senators are appointed by their state legislators. senators don't have to run for office. as a result, senators in philadelphia might in private. they didn't meet in public. the house of representatives always did. the house was open to the public, the senate was not. the senate starts getting into their own controversial bills like the jay treaty. one of the early senators that is sent by pennsylvania, most famous for being a longtime secretary treasury. he is of the democratic republic inside. so the federal side of the early senate looking at the strict rules would say albert is swiss has not lived in the united states the number of years to serve in the senate. the senate voted him out. he's elected to the house of representatives later by pennsylvania. he's rejected from the senate. naturally people of pennsylvania want to know why their senator has been kicked out of the senate. you start getting this growing public feeling that we want to see what's going on when the senate meets here in philadelphia, and add to that the press obviously wants to know what's going on

so the senate has to approve all treaties, the house does not, the senate does, so there's one power. also anytime the president makes an appointment to his cabinet, ambassador, supreme court, of course, those folks would have to come in front of the senate and be approved by the senate or rejected and so here in philadelphia we have our very first treaty approved by the senate which is the jay treaty and that led to the fight in the house of representatives of whether or not to pay for t but over that same issue we have the first rejection of a presidential nominee by the senate. john rutledge who is actually a signer of the u.s. constitution, actually, one of the players in creating that constitution is one of washington's first choices for the original six justices on the supreme court. he actually accepts but then resigns the post without ever having served on the supreme court. he will later become the chief justice of the south carolina supreme court when john jay who was the first united states supreme court chief justice resigns, he is elected governor of new york, he leaves

this began as an initiative with senator cardin, senator lieberman, senator mccain, and me several years ago. directed during the obama administration, directed toward individual russians who had violated human rights and individual liberty in a very outrageous and gross way, allowing us to sanction individuals rather than causing harm to the people of a certain -- of russia in that case. this has been expanded now to the global level and other countries are adopting this. but i can tell you when we arrived in bulgaria, we were met with great thanks from people who are trying to combat lawlessness and corruption at the top level of government. and i just have to say -- and of course ben cardin has been the premier leader in this worldwide effort. and it was gratifying to know and to learn firsthand on the ground there in sofia, bulgaria, that an initiative that been right here in this united states senate years ago and continues to this day is having a beneficial effect on the people all across europe and particularly in some of the countries that we visited. i'll yield back to my friend

he died on thursday, several senators pay tribute toms senator levin on the senate floor. question mr. president, i stand here with colleagues, my partnerur closer senator reid an incredible leader. he dedicated his life in this nation. carl 11 was many things, our crusader and truth and justice. a man of strong conviction. a mentor to so many of us. he was eight senators senator. any tireless advocate every day, every day of michigan. he was also my friend. and it was only in honor of a lifetime for me too represent michigan alongside carl levin 14 years of his 36 years that he served in the senate. thirty-six uses along climate center levin remain effective at the samegh time humble right up until the final day he served. that is because integrity never goes out of style. and senator carl levin never wavered in his dedication to do what was right. what was right for the people of michigan and our country. perhaps it will be remembered most are so many things for his leadership services committee. patriotism was a lot more than a flag pin or a pledge to carl. he understoo

and as you know senator, there is no applause in the senate but what you got from senator moynahan theren. i'm so struck by so much of what you had to say that day. looking at it today. just that phrase that bob dole is a patriot before he is a republican. what happened to that? what's happened to that concept in the united states senate? >> well, some of it has to do with american people themselves. they've become more polarized then in the 1990s. it has to do with the early conversation you had with facebook, you don't have into -- attention on facebook unless you unsolved people. president trump blew away the norms, we set norms of behavior and there's no law, no rules, nobody is going to enforce them if you blow up the norm. he reveled in insulting people. he reveled in lies. reveled in doing things that were different. a lot of his supporters said at least he speaking his mind. that is not normative behavior. we shouldn't where ward people who are violating what we consider to be normal behavior. i have to say i give former president trump a lot of credit for having destroyed those

