byrd voted against it. byrd tried to explain he was not opposed to the intent of the legislation, but it goes against the state rights. therefore, congress cannot step in and say -- byrd said to do it right. he said he could not vote on it if it was going to be done this way. two years later, congress comes back with a constitutional amendment and byrd voted for it. he voted for it once they did it right with a constitutional amendment. he filibustered, it is true. there was a 14 hour filibuster. read through the thing. everyone points out him being racist. read throughout the filibuster. there is not one racial thing. the whole thing is basically constitutional law. he makes clear to make it right before he can support it. he agrees that there should be no discrimination in the standards. the objective sought -- the objective here is a worthy one. he concurs with the objective. here he is talking about literacy tests. he opposed them on that measure. it proposes two different ways to do this constitutional

byrd voted against it.ied to explain he was not opposed to the intent of the legislation, but it goes against the state rights. therefore, congress cannot step in and say -- byrd said to do it right. he said he could not vote on it if it was going to be done this way. two years later, congress comes back with a constitutional amendment and byrd voted for it. he voted for it once they did it right with a constitutional amendment. he filibustered, it is true. there was a 14 hour filibuster. read through the thing. everyone points out him being racist. read throughout the filibuster. there is not one racial thing. the whole thing is basically constitutional law. he makes clear to make it right before he can support it. he agrees that there should be no discrimination in the standards. the objective sought -- the objective here is a worthy one. he concurs with the objective. here he is talking about literacy tests. the constitution does not limit to that. he opposed them on that measure. it proposes two differe

byrd said do it right. eventually it was rejected. byrd voted for it. two years later, congress comes back with a constitutional amendment and byrd voted for it. he voted for it once they did it right with a constitutional amendment. he filibustered, it is true. there was a 14 hour filibuster. not one racial word in the whole thing. read through the thing. "let's make this thing right and i can support it." racist. read throughout the filibuster. there is not one racial thing. the whole thing is basically constitutional law. he was disagreeing with the way it was being done. this was about literacy tests. here he is talking abouthe opposed them on that measure. it proposes two different ways to do this constitutionally. that is what is left out. congress could do that. and that would be done. he voted against that bill because of the constitutional concerns. he voted for the 1960 civil rights bill. they have been enacted. he comes to the senate in 1959. 19 offices in the congress are integrated. only 19 are integrated and byrd is one of the 19. he integ

byrd voted against it. byrd tried to explain he was not opposed to the intent of the legislation, but it goes against the state rights. therefore, congress cannot step in and say -- byrd said to do it right. he said he could not vote on it if it was going to be done this way. two years later, congress comes back with a constitutional amendment and byrd voted for it. he voted for it once they did it right with a constitutional amendment. the civil rights bill. he filibustered, it is true. there was a 14 hour filibuster. read through the thing. everyone points out him being racist. read throughout the filibuster. there is not one racial thing. the whole thing is basically constitutional law. he makes clear to make it right before he can support it. he agrees that there should be no discrimination in the standards. the objective sought -- the objective here is a worthy one. he concurs with the objective. here he is talking about literacy tests. he opposed them on that measure. it proposes two different ways to

senator byrd tphro*eft doubt about his -- senator byrd left no doubt about his opinion of the so-called nuclear option when he said -- quote -- "jealously guard against efforts to change or reinterpret the senate rules by a simple majority. circumventing rule 22 where a two-thirds majority is required." and he concluded with a statement more eloquent than any original words i might speak, so allow me to once again quote him. and i implore my colleagues to listen carefully. quote -- "the senate has been the last fortress of minority rights. in the freedom of speech in the republic for now more than two centuries. i pray that senators will pause and reflect before ignoring that history and that tradition in favor of the political priority of the moment." it's often said that those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it. i hope my colleagues will study this history, discover the wisdom of senator byrd and decide to abandon this ill-advised, hostile takeover of the united states senate, this attempt to put a gag on the minority. one of my favorite statements on this subject from

little too close but it was big news back in the spring of two thousand and eleven when michael wood byrd a westerner was made president of the company the first westerner to really climb the ranks from within a major japanese corporation then in october of two thousand and eleven he became the c.e.o. of olympus in addition to president but just two weeks later mid october of last year he was unexpectedly fired by the board now according to the financial times a limp is portrayed him as an outspoken westerner who diverted from the rest of the management team but michael would furred had a much different story he exposed to the press the mismanagement and accounting cover ups he discovered at olympus shortly thereafter the company admitted to hiding losses and we saw this. the japanese camera a medical equipment maker limpness involvement in one of japan's biggest corporate

ron byrd become us and grew up reaching for their piece of the american dream. the most significant thing was when i went to join the boy scouts boy scouts of america. my mother takes me up to the scout to be good you robert plant with the original blue if one thousand nine hundred thirty three to nine hundred eighty three parked in the neighborhood right there so i go up there to join the boy scouts my mother did not the scoutmaster. it was nice but he chose my mother well i don't know what some parents might object because it was a white truth. to say be prepared to do a good turn daily the scout is trustworthy loyal friend he could just kind of be cheerful brave clean and referee that's the boy scouts of america bunch of races. with names like the business men gladiators and sloss and black teenagers began forming their own street fights returned. to the neighborhood was situated in an area where we were assigned and dancing naked to little small parts of the sixty second interval call slawson fox that's where the name comes from to. eat. sausage evolved into

