united states senate to be elected. second. i am currently the only black woman in the united states senate. and here's what i have also come to visit with you to share. the decisions that are made in the united states senate, there are only 100 senators. they called the united states senate the most deliberative body in the world. they elect people, we elect people for six years in the united states senate, because the job is so important and potentially so powerful and it is so important in terms of representing the state as a whole that we want to give people the amount of time that is necessary for them to establish themselves and a voice for their state in a way that they are not only leaders for their state, but national leaders. it is in the united states senate where i went to the floor, they call it the well of the senate, it is a grand building, the united states capital, it is beautiful. the wood paneling has been there forever, pristine desks. you can see the names of the founders of our democracy written in

united states. hosting two u.s. senate runoffs for control of the united states senate.nk about how far we've come, columbus, that your standard bearers are the young jewish son of an immigrant mentored by john lewis and a black preacher who holds dr. king's pulpit at ebenezer baptist church. columbus, think about how far we've come. good trouble. and we're running against like the bonnie and clyde of corruption in american politics. columbus, how did we wind up with kelly and david? two united states senators more concerned concerned with lining their own pockets without looking for we the people who pay their salaries. and retirement is coming for kelly loeffler and david perdue. we have the power, columbus. we have the power to hold them accountable. and we have bigger and better things to discuss than david perdue and kelly loeffler, like where we go from here. georgia has the power to decide where we go from here. we have the power to right the -- write the next chapter in american history, because the fog is lifting. donald trump is leaving. honking] horns mr. osof

n the united states senate. me? we need georgia to send these two is great senators back to washington because of who they are, because of all that we've accomplished together. and because a republican senate majority could be the last line of defense to preserve all that we've done for this country, to revive our economy and preserve all the god-given liberties we hold dear. just going to take two of them. starting with the fourth generation, a gal that grew up on a family farm to the heartland, she got here to georgia as soon as she heard about it. built up her own company. broke barriers to become one of the most successful businesswomen in georgia and in a short period of time i can tell you firsthand, she has emerged as one of the most courageous conservative voices on capitol hill. we need senator kelly loeffler back. n the united states senate. and then there's senator macon who literally worked his way up to the top of the business world. he could have retired and relaxed but he felt a calling to serve g

when georgia sends david purdue and kelly loeffler back to a republican majority in the united states senatemore than your part to keep america great. [cheering and applause] ... ... , with confidence in these two great senators and on behalf of the president of the united , let's go getica, it done, georgia. let's send david perdue and kelly loeffler back to washington, d.c. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ california's attorney general and president elect joe biden's nominee for health and human services secretary joined politico for a discussion on the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on the latino community. this is just over an hour. >> good morning. my name is joann. i'm the editor at large for healthcare politico. thank you for joining the discussion on closing the gap, latinos, healthcare and covid-19. the pandemic

elected senator from tennessee, made his maiden address, his first speech on the floor of the united states senate. he spoke for too long. the republican leader of the senate, also baker's father in law, senator dirksen, walked over to congratulate him and then said, howard, occasionally you might enjoy the luxury of an unexpressed thought, which is good advice for a farewell address as well. as senator baker's legislative assistant, i was also his speechwriter for that maiden address, or at least i thought i was. he developed a bad habit of not saying what i wrote for his speech, so i asked to see him and i said do we have a problem with our relationship? he said, no, we have a perfect relationship. you write what you want to write and i will say what i want to say. i learned a couple of of other things about saying what i want to say. one came from alex haley, the author of "roots" who heard me speak once and called me aside afterwards and said may i make a suggestion? he said if when you begin a speech, you would start by saying instead of making a speech, let me tell you a story, someone might

our country needs a united states senate to work across party lines, and force broad agreements on hard issues creating laws that most of us have voted for and that a diverse country will accept. we needed the senate to create social security. after world war ii the united nations. in the 60s medicare, 1978 ratify the panama canal treaty. in 2013 more recently to tie interest rates to student loans to the market rates, saving student borrowers hundreds of billions of dollars coming in 2015 to fix no child left behind. that bill had 100 alligators in the swamp. the wall street journal said when we finished it was the largest evolution of power from washington to the state in 25 years. when president obama cited he said it was a christmas miracle because in the end 85 senators voted for it. 2016 the senator mcconnell mentioned the 21st-century cures act, medical miracles faster into patients and doctors offices, that bill ran off the track every 2 or 3 days. on one of those i called the vice president, joe biden and said joe, i am stuck in the white house. i've got the president's persona