. >> senate majority leader chuck schumer joined senator ron wyden and senator cory booker to announce new bill passed by both chambers -- that if passed by both chambers and signed by president biden, would eliminate the federal probation of marijuana. this briefing is about 20 minutes. senator schumer: good morning, everybody. thank you for coming. today is a big day in the senate. for the first time, i as majority, senator wyden as chair of the finance committee and senator booker, one of the foremost champions of equity in the senate, we are joining together to release draft legislation to end the federal prohibition on cannabis. this is monumental. because at long last, we are taking steps in the senate to right the wrongs of the failed war on drugs. i was the first democratic leader to come out for the legalization of marijuana. and i will use my clout as majority leader to make this a priority in the senate. as my colleagues and i have said, the war on drugs has been a war on people, particularly people of color. the cannabis administration and opportunity act would help put an

senate that i'm working on with senator gillibrand. the other reason i care about this issue -- and there is no monopoly on the people who care about the troops -- is that i have a 28-year career in the u.s. marine corps, still serving, and i have been a commander and i care deeply about every single member of the military, the challenges of sexual assault that we have, which are very real, which, again, senator gillibrand has done such a good job to highlight and to have good order and discipline in our military, which is part of the ucmj, which is one of the reasons why this issue has taken so long and has been a challenge. now, the issue that senator gillibrand is talking about right now, we will be debating in the full committee in the armed services starting tomorrow. actually it was starting today, as she mentioned in the personnel subcommittee today. this, again, a lot of the credit -- most of the credit i give to senator gillibrand on this issue. we will have a fulsome debate probably all day on this issue tomorrow. and if her

and as you know, senator, there's no applause in the senate.t i'm so struck by so much of what you had to say that day. and looking at it today, just that j phrase, that bob dole is patriot before he is a republican. what happened to that concept in the united states senate? >> well, yeah, some of it has to do with the american people themselves. they've become far more polarized than in the 1990s. so some of it has to do with the earlier conversation you had about facebook. you don't get attention on social media unless you insult people. and a fair amount of it, you can lay at the doorstep of former president trump. he blew away the norms. we set norms of behavior, and there's no law or rules, nobody will enforce them and throw you in jail ifd you blow up the norms. and he revelled in insulting people and in lying, in doing things that were different. and a lot of his supporters said, at least he's speaking his mind. that's not normative behavior. we shouldn't reward people who arepe violating decent, normati behavior in any conversation away

yesterday, several senators including senator raphael warnock and senator joe manchin met inside senateumer's office, as "the washington post" reports, to hash out the details of the bill, which is expected to at least partially incorporate a framework assembled by senator joe manchin. today senator warnock said he is encouraged by that meeting with democrats focused on getting something passed to protect voting rights. >> passing voting rights, in my view, is the most important thing we can do this congress. now, i know that there are a lot of pressing issues, but the american house is the house built by democracy. and if we don't preserve our democracy, strengthen people's access to it, we will not have done our job. >> the texas democrats are still in washington, urging lawmakers to pass federal legislation on voting rights today. some of the texas democrats tested to a house oversight subcommittee. >> i'm here because this is the sate of democracy, and my people who i represent has a right to be able to vote unabridged, just like all of you. >> the manager at target has more latitud

senate. back in march democrats use the reconciliation process to pass covid-19 relief without any republican support. now they're considering similar action on a potential infrastructure bill from the brookings institution this runs 45 minutes. >> welcome. good afternoon. thank you for joining us for conversation about budget reconciliation. i am sarah binder, i'm here with my colleague molly reynolds. where both senior fellows with this government studies program at brookings. when boat written books about the senate filibuster. her book is ways to get around the filibuster including using reconciliation. her book is exceptions to the rule, politics of filibuster limitation in the u.s. senate. my book is on the political history of the filibuster co-authored with a colleague steve smith, and disco politics and principal? filibustering just sent. we will spend about 30 30 mis today answering some common questions about reconciliation. for those of you who have submitted questions in advance

powers away from most senators. none of the committee chairmen have the kind of power that they used to have, and so senators are not experienced legislators anymore. it is wrong to use the word legislator, only to mean the people who are elected to positions and legislative bodies. the reality is, the staffs in the senate in the house do most of the real legislating, and know ten times more about it than elected officials. they are, in every sense, legislators. the most experienced legislator in that sense in these negotiations is steve rush eddie, an adviser to president biden, who has been managing complex legislation from the white house for democrats since the clinton presidency. much of my confidence in the possibility of a successful bipartisan negotiation and vote in the senate on infrastructure has been based on my personal knowledge of the skill sets steve rush eddie brings to this. work when i was working in the senate, i worked with him when he was in the white house and i once watched him masterfully ha

