in saudi arabia. this is one of the most sensitive issues in saudi arabia, to remove men guardianship on woman. he has been accused of being radical and he wrote an essay about it. none of the clergy's would dare write a similar essay and they are the ones being respected by the authority today. they are in jail. we are going to conclude. the last question i will entertain, one minute each. how do you see the near or long term future as a result

of all the. >> we will leave the last few minutes of this. you can see the online and search cspan.org. gambling in momentarily for what we expect to be a brief pro forma session. no legislative business expected. the presiding officer: the

senate will come to order. the clerk will read a communication to the senate. the clerk: washington, d.c., november 17, 2017. to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable luther strange, a senator from the state of alabama, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: orrin g. hatch, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 11:00 a.m. on tuesday, november 11:00 a.m. on tuesday, november the center had a brief pro forma session today and will be back next week for a brief pro forma session next week. then thanksgiving break. they will be back after thanksgiving to continue legislative work. yesterday the finance committee finished its work on the gop tax reform plan. you can see that sunday afternoon on c-span. here's a preview.

>> i do know the tv ads that are going to be run against the five most important senators on this committee, the tv ads of the independent groups will of course say, senator mccaskill and senator casey and senator nelson are voting against a 4000-dollar raise that this tax cut will bestow on them. we know it's coming and we will know you will have way more money to promote that then we will have to defend it but that's why the amendment is so important. i think it would be nice, before we go home, to acknowledge this tax cut is really not for the middle class, it's for the rich. that whole thing for higher wages is a good selling point but we know companies don't just give away higher wages. corporations are sitting on a lot of money and a lot of profits. i don't see wages going up. spurs the sarcasm.

>> i come from the poor people , and i've been here working my whole stinking career for people who don't have a chance , and i really resent anyone saying i'm just doing this for the rich. give me a break. i think you overplay that all the time and it gets old. frankly you want to quit it. i get sick and tired of it. >> with all due respect, i get tired of the richest. >> regular order. order. >> we do attack. >> regular order. regular order. >> over and over again. >> , times we do this before w we -- order. listen. i allowed you to spout off and

what you said was not right. that's all i'm saying. i come from the lower middle class. we didn't have anything so don't spew that stuff on me. i get a little tired of that crab. let me just say something, if we would work together we could pull this country out of every mess it's in. we could do a lot of things you're talking about too. i think i have a reputation of having worked together. >> let's start which it. >> i'm not starting with chip. i've done it for years. >> start with chip today. >> i've got more bills then everyone on this committee put together. i like you very much but i'm telling you this bull crab that you throw out here really gets old and to do it right at the end of this is just not right. it takes a lot to get me worked up like this. >> yesterday the u.s. house

passed its version of the tax plan with 13 republicans voting in all democrats against the bill. on the senate side they narrowly passed the senate version of tax reform. the vote 14 - 12. the bill itself expected on the senate floor after the thanksgiving recess and you can watch the hearing from yesterday, the markup session sunday afternoon on c-span. >> this weekend on th book tv, live coverage of the miami book fair starting saturday at 10:30 a.m. eastern. msnbc chris matthews on the political life of bobby kennedy. best-selling biographer walter isaacson on leonardo da vinci. goldstar father keyser con on his immigration to the united states and nbc news katie turner on covering the trump campaign. i live coverage continues sunday at 10:30 a.m. with

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