:24,000 THEY'RE IN UNITED STATES 717 00:34:24,001 --> 00:34:27,000 HISTORY. 718 00:34:27,001 --> 00:34:28,000 AND SO WE OUGHT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR 719 00:34:28,001 --> 00:34:31,000 ILDREN TO LEARN ABOUT HISTORY 720 00:34:31,001 --> 00:34:33,000 AND ABOUT CIVICS. 721 00:34:33,001 --> 00:34:35,000 BUT PARENTS AND TEACHERS OUGHT 722 00:34:35,001 --> 00:34:37,000 TO BE IN CHARGE OF IT. THEY SHOULD DECIDE IN WHAT 723 00:34:37,001 --> 00:34:39,000 CONTEXT IT'S DONE, AND I HOPE A 724 00:34:39,001 --> 00:34:41,000 GREAT MANY HAVE TAKEN ADVANTAGE 725 00:34:41,001 --> 00:34:42,000 THAT HAVE AND WILL TAKE 726 00:34:42,001 --> 00:34:43,000 ADVANTAGE. 727 00:34:43,001 --> 00:34:45,000 THERE'S A SECOND SPEECH, 728 00:34:45,001 --> 00:34:46,000 MR. PRESID 729 00:34:46,001 --> 00:34:47,000 WHICH -- TO WHICH THE COUNTRY IS 730 00:34:47,001 --> 00:34:49,000 LOOKING FORWARD TO AND THAT'S 731 00:34:49,001 --> 00:34:51,000 ABOUT HEALTH CARE. 732 00:34:51,001 --> 00:34:52,000 HERE ARE MY HOPES FOR THAT 733 00:34:52,001 --> 00:34:53,000 SPEECH. 734 00:34:53,001 --> 00:34:55,000 FIRST, RESPECTFULLY, I WOULD SAY 735 00:34:55,001 --> 00:34:56,000 TO THE PRESIDENT, I HOPE HE 736 00:34:56,001 --> 00:34:58,000 SAYS, "MY FELLOW AMERICANS, 737 00:34:58,001 --> 00:35:00,000 LET'S START OVER." 738 00:35:00,001 --> 00:35:02,000 IT'S OBVIOUS WE NEED HEALTH CARE 739 00:35:02,001 --> 00:35:05,000 REFORM, BUT IT'S ALSO OBVIOUS 740 00:35:05,001 --> 00:35:08,000 THAT MOST AMERICANS, OR 741 00:35:08,001 --> 00:35:09,000 WITH THE DIRECTION IN WHICH 742 00:35:09,001 --> 00:35:11,000 WE'RE GOING. 743 00:35:11,001 --> 00:35:15,000 SO SINCE THIS AFFECTS 17% OR 18% 744 00:35:15,001 --> 00:35:18,000 OF OUR ECONOMY, SINCE IT AFFECTS 745 00:35:18,001 --> 00:35:19,000 THE 250 MILLION AMERICANS WHO 746 00:35:19,001 --> 00:35:21,000 HAVE 747 00:35:21,001 --> 00:35:23,000 START OVER. 748 00:35:23,001 --> 00:35:26,000 THIS HAS GONE FROM BEING AN 749 00:35:26,001 --> 00:35:27,000 ISSUE TO BEING SOMETHING PEONAL. 750 00:35:27,001 --> 00:35:29,000 OR AS WE SAY IN 751 00:35:29,001 --> 00:35:31,000 THEY'VE GONE FROM PREACHING TO MEDDLING. 752 00:35:31,001 --> 00:35:33,000 THAT'S WHY WE'VE HAD AT THE TOWN 753 00:35:33,001 --> 00:35:35,000 MEETINGS THAT WOULD NORMALLY 754 00:35:35,001 --> 00:35:39,000 ATTRACT 30 PEOPLE A THOUSAND 755 00:35:39,001 --> 00:35:40,000 PEOPLE, 756 00:35:40,001 --> 00:35:44,000 AT ISSUE AND THEY WANT TO KNOW 757 00:35:44,001 --> 00:35:46,000 WHAT'S GOING ON. 758 00:35:46,001 --> 00:35:47,000 SO IT'S A VERY HEALTHY THING FOR 759 00:35:47,001 --> 00:35:50,000 PEOPLE TO SHOW UP AND ASK 760 00:35:50,001 --> 00:35:52,000 QUESTIONS, AND I HOPE THE 761 00:35:52,001 --> 00:35:53,000 AMERICAN PEOPLE -- THE PRESIDENT 762 00:35:53,001 --> 00:35:54,000 HAS HEARD THE AMERICAN PEOPLE 763 00:35:54,001 --> 00:35:55,000 AND WE WILL START OVER. 764 00:35:55,001 --> 00:35:57,000 NEXT, I HOPE H SAYS WE'LL START 765 00:35:57,001 --> 00:35:59,000 WITH THE COST, THE COSTS TO YOU, 766 00:35:59,001 --> 00:36:00,000 MR. AND MISS AMERICAN, AND THE 767 00:36:00,001 --> 00:36:01,000 COST TO YOUR GOVERNMENT. 768 00:36:01,001 --> 00:36:03,000 HEALTH CARE COSTS TOO MUCH FOR 769 00:36:03,001 --> 00:36:05,000 YOU TO BUY YOUR POLICY AND IT'S 770 00:36:05,001 --> 00:36:07,000 ABOUT TO BANKRUPT THE GOVERNMENT 771 00:36:07,001 --> 00:36:10,000 UNLESS WE DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT 772 00:36:10,001 --> 00:36:13,000 AND SO THAT'S WHERE WE WILL 773 00:36:13,001 --> 00:36:14,000 START. 774 00:36:14,001 --> 00:36:16,000 THIRD, I HOPE THE PRESIDENT WILL 775 00:36:16,001 --> 00:36:17,000 SAY, ONE OF THE LESSONS I THINK 776 00:36:17,001 --> 00:36:19,000 WE'VE LEARNED NOT JUST DURING 777 00:36:19,001 --> 00:36:20,000 THE LAST SEVERAL 778 00:36:20,001 --> 00:36:22,000 HAVE BEEN PRESIDENT, IF I WERE 779 00:36:22,001 --> 00:36:24,000 PRESIDENT OBAMA, BUT IN 780 00:36:24,001 --> 00:36:27,000 PRESIDENT BUSH'S TIME AND BEFORE 781 00:36:27,001 --> 00:36:28,000 THAT, 782 00:36:28,001 --> 00:36:29,000 COMPREHENSIVE VERY WELL. 783 00:36:29,001 --> 00:36:31,000 WE FOUND THAT IN 784 00:36:31,001 --> 00:36:32,000 WE HAD A BIPARTISAN EFFORT HERE 785 00:36:32,001 --> 00:36:33,000 IN IMMIGRATION. 786 00:36:33,001 --> 00:36:35,000 WE TRIED HARD TO SOLVE A PROBLEM 787 00:36:35,001 --> 00:36:37,000 THAT ONLY THE CONGRESS CAN SOLVE 788 00:36:37,001 --> 00:36:38,000 AND WE FAILED. 789 00:36:38,001 --> 00:36:41,000 THE TIME IT CAME FOR A VOTE, IT 790 00:36:41,001 --> 00:36:42,000 JUST FELL AROUN 791 00:36:42,001 --> 00:36:43,000 WE'VE TRIED IT WITH HEALTH CARE. 792 00:36:43,001 --> 00:36:45,000 WE'VE TRIED TO BITE OFF THE 793 00:36:45,001 --> 00:36:47,000 WHOLE THING AT ONCE AND IT'S 794 00:36:47,001 --> 00:36:52,000 MORE THAN WE CAN CHEW, I THINK. 795 00:36:52,001 --> 00:36:54,000 WE'VE BEEN TRYING IT WITH 796 00:36:54,001 --> 00:36:55,000 CLIMATE CHANGE AND IT LOOKS LIKE 797 00:36:55,001 --> 00:36:56,000 WE'RE BITING OFF MORE THAN WE 798 00:36:56,001 --> 00:36:58,000 CAN CHEW THERE AS WELL. 799 00:36:58,001 --> 00:37:02,000 THAT SHOULD BE NO BIG SURPRISE. 800 00:37:02,001 --> 00:37:04,000 THIS IS A HUGE COUNTRY. 801 00:37:04,001 --> 00:37:06,000 300 MILLION PEOPLE, AN ECONOMY 802 00:37:06,001 --> 00:37:08,000 TH 803 00:37:08,001 --> 00:37:09,000 WEALTH IN THE WORLD, SO DIVER 804 00:37:09,001 --> 00:37:10,000 THAT IF WE WERE T 805 00:37:10,001 --> 00:37:11,000 ALL IN ONE ROOM, IT WOULD 806 00:37:11,001 --> 00:37:13,000 SUPPLIED, WHICH IS WHY IT'S SUCH 807 00:37:13,001 --> 00:37:14,000 A GOOD REASON WE HAVE SUCH A BIG 808 00:37:14,001 --> 00:37:16,000 COUNTRY. 809 00:37:16,001 --> 00:37:17,000 SO I HOPE THE PRESIDENT WILL 810 00:37:17,001 --> 00:37:19,000 SAY, WE DON'T DO COMPREHENSIVE WELL. 811 00:37:19,001 --> 00:37:21,000 WE'VE HEARD THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 812 00:37:21,001 --> 00:37:22,000 SO LET'S S 813 00:37:22,001 --> 00:37:25,000 A FEW THINGS. 814 00:37:25,001 --> 00:37:29,000 LET'S GO STEP BY STEP IN THE 815 00:37:29,001 --> 00:37:30,000 RIGHT 816 00:37:30,001 --> 00:37:31,000 GOOD WAY TO GET WHERE YOU WANT 817 00:37:31,001 --> 00:37:34,000 TO GO. 818 00:37:34,001 --> 00:37:35,000 STEP BY STEP TO REEARN THE TRUST 819 00:37:35,001 --> 00:37:39,000 OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE STARTING 820 00:37:39,001 --> 00:37:40,000 WITH HEALTH 821 00:37:40,001 --> 00:37:41,000 I CAN THINK OF SOME THINGS THAT 822 00:37:41,001 --> 00:37:42,000 I BELIEVE WE HA 823 00:37:42,001 --> 00:37:44,000 AGREEMENT ON IN THE SENATE WHICH 824 00:37:44,001 --> 00:37:45,000 WOULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 825 00:37:45,001 --> 00:37:47,000 SMALL BUSINESS HEALTH INSURANCE, 826 00:37:47,001 --> 00:37:49,000 ALLOWING BUSINESSES -- SMALL 827 00:37:49,001 --> 00:37:51,000 BUSINESSES TO POOL THEIR 828 00:37:51,001 --> 00:37:52,000 RESOURCES. 829 00:37:52,001 --> 00:37:54,000 IT'S BEEN ESTIMATED YOU COULD 830 00:37:54,001 --> 00:37:56,000 OFFER INSURANCE TO A MILLION 831 00:37:56,001 --> 00:37:59,000 MORE WORKERS AT A LOWER COST. 832 00:37:59,001 --> 00:38:01,000 THAT'S ONE THING. 833 00:38:01,001 --> 00:38:03,000 TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR PEOPLE 834 00:38:03,001 --> 00:38:05,000 NOT TO LOSE THEIR 835 00:38:05,001 --> 00:38:06,000 THEY HAVE -- TO BE ABLEO BUY 836 00:38:06,001 --> 00:38:08,000 INSURANCE, TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE 837 00:38:08,001 --> 00:38:10,000 FOR THEM TO BUY INSURANCE IF 838 00:38:10,001 --> 00:38:12,000 THEY HAVE A PREEXISTING HEALTH 839 00:38:12,001 --> 00:38:14,000 WE COULD PBABLY 840 00:38:14,001 --> 00:38:17,000 ALLOW PEOPLE TO BUY INSURANCE 841 00:38:17,001 --> 00:38:18,000 ACROSS STATE LINES 842 00:38:18,001 --> 00:38:19,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER AND I WERE 843 00:38:19,001 --> 00:38:21,000 BOTH GOVERNOR. 844 00:38:21,001 --> 00:38:23,000 WE'RE VERY JEALOUSLY PREROGATIVE OF STATE RESPONSIBILITIES AND 845 00:38:23,001 --> 00:38:24,000 RIGHTS, BUT MAYBE WE NEED TO 846 00:38:24,001 --> 00:38:25,000 ALLOW INSURANCE TO BE BOUGHT 847 00:38:25,001 --> 00:38:26,000 MORE OFTEN ACROSS STATE LINES. 848 00:38:26,001 --> 00:38:28,000 NEIGHBOR WOULD MAKE IT AVAILABLE 849 00:38:28,001 --> 00:38:30,000 TO MORE PEO 850 00:38:30,001 --> 00:38:32,000 EXPENSIVE. 851 00:38:32,001 --> 00:38:34,000 JUNK LAWSUITS AGAINST DOCTORS. 852 00:38:34,001 --> 00:38:37,000 THAT EITHER INCREASES THE COST 853 00:38:37,001 --> 00:38:38,000 OF HEALTH CARE FROM 1% TO 10%, 854 00:38:38,001 --> 00:38:41,000 DEPENDING UPON WHO YOU BELIEVE, 855 00:38:41,001 --> 00:38:42,000 BUT WE COULD TAKE THAT STEP, 856 00:38:42,001 --> 00:38:43,000 IT'S AN IMPORTANT STEP IN THE 857 00:38:43,001 --> 00:38:45,000 RIGHT DIRECTION. 858 00:38:45,001 --> 00:38:46,000 AND YOU AS FAR AS THOSE WHO ARE 859 00:38:46,001 --> 00:38:48,000 UNINSURE 860 00:38:48,001 --> 00:38:57,000 WHO ARE UNINSURED ARE ALREADY 861 00:38:57,001 --> 00:38:58,000 WE COULD 862 00:38:58,001 --> 00:38:59,000 WAYS TO THEM THEM SIGN UP FOR 863 00:38:59,001 --> 00:39:00,000 PROGRAMS THAT ALREADY EXIST. 864 00:39:00,001 --> 00:39:01,000 STEP BY STEP IN THE RIGHT 865 00:39:01,001 --> 00:39:03,000 DIRECTION TO HELP US GET WHERE 866 00:39:03,001 --> 00:39:05,000 WE NEED TO GO IN HEALTH CARE. 867 00:39:05,001 --> 00:39:11,000 STEP 868 00:39:11,001 --> 00:39:12,000 OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 869 00:39:12,001 --> 00:39:14,000 FOURTH, I WOULD HOPE THE 870 00:39:14,001 --> 00:39:15,000 PRESIDENT WOULD SAY, DO THIS IN 871 00:39:15,001 --> 00:39:17,000 A BIPARTISAN WAY. 872 00:39:17,001 --> 00:39:18,000 THERE'S SOME TALK OF JUST 873 00:39:18,001 --> 00:39:20,000 RAMMING THIS THROUGH THE SENATE 874 00:39:20,001 --> 00:39:21,000 WITH A BARE MAJORITY OF VOTES. 875 00:39:21,001 --> 00:39:22,000 I HOPE THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN. 876 00:39:22,001 --> 00:39:24,000 IT WOULD BE BAD FOR THE COUNTRY 877 00:39:24,001 --> 00:39:25,000 T. WOULD BE BAD FOR THE MAJORITY 878 00:39:25,001 --> 00:39:26,000 PARTY, IF I MAY SAY. 879 00:39:26,001 --> 00:39:27,000 SO THE REASON TO WOULD BE BAD 880 00:39:27,001 --> 00:39:28,000 FOR THE COUNTRY, IT WOULD BE A 881 00:39:28,001 --> 00:39:31,000 BAD BILL. 882 00:39:31,001 --> 00:39:34,000 THE WAY OUR RULES 883 00:39:34,001 --> 00:39:35,000 PARLIAMENTARIAN, WHO'S A VERY 884 00:39:35,001 --> 00:39:36,000 WISE INDIVIDUAL, WOULD END UP 885 00:39:36,001 --> 00:39:37,000 WRITING THE HEALTH CARE 886 00:39:37,001 --> 00:39:39,000 BECAUSE HE'D HAVE TO MAKE ALL 887 00:39:39,001 --> 00:39:42,000 THESE DECISIONS ABOUT WHAT WAS 888 00:39:42,001 --> 00:39:43,000 GERMANE, WHAT FIT IN THE BILL. 889 00:39:43,001 --> 00:39:47,000 AND FOR EXAMPLEE MIGHT HAVE TO 890 00:39:47,001 --> 00:39:49,000 SAY, WELL, YOU CAN'T PUT A 891 00:39:49,001 --> 00:39:50,000 PROVISION ABOUT PREEXISTING 892 00:39:50,001 --> 00:39:53,000 CONDITIONS IN THE BILL UNDER 893 00:39:53,001 --> 00:39:54,000 SENATE RULES BUT ONLY WHETHER TO 894 00:39:54,001 --> 00:39:56,000 RAISE TAXES OR CUT MEDICARE. 895 00:39:56,001 --> 00:39:57,000 THAT WOULD BE AN UNAPPETIZING 896 00:39:57,001 --> 00:39:59,000 VOTE FOR MANY MEMBERS OF THE 897 00:39:59,001 --> 00:40:00,000 SENATE AND IT WOULD BE A VERY 898 00:40:00,001 --> 00:40:03,000 BAD HEALTH CARE BILL WHICH WOULD 899 00:40:03,001 --> 00:40:04,000 CAUSE ME TO THINK THAT SUCH AN 900 00:40:04,001 --> 00:40:07,000 APPETIZING VOTE WOULD BE BAD 901 00:40:07,001 --> 00:40:08,000 MEDICINE FOR THOSE WHO INSISTED 902 00:40:08,001 --> 00:40:11,000 ON RAMMING IT THROUGH. 903 00:40:11,001 --> 00:40:15,000 BUT IT WO 904 00:40:15,001 --> 00:40:16,000 ANOTHEANOTHER REASON, IT WOULD BE 905 00:40:16,001 --> 00:40:18,000 THUMBING OUR NOSE AT THE PEOPLE 906 00:40:18,001 --> 00:40:20,000 OF AMERICA WHO HAVE BEEN TRYING 907 00:40:20,001 --> 00:40:22,000 TO SAY TO YOU, WAIT, SLOW DOWN. 908 00:40:22,001 --> 00:40:23,000 THIS IS MY HEALTH CARE YOU'RE 909 00:40:23,001 --> 00:40:25,000 TALKING ABOUT. 910 00:40:25,001 --> 00:40:26,000 LET'S MAKE SURE WE DO THIS RIGHT. 911 00:40:26,001 --> 00:40:29,000 START OVER. 912 00:40:29,001 --> 00:40:32,000 AND LET'S TAKE IT STEP BY STEP. 913 00:40:32,001 --> 00:40:33,000 THE HEALTH CARE IS NOT THE ONLY ISSUE. 914 00:40:33,001 --> 00:40:36,000 HEALTH CARE IS THE ENTRY INTO A 915 00:40:36,001 --> 00:40:37,000 LARGER ISSUE WHICH IS TOO MANY 916 00:40:37,001 --> 00:40:39,000 TAKEOVERS, TOO MUCH DEBT, TOO 917 00:40:39,001 --> 00:40:42,000 MANY CZARS, AND THE AMERICAN 918 00:40:42,001 --> 00:40:44,000 SETTLE DOWN AND DEAL WITH THIS 919 00:40:44,001 --> 00:40:45,000 ISSUE. 920 00:40:45,001 --> 00:40:47,000 SOME OF THE PEOPLE HAVE SAID 921 00:40:47,001 --> 00:40:48,000 OVERHE LAST FEW WEEKS THAT THE 922 00:40:48,001 --> 00:40:51,000 AMERICAN PEOPLE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT 923 00:40:51,001 --> 00:40:52,000 THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT; THEY 924 00:40:52,001 --> 00:40:53,000 THOUGHT THERE WEREN'T ANY REAL 925 00:40:53,001 --> 00:40:54,000 ISSUES. 926 00:40:54,001 --> 00:40:56,000 I'M AFRAID THAT'S WRONG, MR. PRESIDENT. 927 00:40:56,001 --> 00:40:58,000 WEAPON YOU HAVE THE MAYO CLINIC 928 00:40:58,001 --> 00:40:59,000 AND THE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS AND 929 00:40:59,001 --> 00:41:00,000 THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE 930 00:41:00,001 --> 00:41:02,000 TELLING YOU YOU ARE HEADED IN 931 00:41:02,001 --> 00:41:04,000 THE WRONG DIRECTION, MAYBE YOU ARE. 932 00:41:04,001 --> 00:41:06,000 WHEN YOU 933 00:41:06,001 --> 00:41:08,000 TRILLION DEBT ADDED TO, ALREADY, 934 00:41:08,001 --> 00:41:09,000 A DEBT THAT'S GOING TO DOUBLE IN 935 00:41:09,001 --> 00:41:11,000 THE NEXT FOUR OR FIVE YEARS 936 00:41:11,001 --> 00:41:13,000 MAYBE YOU ARE GOING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION. 937 00:41:13,001 --> 00:41:15,000 WHEN THE "NEW YORK 938 00:41:15,001 --> 00:41:18,000 EDITORIAL SAYS THAT THE NEW 939 00:41:18,001 --> 00:41:20,000 PROGRAM'S GOING TO BE PAID FOR, 940 00:41:20,001 --> 00:41:21,000 ABOUT 941 00:41:21,001 --> 00:41:23,000 MEDICARE, THAT'S A SERIOUS ISSUE 942 00:41:23,001 --> 00:41:25,000 FOR THE 40 MILLION PEOPLE ON 943 00:41:25,001 --> 00:41:26,000 MEDICARE. 944 00:41:26,001 --> 00:41:28,000 177 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE EMPLOYER 945 00:41:28,001 --> 00:41:30,000 INSURANCE AND THEY WORRY THAT 946 00:41:30,001 --> 00:41:31,000 THEY MIGHT 947 00:41:31,001 --> 00:41:34,000 INSURANCE. 948 00:41:34,001 --> 00:41:37,000 THEY MIGHT BE DUMPED IF THEY ARE 949 00:41:37,001 --> 00:41:38,000 LOW INCOME INTO MEDICAID, THAT 950 00:41:38,001 --> 00:41:40,000 40% OF THE DOCTORS WON'T SEVEN 951 00:41:40,001 --> 00:41:42,000 BECAUSE THEY'RE UNDERPAID OR 952 00:41:42,001 --> 00:41:43,000 THEY MIGHT BE DUMPED INTO A NEW 953 00:41:43,001 --> 00:41:45,000 GOVERNMENT PROGRAM OF THE MIDDLE 954 00:41:45,001 --> 00:41:46,000 INCOME OR THEY MIGHT WANT TO BE 955 00:41:46,001 --> 00:41:47,000 DUMPED INTO A GOVERNMENT 956 00:41:47,001 --> 00:41:49,000 PROGRAM. 957 00:41:49,001 --> 00:41:50,000 THERE'S WORRY THAT, ESPECIALLY 958 00:41:50,001 --> 00:41:52,000 AMONG OLDER AMERICANS, SOMEONE 959 00:41:52,001 --> 00:41:54,000 MIGHT SAY, YOU ARE 70 YEARS OLD 960 00:41:54,001 --> 00:41:55,000 AND YOU CAN'T HAVE A HIP REPLACEMENT. 961 00:41:55,001 --> 00:41:57,000 AND 962 00:41:57,001 --> 00:41:59,000 RECESSION ARE NOT INTERESTED IN 963 00:41:59,001 --> 00:42:01,000 PAYING MORE OF AN EMPLOYER TAX. 964 00:42:01,001 --> 00:42:03,000 AND THE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS AND 965 00:42:03,001 --> 00:42:04,000 THE REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS SAID, 966 00:42:04,001 --> 00:42:06,000 DON'T SEND US MORE COSTS FOR 967 00:42:06,001 --> 00:42:08,000 MEDICAID OR WE WON'T BE ABLE TO 968 00:42:08,001 --> 00:42:09,000 AFFORD IT HERE. 969 00:42:09,001 --> 00:42:11,000 WE'LL HAVE TO RAISE TAXES. 970 00:42:11,001 --> 00:42:12,000 AND FEDERAL TAXES WOULD GO UP. 971 00:42:12,001 --> 00:42:14,000 THOSE ARE REAL ISSUES. 972 00:42:14,001 --> 00:42:15,000 THOSE AREN'T MADE 973 00:42:15,001 --> 00:42:16,000 THOSE ARE ALL PART OF THE BILLS 974 00:42:16,001 --> 00:42:18,000 MAKING THEIR WAY THROUGH 975 00:42:18,001 --> 00:42:20,000 CONGRESS AND THAT'S WHY PEOPLE 976 00:42:20,001 --> 00:42:23,000 ARE SAYING WAIT. 977 00:42:23,001 --> 00:42:24,000 FINALLY, MR. PRESIDENT, I HOPE 978 00:42:24,001 --> 00:42:26,000 THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA WILL S, 979 00:42:26,001 --> 00:42:27,000 I'M THE PRESIDENT, I AM THE 980 00:42:27,001 --> 00:42:29,000 AGENDA SETTER AND I WILL TAKE 981 00:42:29,001 --> 00:42:30,000 CHARGE OF THIS DEBATE. 982 00:42:30,001 --> 00:42:31,000 THE PRESIDENT AND HIS TEAM ARE 983 00:42:31,001 --> 00:42:33,000 VERY SMART. 984 00:42:33,001 --> 00:42:36,000 WE ADMIRE THEM VERY MUCH. 985 00:42:36,001 --> 00:42:38,000 BUT IN SOME WAYS IT 986 00:42:38,001 --> 00:42:40,000 OF A HARVARD LAW REVIEW MEETING 987 00:42:40,001 --> 00:42:41,000 WITH EVERYONE SITTING AROUND 988 00:42:41,001 --> 00:42:43,000 THINKING OF THE BRIGHT IDEAS AND 989 00:42:43,001 --> 00:42:44,000 KNOWING GETTING ANYTHING DONE. 990 00:42:44,001 --> 00:42:46,000 WHEN YOU ARE DEALING WITH A 991 00:42:46,001 --> 00:42:47,000 GREAT BIG COMPLEX ISSUE LIKE 992 00:42:47,001 --> 00:42:50,000 HEALTH 993 00:42:50,001 --> 00:42:52,000 TO CLEAR THE DECKS, SET THE 994 00:42:52,001 --> 00:42:53,000 AGENDA, TELL US WHAT TO DO, AND 995 00:42:53,001 --> 00:42:54,000 SIT DOWN WITH THE DEMOCRATIC 996 00:42:54,001 --> 00:42:56,000 LEADER AND THE REPUBLICAN LEADER 997 00:42:56,001 --> 00:42:58,000 AND SAY, WHAT CAN WE DO." 998 00:42:58,001 --> 00:42:59,000 AND THEN THE PRESIDENT NEEDS TO 999 00:42:59,001 --> 00:43:02,000 SAY, AS PRESIDENT EISENHOWER 1000 00:43:02,001 --> 00:43:03,000 DID, HALF A CENTURY 1001 00:43:03,001 --> 00:43:05,000 SAID, "I SHALL GO TO KOREA," 1002 00:43:05,001 --> 00:43:07,000 PRESIDENT OBAMA SHOULD SAY, I 1003 00:43:07,001 --> 00:43:11,000 RESPECTFULLY SUGGEST, "HEALT 1004 00:43:11,001 --> 00:43:12,000 CARE IS THE ISSUE; I'M THE 1005 00:43:12,001 --> 00:43:14,000 PRESIDENT; HERE'S WHAT I THINK 1006 00:43:14,001 --> 00:43:15,000 WE S 1007 00:43:15,001 --> 00:43:17,000 STAY ON THIS ISSUE UNTIL IT'S 1008 00:43:17,001 --> 00:43:19,000 DONE." 1009 00:43:19,001 --> 00:43:20,000 NOW, A GOVERNOR 1010 00:43:20,001 --> 00:43:24,000 PRESIDENTS KNOW THAT IF THEY SAY 1011 00:43:24,001 --> 00:43:25,000 THAT AND DO THAT, AND STICK TO 1012 00:43:25,001 --> 00:43:28,000 IT FOR AS LONG AS IT TAKES THEY 1013 00:43:28,001 --> 00:43:29,000 CAN USUALLY WEAR EVERYBODY ELSE. 1014 00:43:29,001 --> 00:43:30,000 NOW HE MAY NOT GET EXACTLY WHAT 1015 00:43:30,001 --> 00:43:32,000 HE WAN. 1016 00:43:32,001 --> 00:43:33,000 OF COURSE, HE PROBABLY WON'T. 1017 00:43:33,001 --> 00:43:35,000 BUT THERE MIGHT BE IMPROVEMENTS 1018 00:43:35,001 --> 00:43:37,000 TO THE BILL. 1019 00:43:37,001 --> 00:43:39,000 WHEN THE DEMOCRATIC MAJORITIES 1020 00:43:39,001 --> 00:43:40,000 IN TENNESSEE IMPROVED MY 1021 00:43:40,001 --> 00:43:42,000 PROPOSAL I COULD ATTACK THEM OR 1022 00:43:42,001 --> 00:43:44,000 SAY, YOU HAVE IMPROVED MY PROPOSAL. 1023 00:43:44,001 --> 00:43:45,000 AND I USUALLY SAID YOU HAVE 1024 00:43:45,001 --> 00:43:46,000 INCREASED MY PROPOSALS AND GAVE 1025 00:43:46,001 --> 00:43:47,000 THEM 1026 00:43:47,001 --> 00:43:50,000 NEXT ISSUE. 1027 00:43:50,001 --> 00:43:52,000 SOX MR. PRESIDENT, ALL OVER 1028 00:43:52,001 --> 00:43:54,000 AMERICA, PEOPLE ARE ALARMED, 1029 00:43:54,001 --> 00:43:56,000 SOME ARE EVEN SCARED ABOUT 1030 00:43:56,001 --> 00:43:58,000 WASHINGTON TAKEOVERS, ABOUT DEBT 1031 00:43:58,001 --> 00:43:59,000 DOUBLING AND TRIPLING. 1032 00:43:59,001 --> 00:44:03,000 I SOUTH RIGHT COURSE FOR US 1033 00:44:03,001 --> 00:44:09,000 WOULD BE -- I WOULD SUGGEST THE 1034 00:44:09,001 --> 00:44:10,000 RIGHT COURSE FOR US IS 1035 00:44:10,001 --> 00:44:11,000 STEP BY STEP. 1036 00:44:11,001 --> 00:44:12,000 CAREFUL STEPS IN THE RIGHT 1037 00:44:12,001 --> 00:44:15,000 DIRECTION ARE A GO WAY TO GET 1038 00:44:15,001 --> 00:44:16,000 I HOPE HE TELLS US EXACTLY WHAT 1039 00:44:16,001 --> 00:44:18,000 THOSE STEPS SHOULD BE. 1040 00:44:18,001 --> 00:44:21,000 MR. PRESIDENT, I ASK UNANIMOUS 1041 00:44:21,001 --> 00:44:23,000 CONSENT 1042 00:44:23,001 --> 00:44:25,000 REMARKS, A STATEMENT I MADE ON 1043 00:44:25,001 --> 00:44:29,000 THE 75th ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1044 00:44:29,001 --> 00:44:31,000 GREAT 1045 00:44:31,001 --> 00:44:33,000 PARK LAST WHEN, OUR MOST VISITED NATIONAL PARK. 1046 00:44:33,001 --> 00:44:35,000 SE 1047 00:44:35,001 --> 00:44:37,000 DID A BEAUTIFUL JOB ONLY 1048 00:44:37,001 --> 00:44:40,000 EXCEED BY DOLLY PAR TON WHO 1049 00:44:40,001 --> 00:44:41,000 MADE US ALL IRRELEVANT BY HER 1050 00:44:41,001 --> 00:44:44,000 PERFORMANCE THERE. 1051 00:44:44,001 --> 00:44:49,000 BUT, TO HAVE THAT GREATARK FOR 1052 00:44:49,001 --> 00:44:51,000 75 YEARS IN THE EAST WERE UNITED THE EASTERN UNITED 1053 00:44:51,001 --> 00:44:52,000 STATES, WHERE NINE MILLION 1054 00:44:52,001 --> 00:44:57,000 PEOPLE VISIT, THREE TIMES AS 1055 00:44:57,001 --> 00:44:58,000 MANY VISITING OUR GREAT WESTERN 1056 00:44:58,001 --> 00:45:00,000 PA 1057 00:45:00,001 --> 00:45:02,000 SECRETARY TO COMING AND I LIKE 1058 00:45:02,001 --> 00:45:03,000 TO INCLUDE FOR THE RECORD MY REMARKS. I YIELD THE FLOOR. 1059 00:45:03,001 --> 00:45:05,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 1060 00:45:05,001 --> 00:45:06,000 SENATE WILL PROCEED TO A PERIOD 1061 00:45:06,001 --> 00:45:08,000 OF MORNING BUSINESS UNTIL 4:30 1062 00:45:08,001 --> 00:45:09,000 P.M. WITH SENATORS PERMITTED TO 1063 00:45:09,001 --> 00:45:11,000 SPEAK THEREIN FOR UP TO 10 MINUTES EACH. 1064 00:45:11,001 --> 00:45:13,000 THE SENATOR FROM ILLINOIS. 1065 00:45:13,001 --> 00:45:16,000 MR. DURBIN: 1066 00:45:16,001 --> 00:45:18,000 MR. PRESIDENT, ABOUT 45 MINUTES 1067 00:45:18,001 --> 00:45:20,000 AGO EXACTLY HISTORY WAS MADE IN 1068 00:45:20,001 --> 00:45:22,000 AMERICA. 1069 00:45:22,001 --> 00:45:25,000 JUST ACROSS THE STREET NOT FAR 1070 00:45:25,001 --> 00:45:28,000 FROM THE STEPS OF STATES SENATE. 1071 00:45:28,001 --> 00:45:29,000 IF YOU GO TO THOSE STEPS AT 1072 00:45:29,001 --> 00:45:31,000 MOMENT AND LOOK DIRECTLY TO THE 1073 00:45:31,001 --> 00:45:33,000 EAST YOU WILL SEE THE UNITED 1074 00:45:33,001 --> 00:45:38,000 STATES SUPREME COURT BUILDING 1075 00:45:38,001 --> 00:45:41,000 AND AT 2:00 1076 00:45:41,001 --> 00:45:47,000 BUILDING, THE 111th JUSTICE APPOINTED TO THE UNITED STATES 1077 00:45:47,001 --> 00:45:50,000 SUPREME COURT RECEIVED HER 1078 00:45:50,001 --> 00:45:51,000 OFFICIAL 1079 00:45:51,001 --> 00:45:53,000 GREAT HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE 1080 00:45:53,001 --> 00:45:54,000 BECAUSE THE ELEVATION OF SONYA 1081 00:45:54,001 --> 00:45:57,000 SOTOMAYOR TO SERVE ON THE UNITED 1082 00:45:57,001 --> 00:45:59,000 STATES SUPREME COURT 1083 00:45:59,001 --> 00:46:03,000 FIRST TIME IN OUR HISTORY THAT A 1084 00:46:03,001 --> 00:46:05,000 PEN OF HISPANIC DESCENT WILL -- 1085 00:46:05,001 --> 00:46:06,000 DECENT WERE SERVE ON THE HIGHEST 1086 00:46:06,001 --> 00:46:08,000 COURT OF THE LAND. 1087 00:46:08,001 --> 00:46:10,000 IN THE COURSE OF OUR HISTORY 1088 00:46:10,001 --> 00:46:12,000 WITH 111 SUPREME COURT JUSTICES 1089 00:46:12,001 --> 00:46:14,000 MY MEMORY SENATORS ONLY FOUR 1090 00:46:14,001 --> 00:46:15,000 HAVE NOT BEEN WHITE MALES. 1091 00:46:15,001 --> 00:46:22,000 TWO 1092 00:46:22,001 --> 00:46:25,000 WOMEN. 1093 00:46:25,001 --> 00:46:26,000 NOW JUS JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR 1094 00:46:26,001 --> 00:46:29,000 THE CARE MOAFN WAS VERY SHORT. 1095 00:46:29,001 --> 00:46:32,000 THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WAS THERE, THE VRNTION A 1096 00:46:32,001 --> 00:46:33,000 NUMBER OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, 1097 00:46:33,001 --> 00:46:36,000 AND OF COURSE ALL OTHER EIGHT 1098 00:46:36,001 --> 00:46:37,000 SUPREME COURT JUSTICES AND 1099 00:46:37,001 --> 00:46:40,000 RETIRING JUSTICE SOUTER. 1100 00:46:40,001 --> 00:46:44,000 AND IT WAS A VERY STATELY, 1101 00:46:44,001 --> 00:46:45,000 DIGNIFIED, GRACIOUS PRESENCE 1102 00:46:45,001 --> 00:46:48,000 THE CONSIDERATE WAS CONVENED. 1103 00:46:48,001 --> 00:46:49,000 AND AFTER ACRE HOLDER, THE 1104 00:46:49,001 --> 00:46:52,000 ATTORNEY GENERAL, READ THE 1105 00:46:52,001 --> 00:46:53,000 COMMISSION, WHICH 1106 00:46:53,001 --> 00:46:56,000 INVEST TOUR OF JUSCE 1107 00:46:56,001 --> 00:46:57,000 SOTOMAYOR, THE OATH WAS 1108 00:46:57,001 --> 00:46:58,000 ADMINISTERED TO HER BY THE 1109 00:46:58,001 --> 00:47:04,000 COMEEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME 1110 00:47:04,001 --> 00:47:05,000 COURT JOHN ROBERTS. 1111 00:47:05,001 --> 00:47:08,000 THE SUIRE CEREMONY TOOK FOUR MINUTES. 1112 00:47:08,001 --> 00:47:09,000 ONE OF 1113 00:47:09,001 --> 00:47:10,000 NECK TO ME, MEL MARTINEZ, WHO 1114 00:47:10,001 --> 00:47:13,000 WILL RETIRE FROM THE SENATE THIS 1115 00:47:13,001 --> 00:47:16,000 WEEK, SAID H IT WOULD HAVE TAKEN LONGER I 1116 00:47:16,001 --> 00:47:17,000 CAMERAS HERE. 1117 00:47:17,001 --> 00:47:18,000 THOSE OF US WHO SERVE IN THE SENATE AND HAVE SERVED IN THE 1118 00:47:18,001 --> 00:47:20,000 HOUSE KNOW WHAT HE SPEAKS OF. 1119 00:47:20,001 --> 00:47:25,000 THE FACT 1120 00:47:25,001 --> 00:47:30,000 PERIOD OF TIME 1121 00:47:30,001 --> 00:47:31,000 TURNED IN AMERICAN HISTORY. 1122 00:47:31,001 --> 00:47:32,000 U'RE OFFERING AN OPPORTUNI 1123 00:47:32,001 --> 00:47:34,000 NO 1124 00:47:34,001 --> 00:47:35,000 SUPREME COURT, IMMENSELY 1125 00:47:35,001 --> 00:47:38,000 QUALIFIED, A PERSON WITH GREAT BACKGROUND IN HER LIFE AND 1126 00:47:38,001 --> 00:47:42,000 ACHIEVEMENT, TO SERVE ON THE HIGHEST COURT OF THE LAND. 1127 00:47:42,001 --> 00:47:46,000 AND ACROSS AMERICA IN NEIGHBORHOODS AND TOWNS, IN 1128 00:47:46,001 --> 00:47:48,000 COMMUNITIES AND SCHOOLS, PERHAPS 1129 00:47:48,001 --> 00:47:51,000 A CHILD WILL LOOK UP AND WHEN 1130 00:47:51,001 --> 00:47:54,000 THEY LERNER OF THE ASCENSION AND 1131 00:47:54,001 --> 00:47:58,000 APPOINTMENT TO THE SUPREME COURT, REALIZE 1132 00:47:58,001 --> 00:47:59,000 THAT THE GREAT PROMISE OF 1133 00:47:59,001 --> 00:48:02,000 AMERICA CONTINUES. 1134 00:48:02,001 --> 00:48:03,000 THIS STILL IS A LAND OF OPPORTUNITY AND THAT DOOR TO 1135 00:48:03,001 --> 00:48:06,000 OPPORTUNITY WAS OPENED A LITTLE 1136 00:48:06,001 --> 00:48:08,000 WIDER JUST ACROSS THE STREET AT 1137 00:48:08,001 --> 00:48:11,000 THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT 1138 00:48:11,001 --> 00:48:14,000 ABOUT 45 MINUTES AGO. 1139 00:48:14,001 --> 00:48:15,000 34R-7 1140 00:48:15,001 --> 00:48:17,000 PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WENT BACK TO SCHOOL. 1141 00:48:17,001 --> 00:48:20,000 HE WENT TO A LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL 1142 00:48:20,001 --> 00:48:22,000 IN THE DISK AREA TO GIVE A 1143 00:48:22,001 --> 00:48:25,000 SPEECH IT TURNED OUT THAT THIS 1144 00:48:25,001 --> 00:48:26,000 SPEECH BECAME CONTROVERSIAL. 1145 00:48:26,001 --> 00:48:27,000 I THOUGHT ABOUT THAT OVER THE 1146 00:48:27,001 --> 00:48:31,000 WEEKEND BECAUSE MY WIFE AND I 1147 00:48:31,001 --> 00:48:35,000 WENT DOWN TO 1148 00:48:35,001 --> 00:48:39,000 VIRGINIA. 1149 00:48:39,001 --> 00:48:40,000 IT WAS A TRIP 1150 00:48:40,001 --> 00:48:43,000 BECAUSE THE FIRST TRIP WE WENT 1151 00:48:43,001 --> 00:48:45,000 DOWN THERE WHEN I WAS A COLLEGE 1152 00:48:45,001 --> 00:48:47,000 STUDENT AND DROVE DOWN DL IN MY 1153 00:48:47,001 --> 00:48:51,000 V.W. BUG IN THE 160'S, I GOT 1154 00:48:51,001 --> 00:48:55,000 THERE TO FIND OUT I DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY FOR ADMISSION. 1155 00:48:55,001 --> 00:48:59,000 I ALWAYS TOLD HER WE'D GET BACK HERE SOMEDAY. 1156 00:48:59,001 --> 00:49:01,000 TOURING THE GROUNDS THERE, AS WE 1157 00:49:01,001 --> 00:49:03,000 LEARNING CENTER, LEARNING A 1158 00:49:03,001 --> 00:49:04,000 LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT OUR FIRST 1159 00:49:04,001 --> 00:49:12,000 PRESIDENT, YOU REALIZE WHAT AN 1160 00:49:12,001 --> 00:49:15,000 OPPORTUNITY HE 1161 00:49:15,001 --> 00:49:18,000 ONE OF THE FIRST QUESTIONS THEY ASKED OF GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS, 1162 00:49:18,001 --> 00:49:26,000 WHAT DO WE CALL YOU? 1163 00:49:26,001 --> 00:49:29,000 YOUR EXCELLENCY, YOUR 1164 00:49:29,001 --> 00:49:31,000 HE SAID JUST CALL ME MR. PRESIDENT. 1165 00:49:31,001 --> 00:49:33,000 THAT CREATED A TRADITION. 1166 00:49:33,001 --> 00:49:36,000 NOT JUST THE FORMAL TRADITION, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY A TRADITION 1167 00:49:36,001 --> 00:49:37,000 OF HOW WE VIEW THE PRESIDENT OF 1168 00:49:37,001 --> 00:49:39,000 THE UNITED STATES. 1169 00:49:39,001 --> 00:49:40,000 HE HAD NOT ROYALTY, NOR IS TO BE 1170 00:49:40,001 --> 00:49:41,000 TREATED AS ROYALTY. 1171 00:49:41,001 --> 00:49:44,000 HE IS TO BE TREATED AS ANOTHER 1172 00:49:44,001 --> 00:49:48,000 AMERICAN BUT 1173 00:49:48,001 --> 00:49:49,000 MOMENT IN 1174 00:49:49,001 --> 00:49:54,000 HIGH OF THE COURT OF THE LAND, 1175 00:49:54,001 --> 00:49:58,000 THE HIGHEST OFFICE IN THE LAND, I SHOULD SAY. 1176 00:49:58,001 --> 00:49:59,000 AND SO GEORGE WAG 1177 00:49:59,001 --> 00:50:02,000 STANDARD, A STANDARD OF RESPECT 1178 00:50:02,001 --> 00:50:04,000 BUT NOT ALL WHEN IT COMES TO THE OFFICE OF VICE PRESIDENT. 1179 00:50:04,001 --> 00:50:10,000 I THOUGHT THAT HAVE OVER THE 1180 00:50:10,001 --> 00:50:11,000 YEARS. 1181 00:50:11,001 --> 00:50:14,000 HE WAS A PRESIDENT I GENERALLY 1182 00:50:14,001 --> 00:50:18,000 ADMIRED. THERE WERE OTHERS I WAS MORE CRITICAL OF. 1183 00:50:18,001 --> 00:50:19,000 BUT I ALWAYS FELT THAT THE OFFICE DESERVED RESPECT, WHOEVER 1184 00:50:19,001 --> 00:50:22,000 OCCUPIES IT. 1185 00:50:22,001 --> 00:50:24,000 IF YOU BELIEVE IN THIS FORM OF GOVERNMENT AND NATION, THE 1186 00:50:24,001 --> 00:50:26,000 ELECTION OF A PERSON TO THAT 1187 00:50:26,001 --> 00:50:29,000 OFFICE AT LEAST, AT THE LEAST, 1188 00:50:29,001 --> 00:50:33,000 SHOULD GATHER THE RESPECT THAT 1189 00:50:33,001 --> 00:50:34,000 EACH REMINDER OWES TO THE OFFICE 1190 00:50:34,001 --> 00:50:37,000 AND SO THIS PRESIDENT ANNOUNCED 1191 00:50:37,001 --> 00:50:38,000 THAT HE WANTED TO PEEK TO THE 1192 00:50:38,001 --> 00:50:40,000 SCHOOLCHILDREN OF AMERICA TODAY 1193 00:50:40,001 --> 00:50:41,000 ON WHAT IS ROUGHLY THE FIRST DAY 1194 00:50:41,001 --> 00:50:42,000 OF SCHOOL H. SCHOOL ACROSS OUR 1195 00:50:42,001 --> 00:50:44,000 NATION. 1196 00:50:44,001 --> 00:50:46,000 HE WASN'T THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO 1197 00:50:46,001 --> 00:50:49,000 MAKE THAT SUGGESTION. 1198 00:50:49,001 --> 00:50:51,000 PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN OFFERED 1199 00:50:51,001 --> 00:50:53,000 A SPEECH TO THE CHILDREN OF 1200 00:50:53,001 --> 00:50:57,000 AMERICA. 1201 00:50:57,001 --> 00:51:01,000 PRESIDENT GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH THE SAME. 1202 00:51:01,001 --> 00:51:02,000 I CAN'T RECALL ANY CONTROVERS 1203 00:51:02,001 --> 00:51:03,000 CONTROVERSYIAL WITH THE 1204 00:51:03,001 --> 00:51:05,000 ADDRESSES OF EITHER OF THOSE PRESIDENTS. 1205 00:51:05,001 --> 00:51:06,000 FOR REASONS THAT I CANNOT UNDERSTAND, CRITICS CAME FORWARD 1206 00:51:06,001 --> 00:51:09,000 CRITICIZING PRESIDENT OBAMA FOR 1207 00:51:09,001 --> 00:51:13,000 WANTING TO SPEAK TO OUR SCHOOLCHILDREN. 1208 00:51:13,001 --> 00:51:14,000 EVEN IN MY HOME STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE PR 1209 00:51:14,001 --> 00:51:17,000 STATE, SOME SCHOOL DISTRICTS 1210 00:51:17,001 --> 00:51:21,000 MADE A CONSCHUSS DECISION THAT THEY WOULD NOT BROADCAST OR MAKE 1211 00:51:21,001 --> 00:51:25,000 AVAILABLE SPEECH. 1212 00:51:25,001 --> 00:51:31,000 OTHERS ALLOWED CHILDREN TO OPT OUT IF THEIR PARENTS DIDN'T WANT 1213 00:51:31,001 --> 00:51:33,000 TO HEAR THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH 1214 00:51:33,001 --> 00:51:35,000 ITS A UNFORTUNATE AND I'M HAPPY TO SAY THERE ARE THOSE OF BOTH 1215 00:51:35,001 --> 00:51:36,000 POLITICAL PARTIES WHO HAVE SAID 1216 00:51:36,001 --> 00:51:40,000 THAT. 1217 00:51:40,001 --> 00:51:41,000 SENATOR LAMAR ALEXANDER, 1218 00:51:41,001 --> 00:51:44,000 REPUBLICAN, WAS JUST ON THE 1219 00:51:44,001 --> 00:51:45,000 FLOOR, OUR FORMER SECRETARY OF 1220 00:51:45,001 --> 00:51:46,000 EDUCATION, HE FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. 1221 00:51:46,001 --> 00:51:48,000 HE SPOKE OUT AND SAID OF COURSE 1222 00:51:48,001 --> 00:51:49,000 THE PRESIDENT SHOULD BEING 1223 00:51:49,001 --> 00:51:52,000 ALLOWED TO SPEAK TO SCHOOLCHILDREN ACROSS AMERICA. 1224 00:51:52,001 --> 00:51:53,000 LAURA BUSH, FORMER FIRST LADY, 1225 00:51:53,001 --> 00:51:54,000 SAID THAT THIS MORNING. 1226 00:51:54,001 --> 00:51:56,000 OTHERS HAVE SAID THE SAME. 1227 00:51:56,001 --> 00:51:57,000 I THINK THEY UNDERSTAND TWO 1228 00:51:57,001 --> 00:52:00,000 THINGS: FIRST, RESPECT FOR THE 1229 00:52:00,001 --> 00:52:01,000 INSTITUTION OF THE PRESIDENCY, 1230 00:52:01,001 --> 00:52:04,000 AND, SECOND, THE FACT THAT THE 1231 00:52:04,001 --> 00:52:05,000 PRESIDENT SPEAKING MAY HAVE SOME 1232 00:52:05,001 --> 00:52:09,000 IMPACT ON PEOPLE ACROSS AMERICA. 1233 00:52:09,001 --> 00:52:12,000 WELL, SPEECH AND I HOPE HIS CRITICS 1234 00:52:12,001 --> 00:52:14,000 HAVE BEEN SILENCED BECAUSE AS A 1235 00:52:14,001 --> 00:52:16,000 PARENT AND NOW AS A GRANDPARENT, 1236 00:52:16,001 --> 00:52:17,000 AS 1237 00:52:17,001 --> 00:52:20,000 EVERY KID IN AMERICA TO HEAR IT 1238 00:52:20,001 --> 00:52:21,000 AS HE EXPLAINED HIS OWN 1239 00:52:21,001 --> 00:52:24,000 BACKGROUND, THE TOUGH TIMES THAT 1240 00:52:24,001 --> 00:52:27,000 HE WENT THROUGH GROWING UP, THE 1241 00:52:27,001 --> 00:52:28,000 SACSACRIFICED MADE BY HIS SINGLE 1242 00:52:28,001 --> 00:52:29,000 MORNLINGS THE FACT THAT HIS 1243 00:52:29,001 --> 00:52:32,000 FATHER LEFT AT AN EARLY AGE, THE 1244 00:52:32,001 --> 00:52:34,000 FACT THAT IMPORTANT PART OF THEIR LIVES 1245 00:52:34,001 --> 00:52:39,000 EVEN AS THEY TRAVELED AROUND THE 1246 00:52:39,001 --> 00:52:40,000 WORLD AND THE PRESIDENT USED TO 1247 00:52:40,001 --> 00:52:45,000 TELL THE STO 1248 00:52:45,001 --> 00:52:46,000 HIS MOTHER WAKING HIM UP EARLY 1249 00:52:46,001 --> 00:52:48,000 WHEN THEY LIVED OVERSEAS AND 1250 00:52:48,001 --> 00:52:49,000 SAYING, LET'S GET READY FOR 1251 00:52:49,001 --> 00:52:50,000 SCHOOL. 1252 00:52:50,001 --> 00:52:51,000 WHEN HE'D WHINE AND CRY AT ABOUT 1253 00:52:51,001 --> 00:52:54,000 5:30 IN THE MORNING, HIS MOM 1254 00:52:54,001 --> 00:52:57,000 WITH A 1255 00:52:57,001 --> 00:52:58,000 ME EITHER, BUDDY." 1256 00:52:58,001 --> 00:53:01,000 AS IF A PARENT WHO CARED, A 1257 00:53:01,001 --> 00:53:02,000 MOTHER WHO CARED, AND A SON WHO 1258 00:53:02,001 --> 00:53:05,000 PROFITED FROM HER CARING. 1259 00:53:05,001 --> 00:53:06,000 WHEN I READ HIS 1260 00:53:06,001 --> 00:53:08,000 THE PRESIDENT SPOKE THESE WORDS 1261 00:53:08,001 --> 00:53:09,000 TO THE STUDENTS OF AMERICA. 1262 00:53:09,001 --> 00:53:10,000 IN THOSE SCHOOL DISTRICTS THAT 1263 00:53:10,001 --> 00:53:13,000 DECIDE THAT THEIR CHILDREN 1264 00:53:13,001 --> 00:53:14,000 SHOULD NOT HEAR THIS, THEY OUGHT 1265 00:53:14,001 --> 00:53:17,000 TO STOP AND REFLECT WHETHER THAT WAS THE RI 1266 00:53:17,001 --> 00:53:18,000 WHEN THE 1267 00:53:18,001 --> 00:53:20,000 THE END OF THE DAY, THE 1268 00:53:20,001 --> 00:53:21,000 CIRCUMSTANCES OF YOUR LIFE, WHAT 1269 00:53:21,001 --> 00:53:25,000 YOU LOOK LIKE, WHERE YOU COME 1270 00:53:25,001 --> 00:53:29,000 FROM, HOW MUCH MONEY YOU HAVE WHAT YOU'VE THE G.A.O. GOING ON 1271 00:53:29,001 --> 00:53:33,000 AT HOME, THOSE WHO EXCUSE FOR NEGLECTING YOUR HOMEWORK OR 1272 00:53:33,001 --> 00:53:34,000 HAVING A BAD ATTITUDE, THAT'S NO EXCUSE FOR AC TALKING BACK TO 1273 00:53:34,001 --> 00:53:37,000 THEIR TEACHER OR CUTTING CLASS 1274 00:53:37,001 --> 00:53:41,000 OR DROPPING OUT OF SCHOOL, 1275 00:53:41,001 --> 00:53:42,000 THAT'S NO EXCUSE FOR NOT TRYING, WHERE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW DOESN'T 1276 00:53:42,001 --> 00:53:45,000 ARE TO DERMINE WHERE YOU'LL 1277 00:53:45,001 --> 00:53:46,000 END UP," THE PRESIDENT SAID. "NO ONE'S WRITTEN YOUR DESTINY 1278 00:53:46,001 --> 00:53:49,000 FOR YOU. 1279 00:53:49,001 --> 00:53:53,000 HERE IN AMERICA YOU RIGHT YOUR OWN DESTINY. 1280 00:53:53,001 --> 00:53:55,000 YOU WILL MAKE YOUR HONE HE TALKED TO THESE STUDENTS, NOT 1281 00:53:55,001 --> 00:53:57,000 ONLY ABOUT DOING THEIR HOMEWORK 1282 00:53:57,001 --> 00:54:00,000 AND READING, GETTING INVOLVED IN 1283 00:54:00,001 --> 00:54:03,000 CENTER CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES, 1284 00:54:03,001 --> 00:54:05,000 VOLUNTEERING IN THEIR 1285 00:54:05,001 --> 00:54:09,000 DECIDING TO STAND UP FOR KIDS BEING TE 1286 00:54:09,001 --> 00:54:12,000 OF WHO THEY ARE OR WHO THEY LOOK, BECAUSE HE BELIEVE, "LIKE 1287 00:54:12,001 --> 00:54:13,000 I DO, THAT ALL KIDS DESERVE A 1288 00:54:13,001 --> 00:54:16,000 SAFE ENVIRONMENT TO STUDY AND LERNER." 1289 00:54:16,001 --> 00:54:17,000 THE PRESIDENT WENT TON SAY, "NO 1290 00:54:17,001 --> 00:54:18,000 ONE IS BORN BEING GOOD AT THINGS. 1291 00:54:18,001 --> 00:54:20,000 YOU BECOME GOOD AT THINGS 1292 00:54:20,001 --> 00:54:21,000 THROUGH HARD WORK." 1293 00:54:21,001 --> 00:54:26,000 THEN HE SAID, "AND EVEN WHEN 1294 00:54:26,001 --> 00:54:27,000 YOU'RE STRUGGLE, DISCOURAGED, 1295 00:54:27,001 --> 00:54:28,000 FEEL LIKE OTHER PEOPLE HAVE 1296 00:54:28,001 --> 00:54:30,000 GIVEN UP ON YOU, DON'T EVER GIVE 1297 00:54:30,001 --> 00:54:31,000 UP ON YOURSELF BECAUSE WHEN YOU 1298 00:54:31,001 --> 00:54:34,000 GIVE UP ON ON YOU ARE SE 1299 00:54:34,001 --> 00:54:35,000 YOU GIVE UP 1300 00:54:35,001 --> 00:54:38,000 THE STORY OF AMERICA IS NOT 1301 00:54:38,001 --> 00:54:39,000 ABOUT PEOPLE WHO QUIT WHEN 1302 00:54:39,001 --> 00:54:40,000 THINGS GOT TOUGH. IT IS ABOUT PEOPLE WHO TRIED 1303 00:54:40,001 --> 00:54:42,000 HARDER, WHO LOVED THEIR COUNTRY 1304 00:54:42,001 --> 00:54:43,000 TOO MUCH TO DO ANYTHING LESS 1305 00:54:43,001 --> 00:54:46,000 THAN THE BEST." 1306 00:54:46,001 --> 00:54:47,000 MR. PRESIDENT, 1307 00:54:47,001 --> 00:54:49,000 PRESIDENT OBAMA TO THE 1308 00:54:49,001 --> 00:54:50,000 SCHOOLCHILDREN OF AMERICA WAS A 1309 00:54:50,001 --> 00:54:51,000 POSITIVE THING, A GOOD THING. 1310 00:54:51,001 --> 00:54:54,000 SOME SAID IT WAS A WAY TO 1311 00:54:54,001 --> 00:54:58,000 PROMOTE HIS SOCIALIST AGENDA. 1312 00:54:58,001 --> 00:54:59,000 IT WAS POLITICAL I FIND NOTHING POLITICAL ABOUT 1313 00:54:59,001 --> 00:55:02,000 THESE COMMENTS. 1314 00:55:02,001 --> 00:55:06,000 THESE 1315 00:55:06,001 --> 00:55:07,000 CHILD, ANY STUDENT ACROSS THIS COUNTRY, AND I'M GLAD THE 1316 00:55:07,001 --> 00:55:10,000 PRESIDENT TOOK THIS OPPORTUNITY 1317 00:55:10,001 --> 00:55:14,000 TO USE WHATEVER INFLUENCE HE HAS OVER THESE YOUNG PEOPLE TOUIDE 1318 00:55:14,001 --> 00:55:18,000 THEM ON ROO THE RIGHT PATH AS THEY 1319 00:55:18,001 --> 00:55:19,000 START OUT IN THEIR SCHOOL YEAR. MR. PRESIDENT, THE LAST ISSUE 1320 00:55:19,001 --> 00:55:22,000 I'D THRIEWK ADDRESS FOR A MOMENT 1321 00:55:22,001 --> 00:55:24,000 IS THE AUGUST RECESS 1322 00:55:24,001 --> 00:55:26,000 AUGUST IS A BLAZING 1323 00:55:26,001 --> 00:55:29,000 THE MIDWEST, WITH HIGH 1324 00:55:29,001 --> 00:55:30,000 TEMPERATURES AND HIGH HUMIDITY, 1325 00:55:30,001 --> 00:55:31,000 THGH THEY WERE TEMPERED A 1326 00:55:31,001 --> 00:55:33,000 LITTLE BIT THIS YEAR, A LITTLE 1327 00:55:33,001 --> 00:55:34,000 COOLER THAN USUAL, A LITTLE 1328 00:55:34,001 --> 00:55:37,000 WETTER THAN IEWRKS BUT WE HAD 1329 00:55:37,001 --> 00:55:38,000 OUR HOT DAYS. 1330 00:55:38,001 --> 00:55:39,000 BUT THE HOTTEST DAYS ARE 1331 00:55:39,001 --> 00:55:41,000 RESERVED FOR THE POLITICAL SCENE 1332 00:55:41,001 --> 00:55:42,000 BECAUSE P IN TOWN MEETINGS 1333 00:55:42,001 --> 00:55:46,000 ACROSS THE MIDWEST AND ACROSS 1334 00:55:46,001 --> 00:55:50,000 THE NATION MANY TIMES TEMPERS 1335 00:55:50,001 --> 00:55:51,000 FLARED, THERE WAS SHOVELING AND 1336 00:55:51,001 --> 00:55:53,000 SHOUTING GOING ON AT THESE TOWN MEETINGS. 1337 00:55:53,001 --> 00:55:54,000 IF YOU HAVE BEEN ON THE 1338 00:55:54,001 --> 00:55:55,000 POLITICAL SCENE, YOU KNOW THERE 1339 00:55:55,001 --> 00:55:57,000 ARE MOMENTS WHEN THE MEIGSS ARE 1340 00:55:57,001 --> 00:55:58,000 RAISED TO A HIGH-FEEFERREDZ 1341 00:55:58,001 --> 00:56:01,000 PITCH. 1342 00:56:01,001 --> 00:56:03,000 FORTUNATELY FOR US, THE REASON 1343 00:56:03,001 --> 00:56:05,000 FOR THIS INTEREST WAS GENUINE. 1344 00:56:05,001 --> 00:56:06,000 WE ARE 1345 00:56:06,001 --> 00:56:09,000 THE CHANGE OF THE HEALTH CARE 1346 00:56:09,001 --> 00:56:10,000 SYSTEM 1347 00:56:10,001 --> 00:56:13,000 TERALLY AFFECTS EVERY RSON IN OUR COUNTRY. 1348 00:56:13,001 --> 00:56:15,000 IT'S RARE THAT WE WOULD TACKLE 1349 00:56:15,001 --> 00:56:17,000 AN ISSUE THAT IS THAT 1350 00:56:17,001 --> 00:56:18,000 ALL-EMBRACING, THAT TOUCHES 1351 00:56:18,001 --> 00:56:21,000 EVERYBODY, AND ITS AND HABLE 1352 00:56:21,001 --> 00:56:22,000 THAT PEOPLE HAVE 1353 00:56:22,001 --> 00:56:25,000 QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT IF MEANS TO 1354 00:56:25,001 --> 00:56:26,000 THEIR LIVES, AND I FOUND THE SAME THING IN ILLINOIS. 1355 00:56:26,001 --> 00:56:29,000 I TRAVELED AROUND THE STATE. 1356 00:56:29,001 --> 00:56:34,000 I MET WITH DOCTORS AND NURSES 1357 00:56:34,001 --> 00:56:37,000 AND HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATORS, 1358 00:56:37,001 --> 00:56:40,000 FOLKS, PATIENTS, STRUGGLING WITH ILLNESS AND DISEASE, THOSE WHO 1359 00:56:40,001 --> 00:56:41,000 HAD BEEN TURNED DOWN BY HEALTH 1360 00:56:41,001 --> 00:56:44,000 INSURANCE COMPANIES, AVERAGE 1361 00:56:44,001 --> 00:56:45,000 PEOPLE COMING UP TO 1362 00:56:45,001 --> 00:56:48,000 RESTAURANTS AND FOLKS AT THE 1363 00:56:48,001 --> 00:56:49,000 AIRPORT TALKING TO ME ABOUT 1364 00:56:49,001 --> 00:56:51,000 THEIR LIFE'S EXPERIENCE WHEN IT 1365 00:56:51,001 --> 00:56:53,000 CAME TO HEALTH CARE. 1366 00:56:53,001 --> 00:56:56,000 IT 1367 00:56:56,001 --> 00:56:57,000 COMMON, AN ISSUE WE ALL CARE 1368 00:56:57,001 --> 00:56:59,000 ABOUT. 1369 00:56:59,001 --> 00:57:01,000 BUT SADLY THERE WAS AN ORGANIZED 1370 00:57:01,001 --> 00:57:02,000 EFFORT TO DISRUPT MANY OF THESE TOWN HALL MEETINGS. 1371 00:57:02,001 --> 00:57:04,000 THESE WEREN'T PEOPLE WHO WANTED 1372 00:57:04,001 --> 00:57:05,000 TO EXPRESS THEIR OPPOSITION TO 1373 00:57:05,001 --> 00:57:08,000 ANY PENDING LEGISLATION SO MUCH 1374 00:57:08,001 --> 00:57:09,000 AS TO END THE MEETING, TO TRY TO 1375 00:57:09,001 --> 00:57:12,000 RAISE THEIR VOICES ABOVE ALL 1376 00:57:12,001 --> 00:57:13,000 OTHERS AND 1377 00:57:13,001 --> 00:57:14,000 THAT IS SO IMPORTANT AS PART OF 1378 00:57:14,001 --> 00:57:16,000 THIS. 1379 00:57:16,001 --> 00:57:17,000 I DON'T THINK THAT THAT POINT OF 1380 00:57:17,001 --> 00:57:20,000 VIEW REVEILED AT THE END OF THE DAY. 1381 00:57:20,001 --> 00:57:21,000 THERE ARE 1382 00:57:21,001 --> 00:57:24,000 QUESTIONS ABOUT HEALTH CARE REFORM. 1383 00:57:24,001 --> 00:57:25,000 QUESTIONS THAT WILL HAVE TO BE 1384 00:57:25,001 --> 00:57:28,000 ANSWERED DIRECTLY AND HONESTLY. 1385 00:57:28,001 --> 00:57:30,000 AS WE PROCEED IN THIS DEBAT 1386 00:57:30,001 --> 00:57:32,000 BUT THERE IS NO QUESTION IN MY 1387 00:57:32,001 --> 00:57:34,000 MIND THAT THE MAJORITY OF THE 1388 00:57:34,001 --> 00:57:40,000 AMERICAN PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT 1389 00:57:40,001 --> 00:57:44,000 WE NEED TO MAKE SOME NEED TO MAKE SOME CHANGES. 1390 00:57:44,001 --> 00:57:45,000 THE COST OF HEALTH CARE IS GOING UP THRETIMES FASTER 1391 00:57:45,001 --> 00:57:48,000 THAN THE WAGES OF WORKING AMERICANS. 1392 00:57:48,001 --> 00:57:49,000 IT'LL REACH A POINT WHERE AND 1393 00:57:49,001 --> 00:57:53,000 MORE OF YOUR TAKE-HOME PAY WILL 1394 00:57:53,001 --> 00:57:54,000 SADLY WILL NOT PROVIDE AS MUCH 1395 00:57:54,001 --> 00:57:56,000 COVERAGE NEXT YEAR IT IS A DID 1396 00:57:56,001 --> 00:58:00,000 THIS YEAR. WE ALSO KNOW THAT SOMETIMES THE 1397 00:58:00,001 --> 00:58:01,000 PEOPLE WHO HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE 1398 00:58:01,001 --> 00:58:04,000 FIND OUT I IT IS NOT THERE BH THEY NEED IT. 1399 00:58:04,001 --> 00:58:08,000 I RAN INTO THAT. A GENTLEMAN IN QUINCY, ILLINOIS, 1400 00:58:08,001 --> 00:58:12,000 AT ONE OF DAY, HE AND HIS WIFE BOTH HAD 1401 00:58:12,001 --> 00:58:13,000 LOST THEIR JOBS. 19 YEARS HE'D BEEN WITH WITH THE 1402 00:58:13,001 --> 00:58:16,000 LOCAL BANK WITH HEALTH INSURANCE 1403 00:58:16,001 --> 00:58:19,000 AND HE LOST HIS JOB. BECAUSE HE AND HIS WIFE HAD A 1404 00:58:19,001 --> 00:58:20,000 SPECIAL-NEED CHILD, THEY PAID 1405 00:58:20,001 --> 00:58:21,000 THE COBRA PREMIUM, WHICH, IF YOU 1406 00:58:21,001 --> 00:58:24,000 UNDERSTAND HOW THIS WORKS, ONCE 1407 00:58:24,001 --> 00:58:27,000 YOU HAVE A LOST A JOB YOU CAN KEEP YOUR HEALTH INSURANCE IF 1408 00:58:27,001 --> 00:58:28,000 YOU WILL PAY THE EMPLOYER AND 1409 00:58:28,001 --> 00:58:29,000 EMPLOYEE PORTIONS. 1410 00:58:29,001 --> 00:58:32,000 EVEN THOUGH WE'VE MADE THAT MORE 1411 00:58:32,001 --> 00:58:35,000 REASONABLE IN COST, IT'S STILL VERY EXPENSIVE. 1412 00:58:35,001 --> 00:58:36,000 BUT BECAUS 1413 00:58:36,001 --> 00:58:39,000 CHILD, HE DECIDED HE AND HIS 1414 00:58:39,001 --> 00:58:40,000 WIFE HAD TO DIP INTO THEIR SAVES 1415 00:58:40,001 --> 00:58:43,000 TO KEEP THE HEALTH INSURANCE 1416 00:58:43,001 --> 00:58:44,000 COVERING THEIR 1417 00:58:44,001 --> 00:58:47,000 FAMILY EVEN WHILE THEY'RE UNEMPLOYED. 1418 00:58:47,001 --> 00:58:48,000 SADLY, DURING THIS PERIOD OF 1419 00:58:48,001 --> 00:58:51,000 TIME OF UNEMPLOYMENT, HIS SON 1420 00:58:51,001 --> 00:58:52,000 FELL DOWN THE STAS AND NEEDED BRAIN SURGERY. 1421 00:58:52,001 --> 00:58:55,000 THEY SHIPPED HIM ACROSS THE 1422 00:58:55,001 --> 00:58:56,000 RIVER INTO IOWA WHERE HE WAS 1423 00:58:56,001 --> 00:58:58,000 SUCCESSFULLY OPERATED ON. 1424 00:58:58,001 --> 00:58:59,000 THAT'S THE GOOD NEWS HERE. 1425 00:58:59,001 --> 00:59:00,000 AND THEN THE FATHER DPEPT 1426 00:59:00,001 --> 00:59:03,000 LOOKING FOR A JOB ONLY TO 1427 00:59:03,001 --> 00:59:04,000 THAT 1428 00:59:04,001 --> 00:59:07,000 GOING TO DENY THEIR CLAIM FOR 1429 00:59:07,001 --> 00:59:11,000 THIS BRAIN SURGERY. WELL, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN 1430 00:59:11,001 --> 00:59:13,000 EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE. IT WOULD BE -- IF THE IN 1431 00:59:13,001 --> 00:59:15,000 COMPANY FAILED TO PAY. 1432 00:59:15,001 --> 00:59:19,000 NOW THIS MAN, UNEMPLOYED LOOK 1433 00:59:19,001 --> 00:59:23,000 FOR A JOB, WITH A HAVE THOSE SPECIAL NEEDS AND A 1434 00:59:23,001 --> 00:59:25,000 WIFE W IS TRYING TO SUBSTITUTE TEACHING JOBS TO HELP 1435 00:59:25,001 --> 00:59:27,000 OUT, HAS TO SPEND A GOOD PART O 1436 00:59:27,001 --> 00:59:28,000 HIS 1437 00:59:28,001 --> 00:59:31,000 INSURANCE COMPANY OVER WHETHER HIS SON IS GOING TO BE COVERED 1438 00:59:31,001 --> 00:59:32,000 NOR THAT EMERGENCY SURGERY. 1439 00:59:32,001 --> 00:59:35,000 IT'S NOT RARE. 1440 00:59:35,001 --> 00:59:39,000 IN FACT, ITS EATS TOO COMMON. THAT THE AVERAGE PERSON WHEN 1441 00:59:39,001 --> 00:59:40,000 THEY NEED THE COVERAGE OF HEALTH INSURANCE FINDS OUT THAT THEY'RE 1442 00:59:40,001 --> 00:59:43,000 IN A BATTLE. 1443 00:59:43,001 --> 00:59:44,000 NOT WITH 1444 00:59:44,001 --> 00:59:47,000 WITH SOMEONE WHO WORKS FOR A 1445 00:59:47,001 --> 00:59:51,000 HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY WHO SAYS NO. THAT'S GOT TO CHANGE. 1446 00:59:51,001 --> 00:59:52,000 I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS I HOPE BOTH SIDES AGREE ON -- 1447 00:59:52,001 --> 00:59:55,000 REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS -- IS 1448 00:59:55,001 --> 00:59:56,000 THAT PEOPLE SHOULD NOT B HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE 1449 00:59:56,001 --> 01:00:00,000 BECAUSE OF A PREEXISTING 1450 01:00:00,001 --> 01:00:02,000 CONDITION. YOU SHOULDN'T BE 1451 01:00:02,001 --> 01:00:03,000 DENIED HEALTH INSURANCE WHEN IT 1452 01:00:03,001 --> 01:00:04,000 TURNS OUT YOU'RE SICK AND NEED IT. 1453 01:00:04,001 --> 01:00:07,000 YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO TAKE YOUR 1454 01:00:07,001 --> 01:00:09,000 HEALTH INSURANCE FROM ANOTHER. 