senator brown and senator bennet, senator warnock and i along with our house colleagues are going toontinue to do what must be done. this change for this year, cutting child poverty, empowering millions of families, 90% of whom with kids will see a benefit, we must make this permanent. i will fight alongside my colleagues to see that this is not a one-time benefit for one year but a permanent change. we change our status, 30 wealthiest nations, we're fourth from the from in child poverty, second to last in term of child allowances. we in america have to make this country live up to its promise to every child, that we are the cornerstone of the idea of the american dream, that we are the most fertile soil for which a child could thrive, that we love our children not just in words but in the policies we make. this is a historic moment. and the one thing i'll say for anyone listening to my words, because as my colleague knows, some families are eligible but might not benefit, please, we need to make sure that that portal, people know to go to, childtaxcredit.gov to get the information.

the senate. the most responsible legislators in the senate, when and if they get elected to the senate. mitch mcconnell was no one's enemy in the senate in those first 20 years. he was a concert republican senator, who took governing reasonably seriously. he respected senate norms, as chairman of the senate after committee in the 19 nineties, he recommended the expulsion of a republican committee chairman for sexual harassment. he forced that republican chairman to resign from the senate. then, in 2000, five mitch mcconnell became the republican leader of the senate and everything changed for mitch mcconnell. the last fully honorable thing mitch mcconnell did in the senate was in 2006 when he proudly voted to reauthorize the voting rights act. then, with the obama presidency came mitch mcconnell's vowed to block barack obama's election by trying to block every single thing on president obama's agenda in the united states senate. instead of using his powers as senate majority leader to tame donald

senator klobuchar: thank you very much, senator hagerty. next, senator king.r king: no. i got it. senator klobuchar: okay. great. senator king: thank you, madam chair. and i want to thank the witnesses first for their patience this morning and their thorough going answers. this has been a long hearing, and i really appreciate it. and i appreciate the fact that, although you all are no longer, other than the chief in washington, no longer in your positions, that you've come forward to give us the benefit of your observations. it seems to me one of the clear and i'm not going to plow this ground again, but one of the clear pieces of information we've learned today is an intelligence failure, not necessarily a failure of intelligence, but a failure to communicate intelligence. and i think that's something that we all need to to think about. and you can be very helpful to us in suggesting what should be the chain of communication in terms of intelligence. you can't adequately prepare if you don't have the information. and it clearly seems to me, there were some fa

we are in a 50-50 senate. whether committees conform to reporting rules, it sounds like, given the 50-50 senate, given that republicans could have a quorum to prevent democrats from voting to discharge it, it would not be possible without republican support to get it out of committee. there are a couple of question marks in my head about why they can't discharge it and then vote on the floor, but the law, the provision, the senate makeup, and advice from the parliamentarian, it seems quite complicated, but there are a lot of moving parts here. i think it is a circumstance here that's interesting. molly: we have laid all this out , but this is another case where the constraints aren't just what the law says or what the parliamentarian's interpretation of the law says and where the senate is willing to push it, it is also the challenge of given the amount of floor time that handling a reconciliation bill takes and to go back to the two moving trains, pitching the trains together, politically, it is challenging t

that is where senator warnock and senator ossoff became great senators, as they are.or that runoff to only 28 days, so there's no time after the general election. they reduced it. that way they kept in place their law that you cannot register as a new voter. you have to do it 29 days before. pretty obvious. >> and one of the things about that is we did see this astonishing thing in the runoff senate campaigns in georgia, and that was that they were able to get more voters engaged in that senate election for the second round of the senate election. >> exactly. other things they do, the ballot boxes, the drop-off boxes, so important in so many states. i bet a lot of your viewers use those. they said you have to have less of them and you can only have them at the early voting locations, and only during those hours. a bit redundant. so it's just measure after measure after measure, is and i'm looking forward to working with our two great senators in georgia, members of the rules committee, and the day before i'll be seeing the great stacey abrams. we think it's really imp

