Senate Proceeding on May 13th, 2009 :: 1:05:30 to 1:25:30
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Speech By: Robert Bennett

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Robert Bennett: used when they were holding it up. i would like that historic

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footnote added to his comments. mr. durbin: mr. president, i would acknowledge what my colleague has said, and i dispute it. i don't recall those particular deputies nor their certainly don't qstion the facts as given. how can you look at david hayes for this spot, after 30 years of experience, after having held the job before, after actively

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working with republicans and democrats to issues and say this man is not qualifie i don't get it. i'm waiting for this smoking gun to come out. what is this elosive issue that the republicans know that would hold up this nomination? and they can't come up with it. unfortunately, it's part of a pattern.

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this isn't just abo david hayes. it's about another 18 names sitting on our calendar here, 18 names of individuals who are willing to give up their private careers, willing to come to work here in washington sometimes for a cut in pay under difficult circumstances, to serve this new administration and try to change this country. well, they they get the decision by the family, they come forward, they

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go through the nomination process. they fill out reams of paper. they sit through the committs. they finally get approved by the committees. they get on the calendar, and what happens? usually, and not in this case because senator bennett has been very public about his opposition. usually it's an anonymous some republican senator, fearful of using his name publicly, will

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hold up this indefinitely and these poor people languish on this calendar i commend senator bennett for standing up and stating his opposition. though i don't agree with it, at least he's had the courage to come forward. that's not the case on many of these. this is a pattern emerging. slow things down, force us to a vote. when the vote finally comes, it's an overwhelming vote in favor of the

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the sole purpose is to try to stop the new obama administration from place the team that they need to bring real change to america. president obama said repeatedly during his campaign, real change is hard to come by. it takes time. there will be p fight it every step of the way. we are seeing one of those battles on the floor of the senate today when it comes

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david hayes. for goodness sakes, give president obama and secretary salazar the people that they need to be successful in the department of interior. the cloture motion and to move this nomination forward, and i

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Jeff Merkley: yield the m the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. merkley: i rise to speak in support of confirming david hayes to be secretary of interior. mr. hayes is supremely qualified. he has held this exact position before in the clinton ad he has an impressive track record of handling controversial issues and doing so by building

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Speech By: Jeff Merkley

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Jeff Merkley: consensus among diverse constituencies. he has successfully used this approach a number of times, working in our western states. he worked closely with the senator from arizona on a range of water and environmental issues and negotiated the framework for the az water and settle -- arizona water and settlement act, involving

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Jeff Merkley: municipal, agricultural and tribal water users in the state of arizona. and that is no small matter. you know, they say in the west that whiskey, that's nor talking. but water, that's for fighting. that's how important it is. that's how difficult it is. and it took a good man like this

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Jeff Merkley: to come together and bring interests to solve those problems and move forward. in addition, with senator feinstein to negotiate the acquisition and protection of old-growth redwood head water forests -- the presiding officer: the senator's time has mr. merkley: thank you, mr. president. i'll ask that the balance of my comments be inserted in the

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Jeff Merkley: record and that we have a strong affirmative vote to fill out the interior department and put him to nation. thank you. the presiding officer: without objectio clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. the clerk: we the undersigned senatorsn accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the

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Jeff Merkley: standing rules of t hereby move to bring to a close the debate on the nomination of david j. hayes of virginia to be deputy secreta interior. signed by 17 the presiding officer: by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived.

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the question is: is it the

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sense of the senate that debate

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on the nomination of david j. hayes of virginia to be deputy secretary of the interior shall be brought to a the yeas and nays are mandatory under the the clerk will call the roll.

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