1455 01:00:09,001 --> 01:00:12,000 YOU SHOULDN'T SHAH CAP ON THE 1456 01:00:12,001 --> 01:00:13,000 TOTAL AMOUNT OF COVERAGE LIFETIME. 1457 01:00:13,001 --> 01:00:17,000 YOUR CHILDREN SHOULDN'T BE HIGH 1458 01:00:17,001 --> 01:00:18,000 COMPLETELY UNPROTECTED. 1459 01:00:18,001 --> 01:00:20,000 THESE ARE THE THINGS WHICH MOST 1460 01:00:20,001 --> 01:00:21,000 PEOPLE AGREE SHOULD BE PART OF 1461 01:00:21,001 --> 01:00:23,000 HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM AND I 1462 01:00:23,001 --> 01:00:24,000 HOPE WE CAN MAKE IT PART OF 1463 01:00:24,001 --> 01:00:25,000 COMMON BIPARTISAN EFFORT WHEN WE 1464 01:00:25,001 --> 01:00:26,000 TALK ABOUT THIS ISSUE. 1465 01:00:26,001 --> 01:00:30,000 THERE'S ANOTHER ISSUE, AND IT'S 1466 01:00:30,001 --> 01:00:31,000 ONE THAT I'LL ADDRESS AS I TALK 1467 01:00:31,001 --> 01:00:33,000 ABOUT THIS ISSUE LATER IN THE 1468 01:00:33,001 --> 01:00:35,000 WEEK, AND I THINK 1469 01:00:35,001 --> 01:00:37,000 FUNDAMENTAL ISSUE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE. 1470 01:00:37,001 --> 01:00:39,000 THAT 47 MILLION AMERICANS TODAY 1471 01:00:39,001 --> 01:00:42,000 HAVE NO HEALTH INSURANCE. 1472 01:00:42,001 --> 01:00:43,000 WE HAVE ABOUT 300 MILLION PEOPLE 1473 01:00:43,001 --> 01:00:45,000 IN OUR COUNTRY. 1474 01:00:45,001 --> 01:00:47,000 ABOUT 1475 01:00:47,001 --> 01:00:49,000 UNDER SOME SORT OF GOVERNMENT 1476 01:00:49,001 --> 01:00:51,000 HEALTH PLAN: MEDICAID FOR THE 1477 01:00:51,001 --> 01:00:54,000 POOR AND DISABLED, MEDICARE FOR 1478 01:00:54,001 --> 01:00:57,000 THOSE IN ADVANCED YEARS, WHICH 1479 01:00:57,001 --> 01:01:00,000 I'M SOON 1480 01:01:00,001 --> 01:01:02,000 COVERED BIVENS HEALTH CARE 1481 01:01:02,001 --> 01:01:04,000 AND -- COULD HAVE HAD BY 1482 01:01:04,001 --> 01:01:06,000 VETERANS HEALTH CARE AND THOSE 1483 01:01:06,001 --> 01:01:07,000 COULD HAVE HAD BY 1484 01:01:07,001 --> 01:01:08,000 HEALTH CARE PROGRAMS. 1485 01:01:08,001 --> 01:01:10,000 TAKE THOSE 1486 01:01:10,001 --> 01:01:15,000 HEALTH CARE PROGRAMS ASIDE AND 1487 01:01:15,001 --> 01:01:17,000 THE REMAINING IN AMERICA HAVE NO 1488 01:01:17,001 --> 01:01:18,000 HEALTH INSURANCE. 1489 01:01:18,001 --> 01:01:19,000 THEY ARE NOT THE POOREST PEOPLE 1490 01:01:19,001 --> 01:01:21,000 IN AMERICA. 1491 01:01:21,001 --> 01:01:22,000 THEY ARE NOT 1492 01:01:22,001 --> 01:01:23,000 OURSELVES WHO HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE. 1493 01:01:23,001 --> 01:01:25,000 THEY ARE PEOPLE WHO WORK EVERY 1494 01:01:25,001 --> 01:01:27,000 SINGLE D AND HAVE NO HEALTH INSURANCE. 1495 01:01:27,001 --> 01:01:28,000 I MET PLENTY OF THEM AS I 1496 01:01:28,001 --> 01:01:29,000 TRAVELED AROUND THE STATE OF 1497 01:01:29,001 --> 01:01:32,000 ILLINOIS. 1498 01:01:32,001 --> 01:01:34,000 I DON'T UNDERSTAND -- I DO 1499 01:01:34,001 --> 01:01:36,000 UNDERSTAND BUT I CERTAINLY SYMPATHIZE WITH THE SITUATION 1500 01:01:36,001 --> 01:01:37,000 WHERE YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING 1501 01:01:37,001 --> 01:01:40,000 AND LOOK AT THOSE CHILDREN IN 1502 01:01:40,001 --> 01:01:42,000 THAT BED AS A FATHER AND REALIZE 1503 01:01:42,001 --> 01:01:45,000 THEY'RE ONE ACCIDENT OR ONE 1504 01:01:45,001 --> 01:01:47,000 DIAGNOSIS AWAY FROM A MEDICAL 1505 01:01:47,001 --> 01:01:49,000 CATASTROPHE THAT COULD THREATEN 1506 01:01:49,001 --> 01:01:50,000 THEIR LIVES AND WIPE OUT YOUR SAVINGS. 1507 01:01:50,001 --> 01:01:52,000 THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE WITH HEALTH 1508 01:01:52,001 --> 01:01:56,000 INSURANCE FACE -- WITHOUT HEALTH 1509 01:01:56,001 --> 01:01:57,000 SO IN ADDITION TO THE COST, IN 1510 01:01:57,001 --> 01:01:58,000 ADDITION TO WHETHER THE HEALTH 1511 01:01:58,001 --> 01:02:00,000 INSURANCE IS THERE WHEN WE NEED 1512 01:02:00,001 --> 01:02:01,000 IT IS THE FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION 1513 01:02:01,001 --> 01:02:02,000 ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT EVERYBODY 1514 01:02:02,001 --> 01:02:04,000 IN AMERICA SHOULD BE DRAWN IN 1515 01:02:04,001 --> 01:02:05,000 UNDER THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH 1516 01:02:05,001 --> 01:02:06,000 INSURANCE. 1517 01:02:06,001 --> 01:02:07,000 I BELIEVE THEY SHOULD. 1518 01:02:07,001 --> 01:02:10,000 THE PEOPLE WITHOUT HEALTH 1519 01:02:10,001 --> 01:02:12,000 INSURANCE, WHEN THEY REACH A 1520 01:02:12,001 --> 01:02:15,000 CRITICAL TIME IN THEIR LIVES AND 1521 01:02:15,001 --> 01:02:17,000 ARE DESPERATE, SHOW UP AT HOSPITAL. 1522 01:02:17,001 --> 01:02:19,000 AND OUR HOSPITALS TREAT THEM AND 1523 01:02:19,001 --> 01:02:21,000 THEN PASS ALONG THE EXPENSE OF 1524 01:02:21,001 --> 01:02:22,000 TREATING THEM TO EVERYONE ELSE. 1525 01:02:22,001 --> 01:02:24,000 IT WOULD BE FAR BETTER IN?? 1526 01:02:24,001 --> 01:02:25,000 AMERICA FOR US TO 1527 01:02:25,001 --> 01:02:27,000 COVERAGE AND PROTECTION FOR 1528 01:02:27,001 --> 01:02:29,000 EVERYONE AND TO HELP THOSE IN 1529 01:02:29,001 --> 01:02:30,000 THE LOWEST-INCOME CATEGORIES PAY 1530 01:02:30,001 --> 01:02:32,000 FOR THAT PROTECTION. 1531 01:02:32,001 --> 01:02:33,000 I THINK THAT IS FUNDAMENTALLY JUST. 1532 01:02:33,001 --> 01:02:36,000 IT IS 1533 01:02:36,001 --> 01:02:39,000 IT IS GOOD, SOUND POLICY. 1534 01:02:39,001 --> 01:02:40,000 SO THAT THIS HAVE AND HAVE-NOT 1535 01:02:40,001 --> 01:02:41,000 SITUATION WOULDN'T APPLY TO 1536 01:02:41,001 --> 01:02:44,000 CIRCUMSTANCES OF LIFE OR DEATH, 1537 01:02:44,001 --> 01:02:45,000 WHICH IS THE WAY IT DOES TODAY. 1538 01:02:45,001 --> 01:02:46,000 AND FINALLY, WE HAVE TO FIND A 1539 01:02:46,001 --> 01:02:49,000 WAY TO CHANGE THIS HEALTH CARE 1540 01:02:49,001 --> 01:02:50,000 SYSTEM WHEN IT INCENTIVES. 1541 01:02:50,001 --> 01:02:52,000 CURRENTLY WE HAVE SOMETHING 1542 01:02:52,001 --> 01:02:56,000 CALLED FEE FOR SERVICE, WHICH 1543 01:02:56,001 --> 01:02:57,000 HOSPITAL COMES UP WITH A NEW 1544 01:02:57,001 --> 01:02:58,000 PROCEDURE OR A NEW SERVICE, THEY 1545 01:02:58,001 --> 01:03:00,000 ARE PAID MORE. 1546 01:03:00,001 --> 01:03:03,000 IT CREATES AN ECONOMIC INCENTIVE 1547 01:03:03,001 --> 01:03:04,000 TO DO MORE THAN MAYBE NECESSARY. 1548 01:03:04,001 --> 01:03:05,000 WE HAVE TO CHANGE THAT. 1549 01:03:05,001 --> 01:03:08,000 AND I THINK WE CAN. 1550 01:03:08,001 --> 01:03:10,000 WE HAVE TO TRY TO STRESS 1551 01:03:10,001 --> 01:03:13,000 PREVENTIVE 1552 01:03:13,001 --> 01:03:15,000 WE DON'T DO ENOUGH OF THAT. 1553 01:03:15,001 --> 01:03:17,000 INSTEAD OF JUST THIS RESCUE CARE 1554 01:03:17,001 --> 01:03:19,000 AND SICKNESS, WHICH IS THE 1555 01:03:19,001 --> 01:03:21,000 HALLMARK OF OUR CURRENT SYSTEM. 1556 01:03:21,001 --> 01:03:23,000 PREVENTIVE CARE AND WELLNESS 1557 01:03:23,001 --> 01:03:25,000 MEANS HAVING ACCESS TO CLINICS 1558 01:03:25,001 --> 01:03:26,000 AND PRIMARY CARE PROVIDERS 1559 01:03:26,001 --> 01:03:29,000 ACROSS THE UNITEDTATES. 1560 01:03:29,001 --> 01:03:31,000 I WANT 1561 01:03:31,001 --> 01:03:34,000 FAMILY PHYSICIANS. 1562 01:03:34,001 --> 01:03:35,000 THEY JOIN ME IN EVERY TOWN IN ME STATE. 1563 01:03:35,001 --> 01:03:37,000 THEY FULLY SUPPORT THIS. 1564 01:03:37,001 --> 01:03:38,000 THEY UNDERSTAND HEALTH CARE 1565 01:03:38,001 --> 01:03:39,000 REFORM IS ESSENTIAL TO FAMILIES 1566 01:03:39,001 --> 01:03:40,000 WHO ARE GOING TO HAVE A FIGHTING 1567 01:03:40,001 --> 01:03:43,000 CHANCE FOR GOOD HEALTH CARE. 1568 01:03:43,001 --> 01:03:44,000 THOSE ARE THE BASICS IN THE DEBATE. 1569 01:03:44,001 --> 01:03:46,000 THERE ARE ALL SORTS OF SEPARE 1570 01:03:46,001 --> 01:03:49,000 QUESTIONS ABOUT PUBLIC OPTION 1571 01:03:49,001 --> 01:03:50,000 AND INDIVIDUAL MANDAS AND MANY 1572 01:03:50,001 --> 01:03:52,000 OTHER ISSUES THAT WE'RE GOING TO 1573 01:03:52,001 --> 01:03:55,000 HAVE TO WRESTLE WITH. 1574 01:03:55,001 --> 01:03:57,000 SENATOR ALEXANDER OF TENNESSEE, 1575 01:03:57,001 --> 01:03:59,000 WHO I MENTIONED EARLIER IN MY 1576 01:03:59,001 --> 01:04:00,000 COMMENTS, 1577 01:04:00,001 --> 01:04:01,000 AGO, IT'S TIME FOR US TO START 1578 01:04:01,001 --> 01:04:03,000 OVER WHEN IT 1579 01:04:03,001 --> 01:04:05,000 CARE DEBATE AND ENGAGE BOTH 1580 01:04:05,001 --> 01:04:07,000 SIDES OF THE AISLE IN THE DEBATE. 1581 01:04:07,001 --> 01:04:08,000 I WOULD SAY TO SENATOR 1582 01:04:08,001 --> 01:04:10,000 ALEXANDER, WE'VE SPENT A LOT OF 1583 01:04:10,001 --> 01:04:12,000 TIME LEARNING A LOT OF THINGS, 1584 01:04:12,001 --> 01:04:14,000 ABOUT THE HEALTH CARE CHALLENGES 1585 01:04:14,001 --> 01:04:15,000 OF AMERICA AND HOW TO REACH A 1586 01:04:15,001 --> 01:04:17,000 WAY TO DEAL WITH THEM. 1587 01:04:17,001 --> 01:04:18,000 WE HAVE KEPT THE DOOR OPEN FOR 1588 01:04:18,001 --> 01:04:20,000 THOSE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE 1589 01:04:20,001 --> 01:04:22,000 AISLE WHO ARE WILLING TO C 1590 01:04:22,001 --> 01:04:25,000 FORWARD 1591 01:04:25,001 --> 01:04:26,000 SOME HAVE SAID NO, THEY'RE NOT 1592 01:04:26,001 --> 01:04:30,000 INTERESTED FOR A VARIETY OF 1593 01:04:30,001 --> 01:04:33,000 AND TO DATE, ONLY THREE HAVE 1594 01:04:33,001 --> 01:04:34,000 STEPPED IN TO BIPARTISAN 1595 01:04:34,001 --> 01:04:35,000 CONVERSATION -- THREE REPUBLICAN SENATORS. 1596 01:04:35,001 --> 01:04:37,000 I HOPE MORE WILL. 1597 01:04:37,001 --> 01:04:39,000 IT WILL BE HEALTHY AND POSITIVE. 1598 01:04:39,001 --> 01:04:40,000 THE WORST THING WE CAN DO, 1599 01:04:40,001 --> 01:04:41,000 MR. PRESIDENT, IS TO WALK AWAY 1600 01:04:41,001 --> 01:04:43,000 FROM THIS ISSUE, TO S 1601 01:04:43,001 --> 01:04:46,000 BECAUSE SOME TOWN MEETINGS WERE 1602 01:04:46,001 --> 01:04:48,000 DISRUPTED OR SOME PEOPLE HAVE 1603 01:04:48,001 --> 01:04:49,000 STRONG EMOTIONAL FEELINGS ABOUT 1604 01:04:49,001 --> 01:04:50,000 THIS ISSUE, THAT WE NEED TO WALK 1605 01:04:50,001 --> 01:04:51,000 AWAY FROM IT. 1606 01:04:51,001 --> 01:04:54,000 BECAUSE THE CURRENT HEALTH CARE 1607 01:04:54,001 --> 01:04:57,000 SYSTEM IN AMERICA IS UNSUSTAINABLE. 1608 01:04:57,001 --> 01:04:58,000 IT IS T 1609 01:04:58,001 --> 01:04:59,000 WE SPEND TWICE AS MUCH PER 1610 01:04:59,001 --> 01:05:03,000 PERSON FOR HEALT 1611 01:05:03,001 --> 01:05:04,000 AMERICA AS ANY NATION ON EARTH. 1612 01:05:04,001 --> 01:05:06,000 AND THOSE THERE ARE POSITIVE 1613 01:05:06,001 --> 01:05:09,000 THINGS TO POINT TO IN TERMS OF 1614 01:05:09,001 --> 01:05:11,000 OUR HEALTH CARE IN OUR COUNTRY, 1615 01:05:11,001 --> 01:05:13,000 SOME COUNTRIES SPENDING FAR LESS 1616 01:05:13,001 --> 01:05:16,000 GET MUCH BETTER RESULTS IN MANY AREAS. 1617 01:05:16,001 --> 01:05:18,000 WE CAN DO 1618 01:05:18,001 --> 01:05:19,000 SECONDLY, WHO WOULD 1619 01:05:19,001 --> 01:05:21,000 HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM? 1620 01:05:21,001 --> 01:05:23,000 I WOULD HOPE EVERYONE 1621 01:05:23,001 --> 01:05:24,000 UNDERSTA 1622 01:05:24,001 --> 01:05:26,000 THE DAY THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE. 1623 01:05:26,001 --> 01:05:27,000 WE SHOULD DO THAT ON A 1624 01:05:27,001 --> 01:05:28,000 BIPARTISAN BASIS. 1625 01:05:28,001 --> 01:05:29,000 I HOPE THERE ARE THOSE WHO FEEL 1626 01:05:29,001 --> 01:05:31,000 WE SHOULD CREATE OPPORTUNITIES 1627 01:05:31,001 --> 01:05:34,000 FOR THOEGS WHO ARE UNINSURED -- 1628 01:05:34,001 --> 01:05:35,000 FOR THOSE WHO ARE UNINSURED TO 1629 01:05:35,001 --> 01:05:37,000 HAVE BASIC INSURANCE PROTECTION. 1630 01:05:37,001 --> 01:05:39,000 THOSE WHO CRITICIZE THE COST OF 1631 01:05:39,001 --> 01:05:40,000 HEALTH CARE REFORM OVERLOOK THE 1632 01:05:40,001 --> 01:05:42,000 OBVIOUS. 1633 01:05:42,001 --> 01:05:43,000 IF WE DON'T HELP LOW-INCOME 1634 01:05:43,001 --> 01:05:44,000 FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS IN 1635 01:05:44,001 --> 01:05:45,000 AMERICA PAY FOR HEALTH 1636 01:05:45,001 --> 01:05:47,000 INSURANCE, THEY WON'T HAVE IT. 1637 01:05:47,001 --> 01:05:48,000 AND IF THEY DON'T HAVE THAT 1638 01:05:48,001 --> 01:05:49,000 COVERAGE, WE'LL BE RIGHT WHERE 1639 01:05:49,001 --> 01:05:51,000 WE ARE TODAY. 1640 01:05:51,001 --> 01:05:52,000 WITH ONE-FOURTH OF THOSE NOT 1641 01:05:52,001 --> 01:05:53,000 COVERED BY GOVERNMENT PLANS 1642 01:05:53,001 --> 01:05:55,000 HAVING NO HEALTH INSURANCE 1643 01:05:55,001 --> 01:05:57,000 PROTECTION WHATSOEVER. 1644 01:05:57,001 --> 01:05:59,000 AND WE NEED TO CHANGE THE SYSTEM 1645 01:05:59,001 --> 01:06:00,000 TO FOCUS ON PREVENTION AND 1646 01:06:00,001 --> 01:06:01,000 WELLNESS. 1647 01:06:01,001 --> 01:06:03,000 THAT MEANS ENCRAGING MORE 1648 01:06:03,001 --> 01:06:04,000 PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIANS AND 1649 01:06:04,001 --> 01:06:06,000 HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS TO 1650 01:06:06,001 --> 01:06:07,000 REACH OUT TO FAMILIES AND 1651 01:06:07,001 --> 01:06:09,000 COMMUNITIES ACROSS ILLINOIS AND 1652 01:06:09,001 --> 01:06:12,000 ACROSS THE NATION. 1653 01:06:12,001 --> 01:06:13,000 IF WE DON'T DO SOMETHING ABOUT 1654 01:06:13,001 --> 01:06:15,000 THIS, I'M NOT SURE THAT WE CAN 1655 01:06:15,001 --> 01:06:18,000 SUSTAIN THE SYSTEM MUCH LONGER. 1656 01:06:18,001 --> 01:06:19,000 JUST A FEW YEARS AGO ONE OUT OF 1657 01:06:19,001 --> 01:06:21,000 THREE PEOPLE FILING FOR 1658 01:06:21,001 --> 01:06:22,000 BANKRUPTCY IN 1659 01:06:22,001 --> 01:06:24,000 BECAUSE OF MEDICAL COSTS. 1660 01:06:24,001 --> 01:06:26,000 ONE OUT OF THREE. 1661 01:06:26,001 --> 01:06:30,000 TODAY IT'S TWO OUT OF THREE. 1662 01:06:30,001 --> 01:06:32,000 TWO OUT OF EVERY THREE PERSONAL 1663 01:06:32,001 --> 01:06:34,000 BANKRUPTCIES IS OVER M COSTS. 1664 01:06:34,001 --> 01:06:36,000 AND LISTEN TO THIS: 78% OF THE 1665 01:06:36,001 --> 01:06:38,000 PEOPLE FILING FOR BANKRUPTCY 1666 01:06:38,001 --> 01:06:39,000 BECAUSE OF MEDICAL COSTS, 78% OF 1667 01:06:39,001 --> 01:06:41,000 THEM HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE. 1668 01:06:41,001 --> 01:06:42,000 IT ISN'T VERY GOOD. 1669 01:06:42,001 --> 01:06:43,000 IT DOESN'T PROTECT THEM WHEN 1670 01:06:43,001 --> 01:06:45,000 THEY NEED IT. 1671 01:06:45,001 --> 01:06:47,000 IT LEFT THEM HIGH AND DRY WHEN 1672 01:06:47,001 --> 01:06:50,000 MAJOR MEDICAL BILLS CAME THROUGH. 1673 01:06:50,001 --> 01:06:52,000 SO, THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING THIS 1674 01:06:52,001 --> 01:06:53,000 DEBATE 1675 01:06:53,001 --> 01:06:55,000 PEOPLE DON'T HAVE HEALTH 1676 01:06:55,001 --> 01:06:58,000 INSURANCE AND I'M SORRY SOME 1677 01:06:58,001 --> 01:06:59,000 PEOPLE ARE COMPLAINING, BUT I'M OKAY. 1678 01:06:59,001 --> 01:07:01,000 I'M COVERED. 1679 01:07:01,001 --> 01:07:02,000 SHOULD PAUSE AND REFLECT FOR A 1680 01:07:02,001 --> 01:07:04,000 MOMENT THAT MANY OF THE PEOPLE 1681 01:07:04,001 --> 01:07:06,000 IN BANKRUPTCY COURT TODAY 1682 01:07:06,001 --> 01:07:08,000 BANKRUPTCY AND THE LOSS OF 1683 01:07:08,001 --> 01:07:14,000 VIRTUALLY ALL THEIR ASSETS WERE 1684 01:07:14,001 --> 01:07:15,000 INSURANCE AND WHO ALSO, IN 1685 01:07:15,001 --> 01:07:18,000 BELIEF -- THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 1686 01:07:18,001 --> 01:07:19,000 SENATOR'S TIME HAS EXPIRED. 1687 01:07:19,001 --> 01:07:20,000 MR. DURBIN: WE HAVE A CHANCE 1688 01:07:20,001 --> 01:07:22,000 IN THE COMING WEEKS TO COME 1689 01:07:22,001 --> 01:07:24,000 TOGETHER ON A BIPARTISAN BASIS. 1690 01:07:24,001 --> 01:07:26,000 I HOPE THAT REPUBLICANS AND 1691 01:07:26,001 --> 01:07:27,000 DEMOCRATS WHO LISTEN CAREFULLY 1692 01:07:27,001 --> 01:07:30,000 AT HOME UNDERSTAND THAT DESPITE 1693 01:07:30,001 --> 01:07:31,000 THE 1694 01:07:31,001 --> 01:07:32,000 THAT WE CANNOT LEAVE THE CURRENT 1695 01:07:32,001 --> 01:07:40,000 SYSTEM AS IT IS. 1696 01:07:40,001 --> 01:07:41,000 IF WE DON'T MAKE A POSITIVE 1697 01:07:41,001 --> 01:07:42,000 A SENATOR: MR. PRESIDENT? 1698 01:07:42,001 --> 01:07:44,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 1699 01:07:44,001 --> 01:07:45,000 SENATOR FROM SOUTH CAROLINA. 1700 01:07:45,001 --> 01:07:48,000 MR. DeMINT: MR. PRESIDENT, WELCOME BACK. 1701 01:07:48,001 --> 01:07:49,000 THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK. 1702 01:07:49,001 --> 01:07:51,000 IF YOU WERE LIKE ME, YOU 1703 01:07:51,001 --> 01:07:52,000 PROBABLY HAD A NUMBER OF TOWN HALLS. 1704 01:07:52,001 --> 01:07:54,000 I KNOW A NUMBER 1705 01:07:54,001 --> 01:07:59,000 COLLEAGUES OVER THE HOLIDAYS DID. 1706 01:07:59,001 --> 01:08:01,000 I SAW A NUMBER OF THEM ON 1707 01:08:01,001 --> 01:08:02,000 TELEVISION AND SAW THE MANY 1708 01:08:02,001 --> 01:08:06,000 THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS WHO CAME 1709 01:08:06,001 --> 01:08:07,000 TO TOWN HALLS, AS THEY DID TO 1710 01:08:07,001 --> 01:08:09,000 MI, WHO WERE VERY CONCERNED 1711 01:08:09,001 --> 01:08:12,000 ABOUT THE DIRECTION OF OUR COUNTRY. 1712 01:08:12,001 --> 01:08:14,000 FRANKLY, IN SOUTH 1713 01:08:14,001 --> 01:08:16,000 HAD SEVERAL THOUSAND PEOPLE COME 1714 01:08:16,001 --> 01:08:18,000 TO DIFFERENT TOWN HALL MEETINGS, 1715 01:08:18,001 --> 01:08:20,000 ALL WITH A VERY VIEW. 1716 01:08:20,001 --> 01:08:22,000 THAT THOUGHT THIS GOVERNMENT HAD 1717 01:08:22,001 --> 01:08:24,000 GOTTEN TOO BIG, WAS SPENDING TOO 1718 01:08:24,001 --> 01:08:26,000 MUCH MONEY OR WERE TAXING TOO 1719 01:08:26,001 --> 01:08:27,000 MUCH AND TAKING OVER TOO MUCH OF 1720 01:08:27,001 --> 01:08:29,000 OUR ECONOMY. 1721 01:08:29,001 --> 01:08:33,000 A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE 1722 01:08:33,001 --> 01:08:35,000 CONCERNED NOT JUST ABOUT HEALTH CARE. 1723 01:08:35,001 --> 01:08:36,000 I CAN AGREE WITH THE SEN 1724 01:08:36,001 --> 01:08:38,000 THERE ARE MANY THINGS WE NEED TO 1725 01:08:38,001 --> 01:08:39,000 DO, BUT THE LAST THING WE SHOULD 1726 01:08:39,001 --> 01:08:42,000 DO IS HAVE THIS GOVERNMENT TAKE 1727 01:08:42,001 --> 01:08:44,000 IT OVER, AND MANY THINGS WE CAN 1728 01:08:44,001 --> 01:08:45,000 DO TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE GET MORE 1729 01:08:45,001 --> 01:08:47,000 INSURED. 1730 01:08:47,001 --> 01:08:48,000 PEOPLE WHO CAME TO OUR TOWN 1731 01:08:48,001 --> 01:08:51,000 HALLS AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY, 1732 01:08:51,001 --> 01:08:56,000 MANY, MANY OTHER TOWN 1733 01:08:56,001 --> 01:08:57,000 WERE NOT CONCERNED ABOUT ISSUE. 1734 01:08:57,001 --> 01:08:59,000 THEY LOOKED BACK OVER THE LAST 1735 01:08:59,001 --> 01:09:00,000 YEAR, OVER REPUBLICAN AND 1736 01:09:00,001 --> 01:09:02,000 DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT, TO SEE TWO 1737 01:09:02,001 --> 01:09:03,000 FAILED STIMULUS BLS, TWO 1738 01:09:03,001 --> 01:09:05,000 BAILOUTS WHICH MANY BELIEVED 1739 01:09:05,001 --> 01:09:07,000 WERE 1740 01:09:07,001 --> 01:09:09,000 PROPOSED TAKEOVER OF THE ENERGY 1741 01:09:09,001 --> 01:09:12,000 AND HEALTH CARE INDUSTRIES, AND 1742 01:09:12,001 --> 01:09:14,000 THE ACTUAL TAKEOVER OF BANKS AND 1743 01:09:14,001 --> 01:09:16,000 INSURANCE COMPANIES AND CARMAKERS. 1744 01:09:16,001 --> 01:09:19,000 PEOPLE ARE FED UP. 1745 01:09:19,001 --> 01:09:20,000 THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS SIMPLY 1746 01:09:20,001 --> 01:09:22,000 TOO BIG. 1747 01:09:22,001 --> 01:09:24,000 THE DEBTS WE'RE LOOKING AT NOW 1748 01:09:24,001 --> 01:09:28,000 FOR OURSELVES AND OUR CHILDREN 1749 01:09:28,001 --> 01:09:30,000 AND OUR GRANDCHILDREN ARE TRULY UNSUSTAINABLE. 1750 01:09:30,001 --> 01:09:31,000 PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHERE THE 1751 01:09:31,001 --> 01:09:34,000 MONEY'S COMING FROM. 1752 01:09:34,001 --> 01:09:38,000 THEY WONDER WHAT WE'RE THINKING ABOUT. 1753 01:09:38,001 --> 01:09:41,000 AND THE A 1754 01:09:41,001 --> 01:09:43,000 WHAT WE SAW OVER THE BREAK, THE 1755 01:09:43,001 --> 01:09:45,000 GENUINE OUTRAGE AND CONCERN 1756 01:09:45,001 --> 01:09:47,000 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, THE VERY 1757 01:09:47,001 --> 01:09:50,000 FIRST ITEM OF BUSINESS THAT 1758 01:09:50,001 --> 01:09:53,000 WE'RE GOING TO VOTE ON IN THIS 1759 01:09:53,001 --> 01:09:56,000 SENATE TODAY, AFTER THE AUGUST 1760 01:09:56,001 --> 01:10:00,000 BREAK, IS TO VOTE TO START 1761 01:10:00,001 --> 01:10:04,000 ANOTHER GOVERNMENT PROGR, TO 1762 01:10:04,001 --> 01:10:06,000 SPEND $400 MILLION TO INCREASE 1763 01:10:06,001 --> 01:10:09,000 TAXES TO GET THE FEDERAL 1764 01:10:09,001 --> 01:10:11,000 GO 1765 01:10:11,001 --> 01:10:14,000 PRIVATE-SECTOR BUSINESS. 1766 01:10:14,001 --> 01:10:15,000 WHAT DID WE LEARN OVER OUR 1767 01:10:15,001 --> 01:10:19,000 SUMMER VACATION? 1768 01:10:19,001 --> 01:10:22,000 IF WE VOTE TO PASS THIS BILL, 1769 01:10:22,001 --> 01:10:24,000 OBVIOUSLY LEARNED VERY LITTLE. 1770 01:10:24,001 --> 01:10:27,000 WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT IS T 1771 01:10:27,001 --> 01:10:29,000 TRAVEL 1772 01:10:29,001 --> 01:10:31,000 MANY OF YOU HERE IN THE GALLERY 1773 01:10:31,001 --> 01:10:33,000 AND AROUND THE COUNTRY THINK I'M 1774 01:10:33,001 --> 01:10:36,000 PROBABLY MAKING THIS UP. 1775 01:10:36,001 --> 01:10:38,000 THAT AFTER WHAT WE SAW 1776 01:10:38,001 --> 01:10:40,000 AMERICA, THAT WE WOULD ACTUALLY 1777 01:10:40,001 --> 01:10:44,000 HAVE THE SERVE TO BRING UP A 1778 01:10:44,001 --> 01:10:45,000 BILL THAT FORMS A NEW 1779 01:10:45,001 --> 01:10:49,000 GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED ENTERPRISE, 1780 01:10:49,001 --> 01:10:50,000 A LA FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC. 1781 01:10:50,001 --> 01:10:52,000 AND IT'S GOING TO BE A 1782 01:10:52,001 --> 01:10:53,000 GENERAL -- A 1783 01:10:53,001 --> 01:10:56,000 GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED ENTERPRISE 1784 01:10:56,001 --> 01:10:57,000 THAT PROMOTES TRAVEL AND TOURISM 1785 01:10:57,001 --> 01:11:01,000 IN AMERICA. 1786 01:11:01,001 --> 01:11:02,000 I GUESS WE CAN CALL IT FANNIE 1787 01:11:02,001 --> 01:11:03,000 TRAVEL. 1788 01:11:03,001 --> 01:11:06,000 LET ME TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT 1789 01:11:06,001 --> 01:11:08,000 ABOUT THE IDEA, BECAUSE THE IDEA 1790 01:11:08,001 --> 01:11:11,000 IS THAT TRAVEL AND TOURISM IN 1791 01:11:11,001 --> 01:11:12,000 AMERICA IS A VERY IMPORTANT 1792 01:11:12,001 --> 01:11:14,000 INDUSTRY -- WHICH IT IS. 1793 01:11:14,001 --> 01:11:16,000 IT'S THE NUMBER-ONE INDUSTRY IN 1794 01:11:16,001 --> 01:11:17,000 SOUTH CAROLINA. 1795 01:11:17,001 --> 01:11:18,000 IT'S ACTUALLY ONE OF THE MOST 1796 01:11:18,001 --> 01:11:19,000 PROSPEROUS. 1797 01:11:19,001 --> 01:11:20,000 THAT'S THE MAIN REASON WE DON'T 1798 01:11:20,001 --> 01:11:24,000 WANT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO 1799 01:11:24,001 --> 01:11:28,000 GET INVOLVED WITH 1800 01:11:28,001 --> 01:11:29,000 GOING TO CHARGE A $10 FEE FOR 1801 01:11:29,001 --> 01:11:33,000 EVERYONE W COMES TO VISIT 1802 01:11:33,001 --> 01:11:35,000 AMERICA IN ORDER TO PAY FOR THIS 1803 01:11:35,001 --> 01:11:37,000 ADVERTISING PROGRAM THAT WILL 1804 01:11:37,001 --> 01:11:38,000 PROMOTE AMERICAN PEOPLE ALL OVER 1805 01:11:38,001 --> 01:11:40,000 THE WORLD. 1806 01:11:40,001 --> 01:11:41,000 ALL THESE FEES WOULD BE POOLED, 1807 01:11:41,001 --> 01:11:44,000 AND THEY WOULD BE MATCHED BY 1808 01:11:44,001 --> 01:11:46,000 SOME OF THE MAJOR TOURISM 1809 01:11:46,001 --> 01:11:48,000 INDUSTRIES SUCH AS DISNEY. 1810 01:11:48,001 --> 01:11:50,000 AND WE WOULD HAVE A 1811 01:11:50,001 --> 01:11:55,000 GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED ENTERPRISE 1812 01:11:55,001 --> 01:11:57,000 THAT'S PROMOTING TOURISM. 1813 01:11:57,001 --> 01:11:58,000 BUT THEY'RE SAYING IT REALLY 1814 01:11:58,001 --> 01:11:59,000 WON'T COST AMERICANS ANYTHING 1815 01:11:59,001 --> 01:12:01,000 BECAUSE THIS IS A TAX ON 1816 01:12:01,001 --> 01:12:03,000 FOREIGNERS COMING TO THIS COUNTRY. 1817 01:12:03,001 --> 01:12:05,000 BUT I'VE GOT A LETTER IN MY 1818 01:12:05,001 --> 01:12:07,000 OFFICE FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION 1819 01:12:07,001 --> 01:12:10,000 AND OTHER ALLIES OF THIS COUNTRY 1820 01:12:10,001 --> 01:12:11,000 THAT SAYS THAT THIS IS VIOLATING 1821 01:12:11,001 --> 01:12:13,000 AGREEMENTS WE HAD W 1822 01:12:13,001 --> 01:12:16,000 AND IF WE DO THIS, THEY'RE GOING 1823 01:12:16,001 --> 01:12:17,000 TO ADD A SIMILAR FEE TO 1824 01:12:17,001 --> 01:12:18,000 AMERICANS VISITING THEIR 1825 01:12:18,001 --> 01:12:19,000 COUNTRY. 1826 01:12:19,001 --> 01:12:22,000 WE'RE 1827 01:12:22,001 --> 01:12:23,000 SOME OF OUR FRIENDS THAT WILL 1828 01:12:23,001 --> 01:12:24,000 ULTIMATELY END UP COSTING 1829 01:12:24,001 --> 01:12:27,000 AMERICANS MONEY. 1830 01:12:27,001 --> 01:12:29,000 IT WILL CREATE ANOTHER 1831 01:12:29,001 --> 01:12:34,000 GOVERNMENT ENTITY. 1832 01:12:34,001 --> 01:12:36,000 AND, FOLKS, IT'S NOT 1833 01:12:36,001 --> 01:12:37,000 THIS IS NOT ONE OF THOSE 1834 01:12:37,001 --> 01:12:39,000 EMERGENCIES THAT WE HAVE TO DO 1835 01:12:39,001 --> 01:12:40,000 THIS WEEK. 1836 01:12:40,001 --> 01:12:43,000 WHY, WHEN WE HAVE ALL OF THIS 1837 01:12:43,001 --> 01:12:46,000 DEBT, WOULD WE CREATE ANOTHER 1838 01:12:46,001 --> 01:12:47,000 PROGRAM AND ANOTHER TAX THAT 1839 01:12:47,001 --> 01:12:49,000 THIS FEDERAL 1840 01:12:49,001 --> 01:12:53,000 TO RUN? 1841 01:12:53,001 --> 01:12:56,000 MAYBE IT'S FANNIE TRAVEL. 1842 01:12:56,001 --> 01:12:58,000 MAYBE IT'S CASH FORRISM. 1843 01:12:58,001 --> 01:13:01,000 THE PROBLEM -- CASH FOR TOURISM. 1844 01:13:01,001 --> 01:13:03,000 THE PROBLEM WITH TOURISM IN 1845 01:13:03,001 --> 01:13:04,000 AMERICA IS NOT PEOPLE DON'T KNOW 1846 01:13:04,001 --> 01:13:06,000 WE'RE HERE. 1847 01:13:06,001 --> 01:13:08,000 THE PROBLEM IS WE'VE GOT ONE OF 1848 01:13:08,001 --> 01:13:09,000 THE MOST UNFRIENDLY IMMIGRATION 1849 01:13:09,001 --> 01:13:10,000 SERVICES IN THE WORLD. 1850 01:13:10,001 --> 01:13:12,000 WE ALSO ARE ONE OF THE MOST 1851 01:13:12,001 --> 01:13:17,000 DIFFICULT COUNTRIES TO GET A VISA FOR. 1852 01:13:17,001 --> 01:13:19,000 I HAVE A 1853 01:13:19,001 --> 01:13:21,000 WHO REGULARLY NEEDS TO BRING 1854 01:13:21,001 --> 01:13:22,000 PEOPLE FROM OTHER PARTS OF THE 1855 01:13:22,001 --> 01:13:25,000 WORLD TO TRAIN AMERICAN WORKERS, 1856 01:13:25,001 --> 01:13:26,000 BUT THEY CAN'T GET VISAS, SO 1857 01:13:26,001 --> 01:13:27,000 THEY SEND AMERICAN WORKERS TO 1858 01:13:27,001 --> 01:13:29,000 OTHER COUNTRIES TO GET THE 1859 01:13:29,001 --> 01:13:31,000 TRAINING THEY NEED BECAUSE IT'S 1860 01:13:31,001 --> 01:13:33,000 SO MUCH TROUBLE TO GET THE VISAS 1861 01:13:33,001 --> 01:13:35,000 TO GET THEM IN HERE. 1862 01:13:35,001 --> 01:13:37,000 MAJOR INDUSTRIES HAVE TRADE 1863 01:13:37,001 --> 01:13:39,000 SHOWS OUTSIDE OF THIS COUNTRY 1864 01:13:39,001 --> 01:13:41,000 BECAUSE YOUAN'T GET THE VISAS 1865 01:13:41,001 --> 01:13:42,000 FOR CUSTOMERS COMING IN LOOKING 1866 01:13:42,001 --> 01:13:43,000 AT OUR 1867 01:13:43,001 --> 01:13:46,000 THE PROBLEM IS NOT THAT PEOPLE 1868 01:13:46,001 --> 01:13:47,000 DON'T KNOW WE'RE HERE. 1869 01:13:47,001 --> 01:13:49,000 IT'S JUST THAT THE GOVERNMENT 1870 01:13:49,001 --> 01:13:52,000 INVOLVEMENT THAT'S ALREADY 1871 01:13:52,001 --> 01:13:54,000 INVOLVED WITH TOURISM AND TRAVEL 1872 01:13:54,001 --> 01:13:55,000 IN OUR COUNTRY IS NOT DOING A 1873 01:13:55,001 --> 01:13:57,000 GOOD JOB. 1874 01:13:57,001 --> 01:13:59,000 AND WHEN YOU HAVE PROBLEMS WITH 1875 01:13:59,001 --> 01:14:02,000 THE QUALITY OF YOUR PRODUCT, THE 1876 01:14:02,001 --> 01:14:04,000 LAST THING YOU 1877 01:14:04,001 --> 01:14:05,000 PRICES AND INCREASE ADVERTISING, 1878 01:14:05,001 --> 01:14:06,000 WHICH IS WHAT WE'RE TALKING 1879 01:14:06,001 --> 01:14:08,000 ABOUT DOING WITH THIS BILL. 1880 01:14:08,001 --> 01:14:10,000 THE FIRST THING WE NEED TO DO IS 1881 01:14:10,001 --> 01:14:13,000 MAKE SURE WE HAVE THE MOST 1882 01:14:13,001 --> 01:14:14,000 FRIENDLY AND EFFICIENT CUSTOM 1883 01:14:14,001 --> 01:14:16,000 SYSTEM IN THE WORLD, AND THAT 1884 01:14:16,001 --> 01:14:19,000 PEOPLE WHO WANT TO 1885 01:14:19,001 --> 01:14:20,000 COUNTRY CAN GET A VISA AND A 1886 01:14:20,001 --> 01:14:22,000 VERY QUICK BACKGRO 1887 01:14:22,001 --> 01:14:24,000 WE KNOW THE PEOPLE WHO COME IN HERE ARE SAFE. 1888 01:14:24,001 --> 01:14:25,000 BUT WE'RE NOT GOING TO SOLVE 1889 01:14:25,001 --> 01:14:27,000 THOSE PROBLEMS WITH HUNDREDS OF 1890 01:14:27,001 --> 01:14:29,000 MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF 1891 01:14:29,001 --> 01:14:33,000 ADVERTISING AND A NEW GOVERNMENT 1892 01:14:33,001 --> 01:14:34,000 AGEN 1893 01:14:34,001 --> 01:14:38,000 CORPOR COUNTRY. 1894 01:14:38,001 --> 01:14:42,000 TOURISM IS TOO IMPORTANT TO TURN 1895 01:14:42,001 --> 01:14:44,000 OVER TO THE 1896 01:14:44,001 --> 01:14:46,000 WH?? 1897 01:14:46,001 --> 01:14:47,000 -- WHAT A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE 1898 01:14:47,001 --> 01:14:49,000 CONCERNED ABOUT WHEN WE LOOK 1899 01:14:49,001 --> 01:14:51,000 AROUND THE COUNTRY AND THE LEVEL 1900 01:14:51,001 --> 01:14:53,000 OF DEBT 1901 01:14:53,001 --> 01:14:54,000 TH'RE CONCERNED THAT WE'RE 1902 01:14:54,001 --> 01:14:57,000 IGNORING THE CONSTITUTIONAL 1903 01:14:57,001 --> 01:14:58,000 PRINCIPLES THAT WE SWEAR AN OATH TO. 1904 01:14:58,001 --> 01:15:00,000 THEY'RE GOING TO ASK US WHEN WE 1905 01:15:00,001 --> 01:15:01,000 VOTE ON THIS BILL, WHERE IN THE 1906 01:15:01,001 --> 01:15:03,000 CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED 1907 01:15:03,001 --> 01:15:05,000 STATES DO WE FIND THE AUTHORITY 1908 01:15:05,001 --> 01:15:07,000 TO RUN TRAVE 1909 01:15:07,001 --> 01:15:10,000 THIS COUNTRY? 1910 01:15:10,001 --> 01:15:11,000 YOU KNOW, MAJOR TOURISM 1911 01:15:11,001 --> 01:15:12,000 COMPANIES LIKE DISNEY ARE NOT 1912 01:15:12,001 --> 01:15:14,000 HAVING TROUBLE. 1913 01:15:14,001 --> 01:15:16,000 IN FACT, I THINK DISNEY JUST 1914 01:15:16,001 --> 01:15:19,000 REPORTED A $4 BILLION PROFIT 1915 01:15:19,001 --> 01:15:22,000 FROM LAST YEAR AND THEY JUST 1916 01:15:22,001 --> 01:15:23,000 BOUGHT 1917 01:15:23,001 --> 01:15:25,000 FOR $4 BILLION. 1918 01:15:25,001 --> 01:15:28,000 OUR ECONOMY HAS PUT A STRAIN ON TOURISM, BUT THE FEDERAL 1919 01:15:28,001 --> 01:15:30,000 GOVERNMENT IS THE LAST ENTITY 1920 01:15:30,001 --> 01:15:32,000 THAT NEEDS TO TRY TO OUT. 1921 01:15:32,001 --> 01:15:34,000 WE DON'T HAVE ANY MONEY. 1922 01:15:34,001 --> 01:15:36,000 WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO BORROW 1923 01:15:36,001 --> 01:15:38,000 MONEY OR TAX SOMEONE TO CREATE 1924 01:15:38,001 --> 01:15:41,000 THIS NEW GOVERNMENT PROGRAM. 1925 01:15:41,001 --> 01:15:43,000 BUT THIS IS A DEBATE THAT 1926 01:15:43,001 --> 01:15:44,000 BACK TO WHAT 1927 01:15:44,001 --> 01:15:47,000 CONSTITUTION ALLOW US TO DO? 1928 01:15:47,001 --> 01:15:49,000 AND ARE YOU CAN'T READ THE 1929 01:15:49,001 --> 01:15:51,000 CONSTITUTION WITHOUT SEEING SOME 1930 01:15:51,001 --> 01:15:53,000 VERY SEVERE LIMITS ON WHAT IS 1931 01:15:53,001 --> 01:15:54,000 EXPECTED OF THIS FEDERAL 1932 01:15:54,001 --> 01:15:58,000 GOVERNMENT. 1933 01:15:58,001 --> 01:15:59,000 AND, CERTAINLY, THE 1934 01:15:59,001 --> 01:16:01,000 THE CASH FOR CLUNKERS AND THIS 1935 01:16:01,001 --> 01:16:04,000 NEW TRAVEL AND TOURISM AGENCY 1936 01:16:04,001 --> 01:16:06,000 THEY'RE STARTING HAS NOTHING TO 1937 01:16:06,001 --> 01:16:10,000 DO WITH OUR CONSTITUTIONAL 1938 01:16:10,001 --> 01:16:14,000 FUNCTIONS HERE. 1939 01:16:14,001 --> 01:16:15,000 FOLKS, WE'VE 1940 01:16:15,001 --> 01:16:16,000 OVER $11 TRILLION IN DEBT 1941 01:16:16,001 --> 01:16:19,000 ALREADY IN THIS COUNTRY. 1942 01:16:19,001 --> 01:16:21,000 WE'RE PROJECTING TO ALMOST 1943 01:16:21,001 --> 01:16:22,000 DOUBLE THAT OVER THE NEXT 10 1944 01:16:22,001 --> 01:16:25,000 YEARS WITH WHA 1945 01:16:25,001 --> 01:16:27,000 ON THE BOOKS. 1946 01:16:27,001 --> 01:16:29,000 WITH SOCIAL SECURITY AND 1947 01:16:29,001 --> 01:16:32,000 MEDICARE ALONE, THE UNFUNDED 1948 01:16:32,001 --> 01:16:34,000 LIABILITY THAT WE HAVE OUT MANY, 1949 01:16:34,001 --> 01:16:35,000 MANY YEARS IS LIK LIKE $100 TRILLION. 1950 01:16:35,001 --> 01:16:38,000 WE HAVE NO IDEA WHERE WE'RE 1951 01:16:38,001 --> 01:16:43,000 GOING TO GET ALL OF THIS MONEY. 1952 01:16:43,001 --> 01:16:45,000 HOW CAN WE EVEN DISCUSS STARTING 1953 01:16:45,001 --> 01:16:47,000 A NEW GOVERNMENT ENTITY WHEN THE 1954 01:16:47,001 --> 01:16:50,000 ONES THAT WE'VE STARTED ARE 1955 01:16:50,001 --> 01:16:51,000 REALLY AT HEART OF OUR ECONOMIC PROBLEMS? 1956 01:16:51,001 --> 01:16:54,000 YOU CAN'T UNDERSTAND OUR ECONOMY 1957 01:16:54,001 --> 01:16:56,000 WITHOUT SEEING FANNIE MAE AND 1958 01:16:56,001 --> 01:16:58,000 FREDDIE MAC PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN 1959 01:16:58,001 --> 01:16:59,000 BRINGING THE WORLDWIDE ECONOMY 1960 01:16:59,001 --> 01:17:02,000 TO ITS KNEES. 1961 01:17:02,001 --> 01:17:03,000 YOU DON'T HAVE TO LOOK BACK BUT 1962 01:17:03,001 --> 01:17:06,000 ONE MONTHS TO SEE 1963 01:17:06,001 --> 01:17:07,000 GOVERNMENT PROGRAM WE CREATED IN 1964 01:17:07,001 --> 01:17:11,000 CASH FORLUNKERS DID. 1965 01:17:11,001 --> 01:17:12,000 IT WAS GOING TO BE A $1 BILLION 1966 01:17:12,001 --> 01:17:13,000 SIX-MONTH PROMOTION AND SELL A 1967 01:17:13,001 --> 01:17:14,000 LOT OF CARS. 1968 01:17:14,001 --> 01:17:16,000 WE WERE OUT OF MONEY IN ONE WEEK 1969 01:17:16,001 --> 01:17:18,000 AND VOTED TO PASS 1970 01:17:18,001 --> 01:17:21,000 ANOTHER $2 BILLION AND 1971 01:17:21,001 --> 01:17:23,000 OF WEEKS LATER THEY CANCELED THE PROGRAM. 1972 01:17:23,001 --> 01:17:24,000 WE THE CAN'T RUN THE TRAVEL AND 1973 01:17:24,001 --> 01:17:25,000 PROMOTION INDUSTRY FROM 1974 01:17:25,001 --> 01:17:27,000 WASHINGTON, D.C. 1975 01:17:27,001 --> 01:17:29,000 FOLKS, I HAVE TO DRAW A VERY 1976 01:17:29,001 --> 01:17:31,000 DIFFICULT CONCLUSION, THAT ANY 1977 01:17:31,001 --> 01:17:33,000 OF MY FELLOW SENATORS WHO VOTE 1978 01:17:33,001 --> 01:17:34,000 FOR 1979 01:17:34,001 --> 01:17:37,000 UNDERSTAND THE SEVERITY OF OUR 1980 01:17:37,001 --> 01:17:40,000 ECONOMIC AND FISCAL PROBLEMS OR 1981 01:17:40,001 --> 01:17:42,000 THEY JUST DON'T CARE. 1982 01:17:42,001 --> 01:17:43,000 THEY CERTAINLY DENY HEAR 1983 01:17:43,001 --> 01:17:45,000 MILLIONS OF AMERICANS SPEAKING 1984 01:17:45,001 --> 01:17:48,000 OVER THE AUGUST BREAK IN TELLING 1985 01:17:48,001 --> 01:17:50,000 US THAT WE WANT -- THEY WANT US 1986 01:17:50,001 --> 01:17:52,000 TO GET BACK TO THE BUSINESS OF A 1987 01:17:52,001 --> 01:17:53,000 CONSTITUTIONAL FORM OF 1988 01:17:53,001 --> 01:17:56,000 GOVERNMENT AND STOP TRYING TO 1989 01:17:56,001 --> 01:17:58,000 WIN THEIR VOTES BY BRINGING HOME 1990 01:17:58,001 --> 01:17:59,000 THE BACON, WASTEFUL 1991 01:17:59,001 --> 01:18:05,000 EARMARKS AND NEW GOVERNMENT 1992 01:18:05,001 --> 01:18:07,000 PROGRAMS AND ALL OF THESE FALSE, 1993 01:18:07,001 --> 01:18:09,000 EMPTYROMISES BASED ON GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS. 1994 01:18:09,001 --> 01:18:10,000 I WOULD JUST ENCOURAGE MY 1995 01:18:10,001 --> 01:18:12,000 COLLEAGUES, LET'S GET THE REST 1996 01:18:12,001 --> 01:18:13,000 OF THE YEAR STARTED OFF IN A 1997 01:18:13,001 --> 01:18:15,000 REASONABLE 1998 01:18:15,001 --> 01:18:17,000 LET'S TALK ABOUT HOW TO FIX 1999 01:18:17,001 --> 01:18:18,000 HEALTH CARE. 2000 01:18:18,001 --> 01:18:22,000 LET'S TALK ABOUT HOW TO CREATE 2001 01:18:22,001 --> 01:18:25,000 JOBS IN AMERICA. 2002 01:18:25,001 --> 01:18:27,000 BUT, FOR 2003 01:18:27,001 --> 01:18:29,000 DON'T CREATE A NEW GOVERNMENT 2004 01:18:29,001 --> 01:18:30,000 PROGRAM AS THE FIRST VOTE WE TAKE IN THE SENATE. 2005 01:18:30,001 --> 01:19:12,000 I THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. 2006 01:19:12,001 --> 01:19:13,000 I 2007 01:19:13,001 --> 01:19:14,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 2008 01:19:14,001 --> 01:19:16,000 SENATOR FROM ARIZONA. 2009 01:19:16,001 --> 01:19:18,000 MR. McCAIN: MR. PRESIDENT, 2010 01:19:18,001 --> 01:19:20,000 TODAY, AS WE ALL 2011 01:19:20,001 --> 01:19:22,000 FRURNS THEUGUST RECESS -- 2012 01:19:22,001 --> 01:19:23,000 RETURNS FROM THE AUGUST RECESS, 2013 01:19:23,001 --> 01:19:27,000 AND PERHAPS ONE OF THE MOST 2014 01:19:27,001 --> 01:19:31,000 IMPORTANT ISSUES OF RECENT TIME 2015 01:19:31,001 --> 01:19:32,000 AFFECTING ONE-SIXTH OF AMERICA'S 2016 01:19:32,001 --> 01:19:36,000 GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT AND 2017 01:19:36,001 --> 01:19:37,000 RISING TO AS MUCH AS ONE-FIFTH 2018 01:19:37,001 --> 01:19:40,000 IS HEALTH CARE AND HEALTH CARE 2019 01:19:40,001 --> 01:19:42,000 REFORM WILL BE FRONT AND CENTER, 2020 01:19:42,001 --> 01:19:44,000 INCLUDING A HIGHLY UNUSUAL 2021 01:19:44,001 --> 01:19:45,000 APPEARANCE TOMORROW NIGHT BEFORE 2022 01:19:45,001 --> 01:19:46,000 A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS BY 2023 01:19:46,001 --> 01:19:48,000 THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED 2024 01:19:48,001 --> 01:19:51,000 STATES. 2025 01:19:51,001 --> 01:19:53,000 THE LAST TIME, A 2026 01:19:53,001 --> 01:19:56,000 SUCH A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS 2027 01:19:56,001 --> 01:19:59,000 WAS CALLED 2028 01:19:59,001 --> 01:20:01,000 REGULAR ONE, WAS BY FORMER 2029 01:20:01,001 --> 01:20:03,000 PRESIDENT BUSH CONCERNING THE 2030 01:20:03,001 --> 01:20:06,000 EVENTS SURROUNDING THE ATTACKS 2031 01:20:06,001 --> 01:20:07,000 ON THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2032 01:20:07,001 --> 01:20:12,000 OF 9/11. 2033 01:20:12,001 --> 01:20:14,000 DURING 2034 01:20:14,001 --> 01:20:16,000 ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES, A VERY 2035 01:20:16,001 --> 01:20:18,000 BUSY SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS AND 2036 01:20:18,001 --> 01:20:23,000 ADDRESSING VARIOUS ISSUES, 2037 01:20:23,001 --> 01:20:26,000 INCLUDING TRAVEL TO IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN. 2038 01:20:26,001 --> 01:20:27,000 AND THAT VISIT WILL BE SUB -- 2039 01:20:27,001 --> 01:20:28,000 THE SUBJECT OF OTHER STATEMENTS 2040 01:20:28,001 --> 01:20:31,000 ON THE FLOOR. 2041 01:20:31,001 --> 01:20:33,000 BUT 2042 01:20:33,001 --> 01:20:37,000 HALL MEETINGS WITH MY CONSTITUENTS. 2043 01:20:37,001 --> 01:20:38,000 I ALSO ATTENDED MEETINGS AND 2044 01:20:38,001 --> 01:20:39,000 FORUMS WITH HEALTH CARE 2045 01:20:39,001 --> 01:20:42,000 PROVIDERS IN MISSOURI, NORTH 2046 01:20:42,001 --> 01:20:43,000 CAROLINA, AND FLORIDA, SO THAT I 2047 01:20:43,001 --> 01:20:45,000 COULD -- ALONG WITH MY 2048 01:20:45,001 --> 01:20:47,000 COLLEAGUES -- BETTER UNDERST 2049 01:20:47,001 --> 01:20:48,000 AMERICA'S THOUGHTS AND IDEAS ON 2050 01:20:48,001 --> 01:20:50,000 REFORMING OUR NATION'S HEALTH 2051 01:20:50,001 --> 01:20:51,000 CARE SYSTEM. 2052 01:20:51,001 --> 01:20:56,000 MR. PRESIDENT, I HAVE 2053 01:20:56,001 --> 01:20:59,000 THAT THERE IS A PEACEFUL 2054 01:20:59,001 --> 01:21:01,000 REVOLUTION GOING ON OUT IN AMERICA. 2055 01:21:01,001 --> 01:21:05,000 I HAVE NOT SEEN IN THE YEARS 2056 01:21:05,001 --> 01:21:09,000 THAT I HAVE BEEN A MEMBER OF 2057 01:21:09,001 --> 01:21:12,000 CONGRESS SUCH ANGER AND 2058 01:21:12,001 --> 01:21:14,000 DISSATISFACTION WITH THE WAY 2059 01:21:14,001 --> 01:21:16,000 THAT THE CONGRESS AND, WE IN 2060 01:21:16,001 --> 01:21:18,000 WASHINGTON, ARE DOING BUSINESS. 2061 01:21:18,001 --> 01:21:21,000 WE ALL KNOW THAT THE PRESIDENT'S 2062 01:21:21,001 --> 01:21:26,000 APPROVAL NUMBERS FALL. 2063 01:21:26,001 --> 01:21:28,000 AND THE UNRULY AND SOMETIMES 2064 01:21:28,001 --> 01:21:32,000 DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR AT TOWN HALL 2065 01:21:32,001 --> 01:21:35,000 MEETINGS HAS BEEN AN EXHIBIT OF 2066 01:21:35,001 --> 01:21:37,000 THE ANGER AND DISSATISFACTION 2067 01:21:37,001 --> 01:21:39,000 THAT AMERICANS FEEL. 2068 01:21:39,001 --> 01:21:40,000 I'D LIKE TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT I 2069 01:21:40,001 --> 01:21:43,000 THINK THE TOWN HALL MEETINGS 2070 01:21:43,001 --> 01:21:44,000 SHOULD BE CONDUCTED WITH RESPECT. 2071 01:21:44,001 --> 01:21:46,000 THEY SHOULD BE CONDUCTED IN A 2072 01:21:46,001 --> 01:21:48,000 WAY THAT IS AN AMERICAN 2073 01:21:48,001 --> 01:21:51,000 TRADITION THAT ALL AMERICANS 2074 01:21:51,001 --> 01:21:52,000 BE HEARD FROM AS WELL AS THEIR 2075 01:21:52,001 --> 01:21:55,000 ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES. 2076 01:21:55,001 --> 01:21:57,000 BUT THERE'S NO DOUBT THAT PEOPLE 2077 01:21:57,001 --> 01:22:00,000 ATTENDED TOWN HALL MEETINGS 2078 01:22:00,001 --> 01:22:03,000 NEVER BEFORE IN THEIR LIVES HAD 2079 01:22:03,001 --> 01:22:04,000 BEEN ENGAGED IN ANY DEBATE IN AMERICA. 2080 01:22:04,001 --> 01:22:05,000 AND THERE'S SOMETHING GOING ON 2081 01:22:05,001 --> 01:22:08,000 OUT THERE. 2082 01:22:08,001 --> 01:22:10,000 I CERTAINLY GOT THE MESSAGE AND 2083 01:22:10,001 --> 01:22:13,000 I HOPE THAT THE MAJORITY OF MY 2084 01:22:13,001 --> 01:22:15,000 COLLEAGUES DID AS WELL. 2085 01:22:15,001 --> 01:22:20,000 AND IT'S MORE CLEAR TO ME THAT 2086 01:22:20,001 --> 01:22:21,000 WE HAVE TO REFORM THE WAY THAT 2087 01:22:21,001 --> 01:22:23,000 COUNTRY, BUT WE? HAVE TO DO 2088 01:22:23,001 --> 01:22:27,000 THE RIGHT WAY WITHOUT A 2089 01:22:27,001 --> 01:22:28,000 GOVERNMENT 2090 01:22:28,001 --> 01:22:30,000 THE PROBLEM WITH HEALTH CARE IN 2091 01:22:30,001 --> 01:22:31,000 AMERICA IS NOT THE QUALITY OF 2092 01:22:31,001 --> 01:22:33,000 HEALTH CARE. 2093 01:22:33,001 --> 01:22:36,000 THE PROBLEM WITH HEALTH CARE IN 2094 01:22:36,001 --> 01:22:42,000 AMERICA IS 2095 01:22:42,001 --> 01:22:44,000 CARE THAT ALMOST OR NET DOUBLE 2096 01:22:44,001 --> 01:22:46,000 DIGIT INFLATION THAT TAKES PLA 2097 01:22:46,001 --> 01:22:48,000 ANNUALLY WHICH DEPRIVES MORE AND 2098 01:22:48,001 --> 01:22:49,000 MORE AMECANS THEIR ABILITY TO 2099 01:22:49,001 --> 01:22:50,000 ACQUIRE AND KEEP HEALTH 2100 01:22:50,001 --> 01:22:52,000 INSURANCE. 2101 01:22:52,001 --> 01:22:53,000 NOW, AMONG OTHER PLACES I 2102 01:22:53,001 --> 01:22:56,000 SITED RECENTLY, ONE OF THEM 2103 01:22:56,001 --> 01:22:59,000 WAS A PLACE CALLED M.D. 2104 01:22:59,001 --> 01:23:01,000 ANDERSON, A CANCER TREATMENT 2105 01:23:01,001 --> 01:23:03,000 FACILITY IN 2106 01:23:03,001 --> 01:23:04,000 THERE WERE PATIENTS FROM 90 2107 01:23:04,001 --> 01:23:05,000 COUNTRIES ALL OVER THE WORLD. 2108 01:23:05,001 --> 01:23:07,000 WHY? 2109 01:23:07,001 --> 01:23:08,000 BECAUSE IT'S THE HIGHEST QUALITY 2110 01:23:08,001 --> 01:23:10,000 HEALTH 2111 01:23:10,001 --> 01:23:11,000 SO THE FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE 2112 01:23:11,001 --> 01:23:14,000 THAT WE HAVE HERE BETWEEN THOSE 2113 01:23:14,001 --> 01:23:16,000 OF US WHO WANT TO REFORM HEALTH 2114 01:23:16,001 --> 01:23:18,000 CARE TO REDUCE THE COSTS AND 2115 01:23:18,001 --> 01:23:20,000 MAINTAIN THE QUALITY IS THE 2116 01:23:20,001 --> 01:23:21,000 ARGUMENT FROM THE PRESIDENT AND 2117 01:23:21,001 --> 01:23:23,000 ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE AISLE 2118 01:23:23,001 --> 01:23:25,000 THAT THEY WANT A -- QUOTE -- 2119 01:23:25,001 --> 01:23:28,000 "GOVERNMENT OPTION" THAT THEY 2120 01:23:28,001 --> 01:23:29,000 REFUSE TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE 2121 01:23:29,001 --> 01:23:32,000 MEDICAL MALPRACTICE REFORM, THAT 2122 01:23:32,001 --> 01:23:35,000 THEYEFUSE TO ALLOW SOMEONE TO 2123 01:23:35,001 --> 01:23:36,000 GO ACROSS STATE LINES AND 2124 01:23:36,001 --> 01:23:39,000 ACQUIRE THE HEALTH INSURANCE OF 2125 01:23:39,001 --> 01:23:42,000 THEIR CHOICE, THAT THEY CONTINUE 2126 01:23:42,001 --> 01:23:45,000 TO ALLOW PRACTICES TO GO ON THAT 2127 01:23:45,001 --> 01:23:46,000 BREED 2128 01:23:46,001 --> 01:23:48,000 MEDICARE, WHICH ARE WELL 2129 01:23:48,001 --> 01:23:49,000 DOCUMENTED TO THE TUNE OF 2130 01:23:49,001 --> 01:23:51,000 HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS 2131 01:23:51,001 --> 01:23:53,000 A YEAR. 2132 01:23:53,001 --> 01:23:54,000 WE MUST REFORM HEALTH 2133 01:23:54,001 --> 01:23:58,000 WE CAN'T DO IT 2134 01:23:58,001 --> 01:23:59,000 SOLUTION THAT IS ADVOCATED BY 2135 01:23:59,001 --> 01:24:01,000 THE OTHER 2136 01:24:01,001 --> 01:24:05,000 AND THAT'S WHY WE'VE BEEN UNABLE 2137 01:24:05,001 --> 01:24:08,000 TO REACH AN AGREEMENT BECAUSE WE 2138 01:24:08,001 --> 01:24:09,000 HAVE TWO 2139 01:24:09,001 --> 01:24:10,000 PHILOSOPHICAL DIFFERENCES 2140 01:24:10,001 --> 01:24:12,000 BETWEEN OURSELVES AND THOSE WHO 2141 01:24:12,001 --> 01:24:14,000 WANT TO HAVE THE GOVERNMENT 2142 01:24:14,001 --> 01:24:15,000 OPTION, WHO WANT TO HAVE GREATER 2143 01:24:15,001 --> 01:24:17,000 AND GREATER INTERVENTION IN THE 2144 01:24:17,001 --> 01:24:21,000 HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, AND I 2145 01:24:21,001 --> 01:24:23,000 ON THE WAY OVER FROM THE A.P. 2146 01:24:23,001 --> 01:24:27,000 READ THIS -- THAT IT SAYS THAT 2147 01:24:27,001 --> 01:24:29,000 UP TO $3,800 FINE FOR FAILURE TO 2148 01:24:29,001 --> 01:24:31,000 GET HEALTH INSURANCE. 2149 01:24:31,001 --> 01:24:33,000 WASHINGTON A.P., A TOP SENATOR 2150 01:24:33,001 --> 01:24:36,000 IS CALLING FOR FINES UP T 2151 01:24:36,001 --> 01:24:39,000 TO $3,800 ON FAMILIES WHO FAIL 2152 01:24:39,001 --> 01:24:42,000 TO GET MEDICAL INSURANCE AFTER A 2153 01:24:42,001 --> 01:24:43,000 HEALTH CARE OVERHAUL GOES INTO EFFECT. 2154 01:24:43,001 --> 01:24:46,000 MY FRIENDS, DO WE 2155 01:24:46,001 --> 01:24:48,000 THAT TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE? 2156 01:24:48,001 --> 01:24:50,000 A $3,800 FINE? 2157 01:24:50,001 --> 01:24:53,000 AND THAT'S WHY WE ALSO NEED 2158 01:24:53,001 --> 01:24:56,000 STEP BACK AND EXAMINE THE 2159 01:24:56,001 --> 01:24:57,000 600-PAGE BILL WE PASSED TOUGH 2160 01:24:57,001 --> 01:24:59,000 THE "HELP" COMMITTEE WITHOUT THE 2161 01:24:59,001 --> 01:25:01,000 FINANCING PROVISION, 2162 01:25:01,001 --> 01:25:02,000 MANY THOUSAND PAGE -- THOUSAND 2163 01:25:02,001 --> 01:25:04,000 PAGE ORA?O BILL THAT WAS PASSED 2164 01:25:04,001 --> 01:25:06,000 THROUGH THE HOUSE JUST BEFORE 2165 01:25:06,001 --> 01:25:10,000 THEY LEFT AND FIG 2166 01:25:10,001 --> 01:25:12,000 ELSE WE HAVE ADDED IN THIS BILL. 2167 01:25:12,001 --> 01:25:13,000 SO WHY ARE AMERICANS ANGRY AND 2168 01:25:13,001 --> 01:25:15,000 UPSET? 2169 01:25:15,001 --> 01:25:17,000 THEY'RE A 2170 01:25:17,001 --> 01:25:19,000 PRESIDENT, BECAUSE OF THIS -- 2171 01:25:19,001 --> 01:25:23,000 BECAUSE WE SPENT $778 BILLIO 2172 01:25:23,001 --> 01:25:25,000 THE STIMULUS 2173 01:25:25,001 --> 01:25:28,000 IS $1.1 TRILLION WITH 2174 01:25:28,001 --> 01:25:30,000 INTEREST, $700 BILLION ON TARP 2175 01:25:30,001 --> 01:25:33,000 TARP, $410 BILLION WITH 9,000 2176 01:25:33,001 --> 01:25:35,000 EARMARKS IN IT IN 2177 01:25:35,001 --> 01:25:36,000 APPROPRIATIONS BILL. 2178 01:25:36,001 --> 01:25:37,000 $3.5 TRILLION IN THE BUDGET 2179 01:25:37,001 --> 01:25:39,000 RESOLUTION. 2180 01:25:39,001 --> 01:25:40,000 $83 BILLION TO BAIL OUT AUTO 2181 01:25:40,001 --> 01:25:42,000 COMPANIES. 2182 01:25:42,001 --> 01:25:43,000 $33 2183 01:25:43,001 --> 01:25:44,000 CHILDREN'S HEALTH INSURANCE 2184 01:25:44,001 --> 01:25:47,000 PROGRAM. 2185 01:25:47,001 --> 01:25:49,000 AND A $1 TRILLION TO $2 TRILLION 2186 01:25:49,001 --> 01:25:50,000 COST ASSOCIATED WITH 2187 01:25:50,001 --> 01:25:52,000 COMMITTEE'S PLAN THAT WENT 2188 01:25:52,001 --> 01:25:53,000 THROUGH THE "HELP" COMMITTEE 2189 01:25:53,001 --> 01:25:56,000 ACCORDING TO THE CONGRESSIONAL 2190 01:25:56,001 --> 01:25:59,000 BUDGET OFFICE, WHICH WOULD NOT 2191 01:25:59,001 --> 01:26:00,000 BEND THE CURVE ACCORDING TO THE 2192 01:26:00,001 --> 01:26:02,000 CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE. 2193 01:26:02,001 --> 01:26:04,000 AND WHAT HAVE WE GOTTEN FOR ALL 2194 01:26:04,001 --> 01:26:07,000 OF THIS? 2195 01:26:07,001 --> 01:26:13,000 MY FRIENDS, WE'VE GONE FROM 8% 2196 01:26:13,001 --> 01:26:15,000 TO 9.7% -- WE'VE GONE TO 9.7% UNEMPLOYME 2197 01:26:15,001 --> 01:26:18,000 AFTER THE PRESIDENT AND ALL OF 2198 01:26:18,001 --> 01:26:19,000 HIS ECONOMIC ADVISERS SAID IF WE 2199 01:26:19,001 --> 01:26:21,000 PASS THE STIMULUS BILL, 2200 01:26:21,001 --> 01:26:22,000 UNEMPLOYMENT WILL BE A MAXIMUM 2201 01:26:22,001 --> 01:26:24,000 OF 8%. 