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Congressional Record United States Th of America PROCEEDINGS and DEBATES of the 111 CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION E PL UR UM IB N U U S Congressional Record United States th of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 111 CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION Vol. 156 WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2010 No. 17 Senate The Senate met at 12 noon and was Mrs. HAGAN thereupon assumed the resentative to the Conference on Disar- called to order by the Honorable KAY chair as Acting President pro tempore. mament. All these positions are deal- R. HAGAN, a Senator from the State of f ing with these programs the United North Carolina. RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY States should be involved in, but we had an objection from the Republicans. PRAYER LEADER There are people out there, evil peo- The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- fered the following prayer: pore. The majority leader is recog- ple, trying to do damage to our coun- Let us pray. nized. try every day, every week, every Almighty and everlasting God, in f month, every hour. It is hard for me to comprehend that people with impec- whom we live and move and have our SCHEDULE being, we invoke Your divine presence cable records, such as Philip Goldberg, among us. Draw our Senators nearer to Mr. REID. Madam President, fol- an appointee of President Bush to be You and to one another as You give lowing leader remarks, there will be 20 Ambassador to Bolivia, who has an them the gift of Your peace that is be- minutes for debate prior to a vote on outstanding record of doing things for yond all human understanding. Lord, confirmation of the nomination of Pa- our country, is being objected to as give them also courage, fortitude, and tricia Smith to be Solicitor for the De- being the person assigned by the White stability that will keep them firm and partment of Labor. House and Secretary Clinton to be in Upon disposition of that nomination, steadfast in the face of difficulties. charge of intelligence at the State De- there will be 2 hours for debate prior to May they serve with fidelity the cause partment. of our Nation and of our common hu- a vote on invoking cloture on the nom- ination of Marcia Johnson to be Ad- Caryn Wagner, who is eminently manity. Help them to build alliances qualified, I have never heard anything with others who seek to bring sense ministrator of General Services. Under suggested that there is anything wrong and system to our disordered world. We a previous order, if cloture is invoked, with her background or qualifications. pray in Your holy Name. Amen. all postcloture debate time will be yielded back and the Senate will pro- Yet there is objection to her being the f ceed to a vote on her confirmation. person who deals with the safety of our PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE For the information of Senators, homeland. The Honorable KAY R. HAGAN led the Senator KIRK will give his farewell Laura Kennedy is the woman nomi- Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: speech at 3:45 p.m. or thereabouts nated to be the U.S. Representative to today. Senator-elect BROWN will be I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the the Conference on Disarmament. We sworn in at 5 p.m. today. United States of America, and to the Repub- are a nuclear power, and the United lic for which it stands, one nation under God, I say publicly for Senator KIRK that indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I am not sure I will be able to be here. States doesn’t have anybody at these conferences. f The President has called something at Finally, GEN Clifford Stanley to be APPOINTMENT OF ACTING the White House and I have to be there. Under Secretary of Defense. This man PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE I will do my utmost to be back by 5 for the swearing in of Senator BROWN. would be the third highest ranking per- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The f son at the Pentagon. One of the things clerk will please read a communication he is responsible for is making sure all to the Senate from the President pro CONFIRMATION OF PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEES our troops around the world have ev- tempore (Mr. BYRD). erything they need. He is responsible The legislative clerk read the fol- Mr. REID. Madam President, since I for making sure the 30,000 people who lowing letter: last asked unanimous consent to have are headed for Afghanistan can go to ENATE confirmed three important nomina- U.S. S , Afghanistan when deemed ready to go PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, tions—one, the top intelligence official by the Pentagon. That is his job. There Washington, DC, February 4, 2010. at the Department of Homeland Secu- is no one to do that. I can’t imagine To the Senate: rity, the other a top intelligence offi- Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, cial at the State Department, and the anybody objecting to that, but they of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby third the highest ranking member of have done so. appoint the Honorable KAY R. HAGAN, a Sen- ator from the State of North Carolina, to the entire Pentagon—I said three and There isn’t enough time in the perform the duties of the Chair. there are actually four I asked unani- world—the Senate world, at least—to ROBERT C. BYRD, mous consent on, and the fourth is an move cloture on every one of these. We President pro tempore. individual who would be the U.S. Rep- have spent all this week on two people. ∑ This ‘‘bullet’’ symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. S451 . VerDate Nov 24 2008 02:27 Feb 05, 2010 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A04FE6.000 S04FEPT1 jbell on DSKDVH8Z91PROD with SENATE S452 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE February 4, 2010 Today is Thursday. I know we were in- Whatever it is, I would almost bet a lot The leader earlier talked about the terrupted yesterday because of the re- it is nothing that would be comparable amount of time it takes for cloture on treat, but we have spent all day on to holding up these extremely sensitive people. It does take quite a while, but Monday, Tuesday, and now Thursday positions keeping our country safe. I it is part of the process. I can tell you, on two nominees, one to be the Solic- think it is outlandish, and I can’t when there is a hearing on a person, if itor at the Department of Labor—that imagine this is the right thing to do. there are 270 questions to start with is the lawyer for the entire Department f and the other people in a similar posi- of Labor—and the one we are working tion have a couple dozen questions, you on today is to have someone run the RECOGNITION OF THE MINORITY know there is a little bit of a problem General Services Administration. The LEADER that could develop with that one per- Federal Government is the largest real The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- son, depending on how they answer or estate holder in the world, and the pore. The Republican leader is recog- don’t answer the questions. General Services Administration man- nized. This isn’t something new. This isn’t ages that. Yet we have no one to run f something that happened just this that. year. I was chairman of the HELP So we have had to file cloture. Every- WELCOMING SENATOR BROWN OF Committee for 2 years and then rank- one within the sound of my voice un- MASSACHUSETTS ing member for 2 years. During that derstands it takes a long time to do Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, time, President Bush had an appoint- that. We have to lay it down, file clo- a little earlier today the Massachusetts ment as the FDA Commissioner that ture, 2 days, 30 hours. It is not right, Secretary of State formally certified was stopped. We never even got him to and I hope we can get more coopera- the election of SCOTT BROWN as the new the floor. We had an MSHA Director— tion. Senator and the newest Member of this I think it was the first MSHA Direc- I have been someone who has tried body. He will come to Washington and tor—who worked in a mine. That was hard not to have the President do re- be sworn in on the Senate floor, as is the mining safety person. We had a cess appointments, but what alter- customary, later today. We all look Surgeon General and others. Then the native do we have? What alternative do forward to welcoming him. The people schedule was set up so there were no we have? We have on the calendar doz- of Massachusetts are eager to have recesses so there couldn’t be recess ap- ens of people who are being held up— Senator BROWN working on their be- pointments. So this is an ongoing mat- dozens—and I have only picked out a half, and Republicans look forward to ter and both sides should take note of few; these very sensitive people, deal- having him join our conference. This that and ask the person making the ing with the safety and security of our was certainly a high-profile election, nominations to come up with reason- country. I think it is without expla- but now it is time to get to work.
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