harkin: that would be fine. mr. hoeven: my understanding is we preserve the two minutes for the senator from north carolina. i rise to speak on the permanent solution being put forward on a bipartisan bays, that's the -- bipartisan basis. that is the student loan certainty act. this is a bipartisan solution. senator joe manchin, a democrat from west virginia; senator lamar alexander, republican from tennessee; senator richard burr, republican from north carolina; senator angus king, independent from maine. i guess tri partisan. this is truly a bipartisan effort. senator tom carper, democrat from delaware; myself and others, this is a bipartisan effort to come up with a permanent solution. so i've been listening to the debate and what everybody says over and over again is that we need a permanent solution and that's exactly right. a year ago i served on the conference committee for map-21, which was the reauthorization for the highway program. and we included in that conference report an extension -- a one-year reaut

harkin, for mr. manchin and others proposes amendment numbered 1773. strike all after the first word and insert the following. mr. harkin: i ask unanimous consent that further reading of the amendment be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. harkin: madam president, i yield the floor. mr. sanders: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. sanders: i call up my amendment, the text of which is at the desk. the presiding officer: without objection, the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: the senator from vermont, mr. sanders, for himself and others proposes amendment unfunded mandate 1774 to amendment number 1773. at the end of the amendment, add the following -- mr. sanders: i ask the amendment be considered as read. the presiding officer: without objection. the senator from vermont. mr. sanders: thank you. madam chair, i have a lot of affection for my friend, senator harkin, of iowa, and senator durbin from illinois, but i must respectfully disagree with them and rise in opposition to the bill

tom harkin. >> tom harkin who runs the senate health care committee, democrat, who wrote the employer mandate coming out and saying i don't think they have the authority to do this. this is probably illegal. >> he was attacking anybody who said they didn't have the authority to do it. i read the statute. doesn't look like they have the authority. says plainly it should start on december 31. it says it shall. black letter law. >> the problem with the affordable care act is that every piece of the bill is designed to solve allegedly problem created by another part of the bill. if you delay the employer mandate it has all kinds of consequences throughout the rest of the -- >> let's zero in on this verification. refusal to the -- enforce the verification. if you apply for it they will not check your income to see if you qualify until somehow later. they may get around to it. what are the implications of that? >> i think it will lead to a lot of fraud. they are just trying to get people to cram in here and even if they are not eligible for the cities. if you look at something like the earn

harkin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. harkin: mr. president, now the vote comes on what we are really going to do and that is, as my good friend, senator manchin said, and that is to keep interest rates low for students. keep in mind, this -- the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. the senator from iowa. mr. harkin: thank you, mr. president. what this means for our students is that the student loans for all students, undergraduate, will be reduced from 3.8% to 6.8% this year, it will be lower than 6.8% for the next 4 1/2, almost five years. so do our students, do our families a favor, vote for final passage. keep the interest rates low and make sure that our students aren't paying 6.8% interest rate this year and next year and the year beyond. mr. reed: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. reed: mr. president, as i indicated previously with respect to the proposed amendment by senator manchin, this provides short-term rate relief -- mrs. boxer: the senate is not in order. the presidin

harkin is quoted as saying, this was the law. how can they change the law? press secretary jay carney says it's not about harkin. >> i'm asking but a democrat who says you cannot delay that provision of the law. >> we're not pretending that this is about a democrat. >> reporter: a small business decision leader declined to weigh in, but said it was welcome. >> we're ill compared as a general rule to delay, postpone, or even cancel. in this case, small business people, small business owners, certainly are receptive to the delay. >> reporter: but obamacare critics say even though the delay buys time, the only real cure for the law's problems is repeal and if they can't get satisfaction in a court of law, they will try the court of public opinion. >> if the president can selectively enforce a provision under obamacare, what's to say that he can't selectively enforce or not enforce that provision on bore exercise security and immigration package. >> with any lack of any better term, that makes him a ruler. he's not a president. he's a ruler. >> house speaker joh

