udall: mr. president? mr. wyden: i ask unanimous consent that i be permitted to engage in a colloquy between senators udall, feinstein, and merkley. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. udall: mr. president, let me say once again that like my colleague from oregon, i oppose reauthorization of the existing provisions that we've been debating here on the floor of the patriot act without significant reforms. i is also to say, i believe it's critical that the administration make public its interpretation of the patriot act so that members of congress and our public are not kept in the dark. that's the important work we have in front of us, and we have a real opportunity to accomplish those goals. mrs. feinstein: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from california. mrs. feinstein: if i might respond, i have agreed that these are important issues, and that the intelligence committee, which is charged with carrying out oversight over the 16 various intelligence agencies of what's

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coming up, tom udall. here is a news update. >> president obama says the united states will provide the country of jordan with up to $1 billion in aid. this is according to a white house transcript of the president's comments yesterday. the president went on to say that the funding would be channeled through the overseas private investment corp., the u.s. government's finance institution. the president is scheduled to make a peace -- speech to mark on the mideast peace situation. dominique strauss-kahn is obviously not in a position to run the international monetary fund. he was arrested on charges of attempted rape. the secretary called on the imf executive board to formally designate an interim head. the secretary is the first obama administration official to comment on dominique strauss- kahn and the future of the imf, making his remarks last night at the harvard club of new york. the space shuttle endeavor has reached its destination, docking with the international space station this morning. endeavor

. >>> first, let me bring in senator mark udall, democrat from colorado. he was just in a special briefing given by the ci a director. he serves on the intelligence committee. senator, good evening. great to have you here. >> cenk, thanks for having me on. >> all right. how much can you tell us about that cia briefing that you just had? >> i sit on the intelligence committee and i have to -- as well as the armed services committee, i have to be careful about what i say. but i would tell you that we are hearing more of the details built general theme and narrative that the general public now has is holding fast. i anticipate that there will be more of this information released. the american public and the world can better understand the courage and the bravery of the men and women who conducted this mission. i think you will also get greater appreciation for the courage that the president showed in assuming that this was the right kind of mission and going ahead of approving this kind of an assault rather than bombing the compound or using missiles, which w

harry reid in expressing their concerns in opposition to the patriot act senators ron wyden and mark udall for example pointed out the both the bush and obama administrations have secret interpretations of the patriot act that make it even more toxic to transparency and a mocker see but it was rand paul who spoke out the loudest ultimately rand paul was defeated and a patriot act extension was passed just before the deadline in both the house and the senate as i speak that bill is being loaded on to a military jet that can fly faster than the speed of sound over to france to be and delivered the president to sign right before the clock strikes midnight here in washington d.c. that means four more years of big brother government but i want to recognize rand paul here for a moment and share with you some of the words he had to say yesterday during debate on the floor of the somers. this is pretty pretty straightforward stuff he started out by talking about how the constitution of the united states as we stood all these years right up until nine eleven the bush hysteria the anthrax attacks ri

harry reid in expressing their concerns in opposition to the patriot act senators ron wyden and mark udall for example pointed out the both the bush and obama administrations have secret interpretations of the patriot act that make it even more toxic to transparency and a mocker see it was rand paul who spoke out the loudest ultimately rand paul was defeated and a patriot act extension was passed just before the deadline in both the house and the senate as i speak that bill is being loaded onto a military jet if you fly faster than the speed of sound over to france to be and delivered the president to sign right before the clock strikes midnight here in washington d.c. that means four more years of big brother government but i want to recognize rand paul here for a moment and share with you some of the words he had to say yesterday during debate on the floor of the senate. this is pretty pretty straightforward stuff he started out by talking about how the constitution of the united states as we stood all of these years right up until nine eleven the bush hysteria the anthrax attacks right

host: senator tom udall, your thoughts? guest: i think that this is a very troublesome partner, no doubt about it. the capture of bin laden, people are wondering, it is pakistan really an allied? many of the things he is saying -- those questions are being asked back home. we have to look in the larger context. we have to look at how we get our supplies to our troops in afghanistan. we have to look at al qaeda and how they c assist us. they did help us with some of the things that led up to the capture and killing of bin laden. i am not here to apologize in any way for them or to say that many of the things that they do are good things, but they are a strategic partner. we need to try to reset the relationship and move on down the road. host: $27 billion to military and economic aid to pakistan from 2000 to 2011. what have we gotten for the ne host: -- guest: that is an excellent question. i do not think we have gotten what we need. the most worrisome thing to me is that, as we move down the road in afghanistan, we need to

