Senate Proceeding on Apr 29th, 2009 :: 0:00:00 to 0:20:00
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Rear Adm. Barry Black: budget for knicks fiscal 2010, live senate coverage on c-span2. ternl father, strong to save, whose arms have bound the restless waves, let your still small voice echo downtime's corridors to renew our lawmakers

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Speech By: Rear Adm. Barry Black

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Rear Adm. Barry Black: and to lift their vision. inspire them to dedicate themselves to eternal values and to be unafraid of the coequences of following the highest standards they know.

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Rear Adm. Barry Black: may they run from the success purchased at the cost of cowardice and cunning. guide them, lord, by your living word, as you infuse them with a spirit of service. help them to see that nothing

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Rear Adm. Barry Black: they do can separate them from your love, but that they can block the experience of your joy. remind them to make your joy their strength. we pray in your holy name.

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Speech By: Harry Reid

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Harry Reid: amen. the presiding officer: please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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Harry Reid: the presiding officer: the clerk will read a communication to the senate. the cl april 29, 2009. to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable tom udall, a senator from the state of new mexico, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: robert c. byrd,

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Harry Reid: president pro tempore. mr. reid: following leader remarks there will be a period of morning business for up to an hour with senators allowed to speak for ten minutes. republicans will control the first half. the democrats the second half. following morning business the signasenate will begin ten hours of debate on concurrent resolution on the budget with the conference report.

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Harry Reid: and an agreement we reached last night the senate will pr conference report upon receiving a message from the house of representatives with respect to the conference report. senators will be notified when the vote on adoption of the conference report is scheduled. mr. president, we will probably vote on that late this afternoon, early evening. we have ten hours. there are no amendments in order.

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Harry Reid: there are no procedural obstacles to finishing that fairly i spoke to chairman conrad. he certainly will not use the five hours to which we're allotted so we will yield back a lot of that time even if the republicans use all their five hours we will be able to vote quickly.

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Harry Reid: as far as the rest of the week, we hope to reach an agreement with republicans to begin consideration of the housing legislation which we should be able to start either tonight or

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Speech By: Tom Udall

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Tom Udall: tomorrow. e er t previous order, the leadership time is reserved. under the previous order, the senate will proceed to a period of morning business for up to one hour with senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes with the time equally divided and controlled between the two leaders or their designees with the republicans controlling the

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Tom Udall: first half and the majority

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Tom Udall: controlling the final half. the presiding officer: the majority leader is recognized. mr. reid: i absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk

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will call the roll. quorum call: mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be terminated. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered.

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mr. reid:? i ask that the time be equally call. objection, so ordered.

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Speech By: Mitch McConnell

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Mitch McConnell: quorum call: the presiding officer: the republican mr. mccoell: are we in a quorum the presiding officer: mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. mcconnell: weere all saddened to hear a texas child has died from the recent

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Mitch McConnell: outbreak ofhe h1n1 flu, a worrisome situation tha following closely. yesterday, secretary napolitano briefed republicans and we appreciate the coordination with congress. the administration has currently the personnel and equipment it needs to handle the situation.

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Mitch McConnell: but going forward, congress is for additional funds in the supplemental. i would note that congress is in a much better position to deal with outbreaks like this as a result othe hard work of senator burr and others who done a great deal on the issue of biopreparedness and on coordinating all the relevant government

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Mitch McConnell: we stand ready to closely work with the administration and protect the american people as this situation second, mr. president, from the very first days of the new administration, senate republicans have pledged to work closely with our new president

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Mitch McConnell: and his cabinet to find solutions to the nation's many foreign and domestic challenges. on the foreign policy front we felt strongly about the need to work with the new administration on unified agenda that protects the american people and furthers our interests abroad. so far we've had two major

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Mitch McConnell: points of co on the question of our strategies and iraq republicans support the presiden in both cases, the best of his military commanders on the ground. we may part way on a number of foreign policy issues, some of which i outlined earlier this week but when it comes to the question of iraq and afghanistan

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Mitch McConnell: the president's strategy is one that most everyone can support. here at home there have admittedly been fewer opportunities forgreement. an ongoing recession and the continuing financial shock led both parties to come up with their own plans to jump-start the economy in the short-term and strengthen its

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Mitch McConnell: foundations in the long term. revolved around $1 trillion stimulus that was neither timely, targeted or temporary. as well as a decision to press forward on several major controversial legislative proposals. and if the president's budgets is fully implemented it would double the national debt in five years and triple it in 10 years.