some vulnerable senators. and if they're on record as opposing infrastructure, all of those things that are popular in their states, and popular with those voters as the polls showed, that is going to be a bigger problem for him. so i don't think he is going to pull out all stops to kill this and if it goes through and it goes to the house, nancy pelosi is going to sit on it and wait until we see that larger package happen. one other big point which is you need all 50 democrats to get the second part of this package. you're not going to get the 50 unless there is a clear belief among them they've done everything they can to get this bipartisan deal done. there are real reasons to move that forward to get the second piece of it which is the big enchilada. >> e.j., the sequencing here of bipartisan bill first, get it through the senate, then move to the democrats only infrastructure bill, at that point when that gets through the senate, that seems to be the moment where it's the moment of truth in effect for joe

chairman. >> our next senator will be senator cardin. senator toomey. senator brown? senator scott? senator bennet is next. >> hello, mr. chairman. can you hear me? >> yes, we can hear you fine. >> thank you very much. madam secretary, i want to thank you and your team very much for the work they have done to get ready for the monthly distribution of the child tax credit. we're very grateful, and i was wondering if you could tell me what that looks like and where we are in the process. >> first of all, senator bennet, thank you very much for your leadership on this issue. i think putting this child tax credit in place really is an important step, and we're proposing to continue it to make the nonrefundability permanent and the increase in the size of it. we've worked very hard with the irs to begin monthly payments to eligible families starting july 15th. we're -- the irs is ready to make those distributions. special attention has gone to how to create awareness and make sure that families that didn't file a tax return this year or last year know about their eligibility for the chil

and so he would pray for five senators, 20 senators each day.nd one time when he was leading the prayer breakfast, he invited king abdullah from jordan to join us. in fact, king abdullah was here last week and i shared this story with him because he was always a little nervous about what he was going to say, the lord gave him a verse and it was an excellent example of prayer uniting different faiths. different faiths, we're talking about the muslims and mike enzi. and so king abdullah paid homage to him saying he should have been there again. even after he retired from the senate, he joined us every week for virtual prayer, discussion, and fellowship. tomorrow's breakfast will not be the same because he retired from the senate just a few months ago but he attended every -- every one of our -- our prayer breakfast by virtually. so as mike rounds said, i got to know mike on a deeper level each week, but more than anything else, bigger than any other accomplishment was mike's love for his family. mike was utterly devoted to his family, more than 50

chairman and senator scott, if i may say one thing very briefly without imposing upon the senator's time, because i'm not sure whether what i articulated came through during the fire alarm and i apologize for the interruption to this hearing. senator scott, first, i appreciate your defense of the cuban people and your articulation of that. so powerfulfully and consistently. secondly, i will take stock of what you said, urging me to be even more vocal about the situation in cuba, as you know, this is something profoundly personal to me. i was born in cuba and my parents brought me here as refugees fleeing the communist takeover of cuba and my father lost his business, the place of his birth, where he thought he would raise his family and even the opportunity to lay his mother to rest. i join you, condemning the authoritarian regime in cuba and its repression of the people of cuba and i echo your and the president's and our secretary of state's and the president's national security advisors condemnation of the actions of the authoritarian regime in cuba. we stand very strongly with the peo

senate. they serve in the army, navy, air force, room -- marine corps, national guard, yet they have novo in the u.s. house of representatives or the united states senate. the leader of every state is authorized to call up the national guard in times of crisis, but we learned that the elected leader of the district of columbia had no such authority. the district of columbia has earned a double credit rating, higher than most other states, yet the congress has to approve with the districts budget. some of the finest judges serve on d.c. courts, but the congress has to approve each one of them. and when the federal budget shuts down because of a budget impasse, it creates turmoil, budget turmoil for the district of columbia. the congress fails to vote for qualified judges for weeks, months and years, justice is delayed and sometimes justice is denied. 245 years ago 13 colonies took on the mightiest nation on earth , england, because of unjust treatment. they found calling the requirement to pay

house and senate. the democrats use the reconciliation process to pass cove 19 relief without any republican support. now they are considering similar action on a potential infrastructure bill. from the bookings institution, this runs 45 minutes. n congress. the brookings institution is hosting the discussion. >> my book is on the history of the filibuster. working conditions. we also have to ensure adjust economic recovery that is inclusive. >> we are going to leave washington journal for a live event. now to alive discussion about how the budget reconciliation process works in congress. the brookings institution is hosting the discussion. minutes n questions about reconciliation. for those of you who have submitted questions in advance, thank you. we will cover a lot of the ground that you are curious about in our conversation. then, we will turn to more audience questions. if you are viewing life, you can submit questions by emailing. or via twitter. let's go. what exactly is a reconciliation bill?

