i would like to thank senator coons -- this amendment is beyond -- on behalf of myself and senator coons. i thought this morning's session that was held was a very excellent ability for all thes to not only hear from administration but to get a lot of questions answered and i appreciate you holding those. i thank you and senator corker for the hard work that you have done on this legislation. i think it may be one of the most important pieces of legislation that this committee will consider and i thank you and senator corker for your leadership. both of these amendments have to do with the issue of changing the battlefield situation in syria. the president of the united states has articulated three basic policy measures that he advocates. one, is to degrade the chemical weapons capabilities of bashar al-assad. two, to give greater support to the syrian army and those who are seeking to prevail. thed, a change in battlefield to switch the momentum which presently thanks to 4000 hezbollah, russian equipment being flown in every day, iranian assistance, the momentum is on the part of bashar

with me this afternoon, democratic senator chris coons. he's on that committee. thanks for joining us this morning, senator. >> thank you, kristen. >> to get you on record, if the vote were held today, how would you vote? >> the reason i'm back in washington this morning is get a classified briefing on the administration's information. there's intelligence that supports their assertion that assad used chemical weapons to massacre 1500 of his own people. what i'm looking for in this morning's briefing and this afternoon's hearing is a clear strategy, a path forward behind missile strikes or aircraft strikes that i think may be called for to make sure that we respond forcefully. our president did draw a red line. i think it is important for our credibility in the region and world for us to act but i first need to be convinced that the intelligence is there and is sound and that the administration has thought carefully about the strategy going forward because there will inevitably be responses to attacks. >> just to be clear, you don't know how you are going to vote

i would like to thank senator coons -- this amendment is beyond -- on behalf of myself and senator coons. i thought this morning's session that was held was a very excellent ability for all of us to not only hear from the administration but to get a lot of questions answered and i appreciate you holding those. i thank you and senator corker for the hard work that you have done on this legislation. i think it may be one of the most important pieces of legislation that this committee will consider and i thank you and senator corker for your leadership. both of these amendments have to do with the issue of changing the battlefield situation in syria. the president of the united states has articulated three basic policy measures that he advocates. one, is to degrade the chemical weapons capabilities of bashar al-assad. two, to give greater support to the syrian army and those who are seeking to prevail. third, a change in the battlefield to switch the momentum which presently thanks to 4000 hezbollah, russian equipment being flown in every day, iranian assistance, the momentum is on the part

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the senate foreign relations committee led by john mccain and his partner chris coons of delaware have approved a measure not only backing an attack on syria for its use of chemical weapons, but a fresh new declaration that makes it the policy of the united states to, quote, change the momentum on the battlefield in syria, committing this country, the united states of america, to providing lethal, indeed, all forms of assistance to this syrian opposition. so here we are, faced with the horror of certain rebels and what could be coming in this senate approval of helping the syrian rebel groups, including the revenging executioners we see in today's pictures. nbc foreign correspondent ayman mohyeldin. may endorse rebels we know little about when it's comprised of extremists and terrorists. those were exacerbated. it shows in the process of executing seven prisoners. you're to be see a clip from the full video. i should warn you. i will not actually show the video themselves. the video is quite graphic. >> what happens next leaves little to the imagination. multiple gunshots ring out in r

it seems to me that somebody as senator coon said, will go to any length to stay in power, to the point of using chemical weapons against his people, that - would he be driven to a serious level of determination to keep power, rather than the negotiation table. >> it's an appropriate question. i don't believe so, and there are a number of different reasons why i don't believe so. most of them are best discussed and i look forward to it with you in the private session. there are strong indications from a number of - a number of discussions that have taken place between countries and individuals over the last months, that assad would not necessarily avoid making a different decision under certain circumstances. i think we ought to leave it at that. but in the private session i think we ought to dig into it. >> i was going to ask about chemical weapons stockpiles. maybe you want to reserve this for the discussion in terms of steps we can take in terms of command and control of the rag eem's chem -- regime's chemical weapons stockpile to make sure they are not used in a way they shouldn't b

