. - third name, senator jeffords.lp committee, which is in charge of higher education. - jim jeffords, best known for switching parties in 2001 and swinging control of the senate to the democrats, as well as for being part of the hottest act to ever grace a stage. all: ♪ every heart beats true ♪ for the red, white, and blue ♪ ♪ where there's never a boast or brag ♪ - he is actually on record talking about this provision at the very end of the process. and he acknowledges that some people are disappointed that it's in the bill, but that it was needed to help pay for the overall cost of the bill. - wait, jeffords says that? - jeffords says this. - so he's basically defending the bill publicly? - he is defending the bill, and he's acknowledging that there's some agita about this. but he's--he's at least okay with it. - all right. thank you. now we have a place to at least start this. - yep. - all right, and so... [brass music playing] do you hear that music out there? ♪ theo's nose was cause for alarm, so dad brought puf

senator bob stafford, senator jim jeffords, senator bernie sanders, representative peter smith, and of course, representative, and now senator-elect, peter welch. i couldn't be more grateful that congressman and senator-elect peter welch will be carrying on after me in his own agenda. i might mention, you're going to like and respect the new fellow senator. i think people will on both sides of the aisle. our collective efforts are why, in so many ways, vermont continues to set an example for the thatition to follow -- for the nation to follow. but marcelle and i leave with the same conviction that brought us to washington in the first place, that the brighter horizons of tomorrow hold the hope of the future. i am still carrying that same sense of reverence about the place i felt as a law student, i've had it and still have, so many pinch-me moments. one of the last ones will be etching my name inside my desk. and i'll forever carry with me the enduring bond of my fellow vermonters, their common sense and goodness when i tried to represent as their representative. what a place this is.

served as speaker pelosi's director of operations and now works for house minority leader joaquin jeffords. after being convicted today, richard barnett went home to arkansas to await sentencing after saying this outside the courthouse. >> this has not a jury of my peers. i don't -- decision. >> if by a jury of his peers -- white trump voters in arkansas, then he should have not committed crimes for donald trump in washington d.c.. fortunately for mr. barnett, who now faces a max sentence of 20 years for his felony convictions, congresswoman marjorie taylor greene cannot serve on a washington city see jury because she is a washington resident of georgia. -- you would have been armed. that provoked no response. from every mccarthy. those perfectly okay with him. there is a time not long ago when a member of the house representatives would be expelled for saying something like. that way back in the pre-trump era of the house of representatives. but now, and kevin mccarthy's house, marjorie taylor greene is getting rewarded. after saying that. she is getting her choice of committee assignment