2202 01:26:24,001 --> 01:26:27,000 AS THEY SAY, YOU CAN LOOKT UP. 2203 01:26:27,001 --> 01:26:31,000 IT'S NOW 2204 01:26:31,001 --> 01:26:32,000 THE PUBLIC DEBT I 2205 01:26:32,001 --> 01:26:34,000 IS $11.7 TRILLION AND SOMETIME 2206 01:26:34,001 --> 01:26:36,000 IN OCTOBER WE ARE GOING TO HAVE 2207 01:26:36,001 --> 01:26:41,000 TO INCREASE THE FEDERAL DEBT 2208 01:26:41,001 --> 01:26:43,000 LIMIT WHICH IS GOING TO GO 2209 01:26:43,001 --> 01:26:44,000 AND I WOULD REMIND YOU THAT 2210 01:26:44,001 --> 01:26:48,000 WE'RE ALL RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT 2211 01:26:48,001 --> 01:26:49,000 WE SAY IN 2006 THE CURRENT 2212 01:26:49,001 --> 01:26:52,000 PRESIDENT SPOKE IN OPPOSITION TO 2213 01:26:52,001 --> 01:26:53,000 RAISING THE DEBT LIMIT 2214 01:26:53,001 --> 01:26:55,000 TO $9 TRILLION SAYING -- QUOTE 2215 01:26:55,001 --> 01:26:57,000 -- "WASHINGTON IS SHIFTING THE 2216 01:26:57,001 --> 01:26:59,000 BURDEN OF BAD CHOICES TODAY ON 2217 01:26:59,001 --> 01:27:00,000 TO THE BACKS OF OUR CHILDREN AND 2218 01:27:00,001 --> 01:27:02,000 GRANDCHILDREN. 2219 01:27:02,001 --> 01:27:05,000 AMER 2220 01:27:05,001 --> 01:27:07,000 FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP." UNQUOTE. 2221 01:27:07,001 --> 01:27:09,000 THAT WAS FROM A QUOTE FROM THE 2222 01:27:09,001 --> 01:27:10,000 THEN SENATOR FROM ILLINOIS, NOW 2223 01:27:10,001 --> 01:27:12,000 PRES 2224 01:27:12,001 --> 01:27:18,000 SO WHERE DID WE GO? 2225 01:27:18,001 --> 01:27:20,000 WH 2226 01:27:20,001 --> 01:27:23,000 TO 12 AND A FEW WEEKS AGO A 2227 01:27:23,001 --> 01:27:26,000 SMALL ROUNDING ERA, OVER A 2228 01:27:26,001 --> 01:27:27,000 10-YEAR DEFICIT WAS FRO 2229 01:27:27,001 --> 01:27:30,000 FR 2230 01:27:30,001 --> 01:27:33,000 JUST A $2 TRILLION ROUNDING 2231 01:27:33,001 --> 01:27:35,000 ERROR. 2232 01:27:35,001 --> 01:27:36,000 SO THAT, MR. PRESIDENT, WHAT THE 2233 01:27:36,001 --> 01:27:37,000 AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE 2234 01:27:37,001 --> 01:27:39,000 ABOUT. 2235 01:27:39,001 --> 01:27:41,000 THE COMMISSION OF GENERATIONAL 2236 01:27:41,001 --> 01:27:45,000 THEFT ON OUR CHILDREN GRANDCHILDREN. 2237 01:27:45,001 --> 01:27:47,000 AND NO ONE -- NO ONE HAS A 2238 01:27:47,001 --> 01:27:50,000 IN THE ADMISSION FOR BRINGING A 2239 01:27:50,001 --> 01:27:51,000 BUDGET BACK INTO BALAN 2240 01:27:51,001 --> 01:27:54,000 NO ONE. 2241 01:27:54,001 --> 01:27:55,000 I THINK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AT 2242 01:27:55,001 --> 01:27:57,000 LEAST DESERVE IT. 2243 01:27:57,001 --> 01:28:00,000 YESTERDAY THE PRESIDENT SPOKE IN 2244 01:28:00,001 --> 01:28:02,000 FRONT OF HIS UNION ALLIES AND A 2245 01:28:02,001 --> 01:28:04,000 PART -- I 2246 01:28:04,001 --> 01:28:06,000 STYLE SPEECH WHERE THE PRESIDENT 2247 01:28:06,001 --> 01:28:08,000 QUESTIONED THE MOTIVES OF THOSE 2248 01:28:08,001 --> 01:28:10,000 WHO RAISED CONCERNS ABOUT T 2249 01:28:10,001 --> 01:28:12,000 MUCH GOVERNMENT CONTROL OVER OUR 2250 01:28:12,001 --> 01:28:14,000 HEALTH CARE ECONOMY AND INSTEAD 2251 01:28:14,001 --> 01:28:16,000 WRONGLY CRITICIZED OUR SIDE FOR 2252 01:28:16,001 --> 01:28:18,000 HAVING NO IDEAS OF OUR OWN. 2253 01:28:18,001 --> 01:28:19,000 WE'VE GOT -- WE'VE GOT PLENTY OF 2254 01:28:19,001 --> 01:28:21,000 IDEAS, MR. PRESINT. 2255 01:28:21,001 --> 01:28:22,000 NONE OF THEM HAVE BEEN 2256 01:28:22,001 --> 01:28:24,000 CONSIDERED IN THE "HELP" 2257 01:28:24,001 --> 01:28:26,000 COMMITTEE OR BY THE UNITED 2258 01:28:26,001 --> 01:28:27,000 STATES SENATE OR 2259 01:28:27,001 --> 01:28:29,000 REPRESENTATIVES. 2260 01:28:29,001 --> 01:28:31,000 THE "HELP" COMMITTEE BILL WAS 2261 01:28:31,001 --> 01:28:32,000 WRITTEN ONLY BY THE DEMOCRATS. 2262 01:28:32,001 --> 01:28:34,000 THERE WAS NO INPUT FROM THIS 2263 01:28:34,001 --> 01:28:35,000 SIDE OF THE AISLE. 2264 01:28:35,001 --> 01:28:38,000 EVERY MEANINGFUL AMENDMENT THAT 2265 01:28:38,001 --> 01:28:40,000 WAS PROPOSED WAS REJECTED, 2266 01:28:40,001 --> 01:28:42,000 INCLUDING MALPRATICE REFORM. 2267 01:28:42,001 --> 01:28:43,000 HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY -- HOW C 2268 01:28:43,001 --> 01:28:46,000 YOUOSSIBLY LOOK THE AMERICAN 2269 01:28:46,001 --> 01:28:48,000 PEOPLE IN THE -- IN THE FACE AND 2270 01:28:48,001 --> 01:28:50,000 SAY -- WE'RE GOING TO BRING DOWN 2271 01:28:50,001 --> 01:28:53,000 THE COST OF HEALTH CARE WITHOUT 2272 01:28:53,001 --> 01:28:55,000 ASK ANY PHYSICIAN. 2273 01:28:55,001 --> 01:28:56,000 ASK ANY PHYSICIAN -- ASK ANY 2274 01:28:56,001 --> 01:28:58,000 PHYSICIAN AND THEY'LL TELL YOU 2275 01:28:58,001 --> 01:29:00,000 THAT PHYSICIANS ARE REQUIRED TO 2276 01:29:00,001 --> 01:29:01,000 PRACTICE DEFENSIVE MEDICINE 2277 01:29:01,001 --> 01:29:02,000 BECAUSE OF THE FEAR OF BEING 2278 01:29:02,001 --> 01:29:04,000 SUED. 2279 01:29:04,001 --> 01:29:06,000 UNNECESSARY TESTS AND PROCEDURES 2280 01:29:06,001 --> 01:29:07,000 ARE PERFORMED TIME AFTER TIME 2281 01:29:07,001 --> 01:29:10,000 AFTER TIME. 2282 01:29:10,001 --> 01:29:14,000 MR. PRESIDENT, I WAS IN MIAMI AT 2283 01:29:14,001 --> 01:29:16,000 THE PALM 2284 01:29:16,001 --> 01:29:18,000 I ASKED ONE OF THE SURGEONS, I 2285 01:29:18,001 --> 01:29:19,000 SAID, HOW DO YOU AFFORD YOUR 2286 01:29:19,001 --> 01:29:20,000 HEALTH 2287 01:29:20,001 --> 01:29:21,000 HE SAID, I DON'T. 2288 01:29:21,001 --> 01:29:24,000 WE DON'T. 2289 01:29:24,001 --> 01:29:26,000 WEAON'T KEEP INSURANCE ANYMORE 2290 01:29:26,001 --> 01:29:28,000 CAUSE WE CAN'T AFFORD IT. 2291 01:29:28,001 --> 01:29:29,000 AND WE'RE PROBABLY NOT 2292 01:29:29,001 --> 01:29:31,000 GET SUED BECAUSE THEY KNOW WE 2293 01:29:31,001 --> 01:29:34,000 ONLY HAVE SO MUCH IN ASSETS. 2294 01:29:34,001 --> 01:29:36,000 SO NOW WE ARE -- WE ARE PUTTING 2295 01:29:36,001 --> 01:29:39,000 PHYSICIANS AND CARE PROVIDERS IN 2296 01:29:39,001 --> 01:29:44,000 A POSITION WHERE THEY BASICALLY 2297 01:29:44,001 --> 01:29:48,000 CANNOT AFFORD NOR 2298 01:29:48,001 --> 01:29:50,000 HEALTH -- MALPRACTICE INSURANCE 2299 01:29:50,001 --> 01:29:52,000 BECAUSE THE PREMIUMS ARE SO HIGH 2300 01:29:52,001 --> 01:29:56,000 AND THEY ARE TARGETS F THE 2301 01:29:56,001 --> 01:29:57,000 TRIAL LAWYERS. 2302 01:29:57,001 --> 01:29:59,000 NOW, AS I SAID, WE HAVE A NUMBER 2303 01:29:59,001 --> 01:30:00,000 OF ALTERNATIVES, AND MOST OF 2304 01:30:00,001 --> 01:30:02,000 THEM ARE MARKET BASED. 2305 01:30:02,001 --> 01:30:04,000 MOST OF THEM HAVE TO DO WITH 2306 01:30:04,001 --> 01:30:08,000 PRESERVING THE QUALITY OF HEALTH 2307 01:30:08,001 --> 01:30:09,000 CARE INA AMERICA YET BRINGING 2308 01:30:09,001 --> 01:30:10,000 DOWN THE COSTS, W 2309 01:30:10,001 --> 01:30:11,000 OUR GOAL. 2310 01:30:11,001 --> 01:30:13,000 WHY DON'T W 2311 01:30:13,001 --> 01:30:15,000 REFORMS TO IMPROVE 2312 01:30:15,001 --> 01:30:16,000 THAT MEANS SOMEONE CAN GO ACROSS 2313 01:30:16,001 --> 01:30:18,000 STATE LINES. 2314 01:30:18,001 --> 01:30:19,000 IF I WANT TO -- IF A CITIZEN OF 2315 01:30:19,001 --> 01:30:21,000 ARIZONA WANTS TO GO TO NORTH 2316 01:30:21,001 --> 01:30:22,000 DAKOTA 2317 01:30:22,001 --> 01:30:24,000 THERE, WHY CAN'T HE? 2318 01:30:24,001 --> 01:30:25,000 WHY CAN'T THAT FAMILY DO THAT? 2319 01:30:25,001 --> 01:30:26,000 WHY CAN'T THEY? 2320 01:30:26,001 --> 01:30:29,000 THEY CAN'T TODAY. 2321 01:30:29,001 --> 01:30:31,000 WHY IS IT THAT WE -- WE HAVE -- 2322 01:30:31,001 --> 01:30:32,000 WE CAN'T REFORM MEDICAL 2323 01:30:32,001 --> 01:30:33,000 MALPRACTICE? 2324 01:30:33,001 --> 01:30:35,000 LET'S HAVE TAX REFORMS. 2325 01:30:35,001 --> 01:30:36,000 LET'S HAVE INCENTIVES TO 2326 01:30:36,001 --> 01:30:38,000 PURCHASE INSURANCE, EITHER IN 2327 01:30:38,001 --> 01:30:42,000 THE FORM OF THE TAX CREDITS FOR 2328 01:30:42,001 --> 01:30:44,000 FAMILIES IN AMERICA, OR -- OR -- 2329 01:30:44,001 --> 01:30:46,000 WHY DON'T WE JUST GIVE THE SAME 2330 01:30:46,001 --> 01:30:49,000 TAX TREATMENT TO FAMILIES THAT 2331 01:30:49,001 --> 01:30:50,000 BUSINESSES 2332 01:30:50,001 --> 01:30:52,000 HEALTH INSURANCE. 2333 01:30:52,001 --> 01:30:54,000 WHY DON'T WE HAVE REAL 2334 01:30:54,001 --> 01:30:55,000 COMPETITION IN THESE UNITED 2335 01:30:55,001 --> 01:30:57,000 STATES S 2336 01:30:57,001 --> 01:30:58,000 UP THE RISK POOLS THAT ARE 2337 01:30:58,001 --> 01:31:01,000 NECESSARY TO INSURE THOSE WHO 2338 01:31:01,001 --> 01:31:04,000 ARE PREVIOUSLY UNINSURABLE -- 2339 01:31:04,001 --> 01:31:05,000 ARE UNINSURABLE OR -- QUOTE -- 2340 01:31:05,001 --> 01:31:07,000 "PREEXISTING CONDITIONS." 2341 01:31:07,001 --> 01:31:09,000 LET'S SET UP THOSE RISK POOLS. 2342 01:31:09,001 --> 01:31:11,000 YES, THAT WILL TAKE SOM 2343 01:31:11,001 --> 01:31:12,000 TAXPAYER DOLLARS, AND WHY DON'T 2344 01:31:12,001 --> 01:31:14,000 WE ALLOW THE INSURANCE COMPANIES 2345 01:31:14,001 --> 01:31:16,000 TO COMPETE TO SO THAT THEY 2346 01:31:16,001 --> 01:31:17,000 CAN -- SO THAT THEY CAN PROVIDE 2347 01:31:17,001 --> 01:31:19,000 INSURANCE, SO THAT WE CAN 2348 01:31:19,001 --> 01:31:20,000 PROVIDE AFFORDABLE AND AVAILABLE 2349 01:31:20,001 --> 01:31:22,000 HEALTH CARE TO ALL AMERICANS? 2350 01:31:22,001 --> 01:31:24,000 WHY DON'T WE LOOK AT COST REDUCTIONS? 2351 01:31:24,001 --> 01:31:26,000 WHY DON'T WE LOOK AT INCENTIVES 2352 01:31:26,001 --> 01:31:29,000 FOR WELLNESS AND FITNESS? 2353 01:31:29,001 --> 01:31:30,000 ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS CORPORATIONS IN AMERICA RECENTLY 2354 01:31:30,001 --> 01:31:32,000 IS SAFEWAY. 2355 01:31:32,001 --> 01:31:33,000 WE'VE HEARD FROM THAT C.E.O. 2356 01:31:33,001 --> 01:31:34,000 THEY REWARD PEOPLE FINANCIALLY 2357 01:31:34,001 --> 01:31:36,000 FOR WELLNESS AND FITNESS, AND 2358 01:31:36,001 --> 01:31:38,000 GUESS WHAT? 2359 01:31:38,001 --> 01:31:40,000 THEIR COSTS OF HEALTH CARE HAVE 2360 01:31:40,001 --> 01:31:41,000 GONE DOWN THERE ARE INCENTIVES 2361 01:31:41,001 --> 01:31:43,000 TO DO SO. 2362 01:31:43,001 --> 01:31:44,000 WHY DON'T WE 2363 01:31:44,001 --> 01:31:45,000 SMALL IDEA. 2364 01:31:45,001 --> 01:31:47,000 WHY DON'T WE SEE WHAT THE SCHL 2365 01:31:47,001 --> 01:31:49,000 LUNCH PROGRAM IS IN YOUR LOCAL SCHOOL. 2366 01:31:49,001 --> 01:31:51,000 WHY DON'T WE SEE WHAT THE 2367 01:31:51,001 --> 01:31:53,000 PHYSICAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS 2368 01:31:53,001 --> 01:31:55,000 ARE INUR LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT? 2369 01:31:55,001 --> 01:31:58,000 WHY DON'T PARENTS DO THAT? 2370 01:31:58,001 --> 01:31:59,000 I WAS APPALLED -- AND I'M SURE 2371 01:31:59,001 --> 01:32:01,000 MY COLLEAGUES AND ALL EARNS 2372 01:32:01,001 --> 01:32:02,000 WERE -- TO SEE RECENTLY THERE'S 2373 01:32:02,001 --> 01:32:04,000 ONE SENATE AMERICA WHERE 2374 01:32:04,001 --> 01:32:06,000 ONE-THIRD OF THE POPULATION 2375 01:32:06,001 --> 01:32:09,000 HAS -- SUFFERS FROM OBESITY. 2376 01:32:09,001 --> 01:32:11,000 WE KNOW WHAT OBESIA DOES TO 2377 01:32:11,001 --> 01:32:13,000 HEALTH CARE COS, NOT TO 2378 01:32:13,001 --> 01:32:14,000 MENTION THE LIVES OF INDIVIDUALS 2379 01:32:14,001 --> 01:32:16,000 INDIVIDUALS. 2380 01:32:16,001 --> 01:32:19,000 SO WHY DON'T WE ALSO LOOK AT 2381 01:32:19,001 --> 01:32:22,000 WHAT HAS BEEN DONE AND 2382 01:32:22,001 --> 01:32:24,000 BEFORE AND OUTCOME TREATMENT OFA PATIENTS. 2383 01:32:24,001 --> 01:32:26,000 A PATIENT HAS DIABETES, 2384 01:32:26,001 --> 01:32:27,000 PAY THAT PROVIDER A YEAR OR SIX 2385 01:32:27,001 --> 01:32:29,000 MONTHS OR TWO YEARS AND SAY, 2386 01:32:29,001 --> 01:32:30,000 OKAY, HERE'S THE AMOUNT OF MONEY 2387 01:32:30,001 --> 01:32:32,000 MONEY, HERE'S THE AMOUNT OF 2388 01:32:32,001 --> 01:32:34,000 MONEY, AND IF YOU KEEP THAT 2389 01:32:34,001 --> 01:32:35,000 PATIENT WELL, YOU WILL RECEIVE A 2390 01:32:35,001 --> 01:32:37,000 REWARD AT THE E 2391 01:32:37,001 --> 01:32:43,000 TREATMENT PERIOD, RATHER THAN 2392 01:32:43,001 --> 01:32:45,000 PAY FOR EVERY SINGLE TEST AND 2393 01:32:45,001 --> 01:32:47,000 PROCEDURE THAT IS REQUIRED. 2394 01:32:47,001 --> 01:32:50,000 AND, MY FRIENDS, THERE ARE CASES 2395 01:32:50,001 --> 01:32:51,000 OF ABUSE OF MEDICARE THAT 2396 01:32:51,001 --> 01:32:55,000 STRETCH INTO THE 2397 01:32:55,001 --> 01:32:57,000 BILLIONS OF DOLLARS. 2398 01:32:57,001 --> 01:33:00,000 WE HAVE TO GO AFTER THESE PEOPLE 2399 01:33:00,001 --> 01:33:01,000 THAT ABUSE HEALTH CARE -- 2400 01:33:01,001 --> 01:33:04,000 MEDICARE AND MEDICAID. 2401 01:33:04,001 --> 01:33:05,000 AND WHAT -- AND A PRACTICAL 2402 01:33:05,001 --> 01:33:06,000 QUESTION. 2403 01:33:06,001 --> 01:33:07,000 SUPPOSE WE 2404 01:33:07,001 --> 01:33:10,000 PASS THROUGH THE "HELP" 2405 01:33:10,001 --> 01:33:11,000 COMMITTEE AND THROUGH THE 2406 01:33:11,001 --> 01:33:12,000 THEY INCREASE DRAMATICALLY 2407 01:33:12,001 --> 01:33:14,000 MEDICAIDAYMENTS TO THE STATES. 2408 01:33:14,001 --> 01:33:16,000 WHAT STATES CAN FORD THE 2409 01:33:16,001 --> 01:33:18,000 ADDITIONAL BURDEN OF -- 2410 01:33:18,001 --> 01:33:20,000 ADDITIONAL BURDEN OF MEDICAID 2411 01:33:20,001 --> 01:33:21,000 THAT IS ENVISIONED BY THIS LEGISLATION? 2412 01:33:21,001 --> 01:33:23,000 NOT MANY. 2413 01:33:23,001 --> 01:33:29,000 NOT MANY, MY FRIENDSA 2414 01:33:29,001 --> 01:33:31,000 SO WE DO HAVE LEGITIMATE, 2415 01:33:31,001 --> 01:33:33,000 WORKABLE, DOABLE, VIABLE ALTERNATIVES TO THE GOVERNMENT 2416 01:33:33,001 --> 01:33:34,000 OPTION. 2417 01:33:34,001 --> 01:33:36,000 AND WHA THE PRESIDENT OF THE 2418 01:33:36,001 --> 01:33:38,000 UNITED STATES STANDS UP AND SAY 2419 01:33:38,001 --> 01:33:39,000 WE DON'T,E EITHER IS 2420 01:33:39,001 --> 01:33:41,000 PAYING ATTENTION WHATE'RE 2421 01:33:41,001 --> 01:33:42,000 SAYING, WHICH HAS BEEN ONE OF 2422 01:33:42,001 --> 01:33:45,000 THE BIG PROBLEMS WITH THIS 2423 01:33:45,001 --> 01:33:48,000 DEBATE, OR HE WILLFULLY IGNORES 2424 01:33:48,001 --> 01:33:49,000 THE FACT THAT THERE ARE 2425 01:33:49,001 --> 01:33:52,000 SOLUTIONS THAT WE CAN MOVE 2426 01:33:52,001 --> 01:33:55,000 FORWARD AND REDUCE HEALTH CARE 2427 01:33:55,001 --> 01:33:56,000 COSTS IN 2428 01:33:56,001 --> 01:33:58,000 THE QUALI 2429 01:33:58,001 --> 01:33:59,000 I'D LIKE TO JUST MAKE A COMMENT 2430 01:33:59,001 --> 01:34:00,000 ABOUT THE SO-CALLED CO-OP 2431 01:34:00,001 --> 01:34:03,000 APPROACH. 2432 01:34:03,001 --> 01:34:04,000 MYA FRIENDS, YOU CAN CALL IT THE 2433 01:34:04,001 --> 01:34:07,000 GOVERNMENT OPTION, YOU CAN CALL 2434 01:34:07,001 --> 01:34:09,000 IT THE CO-OP, YOU CAN CALL IT A 2435 01:34:09,001 --> 01:34:11,000 BANA, BUT THE FACT IS, IS IT 2436 01:34:11,001 --> 01:34:12,000 GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION INTO THE 2437 01:34:12,001 --> 01:34:15,000 FREE MARKETPLACE WHICH WILL LEAD 2438 01:34:15,001 --> 01:34:18,000 TO CROWDING OUT, WHICH WILL OVER 2439 01:34:18,001 --> 01:34:21,000 TIME -- OVER TIME WILL LEAD TO GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF HEALTH 2440 01:34:21,001 --> 01:34:23,000 CARE IN AME 2441 01:34:23,001 --> 01:34:25,000 A CO-OP CAN EXIST TODAY. 2442 01:34:25,001 --> 01:34:27,000 A CO-OP DOESN'T -- THEY DON'T 2443 01:34:27,001 --> 01:34:28,000 HAVE TO WAIT FOR 2444 01:34:28,001 --> 01:34:30,000 THEY CAN EXIST TODAY. 2445 01:34:30,001 --> 01:34:31,000 YET VERY FEW DO. 2446 01:34:31,001 --> 01:34:33,000 IF THERE WAS A PRESSING NEED FOR 2447 01:34:33,001 --> 01:34:35,000 MORE CO-OPS, WOULDN'T MORE OF 2448 01:34:35,001 --> 01:34:37,000 THEM HAVE?EEN CREATED? 2449 01:34:37,001 --> 01:34:38,000 UNDER THE CO-OP APPROACH, THE 2450 01:34:38,001 --> 01:34:41,000 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WOULD DESIGN, 2451 01:34:41,001 --> 01:34:42,000 FUND AND FOSTER THEIR CREATION, 2452 01:34:42,001 --> 01:34:44,000 BUT DON'T KID OURSELVES. 2453 01:34:44,001 --> 01:34:47,000 CREATING A 2454 01:34:47,001 --> 01:34:49,000 GOVERNMENT PLAN DESIGNED IN 2455 01:34:49,001 --> 01:34:50,000 INVOLVEMENT IN HEALTH CARE. 2456 01:34:50,001 --> 01:34:52,000 AND IF WE DIDN'T LEARN ANY 2457 01:34:52,001 --> 01:34:56,000 LESSONS FROM FANNIE MAE AND 2458 01:34:56,001 --> 01:34:57,000 FREDDIE MAC, CO-OP CO-OPS, NOBODY'S 2459 01:34:57,001 --> 01:34:59,000 BEEN PAYING ATTENTION. 2460 01:34:59,001 --> 01:35:00,000 NOW, LET ME JUST TALK ABOUT THE 2461 01:35:00,001 --> 01:35:04,000 TRIGGER SECTION -- A SECOND. 2462 01:35:04,001 --> 01:35:05,000 PUBL OPTION- THE TRIGGER IN 2463 01:35:05,001 --> 01:35:09,000 THE BILL 2464 01:35:09,001 --> 01:35:11,000 PUBLIC 2465 01:35:11,001 --> 01:35:13,000 INSURANCE COMPANIES FAILED 2466 01:35:13,001 --> 01:35:15,000 MEET CERTAIN BENCHMARKS, SUCH AS 2467 01:35:15,001 --> 01:35:17,000 LOWERING OVERALL HEALTH SPENDING 2468 01:35:17,001 --> 01:35:19,000 OR SHRINKING THE NUMBER OF THE UNINSURED. 2469 01:35:19,001 --> 01:35:20,000 THE "WALL STREET JOURNAL" STATED 2470 01:35:20,001 --> 01:35:25,000 YESTERDAY, "LIBERALS SHOULD LOVE 2471 01:35:25,001 --> 01:35:28,000 THE IDEA" -- I QUOTE. "LIBERALS SHOULD LOVE THE IDEA 2472 01:35:28,001 --> 01:35:29,000 BECAUSE A TRIGGERSN'T A 2473 01:35:29,001 --> 01:35:30,000 SUBSTANTIVE CONCESSION. 2474 01:35:30,001 --> 01:35:32,000 IT MERELY ENSURES THAT THE 2475 01:35:32,001 --> 01:35:34,000 PUBLIC OPTION WILL ARRIVE EVENTUALLY INSTEAD OF 2476 01:35:34,001 --> 01:35:36,000 IMMEDIATELY. 2477 01:35:36,001 --> 01:35:38,000 DEMOCRATS WILL TWEAK THE TEST SO 2478 01:35:38,001 --> 01:35:41,000 THAT THE PRIVATE INSURERS CAN'T 2479 01:35:41,001 --> 01:35:42,000 POSSIBLY MEET THEM, MAINLY BY 2480 01:35:42,001 --> 01:35:44,000 IMPOSING NEW REGULATIONS AND 2481 01:35:44,001 --> 01:35:45,000 OTHER COSTLY BURDENS. 2482 01:35:45,001 --> 01:35:46,000 ADDITIONALLY, THIS TRIGGER 2483 01:35:46,001 --> 01:35:48,000 APPEARS TO 2484 01:35:48,001 --> 01:35:50,000 PATENTLY VIOLATE THE 2485 01:35:50,001 --> 01:35:52,000 CONSTITUTION'S DELEGATION OF 2486 01:35:52,001 --> 01:35:54,000 LAWMAKING POWERS TO CONGRESS AND 2487 01:35:54,001 --> 01:35:56,000 NOT THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH. 2488 01:35:56,001 --> 01:35:59,000 WE MUST DECIDE WHETHER TO 2489 01:35:59,001 --> 01:36:03,000 IMPLEMENT EQUAL GOVERNMENT 2490 01:36:03,001 --> 01:36:07,000 OPTION OR NOTTISM VOT NOT. 2491 01:36:07,001 --> 01:36:08,000 I VOTE TO NOT DO SO AND SO NOT 2492 01:36:08,001 --> 01:36:12,000 ABDICATE ANY OF MY DUTIESAS A 2493 01:36:12,001 --> 01:36:13,000 LALAWMAKER AND ALLOWS 2494 01:36:13,001 --> 01:36:14,000 EXECUTIVE BRANCH TO CREATE A -- 2495 01:36:14,001 --> 01:36:16,000 QUOTE -- "GOVERNMENT OPTION" 2496 01:36:16,001 --> 01:36:17,000 BASED ON A MR. PRESIDENT, I ASK UNANIMOUS 2497 01:36:17,001 --> 01:36:21,000 CONSENT THE "WALL STREET 2498 01:36:21,001 --> 01:36:22,000 JOURNAL" COLUMN ENTITLED "WOAH, 2499 01:36:22,001 --> 01:36:23,000 TRIGGER" -- GOOD NAME -- BE 2500 01:36:23,001 --> 01:36:24,000 INCLUDED IN THE RECORD AT THIS TIME. 2501 01:36:24,001 --> 01:36:27,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: WITHOUT 2502 01:36:27,001 --> 01:36:28,000 OBJECTION, SO ORDEREDMT WITHOUT 2503 01:36:28,001 --> 01:36:29,000 OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. 2504 01:36:29,001 --> 01:36:30,000 MR. McCAIN: SO, MR. PRESIDENT, 2505 01:36:30,001 --> 01:36:32,000 LET ME JUST SUMMARIZE. 2506 01:36:32,001 --> 01:36:35,000 I COME BACK FROM THIS RECESS, 2507 01:36:35,001 --> 01:36:37,000 AND I SEE MY COLLEAGUE ALSO 2508 01:36:37,001 --> 01:36:38,000 ARIZONA, BOTH OF US COME -- AS A 2509 01:36:38,001 --> 01:36:40,000 LOT OF OUR COLLEAGUES DO -- IN 2510 01:36:40,001 --> 01:36:41,000 THE FACE OF EXTREME UNEASE, 2511 01:36:41,001 --> 01:36:42,000 ANGER AND FRUSTRATION ON THE 2512 01:36:42,001 --> 01:36:45,000 PART OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 2513 01:36:45,001 --> 01:36:47,000 NOT JUST OVER THE ISSUE OF 2514 01:36:47,001 --> 01:36:48,000 HEALTH CARE BUT OVER THE ISSUE, 2515 01:36:48,001 --> 01:36:50,000 AS I POINTED OUT, OF THIS 2516 01:36:50,001 --> 01:36:52,000 MASSIVE SPENDING AND DEBT AND 2517 01:36:52,001 --> 01:36:56,000 DEFICIT THAT WE HAVE LAID ON 2518 01:36:56,001 --> 01:36:58,000 FUTURE GENERATIONS OF AMERICA. 2519 01:36:58,001 --> 01:37:03,000 AND THEY WANT US TO ACT IN THEIR INTEREST. 2520 01:37:03,001 --> 01:37:04,000 SO WOULDN'T IT BE FOR THE 2521 01:37:04,001 --> 01:37:06,000 PRESIDENT TOMORROW NIGHT, IF I 2522 01:37:06,001 --> 01:37:07,000 MAY BE 2523 01:37:07,001 --> 01:37:09,000 FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES, THE 2524 01:37:09,001 --> 01:37:10,000 CITIZENS HAVE SPOKE. 2525 01:37:10,001 --> 01:37:13,000 THEY WANT US TO SIT DOWN 2526 01:37:13,001 --> 01:37:16,000 TOGETHER AND THEY WANT US TO DO WHAT'S DOABLE. 2527 01:37:16,001 --> 01:37:17,000 THEY WANT US TO FIX THIS COST 2528 01:37:17,001 --> 01:37:20,000 ESCALATION OF HEALTH CARE IN 2529 01:37:20,001 --> 01:37:21,000 AMERICA WHICH MAKE -- WHICH ISA? 2530 01:37:21,001 --> 01:37:26,000 MAKING IT LESS AND LESS 2531 01:37:26,001 --> 01:37:28,000 AFFORDABLE TO ALL AMERICANS BUT 2532 01:37:28,001 --> 01:37:32,000 THE MESSAGE WE'VE GOTTEN IS THAT 2533 01:37:32,001 --> 01:37:35,000 THEY'RE VERY SCEPTAL ABOU 2534 01:37:35,001 --> 01:37:37,000 A -- Q 2535 01:37:37,001 --> 01:37:39,000 HEALTH 2536 01:37:39,001 --> 01:37:40,000 GOVERNMENT OPTION." 2537 01:37:40,001 --> 01:37:43,000 BUT, THOUGH THE PRESIDENT SAYS, 2538 01:37:43,001 --> 01:37:44,000 IF YOU LIKE YOUR INSURANCE 2539 01:37:44,001 --> 01:37:45,000 PRESENTLY, YOU CAN KEEP IT. THAT'S NOT TRUE. 2540 01:37:45,001 --> 01:37:46,000 THAT'S NOT TRUE EITHER. 2541 01:37:46,001 --> 01:37:48,000 BECAUSE IF YOU HAD A GOVERNMENT 2542 01:37:48,001 --> 01:37:50,000 EXPOPTIO ATTRACT -- 2543 01:37:50,001 --> 01:37:51,000 OPTION AND IT LOOKED MORE 2544 01:37:51,001 --> 01:37:53,000 ATTRACTIVE TO YOUR EMPLOYMENT 2545 01:37:53,001 --> 01:37:54,000 AND YOUR EMPLOYER DECIDED TO 2546 01:37:54,001 --> 01:37:55,000 SELECT THE GOVERNMENT OPTION 2547 01:37:55,001 --> 01:37:57,000 RATHER THAN THE INSURANCE POLICY 2548 01:37:57,001 --> 01:37:58,000 THAT Y 2549 01:37:58,001 --> 01:37:59,000 CAN'T KEEP IT. 2550 01:37:59,001 --> 01:38:01,000 SO IT'S SIMPLY NOT TRUE THAT 2551 01:38:01,001 --> 01:38:04,000 UNDER THE GOVERNMENT OPTION, 2552 01:38:04,001 --> 01:38:05,000 THAT YOU CAN 2553 01:38:05,001 --> 01:38:06,000 YOURSELF HEALTH INSURANCE 2554 01:38:06,001 --> 01:38:08,000 POLICY, YOU CAN KEEP IT. 2555 01:38:08,001 --> 01:38:10,000 BUT THE PNT IS -- THE REAL 2556 01:38:10,001 --> 01:38:14,000 POINT IS, WHY DON'T WE SIT DOWN, 2557 01:38:14,001 --> 01:38:15,000 WHICH WE DIDN'T DO -- WE DIENT DIDN'T 2558 01:38:15,001 --> 01:38:17,000 DO AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS 2559 01:38:17,001 --> 01:38:18,000 PROCESS -- AND SIT DOWN WITH THE 2560 01:38:18,001 --> 01:38:20,000 SMARTEST PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES OF 2561 01:38:20,001 --> 01:38:21,000 THE AISLE AND SAY, 2562 01:38:21,001 --> 01:38:24,000 CAN WE GET DONE? 2563 01:38:24,001 --> 01:38:25,000 WHAT CAN WE GET DONE HERE TOGETHER? 2564 01:38:25,001 --> 01:38:27,000 AND GO TO 2565 01:38:27,001 --> 01:38:29,000 AND SAY, WE'RE GOING TO MAKE 2566 01:38:29,001 --> 01:38:33,000 SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS IN 2567 01:38:33,001 --> 01:38:35,000 ELIMINATING THIS PROBLEM OF 2568 01:38:35,001 --> 01:38:37,000 RE IN AMERICA. 2569 01:38:37,001 --> 01:38:41,000 MR. PRESIDENT, I RECALL WHEN I FIRST CAME TO THE CONGRESS OF 2570 01:38:41,001 --> 01:38:42,000 THE UNITED STATES, IT WAS PRETTY 2571 01:38:42,001 --> 01:38:43,000 PARTISAN THEN. 2572 01:38:43,001 --> 01:38:45,000 RONALD REAGAN HAD ONLY BEEN 2573 01:38:45,001 --> 01:38:48,000 ELECTED A COUPLE YEARS BEFORE 2574 01:38:48,001 --> 01:38:49,000 AND SOCIAL SECURITY 2575 01:38:49,001 --> 01:38:51,000 GO BROKE. 2576 01:38:51,001 --> 01:38:54,000 SOCIAL SECURITY WAS GOING BROKE 2577 01:38:54,001 --> 01:38:55,000 AND TWO OLD IRISHMEN, TIP 2578 01:38:55,001 --> 01:38:56,000 O'NEILL, A LIBERAL DEMOCRAT FROM 2579 01:38:56,001 --> 01:38:58,000 MASSACHUSETTS, AND THE 2580 01:38:58,001 --> 01:38:59,000 CONSER 2581 01:38:59,001 --> 01:39:01,000 SAT DOWN TOGETHER AND SAID, 2582 01:39:01,001 --> 01:39:02,000 OKAY, WE'RE GOING TO SIT 2583 01:39:02,001 --> 01:39:07,000 TOGETHER, WE'RE GOING TO FIX 2584 01:39:07,001 --> 01:39:11,000 SOCIAL SECURITY AND THEY DIDMENT THEY DID. 2585 01:39:11,001 --> 01:39:14,000 AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WERE NOT BENEFITED. 2586 01:39:14,001 --> 01:39:15,000 LET'S GO BACK TO SQUARE ONE. 2587 01:39:15,001 --> 01:39:16,000 LET'S SIT DOWN TOGETHER AND GET 2588 01:39:16,001 --> 01:39:17,000 THIS ISSUE RESOLVED. MR. ESIDENT, I YIELD THE 2589 01:39:17,001 --> 01:39:18,000 FLOOR. 2590 01:39:18,001 --> 01:39:19,000 MR. KYL: MR. PRESIDENT? 2591 01:39:19,001 --> 01:39:21,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 2592 01:39:21,001 --> 01:39:22,000 REPUBLICAN MR. KYL: THANK YOU, 2593 01:39:22,001 --> 01:39:23,000 MR. PRESIDENT. 2594 01:39:23,001 --> 01:39:24,000 I ASK UNANIMOUS CONSENT TO SPEAK 2595 01:39:24,001 --> 01:39:26,000 IN MORNING BUSINESS FOR NOT TO 2596 01:39:26,001 --> 01:39:27,000 EXCEED 15 M MR. DORGAN: MR. PRESIDENT, WOULD 2597 01:39:27,001 --> 01:39:28,000 THE SENATOR YIELD FOR 2598 01:39:28,001 --> 01:39:30,000 UNANIMOUS CONSENT REQUEST? 2599 01:39:30,001 --> 01:39:31,000 MR. KYL: YES. 2600 01:39:31,001 --> 01:39:33,000 MR. DORGAN: I WONDER IF THE 2601 01:39:33,001 --> 01:39:38,000 SENATOR WOULD YIELD FOR A QUESTION? 2602 01:39:38,001 --> 01:39:39,000 I WOULD MAKE A REQUEST THAT FOLLOWING THE PRESENTATION OF 2603 01:39:39,001 --> 01:39:41,000 THE SENATOR FRO 2604 01:39:41,001 --> 01:39:43,000 THAT I BE RECOGNIZED 2605 01:39:43,001 --> 01:39:44,000 SENATOR WHITEHOUSE, AND THAT 2606 01:39:44,001 --> 01:39:45,000 SENATOR INHOFE BE RECOGNIZED 2607 01:39:45,001 --> 01:39:46,000 FOLLOWING MY PRESENTATION. 2608 01:39:46,001 --> 01:39:47,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: IS THERE OBJECTION? 2609 01:39:47,001 --> 01:39:48,000 WITHOUT OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. 2610 01:39:48,001 --> 01:39:50,000 MR. KYL: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. 2611 01:39:50,001 --> 01:39:51,000 I THANK MY COLLEAGUE. 2612 01:39:51,001 --> 01:39:53,000 MR. PRESIDENT, I WANT TO SPEAK 2613 01:39:53,001 --> 01:39:55,000 TO THE SAME ISSUE MY COLLEAGUE, 2614 01:39:55,001 --> 01:39:56,000 SENATOR McCAIN, JUST SPOKE TO 2615 01:39:56,001 --> 01:39:57,000 IN A COUPLE OF MINUTES. 2616 01:39:57,001 --> 01:39:58,000 BUT FIRST I'D LIKE TO MAKE SOME 2617 01:39:58,001 --> 01:40:00,000 BRIEF COMMENTS ABOUT TWO OF OUR 2618 01:40:00,001 --> 01:40:01,000 COLLEAGUES WHO WILL NO LONGER BE 2619 01:40:01,001 --> 01:40:02,000 WITH US. 2620 01:40:02,001 --> 01:40:05,000 OF COURSE, OUR FRIEND AND 2621 01:40:05,001 --> 01:40:08,000 COLLEAGUE, 2622 01:40:08,001 --> 01:40:10,000 SENATOR MARTINEZ. 2623 01:40:10,001 --> 01:40:13,000 LET ME FIRST OF ALL SPEAK TO 2624 01:40:13,001 --> 01:40:17,000 SENATOR KENNEDY'S DEPARTURE FROM 2625 01:40:17,001 --> 01:40:18,000 THIS BODY DUE TO HIS UNTIMELY 2626 01:40:18,001 --> 01:40:19,000 DEATH. 2627 01:40:19,001 --> 01:40:23,000 DURING HIS FIVE DECADES OF 2628 01:40:23,001 --> 01:40:25,000 PUBLIC SERVICE, SENATOR KENNEDY 2629 01:40:25,001 --> 01:40:28,000 SERVED WITH DILIGENCE, TIRELESS 2630 01:40:28,001 --> 01:40:30,000 PASSION, AND, OF COURSE, VIGOR. 2631 01:40:30,001 --> 01:40:31,000 THE WORD IMMEDIATELY EVOKES THE 2632 01:40:31,001 --> 01:40:33,000 KENNEDY SP 2633 01:40:33,001 --> 01:40:35,000 HE KENNEDY SPIRIT. 2634 01:40:35,001 --> 01:40:36,000 BECAUSE OF WHO HE WAS, HE COULD 2635 01:40:36,001 --> 01:40:38,000 ARE GOTTEN BY WITHOUT A LOT OF 2636 01:40:38,001 --> 01:40:40,000 HARD WORK, BUT THAT WAY. 2637 01:40:40,001 --> 01:40:43,000 HE BELIEVED DEEM, SO HE WORKED 2638 01:40:43,001 --> 01:40:44,000 HARD, AS HARD AS ANY SENATOR I'VE KNOWN. 2639 01:40:44,001 --> 01:40:45,000 ONE THING THAT'S BEEN COMMENTED 2640 01:40:45,001 --> 01:40:47,000 ON BY MANY WHO WORKED WITH 2641 01:40:47,001 --> 01:40:49,000 SENATOR KENNEDY WAS HIS 2642 01:40:49,001 --> 01:40:51,000 WILLINGNESS TO 2643 01:40:51,001 --> 01:40:53,000 I'VE CHARACTERIZED SENATOR 2644 01:40:53,001 --> 01:40:55,000 KENNEDY AS A LEGISLATOR'S 2645 01:40:55,001 --> 01:40:56,000 LEGISLATOR. 2646 01:40:56,001 --> 01:40:58,000 OFTEN A RESULT-ORIENTED 2647 01:40:58,001 --> 01:40:59,000 PRAGMATIST WHO 2648 01:40:59,001 --> 01:41:01,000 BETWEEN THE TWO PARTIES ARE 2649 01:41:01,001 --> 01:41:03,000 INEVITABLE AND, IN FACT, AN 2650 01:41:03,001 --> 01:41:04,000 INTEGRAL PART OF OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM. 2651 01:41:04,001 --> 01:41:05,000 AND THAT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO 2652 01:41:05,001 --> 01:41:07,000 REACH ACROSS THE AISLE IF YOU 2653 01:41:07,001 --> 01:41:09,000 REALLY WANTED TO GET THINGS DONE. 2654 01:41:09,001 --> 01:41:10,000 HE BELIEVED THAT PEOPLE WITH 2655 01:41:10,001 --> 01:41:12,000 DRAMATICALLY DIFFERENT POINTS OF 2656 01:41:12,001 --> 01:41:14,000 VIEW COULD USUALLY FIND SOME 2657 01:41:14,001 --> 01:41:16,000 COMMON 2658 01:41:16,001 --> 01:41:17,000 WHILE SENATOR KENNEDY AND I DID 2659 01:41:17,001 --> 01:41:19,000 NOT SHARE A PERSPECTIVE ON VERY 2660 01:41:19,001 --> 01:41:21,000 MANY ISSUES AND HE WAS ALWAYS 2661 01:41:21,001 --> 01:41:23,000 READY TO MAKE AN IDEOLOGICAL OR 2662 01:41:23,001 --> 01:41:25,000 POLITICAL POINT, MY COLLEAG 2663 01:41:25,001 --> 01:41:28,000 AND I APPRECIATED HIS EFFORTS TO 2664 01:41:28,001 --> 01:41:30,000 ACTUALLY LEGISLATE AS WELL. 2665 01:41:30,001 --> 01:41:32,000 HIS DEDICATION, HIS HARD WORK, 2666 01:41:32,001 --> 01:41:34,000 HUMOR, AND HIGH SPIRIT WILL 2667 01:41:34,001 --> 01:41:35,000 ALWAYS BE REMBERED. 2668 01:41:35,001 --> 01:41:37,000 MY W 2669 01:41:37,001 --> 01:41:39,000 THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS TO HIS 2670 01:41:39,001 --> 01:41:40,000 FAMILY. 2671 01:41:40,001 --> 01:41:41,000 MR. PRESIDENT, I ALSO WANTED TO 2672 01:41:41,001 --> 01:41:44,000 SAY A COUPLE WORDS ABOUT OUR 2673 01:41:44,001 --> 01:41:45,000 COLLEAGUE, MEL MARTINEZ FROM 2674 01:41:45,001 --> 01:41:47,000 FLORIDA, WHO WILL BE LVING THE 2675 01:41:47,001 --> 01:41:50,000 SENATE ON 2676 01:41:50,001 --> 01:41:51,000 HE'S BEE AN ADMIRABLE PUBLIC 2677 01:41:51,001 --> 01:41:52,000 SERVANT, BOTH IN THIS BODY AND 2678 01:41:52,001 --> 01:41:54,000 AS SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND 2679 01:41:54,001 --> 01:41:56,000 URBAN 2680 01:41:56,001 --> 01:41:58,000 TO EACH POSITION, HE BROUGHT HIS 2681 01:41:58,001 --> 01:41:59,000 CONSIDERABLE TALENT AND DEVOTED 2682 01:41:59,001 --> 01:42:01,000 HIMSELF TO SOLVING PROBLEMS IN 2683 01:42:01,001 --> 01:42:03,000 PRACTICAL,HOUGHTFUL, AND 2684 01:42:03,001 --> 01:42:04,000 BIPARTISAN WAY. 2685 01:42:04,001 --> 01:42:06,000 SENATOR MARTINEZ NEVER SOUGHT 2686 01:42:06,001 --> 01:42:10,000 THE LIMELIGHT. 2687 01:42:10,001 --> 01:42:11,000 HE SIMPLY WANTED TO MAKE A 2688 01:42:11,001 --> 01:42:12,000 DIFFERENCE. 2689 01:42:12,001 --> 01:42:14,000 HE WAS DISAPPOINTED, I KNOW, 2690 01:42:14,001 --> 01:42:15,000 THAT HE WAS UNABLE TO MOVE 2691 01:42:15,001 --> 01:42:16,000 IMMIGRATION REFORM FORWARD, BUT 2692 01:42:16,001 --> 01:42:18,000 WE WILL TRY APPLY WHAT HE HAS 2693 01:42:18,001 --> 01:42:19,000 TAUGHT US ABOUT THAT 2694 01:42:19,001 --> 01:42:20,000 HIS POSITIVE INFLUENCE HERE IN 2695 01:42:20,001 --> 01:42:21,000 WASHINGTON WILL BE GREATLY 2696 01:42:21,001 --> 01:42:23,000 MISSED. 2697 01:42:23,001 --> 01:42:25,000 A FAIR TWOAL SENATOR MARTINEZ WOULDN'T -- 2698 01:42:25,001 --> 01:42:26,000 A FAREWELL TO SENATOR MARTINEZ 2699 01:42:26,001 --> 01:42:27,000 WOULDN'T BE COMPLETE WITHOUT A 2700 01:42:27,001 --> 01:42:29,000 NOTE ABOUT HIS COMPELLING WIFE 2701 01:42:29,001 --> 01:42:31,000 STORY AND ABOUT HIS WIFE KITTY. 2702 01:42:31,001 --> 01:42:34,000 AS A CUBAN EMIGRE WHO CAME TO 2703 01:42:34,001 --> 01:42:37,000 MARTINEZ REPRESENTS ONE OF THE 2704 01:42:37,001 --> 01:42:39,000 MOST INSPIRING ASPEC AMERICAN LIFE. 2705 01:42:39,001 --> 01:42:42,000 THAT TALENT AND HARD WORK UNLOCK 2706 01:42:42,001 --> 01:42:44,000 HE'S NOT FORGOTTEN THOSE WHO 2707 01:42:44,001 --> 01:42:46,000 HELPED HIM, JUST AS ALL OF US 2708 01:42:46,001 --> 01:42:48,000 WILL NOT FORGET HIM. 2709 01:42:48,001 --> 01:42:49,000 HIS WIFE KITTY HAS LIKEWISE MADE 2710 01:42:49,001 --> 01:42:52,000 MANY FRIENDS IN WASHINGTON AND 2711 01:42:52,001 --> 01:42:53,000 WILL ALSO 2712 01:42:53,001 --> 01:42:55,000 ALTHOUGH I KNOW HE WON'T NEED 2713 01:42:55,001 --> 01:42:56,000 IT, I WISH HIM ALL THE BEST IN 2714 01:42:56,001 --> 01:42:58,000 HIS FUTURE ENDEAVORS, AND I KNOW 2715 01:42:58,001 --> 01:42:59,000 THAT HE WILL REMAIN AN IMPORTANT 2716 01:42:59,001 --> 01:43:01,000 POSITIVE VOICE IN OUR PARTY AND 2717 01:43:01,001 --> 01:43:05,000 ON ISSUES IMPORTANT TO 2718 01:43:05,001 --> 01:43:06,000 AMERICANS. 2719 01:43:06,001 --> 01:43:07,000 MR. PRESIDENT, MY COLLEAGUE, 2720 01:43:07,001 --> 01:43:09,000 SENATOR McCAIN, HAS JUST 2721 01:43:09,001 --> 01:43:10,000 SPOKEN TO THE ISSUE THAT IS ON 2722 01:43:10,001 --> 01:43:11,000 THE MINDS OF ALL AMERICANS TODAY 2723 01:43:11,001 --> 01:43:13,000 AND WHICH THE SENATE AND HOUSE 2724 01:43:13,001 --> 01:43:15,000 OF REPRESENTATIVES WILL AGAIN 2725 01:43:15,001 --> 01:43:16,000 TAKE UP AS 2726 01:43:16,001 --> 01:43:18,000 AUGUST RECESS AND THAT IS HOW TO 2727 01:43:18,001 --> 01:43:20,000 DEAL WITH THE ISSUES THAT 2728 01:43:20,001 --> 01:43:21,000 CONFRONT US IN THE DELIVERY OF 2729 01:43:21,001 --> 01:43:24,000 HEALTH CARE TODAY WITHOUT DOING 2730 01:43:24,001 --> 01:43:25,000 DAMAGE TO THE CARE AND TO THE 2731 01:43:25,001 --> 01:43:28,000 COVERAGE THAT MOST 2732 01:43:28,001 --> 01:43:30,000 HAVE AND BELIEVE SER 2733 01:43:30,001 --> 01:43:31,000 WELL. 2734 01:43:31,001 --> 01:43:32,000 THE APPROACH THAT I HEARD FROM 2735 01:43:32,001 --> 01:43:33,000 COLLEAGUES -- FROM MY 2736 01:43:33,001 --> 01:43:36,000 CONSTITUENTS OVER THE RECESS WAS 2737 01:43:36,001 --> 01:43:38,000 VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT SENATOR 2738 01:43:38,001 --> 01:43:39,000 McCAIN HAS JUST SPOKEN ABOUT, 2739 01:43:39,001 --> 01:43:42,000 WHICH SHOULDN'T BE A BIG -- SEEM 2740 01:43:42,001 --> 01:43:43,000 TO BE A BIG COINCIDENCE SINCE WE 2741 01:43:43,001 --> 01:43:44,000 REPRESENT THE SAME STATE. 2742 01:43:44,001 --> 01:43:47,000 AND ON ONE OCCASION, WE CALLED 2743 01:43:47,001 --> 01:43:49,000 ABOUT 50 THOWP ARIZONA -- 2744 01:43:49,001 --> 01:43:51,000 ABOUT 50,000 ARIZONANS, HAD THEM 2745 01:43:51,001 --> 01:43:53,000 ON THE TELEPHONE FOR ABOUT AN 2746 01:43:53,001 --> 01:43:55,000 HOUR AND A HALF, AND ASKED FOR 2747 01:43:55,001 --> 01:43:56,000 THEIR VIEWS AND GAVE OUR 2748 01:43:56,001 --> 01:43:57,000 THOU 2749 01:43:57,001 --> 01:43:59,000 QUESTIONS, AND WHAT I'VE BEEN 2750 01:43:59,001 --> 01:44:00,000 STRUCK BY IS THE CONSISTENCY OF 2751 01:44:00,001 --> 01:44:02,000 THE VIEWS THAT HAVE BEEN 2752 01:44:02,001 --> 01:44:04,000 EXPRESSED IN THE VARIOUS FORUMS 2753 01:44:04,001 --> 01:44:07,000 THAT I HAD AROUND THE STATE, 2754 01:44:07,001 --> 01:44:08,000 CONSISTENT WITH THE 2755 01:44:08,001 --> 01:44:10,000 MEETINGS THAT SENATOR McCAIN 2756 01:44:10,001 --> 01:44:15,000 HAD RIGHT IN THE HEART OF T PHOENIX METROPOLITAN AREA, VIEWS 2757 01:44:15,001 --> 01:44:17,000 THAT PEOPLE EXPRESSED T 2758 01:44:17,001 --> 01:44:19,000 LOCATION, FROM THE DOCTOR'S 2759 01:44:19,001 --> 01:44:20,000 OFFICE THAT I WENT TO, TO PEOPLE 2760 01:44:20,001 --> 01:44:23,000 MEETING WITH WITH ME IN MY 2761 01:44:23,001 --> 01:44:25,000 OFFICE, TO VOX AT CHURN 2762 01:44:25,001 --> 01:44:26,000 -- TO FOLKS AT CHURCH. 2763 01:44:26,001 --> 01:44:27,000 THE MESSAGE SEEMS TO BE PRETTY 2764 01:44:27,001 --> 01:44:29,000 MUCH THE SAME. 2765 01:44:29,001 --> 01:44:31,000 AND I THINK SENATOR McCAIN 2766 01:44:31,001 --> 01:44:33,000 ARTICULATED IT WELL WHEN HE 2767 01:44:33,001 --> 01:44:34,000 CHARACTERIZED IT AS EXCITE AND 2768 01:44:34,001 --> 01:44:35,000 CONCERN. 2769 01:44:35,001 --> 01:44:36,000 ONE OF -- 2770 01:44:36,001 --> 01:44:38,000 AS 2771 01:44:38,001 --> 01:44:39,000 ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES SAID HE 2772 01:44:39,001 --> 01:44:40,000 NOTED IN HIS CONSTITUENTS IN 2773 01:44:40,001 --> 01:44:42,000 THESE TOWN HALL MEETINGS REAL 2774 01:44:42,001 --> 01:44:43,000 FEAR, AND I THINK THAT'S TRUE. 2775 01:44:43,001 --> 01:44:44,000 BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH WE KNOW 2776 01:44:44,001 --> 01:44:45,000 THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT NOTED 2777 01:44:45,001 --> 01:44:48,000 TO BE DONE TO IMPROVE HEALTH 2778 01:44:48,001 --> 01:44:49,000 CARE DELIVERY IN THIS COUNTRY, 2779 01:44:49,001 --> 01:44:51,000 MOST PEOPLE, ACCORDING TO 2780 01:44:51,001 --> 01:44:53,000 SURVEYS, HAVE 2781 01:44:53,001 --> 01:44:55,000 BELIEVE THAT WHAT THEY HAVE 2782 01:44:55,001 --> 01:44:59,000 SERVES THEM VERY WELL OR AT 2783 01:44:59,001 --> 01:45:01,000 LEAST WELL. 2784 01:45:01,001 --> 01:45:02,000 OUR GOAL, THEREFORE; TO TRY TO 2785 01:45:02,001 --> 01:45:04,000 SOLVE THE SPECIFIC PROBLEMS THAT 2786 01:45:04,001 --> 01:45:06,000 EXIST WITHOUT DOING HARM TO THE 2787 01:45:06,001 --> 01:45:09,000 SYSTEM THAT TREATS THE OTHERS. 2788 01:45:09,001 --> 01:45:10,000 AND AS I SAID A LOT OF OUR 2789 01:45:10,001 --> 01:45:12,000 CONSTITUENTS WERE VERY FEARF 2790 01:45:12,001 --> 01:45:17,000 THEY WERE GOING TO HAVE TO PAY 2791 01:45:17,001 --> 01:45:18,000 MUCH MORE IN TAXES; THAT THEIR 2792 01:45:18,001 --> 01:45:20,000 DEBT BURDEN WILL BE INCREASED 2793 01:45:20,001 --> 01:45:21,000 SIGNIFICANTLY BECAUSE OF THE 2794 01:45:21,001 --> 01:45:23,000 COSTS OF THE HEALTH CARE REFORM 2795 01:45:23,001 --> 01:45:25,000 THAT HAVE BEEN PROPOSED; THA 2796 01:45:25,001 --> 01:45:26,000 THEY WON'T BE ABLE TO KEEP THE 2797 01:45:26,001 --> 01:45:30,000 INSURANCE THEY HAVE EVEN IF THEY 2798 01:45:30,001 --> 01:45:33,000 LIKE IT; THAT THE WAY THEY 2799 01:45:33,001 --> 01:45:34,000 RECEIVE CARE AND 2800 01:45:34,001 --> 01:45:36,000 GET FROM THEIR DOCTORS ABOUT 2801 01:45:36,001 --> 01:45:37,000 WHAT THEIR FAMILY NEEDS ARE, 2802 01:45:37,001 --> 01:45:38,000 WILL NOT NECESSARILY BE 2803 01:45:38,001 --> 01:45:39,000 RESPECTED IF 2804 01:45:39,001 --> 01:45:43,000 A LARGE ROLE IN DECIDING WHAT TO 2805 01:45:43,001 --> 01:45:44,000 PAY FOR AND WHAT NOT TO PAY 2806 01:45:44,001 --> 01:45:45,000 AND, GENERALLY, THAT THE 2807 01:45:45,001 --> 01:45:48,000 GOVERNMENT'S CONTINUED TAKEOVER, 2808 01:45:48,001 --> 01:45:49,000 PIECE BY PIECE, OF THE AMERICAN 2809 01:45:49,001 --> 01:45:52,000 ECONOMY WILL NOT SERVE 2810 01:45:52,001 --> 01:45:56,000 INDIVIDUAL AMERICANS WILL. WELL. 2811 01:45:56,001 --> 01:45:57,000 TO BE SURE, THEY AGREED THAT 2812 01:45:57,001 --> 01:45:59,000 SOME HEALTH CARE 2813 01:45:59,001 --> 01:46:01,000 GROWING TOO FAST AND NEE TO BE 2814 01:46:01,001 --> 01:46:03,000 CONTROLLED. 2815 01:46:03,001 --> 01:46:04,000 THAT THERE ARE SOME AMERICANS 2816 01:46:04,001 --> 01:46:07,000 WHO DON'T HAVE HEALTH COVERAGE 2817 01:46:07,001 --> 01:46:08,000 AND REALLY DOPE HAVE A WAY TO 2818 01:46:08,001 --> 01:46:10,000 GET IT WITHOUT PUBLIC 2819 01:46:10,001 --> 01:46:12,000 THOSE ARE THE TWO KEY AREAS IN 2820 01:46:12,001 --> 01:46:15,000 WHICH THEY RECOGNIZE THERE IS A 2821 01:46:15,001 --> 01:46:17,000 ROLE FOR GOVERNMENT TO PLAY IN REFORM. 2822 01:46:17,001 --> 01:46:20,000 BUT THEY ALSO WONDER WHY CERTAIN 2823 01:46:20,001 --> 01:46:24,000 PROBLEMS ARE NOT BEING TACKLED. 2824 01:46:24,001 --> 01:46:26,000 THE PROBLEM, FOR EXAMPLE, OF 2825 01:46:26,001 --> 01:46:29,000 CHARACTERIZED AS 2826 01:46:29,001 --> 01:46:30,000 JUSTICE," WHERE TRIAL LAWYERS 2827 01:46:30,001 --> 01:46:32,000 BRING LAWSUITS 2828 01:46:32,001 --> 01:46:34,000 BIG REWARDS BUT FREQUENTLY 2829 01:46:34,001 --> 01:46:35,000 SETTLE THE CASES AND THE NET 2830 01:46:35,001 --> 01:46:37,000 RESULT IS THAT THE MEDICAL 2831 01:46:37,001 --> 01:46:38,000 PROFESSION IN THIS COUNTRY, 2832 01:46:38,001 --> 01:46:40,000 DOCTORS PRIMARILY BUT HOSPITALS 2833 01:46:40,001 --> 01:46:44,000 AND OTHERS, SPEND AN ENORMOUS 2834 01:46:44,001 --> 01:46:47,000 AMOUNT OF MONEY 2835 01:46:47,001 --> 01:46:50,000 AT LEAST $100 BILLION A YEAR 2836 01:46:50,001 --> 01:46:52,000 DEFENSIVE MEDICINE. 2837 01:46:52,001 --> 01:46:54,000 THAT IS TO SAY, DOING THINGS, 2838 01:46:54,001 --> 01:46:56,000 ORDERING TESTS, REFERRING 2839 01:46:56,001 --> 01:46:58,000 PATIENTS TO OTHER PHYSICIANS AND 2840 01:46:58,001 --> 01:46:59,000 SO ON, ALL OF WHICH ARE REALLY 2841 01:46:59,001 --> 01:47:01,000 UNNECESSARY FOR THE CARE AND 2842 01:47:01,001 --> 01:47:03,000 TREATMENT OF THE PAINT BUT WHICH 2843 01:47:03,001 --> 01:47:07,000 WILL PROTECT 2844 01:47:07,001 --> 01:47:08,000 EVENT THAT THERE'S A CLAIM OF 2845 01:47:08,001 --> 01:47:09,000 MEDICAL 2846 01:47:09,001 --> 01:47:11,000 THIS HAPPENS BECAUSE THE LAWYERS 2847 01:47:11,001 --> 01:47:13,000 INVOLVED GET SO-CALLED EXPERT 2848 01:47:13,001 --> 01:47:15,000 WITNESSES WHO COM 2849 01:47:15,001 --> 01:47:17,000 TELL THE JURY THAT THE STANDARD?? 2850 01:47:17,001 --> 01:47:19,000 OF CARE IN THE COMMUNITY IS IF 2851 01:47:19,001 --> 01:47:20,000 THE CHILD FALLS DOWN ON THE LAY 2852 01:47:20,001 --> 01:47:22,000 GROUND AND GETS A BUTCH ON THE 2853 01:47:22,001 --> 01:47:27,000 HEAD YOU ORDER A CAT SCAN. 2854 01:47:27,001 --> 01:47:29,000 IT DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER OR NOT 2855 01:47:29,001 --> 01:47:31,000 HE CAN SEE THE CHILD, REALLY, IF 2856 01:47:31,001 --> 01:47:33,000 THE PAINTS JUST WATCHED 2857 01:47:33,001 --> 01:47:36,000 CAREFULLY, SHOULD BE JUST FINE. 2858 01:47:36,001 --> 01:47:37,000 NO, TO PROTECT HIMSELF OR 2859 01:47:37,001 --> 01:47:39,000 HERSELF AGAINST MEDICAL 2860 01:47:39,001 --> 01:47:42,000 LIABILITY OR MALPRACTICE CLAIMS 2861 01:47:42,001 --> 01:47:45,000 YOU ORDER A CAT SCAN. 2862 01:47:45,001 --> 01:47:47,000 THE NET RESULT IS AN EXPENSE OF 2863 01:47:47,001 --> 01:47:49,000 OVER $100 BILLION A YEAR IN 2864 01:47:49,001 --> 01:47:52,000 UNNECESSARY MEDICAL TESTS AND PROCEDURES. 2865 01:47:52,001 --> 01:47:53,000 THE COSTS OF THOSE ITEMS, OF 2866 01:47:53,001 --> 01:47:54,000 COURSE, ARE PASSED ON TO ALL OF 2867 01:47:54,001 --> 01:47:57,000 THE REST OF US. 2868 01:47:57,001 --> 01:47:58,000 ANOTHER ESTIMATE IS THAT 10% OF 2869 01:47:58,001 --> 01:47:59,000 EVERY HEALTH CARE DOLLAR IS 2870 01:47:59,001 --> 01:48:01,000 SPENT ON THE PREMIUMS THAT 2871 01:48:01,001 --> 01:48:03,000 PHYSICIANS SPEND FOR THEIR 2872 01:48:03,001 --> 01:48:05,000 MALPRACTICE INSURANCE. 2873 01:48:05,001 --> 01:48:07,000 SOME OF US AS LAWYERS KNOW YOU 2874 01:48:07,001 --> 01:48:08,000 HAVE TO PAY SOME MONEY FOR 2875 01:48:08,001 --> 01:48:10,000 MALPRACTICE INSURANCE BEFORE YOU 2876 01:48:10,001 --> 01:48:11,000 CAN START WORK ON JANUARY 1. 2877 01:48:11,001 --> 01:48:16,000 THAT'S FAIR. 2878 01:48:16,001 --> 01:48:21,000 BUT HOW ABOUT $200,000 IN 2879 01:48:21,001 --> 01:48:23,000 MEDICAL MALPRACTICE 2880 01:48:23,001 --> 01:48:24,000 A NEUROSURGEON, FOR EXAMPLE, OR 2881 01:48:24,001 --> 01:48:26,000 IF YOU ARE AN OB-GYN, FOR EXAMPLE. 2882 01:48:26,001 --> 01:48:28,000 THIS ESTIMATE OF 10% OF HEALTH 2883 01:48:28,001 --> 01:48:30,000 CARE DOLLARS SPENT ON PREMIUMS 2884 01:48:30,001 --> 01:48:34,000 MEANS THAT IF WE COULD REDUCE 2885 01:48:34,001 --> 01:48:36,000 THE INCIDENCE OF MALPRACTICE 2886 01:48:36,001 --> 01:48:37,000 CLAIMS WE COULD REDUCE THAT 2887 01:48:37,001 --> 01:48:38,000 PREMIUM COST THE PHYSICIANS 2888 01:48:38,001 --> 01:48:39,000 WOULDN'T HAVE TO PASS IT ON TO 2889 01:48:39,001 --> 01:48:40,000 THE INSURANCE COMPANIES, 2890 01:48:40,001 --> 01:48:41,000 WOULDN'T HAVE TO PASS IT ON TO 2891 01:48:41,001 --> 01:48:44,000 US. 2892 01:48:44,001 --> 01:48:45,000 AGAIN, OUR HEALTH CARE COULD BE CHEAPER. 2893 01:48:45,001 --> 01:48:47,000 SO, BOTH BECAUSE OF THE PREMIUM 2894 01:48:47,001 --> 01:48:50,000 COST AND BECAUSE OF THE PRACTICE 2895 01:48:50,001 --> 01:48:51,000 OF DEFENSIVE MEDICINE, THIS 2896 01:48:51,001 --> 01:48:52,000 "JACKPOT J 2897 01:48:52,001 --> 01:48:54,000 SERVED US WELL. 2898 01:48:54,001 --> 01:48:55,000 ONE WOULD THINK IF WE'RE 2899 01:48:55,001 --> 01:48:57,000 INTERESTED IN CONTROLLING COSTS, 2900 01:48:57,001 --> 01:48:58,000 IF WE'RE MAKING INSURANCE MORE 2901 01:48:58,001 --> 01:49:01,000 AFFORDABLE FOR SMALL 2902 01:49:01,001 --> 01:49:04,000 BUSINESSES -- FOR BIG BUSINESSES 2903 01:49:04,001 --> 01:49:05,000 FOR THAT ARE MATTER -- AND FOR 2904 01:49:05,001 --> 01:49:06,000 US AS INDIVIDUALS AND WE WANT TO 2905 01:49:06,001 --> 01:49:09,000 ENCOURAGE MORE PHYSICIANS TO 2906 01:49:09,001 --> 01:49:13,000 STAY IN PRACTICE, WE WOULD TACKLE THIS PROBLEM. 2907 01:49:13,001 --> 01:49:15,000 IS THIS ONE WORD ABOUT MEDICAL 2908 01:49:15,001 --> 01:49:16,000 MALPRACTICE REFORM 2909 01:49:16,001 --> 01:49:17,000 A BILL OUT OF THE "HELP" 2910 01:49:17,001 --> 01:49:18,000 COMMITTEE IN THE SENATE? 2911 01:49:18,001 --> 01:49:20,000 THE BILL IN THE FINANCE COMMITTEE? 2912 01:49:20,001 --> 01:49:21,000 OR THE BILL THAT CAME OUT OF THE 2913 01:49:21,001 --> 01:49:23,000 COMMITTEE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES? 2914 01:49:23,001 --> 01:49:25,000 THE ANSWER TO THAT IS "NO," NOT 2915 01:49:25,001 --> 01:49:26,000 A WORD ABOUT MEDICAL MALPRACTICE 2916 01:49:26,001 --> 01:49:27,000 REFORM. 2917 01:49:27,001 --> 01:49:29,000 HOWARD DOON, THE FORMER 2918 01:49:29,001 --> 01:49:32,000 DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR OF VERMONT 2919 01:49:32,001 --> 01:49:34,000 CHAIRMAN, WAS VERY HONEST ABOUT 2920 01:49:34,001 --> 01:49:38,000 THIS AUGUST 17 IN A TOWN HALL 2921 01:49:38,001 --> 01:49:40,000 MEETING WITHIN REPRESENTATIVE 2922 01:49:40,001 --> 01:49:42,000 MORAN 2923 01:49:42,001 --> 01:49:44,000 REASON IS, YOU WRITE WIG DEAL 2924 01:49:44,001 --> 01:49:45,000 YOU DON'T WANT TO TAKE ON TOO 2925 01:49:45,001 --> 01:49:46,000 MANY SPECIAL INTERESTS AND THE 2926 01:49:46,001 --> 01:49:49,000 PEOPLE WHO WROTE THIS DID NOT 2927 01:49:49,001 --> 01:49:51,000 WANT TO TAKE ON THE TRIAL LAWYERS. THAT'S THE TRUTH. 2928 01:49:51,001 --> 01:49:55,000 AND IT IS THE TRUTH. 2929 01:49:55,001 --> 01:49:57,000 BUT THE REAC REALITY IS, IF THE 39 IS 2930 01:49:57,001 --> 01:50:02,000 GOING TO ASK EVERYONE ELSE TO 2931 01:50:02,001 --> 01:50:04,000 SACRIFICE SENIORS TAKING A $4 2932 01:50:04,001 --> 01:50:05,000 BILLION TO $5 BILLION CUT IN 2933 01:50:05,001 --> 01:50:07,000 MEDICARE -- LESS CARE FOR 2934 01:50:07,001 --> 01:50:08,000 THEM -- IF SMALL BUSINESSES HAVE 2935 01:50:08,001 --> 01:50:09,000 TO PAY A TAX ON EVERY EMPLOYER 2936 01:50:09,001 --> 01:50:12,000 TO MAKE SURE THEY GET COVERED 2937 01:50:12,001 --> 01:50:16,000 WITH INSURANCE, IF THE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES ARE 2938 01:50:16,001 --> 01:50:19,000 GOING TO HAVE TO PONY UP I HAVE 2939 01:50:19,001 --> 01:50:21,000 FORGOTTEN HOW MANY HUNDRED 2940 01:50:21,001 --> 01:50:23,000 MILLION FORCE MORE DRUGS FOR 2941 01:50:23,001 --> 01:50:25,000 SENIORS, IF 2942 01:50:25,001 --> 01:50:26,000 SACRIFICES WHY CAN'T WE ASK THE 2943 01:50:26,001 --> 01:50:27,000 POOR TRIAL LAWYERS TO GIVE UP A 2944 01:50:27,001 --> 01:50:29,000 LITTLE BIT? 2945 01:50:29,001 --> 01:50:32,000 WE ARE N SAYING MALPRACTICE 2946 01:50:32,001 --> 01:50:34,000 THAT'S THE WAY THAT DOCTORS AND 2947 01:50:34,001 --> 01:50:35,000 HOSPITALS AND OTHERS ARE KEPT 2948 01:50:35,001 --> 01:50:36,000 HONEST. 2949 01:50:36,001 --> 01:50:37,000 YOU HEADACHE A 2950 01:50:37,001 --> 01:50:39,000 TO PAY FOR IT. 2951 01:50:39,001 --> 01:50:41,000 BUT WE CAN MAKE SURE THE SYSTEM 2952 01:50:41,001 --> 01:50:43,000 WORKS TO PREVENT THE KIND OF 2953 01:50:43,001 --> 01:50:45,000 JACKPOT JUSTICE I TALKED ABOUT. 2954 01:50:45,001 --> 01:50:47,000 THERE ARE FIVE DIFFERENT KINDS 2955 01:50:47,001 --> 01:50:48,000 OF MEDICAL MALPRACTICE REFORMS 2956 01:50:48,001 --> 01:50:49,000 THAT WORKED. 2957 01:50:49,001 --> 01:50:51,000 ONE WAS OFFERED IN THE "HELP" 2958 01:50:51,001 --> 01:50:53,000 COMMITTEE BY SENATOR ENZI CALLED 2959 01:50:53,001 --> 01:50:54,000 "HEALTH COURTS." 2960 01:50:54,001 --> 01:50:56,000 THE STATE OF TEXAS AND THE STATE 2961 01:50:56,001 --> 01:50:58,000 OF ARIZONA HAVE BOTH ADOPTED 2962 01:50:58,001 --> 01:50:59,000 CERTAIN KINDS OF MEDICAL 2963 01:50:59,001 --> 01:51:01,000 MALPRACTICE REFORMS. 