I think the crisis above all else is a clarion call for changing our relationship with one another and the planet earth. Why is the extinction crisis in the clarion call . Because it is loud and clear, as all clearing call clarion calls must be. For those willing to listen, it is almost deafening. With each passing there is a celestial bell that rings endlessly in the heavens marking the passage of the another miracle. It is certainly clear it provides clear evidence, unequivocal evidence, that something is amiss. Sweep,ful, over the long billions of years of multicellular life, there been five events that rivaled the extinction crisis that we are in today. If that is not evidence that something is amiss, i dont know what amiss means. We understand the cause of the extinction crisis. It is humaninduced habitat degradation, modification, invasion of species, overexploitation, and over the last few decades, Climate Change. Now for a portion of the the American Noble Energy Institute Summ
, want to plug my colleague senator rockefeller for making significant efforts to bridge the chasm between the committee and the director on some of these issues. It does not appear to be in the directors nature to accept these overtures, frankly. I think that is incredibly unfortunate. I am fully confident in the factual accuracy of the report and nothing in your response so far has persuaded me otherwise. Director brennan, let me get to a few questions. On march 16 2009, 1 of your predecessors leon panetta announced the creation of a directors review group for rendition, detention, and interrogation. To be led by well respected senior cia officer and supervisor supervised by senator [inaudible] who passed away. Do you know when and why the pen review group was disbanded . First of all i respectfully but vehemently disagree with your characterization of the cias cooperation with this committee. I am fully prepared to come forward to this committee any time it requests my appearance. I
Consolidation and production in agriculture, going to continue to drive up land values. Going to make it harder for new beginning farmers to enter the occupation. Its not responsible to thee family farmers and not responsible to the american taxpayer. Weve got historically high commodity target prices in this bill, so any slight dip going to mean huge payments going out in the future. We have the multiple entity rule now that we worked on in the previous farm bill being rolled back in one. We have payment limitation caps being increased rather than brought down to where the will of this congress was last year when we had that debate on the floor. Most of that money is being shifted now into the Crop Insurance program which what i feel is overly generous preemyuss Crop Insurance subsidies to producers which has the potential of taking risk out of production decisions, but were telling the Crop Insurance companies, re going to guarantee a 14 profit margin. Were going to pay your entirely
The presiding officer the senator from ohio. Mr. Brown thank you, mr. President. I ask unanimous consent to dispense with the quorum call. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Brown and ask for unanimous consent also to speak for up to ten minutes as if in in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Brown thank you. Earlier this afternoon, mr. President , i appeared with senator blunt, my republican friend from missouri, in front of senator rockefellers Commerce Committee to talk about our Bipartisan Legislation with manufacturing hubs that would promote new technologies to make our country a leader. Let me illustrate by this, mr. President. Along the ohio turnpike from toledo to lorain to cleveland to sort of akron to youngstown, much of the Auto Industry grew up along that turnpike from glass that would go for wields in windshields in toledo, steel in lorain and cleveland for the fenders and thehoods in much of the car to rubber in akron for tires, the w
From you that we need to take steps to lessen the damage of the supreme courts hatch act so im pleased to announce my colleagues in Indian Affairs have issued a final rule to do just that. They issued it yesterday and that will help with Greater Transparency to make sure that lands will be taken into trust for housing schools and businesses that we want to continue to work with you to ask things like that. Next the Land Buyback Program and the historic cobell. We want to implement that in a smart and flexible way. We have been listening to you. You want predictability and transparency on the timing and implementation efforts and we announce we are expanding the implementimplement ation strategy so more tribes can participate. We know there is time sensitivity to this and we want to work with you to get that fully implemented because we no cobell is really important to write some of the wrongs of the past. The third is Indian Education. You know we have a generational transformation goi