president, cory gardner and i first met in 2011 when he became the first aluminous of the united states senate youth program to be sworn into the house of representatives. as the first senate youth program delegate elected to the united states senate, i felt an immediate connection to this new member of congress from colora colorado. one year both of us had the privilege of addressing the student delegates to this wonderful program that had made such a difference in the lives of both of us. since he joined the senate six years ago, cory has demonstrated his leadership on many issues which we have heard described today. his upbeat personality and his commitment to compromise, to solutions, to bipartisanship have had a positive influence on this chamber. as the renowned columnist george will once called cory, he is a human beam of sunshine. i'm sure that that is the phrase that was going through the mind of his colleague from colorado. his approach to legislating has indeed been enlightening, but it has been his positive approach to every problem that we encounter, his upbeat personality, his wo

united states senate. congress. and state and local races.retary state, jocelyn benson, and her team, work 20 47 to ensure a fair -- worked 24/7, to ensure a fair, a secure, and an accurate election. and they succeeded. [applause] likewise, our attorney general and her team, have worked tirelessly to protect the vote. [applause] and our election workers, and local clerks, stepped up, and did their part to ensure everyone's voice was heard. [applause] today, michigan's 16 electors will vote to finalize michigan's election results. and i want to thank each and every one of you for traveling here today, to perform your patriotic duty, on our behalf. our american democracy was founded on the principle of majority rule. 5.5 million people from all walks of life, from all 83 counties of our state, republicans and democrats and independents, cast their vote, this past november. a clear has chosen winner for the office of president of the united states, and for every elected office up and down that ballot. the people have spoken. it was a safe, fair,

what does the action in the united states senate today mean for the georgia senate race?well, thank you for having me, lawrence, to have this discussion because people on the ground in georgia are hurting. people have been demanding direct payment and assistance for some time now. and we've been ignored by our republican senators. kind of like what happened today when they didn't object to mitch mcconnell not bringing this up for a vote. $2,000 is nothing to kelly loeffler and david perdue because they're some of the richest people in the united states congress. and they have shown us exactly who they are. they are people who have made profits off of this pandemic when people in georgia are hurting. so i am standing with the people and we're going to the polls in record numbers in georgia and we're going to make sure that we put jon ossoff and raphael warnock in the united states senate because we need u.s. senators who are willing to work for georgians and not for themselves. >> let's listen to what jon ossoff said to ali velshi in the last hour. >> the only reason that

pat is only the 34th kansan to serve a term in the united states senate and i like that number. he will recognize we are the 34th state admitted to the union and he's the 34th senator to serve a term from kansas in this body. pat roberts told me to put my running shoes on, gave me a chance and we've had those running shoes on for a long timn thereafter. pat is that fourth-generation kansan who knows us. i would say one of his greatest contributions to our state to the midwest and to the count has been his distinguished career in leadership and agriculture. the farm bills tt he mentioned that work with democrats and republicans coming together fitingke for fair markets for the producers and the support for the crop insurance there's no question they had a strong voice in congress as a result of pat roberts being here. he is distinguished by being the first member of congress and the next congress we will begin the process of writing another farmville and it will be the first farmville sin the agricultural and food act of 1981 that will be written withoutth pat roberts direct influ

this was a gift from mike enzi after we were successful in the united states senate. it's a small wooden three-note train whistle and it would be a violation of the senate rules to blow the whistle, but it was a gift from mike for our work helping the bill get down the tracks of the legislative process. we were never able to get the house to take up the measure, but in 2018, the supreme court finally did the right thing and in a 5-4 ruling stout dak versus wayfair, the court closed the loophole we had been struggling to fight and address for years. i'm proud to be part of that bipartisan coalition. in illinois it's meant a lot. we estimate that our state has received $460 million in annual revenue by virtue of mike enzi's determination and leadership of the marketplace fairness. and in this pandemic crisis this revenue is more important than ever. mike has always been a force for fairness, a friend, and a leader for whom i have great respect. as we fight this pandemic, we should strive to abide by mike's 80/20 rule and remember that main street businesses are hurting a