plus, i'll talk to senator udall who says the u.s. needs to reset its relationship with pakistan, after bin laden was found living in that compound near islamabad, not far from the pakistan military academy. he's really critical about harsh interrogation tactics and whether they actually led to useful information. "news nation" is just minutes away. [ airplane engine whines ] [ grunts ] [ dog barking ] gah! [ children shouting ] [ grunts ] [ whacking piñata ] [ whacking piñata, grunting ] the new blackberry playbook. [ whacking piñata ] it runs all this at the same time. ♪ why can't every tablet do that? >>> right now on "news nation," braking news -- >> this is how conspiracy theories develop. they're not ghoulish, they're not going to scare people off, they're not offensive. >> my initial opinion, it's not necessary to do so. i think there's ample proof that this was osama bin laden. >> a senior white house official says, there will be no pictures released of a dead osama bin lan. we'll go live to the white house for the latest

and joining me is democratic senator from colorado, senator mark udall. he's also on the intelligence and armed services committee. senator, thank you for joining us again. republican senator says that she was shown this picture of a dead osama bin laden by another senator. have you seen the photograph? >> i have not seen the photograph, tamron. i would tell you i support the president's decision but i will ask that the intelligence committee have a chance to review these photographs. we can add heft to the reports that have detailed osama bin laden's death and it will add weight to spreading the word that he is in fact dead that we can turn our attention to winning the war on terror as quickly as we possibly can. also many other questions that you're raising, important questions here, that ought to be answered, including what did pakistan know. strange credulity that he was living in an area that's affluent, near the pakistan's equivalent of west point, many reteared military personnel live. pakistan has some explaining to do, in my opinion. >> i saw you

udall: mr. president, before i begin my remarks, i know the hour is drawing near when we will have a vote and the time limits are approaching as well. i would ask unanimous consent that the full text of my remarks be included in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. udall: thank you, mr. president. i rise today, as many senators have, to talk about the energy-related votes that we face this week in the senate n my home state of colorado and in the presiding officer's home state of pennsylvania, all over our country, americans are feeling the sting of rising gas prices. and pain at the pump puts a ceil crimp in the budgets of hardworking families and business everywhere. and i hear this every time i am back in my home state and listening and visiting with the folks there. they think it is unfair, and i have to say, i agree. rurun aiway gas price -- runaway gas prices are not fair. it is our job to bring a stop it it. instead of pursuing some commonsense goals that would move o

udall: thank you, mr. president. i rise today in conjunction with my colleague from oregon to discuss what's before us here on the floor, which is the extension of the patriot act. and i r -- and i rise as well to express my opposition to the extension of the three most controversial provisions of the patriot act which are before us here today. the process by which we've considered these provisions has been rushed, and i believe we've done a disservice to the american people by not having a fuller and more open debate about these provisions. i think along with senator wyden, i want to acknowledge the difficult position that the leader of the senate has been in, senator reid, and i want to thank him for trying to find an agreement to vote on more amendments. we were very close to reaching that agreement. but even in that context, the debate we've had on this bill is insufficient. if you look at what we're about to approve, it's a one-page bill which just changes the dates in the existing patriot act. this is a lost op

udall: thank you, madam president. i know that senator blumenthal is coming to speak and senator kerry ended a little bit early, so i -- i just want to get up for a couple of minutes, and when senator blumenthal comes in, i'll obviously yield to him because i know he has some time reserved here. i -- i wanted to get up and talk this morning just a little bit about the procedure and what we have gone through in terms of the patriot act. and i -- i'm very discouraged to see the path that we're headed down in terms of the patriot act, and i was here in the congress as the presiding officer knows when we voted almost ten years ago on the patriot act, and it was a sad occasion then because it was right after 9/11, and this horrible thing had happened to our country, but we rushed in a -- in a very, very big way to move forward with a piece of legislation. it was the so-called patriot act. that act ended up being something that -- that i think many of us and many of us regret. i just want to read a short passage from the "wa

