spectacular terrorist acts that produced large numbers of casualties and grisly murders of kidnap victims their car we were a not the dominant part of the insurgency but a part of the insurgency which needs to be attacked and needs to be addressed the insurgency however primarily is made up of disaffected iraqi sunni s and r and as our car we play the role in stirring up ethnic conflict between shiites much of the violence relating to that conflict is traced to the reaction of shiite militias to the sunni insurgency and then to of course their reaction to the shia militias our security forces need to confront those militias and the other armed groups i would ask mr president that i be allowed to proceed for one additional minute without objection to support mr president there needs to be a political solution in addition to the military force which is present and an equal in and indeed a probably a more important event than the killing of czar cowley was the selection by the prime minister and the ratification of the iraqi by the iraqi council of representatives of the key ministries the fence and interior and the national security adviser those vacancies lasted too long they're filling hopefully with people who have the support of all of the iraqi people who want iraq to become a nation is even a more important step than the killing of czar kiley as important as that that was and so is the president  we i think all want to and will support hopefully unanimous this bipartisan amendment which is before us we also need to recognize that there is critical work that remains to be done while this is a step towards hopefully a direction of iraqi nationhood that most of the steps remain to be taken the floor mr president would senator durbin however is on the floor it is the amendment of senator warner on behalf of senators frist senator reid in myself under the previous order the hour of twelve fifteen having arrived the senate will proceed to a vote on amendment number forty two zero eight those in to durban and wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote on this amendment the days are ninety seven the naser zero the amendment is agreed to understand we have the signing of the mine safety on thursday and this is a real coming together this is a bipartisan effort the president supporting it passed overwhelmingly in the house it's a very important bill and it will make a big difference has the support this particular amendment we understand that even if we don't if we do or don't get cloture the president could still have a recess appointment but nonetheless for those  feel very strongly about this nominee we do think we're at least at this point we are able to get a vote in one way or the other prior to the time of a recess appointment and it was that particular position that we did not want to give up so i just so that the senate has some understanding about what we're looking for we want to work with the leadership and as you know a constitutional issue whether you can appoint during the short recess which would be the fourth of july recess more often than not that is done in the august recess which is well down the road and we've got the pending bail which is of great importance to this very glad to work with the leadership we could have the assurances from the senator from virginia he understands our position and make a good faith effort at least give us that out maturity now maybe the leadership doesn't want to give us that opportunity that is what our are up as position as those that have been feel strongly about the strickland nomination as president i say to my good friend from massachusetts  my fingers colleague from west virginia i'm not at liberty i have no instructions from my leadership beyond propounding this so it is now my understanding it was clear on both sides i assumed that when it was handed to me and therefore i proceeded to request by you announce consent to these actions i think members are anxious to go through a series of events now namely the party caucuses followed by the traditional annual photograph and then there is a briefing at two thirty by the secretaries of state and defense which i believe is very important for senators have the president of the center has the right to to object and that would do it i can certainly say that i will relay the senator's concerns to my leader if that would suffice for the cloture vote is that right because if it's either with the cloture vote at three thirty or we take it all the majority leader has told me that we take it  that we're glad to take it all on this but we are hopeful that if it was going to be a desire to go ahead with a recess appointment whatever that it was that we at least have an opportunity to have this vote sometime in the future if they weren't going to have the recess appointment this disappears but i would hope that we have that opportunity at the present time and it's the i don't think that that's an unreasonable of the requests of it is the desire of the administration to move ahead with this nominee and with a recess appointment that at least would come back to where we are now we'd have some opportunity to express ourselves we'd be giving that up if we just vitiate the whole the whole party could say well we're going to go ahead and he's going to appoint him as a recess appointment during the july break or sometime in the august break and that's the that's just that's the dilemma that we're in i spoke in the majority leader the majority leader has talked i'm and i hate to be speaking from here but he's not here the majority leader said he has spoken to anybody about a recess appointment he doesn't know if they have any intention of doing that he doesn't know but he doesn't want to be constrained so it would be my suggestion which is go ahead go to three thirty that because doing anything other than that  certainly he would that that distinguished senator from west virginia and massachusetts could talk to the majority leader if they want to do that polling the vote being visited but unless there's an agreement at three thirty and go to the supplemental at some later time mr president it seems to me that we could have this certainty then if the votes to be held then we go immediately following the vote to the supplemental drag out debate on this at that time doesn't seem to be very good for the body because the president has i'm sure reported them is on his way back from iraq right now and i think we should go ahead with that  the moment the massachusetts senate from west virginia do we go ahead with this schedule as we have laid out is a comeback at two thirty and start the debate on stick or vote at two thirty and those who want to be under the here for tuesday around this time the senate