because mitch mcconnell has destroyed the united states senate as we know it. and lamar alexander did everything he possibly could to help mitch mcconnell destroy the united states senate. lamar alexander was a cabinet member and a governor of tennessee before winning a seat in the senate. you could write a biography of lamar alexander and leave out his senate years and you would be leaving out nothing, because senator lamar alexander accomplished absolutely nothing. 18 years of nothing. just like most of his republican colleagues in the senate, he has accomplished nothing. he signed on to the mitch mcconnell cult. he did whatever mitch mcconnell wanted whenever he wanted it and today lamar alexander complained in his farewell speech that the united states senate no longer really allows senators to offer amendments on the senate floor the way they used to. but he didn't have the courage to mention that it was his dear friend mitch mcconnell who has been preventing him from offering amendments on the senate floor. mitch mcconnell was moved to tears by lamar alexa

i don't like to think of a united states senate without lamar. he's a senate institution and a national leader and his leaving is a loss for this body and the american people. mr. president, any tribute to lamar has to mention his incredible career, which a lot t has been alluded to already. his walk across the state of tennessee. his eight years as tennessee governor, his time as secretary of education under president george h.w. bush, his stint as president of the university of tennessee system and his time as a professor at harvard. and then of course his 18 years in the u.s. senate marked by significant legislative accomplishments on everything from education to opioids. all that, and he makes a plaid shirt look good. although these days he's switched to a plaid fiscal mask. mr. president -- a plaid face mask. i first met lamar when he attended a lincoln day dinner in south dakota in 1995 when running for president. i started to get to know him when i came to the senate in 2005. lamar had been here for a couple of years by that time and alread

state in this country. and with these two senate runoff elections to determine control of the united states senate, you have son of an immigrant, mentored by john lewis, running alongside a black preacher who holds dr. king's pulpit at ebenezer baptist church who pastored john , lewis, helping to lead this movement for health, jobs, and justice for the people. [cars honking] [cheering and applause] health, jobs, and justice. let's talk about health. we have lost more than 300,000 americans to this virus, a virus our senator, david perdue, said was no deadlier than the common flu, while he was buying up shares of manufacturers of vaccines and medical equipment. our lives have been torn part. millions have lost jobs and homes and livelihoods and business. we need to empower georgia's centers for disease control and doctors and scientists across this country to beat this virus, get our daily lives back and save lives. and georgia has the power to do that. georgia has the power to do that. [cars honking] let's talk about health. even before this virus, 2 million georgians lacked health insurance. half of our co

josh holly is a united states senator who represents the state of missouri as a republican.re happy to have him on tonight. senator, thanks for coming. how is this man, now that we know what we know, serving on the house intelligence committee? >> yeah, absolutely unbelievable, tucker. these revelations ought to be a shock and wakeup call to everybody in washington. i can tell you, i bet they won't be because we've seen the washington politicians and the d.c. establishment look the other way with china for years and years now. it's not as if they haven't known. it's not as if they haven't known that the chinese has enacted espionage efforts against the u.s. it is known they are using tech companies to spy on americans, trying to leverage that information against us. it's not as if they haven't known that the trade policies and other economic policies that we pursue with china have been ruinous for american workers. they've known all of that. they just don't care. d.c. doesn't care and they still don't care. >> tucker: this seems, i mean, the analogy to the claims they made a

all your adult life, you are a great lawyer, trey, but if we lose the united states senate and they gotse, they've got the presidency may be if we fall short. if biden becomes present in the united states, that we lose control of the senate. america fundamentally changes. the court goes from nine to 13 to dilute our conservative majority. illegal immigrants will get free health care. there will be around on the border. our taxes will go up. so never in history of the country in my lifetime has a single state, georgia, had so much to say regarding the future of america. we've got great candidates. the question is, do we want it more than they do? they have out raised them almost to have one on the internet. i never thought i heard myself say this. go to david perdue.com, go to kelly loeffler.com. give money. we are being outraised almost 2-1 in terms of the candidate. this will help where you can. >> trey: senator, you live about as close to george as he can get. and still be in the state of i know democrats from georgia. they are little to the left of where we are, but nowhere near wher