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would like to thank senator coons -- this amendment is beyond -- on behalf of myself and senator coons. i thought this morning's session that was held was a very excellent ability for all of us to not only hear from the administration but to get a lot of questions answered and i appreciate you holding those. i thank you and senator corker for the hard work that you have done on this legislation. i think it may be one of the most important pieces of legislation that this committee will consider and i thank you and senator corker for your eadership. both of these amendments have to do with the issue of changing the battlefield situation in syria. the president of the united states has articulated three basic policy measures that he advocates. one, is to degrade the chemical weapons capabilities of bashar al-assad. two, to give greater support to the syrian army and those who re seeking to prevail. third, a change in the battlefield to switch the momentum which presently thanks to 4000 hezbollah, russian equipment being flown in every day, iranian assistance, the momentum is on the part o

senator coons? >> it is co-sponsored by senator shaheen. this amendment simply expands on the required elements for inclusion into the strategy report to be delivered to congress 30 days after the authorization. section five inserts additional provisions within the broad strategy report and has a section regarding security court mention with allies and regional partners in israel, jordan and turkey and it has a section on planning for security of the existing biological and other weapons supply and syria and last it adds a section asking the policy address efforts regarding the ongoing humanitarian challenges presented by the refugees in neighboring countries and 4.5 million internally displaced persons and syria. i was grateful for senator shaheen's leadership recognizing the need to broaden the policy strategy report that we anticipate from the administration as part of this authorization. i think this is not controversial and we hope for a voice vote to disconnect the chair is supportive and beli

strikes him john congressional approval they've been careful not to say that in fact senator chris coons is confident however that the president is listening to congress members i welcome and respect the president coming to congress to seek authorization i don't think he had to i think constitutionally he has the power to act in exigent circumstances i think both what we decide and how we decide it here in the congress is important of both as a role model of how democracy can work and in order to end up hopefully with sort of unified support behind a narrow and clear path forward part of the problem here though is in my biggest complain about it is you know i want to be proud of the president for bringing this forward but then they say well they won't adamantly say they're going to adhere to congressional verdict so is the vote just feed or is it just pretend and that's a pretty important thing if the president wants credit for believing in current question authority and coming forward with us he needs to say yes the votes binding absolutely i would never go to war if i lose the vote but

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this may be why, tim coo coon ad his iraqy driver. >> what do you do to just survive? it's an everyday activity yes. >> one of his sons was hurt when their car was blown up in the driveway of their home. >> passing through ball of fire to the house. >> when fallah wanted to bring his family to the united states, tim pulled out all the stops. for an are are immigrant. >> we could not have accomplished the situation without the him of him. >> now time is running out, unless congress acts by the end of the month, the law allowing these siv visas will expire. the state department says, we welcome any efforts to extend the siv program, we are working with interested members of congress to extend the policy, to allow for the special issuance of immigrant visas. thousands of them could be soon shut out completely. >> this wouldn't be the potential catastrophe as it is, if the state department and the department of homeland security had administers this policy efficiently and expeditiously, now we're in a position where men and women who served as honor ra bring as the troops

coons: i was. mr. bennet: i say through the chair, do you think any county executive or mayor or local official in your state could go very far -- let me put it this way -- wouldn't be run out of town if they threatened the credit rating of their community for politics? mr. coons: absolutely not. i had direct experience with this. in the state of delaware, folks expect us to balance our budgets and pass them on time and deliver good services but also to defend our credit ratings. the city, county and state in which i lived and served all enjoyed aaa credit ratings. folks in my community understood what that meant, that that meant we could borrow money for building sewers, roads, schools less expensively and sustain the quality of our community. and our business leaders and civic leaders understood that to put that at risk was reckless and irresponsible, and yet for a manufactured crisis by a few senators, we are facing the shutdown of this federal government a few days from now, and i'm afraid just a f

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inhofe: you already had one and senator coons. mrs. boxer: we had a number -- had you quite a few on your side. you had three, one after the other, and now we're going to have three and then it goes back -- mr. inhofe: reserving the right to object if you'll take two now, let me speak and then you can have two of them after that. that's still 2-1. okay? mrs. boxer: that's what i said, senator murray, senator coons, senator inhofe, senator boxer. is that all right? the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. the senator from washington. mrs. murray: i thank my colleague from california for accommodating all of us. i really appreciate it. mr. president, let me start today just by joining my colleagues who have been out here on the floor expressing my deepest condolences to the families of those who lost someone in monday's tragic shooting. i know that the thoughts and prayers of the nation are with those who are still recovering and i know i speak for my constituents in washington state in thanking the law enforcement c