last year following the the oil spill, chairman bingaman, senator udall and i introduced legislation that would set aside 25 million a year from oil and gas royalties to fund the oil spill activities. because one of the issues we discovered as you point out is under the oil pollution act while there was funding several years after the act was passed the funding trailed off pretty dramatically. so, in your experience, is a dedicated funding

senator udall is another important amendment to deal with something called business records. each of these areas is a constitutional teeter totter, sensible ensure protection of all of us and also individual liberty -- steps that will he ensure protection of all those but also individual liberty. host: is that senator mark udall? guest: yes. host: are you in a no vote without these changes? guest: yes. at page redact, which literally has not been formally -- at the patriot act, which literally has not been formally reviewed in a decade, is an attempt to strike that balance between security and the petite. if you continue to keep the interpretations of the law secret, that is going to undermine public confidence, that is going to undermine the opinions that american people have with respect to intelligence, and that is going to hurt our country. host: the senate intelligence chairwoman, dianne feinstein, was on the floor yesterday, and said that every national security official has come to us and said we need these provisions extended." use it on the intelligence committee. ho

udall: mr. president, before i begin my remarks, i know the hour is drawing near when we will have a vote and the time limits are approaching as well. i would ask unanimous consent that the full text of my remarks be included in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. udall: thank you, mr. president. i rise today, as many senators have, to talk about the energy-related votes that we face this week in the senate n my home state of colorado and in the presiding officer's home state of pennsylvania, all over our country, americans are feeling the sting of rising gas prices. and pain at the pump puts a ceil crimp in the budgets of hardworking families and business everywhere. and i hear this every time i am back in my home state and listening and visiting with the folks there. they think it is unfair, and i have to say, i agree. rurun aiway gas price -- runaway gas prices are not fair. it is our job to bring a stop it it. instead of pursuing some commonsense goals that would move o

senator mark udall. >> thank you, mr. chairman. good afternoon to everybody iflt, too, want to associate myself with senator nelson's remarks about your leadership. i haven't forgiven you yet, senator kohl. i want that on the record. >> i have your note. >> i want to welcome our panelists. i unfortunately have to step ouflt i serve on the intelligence committee and we're having an important debate on the patriot act and its reauthorizati reauthorization. i did want to recognize the former first lady. wonderful to see you here today. ms. greenly, you wer hit in pueblo last summer. you were a real crowd pleaser. i can't say the same abt myself, but thank you for holding hearing with us in pueblo. i know the chairman and many members of the committee have been holding great hearingings across the kroi on the oaa. we have a great opportunity in my opinion to modernize the act for you a new and unique generation of seniors. i'm a member of the baby boom cohort. these americans, my remarks today, my people are fast apprching medicare eli

senator mark udall. >> thank you, mr. chairman. good afternoon to everybody iflt, too, want to associate myself with senator nelson's remarks about your leadership. i haven't forgiven you yet, senator kohl. i want that on the record. >> i have your note. >> i want to welcome our panelists. i unfortunately have to step ouflt i serve on the intelligence committee and we're having an important debate on the patriot act and its reauthorizati reauthorization. i did want to recognize the former first lady. wonderful to see you here today. ms. greenly, you were hit in pueblo last summer. you were a real crowd pleaser. i can't say the same about myself, but thank you for holding hearing with us in pueblo. i know the chairman and many members of the committee have been holding great hearingings across the kroi on the oaa. we have a great opportunity in my opinion to modernize the act for you a new and unique generation of seniors. i'm a member of the baby boom cohort. these americans, my remarks today, my people are fast approaching medicar

then tom udall will discuss u.s.-pakistan relationships. later, we discussion -- we continue our discussion on homeland security. roberts stephan joins us. each morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. >> today i couple of a senate appropriations subcommittees on 2012 federal spending to tell you about. the army budget request for next year live beginning at 10:30 a.m. eastern. later in the day, steven chu is on capitol hill to talk about his department's budget priorities for 2012. that is from the senate subcommittee on energy appropriation act to 30 p.m. eastern. that is also live here on c- span. >> history as you know is much more than just politics and soldiers. social issues, it is also medicine and science and art and music and theater and poetry and ideas, and we should not want things into categories. it is all part of the same thing. >> samuel morse,. beecher stowe, thomas edison, henry adams, sunday night on q&a, part one of two weeks with david mccullough on the americans to make a greater germany, to 19th century paris. at

provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable tom udall, a senator from the state of new mexico, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: daniel k. inouye, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader is recognized. mr. reid: i see our esteemed chaplain in the chamber. we appreciate very much his everyday prayer and the prayer this morning of the guest chaplain, which was very -- a very nice prayer. very, very thoughtful and outlines what our country is all about. we appreciate that very, very much. following leader remarks, the senate will be in morning business until 11:00 a.m., with the majority controlling the first half, the republicans controlling the final half. at 11:00 a.m., the senate will be in executive session to consider the nomination of goodwin liu to be united states circuit judge for the ninth circuit with the time until 2:00 p.m. equally divided and controlled. at about 2:00 p.m., there will be a roll call vote on the nomination to invoke cloture on the liu nomination. mr.

of nevada, leahy, cole, feinstein, franken, coons, blumenthal, klobuchar, whitehouse, brown of ohio, udall of colorado, durbin, carper, sanders, rockefeller, shaheen, schumer. mr. reid: mr. president, i ask consent that the mandatory quorum under rule 22 be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the senate resume legislative session and then proceed to a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that a time to be determined by the majority leader in consultation with the republican leader, the senate proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 61, there be three hours of debate equally divided in the usual form, that upon the use or yielding back of that time, the senate proceed to vote without intervening action or debate on calendar number number 61, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table with no intervening action or debate, that no further statements be in order to the nomination, these

udall: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from new mexico. mr. udall: thank you, mr. president. let me just say to my colleague from kentucky, senator paul, i very much appreciate him yielding a little bit of time here. i'm looking forward to hearing some of his statements on the patriot act. i know that this is an issue that's close to his heart. i know -- i served with his father in the house, and i know he was very passionate on this issue. i know this is an issue that the senator from kentucky campaigned on and has great passion about this and has brought this to the floor. and i very much appreciate that and would like to work with him on this. i can tell you, first of all, that when we call it the so-called -- and i put it in quotes and call it "so-called" patriot act, this is not a patriot act. patriots stand up for the constitution. patriots stand up for freedom and liberty that's embodied in the constitution. and i think true patriots, when they're public servants, public servants stand up and do what's right even if it's unpopular. and one of the things that

as you know several weeks ago a number of my colleagues and i, senators udall, lautenberg, reid, and i wrote letters to your company calling the attention to the dangerous apps being sold in your app stores and asking you to take immediate -- to immediately remove them. don't have to go how bad drunk driving is in our country. i read those newspaper articles at prom time and christmastime of parents just looking so forlorn. they have lost a kid to drunk driving. anyway, the d.u.i.'s that were popping up in stores were terrifying because they undermine drunk driving checkpoints. the apps they have names like buzzed and fuzz alert, and they are intended to notify drivers in real time when they approach police drunk driving checkpoints. there's only one purpose to these, we know what that is. and that is to allow drivers to avoid the checkpoints and avoid detection. people often think twice about drunk driving, driving while drinking because they know they could get stopped with all the consequences. and these apps enable them not to. we brought these to the attention ofry,, m. they pul

the next questioner would be -- it says senator udall. following the list by the chairman. >> thank you very much. i know chairman is not here, but i really appreciate him holding this hearing and all of the responding to the questions of the panel. as you conceive of the questions there is no doubt there is a lot of concern in terms of privacy in the privacy, protecting minors. and i look forward to your supplemental answers that some of the are going to give, because i think those are some of the key questions that are out there. i think from this subcommittee'' perspective, we are going to continue to ask these questions, continue to do oversight, so i think you should expect that. recently i joined the senator reid and schumer and lautenberg asking research in motion, google, an apple, to stop selling dangerous apps that enable drunk drivers to evade law enforcement. in 2009, junk drivers killed nearly tend thousand people nationwide, including 141 in new mexico. apps like dui dodger, buzz, a checkpoint, provide drunk drivers with the