harkin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa is recognized. mr. harkin: mr. president, i understand that we are now on a postcloture debate on this nominee. i understand there's up to eight hours that can be consumed by that, if i'm not mistaken? the presiding officer: the senator is correct. mr. harkin: i certainly hope we don't have to take that much time. i hope that this nominee and the other four to follow, i'm hopeful that we can get through those today and get the board, get these nominees down to the president before we leave here this evening. mr. president, today's a day that i and many of my colleagues have long waited for because of the bipartisan deal that was reached on the president's nominees, it looks like we finally have a path forward to confirm a full slate of nominees to the national labor relations board. a fully confirmed, fully functional board will be a huge step forward for workers, employees in our country and this will be the first time in over a

[inaudible] tom harkin? [laughter] i think harkin is retiring. what is the story his wife read game change and said you're not running. i have no idea if it's true. i thought it was funny. and, you know, the old adage that senators never win nomination. up until 2008, the last time -- or general elections. the last u.s. senator to win the presidency was john kennedy, then you have the 2008, you know, you had two u.s. senators. has that changed. but if i were a party and just sort of not controlling for anything else, i would rather have a governor, i think, as a nominee. someone not perceived to be a part of washington. and not a part of congress. you know, does that mean any governor could win? obviously not. we exhausted all questions? wait, there's some twitter questions. are we supposed to read names? michelle asked, 2014, g.o.p. still in trouble with younger, nonwhite female and moderate voters. my question will it matter in a midterm election? i think the answer to that is it depends, i mean, first of all, it's not that in a midterm electio

now, i said earlier that i have a great affection for senator harkin. he said this should be part of the reauthorization education act that may or may not happen next year. well, we make changes with the interest rate on student loans outside of the higher education. in 2000 while we have a one-year extension of the 3.4%. we did in 2010 as well with the elimination of the feelp program. we did in 2005 under the deficit reduction act. senator harkin's appropriations committee has made changes to eligibility rules each of the past several years outside of the higher education authorization, including the ability to seek benefits and lowering of the automatic enrollment for low-income students. it is just not fair to say that i am doing this outside of the higher education reauthorization when there was a track record continually of the person that accused us of doing this who did this himself. let me just say, if i could, i want to thank the senators for working on this together. i think this is truly a bipartisan bill. it has been described as belonging

senator harkin and begich told me about their solution. >> this is an unfair system right now. the way it works now, and you remember if you were a senior or disabled and didn't get your cola in '09 and '10, it's because the cola, the cost of living adjustment, is based on what we buy. what seniors buy is much different. so we modify that in our bill to make sure elder seniors are taken care of in the way that if there is an adjustment on their cost of living for prescription drugs, other things that they buy, their social security check goes up. but ours adds up to 75 years in total length. that's a pretty hefty change from let's just dismantle it and hope and pray it works. >> republicans want to raise the retirement age as well. >> i always get a kick out of people who wear shirts and ties and sit behind desking all their lives telling americans you don't have to retire at 65. you can go to 70. how about the woman who stands on her feet behind a counter for 40 years? try that sometime. how about the guy stringing lines out there in the wintertime and stuff like that? and how

i mentioned tom harkin and a number of other liberal senate are saying, we don't want tom harkin. >> i think this is close to chuck hagel pick. nobody outside of the obama white house prefers larry summers. it's not clear he'll be good at managing the open market committee on the fed. people talk about the fed chair as being tremendously powerful but the fed chair's decisions have to be ratified by the whole board. he needs to build consensus among them. summers has a fraught record. i think he's done impressive things in his career but it's a time you need the fed to speak with a unified voice and the president doesn't seem focused on it. >> why does obama apparently want larry summers for this job? does anybody have an answer for that? >> because he knows him personally, trusts him, likes him, and janet yellen is not an obama person. i think he wants to know the fed chair is an obama guy. >> that's the best answer i've got. the diversity problem got worse this week. ♪ [ female announcer ] enter a world of clean inside the only 3 chamber laundry detergent. ♪ now, here you go, le