. >>> on the senate floor, democratic senator kirsten gillibrand asked unanimous consent for the senate to take all that bill that would make changes to the military justice system by removing the chain of command from serious crimes, including sexual assault. the republican senator dan sullivan rejected it saying it should be in the committee before being considered by the full senate. here are their remarks. >> mr. president. >> senator from new york? >> i rise once again to call for every senator to have the chance to vote on the military justice improvement increasing prevention act. it is time for to us move serious crimes like sexual assault and murder out of the chain of command and put them in the hands of the most capable people in the military to do this. independent impartial, highly trained uniformed prosecutors. i want to first acknowledge and express my gratitude to my colleagues in the armed services subcommittee on personnel who recognize the importance of this legislation and this morning voted to include it as an amendment to the senate armed services personal mark-up

considered by the senate. here are their remarks. >> mister president, -- senator from new york >> i rise once again, to call that every senator who had the chance, but on the military justice act, it is time for us to move serious crimes, like sexual assault and murder out of the chain of command and put them in the hands of the most capable people in the military, to do this. independent, impartial, highly trained, uniformed prosecutors. i want to first acknowledge and express my gratitude to my colleagues in the subcommittee on personnel, who recognize the importance of this legislation, and who voted to include it as an amendment amendment to the nda, america. the reason we are calling for this reform is because our current system is just not working for our service members. it is not delivering justice, or the values of justice and equality that we have sacrificed so much to defend. we are here to serve them. any reform that we should make should be made with their best interest in mind. so i am glad that

senators. none of the committee chairman have the kind of power they used to have. so senators are not experienced legislatures any more. it is wrong to use the word legislature only to mean the people elected to positions in legislative bodies. the reality is the staff, the senate and house do most of the real legislating and know ten times more about it than the elected officials, they are in every sense legislatures, the most experienced legislator is steve who advises joe biden who has been managing complex negotiation from the white house for democrats since the clinton presidency. much of my confidence in the possibility of a successful bipartisan negotiation and vote in the senate on infrastructure has been based on my personal knowledge of the skill set that steve brings to this work. when i worked in the senate i worked with steve when he was in the white house and watched him masterfully handle the tensions and technical difficulties of complex legislative package s with the white hou

committee and senator, one of the foremost candidates for justice and equity here in the senate, we are all joining together to release draft legislation to end federal prohibition on canvas. this is monumental because how long last, we are taking steps in the senate to right the wrongs of the failed war on drugs. i was the first democratic leader to come out for legalization of marijuana and i will use this to make it a priority in the senate. as my colleagues and i have said before, the war on drugs has really been a war on people, particularly people of color. the kenaston canvas administration and opportunity act would help put an end to the unfair target and treatment of communities of color by removing canvas from the federal list of controlled substance. this is an idea -- not just an idea of time has come, it's long overdue. we've all seen the agony of a young person arrested with a small amount of marijuana in his or her pocket because of the historical criminalization of marijuana, they have a very severe criminal record they have to live with their whole right lives. cove

like all senate rules. the only way that we have footprints of a byrd rule violation in the senate's record comes from something actually being challenged on the floor as a potential byrd rule violation. and then there being a vote either to waive the byrd rule or on the ruling of the chair on whether or not something violate the. -- violates it. because there are lots of potential byrd rule violations that we don't see, and there might be provisions in a reconciliation bill that violate the byrd rule, but if more than 60 senators, which is what it would take to waive the byrd rule and keep a provision that is in violation of it in the bill, if there is a super majority of senators that support a particular provision, maybe we never know that might have been a violation. it's that uncertainty around it, the light footprints that the bird can leave is a reason why it's complicated. another is that we don't have a statutory definition of what "merely incidental" means. there's a real "you know it when you see

but typically governing documents, could be in the senate's case, the senate's formal standing rules in the chamber, to set a precedent, think of them interpretations of the rule, how the rules have been applied in the past in particular circumstances, and then in more informal practices and so forth. but parliamentarians give advice. they provide information to senators, informally. they advise more formally on how the parliamentarian would interpret or apply the rules, say the rule or other provisions of the budget act. what do the rules require, suggest, or allow in one particular situation or the other. [inaudible]. we have seen this before; right? can reconciliation be used to ban funding for planned parenthood? and a decision is made once in the 90s. every time it comes up, the parliamentarian provides [inaudible]. but other times it is gray, right? those are the situations i think increasingly raise people outside the senate, right? i have been sort of shocked how many people who know what the parliamentarian's role is but kind of mistake it that the parliamentarian is telling