2964 01:51:01,001 --> 01:51:03,000 IN ARIZONA IT HAS BEGUN TO WORK 2965 01:51:03,001 --> 01:51:06,000 AND IN TEXAS SOMETHING LIKE 2966 01:51:06,001 --> 01:51:08,000 7,000 DOCTORS HAVE MOVED 2967 01:51:08,001 --> 01:51:10,000 THE STATE; SOMETHING LIKE THE 2968 01:51:10,001 --> 01:51:11,000 PREMIUMS BEING REDUCED EITHER BY 2969 01:51:11,001 --> 01:51:14,000 21% OR 23%. 2970 01:51:14,001 --> 01:51:15,000 IN OTHER WORDS, MEDICAL 2971 01:51:15,001 --> 01:51:16,000 MALPRACTICE CAN REDUCE THE COST 2972 01:51:16,001 --> 01:51:18,000 TO PROVIDE CARE. 2973 01:51:18,001 --> 01:51:20,000 BY REDUCING THAT COST, PEOPLE'S 2974 01:51:20,001 --> 01:51:22,000 PREMIUMS CAN BE CUT. 2975 01:51:22,001 --> 01:51:26,000 AND THAT WILL MAKE INSURANCE 2976 01:51:26,001 --> 01:51:27,000 MORE AFFORD ACKNOWLEDGE. 2977 01:51:27,001 --> 01:51:28,000 AFFORDABLE. 2978 01:51:28,001 --> 01:51:30,000 MY POINT IS TO SAY THIS, WHAT WE 2979 01:51:30,001 --> 01:51:32,000 FOD AS WE 2980 01:51:32,001 --> 01:51:34,000 CONSTITUENTS W A FEAR THAT IN 2981 01:51:34,001 --> 01:51:36,000 ORDER TO SOLVE TWO OR THREE VERY 2982 01:51:36,001 --> 01:51:37,000 DISCREET PROBLEMS, THAT THERE 2983 01:51:37,001 --> 01:51:39,000 WERE PEOPLE HERE IN WASHINGTON 2984 01:51:39,001 --> 01:51:40,000 THAT WANTED TO REMAKE THE WHOLE 2985 01:51:40,001 --> 01:51:42,000 SYSTEM, THROW OUT WHAT WE HAVE, 2986 01:51:42,001 --> 01:51:43,000 AND IMPOSE ON IT, A 2987 01:51:43,001 --> 01:51:45,000 REGULATORY REGIME. 2988 01:51:45,001 --> 01:51:47,000 WHETHER OR NOT THERE IS A 2989 01:51:47,001 --> 01:51:48,000 GOVERNMENT OPTION OR GOVERNMENT 2990 01:51:48,001 --> 01:51:49,000 INSURANCE PLAN IS ONLY PART OF 2991 01:51:49,001 --> 01:51:50,000 THE ISSUE. 2992 01:51:50,001 --> 01:51:52,000 THE PROBLEM IS, THERE'S 2993 01:51:52,001 --> 01:51:53,000 GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF EVERYBODY 2994 01:51:53,001 --> 01:51:56,000 IRRESPECTIVE OF THAT. 2995 01:51:56,001 --> 01:51:58,000 AND PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED AS A 2996 01:51:58,001 --> 01:52:03,000 RE 2997 01:52:03,001 --> 01:52:05,000 RASRATIONED AND THEIR TAXES AND 2998 01:52:05,001 --> 01:52:06,000 PREMIUMS WILL GO UP. 2999 01:52:06,001 --> 01:52:07,000 HOW WILL THAT BE? 3000 01:52:07,001 --> 01:52:09,000 I GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE. 3001 01:52:09,001 --> 01:52:11,000 I TALKED TO PEOPLE WHO ARE 3002 01:52:11,001 --> 01:52:12,000 RELATIVELY YOUNG AND RELATIVELY 3003 01:52:12,001 --> 01:52:14,000 HEALTHY. 3004 01:52:14,001 --> 01:52:16,000 AND THEY ARE SENIOR AWARE THAT 3005 01:52:16,001 --> 01:52:18,000 IF THEY ARE PUT IN THE SAME POOL 3006 01:52:18,001 --> 01:52:21,000 WITH EVERYBODY ELSE WITH THE 3007 01:52:21,001 --> 01:52:23,000 PEOPLE WHO ARE SICKER AND OLDER, 3008 01:52:23,001 --> 01:52:25,000 AND THEY'RE ALL PUT INTO ONE POT 3009 01:52:25,001 --> 01:52:27,000 AND YOU 3010 01:52:27,001 --> 01:52:29,000 THE BASIS OF HEALTH CONDITION 3011 01:52:29,001 --> 01:52:30,000 AND WE DO BELIEVE PEOPLE WITH 3012 01:52:30,001 --> 01:52:32,000 PREEXISTING CONDITIONS SHOULD BE 3013 01:52:32,001 --> 01:52:33,000 ABLE TO GET INSURANCE, THEN, 3014 01:52:33,001 --> 01:52:35,000 NATURALLY, THE PEOPLE WHO ARE 3015 01:52:35,001 --> 01:52:37,000 YOUNGER AND HEALTHIER ARE GOING 3016 01:52:37,001 --> 01:52:38,000 TO BE PAYING MORE FOR THEIR 3017 01:52:38,001 --> 01:52:40,000 INSURANCE THAN THEY WOULD I 3018 01:52:40,001 --> 01:52:43,000 THEY WERE IN A CATEGORY BY THEMSELVES. 3019 01:52:43,001 --> 01:52:44,000 AND THAT'S WHAT THE ACTUARY DATA 3020 01:52:44,001 --> 01:52:47,000 SHOWS US. 3021 01:52:47,001 --> 01:52:51,000 SO IT MIGHT MAKENSURANCE MORE 3022 01:52:51,001 --> 01:52:54,000 AFFORDABLE FOR SOMEONE OLDER AND 3023 01:52:54,001 --> 01:52:58,000 SICKER BUT WILL RAISE 3024 01:52:58,001 --> 01:53:01,000 SOMEONE YOUNGER AND HEALTHIER. 3025 01:53:01,001 --> 01:53:02,000 THERE HAS TO BE 3026 01:53:02,001 --> 01:53:03,000 THAT OUT. 3027 01:53:03,001 --> 01:53:07,000 THERE OUGHT TO BE A WAY TO 3028 01:53:07,001 --> 01:53:09,000 ENSURE THAT MUCH I EVERYONE IN THIS 3029 01:53:09,001 --> 01:53:10,000 COUNTRY CAN GET AFFORDABLE, 3030 01:53:10,001 --> 01:53:12,000 QUALITY HEALTH INSURANCE WITHOUT 3031 01:53:12,001 --> 01:53:13,000 TAXING ALL EMPLOYERS, ESPECIALLY 3032 01:53:13,001 --> 01:53:14,000 SMALL BUSINESSES, 3033 01:53:14,001 --> 01:53:16,000 ENTIES THAT WE ARE COUNTING ON 3034 01:53:16,001 --> 01:53:17,000 TO BRING US OUT OF THIS 3035 01:53:17,001 --> 01:53:19,000 RECESSION. 3036 01:53:19,001 --> 01:53:21,000 WE KNOW THAT ALMOST ALL OF THE 3037 01:53:21,001 --> 01:53:23,000 JOBS CREATED IN THIS COUNTRY IN 3038 01:53:23,001 --> 01:53:25,000 THE LAST TWO OR THREE YEARS WERE 3039 01:53:25,001 --> 01:53:27,000 CREATED BY SMALL BUSINESS. 3040 01:53:27,001 --> 01:53:28,000 LARGE BUSINESSES LOST -- IN 3041 01:53:28,001 --> 01:53:30,000 FACT, WE LOST ABOUT THREE 3042 01:53:30,001 --> 01:53:31,000 MILLION JOBS IN 3043 01:53:31,001 --> 01:53:33,000 THIS RECESSION. 3044 01:53:33,001 --> 01:53:35,000 THREE MILLION JOBS HAVE BEEN LOST. 3045 01:53:35,001 --> 01:53:37,000 HOW AREHOSE J BACK? 3046 01:53:37,001 --> 01:53:40,000 IT'S GOING TO BE TOUGH SMALL 3047 01:53:40,001 --> 01:53:41,000 BUSINESS, THAT'S WHERE OVER 80% 3048 01:53:41,001 --> 01:53:43,000 OF THE JOSHES CREATED AND THAT 3049 01:53:43,001 --> 01:53:47,000 IS WHERE THEY WILL BE RE-CREATED 3050 01:53:47,001 --> 01:53:49,000 TO GET US OUT OF THE RECESSION. 3051 01:53:49,001 --> 01:53:50,000 WHY WOULD WE WANT TO TAX THE 3052 01:53:50,001 --> 01:53:53,000 PEOPLE TO SAY IF YOU WANT TO 3053 01:53:53,001 --> 01:53:54,000 HIRE SOMEBODY IT WILL COST YOU 3054 01:53:54,001 --> 01:53:56,000 "X" AMOUNT MORE. 3055 01:53:56,001 --> 01:53:58,000 WHY GIVE THEM AN INCENTIVE TO 3056 01:53:58,001 --> 01:54:00,000 HIRE MORE PEOPLE, NOT GIVE THEM 3057 01:54:00,001 --> 01:54:05,000 AN DISINCE TAXATION. 3058 01:54:05,001 --> 01:54:07,000 AND WHY RAISE THE TAXES OF ALL 3059 01:54:07,001 --> 01:54:08,000 BUSINESSES-INCLUDING RAISES 3060 01:54:08,001 --> 01:54:10,000 TAXES ON INSURANCE COMPANIES. 3061 01:54:10,001 --> 01:54:13,000 YES, INSURANCE COMPAES ARE FUN 3062 01:54:13,001 --> 01:54:14,000 TO PICK ON BUT DO THEY PASS ON 3063 01:54:14,001 --> 01:54:15,000 THE COST OF THE TAX TO THE 3064 01:54:15,001 --> 01:54:16,000 PREMIUM HOLDERS? 3065 01:54:16,001 --> 01:54:19,000 OF COURSE. 3066 01:54:19,001 --> 01:54:22,000 WE END UP -- THERE IS LUNCH. 3067 01:54:22,001 --> 01:54:23,000 WE PAY THE TAXES. 3068 01:54:23,001 --> 01:54:25,000 THE NET RESULT IS THAT WITHIN 3069 01:54:25,001 --> 01:54:27,000 PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE 3070 01:54:27,001 --> 01:54:29,000 ECONOMY, NUMBER ONE, ABOUT OUR 3071 01:54:29,001 --> 01:54:31,000 RISING DEBT, ABOUT THE POTENTIAL 3072 01:54:31,001 --> 01:54:33,000 THEY WILL BE TAXED AND ABOUT THE 3073 01:54:33,001 --> 01:54:37,000 NEED TO RE-CREATE JOBS, WHAT 3074 01:54:37,001 --> 01:54:39,000 THEY'RE TELLING EXPUS WHAT 3075 01:54:39,001 --> 01:54:41,000 TOLD ME IS, SOLVE THOSE PROBLEMS 3076 01:54:41,001 --> 01:54:43,000 FIRST, AND WHEN YOU GET THAT 3077 01:54:43,001 --> 01:54:45,000 SOLVED AND YOU WANT TO LOOK AT 3078 01:54:45,001 --> 01:54:47,000 HEALTH CARE GO AHEAD BUT IN THE 3079 01:54:47,001 --> 01:54:48,000 PROCESS DO NOT THROW OUT THE 3080 01:54:48,001 --> 01:54:51,000 BABY WITH THE BATH WATER. 3081 01:54:51,001 --> 01:54:54,000 DON'T THROW OUT A SYSTEM THAT 3082 01:54:54,001 --> 01:54:55,000 IF YOU HAVE SPECIFIC PROBLEM, 3083 01:54:55,001 --> 01:54:57,000 WORK OUT SOLUTIONS. 3084 01:54:57,001 --> 01:54:59,000 YOU CAN C 3085 01:54:59,001 --> 01:55:00,000 NEED INSURANCE, AND YOU CAN BUY 3086 01:55:00,001 --> 01:55:02,000 THEM ALL INSURANCE WITH THE 3087 01:55:02,001 --> 01:55:03,000 SAVINGS YOU GET WITH MALPRACTICE 3088 01:55:03,001 --> 01:55:04,000 REFORM. 3089 01:55:04,001 --> 01:55:06,000 WHY DON'T WE DO THAT? 3090 01:55:06,001 --> 01:55:08,000 THERE IS A PROBLEM BOTH THIS 3091 01:55:08,001 --> 01:55:10,000 JACK POT JUSTICE 3092 01:55:10,001 --> 01:55:12,000 PROBLEM IN AND OF ITSELF AND YOU 3093 01:55:12,001 --> 01:55:13,000 HAVE A PROBLEM BECAUSE SOME 3094 01:55:13,001 --> 01:55:15,000 PEOPLE CANNOT AFFORD SKINS WE 3095 01:55:15,001 --> 01:55:17,000 NEED TO HELP THEM GET IT. 3096 01:55:17,001 --> 01:55:19,000 THE MONEY SAVED FROM ONE CAN 3097 01:55:19,001 --> 01:55:20,000 HELP SAVE FOR THE OTHERS. 3098 01:55:20,001 --> 01:55:23,000 YOU DO NOT NEED TO CHANGE THE 3099 01:55:23,001 --> 01:55:24,000 ENTIRE 3100 01:55:24,001 --> 01:55:26,000 DELIVERY IN ORDER TO DO THAT. 3101 01:55:26,001 --> 01:55:28,000 SINCE MUCH KNOWS THAT MEDICARE 3102 01:55:28,001 --> 01:55:31,000 IS IN TROUBLE 3103 01:55:31,001 --> 01:55:36,000 IT IN FURTHER TROUBLE BY CUTTING 3104 01:55:36,001 --> 01:55:37,000 IT BY $500 BILLION AND 3105 01:55:37,001 --> 01:55:43,000 THAT SAVINGS INSTEAD TO MAKE 3106 01:55:43,001 --> 01:55:44,000 MEDICARE 3107 01:55:44,001 --> 01:55:50,000 MONEY. 3108 01:55:50,001 --> 01:55:52,000 PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT. 3109 01:55:52,001 --> 01:55:53,000 THEY SEE IT IS TOO BIG, TOO MUCH. 3110 01:55:53,001 --> 01:55:54,000 PEOPLE WERE TRYING TO DO IT TOO 3111 01:55:54,001 --> 01:55:56,000 FAST. 3112 01:55:56,001 --> 01:55:58,000 IN FACT, ONE ASKED, WHY WERE 3113 01:55:58,001 --> 01:55:59,000 THEY TRYING TO RUSH THIS BILL 3114 01:55:59,001 --> 01:56:01,000 THROUGH BEFORE THE END OF AUGUST 3115 01:56:01,001 --> 01:56:04,000 WHEN IT DOESN'T EVEN TAKE 3116 01:56:04,001 --> 01:56:05,000 IN MOST 3117 01:56:05,001 --> 01:56:06,000 REAR 2013? 3118 01:56:06,001 --> 01:56:07,000 IF QUESTION. 3119 01:56:07,001 --> 01:56:08,000 IT 3120 01:56:08,001 --> 01:56:09,000 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE H A 3121 01:56:09,001 --> 01:56:11,000 CHAPS TO CONSIDER THIS AND WE 3122 01:56:11,001 --> 01:56:13,000 HAVE HAD A 3123 01:56:13,001 --> 01:56:15,000 A CHANCE TO TALK ABOUT IT. 3124 01:56:15,001 --> 01:56:16,000 HERE'S THE BOTTOM LINE, 3125 01:56:16,001 --> 01:56:19,000 MR. PRESIDENT: REPUBLICANS HAVE 3126 01:56:19,001 --> 01:56:21,000 A LOT OF ALTERNATIVES. 3127 01:56:21,001 --> 01:56:23,000 SENATOR McCAIN TALKED ABOUT 3128 01:56:23,001 --> 01:56:25,000 MALPRACTICE REFORM, GETTING RID 3129 01:56:25,001 --> 01:56:26,000 OF WASTE, FRAUD AND ABUSE; 3130 01:56:26,001 --> 01:56:28,000 SELLING INSURANCE ACROSS STATE 3131 01:56:28,001 --> 01:56:30,000 LINES; PROVIDING ASSOCIATION 3132 01:56:30,001 --> 01:56:31,000 HEALTH PLANS SO SMALL BUSINESSES 3133 01:56:31,001 --> 01:56:32,000 CAN COMPETE WITH THE INSURANCE 3134 01:56:32,001 --> 01:56:35,000 COMPANIES IN THE SAME WAY THE 3135 01:56:35,001 --> 01:56:37,000 BIG BUSINESSES COMPETE. 3136 01:56:37,001 --> 01:56:39,000 THESE ARE IDEAS THAT CAN BE PUT 3137 01:56:39,001 --> 01:56:42,000 INTO PLAYS TO SOLVE SPECIFIC 3138 01:56:42,001 --> 01:56:43,000 PROBLEMS AND 59 THE END OF THE 3139 01:56:43,001 --> 01:56:47,000 DAY -- AND AT THE END 3140 01:56:47,001 --> 01:56:49,000 WE WILL HAVE REDUCED THE 3141 01:56:49,001 --> 01:56:52,000 OF HEALTH CARE PREMIUMS AND THE 3142 01:56:52,001 --> 01:56:54,000 COST OF HEALTH CARE FOR EVERYBODY, AND, AT THE SAME 3143 01:56:54,001 --> 01:56:59,000 TIME, WE WILL HAVE BEEN ABLE TO, 3144 01:56:59,001 --> 01:57:01,000 WIT SAVINGS, PROVIDE 3145 01:57:01,001 --> 01:57:02,000 COVERAGE FOR PEOPLE WHO NEED IT 3146 01:57:02,001 --> 01:57:04,000 AND CANNOT GET IT. 3147 01:57:04,001 --> 01:57:06,000 IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO SCRAP 3148 01:57:06,001 --> 01:57:07,000 EVERYTHING WE 3149 01:57:07,001 --> 01:57:08,000 WHOLE NEW SYSTEM WHERE THE 3150 01:57:08,001 --> 01:57:10,000 GOVERNMENT TAKES OVEHEALTH 3151 01:57:10,001 --> 01:57:11,000 CARE AS IT HAS INSURANCE, BANKING AND AUTOMOBILES AND 3152 01:57:11,001 --> 01:57:14,000 EVERYTHING ELSE. 3153 01:57:14,001 --> 01:57:17,000 THAT'S WHAT I'M HEARING TO MY CONSTITUENTS. 3154 01:57:17,001 --> 01:57:18,000 AND I HOPE AS WE ARE REENGAGED 3155 01:57:18,001 --> 01:57:19,000 IN THIS DEBATE WE WILL 3156 01:57:19,001 --> 01:57:21,000 ONE FUNDAMENTALHING OUR 3157 01:57:21,001 --> 01:57:22,000 FOUNDING FATHERS HAD IN MIND 3158 01:57:22,001 --> 01:57:24,000 WHEN THEY SET UP THE KIND OF 3159 01:57:24,001 --> 01:57:27,000 SYSTEM WE 3160 01:57:27,001 --> 01:57:29,000 TO OUR CONSTITUENTS, NEVER 3161 01:57:29,001 --> 01:57:30,000 FORGETTING THEY ARE OUR BOSSES. 3162 01:57:30,001 --> 01:57:34,000 WE WORK FOR THEM. 3163 01:57:34,001 --> 01:57:36,000 THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. 3164 01:57:36,001 --> 01:57:41,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: 3165 01:57:41,001 --> 01:57:43,000 SENATOR FROM RHODE ISLAND. 3166 01:57:43,001 --> 01:57:45,000 THE SMALL NORTHEAST STATES CAN 3167 01:57:45,001 --> 01:57:46,000 BE HARD TO TELL APART. 3168 01:57:46,001 --> 01:57:47,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: BEEN 3169 01:57:47,001 --> 01:57:48,000 THERE MYSELF. 3170 01:57:48,001 --> 01:57:50,000 MR. WHITEHOUSE: MR. PRESIDENT, 3171 01:57:50,001 --> 01:57:51,000 MAY I SPEAK FOR UP TO 15 3172 01:57:51,001 --> 01:57:52,000 MINUTES. 3173 01:57:52,001 --> 01:57:53,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: WITHOUT 3174 01:57:53,001 --> 01:57:54,000 OBJECTION. 3175 01:57:54,001 --> 01:57:58,000 MR. WHITEHOUSE: MR. PRESI 3176 01:57:58,001 --> 01:58:02,000 WHY ARE WE WORKING SO HARD ON 3177 01:58:02,001 --> 01:58:04,000 HEALTH CARE REFORM? 3178 01:58:04,001 --> 01:58:07,000 RIGHT NOW? 3179 01:58:07,001 --> 01:58:10,000 BECAUSE THE PRESENT SYSTEM IS UNSUSTAINABLE. 3180 01:58:10,001 --> 01:58:12,000 THIS IS THE COST CURVE OF OUR 3181 01:58:12,001 --> 01:58:18,000 NATIONAL HEALTH EXPENDITURES. 3182 01:58:18,001 --> 01:58:19,000 IN 2009 IT HIT 3183 01:58:19,001 --> 01:58:22,000 IT WILL CONTINUE TO GO UP TO THE 3184 01:58:22,001 --> 01:58:26,000 POINT WHERE RIGHT NOW IT IS 3185 01:58:26,001 --> 01:58:27,000 ESTIMATED THAT IN THE YEAR 3186 01:58:27,001 --> 01:58:29,000 2016 -- WHICH IS IN THE TOO FAR 3187 01:58:29,001 --> 01:58:33,000 FROM WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW -- 3188 01:58:33,001 --> 01:58:35,000 IN THE YEAR 3189 01:58:35,001 --> 01:58:41,000 FAMILY POLICY, ON AVERAGE, IN 3190 01:58:41,001 --> 01:58:44,000 RHODE ISLAND, WILL COST 3191 01:58:44,001 --> 01:58:47,000 FAMILY $26,000 A YEAR. 3192 01:58:47,001 --> 01:58:49,000 MR. PRESIDENT, A MIDDLE-CLASS 3193 01:58:49,001 --> 01:58:54,000 FAMILY 3194 01:58:54,001 --> 01:58:55,000 AFFORD 3195 01:58:55,001 --> 01:58:57,000 HEALTH 3196 01:58:57,001 --> 01:58:59,000 SOMETHING URGENT HAS TO BE DONE. 3197 01:58:59,001 --> 01:59:00,000 NOW, IN THE EIGHT YEARS OF THE 3198 01:59:00,001 --> 01:59:03,000 BUSH ADMINISTRATION IT PROBABLY 3199 01:59:03,001 --> 01:59:05,000 INCREASED BY NEARLY $1 TRILLION 3200 01:59:05,001 --> 01:59:07,000 AND NHING GOT DONE. 3201 01:59:07,001 --> 01:59:08,000 OUR FRIENDS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF 3202 01:59:08,001 --> 01:59:10,000 THE AISLE WERE HAPPY AS CLAMS 3203 01:59:10,001 --> 01:59:12,000 WITH THAT STATE OF AFFAIRS. 3204 01:59:12,001 --> 01:59:15,000 NOW, IN THE FIRST YEAR OF THE 3205 01:59:15,001 --> 01:59:16,000 OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, WITH MORE 3206 01:59:16,001 --> 01:59:18,000 PROGRESS 3207 01:59:18,001 --> 01:59:20,000 THAN ANY TIME SINCE BACK WHEN 3208 01:59:20,001 --> 01:59:23,000 THE CLINTONS TRIED IT, WE 3209 01:59:23,001 --> 01:59:26,000 ONCE AGAIN, THE CAT CALLS AND 3210 01:59:26,001 --> 01:59:27,000 THE CRITICISMS FROM OUR 3211 01:59:27,001 --> 01:59:28,000 COLLEAGUES. 3212 01:59:28,001 --> 01:59:30,000 ANYTHING 3213 01:59:30,001 --> 01:59:32,000 PROGRESS. 3214 01:59:32,001 --> 01:59:36,000 BUT THAT IS WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT. 3215 01:59:36,001 --> 01:59:40,000 WE SIMPLY CAN'T AFFORD NOT TO. 3216 01:59:40,001 --> 01:59:42,000 AND WHEN WE LOOK AT THE 3217 01:59:42,001 --> 01:59:44,000 THAT OUR COUNTRY FACES 3218 01:59:44,001 --> 01:59:47,000 ECONOMICALLY, WELL, THERE'S BEEN 3219 01:59:47,001 --> 01:59:49,000 SOME CRITICISM OF THE STIMULUS 3220 01:59:49,001 --> 01:59:50,000 BILL, THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY AND 3221 01:59:50,001 --> 01:59:57,000 REINVESTMENT ACT. 3222 01:59:57,001 --> 01:59:59,000 THIS IS IT RIGHT HERE. 3223 01:59:59,001 --> 02:00:02,000 .8 TRILLION AND YOU WOULD THINK 3224 02:00:02,001 --> 02:00:03,000 THIS DWARFED, SHADOWED THE 3225 02:00:03,001 --> 02:00:08,000 FISCAL HEALTH OF THE REPUBLIC. 3226 02:00:08,001 --> 02:00:09,000 BUT, INCOME, IT'S A TINY SLIVER 3227 02:00:09,001 --> 02:00:12,000 COMPARED TO THE DEBT RUN UP 3228 02:00:12,001 --> 02:00:14,000 DURING THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION: 3229 02:00:14,001 --> 02:00:16,000 $8.9 TRILLION IS THE DIFFERENCE 3230 02:00:16,001 --> 02:00:19,000 BETWEEN WHAT THE NONPARTISAN 3231 02:00:19,001 --> 02:00:21,000 C.B.O. PROJECTED WHEN PRESIDENT 3232 02:00:21,001 --> 02:00:24,000 BUSH TOOK OFFICE IF PRESIDENT 3233 02:00:24,001 --> 02:00:27,000 CLINTON AND WHAT PRESIDENT BUSH 3234 02:00:27,001 --> 02:00:29,000 LEFT US WHEN HE WAS DONE $8.9 3235 02:00:29,001 --> 02:00:31,000 TRILLION AND THIS DOESN'T EVEN 3236 02:00:31,001 --> 02:00:32,000 COUNT THE BUSH 3237 02:00:32,001 --> 02:00:35,000 THE SPENDING THAT PRESIDENT 3238 02:00:35,001 --> 02:00:38,000 OBAMA HAS HAD TO DO TO HELP SAVE 3239 02:00:38,001 --> 02:00:39,000 THE BANKS, TO HELP SAVE THE 3240 02:00:39,001 --> 02:00:41,000 FINANCIAL SYSTEM AND TO HELP 3241 02:00:41,001 --> 02:00:45,000 SAVE THE AMERICAN AUTO INDUSTRY. 3242 02:00:45,001 --> 02:00:46,000 HE CAMPAIGNE 3243 02:00:46,001 --> 02:00:47,000 -- HE CAMPAIGNED ON NONE OF THAT. 3244 02:00:47,001 --> 02:00:48,000 NORTHERN US WANTED TO DO THAT. 3245 02:00:48,001 --> 02:00:50,000 WHEN CATASTROPHE ASSERTED 3246 02:00:50,001 --> 02:00:52,000 ITSELF, WE HAD TO RESPOND. 3247 02:00:52,001 --> 02:00:54,000 THE CATTROPHE TOOK PLACE NOT 3248 02:00:54,001 --> 02:00:55,000 ON OBAMA'S WATCH BUT BEFOREHAND 3249 02:00:55,001 --> 02:00:57,000 PHS HE HAVE THE FIREFIGHTER WHO 3250 02:00:57,001 --> 02:01:00,000 HAD TO HELP PUT OUT 3251 02:01:00,001 --> 02:01:03,000 BUT THE BIG RISK HER IS $38 3252 02:01:03,001 --> 02:01:05,000 TRILLION IN UNFUNDED LIABILITY 3253 02:01:05,001 --> 02:01:08,000 FOR JUST MEDICARE ALONE. 3254 02:01:08,001 --> 02:01:12,000 THAT IS PART OF THAT 3255 02:01:12,001 --> 02:01:15,000 COST PICTURE THAT IS DRIVING US 3256 02:01:15,001 --> 02:01:21,000 OUT OF CONTROL. 3257 02:01:21,001 --> 02:01:23,000 NOW, OF THAT, THE 3258 02:01:23,001 --> 02:01:25,000 THE LEWIN GROUP IS PRETTY 3259 02:01:25,001 --> 02:01:27,000 RESPECTED AROUND THESE PARTS FOR 3260 02:01:27,001 --> 02:01:29,000 THEIR OPINIONS ON HEALTH CARE -- 3261 02:01:29,001 --> 02:01:32,000 THEY SAY THAT THE EXCESS COSTS 3262 02:01:32,001 --> 02:01:35,000 IN THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM ADD TO 3263 02:01:35,001 --> 02:01:37,000 ABOUT $ 3264 02:01:37,001 --> 02:01:40,000 $1 15 51 BILLION FOR EXCESS 3265 02:01:40,001 --> 02:01:42,000 COSTS FROM INCENTIVES AND 3266 02:01:42,001 --> 02:01:45,000 OVEREVER YOAFER USE USE 3267 02:01:45,001 --> 02:01:46,000 SERVICES, FOR $$519 3268 02:01:46,001 --> 02:01:50,000 COSTS FOR POOR CARE MANAGEMENT 3269 02:01:50,001 --> 02:01:52,000 OF AND LIFESTYLE FACTOR,, $135 3270 02:01:52,001 --> 02:01:53,000 FORECLOSURE SUCCESS COSTS DUE TO 3271 02:01:53,001 --> 02:01:56,000 COMPETITION AND REGULATORY 3272 02:01:56,001 --> 02:02:00,000 FACTORS, $203 BILLION A YEAR 3273 02:02:00,001 --> 02:02:03,000 FROM EXCESS COSTS DUE TO 3274 02:02:03,001 --> 02:02:05,000 TRANSACTIONAL 3275 02:02:05,001 --> 02:02:06,000 WE CAN REFORM THIS HEALTH CARE 3276 02:02:06,001 --> 02:02:09,000 SYSTEM IN A WAY THAT IMPROVES 3277 02:02:09,001 --> 02:02:10,000 THE QUALITY OF CARE WHILE 3278 02:02:10,001 --> 02:02:14,000 ADDRESSING 3279 02:02:14,001 --> 02:02:16,000 IN EXCESS COSTS, WHICH IS 3280 02:02:16,001 --> 02:02:18,000 ACCORDING TO GEORGE BUSH'S 3281 02:02:18,001 --> 02:02:20,000 FORMER TREASURY SECRETARY PAUL 3282 02:02:20,001 --> 02:02:22,000 O'NEILL, WHO RAN THE PITTSBURGH 3283 02:02:22,001 --> 02:02:24,000 REGIONAL HEALTH 3284 02:02:24,001 --> 02:02:25,000 KNOWS SOMETHING ABOUT HEALTH 3285 02:02:25,001 --> 02:02:27,000 CARE, "THE $1 TRILLION OF ANNUAL 3286 02:02:27,001 --> 02:02:28,000 WASTE IS ASSOCIATED WITH PROCESS 3287 02:02:28,001 --> 02:02:30,000 FAILURES." 3288 02:02:30,001 --> 02:02:31,000 PROCESS FAILURES CAN BE 3289 02:02:31,001 --> 02:02:32,000 CORRECTED. 3290 02:02:32,001 --> 02:02:34,000 ONE OF THE WAYS YOU CAN CORRECT 3291 02:02:34,001 --> 02:02:36,000 THEM IS WITH A COMPETITIVE 3292 02:02:36,001 --> 02:02:39,000 PUBLIC OPTION. 3293 02:02:39,001 --> 02:02:41,000 WE HAVE HAD A LOCK IN THE MAIN 3294 02:02:41,001 --> 02:02:44,000 MIDDLE MARKET OF HEALTH CARE BY 3295 02:02:44,001 --> 02:02:46,000 THE PRIVATE INSURANCE MARKET FOR 3296 02:02:46,001 --> 02:02:49,000 ALL THESE YEARS, AND THIS IS 3297 02:02:49,001 --> 02:02:51,000 WHAT WE'RE LEFT WITH, 3298 02:02:51,001 --> 02:02:52,000 TRILLION IN WASTE FROM PROCESS 3299 02:02:52,001 --> 02:02:53,000 FAILURES. 3300 02:02:53,001 --> 02:02:55,000 OBVIOUSLY THEY'VE FAILED AT THE JOB. 3301 02:02:55,001 --> 02:02:56,000 THEY A CATASTROPHICALLY, 3302 02:02:56,001 --> 02:02:58,000 INDISPUTABLY FAILED AT THE JOB. 3303 02:02:58,001 --> 02:03:00,000 ALL WE ASK IS TO PUT A 3304 02:03:00,001 --> 02:03:01,000 OPTION IN SIDE BY SIDE TO 3305 02:03:01,001 --> 02:03:03,000 COMPETE WITH THEM. 3306 02:03:03,001 --> 02:03:05,000 IN THE SAME WAY THAT A PUBLIC 3307 02:03:05,001 --> 02:03:09,000 OPTI IN WORKERS' COMPENSATION 3308 02:03:09,001 --> 02:03:12,000 INSURANCE COMPETES IN SENATOR 3309 02:03:12,001 --> 02:03:14,000 CAIN'S HOME STATE OF 3310 02:03:14,001 --> 02:03:16,000 ARIZONA, WITH THE PRIVATE 3311 02:03:16,001 --> 02:03:17,000 INSURANCE PROVIDERS IN 3312 02:03:17,001 --> 02:03:23,000 COMPENSATION AND I DON'T HEAR 3313 02:03:23,001 --> 02:03:24,000 ANY COMPLAINTS ABOU 3314 02:03:24,001 --> 02:03:28,000 HIS WORKERS COMMUNITY. 3315 02:03:28,001 --> 02:03:30,000 IN THE HOME STATE OF 3316 02:03:30,001 --> 02:03:31,000 MEMBER ON THE "HELP" COMMITTEE, 3317 02:03:31,001 --> 02:03:34,000 SENATOR ENZI, THERE IS 3318 02:03:34,001 --> 02:03:36,000 A SINGLE-PAYER OPTION. 3319 02:03:36,001 --> 02:03:37,000 AND HIS EMPLOYERS SEEM 3320 02:03:37,001 --> 02:03:39,000 ABSOLUTELY FINE WITH T SO IT IS 3321 02:03:39,001 --> 02:03:41,000 NOT AS IF IT IS SOME STRANGE, 3322 02:03:41,001 --> 02:03:42,000 BIZARRE IDEA OUT OF THE FRINGES. 3323 02:03:42,001 --> 02:03:45,000 IT IS THE WAIF DOING BUSINESS IN 3324 02:03:45,001 --> 02:03:47,000 SOME OF THE HOME STATES OF ITS 3325 02:03:47,001 --> 02:03:50,000 WORST OPPONENTS. 3326 02:03:50,001 --> 02:03:51,000 NOW, OUR COLLEAGUES AND THEIR 3327 02:03:51,001 --> 02:03:53,000 PREDECESSORS IN THIS CHAMBER 3328 02:03:53,001 --> 02:03:55,000 OPPOSED MEDICARE WHEN IT WAS 3329 02:03:55,001 --> 02:03:57,000 FIRST PROPOSED, AND NOW IT'S 3330 02:03:57,001 --> 02:03:59,000 PROBABLY THE MOST POPULAR 3331 02:03:59,001 --> 02:04:00,000 PROMISE IN THE COUNTRY. 3332 02:04:00,001 --> 02:04:02,000 WE'VE SEEN 3333 02:04:02,001 --> 02:04:03,000 FIGHTING AGAINST CHILDREN'S 3334 02:04:03,001 --> 02:04:06,000 HEALTH INSURANCE, AND IT WAS 3335 02:04:06,001 --> 02:04:08,000 ONLY THANKS TO OUR BELOVED 3336 02:04:08,001 --> 02:04:10,000 COLLEAGUE, SENATOR KENNEDY, 3337 02:04:10,001 --> 02:04:12,000 COMING BACK HERE FROM HIS SICK 3338 02:04:12,001 --> 02:04:13,000 BED TO COST THE T 3339 02:04:13,001 --> 02:04:17,000 VOTE THAT WE ACTUALLY WERE ABLE 3340 02:04:17,001 --> 02:04:20,000 TO WIN THAT AGAINST REPUBLICAN OPPOSITION. 3341 02:04:20,001 --> 02:04:24,000 THE IDEAS THAT THEY HAVE SEEM TO 3342 02:04:24,001 --> 02:04:28,000 ME TO BE OBJECTJECT FAILURES. 3343 02:04:28,001 --> 02:04:36,000 ONE IS -- SEEM TO ME TO BE 3344 02:04:36,001 --> 02:04:37,000 ABJECT FAILURES. 3345 02:04:37,001 --> 02:04:40,000 LOOK WHERE IT GOT US? 3346 02:04:40,001 --> 02:04:41,000 THAT'S CLEARLY NOT A SIGN OF 3347 02:04:41,001 --> 02:04:42,000 SUCCESS. 3348 02:04:42,001 --> 02:04:45,000 SENATOR McCAIN INDICATED THAT 3349 02:04:45,001 --> 02:04:46,000 IT WOULD BE REALLY GOOD TO CROSS 3350 02:04:46,001 --> 02:04:47,000 STATE LINES AND BUY INSURANCE 3351 02:04:47,001 --> 02:04:48,000 FROM OUT OF STATE INSURANCE 3352 02:04:48,001 --> 02:04:50,000 COMPANIES. 3353 02:04:50,001 --> 02:04:52,000 YEAH, LOOK HOW WELL THAT TURNED 3354 02:04:52,001 --> 02:04:54,000 OUT FOR US WITH THE CREDIT CARD INDUSTRY. 3355 02:04:54,001 --> 02:04:56,000 WE'VE JUST HAD TO PASS 3356 02:04:56,001 --> 02:04:58,000 LEGISLATION, PATH-BREAKING 3357 02:04:58,001 --> 02:05:00,000 LEGISLATION, THANKS TOHAIRMAN 3358 02:05:00,001 --> 02:05:01,000 DODD, TO REIN IN THE ABUSIVE 3359 02:05:01,001 --> 02:05:02,000 PRACTICE OF THE CREDIT CARD 3360 02:05:02,001 --> 02:05:06,000 INDUSTRY BECAUSE YOU CAN GO TO, 3361 02:05:06,001 --> 02:05:07,000 VERY UNREGULATED STATES AND GET 3362 02:05:07,001 --> 02:05:09,000 CREDIT CARDS THERE THAT DON'T 3363 02:05:09,001 --> 02:05:10,000 HAVE BASIC CONSUMER PROTECTIONS. 3364 02:05:10,001 --> 02:05:11,000 WE DON'T WANT TO SEE THAT IN 3365 02:05:11,001 --> 02:05:13,000 HEALTH INSURANCE. 3366 02:05:13,001 --> 02:05:14,000 WE WANT CAREFUL, THOUGHTFUL 3367 02:05:14,001 --> 02:05:15,000 LOCAL REGULATION OF HEALTH 3368 02:05:15,001 --> 02:05:17,000 INSURANCE. 3369 02:05:17,001 --> 02:05:20,000 WE HAVE 100,000 PEOPLE KILLED 3370 02:05:20,001 --> 02:05:22,000 EVERY YEAR BY MEDICAL ERRORS. 3371 02:05:22,001 --> 02:05:24,000 WHO KNOWS HOW MANY INJURED. 3372 02:05:24,001 --> 02:05:25,000 AND THE SOLUTION THAT OUR 3373 02:05:25,001 --> 02:05:30,000 FRIENDS ACROSS THE AISLE SEE IS 3374 02:05:30,001 --> 02:05:32,000 TO TAKE AWAY THE DAMAGES THAT 3375 02:05:32,001 --> 02:05:33,000 TH WORST-INJURED AMERICANS ARE 3376 02:05:33,001 --> 02:05:34,000 ENTITLED TO. 3377 02:05:34,001 --> 02:05:36,000 THAT'S THE WAY THE REFORM THAT 3378 02:05:36,001 --> 02:05:37,000 THEY PROPOSED IN THE "HELP" 3379 02:05:37,001 --> 02:05:41,000 COMMITTEE WORKS. 3380 02:05:41,001 --> 02:05:43,000 IT CUTS DAMAGES, CAPS THEM, 3381 02:05:43,001 --> 02:05:44,000 MEANING IT ONLY WOULD AFFECT THE 3382 02:05:44,001 --> 02:05:47,000 PEOPLE FOR WHOM THE DAMAGES ARE 3383 02:05:47,001 --> 02:05:48,000 THE 3384 02:05:48,001 --> 02:05:49,000 WORST, WHO WOULD 3385 02:05:49,001 --> 02:05:51,000 DISPROPORTIONATELY BE WOMEN, 3386 02:05:51,001 --> 02:05:55,000 BECAUSE OF THE WAY IT WAS 3387 02:05:55,001 --> 02:05:57,000 ORGANIZED, 3388 02:05:57,001 --> 02:05:59,000 DAMAGES, NONECONOMIC DAMAGES. 3389 02:05:59,001 --> 02:06:01,000 SO IF YOU TAKE A SYSTEM WHERE 3390 02:06:01,001 --> 02:06:03,000 YOU KILL 100,000 AMERICANS EVERY 3391 02:06:03,001 --> 02:06:06,000 YEAR BECAUSE OF MEDICAL ERRORS 3392 02:06:06,001 --> 02:06:08,000 AND INJURE, WHO KNOWS HOW MANY 3393 02:06:08,001 --> 02:06:10,000 MORE, AND YOUR SOLUTION TO THE 3394 02:06:10,001 --> 02:06:12,000 PROBLEM IS TO PUT THE COST OF OF 3395 02:06:12,001 --> 02:06:14,000 IT ENTIRELY ON THE BACK OF THE 3396 02:06:14,001 --> 02:06:16,000 WORST VICTIMS OF THAT ERROR AND 3397 02:06:16,001 --> 02:06:18,000 INJURY, I THINK THAT'S A MISTAKE. 3398 02:06:18,001 --> 02:06:20,000 WE WOULD 3399 02:06:20,001 --> 02:06:23,000 AND I THINK AS RATIONAL PEOPLE, 3400 02:06:23,001 --> 02:06:26,000 TO REDUCE THE INCIDENTS OF 3401 02:06:26,001 --> 02:06:29,000 MALPRACTICE AND ERROR, REDUCE 3402 02:06:29,001 --> 02:06:31,000 THE INCIDENCE OF MALPRACTICE 3403 02:06:31,001 --> 02:06:33,000 CLAIMS BY REDUCG THE INCIDENCE 3404 02:06:33,001 --> 02:06:35,000 OF MALPRACTICE AND ERROR. 3405 02:06:35,001 --> 02:06:36,000 AND WE PUT ENORMOUS EFFORT IN 3406 02:06:36,001 --> 02:06:37,000 THIS BILL INTO PUTTING 3407 02:06:37,001 --> 02:06:38,000 STRUCTURES IN PLACE TO ALLOW 3408 02:06:38,001 --> 02:06:40,000 THAT TO HAPPEN. 3409 02:06:40,001 --> 02:06:42,000 AND IN TERMS OF THE REAL FEAR 3410 02:06:42,001 --> 02:06:45,000 THAT PEOPLE HEARD WHEN THEY WEN 3411 02:06:45,001 --> 02:06:47,000 HOME, WELL, IT'S A LITTLE DISINGENUOUS FOR OUR FRIENDS TO 3412 02:06:47,001 --> 02:06:49,000 TALK ABOUT REAL FEAR WHEN A LOT 3413 02:06:49,001 --> 02:06:51,000 OF THAT REAL FEAR WAS IMAGINARY, 3414 02:06:51,001 --> 02:06:53,000 WHIPPED UP BY THEIR COLLEAGUES 3415 02:06:53,001 --> 02:06:55,000 WITH TOTALLY FALSE STATEMENTS 3416 02:06:55,001 --> 02:06:57,000 ABOUT DEATH PANELS IN THE 3417 02:06:57,001 --> 02:06:59,000 LEGISLATION, ABOUT HOW THIS WAS 3418 02:06:59,001 --> 02:07:01,000 SOCIALIZED MEDICINE, AND ABOUT 3419 02:07:01,001 --> 02:07:03,000 HOW A BUREAUCRAT WAS GOING IT 3420 02:07:03,001 --> 02:07:05,000 JUMP IN BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR 3421 02:07:05,001 --> 02:07:07,000 DOCTOR IF THE BILL PASSED. 3422 02:07:07,001 --> 02:07:09,000 PATENTLY FALSE, SPREAD LIKE 3423 02:07:09,001 --> 02:07:10,000 WILDFIRE, OBVIOUSLY GENERATED 3424 02:07:10,001 --> 02:07:12,000 FEAR -- WHO WOULDN'T BE AFRAID 3425 02:07:12,001 --> 02:07:13,000 OF THOSE THINGS? -- AND THOUSAND 3426 02:07:13,001 --> 02:07:16,000 THEY OBSERVE THAT THERE'S REAL 3427 02:07:16,001 --> 02:07:17,000 FEAR OUT THERE. 3428 02:07:17,001 --> 02:07:18,000 WELL, I ALSO HAD THE 3429 02:07:18,001 --> 02:07:21,000 OPPORTUNITIES TO TRAVEL AROUND 3430 02:07:21,001 --> 02:07:23,000 MY HOMSTATE DURING THIS 3431 02:07:23,001 --> 02:07:24,000 LIKE MANY OF MY CLERKS AND I SAT 3432 02:07:24,001 --> 02:07:25,000 DOWN WITH MY CONSTITUENTS AND 3433 02:07:25,001 --> 02:07:27,000 HEARD WHAT THEY HAD TO SAY ABOUT 3434 02:07:27,001 --> 02:07:29,000 HEALTH CARE REFORM. 3435 02:07:29,001 --> 02:07:31,000 WITH HOSPITAL EXECUTIVES, WITH 3436 02:07:31,001 --> 02:07:32,000 PEDIATRICIANS, WITH OB-GYN'S, 3437 02:07:32,001 --> 02:07:34,000 WITH FAMILY PHYSICIANS, WITH 3438 02:07:34,001 --> 02:07:36,000 CRITICAL CARE DOCTORS, WITH THE 3439 02:07:36,001 --> 02:07:40,000 STATE MEDICAL S 3440 02:07:40,001 --> 02:07:41,000 HEALTH INSURERS, WITH C.V.S. -- 3441 02:07:41,001 --> 02:07:44,000 THE BIG PHARMACEUTICAL CHAIN 3442 02:07:44,001 --> 02:07:46,000 THAT MAK ITS HOME IN RHODE 3443 02:07:46,001 --> 02:07:47,000 ISLAND -- WITH THE RHODE ISLAND 3444 02:07:47,001 --> 02:07:49,000 M.S. CHAPTER, WITH BUSINESS 3445 02:07:49,001 --> 02:07:51,000 COMMUNITY 3446 02:07:51,001 --> 02:07:52,000 OF 3447 02:07:52,001 --> 02:07:55,000 INSTITUTE, REFORMING HEALTH CARE 3448 02:07:55,001 --> 02:07:56,000 AT THE STATE LEVEL, WITH GREAT 3449 02:07:56,001 --> 02:08:01,000 LEADERSHIP FOR OUR COUNTRY RIGHT 3450 02:08:01,001 --> 02:08:03,000 NOW, WITH MEMBERS OF ALL SORTS 3451 02:08:03,001 --> 02:08:05,000 -- ALL WALKS OF LIFE WHO HAVE 3452 02:08:05,001 --> 02:08:07,000 COME 3453 02:08:07,001 --> 02:08:09,000 TIRELESSLY TO HELP BUILD OUR 3454 02:08:09,001 --> 02:08:10,000 STATES' 3455 02:08:10,001 --> 02:08:11,000 TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE. 3456 02:08:11,001 --> 02:08:13,000 THESE WERE HELPFUL CONVERSATIONS 3457 02:08:13,001 --> 02:08:14,000 TO ME, MR. PRESIDENT, AND I 3458 02:08:14,001 --> 02:08:15,000 LERNER ADD GREAT DEAL FROM AWFUL 3459 02:08:15,001 --> 02:08:16,000 THOSE INDIVIDUALS AND 3460 02:08:16,001 --> 02:08:18,000 INSTITUTIONS. 3461 02:08:18,001 --> 02:08:21,000 BUT I LERNERED A GREAT DEAL ALSO 3462 02:08:21,001 --> 02:08:25,000 AT TWO COMMUNITY DINNERS THAT I 3463 02:08:25,001 --> 02:08:26,000 HELD IN 3464 02:08:26,001 --> 02:08:29,000 ISLAND AND JOHNSTON, RHODE 3465 02:08:29,001 --> 02:08:31,000 ISLAND, WHERE HUNDREDS C 3466 02:08:31,001 --> 02:08:33,000 TO JOIN ME AND OUR SENIOR 3467 02:08:33,001 --> 02:08:36,000 SENATOR JACK READ -- NOT ONLY 3468 02:08:36,001 --> 02:08:39,000 FOR SPAGHETTI AND MEATBALLS -- I 3469 02:08:39,001 --> 02:08:42,000 THINK I MAY BE THE ONLY SENATOR 3470 02:08:42,001 --> 02:08:44,000 TO INTRODUCE MEATBALLS INTO THE 3471 02:08:44,001 --> 02:08:45,000 TOWN HALL FORMULA AND IT WORKED 3472 02:08:45,001 --> 02:08:46,000 JUST FINE. 3473 02:08:46,001 --> 02:08:48,000 THERE WAS SERIOUS AND 3474 02:08:48,001 --> 02:08:49,000 DEBATE ON THE STATE OF OUR 3475 02:08:49,001 --> 02:08:50,000 CURRENT HEALTH CARE SYSTEM AND 3476 02:08:50,001 --> 02:08:52,000 IT BROUGHT OUT SOME STORIES THAT 3477 02:08:52,001 --> 02:08:54,000 I WANT TO SHARE THIS AFTERNOON. 3478 02:08:54,001 --> 02:08:56,000 THE FIRST STORY IS CHRISTINE'S, 3479 02:08:56,001 --> 02:08:57,000 A WIFE AND MOTHER FROM COVENTRY, 3480 02:08:57,001 --> 02:08:59,000 RHODE ISLAND. 3481 02:08:59,001 --> 02:09:02,000 HER FAMILY STRUGGLED TO MAINTAIN 3482 02:09:02,001 --> 02:09:03,000 HEALTH INSURANCE AND LEFT HER 3483 02:09:03,001 --> 02:09:04,000 AND HER HUSBAND WITH VY 3484 02:09:04,001 --> 02:09:06,000 DIFFICULT CHOICES AND FEW 3485 02:09:06,001 --> 02:09:10,000 OPTIONS. 3486 02:09:10,001 --> 02:09:12,000 IN 2007, CHRISTINE WAS DIAGNOSED 3487 02:09:12,001 --> 02:09:13,000 WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AND 3488 02:09:13,001 --> 02:09:14,000 SHORTLY AFTER THAT SHE LOST HER 3489 02:09:14,001 --> 02:09:16,000 JOB. 3490 02:09:16,001 --> 02:09:19,000 SHE WAS SHIFTING THE FAMILY'S 3491 02:09:19,001 --> 02:09:21,000 COVERAGE TO HER HUSBAND'S 3492 02:09:21,001 --> 02:09:23,000 EMPLOYERS WHEN HER HUSBAND WAS 3493 02:09:23,001 --> 02:09:25,000 LAID OFF AS WELL. 3494 02:09:25,001 --> 02:09:28,000 THAT 3495 02:09:28,001 --> 02:09:31,000 HUSBAND AND THEIR 6-YEAR-OLD SON 3496 02:09:31,001 --> 02:09:34,000 WITH NO HEALTH 3497 02:09:34,001 --> 02:09:35,000 STILL REELING FROM THOSE BITS OF 3498 02:09:35,001 --> 02:09:36,000 BAD NURKS CHRISTINE AND HER 3499 02:09:36,001 --> 02:09:37,000 HUSBAND WERE FACED WITH 3500 02:09:37,001 --> 02:09:39,000 DECISIONS THAT NO ONE SHOULD BE 3501 02:09:39,001 --> 02:09:41,000 FORCED TO MAKE. 3502 02:09:41,001 --> 02:09:43,000 WITHOUT MEDICAL INSURANCE, WITH 3503 02:09:43,001 --> 02:09:45,000 NO AFFORDABLE OPTIONS FOR HEALTH 3504 02:09:45,001 --> 02:09:47,000 COVERAGE BECAUSE OF CHRISTINE'S 3505 02:09:47,001 --> 02:09:50,000 PREEXISTING CONDITION, THEY 3506 02:09:50,001 --> 02:09:53,000 FACED THE CHOICE NOW OF LEAVING 3507 02:09:53,001 --> 02:09:55,000 THEIR HOME -- THINK ABOUT THAT. 3508 02:09:55,001 --> 02:09:58,000 THEY HAVE A 6-YEAR-OLD SON WHO 3509 02:09:58,001 --> 02:09:59,000 MIGHT LOSE HIS HOME -- OR THAIG 3510 02:09:59,001 --> 02:10:01,000 POUR HEALTH INSURANCE. 3511 02:10:01,001 --> 02:10:03,000 AT THE MOMENT THEY CAN'T SEE A 3512 02:10:03,001 --> 02:10:04,000 WAY TO MANAGE BOTH. 3513 02:10:04,001 --> 02:10:07,000 AS CHRISTINE TOLD ME, "I DON'T 3514 02:10:07,001 --> 02:10:08,000 WANT ANY HANDOUTS. 3515 02:10:08,001 --> 02:10:11,000 UNFORTUNATELY LIFE HAS HANDED 3516 02:10:11,001 --> 02:10:12,000 MOO AND MY FAMILY A DIFFICULT 3517 02:10:12,001 --> 02:10:13,000 PATH AND RIGHT NOW MY FAMILY 3518 02:10:13,001 --> 02:10:15,000 NEEDS A LITTLE HELP. 3519 02:10:15,001 --> 02:10:17,000 WE SHOULD NOT HAVE 10 MAKE A 3520 02:10:17,001 --> 02:10:19,000 DECISION BETWEEN OUR HEALTH AND 3521 02:10:19,001 --> 02:10:22,000 OUR FINANCIAL STABILITY." 3522 02:10:22,001 --> 02:10:23,000 UNTIL HER HUSBAND FINDS A JOB, 3523 02:10:23,001 --> 02:10:25,000 CHRISTINE SAYS THAT EVERY DAY 3524 02:10:25,001 --> 02:10:27,000 THEY JUST HOLD THEIR BREATH AND 3525 02:10:27,001 --> 02:10:29,000 PRAY THAT NOTHING WILL HAPPEN 3526 02:10:29,001 --> 02:10:31,000 BECAUSE THAT IS ALL THAT OUR 3527 02:10:31,001 --> 02:10:33,000 BROKEN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM NOW 3528 02:10:33,001 --> 02:10:36,000 HAS TO OFFER THEM. 3529 02:10:36,001 --> 02:10:37,000 I ALSO MET ANNA FROM JOHNSTON, 3530 02:10:37,001 --> 02:10:41,000 RHODE ISLAND, WHO SHARED THE 3531 02:10:41,001 --> 02:10:42,000 STORY OF HER SISTER TINA. 3532 02:10:42,001 --> 02:10:44,000 AS IS THE STORY OF SO MANY 3533 02:10:44,001 --> 02:10:46,000 AMERICAN FAMILIES TODAY, TINA'S 3534 02:10:46,001 --> 02:10:47,000 HUSBAND LOST HIS 3535 02:10:47,001 --> 02:10:50,000 THEIR ONLY OPTION FOR HEALTH 3536 02:10:50,001 --> 02:10:52,000 INSURANCE 3537 02:10:52,001 --> 02:10:54,000 AT $1,500 A MONTH ON TOP OF 3538 02:10:54,001 --> 02:10:56,000 MORTGAGE PAYMENTS, CAR PAYMENTS 3539 02:10:56,001 --> 02:11:00,000 AND GROWS RIRKS TINA KNEW THAT 3540 02:11:00,001 --> 02:11:01,000 FINANCIALLY THIS COVERAGE WAS 3541 02:11:01,001 --> 02:11:04,000 UNSUSTAINABLE. 3542 02:11:04,001 --> 02:11:05,000 FINALLY SHE HAD TO GIVE IT UP. 3543 02:11:05,001 --> 02:11:07,000 SHORTLY AFTER DROPPING CONCHTS, 3544 02:11:07,001 --> 02:11:09,000 TEEN INTO BEGAN TO LOSE WEIGHT. 3545 02:11:09,001 --> 02:11:10,000 ANNA EXPLAINED THAT AT FIRST SHE 3546 02:11:10,001 --> 02:11:12,000 THOUGHT THAT HER SISTER'S WEIGHT 3547 02:11:12,001 --> 02:11:13,000 LOSS WAS A REACTION TO THE 3548 02:11:13,001 --> 02:11:14,000 STRESS OF THE FAMILY FINANCIAL 3549 02:11:14,001 --> 02:11:16,000 SITUATION. 3550 02:11:16,001 --> 02:11:18,000 BUT THEN THE WEIGHT LOSS 3551 02:11:18,001 --> 02:11:21,000 CONTINUED AND THEY REALIZED THAT 3552 02:11:21,001 --> 02:11:23,000 SOMETHING WAS SERIOUSLY WRONG. 3553 02:11:23,001 --> 02:11:25,000 DESPITE URGING FROM HER FAMILY, 3554 02:11:25,001 --> 02:11:26,000 TINA RESISTED GOING TO 3555 02:11:26,001 --> 02:11:28,000 DOCTOR BECAUSE SHE WAS FRAID 3556 02:11:28,001 --> 02:11:31,000 THAT THE MEDICAL BILLS WOULD 3557 02:11:31,001 --> 02:11:33,000 MAKE THEIR DIFFICULT FINANCIAL 3558 02:11:33,001 --> 02:11:34,000 SITUATION UNBEARABLE. 3559 02:11:34,001 --> 02:11:36,000 EVENTUALLY TEEN INTO FELL SO 3560 02:11:36,001 --> 02:11:37,000 SICK THAT THEY CALLED THE 3561 02:11:37,001 --> 02:11:40,000 AMBULANCE AND SHE WAS TAKEN TO 3562 02:11:40,001 --> 02:11:43,000 THE HOSPITAL. 3563 02:11:43,001 --> 02:11:45,000 TINA DIED THREE DAYS LATER OF A 3564 02:11:45,001 --> 02:11:48,000 HEART ATTACK COMPLICATED BY BOTH 3565 02:11:48,001 --> 02:11:49,000 BONE CANCER AND DIABETES. 3566 02:11:49,001 --> 02:11:53,000 WHEN ANNA TALKED TO THE DOCTORS 3567 02:11:53,001 --> 02:11:56,000 WHO TREATED TINA, THEY ASKED THE 3568 02:11:56,001 --> 02:11:58,000 FAMILY WHY TINA HAD AVOIDED 3569 02:11:58,001 --> 02:11:59,000 COMING TO 3570 02:11:59,001 --> 02:12:01,000 LONG. 3571 02:12:01,001 --> 02:12:03,000 BECAUSE WITH PROPER EARLY 3572 02:12:03,001 --> 02:12:06,000 INTERVENTION, HER SISTER'S CONDITIONS WOULD HAVE BEEN 3573 02:12:06,001 --> 02:12:07,000 TREATABLE. 3574 02:12:07,001 --> 02:12:09,000 ANNA TOLD ME THAT SHE 3575 02:12:09,001 --> 02:12:10,000 UNDERSTANDS THAT P 3576 02:12:10,001 --> 02:12:13,000 AND DIE, BUT THE MANNER IN WHICH 3577 02:12:13,001 --> 02:12:17,000 HER SISTER PASSED AWAY WAS 3578 02:12:17,001 --> 02:12:18,000 TRAGIC BECAUSE IT DIDN'T HAVE TO 3579 02:12:18,001 --> 02:12:20,000 OVER THE AUGUST RECESS I ALSO 3580 02:12:20,001 --> 02:12:22,000 HEARD FROM 3581 02:12:22,001 --> 02:12:24,000 THROUGH THE HEALTH CARE STORY 3582 02:12:24,001 --> 02:12:25,000 BOARD I RUN ON MY WEB SIEVMENT 3583 02:12:25,001 --> 02:12:26,000 TWO OF THESE STORIES ARE PRETTY 3584 02:12:26,001 --> 02:12:29,000 REMARKABLE AS WELL. 3585 02:12:29,001 --> 02:12:31,000 THE FIRST IS FROM KEN, A RECENT 3586 02:12:31,001 --> 02:12:32,000 RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE GRADUATE 3587 02:12:32,001 --> 02:12:34,000 FROM GREENVILLE, RHODE ISLAND. 3588 02:12:34,001 --> 02:12:35,000 KEN WORKED HARD, DREAMING THAT 3589 02:12:35,001 --> 02:12:37,000 HE WOULD BE THE FIRST IN HIS 3590 02:12:37,001 --> 02:12:39,000 FAMILY TO ACHIEVE A COLLEGE DEGREE. 3591 02:12:39,001 --> 02:12:41,000 NOW A YEAR AFTERRADUATION, KEN 3592 02:12:41,001 --> 02:12:44,000 HAS THAT COLLEGE DEGREE, BUT HE 3593 02:12:44,001 --> 02:12:46,000 CAN'T FIND A FULL-TIME JOB WITH 3594 02:12:46,001 --> 02:12:47,000 HEALTH INSURANCE BENEFITS. 3595 02:12:47,001 --> 02:12:49,000 IN THIS DIFFICULT ECONOMY, HE 3596 02:12:49,001 --> 02:12:51,000 WORKS TWO PART-TIME JOBS AT 3597 02:12:51,001 --> 02:12:53,000 MINIMUM WAGE AND HE HAS NO 3598 02:12:53,001 --> 02:12:54,000 HEALTH BENEFITS. 3599 02:12:54,001 --> 02:12:55,000 KEN WASN'T LOOKING TO MAKE A 3600 02:12:55,001 --> 02:12:56,000 SIX-FIGURE SALARY AFTER 3601 02:12:56,001 --> 02:12:59,000 GRADUATION, BUT HE WAS LOOKING 3602 02:12:59,001 --> 02:13:01,000 TO BE ABLE TO GET BY. 3603 02:13:01,001 --> 02:13:02,000 ON HIS CURRENT INCOME, KEN HAS 3604 02:13:02,001 --> 02:13:06,000 DIFFICULTY MAKING ENDS MEET WITH 3605 02:13:06,001 --> 02:13:07,000 HIS DAY-TO-DAY EXPENSE AND SAYS 3606 02:13:07,001 --> 02:13:09,000 AT THIS RATE IT WILL TAKE HIM 3607 02:13:09,001 --> 02:13:10,000 YEARS TO PAY OFF HIS STUDENT LOANS. 3608 02:13:10,001 --> 02:13:12,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 3609 02:13:12,001 --> 02:13:13,000 SENATOR'S TIME HAS SPYDER. 3610 02:13:13,001 --> 02:13:15,000 MR. WHITEHOUSE: MAY I HAVE 3611 02:13:15,001 --> 02:13:16,000 FIVE MINUTES LONGER? 3612 02:13:16,001 --> 02:13:17,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER:ITHOUT OBJECTION. 3613 02:13:17,001 --> 02:13:18,000 MR. WHITEHOUSE: ON HIS CURRENT 3614 02:13:18,001 --> 02:13:21,000 INCOME HE HAS DIFFICULTY MACK 3615 02:13:21,001 --> 02:13:22,000 ENDS MEET DAY 3616 02:13:22,001 --> 02:13:24,000 AND IT'LL TAKE HIM YEARS TO PAY 3617 02:13:24,001 --> 02:13:26,000 OFF HIS STUDENT LOANS. 3618 02:13:26,001 --> 02:13:28,000 ON SUCH A LIMITED INCOME AND IN 3619 02:13:28,001 --> 02:13:31,000 HIS SITUATION, HEALTH INSURANCE 3620 02:13:31,001 --> 02:13:33,000 IS SIMPLY NOT AN OPTION FOR KEN. 3621 02:13:33,001 --> 02:13:34,000 HE'S DISCOURAGED AND HE'S 3622 02:13:34,001 --> 02:13:36,000 FRUSTRATED, DESPITE HARD WORK 3623 02:13:36,001 --> 02:13:38,000 AND ACHIEVEMENT, HE KNOWS THAT 3624 02:13:38,001 --> 02:13:39,000 AT ANY MOMENT HE IS ONE SICKNESS 3625 02:13:39,001 --> 02:13:42,000 OR ONE INJURY AWAY FROM 3626 02:13:42,001 --> 02:13:43,000 THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN DEBT OR 3627 02:13:43,001 --> 02:13:45,000 RUINED CREDIT THAT WOULD AFFECT 3628 02:13:45,001 --> 02:13:46,000 HIS CHANCES FOR A PROSPEROUS FUTURE. 3629 02:13:46,001 --> 02:13:49,000 KEN NOTES THAT HE'S WORKED FOR 3630 02:13:49,001 --> 02:13:50,000 EVERYTHING HE'S EARNED, BUT 3631 02:13:50,001 --> 02:13:53,000 HEALTH CARE COSTS ARE SO HIGH 3632 02:13:53,001 --> 02:13:56,000 THAT HE'S SC 3633 02:13:56,001 --> 02:13:57,000 FUTURE IF NOTHING IS DONE TO FIX 3634 02:13:57,001 --> 02:13:59,000 OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM. 3635 02:13:59,001 --> 02:14:01,000 LAST IS BETH, A SMALL BUSINESS 3636 02:14:01,001 --> 02:14:03,000 OWNER IN TROUGH DENSE. 3637 02:14:03,001 --> 02:14:04,000 SHE AND HER HUSBAND HAVE TWO 3638 02:14:04,001 --> 02:14:05,000 FULL-TIME AND TWO P 3639 02:14:05,001 --> 02:14:06,000 EMPLOYEES AND SO THEY FIND 3640 02:14:06,001 --> 02:14:07,000 THEMSELVES AT THE BHIM OF 3641 02:14:07,001 --> 02:14:09,000 INSURANCE COMPANIES, BECAUSE 3642 02:14:09,001 --> 02:14:10,000 THEY DON'T HAVE THE BARGAING 3643 02:14:10,001 --> 02:14:13,000 POWER TO NEGOTIATOR THE TERMS 3644 02:14:13,001 --> 02:14:15,000 THEIR HEALTH INSURANCE PACKAGE. 3645 02:14:15,001 --> 02:14:16,000 THEY'VE SEEN 41% INCREASES IN 3646 02:14:16,001 --> 02:14:19,000 THEIR INSURANCE RATES FOR TWO 3647 02:14:19,001 --> 02:14:20,000 YEARS IN A ROW NOW. 3648 02:14:20,001 --> 02:14:22,000 BETH TOLD ME THAT THE COST OF 3649 02:14:22,001 --> 02:14:24,000 HEALTH INSURANCE IS BREAKING THE 3650 02:14:24,001 --> 02:14:25,000 BACKS OF SMALL ENTREPRENEURS, 3651 02:14:25,001 --> 02:14:26,000 THOSE CRITICAL DRIVERS OF 3652 02:14:26,001 --> 02:14:28,000 INNOVATION AND BUILDING BLOCKS 3653 02:14:28,001 --> 02:14:30,000 OF OUR NATION'S ECONOMY. 3654 02:14:30,001 --> 02:14:32,000 SHE DOES NOT UNDERSTAND HOW OR 3655 02:14:32,001 --> 02:14:33,000 WHY ANYONE COULD START THEIR OWN 3656 02:14:33,001 --> 02:14:35,000 BUSINESS UNDER THE DEEP 3657 02:14:35,001 --> 02:14:37,000 FINANCIAL BURDENS IMPOSED ON 3658 02:14:37,001 --> 02:14:40,000 SMALL BUSINESS BY OUR CURRENT 3659 02:14:40,001 --> 02:14:42,000 HEALTH INSURANCE SYSTEM. 3660 02:14:42,001 --> 02:14:44,000 BETH ALSO CAN'T AFFORD HEALTH 3661 02:14:44,001 --> 02:14:47,000 INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR HER TWIN 3662 02:14:47,001 --> 02:14:49,000 3-YEAR-OLD GIRLS. 3663 02:14:49,001 --> 02:14:50,000 SHE ADMITS SHE IS TERRIFIED 3664 02:14:50,001 --> 02:14:51,000 ABOUT WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN TO THEM 3665 02:14:51,001 --> 02:14:52,000 WITHOUT THE SAFETY NET HEALTH 3666 02:14:52,001 --> 02:14:54,000 INSURANCE OFFERS. 3667 02:14:54,001 --> 02:14:56,000 SHE URGES US TO WORK QUICKLY 3668 02:14:56,001 --> 02:14:57,000 TOWARDS REFORM SO OTHER DON'T 3669 02:14:57,001 --> 02:15:00,000 HAVE TO STRUGGLE WITH THE SAME 3670 02:15:00,001 --> 02:15:01,000 FEAR AND FRUSTRATION AS HER 3671 02:15:01,001 --> 02:15:05,000 FAMILY. MR. PRESIDENT, THE SENATE HAS 3672 02:15:05,001 --> 02:15:06,000 BEEN WORKING 3673 02:15:06,001 --> 02:15:08,000 REFORM LEGISLATION SINCE THE 3674 02:15:08,001 --> 02:15:11,000 VERY BEGINNING OF THIS YEAR. 3675 02:15:11,001 --> 02:15:12,000 THE PROCESS IS TRYING AND TIRING 3676 02:15:12,001 --> 02:15:14,000 AND EXTMELY COMPLEX. 3677 02:15:14,001 --> 02:15:16,000 AS WE TURN UP THE HEAT EVEN MORE 3678 02:15:16,001 --> 02:15:17,000 THE NEXT FEW WEEKS AND BECOME 3679 02:15:17,001 --> 02:15:19,000 MIRED IN THE INTENSE PROCESS OF 3680 02:15:19,001 --> 02:15:21,000 DRAFTING A FINAL BILL AND 3681 02:15:21,001 --> 02:15:23,000 GETTING IT TO THE FLOOR, I URGE 3682 02:15:23,001 --> 02:15:25,000 MY COLLEAGUES TO REMBER THE 3683 02:15:25,001 --> 02:15:27,000 HEALTH CARE REFORM IS NOT ABOUT 3684 02:15:27,001 --> 02:15:29,000 THE INTEREST GROUPS, IT'S NOT 3685 02:15:29,001 --> 02:15:30,000 ABOUT PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURES, 3686 02:15:30,001 --> 02:15:35,000 IT'S NOT ABOUT SECRET MEETINGS 3687 02:15:35,001 --> 02:15:37,000 AND IT'S NOT ABOUT C.B.O. SCORES. 3688 02:15:37,001 --> 02:15:38,000 REFORMING OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM 3689 02:15:38,001 --> 02:15:41,000 IN AMERICA IS ABOUT CHRISTINE 3690 02:15:41,001 --> 02:15:44,000 AND TINA AND BETH AND KEN AND 3691 02:15:44,001 --> 02:15:46,000 THOUSANDS LIKE THEM IN EVERY ONE 3692 02:15:46,001 --> 02:15:48,000 OF OUR STATES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. 3693 02:15:48,001 --> 02:15:50,000 AND IT MEANS INJECTING SOME 3694 02:15:50,001 --> 02:15:52,000 FAIRNESS AND SOME REASON INTO A 3695 02:15:52,001 --> 02:15:54,000 SYSTEM THAT HAS PUNISHED THE 3696 02:15:54,001 --> 02:15:57,000 SICK, REWARDED THE GREED 3697 02:15:57,001 --> 02:15:58,000 KWRAOERB 3698 02:15:58,001 --> 02:16:00,000 WHO -- GREEDY, AND DISCOURAGED 3699 02:16:00,001 --> 02:16:03,000 THOSE WHO TRIED TO DO THE RIGHT THING. 3700 02:16:03,001 --> 02:16:05,000 FOR ME, THESE STORIES REINFORCE 3701 02:16:05,001 --> 02:16:06,000 THE URGENCY OF WHAT WE NEED TO 3702 02:16:06,001 --> 02:16:08,000 GET DONE HERE IN THE SENATE. 3703 02:16:08,001 --> 02:16:09,000 I'M FULLY COMMITTED TO 3704 02:16:09,001 --> 02:16:11,000 COMPLETING THIS TASK, AS I KNOW 3705 02:16:11,001 --> 02:16:12,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER I 3706 02:16:12,001 --> 02:16:15,000 LOOK FORWARD TO GETTING IT DONE 3707 02:16:15,001 --> 02:16:20,000 OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS. 3708 02:16:20,001 --> 02:16:23,000 IN CLOSING, LET ME JUST SAY THAT 3709 02:16:23,001 --> 02:16:26,000 THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'VE 3710 02:16:26,001 --> 02:16:28,000 SPOKEN ON THE SENATE FLOOR SINCE 3711 02:16:28,001 --> 02:16:30,000 OUR COLLEAGUE, 3712 02:16:30,001 --> 02:16:34,000 HAS LEFT US. 3713 02:16:34,001 --> 02:16:36,000 HIS DESK IS THREE DOWN FROM ME. 3714 02:16:36,001 --> 02:16:38,000 I DON'T KNOW IF THE CAMERA SHOWS 3715 02:16:38,001 --> 02:16:41,000 IT NOW, BUT THERE'S A BLACK 3716 02:16:41,001 --> 02:16:44,000 DRAPE OVER IT AND SOME FLOWERS 3717 02:16:44,001 --> 02:16:46,000 AND A COPY 3718 02:16:46,001 --> 02:16:48,000 "THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED." 3719 02:16:48,001 --> 02:16:50,000 I KNOW THAT THIS POEM MEANT A 3720 02:16:50,001 --> 02:16:53,000 LOT TO HIM, AND HE CERTAINLY 3721 02:16:53,001 --> 02:16:56,000 MEANT A LOT TO ME AS A VERY 3722 02:16:56,001 --> 02:16:57,000 GRACIOUS MENTOR, WITH VAST 3723 02:16:57,001 --> 02:17:00,000 EXPERIENCE, WHO COULD EASILY 3724 02:17:00,001 --> 02:17:02,000 HAVE IGNORED A NEW COLLEAGUE. 3725 02:17:02,001 --> 02:17:04,000 BUT HE TOOK AN INTEREST, AND I 3726 02:17:04,001 --> 02:17:05,000 WILL NEVER FORGET HIS KINDNESS 3727 02:17:05,001 --> 02:17:08,000 TO ME. 3728 02:17:08,001 --> 02:17:11,000 WE ALL WILL MISS HIS BOOMING VOICE. 3729 02:17:11,001 --> 02:17:18,000 HE COULD FILL THIS CHAMBER WITH HIS VOICE. 