shaheen new hampshire, coons. as liberal as they get supporting action. oh my god. and dick durbin. dick durbin supporting action. who would have thunk it and angus king knows some surprising nos. marco rubio no. chris murphy, jim reesh, bob johnson, rand paul we knew that tom you uudoll how could you process it. >> this was the easiest vote senate relations committee between menendez and corker you had bipartisan effort president's resolution. you touched on tellerrier. the first and most important thing for the president to do is to convince the president and american people that there is a strategic american interest in taking action against saddam hussein. not simply a humanitarian or an international component but there is a strategic u.s. interest. and, you are right. the outcome in syria is either assad wins in which case hezbollah and iran and russia win or assad loses in which case iran, hezbollah, and russialess. if assad, iran, hezbollah, and russia win, then that changes the balance of power in the middle east against us. and if they lose, it advances it in our direction

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bipartisan vote, both for and against, and while doing it, they added an amendment from senators mccain and coons that would make it u.s. policy to change the momentum. that is, in effect, increasing the authority of what the u.s. should do, whereas your legislation is hemming it in quite a bit. does this make it more difficult for you to pass something in the house that would align with what passed in the senate committee today? >> so the issue, jake, is whether that legislation that the senate foreign relations committee put in this bill authorizes the president to use military force for those purposes that he said was to try to change the balance. that is not the purpose that the president has articulated so that should not be the purpose of the authorization. what i don't know, because i haven't seen the whole thing is whether it's an authorization. after all, the president has said that our objective ultimately is to get rid of the assad regime, but he's been very clear, the president, that that's not the purpose of this military intervention. he wants to use it by supporting some of the reb

senator coons. simply expandsnt on the required elements for inclusion in the serious strategy reports. syria strategy reports. 5bamends section five be -- and inserts additional provisions within the broader serious strategy report. it has a section regarding security coordination with allies and regional partners including israel, jordan and turkey. it has a section on planning for securing the existing chemical, biological and other weapons supplies in syria. last, it adds a section that the policy address efforts regarding the ongoing humanitarian challenges presented by 2 million syrian refugees in neighboring countries and 4.5 million internally displaced persons in syria. report that we anticipate from the administration as part of this authorization. i would hope for a voice vote. >> chair is supportive of the senator's amendment. it is a valuable addition to the resolution. any other members wish to speak to it? >> i thank him for a contribution. i plan to support it wholeheartedly. >> sena

jerry connelly, barbara lee, chris coons. i want to start with you, congress him would, and ask to react when he says i challenge anyone going to vote no, which you have said you intend to do, to take a look at that video of the children dying of what appears to be of a sarin gas attack and think about their vote. has that video given you pause? >> candy, for me, first of all, these crimes against humanity, these error risk attacks, the use of chemical weapons, it's who are ren dwu horrendous, outrageous. so i don't think any of us would say we don't support an effort to bring those accountable and it appears and i think the evidence is very clear that it's the assad regime, that we do not hold them accountable in a very forceful way. these images, the tragic deaths, the terrible violence that's taking place is unconscionable. what i worry about is more retaliation, more use of force. more efforts to escalate the war by other continues in the region. so i worry that the unintended consequences could even be more stark and dir

he and the delaware democratic senator chris coons added amendments that read in part the president's goings of assad leaving power an end to the violence and negotiated political settlement in syria are prerequisites for a stable democratic future for syria and it is the policy of the united states to change the momentum on the battlefield in syria so as to create favorable conditions for syria that ends the conflict that does change the game. the resolution does not authorize president to send in combat troops to make any of that happen. of course recent history shows he doesn't need authorization. the full senate vote still has to come and this is not a done deal. today a house committee held its first hearing on possible military action. this afternoon, on "studio b," the head of the subcommittee on middle east told me congress is facing what she calls a terrible decision in the land of bad options. >> the mission is not to stop the slaughter. what we're in fact saying is you can continue killing your own people. you just can't kill them with chemical gas. that is in essence what