recognize the obvious that joe biden has been elected and he needs to have the recognition by the united states senateto be the president of the united states. fear to recognize that or say congratulations, mr. president now, president-elect, i think it only reflects poorly on the individual senators and it's difficult to accept that that's not the body that i served in, for so many years. there were so many republicans who made their lives based their lives on the rule of law and respect for the institutions and what's happening, you are seeing that donald trump is savageing our democracy. he is putting, he is putting his primary emphasis on him rather than the country. and i just want to say, time is running out. i want to say a word about what's happening on the front lines here at home. we're in a war and we have to congratulate the men and women, our front line defenders who are taking people in dying people, having to construct a covid treatment in parking garages and yet we have the president of the united states has said not a word. not a word of sympathy or compassion other than i am going to

if we lose the united states senate, they got the house, they've got the presidency, maybe, if we fallrt, if biden becomes president of the united states and we lose control of the senate, america fundamentally changes. the court goes from 9 to 13 to dilute our men conservative majority. illegal immigrants will get free health care, they will run the border, or taxes will go up. never in the history of the country, in my lifetime, has a single state, georgia, had so much they regarding the future of america. we've got great candidates. the question is, do we want it more than they do? they have out raised david and kelly almost 2 to 1 on the internet. never thought i would hear myself say this. go to david perdue.com. go to kelly loeffler.com. we are being outraised almost 2-1 in terms of the candidates comes to help them where you c can. >> trey: senator, you live about as close to georgia as you can get and still be in the state of south carolina. >> right. >> trey: i know democrats from georgia. they are a little to the left of where we are, but they ain't no where near where ossoff

his first speech on the floor of the united states senate. he spoke for too long. the republican leader of the sena who was also baker's fathern-law, senate everett m dirksen walked over to congratulate him and then said hauer,ccasionally you might enjoy the luxury of an unexessed thoughts. [laughter] which is good advice for a farewell address as well. senator baker's a legislative assistant, i was also his speechwriter for that maiden addressi. or at least i thought i was. had developed a bad habit of not saying what i wte for his speech. so i asked to see him. i said do we have a problem with our relationship? he said no we have a perfect relationship. youan write what you want to write and i will say what i want to say [laughter] i learned a couple of oer things about saying what i want to say. one came from alex haley, eheard me speak once called me aside "after words" and said man make a suggestion? is it if when you begin a speec speech, he would start by saying instead of making a speech let me tell you a story. someone might actually listen to what you hav

that every day thereafter and in every job he pursued and here in the congress the united states in the house and senate he indicated he served as the chief of staff for senator frank carlsonra, one of those kansans who serve the united state senate so highly regarded, even today. he served as the chief of staff for congressman keith sibelius and i met pat roberts 50 years ago in 1969. a f years later in 1934 i became anntern in the office of congressman sibelius. pat has been my b boss for 45 years. [laughter] i describe pat as are most -- when i describe pat i tell people are most common conversation is never spoken, it is symbols, pat does this. come here, sit down. every time i tell pat this he, in his jack benny voice, will say now cut that out. but for 45 years come here, sit down and p, while you discount that and i highlight it it has been some of the most enjoyable time in my life where i've had the opportunity to be your friend and to listen to what you had to say and i suppose i i thought long and hard i might find something that wasn't good advice but i can't remember so everything in those