3730 02:17:18,001 --> 02:17:19,000 WE WILL MISS HIS ROLL -- HIS 3731 02:17:19,001 --> 02:17:22,000 GOOD HUMOR. 3732 02:17:22,001 --> 02:17:23,000 NO ONE ENJOYED LIFE AND HIS 3733 02:17:23,001 --> 02:17:24,000 COLLEAGUES MORE THAN THE S 3734 02:17:24,001 --> 02:17:26,000 SENATOR FROM MASSACHUSETTS. 3735 02:17:26,001 --> 02:17:28,000 WE WILL MISS HIS LEGISLATIVE 3736 02:17:28,001 --> 02:17:29,000 SKILLS AS WE TRY TO WORK OUR WAY 3737 02:17:29,001 --> 02:17:32,000 THROUGH THE OBSTRUCTIONS THE 3738 02:17:32,001 --> 02:17:35,000 OTHER SIDE WILL BE THROWING UP 3739 02:17:35,001 --> 02:17:36,000 AGAINST PROGRESS ON HEALTH CARE 3740 02:17:36,001 --> 02:17:37,000 REFORM. 3741 02:17:37,001 --> 02:17:39,000 HIS COUNSEL WILL BE MISSED. 3742 02:17:39,001 --> 02:17:40,000 FINALLY, WE WILL MISS HIS LION'S 3743 02:17:40,001 --> 02:17:42,000 HET. 3744 02:17:42,001 --> 02:17:43,000 HE KNEW WHEN THE FIGHT WAS RIGHT. 3745 02:17:43,001 --> 02:17:44,000 HE KNEW WHEN IT WAS WORTH 3746 02:17:44,001 --> 02:17:46,000 FIGHTING FOR. 3747 02:17:46,001 --> 02:17:48,000 AND HE WAS IN IT TO WIN IT. 3748 02:17:48,001 --> 02:17:50,000 TED, GOD BLESS 3749 02:17:50,001 --> 02:18:01,000 WE MISS 3750 02:18:01,001 --> 02:18:03,000 I YIELD THE FLOOR. THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 3751 02:18:03,001 --> 02:18:05,000 SENATOR FROM NORTH DAKOTA. 3752 02:18:05,001 --> 02:18:07,000 MR. DORGAN: MR. PRESIDENT, LET 3753 02:18:07,001 --> 02:18:09,000 ME ASK CONSENT TO SPEAK IN 3754 02:18:09,001 --> 02:18:10,000 MORNING BUSINESS FOR 15 MINUTES. 3755 02:18:10,001 --> 02:18:11,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: WITHOUT OBJECTION. 3756 02:18:11,001 --> 02:18:12,000 MR. DORGAN: MR. PRESIDENT, LET 3757 02:18:12,001 --> 02:18:15,000 ME 3758 02:18:15,001 --> 02:18:17,000 REMARKS, MY COLLEAGUE FROM RHODE 3759 02:18:17,001 --> 02:18:18,000 ISLAND HAS 3760 02:18:18,001 --> 02:18:21,000 THE END OF HIS REMARKS THE LOSS 3761 02:18:21,001 --> 02:18:22,000 OF OUR COLLEAGUE AND 3762 02:18:22,001 --> 02:18:26,000 SENATOR TED KENNEDY. 3763 02:18:26,001 --> 02:18:29,000 THE DESK THAT IS NOW CLOAKED IN 3764 02:18:29,001 --> 02:18:31,000 BLACK AND ADORNED WITH FLOWERS 3765 02:18:31,001 --> 02:18:33,000 IS A DESK ONCE OCCUPIED BY 3766 02:18:33,001 --> 02:18:34,000 SENATOR JOHN F. K 3767 02:18:34,001 --> 02:18:36,000 OCCUPIED BY SENATOR ROBERT 3768 02:18:36,001 --> 02:18:38,000 KENNEDY, AND FOR MANY, MANY 3769 02:18:38,001 --> 02:18:39,000 YEARS OCCUPIED BY SENATOR TED 3770 02:18:39,001 --> 02:18:41,000 KENNEDY. 3771 02:18:41,001 --> 02:18:45,000 HE WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY FRIEND 3772 02:18:45,001 --> 02:18:47,000 TO ALL OF US, A REMAR LEGISLATIVE. 3773 02:18:47,001 --> 02:18:49,000 THIS IS NOT A CASE OF THE SENATE 3774 02:18:49,001 --> 02:18:51,000 JUST LOSING ONE SENATOR. 3775 02:18:51,001 --> 02:18:54,000 HE WAS SUCH A MUCH LARGER 3776 02:18:54,001 --> 02:18:55,000 PRESENCE THAN THAT IN 3777 02:18:55,001 --> 02:18:57,000 LIFE -- PUBLIC LIFE OF OUR 3778 02:18:57,001 --> 02:18:58,000 COUNTRY, AND PARTICULARLY IN THE 3779 02:18:58,001 --> 02:19:01,000 WORKINGS OF THIS CONGRESS. 3780 02:19:01,001 --> 02:19:03,000 MY THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS HAVE 3781 02:19:03,001 --> 02:19:05,000 BEEN WITH TED KENNEDY AND HIS 3782 02:19:05,001 --> 02:19:10,000 FAMILY OVER THE 3783 02:19:10,001 --> 02:19:13,000 MONTHS AS HE HAS BATTLED THE 3784 02:19:13,001 --> 02:19:14,000 BRAIN CANCER, AND NOW SINCE HIS 3785 02:19:14,001 --> 02:19:18,000 DEATH WE HAVE A 3786 02:19:18,001 --> 02:19:19,000 WHAT HE MEANT TO US AND TO THIS COUNTRY. 3787 02:19:19,001 --> 02:19:20,000 AGAIN TODAY, IT SEEMS 3788 02:19:20,001 --> 02:19:23,000 INAPPROPRIATE TO TAKE THE FLOOR 3789 02:19:23,001 --> 02:19:25,000 OF THE SENATE WITHOUT AT LEAST 3790 02:19:25,001 --> 02:19:27,000 ACKNOWLEDGING THE ABSENCE OF 3791 02:19:27,001 --> 02:19:30,000 FRIEND, TED KENNEDY, AND TO SEND 3792 02:19:30,001 --> 02:19:31,000 OUR PRAYERS TO HIS FAMILY. 3793 02:19:31,001 --> 02:19:35,000 MR. PRESIDENT, WHEN HE WOULD 3794 02:19:35,001 --> 02:19:38,000 COME TO THE FLOOR WITH A BOOMING 3795 02:19:38,001 --> 02:19:40,000 VOICE, 3796 02:19:40,001 --> 02:19:43,000 ISSUE, IT WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY 3797 02:19:43,001 --> 02:19:44,000 THING TO WATCH AND TO LIS 3798 02:19:44,001 --> 02:19:46,000 HE HAD THAT KIND OF PASSION. 3799 02:19:46,001 --> 02:19:48,000 I DO WANT TO SAY THAT THERE ARE 3800 02:19:48,001 --> 02:19:49,000 A LOT OF THINGS FOR US TO BE 3801 02:19:49,001 --> 02:19:51,000 PASSIONATE ABOUT, AND ONE OF THE 3802 02:19:51,001 --> 02:19:54,000 THINGS THAT I HAVE TALKED ABOUT 3803 02:19:54,001 --> 02:19:57,000 ON THE FLOOR OF THE SENATE IS 3804 02:19:57,001 --> 02:19:59,000 THE WASTE AND THE FRAUD A 3805 02:19:59,001 --> 02:20:00,000 ABUSE I 3806 02:20:00,001 --> 02:20:01,000 ALL OF US BELIEVE IN INVESTING 3807 02:20:01,001 --> 02:20:03,000 IN PROGRAMS THAT WORK TO TRY T 3808 02:20:03,001 --> 02:20:05,000 HELP MAKE LIFE BETTER IN THIS 3809 02:20:05,001 --> 02:20:06,000 COUNTRY AND ADVANCE THE 3810 02:20:06,001 --> 02:20:08,000 INTERESTS OF THIS COUNTRY. 3811 02:20:08,001 --> 02:20:10,000 BUT IT MAKES ME FURIOUS TO SEE 3812 02:20:10,001 --> 02:20:11,000 THE KINDS OF THINGS THAT I SEE 3813 02:20:11,001 --> 02:20:13,000 FROM TIME TO TIME THAT 3814 02:20:13,001 --> 02:20:15,000 RE 3815 02:20:15,001 --> 02:20:17,000 ABUSE AND UNBELIEVABLE INCOMPETENCE. 3816 02:20:17,001 --> 02:20:19,000 LET ME DESCRIBE JUST ONE. 3817 02:20:19,001 --> 02:20:21,000 AND WE KNOW THIS NOT BECAUSE 3818 02:20:21,001 --> 02:20:23,000 SOME EXTRA BODY. 3819 02:20:23,001 --> 02:20:27,000 WE KNOW THIS BECAUSE OF SOME 3820 02:20:27,001 --> 02:20:31,000 EXTRAORDINARY WORK BY C.J. 3821 02:20:31,001 --> 02:20:32,000 CHIVERS AND 3822 02:20:32,001 --> 02:20:34,000 "NEW YORK TIMES" BECAUSE THEY 3823 02:20:34,001 --> 02:20:35,000 WROTE A STORY ABOUT IT. 3824 02:20:35,001 --> 02:20:37,000 I'M SURE IT MAKES EVERY AMERICAN 3825 02:20:37,001 --> 02:20:42,000 AS 3826 02:20:42,001 --> 02:20:44,000 THIS IS A PICTURE OF EPHRAIM 3827 02:20:44,001 --> 02:20:47,000 DEVROLY, 22 YEARS OLD, C.E.O. OF 3828 02:20:47,001 --> 02:20:49,000 A FIRM AWARDED MILLIONS OF 3829 02:20:49,001 --> 02:20:50,000 DOLLARS IN U.S. CONTRACTS TO 3830 02:20:50,001 --> 02:20:53,000 PROVIDE A 3831 02:20:53,001 --> 02:20:54,000 AND GUNS TO THE AFGHAN FIGHTERS. 3832 02:20:54,001 --> 02:20:56,000 YES, THAT'S RIGHT, A 22-YEAR-OLD 3833 02:20:56,001 --> 02:20:57,000 MAN USING A COMPANY, A 3834 02:20:57,001 --> 02:20:59,000 CORPORATION, SHELL CORPORATION 3835 02:20:59,001 --> 02:21:03,000 ESTABLISHED BY 3836 02:21:03,001 --> 02:21:05,000 WORKING OUT OF AN UNMARKED DOOR 3837 02:21:05,001 --> 02:21:07,000 IN MIAMI, GOT $300 MILLION IN 3838 02:21:07,001 --> 02:21:08,000 CONTRACTS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF 3839 02:21:08,001 --> 02:21:09,000 DEFENSE. 3840 02:21:09,001 --> 02:21:10,000 HE WAS THE C.E.O. 3841 02:21:10,001 --> 02:21:12,000 BY THE WAY, THERE IS NO EVIDENCE 3842 02:21:12,001 --> 02:21:16,000 OF ANY OTHER EMPLOYEES EXCEPT 3843 02:21:16,001 --> 02:21:18,000 HIM AND 3844 02:21:18,001 --> 02:21:20,000 YES, HIS VICE PRESIDENT WAS 3845 02:21:20,001 --> 02:21:21,000 OLDER -- 25 YEARS OLD AND 3846 02:21:21,001 --> 02:21:23,000 MASSAGE THERAPIST. 3847 02:21:23,001 --> 02:21:24,000 LET ME SAY THAT AGAIN. 3848 02:21:24,001 --> 02:21:28,000 THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE GAVE 3849 02:21:28,001 --> 02:21:33,000 $300 MILLION IN CONTRACTS TO A 3850 02:21:33,001 --> 02:21:36,000 22-YEAR-OLD C.E.O. OF A COMPANY, 3851 02:21:36,001 --> 02:21:40,000 A COMPANY THAT WAS RUN BY A 3852 02:21:40,001 --> 02:21:41,000 22-YEAR-OLD C.E.O. AND A 3853 02:21:41,001 --> 02:21:44,000 25-YEAR-OLD VICE PRESIDENT 3854 02:21:44,001 --> 02:21:46,000 MASSAGE 3855 02:21:46,001 --> 02:21:48,000 NOW, WHY DO I TELL YOU THIS TODAY? 3856 02:21:48,001 --> 02:21:52,000 BECAUSE A NEWS STORY JUST 3857 02:21:52,001 --> 02:21:53,000 RECENTLY DESCRIBED THE FACT THAT 3858 02:21:53,001 --> 02:21:55,000 MR. DEVROLY PLED GUILTY TO A 3859 02:21:55,001 --> 02:21:58,000 FRAUD CONSPIRACY CHARGE RELATING 3860 02:21:58,001 --> 02:21:59,000 TO THE $300 MILLION IN U.S. 3861 02:21:59,001 --> 02:22:02,000 GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS. 3862 02:22:02,001 --> 02:22:04,000 HE FACES UP TO FIVE YEARS IN ISON. 3863 02:22:04,001 --> 02:22:05,000 I'VE SPOKEN ABOUT THIS MAN AND 3864 02:22:05,001 --> 02:22:07,000 THIS CIRCUMSTANCE PROBABLY THREE 3865 02:22:07,001 --> 02:22:08,000 OR FOUR TIMES ON THE FLOOR OF 3866 02:22:08,001 --> 02:22:10,000 THE UNITED STATES SENATE. 3867 02:22:10,001 --> 02:22:12,000 TO ASK THE QUESTION: HOW ON 3868 02:22:12,001 --> 02:22:14,000 EARTH COULD THIS 3869 02:22:14,001 --> 02:22:15,000 LET ME JUST SHOW, IF I MIG, 3870 02:22:15,001 --> 02:22:18,000 WHAT THIS WAS ABOUT. 3871 02:22:18,001 --> 02:22:21,000 THIS WAS ABOUT PRODUCTS. 3872 02:22:21,001 --> 02:22:24,000 NOT STAPLERS OR REAMS OF PAPER. 3873 02:22:24,001 --> 02:22:25,000 THESE WERE KILLER PRODUCTS, 3874 02:22:25,001 --> 02:22:28,000 AMMUNITION, AMMUNITION THAT WAS 3875 02:22:28,001 --> 02:22:30,000 SUPPOSED TO BE PROVIDED TO THE 3876 02:22:30,001 --> 02:22:32,000 AFGHAN FIGHTERS, AND IT TURNS 3877 02:22:32,001 --> 02:22:33,000 OUT AMMUNITION THAT SPILLS OUT 3878 02:22:33,001 --> 02:22:34,000 OF BOXES. 3879 02:22:34,001 --> 02:22:35,000 AND HERE ARE SOME OTHER 3880 02:22:35,001 --> 02:22:37,000 EXAMPLES. 3881 02:22:37,001 --> 02:22:42,000 THESE ARE BULLETS, BY THE WAY, 3882 02:22:42,001 --> 02:22:43,000 OF 40-YEAR-OLD CHINESE-MADE CARTRIDGES. 3883 02:22:43,001 --> 02:22:44,000 THEY WERE FOUND SOMEWHERE IN THE 3884 02:22:44,001 --> 02:22:46,000 WORLD AND SENT THEM OVER TO 3885 02:22:46,001 --> 02:22:49,000 AFGHANISTAN AND THE AFGHAN FIGHTERS. 3886 02:22:49,001 --> 02:22:53,000 HERE YOU CAN SEE SPILLING OUT OF 3887 02:22:53,001 --> 02:22:54,000 BOXES, 42-YEAR-OLD CHINESE 3888 02:22:54,001 --> 02:22:56,000 AMMUNITION THAT WAS WHAT WAS 3889 02:22:56,001 --> 02:22:58,000 DELIVERED IN 3890 02:22:58,001 --> 02:23:01,000 THESE TWO FOLKS. 3891 02:23:01,001 --> 02:23:05,000 NOW, THE PICTURE THAT I USED OF 3892 02:23:05,001 --> 02:23:07,000 THE 22-YEAR-OLD C.E.O. WITH WHOM 3893 02:23:07,001 --> 02:23:09,000 BOTH DEFENSE DEPARTMENT AND THE STATE DEPARTMENT DID BUSINESS, 3894 02:23:09,001 --> 02:23:11,000 BY THE WAY. 3895 02:23:11,001 --> 02:23:12,000 HE HAD PREVIOUS CONTRACTS WITH 3896 02:23:12,001 --> 02:23:13,000 THE STATE DEPARTMENT THAT WERE 3897 02:23:13,001 --> 02:23:15,000 UNSATISFACTORY. 3898 02:23:15,001 --> 02:23:17,000 DESPITE THAT, HE GOT $300 3899 02:23:17,001 --> 02:23:20,000 MILLION IN CONTRACTS FROM DEFENSE DEPARTMENT. 3900 02:23:20,001 --> 02:23:24,000 THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS FROM 2007. 3901 02:23:24,001 --> 02:23:25,000 THAT'S WHEN HE GOT THE $300 3902 02:23:25,001 --> 02:23:27,000 MILLION DEFE 3903 02:23:27,001 --> 02:23:29,000 THIS PHOTOGRAPH HAPPENS TO BE A 3904 02:23:29,001 --> 02:23:31,000 POLICE PHOTOGRAPH BECAUSE HE WAS 3905 02:23:31,001 --> 02:23:36,000 ARRESTED FOR ASSAULTING A 3906 02:23:36,001 --> 02:23:38,000 PARKING LOT ATTENDANT. AT THE TIME HE WAS FOUND TO HAVE 3907 02:23:38,001 --> 02:23:40,000 A FORGED DRIVERS LICENSE WHICH 3908 02:23:40,001 --> 02:23:41,000 MADE HIM OUT TO BE FOUR YEARS 3909 02:23:41,001 --> 02:23:43,000 OLDER THANE WAS. 3910 02:23:43,001 --> 02:23:44,000 HE SAID HE FORGED THE LICENSE 3911 02:23:44,001 --> 02:23:46,000 AND DIDN'T NEED IT ANY LONGER 3912 02:23:46,001 --> 02:23:48,000 SINCE HE WAS 21 BECAUSE HE ONLY 3913 02:23:48,001 --> 02:23:50,000 WANTED TO BUY ALCOHOL IN THE FIRST PLACE. 3914 02:23:50,001 --> 02:23:54,000 THIS COMPANY CALLED A.E.Y., THAT 3915 02:23:54,001 --> 02:23:55,000 A 22- AND 25-YEAR-OLD RAN AND 3916 02:23:55,001 --> 02:23:57,000 GOT $3 HUNDRED MILLION IN 3917 02:23:57,001 --> 02:23:58,000 DEFENSE CONTRACTS AFTER THEY GOT 3918 02:23:58,001 --> 02:23:59,000 CONTRACTS 3919 02:23:59,001 --> 02:24:00,000 DEPARTMENT AND JUDGED TO HAVE 3920 02:24:00,001 --> 02:24:02,000 BEEN UNSATISFACTORY. 3921 02:24:02,001 --> 02:24:05,000 BY THE WAY, THEY RAN THIS -- I DON'T HAVE A PHOTOGRAPH. 3922 02:24:05,001 --> 02:24:10,000 I THOUGHT I DID -- OUT OF THE 3923 02:24:10,001 --> 02:24:11,000 BUILDING IN MIAMI, AND IT WAS AN 3924 02:24:11,001 --> 02:24:14,000 UNMARKED DOOR. 3925 02:24:14,001 --> 02:24:15,000 MIAMI BEACH BUILDING, AN 3926 02:24:15,001 --> 02:24:16,000 MARKED DOOR, THAT'S ALL YOU 3927 02:24:16,001 --> 02:24:17,000 COULD SEE. 3928 02:24:17,001 --> 02:24:19,000 THE ONLY EVIDENCE THAT EXISTS 3929 02:24:19,001 --> 02:24:21,000 SUGG 3930 02:24:21,001 --> 02:24:25,000 WITH TWO PEOPLE. 3931 02:24:25,001 --> 02:24:26,000 MR. PACKHOUSE, THE 25-YEAR-OLD 3932 02:24:26,001 --> 02:24:29,000 MASSEUR, HAS ALSO PLED GUILTY. 3933 02:24:29,001 --> 02:24:30,000 SO BOTH HAVE NOW PLED GUILTY. 3934 02:24:30,001 --> 02:24:32,000 I'VE SHOWN YOU 3935 02:24:32,001 --> 02:24:34,000 ARMS THAT THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO 3936 02:24:34,001 --> 02:24:35,000 HAVE BEEN PROCURED 3937 02:24:35,001 --> 02:24:37,000 AFGHAN FIGHTERS. 3938 02:24:37,001 --> 02:24:40,000 AND WHEN THEY WERE DELIVERED, 3939 02:24:40,001 --> 02:24:41,000 THE AFGHAN FIGHTERS CALLED 3940 02:24:41,001 --> 02:24:43,000 JUNK -- JUNK -- STUFF MADE IN 3941 02:24:43,001 --> 02:24:45,000 THE 1960'S IN CHINA. 3942 02:24:45,001 --> 02:24:46,000 THE WAY THEY PURCHASED THIS 3943 02:24:46,001 --> 02:24:48,000 SO-CALLED JUNK VIOLATED U.S. LAW 3944 02:24:48,001 --> 02:24:49,000 IN THE FIRST PLACE. 3945 02:24:49,001 --> 02:24:50,000 "THE NEW YORK TIMES" ORIGINALLY 3946 02:24:50,001 --> 02:24:52,000 PUBLISHED THIS STORY. 3947 02:24:52,001 --> 02:24:53,000 THAT'S WHEN I SAW IT. 3948 02:24:53,001 --> 02:24:54,000 THAT'S WHEN I CAME TO THE FLOOR 3949 02:24:54,001 --> 02:24:56,000 OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE AND 3950 02:24:56,001 --> 02:24:57,000 ASKED A VERY SIMPLE QUESTION: 3951 02:24:57,001 --> 02:25:00,000 HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN? 3952 02:25:00,001 --> 02:25:02,000 HOW ON EARTH COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED? 3953 02:25:02,001 --> 02:25:03,000 WHO'S MINDING THE STORE? 3954 02:25:03,001 --> 02:25:04,000 IF THE ARMY HAD MADE THE 3955 02:25:04,001 --> 02:25:07,000 SLIGHTEST EFFORT TO LOOK INTO 3956 02:25:07,001 --> 02:25:10,000 THE BACKGROUND 3957 02:25:10,001 --> 02:25:11,000 AND MR. P 3958 02:25:11,001 --> 02:25:12,000 WOULD HAVE GRANTED CONTRACTS TO 3959 02:25:12,001 --> 02:25:14,000 THEM. 3960 02:25:14,001 --> 02:25:16,000 THE AWARD WAS MADE IN 2007 -- 3961 02:25:16,001 --> 02:25:18,000 JANUARY 2007 -- BY THE ARMY 3962 02:25:18,001 --> 02:25:21,000 STAINMENT COMMAND. 3963 02:25:21,001 --> 02:25:26,000 ON MAY 7 OF 2008, I MET WITH 3964 02:25:26,001 --> 02:25:30,000 ARMY LIEUTENANT MORTONSON. 3965 02:25:30,001 --> 02:25:31,000 I DECIDE, IF I COULD -- TO FIND 3966 02:25:31,001 --> 02:25:39,000 CONTRACTS IN THIS CIRCUMSTANCE. 3967 02:25:39,001 --> 02:25:41,000 MR. MORTONSON WAS A THREE-STAR 3968 02:25:41,001 --> 02:25:42,000 GENERAL, GENERAL M 3969 02:25:42,001 --> 02:25:45,000 SINCE RETIRED. 3970 02:25:45,001 --> 02:25:48,000 HE WAS COMPLETELY UNA POLL 3971 02:25:48,001 --> 02:25:54,000 GENTLEMEN PARTICULAR ABOUT THIS. 3972 02:25:54,001 --> 02:25:58,000 HE -- 3973 02:25:58,001 --> 02:26:00,000 LOOKED FINE. 3974 02:26:00,001 --> 02:26:01,000 IF THEY LOOKED, THEY WOULD HAVE 3975 02:26:01,001 --> 02:26:02,000 FOUND OUT THIS IS NOBODY TO 3976 02:26:02,001 --> 02:26:03,000 CONTRACT WITH. 3977 02:26:03,001 --> 02:26:05,000 HE TOLD ME NOBODY IN THE ARMY 3978 02:26:05,001 --> 02:26:08,000 THOUGHT TO LOOK THROUGH THE 3979 02:26:08,001 --> 02:26:09,000 BACKGROUND OF MR. DIVEROLL AND 3980 02:26:09,001 --> 02:26:11,000 MR. PACKHOUSE, EVEN THOUGH THIS 3981 02:26:11,001 --> 02:26:12,000 WAS A COMPANY THAT CONSISTED OF 3982 02:26:12,001 --> 02:26:14,000 JUST TWO PEOPLE. 3983 02:26:14,001 --> 02:26:15,000 HE TOLD ME THAT 3984 02:26:15,001 --> 02:26:16,000 CIRCUMSTANCES, THE ARMY WOULD 3985 02:26:16,001 --> 02:26:19,000 PROBABLY MAKE THE SAME DECISION 3986 02:26:19,001 --> 02:26:20,000 AGAIN AND GIVE CONTRACTS TO SUCH 3987 02:26:20,001 --> 02:26:23,000 PEOPLE AGAIN. 3988 02:26:23,001 --> 02:26:25,000 AND THEN HE TOLD ME THAT IF 3989 02:26:25,001 --> 02:26:27,000 MR. DIVEROLL AND MR. PACKHOUSE 3990 02:26:27,001 --> 02:26:28,000 WERE 3991 02:26:28,001 --> 02:26:29,000 GO BACK TO DOING BUSINESS WITH 3992 02:26:29,001 --> 02:26:31,000 THEM. 3993 02:26:31,001 --> 02:26:32,000 WELL, IF GENERAL MORTONSON HAD 3994 02:26:32,001 --> 02:26:35,000 WAED TO KNOW A LITTLE 3995 02:26:35,001 --> 02:26:36,000 ABOUT WITH WHOM THEY WERE DOING 3996 02:26:36,001 --> 02:26:37,000 BUSINESS, TO THE TUNE OF 3997 02:26:37,001 --> 02:26:40,000 HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, 3998 02:26:40,001 --> 02:26:42,000 HE COULD HAVE GONE TO MYSPACE. 3999 02:26:42,001 --> 02:26:45,000 MR. DIVEROLL HAD A PAGE ON MYSPACE. 4000 02:26:45,001 --> 02:26:49,000 HE DESCRIBES HIMSELF AS A SUPER NICE GUY. 4001 02:26:49,001 --> 02:26:50,000 HE SAID ON MYSPACE -- HE SAID I 4002 02:26:50,001 --> 02:26:52,000 HAD PROBLEMS IN HIGH SCHOOL, SO 4003 02:26:52,001 --> 02:26:54,000 I WAS FORCED TO WORK AND 4004 02:26:54,001 --> 02:26:56,000 PROBABLY GREW UP WAY TOO FAST. 4005 02:26:56,001 --> 02:26:58,000 HE SAYS BASICALLY I'M JUST 4006 02:26:58,001 --> 02:26:59,000 CHILLIN' WITH MY BOYS. 4007 02:26:59,001 --> 02:27:01,000 AND HE LIKES TO GO CLUBBING AND 4008 02:27:01,001 --> 02:27:02,000 GO SEE MOVIES. 4009 02:27:02,001 --> 02:27:04,000 SO HE COULD HAVE CHECKED, OF 4010 02:27:04,001 --> 02:27:05,000 COUR 4011 02:27:05,001 --> 02:27:08,000 HE COULD HAVE CHECKED PERHAPS A 4012 02:27:08,001 --> 02:27:09,000 CRIMINAL RECORD AND FINAL 4013 02:27:09,001 --> 02:27:11,000 FOUND -- FOUND HE HAD BEEN 4014 02:27:11,001 --> 02:27:12,000 CHARGED WITH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 4015 02:27:12,001 --> 02:27:14,000 AND DRUNK 4016 02:27:14,001 --> 02:27:15,000 HE COULD HAVE GOOGLED HIS NAME 4017 02:27:15,001 --> 02:27:18,000 AND FOUND THE VICE PRESIDENT 4018 02:27:18,001 --> 02:27:20,000 MASSAGE THERAPIST, WAS A 4019 02:27:20,001 --> 02:27:23,000 PROFESSIONAL SONG WRITER. 4020 02:27:23,001 --> 02:27:24,000 WITH THESE KINDS OF BACKGROUND, 4021 02:27:24,001 --> 02:27:26,000 I'M JUST WONDERING, WHERE IS 4022 02:27:26,001 --> 02:27:27,000 THERE THIS? 4023 02:27:27,001 --> 02:27:29,000 WHERE IS THE ACCOUNTABILITY? 4024 02:27:29,001 --> 02:27:31,000 I UNDERSTAND THAT BECAUSE TWO 4025 02:27:31,001 --> 02:27:32,000 ENTERPRISING REPORTERS FOR "THE 4026 02:27:32,001 --> 02:27:33,000 NEW YORK TIMES" BROKE THIS 4027 02:27:33,001 --> 02:27:34,000 STORY -- AND WE PROBABLY 4028 02:27:34,001 --> 02:27:36,000 WOULDN'T KNOW IT NOW BECAUSE 4029 02:27:36,001 --> 02:27:38,000 THIS DIDN'T COME FROM OVERSIGHT 4030 02:27:38,001 --> 02:27:39,000 HEARINGS, DIDN'T COME FROM A 4031 02:27:39,001 --> 02:27:40,000 TRUMAN COMMITTEE THAT WE SHOULD 4032 02:27:40,001 --> 02:27:41,000 HAVE IN 4033 02:27:41,001 --> 02:27:43,000 INVESTIGATING THESE THINGS. 4034 02:27:43,001 --> 02:27:45,000 BUT IT WAS ENTERPRISING 4035 02:27:45,001 --> 02:27:47,000 REPORTING THAT DID THIS; I UNDERSTAND THAT. 4036 02:27:47,001 --> 02:27:49,000 BECAUSE OF THAT, WE'VE GOT A 4037 02:27:49,001 --> 02:27:50,000 COUPLE OF PEOPLE CHARGED CRIMINALLY. 4038 02:27:50,001 --> 02:27:52,000 THE QUESTION I ASK IS THIS: 4039 02:27:52,001 --> 02:27:53,000 WHERE'S 4040 02:27:53,001 --> 02:27:54,000 THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FOR 4041 02:27:54,001 --> 02:27:56,000 DECIDING THEY WERE GOING TO MOVE 4042 02:27:56,001 --> 02:27:57,000 $300 MILLION TO THE HANDS OF 4043 02:27:57,001 --> 02:28:00,000 THESE TWO? 4044 02:28:00,001 --> 02:28:01,000 WHO DID THAT? 4045 02:28:01,001 --> 02:28:03,000 WHO'S RESPONSIBLE? 4046 02:28:03,001 --> 02:28:06,000 WERE THEY ASKED TO ACCOUNT FOR 4047 02:28:06,001 --> 02:28:07,000 IT AND TO ANS 4048 02:28:07,001 --> 02:28:08,000 AMERICAN TAXPAYER AND TO THE 4049 02:28:08,001 --> 02:28:10,000 GOVERNMENT FOR WHICH THEY WORKED? 4050 02:28:10,001 --> 02:28:11,000 THE ANSWER IS NO, AND THAT'S 4051 02:28:11,001 --> 02:28:13,000 WHAT'S WRONG. 4052 02:28:13,001 --> 02:28:15,000 IT'S WHY I'VE COME TO THE FLOOR 4053 02:28:15,001 --> 02:28:17,000 TO RECITE AGAIN, THERE'S SOME 4054 02:28:17,001 --> 02:28:19,000 GOOD NEWS HERE THAT FINALLY WE 4055 02:28:19,001 --> 02:28:21,000 HAVE CRIMINAL CHARGES THAT HAVE 4056 02:28:21,001 --> 02:28:24,000 BEEN ADJUDICATED AND THE FACT IS 4057 02:28:24,001 --> 02:28:27,000 TWO PEOPLE HAVE PLED GUILTY. 4058 02:28:27,001 --> 02:28:28,000 BUT WILL THIS BE HAPPENING TODAY 4059 02:28:28,001 --> 02:28:30,000 SOMEWHERE IN THE 4060 02:28:30,001 --> 02:28:32,000 WILL IT? 4061 02:28:32,001 --> 02:28:34,000 DID IT HAPPEN WH 4062 02:28:34,001 --> 02:28:38,000 WAS SENT BY A CONTRACTOR TO ALL 4063 02:28:38,001 --> 02:28:40,000 THE MILITARY BASES IN 4064 02:28:40,001 --> 02:28:41,000 NONPOTABLE WATER THAT HAS MORE 4065 02:28:41,001 --> 02:28:44,000 CONTAMINATION THAN RAW WATER 4066 02:28:44,001 --> 02:28:45,000 FROM THE EUPHRATES RIVER? 4067 02:28:45,001 --> 02:28:47,000 THE ARMY SAID NO. 4068 02:28:47,001 --> 02:28:48,000 THE INSPECTOR GENERAL AT MY 4069 02:28:48,001 --> 02:28:50,000 REQUEST INVESTIGATED AND SAID 4070 02:28:50,001 --> 02:28:51,000 YES, IT DID 4071 02:28:51,001 --> 02:28:53,000 I COULD GO ON AT LENGTH ABOUT 4072 02:28:53,001 --> 02:28:54,000 DOZENS AND DOZENS OF SIMILAR 4073 02:28:54,001 --> 02:28:55,000 CIRCUMSTANCES. 4074 02:28:55,001 --> 02:28:56,000 THE QUESTION IS: WHO'S 4075 02:28:56,001 --> 02:28:57,000 ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE SPENDING OF 4076 02:28:57,001 --> 02:28:58,000 THIS MONEY? 4077 02:28:58,001 --> 02:28:59,000 WHO'S BEEN MADE TO BE 4078 02:28:59,001 --> 02:29:00,000 ACCOUNTABLE? 4079 02:29:00,001 --> 02:29:03,000 WHO HAD TO ANSWER FOR IT? 4080 02:29:03,001 --> 02:29:04,000 I ASKED THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE 4081 02:29:04,001 --> 02:29:05,000 AND OTHERS, IS THERE SOMEBODY 4082 02:29:05,001 --> 02:29:06,000 THAT'S MADE ACCOUNTABLE FOR 4083 02:29:06,001 --> 02:29:08,000 THIS? 4084 02:29:08,001 --> 02:29:09,000 I 4085 02:29:09,001 --> 02:29:10,000 ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THESE TWO 4086 02:29:10,001 --> 02:29:11,000 PEOPLE. 4087 02:29:11,001 --> 02:29:13,000 BUT IS THERE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR 4088 02:29:13,001 --> 02:29:15,000 THE PEOE WHO DECIDED TO EMPLOY 4089 02:29:15,001 --> 02:29:17,000 THEM, DESPITE ALL OF THE 4090 02:29:17,001 --> 02:29:18,000 EVIDENCE THAT THIS MADE NO SENSE 4091 02:29:18,001 --> 02:29:21,000 FOR OUR COUNTRY? 4092 02:29:21,001 --> 02:29:23,000 I ASKED THAT QUESTION FOR A VERY IMPORTANT REASON. 4093 02:29:23,001 --> 02:29:24,000 WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A DEBATE 4094 02:29:24,001 --> 02:29:25,000 ABOUT AFGHANISTAN. 4095 02:29:25,001 --> 02:29:26,000 I HAVE VERY STRONG FEELING 4096 02:29:26,001 --> 02:29:28,000 ABOUT THAT AS WELL W. BUT WHAT 4097 02:29:28,001 --> 02:29:30,000 WE ARE -- AS WELL. 4098 02:29:30,001 --> 02:29:31,000 WHAT 4099 02:29:31,001 --> 02:29:33,000 CONTRACTING BEING DONE IN 4100 02:29:33,001 --> 02:29:34,000 AFGHANISTAN JUST AS THE 4101 02:29:34,001 --> 02:29:37,000 RATCHETING UP OF CONTRACTS OCCURRED IN IRAQ. 4102 02:29:37,001 --> 02:29:39,000 MORE AND MORE AND MORE CONTRACTING. 4103 02:29:39,001 --> 02:29:41,000 WHO'S MINDING THE STORE? 4104 02:29:41,001 --> 02:29:42,000 WHAT KIND OF OVERSIGHT CAN WE 4105 02:29:42,001 --> 02:29:43,000 EXPECT? 4106 02:29:43,001 --> 02:29:45,000 OR WILL WE A WEEK FROM NOW, A 4107 02:29:45,001 --> 02:29:47,000 MONTH FROM NOW OR A YEAR FROM 4108 02:29:47,001 --> 02:29:48,000 NOW READ ANOTHER STORY BY A 4109 02:29:48,001 --> 02:29:50,000 COUPLE OF GOOD REPORTERS WHO DUG 4110 02:29:50,001 --> 02:29:52,000 IT OUT TO SAY SOMETHING HAPPENED 4111 02:29:52,001 --> 02:29:54,000 HERE THAT WAS UNBELIEVABLE, AND 4112 02:29:54,001 --> 02:29:55,000 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE GOT DEFRAUDED TO THE TUNE OF 4113 02:29:55,001 --> 02:29:57,000 MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, OR IN THIS 4114 02:29:57,001 --> 02:29:59,000 CASE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF 4115 02:29:59,001 --> 02:30:01,000 DOLLARS. 4116 02:30:01,001 --> 02:30:03,000 ALL OF US HAVE RESPONSIBILITIES 4117 02:30:03,001 --> 02:30:04,000 AT THIS POINT TO MAKE 4118 02:30:04,001 --> 02:30:05,000 ACCOUNTABLE THOSE THIS SORT OF 4119 02:30:05,001 --> 02:30:07,000 THING TO 4120 02:30:07,001 --> 02:30:09,000 AND NOT JUST IN THIS CASE. 4121 02:30:09,001 --> 02:30:10,000 I'VE DONE 20 HEARINGS NOW AS 4122 02:30:10,001 --> 02:30:12,000 CHAIRMAN OF THE POLICY COMMITTEE 4123 02:30:12,001 --> 02:30:15,000 AND I'VE PRODUCED VIRTUALLY 4124 02:30:15,001 --> 02:30:18,000 BOOKS OF THI 4125 02:30:18,001 --> 02:30:20,000 FOR MY COLLEAGUES. 4126 02:30:20,001 --> 02:30:21,000 WELL, MR. PRESIDENT, I -- I KNOW 4127 02:30:21,001 --> 02:30:23,000 MY C 4128 02:30:23,001 --> 02:30:25,000 PATIENTLY WAITING, AND I WANT TO 4129 02:30:25,001 --> 02:30:26,000 GIVE HIM AN OPPORTUNITY SPEAK. 4130 02:30:26,001 --> 02:30:29,000 I ONLY WANT TO SAY THIS. 4131 02:30:29,001 --> 02:30:31,000 THIS IS THE CONCLION WITH 4132 02:30:31,001 --> 02:30:33,000 CRIMINAL CHARGES AND GUILTY 4133 02:30:33,001 --> 02:30:35,000 PLEAS WITH RESPECT TO THIS 4134 02:30:35,001 --> 02:30:37,000 ISSUE, WHICH I THINK 4135 02:30:37,001 --> 02:30:39,000 METAPHOR FOR A MUCH 4136 02:30:39,001 --> 02:30:42,000 OF PROBLEMS THAT WE IN THE 4137 02:30:42,001 --> 02:30:43,000 CONGRESS AND IN THE -- IN THE 4138 02:30:43,001 --> 02:30:44,000 ADMINIST 4139 02:30:44,001 --> 02:30:45,000 RESPONSIBILITY TO ADDRESS AND TO 4140 02:30:45,001 --> 02:30:47,000 ADDRESS IT 4141 02:30:47,001 --> 02:30:50,000 THIS ISSUE OF BIG FEDERAL BUDGET 4142 02:30:50,001 --> 02:30:51,000 DEFICITS 4143 02:30:51,001 --> 02:30:52,000 THEY'RE UNSUSTAINABLE AND DANGEROUS. 4144 02:30:52,001 --> 02:30:54,000 ONE OF THE AREAS TO DEAL WITH 4145 02:30:54,001 --> 02:30:57,000 THEM IS TO TIGHTEN OUR BELTS AND 4146 02:30:57,001 --> 02:30:59,000 CUT PENDING WHERE SPENDING IS WASTED. 4147 02:30:59,001 --> 02:31:01,000 THIS WAS 4148 02:31:01,001 --> 02:31:03,000 TO THE TAXPAYERS' MONEY. 4149 02:31:03,001 --> 02:31:04,000 MY HAT'S OFF TO THE REPORTERS 4150 02:31:04,001 --> 02:31:06,000 WHO EXPLORED IT. 4151 02:31:06,001 --> 02:31:08,000 I'M AT LEAST ABLE TO SAY THAT 4152 02:31:08,001 --> 02:31:09,000 GUILTY PLEAS HAVE BEEN R 4153 02:31:09,001 --> 02:31:10,000 MR. PRESIDENT, I YIELD THE 4154 02:31:10,001 --> 02:31:11,000 FLOOR. 4155 02:31:11,001 --> 02:31:13,000 A SENATOR: MR. PRESIDENT? THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 4156 02:31:13,001 --> 02:31:14,000 SENATOR FROM 4157 02:31:14,001 --> 02:31:15,000 MR. INHOFE: MR. PRESIDENT, I'VE 4158 02:31:15,001 --> 02:31:17,000 BEEN HERE THIS AFTERNOON HOPING 4159 02:31:17,001 --> 02:31:18,000 TO GET A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME, 4160 02:31:18,001 --> 02:31:21,000 BUT WE'RE GETTING -- RIGHT NOW 4161 02:31:21,001 --> 02:31:23,000 WE'RE INTO THE FINAL DEBATE ON 4162 02:31:23,001 --> 02:31:24,000 THE VOTE THAT WILL TAKE PLACE AT 4163 02:31:24,001 --> 02:31:26,000 5:30. 4164 02:31:26,001 --> 02:31:28,000 THE SENATOR FROM NEVADA, SENATOR 4165 02:31:28,001 --> 02:31:30,000 ENSIGN, HAS AGREED TO LET ME 4166 02:31:30,001 --> 02:31:31,000 HAVE 10 MINUTES, SO I ASK 4167 02:31:31,001 --> 02:31:34,000 UNANIMOUS CONSENT TO SPEAK 4168 02:31:34,001 --> 02:31:35,000 10 MINUTES AS IF IN MORNING 4169 02:31:35,001 --> 02:31:36,000 BUSINESS. 4170 02:31:36,001 --> 02:31:38,000 MR. DORGAN: MR. PRESIDENT, COULD 4171 02:31:38,001 --> 02:31:41,000 WE SIMPLY POINT OUT THAT WE'RE 4172 02:31:41,001 --> 02:31:42,000 TO GO T 4173 02:31:42,001 --> 02:31:45,000 DISCUSSED THY COLLEAGUE THAT 4174 02:31:45,001 --> 02:31:47,000 WE HAVE 30 MINUTES ON EACH SID 4175 02:31:47,001 --> 02:31:48,000 ON THE BILL, IF WE COULD GO TO 4176 02:31:48,001 --> 02:31:50,000 THE BILL AND HAVE MY COLLEAGUE 4177 02:31:50,001 --> 02:31:52,000 SPEAK ON HIS SIDE'S PORTION OF 4178 02:31:52,001 --> 02:31:58,000 THE BILL, I THINK THAT WOULD BE 4179 02:31:58,001 --> 02:31:59,000 THEIGHT APPROACH. 4180 02:31:59,001 --> 02:32:00,000 MR. INHOFE: ALL RIGHT. 4181 02:32:00,001 --> 02:32:01,000 MR. PRESIDENT, I WAS GOING TO -- 4182 02:32:01,001 --> 02:32:02,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: UNDER THE 4183 02:32:02,001 --> 02:32:10,000 PREVIOUS ORDER THE SENATE WILL 4184 02:32:10,001 --> 02:32:12,000 RESUME CONSIDERA 4185 02:32:12,001 --> 02:32:13,000 THE SENATOR FROM OKLAHOMA IS 4186 02:32:13,001 --> 02:32:14,000 RECOGNIZED FOR 10 MINUTES. 4187 02:32:14,001 --> 02:32:17,000 MR. INHOFE: OK. 4188 02:32:17,001 --> 02:32:18,000 THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. 4189 02:32:18,001 --> 02:32:20,000 FIRST OF ALL, I HAD A 4190 02:32:20,001 --> 02:32:23,000 STORIES THAT I WAS GOING TO TELL 4191 02:32:23,001 --> 02:32:25,000 ABOUT MY VERY GOOD FRIEND WHO'S 4192 02:32:25,001 --> 02:32:26,000 DECEASED NOW, SENATOR KENNEDY. 4193 02:32:26,001 --> 02:32:28,000 IF THERE'S TIME BEFORE MY TIME 4194 02:32:28,001 --> 02:32:29,000 EXPIRES, I WILL GET INTO THAT. 4195 02:32:29,001 --> 02:32:32,000 BUT I HAVE A FEELING THIS IS 4196 02:32:32,001 --> 02:32:34,000 GOING 4197 02:32:34,001 --> 02:32:36,000 LET ME JUST MENTION ONE THING, I 4198 02:32:36,001 --> 02:32:38,000 THINK ITS SO FRESH ON OUR 4199 02:32:38,001 --> 02:32:40,000 MINDS NOW HAVING COM 4200 02:32:40,001 --> 02:32:41,000 A RE S., THE -- RECESS, THE 4201 02:32:41,001 --> 02:32:43,000 AUGUST RECESS. 4202 02:32:43,001 --> 02:32:45,000 I DID MY TOWN MEETINGS IN 4203 02:32:45,001 --> 02:32:49,000 SMALLER COMMUNITIES IN OKLAHOMA, 4204 02:32:49,001 --> 02:32:54,000 IN STIGLER, GROVE, LAWSUITEN, 4205 02:32:54,001 --> 02:32:55,000 AND I DID THIS BECAUSE -- 4206 02:32:55,001 --> 02:32:57,000 LAUTON, AND I DID THIS BECAUSE 4207 02:32:57,001 --> 02:32:58,000 SO MANY TIMES THE SMALLER 4208 02:32:58,001 --> 02:33:00,000 COMMUNITIES ARE LEFT OUT. 4209 02:33:00,001 --> 02:33:01,000 AND I WANTED TO KNOW WHAT KIND 4210 02:33:01,001 --> 02:33:05,000 OF RESPONSE THEY HAD. 4211 02:33:05,001 --> 02:33:07,000 I MADE A COMMENT IN GROVETON, 4212 02:33:07,001 --> 02:33:08,000 OKLAHOMA, THE INSTITUTIONS THAT 4213 02:33:08,001 --> 02:33:10,000 HISTORICALLY SET ASIDE AMERICA 4214 02:33:10,001 --> 02:33:12,000 FROM THE REST OF THE COUNTRY, 4215 02:33:12,001 --> 02:33:14,000 THE REST OF THE WORLD, ARE THE 4216 02:33:14,001 --> 02:33:15,000 ONES 4217 02:33:15,001 --> 02:33:16,000 ATTACK BY THIS ADMINISTRATION. 4218 02:33:16,001 --> 02:33:17,000 I'M TALKING ABOUT FREE 4219 02:33:17,001 --> 02:33:19,000 ENTERPRISE, I'M TALKING ABOUT 4220 02:33:19,001 --> 02:33:22,000 THE FACT THAT LITTLE GOVERNMENT, 4221 02:33:22,001 --> 02:33:24,000 BIG PEOPLE, AND ALL OF THESE THINGS. 4222 02:33:24,001 --> 02:33:27,000 AND AS I HAD THESE HEARINGS, 4223 02:33:27,001 --> 02:33:28,000 SINCE MY JUNIOR SENATOR, SENATOR 4224 02:33:28,001 --> 02:33:29,000 COBURN, WHIS ONE OF THE TWO 4225 02:33:29,001 --> 02:33:31,000 MEDICAL DOCTORS IN THE UNITED 4226 02:33:31,001 --> 02:33:32,000 STATES SENATE, I DECIDED TO TALK 4227 02:33:32,001 --> 02:33:34,000 ABOUT THE OTHER ISSUES. 4228 02:33:34,001 --> 02:33:36,000 MY FEAR IS THIS, MR. PRESIDENT, 4229 02:33:36,001 --> 02:33:38,000 THERE WAS CONCERN ABOUT 4230 02:33:38,001 --> 02:33:40,000 CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT THIS 4231 02:33:40,001 --> 02:33:41,000 PRESIDENT WANTS TO DO 4232 02:33:41,001 --> 02:33:43,000 HEALTH ISSUES IN AMERICA. 4233 02:33:43,001 --> 02:33:45,000 AND WE'RE FORGETTING THERE ARE 4234 02:33:45,001 --> 02:33:49,000 OTHER VERY SERIOUS ISSUES, AND 4235 02:33:49,001 --> 02:33:50,000 SO I COVERED THESE AS OPPOSED TO 4236 02:33:50,001 --> 02:33:51,000 THE -- THE HEALTH PROBLEMS. 4237 02:33:51,001 --> 02:33:52,000 BECAUSE THESE ARE THINGS THAT 4238 02:33:52,001 --> 02:33:54,000 WE'RE GOING TO BE DEALING WITH 4239 02:33:54,001 --> 02:33:55,000 THAT ARE VERY SIGNIFICANT IN THE 4240 02:33:55,001 --> 02:33:57,000 SENATE IN THE NEXT -- IN THE 4241 02:33:57,001 --> 02:34:02,000 NEXT FEW DAYS OR WEEKS. 4242 02:34:02,001 --> 02:34:04,000 E OF THEMS THE CAP-AND-TRADE. 4243 02:34:04,001 --> 02:34:06,000 ONE OF THE THEM IS THE 4244 02:34:06,001 --> 02:34:08,000 CAP-AND-TRADE ISSUE THAT IS -- 4245 02:34:08,001 --> 02:34:09,000 WE'VE TALKED ABOUT AT SOME 4246 02:34:09,001 --> 02:34:10,000 LENGTH, AND I WILL GET INTO THAT 4247 02:34:10,001 --> 02:34:13,000 IN A MINUTE. 4248 02:34:13,001 --> 02:34:15,000 THE OTHER IS THE CLOSING OF 4249 02:34:15,001 --> 02:34:16,000 GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL -- OR 4250 02:34:16,001 --> 02:34:17,000 GITMO, AS IT'S KNOWN TO MOST 4251 02:34:17,001 --> 02:34:18,000 PEEP. 4252 02:34:18,001 --> 02:34:20,000 AND THE OTHER IS WHAT HAS 4253 02:34:20,001 --> 02:34:22,000 HAPPENED TO OUR MILITARY. 4254 02:34:22,001 --> 02:34:23,000 SO LET ME REAL BRIEFLY GET INTO 4255 02:34:23,001 --> 02:34:24,000 THESE AREAS. 4256 02:34:24,001 --> 02:34:25,000 THESE ARE THE THREE AREAS THAT I 4257 02:34:25,001 --> 02:34:26,000 WILL PROVIDE LEADERSHIP. 4258 02:34:26,001 --> 02:34:28,000 THESE ARE THE AREAS OF SPECIALTY 4259 02:34:28,001 --> 02:34:29,000 THAT I HAVE, AND I'M VERY MUCH 4260 02:34:29,001 --> 02:34:32,000 CONCERNED ABOUT. 4261 02:34:32,001 --> 02:34:35,000 FIRST OF ALL, I POSITION IN 4262 02:34:35,001 --> 02:34:38,000 SECRETARY OF DEFENSE GATES CAME 4263 02:34:38,001 --> 02:34:42,000 OUT WITH HIS ANNOUNCEMENT AS TO 4264 02:34:42,001 --> 02:34:44,000 THE -- THE -- THE -- THE PORTION 4265 02:34:44,001 --> 02:34:45,000 OF THE PRESIDENT'S BUDGET 4266 02:34:45,001 --> 02:34:47,000 DEALING WITH DEFENSE. 4267 02:34:47,001 --> 02:34:49,000 BECAUSE I KNEW I WAS 4268 02:34:49,001 --> 02:34:50,000 OPPOSED TO IT AND I THOUGHT THAT 4269 02:34:50,001 --> 02:34:51,000 WOULD GIVE ME A NATIONAL FORUM, 4270 02:34:51,001 --> 02:34:52,000 AND IT DID. 4271 02:34:52,001 --> 02:34:54,000 I WAS CONCERNED ABOUT SUCH 4272 02:34:54,001 --> 02:34:57,000 THINGS AS THE F-22. 4273 02:34:57,001 --> 02:35:00,000 RIGHT NOW THE ONLY FIFTH 4274 02:35:00,001 --> 02:35:01,000 GENERATION FIGHTER WE HAVE IS AN 4275 02:35:01,001 --> 02:35:02,000 F-22. 4276 02:35:02,001 --> 02:35:05,000 INITIALLY WE'RE GOING TO HAVE 750 OF THEM. 4277 02:35:05,001 --> 02:35:06,000 WE NOW HAVE 187, AND THE 4278 02:35:06,001 --> 02:35:07,000 PRESIDENT IN HIS BUDGET STOPPED 4279 02:35:07,001 --> 02:35:09,000 IT RIGHT THERE. 4280 02:35:09,001 --> 02:35:12,000 NOW, HE DIDN'T SAY TERMINATE, 4281 02:35:12,001 --> 02:35:13,000 BUT I WILL USE THE WORD 4282 02:35:13,001 --> 02:35:15,000 TERMINATE, BECAUSE YOU WHEN YOU 4283 02:35:15,001 --> 02:35:16,000 SUSPEND SOMETHING FOR AN 4284 02:35:16,001 --> 02:35:18,000 UNDETERMINED PERIOD OF TIME, I 4285 02:35:18,001 --> 02:35:20,000 THINK IT IS TERMINATED. 4286 02:35:20,001 --> 02:35:23,000 WE KNOW THAT CHINA IS NOW 4287 02:35:23,001 --> 02:35:27,000 WORKING ON THEIR J-12'S, RUSSIA 4288 02:35:27,001 --> 02:35:29,000 ON THEIR PAC--FA'S, AND THESE 4289 02:35:29,001 --> 02:35:30,000 ARE FIFTH GENERATION FIGHTERS 4290 02:35:30,001 --> 02:35:31,000 THAT THEY'RE GOING TO USE TO 4291 02:35:31,001 --> 02:35:34,000 EXPORT TO COUNTRIES THAT COULD 4292 02:35:34,001 --> 02:35:35,000 BE -- COULD BE POTENTIAL ENEMIES 4293 02:35:35,001 --> 02:35:38,000 OF OURS. 4294 02:35:38,001 --> 02:35:41,000 I LOOKED AT THE C-17 PROGRAM, 4295 02:35:41,001 --> 02:35:43,000 STOPPING THAT PROGRAM. 4296 02:35:43,001 --> 02:35:45,000 THE FUTURE COMBAT SYSTEM THAT WE 4297 02:35:45,001 --> 02:35:47,000 HAVEN'T IT I 4298 02:35:47,001 --> 02:35:48,000 THE TRANSITION OF GROUND 4299 02:35:48,001 --> 02:35:50,000 CAPABILITY IN SOME TIME, ABOUT 4300 02:35:50,001 --> 02:35:52,000 60 YEARS, SO WE HAVE BEEN 4301 02:35:52,001 --> 02:35:54,000 WORKING ON THE FUTURE COMBAT SYSTEM. 4302 02:35:54,001 --> 02:35:55,000 THAT SYSTEM HAS BEEN TERMINATED. 4303 02:35:55,001 --> 02:35:57,000 I THINK THE ONE THAT PROBABLY 4304 02:35:57,001 --> 02:36:00,000 HAS THE GREATEST DANGER ON LIVES 4305 02:36:00,001 --> 02:36:01,000 OF AMERICANS COULD PROBABLY BE 4306 02:36:01,001 --> 02:36:03,000 THE SYSTEM THAT WE HAD 4307 02:36:03,001 --> 02:36:06,000 NEGO 4308 02:36:06,001 --> 02:36:07,000 OF POLAND AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC. 4309 02:36:07,001 --> 02:36:09,000 THE CZECH REPUBLIC, WE ASKED 4310 02:36:09,001 --> 02:36:12,000 THEM IF THEY 4311 02:36:12,001 --> 02:36:13,000 A RADAR SYSTEM TO SEE IF ANY 4312 02:36:13,001 --> 02:36:16,000 KIND OF MISSILE THAT MIGHT HAVE 4313 02:36:16,001 --> 02:36:18,000 BEEN COMING FROM IRAN, AND THE 4314 02:36:18,001 --> 02:36:21,000 -- AND THEN -- AND THEY AGREED 4315 02:36:21,001 --> 02:36:23,000 TO DO THAT AND POLAND 4316 02:36:23,001 --> 02:36:25,000 HAVE AN INTERCEPTION CAPABILITY 4317 02:36:25,001 --> 02:36:27,000 IN POLAND THAT WOULD KNOCK DOWN 4318 02:36:27,001 --> 02:36:29,000 SUCH A MISSILE COMING FROM IRAN. 4319 02:36:29,001 --> 02:36:30,000 I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANYONE IN 4320 02:36:30,001 --> 02:36:31,000 AMERICA THAT DOESN'T REALIZE 4321 02:36:31,001 --> 02:36:33,000 THAT IRAN WILL HAVE THEIR 4322 02:36:33,001 --> 02:36:34,000 NUCLEAR CAPABILITY AND 4323 02:36:34,001 --> 02:36:36,000 DELIVERING SYSTE JUST AS SOON AS THEY CAN. 4324 02:36:36,001 --> 02:36:38,000 AND FOR THE SAKE OF WESTERN 4325 02:36:38,001 --> 02:36:40,000 EUROPE AND EASTERN UNITED 4326 02:36:40,001 --> 02:36:42,000 STATES, I THINK IT'S CRITICAL 4327 02:36:42,001 --> 02:36:44,000 THAT WE ARE -- PUT OURSELVES IN 4328 02:36:44,001 --> 02:36:45,000 A POSITION TO HAVE THAT 4329 02:36:45,001 --> 02:36:46,000 CAPABILITY. 4330 02:36:46,001 --> 02:36:48,000 HE STOPPED THAT. 4331 02:36:48,001 --> 02:36:50,000 WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT THAT FOR 4332 02:36:50,001 --> 02:36:51,000 QUITE SOME TIME. 4333 02:36:51,001 --> 02:36:53,000 GITMO -- I THINK THAT MOST 4334 02:36:53,001 --> 02:36:54,000 PEOPLE REALIZE THAT GUANTANAMO 4335 02:36:54,001 --> 02:36:56,000 BAY IS SOMETHING TT WE'VE -- 4336 02:36:56,001 --> 02:36:58,000 AN ASSET WE'VE HAD SINCE 1903. 4337 02:36:58,001 --> 02:37:00,000 IT HAS ALL KINDS OF CAPABILITIES. 4338 02:37:00,001 --> 02:37:05,000 IT'S THE ONLY PLACE IN THE WORLD 4339 02:37:05,001 --> 02:37:07,000 YOU CAN PUT TERRORIST DETAINEES, 4340 02:37:07,001 --> 02:37:09,000 WHERE YOU CAN HAVE A SECURITY 4341 02:37:09,001 --> 02:37:10,000 BUILT FOR 4342 02:37:10,001 --> 02:37:12,000 SEVEN DEGREES OF SECURITY. 4343 02:37:12,001 --> 02:37:14,000 A SYSTEM FOR THEM TO USE 4344 02:37:14,001 --> 02:37:15,000 MILITARY TRIBUNALS AND I WILL 4345 02:37:15,001 --> 02:37:18,000 NEVER UNDERSTAND WHY PRESIDENT 4346 02:37:18,001 --> 02:37:19,000 OBAMA IS OBSESSED WITH BRINGING 4347 02:37:19,001 --> 02:37:21,000 THESE DETAINEES SOMEWHERE IN THE 4348 02:37:21,001 --> 02:37:22,000 UNITED STATES EITHER FOR TRIAL 4349 02:37:22,001 --> 02:37:24,000 OR INCARCERATION. 4350 02:37:24,001 --> 02:37:25,000 FOR TRIAL IT WOULD BE THE WORST 4351 02:37:25,001 --> 02:37:26,000 THING IN THE WORLD. 4352 02:37:26,001 --> 02:37:28,000 BECAUSE BY DEFINITION A 4353 02:37:28,001 --> 02:37:29,000 TERRORIST TRAINS PEOPLE TO 4354 02:37:29,001 --> 02:37:30,000 BECOME TERRORISTS. 4355 02:37:30,001 --> 02:37:32,000 WE DON'T NEED TO HAVE THE 4356 02:37:32,001 --> 02:37:33,000 TERRORISTS IN OUR PRISON 4357 02:37:33,001 --> 02:37:35,000 TEACHING OTHER PEOPLE HOW TO 4358 02:37:35,001 --> 02:37:36,000 BECOME TERRORISTS. 4359 02:37:36,001 --> 02:37:38,000 THE -- SOME OF THE PLACE THAT'S 4360 02:37:38,001 --> 02:37:41,000 HE TALKED ABOUT SENDING THEM 4361 02:37:41,001 --> 02:37:44,000 WERE INCLUDED -- INCLUDED IN MY 4362 02:37:44,001 --> 02:37:46,000 STATE FORT SILL, AND WE'LL TALK 4363 02:37:46,001 --> 02:37:48,000 ABOUT THAT AT LENGTH SOME OTHER TIME. 4364 02:37:48,001 --> 02:37:51,000 I DO THINK WHEN 4365 02:37:51,001 --> 02:37:55,000 OF DAYS AGO THE RELEASE OF 4366 02:37:55,001 --> 02:37:58,000 MUHAMMAD JIAD FROM GITMO, NOBODY 4367 02:37:58,001 --> 02:38:00,000 KNOWS AND I SHOULD KNOW BEING 4368 02:38:00,001 --> 02:38:01,000 THE SECOND RANKING MEMBER ON THE 4369 02:38:01,001 --> 02:38:02,000 ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE, AS TO 4370 02:38:02,001 --> 02:38:08,000 WHY HE WOULD BE RELEASED. 4371 02:38:08,001 --> 02:38:11,000 AND WE ALSO 4372 02:38:11,001 --> 02:38:12,000 MULLAHAK HE IR KILLING MARINES 4373 02:38:12,001 --> 02:38:13,000 FOR SOME PERIOD OF TIME WAS 4374 02:38:13,001 --> 02:38:17,000 RELEASED IS NOW BACK. 4375 02:38:17,001 --> 02:38:19,000 HE WENT INTO GITMO AND -- IN 4376 02:38:19,001 --> 02:38:21,000 2006, THEY RELEASED HIM IN 2008. 4377 02:38:21,001 --> 02:38:23,000 HE'S BACK NOW, WE HAVE EVIDENCE 4378 02:38:23,001 --> 02:38:24,000 THAT IS CONCLUSIVE THAT HE IS 4379 02:38:24,001 --> 02:38:25,000 FIGHTING WIT 4380 02:38:25,001 --> 02:38:27,000 TALIBAN. 4381 02:38:27,001 --> 02:38:29,000 AND SO YOU CAN'T TURN THESE GUYS LOOSE. 4382 02:38:29,001 --> 02:38:31,000 AND THE THIRD AREA THAT I WAS 4383 02:38:31,001 --> 02:38:34,000 CONCENTRATING ON IS ONE -- I'LL 4384 02:38:34,001 --> 02:38:36,000 GO BACK, MR. PRESIDENT, EIGHT 4385 02:38:36,001 --> 02:38:38,000 YEARS, REDEMPTION IS KIND OF 4386 02:38:38,001 --> 02:38:39,000 GOOD FOR THE 4387 02:38:39,001 --> 02:38:40,000 EIGHT YEARS AGO WHEN I WAS 4388 02:38:40,001 --> 02:38:43,000 LOOKING AT THE SCIENCE ON THE 4389 02:38:43,001 --> 02:38:50,000 IDEA THAT THE NOTION THAT 4390 02:38:50,001 --> 02:38:51,000 MANMADE GASES, Co2, CAUSING 4391 02:38:51,001 --> 02:38:53,000 GLOBAL WMING WAS SOMETHING 4392 02:38:53,001 --> 02:38:55,000 THAT EVERYONE BELIEVED AND, 4393 02:38:55,001 --> 02:38:56,000 FRANKLY, ONCE I LOOKED INTO THE 4394 02:38:56,001 --> 02:38:57,000 SCIENCE, I BELIEVED IT TOO. 4395 02:38:57,001 --> 02:38:58,000 NOW THE SCIENCE IS NOT THERE. 4396 02:38:58,001 --> 02:39:00,000 AND I MADE 4397 02:39:00,001 --> 02:39:02,000 YEARS AGO THAT PERHAPS THOSE 4398 02:39:02,001 --> 02:39:04,000 LIBERALS, MOSTLY FROM HOLLYWOOD 4399 02:39:04,001 --> 02:39:07,000 AND THAT TYPE OF MENTALITY, WHO 4400 02:39:07,001 --> 02:39:09,000 WANT US TO BELIEVE IN THE NOTION 4401 02:39:09,001 --> 02:39:11,000 THAT MANMADE GASES CAUSE GLOBAL 4402 02:39:11,001 --> 02:39:13,000 WARMING IS THE MOST SIGNIFICA 4403 02:39:13,001 --> 02:39:14,000 HOPE EVER PERPETRATED ON THE 4404 02:39:14,001 --> 02:39:16,000 AMERICAN PEOPLE. 4405 02:39:16,001 --> 02:39:17,000 AN 4406 02:39:17,001 --> 02:39:21,000 FEWER PEOPLE UPSET WITH THE 4407 02:39:21,001 --> 02:39:22,000 STATEMENT I MADE EIGHT YEARS AGO 4408 02:39:22,001 --> 02:39:23,000 THAN MADE TODAY. 4409 02:39:23,001 --> 02:39:25,000 THIS IS JUST SOMETHING THAT IS 4410 02:39:25,001 --> 02:39:29,000 REALLY -- REALLY CRITICAL. 4411 02:39:29,001 --> 02:39:30,000 I -- I WANT TO CONCLUDE WITH THAT. 4412 02:39:30,001 --> 02:39:32,000 BUT, FIRST OF ALL, I MENTIONED 4413 02:39:32,001 --> 02:39:34,000 THAT THERE IS A DOCUMENT THAT IS 4414 02:39:34,001 --> 02:39:38,000 TOO LONG TO PUT INTO THE RECORD. 4415 02:39:38,001 --> 02:39:40,000 IT IS 60 SOME -- 65 PAGES. 4416 02:39:40,001 --> 02:39:46,000 I WILL HAVE IT ON MY WEBSITE. 4417 02:39:46,001 --> 02:39:47,000 IT IS 4418 02:39:47,001 --> 02:39:48,000 ABOUT THE ENERGY CRISIS AND WHAT 4419 02:39:48,001 --> 02:39:51,000 WE CAN DO IN THE UNITED STATES 4420 02:39:51,001 --> 02:39:54,000 TO RESOLVE THE ENERGY CRISIS. 4421 02:39:54,001 --> 02:39:55,000 SUCH COMMONSENSE THINGS SUCH AS 4422 02:39:55,001 --> 02:39:57,000 CONTINUE TO SERVE AND SUPPORT 4423 02:39:57,001 --> 02:39:58,000 THE FREE MARKET, 4424 02:39:58,001 --> 02:40:00,000 CAP-AND-TRADE TAXES, WHICH I 4425 02:40:00,001 --> 02:40:02,000 WILL TALK ABOUT IN A SECOND, 4426 02:40:02,001 --> 02:40:04,000 OPPOSE THE ALTERNATIVE ENERGY 4427 02:40:04,001 --> 02:40:07,000 SUBSIDIES BECAUSE WE 4428 02:40:07,001 --> 02:40:09,000 CONTINUE TO DEVELOP -- TO SUPPLY 4429 02:40:09,001 --> 02:40:11,000 ENERGY FOR AMERICA WHILE WE'RE 4430 02:40:11,001 --> 02:40:13,000 DEVELOPING THE TECHNOLOGY, SO WE 4431 02:40:13,001 --> 02:40:16,000 NEED TO CONTINUE COAL POWER 4432 02:40:16,001 --> 02:40:18,000 GENERATION, WE NEED FAST TRACK 4433 02:40:18,001 --> 02:40:19,000 OIL GAS EXPLORATION AND 4434 02:40:19,001 --> 02:40:21,000 NATURAL GAS WISELY. 4435 02:40:21,001 --> 02:40:23,000 SO IT INCLUDES NUCLEAR PLANTS 4436 02:40:23,001 --> 02:40:25,000 AND I WOULD SUGGEST ANYONE 4437 02:40:25,001 --> 02:40:27,000 INTERESTED IN GETTING INTO THE 4438 02:40:27,001 --> 02:40:31,000 BEST PIECE I HAVE SEEN ON THIS 4439 02:40:31,001 --> 02:40:32,000 SUBJECT GO TO MY WEBSITE 4440 02:40:32,001 --> 02:40:34,000 INHOFE.SENATE.GOV AND WE HAVE A 4441 02:40:34,001 --> 02:40:37,000 LOT OF INFORMATION ON THERE. 4442 02:40:37,001 --> 02:40:40,000 HE DOES HAVE ONE 4443 02:40:40,001 --> 02:40:42,000 THAT GLOBAL WARMING IS CAUSED BY 4444 02:40:42,001 --> 02:40:45,000 MANMADE GASES, AND I THINK IT IS 4445 02:40:45,001 --> 02:40:46,000 DONE IN A WAY THAT IS VERY, VERY 4446 02:40:46,001 --> 02:40:48,000 UNDERSTANDABLE BY PEOPLE WHO ARE 4447 02:40:48,001 --> 02:40:50,000 NOT NECESSARILY 4448 02:40:50,001 --> 02:40:52,000 DON'T HAVE A BACKGUND IN IT. 4449 02:40:52,001 --> 02:40:54,000 SO I STRONGLY RECOMMEND THIS -- 4450 02:40:54,001 --> 02:40:57,000 THIS DOCUMENT CALLED "ENERGY 4451 02:40:57,001 --> 02:40:58,000 PRESENT AND FUTURE" BY ROBERT P. 4452 02:40:58,001 --> 02:41:00,000 SMITH, TO THE READING OF THE 4453 02:41:00,001 --> 02:41:01,000 AMERICAN PEOPLE OR ANYONE WHO IS 4454 02:41:01,001 --> 02:41:03,000 CONCERNED ABOUT THAT ISSUE. 4455 02:41:03,001 --> 02:41:06,000 NOW, THE LAST THING, I REALLY 4456 02:41:06,001 --> 02:41:07,000 BELIEVE -- AND 4457 02:41:07,001 --> 02:41:09,000 PRIOR TO THE REPUBLICANS LOSING 4458 02:41:09,001 --> 02:41:10,000 THE MAJORITY IN THE UNITED 4459 02:41:10,001 --> 02:41:11,000 STATES SENATE, I WAS 4460 02:41:11,001 --> 02:41:12,000 CHAIRMAN OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND 4461 02:41:12,001 --> 02:41:15,000 PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE. 4462 02:41:15,001 --> 02:41:17,000 THE THAT CHAIRMAN IS NOW SENATOR 4463 02:41:17,001 --> 02:41:20,000 BARBARA BOXER, AND SHE HAS, 4464 02:41:20,001 --> 02:41:21,000 SINCE SHE TOOK OVER THE 4465 02:41:21,001 --> 02:41:22,000 COMMITTEE FROM MY 4466 02:41:22,001 --> 02:41:25,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 4467 02:41:25,001 --> 02:41:27,000 SENATO USED. 4468 02:41:27,001 --> 02:41:29,000 MR. INHOFE: I UNDERSTAND THAT I 4469 02:41:29,001 --> 02:41:30,000 HAVE AN ADDITIONAL FIVE MINUTES 4470 02:41:30,001 --> 02:41:31,000 GIVEN FROM OUR SIDE. THE PRESIDING OFFICER: WITHOUT 4471 02:41:31,001 --> 02:41:33,000 OBJECTION. 4472 02:41:33,001 --> 02:41:35,000 MR. INHOFE: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 4473 02:41:35,001 --> 02:41:37,000 SO -- AND I WILL CONCLUDE WITH THIS. 4474 02:41:37,001 --> 02:41:39,000 BUT ALL OF THE HEARINGS -- 4475 02:41:39,001 --> 02:41:41,000 30 HEARINGS 4476 02:41:41,001 --> 02:41:43,000 HAS HAD ON THE SUBJECT -- BOXER 4477 02:41:43,001 --> 02:41:44,000 HAS HAD ON THE SUBJECT OF GLOBAL 4478 02:41:44,001 --> 02:41:46,000 WARMING WERE TAKING PLACE, AND 4479 02:41:46,001 --> 02:41:48,000 IT WAS NOT REALLY THE 4480 02:41:48,001 --> 02:41:49,000 REPUBLICANS, BUT A TOTAL 4481 02:41:49,001 --> 02:41:51,000 TURNAROUND AND THE DEMOCRATS 4482 02:41:51,001 --> 02:41:52,000 STARTING TO LOOK INTO 4483 02:41:52,001 --> 02:41:55,000 REALIZING THAT THE DEMOCRATS, AS 4484 02:41:55,001 --> 02:41:58,000 A PARTY WHO ALWAYS SUPPORTED 4485 02:41:58,001 --> 02:42:00,000 CAP-AND-TRADE SYSTEMS, SUCH AS 4486 02:42:00,001 --> 02:42:03,000 THE 2001 BILL AND 4487 02:42:03,001 --> 02:42:04,000 AND THE 2008 BILL ARE LKING AT 4488 02:42:04,001 --> 02:42:06,000 IT AND CUTTING TO THE CHASE. 4489 02:42:06,001 --> 02:42:08,000 LY GIVE YOU QUOTES FROM 4490 02:42:08,001 --> 02:42:09,000 DEMOCRATS -- I WILL GIVE YOU QUOTES. 4491 02:42:09,001 --> 02:42:12,000 PRESIDENT OBAMA SAID ELECTRICITY 4492 02:42:12,001 --> 02:42:14,000 PRICES WOULD NECESSARILY 4493 02:42:14,001 --> 02:42:17,000 SKYROCKET. 