and the next questioner would be -- it says senator udall. >> thank you, clear. >> i'm following a list as committee chairman. >> thank you very much. i know the chairman is secure, but i really appreciate him holding this hearing and all of you responding to the questions of the panel. as you can see by the questions, there is no doubt that there is a lot of concern in terms of privacy, in terms of protect the minor's and those kinds of things. i really look forward to your supplemental answers to some of you are going to give because i think those are some of the key questions that are out there. and i think from this subcommittee's, we are going to continue to ask these questions and continue to do oversight. and so i think you should expect that. recently i joined senator reed and schumer and lautenberg and asking research in motion, ram, google and apple to stop selling dangerous act that enabled to drivers to evade law enforcement in 2009, drunk drivers killed nearly 10,000 people nationwide, including 141 in new mexico. i played dui dodger, buzz, check point and fanned similar pr

and the next question would be -- the next questioner would be, it says senator udall. >> thank you. i know the chairman isn't here, but i appreciate him holding this hearing and all of you responding tot questions of the panel. as you can see by the questions, there is no doubt in terms of privacy and in terms of protecting minors and that kind of thing. i look forward to your supplemental answers. those are the key questions out there. i think from this subcommittee's perfective, we're going to continue to do oversight. i think you should expect that. asking research in motion, google and apple, that enable drunk drivers to evade law enforcement. in 2009 drunk drivers killed nearly 10,000 people nationwide, including 141 in new mexico. apps like d.u.i., buzzed, check-pointer, and phantom alert provide drivers with the precise location of d.w.i. checkpoints as they drive. this is while they are driving around. some even offer alerts to drivers as they approach police checkpoints. while i agree public notification of checkpoints can serve as a deterrent to prevent individuals from ma

udall: yes. mr. wyden: it seems to me you have laid out the case as to why there needs to be a thoughtful debate about the patriot act and what's necessary to strike this key balance between fighting terrorism ferociously and protecting our libtds. i'm interested in what my colleague thinks about the proposition of how you have a thoughtful debate on these issues when there is secret law, where in effect the interpretation of the law, as it stands today, is kept secret? so here we're, united states senators, on the floor -- and i've had colleagues of both political parties wanting to participate in this. certainly, if you're an american, you're in oregon or colorado, you want to be part of this discussion. but yet the executive branch keeps secret how they are interpreting the law. what's your sense about how we have a thoughtful debate if that continues? mr. udall: the senator from or has put his finger on why this is so important not only to the debate here and not rush these provisions to the hous

senator mark udall. >> thank you, mr. chairman. good afternoon to everybody iflt, too, want to associate myself with senator nelson's remarks about your leadership. i haven't forgiven you yet, senator kohl. i want that on the record. >> i have your note. >> i want to welcome our panelists. i unfortunately have to step ouflt i serve on the intelligence committee and we're having an important debate on the patriot act and its reauthorizati reauthorization. i did want to recognize the former first lady. wonderful to see you here today. ms. greenly, you were hit in pueblo last summer. you were a real crowd pleaser. i can't say the same about myself, but thank you for holding hearing with us in pueblo. i know the chairman and many members of the committee have been holding great hearingings across the kroi on the oaa. we have a great opportunity in my opinion to modernize the act for you a new and unique generation of seniors. i'm a member of the baby boom cohort. these americans, my remarks today, my people are fast approaching medicar

senator udall. >> senator kerry, thank you for holding this hearing. i think it is very important. one of the things we aren't getting to and senator kerry asked that overall question -- how we make the transition? and we used to talk about this summer. this is the issue of a flexible transition deadline. and president obama in the national security order talked about july 11, of being in a date for an accelerated transition. and she really emphasized that accelerated transition. and somehow now we have gotten ourselves to the position where we are not talking anymore about an accelerated transition to an afghan-led operation in july, 2011. we have now moved to 2014. i'm trying to figure out how that all happened. it appears that all three of you agree we should be doing that. and the reason is the mission that i think that has been pinned down to defeat, destruct, dismantle al qaeda in the afghan pak region. what i cannot understand is if we have as our -- which the president laid out -- accelerated transition deadline and move in that direction, what is it that as happened that k