lamar is the perfect example of what a united states senator should be. before i was wet behind wet behs in the senate, my first week here, lamar invited me and my wife jill to dinner. there it began, jill and lamar's wife honey became fast friends and lamar and i built the kind of friendship that is essential in the senate. we worked together to get things done for our states, bolstering our national laboratories and conserving our great outdoors. something else we shared was mario, our barber in the barber shop and to be honest, that is the best place to learn about the senate, sitting in mario's chair. friendships like i have with lamar and mario is what i will miss most about the senate, the friendships. and because as any good senator will tell you, friendships are what gets you over the finish line. i will cherish the friendships i forged over the last 12 years, i will miss serving the people of new mexico and congress, the greatest honor of my life has been doing that. and i'm confident that new mexico is in good hands with my friend senator heinric

i would like to start -- here we are in the replica of the united states senate. in the actual senate, the senators are as divided as washington, as the parties are. it seems like we are in a complete gridlock. were the founders ever this divided? feel free to answer -- maybe i will start with you, sara. sara: i think we have always faced moments in history where we felt great political polarization within our culture, but looking around this building and listening to the introductions of the panelists, i think, places like this are revolutionary spaces. they always have been. thinking about institutions that foster dialogue then and now is a good way to bring our conversation over to how the 18th-century can be a rare or give some tips to the 21st century. anyone want to jump in on that? fred: maybe with a tip? stephen: you're being very kind about this. when i started coming, i was astonished by how mean the founding fathers were to each other, but i find it comforting. benjamin rush was not only one of the signers but he was a doctor to a number of these guys. t

president of the senate is the official title of the vice president of the united states. job. he's probably if georgia goes the way she and joe biden want it it go. she'll preside over the senate. what she said about dealing with mitch mcconnell. >> this bill cannot and will not be the final word on congressional relief from the coronavirus pandemic. this is an emergency survival package. when we come back the number one job will be to fill in the gaps by the bill. that was chuck schumer. let's try again. >> okay. that's okay. no worries. we'll go fo you. one of the things that happened after the 2016 election, is that i think for a will the of women, they looked back and sat back and said america hates women. the fight that was against hillary clinton felt like a fight against women wanting too much. wanting power. and that seemed to be a big part of the issue that clinton faced. for you as a woman and a woman who worked in the white house, has it really hit you that we're getting the first woman and getting her with all of the rest of the history. she's the first woman,

gentlemen, are major, major pieces of legislation, tremendous accomplishment of the congress, united states senate, signed into law by the president, all of which couldn't have happened without the leadership of lamar alander. he said multiple leadership position senate, chairman of the h.e.l.p. committee confesses that senate republican conference chairman but he's always been a leader, whether not he's in an official leadership position simply by virtue of who he is. mr. president, i said before lamar has been a mentor and role model to me and i know too many others here in the senate. else have to mention his personal wealth and hospitality to me and my wife and our daughter was studying at belmont university in nashville, tennessee. he and his wife, honey, open the home to us in nashville. they hosted us. i was fortunate to be among those that he mentioned after place in the smokies which was a fabulous experience. he took us to a tennessee titans again. it went above and beyond and to this day we are grateful for the work and generosity and for the chance to get to see lamar in his element in

tell us why. >> tucker: in justn a few weeks, two senate races, special elections for the state of georgia will decide which party controls the unitedsenate and therefore the united states government. already 71,000 people who did not vote in the general election last month have requested mail-in ballots for the january 5th runoff. so how can we be certain this election is on the level and what is at stake? donald trump jr. thanks a lot is at stake, he's the executive vice president of the trump organization, thanks much for coming on. how can we be certain this election is above suspicion in a election is above suspicion in a >> first and foremost, we have to pressure our legislatures to make sure they are actually watching this, so they don't allow this sort of craziness that has gone on all of the country where people don't actually have to follow the rule of law, they can adjust the law, people who aren't actually allowed to make laws are implementing new laws that people have to live by and say too late, we got to figure this out -- this kind of stuff is insanity and has to be pushed back on, we can't allow it to happen, we can

mcconnell's reign as majority leader and be the first in history to actually get things done in the united states senate. >> thanks for joining us tonight, sir. >> thank you so much. >>> all right. you might think that once someone became the president of the united states, they would no longer feel the need to pad their resume with awards they didn't actually win. but with this president you'd be wrong. that story is next. see every delivery...