4494 02:42:17,001 --> 02:42:18,000 DEMOCRAT REPRESENTATIVE JOH 4495 02:42:18,001 --> 02:42:20,000 DINGELL FROM MICHIGAN SAID THAT 4496 02:42:20,001 --> 02:42:22,000 CAP-AND-TRADE IS A TAX AND ADD 4497 02:42:22,001 --> 02:42:24,000 GRADE BIG ONE. 4498 02:42:24,001 --> 02:42:27,000 DEMOCRATIC REPRESENTATIVE PETE 4499 02:42:27,001 --> 02:42:29,000 DEFA RCH SIO SAID THAT 4500 02:42:29,001 --> 02:42:32,000 CAP-AND-TRADE IS 4501 02:42:32,001 --> 02:42:34,000 WITHOUT GUARANTEE OF GREENHOUSE 4502 02:42:34,001 --> 02:42:36,000 GAS EMISSION REDUCTION. 4503 02:42:36,001 --> 02:42:40,000 THE BEST IS MY GOOD FRIEND FROM 4504 02:42:40,001 --> 02:42:42,000 NORTH DAKOTA, BYRON DORGAN WHEN 4505 02:42:42,001 --> 02:42:44,000 HE SAID THAT CAP-AND-TRADE, THE 4506 02:42:44,001 --> 02:42:46,000 WALL STREET CROWD CAN'T WAIT TO 4507 02:42:46,001 --> 02:42:49,000 SINK THEIR TEETH INTO A NEW 4508 02:42:49,001 --> 02:42:50,000 TRILLION DOLLAR TRADING MARKET 4509 02:42:50,001 --> 02:42:54,000 WHERE HEDGE FUNDS WOULD 4510 02:42:54,001 --> 02:42:55,000 SPECULATE ON CARBON CREDITS AND 4511 02:42:55,001 --> 02:42:59,000 SECURITY. 4512 02:42:59,001 --> 02:43:00,000 I AGREE WITH BYRON DORGAN. 4513 02:43:00,001 --> 02:43:02,000 SENATOR CANTWELLINGS -- QUOTE -- 4514 02:43:02,001 --> 02:43:05,000 "A CAP-AND-TRADE PROGRAM 4515 02:43:05,001 --> 02:43:07,000 ALLOW WALL STREET TO DISTORT 4516 02:43:07,001 --> 02:43:09,000 TRADE FOR ITS OWN PROFITS." 4517 02:43:09,001 --> 02:43:12,000 AND WE LEARNED THAT 4518 02:43:12,001 --> 02:43:14,000 IS THE NEW ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY. 4519 02:43:14,001 --> 02:43:16,000 I ASKED HER THE QUESTION INHE 4520 02:43:16,001 --> 02:43:19,000 PUBLIC HEARING, I SAID IF WE 4521 02:43:19,001 --> 02:43:20,000 SHOULD PASS THE MARKEY BILL IN 4522 02:43:20,001 --> 02:43:22,000 THE UNITED STATES SENATE AND 4523 02:43:22,001 --> 02:43:25,000 SIGN IT INTO LAW, WOULD THIS 4524 02:43:25,001 --> 02:43:27,000 REDUCE CARBON EMISSIONS IN THE 4525 02:43:27,001 --> 02:43:29,000 WORLD AND SHE'D SAID, NO. 4526 02:43:29,001 --> 02:43:31,000 LOGICALLY, OBVIOUSLY, SHE'S RIGHT. 4527 02:43:31,001 --> 02:43:33,000 IF WE DRIVE OUR JOBS OVERSEAS TO 4528 02:43:33,001 --> 02:43:35,000 -- TO PLACES LIKEHINA AND 4529 02:43:35,001 --> 02:43:39,000 INDIA WHERE THEY HAVE NO 4530 02:43:39,001 --> 02:43:40,000 INTENTION OF 4531 02:43:40,001 --> 02:43:42,000 REQUIREMENTS, THAT WOULD 4532 02:43:42,001 --> 02:43:44,000 INCREASE, NOT DECREASE THE 4533 02:43:44,001 --> 02:43:45,000 AMOUNT OF EMISSIONS IN THE AIR. 4534 02:43:45,001 --> 02:43:47,000 SENATOR KERRY SAID THERE'S NO 4535 02:43:47,001 --> 02:43:48,000 WAY THAT THE UNITED STATES OF 4536 02:43:48,001 --> 02:43:50,000 AMERICA ACTING ALONE CAN SOLVE 4537 02:43:50,001 --> 02:43:52,000 THIS PROBLEM SO WE HAVE TO HAVE 4538 02:43:52,001 --> 02:43:55,000 CHINA AND WE HAVE TO HAVE INDIA. 4539 02:43:55,001 --> 02:43:56,000 WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE, I SAY, 4540 02:43:56,001 --> 02:43:58,000 CHINA AND INDIA. 4541 02:43:58,001 --> 02:44:00,000 SENATOR McCASKILL SAID IF WE 4542 02:44:00,001 --> 02:44:01,000 GO TOO FAR WITH THIS, THIS 4543 02:44:01,001 --> 02:44:03,000 CAP-AND-TRADE, THEN WE'RE ALL 4544 02:44:03,001 --> 02:44:04,000 GOING TO DO -- CHASE OUR JOBS TO 4545 02:44:04,001 --> 02:44:08,000 CHINA AND INDIA WHERE THEY'VE 4546 02:44:08,001 --> 02:44:10,000 BEEN PUTTING UP COAL-FIRE PLANTS 4547 02:44:10,001 --> 02:44:13,000 EVERY 10 MINUTES. NOT QUITE TRUE. 4548 02:44:13,001 --> 02:44:15,000 I SAY TO MY GOOD FRIEND SENATOR 4549 02:44:15,001 --> 02:44:17,000 McCASKILL, IT IS TWO COAL-FIRE 4550 02:44:17,001 --> 02:44:19,000 GENERATION PLANTS BUILT EVERY WEEK IN CHINA. 4551 02:44:19,001 --> 02:44:22,000 WE THE H YEARS HERE. 4552 02:44:22,001 --> 02:44:23,000 WE KNOW WHAT THEIR INTENTIONS ARE. 4553 02:44:23,001 --> 02:44:24,000 WE HAD ALL OF THESE 4554 02:44:24,001 --> 02:44:26,000 RECOGNIZED THAT THE TIME -- THAT 4555 02:44:26,001 --> 02:44:27,000 THINGS HAVE CHANGED NOW AND YOU 4556 02:44:27,001 --> 02:44:29,000 LOOK AT THE GROUPS NOW. 4557 02:44:29,001 --> 02:44:33,000 YOU HAVE THE AGRICULTURE 4558 02:44:33,001 --> 02:44:35,000 COMMUNITY AND THE AMERICAN FARM 4559 02:44:35,001 --> 02:44:37,000 BUREAU, A VAST MAJORITY OF THE 4560 02:44:37,001 --> 02:44:38,000 AGRICULTURE GROUPS OPPOSE 4561 02:44:38,001 --> 02:44:41,000 G.A.O. SAID THAT IT WILL SEND 4562 02:44:41,001 --> 02:44:43,000 OUR JOBS TO CHINA AND THE 4563 02:44:43,001 --> 02:44:44,000 ELOQUENT CHAIRMAN DID A GREAT 4564 02:44:44,001 --> 02:44:47,000 JOB OF TESTIFYING BEFORE THE 4565 02:44:47,001 --> 02:44:48,000 CHOIT SAID THAT IT WOULD DESTROY 4566 02:44:48,001 --> 02:44:51,000 OVER TWO MILLION JOBS. 4567 02:44:51,001 --> 02:44:54,000 THE E.P.A. AND HE 4568 02:44:54,001 --> 02:44:56,000 THAT IT WOULD NOT REDUCE OUR 4569 02:44:56,001 --> 02:44:59,000 RELIANCE ON 4570 02:44:59,001 --> 02:45:03,000 IT WILL NOT REDUCE GLOBAL TEMPERATURES. 4571 02:45:03,001 --> 02:45:05,000 WHEN IT IS ALL 4572 02:45:05,001 --> 02:45:06,000 SAID AND DONE, I HAVE TO SAY 4573 02:45:06,001 --> 02:45:08,000 THIS WAS A BE AGREED TO OF FRESH 4574 02:45:08,001 --> 02:45:09,000 AIR TO LISTEN TO THE AMERICAN 4575 02:45:09,001 --> 02:45:11,000 PEOPLE, STANDING UP IN THE TOWN 4576 02:45:11,001 --> 02:45:14,000 HALL MEETINGS AROUND THE COUNTRY 4577 02:45:14,001 --> 02:45:16,000 AND IN MY 12 OR 14 MEETINGS I 4578 02:45:16,001 --> 02:45:18,000 HAD IN THE STA OF OKLAHOMA. 4579 02:45:18,001 --> 02:45:20,000 PEOPLE KNOW THE RIGHT THING IS GOING TO HAPPEN. 4580 02:45:20,001 --> 02:45:21,000 WE 4581 02:45:21,001 --> 02:45:24,000 WITH THAT, I WILL THANK THE 4582 02:45:24,001 --> 02:45:27,000 SENATOR FROM NEVADA FOR ALLOWING 4583 02:45:27,001 --> 02:45:35,000 ME TO HAVE 15 MINUTES OF HIS TIME. 4584 02:45:35,001 --> 02:45:36,000 I YIELD THE FLO 4585 02:45:36,001 --> 02:45:37,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: MORNING 4586 02:45:37,001 --> 02:45:38,000 BUSINESS IS CLOSED. 4587 02:45:38,001 --> 02:45:40,000 UP THE PREVIOUS ORDER, THE 4588 02:45:40,001 --> 02:45:43,000 SENATE WILL RESUME CONSIDERATION 4589 02:45:43,001 --> 02:45:45,000 OF S. 4590 02:45:45,001 --> 02:45:47,000 REPORT 4591 02:45:47,001 --> 02:45:51,000 THE CLERK: CALENDAR NUMBER 71, 4592 02:45:51,001 --> 02:45:54,000 NONPROFIT CORPORATION TO 4593 02:45:54,001 --> 02:45:55,000 COMMUNICATE UNITE 4594 02:45:55,001 --> 02:45:57,000 POLICIES ANDTHERWISE PROMOTE 4595 02:45:57,001 --> 02:46:02,000 LEISURE, BUSINESS, AND SCHOLARLY 4596 02:46:02,001 --> 02:46:04,000 TRAVEL TO THE UNITED STATES. THE PRESIDING OFFICER: UNDER THE 4597 02:46:04,001 --> 02:46:06,000 PREVIOUS ORDER, THE TIME UNTIL 4598 02:46:06,001 --> 02:46:08,000 5:30 P.M. WILL BE EQUALLY 4599 02:46:08,001 --> 02:46:12,000 DIVIDED AND CON 4600 02:46:12,001 --> 02:46:13,000 THE LEADERS OR THEIR DESIGNEES. 4601 02:46:13,001 --> 02:46:14,000 MR. DORGAN: MR. PRESIDENT? THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 4602 02:46:14,001 --> 02:46:15,000 SENATOR FROM NORTH DAKOTA. 4603 02:46:15,001 --> 02:46:17,000 MR. DORGAN: MR. PRESIDENT, I 4604 02:46:17,001 --> 02:46:20,000 WANT TO BEGIN THE DISCUSSION AND 4605 02:46:20,001 --> 02:46:21,000 THEN I BELIEVE MY COLLEAGUE, 4606 02:46:21,001 --> 02:46:22,000 SENATOR ENSIGN WHO HAS WORKED 4607 02:46:22,001 --> 02:46:25,000 HARD ON THIS LEGISLATION, WILL 4608 02:46:25,001 --> 02:46:28,000 FOLLOW, AND THEN SENATOR 4609 02:46:28,001 --> 02:46:29,000 KLOBUCHAR, WHO ALSO HAS QUITE A 4610 02:46:29,001 --> 02:46:30,000 SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN THIS WILL 4611 02:46:30,001 --> 02:46:32,000 FOLLOW WITH COMMENT 4612 02:46:32,001 --> 02:46:34,000 IF OTHS ARRIVE, OF COURSE, WE 4613 02:46:34,001 --> 02:46:35,000 WANT THEM TO INVOL 4614 02:46:35,001 --> 02:46:37,000 IN THE DEBATE. 4615 02:46:37,001 --> 02:46:38,000 AT A TIME WHEN THERE IS SO MUCH 4616 02:46:38,001 --> 02:46:40,000 DISCUSSION ABOUT PARTISANSHIP 4617 02:46:40,001 --> 02:46:41,000 AND HOW TNGS DON'T WORK SO 4618 02:46:41,001 --> 02:46:43,000 WELL THIS LEGISLATION WE WILL 4619 02:46:43,001 --> 02:46:46,000 VOTE ON, A CLOTURE PETITION WE 4620 02:46:46,001 --> 02:46:48,000 VOTED ON 4621 02:46:48,001 --> 02:46:50,000 UNLIKE SOME OTHER DISCUSSIONS 4622 02:46:50,001 --> 02:46:51,000 ABT PARTISANSHIP THIS IS 4623 02:46:51,001 --> 02:46:52,000 BIPARTISAN. 4624 02:46:52,001 --> 02:46:55,000 THIS LEGISLATIONS CALLED THE 4625 02:46:55,001 --> 02:46:57,000 TRAVEL PROMOTION ACT OF 4626 02:46:57,001 --> 02:46:58,000 IT HAS 53 COSPONSORS. 4627 02:46:58,001 --> 02:46:59,000 MANY REPUBLICANS. 4628 02:46:59,001 --> 02:47:00,000 MANY DEMOCRATS. 4629 02:47:00,001 --> 02:47:01,000 COSPONSORING THIS PIECE OF 4630 02:47:01,001 --> 02:47:03,000 LEGISLATION. 4631 02:47:03,001 --> 02:47:05,000 AND, BY THE WAY, JUST TODAY THE 4632 02:47:05,001 --> 02:47:06,000 UNITED STATES CHAMBER OF 4633 02:47:06,001 --> 02:47:07,000 COMMERCE, HAS SCIENTIST A LETTER 4634 02:47:07,001 --> 02:47:10,000 TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE SENATE 4635 02:47:10,001 --> 02:47:11,000 SAYING THEY STRONGLY SUPPORT 4636 02:47:11,001 --> 02:47:14,000 THIS LEGISLATION, THE CHAMBER 4637 02:47:14,001 --> 02:47:17,000 URGES MEMBERS TO SUPPORT THE 4638 02:47:17,001 --> 02:47:18,000 LEGISLATION AND TO VOTE FOR 4639 02:47:18,001 --> 02:47:19,000 CLOTURE. 4640 02:47:19,001 --> 02:47:20,000 LET ME TALK JUST FOR A MOMENT 4641 02:47:20,001 --> 02:47:22,000 ABOUT WHAT THIS IS. 4642 02:47:22,001 --> 02:47:24,000 FIRST OF ALL AT A TIME WHEN WE 4643 02:47:24,001 --> 02:47:26,000 NEED JOBS, THIS ABOUT JOBS. 4644 02:47:26,001 --> 02:47:27,000 AT A TIME WHEN WE NEED TO FIND 4645 02:47:27,001 --> 02:47:29,000 WAYS TO ADDRESS BUDGET DEFICITS 4646 02:47:29,001 --> 02:47:30,000 THIS IS ONE PIECE OF LEGISLATION 4647 02:47:30,001 --> 02:47:31,000 THAT IS NOT BINNING TO COST 4648 02:47:31,001 --> 02:47:34,000 MONEY. 4649 02:47:34,001 --> 02:47:37,000 IN FACT, THE CONGRESSIONAL 4650 02:47:37,001 --> 02:47:41,000 OFFICE SCORES 4651 02:47:41,001 --> 02:47:43,000 REDUCTION IN DEFICITS OVER THE TEN-YEAR-PERIOD. 4652 02:47:43,001 --> 02:47:45,000 SO, LET ME SAY AGAIN, PRETTY 4653 02:47:45,001 --> 02:47:46,000 UNUSUAL, 4654 02:47:46,001 --> 02:47:47,000 DOESN'T COST MONEY, ACTUALLY 4655 02:47:47,001 --> 02:47:49,000 SAVED MONEY. 4656 02:47:49,001 --> 02:47:50,000 AND DRESSES ONE OF THE MOST 4657 02:47:50,001 --> 02:47:51,000 CRITICAL AREAS OF OUR NEED AND 4658 02:47:51,001 --> 02:47:54,000 THAT IS JOBS. 4659 02:47:54,001 --> 02:47:58,000 SO WHAT IS THE TVEL PROMISE MOTION ACT? 4660 02:47:58,001 --> 02:47:59,000 LET ME DESCRIBE IT THIS WAY: WE 4661 02:47:59,001 --> 02:48:02,000 ALL KNOW THAT TRAVEL AND 4662 02:48:02,001 --> 02:48:03,000 PROMOTING TRAVEL AND TOURISM IS 4663 02:48:03,001 --> 02:48:05,000 JOB CREATING. 4664 02:48:05,001 --> 02:48:07,000 IT CREATES JOBS IN MANY, MANY AREAS. 4665 02:48:07,001 --> 02:48:08,000 YES, HOTELS. 4666 02:48:08,001 --> 02:48:10,000 AND GAS STATIONS AND RESTAURANTS 4667 02:48:10,001 --> 02:48:13,000 AND TOURIST ATTRACTIONS. 4668 02:48:13,001 --> 02:48:15,000 COUNTRY MEANS PEOPLE ARE 4669 02:48:15,001 --> 02:48:17,000 SPENDING MONEY AND IT CREATES A 4670 02:48:17,001 --> 02:48:19,000 LOT OF 4671 02:48:19,001 --> 02:48:20,000 AND SO LET ME TALK ABOUT 4672 02:48:20,001 --> 02:48:22,000 ESPECIALLY THE ISSUE OF 4673 02:48:22,001 --> 02:48:23,000 INTERNATIONAL OR FOREIGN TRAVEL 4674 02:48:23,001 --> 02:48:25,000 TO THE UNITED STATES. 4675 02:48:25,001 --> 02:48:27,000 DID YOU KNOW THAT FOREIGN TRAVEL 4676 02:48:27,001 --> 02:48:28,000 IS UP VERY DRAMATICALLY IN THIS 4677 02:48:28,001 --> 02:48:31,000 WORLD. 4678 02:48:31,001 --> 02:48:32,000 THERE'S A GOOD DEAL OF FOREIGN 4679 02:48:32,001 --> 02:48:35,000 TRAVEL OF 48 MILLION MORE 4680 02:48:35,001 --> 02:48:37,000 OVERSEAS TRIPS TAKEN 4681 02:48:37,001 --> 02:48:39,000 THAN WERE TAKEN IN 2000? 4682 02:48:39,001 --> 02:48:41,000 SO IN EIGHT YEARSING THE NUMBER 4683 02:48:41,001 --> 02:48:44,000 OF OVERSEAS TRIP -- YEARS, THE 4684 02:48:44,001 --> 02:48:46,000 NUMBER OF OVERSEAS TRIPS 4685 02:48:46,001 --> 02:48:49,000 INCREASED BY 48 MILLION BUT IN 4686 02:48:49,001 --> 02:48:50,000 THE UNITED STATES IT DECREASES, 4687 02:48:50,001 --> 02:48:53,000 STATES. 4688 02:48:53,001 --> 02:48:55,000 WE HAD 633,000 FEWER FOREIGN 4689 02:48:55,001 --> 02:48:59,000 VISITORS TO THE UNITED STATES. 4690 02:48:59,001 --> 02:49:01,000 IT -- MEANS A LOT OF 4691 02:49:01,001 --> 02:49:03,000 PEOPLE ARE TRAVELING BUT SINCE 4692 02:49:03,001 --> 02:49:05,000 THE 4693 02:49:05,001 --> 02:49:07,000 IN OUR SHARE OF INTERNATIONAL TOURISTS. 4694 02:49:07,001 --> 02:49:09,000 WHY IS THAT IMPORTANT? 4695 02:49:09,001 --> 02:49:12,000 BECAUSE WHEN AN OVERSEAS TRAVELERS COMES TO THIS COUNTRY 4696 02:49:12,001 --> 02:49:14,000 ON AVERAGE THEY SPEND ABOUT 4697 02:49:14,001 --> 02:49:15,000 $4,500 AND 4698 02:49:15,001 --> 02:49:17,000 OF DISWROBS AND A LOT OF 4699 02:49:17,001 --> 02:49:21,000 BUSINESSES I 4700 02:49:21,001 --> 02:49:23,000 SO WHY DO 4701 02:49:23,001 --> 02:49:24,000 FEWER FOREIGN VISITORS TO THE 4702 02:49:24,001 --> 02:49:25,000 UNITED STATES? 4703 02:49:25,001 --> 02:49:27,000 WELL, IN 2001, WITH THE 4704 02:49:27,001 --> 02:49:30,000 TERRORIST ATTACK AGAINST OUR 4705 02:49:30,001 --> 02:49:32,000 COUNTRY, WE TIGHTENED UP VISA 4706 02:49:32,001 --> 02:49:34,000 REQUIREMENTS AND SO ON AND THE 4707 02:49:34,001 --> 02:49:36,000 IRAQ WAR OCCURRED AND A LOT OF 4708 02:49:36,001 --> 02:49:38,000 CONCERN BY PEOPLE 4709 02:49:38,001 --> 02:49:41,000 UNITED STATES DOESN'T WANT US TO COME. 4710 02:49:41,001 --> 02:49:44,000 THEY HAVE TIGHTENED UP VISA REQUIREMENTS. 4711 02:49:44,001 --> 02:49:45,000 WE ARE UPSET AUT TS OR THAT 4712 02:49:45,001 --> 02:49:46,000 OR THE OTHER THING AND ALL OF A 4713 02:49:46,001 --> 02:49:48,000 SUDDEN WE DISCOVERED MORE PEOPLE 4714 02:49:48,001 --> 02:49:50,000 ARE TRAVELING OVERSEAS BUT THEY 4715 02:49:50,001 --> 02:49:54,000 ARE NOT TRAVELING HERE. 4716 02:49:54,001 --> 02:49:55,000 AND INCIDENTALLY, THE TOURISM 4717 02:49:55,001 --> 02:49:57,000 THAT IS HAPPENING 4718 02:49:57,001 --> 02:49:59,000 INTERNATIONALLY IS NOT ACCIDENTAL. 4719 02:49:59,001 --> 02:50:01,000 MOST OTHER COUNTRIES ARE VERY 4720 02:50:01,001 --> 02:50:02,000 AGGRESSIVELY AFTER 4721 02:50:02,001 --> 02:50:03,000 INTERNATIONAL TRAVELER. 4722 02:50:03,001 --> 02:50:05,000 SAYING, COME TO OUR COUNTRY. 4723 02:50:05,001 --> 02:50:09,000 LET ME GO THROUGH A LIST OF JUST 4724 02:50:09,001 --> 02:50:11,000 A FEW OF THOSE. 4725 02:50:11,001 --> 02:50:13,000 HERE'S A TRAVEL PROMOTION 4726 02:50:13,001 --> 02:50:15,000 CAMPAIGN THAT TALKS ABOUT "COME 4727 02:50:15,001 --> 02:50:16,000 TO AUSTRALIA." 4728 02:50:16,001 --> 02:50:18,000 "ARRIVE 4729 02:50:18,001 --> 02:50:20,000 AND DEPARTED WITH AN ADVENTURE 4730 02:50:20,001 --> 02:50:22,000 YOU WILL NEVER FORGET." 4731 02:50:22,001 --> 02:50:24,000 BIG 4732 02:50:24,001 --> 02:50:27,000 SAYING "COME TO IRELAND, GO 4733 02:50:27,001 --> 02:50:29,000 WHERE IRELAND TAKES YOU." 4734 02:50:29,001 --> 02:50:31,000 AND THE LIST GOES ON. 4735 02:50:31,001 --> 02:50:32,000 VIRTUALLY EVERY COUNTRY IS 4736 02:50:32,001 --> 02:50:34,000 SAYING, WE WANT FOREIGN 4737 02:50:34,001 --> 02:50:37,000 TO COME TO OUR COUNTRY. 4738 02:50:37,001 --> 02:50:40,000 SWEET SECRETS FROM JAPAN -- 4739 02:50:40,001 --> 02:50:42,000 AND VISIT JAPAN. 4740 02:50:42,001 --> 02:50:44,000 WE'VE 4741 02:50:44,001 --> 02:50:46,000 COUNTRIES ARE AGGRESSIVE. 4742 02:50:46,001 --> 02:50:47,000 "COME TO FRANCE." 4743 02:50:47,001 --> 02:50:49,000 WELL, I CAN'T READ THE FRENCH 4744 02:50:49,001 --> 02:50:52,000 PIECE DOWN HERE BUT 4745 02:50:52,001 --> 02:50:54,000 IT SAYS, IT 4746 02:50:54,001 --> 02:50:55,000 THE TOWER, COME HERE AND BE PART 4747 02:50:55,001 --> 02:51:00,000 OF WHAT WE'RE DOING. 4748 02:51:00,001 --> 02:51:03,000 AND, APPROACH 4749 02:51:03,001 --> 02:51:05,000 "WHERE FUN IS IN ALWAYS IN 4750 02:51:05,001 --> 02:51:08,000 FASHION, VISIT BELGIUM." 4751 02:51:08,001 --> 02:51:10,000 FINALLY, INDIA, ONE SPECIAL 4752 02:51:10,001 --> 02:51:13,000 REASON TO VISIT INDIA, ANY TIME 4753 02:51:13,001 --> 02:51:16,000 IS A GOOD TIME TO VISIT THE LAND 4754 02:51:16,001 --> 02:51:18,000 OF 4755 02:51:18,001 --> 02:51:21,000 VIRTUALLY EVERYONE IS SAYING 4756 02:51:21,001 --> 02:51:23,000 "COME VISIT US," BUT WE'RE NOT. 4757 02:51:23,001 --> 02:51:25,000 WE PROPOSE WE DO. 4758 02:51:25,001 --> 02:51:26,000 IT WILL CREATE A LOT O JOBS AND 4759 02:51:26,001 --> 02:51:27,000 WHEN PEOPLE COME HERE AND 4760 02:51:27,001 --> 02:51:29,000 EXPERIENCE WHAT THIS COUNTRY IS 4761 02:51:29,001 --> 02:51:30,000 ABOUT, THEY 4762 02:51:30,001 --> 02:51:32,000 WONDERFUL IMETION ABOUT WHAT 4763 02:51:32,001 --> 02:51:33,000 AMERICA IS. 4764 02:51:33,001 --> 02:51:34,000 A WONDERFUL IMPRESSION ABOUT 4765 02:51:34,001 --> 02:51:37,000 WHAT AMERICA IS. 4766 02:51:37,001 --> 02:51:38,000 WE HAVE PUT TOGETHER A 4767 02:51:38,001 --> 02:51:40,000 BIPARTISAN PIECE OF LEGISLATION 4768 02:51:40,001 --> 02:51:43,000 THAT IS FUNDED BY AND LARGE WITH 4769 02:51:43,001 --> 02:51:44,000 AN ENTRY EXIT FEE IMPOSED, 4770 02:51:44,001 --> 02:51:48,000 IMPOSED BY MOST OTHER COUNTRIES, 4771 02:51:48,001 --> 02:51:50,000 BY THE WAY, A $10 FEE ON VISA 4772 02:51:50,001 --> 02:51:53,000 WAIVER COUNTRIES, 4773 02:51:53,001 --> 02:51:57,000 COME FROM THOSE COUNTRIES TO 4774 02:51:57,001 --> 02:51:58,000 IT IS A MINIMAL FEE COMPARED TO 4775 02:51:58,001 --> 02:51:59,000 WHAT MANY ARE CHARGING AND WE 4776 02:51:59,001 --> 02:52:01,000 ESTABLISH WITH THAT FEE A 4777 02:52:01,001 --> 02:52:03,000 CORPORATION FOR TRAVEL 4778 02:52:03,001 --> 02:52:05,000 PROMOT 4779 02:52:05,001 --> 02:52:07,000 NONPROFIT CORPORATION GOVERNED 4780 02:52:07,001 --> 02:52:08,000 BY AN 11-MEMBER BOARD OF 4781 02:52:08,001 --> 02:52:09,000 DIRECTORS APPOINTED BY THE 4782 02:52:09,001 --> 02:52:11,000 SECRETARY OF COMMERCE SETTING UP 4783 02:52:11,001 --> 02:52:13,000 THE TRAVEL PROMOTION FUND, 4784 02:52:13,001 --> 02:52:15,000 FINANCED BY PUBLIC-PRIVATE 4785 02:52:15,001 --> 02:52:18,000 MATCHING PROGRAM. 4786 02:52:18,001 --> 02:52:19,000 IN SHORT, THIS IS A VERY SIMPLE 4787 02:52:19,001 --> 02:52:20,000 PROPOSITION. 4788 02:52:20,001 --> 02:52:22,000 IT WILL NOT ONLY CREATE A LOT OF 4789 02:52:22,001 --> 02:52:24,000 NEW JOBS IN THIS COUNTRY AT A 4790 02:52:24,001 --> 02:52:27,000 TIME WHEN WE DESPERATELY NEED 4791 02:52:27,001 --> 02:52:29,000 NEW JOBS BY SAYING TO FOREIGN 4792 02:52:29,001 --> 02:52:31,000 TRAVERS, COME TO 4793 02:52:31,001 --> 02:52:32,000 BE PART OF WHAT AMERICA HAS TO OFFER. 4794 02:52:32,001 --> 02:52:33,000 SEE OUR WONDERFUL COUNTRY 4795 02:52:33,001 --> 02:52:34,000 EXPERIENCE WHAT AMERICA IS 4796 02:52:34,001 --> 02:52:35,000 ABOUT. 4797 02:52:35,001 --> 02:52:36,000 WE KNOW, WE KNOW WHEN THEY 4798 02:52:36,001 --> 02:52:38,000 LEBANESE THIS COUNTRY THEY WILL 4799 02:52:38,001 --> 02:52:39,000 HAVE AN UNBELIEVE BY GOOD 4800 02:52:39,001 --> 02:52:40,000 IMPRESSION OF WHAT THEY HAVE 4801 02:52:40,001 --> 02:52:41,000 JUST SEEN. 4802 02:52:41,001 --> 02:52:43,000 GREATEST DEMOCRACY ON THE FACE 4803 02:52:43,001 --> 02:52:46,000 OF THIS PLANET, BY FAR, AND THEY 4804 02:52:46,001 --> 02:52:47,000 EXPERIENCE THE IMAGINIC AND THE 4805 02:52:47,001 --> 02:52:49,000 WONDERS -- THE MAGIC AND THE 4806 02:52:49,001 --> 02:52:52,000 WONDERS OF THIS COUNTRY. 4807 02:52:52,001 --> 02:52:55,000 WE'RE 4808 02:52:55,001 --> 02:52:57,000 WHEN TRAVEL AROUND THE WORLD IS 4809 02:52:57,001 --> 02:52:59,000 UP, THAT IS, VISITORS TO OTHER 4810 02:52:59,001 --> 02:53:02,000 COUNTRIES, AND OURS IS DOWN, 4811 02:53:02,001 --> 02:53:04,000 LET'S SOLVE THIS PROBLEM, LET'S 4812 02:53:04,001 --> 02:53:06,000 DO IT WITHOUT BREAKING THE BANK. 4813 02:53:06,001 --> 02:53:09,000 THIS WILL THOUGHT COST MONEY. THIS WILL SAVE MONEY. 4814 02:53:09,001 --> 02:53:10,000 DO IT BY WORKING IN A BIPARTISAN 4815 02:53:10,001 --> 02:53:11,000 WAY ON ONE OF THE SIGNIFICANT 4816 02:53:11,001 --> 02:53:13,000 PROBLEMS WE FACE IN AMERICA AND 4817 02:53:13,001 --> 02:53:17,000 THAT IS THE 4818 02:53:17,001 --> 02:53:21,000 NOW, LET ME SCWFT SAY, IN CASE 4819 02:53:21,001 --> 02:53:23,000 CASE -- JUST SAY, IN CASE 4820 02:53:23,001 --> 02:53:25,000 SOMEONE THINKS ONLY A FEW OF 4821 02:53:25,001 --> 02:53:26,000 THINK THIS IS A GOOD IDEA HERE 4822 02:53:26,001 --> 02:53:28,000 E EXAMPLE OF OTHERS WHO THINK 4823 02:53:28,001 --> 02:53:31,000 THIS IS GREAT. 4824 02:53:31,001 --> 02:53:33,000 "DALLAS MORNING NEWS," THIS IS A 4825 02:53:33,001 --> 02:53:37,000 SENSIBLE FIRST STEP ON PUTTING 4826 02:53:37,001 --> 02:53:38,000 OUT THE WELCOME MAP ON AMERICA'S DOORSTEP. 4827 02:53:38,001 --> 02:53:41,000 "LOS ANGELES TIMES" "CONSIDERING 4828 02:53:41,001 --> 02:53:43,000 THE U.S. SPENDS H 4829 02:53:43,001 --> 02:53:44,000 MILLIONS ON PUBLIC DIPLOMACY 4830 02:53:44,001 --> 02:53:51,000 WITH POOR RESULTS AND NOTHING ON 4831 02:53:51,001 --> 02:53:52,000 PROMOTING TOURISM IT COULD BE TO 4832 02:53:52,001 --> 02:53:57,000 WOO TRAVELERS." 4833 02:53:57,001 --> 02:53:59,000 WE NEED TO RECLAIM OUR STATUS AS 4834 02:53:59,001 --> 02:54:01,000 A GLOBAL COUNTRY FOR TRAVELERS 4835 02:54:01,001 --> 02:54:02,000 AND WE CAN DO THAT BY PASSING 4836 02:54:02,001 --> 02:54:04,000 THE ACT. 4837 02:54:04,001 --> 02:54:06,000 "IDEAS TO BOLSTER ECONOMIC 4838 02:54:06,001 --> 02:54:07,000 RECOVERY WITHOUT PLUNGING THE 4839 02:54:07,001 --> 02:54:08,000 NATION INTO DEEPER DEMOCRAT IS 4840 02:54:08,001 --> 02:54:12,000 WELCOMED BY TAXPAYERS FROM COAST 4841 02:54:12,001 --> 02:54:13,000 TO COAST." 4842 02:54:13,001 --> 02:54:15,000 "DETROIT FREE PRESS," DON'T IT 4843 02:54:15,001 --> 02:54:18,000 MAKE SENSE TO ENCOURAGE AT NO 4844 02:54:18,001 --> 02:54:19,000 VISITORS TO LEAVE US SOME OF 4845 02:54:19,001 --> 02:54:20,000 THEIR MONEY? 4846 02:54:20,001 --> 02:54:25,000 THERE IS NO GOOD REASON NOT TO 4847 02:54:25,001 --> 02:54:26,000 PASS THIS BILL. 4848 02:54:26,001 --> 02:54:29,000 WELL, I NEED NOT GO ON. 4849 02:54:29,001 --> 02:54:32,000 THIS IS NOT ROCKET 4850 02:54:32,001 --> 02:54:36,000 THIS IS SOMETHING OUR COUNTRY 4851 02:54:36,001 --> 02:54:37,000 IF, IN FACT, IN A SMALLER AND 4852 02:54:37,001 --> 02:54:40,000 SMALLER WORLD, MORE AND MORE 4853 02:54:40,001 --> 02:54:41,000 PEOPLE ARE TRAVELING, THEN WHY 4854 02:54:41,001 --> 02:54:44,000 SHOULD FEWER PEOPLE TRAVEL TO 4855 02:54:44,001 --> 02:54:46,000 THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA? 4856 02:54:46,001 --> 02:54:48,000 THIS OUGHT TO BE ONE OF THE 4857 02:54:48,001 --> 02:54:49,000 GREAT DESTINATION PLACES ON THE 4858 02:54:49,001 --> 02:54:51,000 ENTIRE PLANET. 4859 02:54:51,001 --> 02:54:52,000 I WOULD EXPECT AND HOPE THAT 4860 02:54:52,001 --> 02:54:55,000 MOST PEOPLE WANT TO COME TO THIS 4861 02:54:55,001 --> 02:54:56,000 CUP. 4862 02:54:56,001 --> 02:54:57,000 THIS -- THIS COUNTRY AND SEE 4863 02:54:57,001 --> 02:55:01,000 WHAT AMERICA HAS TO OFFER BUT I 4864 02:55:01,001 --> 02:55:03,000 THINK THAT POST-STEMBER 11TH, 4865 02:55:03,001 --> 02:55:04,000 WHAT WE HAVE DONE WITH VISAS 4866 02:55:04,001 --> 02:55:07,000 WHICH WE ARE NOW CORRECTING AND 4867 02:55:07,001 --> 02:55:09,000 HAVE CORRECTED, BY AND LARGE, 4868 02:55:09,001 --> 02:55:11,000 LONGER WAITING TIMES HAVE BEEN 4869 02:55:11,001 --> 02:55:14,000 MADE SHORTER, THERE WAS A 4870 02:55:14,001 --> 02:55:16,000 SOMEHOW THAT THE WELCOME MAT DOESN'T EXIST. 4871 02:55:16,001 --> 02:55:17,000 WE ARE CHANGING THAT. 4872 02:55:17,001 --> 02:55:18,000 REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS CAN 4873 02:55:18,001 --> 02:55:20,000 WORK TOGETHER TO CHANGE THAT. 4874 02:55:20,001 --> 02:55:22,000 THIS LEGISLATION I LEGISLATION. 4875 02:55:22,001 --> 02:55:24,000 AND I HOPE MY COLLEAGUES WILL 4876 02:55:24,001 --> 02:55:26,000 JOIN ME TODAY IN VOTING FOR 4877 02:55:26,001 --> 02:55:27,000 CLOTURE AND MOVING THIS BILL AS 4878 02:55:27,001 --> 02:55:29,000 SOON 4879 02:55:29,001 --> 02:55:30,000 SENATE, THROUGH THE HOUSE, 4880 02:55:30,001 --> 02:55:33,000 TO THE PRESIDENT FOR SIGNATURE. 4881 02:55:33,001 --> 02:55:34,000 AND WHEN WE DO, THOSE PEOPLE WHO 4882 02:55:34,001 --> 02:55:36,000 HAVE HAD TO COME HOME TO SAY TO 4883 02:55:36,001 --> 02:55:39,000 THEIR SPOUSE, HONEY, I'VE LOST 4884 02:55:39,001 --> 02:55:41,000 MY JOB, MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, SOME 4885 02:55:41,001 --> 02:55:43,000 OF THEM WILL BE ABLE TO COME 4886 02:55:43,001 --> 02:55:44,000 HOME AND SAY I HAVE A NEW JOB, 4887 02:55:44,001 --> 02:55:46,000 THERE IS NEW ACTIVITY GOING ON 4888 02:55:46,001 --> 02:55:48,000 IN OUR STATE AND I HAVE A NEW 4889 02:55:48,001 --> 02:55:49,000 JOB THAT RELATES TO THE 4890 02:55:49,001 --> 02:55:50,000 SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE IN 4891 02:55:50,001 --> 02:55:51,000 INTERNATIONAL TOURISM TO THE 4892 02:55:51,001 --> 02:55:53,000 UNITED STATES. 4893 02:55:53,001 --> 02:55:55,000 NOW, THAT WILL BE A GOOD THING 4894 02:55:55,001 --> 02:55:58,000 FOR OUR COUNTRY. 4895 02:55:58,001 --> 02:56:01,000 SO AS THE PRINCIPAL AUTHOR ALONG 4896 02:56:01,001 --> 02:56:03,000 WITH SENATOR ENSIGN OF THIS 4897 02:56:03,001 --> 02:56:04,000 LEGISLATION, AND CHAIRMAN OF THE 4898 02:56:04,001 --> 02:56:05,000 SUBCOMMITTEE IN THE COMMERCE 4899 02:56:05,001 --> 02:56:07,000 DEPARTMENT THAT WORKS ON TOUR 4900 02:56:07,001 --> 02:56:08,000 IM, SENATOR KLOBUCHAR, I'M 4901 02:56:08,001 --> 02:56:09,000 REALLY PLEASED TO BE ABLE TO 4902 02:56:09,001 --> 02:56:11,000 WORK TOGETHER WITH MY COLLEAGUES 4903 02:56:11,001 --> 02:56:15,000 TO GET THIS LEGISLATION 4904 02:56:15,001 --> 02:56:16,000 COMPLETED 4905 02:56:16,001 --> 02:56:22,000 MR. PRESIDEN I RESERVE THE 4906 02:56:22,001 --> 02:56:23,000 REMAINDER OF MY TIME. 4907 02:56:23,001 --> 02:56:24,000 MR. ENSIGN: MR. PRESIDENT? 4908 02:56:24,001 --> 02:56:27,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 4909 02:56:27,001 --> 02:56:29,000 SENATOR FROM ARIZONA. NEVADA. 4910 02:56:29,001 --> 02:56:31,000 MR. ENSIGN: FIRST, MR. 4911 02:56:31,001 --> 02:56:33,000 PRESIDENT, I THANK THE COAUTHOR 4912 02:56:33,001 --> 02:56:34,000 OF THIS LEGISLATION, SENATOR 4913 02:56:34,001 --> 02:56:37,000 DOAN, FOR HIS LEADERSHIP ON 4914 02:56:37,001 --> 02:56:38,000 RECOGNIZING HOW IMPORTANT THIS 4915 02:56:38,001 --> 02:56:40,000 LEGISLATION IS TO OUR COUNTRY 4916 02:56:40,001 --> 02:56:42,000 ESPECIALLY AT THIS CRITICAL TIME 4917 02:56:42,001 --> 02:56:44,000 WHEN WE NEED 4918 02:56:44,001 --> 02:56:48,000 ALL OF US JUST WENT BACK TO OUR 4919 02:56:48,001 --> 02:56:50,000 HOME STATES AND REALIZED THAT 4920 02:56:50,001 --> 02:56:52,000 THERE ARE A 4921 02:56:52,001 --> 02:56:53,000 TRULY HURTING OUT THERE AND IT'S 4922 02:56:53,001 --> 02:56:54,000 NOT JUST PEOPLE WHO HAVE ALREADY 4923 02:56:54,001 --> 02:56:56,000 LOST THEIR JOBS BUT THERE'S A 4924 02:56:56,001 --> 02:56:58,000 LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE AFRAID 4925 02:56:58,001 --> 02:57:01,000 THEY'RE GOING TO LOSE THEIR JOBS. 4926 02:57:01,001 --> 02:57:03,000 THERE'S PEOPLE WHO ARE AFRAID TO 4927 02:57:03,001 --> 02:57:05,000 VEST IN CREATING JOBS. 4928 02:57:05,001 --> 02:57:06,000 I WOULD SAY THAT THE NUMBER ONE 4929 02:57:06,001 --> 02:57:08,000 EMOTION I HEARD DURING THE 4930 02:57:08,001 --> 02:57:10,000 AUGUST RECESS WAS 4931 02:57:10,001 --> 02:57:12,000 IT IS FEAR OF WHAT'S GOING TO 4932 02:57:12,001 --> 02:57:14,000 HAPPEN IN THIS 4933 02:57:14,001 --> 02:57:15,000 SENATOR DORGAN, I THINK, 4934 02:57:15,001 --> 02:57:17,000 ELOQUENTLY PUT THAT THIS BILL IS 4935 02:57:17,001 --> 02:57:20,000 REALLY ABOUT JOBS. 4936 02:57:20,001 --> 02:57:24,000 AND IT'S ABOUTREATING JOBS 4937 02:57:24,001 --> 02:57:25,000 WITHOUT ADDING TO THE FEDERAL DEBT. 4938 02:57:25,001 --> 02:57:27,000 ANOTHER THING I 4939 02:57:27,001 --> 02:57:28,000 THE STATE OF NEVADA, PEOPLE ARE 4940 02:57:28,001 --> 02:57:30,000 VERY CONCERNED ABOUT FEDERAL 4941 02:57:30,001 --> 02:57:33,000 SPENDING AND THE DEFICITS, THIS 4942 02:57:33,001 --> 02:57:34,000 YEAR, THAT WE'RE FACING IN THIS 4943 02:57:34,001 --> 02:57:36,000 LOOMING FEDERAL DEBT THAT PEOPLE 4944 02:57:36,001 --> 02:57:40,000 REALLY THINK IS A THREAT TO THE 4945 02:57:40,001 --> 02:57:43,000 FUTURE OF THE UNITED 4946 02:57:43,001 --> 02:57:45,000 WAY, HELPS CREATE JOBS WITHOUT 4947 02:57:45,001 --> 02:57:47,000 ADDING TO THE DEFICIT. 4948 02:57:47,001 --> 02:57:51,000 AS A MATTER OF FACT, 4949 02:57:51,001 --> 02:57:52,000 WILL DO -- BECAUSE IT'S PAID FOR 4950 02:57:52,001 --> 02:57:55,000 THROUGH CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE 4951 02:57:55,001 --> 02:57:58,000 PRIVATE SECTOR PLUS AN ENTRY TEE 4952 02:57:58,001 --> 02:57:59,000 INTO THE UNITED STATES -- ENTRY 4953 02:57:59,001 --> 02:58:01,000 FEE INTO THE UNITED STATES, 4954 02:58:01,001 --> 02:58:03,000 SMALL, $10, FOR THOSE COUNTRIES 4955 02:58:03,001 --> 02:58:07,000 WHO PARTICIPA 4956 02:58:07,001 --> 02:58:09,000 WAY, IT'S CHEAPER FORE THOSE 4957 02:58:09,001 --> 02:58:11,000 COUNTRY WHOSE HAVE THE VISA 4958 02:58:11,001 --> 02:58:13,000 WAIVER PROGRAM SO THE LITTLE $10 4959 02:58:13,001 --> 02:58:14,000 IS CHEAPER THAN IF YOU GOT A 4960 02:58:14,001 --> 02:58:16,000 FULL VISA. 4961 02:58:16,001 --> 02:58:19,000 THE $10 THAT MOST COUNTRIES 4962 02:58:19,001 --> 02:58:21,000 CHARGE MUCH HIGHER PRICES WILL 4963 02:58:21,001 --> 02:58:22,000 NO 4964 02:58:22,001 --> 02:58:24,000 THE UNITED STATES BUT THE MONEY 4965 02:58:24,001 --> 02:58:26,000 WILL LET PEOPLE KNOW THAT WE 4966 02:58:26,001 --> 02:58:28,000 OPEN FOR BUSINESS. 4967 02:58:28,001 --> 02:58:31,000 NOW, WHEN YOU LOOK AT -- I'M, 4968 02:58:31,001 --> 02:58:33,000 OBVIOUSLY, FROM A TOURIST-DRIVEN STATE. 4969 02:58:33,001 --> 02:58:35,000 WE SPEND A LOT OF MONEY 4970 02:58:35,001 --> 02:58:38,000 ADVERTISING WHETHER LAS VEGAS OR?? 4971 02:58:38,001 --> 02:58:42,000 RENO OR 4972 02:58:42,001 --> 02:58:43,000 LOT ADVERTISING TO OTHER PLACES 4973 02:58:43,001 --> 02:58:47,000 INCLUDING INTERNATIONALLY TO COME TO OUR CITY. 4974 02:58:47,001 --> 02:58:48,000 WE DO IT A LOT OF THE LAS VEGAS 4975 02:58:48,001 --> 02:58:50,000 CONVENTION VISITORS AUTHORITY, 4976 02:58:50,001 --> 02:58:51,000 PRIVATE BUSINESSES DO 4977 02:58:51,001 --> 02:58:53,000 IT WORKS 4978 02:58:53,001 --> 02:58:55,000 WELL, WHAT WE'RE SAYING WITH 4979 02:58:55,001 --> 02:58:57,000 THIS BILL IS, LET'S DO IT AS A COUNTRY. 4980 02:58:57,001 --> 02:59:00,000 LET'S SAY, WE HAVE SO 4981 02:59:00,001 --> 02:59:03,000 AMAZING PLACES TO SEE 4982 02:59:03,001 --> 02:59:06,000 THE REST OF THE WORLD ABOUT I 4983 02:59:06,001 --> 02:59:07,000 AND IF YOU DO 4984 02:59:07,001 --> 02:59:08,000 SAYING, IF YOU BUILD IT THEY 4985 02:59:08,001 --> 02:59:11,000 WILL COME. 4986 02:59:11,001 --> 02:59:13,000 IT'S WILL NOT ONLY IF YOU BUILD 4987 02:59:13,001 --> 02:59:15,000 IT, WE HAVE ALREADY BUILT IT OR 4988 02:59:15,001 --> 02:59:16,000 GOD BUILT IT WITH O NATURAL 4989 02:59:16,001 --> 02:59:17,000 RESOURCES YOU HAVE TO LET THEM 4990 02:59:17,001 --> 02:59:19,000 KNOW THEY'RE WELCOME AND THAT 4991 02:59:19,001 --> 02:59:20,000 IT'S EASY TO COME HERE 4992 02:59:20,001 --> 02:59:21,000 THAT'S WHAT WE'RE SAYING WITH 4993 02:59:21,001 --> 02:59:23,000 THIS LEGISLATION. 4994 02:59:23,001 --> 02:59:26,000 PLUS, WHEN YOU TELL THEM ABOUT 4995 02:59:26,001 --> 02:59:28,000 IT IT PAINTS A MENTAL PICTURE IN 4996 02:59:28,001 --> 02:59:30,000 THEIR MIND WHEN THEY'RE THINKING 4997 02:59:30,001 --> 02:59:33,000 ABOUT WHERE TO SPEND THEIR NEXT HOLIDAY OR VACATION. 4998 02:59:33,001 --> 02:59:36,000 THEY 4999 02:59:36,001 --> 02:59:38,000 IT I 5000 02:59:38,001 --> 02:59:39,000 I ALWAYS WANTED TO GO TO THE 5001 02:59:39,001 --> 02:59:41,000 UNITED STATES. 5002 02:59:41,001 --> 02:59:43,000 MAY THEY WANT TO SEE OUR NATUR 5003 02:59:43,001 --> 02:59:45,000 WONDERS, WHETHER 5004 02:59:45,001 --> 02:59:47,000 YELLOWSTONE, THE GRAND CANYON, 5005 02:59:47,001 --> 02:59:51,000 ALASKA, HAWAII, MY HOME STATE 5006 02:59:51,001 --> 02:59:52,000 HAS 5007 02:59:52,001 --> 02:59:56,000 BEAUTIFUL ALPINE LAKES IN T 5008 02:59:56,001 --> 02:59:57,000 ENTIRE WORLD -- I ARGUE THE MOST 5009 02:59:57,001 --> 02:59:58,000 BEAUTIFUL ALPINE LAKE IF THE 5010 02:59:58,001 --> 03:00:00,000 ENTIRE ROOM. 5011 03:00:00,001 --> 03:00:02,000 ERE ARE 5012 03:00:02,001 --> 03:00:04,000 THAT ARE MANMADE IN THIS 5013 03:00:04,001 --> 03:00:06,000 COUNTRY: WASHINGTON, D.C., 5014 03:00:06,001 --> 03:00:07,000 OF THE MOST INCREDIBLE CITIES IN 5015 03:00:07,001 --> 03:00:08,000 THE WORLD 5016 03:00:08,001 --> 03:00:10,000 WE TELL PEOPLE ABOUT IT AND THEY 5017 03:00:10,001 --> 03:00:12,000 CAN COME AND THEY LEARN ABOUT 5018 03:00:12,001 --> 03:00:14,000 OUR HISTORY AND OUR DEMOCRACY. 5019 03:00:14,001 --> 03:00:16,000 THEY MAY HAVE A BETTER 5020 03:00:16,001 --> 03:00:17,000 THE PEOPLE AND OF THE GOVERNMENT 5021 03:00:17,001 --> 03:00:19,000 OF THE UNITED STATES THAN THEY 5022 03:00:19,001 --> 03:00:20,000 CURRENTLY HAVE. 5023 03:00:20,001 --> 03:00:21,000 STATISTICS ARE VERY CLEAR. 5024 03:00:21,001 --> 03:00:22,000 PEOPLE WHO VISIT THE UNITED 5025 03:00:22,001 --> 03:00:24,000 STATES HAVE A MUCH MORE 5026 03:00:24,001 --> 03:00:25,000 FAVORABLE VIEW OF THE UNITED 5027 03:00:25,001 --> 03:00:27,000 STATES. 5028 03:00:27,001 --> 03:00:29,000 THERE ARE PLENTY OF OR PLACES TO 5029 03:00:29,001 --> 03:00:31,000 SEE WHETHER IT'S GOING TO NEW 5030 03:00:31,001 --> 03:00:34,000 YORK CITY AND 5031 03:00:34,001 --> 03:00:37,000 IN NEW YORK CITY OR SOME OF THE 5032 03:00:37,001 --> 03:00:42,000 OTHER CITIES LIKE CHICAGO, MY 5033 03:00:42,001 --> 03:00:45,000 MY HOMETOWN OF LAS VEGAS 5034 03:00:45,001 --> 03:00:46,000 OBVIOUSLY IS A 5035 03:00:46,001 --> 03:00:47,000 DESTINATION OBVIOUSLY WITH SOME 5036 03:00:47,001 --> 03:00:48,000 OF THE MOST AMAZING RESTAURANTS 5037 03:00:48,001 --> 03:00:49,000 THAT THERE IS ON THE PLANET. 5038 03:00:49,001 --> 03:00:51,000 YOU CAN GO TO THE BEACHES ON 5039 03:00:51,001 --> 03:00:53,000 CALIFORNIA AND THE EAST COAST. 5040 03:00:53,001 --> 03:00:54,000 SOME OF THE MOST AMAZING GOLF 5041 03:00:54,001 --> 03:00:57,000 DESTINATIONS, WHETHER IT'S 5042 03:00:57,001 --> 03:00:59,000 HILTON HEAD, SOUTH 5043 03:00:59,001 --> 03:01:00,000 MONTEREY PENINSULA OUT IN 5044 03:01:00,001 --> 03:01:03,000 CALIFORNIA, REALLY HAVE SOME 5045 03:01:03,001 --> 03:01:05,000 AMAZING PLACES TO SEE. 5046 03:01:05,001 --> 03:01:09,000 AND IF WE TELL PEOPLE ABOUT IT, 5047 03:01:09,001 --> 03:01:10,000 THEY'LL COME 5048 03:01:10,001 --> 03:01:11,000 THE STUDIES ARE FAIRLY 5049 03:01:11,001 --> 03:01:12,000 SIGNIFICANT ON THIS. 5050 03:01:12,001 --> 03:01:14,000 YOU SPEND MONEY TO BRING PEOPLE 5051 03:01:14,001 --> 03:01:15,000 AND THEY ACTUALLY WILL COME. 5052 03:01:15,001 --> 03:01:16,000 AND EN THEY COME, THEY'LL 5053 03:01:16,001 --> 03:01:19,000 BRING THEIR MONEY. 5054 03:01:19,001 --> 03:01:20,000 SENATOR DORGAN TALKED ABOUT IT. 5055 03:01:20,001 --> 03:01:21,000 THE AVERAGE VISITER WHO COME 5056 03:01:21,001 --> 03:01:23,000 FROM OVERSEAS, WHO COME 5057 03:01:23,001 --> 03:01:25,000 LONG WAYS AWAY -- NOT 5058 03:01:25,001 --> 03:01:26,000 CANADA OR MEXICO -- BUT WHEN 5059 03:01:26,001 --> 03:01:29,000 THEY COME FROM A LONG WAY AWAY, 5060 03:01:29,001 --> 03:01:30,000 THEY SPEND ON AVERAGE OF $4,500 5061 03:01:30,001 --> 03:01:32,000 IN THE UNITED STATES. 5062 03:01:32,001 --> 03:01:34,000 AND IF WE CAN ATTRACT SOME OF 5063 03:01:34,001 --> 03:01:35,000 THOSE 58 MILLION NEW 5064 03:01:35,001 --> 03:01:37,000 INVESTIGATORS WHO ARE TRAVELING 5065 03:01:37,001 --> 03:01:40,000 WORLDWIDE NOW SINCE THE YEAR 5066 03:01:40,001 --> 03:01:42,000 2000, WE CAN ATTRACT EVEN A 5067 03:01:42,001 --> 03:01:44,000 SMALL PIECE OF THAT, IT'S GOING 5068 03:01:44,001 --> 03:01:50,000 TO CREATE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF 5069 03:01:50,001 --> 03:01:52,000 JOBS IN THE UNITED 5070 03:01:52,001 --> 03:01:53,000 AND WHO AROUND HERE DOESN'T 5071 03:01:53,001 --> 03:01:56,000 THINK WE NEED JOBS? 5072 03:01:56,001 --> 03:01:59,000 CLARKE COUNTY IS WHERE LAS VEGAS IS LOCATED. 5073 03:01:59,001 --> 03:02:00,000 THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS 14% 5074 03:02:00,001 --> 03:02:01,000 NOW. 5075 03:02:01,001 --> 03:02:03,000 TOURISM, WHEN YOU TOTAL IT ALL 5076 03:02:03,001 --> 03:02:04,000 TOGETHER, IS THE NUMBER-ONE 5077 03:02:04,001 --> 03:02:05,000 INDUSTRY IN THE UNITED STATE 5078 03:02:05,001 --> 03:02:06,000 WELL, WE OUGHT TO DO SOMET 5079 03:02:06,001 --> 03:02:07,000 TO PROMOTE IT. 5080 03:02:07,001 --> 03:02:09,000 AND THAT'S WHY THIS LEGISLATION 5081 03:02:09,001 --> 03:02:11,000 I BELIEVE IS SO IMPORTANT. 5082 03:02:11,001 --> 03:02:12,000 THIS 5083 03:02:12,001 --> 03:02:13,000 BIPARTISANSHIP. 5084 03:02:13,001 --> 03:02:14,000 WE HAVE A PLACE. 5085 03:02:14,001 --> 03:02:16,000 IT'S CRYING OUT FOR JOBS 5086 03:02:16,001 --> 03:02:18,000 WE HAVE A PLACE. 5087 03:02:18,001 --> 03:02:20,000 IT'S SAYING, DON'T ADD TO THE DEFICIT. 5088 03:02:20,001 --> 03:02:21,000 WE'RE NOT DOING THAT. 5089 03:02:21,001 --> 03:02:22,000 THAT'S WHY I THINK THIS BILL 5090 03:02:22,001 --> 03:02:24,000 MAKES SO MUCH SENSE AT THIS TIME 5091 03:02:24,001 --> 03:02:27,000 IN OUR COUNTRY'S HISTORY. 5092 03:02:27,001 --> 03:02:28,000 OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS, 5093 03:02:28,001 --> 03:02:29,000 WE'RE GOING TO BE DEBATING THIS BILL. 5094 03:02:29,001 --> 03:02:31,000 TONIGHT'S JUST A PROCEDURAL VOTE 5095 03:02:31,001 --> 03:02:33,000 TO GET ON THE BILL. 5096 03:02:33,001 --> 03:02:36,000 I BELIEVE 5097 03:02:36,001 --> 03:02:38,000 SHOULD -- SHOULD SUPPORT IT. 5098 03:02:38,001 --> 03:02:40,000 WHEN WE GET ON THE BILL, WE'LL 5099 03:02:40,001 --> 03:02:41,000 HAVE A LOT MORE TO SAY ABOUT IT, 5100 03:02:41,001 --> 03:02:43,000 A LOT MORE EXAMPLES OF WHY THIS 5101 03:02:43,001 --> 03:02:48,000 IS A GOOD PIECE OF LEGISLATION. SO, MR. PRESIDENT, I APPRECIATE 5102 03:02:48,001 --> 03:02:49,000 THE WORK THAT HAS BEEN DONE 5103 03:02:49,001 --> 03:02:50,000 WILL YIELD THE FLOOR HERE IN 5104 03:02:50,001 --> 03:02:53,000 JUST A SECOND TO ALLOW THE 5105 03:02:53,001 --> 03:02:54,000 SUBCOMMITTEE CHAIRWOMAN TO SPEAK 5106 03:02:54,001 --> 03:02:55,000 SPEAK, SENATOR KLOBUCHAR. 5107 03:02:55,001 --> 03:02:56,000 SHE'S DONE GREAT WORK ON THIS 5108 03:02:56,001 --> 03:02:58,000 BILL AND WE APPRECIATE HER 5109 03:02:58,001 --> 03:02:59,000 SUPPORT AS WELL. 5110 03:02:59,001 --> 03:03:01,000 BUT THIS IS A BIPARTISAN PIECE 5111 03:03:01,001 --> 03:03:03,000 OF LEGISLATION THATHIS COUNTRY 5112 03:03:03,001 --> 03:03:04,000 NEEDS RIGHT NOW. 5113 03:03:04,001 --> 03:03:06,000 IT NEEDS ANYTHING THAT'S GOING 5114 03:03:06,001 --> 03:03:07,000 TO CREATE JOBS AND NOT ADD TO 5115 03:03:07,001 --> 03:03:09,000 THE DEFICIT. 5116 03:03:09,001 --> 03:03:11,000 FLOOR. 5117 03:03:11,001 --> 03:03:12,000 RESERVE THE BALANCE OF OUR TIME. 5118 03:03:12,001 --> 03:03:14,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 5119 03:03:14,001 --> 03:03:16,000 SENATOR FROM NORTH DAKOTA. 5120 03:03:16,001 --> 03:03:18,000 MR. DORGAN: I YIELD TEN MINUTES 5121 03:03:18,001 --> 03:03:20,000 ON OUR TIME TO 5122 03:03:20,001 --> 03:03:21,000 KLOBUCHAR. MS. KLOBUCHAR: MR. PRESIDENT? 5123 03:03:21,001 --> 03:03:22,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 5124 03:03:22,001 --> 03:03:23,000 SENATOR FROM MINNESOTA. 5125 03:03:23,001 --> 03:03:24,000 MS. KLOBUCHAR: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. 5126 03:03:24,001 --> 03:03:26,000 JUST AS THE SENATOR FROM NEVADA 5127 03:03:26,001 --> 03:03:28,000 WAS DISCUSSING, ALL OF US WERE 5128 03:03:28,001 --> 03:03:29,000 HOME IN THE LAST MONTH, HEARD A 5129 03:03:29,001 --> 03:03:31,000 LOT ABOUT HEALTH CARE -- AND I 5130 03:03:31,001 --> 03:03:32,000 KNOW WE'LL BE HAVING AN 5131 03:03:32,001 --> 03:03:34,000 EXTENSIVE DEBATE AND DOING SOME 5132 03:03:34,001 --> 03:03:35,000 VERY IMPORTANT WORK IN THIS 5133 03:03:35,001 --> 03:03:37,000 AREA -- HEARD A LOT ABOUT THE ECONOMY. 5134 03:03:37,001 --> 03:03:41,000 WELL, THIS BILL IS ABOUT AN 5135 03:03:41,001 --> 03:03:42,000 INDUSTRY THAT ONE OUT OF EIGHT 5136 03:03:42,001 --> 03:03:43,000 AMERICANS IS EMPLOYED IN. 5137 03:03:43,001 --> 03:03:44,000 ONE OUT OF EIGHT AMERICANS. 5138 03:03:44,001 --> 03:03:46,000 AND IF THERE IS SOMETHING WE CAN 5139 03:03:46,001 --> 03:03:48,000 DO, WHICH WE KNOW WE CAN DO WITH 5140 03:03:48,001 --> 03:03:49,000 THIS BILL, TO HELP PROMOTE MORE 5141 03:03:49,001 --> 03:03:50,000 JOBS IN THIS INDUSTRY WITHOUT 5142 03:03:50,001 --> 03:03:52,000 COSTING TAXPAYERS ANY 5143 03:03:52,001 --> 03:03:54,000 THIS IS THE TIME TO DO IT. 5144 03:03:54,001 --> 03:03:56,000 I WANT TO FIRST THANK SENATOR 5145 03:03:56,001 --> 03:03:57,000 DORGAN, THE SENATOR FROM NORTH 5146 03:03:57,001 --> 03:04:00,000 DAKOTA, FOR HIS TIRELESS WORK 5147 03:04:00,001 --> 03:04:02,000 FOR YEARS ON THIS BILL. 5148 03:04:02,001 --> 03:04:03,000 I WAS LISTENING AS SENATOR 5149 03:04:03,001 --> 03:04:05,000 ENSIGN WENT THROUGH ALL OF T 5150 03:04:05,001 --> 03:04:07,000 WONDERS OF NEVADA, AND WE ALL 5151 03:04:07,001 --> 03:04:09,000 KNOW THERE'S SOME GREAT TOURISM 5152 03:04:09,001 --> 03:04:11,000 THERE, BUT HE FAILED TO MENTION 5153 03:04:11,001 --> 03:04:12,000 TEDDY ROOSEVELT PARK IN NORTH 5154 03:04:12,001 --> 03:04:15,000 DAKOTA, A PLACE THAT I HAVE 5155 03:04:15,001 --> 03:04:16,000 VISITED 5156 03:04:16,001 --> 03:04:18,000 I HOPE MANY PEOPLE HAVE COME TO 5157 03:04:18,001 --> 03:04:20,000 THE ML OF AMERICA IN MINNESOTA 5158 03:04:20,001 --> 03:04:22,000 AS WELL AS A LOT OF OUR 5159 03:04:22,001 --> 03:04:23,000 BEAUTIFUL FORESTS AND LAKES. 5160 03:04:23,001 --> 03:04:26,000 EVERY STATE HAS SOMETHING TO 5161 03:04:26,001 --> 03:04:27,000 PROUD OF WHEN IT COMES TO 5162 03:04:27,001 --> 03:04:28,000 TRAVEL. 5163 03:04:28,001 --> 03:04:30,000 TODAY WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO 5164 03:04:30,001 --> 03:04:31,000 HELP THIS INDUSTRY WITH THE 5165 03:04:31,001 --> 03:04:33,000 TRAVEL PROMOTION ACT, AND WE 5166 03:04:33,001 --> 03:04:35,000 SHOULD NOT LET IT GO TO WASTE. 5167 03:04:35,001 --> 03:04:37,000 AS MENTIONED, I'M THE CHAIR OF 5168 03:04:37,001 --> 03:04:38,000 THE COMMERCE SUBCOMMITTEE THAT 5169 03:04:38,001 --> 03:04:41,000 DEALS WITH TOURISM, BUT I ALSO 5170 03:04:41,001 --> 03:04:42,000 COME FROM A STATE THAT VALUES 5171 03:04:42,001 --> 03:04:43,000 COMMON SENSE, AND SUPPORTING 5172 03:04:43,001 --> 03:04:45,000 LEGISLATION THAT WILL CREATE 5173 03:04:45,001 --> 03:04:48,000 JOBS, GENERATE SPENDING, AND 5174 03:04:48,001 --> 03:04:50,000 REDUCE THE DEFICIT, ALL 5175 03:04:50,001 --> 03:04:54,000 COST TO THE TAXPAYERS, IS THE 5176 03:04:54,001 --> 03:04:55,000 DEFINITION OF COMMON SENSE. 5177 03:04:55,001 --> 03:04:56,000 JUST LOOK AT THE NUMBERS. 5178 03:04:56,001 --> 03:05:00,000 THIS BILL IS EXPECTED TO BRING 5179 03:05:00,001 --> 03:05:03,000 IN 1.6 MILLION NEW INTERNATIONAL 5180 03:05:03,001 --> 03:05:04,000 SITORS EACH 1.6 MILLION. 5181 03:05:04,001 --> 03:05:06,000 AND DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THEY SPEND, MR. PRESIDENT? 5182 03:05:06,001 --> 03:05:08,000 THEY SPEND $4,500 ON AVERAGE 5183 03:05:08,001 --> 03:05:12,000 WHEN THEY COME HERE. 5184 03:05:12,001 --> 03:05:15,000 YOU CAN DO THE MATH. 5185 03:05:15,001 --> 03:05:16,000 1.6 MILLION NEW 5186 03:05:16,001 --> 03:05:17,000 $4,500 EVERY SINGLE YEAR IN THIS COUNTRY. 5187 03:05:17,001 --> 03:05:23,000 IN FACT, SOME ECONOMISTS EXPECT 5188 03:05:23,001 --> 03:05:28,000 THE BILL TO GENERATE $4 BILLION 5189 03:05:28,001 --> 03:05:29,000 IN NEW SPENDING AND $321 MILL MILLION 5190 03:05:29,001 --> 03:05:30,000 IN NEW TAX REVENUE. 5191 03:05:30,001 --> 03:05:31,000 IT'S ESTIMATED TO CREATE 41,000 5192 03:05:31,001 --> 03:05:32,000 NEW JOFNLTZ THE CONGRESSIONAL 5193 03:05:32,001 --> 03:05:34,000 BUDGET OFFICE ESTIMATES THAT 5194 03:05:34,001 --> 03:05:36,000 THIS BILL WILL REDUCE THE BUDGET 5195 03:05:36,001 --> 03:05:38,000 DEFICIT BY $425 5196 03:05:38,001 --> 03:05:40,000 NEXT TEN YEARS. 5197 03:05:40,001 --> 03:05:43,000 REMEMBER THOSE NUMBERS. 5198 03:05:43,001 --> 03:05:44,000 $4,500 PER PERSON FOR EVERY 5199 03:05:44,001 --> 03:05:46,000 VISIT, 5200 03:05:46,001 --> 03:05:48,000 EVERY YEAR COMING TO OUR 5201 03:05:48,001 --> 03:05:53,000 COUNTRY, $4 BILLION IN NEW 5202 03:05:53,001 --> 03:05:55,000 SPENDING, 40,000 IN NEW JOBS, 5203 03:05:55,001 --> 03:05:56,000 COST TO THE TAXPAYER, ZERO. 5204 03:05:56,001 --> 03:05:57,000 DURING THESE TOUGH ECONOMIC 5205 03:05:57,001 --> 03:05:59,000 TIMES, HOW COULD WE NOT PASS 5206 03:05:59,001 --> 03:06:01,000 THIS BILL, HOW COULD WE NOT PASS 5207 03:06:01,001 --> 03:06:03,000 IT RIGHT NOW WHEN WE KNOW IT 5208 03:06:03,001 --> 03:06:05,000 WOULD DO SO MUCH GOOD? 5209 03:06:05,001 --> 03:06:07,000 ALONG WITH MY FAMILY, MANY AREAS 5210 03:06:07,001 --> 03:06:09,000 IN OUR STATE AND WE DID TOURISM 5211 03:06:09,001 --> 03:06:11,000 HEARINGS AND VARIOUS EVENTS 5212 03:06:11,001 --> 03:06:13,000 AROUND THIS BILL IN NORTHERN MINNESOTA. 5213 03:06:13,001 --> 03:06:14,000 I'LL BE HONEST, AT FIRST I 5214 03:06:14,001 --> 03:06:15,000 THOUGHT, WELL, THEY WANT 5215 03:06:15,001 --> 03:06:17,000 TOURISM, IT'S A BIG INDUSTRY IN 5216 03:06:17,001 --> 03:06:18,000 OUR STATE, BUT DO THEY REALLY 5217 03:06:18,001 --> 03:06:20,000 CARE ABOUT THIS BILL? 5218 03:06:20,001 --> 03:06:22,000 AND THAT'S WHEN I FOUND OUT THAT 5219 03:06:22,001 --> 03:06:24,000 THEY DREEL CARE ABOUT THIS BILL 5220 03:06:24,001 --> 03:06:25,000 SO -- THEY R 5221 03:06:25,001 --> 03:06:27,000 THIS BILL BECAUSE SO MANY 5222 03:06:27,001 --> 03:06:29,000 VISITORS TRADITIONALLY HAVE COME DOWN FROM CANADA. 5223 03:06:29,001 --> 03:06:31,000 AND SO MANY BARRIERS OF GETTING 5224 03:06:31,001 --> 03:06:32,000 THE VISAS 5225 03:06:32,001 --> 03:06:34,000 BARRIERS AT THE BORDER, HAVE 5226 03:06:34,001 --> 03:06:35,000 AFFECTED TOURISM IN 5227 03:06:35,001 --> 03:06:36,000 MINNESOTA IN PLACES LIKE GRAND 5228 03:06:36,001 --> 03:06:39,000 MARET, INTERNATIONAL FALLS, AND 5229 03:06:39,001 --> 03:06:43,000 THE BRAYNARD LAKES 5230 03:06:43,001 --> 03:06:45,000 THE STATUE OF PAUL BA BUNION AND 5231 03:06:45,001 --> 03:06:46,000 BABE, THE BLUE OX. 5232 03:06:46,001 --> 03:06:48,000 MINNESOTA SHARES THIS BORDER 5233 03:06:48,001 --> 03:06:49,000 WITH CANADA AND I WAS VERY MUCH 5234 03:06:49,001 --> 03:06:51,000 SURPRISED IN HOW MUCH INTEREST 5235 03:06:51,001 --> 03:06:52,000 THERE WAS IN GETTING THIS BILL PASSED. 5236 03:06:52,001 --> 03:06:53,000 THEY UNDERSTAND WE WANT TO 5237 03:06:53,001 --> 03:06:54,000 PROMOTE OUR COUNTRY 5238 03:06:54,001 --> 03:06:55,000 INTERNATIONALLY, JUST LIKE OTHER 5239 03:06:55,001 --> 03:06:56,000 COUNTRIES WHICH SENATOR DORGAN 5240 03:06:56,001 --> 03:06:58,000 AND SENATOR ENSIGN HAVE POINTED 5241 03:06:58,001 --> 03:07:00,000 OUT, HAVE DONE FOR SO LONG. 5242 03:07:00,001 --> 03:07:01,000 BUT THEY ALSO WANT TO MAKE IT 5243 03:07:01,001 --> 03:07:03,000 EASIER TO PROCESS THESE VISAS. 5244 03:07:03,001 --> 03:07:04,000 AS YOU KNOW, MR. PRESIDENT, THIS 5245 03:07:04,001 --> 03:07:06,000 PROBLEM STARTED WAY BEFOR THE 5246 03:07:06,001 --> 03:07:07,000 ECONOMY STARTED HAVING TROUBLES. 5247 03:07:07,001 --> 03:07:09,000 IT OCCURRED AFTER 9/11, WHERE 5248 03:07:09,001 --> 03:07:10,000 FOR VERY GOOD REASONS, THERE 5249 03:07:10,001 --> 03:07:12,000 WERE SOME TIGHTER VISA 5250 03:07:12,001 --> 03:07:14,000 REQUIREMENTS PUT IN PLACE. 5251 03:07:14,001 --> 03:07:15,000 IS PROBLEM, IS 5252 03:07:15,001 --> 03:07:17,000 BEHIND THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO 5253 03:07:17,001 --> 03:07:18,000 ARE LIVING IN, SAY, FRANCE, THEY 5254 03:07:18,001 --> 03:07:20,000 HAVE TO THINK, WELL, AM I GOING 5255 03:07:20,001 --> 03:07:21,000 TO AMERICA WHERE MAYBE IT'S 5256 03:07:21,001 --> 03:07:23,000 GOIN 5257 03:07:23,001 --> 03:07:24,000 MY VISA, OR MAYBE I'LL JUST GO 5258 03:07:24,001 --> 03:07:26,000 OVER TO ENGLAND OR MAYBE I'LL 5259 03:07:26,001 --> 03:07:29,000 JUST GO TO JAPAN. 5260 03:07:29,001 --> 03:07:31,000 AND SO WE NEED TO SPEED UP THE PROCES 5261 03:07:31,001 --> 03:07:33,000 WE KNOW THAT TOURISM CREATES 5262 03:07:33,001 --> 03:07:35,000 GOOD JOBS THAT CAN'T BE OUTSOURCED. 5263 03:07:35,001 --> 03:07:37,000 IT INCREASES SALES FOR LOCAL 5264 03:07:37,001 --> 03:07:41,000 BUSINESSES AND IT BRINGS IN TAX 5265 03:07:41,001 --> 03:07:42,000 REVENUE FOR LOCAL AND STATE 5266 03:07:42,001 --> 03:07:43,000 ECONOMIES. 