Unanimous requests. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection, so ordered. n mr. Cruz so the first unanimous consent request i would promulgate, mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of h. J. Res. 72, making continuing appropriations for Veterans Benefits for the fiscal year 2014, which was received from the house. I ask further consent that the measure be read three times and passed and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. The presiding officer is there objection . Mrs. Murray mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from washington. Mrs. Murray mr. President , as the presiding officer knows and our colleagues know, i have spoken often of my own father who was a world war ii veteran who spent most of his life in a wheelchair, earned a purple heart. I know the sacrifices that our veterans make. As chair of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee before this, i fought
1. And i ask for five more minutes. The presiding officer is there objection . Hearing none. Ms. Landrieu so this is the record. When people say democrats havent been willing to negotiate, that is false, false, false. We have been trying to negotiate for six months, and the way you negotiate is going to a budget committee. Now we are in control of the senate. The people elected us. No one appointed me here. The people of the United States elected us in a fair and square election. Some of us won by a lot. Some of us won by small amounts. But this was an election by the people of the United States. The people elected the Republican Leadership in the house. They passed a budget. We passed a budget. All we have to do is go to conference. But not everyone in washington is reckless. Not everyone loves to fight over our constituents misfortune of unemployment and lack of business. Theres a small group that put them on the chopping block, and they need to take them off. They should not be used
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0 conference in the next half hour from the ntsb. and we ll bring that to you live when that happens. nbc s kristen dahlgren is at the scene of the crash. kristen, what s the latest there? reporter: well, like you said, we re waiting for the ntsb to brief us so we can get the latest update on numbers, and also, really, their investigation is well under way now. they ve been on scene for several hours. they re looking at a few things. they re trying to come up with the train s black box so they can get some of the data that was recorded by that. they have been throughout the day, investigators here in new york talking with the passengers who were on board that train. also with the conductor and the engineer. we also heard from the governor of new york earlier, and he said that it appears at this point like it was either speed or operator error. this is an area of the tracks that the train goes around a pretty severe curve. usually trains would slow down from 70 miles per hour to 30 mi