or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture. i would rather i asked questions for people in positions of power instead of speak on their behalf and that's why you can find why go larry king now right here on r.t. question more. or less how is the new alert animation scripts scare me a little but. there is breaking news tonight and we are continuing to follow the breaking news coming in. alexander's family. cry tears of the lawyer and a great thing that had been rendered in a court of law. is a story many movies playing out in real life. are going to washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight the big picture today president obama took to the stage in tennessee to offer republicans a grand bargain for america's economy a grand bargain that includes lowering america's corporate tax rates so why are republicans the great protectors of corporate america ballpeen at the president's proposal also america's fast food restaurant chains making millions of dollars in profits each year those c.e.o.'s are

else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't know i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture. wealthy british style. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report on our. world including. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. if you're away from. any time anyway. the thing. that we really occupy we're kind of for the people and we're behind it from probably for brother joe we understand that this was a fine moment that is growing and we're telling people of the view. of excelsior and for all this city. there's. nothing you want you. now listen sometimes there's some gangsters and some. of this one. thing. right now you. are do you think. we should i live this. you. know i have zero zero zero. zero. zero zero zero zero zero. zero zero zero one zero one. five. this this. fork oh. yeah. yeah. yeah she was i'm i'm. i'm i'm i'm i want to move back into my hom

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jeremy harkins also fought that fire. >> i actually found one of the smoke jumpers, i think it was a smoke jumpers pack it got burned off. he got blown over the ridge stop because he had skin dropping down flying down the other side of the hill. >> reporter: parkins keeps the program of the memorial in his bible. he carries the tragedy with him and still he wants to be a smoke jumper. >> i get to see country that nobody gets to see. and i get to travel for free. >> reporter: and soon the bell will ring. and chances are they will be busy. in redding, rob roth for segment two. >>> the fire's 25 years ago in yellow stone national park and how they were actually good for the ecosystem there. >>> a bit later, the danger of carrying wildfires as news. and the risk that you will become news yourself. >>> it was 25 years ago that a massive series of wildfires burned 1.2 million acres in and around yellow stone national park. park biologists and naturalists were quick to point out that fire is actually a part of the yellow stone ecosystem. while the forest appeared devastated, the flames were

or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture. wealthy british style sign. that's not on my list. market why not i'm going to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons are there are no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in. to kaiser report on r g. the first thing that went wrong is that as soon as the police got to the house they decided thomas had committed this crime that was their first error and then everything they did after that just compounded the error. thomas was twelve years old at the time today he is nineteen. and the police pressure he confessed to everything and was sent to prison . the supreme court would overturn the sentence two years later after the details of his interrogation were revealed. the video recording of the interview was appalling. the pictures caused the worst police gondola in the history of the state of arkansas. to claim. december some of the story. and i'm going to tell it like it is your boy archie. where we're pretty

our negotiations and one president roxanne sanchez broke it down like this: our chief negotiator tom harkin intentionally created the conditions for strike by surface bargaining a technique designed not to make progress. use the strikes create a backlash against the workers. this negotiation style is not welcome in the bay area and to hold that ransom the public commuters, and workers without pay is unconscionable. as you well know on july 5 bar unions return to work to spend 30 days mediated negotiations and to avoid further disruptions of park service but now more than halfway into this contract extension it has become clear that parts management and achievement negotiator thomas hawk, are not serious about pursuing real negotiations. with no movement from bart management in three weeks we are very concerned that part management and thomas hawk i once again surface bargaining toward another strike. we ask you, supervisors, to for help to make sure bart bargains in good faith to a second strike can be averted. while those of us represent our workers are prepared and ready to meet every hou