5267 03:07:43,001 --> 03:07:44,000 ONE OF MY FAVORITE EXAMPLES IS 5268 03:07:44,001 --> 03:07:45,000 DULUTH. 5269 03:07:45,001 --> 03:07:46,000 IT'S NOT LAS VEGAS BUT LISTEN TO 5270 03:07:46,001 --> 03:07:49,000 THIS START. 5271 03:07:49,001 --> 03:07:51,000 DULUTH IS A PORT CITY THAT WAS 5272 03:07:51,001 --> 03:07:53,000 HIT HARD BY 5273 03:07:53,001 --> 03:07:54,000 1970'S AND THE EARLY 1980'S. 5274 03:07:54,001 --> 03:07:55,000 MY DAD IS FROM NORTHERN MINNESOTA. 5275 03:07:55,001 --> 03:07:57,000 WE GO UP THERE A LOT AND I COULD 5276 03:07:57,001 --> 03:07:58,000 SEE HOW MUCH THAT COMMUNITY WAS 5277 03:07:58,001 --> 03:08:00,000 HURTING DURING THAT TIME. 5278 03:08:00,001 --> 03:08:01,000 AND AT ONE POINT IT WAS SO BAD 5279 03:08:01,001 --> 03:08:03,000 THAT THEY PUT A BILL BOARD, A 5280 03:08:03,001 --> 03:08:08,000 FAMOUS 5281 03:08:08,001 --> 03:08:10,000 TANNED THATOWN THAT SAID, "WILL THE LAST 5282 03:08:10,001 --> 03:08:12,000 ONE OUT, PLEASE TURN OUT THE LIGHTS." 5283 03:08:12,001 --> 03:08:15,000 WELL, THE LIGHTS ARE STILL ON IN 5284 03:08:15,001 --> 03:08:17,000 DEEXPLEUT THERE'S AS BRIGHT AS 5285 03:08:17,001 --> 03:08:22,000 EVER, AND A LOT HAS TO DO WITH TOURISM. 5286 03:08:22,001 --> 03:08:24,000 THE CITIE HAS 5287 03:08:24,001 --> 03:08:26,000 THE BEAUTIFUL 5288 03:08:26,001 --> 03:08:27,000 WELCOMING 4 MILLION VISITORS 5289 03:08:27,001 --> 03:08:30,000 EACH YEAR WITH A ANNUAL ECONOMIC 5290 03:08:30,001 --> 03:08:34,000 IMPACT OF OVER $700 MILLIONMENT 5291 03:08:34,001 --> 03:08:35,000 NOW,00 MILLION.NOW, WE KNOW THE TOURISM 5292 03:08:35,001 --> 03:08:36,000 INDUSTRY IS FEELING THE EFFECTS 5293 03:08:36,001 --> 03:08:38,000 OF T 5294 03:08:38,001 --> 03:08:40,000 ON TOP OF THAT, AS I MENTIONED, 5295 03:08:40,001 --> 03:08:41,000 THE U.S. HAS SEEN ITS DECLINE I 5296 03:08:41,001 --> 03:08:42,000 THE TOURISM INDUSTRY IN THE PAST 5297 03:08:42,001 --> 03:08:43,000 DECADE. 5298 03:08:43,001 --> 03:08:44,000 AS WE SEE HERE, THE U.S. SHARE 5299 03:08:44,001 --> 03:08:51,000 OF T 5300 03:08:51,001 --> 03:08:53,000 DECREASED BY NEARLY 20%, COSTING 5301 03:08:53,001 --> 03:08:54,000 US HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF JOBS 5302 03:08:54,001 --> 03:08:56,000 AND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN REVENUE. 5303 03:08:56,001 --> 03:08:58,000 WHEN A TRAVELER DECIDES TO GO SOMEWHERE ELSE BESIDES T 5304 03:08:58,001 --> 03:08:59,000 UNITED STATES, THERE'S A RIPALLY 5305 03:08:59,001 --> 03:09:01,000 EFFECT THROUGHOUT OUR ECONOMY. 5306 03:09:01,001 --> 03:09:03,000 UN, YOU THINK -- 5307 03:09:03,001 --> 03:09:04,000 A RIPPLE AFFECT THROUGHOUT OUR ECONOMY. 5308 03:09:04,001 --> 03:09:05,000 YOU KNOW, YOU THINK ABOUT THE 5309 03:09:05,001 --> 03:09:06,000 HOTELS AND AIRLINES. 5310 03:09:06,001 --> 03:09:07,000 BUT DO YOU KNOW WHO ELSE YOU 5311 03:09:07,001 --> 03:09:08,000 SHOULD THINK ABOUT? 5312 03:09:08,001 --> 03:09:09,000 YOU SHOULD THINK ABOUT THE 5313 03:09:09,001 --> 03:09:11,000 PERSON WHO'S WORKING MAKING BEDS 5314 03:09:11,001 --> 03:09:13,000 IN THE HOTEL OR THE WAITRESS 5315 03:09:13,001 --> 03:09:15,000 WHO'S WORKING IN A RESTAURANT 5316 03:09:15,001 --> 03:09:18,000 THEIR DRIVE UP, OR YOU THINK 5317 03:09:18,001 --> 03:09:19,000 ABOUT THE FLORIST WHO'S GETTING 5318 03:09:19,001 --> 03:09:21,000 THOSE FLOWERS READY FOR THE BUSINESS CONFERENCE. 5319 03:09:21,001 --> 03:09:22,000 THOSE ARE ALL JOBS. 5320 03:09:22,001 --> 03:09:23,000 THOSE ARE ALL JOBS IN THIS 5321 03:09:23,001 --> 03:09:25,000 ECONOMY. 5322 03:09:25,001 --> 03:09:26,000 LAST YEAR, NEARLY 200,000 5323 03:09:26,001 --> 03:09:29,000 TRAVEL-RELATED JOBS WERE LOST 5324 03:09:29,001 --> 03:09:31,000 AND THE COMMERCE DEPARTMENT 5325 03:09:31,001 --> 03:09:33,000 PREDICTS THAT WE'LL LOSE 5326 03:09:33,001 --> 03:09:34,000 247,000 JOBS THIS YEAR. 5327 03:09:34,001 --> 03:09:36,000 WELL, WE CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS. 5328 03:09:36,001 --> 03:09:38,000 WE CAN BRING IN MORE TRAVELERS. 5329 03:09:38,001 --> 03:09:39,000 WE CAN CREATE MORE JOBS, AND WE 5330 03:09:39,001 --> 03:09:41,000 CAN BOOST OUR ECONOMY. 5331 03:09:41,001 --> 03:09:48,000 THAT'S WHY WE NEED TO PASS THE 5332 03:09:48,001 --> 03:09:49,000 TRAVEL PROMOTION ACT. 5333 03:09:49,001 --> 03:09:50,000 FIRST, THIS BILL WILL CREATE A 5334 03:09:50,001 --> 03:09:52,000 PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP TO 5335 03:09:52,001 --> 03:09:53,000 PROMOTE THE UNITED STATES AS 5336 03:09:53,001 --> 03:09:55,000 INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL DESTINATION 5337 03:09:55,001 --> 03:09:58,000 AND FINALLY ESTABLISH A 5338 03:09:58,001 --> 03:10:01,000 COORDINATED NATIONAL PROGRAM. 5339 03:10:01,001 --> 03:10:02,000 SENATOR DORGAN HAD SOME AMAZING 5340 03:10:02,001 --> 03:10:06,000 BLOWUPS OF SOME OF THE WORK THAT 5341 03:10:06,001 --> 03:10:09,000 YOU'VE SEEN IN OTHER COUNTRIES. 5342 03:10:09,001 --> 03:10:11,000 INDONESIA HAS THEIR OWN 5343 03:10:11,001 --> 03:10:12,000 PROGRAM. 5344 03:10:12,001 --> 03:10:15,000 BAHAMAS ENTICING PEOPLE TO GO 5345 03:10:15,001 --> 03:10:18,000 THERE. 5346 03:10:18,001 --> 03:10:19,000 SCOT 5347 03:10:19,001 --> 03:10:22,000 AUSTRALIA WITH THEIR KANGAROO. 5348 03:10:22,001 --> 03:10:23,000 WHAT DO WE HAVE RIGHT? NOTHING. 5349 03:10:23,001 --> 03:10:25,000 CITIES ARE GOING OUT THERE, 5350 03:10:25,001 --> 03:10:26,000 PLACES LIKE NEW 5351 03:10:26,001 --> 03:10:28,000 LIKE LAS VEGAS. 5352 03:10:28,001 --> 03:10:30,000 WELL, IT'S NOT AS EASY FOR SOME 5353 03:10:30,001 --> 03:10:31,000 SMAL 5354 03:10:31,001 --> 03:10:32,000 NORTH DAKOTA OR VERMONT OR NEW 5355 03:10:32,001 --> 03:10:33,000 HAMPSHIRE TO DO THAT, BUT THIS 5356 03:10:33,001 --> 03:10:34,000 IS A CHANCE WHERE WE CAN 5357 03:10:34,001 --> 03:10:35,000 ACTUALLY PROMOTE OUR COUNTRY 5358 03:10:35,001 --> 03:10:38,000 INTERNATIONALLY. 5359 03:10:38,001 --> 03:10:39,000 AND WE ARE IN MAJOR COMPETION 5360 03:10:39,001 --> 03:10:43,000 FOR INTERNATIONAL TRAVELERS BUT 5361 03:10:43,001 --> 03:10:45,000 WE ARE NOT COMPETING.IN 5362 03:10:45,001 --> 03:10:46,000 GREECE SPENT MORE THAN 5363 03:10:46,001 --> 03:10:47,000 $150 MILLION ON TRAVEL 5364 03:10:47,001 --> 03:10:48,000 PROMOTION. 5365 03:10:48,001 --> 03:10:49,000 FRANCE SPENT $63 MILLION. 5366 03:10:49,001 --> 03:10:51,000 THAT'S WHAT WE'RE UP AGAINST. 5367 03:10:51,001 --> 03:10:53,000 IT'S TIME FOR THE U.S. TO CATCH 5368 03:10:53,001 --> 03:10:55,000 UP TO THE REST OF THE WORLD. 5369 03:10:55,001 --> 03:10:56,000 IT'S TIME FOR US TO PLAY ON AN 5370 03:10:56,001 --> 03:10:57,000 EVEN PLAYING FIELD. 5371 03:10:57,001 --> 03:10:59,000 SECOND, THE BILL WILL ESTABLISH 5372 03:10:59,001 --> 03:11:01,000 THE OFFICE OF TRAVEL PROMOTION 5373 03:11:01,001 --> 03:11:02,000 IN THE DEP 5374 03:11:02,001 --> 03:11:03,000 WORK WITH THE CORPORATION FOR 5375 03:11:03,001 --> 03:11:05,000 TRAVEL PROMOTION AND THE 5376 03:11:05,001 --> 03:11:08,000 SECRETARIES OF STATE AND 5377 03:11:08,001 --> 03:11:09,000 HOMELAND SECURITY TO MAKE SURE 5378 03:11:09,001 --> 03:11:11,000 THAT INTERNATIONAL VISITORS ARE 5379 03:11:11,001 --> 03:11:12,000 PROCESSED EFFICIENTLY. 5380 03:11:12,001 --> 03:11:14,000 IT IS TIME TO CUT THROUGH THE 5381 03:11:14,001 --> 03:11:16,000 RE 5382 03:11:16,001 --> 03:11:19,000 PEOPLE IN ARE GOING TO THESE 5383 03:11:19,001 --> 03:11:21,000 COUNTRIE TO COME TO OUR COUNTRY COUNTRY. 5384 03:11:21,001 --> 03:11:23,000 WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A COUNTRY 5385 03:11:23,001 --> 03:11:24,000 THAT HAS OPENED OUR ARMS TO 5386 03:11:24,001 --> 03:11:25,000 PEOPLE WHO WANT TO COME AND 5387 03:11:25,001 --> 03:11:26,000 VISIT. 5388 03:11:26,001 --> 03:11:30,000 WE'VE BEEN PROUD OF THAT BEC 5389 03:11:30,001 --> 03:11:32,000 WE KNOW THAT IT DOESN'T ONLY 5390 03:11:32,001 --> 03:11:33,000 ALSO HAS A DIPLOMATIC BENEFIT. 5391 03:11:33,001 --> 03:11:37,000 PEOPLE WHO VISIT THE UNITED 5392 03:11:37,001 --> 03:11:38,000 STATES ARE 74% MORE LIKELY TO 5393 03:11:38,001 --> 03:11:40,000 HAVE A FAVORABLE OPINION OF OUR 5394 03:11:40,001 --> 03:11:44,000 COUNTRY THAN THOSE WHO HAVE NOT VISITED. 5395 03:11:44,001 --> 03:11:48,000 AS WE ENTER A NEW ERA IN 5396 03:11:48,001 --> 03:11:49,000 INTERPRET RELATIONS, TRAVEL CAN 5397 03:11:49,001 --> 03:11:51,000 PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN BUILDING BRIDGES BETWEEN 5398 03:11:51,001 --> 03:11:54,000 AMERICANS AND PEOPLE FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE. 5399 03:11:54,001 --> 03:11:56,000 FINALLY, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, 5400 03:11:56,001 --> 03:11:57,000 THIS LEGISLATION WILL NOT COST 5401 03:11:57,001 --> 03:12:01,000 TAXPAYERS A DIME. 5402 03:12:01,001 --> 03:12:02,000 I THINK SENATOR DORGAN, IT IS A 5403 03:12:02,001 --> 03:12:04,000 VERY GOOD WAY TO BEGIN THIS 5404 03:12:04,001 --> 03:12:06,000 SESSION, TO BEGIN IT BY LOOKING 5405 03:12:06,001 --> 03:12:07,000 AT SOMETHING THAT IS PAID FOR BY 5406 03:12:07,001 --> 03:12:10,000 A COMBINATION OF PRIVATE-SECTOR 5407 03:12:10,001 --> 03:12:14,000 CONTRIBUTIONS AND A SMALL FEE ON 5408 03:12:14,001 --> 03:12:15,000 INTERNATIONAL TRAVELERS, NON-U.S. TAXPAYERS WHO ARE 5409 03:12:15,001 --> 03:12:18,000 ENTERING THE UNITED STATES. 5410 03:12:18,001 --> 03:12:21,000 THIS IS COMMONSENSE LEGISLATION. 5411 03:12:21,001 --> 03:12:24,000 AND YOU THINK ABOUT THE POSITIVE 5412 03:12:24,001 --> 03:12:25,000 RIPPLE EFFECT THAT WILL HAPPEN 5413 03:12:25,001 --> 03:12:28,000 AS MORE INTERNATIONAL VISITORS 5414 03:12:28,001 --> 03:12:29,000 IT WILL INCREASE SALES 5415 03:12:29,001 --> 03:12:32,000 BUSINESSES RANGING FROM AIRLINES 5416 03:12:32,001 --> 03:12:35,000 TO HOTELS TO THOSE THE FLOWER SHOPS. 5417 03:12:35,001 --> 03:12:37,000 IT WILL INCREASE REVENUES IN OUR 5418 03:12:37,001 --> 03:12:41,000 LOCAL ECONOMY AND IT WILL INCREASE JOBS. 5419 03:12:41,001 --> 03:12:42,000 THE U.S. IS HOME TO SOME OF THE 5420 03:12:42,001 --> 03:12:44,000 WORLD'S WONDERS, AND THE TRAVEL 5421 03:12:44,001 --> 03:12:46,000 PROMOTION ACT WILL GIVE US THE 5422 03:12:46,001 --> 03:12:48,000 TOOLS WE NEED TO PROMOTE 5423 03:12:48,001 --> 03:12:50,000 UNITED STATES AS A PREER 5424 03:12:50,001 --> 03:12:52,000 TRAVEL DESTINATION. 5425 03:12:52,001 --> 03:12:53,000 AS CHAIR OF THE COMMERCE 5426 03:12:53,001 --> 03:12:55,000 SUBCOMMITTEE THAT INCLUDES 5427 03:12:55,001 --> 03:12:56,000 TOURISM, I'VE SEEN HOW IMPORTANT 5428 03:12:56,001 --> 03:12:59,000 TOURISM IS TO COMMUNITIES, BOTH 5429 03:12:59,001 --> 03:13:02,000 SMALL AND LARGE, ACROSS OUR COUNTRY. 5430 03:13:02,001 --> 03:13:04,000 WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO BOOST 5431 03:13:04,001 --> 03:13:06,000 TRAVEL AND BOOST OUR ECONOMY 5432 03:13:06,001 --> 03:13:08,000 AND WE JUST CAN'T LET THAT GO TO WASTE. 5433 03:13:08,001 --> 03:13:09,000 I'M GLAD THAT 5434 03:13:09,001 --> 03:13:11,000 THIS BILL TODAY. 5435 03:13:11,001 --> 03:13:12,000 I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS VOTE 5436 03:13:12,001 --> 03:13:13,000 AND THE DAYS THAT WE HAVE HERE 5437 03:13:13,001 --> 03:13:15,000 TO FOCUS ON THIS. 5438 03:13:15,001 --> 03:13:16,000 BUT I URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO 5439 03:13:16,001 --> 03:13:17,000 SUPPORT THIS. 5440 03:13:17,001 --> 03:13:18,000 THEY'VE BEEN HOME. 5441 03:13:18,001 --> 03:13:19,000 THEY KNOW THAT PEOPLE ARE CRYING 5442 03:13:19,001 --> 03:13:22,000 OUT FOR JOBS. 5443 03:13:22,001 --> 03:13:24,000 THEY KNOW THAT THIS IS SOMETHING 5444 03:13:24,001 --> 03:13:25,000 AT NO COST TO THE TAXPAYER, 5445 03:13:25,001 --> 03:13:29,000 BIPARTISAN SUPPORT WHICH WILL 5446 03:13:29,001 --> 03:13:32,000 HELP TO GET THRUST. 5447 03:13:32,001 --> 03:13:33,000 LET'S GET THIS DONE. 5448 03:13:33,001 --> 03:13:34,000 THANK YOU VERY MUCH, 5449 03:13:34,001 --> 03:13:35,000 I YIELD THE FLOOR. MR. DORGAN: MR. PRESIDENT? 5450 03:13:35,001 --> 03:13:36,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE SENATOR FROM NORTH DAKOTA. 5451 03:13:36,001 --> 03:13:37,000 MR. DORGAN: MR. PRESIDENT, HOW 5452 03:13:37,001 --> 03:13:38,000 MUCH TIME REMAINS? 5453 03:13:38,001 --> 03:13:40,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: 8 5454 03:13:40,001 --> 03:13:42,000 MINUTES, 15 SECONDS. 5455 03:13:42,001 --> 03:13:44,000 MR. DORGAN: MR. PRESIDENT, FIRST 5456 03:13:44,001 --> 03:13:46,000 OF ALL, LET ME THANK SENATOR 5457 03:13:46,001 --> 03:13:48,000 KLOBUCHAR FOR HER WORK AND SENATOR ENSIGN. 5458 03:13:48,001 --> 03:13:50,000 I THINK THEY'VE SAID WHAT 5459 03:13:50,001 --> 03:13:52,000 TO BE SAID. 5460 03:13:52,001 --> 03:13:54,000 IF 48 MILLION MORE PEOPLE ARE 5461 03:13:54,001 --> 03:13:55,000 NOW TRAVELING INTERNATIONALLY, 5462 03:13:55,001 --> 03:13:59,000 FOREIGN TRAVELERS MOVING AROUND 5463 03:13:59,001 --> 03:14:03,000 THE WORLD, 48 MILLION 5464 03:14:03,001 --> 03:14:04,000 600,000 FEWER 5465 03:14:04,001 --> 03:14:05,000 THE UNITED STATES AS FOREIGN 5466 03:14:05,001 --> 03:14:08,000 TRAVELERS, THEN SOMETHING IS WRONG. 5467 03:14:08,001 --> 03:14:12,000 AND WE NEED TO FIX IT. 5468 03:14:12,001 --> 03:14:13,000 I WANT TO MARKET THIS COUNTRY TO FOREIGN TROOFERLZ SAY, COME TO 5469 03:14:13,001 --> 03:14:15,000 ALL OF AMERICA. 5470 03:14:15,001 --> 03:14:16,000 YES, COME TO THE -- SEE THE 5471 03:14:16,001 --> 03:14:19,000 STATUE OF LIBERTY AND COME TO 5472 03:14:19,001 --> 03:14:21,000 SEE NEW YORK CITY AND ITS 5473 03:14:21,001 --> 03:14:23,000 VIBRANCY AND THE EMPIRE STATE 5474 03:14:23,001 --> 03:14:24,000 BUILDING AND LAS VEGAS AND 5475 03:14:24,001 --> 03:14:26,000 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS IN LOS ANGELES 5476 03:14:26,001 --> 03:14:30,000 AND THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE AND, 5477 03:14:30,001 --> 03:14:32,000 IN MY STATE, THE PEMINAU GORGE, 5478 03:14:32,001 --> 03:14:34,000 THE RED RIVER VALLEY AND THE BADLANDS. 5479 03:14:34,001 --> 03:14:36,000 I MEAN, I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE 5480 03:14:36,001 --> 03:14:38,000 FOREIGN TOURISM COME TO 5481 03:14:38,001 --> 03:14:40,000 EXPERIENCE THE 5482 03:14:40,001 --> 03:14:42,000 CULTURE AND THE VALUES OF ALL OF 5483 03:14:42,001 --> 03:14:43,000 OUR COUNTRY. 5484 03:14:43,001 --> 03:14:45,000 I'VE TOLD THE STORY BEFORE ON 5485 03:14:45,001 --> 03:14:47,000 THE FLOOR OF THE SENATE ABOUT 5486 03:14:47,001 --> 03:14:48,000 THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 5487 03:14:48,001 --> 03:14:51,000 THEODORE ROOSEVELT WAS IN HIS 5488 03:14:51,001 --> 03:14:52,000 HOME IN NEW YORK, WHEN ON THE 5489 03:14:52,001 --> 03:14:54,000 SAME DAY ON DIFFERENT FLOORS OF 5490 03:14:54,001 --> 03:14:57,000 HIS HOME, HIS MOTHER DIED AND 5491 03:14:57,001 --> 03:14:59,000 HIS WIFE DIED. 5492 03:14:59,001 --> 03:15:00,000 IN HIS 5493 03:15:00,001 --> 03:15:01,000 HAD HIS DIARY FOR THAT DAY, 5494 03:15:01,001 --> 03:15:04,000 THERE WAS A BIG MARK. 5495 03:15:04,001 --> 03:15:06,000 THERE IS A 5496 03:15:06,001 --> 03:15:07,000 LOST BOTH HIS WIFE AND HIS 5497 03:15:07,001 --> 03:15:09,000 MOTHER THE SAME DAY, DIFFERENT 5498 03:15:09,001 --> 03:15:10,000 FLOORS OF THIS HOUSE. 5499 03:15:10,001 --> 03:15:12,000 A BROKEN SPIRIT. 5500 03:15:12,001 --> 03:15:14,000 HE WENT TO WHAT IS NOW NORTH 5501 03:15:14,001 --> 03:15:16,000 DAKOTA, WHAT WAS THEN NORTH 5502 03:15:16,001 --> 03:15:17,000 DAKOTA, AND BEGAN TO RANCH IN 5503 03:15:17,001 --> 03:15:20,000 THE BADLANDS OF NORTH DAKOTA, 5504 03:15:20,001 --> 03:15:22,000 WHAT IS NOW THE THEATER 5505 03:15:22,001 --> 03:15:23,000 ROOSEVELT NATIONAL 5506 03:15:23,001 --> 03:15:25,000 I WOULD LOVE TO ENCOURAGE 5507 03:15:25,001 --> 03:15:27,000 FOREIGN TIEFORTS TO COME TO THE 5508 03:15:27,001 --> 03:15:28,000 HEARTLAND OF AMERICA, THE 5509 03:15:28,001 --> 03:15:30,000 NORTHERN GREAT PLAINS, AND SEE 5510 03:15:30,001 --> 03:15:31,000 WHAT RESTORED THE SPIRIT OF 5511 03:15:31,001 --> 03:15:33,000 THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 5512 03:15:33,001 --> 03:15:35,000 WHAT A GREAT WAY TO UNDERSTAND 5513 03:15:35,001 --> 03:15:36,000 AND SEE THE HISTORY AND THE 5514 03:15:36,001 --> 03:15:37,000 CULTURE AND THE VALUES OF THIS 5515 03:15:37,001 --> 03:15:39,000 COUNTRY. 5516 03:15:39,001 --> 03:15:41,000 BUT ISN'T IT INTERESTING -- AND 5517 03:15:41,001 --> 03:15:43,000 ALARMING, I MIGHT SAY -- THAT 48 5518 03:15:43,001 --> 03:15:44,000 MILLION MORE PEOPLE ARE 5519 03:15:44,001 --> 03:15:47,000 TRAVELING AROUND THE WORLD 5520 03:15:47,001 --> 03:15:48,000 FOREIGN TOURISTS AND 600,000 5521 03:15:48,001 --> 03:15:50,000 FEWER ARE TRAVELING IN THE 5522 03:15:50,001 --> 03:15:52,000 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA? 5523 03:15:52,001 --> 03:15:56,000 THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 5524 03:15:56,001 --> 03:15:58,000 WHICH SHOULD IN MY JUDGMENT BE 5525 03:15:58,001 --> 03:15:59,000 "THE" PREMIER DESTINATION FOR 5526 03:15:59,001 --> 03:16:00,000 TRAVEL OF ANYWHERE ON THIS 5527 03:16:00,001 --> 03:16:04,000 EARTH. 5528 03:16:04,001 --> 03:16:05,000 AND YET WE'RE 5529 03:16:05,001 --> 03:16:08,000 633,000 FEWER FOREIGN TRAVELERS 5530 03:16:08,001 --> 03:16:09,000 THAN WE HAD NINE YEARS AGO. 5531 03:16:09,001 --> 03:16:10,000 AND THERE'S SOMETHING 5532 03:16:10,001 --> 03:16:12,000 CONNECTED HERE. 5533 03:16:12,001 --> 03:16:13,000 SO WE PROPOSED TO CONNECT IT 5534 03:16:13,001 --> 03:16:14,000 WITH SOMETHING THAT IS 5535 03:16:14,001 --> 03:16:15,000 BIRTISAN, SOMETHING THAT 5536 03:16:15,001 --> 03:16:17,000 DOESN'T COST MONEY BUT SOMETHING 5537 03:16:17,001 --> 03:16:19,000 THAT IN FACT 5538 03:16:19,001 --> 03:16:21,000 BUDGET DEFICIT, SOMETHING THAT 5539 03:16:21,001 --> 03:16:24,000 CREATES JOBS WHEN WE'VE LOST SO 5540 03:16:24,001 --> 03:16:26,000 MANY JOBS, AND SO TO BE ABLE TO 5541 03:16:26,001 --> 03:16:28,000 DO THAT, WORKING TOGETHER, TO 5542 03:16:28,001 --> 03:16:30,000 SAY HERE'S SOMETHING WE CAN 5543 03:16:30,001 --> 03:16:32,000 AGREE ON, HERE'S SOMETHING THAT 5544 03:16:32,001 --> 03:16:34,000 WE THINK 5545 03:16:34,001 --> 03:16:35,000 ECONOMIC STRENGTH, HERE'S 5546 03:16:35,001 --> 03:16:36,000 SOMETHING BELIEVE WOULD 5547 03:16:36,001 --> 03:16:38,000 CONTRIBUTE TO BUILDING NEW JOBS 5548 03:16:38,001 --> 03:16:40,000 IN OUR COUNTRY, AND, MOST 5549 03:16:40,001 --> 03:16:41,000 IMPORTANTLY FOR ME, 5550 03:16:41,001 --> 03:16:44,000 SOMETHING THAT WHEN PEOPLE COME 5551 03:16:44,001 --> 03:16:46,000 TO OUR COUNTRY AND LEAVE WILL 5552 03:16:46,001 --> 03:16:48,000 ALLOW THEM TO LEAVE AMERICA WITH 5553 03:16:48,001 --> 03:16:50,000 A VERY POSITIVE IMPRESSION ABOUT 5554 03:16:50,001 --> 03:16:53,000 WHO 5555 03:16:53,001 --> 03:16:55,000 AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE, WHAT THEY 5556 03:16:55,001 --> 03:16:57,000 BELIEVE, WHAT THEY PRACTICE. 5557 03:16:57,001 --> 03:17:00,000 I MEAN, THIS IS A REMARKABLE PLACE. 5558 03:17:00,001 --> 03:17:02,000 AND TO COME HERE AND THEN LEAVE 5559 03:17:02,001 --> 03:17:04,000 HERE AND HAVING VISITED AMERICA 5560 03:17:04,001 --> 03:17:05,000 IS TO EXPERIENCE, IN MY 5561 03:17:05,001 --> 03:17:08,000 JUDGMENT, ONE OF THE GREAT 5562 03:17:08,001 --> 03:17:10,000 TRAVEL OPPORTUNITIES ON THIS PLANET. 5563 03:17:10,001 --> 03:17:11,000 AND SO 5564 03:17:11,001 --> 03:17:12,000 PROBLEM AND SEE THAT SOMETHING 5565 03:17:12,001 --> 03:17:13,000 IS NOT WORKING RIGHT, THE 5566 03:17:13,001 --> 03:17:14,000 QUESTION IS HOW DO YOU 5567 03:17:14,001 --> 03:17:20,000 PHILADELPHIA IT? 5568 03:17:20,001 --> 03:17:22,000 I'VE SAID SO OFTEN 5569 03:17:22,001 --> 03:17:24,000 WANT TO SAY IT AGAIN, BECAUSE 5570 03:17:24,001 --> 03:17:27,000 WE'VE HAD SOME OPPOSITION 5571 03:17:27,001 --> 03:17:28,000 THINK MISCHARACTERIZES IT, BUT 5572 03:17:28,001 --> 03:17:30,000 MARK TWAIN WHEN ASKED IF HE 5573 03:17:30,001 --> 03:17:33,000 WOULD ENGAGE 5574 03:17:33,001 --> 03:17:35,000 WAS BEING 5575 03:17:35,001 --> 03:17:36,000 COURSE AS LONG AS I CAN TAKE THE 5576 03:17:36,001 --> 03:17:37,000 NEGATIVE SIDE. 5577 03:17:37,001 --> 03:17:38,000 BUT WE HAVEN'T TOLD WHAT YOU THE 5578 03:17:38,001 --> 03:17:39,000 SUBJECT IS. 5579 03:17:39,001 --> 03:17:41,000 OH, IT DOESN'T MATTER. 5580 03:17:41,001 --> 03:17:42,000 THE 5581 03:17:42,001 --> 03:17:43,000 PREPARATION AT AWVMENT SO IT IS 5582 03:17:43,001 --> 03:17:44,000 WITH LEGISLATION. 5583 03:17:44,001 --> 03:17:46,000 IT IS SO MUCH EASIER WITH NO 5584 03:17:46,001 --> 03:17:47,000 PREPARATION TO COME AND SAY, I'M 5585 03:17:47,001 --> 03:17:48,000 OPPOSED IT THIS. 5586 03:17:48,001 --> 03:17:49,000 I DON'T SUPPORT THIS. 5587 03:17:49,001 --> 03:17:51,000 THIS WON'T WORK. 5588 03:17:51,001 --> 03:17:53,000 YOU KNOW, BUT THE FACT IS THOSE 5589 03:17:53,001 --> 03:17:55,000 WHO ARE CREATING, TRYING 5590 03:17:55,001 --> 03:17:57,000 WAYS TO SOLVE PROBLEMS AND IN 5591 03:17:57,001 --> 03:18:00,000 THIS CASE FINDING A WAY TO SOLVE 5592 03:18:00,001 --> 03:18:02,000 A PROBLEMHAT I THINK HURTS 5593 03:18:02,001 --> 03:18:04,000 THIS COUNTRY, THAT IS LOSING OUR 5594 03:18:04,001 --> 03:18:06,000 SHARE OF INTERNATIONAL TOURISM 5595 03:18:06,001 --> 03:18:07,000 AT A TIME WHEN MORE PEOPLE ARE 5596 03:18:07,001 --> 03:18:09,000 TRAVELING AROUND THE WORLD, 5597 03:18:09,001 --> 03:18:10,000 FINDING FEWER PEOPLE TRAVELING 5598 03:18:10,001 --> 03:18:12,000 TO OUR COUNTRY, THAT'S A PROBLEM. 5599 03:18:12,001 --> 03:18:15,000 AND WE CAN FIX THAT IN A WAY 5600 03:18:15,001 --> 03:18:16,000 THAT DOESN 5601 03:18:16,001 --> 03:18:18,000 INCREASE THE FEDERAL BUDGET 5602 03:18:18,001 --> 03:18:20,000 DEFICIT, BUT ATTRACTS MORE 5603 03:18:20,001 --> 03:18:21,000 PEOPLE TO THIS COUNTRY, CREATES 5604 03:18:21,001 --> 03:18:22,000 MORE JOBS. 5605 03:18:22,001 --> 03:18:23,000 WHAT A REMARKABLE PIECE OF 5606 03:18:23,001 --> 03:18:24,000 LEGISLATION THAT I THINK IS A 5607 03:18:24,001 --> 03:18:25,000 GOOD INVESTMENT IN THE FUTURE OF 5608 03:18:25,001 --> 03:18:27,000 THISOUNTRY. 5609 03:18:27,001 --> 03:18:29,000 WE'VE A LOT TO BE PROUD BEFORE 5610 03:18:29,001 --> 03:18:31,000 THIS COUNTRY, ALL OF US, AND WE 5611 03:18:31,001 --> 03:18:33,000 TAKE IT FOR GRNTSED EVERY DID I 5612 03:18:33,001 --> 03:18:34,000 -- FOR GRANTED EVERY DAY BECAUSE 5613 03:18:34,001 --> 03:18:37,000 WE WAKE UP IN THIS COUNTRY. 5614 03:18:37,001 --> 03:18:40,000 BUT WE WANT TO SHOW IT OFF TO 5615 03:18:40,001 --> 03:18:42,000 FOREIGN VISITORS AND SINCE 5616 03:18:42,001 --> 03:18:44,000 THERE'S BEEN A NOTION THAT -- 5617 03:18:44,001 --> 03:18:45,000 AND SIN 5618 03:18:45,001 --> 03:18:46,000 NOTION THAT IT'S HARDER TO COME 5619 03:18:46,001 --> 03:18:47,000 TO AMERICA. 5620 03:18:47,001 --> 03:18:49,000 IT'S NOT A HASSLE. 5621 03:18:49,001 --> 03:18:52,000 WE INVITE YOU T COME HE, COME 5622 03:18:52,001 --> 03:18:53,000 HERE AND EXPERIENCE. 5623 03:18:53,001 --> 03:18:55,000 HERE'S WHAT WE SEE IN "THE 5624 03:18:55,001 --> 03:18:57,000 SYDNEY MORNING HERALD," "COMING 5625 03:18:57,001 --> 03:19:01,000 TO AMERICA ISN'T EASY." 5626 03:19:01,001 --> 03:19:03,000 IN "THE 5627 03:19:03,001 --> 03:19:06,000 MORE HASSLE THAN IT'S 5628 03:19:06,001 --> 03:19:11,000 "THE SUNDAY TIMES," "TRAVEL TO AMERICA? 5629 03:19:11,001 --> 03:19:12,000 NO THAIFNTLE" THESE HEADLINES. 5630 03:19:12,001 --> 03:19:15,000 WE WANT TO SAY, THIS COUNTRY HAS 5631 03:19:15,001 --> 03:19:16,000 A WELCOME MAT OUT FOR YOU. 5632 03:19:16,001 --> 03:19:17,000 COME HERE RS EXPERIENCE WHAT WE 5633 03:19:17,001 --> 03:19:20,000 HAVE FOR YOU IN AMERICA. 5634 03:19:20,001 --> 03:19:21,000 WENVITE YOU TO BE PART 5635 03:19:21,001 --> 03:19:22,000 WE WANT YOU TO COME TO THE 5636 03:19:22,001 --> 03:19:23,000 UNITED STATES OF AMERIC WHEN 5637 03:19:23,001 --> 03:19:24,000 YOU'RE TRAVELING 5638 03:19:24,001 --> 03:19:25,000 INTERNATIONALLY. THAT'S WHAT THIS LEGISLATION IS 5639 03:19:25,001 --> 03:19:26,000 ABOUT. 5640 03:19:26,001 --> 03:19:28,000 THIS IS NOT ECONOMY INDICATED. 5641 03:19:28,001 --> 03:19:30,000 IT IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO. 5642 03:19:30,001 --> 03:19:31,000 IT IS THE REASON THERE ARE SO 5643 03:19:31,001 --> 03:19:32,000 MANY DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS 5644 03:19:32,001 --> 03:19:33,000 WHO HAVE JOINED TOGETHER IN 5645 03:19:33,001 --> 03:19:34,000 SOMETHING WE THINK WILL 5646 03:19:34,001 --> 03:19:35,000 STRENGTHEN THIS COUNTRY. 5647 03:19:35,001 --> 03:19:36,000 MR. PRESIDENT, I Y 5648 03:19:36,001 --> 03:19:49,000 AND RESERVE THE BALANCE OF MY 5649 03:19:49,001 --> 03:19:50,000 MR. ENSIGN: MR. PRESIDENT? THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 5650 03:19:50,001 --> 03:19:52,000 SENATOR FROM NEVADA. 5651 03:19:52,001 --> 03:19:53,000 MR. ENSIGN: MR. PRESIDENT, 5652 03:19:53,001 --> 03:19:56,000 JUST A COUPL OTHER POINTS 5653 03:19:56,001 --> 03:19:59,000 BEFORE THE VOTE THAT 5654 03:19:59,001 --> 03:20:00,000 MAKE. 5655 03:20:00,001 --> 03:20:02,000 SOME FOLKS HAVE QUESTIONED WHY 5656 03:20:02,001 --> 03:20:03,000 WE NEED THE TRAVELROMOTION 5657 03:20:03,001 --> 03:20:05,000 ACT. 5658 03:20:05,001 --> 03:20:07,000 THEY SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, TOURISM 5659 03:20:07,001 --> 03:20:10,000 WILL TAKE CARE OF ITSELF AND 5660 03:20:10,001 --> 03:20:12,000 THAT THIS IS NOT A ROLE FOR THE 5661 03:20:12,001 --> 03:20:15,000 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 5662 03:20:15,001 --> 03:20:18,000 ONE OF THE REASONS I REMBER 5663 03:20:18,001 --> 03:20:20,000 FOR YEARS WHY I WANTED TO GO TO 5664 03:20:20,001 --> 03:20:21,000 AUSTRALIA WAS BECAU 5665 03:20:21,001 --> 03:20:24,000 ADVERTISED IN THE UNITED STATES, 5666 03:20:24,001 --> 03:20:26,000 TALKING ABOUT THE VARIOUS 5667 03:20:26,001 --> 03:20:28,000 PLACES, WHETHER IT WAS THE GREAT 5668 03:20:28,001 --> 03:20:30,000 BARRIER REEF AND THE CUBE ABOUT 5669 03:20:30,001 --> 03:20:32,000 A DIVE, S 5670 03:20:32,001 --> 03:20:34,000 WORLD, OR SHOWING SYDNEY AN 5671 03:20:34,001 --> 03:20:36,000 SOME OF THE SIGHTS OF SYDNEY 5672 03:20:36,001 --> 03:20:38,000 AUSTRALIA OR CARE YAWS OTHER -- 5673 03:20:38,001 --> 03:20:40,000 THE GORGEOUS BEACHES THEY HAVE IN AUSTRALIA. 5674 03:20:40,001 --> 03:20:43,000 BUT THE UNITED STATES AND OUR 5675 03:20:43,001 --> 03:20:47,000 RESOURCES HERE ARE SO VAST FOR 5676 03:20:47,001 --> 03:20:49,000 PEOPLE TO COME AND SEE, TO 5677 03:20:49,001 --> 03:20:50,000 TELL FOLKS OF T 5678 03:20:50,001 --> 03:20:52,000 HAVE HERE AND -- OR TO REMIND 5679 03:20:52,001 --> 03:20:54,000 THEM OF WHAT WE HAVE, I THINK, 5680 03:20:54,001 --> 03:20:57,000 IS A DIS 5681 03:20:57,001 --> 03:20:59,000 BECAUSE IF WE REMIND THEM, IF WE 5682 03:20:59,001 --> 03:21:03,000 SHOWED THEM THE PICTURES, AND 5683 03:21:03,001 --> 03:21:04,000 WHETHER IN BROCHURES OR IN 5684 03:21:04,001 --> 03:21:06,000 INTERNET ADVERTISING OR IN 5685 03:21:06,001 --> 03:21:10,000 TELEVISION ADVERTISING, WHATEVER 5686 03:21:10,001 --> 03:21:12,000 THE ADVERTISING MEDIA THAT WE 5687 03:21:12,001 --> 03:21:13,000 CHOOSE, WE WILL ATTRACT PEOPLE 5688 03:21:13,001 --> 03:21:15,000 HERE. 5689 03:21:15,001 --> 03:21:17,000 THERE'S NO 5690 03:21:17,001 --> 03:21:19,000 OF FOLKS AROUND THE WOR WOULD 5691 03:21:19,001 --> 03:21:22,000 LOVE TO VISIT THE UNITED STATES. 5692 03:21:22,001 --> 03:21:25,000 IT MAY JUST TAKE A 5693 03:21:25,001 --> 03:21:27,000 PRODDING, A LITTLE SPARK TO T 5694 03:21:27,001 --> 03:21:28,000 THEM TO REALIZE THAT, YOUNOW, 5695 03:21:28,001 --> 03:21:30,000 THAT IS SOMEPLACE I WANTED TO GO. 5696 03:21:30,001 --> 03:21:32,000 I THOUGHT ABOUT THAT. 5697 03:21:32,001 --> 03:21:33,000 HEY, HONEY, LET'S TAKE THE KIDS. 5698 03:21:33,001 --> 03:21:35,000 LET'S GO TO AMERICA. 5699 03:21:35,001 --> 03:21:36,000 LET'S SEE SOME OF THE INCREDIBLE 5700 03:21:36,001 --> 03:21:37,000 SIGHTS. 5701 03:21:37,001 --> 03:21:38,000 WE HAVE HARDER ABOUT THE GRAND 5702 03:21:38,001 --> 03:21:40,000 CANYON. WE'VE HEARD ABOUT SOME OF THE 5703 03:21:40,001 --> 03:21:41,000 NATIONAL PARKS THAT ARE THERE. 5704 03:21:41,001 --> 03:21:43,000 WE'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO SEE 5705 03:21:43,001 --> 03:21:44,000 WASHINGTON, D.C., AND SEE THE 5706 03:21:44,001 --> 03:21:45,000 CAPITOL, THAT BEACON OF 5707 03:21:45,001 --> 03:21:48,000 DEMOCRACY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. 5708 03:21:48,001 --> 03:21:50,000 LET'S 5709 03:21:50,001 --> 03:21:52,000 OF THINGS WE HAVE HERE IN NEW 5710 03:21:52,001 --> 03:21:53,000 YORK CITY, 5711 03:21:53,001 --> 03:21:56,000 HERE, NOT ONLY WILL THEY BRING 5712 03:21:56,001 --> 03:21:58,000 THEIR MONEY AND CREATE JOBS, BUT 5713 03:21:58,001 --> 03:21:59,000 I BELIEVE, VERY IMPORTANTLY, 5714 03:21:59,001 --> 03:22:00,000 PEOPLE WILL COME AWAY FROM 5715 03:22:00,001 --> 03:22:02,000 AMERICA WITH A 5716 03:22:02,001 --> 03:22:04,000 ATTITUDE 5717 03:22:04,001 --> 03:22:08,000 THEY'LL COME AWAY WITH TALKING 5718 03:22:08,001 --> 03:22:09,000 ABOUT AN AMERICA THAT IS -- IT'S 5719 03:22:09,001 --> 03:22:11,000 DIFFERENT THAN MAYBE THEY GET 5720 03:22:11,001 --> 03:22:13,000 TOLD ABOUT IN 5721 03:22:13,001 --> 03:22:15,000 IF YOU ARE IN EUROPE AND OTHER 5722 03:22:15,001 --> 03:22:16,000 PLACES IN THE WORLD, THEIR NEWS 5723 03:22:16,001 --> 03:22:17,000 MEDIA ISN'T NECESSARILY KIND TO 5724 03:22:17,001 --> 03:22:19,000 THE UNITED STATES. 5725 03:22:19,001 --> 03:22:21,000 BUT WHEN PEOPLE COME HERE 5726 03:22:21,001 --> 03:22:23,000 THEY MEET AMERICANS, AND THEY 5727 03:22:23,001 --> 03:22:24,000 SEE OUR PLACES THAT WE HAVE AND 5728 03:22:24,001 --> 03:22:26,000 THEY LERNER SOME OF THE HISTORY 5729 03:22:26,001 --> 03:22:28,000 OF OUR COUNTRY, 5730 03:22:28,001 --> 03:22:30,000 WITH A DIFFERENT ATTITUDE. 5731 03:22:30,001 --> 03:22:32,000 AND THAT'S IMPORTANT TODAY WHEN 5732 03:22:32,001 --> 03:22:34,000 AMERICA NEEDS FRIENDS IN THE WORLD. 5733 03:22:34,001 --> 03:22:35,000 SO, MR. PRESIDENT, I BELIEVE 5734 03:22:35,001 --> 03:22:37,000 THIS LEGISLATION IS IMPORTANT, 5735 03:22:37,001 --> 03:22:39,000 NOT ONLY FOR THE JOBS THAT IT 5736 03:22:39,001 --> 03:22:42,000 WILL CREATE BUT FOR AMERICA'S 5737 03:22:42,001 --> 03:22:44,000 IMAGE IN THE WORLD, AND THIS 5738 03:22:44,001 --> 03:22:45,000 LEGISLATION REALLY IS NEEDED AT 5739 03:22:45,001 --> 03:22:48,000 THIS POINT. 5740 03:22:48,001 --> 03:22:57,000 ONE OF THE PROBLEMS IN THE PAST, 5741 03:22:57,001 --> 03:22:59,000 BACK IN 1996 W WE 5742 03:22:59,001 --> 03:23:00,000 THAT WAS ABOUT -- WE ELIMINATE 5743 03:23:00,001 --> 03:23:01,000 ADD PROGRAM THAT WAS ABOUT 5744 03:23:01,001 --> 03:23:02,000 TRAVEL IN THE UNITED STATES. 5745 03:23:02,001 --> 03:23:03,000 WE'VE HAD PRIVATE PROGRAMS AND 5746 03:23:03,001 --> 03:23:04,000 PUBLIC PROGRAMS AND NEITHER ONE 5747 03:23:04,001 --> 03:23:06,000 OF THEM WORKED VERY WELL, JUST 5748 03:23:06,001 --> 03:23:07,000 ON THEIR OWN. 5749 03:23:07,001 --> 03:23:08,000 PRIVATELY BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T 5750 03:23:08,001 --> 03:23:10,000 GET THE FUNDING NECESSARY. 5751 03:23:10,001 --> 03:23:12,000 ON THE PUBLIC SIDE, IT WAS 5752 03:23:12,001 --> 03:23:13,000 BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT DOESN'T 5753 03:23:13,001 --> 03:23:16,000 RUN THOSE THINGS VERY WELL. 5754 03:23:16,001 --> 03:23:17,000 THIS IS A PUBLIC-PRIVATE 5755 03:23:17,001 --> 03:23:18,000 PARTNERSHIP THAT I BELIEVE CAN 5756 03:23:18,001 --> 03:23:20,000 WORK, AND THAT'S THE REASON THAT 5757 03:23:20,001 --> 03:23:23,000 I'M SUPPORTING THIS. 5758 03:23:23,001 --> 03:23:24,000 IT IS THE REASON THAT I THINK 5759 03:23:24,001 --> 03:23:25,000 PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP, SOME 5760 03:23:25,001 --> 03:23:28,000 OF THE PUBLIC FUNDING MATCHED 5761 03:23:28,001 --> 03:23:31,000 WITH THE PRIVATE 5762 03:23:31,001 --> 03:23:32,000 WITH THE PRIVATE'S EXPERTISE, 5763 03:23:32,001 --> 03:23:34,000 CAN BRING MORE TOURISTS TO THE 5764 03:23:34,001 --> 03:23:39,000 UNITED STATES. 5765 03:23:39,001 --> 03:23:41,000 SENATOR KLOBUCHAR MENTIONED THAT 5766 03:23:41,001 --> 03:23:42,000 1.6 TO 5767 03:23:42,001 --> 03:23:44,000 WILL COME TO THE UNITED STATES 5768 03:23:44,001 --> 03:23:47,000 BECAUSE OF THIS LEGISLATION. 5769 03:23:47,001 --> 03:23:48,000 THAT CREATES A LOT OF JOBS. 5770 03:23:48,001 --> 03:23:50,000 THAT BRINGS A LOT OF REVENUE. 5771 03:23:50,001 --> 03:23:53,000 THAT ALSO CREATES A LOT MORE 5772 03:23:53,001 --> 03:23:54,000 PEOPLE THAT HAVE VFTED HER WHO 5773 03:23:54,001 --> 03:23:56,000 WILL -- THAT HAVE VISITED HERE 5774 03:23:56,001 --> 03:23:57,000 WHO WILL GO BACK AND TALK 5775 03:23:57,001 --> 03:23:59,000 POSITIVELY ABOUT THE UNITED 5776 03:23:59,001 --> 03:24:01,000 STATES BECAUSE THE VAST MAJORITY 5777 03:24:01,001 --> 03:24:03,000 OF OUR PEOPLE -- I BELIEVE IN 5778 03:24:03,001 --> 03:24:04,000 THE COUNTRY, I BELIEVE IN THE 5779 03:24:04,001 --> 03:24:05,000 GOOD INFORMS OUR COUNTRY. 5780 03:24:05,001 --> 03:24:06,000 WHEN THEY ARE EXPOSED TO THAT I 5781 03:24:06,001 --> 03:24:08,000 BELIEVE THEY WILL GO HOME AND 5782 03:24:08,001 --> 03:24:09,000 TALK ABOUT THE GOODNESS OF NOT 5783 03:24:09,001 --> 03:24:10,000 ONLY OUR COUNTRY BUT THE 5784 03:24:10,001 --> 03:24:13,000 GOODNESS OF THE PEOPLE HERE IN THE UNITED STATES. 5785 03:24:13,001 --> 03:24:14,000 SO, 5786 03:24:14,001 --> 03:24:15,000 MR. DORGAN: WILL THE SENATOR 5787 03:24:15,001 --> 03:24:16,000 YIELD FOR A QUESTION? 5788 03:24:16,001 --> 03:24:17,000 MR. ENSIGN: I WOULD BE HAPPY 5789 03:24:17,001 --> 03:24:20,000 TO YIELD. 5790 03:24:20,001 --> 03:24:22,000 MR. DOAN: 5791 03:24:22,001 --> 03:24:24,000 REID ALONG WITH SENATOR ENSIGN 5792 03:24:24,001 --> 03:24:25,000 HAS PLAYED A SIGNIFICANT ROLE ON 5793 03:24:25,001 --> 03:24:26,000 WORKING ON THIS LEGISLATION. 5794 03:24:26,001 --> 03:24:27,000 THAT'S IMPORTANT TO MENTION. 5795 03:24:27,001 --> 03:24:30,000 OBVIOUSLY BOTH COME FROM A STATE 5796 03:24:30,001 --> 03:24:32,000 THAT RELIES A GREAT DEAL ON TOURISM. I DON'T. 5797 03:24:32,001 --> 03:24:33,000 MY STATE -- TOURISM IS SECOND IN 5798 03:24:33,001 --> 03:24:35,000 OUR STATE. 5799 03:24:35,001 --> 03:24:39,000 IT'S -- IT PLAYS VEA LARGE ROLE 5800 03:24:39,001 --> 03:24:42,000 IN EVERY STATE BUT WE DON'T HAVE 5801 03:24:42,001 --> 03:24:43,000 THE MECCA OF TOURISM AS PERHAPS 5802 03:24:43,001 --> 03:24:45,000 LAS VEGAS, R EXAMPLE. 5803 03:24:45,001 --> 03:24:47,000 ON THE OTHER HAND, THE SENATOR 5804 03:24:47,001 --> 03:24:48,000 EARLY ON TALKED ABOUT HOW 5805 03:24:48,001 --> 03:24:49,000 COMPANIES ADVERTISE BECAUSE 5806 03:24:49,001 --> 03:24:50,000 ADVERTISING WORKS. 5807 03:24:50,001 --> 03:24:51,000 AND IT IS THE CASE, IT SEEMS TO 5808 03:24:51,001 --> 03:24:54,000 ME, THAT COMPANIES ADVERTISE ON 5809 03:24:54,001 --> 03:24:55,000 BEHALF OF THEIR COMPANY. 5810 03:24:55,001 --> 03:24:56,000 AND I JUST DESCRIBED 5811 03:24:56,001 --> 03:24:58,000 CIRCUMSTANCES OF SHOWING YOU 5812 03:24:58,001 --> 03:25:00,000 THAT THERE A VERY AGGRESSIVE 5813 03:25:00,001 --> 03:25:05,000 EFFORTS OUT THERE FOR COUNTRIES 5814 03:25:05,001 --> 03:25:06,000 TO ADVERTISE ON COUNTRIES. 5815 03:25:06,001 --> 03:25:07,000 SAYING COME TO I THINKLY, 5816 03:25:07,001 --> 03:25:09,000 EXPERIENCE WHAT ITALY HAS TO OFFER. 5817 03:25:09,001 --> 03:25:11,000 COME TO FRANCE, COME TO I 5818 03:25:11,001 --> 03:25:13,000 UNDERSTAND YAVMENT AND SO THE -- 5819 03:25:13,001 --> 03:25:15,000 COME TO FRANCE, COME TO 5820 03:25:15,001 --> 03:25:16,000 AND SO THE COUNTRIES ARE VERY AGRESSSIVE. 5821 03:25:16,001 --> 03:25:17,000 IF Y'RE THINKING ABOUT 5822 03:25:17,001 --> 03:25:19,000 TRAVELING AROUND THE PLANET, 5823 03:25:19,001 --> 03:25:20,000 THINK ABOUT THIS. 5824 03:25:20,001 --> 03:25:22,000 CO TO SEE THE EIFFEL 5825 03:25:22,001 --> 03:25:25,000 WE ARE A JUST NOT INVOLVED IN 5826 03:25:25,001 --> 03:25:26,000 TRYING TO REACH OUT TO PEOPLE TO 5827 03:25:26,001 --> 03:25:28,000 SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT? 5828 03:25:28,001 --> 03:25:29,000 YOU'RE WELCOME IN THIS COUNTRY. 5829 03:25:29,001 --> 03:25:30,000 YOU'VE GOT SO MUCH TO OFFER, SO 5830 03:25:30,001 --> 03:25:33,000 MUCH TO SEE. 5831 03:25:33,001 --> 03:25:35,000 WE WANT YOU TO COME HERE TO 5832 03:25:35,001 --> 03:25:37,000 IT IS THE CASE IT SEEMS TO ME 5833 03:25:37,001 --> 03:25:38,000 THAT WHEN THE SENATOR FROM 5834 03:25:38,001 --> 03:25:41,000 NEVADA SAID, COMPANIES ADVERTISE. 5835 03:25:41,001 --> 03:25:42,000 THIS CREATES A 5836 03:25:42,001 --> 03:25:44,000 PARTNERSHIP IN WHICH OUR COUNTRY 5837 03:25:44,001 --> 03:25:46,000 WILL ADVERTISE TO THE WORLD TO 5838 03:25:46,001 --> 03:25:47,000 SAY, COME TO AMERICA. 5839 03:25:47,001 --> 03:25:50,000 I MEAN, ISN'T THAT THE CASE WITH 5840 03:25:50,001 --> 03:25:54,000 RESPECT TO ADVERTISING OF 5841 03:25:54,001 --> 03:25:55,000 MR. ENSIGN: I WOULD SAY TO MY 5842 03:25:55,001 --> 03:25:56,000 FRIEND FROM NORTH DAKOTA, IT IS 5843 03:25:56,001 --> 03:25:57,000 ABSOLUTELY THE CASE. 5844 03:25:57,001 --> 03:25:58,000 IT HAS BEEN PROVEN TIMED AND 5845 03:25:58,001 --> 03:25:59,000 TIME AGAIN. 5846 03:25:59,001 --> 03:26:00,000 AS A MATTER OF FACT, T COUNTRIES, I DON'T BELIEVE, 5847 03:26:00,001 --> 03:26:03,000 WOULD CONTINUE TO SPEND THE 5848 03:26:03,001 --> 03:26:06,000 MONEY IF IT 5849 03:26:06,001 --> 03:26:07,000 THAT'S 5850 03:26:07,001 --> 03:26:08,000 WOULDN'T CONTINUE TO SPEND THE 5851 03:26:08,001 --> 03:26:10,000 MONEY IF THEIR ADVERTISING 5852 03:26:10,001 --> 03:26:12,000 DOLLARS WEREN'T WORKING TO BRING 5853 03:26:12,001 --> 03:26:19,000 MORE PEOPLE, FOR INSTANCE, TO 5854 03:26:19,001 --> 03:26:21,000 VYIN 5855 03:26:21,001 --> 03:26:22,000 MOST AMERICANS HAVE HEARD THE 5856 03:26:22,001 --> 03:26:25,000 ADVERTISING -- THE 5857 03:26:25,001 --> 03:26:30,000 "WHAT HAPPENS IN VAGUE AS STAYS 5858 03:26:30,001 --> 03:26:33,000 I 5859 03:26:33,001 --> 03:26:34,000 IT IS THE SIGHTS AND SOUNDS. 5860 03:26:34,001 --> 03:26:35,000 EVERYTHING THAT ATTRACTS PEOPLE 5861 03:26:35,001 --> 03:26:36,000 TO COME. 5862 03:26:36,001 --> 03:26:38,000 IF A COUNTRY ADVERTISES LIKE THE 5863 03:26:38,001 --> 03:26:40,000 UNITED STATES -- IF WE 5864 03:26:40,001 --> 03:26:41,000 ADVERTISE, WE HAVE THE DWRSTY OF 5865 03:26:41,001 --> 03:26:44,000 TYPES OF THINGS THAT WE CAN -- 5866 03:26:44,001 --> 03:26:46,000 THE DIVERSITY OF TYPES OF THINGS 5867 03:26:46,001 --> 03:26:49,000 THAT WE CAN DO BRING PEOPLE HERE. 5868 03:26:49,001 --> 03:26:50,000 IF THEY COME TO 5869 03:26:50,001 --> 03:26:53,000 CANYON, MOST PEOPLE WILL ALSO 5870 03:26:53,001 --> 03:26:55,000 GOES TO CALIFORNIA OR LAS VEGAS 5871 03:26:55,001 --> 03:26:57,000 SOMEPLACE ELSE. 5872 03:26:57,001 --> 03:26:59,000 SO WHEN WE -- WHEN FOLKS COME 5873 03:26:59,001 --> 03:27:00,000 FROM OVERSEAS, THEY USUALLY 5874 03:27:00,001 --> 03:27:02,000 DON'T JUST 5875 03:27:02,001 --> 03:27:04,000 THEY COME TO SEVERAL PLACES. 5876 03:27:04,001 --> 03:27:06,000 SO WE CAN -- IT'S ALMOST LIKE 5877 03:27:06,001 --> 03:27:08,000 THE DISNEY EFFECT. 5878 03:27:08,001 --> 03:27:11,000 THE MIC CASTLE -- OKAY? 5879 03:27:11,001 --> 03:27:13,000 THE MAGIC 5880 03:27:13,001 --> 03:27:15,000 IN, BUT AS THEY DREW PEOPLE IN 5881 03:27:15,001 --> 03:27:16,000 THROUGH MAIN STREET, GUESS WHAT? 5882 03:27:16,001 --> 03:27:18,000 MAIN STREET BENEFITED. 5883 03:27:18,001 --> 03:27:20,000 IF WE DRAW PEOPLE 5884 03:27:20,001 --> 03:27:21,000 OF THE ICONIC PLACES THAT WE 5885 03:27:21,001 --> 03:27:24,000 HAVE IN THE UNITED STATES, OTHER 5886 03:27:24,001 --> 03:27:25,000 PLACES AROUND THE COUNTRY WILL 5887 03:27:25,001 --> 03:27:27,000 BENEFIT. 5888 03:27:27,001 --> 03:27:29,000 AND THAT'S WHY A NATIONAL 5889 03:27:29,001 --> 03:27:30,000 ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN, I BELIEVE, 5890 03:27:30,001 --> 03:27:31,000 IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR THIS 5891 03:27:31,001 --> 03:27:32,000 COUNTRY. 5892 03:27:32,001 --> 03:27:34,000 MR. DORGAN: MR. PRESIDENT, IF 5893 03:27:34,001 --> 03:27:36,000 THE SENATOR WOULD YIELD FURTHER, 5894 03:27:36,001 --> 03:27:38,000 THE FACT IS WE'RE LOSING -- 5895 03:27:38,001 --> 03:27:42,000 WE'VE LOST A LOT O JOBS IN THE 5896 03:27:42,001 --> 03:27:44,000 EPEST DEPRESSIO RECESSION SINCE THE GREAT DEPRESSION. 5897 03:27:44,001 --> 03:27:45,000 ALL OF US 5898 03:27:45,001 --> 03:27:47,000 PE 5899 03:27:47,001 --> 03:27:48,000 THERE'S NOT GOING TO BE SOME BIG 5900 03:27:48,001 --> 03:27:52,000 BANG THEORY. 5901 03:27:52,001 --> 03:27:53,000 WE CAN DO THIS 5902 03:27:53,001 --> 03:27:56,000 WE SHOULD. 5903 03:27:56,001 --> 03:27:58,000 WE NEED MANUFACTURING TOURISM. 5904 03:27:58,001 --> 03:28:00,000 TOURISM IS A SIGNIFICANT JOB CREATOR. 5905 03:28:00,001 --> 03:28:02,000 IT IS NOT SOME BIG HOTEL IN MOST CASES. 5906 03:28:02,001 --> 03:28:03,000 IT IS A SMALL 5907 03:28:03,001 --> 03:28:06,000 THAT'S STRUGGLING TO MAKE A 5908 03:28:06,001 --> 03:28:08,000 LIVING, RUNNING A HOTEL AT SOME 5909 03:28:08,001 --> 03:28:09,000 ATRAFNTLE SO IT IS A LOT OF 5910 03:28:09,001 --> 03:28:10,000 SMALL BUSINESSES, RENTAL CARS 5911 03:28:10,001 --> 03:28:11,000 AND SO ON. 5912 03:28:11,001 --> 03:28:13,000 THAT'S WHY WE HAVE SUCH FAITH 5913 03:28:13,001 --> 03:28:15,000 THAT IF WE DO WHAT WE SAY WE CAN 5914 03:28:15,001 --> 03:28:18,000 DO IN THIS LEGISLATION, WE'LL 5915 03:28:18,001 --> 03:28:23,000 PUT A LOT OF PEOPLE BACK TWORK. 5916 03:28:23,001 --> 03:28:24,000 -- BACK TO WORK. 5917 03:28:24,001 --> 03:28:25,000 MS. KLOBUCHAR: IF THE SENATOR 5918 03:28:25,001 --> 03:28:27,000 WOULD YIELD 5919 03:28:27,001 --> 03:28:28,000 EN YES, I YIELD. 5920 03:28:28,001 --> 03:28:30,000 MS. KLOBUCHAR: AS SENATOR 5921 03:28:30,001 --> 03:28:32,000 DORGAN WAS JUST DISCUSSING, IT 5922 03:28:32,001 --> 03:28:33,000 SEEM 5923 03:28:33,001 --> 03:28:35,000 ALWAYS THINK ABOUT THE RIPPLE 5924 03:28:35,001 --> 03:28:37,000 EFFECT OF THESE. 5925 03:28:37,001 --> 03:28:38,000 NEVADA HAS SUFFERED BECAUSE OF 5926 03:28:38,001 --> 03:28:39,000 SOME OF THE ECONOMIC DOWNTURN 5927 03:28:39,001 --> 03:28:41,000 HERE WITH TOURISM. 5928 03:28:41,001 --> 03:28:42,000 COULD YOU TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU'VE 5929 03:28:42,001 --> 03:28:44,000 SEEN IN TERMS OF OTHER 5930 03:28:44,001 --> 03:28:46,000 BUSINESSES THAT HAVE LOST 5931 03:28:46,001 --> 03:28:47,000 BUSINESS WHEN WE DON'T PROMOTE 5932 03:28:47,001 --> 03:28:48,000 TOURISM LIK 5933 03:28:48,001 --> 03:28:50,000 BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING 5934 03:28:50,001 --> 03:28:51,000 THAT PEOPLE DON'T ALWAYS ABOUT. 5935 03:28:51,001 --> 03:28:53,000 THEY THINK ABOUT THE BIG 5936 03:28:53,001 --> 03:28:55,000 AICIALTION THE 5937 03:28:55,001 --> 03:28:56,000 THEY DON'T THINK ABOUT THE 5938 03:28:56,001 --> 03:28:57,000 RIPPLE EFFECT ON SOME OF THE 5939 03:28:57,001 --> 03:28:58,000 OTHER JOBS THAT MATTER IN THIS 5940 03:28:58,001 --> 03:29:01,000 COUNTRY. 5941 03:29:01,001 --> 03:29:03,000 MR. ENSIGN: TOURISM, BEING 5942 03:29:03,001 --> 03:29:04,000 SUCH -- I THIN THANK THE SENATOR FOR 5943 03:29:04,001 --> 03:29:06,000 HER QUESTION. 5944 03:29:06,001 --> 03:29:09,000 TOURISM BEING SUCH A HUGE PART 5945 03:29:09,001 --> 03:29:12,000 OF OUR ECONOMY TODAY, IF THE 5946 03:29:12,001 --> 03:29:13,000 PERSON WHO'S WORKING IN THE 5947 03:29:13,001 --> 03:29:17,000 TOURISM INDUSTRY -- FOR 5948 03:29:17,001 --> 03:29:18,000 INSTANCE, SOMEBODY CLEANING THE 5949 03:29:18,001 --> 03:29:20,000 HOTEL ROOMS -- IF THEY DON'T 5950 03:29:20,001 --> 03:29:21,000 HAVE THAT JOB, THEY DON'T HAVE 5951 03:29:21,001 --> 03:29:22,000 THAT MONEY TO BE ABLE TO GO 5952 03:29:22,001 --> 03:29:24,000 TO A FAST-FOOD RESTAURANT OR GO 5953 03:29:24,001 --> 03:29:25,000 TO A STORE TO BUY CLOTHES OR 5954 03:29:25,001 --> 03:29:27,000 WHATEVER IT IS. 5955 03:29:27,001 --> 03:29:29,000 THEY HAVE TO 5956 03:29:29,001 --> 03:29:31,000 AND EVEN IF HAVE THE JOB, IF 5957 03:29:31,001 --> 03:29:33,000 THINGS HAVE BEEN CUT BACK -- IN 5958 03:29:33,001 --> 03:29:34,000 THE TOURISM INDUSTRY, A LOT OF 5959 03:29:34,001 --> 03:29:36,000 PEOPLE WORK FOR TIPS. 5960 03:29:36,001 --> 03:29:37,000 AND AS THOSE TIPS HAVE GONE 5961 03:29:37,001 --> 03:29:40,000 DOWN, THAT RIPPLE EFFECT HAS 5962 03:29:40,001 --> 03:29:43,000 HAPPENED THROUGH THE ECONOMY 5963 03:29:43,001 --> 03:29:46,000 LITERALLY ACROSS AMERICA TODAY. 5964 03:29:46,001 --> 03:29:47,000 MY STATE HATS FELT 5965 03:29:47,001 --> 03:29:50,000 MORE THAN ANY OTHER STATE. 5966 03:29:50,001 --> 03:29:52,000 MORE THAN OTHER STATE. 5967 03:29:52,001 --> 03:29:53,000 IT AFFECTS RESTAURANTS. 5968 03:29:53,001 --> 03:29:55,000 I'M A VETERINARIAN. 5969 03:29:55,001 --> 03:29:56,000 IT AFFECTS THE VETERINARY 5970 03:29:56,001 --> 03:29:57,000 BUSINESS. 5971 03:29:57,001 --> 03:29:59,000 IT AFFECTS DENTISTS. 5972 03:29:59,001 --> 03:30:00,000 IT AFFECTS THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE 5973 03:30:00,001 --> 03:30:02,000 ECONOMY. 5974 03:30:02,001 --> 03:30:04,000 IT AFFECTS INDUSTRY. 5975 03:30:04,001 --> 03:30:06,000 IT'S ALMOST LIKE A NEGATIVE 5976 03:30:06,001 --> 03:30:08,000 RIPPLE EFFECT WHEN THOSE JOBS 5977 03:30:08,001 --> 03:30:10,000 ARE BEING LOST IN THE TOURIST INDUSTRY. 5978 03:30:10,001 --> 03:30:12,000 WHAT WRE TRYING TO HAVE IS A 5979 03:30:12,001 --> 03:30:14,000 POSITIVE RIPPLE EFFECT, WHERE WE 5980 03:30:14,001 --> 03:30:16,000 CREATE TOURIST JOBS 5981 03:30:16,001 --> 03:30:18,000 START CREATING OTHER JOBS IN OTHER SECTORS. 5982 03:30:18,001 --> 03:30:20,000 I THINK IT'S A GREAT QUESTION ON 5983 03:30:20,001 --> 03:30:21,000 THE RIPPLE EFFECT WITH 5984 03:30:21,001 --> 03:30:22,000 TOURIST IND 5985 03:30:22,001 --> 03:30:24,000 MR. DORGAN: LET ME MENTION 5986 03:30:24,001 --> 03:30:25,000 AGAIN THE U.S. 5987 03:30:25,001 --> 03:30:27,000 COMMERCE SENT A LETTER IN STRONG 5988 03:30:27,001 --> 03:30:29,000 SUPPORT OF THIS PRECISELY 5989 03:30:29,001 --> 03:30:30,000 BECAUSE OF THE JOB-CREATING 5990 03:30:30,001 --> 03:30:31,000 NATURE OF THIS LEGISLATION. 5991 03:30:31,001 --> 03:30:32,000 MR. ENSIGN: MR. PRESIDENT, I 5992 03:30:32,001 --> 03:30:33,000 YIELD THE FLOOR, AND I GUESS ALL 5993 03:30:33,001 --> 03:30:34,000 TIME HAS 5994 03:30:34,001 --> 03:30:35,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: ALL 5995 03:30:35,001 --> 03:30:36,000 TIME HAS EXPIRED. 5996 03:30:36,001 --> 03:30:37,000 UNDER THE PREVIOUS ORDER, THE 5997 03:30:37,001 --> 03:30:38,000 MOTION TO PROCEED TO THE MOTION 5998 03:30:38,001 --> 03:30:40,000 TO RECONSIDER THE VOTE BY WHICH 5999 03:30:40,001 --> 03:30:42,000 CLOTURE WAS NOT INVOKED TO 6000 03:30:42,001 --> 03:30:44,000 SENATE AMENDMENT 1347 IS AGREED 6001 03:30:44,001 --> 03:30:46,000 TO, THE MOTION TO RECONSIDER IS 6002 03:30:46,001 --> 03:30:48,000 AGREED TO AND THE SENATEILL 6003 03:30:48,001 --> 03:30:50,000 VOTE ON THE MOTION TO INVOKE CLOTURE. 6004 03:30:50,001 --> 03:30:52,000 THE CLERK WILL REPORT THE MOTIO 6005 03:30:52,001 --> 03:30:54,000 TO 6006 03:30:54,001 --> 03:30:55,000 THE C 6007 03:30:55,001 --> 03:30:57,000 SENATORS IN A 6008 03:30:57,001 --> 03:30:58,000 PROVISIONS OF RULE 22 OF THE 6009 03:30:58,001 --> 03:30:59,000 STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE 6010 03:30:59,001 --> 03:31:01,000 HEREBY MOVE TO BRING TO A CLOSE 6011 03:31:01,001 --> 03:31:05,000 THE DEBATE ON THE DORGAN 6012 03:31:05,001 --> 03:31:06,000 AMENDMENT NUMBER 1347 TO 6013 03:31:06,001 --> 03:31:10,000 S. 1023, THE TRAVEL PROMOTION 6014 03:31:10,001 --> 03:31:11,000 ACT OF SENATORS. 6015 03:31:11,001 --> 03:31:12,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: BY 6016 03:31:12,001 --> 03:31:13,000 UNANIMOUS CONSENT, THE MANDATORY 6017 03:31:13,001 --> 03:31:14,000 QUORUM CALL IS WAIVED. 6018 03:31:14,001 --> 03:31:15,000 THE QUESTION IS: IS IT THE 6019 03:31:15,001 --> 03:31:20,000 SENSE OF THE SENATE THAT DEBATE 6020 03:31:20,001 --> 03:31:22,000 BY THE SENATOR FROM NEVADA, 6021 03:31:22,001 --> 03:31:24,000 MR. REID, TO S. 1023, THE TRAVEL 6022 03:31:24,001 --> 03:31:25,000 PROMOTION ACT OF 2009, SHALL BE 6023 03:31:25,001 --> 03:31:27,000 BROUGHT TO A 6024 03:31:27,001 --> 03:31:28,000 THE YEAS AND NAYS ARE MANDATORY 6025 03:31:28,001 --> 03:31:37,000 UNDER THE RULE. 6026 03:31:37,001 --> 03:59:29,000 THE CLERK WI 6027 03:59:29,001 --> 03:59:31,000 VOTE: 6028 03:59:31,001 --> 03:59:34,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: ON THIS 6029 03:59:34,001 --> 03:59:35,000 VOTE 6030 03:59:35,001 --> 03:59:38,000 CHAMBER WANT TO VOTE OR CHANGE 6031 03:59:38,001 --> 03:59:40,000 THEIR VOTE? 6032 03:59:40,001 --> 03:59:42,000 ON THIS VOTE, UNITED STATES ARE 6033 03:59:42,001 --> 03:59:43,000 80, THE NAYS ARE 19. 