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Quorum call a senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator from north carolina. Mr. Burr i ask unanimous consent to vitiate the quorum call and to initiate the presiding officer without objection. Mr. Burr and to initiate consideration of the 12 00 vote. Unanimous consent to start the 12 00 vote. Mr. Burr madam president , i ask for the yeas and nays. The presiding officer is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote . Seeing none, the yeas are 68. The nays are 21. And the nomination is confirmed. A senator madam president. The presiding officer the senator from texas. Order in the chamber, please. The senate will be in order. The senate will be in order. Please take your conversations out of the chamber. The senator from texas. Mr. Cornyn madam president , i ask unanimous consent that the lydon nomination, calend ....
And surcharging Medicare Coverage for smokers and the obese. You can watch this and other q a interviews all this week at 7 p. M. Eastern here on cing span 3. Cspan2. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your its provider by your television provider. Host and this week on the communicators, gordon smith who is president and ceo of the National Association of broadcasters, our guest reporter is paul kirby of telecommunications report. Senator smith, you started at nab nearly four years ago. How have the issues changed in those four years . Guest well, it seems like the issues just keep on coming, and they tend to be very major issues affecting both radio and television. But clearly on the radio side, the ....
[captions Copyright National able satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [applause] all right now. This is my go ahead and have a seat, guys. This is the 115th, by our count, Community Dinner that i have held since i first start running for the senate back now, what, seven years ago. We do them steadily. We have kind of got routine down. Everybody gets something to eat. I speak very briefly and then it is just a discussion. If you a question, if you have a comment, this is rhode island, we even accept rude remarks. The whole package. Please put your hand up and give us a chance to get the microphone to you. Who is running the microphones ere . The hand mics. All right. These gentlemen will get the hand mics around. One other thing that ill say is i know everybody doesnt love public speaking. And whether it is because you dont love ....
It. You do not have the same director or deputy there have multiple people. People under investigation right now. There will be laws. If you look at the Financial Services bill that has gone through appropriations. Not only is the irs defunded for but they have cut the budget. I think the same thing needs to happen with the possible examination of the nsa. But i do not think we ought to immediately toss out a program until we think about it and look at it, you know, and the Homeland Security people on both sides of the aisle tell us it has done the job. Ok. One thing i would like to point out though if the program were abused, we would not know. Let me rephrase that. We would not know it until it was too late. Know or have i read that the way this deal was supposed to work was when the controversy first kind of started, they were going to monitor these phone calls to f ....
These grants will provide additional resources to aid lobster and other fixed-gear fishermen in developing and bringing new ropeless gear technology onto their boats. ....