. >>> three democratic senators tom harkin, jay rockefeller and max baucus are busy trying to protect the affordable care act, but the lawmakers who helped pass obama care are all retiring in 2014 when the law is fully rolled out. jack lew weighed in on the latest talk of a possible government shutdown. >> congress needs to fund the kinds of things that the american middle class need and we need to get. the debt limit extended in a way that doesn't create a crisis. >> the president will go to the brink if necessary? >> david, drawing this to brinksmanship is a mistake. it's bad for the economy. >> he's still working on his signature. >>> paul ryan says that a vote on immigration reform in the house may not happen until october. >>> and hillary clinton's life story is headed to tv. nbc will produce a four-hour mini series about the former secretary of state ahead of the 2016 presidential election. diane lane will be starring as the first lady. the role of bill clinton has not yet been cast. that's your morning dish of scrambled politics. >>> heavy rain in philadelphia broke the record

harkin: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. harkin: madam president, i'm pleased that we're finally at the point where we can vote on the nomination of thomas perez to serve as secretary of labor. indeed, it seems like the most important question before dawes has gotten lost in all the debate. will tom perez be a good secretary of labor? and the answer is unequivocally yes. without question, he has the knowledge and experience needed to guide this critically important agency. his outstanding work in maryland as their secretary of labor has won him the support of the business community and workers alike. here's a quote from the endorsement letter of the maryland chamber of commerce. quote -- "mr. perez proved himself to be a pragmatic public official who is willing to bring differing voices together. the maryland chamber had the opportunity to work with mr. perez on an array of issues of importance to ploifers in maryland from unemployment and work force development to the housing and foreclosure crisis. despite differences of o

. >>. [ inaudible ] harkin? i think harkin is retiring. you know, john -- you know, john thune? what was the story his wife read change" and said no, you're not running. i have no idea if that's true or not. but that's actually kind of funny. the old adage that senators nominations, you know? up until 2008, the last time or elections the al last u.s. senator to win the presidency was john kennedy. you got to 2008 and, you know, you had two u.s. senators. that changed? so if i were a party, and just of not controlling for anything else, i would rather a e a governor, i think, as nominee. someone who's not perceived to e a part of washington and not a part of congress. now, you know, does that mean that any governor could win? obviously not. questions?sted all oh, wait, there's some twitter questions. hopefully you pulled out all of the pejorative ones. michelle -- are we supposed to read names? to.f you'd like asked, gop diggles still in trouble with young white e female and voters. would it matter in a midterm election? >> the answer to that is -- it depends -- i mean, first of

senator harkin did a yeoman's job in bringing some of the most important factors to the forefront. we have it in the bill now. thank you, madam president. with that, i yield the floor. mr. blumenthal: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. let's just wait one minute until we get this cleared out. the senator from connecticut. mr. blumenthal: thank you, madam president. while my colleague from west virginia is here, i want to thank him for his leadership on this issue and for the very hard work that he and other colleagues have devoted to this profoundly difficult, challenging, but important issue. and i rise with regret to oppose the compromise agreement that's been reached with the help of our colleagues from illinois and maine and across the aisle. it is a compromise, and compromises are to be sought in this day, and it is bipartisan. and that, too, is an objective, a bipartisan compromise, but the fact is it's a bad deal. and we can do better. we must do better. this nation can do better. we have a morale and -- we have a moral and historic obligat

harkin: mr. president, is there a unanimous consent request pending? the presiding officer: there is a unanimous consent request pending, that we proceed to the -- the senator from florida has asked for a -- a unanimous consent request for a minute to read a letter to peek to this nomination. -- so to speak for this nomination. mr. harkin: then i would ask for a minute following the senator from florida. the presiding officer: is there an objection to the request from the senator from florida. without objection. the senator from florida is recognized. mr. rubio: before we vote on this, especially to my colleagues on the republican side, we are about to give 60 votes to a nominee who is not in compliance with a congressional subpoena. i have a letter sent to me by chairman issa where he writes "mr. perez has not produce add single document rive to the committee's subpoena. i am disappointed that mr. perez disregards a subpoena issued by a standing committee of the united states house of representatives. this continued noncompliance contravenes fundament