6034 03:59:43,001 --> 03:59:44,000 THREE-FIFTHS OF THE SENATORS 6035 03:59:44,001 --> 03:59:46,000 DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN HAV 6036 03:59:46,001 --> 03:59:50,000 VOTED IN THE 6037 03:59:50,001 --> 03:59:52,000 MOTION IS AGREED TO. 6038 03:59:52,001 --> 03:59:54,000 CLOTURE HAVING BEEN INVOKED, THE 6039 03:59:54,001 --> 03:59:56,000 MOTION TO RECOMMIT FALLS. 6040 03:59:56,001 --> 03:59:57,000 MR. REID: MR. PRESIDENT? 6041 03:59:57,001 --> 03:59:58,000 MR. PRESIDENT? THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 6042 03:59:58,001 --> 04:00:00,000 SENATOR FROM NEVADA. 6043 04:00:00,001 --> 04:00:01,000 MR. REID: COULD WE HAVE ORDER. 6044 04:00:01,001 --> 04:00:07,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: CAN WE 6045 04:00:07,001 --> 04:00:08,000 PLEASE HAVE ORDER. ORDER, PLEASE. 6046 04:00:08,001 --> 04:00:10,000 THE MAJORITY LEADER. 6047 04:00:10,001 --> 04:00:11,000 MR. REID: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, 6048 04:00:11,001 --> 04:00:12,000 MR. PRESIDENT. 6049 04:00:12,001 --> 04:00:19,000 OUR COLLEAGUE, FRANK LAWSUIT 6050 04:00:19,001 --> 04:00:21,000 BERKS HAS GIVE -- FRANKLAUTENBERG, HAS GIVEN SO MUCH TO 6051 04:00:21,001 --> 04:00:25,000 HIS COUNTRY. 6052 04:00:25,001 --> 04:00:26,000 FRANK'S PARENTS SETTLED AS 6053 04:00:26,001 --> 04:00:29,000 IMMIGRANTS IN EASTERN EUROPE. 6054 04:00:29,001 --> 04:00:30,000 AND IF THERE WERE EVER AN 6055 04:00:30,001 --> 04:00:31,000 EXAMPLE OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE COME 6056 04:00:31,001 --> 04:00:35,000 FROM THE MOST BASIC 6057 04:00:35,001 --> 04:00:37,000 CIRCUMSTANCES TO A MAN OF WEALTH 6058 04:00:37,001 --> 04:00:40,000 WEALTH, A MAN OF 6059 04:00:40,001 --> 04:00:41,000 FRANK LAUTENBERG. 6060 04:00:41,001 --> 04:00:43,000 HE HAS DONE IT ALL. 6061 04:00:43,001 --> 04:00:45,000 HE FOUGHT 6062 04:00:45,001 --> 04:00:48,000 II, PUT HIMSELF THROUGH COLUMBIA 6063 04:00:48,001 --> 04:00:49,000 UNIVERSITY WITH THE G.I. BILL OF 6064 04:00:49,001 --> 04:00:51,000 RIGHTS, AFTER HAVING EARNED THAT 6065 04:00:51,001 --> 04:00:53,000 WITH HIS SERVICE TO OUR COUNTRY 6066 04:00:53,001 --> 04:00:55,000 IN WORLD WAR II. 6067 04:00:55,001 --> 04:00:56,000 AS I'VE MENTIONED, HE HAD GREAT 6068 04:00:56,001 --> 04:01:00,000 SUCCESS IN BUSINESS. 6069 04:01:00,001 --> 04:01:02,000 HE HAS A MIND THAT IS VERY INCISIVE. 6070 04:01:02,001 --> 04:01:04,000 HE SEES ALWAYS THE BIG PICTURE 6071 04:01:04,001 --> 04:01:05,000 AND WAS ONE OF THE FIRST TO 6072 04:01:05,001 --> 04:01:07,000 SUCCEED IN A BUSINESS THAT NOW A 6073 04:01:07,001 --> 04:01:08,000 LOT OF PEOPLE ARE SUCCEEDING IN, 6074 04:01:08,001 --> 04:01:11,000 BUT HE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST 6075 04:01:11,001 --> 04:01:14,000 THERE. 6076 04:01:14,001 --> 04:01:16,000 HE, AFTER HAVING, IN OUR GREAT 6077 04:01:16,001 --> 04:01:18,000 FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM, DONE 6078 04:01:18,001 --> 04:01:21,000 WELL, DECIDED TO TURN TO PUBLIC 6079 04:01:21,001 --> 04:01:22,000 SERVICE AND HE 6080 04:01:22,001 --> 04:01:23,000 THE STATE O 6081 04:01:23,001 --> 04:01:26,000 UNITED STATES SENATE. 6082 04:01:26,001 --> 04:01:28,000 HE LEFT IN 2000 BUT CAME BACK 6083 04:01:28,001 --> 04:01:29,000 WHEN HIS STATE ASKED HIM TO 6084 04:01:29,001 --> 04:01:31,000 SERVE ONCE AGAIN. 6085 04:01:31,001 --> 04:01:33,000 WE NEEDED FRANK LAUTENBERG. 6086 04:01:33,001 --> 04:01:34,000 HE CAME BACK AND HE'S SERVED 6087 04:01:34,001 --> 04:01:37,000 WITH SUCH REMARKABLE STATURE 6088 04:01:37,001 --> 04:01:38,000 SINCE THEN. 6089 04:01:38,001 --> 04:01:40,000 I -- WHEN I FIRST CAME TO THE 6090 04:01:40,001 --> 04:01:41,000 SENATE, I HAD THE GOOD FORTUNE 6091 04:01:41,001 --> 04:01:43,000 TO SERVE WITH HIM ON THE 6092 04:01:43,001 --> 04:01:46,000 ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS 6093 04:01:46,001 --> 04:01:47,000 HIS LOVE OF THE MATTERS WITHIN 6094 04:01:47,001 --> 04:01:50,000 THE JURISDICTION OF THAT 6095 04:01:50,001 --> 04:01:52,000 COMMITTEE ARE SIGNIFICANT. 6096 04:01:52,001 --> 04:01:53,000 HE IS -- HE 6097 04:01:53,001 --> 04:01:55,000 HEART BUT IT'S ALWAYS BACKED UP 6098 04:01:55,001 --> 04:01:56,000 WITH HIS BRILLIANT MIND THAT HE 6099 04:01:56,001 --> 04:01:59,000 HAS. 6100 04:01:59,001 --> 04:02:00,000 HE WAS -- HAS BEEN CHAIRMAN OF 6101 04:02:00,001 --> 04:02:02,000 OUR BUDGET COMMITTEE. 6102 04:02:02,001 --> 04:02:03,000 JUST WEEKS AGO, 6103 04:02:03,001 --> 04:02:05,000 RECORD FOR CASTING THE MOST 6104 04:02:05,001 --> 04:02:06,000 VOTES BY ANY UNITED STATES 6105 04:02:06,001 --> 04:02:08,000 SENATOR IN THE HISTORY OF THE 6106 04:02:08,001 --> 04:02:10,000 STATE OF NEW JERSEY. 6107 04:02:10,001 --> 04:02:13,000 LIKE ANY GREAT LEGISLATOR, 6108 04:02:13,001 --> 04:02:14,000 SENATOR LAUTENBERG SURELY -- HIS 6109 04:02:14,001 --> 04:02:16,000 RECORD IS BEST UNDERSTOOD NOT BY 6110 04:02:16,001 --> 04:02:19,000 THE NUMBER OF TIMES HE HAS SAID 6111 04:02:19,001 --> 04:02:21,000 "AYE" O 6112 04:02:21,001 --> 04:02:22,000 LAWS SAY ABOUT HIS COMMITMENT TO 6113 04:02:22,001 --> 04:02:23,000 THE PEOPLE OF NEW JERSEY AND ALL 6114 04:02:23,001 --> 04:02:24,000 AMERICANS. 6115 04:02:24,001 --> 04:02:25,000 HE WAS A LEADER IN ESTABLISHING 6116 04:02:25,001 --> 04:02:27,000 THE DISCIPLINE THRESHOLD FOR 6117 04:02:27,001 --> 04:02:28,000 DRUNK DVING, SAVING COUNTLESS 6118 04:02:28,001 --> 04:02:30,000 LIVES. 6119 04:02:30,001 --> 04:02:34,000 HIS WORK AS HELPED CLEAN UP TO 6120 04:02:34,001 --> 04:02:37,000 COMETOXICSITES IN COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE 6121 04:02:37,001 --> 04:02:40,000 STATE AND COUNTRIES, KEPT OUR 6122 04:02:40,001 --> 04:02:41,000 DRINKING WATER SAFE AND MADE OUR 6123 04:02:41,001 --> 04:02:42,000 ENERGY FOR MISHT. 6124 04:02:42,001 --> 04:02:44,000 MR. PRESIDENT, FOR ME 6125 04:02:44,001 --> 04:02:45,000 PERSONLY, WHAT I WILL LOOK AT 6126 04:02:45,001 --> 04:02:46,000 FRANK LAUTENBERG FOR HAVING DONE 6127 04:02:46,001 --> 04:02:47,000 IS TAKE CARE OF ONE OF MY 6128 04:02:47,001 --> 04:02:50,000 CHILDREN. 6129 04:02:50,001 --> 04:02:53,000 ONE OF MY BOYS WAS ALLERGIC TO 6130 04:02:53,001 --> 04:02:55,000 TOBACCO SMOKE AND WHEN WE WOULD 6131 04:02:55,001 --> 04:02:59,000 FLY ACROSS THE COUNTRY, THEY HAD 6132 04:02:59,001 --> 04:03:01,000 THOSE ARTIFICIAL BARRIERS, YOU 6133 04:03:01,001 --> 04:03:03,000 CAN'T SMOKE PAST THIS LINE T. 6134 04:03:03,001 --> 04:03:05,000 DIDN'T MATTER, 6135 04:03:05,001 --> 04:03:08,000 WENT EVERY PLACE, AND EVERY ONE 6136 04:03:08,001 --> 04:03:10,000 OF THOSE TRIPS MY BOY, KEY, WAS 6137 04:03:10,001 --> 04:03:12,000 MISERABLE, MADE HIM SICK. 6138 04:03:12,001 --> 04:03:14,000 BECAUSE. 6139 04:03:14,001 --> 04:03:16,000 BECAUSE OF FRANK LAWSUIT BERKS MILLIONS OF AMERICANS ARE 6140 04:03:16,001 --> 04:03:18,000 PROTECTED FROM SECONDHAND SMOKE. 6141 04:03:18,001 --> 04:03:20,000 HE WROTE THE LAW 6142 04:03:20,001 --> 04:03:23,000 ON AIRPLANES. 6143 04:03:23,001 --> 04:03:24,000 SO, MR. PRESIDENT, IN ADDITION 6144 04:03:24,001 --> 04:03:26,000 TO BEING SUCH A GOOD FRIEND, I 6145 04:03:26,001 --> 04:03:28,000 COMMEND AND APPLAUD THE PEOPLE 6146 04:03:28,001 --> 04:03:30,000 OF NEW JERSEY 6147 04:03:30,001 --> 04:03:31,000 GOOD MAN TO THE UNITED STATES 6148 04:03:31,001 --> 04:03:33,000 SENATE. 6149 04:03:33,001 --> 04:03:35,000 HE IS SOMEONE WHO IS DESERVING 6150 04:03:35,001 --> 04:03:36,000 OF ALL THE ACCOLADES THAT CAN BE 6151 04:03:36,001 --> 04:03:37,000 GIVEN TO 6152 04:03:37,001 --> 04:03:39,000 I'M VERY PROUD TO HAVE BEEN ABLE 6153 04:03:39,001 --> 04:03:40,000 TO WORK WITH 6154 04:03:40,001 --> 04:03:42,000 YEARS. A SENATOR: WOULD THE MAJORITY 6155 04:03:42,001 --> 04:03:43,000 LEADER YIE 6156 04:03:43,001 --> 04:03:45,000 MR. REID: I WOULD BE HAPPY TO. 6157 04:03:45,001 --> 04:03:46,000 MR. LEADER. 6158 04:03:46,001 --> 04:03:48,000 I APPRECIATE YOU YIELDING. 6159 04:03:48,001 --> 04:03:49,000 I JUST WANT TO BRIEFLY SAY T 6160 04:03:49,001 --> 04:03:51,000 WE ARE INCREDIBLY PROUD IN NEW 6161 04:03:51,001 --> 04:03:53,000 JERSEY TO HAVE FRANK LAUTENBERG 6162 04:03:53,001 --> 04:03:54,000 AS OUR UNITED STATES SENATOR. 6163 04:03:54,001 --> 04:03:56,000 MR. MENENDEZ: IT'S NOT JUST THE 6164 04:03:56,001 --> 04:03:58,000 NUMBER OF VOTES T 6165 04:03:58,001 --> 04:04:00,000 IT'S WHAT HE HAS STOOD UP FOR. 6166 04:04:00,001 --> 04:04:01,000 SENATOR LAUTENBERG HAS BEEN 6167 04:04:01,001 --> 04:04:02,000 KNOWN AS STANDING UP FOR NEW 6168 04:04:02,001 --> 04:04:05,000 JERSEY FIRST. 6169 04:04:05,001 --> 04:04:06,000 BUT I THINK HE'S STOOD UP FOR 6170 04:04:06,001 --> 04:04:07,000 FAR MORE THAN NEW JERSEY. 6171 04:04:07,001 --> 04:04:08,000 HE HAS STOOD UP FOR THE NATION. 6172 04:04:08,001 --> 04:04:10,000 THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE I 6173 04:04:10,001 --> 04:04:13,000 THINK SINCE HE PASSED THE BAN ON 6174 04:04:13,001 --> 04:04:14,000 SMOKING ON AIRLINES THAT -- AND 6175 04:04:14,001 --> 04:04:17,000 WHAT HE'S DONE ON SUPERFUND 6176 04:04:17,001 --> 04:04:20,000 SITES AND WHAT HE HAS DONE ON 6177 04:04:20,001 --> 04:04:22,000 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ABUSERS WHO NO 6178 04:04:22,001 --> 04:04:25,000 LONGER CAN POSSESS A GEUN AFTER 6179 04:04:25,001 --> 04:04:27,000 THEY'VE BEEN -- A GUN AFTER 6180 04:04:27,001 --> 04:04:28,000 THEY'VE BEEN CONVICTED OF 6181 04:04:28,001 --> 04:04:30,000 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE TO USE THAT 6182 04:04:30,001 --> 04:04:31,000 GUN ON A LOVED ONE, WHO ARE 6183 04:04:31,001 --> 04:04:33,000 ALIVE TODAY AS A RESULT OF 6184 04:04:33,001 --> 04:04:35,000 SENATOR LAUTENBERG'S WORK, IN 6185 04:04:35,001 --> 04:04:37,000 NEW JERSEY AND ACROSS THE NATION. 6186 04:04:37,001 --> 04:04:38,000 SO THE LEGISLATION THAT HE HAS 6187 04:04:38,001 --> 04:04:39,000 OVER HIS CAREER IN THE UNITED 6188 04:04:39,001 --> 04:04:41,000 STATES SENATE IS JUST EXEMPLARY, 6189 04:04:41,001 --> 04:04:42,000 AND I 6190 04:04:42,001 --> 04:04:43,000 THIS TRIBUTE BECAUSE IT'S NOT 6191 04:04:43,001 --> 04:04:45,000 THE NUMBER OF VOTES, IT'S THE 6192 04:04:45,001 --> 04:04:47,000 TYPE OF EFFECT THAT HE HAS HAD 6193 04:04:47,001 --> 04:04:48,000 ON THE LIVES OF PEOPLE IN NEW 6194 04:04:48,001 --> 04:04:51,000 JERSEY AND ACROSS THE 6195 04:04:51,001 --> 04:04:55,000 AND WE SALUTE HIM. [APPLAUSE] 6196 04:04:55,001 --> 04:04:57,000 MR. LAUTENBERG: THANK 6197 04:04:57,001 --> 04:04:58,000 THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. 6198 04:04:58,001 --> 04:04:59,000 IF I MIGHT HAVE 6199 04:04:59,001 --> 04:05:01,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 6200 04:05:01,001 --> 04:05:03,000 SENATOR FROM NEW JERSEY. 6201 04:05:03,001 --> 04:05:05,000 MR. LAUTENBERG: I THANK MY 6202 04:05:05,001 --> 04:05:06,000 FRIEND AND 6203 04:05:06,001 --> 04:05:07,000 HIS KIND REMARKS AND FOR THE 6204 04:05:07,001 --> 04:05:10,000 LEADERSHIP THAT HE'S PROVIDED 6205 04:05:10,001 --> 04:05:12,000 FOR ALL OF US. 6206 04:05:12,001 --> 04:05:16,000 THE -- I NEVER DREAMED THAT I 6207 04:05:16,001 --> 04:05:17,000 WOULD BE HERE THIS LONG. 6208 04:05:17,001 --> 04:05:21,000 HAD 30 YEARS IN BUSINESS BEFORE 6209 04:05:21,001 --> 04:05:24,000 I GOT TO THIS PLACE. 6210 04:05:24,001 --> 04:05:25,000 BUT HARRY REID 6211 04:05:25,001 --> 04:05:28,000 SOMETHING ABOUT WEALTH. 6212 04:05:28,001 --> 04:05:30,000 THE WEALTH T 6213 04:05:30,001 --> 04:05:33,000 BEING HERE IN THIS PLACE, BY 6214 04:05:33,001 --> 04:05:35,000 BEING ABLE TO SAY TO MY COUNTRY 6215 04:05:35,001 --> 04:05:37,000 THAT I'VE HAD A CHANCE TO GIVE 6216 04:05:37,001 --> 04:05:39,000 BACK FOR THE WONDERFUL GOOD 6217 04:05:39,001 --> 04:05:42,000 FORTUNE THAT HAS BEFALLEN OUR 6218 04:05:42,001 --> 04:05:46,000 LIVES, MY CHILDREN, MY PARENTS, 6219 04:05:46,001 --> 04:05:48,000 IF THEY COULD SEE THIS 6220 04:05:48,001 --> 04:05:52,000 SAID, MY MOTHER WAS CRITICAL 6221 04:05:52,001 --> 04:05:53,000 WHEN I RAN FOR THE SENATE 6222 04:05:53,001 --> 04:05:56,000 SHE EXPRESSED A LITTLE DISAPPOINTMENT. 6223 04:05:56,001 --> 04:05:57,000 AND I SAID, MOM, HOW CAN THAT BE? 6224 04:05:57,001 --> 04:05:59,000 SHE SAID, BECAUSE I THOUGHT 6225 04:05:59,001 --> 04:06:01,000 YOU'D BE RUNNING FOR [LAUGHTER] 6226 04:06:01,001 --> 04:06:03,000 IN ANY EVENT, MY DAD WOULDN'T 6227 04:06:03,001 --> 04:06:05,000 HAVE BELIEVED IT, BUT HE WOULD 6228 04:06:05,001 --> 04:06:06,000 HAVE ENCOURAGED IT, 6229 04:06:06,001 --> 04:06:07,000 NEVERTHELESS. 6230 04:06:07,001 --> 04:06:09,000 AND I THANK ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES 6231 04:06:09,001 --> 04:06:16,000 ON BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE FOR THE PATIENCE SOMETIMES THAT I 6232 04:06:16,001 --> 04:06:18,000 EXHAUST ON MY FRIENDS AND 6233 04:06:18,001 --> 04:06:20,000 PARTICULARLY MY FRIEND AND 6234 04:06:20,001 --> 04:06:22,000 COLLEAGUE, BOB MENDEZ, WITH 6235 04:06:22,001 --> 04:06:25,000 WHOM I'VE HAD THE PLEASURE OF 6236 04:06:25,001 --> 04:06:27,000 SERVING WHILE HE WAS LEADER -- 6237 04:06:27,001 --> 04:06:28,000 IN LEADERSHIP IN THE HOUSE BUT 6238 04:06:28,001 --> 04:06:30,000 ESPECIALLY SIN HE'S BEEN HERE 6239 04:06:30,001 --> 04:06:32,000 AND GOTTEN THE IMPORTANT RESPONSIBILITIES WE HAVE. 6240 04:06:32,001 --> 04:06:35,000 SO IT'S A GOOD DAY. 6241 04:06:35,001 --> 04:06:36,000 I'M GLAD TO BE BACK HERE TO G 6242 04:06:36,001 --> 04:06:38,000 WITH THE PEOPLE'S BUSINESS, AND 6243 04:06:38,001 --> 04:06:41,000 I THANK ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR 6244 04:06:41,001 --> 04:06:42,000 PATIENCE AND FRIENDSHIP, PARTICULARLY OUR MAJORITY 6245 04:06:42,001 --> 04:06:43,000 LE 6246 04:06:43,001 --> 04:06:46,000 AND I THANK YOU ALL. 6247 04:06:46,001 --> 04:07:19,000 THANKS. 6248 04:07:19,001 --> 04:07:20,000 [APPLAUSE] 6249 04:07:20,001 --> 04:07:25,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 6250 04:07:25,001 --> 04:07:26,000 MAJORITY LEADER. 6251 04:07:26,001 --> 04:07:27,000 MR. REID 6252 04:07:27,001 --> 04:07:31,000 OF A QUORUM. THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE CLERK 6253 04:07:31,001 --> 04:07:37,000 WILL CALL THE ROLL. 6254 04:07:37,001 --> 04:07:38,000 QUORUM CALL: 6255 04:07:38,001 --> 04:07:39,000 MR. REID: MR. PRESIDENT? 6256 04:07:39,001 --> 04:07:40,000 MR. PRESIDENT? THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 6257 04:07:40,001 --> 04:07:41,000 MAJORITY LEADER. MR. REID: I ASK UNANIMOUS 6258 04:07:41,001 --> 04:07:42,000 CONSENT THE CALL OF THE QUORUM BE TERMINATED. 6259 04:07:42,001 --> 04:07:43,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: WITHOUT OBJECTION. 6260 04:07:43,001 --> 04:07:44,000 MR. REID: MR. PRESIDENT, I'M 6261 04:07:44,001 --> 04:07:46,000 VERY GREATFUL THAT WE HAVE MOVED 6262 04:07:46,001 --> 04:07:48,000 FORWARD ON A VERY IMPORTANT BILL 6263 04:07:48,001 --> 04:07:50,000 FOR THE COUNTRY. 6264 04:07:50,001 --> 04:07:52,000 THAT'S THE 8 TRAVEL PROMOTION 6265 04:07:52,001 --> 04:07:53,000 ACT -- THAT'S THE TRAVEL 6266 04:07:53,001 --> 04:07:54,000 PROMOTION ACT. 6267 04:07:54,001 --> 04:07:55,000 I MEND AND APPLAUD SENATOR 6268 04:07:55,001 --> 04:07:56,000 DORGAN FOR HIS GOOD WORK ON THIS 6269 04:07:56,001 --> 04:07:57,000 LEGISLATION. 6270 04:07:57,001 --> 04:08:00,000 IT'S EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. 6271 04:08:00,001 --> 04:08:02,000 HE WAS A REAL ADVOCATE, AS HE IS 6272 04:08:02,001 --> 04:08:05,000 ON ISSUES OF WHICH HE SINKS HI 6273 04:08:05,001 --> 04:08:06,000 TEETH INTO. 6274 04:08:06,001 --> 04:08:07,000 -- SINKS HIS TEETH INTO. 6275 04:08:07,001 --> 04:08:08,000 TRAVEL AND TOURISM GENERATES A 6276 04:08:08,001 --> 04:08:09,000 TRILLION DOLLARS IN 6277 04:08:09,001 --> 04:08:12,000 EVERY 6278 04:08:12,001 --> 04:08:13,000 WHETHER IT'S THE STATE OF 6279 04:08:13,001 --> 04:08:14,000 MINNESOTA, NEVADA, PICK ANY OF 6280 04:08:14,001 --> 04:08:16,000 THE STATES, TOURISM IS THE 6281 04:08:16,001 --> 04:08:17,000 NUMBER ONE, TWO ORHREE MOST 6282 04:08:17,001 --> 04:08:18,000 IMPORTANT DRIVING ECONOMIC 6283 04:08:18,001 --> 04:08:21,000 FACTOR IN THOSE STATES. 6284 04:08:21,001 --> 04:08:23,000 AND THIS YEAR, TOURISM WILL 6285 04:08:23,001 --> 04:08:24,000 CREATE 40,000 NEW JOBS. 6286 04:08:24,001 --> 04:08:28,000 THE BILL WILL ALSO CUT OUR 6287 04:08:28,001 --> 04:08:30,000 DEFICIT BY 6288 04:08:30,001 --> 04:08:33,000 NEXT TEN YEARS. SIGNIFICANT. 6289 04:08:33,001 --> 04:08:34,000 WE WOULD BE TAKING THE 6290 04:08:34,001 --> 04:08:36,000 STRATEGIES THAT HAVE MADE LAS 6291 04:08:36,001 --> 04:08:39,000 VEGAS 6292 04:08:39,001 --> 04:08:40,000 THEM TO OUR ENTIRE NATION'S 6293 04:08:40,001 --> 04:08:43,000 TOURISM INDUSTRY. 6294 04:08:43,001 --> 04:08:44,000 THAT'S WHAT THIS BILL IS BASED ON. 6295 04:08:44,001 --> 04:08:45,000 THE COUNTRY ACE TOURISM HAS BEEN 6296 04:08:45,001 --> 04:08:46,000 HIT BY SLOWING WORLDWIDE 6297 04:08:46,001 --> 04:08:48,000 ECONOMY. 6298 04:08:48,001 --> 04:08:50,000 AND WHEN TOURISM IS HURT, NEVADA 6299 04:08:50,001 --> 04:08:51,000 HURTS, THE ENTIRE STATE SUFFERS. 6300 04:08:51,001 --> 04:08:52,000 HARD-WORKING PEOPLE HAVE LOST 6301 04:08:52,001 --> 04:08:54,000 THEIR JOBS AS THE STATE'S BUDGET 6302 04:08:54,001 --> 04:08:55,000 HAS TAKEN A MAJOR HIT BECAUSE 6303 04:08:55,001 --> 04:08:57,000 THAT BUDGET IS LARGELY FUNDED BY 6304 04:08:57,001 --> 04:08:59,000 TOURISM. 6305 04:08:59,001 --> 04:09:01,000 FUNDING FOR VIOLENT PROGRAMS IN 6306 04:09:01,001 --> 04:09:03,000 OUR 6307 04:09:03,001 --> 04:09:04,000 OUR STATE ARE AT RISK WHEN WHEN 6308 04:09:04,001 --> 04:09:05,000 TOURISM SLOWS. 6309 04:09:05,001 --> 04:09:06,000 AS I MENTIONED, MR. PRESIDENT, 6310 04:09:06,001 --> 04:09:07,000 THE PROBLEM IS NOT UNIQUE. 6311 04:09:07,001 --> 04:09:09,000 TOURISM IS ONE OF THE TOP 6312 04:09:09,001 --> 04:09:10,000 INDUSTRIES IN EVERY STATE, AND 6313 04:09:10,001 --> 04:09:11,000 I'VE MENTIONED THAT. 6314 04:09:11,001 --> 04:09:12,000 THAT'S WHY THIS BILL IS SO 6315 04:09:12,001 --> 04:09:14,000 IMPORTANT. 6316 04:09:14,001 --> 04:09:16,000 THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY NOT 6317 04:09:16,001 --> 04:09:17,000 TO GIVE AMERICAN TOURISM A BOOST. 6318 04:09:17,001 --> 04:09:18,000 IT IS ONE OF THE MAN 6319 04:09:18,001 --> 04:09:22,000 WORKING TO CREATE JOBS AND HELP 6320 04:09:22,001 --> 04:09:24,000 OUR ECONOMY TO RECOVER. 6321 04:09:24,001 --> 04:09:31,000 NOTE THE ABSENCE OF A QUORUM. THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE CLERK 6322 04:09:31,001 --> 04:09:33,000 WILL CALL THE ROL 6323 04:09:33,001 --> 04:09:34,000 MR. BROWN: MR. PRESIDENT? THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 6324 04:09:34,001 --> 04:09:35,000 SENATOR FROM OHIO. 6325 04:09:35,001 --> 04:09:37,000 MR. BROWN: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. 6326 04:09:37,001 --> 04:09:38,000 I ASK UNANIMOUS CONSENT TO 6327 04:09:38,001 --> 04:09:39,000 VITIATE THE QUORUM CALL. 6328 04:09:39,001 --> 04:09:40,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: WITHOUT 6329 04:09:40,001 --> 04:09:41,000 OBJECTION. 6330 04:09:41,001 --> 04:09:43,000 MR. BROWN: MR. PRESIDENT, OVER 6331 04:09:43,001 --> 04:09:44,000 THE LAST FEW MONTHS, I STOOD IN 6332 04:09:44,001 --> 04:09:46,000 THIS CHAMBER AND READ LETTERS 6333 04:09:46,001 --> 04:09:48,000 SENT TO ME BY OHIOANS ALL OVER 6334 04:09:48,001 --> 04:09:50,000 MY STATE, STORIES EXPLAING HOW 6335 04:09:50,001 --> 04:09:51,000 HEALTH INSURANCE COSTS ARE 6336 04:09:51,001 --> 04:09:53,000 THREATENING THE ECONOMIC 6337 04:09:53,001 --> 04:09:54,000 STABILITY OF MIDDLE-CLASS 6338 04:09:54,001 --> 04:09:55,000 FAMILIES. 6339 04:09:55,001 --> 04:09:57,000 THES 6340 04:09:57,001 --> 04:10:00,000 CHALLENGES FACING OUR NATION'S 6341 04:10:00,001 --> 04:10:01,000 MIDDLE CLASS 6342 04:10:01,001 --> 04:10:02,000 STATE'S WORKERS. 6343 04:10:02,001 --> 04:10:04,000 THE FIGHT FOR HEALTH INSURANCE 6344 04:10:04,001 --> 04:10:06,000 REFORM IS PART OF A LARGER 6345 04:10:06,001 --> 04:10:07,000 EFFORT TO PUT OUR NATION 6346 04:10:07,001 --> 04:10:09,000 NEW PROGRESSIVE PATH THAT 6347 04:10:09,001 --> 04:10:11,000 INVESTS IN OUR LABOR FORCE, THAT 6348 04:10:11,001 --> 04:10:12,000 HONORS OUR INDUSTRIAL AND 6349 04:10:12,001 --> 04:10:14,000 MANUFACTURING TRADITIONS, AND 6350 04:10:14,001 --> 04:10:15,000 THAT HELPS REBUILD OUR MIDDLE CLASS. 6351 04:10:15,001 --> 04:10:17,000 YESTERDAY, I JOINED PRIDENT 6352 04:10:17,001 --> 04:10:19,000 OBAMA IN CINCINNATI AT THE 6353 04:10:19,001 --> 04:10:21,000 LARGEST LABOR DAY PICNIC IN THE 6354 04:10:21,001 --> 04:10:23,000 COUNTRY TO HONOR THE ACHIEVEMENT 6355 04:10:23,001 --> 04:10:25,000 AND THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE AMERICAN WORKER. 6356 04:10:25,001 --> 04:10:28,000 LABOR DAY'S AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN TRADITION THAT 6357 04:10:28,001 --> 04:10:29,000 RECOGNIZES THE COURAGE OF 6358 04:10:29,001 --> 04:10:31,000 GENERATIONS OF WORKERS AND 6359 04:10:31,001 --> 04:10:33,000 ACTIVISTS WHO DEMANDED A 6360 04:10:33,001 --> 04:10:34,000 STANDARD OF LIVING 6361 04:10:34,001 --> 04:10:37,000 ALL AMERICANS. 6362 04:10:37,001 --> 04:10:41,000 IN OHIO, THE TRADITION OF LABOR 6363 04:10:41,001 --> 04:10:42,000 DAY BEGAN IN 1891 WHEN 6364 04:10:42,001 --> 04:10:45,000 CLEVELAND'S FIRST 6365 04:10:45,001 --> 04:10:46,000 AFRICAN-AMERICAN LAWYER, 6366 04:10:46,001 --> 04:10:48,000 PATTERSON GREENE, IN OHIO'S 6367 04:10:48,001 --> 04:10:50,000 FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN STATE 6368 04:10:50,001 --> 04:10:51,000 SENATOR INTRODUCED LABOR DAY IN 6369 04:10:51,001 --> 04:10:53,000 OHIO IN 1890 TO CELEBRATE THE 6370 04:10:53,001 --> 04:10:54,000 CONTRIBUTION OF WORKERS. 6371 04:10:54,001 --> 04:10:57,000 THE BILL PASSED THE GENERAL 6372 04:10:57,001 --> 04:10:59,000 ASSEMBLY ON APRIL 28, 1890, FOUR 6373 04:10:59,001 --> 04:11:01,000 YEARS BEFORE CONGRESS DECLARE 6374 04:11:01,001 --> 04:11:04,000 LABOR DAY A N 6375 04:11:04,001 --> 04:11:06,000 IT'S EASY TO SURMISE FROM THIS 6376 04:11:06,001 --> 04:11:08,000 THAT LABOR DAY HAD ITS 6377 04:11:08,001 --> 04:11:10,000 LABOR DAY BEGAN IN THE STATE OF OHIO. 6378 04:11:10,001 --> 04:11:13,000 AS A FATHER OF LABOR DAY, LABOR 6379 04:11:13,001 --> 04:11:15,000 DAY IN OHIO, JOHN PARTISAN 6380 04:11:15,001 --> 04:11:18,000 GREENE, WHO -- JOHN PARTISAN 6381 04:11:18,001 --> 04:11:19,000 GREE WHO DEFENDED PIONEERS AND 6382 04:11:19,001 --> 04:11:20,000 SITTING PRESIDENTS ALIKE, 6383 04:11:20,001 --> 04:11:21,000 EXEMPLIFIES HOW SIMPLE 6384 04:11:21,001 --> 04:11:24,000 RECOGNITION CAN GIVE POWERFUL 6385 04:11:24,001 --> 04:11:25,000 MEANING TO WORKING 6386 04:11:25,001 --> 04:11:26,000 WOMEN. 6387 04:11:26,001 --> 04:11:28,000 YESTERDAY IN CINCINNATI DURING 6388 04:11:28,001 --> 04:11:29,000 THE ANYTHING'S LARGEST LABOR DAY 6389 04:11:29,001 --> 04:11:30,000 PICNIC, PRESIDENT OBAMA SPOKE TO 6390 04:11:30,001 --> 04:11:32,000 THOUSANDS OF WORKERS AND THEIR 6391 04:11:32,001 --> 04:11:33,000 FAMILIES GATHERED IN SUPPORT OF 6392 04:11:33,001 --> 04:11:36,000 POLICIES THAT PUT AMERICAN 6393 04:11:36,001 --> 04:11:38,000 WORKERS AND AMERICAN BUSINESSES FIRST. 6394 04:11:38,001 --> 04:11:40,000 THE PRESIDENT REMINDED US -- I 6395 04:11:40,001 --> 04:11:42,000 QUOTE -- "MUCH OF WHA WE TAKE 6396 04:11:42,001 --> 04:11:45,000 FOR GRANTED, THE 40-HOUR WORK 6397 04:11:45,001 --> 04:11:46,000 WEEK, THE MINIMUM WAGE, HEALTH 6398 04:11:46,001 --> 04:11:49,000 INSURANCE, PAID LEAVE, PENSIONS, 6399 04:11:49,001 --> 04:11:50,000 SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE 6400 04:11:50,001 --> 04:11:51,000 BEAR THE UNION LABEL. 6401 04:11:51,001 --> 04:11:54,000 SO EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT A UNION 6402 04:11:54,001 --> 04:11:55,000 MEMBER, 6403 04:11:55,001 --> 04:11:59,000 EVERY AMERICAN OWES SOMETHING TO 6404 04:11:59,001 --> 04:12:00,000 AMERICA'S LABOR MOVEMENT. 6405 04:12:00,001 --> 04:12:01,000 AT LABOR DAY EVENTS ACROSS THE 6406 04:12:01,001 --> 04:12:03,000 STATE, WORKERS AND THEIR 6407 04:12:03,001 --> 04:12:05,000 FAMILIES, FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS 6408 04:12:05,001 --> 04:12:06,000 GATHERED TOGETHER REGARDLESS OF 6409 04:12:06,001 --> 04:12:07,000 PROFESSION, ELE 6410 04:12:07,001 --> 04:12:08,000 COMMUNICATION WORKERS, 6411 04:12:08,001 --> 04:12:11,000 STEELWORKERS AND TEACHERS, TRUCK 6412 04:12:11,001 --> 04:12:12,000 DRIVERS AND LABORERS, TO 6413 04:12:12,001 --> 04:12:13,000 CELEBRATE ALL WORKING MEN AND WOME 6414 04:12:13,001 --> 04:12:15,000 THAT'S WHAT LABOR DAY IS. 6415 04:12:15,001 --> 04:12:17,000 LABOR DAY CELEBRATIONS BROUGHT 6416 04:12:17,001 --> 04:12:20,000 TOGETHER THE FAMILY OF UNION 6417 04:12:20,001 --> 04:12:21,000 EXPWROARS SISTEBROTHERS AND SISTERS WHO FIGHT 6418 04:12:21,001 --> 04:12:22,000 FOR EACH OTHER -- THAT'S WHAT 6419 04:12:22,001 --> 04:12:25,000 THE LABOR MOVEMENT IS ALL 6420 04:12:25,001 --> 04:12:27,000 ABOUT -- WHO GATHER TO CELEBRATE 6421 04:12:27,001 --> 04:12:29,000 LEGACY AND PROGRESS, TO SPEAK 6422 04:12:29,001 --> 04:12:30,000 OUT FOR HEALTH CARE THAT WORKS 6423 04:12:30,001 --> 04:12:31,000 FOR WORKER. 6424 04:12:31,001 --> 04:12:35,000 THAT'S WHY THIS LABOR DAY IS EVER MORE MEANINGFUL. 6425 04:12:35,001 --> 04:12:37,000 I RECENTLY BEFORE LABOR DAY 6426 04:12:37,001 --> 04:12:40,000 VISITED OPEN-M, A FREE HEALTH 6427 04:12:40,001 --> 04:12:43,000 CLINIC IN AKRON, WHERE 6428 04:12:43,001 --> 04:12:44,000 CHRISTINE WHO REPRESENTS A SMALL 6429 04:12:44,001 --> 04:12:46,000 GIFT BASKET DELIVERY SYSTEM BY 6430 04:12:46,001 --> 04:12:48,000 HERSELF BUT CANNOT AFFORD HEALTH INSURANCE. 6431 04:12:48,001 --> 04:12:49,000 14 YEARS AGO WHILE WORKING, 6432 04:12:49,001 --> 04:12:51,000 CHRISTINE WAS SIOUSLY INJURED 6433 04:12:51,001 --> 04:12:53,000 IN A CAR ACCIDENT, LEAVING HER WITH MULTIPLE KNEE SURGERIES, 6434 04:12:53,001 --> 04:12:54,000 BACK AND FOOT PROBLEMS AND A 6435 04:12:54,001 --> 04:12:55,000 CANE TO HELP HER WALK. 6436 04:12:55,001 --> 04:12:57,000 SHE HAD TO PAY ALL OF THESE 6437 04:12:57,001 --> 04:13:01,000 EXPENSES OUT OF POCKET, DRAING 6438 04:13:01,001 --> 04:13:02,000 HER SAVINGS AND COMPROMISING HER 6439 04:13:02,001 --> 04:13:04,000 ECONOMIC SECURITY. 6440 04:13:04,001 --> 04:13:07,000 LAST WEEK, I SPOKE AT THE CENTER 6441 04:13:07,001 --> 04:13:09,000 FOR WORKING-CLASS STUDIES AT 6442 04:13:09,001 --> 04:13:10,000 YOUNGSTOWN STATE, ONE OF THE 6443 04:13:10,001 --> 04:13:12,000 NATION'S FIRST AND CERTAINLY THE 6444 04:13:12,001 --> 04:13:14,000 NATION'S PREMIER ACADEMIC 6445 04:13:14,001 --> 04:13:16,000 PROGRAM DEVOTED TO THE MANY 6446 04:13:16,001 --> 04:13:19,000 FACES TO DEAL WITH THE AMERICAN WORKER. 6447 04:13:19,001 --> 04:13:20,000 THE FACTORY WORKER IN 6448 04:13:20,001 --> 04:13:23,000 YOUNGSTOWN, THE HOME CARE WORKER 6449 04:13:23,001 --> 04:13:24,000 IN NILES, THE TRUCK DRIVER IN 6450 04:13:24,001 --> 04:13:27,000 BORGMAN. 6451 04:13:27,001 --> 04:13:28,000 THE CENTER TELLS THE STORY OF 6452 04:13:28,001 --> 04:13:29,000 WORKING-CLASS COMMUNITIES TO A 6453 04:13:29,001 --> 04:13:31,000 NATION THAT IT HELPED BUILD. 6454 04:13:31,001 --> 04:13:33,000 OHIOANS FROM ACROSS THE MAHONEY 6455 04:13:33,001 --> 04:13:34,000 VALLEY SHOWED UP TO LISTEN WHILE 6456 04:13:34,001 --> 04:13:36,000 OTHERS SHOWED UP TO TELL THE 6457 04:13:36,001 --> 04:13:37,000 STORY OF A WORKING-CLASS FAMILY 6458 04:13:37,001 --> 04:13:38,000 STRUGGLING WITH THE CRUSHING 6459 04:13:38,001 --> 04:13:40,000 COSTS OF HEALTH CARE. 6460 04:13:40,001 --> 04:13:43,000 JOHN FROM CHAMPION, OHIO, 6461 04:13:43,001 --> 04:13:44,000 DESCRIBED HOW HIS SICK NEPHEW 6462 04:13:44,001 --> 04:13:46,000 LACKS HEALTH INSURANCE AND 6463 04:13:46,001 --> 04:13:47,000 AFFORD THE NEUROLOGIST HE'S 6464 04:13:47,001 --> 04:13:49,000 SUPPOSED TO SEE. 6465 04:13:49,001 --> 04:13:51,000 JOHN SAID IF HEALTH REFORM 6466 04:13:51,001 --> 04:13:52,000 DOESN'T PASS SOON, HIS NEPHEW 6467 04:13:52,001 --> 04:13:54,000 PROBABLY WON'T LIVE LONG ENOUGH 6468 04:13:54,001 --> 04:13:56,000 TO RECEIVE THE CARE THAT HE SO 6469 04:13:56,001 --> 04:13:58,000 DESPERATELY NEEDS. 6470 04:13:58,001 --> 04:14:00,000 MICHELLE FROM YOUNGSTOWN ASKED 6471 04:14:00,001 --> 04:14:02,000 THE QUESTION AT THE ROOT OF ALL 6472 04:14:02,001 --> 04:14:03,000 THE STRUGGLES HAVE 6473 04:14:03,001 --> 04:14:05,000 PROGRESSIVE LABOR MOVEMENT. 6474 04:14:05,001 --> 04:14:06,000 MICHELLE, IN HER EARLY 30'S, IS 6475 04:14:06,001 --> 04:14:07,000 ONE OF THE NEARLY 50 MILLION 6476 04:14:07,001 --> 04:14:09,000 AMERICANS WHO'S UNINSURED. 6477 04:14:09,001 --> 04:14:11,000 SHE ASKED: ISN'T HEALTH REFORM A 6478 04:14:11,001 --> 04:14:12,000 MORAL ISSUE, WHERE PEOPLE IN 6479 04:14:12,001 --> 04:14:14,000 NEED AND DESERVE CARE SHOULD 6480 04:14:14,001 --> 04:14:16,000 HAVE ACCESS TO IT? 6481 04:14:16,001 --> 04:14:18,000 THE QUESTION OF MORALITY, 6482 04:14:18,001 --> 04:14:19,000 WHETHER COAL MINERS' LIVES 6483 04:14:19,001 --> 04:14:22,000 SHOULD BE 6484 04:14:22,001 --> 04:14:23,000 SAFETY SHOULD BE -- OR FOOD 6485 04:14:23,001 --> 04:14:25,000 SAFETY SHOULD BE ESSENTIAL, OR 6486 04:14:25,001 --> 04:14:27,000 THE RIGHT TO 6487 04:14:27,001 --> 04:14:28,000 BE ABSOLUTE, HAS LONG DEFED 6488 04:14:28,001 --> 04:14:29,000 THE LABOR 6489 04:14:29,001 --> 04:14:30,000 MISSION. 6490 04:14:30,001 --> 04:14:33,000 THE PASSING OF SENATOR KENNEDY, 6491 04:14:33,001 --> 04:14:34,000 WHO SAT JUST TWO DESKS AWAY, A 6492 04:14:34,001 --> 04:14:35,000 CHAMPION OF THE AMERICAN WORKER, 6493 04:14:35,001 --> 04:14:37,000 REMINDS ALL OF US 6494 04:14:37,001 --> 04:14:39,000 GOVERNMENT CAN AND SHOULD DO IN 6495 04:14:39,001 --> 04:14:41,000 BEHALF OF AMERICAN 6496 04:14:41,001 --> 04:14:43,000 THE HISTORY OF OUR 6497 04:14:43,001 --> 04:14:44,000 THAT OUR WORKERS HELPED 6498 04:14:44,001 --> 04:14:47,000 TRANSITION OUR NATION FROM ONE 6499 04:14:47,001 --> 04:14:48,000 INDUSTRY TO THE NEXT, DRIVING 6500 04:14:48,001 --> 04:14:50,000 INNOVATION, CREATING ECONOMIC 6501 04:14:50,001 --> 04:14:51,000 PROSPERITY FOR WORKERS AND 6502 04:14:51,001 --> 04:14:54,000 COMMUNITIES AND INDUS 6503 04:14:54,001 --> 04:14:56,000 CREATING THE MIDDLE CLASS. 6504 04:14:56,001 --> 04:14:57,000 THE HTORY OF OUR NATION SHOWS 6505 04:14:57,001 --> 04:14:59,000 THOSE WHO WORK HARD AND PLAY BY 6506 04:14:59,001 --> 04:15:01,000 THE RULES HAVE SOMETHING TO SHOW 6507 04:15:01,001 --> 04:15:03,000 FOR IT: A SECURE AND GOOD-PAYING 6508 04:15:03,001 --> 04:15:04,000 JOB THAT SUPPORTED FAMILY AND 6509 04:15:04,001 --> 04:15:05,000 GAVE MEANING. 6510 04:15:05,001 --> 04:15:07,000 TODAY, THE AMERICAN WORKER IS 6511 04:15:07,001 --> 04:15:08,000 CONFRONTED WITH ECONOMIC 6512 04:15:08,001 --> 04:15:11,000 CHALLENGES THAT THREATEN TO 6513 04:15:11,001 --> 04:15:15,000 UNDERMIND OUR 6514 04:15:15,001 --> 04:15:16,000 WORKERS FROM LORAIN TO 6515 04:15:16,001 --> 04:15:17,000 WILMINGTON, TO ZANESVILLE 6516 04:15:17,001 --> 04:15:19,000 DESERVE A GOVERNMENT THAT DOES 6517 04:15:19,001 --> 04:15:21,000 MORE AND DOES BETTER FOR THEM. 6518 04:15:21,001 --> 04:15:22,000 TODAY, PRESIDENT OBAMA AND MANY 6519 04:15:22,001 --> 04:15:24,000 OF US IN CONGRESS ARE WORKING TO 6520 04:15:24,001 --> 04:15:26,000 ENSURE WORKERS BE JUSTLY 6521 04:15:26,001 --> 04:15:28,000 REWARDED FOR THEIR LABOR. 6522 04:15:28,001 --> 04:15:29,000 AS OHIOANS UNDERSTAND, 6523 04:15:29,001 --> 04:15:31,000 MANUFACTURING RECOGNIZES THE 6524 04:15:31,001 --> 04:15:32,000 VALUE OF AN HONEST DAY'S PAY FOR 6525 04:15:32,001 --> 04:15:34,000 AN HONEST DAY'S WORK. 6526 04:15:34,001 --> 04:15:35,000 WE KNOW MANUFACTURING IS A 6527 04:15:35,001 --> 04:15:37,000 TICKET TO THE MIDDLE-CLASS AND 6528 04:15:37,001 --> 04:15:39,000 WE KNOW A STRONG MIDDLE-CLASS 6529 04:15:39,001 --> 04:15:41,000 MAKES A STRONGER NATION. 6530 04:15:41,001 --> 04:15:42,000 THAT'S WHY AMERICANS DESERVE A 6531 04:15:42,001 --> 04:15:44,000 MANUFACTURING POLICY THAT WORKS 6532 04:15:44,001 --> 04:15:46,000 FOR THEM. 6533 04:15:46,001 --> 04:15:48,000 MANUFACTURING 6534 04:15:48,001 --> 04:15:50,000 THAN 6535 04:15:50,001 --> 04:15:51,000 AND NEARLY WE THREE-FOURTHS OF 6536 04:15:51,001 --> 04:15:54,000 OUR NATION'S INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH. 6537 04:15:54,001 --> 04:15:56,000 MANUFACTURING JOBS PAY 20% MORE 6538 04:15:56,001 --> 04:15:58,000 ON AVERAGE THAN SERVICE JOBS. 6539 04:15:58,001 --> 04:16:01,000 FOR EVERY MASSIVE AUTO PLANT YOU 6540 04:16:01,001 --> 04:16:04,000 SEE DRIVING FROM EAST TO WEST 6541 04:16:04,001 --> 04:16:05,000 ALONG 6542 04:16:05,001 --> 04:16:07,000 YOUNGSTOWN PAST TOLEDO THERE ARE 6543 04:16:07,001 --> 04:16:10,000 DOZENS OF M 6544 04:16:10,001 --> 04:16:11,000 COMPONENT PARTS AND SERVICES FOR 6545 04:16:11,001 --> 04:16:13,000 EMERGING INDUSTRIES IN CLEAN 6546 04:16:13,001 --> 04:16:15,000 ENERGY AND AEROSPACE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY. 6547 04:16:15,001 --> 04:16:17,000 I APPLAUD THE ADMINISTRATION'S 6548 04:16:17,001 --> 04:16:19,000 DECISION TO TAP 6549 04:16:19,001 --> 04:16:21,000 DIRECT A NATIONAL STRATEGY TO 6550 04:16:21,001 --> 04:16:23,000 HELP MANUFACTURERS TRANSITION TO 6551 04:16:23,001 --> 04:16:25,000 THE 21st CENTURY ECONOMY. 6552 04:16:25,001 --> 04:16:27,000 IT'S NOT AN EASY TASK BUT ONE 6553 04:16:27,001 --> 04:16:28,000 THAT REQUIRES HARD WORK AND 6554 04:16:28,001 --> 04:16:30,000 PROGRESSIVE VISION. 6555 04:16:30,001 --> 04:16:32,000 BUT IN NO UNCERTAIN 6556 04:16:32,001 --> 04:16:33,000 NATION MUST ESTABLISH A NATIONAL 6557 04:16:33,001 --> 04:16:36,000 POLICY THAT ONCE AGA INVESTS 6558 04:16:36,001 --> 04:16:38,000 IN OUR MOST IMPORTANT AMERICAN 6559 04:16:38,001 --> 04:16:39,000 ASSET: THE AMERICAN WORKER. 6560 04:16:39,001 --> 04:16:40,000 THE ECONOMIC SUBCOMMITTEE POLICY 6561 04:16:40,001 --> 04:16:42,000 THAT I CHAIR WE HAVE LOOKED AT 6562 04:16:42,001 --> 04:16:44,000 THE ELEMENTS OF A NATIONAL 6563 04:16:44,001 --> 04:16:46,000 MANUFACTURING STRATEGY. 6564 04:16:46,001 --> 04:16:47,000 INVESTING IN INNOVATION, 6565 04:16:47,001 --> 04:16:49,000 STRENGTHENING OUR COMPONENT PART 6566 04:16:49,001 --> 04:16:51,000 SUPPLY LINE, CONDUCTING WORKERS 6567 04:16:51,001 --> 04:16:53,000 WITH JOBS IN EMERGING 6568 04:16:53,001 --> 04:16:55,000 INDUSTRIES, IMPROVING ASSISTANCE 6569 04:16:55,001 --> 04:16:58,000 FOR DISTRESSED COMMUNITIES AND 6570 04:16:58,001 --> 04:17:00,000 REVAMPING HOW OUR NATION DOES TRADE. 6571 04:17:00,001 --> 04:17:02,000 DROP RIGHT WE CAN REINVEST IN 6572 04:17:02,001 --> 04:17:03,000 THE CAPACITY TO BUILD THE NEXT 6573 04:17:03,001 --> 04:17:06,000 GENERATION OF TECHNOLOGIES AND 6574 04:17:06,001 --> 04:17:07,000 REBUILD OUR NEXT GENERATION OF 6575 04:17:07,001 --> 04:17:09,000 MIDDLE-CLASS FAMILIES AND CREATE 6576 04:17:09,001 --> 04:17:12,000 NEW INDUSTRY, WE CREATE 6577 04:17:12,001 --> 04:17:14,000 GOOD-PAYING JOBS AND SECURE JOBS. 6578 04:17:14,001 --> 04:17:17,000 DONE RIGHT, WE ENSURE THE FUTURE 6579 04:17:17,001 --> 04:17:19,000 OF OUR NATION'S GLOBAL ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS. 6580 04:17:19,001 --> 04:17:20,000 MR. PRESIDENT, LET'S HONOR THE 6581 04:17:20,001 --> 04:17:22,000 STORY OF THE AMERICAN WORKER WHO 6582 04:17:22,001 --> 04:17:24,000 BUILT THIS COUNTRY, WHO 6583 04:17:24,001 --> 04:17:25,000 SUSTAINED OUR MIDDLE-CLASS BY 6584 04:17:25,001 --> 04:17:27,000 REINVESTING IN THEM. 6585 04:17:27,001 --> 04:17:28,000 LABOR DAY IS A TIME TO HONOR A 6586 04:17:28,001 --> 04:17:31,000 MOVEMENT THAT RESPECTS OUR 6587 04:17:31,001 --> 04:17:32,000 DIGNITY OF WORK AND REFLECTS ON 6588 04:17:32,001 --> 04:17:35,000 DECENCY AND DEDICATION OF OUR WORKERS. 6589 04:17:35,001 --> 04:17:36,000 THIS YEAR LABOR DAY COMES AT A 6590 04:17:36,001 --> 04:17:38,000 HISTORIC TIME IN THE PROGRESSIVE 6591 04:17:38,001 --> 04:17:41,000 LABOR MOVEMENTS ONGOING MARKET 6592 04:17:41,001 --> 04:17:43,000 TO ECONOMIC SECURITY AND A NEW 6593 04:17:43,001 --> 04:17:45,000 ERA 6594 04:17:45,001 --> 04:17:46,000 NATIONAL MANUFACTURING POLICY, 6595 04:17:46,001 --> 04:17:48,000 HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM MUST BE 6596 04:17:48,001 --> 04:17:50,000 PART OF THIS NATION'S LEGACY OF 6597 04:17:50,001 --> 04:17:53,000 GIVING MEANING TO WORKERS AND 6598 04:17:53,001 --> 04:17:55,000 GIVING HOPE TO THE MIDDLE-CLASS. 6599 04:17:55,001 --> 04:17:57,000 THE VOTE ON HEALTH INSURANCE 6600 04:17:57,001 --> 04:17:59,000 REFORM WILL BE NEXT TO MY VOTE 6601 04:17:59,001 --> 04:18:02,000 IN OPPOSITION TO THE IRAQ WAR, 6602 04:18:02,001 --> 04:18:04,000 SIX YEARS AGO AS A MEMBER OF THE 6603 04:18:04,001 --> 04:18:05,000 VOTE WILL BE THE MOST IMPORTANT 6604 04:18:05,001 --> 04:18:08,000 VOTE I CAST IN THIS CHAMBER. 6605 04:18:08,001 --> 04:18:09,000 I HOPE AT THIS TIME NEXT YEAR I 6606 04:18:09,001 --> 04:18:11,000 WILL BE READING THE STORIES OF 6607 04:18:11,001 --> 04:18:13,000 OHIO WORKERS WHO LIVE WITH THE 6608 04:18:13,001 --> 04:18:14,000 HK THEY DESERVE AND THE DIGNITY 6609 04:18:14,001 --> 04:18:18,000 THEY HAVE EARNED. 6610 04:18:18,001 --> 04:18:19,000 THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. I YIELD THE FLOOR. I NOTE THE 6611 04:18:19,001 --> 04:18:23,000 ABSENCE OF A QUORUM. 6612 04:18:23,001 --> 04:30:24,000 WILL CALL THE ROLL. 6613 04:30:24,001 --> 04:44:47,000 QUORUM CALL: 6614 04:44:47,001 --> 05:01:39,000 QUORUM CALL: 6615 05:01:39,001 --> 05:01:40,000 QUORUM CALL: 6616 05:01:40,001 --> 05:01:42,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 6617 05:01:42,001 --> 05:01:44,000 SENATOR FROM 6618 05:01:44,001 --> 05:01:47,000 A SENATOR: 6619 05:01:47,001 --> 05:01:49,000 CONSENT THAT THE QUORUM CALL BE VITIATED. 6620 05:01:49,001 --> 05:01:50,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: WITHOUT OBJECTION. 6621 05:01:50,001 --> 05:01:52,000 A SENATOR: I ASK UNANIMOUS CONSENT THE SENATE PROCEED TO 6622 05:01:52,001 --> 05:01:53,000 MORNING BUSINESS WITH SENATORS 6623 05:01:53,001 --> 05:01:55,000 PERPTED TO SPEAK FOR UP TO TEN 6624 05:01:55,001 --> 05:01:57,000 MINUTES EACH. 6625 05:01:57,001 --> 05:01:58,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: WITHOUT OBJECTION. 6626 05:01:58,001 --> 05:01:59,000 MR. UDALL: I ASK UNANIMOUS CONSENT THAT THE SENATE PROCEED 6627 05:01:59,001 --> 05:02:02,000 TO THE IMMEDIATE CONSIDERATION 6628 05:02:02,001 --> 05:02:04,000 OF H. CON. RESOLUTION 6629 05:02:04,001 --> 05:02:05,000 DESK AND JUST RECEIVED FROM THE HOUSE. 6630 05:02:05,001 --> 05:02:06,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 6631 05:02:06,001 --> 05:02:08,000 CLERK WILL 6632 05:02:08,001 --> 05:02:10,000 THE CLERK: H. 6633 05:02:10,001 --> 05:02:11,000 PROVIDING FOR A JOINT SESSION OF 6634 05:02:11,001 --> 05:02:15,000 CONGRESS TO RECEIVE A MESSAGE 6635 05:02:15,001 --> 05:02:16,000 FROM THE PRESIDING OFFICER: WITHOUT 6636 05:02:16,001 --> 05:02:18,000 OBJECTION, THE SENATE WILL 6637 05:02:18,001 --> 05:02:19,000 PROCEED TO THE MEASURE. 6638 05:02:19,001 --> 05:02:20,000 MR. UDALL: MR. PRESIDENT, I'D 6639 05:02:20,001 --> 05:02:21,000 ASK UNANIMOUS CONSENT THAT THE 6640 05:02:21,001 --> 05:02:23,000 CONCURRENT RESOLUTION BE AGREED 6641 05:02:23,001 --> 05:02:24,000 TO AND THE MOTION TO RECONSIDER 6642 05:02:24,001 --> 05:02:28,000 BE LAID UPON THE TABLE. 6643 05:02:28,001 --> 05:02:30,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: WITHOUT OBJECTION. 6644 05:02:30,001 --> 05:02:31,000 MR. UDALL: MR. PRESIDENT, I'D 6645 05:02:31,001 --> 05:02:32,000 ASK UNANIMOUS CONSENT THAT THE 6646 05:02:32,001 --> 05:02:34,000 PRESIDINGFFICER OF TH 6647 05:02:34,001 --> 05:02:36,000 BE AUTHORIZED TO APPOINT A 6648 05:02:36,001 --> 05:02:37,000 COMMITTEE ON THE PART OF THE 6649 05:02:37,001 --> 05:02:38,000 SENATE TO JOIN THE LIKE 6650 05:02:38,001 --> 05:02:39,000 COMMITTEE ON THE PAR 6651 05:02:39,001 --> 05:02:40,000 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO 6652 05:02:40,001 --> 05:02:41,000 ESCORT THE PRESIDENT OF THE 6653 05:02:41,001 --> 05:02:42,000 UNITED STATES INTO THE HOUSE 6654 05:02:42,001 --> 05:02:45,000 CHAMBER FOR THE JOINT SESSION TO 6655 05:02:45,001 --> 05:02:46,000 BE HELD 8:00 P.M. ON WEDNESDAY, 6656 05:02:46,001 --> 05:02:48,000 SEPTEMBER 9, 2009. 6657 05:02:48,001 --> 05:02:50,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: WITHOUT OBJECTION. 6658 05:02:50,001 --> 05:02:52,000 MR. UDALL: MR. PRESIDENT, I UNDERSTAND THAT APPOINTMENTS 6659 05:02:52,001 --> 05:02:56,000 WERE MADE DURING THE ADJOURNMENT 6660 05:02:56,001 --> 05:02:57,000 OF THE SENATE AND I ASK CONSENT 6661 05:02:57,001 --> 05:02:58,000 THEY BE PRINTED IN THE RECORD. THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THOUT 6662 05:02:58,001 --> 05:02:59,000 OBJECTION. MR. UDALL: MR. PRESIDENT, I 6663 05:02:59,001 --> 05:03:00,000 ASK UNANIMOUS CONSENT THAT 6664 05:03:00,001 --> 05:03:02,000 DURING THE PERIOD THAT SENATOR 6665 05:03:02,001 --> 05:03:03,000 MIKULSKI IS CONFINED TO A 6666 05:03:03,001 --> 05:03:05,000 WHEELCHAIR THAT A MEMBER OF HER 6667 05:03:05,001 --> 05:03:08,000 STAFF BE PERMITTED ON THE FLOOR 6668 05:03:08,001 --> 05:03:09,000 THE SENATOR'S MOVEMENT. 6669 05:03:09,001 --> 05:03:11,000 THE PR OBJECTION. 6670 05:03:11,001 --> 05:03:12,000 MR. UDALL: MR. PSIDENT, 6671 05:03:12,001 --> 05:03:13,000 NOTE THE ABSENCE OF A 6672 05:03:13,001 --> 05:03:19,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE 6673 05:03:19,001 --> 05:03:25,000 CLERK WILL CALL THE 6674 05:03:25,001 --> 05:03:28,000 QUORUM CALL: 6675 05:03:28,001 --> 05:03:30,000 MR. UDALL: THPRESIDING OFFICER: THE 6676 05:03:30,001 --> 05:03:31,000 SENATOR FROM COLORADO. 6677 05:03:31,001 --> 05:03:33,000 MR. UDALL: I ASK UNANIMOUS 6678 05:03:33,001 --> 05:03:34,000 CONSENT THAT THE QUORUM CALL BE LIFTED. 6679 05:03:34,001 --> 05:03:35,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: WITHOUT OBJECTION. 6680 05:03:35,001 --> 05:03:36,000 MR. UDALL: I ASK UNANIMOUS 6681 05:03:36,001 --> 05:03:38,000 CONSENT THAT THE SENATE PROCEED 6682 05:03:38,001 --> 05:03:42,000 TO EXECUTIVE SESSION TO CONSIDER 6683 05:03:42,001 --> 05:03:44,000 CALENDAR ITEM 302, GEORGE 6684 05:03:44,001 --> 05:03:45,000 MADISON FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF 6685 05:03:45,001 --> 05:03:46,000 TREASURY, THE NOMINATION BE 6686 05:03:46,001 --> 05:03:47,000 CONFIRMED, MOTION TO RECONSIDER 6687 05:03:47,001 --> 05:03:49,000 BE LAID UPON THE TABLE, THAT NO 6688 05:03:49,001 --> 05:03:50,000 FURTHER MOTIONS BE IN ORDER, 6689 05:03:50,001 --> 05:03:52,000 THAT ANY 6690 05:03:52,001 --> 05:03:53,000 THE NOMINATION APPEAR AT THE 6691 05:03:53,001 --> 05:03:54,000 APPROPRIATE PLACE IN THE RECORD 6692 05:03:54,001 --> 05:03:56,000 AS IF READ, THAT THE PRESIDENT 6693 05:03:56,001 --> 05:03:58,000 BE IMMEDIATELY NOTIFIED OF THE 6694 05:03:58,001 --> 05:03:59,000 SENATE'S ACTION AND 6695 05:03:59,001 --> 05:04:00,000 RESUME LEGISLATIVE SESSION. 6696 05:04:00,001 --> 05:04:01,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: WITHOUT 6697 05:04:01,001 --> 05:04:02,000 OBJECTION. 6698 05:04:02,001 --> 05:04:03,000 MR. UDALL: MR. PRESIDENT, I 6699 05:04:03,001 --> 05:04:04,000 ASK UNANIMOUS CONSENT THAT THE 6700 05:04:04,001 --> 05:04:06,000 SENATE PROCEED TO THE IMMEDIATE 6701 05:04:06,001 --> 05:04:08,000 CONSIDERATION OF SENATE 6702 05:04:08,001 --> 05:04:09,000 RESOLUTION 255 SUBMITTED EARLIER 6703 05:04:09,001 --> 05:04:12,000 THE PRESIDING 6704 05:04:12,001 --> 05:04:15,000 CLERK WILL 6705 05:04:15,001 --> 05:04:16,000 MR. UDALL: SENATE RESOLUTION 6706 05:04:16,001 --> 05:04:19,000 255, RELATIVE TO THE DEATH OF 6707 05:04:19,001 --> 05:04:21,000 THE HONORABLE EDWARD MOORE 6708 05:04:21,001 --> 05:04:23,000 KENNEDY, A SENATOR FROM THE 6709 05:04:23,001 --> 05:04:24,000 CO THE PRESIDING OFFICER: WITHOUT 6710 05:04:24,001 --> 05:04:26,000 OBJECTION, THE SENATE WILL 6711 05:04:26,001 --> 05:04:28,000 PROCEED TO THE 6712 05:04:28,001 --> 05:04:30,000 MR. UDALL: MR. PRESIDENT, I ASK UNANIMOUS CONSENT THAT THE 6713 05:04:30,001 --> 05:04:31,000 RESOLUTION BEGREED TO, THE 6714 05:04:31,001 --> 05:04:32,000 PREAMBLE AGREED TO, AND THE 6715 05:04:32,001 --> 05:04:34,000 MOTION TO RECONSIDER 6716 05:04:34,001 --> 05:04:36,000 ON THE TABLE, THAT ANY 6717 05:04:36,001 --> 05:04:38,000 STATEMENTS RELATING TO THE MEASURE APPEAR AT THE 6718 05:04:38,001 --> 05:04:39,000 APPROPRIATE PLACE IN T 6719 05:04:39,001 --> 05:04:41,000 AS IF R 6720 05:04:41,001 --> 05:04:44,000 INTERVENING ACTION OR 6721 05:04:44,001 --> 05:04:46,000 THE PRESIDING OFFICER: WITHOUT OBJECTION. 6722 05:04:46,001 --> 05:04:47,000 MR. UDALL: M PRESIDENT, I ASK UNANIMOUS CONSENT THAT WHEN 6723 05:04:47,001 --> 05:04:50,000 THE SENATE COMPLETES ITS 6724 05:04:50,001 --> 05:04:51,000 BUSINESS TODAY IT ADJOURN UNTIL 6725 05:04:51,001 --> 05:04:52,000 10:00 A.M. TOMORROW, WEDNESDAY, 6726 05:04:52,001 --> 05:04:53,000 SEPTEMBER 9. 6727 05:04:53,001 --> 05:04:54,000 THAT FOLLOWING THE PRAYER AND 6728 05:04:54,001 --> 05:04:56,000 PLEDGE THE JOURNAL OF 6729 05:04:56,001 --> 05:04:57,000 PROCEEDINGS BE APPROVED TO DATE, 6730 05:04:57,001 --> 05:04:59,000 THE MORNING HOUR BE DEEMED 6731 05:04:59,001 --> 05:05:00,000 EXPIRED, THE TIME FOR THE TWO 6732 05:05:00,001 --> 05:05:02,000 LEADERS BE RESERVED FOR THEIR 6733 05:05:02,001 --> 05:05:03,000 USE LATER IN E DAY AND THERE 6734 05:05:03,001 --> 05:05:05,000 THEN WILL BE A PERIOD OF MORNING 6735 05:05:05,001 --> 05:05:06,000 BUSINESS FOR ONE HOUR WITH 6736 05:05:06,001 --> 05:05:08,000 SENATORS PERMITTED TO SPEAK 6737 05:05:08,001 --> 05:05:09,000 THEREIN FOR UP TO TEN MINUTES 6738 05:05:09,001 --> 05:05:10,000 EACH, WITH THE TIME EQUALLY 6739 05:05:10,001 --> 05:05:12,000 DIVIDED AND C 6740 05:05:12,001 --> 05:05:13,000 THE TWO LEADERS OR THEIR 6741 05:05:13,001 --> 05:05:14,000 DESIGNEES WITH THE MAJORITY 6742 05:05:14,001 --> 05:05:15,000 CONTROLLING THE FIRST HALF AND 6743 05:05:15,001 --> 05:05:17,000 THE REPUBLICANS CONTROLLING THE 6744 05:05:17,001 --> 05:05:18,000 SECOND HALF. 6745 05:05:18,001 --> 05:05:20,000 THAT FOLLOWING MORNING BUSINESS, 6746 05:05:20,001 --> 05:05:23,000 THE SENATE RESUME CONSIDERATION 6747 05:05:23,001 --> 05:05:25,000 OF S. 1023, THE TRAVEL PROMOTION 6748 05:05:25,001 --> 05:05:26,000 ACT POSTCLOTURE. 6749 05:05:26,001 --> 05:05:28,000 FURTHER, I ASK THAT TIME 6750 05:05:28,001 --> 05:05:30,000 ANY ADJOURNMENT, RECESS OR 6751 05:05:30,001 --> 05:05:31,000 PERIOD OF MORNING BUSINESS COUNT 6752 05:05:31,001 --> 05:05:33,000 AGAINST THE POSTCLOTURE TIME. 6753 05:05:33,001 --> 05:05:35,000 FINALLY I ASKHAT THE SENATE 6754 05:05:35,001 --> 05:05:39,000 RECESS FROM 12:30 P.M. UNTIL 6755 05:05:39,001 --> 05:05:41,000 2:15 P.M. TO ALLOW FOR THE 6756 05:05:41,001 --> 05:05:42,000 WEEKLY CAUCUS LUNCHES. THE PRESIDING OFFICER: WITHOUT 6757 05:05:42,001 --> 05:05:43,000 OBJECTION. 6758 05:05:43,001 --> 05:05:45,000 MR. UDALL: MR. PRESIDENT, THE 6759 05:05:45,001 --> 05:05:48,000 PO CLOTURE 6760 05:05:48,001 --> 05:05:49,000 AT 4:30 P.M. TOMORROW AFTERNOON. 6761 05:05:49,001 --> 05:05:51,000 WE HOPE WE'LL BE ABLE TO YIELD 6762 05:05:51,001 --> 05:05:52,000 SOME OF THE TIME AND 6763 05:05:52,001 --> 05:05:53,000 PASSAGE OF THE BILL BEFORE 6764 05:05:53,001 --> 05:05:54,000 4:30 P.M. 6765 05:05:54,001 --> 05:05:55,000 SENATORS WILL BE NOTIFIED WHEN 6766 05:05:55,001 --> 05:05:56,000 THAT VOTE IS SCHEDULED. 6767 05:05:56,001 --> 05:05:59,000 IF THERE IS NO FURTHER BUSINESS 6768 05:05:59,001 --> 05:06:00,000 TO COME BEFORE THE SENATE, I ASK 6769 05:06:00,001 --> 05:06:03,000 THAT IT ADJOURN UNDER THE 6770 05:06:03,001 --> 05:06:04,000 PROVISIONS OF SENATE RESOLUTION 6771 05:06:04,001 --> 05:06:06,000 255 AS 6772 05:06:06,001 --> 05:06:09,000 TO THE MEMORY OF OUR LATE 6773 05:06:09,001 --> 05:06:10,000 COLLEAGUE, 6774 05:06:10,001 --> 05:06:11,000 KENNEDY. THE PRESIDING OFCER: UNDER 6775 05:06:11,001 --> 05:06:13,000 THE PREVIOUS ORDER, THE SENATE 6776 05:06:13,001 --> 05:06:14,000 STANDS ADJOURNED UNTIL 6777 05:06:14,001 --> 05:06:16,000 10:00 A.M. ON WEDNESDAY, 6778 05:06:16,001 --> 05:06:18,000 SEPTEMBER 9, 2009, AND DOES SO 6779 05:06:18,001 --> 05:06:20,000 AS A MARK OF FURTHER RESPECT TO