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Mitch McConnell: republicans had a different approach: we worked with democrats last fall to pass a financial rescue plan aimed at stabilizing the overall economy. but we refused to support a second round of funds within the ad us it would -- it would be used to address the crisis at hand. when it came to an economic stimulus, republicans pointed

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Mitch McConnell: out the glaring weaknesses in the plan and offered a plan of our own that would have cost to the root of the problem which is housing. we also suggested that instead of spending billions on wasteful projects, we loan state and local governments money. this would have encouraged the careful use of taxpayer dollars since state and local government

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Mitch McConnell: would know they have to money back when the economy improves. we also refused to support bailouts for the auto industry since we don't think the government should be picking winners and losers. we said bailouts would only delay necessary reforms for long-term succe and our position was recently vindicated when the automakers came back for even more money

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Mitch McConnell: forcing the administration to talk seriouslly about bankruptcy to achieve the necessary restructuring. when it comes to protecting taxpayers that our children will inherit the new administration has been remarkably carefree. most of this debt is being financed by in the middle east which, of

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Mitch McConnell: course, increases leverage those countries have offer the united states. americans are worried about this and they should be in a time of economic hardship. we should not be borrowing money we won't the current administration seems to disagree. it's just one -- in one week in february the administration's

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Mitch McConnell: actions cost the american taxpayers more than $1 trillion. more than the wars in iraq, afghanistan, and the relief ofs for hurricane katrina -- relief efforts for hurricane katrina combined and support for a single company in the financial sector amounts to $175 billion

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Mitch McConnell: over the past year alone. that's more than what we will spend our arm force afghanistan and iraq. so far this year the most far-reaching legislation we've considered is the budget. in the middle of a recession the same democrats who were outraged over a $455 billion deficit year came to us this year with a

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Mitch McConnell: budget that would lead to $1 trillion deficits and which saddled americans with than all the debt we accumulated from george washington to the president day combined. hundreds of thousands of american wo are losing their jobs every month. they're afraid that it will make

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Mitch McConnell: it hard to keep or find jobs. these americans may like the president, but they don't understand how a giant expansion of government will or preserve jobs and they don't think the administration has done enough to explain how borrowing money to create these programs will make america stronger, more secure, and more economically sound. concerned about the administration's approach to a

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Mitch McConnell: number of foreign policy issues that are related to our efforts in afghanistan and iraq. one of the most troubling of these decisions relates to the terrorist detention facility at guantanamo bay. shortly after taking office, the new attorney general was tasked with closing guantanamo by next january. yet three months later the administration still hasn't pr

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Mitch McConnell: with any further details about what will happen to these inmates once the january deadline arrives. the american people don't want terrorists back on the battlefield, and they certainly don't want them released into their neighborhoods, as some in the administration have shockingly proposed, according to news accounts. the administration ha not been

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Mitch McConnell: clear about its reason for closing guantanamo before it has a plan for these new detainees. but its reason can't be that the facility is poorly run, since attorney general holder has said himself that the facilities there are good ones. and it can't be that the administration has a better alternative. if it did, we would have heard about it by now. the american people don't want trained terrorists released into

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Mitch McConnell: their neighborhoo they want answers. unfortunately, the administration has only offered silence. in the face of tremendous challenges at home and abroad, the new administration has offered a burst of activity and a veritable explosion of meanwhile, republicans have proposed responsible solutions that are meant to empower the

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Mitch McConnell: american people and improve the quality of their daily lives. on this front, republicans will continue to offer sensible ideas on health care that address the concerns americans have about the high cost of doctors' visits, about finding good health coverage, and about keeping the coverage they have. the lesson of the failed health care proposal of the clinton

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Mitch McConnell: is not that americans don't want reform; it's that any reform should reflect the needs of all americans, not just a select few here in washington. amicans don't want a health care solution that puts

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Speech By: John McCain

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John McCain: bureaucrats in charge of medical decisions, delays appointments or diminishes the quality of

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Speech By: Mitch McConnell

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Mitch McConnell: health care they already receive. health care is an area where americans expect the president and congress to work together to divid-- to work together. the divide-and-conquer approach didn't work before. it won't work now. the republicans will continue to offer commonsense solutions. last year even before gas prices hit the roof we proposed a

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Mitch McConnell: sensible approach of finng more and using less. republicans will also proposing a dramatic expansion power. this would for energy in the world's largest economy with a growing public desire for cleaner, more efficient energy sources. health care and energy are just two of the areas where republicans will continue to

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Mitch McConnell: offer better ideas in the coming months. and we hope our friends on the other side are of these ideas than they have been of our proposals on the economy. on this point, it's interesting to know that just a few weeks ago democrats showed strong support on the senate floor for republican proposals to protect small businesses and middle-class taxpayers as well as a proposal to keep the

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Mitch McConnell: nation's debt at a manage. they also expressed strong support for a republican proposal that climate change legislation not lead to higher gas and electricity bills. yet these republican proposals which drew such widespread support on the senate floor just a few weeks ago were for some reason t product that came out of the

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Mitch McConnell: closed conference. democrats can't have it both ways. americans are suffering. they're losing homes. they're the republicans have offered and will continue to offer proposals that put the concerns of these ordinary americans first. democrats offer spending, taxes, and debt. massive spending and debt is not

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Mitch McConnell: the answer to a recession. a one-party solution with no checks and balances is not the answer for health care. opposing clean nuclear power and the expanded use of other domestic energy sources is not th answer for our e voti for tax relief before voting against it is not the way to show the american people you have the best -- their best

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Mitch McConnell: economic interests in mind. republicans have not been hesitant to offer o public sport for the new administration and again i commend the president on his approach to afghanistan and iraq. but we have not been hesitant to state our differences clearly. that's been the s first 100 days for senate republicans, and that will continue to be the story for

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Mitch McConnell: senate republicans. principled support, principled opposition, and pragmatic, creative solutions to meet the challenges of the because my state and our country have lost one of our last links