harkin back to my high school days. they do these preference tests for children in high school. that i had aaled predilection towards the persuasive arts. my career moved into writing and research. studiedo school and i planning in graduate school. , who would have imagined the web. >> you have been doing this for how long? we first engaged the search function in june of 2008. it has been up for five years. >> i have a bunch of stores in the of and -- oven. a lot more to come. the politicse from section. it is about paul conrad. showing a cartoon president nixon caught up in a watergate spiderweb. why did you pick paul conrad? >> he was in the news. his work was very visual. that first graphic -- the watergate graphic -- was very dramatic. yet others that i used in the piece. -- he had others that i used in the piece. he was on nixon's enemies list. he had the visual elements that i usually look for. i did a quick sketch of his career and incorporated some of his drawings. one from june 1972. he says he is from the phone company. very early in the watergate mess. he was one of t

harkin: i ask that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. under the previous order, all postcloture time is yielded back. the question occurs on the confirmation of kent yoshiho hirozawa to be a member of the national labor relations board. is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote:

hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture. more news today. again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets and canada. giant corporations are ruled today. for days after the military ousted egyptian president mohamed morsi rival protests erupted across cairo as tensions rose between the opposing political groups and just today fifty one protesters lost their lives many at the hands of the egyptian military backers of the recently proposed president are rallying to assert that morsi is the nation's legitimate leader because he was democratically elected and they're outraged over what they say is an unjust military coup however those that oppose the former president argue that he did not and body a democratic leader by any means morsi was often criticized for marginalized and opposed to the egyptian people with a particular neglect for women and minority religious populations in egypt climate of political turmoil there's a growing concern for the new violence and inst

harkin: mr. president, i also have some comments and statements to make regarding filibuster reform and nominees. i ask consent that i be allowed to speak for up to 30 minutes. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. harkin: mr. president, i want to take the floor to talk about these critical nominations that the senate is currently considering. in all of the talk about these nominations, about the politics of recess appointments and everything, one thing that has been missing is a real consideration of who are these people? let's bring it down to the personals. who are these people? what have they done? what could they do to serve our country? we seem to have forgotten that all of this chaff that's out there and all the arguments that are going on as to what we are supposed to be doing to fulfill our constitutional responsibility to advise and consent to presidential nominations. as i understand it, we're supposed to look at the qualifications of the candidates, determine if th

harkin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. harkin: mr. president, first, i ask unanimous consent that carly rush and coby steel be granted floor privileges for the remainder of the debate of thomas perez. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. harkin: the senate is considering the nomination of thomas perez to be secretary of labor. it's been a long road to get here and i'm pleased we have the opportunity to consider mr. perez's nomination on its merits. tom perez's life is the story of an american dream. the child of immigrants from the dominican republic, he lost his father at a young age. he worked very hard at not very glamorous jobs to put himself through brown university. work at a warehouse as a garbage collector and school dining hall. with such an impressive resume tom perez could have done anything with those degrees and accomplishments. he could have made a lot of money in the private sector. but instead mr. perez chose to become a public servant. and he has dedicated his career to ensuring that every america

you, chairman harkin, ranking member alexander, members of the committee. i am honored beyond words to be here before you today as a nominee to be a member of the national labor relations board. first, i would like to introduce my husband, goldman smith, who is here today and without whose support i would not be. we will celebrate 32 years of marriage next month. herdaughter amelia and husband could not be here today because they both just started new jobs in california. our son michael is here with us in spirit. i grew up in a small town in southwestern michigan, 3500 people. my mother was a home economics teacher and my father was a pilot. he taught people how to fly. that was his passion. a were both raised on dairy farms in central michigan. wasrandparents farm designated a centennial farm, owned and farmed for 100 years by the same family, in 1982. my grandparents are in the michigan farmers hall of fame. i spent my summers on that farm. i helped with haying and i showed cows at the county fair and the michigan state fair. it was my dream to go to law

