Mr. Reid i send a cloture motion to the desk. The presiding officer the clerk will report the cloture motion. The clerk cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, hereby move to bring to a close the debate on the nomination of Gerald Austin mchugh jr. Of pennsylvania to be United States district judge for the Eastern District of pennsylvania, signed by 17 senators as follows mr. Reid i ask consent the reading of the names be waived. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent the quorum under rule 22 be waived. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i now move to proceed to legislative session. The presiding officer the question is on the motion. All in favor aye. Opposed no. The motion is agreed to. Mr. Reid i now move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 584. The presiding officer the question is on the motion. All in favor say aye. All
A spiritual advisor of the 9 11 bombers. This is not some extraneous person. This is someone who is a major in the militarys communicating by email within. Despite all of our surveillance capabilities, we failed to prevent that horrific that claimed the lives of 14 innocents. In your judgment, what could we have done better to prevent that . To be honest, i will answer that question to senator graham. The that may suggest more broadly on both of these that it would be a far better allocation of resources in the nsa and our efforts to prevent terrorism generally as much by resources were big to targeting those who we have reason to know are dangerous. We have reasons to know the islamic terrorist and have less resources were devoted to broderick intersection and her valence of lawabiding citizens. It is to me for some time that the priorities have been backwards and we had to be targeting the bad guys than protect innocents from terrorist attacks and at the same time respecting the Cons
And also one of the things that excites me is developing computer simulations and models so that you can actually study some of these devices in that context instead of in animal models or people in the early stages so that you can really number one manipulate things and play with it more but also reduce costs and potential risks to patients but still really get import information to again moved things that have promise into the marketplace and making a difference in peoples lives. So i think its a wonderful public credit partnership. Thank you for your leadership in helping to make it possible and we are very committed to working with it read we are seeing the benefits already and we see more importantly a foundation for lots more progress. Well thank you for your role in that and for your excitement about it. Senator enzi. Thank you mr. Chairman. I would like to revisit the goals you immediately identified when he took the helm at the fda modernizing how the agency considers new ther
Quorum call ms. Stabenow id ask suspension of the quorum call. The presiding officer the senator from michigan. Without objection. Ms. Stabenow thank you very much, mr. President. Mr. President , im here today to talk about an issue that impacts tens of millions of people across the country and hangs over our entire economy, and thats student debt. Right now borrowers have accumulated over 1. 2 trillion in student debt. Think about that for a minute. Thats more than people owe on their credit cards. Talk about a drag for the individual, for their family, but for the entire economy. Students in my home state of michigan are among the most heavily indebted in the country when they graduate. And, frankly, we want them to get degrees, not debt when they graduate. Nearly twothirds of students in michigan who graduated in 2012 had Student Loan Debt with each student averaging nearly 29,000. So they walked outside the door, congratulations, take off the cap and gown and get a 29,000 bill. Thi
Her mom graduated from that , and in a normal world maybe she would have gone to that cool. Said, do yout and want to speak up and put a face to this travesty . Kind enough to say yes, will do that. This brings us to where we are now. Break a bit a of context. Boko haram are gentlemen terrorists. Tongueincheek. They say, we dont kill the elderly. We dont kill women. Count. Ans and jews dont they cameis classic. In to kill the pastore, and they made a calculation that the sun should be killed or does he might grow up and become a pastor. This is an example of shifting those it would not kill. What has happened from the Fact Finding Missions was the christian response was they would move the men out and leave the women the hind. Behind. There were many camps who left women behind because boko haram said they dont kill weapon. That changed overnight. Boko haram realized they are going out of the terrorism business. We have to come up with a new plan. We have 300 young women abducted , tak