that's the language of the united states senate. and it does sound pretty complicated to the average person, but all that senator schumer and i are asking of the majority leader is a very simple request. allow the members of the united states senate to cast a vote. if you want to vote against $2,000 checks for people in your state, vote against it. i see senator toomey here. he has been clear about it. i suspect he will vote against it. i respect his opinion. but all that we are asking for is a vote. what is the problem? in the house, over two-thirds of the members of that body, including 44 republicans, voted to say that at this time of economic desperation, working families deserve help and they deserve a $2,000 checks. and as senator schumer just indicated, we have a very unlikely ally in president trump. nobody here has disagreed with trump more times than i have, and yet here is what the leader of the republican party says. he says $2,000 asap. so even on this issue, amazingly enough, the president of the united states is right.

tom was first elected to serve our state in the united states senate and the exact same year that i was first elected to congress and it has been a privilege to sit in a front row seat during this time while he led our state's congressional delegation. i believe that all of us in this body can agree that there are few greater examples then tom udall and embodied the best of what it means to be a senator. over his two terms in this chamber tom has shown us all how to act and to act with decency and to act with integrity and how to stay true to your principles but also how to find the deliberative compromises that have become all too rare in senate. tom knows that to getny anything done, especially in this era of extremely polarized party politics you need to be able to bring people together and to bake bread and have the patience to work through disagreements and to focus on results, not politics. that was perhaps best demonstrated in his ability to pass a landmark bipartisan overhaul of the toxic substances control act. likely one of the greatest environmental law achievements in the la

you have two united states senators scared to death of the president of the united states, who contorted themselves into pretzels. that's simply what we're seeing. gary, it gives great talking points for raphael and joh john ossoff. let's not fool ourselves. this isn't a perfect situation election. there's nobody sitting at home, trying to make a decision about whether or not they're going to visit for osoff, warnoff, loeffler or purdue. it's not that kind of race. you have to get the truck drivers, individuals who haven't voted in a long time, who work 9:00 to 55:00, sporadically, waffle house, those people who do not show up, who are not the super voters that come tout to vote for you if you are going to win this election. it takes voter contact. we'll see who has the best voter operation, whether or not it's stacey abrams or the bully pulpit and donald trump. >> he has the party faithful. he's got ride or die. we'll see if that happens with warnoff and osoff. kerstin, this puts majority leader mitch mcconnell in a tight spot. they may consider $2,000 but with some poison pills maybe r

. >> our colleagues in the uniteds states senate put an impressive bunch. it always makes it a challenge to pay adequate tribute when one leaves our ranks. but even by the high standards of this place the course charted by the senator whom i o have to send up this morning stands out. the senior senator from wyoming has accomplished enough in one career to fill two, from physics access to military service to local government, state politics to the united states senate where he's built a remarkably productive legislative record. his career began in a small town in fact it was so small when mike and his wife diane arrived and stood up the family business the town still carried less than flattering nickname of dirt. but new discoveries in the american energy business were in the course of changing everything. a major oil and gas boom met more people. more people that more sales in mike's shoe store. that is the letter in in the z madam president. mike could've just set back and cruised but mike basic services were logging and nearly everyone who encountered him

you have two united states senators who are scared to death of the president of the united states who have contorted themselves into pretzels. that's simply what we're seeing. gary, it gives great talking points for raphael warnock and jon ossoff. let's not fool ourselves. this isn't a perfect situation election. there's nobody sitting at home, trying to make a decision about whether or not they're going to visit for osoff, warnoff, loeffler or purdue. it's not that kind of race. you have to get the truck drivers, you have to go get the individuals who haven't voted in a long time. you have to get the individuals who work 9:00 to 5:00 or sporadically or work at waffle house, those people who do not show up, who are not the super voters that come out to vote for you if you are going to win this election. it takes voter contact. we'll see who has the best voter operation, whether or not it's stacey abrams or the bully pulpit and donald trump. >> he has the party faithful. he's got ride or die. we'll see if that happens with warnoff and osoff. kerstin, this puts senate majority leader mi