now dick durbin and senator harkin saying maybe it's not such a good thing after all. tom harkin. >>brian: you have tom harkin coming out and saying is the president allowed to take certain elements of this law and put them on delay? is the president allowed to have certain elements of this law and put them into action? can he do it piecemeal? he evidently is one of the people who said i helped write it. a lot of people are running from the hills on that statement. dick durbin says -- quote -- "what we need is to have a better definition of a full-time worker and how many will be affected by it. the provisions that are included in it. can we do something, let's say make a full-time worker 40 hours instead of 30 hours. can we have employees with 15 havethis is called asking business what is going to be feasible and doable? now they're doing this two years later? >>steve: considering the fact the original bill was thousands and thousands of pages, you would think they would have these details in. dick durbin says the law needs to be changed and be made better. tom harkin says this i

villain here if you're going to use that -- a report card show, the villains are senate democrats, tom harkin, chairman of the health committee which oversees education policy in the senate was not willing to sign on to even what the white house wanted. but this student loan issue, they're still likely to come back after the recess and do something retroactively. but still a lot of time has been spent on this. but this is not one case where even democrats will say on the hill, you can't blame republicans on this only. there's plenty of blame to go around. >> a symptom about this inability of congress to even do business on these little things. >> on a relatively small -- >> and doing something on entitlements or tax reform seems almost impossible. gwen: let's get out of washington and go abroad. for the president, this has been a dilemma about when do we intervene? when does the u.s. show up? when does it tell people what to do and not to do and backfire? we see it time and again and in egypt this interventionism no longer the thing here? >> it always was -- president obama always when he cam

i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images cold world has been seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations are the day. the book. back oh lord don't throw back do so. right after george zimmerman was found not guilty of protests spread nationwide it will look at why so many people took to the streets and what it says about race relations here in the u.s. watching the media at first attorney general eric holder and the nine any involvement in an e-mail search of a fox news reporter turns out that's not the case and now the department of justice has created new guidelines lay claim will protect journalists but will they really . edward snowden may have a blueprint of the n.s.a. the guardian's glenn greenwald suggested that the n.s.a. whistleblower has.

or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture. and yes the former mayor of los angeles antonio viewer of those on this edition of politicking always great to be with him as a good friend too of a guy and nice knowing that he's so to be active of course you said you're going to run for governor are you going to run for governor full of you said that you're you're over it i said is that's that. i believe in public service i would like to run for governor and if i was a betting person i will but a lonely run if i thought i could make a difference and let me tell you why you look at california today. we're not investing in people in infrastructure in education we're not innovating in our schools. we we have a broken tax system that just isn't working we were taxing people into effect a tax rate of fifty three percent the highest in the country. we're not taxing property in the way that we should prop thirteen and it hasn't been reform since one thousand nine hundred seventy eight. we spend so much on prison

hear sees some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin it was a big picture. privacy has a better chance now then it has had for the past decade or so because now we have a lot of people who knows that there's a problem and how big it is. more than three weeks after arriving the world finally got sight of n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden this week when he surface from his hideout in a moscow airport transit zone he met human rights activists at sheremetyevo and asked them for their help in requesting temporary political asylum in russia artie's arena delusion go has been following the snowden saga. immigration officials say they have not received an official request from edward snowden regarding his political asylum in russia but that request has been filed on friday evening so perhaps due to the fact that it's the weekend in russia right now the people it simply hasn't hasn't been properly process just yet russia's conditions were that snowden has to stop his anti american. something which snowden promised he will no longer do three l

and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't know i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture. of the. sun it's technology innovation called the list of elements from around russia we've. covered. download. the creation so choose your life stream quality joy your favorite. if you're away from your television or it just doesn't matter how would your mobile device you can watch your t.v. anytime anywhere. welcome back this is our trying to seemingly unstoppable economic rise appears to be leveling off was g.d.p. growth now at a twenty three year low some economists are already heralding a long term slowing down to three percent coming years big banks have voiced alarm over the numbers from china which come at a time of recession over in europe and deep fiscal problems in the u.s. but despite the naysayers the chinese government remains staunchly optimistic pressing ahead with reform plans and setting an ambitious seven point five percent growth target for this year so are we seeing the end of the chinese economic miracle or are the doomsday predictions