we'll talk to jerry conly of virginia and barbara lee of california and delaware senator chris coons will tell us what convinced him to vote for the resolution. tomorrow at 6:00 p.m., president obama will sit down with our own wolf blitzer and the return of "crossfire." if you missed any part of today, head to itunes and search "state of the union." fareed zakaria is next. >>> this is gps, the global public square. welcome to you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria. we're going to get you one step ahead on understanding the crisis in syria. we have put together our own war room, a national security council of senior officials from recent administrations that is assembled and ready to take us through the path ahead for president obama. we have general wesley clark, james steinberg, and nicholas burns. then, a critical question. can president obama take action without congress? should he hav

shaheen new hampshire, coons. as liberal as they get supporting action. oh my god. and dick durbin. dick durbin supporting action. who would have thunk it and angus king knows some nos. marco rubio no. chris murphy, jim reesh, bob johnson, rand paul we knew that tom you uudoll how could you process it. >> this was the easiest vote senate relations committee between menendez and corker you had bipartisan effort president's resolution. you touched on tellerrier. the first and most important thing for the president to do is to convince the president and american people that there is a strategic american interest in taking action against saddam hussein. not simply a humanitarian or an international component but there is a strategic u.s. interest. and, you are right. the outcome in syria is either assad wins in which case hezbollah and iran and russia win or assad loses in which case iran, hezbollah, and russialess. if assad, iran, hezbollah, and russia win, then that changes the balance of power in the middle east against us. and if they lose, it advances it in our direction. >> bill:

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coons: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the proceedings under the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. coons: mr. president, i rise today to speak to the energy savings and industrial competitiveness act of 2013. s. 1392 or more commonly referred to here by the names of its lead cosponsors shaheen-portman. this is a bill, mr. president, that allows us to turn back to the issue that so many americans have been asking us to focus on -- jobs, competitiveness, manufacturing. the steps we can take to put our country back on the right path for our future. mr. president, this bill is centrally about energy efficiencies and all the different ways that energy efficiency used wisely can strengthen america. an america that uses less energy is an america taking less from the earth, an america less reliant on other fuels that power our lives and livelihoods, an america whose people won't need to mortgage their futures in order to cool their homes. an americ

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coons: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from delaware. mr. coons: madam president, i know you're familiar with the phrase -- the presiding officer: the senate is in a quorum call. mr. coons: i ask unanimous consent the proceedings under the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. coons: madam president, i am confident you are familiar with the phrase justice too long delayed is justice denied. dr. martin luther king jr. wrote that from his jail cell in birmingham. justice too long delayed is justice denied. madam president, i rise today to talk about justice and the budgetary choices congress is making that impact the american people's ability to access the justice promised them by our constitution. our federal courts translate laws into justice and effective courts require fair judges, well-trained lawyers and efficient clerks, as you well know. the fewer judges and clerks you have, the reduced resources, in time-saving technology, the fewer cases that can be handled at a time and the longer cases will take to

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in germany, coon ligzs are formed when a single party does manage to get an absolute majority. the last time this happened was in 1957. so let's take a look at the possible combinations. first, a combination between the cdu and the fdp. angela merkel has called the current yellow black or so-called tuck coalition her partner. second, a grand coalition between the two largest parties, the cdu and the spd. in the last year, polls have repeatedly shown this being the most popular option. in polls for germany, though, there have only been two grand coalitions. there are three more options, a red/green tie-up between the spd and the greens, which in the past led to successful governments. a red coalition between the left and the green which has never happened at the national level or the sds, the green t and the left form a lebanese coalition referring to the colors of the lebanese flag. the with a combined 332 seats form the government while the fdp is the strongest opposition with 146 seats. left and the greens make up the rest. in total, at least 598 members of the dundestag are

i do think john will offer an amendment that, i think, will be constructive, and i think chris coons may be doing something similar. they may even work together. but we had a really good morning. it started off a little, you know, it's a big issue. and yet i think as time went on, there's a possibility -- i don't want to, i never want to overload and say things that are not going to happen. but i think there is a reasonable chance that maybe by the end of the day we'll be in a place where there's consensus. >> can you just discuss how hard it is to -- [inaudible] something that's narrow enough to, you know appease some and broad enough to appease others? >> yeah. look, on an issue like this and certainly on this one there is. i do think, again, just with the conversations we're able to have in a more flexible environment, again, i think we could well get there today, and i hope that we do. >> [inaudible] >> yeah. now, let me say this. we certainly are more than glad to convene again friday, saturday, sunday, monday and, you know, nobody -- everyone understands that there's no, there