senate. the clerk: washington, d.c., july 12, 2021. to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable mazie hirono, a senator from the state of hawaii , to perform the duties of the chair. signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. morning business is closed. under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session to resume consideration of the following pg nomination, which the clerk will report. the clerk: nomination, department of state, uzra zeya of virginia to be an under secretary of state. mr. schumer: madam president? the presiding officer: mr. majority leader. mr. schumer: madam president, six months ago the democratic majority began this congress by aggressively won fronting the covid crisis. we passed the american rescue plan, one of the largest federal stimulus measures in history to help bring an end t

we may hear from the president and senate democrats after that meeting. we will have live senate coverage when they gamble back in around 2 pm eastern on c-span2. and next up we take you to the democrats from texas, democratic representatives from texas, us senators talk to reporters about voting rights. several lawmakers are in the nations capital after they left the state to protest governorgreg abbott's special legislative session to approve new republican voting bills . >> okay. all right. thank you everyone, we stand here with these people of courage, with freedom fighters who came to washington dc to seek salvation. because they are not going to be able to get governor of texas to protect the voting rights of the people of texas, we know that. in fact, instead of trying to make it easier for thepeople to vote , bug honor and the republicans in the legislature have done everything to make it harder including threatening these legislators over and over again and they are standing their ground just as we are standing our ground. we know what the texas

joining me now is a senator in the room, senator bob menendez, former senate relations committee.the president told you in there? >> well, i think the president pointed out that we have a historic opportunity to create high-paying jobs in america. to create more expanded health care in america. to provide families with the ability to take care of their children. in america. to expand medicare and deal with our climate crisis, as we see in the fires out west. and, so, i think he got a tremendous reception. and as we speak, he's taking questions from members. people saw as troubling, and especially ahead of potentially combining with theia bipartisan plan of $4 trillion in spending. does that trouble you at all? >> well, we have to keep an eye on the inflationary pressures, but what we are seeing is coming from a result of an economy post-covid, and far less demand on thele whole host of sectors w that the president's plan in getting vaccinations into getting people'sin arms and movg the countryd forward. there's a demand, and that demand is driving up prices, but i don't see it as

the senate rules committee is doing a field hearing. they are going to the state of georgia to make the point that this is a concerted effort from people to limit the right to vote but also a concerted effort in this place to protect the right to vote. i'll turn it over to the chief offer of the for the people act and then we will hear from the rest of us, not all of us. >> president johnson declared that the right to vote is the most powerful instrument ever cleared or devised by man to break down injustice. and who would have imagined that here in the year 2021, we would be still in this fight to defend the right to vote. we thought that the voting rights act of 1965 had put this to rest. that all of america said that we understand the foundation, the pulsating heart of a democracy is the ability of people to vote in fair and free elections but today, republicans in texas are not standing, they are not standing for freedom and the right to vote. they are working to tear down that ability and here we are surrounded by texan freedom fig

the senate will vote on senate manu majority leader chuck schumer's full -- on monday. monday's vote requires at least ten republicans to join democrats to reach a 60 vote threshold. here's what the president said, he expects on monday >> for are you gonna move forward on the senate? >> i do. here's what i think. what happens is, the vote on monday is a motion to be able to proceed to this issue. then they're going to debate the issue of the individual elements of this plan to make sure that we've got to fix that bridge there -- is >> the president is referring to the brent spends bridge across the river of ohio that joins ohio and kentucky. mcconnell who is senator of kentucky opposes the bill that will fix that bridge which was built in 1963. here's what president biden thinks is going to happen when the senate debates, and votes, on the bipartisan infrastructure deal. >> i think it's going to get done. you may find in the ballots that take place on the detail. the detail of whether or not -- on the guy who wrote this bill to begin with. so i had to compromise to make