a democrat like tom harkin expressed the same sentiments. purchase right, carney is wrong an owes the american people an apology. gregg: if i understand carney's argument he's saying other presidents have fund or changed the law. isn't that a little bit like saying other people have robbed banks so it's okay for me to do it. >> citing previous bad behavior to excuse the current bad behavior? is that what they are relying on? the word shall in any law is a command. and if this president wanted to change the law he needs to go back to congress. he can't unilaterally decide what part of the law he wants to implement, what part he doesn't, what part he wants to delay. that's not how our constitutional republic works. gregg: just because the president says it's delayed doesn't make it so. these businesses are still legally bound by the law that's is applied january 1 of this next year or be penalized. i wouldn't be surprised if businesses file a lawsuit for declaratory relief. go to a jj and say, we are getting whipsaws. i want you to declare who

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tom harkin? i think he is retiring. what is the story that was reported that his wife read game change and said you are not running. no idea whether that is true or not but that that was kind of funny. the old adage that senators when nominations. last u.s.008 the senator to win the presidency was john kennedy. then you got to 2008 and had to u.s. senators. two u.s. senators. if i were a party, i would rather have a governor as a nominee, someone not perceived to be a part of washington. does that mean that any governor could win the? obviously not. we have exhausted all questions. twitter questions. hopefully you buckled up all the majority ones. are we supposed to read names? asks, 2014, gop still in trouble with yonder non- white female and on-partisan voters. will it matter in the mid-term election? i think the answer to that is it depends. mid-term that in the election all voters are old, white, male and conservative liberals. he will obviously have them that are younger, non-white female and moderate. how many are

hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture. the worst year for those. white house super the. radio guy. because you never seen anything like this i'm told. the new york times calls him the most interesting man in the n.f.l. mother jones said chris kluwe is a glimmering sparkle pony of candor and not afraid to die fearlessly into the marriage equality debate as well as a lot of you know we always outspoken yeah always outspoken mainly my friends and family and really it's with the rise of social media that you know the message started to take off. like hundred seventy three thousand and we have two million six yet although you give me a bump you know. ok one of you tweeted out against his someone against peyton manning vincent. jackson drew brees in regards to the end of those collective bargaining agreements referring to them as instituting once again grieve is the operative word you also publicly said the n.f.l. for the lockout what was your gripe with. the great there was the fact that during the l

tom harkin. [laughter] i think he is retiring. you know, the story that was reported that his wife said you're not running. i have no idea where the true, but with the po was winning. you know the old adage that senators never win nominations. up until 2008 the last time -- the last u.s. senator to win the presidency was john kennedy and then you get to 2008 and had two u.s. senators. if i were a party and just sort of controlling for anything else, i would rather have a governor, someone that is not perceived to be a part of washington. does that mean that any governor could win, obviously not. we exhausted all questions. well, wait. there are twitter questions. >> are we supposed to read names? show tasks, 2014, gop still in trouble. my question is, will it matter in a midterm election? i think the answer to that is it depends -- first of all, it is not that in a midterm election all voters are cold, white, male, and conservative. you're obviously going to have voters that their young your non white females. how many will there

harkin: i ask consent that time be yielded back. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. by unanimous consent the mandatory quorum call has been waived. the question is, is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of nancy jean shiffer of maryland to be a maryland of the national labor relations board for the term of five years expiring december 16, 2013 --, 2014 shall be brought to a close. the yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: is ca vote: the presiding officer: are there any senator in the chamber wishing to vote or wishing to change their votes? if not, on this vote, the yeas are 65, the nays are 33. three-fifths of the senators dual chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. mr. reid: move to reconsider, lay on the table. madam president? the presiding officer: mr. leader. mr. reid: can we have the attention of the senate. the presiding officer: order? the senate. mr. reid: we have three more votes. they're ten-minute votes. we give five minutes penal