consequence for this international crime, that america will play a leading role in making sure there is coons sequence and as long as we stand strong with this resolve we will maximize the chance we will be able to obtain the result we want. madam president, thank you very much. i yield the floor. and, madam president, i have two unanimous consent requests for committees to meet during today's session of the senate. they have the approval of the majority and new orleans. -- and new orleans. i ask these -- the majority and minority leaders. i ask these requests are agreed to and printed in the record. the presiding officer: the minority whip. mr. cornyn: madam president, my dad was a pilot in the army air corps in world war ii, served in the eighth air force, the 303rd bomb group stationed in molesworth, england and on his 26th bombing mission over nazi germany he was shot down and captured as a prisoner of war. where he served for the remainder of the war. so i learned at a very young age that when we start talking about matters of war and peace, that we must take these very, very seriously.

and our cosponsors are senators alexander, begich, boozman, coons, heinrich, tester, tom udall and senator wyden. and, again, bipartisan group of senators. basically one of the things we've learned from the department of defense is every four years, they do a quadrennial defense review and that helps them determine what's going on within their agency as an agency, it helps them determine the strengths and weaknesses, the things that need to be addressed. it helps them plan and it also helps us make decisions. we want to make good defense decisions. and the only way you do that is by knowing what you have on hand and what you need. well, this is the same for energy. we have a lot of very well-intentioned energy programs and ideas that either float around this cap tom building or float around the various departments or that are law right -- capitol building or float around the various departments or that are lawsuit right now, they don't necessarily exist, but these aren't necessarily cooperated, there's no one really making sure that all the dotion connect and we're able to have a small ene

, donnelly, durbin, whitehouse, bennet, leahy, heitkamp, schumer, warner, heinrich, kaine, baldwin, coons, king. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum required under rule 22 be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, i now ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to a period of morning business, senators permitted to speak therein for ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to executive session to consider the nominations on the seetary's desk in the air army, ny,hat thenominations ben bloc, the motion to reconsider made and laid on the table with no intervening action or debate, that no further motion be in order to any of the nominations, any related statements are printed in the record and president obama immediately notified of the senate's action and the senate resume legislative session. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to calendar number 13, s. 252. the presiding officer: the clerk will r

and i guess this is in senator coons' statement last night. what was said that lit a fire? ow would this resolve this and everybody single kumbaya? >> we are unified behind those objectives. there's never been a doubt. [inaudible] >> you need to ask them. i thought the senator addressed it very well. as for those who sent out tweets i ask you have comments for them. >> what happened and you know what happened is there wasn't 218 votes for the other proposals brought forward. this is something that i believe you're going to a see a strong majority for and maybe you'll see some democrats. we had 35 democrats vote with us to delay the employer mandate. we had 22 vote to delay the individual mandate. so democrats understand how harmful this bill is. the simple truth is there weren't the votes for the alternative and this is where the votes are. >> a little more clarity on whether -- >> sure. >> do you believe that speaker boehner should abide by the hastert rule if it comes around a second time? i see shaking heads. a sign of hands? >> that's clearly a question for the speaker

he is a senior at coon rapids high school in minnesota. he has cerebral palsy. >> he was picked this year to give a speech before the pep rally. >> you don't need to play a sport to achieve victory. the road to victory starts in your own life. setting your own goals. i guess when you are a cardinal, you never stand alone. >> they found out how serious he was about never standing alone. watch this. that is dakota taking his first steps in front of his classmates. >> look at everybody going wild! i love it. he says his plan has been a year in the making here. >> he always says on your feet for the school song. for four years, i have not been able to be on my feet until today. >> that day he did. it he also led his football team out on the field in last night's game. >> congratulations to him and all those kids that support him. that is awesome. thank you for watching today. >>> what do republicans think about shutting down the government? think again. >> you don't shut down obama care by shutting down the government. you do disrupt the econo

