The president pro tempore on this vote, there are 81 yeas, 18 nays. The bill as reported is passed and, as amended. And under the previous order, the title amendment is agreed to. The president pro tempore without objection, the motion is agreed to. Under the previous order, the senate will proceed to the consideration of h. Con. Res. 25, which the clerk will report. The clerk calendar number 33, h. Con. Res. 25, establishing the budget for the United States government for fiscal year 2014 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 20152023. The president pro tempore and under the previous order, amendment number 2006 is agreed to, the motion to reconsider is considered made, laid upon the table, h. Con. Res. 25, as amended, is agreed to, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid on the table. And the Senate Insists on its amendment, requests a conference with the house on the disagreeing votes of the two houses. Conferees are conferees are instructed to
About those issues or all of the activities that are under review until we come to a conclusion about the way we can balance those if some decisions have been made and you have this uproar overseas and on capitol hill, why not make public some of what you are changing to show people that you are taking action . Well, we are engaged in direct communications through diplomatic channels with a number of countries on these matters, and a number of countries have, as you know, expressed concerns about the reports, the disclosures that are emanated in the wake of the unauthorized leaking of classified information. So that communication is happening, and its robust. And as i said yesterday, we understand the concerns that have been raised, and we are working with our friends and allies to discuss these matters, to explain what were doing in terms of the review that were engaged in and to continue to focus on the cooperative relationships that we have when it comes to intelligence gathering be
I think at that point, pakistan will accept that they have given up the notion that the taliban. Re going to take over i think pakistan now feels that afghanistan threatens pakistan. I will say that pakistan would lower its objective and except some kind about, as long as there is some type of taliban and role. Be toitical thing will have an empowered, fairly elected government supported by the supported Afghan People that can rectify the society. That is critical to discussing the things they talk about. I appreciate hearing the words thank you because that is something president karzai never seems to be able to say. With reference to your own view, what would you want the united to help you achieve the type of elections that the Afghan People will have faith and . I will endorse what he said about the elections, but to add on that, one of the critical things is the type of messages that both the afghan Political Leadership and the public receives starting with raising the bar higher
Political joining us. The meeting . Of it sounds like harry reid is ready to go forward with the Nuclear Option, to change the senate rules by 51 votes, rather than the normal threshold of 67 votes. The higher threshold is usually your usually set to make it harder to occur. He says he is so frustrated with the use of the Majority Party to block legislation moving forward that he will invoke this very unusual procedure to change the rules by 51 votes. We want to vote change the filibuster rules so no longer 60 votes will be required to facinge a filibuster president ial nominees for executive branch positions. Would only affect executive , noth decisions traditional nominees, not legislation, it wants to move forward so that no longer can a senator block a nominee for epa, Defense Department, by requiring , 61 votesinstead would be required, a majority of the senate. Majority lent leader reid wants to move forward, what would the next step the in the senate . There was going to be a jo
Be in favor of immigration that possibly includes when in the house districts, citizens are majority white . We have a broken immigration system. The Legal Immigration system is cumbersome. It does not work very well. 40 of those who are here undocumented came here legally. There has been no real good system to be able to track those people and to be in force that part of our immigration laws. When you look at where the visas go. You have all heard the details. The Current System needs to be fixed. By the American People to come here and do their work on behalf of them when it comes to the government. We have a broken system. I made a strong case yesterday that it needs to be fixed and republicans ought to be part of the solution. It is always in the partys best interest when were doing it the right thing for the country. Do you believe you can have a bipartisan conversation when you have not passed the not answered the question about the path to psittaci citizenship . My hope is to co