senator harkin is absolutely correct. the chairman of the education committee, that we should take up a revision of how we charge students for loans and the availability and the cost of education when we take up the higher education act reauthorization. and that committee will be taking it up shortly. but in the meantime, we should take action to prevent the increase in this student loans from going forward. that's why i'm a cosponsor and urge my colleagues to support s. 1238, the keep student loan affordable act of 2013. that act is pretty simple, mr. president. it says we're going to extend the 3.4% for another year. in other words, government won't make that money on the backs of our students. and i would hope all of us would agree that we need to get that done now so the increased burden, increased cost and the unnecessary cost to students are avoided. now, mr. president, because of our budget scoring rules, s. 1238 needed to be paid for, and it is fully paid for. in other words, because current law would allow intere

chairman harkin, who has been a leader on this issue from the very start, has been doing his absolute best to find a solution that the republicans would not filibuster so that when students start taking out loans in a few weeks, they won't be the ones to pay for republican obstruction. others, like senator jack reed, senator stabenow, and the majority leader, have also worked very hard to find a solution. here's the problem: from the very beginning, republicans have dug in their heels and insisted that any new student loan proposal maintain the same $184 billion in profit that the government will make on new student loans over the next ten years. they insist that whatever we do, the government must make the same profits off the students that they will make now by doubling the interest rate to 6.%. 6.% -- 6.8%. they say, whatever you do, make sure that the government makes $184 billion off our students. and many senators who care deeply about this issue, like chairman harkin, senator durbin, senator manchin, senator king, have been doing their best under these circumstances to help the

harkin: mr. president, on monday, july 1, 2013, joseph c. mcwaite was laid to rest with full military honors in the fort logan national cemetery in denver, colorado. a proud world war ii veteran, joseph "big joe" mcwaite will rest beside his brother john mcwaite, also a world war ii veteran. joe was one of the most unique, memorable persons i have ever known in my lifetime. he was also my brother-in-law. joe was born on march 16, 1919, in the family farmhouse near stewart, iowa. a proud irishman, joe always noted that his birthday was one day before st. patrick's day. joe, his two brothers and sister, were born and raised in a loving but very poor family. his father willie was a self-taught, accomplished musician, playing the fiddle and piano in local bands around iowa. from an early age, joe was always known as big joe, quote, big joe, because he was a big bear of a man, standing 6'4" and tipping the scales around 240 pounds, all muscle and bone. he used to show off his strength by tearing phone books and decks of cards in half like they we

why wouldn't he -- why wouldn't he not just come forward and -- tom harkin says he can't changeh the law, can't change the date. it's written into law. why doesn't the president of the united states say we'll do the employer thing for a year, let's hold off the individual mandate for a year. they would have problems too.obe and if that's in his political e interests, so what? tell the republicans do it and i'll take it and get the problem solved. >>> when we come back, we'll weigh in on the zimmerman case and we're going to talk about a, obama, holder, race, and what they think the result may be. that's coming up after the break. may be, after the break. ♪ [ male announcer ] some question physics. some question gravity. and some... even have the audacity to question improbability. with best-in-class towing and best-in-class torque these are some of the bold, new ram commercial trucks -- built to blow your imagination. guts. glory. ram. uh-oguess what day it is!is??n. huh...anybody? julie! hey...guess what day it is?? ah come on, i know you can hear me. mike mike mike mike mike... w

democrats as we start to see maybe elizabeth warren pulling the president to left on banking and tom harkin bringing him to the left on education and hearth. it's going to st. very interesting budget debate in the fall. >> it seems like the president is trying to rally public support around some issues right now from health care time integration to the economy. does the white house need a clearer message in some ways it seems the president is muddled a little bit. >> i would say the president is telling a pretty clear story and that's republican obstructionism and blocking his agenda. he brought thunder several times yesterday in his speech. several republicans are willing to work with him but some republicans don't want to see anything passed. that's pretty much the truth so he with put forward his ideas, tell his story to the american people, key be bold, he can conservative. either way they want to block him. >> when it comes to something like health care you have polls that show a lot of the public does not support what's going to be implemented in october. do you think his getting his