he is a senior at coon rapids high school in minnesota. he has cerebral palsy. >> he was picked this year to give a speech before the pep rally. >> you don't need to play a sport to achieve victory. the road to victory starts in your own life. setting your own goals. i guess when you are a cardinal, you never stand alone. >> they found out how serious he was about never standing alone. watch this. that is dakota taking his first steps in front of his classmates. >> look at everybody going wild! i love it. he says his plan has been a year in the making here. >> he always says on your feet for the school song. for four years, i have not been able to be on my feet until today. >> that day he did. it he also led his football team out on the field in last night's game. >> congratulations to him and all those kids that support him. that is awesome. thank you for watching today. >>> what do republi t

reid of nevada, mikulski, levin, leahy, warren, schumer, durbin, coons, murphy, markey, kaine, king, cardin, gillibrand. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the mandatory quorum under rule 22 be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i now ask we have a period of morning business with senators allowed to speak for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that the veterans' affairs committee be discharged from further consideration of h.r. 1412. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 1412, an act to improve and increase the availability of on-job training and apprenticeship programs and so forth and for other purposes the presiding officer: without objection the committee is discharged and the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. reid: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the sanders substitute amendment which is at the desk be agreed to, the bill as amended be read three times and passed, the sanders title amendment which is at the desk be agreed to and the motions to reconsider

reid: i ask unanimous consent that emmet bin nunn a fellow in the office of senator coons be granted floor privileges during consideration of s. 1392. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i commend the managers of the energy efficiency bill. senator wyden, chairman of the full committee; senator murkowski, the ranking member; and the sponsors of this legislation: senators shaheen and port m.a.p.. for their -- portman. for their work in bringing this bill to the floor and managing it today. we've had a number of senators who have tried to offer amendments. i was told by senator shaheen that she had a dozen or so bipartisan amendments that were ready to be offered. there's been an attempt to offer amendments dealing with the bill, but there's a little hurdle there; something that's totally nongermane has been offered. one of the amendments that senator udall of colorado would like to offer is a bipartisan amendment to promote energy retro fitting of schools. senator bennet of colorado seeks to offer a bipartisan amendment to facilitate best practices in commercial real e

the last congress my colleague senator chris coons and our colleague sheldon whitehouse, from another small state, and i tried to pull off a triple play of our own. we introduced a bill called the reducing federal energy dollars act, and it focused like a laser on bringing down federal energy costs. today i'm happy to see that many of its provisions have been incorporated in the shaheen-portman bill. and if we pass it, we can pull off that triple play after all. one of the provisions that takes what works and seeks to ensure that we do more of it. here's one example. not too long ago the veterans affairs department mandated that employees turn off their computers at the end of each work day. this is not the whole federal government. this is one department of the federal government, the v.a.. the agency also began acquiring more energy efficient computers and software. combined the department plans to save about $32 million over the next five years. $32 million, not too shabby. the bill before us today calls on all agencies to adopt these kinds of energy and cost-saving techniques. ano

coons: mr. president, here we are again. on monday, september 30, just five days from now at midnight, absent some agreement and cooperation between the parties and the chambers here in the congress, the entire federal government will begin shutting down. mr. president, here we are again. another day, another fiscal crisis, another politically manufactured crisis. another politically manufactured crisis that is threatening to tear at the economic fabric of our whole country. it would be hard to believe if it weren't totally, completely believable. i have been in the senate now just under three years, but this is my third of these crises. i was actually up in the chair presiding that night back in 2011 when we narrowly averted a shutdown just minutes before funding expired. i was here with all the other senators on new year's eve just this past year when we stopped just short of going over the fiscal cliff, and here we are again. from shutdown to default, from the debt ceiling to the fiscal clif

coons has trouble winning that election. if mr. lugar is renominated by the party, joe donnelly -- i urged joe not to run. i said you can't beat richard lugar. i think i was right. the good news from joe's standpoint, he didn't have to. claire mccaskill was most threatened democratic senator in the last cycle. todd akin. and in nevada, sharon engel, the tea party put sharon engel the candidate against senator reid and i think was helpful for senator reid. what you're seeing in the republican party was, as i mentioned, the hard line -- i would call it the radical right -- is not allowing the appropriation process to go forward and threatening members if you cooperate in any way, mike simpson, who i think is one of the most solid, reasonable, commonsense, conservative house of representatives. chair of a subcommittee in the appropriation committee, former idaho house is being contested by a tea party person because he's not conservative enough. why? because he believes there needs to be a balanced deal. i don't know if hal rogers wil