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is he still trying to control the operations of the united states senate? and then what happens eventually when -- or i should say if, if he becomes a criminal defendant in the state of new york? >> i think part of that depends a lot on what happens on january 5th in georgia honestly. i think that the silence of republicans in congress as donald continues to commit he is digis -- sedition on a practically daily basis is unforgivable. however, from a tactical point of view i'm pretty sure it is because mitch mcconnell believes he needs to keep donald's base riled up in order to increase republican turnout in georgia. so the question -- one big question i think is how much use is the republican party going to continue to get out of donald. post-inauguration what should happen, because this is what usually happens, is that the outgoing president decreases in relevance, is no longer the center of the show, and that's what should happen now but it depends on us. donald at that point is going to be even more desperate than he is now because clearly once joe biden

house of representatives on a partisan basis, two hundred 14-207, the majority leader of the united states senate, mitch mcconnell said let the states go bankrupt. of the republican party in the house of representatives, let us wait and see. of course what we saw from march of ourcontinuing death, people, continuing challenge to our hospitals and our workers, and continuing devastation to our families from an economic perspective. urged the republicans to come to the table with us. speaker pelosi talked to mr. times, mold -- numerous but we could get no movement as the country continued to and citizens as a result, continued to have economic challenge. so, when we came back in september, we passed another bill, reducing the resources we dedicated to fighting the pandemic and uplifting the economy by 35%. as an effort to reach compromise. that was unsuccessful. far too late,r but never too late to do the right thing we passed a substantial piece of legislation a few days ago in the house of representatives. 359-53 in a bipartisan basis after very tough negotiations, prolonged earniations, in which

. >> i want to welcome back my senior senator chuck grassley to the united states senate and our work schedule whether it is working from his iowa farm or his office here on the united states senate or whether he is teleworking because of the virus, chuck grassley worked. he's always working. many of you probably heard the chuck norris jokes out there. you know the dark is afraid of chuck norris. well, we have our own chuck grassley now and covid is afraid. so, we are very thankful to have him back and in good health and continually working for iowans. he's such a tremendous asset to the great state and we wish him continued health. as we are approaching the end of the congressional session, we do have a number of things that need to be done and i want to address two of them some of my colleagues have already mentioned. one is making sure we have a coronavirus bill that's done. just earlier today the governor of the great state of iowa stated congress needs to come together and get a bill done. we have people across the state of iowa and across the nation that are hurting. we want to

it is why i entered into the ministry, and i am running for the united states senate as a continuation of that life project. the thing about me running for the senate is that this gives me an opportunity to work on the issues i've been working on for years -- access to affordable health care, fighting for voting rights, fighting for essential workers, ordinary people, because i know what it is like to be an ordinary person. i grew up in public housing, the first college graduate in my family of 12. i am number 11. if it were not for low interest student loans i would not be here. to workur goal is providing families but what does that translate into beyond affordable housing and health care? rev. warnock: we got to make sure that we center ordinary people in all of the policy that we do. you know, i grew up with a father and a mother who instilled in me great values. dad had a way of saying, get up and put your shoes on. kid who grew up in public housing. for the united states senate against the wealthiest member of congress. only in america is that possible. i am fighting to make sure

would was the head of the department of interior, to the state house and eventually to the united states senate. but senator enzi still holds on to the lessons he learned in those early days selling shoes. a few years ago he said legislating is like selling shoes. you have to know your market,

and throughout four terms in the united states senate, he has never wavered in his commitment to god, to family, to country and, of course, to wyoming. he's known by many as the senate's moral compass. remarkable spiritual leader, bipartisan senate prayer breakfast. i'm a member of that group, and a number of senators are as well. we met today and mike led us in prayer. and i've seen firsthand just how much republican and democrat members depend on mike for his moral and ethical guidance. he really is a bipartisan not just policy maker, but also a peace women maker. and west virginia all -- peacemaker. we've all seen it within this body. his legislation has a long history of garnering overwhelming bipartisan support. over a hundred enzi bills have become law. i've been proud to sponsor and cosponsor many of them with him in my time inm the senate. the thing he didn't point out is most of the bills that passed pass with over 80 votes. it's rare for an enzi bill to pass with any more than 15-18 no votes. remarkable accomplishment. and it's important to note that these bills that have be