Signed by 17 senators. Mr. Reid mr. President , i ask that the reading of the names not be necessary. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i ask consent the mandatory quorum under rule 2 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 those in favor say aye. All those opposed say no. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes have it. The question is agreed to. Mr. Reid mr. President , i ask unanimous consent notwithstanding rule 22 at 10 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning, december 4, all postcloture time be considered expired and the senate proceed to vote on confirmation of calendar 555 and 660. Further, that following these votes, the senate proceed to vote on cloture on the following nominations 1039, 1040 and 835. Further, if cloture is invoked on any of these nominations that the time until 1 45 be in morning business for debate only equally divided in the usual form
Matthew lee joins us to discuss the palestine conflict. Well talk with ed bingle a former customs and Border Protection official but minors crossing the border. Piece piece. Every morning on cspan at 7 00 eastern. President obama on monday awarded the medal of honor to formal active duty Sergeant Ryan pits. He held off the taliban during an attack on his unit. He the ninth recipient to be award awarded for the war in iraq or afghanistan. He is of the chosen few to receive this honor today as the nation pauses to recognize him. Our hearts are touched by staff Sergeant Ryan pits. He humbly insisted that his remarkable actions were simply was his duty it will always be on his loyalty to his unit. We acknowledge that devotion came from a faithful family who prayed for and supported him. We join our hearts together as we honor him today. We honor the courage and commitment of all who serve in harms way. This we pray in your holy same, amen. Good afternoon everybody. Welcome to the white hou
The house and Senate Taking up a hearing on u. S. Policy in iraq. Iraq continues to be a big concern in addition to the other conflicts. I know there were some concerns over the webbing end with jordan and iraq situation with them. Beyond hearings and there are not that i have my list in front of me. Beyond hearings i think again the probably one of the markka one twz of the webbing. We will have to keep watching for reactions in russia and ukraine and the middle east. At some point i think we will see calls for the u. S. To help ukraine ukraine. As i scan this hearing list, there is at least in the senate it specks to a lack of accountability. Accountability. They are also looking at Flood Insurance issues but appropriations was supposed to be big success of the month. That there was going to be big deals done before the recess happens. We may get some sense this week whether it will move at all. I just want to get your reaction to your colleague who was a story this morning leadershi
Never ending decades of controversy in which the defenders tried to make slanders of the authors of witness stick. Today, i want to introduce the three panelists. This is an amazingly powerful group we have here. All at once. Leave it to them. They will take it over. Each, i hope, making remarks ten minute, and well open it up for further discussion. Elliot a abrams had a remarkable strings of enormous importance. I remember him going back to the early reagan years. He began my knowledge with human rights, and that was really something, the jimmy carter invention of human rights, and in charge of latin american affairs, positions in the white house, and in every case, he really always brought deeply moral and intellectual realm into the work he was doing in practice and in policy, and now he is the truth teller in an entirely new career, it seems to me, an issue in the middle east, the arab israeli problem, telling the truth where the truth is very rarely to be found or not twisted, an
Story. The warbler that Richard Nixon used to trap hiss in his crossexamination. And these things, they live in kind of a mythological memory. It was in the New York Times about three weeks ago or so, a little box, a warbler had appeared in new york city, in manhattan. The time to photograph it and made a reference to the work of, were going to talk about today. And then i think a classic, enhanced by the seemingly never ending decades of controversy in which the defenders of alger hiss tried to make their slanders of the author of witness stick. Today, i want to introduce the three panelists, and this is an amazingly powerful group we have here. All at once, and then leave it to them, they will take it over. Each i hope making the remarks about 10 minutes, and then we will put it to the floor for further discussion. Elliott abrams has had a remarkable string of positions, of enormous importance. I know him going back to the early reagan years. He began, my knowledge, with human rights