and from the senate and the house. with the capacity to get accurate information but to expand that transmission capacity and with 5g and all kinds to go towards climate change and electric vehicles and charging stations and other mobility carriers so unrealistically perhaps with a price on carbon and so that they begrudgingly admit that climate change is real and growing faster than they thought and then to address it. and that might dividend like george schultz proposed 15 years ago as a way to provide incentives for the innovation that we need so how do we get direct connect capture and all the forms of sequestration and you go down the list of those places that are not where they need to be what how we solve the innovation necessary to address climate change. anyway i'm not giving up on it. there are so many people in the country now that by into why this is necessary. and there are more and more businesses like the space business roundtable and there has to be trade consequences or a tear for a penalty and then us

senator rosen. senator rosen: perfect.nk you very much, senator klobuchar, and thank you everyone for being here today and springing this hearing is much needed, and i think it's the first of many. but i'd like to start off by expressing that my thoughts are with the brave capitol police officers. they put their lives on the line to protect us on january 6th and their heroic actions like the ones of eugene goodman, they redirected those violent rioters away from us. they're going to forever be embedded in our minds. and know that so many of these courageous men and women, they're really hurting in the aftermath of the insurrection. and i've been particularly heartbroken to hear about the death of capitol police officer howard levengood. he was protecting the senate since 2005. he was stationed by the door of my office. my prayers are with him and his family and his loved ones. when the insurrectionists, when they came to storm our capitol on january 6th, they came armed not only with weapons, but also with hate. mere weeks

so many of you have helped the law enforcement community out, senator feinstein, senator cornyn, senator cruz. all of you understand the importance behind the law enforcement community. i think it's as critical today for us to recognize that. i've been in law enforcement, like you said, senator, for 45 years. 42 of those years i spent in narcotics enforcement. i have personally witnessed the devastation that drugs cause our community. the international criminal organizations, the drug cartels, the drug trafficking criminal organizations, the drug smugglers and the local drug dealers are what i consider to be the predators that feed upon the innocence and gullibility of the most vulnerable citizens of our country. many of those citizens live in lower socioeconomic areas. these predators don't discriminate. they care not what color their victims are, as long as their profits continue to roll in. no judicial system is perfect, and we applaud you in the law enforcement community for working to make it better. we believe that sentencing guidelines are the consequences used to hold traffickers

what do you say to senator manchin?manchin, there are 221 of us who are in the same position in the house. and another 49 in the senate who are just like you. every one of us basically has the leverage to kill or succeed in passing a resolution. so, the attention that speak to him, i understand. but every one of us is in the same position. and on an everyday basis, getting democrats together is hurting cats, and this is hurting all the cats and making sure that everyone knows we don't have right now, each of us does not have normal, independence that we would have. we have to basically see, there is an ultimate goal, we all support nickel. we have to figure out how to get there. nancy pelosi all's always says unity is our strength. i say in this case, unity is our only chance. >> let's try to take us through the timetable here for the audience, so they know what to expect. it's not going to happen tomorrow. it seems to me, what i'm hearing from the speaker, is that she expects the senate to pass their bipartisan agreeme

recess, senator?to and by the way, i mean, there's a little bit of workmanship going on here. there were a half-dozen times when mitch mcconnell was leader of the senate where he would put up what's called a shell bill because you're not finished the details and then you substitute the actual text once you get into the negotiations because there will be amendments on this infrastructure bill, but we will have that text, it will be out there tomorrow. after we're done with the bipartisan bill, i would love to have some of my republican friends join on the reconciliation left for it, the larger effort that looks at things like universal preschool, that looks at things like like free community college, that los at things like a broad based tax cut for every family that has a child in terms of the child tax credit. i would hope some republicans would join us on that, but if not i think the group of 50 democrats have to work through that resolution as well. >> martha: well, senator, obviously there's a lot

my guest is senator josh hawley, senator from missouri. welcome to the washington post. >> hi cat. >> i'm looking at your proposal to break up tech companies in your new book and we want to start with the events of january 6th. senator, you were the first senator to object to the certification of joe biden's electoral college victory. you write in your book, quote, my sin was to raise an objection to one state going the electoral certification process. senator, what responsibility do you feel for the cascading events that resulted on january 6th? >> well, listen, i did what i said i was going to do on january 6th, which was to voice my constituents' concerns about election integrity and this is something the way that the democrats have done in the last three presidential election, every time a republican president has been elected since the year 2000, democrats have objected to 11 different states and the law provides for that, as well as the rules of who us and senate during the electoral certification process for objections and debate, i