Agree more. We hope the congress will enact a new authorization based upon the principles that we are outlining here today. I want to thank you mr. President , and i hope that our colleagues will take this seriously and hopefully we can turn this mess around. With that, i suggest the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call mr. Hatch mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from utah. Mr. Hatch i suggest the quorum call be suspended. The presiding officer without objection. Morning business is closed. Under the previous order the senate will proceed to executive session to consider the following nomination which the clerk will report. The clerk nomination. Executive office of the president , michael p. Botticelli of the District Of Columbia to be director of the National Drug control policy. The presiding officer under the previous order, there will be 30 minutes of debate equally divided. Mr. Hatch i notice the absence of a quorum. T
Than welcome to add. But im wondering about your talk about the contingent liabilities the u. S. Government has and that is increasing its deficit every year and doesnt seem to care. And for a lot of reasons the federal government seems to be have the markings of a subprime borrower. And the reason why the reason why the they can continue to do this is people keep on lending the money. This is all based on psychology. And because they think that because other people are going to the investor class thinks that because other people other investors are going to keep on lending the government money, thats fine so they can lend money. They can keep on going on. This strikes me as a weak psychology. I know other competitive currencies are in as bad shape as the dollar. The question is do you envision any situation where the investor class will stop just just stop lending money to the u. S. Government at such low Interest Rates . I do think a lot of the fundamentals are worrying about the poi
Its a nod to the past. There is a wing that is more reluctant than the other wing it to go to war. Host we will go next to new york. Caller good morning. I am a frequent viewer but firsttime caller. My question is is the president s job to submit the use of force first off . Has he done that . Secondly, i am so sick of my representative schumer pontificating on how the republicans are holding the american citizens hostage. Arent we Holding American citizen hostage with unconstitutional law in protecting immigrants . It just befuddles me that they can use this argument. Guest let me address that piece by piece. Maybe i will start with as far as immigration i dont see the benefits extended to immigrants that are discriminated against american citizens. This is just shielding emigrants from being deported if they are willing to register. I think will be interesting to see what the statistics are on that registration. Im not sure people are going to come out of the shadows. Let me add some
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Gentleman from West Virginia. Mr. Mckinley, for five minutes. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman, and thank you for the hearings on this topic. As an engineer, i need to see things in perspective. So been following this the last four years in congress and on this committee, trying to look at this issue. I think one of the last meetings we just had, i tried to put it in perspective by saying you said there were 44,000 Overdose Deaths. I want people to understand, thats more than died in vietnam in combat. I dont know that the American Public understands that, and every day on the news, nbc or whatever, they had body counts and had that and people were outraged over that. I am not getting the sense of outrage over every year we are lose as many people to Drug Overdose as we did a ten year war in vietnam. I am concerned when i had affirmed in West Virginia one in five babies born in West Virginia and may be 1 in 4 in other states, but 1 in 5 have been affected with drugs. I keep things in