he was the longest serving senator after robert byrd. >> we're now 15 days from the so-called fiscal cliff. there are so -- there are some signs that there's a deal in the works. house speaker john boehner met with president obama at the white house this afternoon. they talked for about 45 minutes. so far the white house has not publicly responded to the latest republican proposal to increase the tax rate on those making more than $1 million annually. >> coming up on abc7 news at 6:00 federal aid for maryland has been impacted by hurricane sandy. who will get help and who will not. >> behind me, it is one of the things that montgomery county has put in place to improve it pedestrian safety. >> also we have the latest on a fiery crash that shutdown a major highway for hours friday morning and killed two men. >> the fog advisory has been expanded. i will sho you were born an original. there's a health company that can help you stay that way. what's healthier than that? >> police now know who was killed in a fiery crash on friday morning in beltsville. they do not have the cause yet. po

became the minority leader unexpectedly, senator baker went to senator byrd and said, senator byrd, i'll never know the rules as well as you do. i'll make a deal with you. i won't surprise you if you won't surprise me. and senator byrd said to senator baker, let me any it. and he thought about it overnight and said, it's a deal and they worked that way for four years. senator byrd knew the rules and in 1980 he apparently -- at least so far as the research shows -- was the foyers use this arcane -- was the first to use this arcane procedure of filling the tree. it is very simple. it just means that the majority leader can use it to cut off debate over here. hhe can -- so if you bring up a banking bill that has a budget problem and one of us says we can fix that problem, we have an amendment, if he's filled the tree, we can't offer the amendment. but if some senator brings up a bill, let's say it is an appropriations bill, and it doesn't include money to rebuild the center hill dam or the world creek dam which is not safe at the moment, and i want to stand up and say, mr. president, m

i would say, senator byrd was convinced that the caps that were part of the agreement and insisted upon were not going to work. they were very modest for the first couple of years. the view was this would not stick for a long period of time. so we could sign on to that. let me close with just saying a few words about why this agreement seems to be viewed as a great success of diplomacy or leadership or what ever, notwithstanding the fact that the first two years after the agreement, the deficit rose. it was at a historic level and then rose for the next two years, which had a huge impact on president bush's reelection. i could not agree with you more that this agreement and the president's role in it was the most significant component of our decade-long effort to finally achieve a balanced budget and surplus. for one thing, in historic terms, the caps placed on discretionary spending were not too tough. relative to what we're looking at and talking about now. the initial ones were to keep discretionary spending in real terms constant. let them grow with inflation. that as a whole lot di

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the former street fighters like byrd and ron now thought the power rather than other gangs were going along side groups like the black panthers and civic programs that range from free breakfasts to neighborhood restoration to political activism. elite. athlete. this new black power structure quickly found itself in the crosshairs of government agencies like the f.b.i. . according to recently declassified documents f.b.i. director j. edgar hoover. counterintelligence operation against the black panthers. organization he described as the greatest threat to the internal security of the country. the chapter founder. and john were gunned down at a u.c.l.a. blacks to me while black panther founders huey newton and bobby seale faced arrest and lengthy jail sentence. in a few short years. most influential. black leaders. ran him down and chased him down to a murdered everybody and made their body else either go to exile or to lock them up in a penitentiary and when all that was over we. call the creeps. you see. in the late one nine hundred sixty s. when the black top playgrounds of fremont h

>> he was the air apparent to charlie byrd parton. he went down a bad pass. into drugs. , ended up spending about 28 years in prison. between the first up, and his second, 30 years went by. when he came back, he came out a gentle soul with a message. do not take the path i took. thews music to survive his the pressures, and so forth. do not go down that path. he worked the clubs. but he always stopped and told his story whenever he got a chance. he did this with me a few times. he would talk to kids about it. that is a story we have heard before. but this guy lived a tough life and overcame it, and left behind a great stuff. tavis: after 20 years of prison, he still has the capacity to blow? >> in san quentin, they have an ongoing band. it is still up there. guys get together and play every saturday night. and there was some really remarkable just artists in there with him, at different times. he really kept a tight. tavis: he is referenced in your work. how did you come together? >> i write about harry bosch, who has overcome his own obstacles. and he loves

only robert byrd served longer. senator inouye's tradition of service began long before he came to the united states senate. he was working as a medical volunteer when japanese warplanes attacked pearl harbor. he was just a boy, a teenager. from the time he was just a kid, he wanted to be a doctor, a medical doctor, but a different fate awaited dan inouye. after the attack, as we all know too well, japanese americans were deemed enemy aliens and were therefore not subject to the draft. in spite of that, in spite of the humiliation, more than 110,000 people of japanese ancestry were imprisoned in american internment camps. i have seen the pictures, we have heard the stories. they were in prison. yet dan inouye and other japanese americans, in spite of the unfair designation of being an enemy alien, volunteered to fight for this nation's freedom overseas, although many of their own families were denied freedom at home while they were overseas. senator inouye fought famously with the famous 442nd regimental combat team

byrd would say otherwise.peaker, norm, glad he's two seats away from me as i quote him, from 2005, said some things about republicans attempt to use nuclear options, options that i agree with. now, let me imp size this is a radical step it's taken. this will require breaking the rules, steam rolling the parliamentarian, and i've been disappointed in the reporting on the issue which tends to ice a kind of gloss and shorthand over matters making it appear as we are appearing to do it with a majority, just not elected to do it before. that's not the case. it's clear in the rules if you challenge a rule on constitutional grounds, that challenge is debatable, and the debate, itself, can be filibustered. what they are going to do, haved too in the case, and senator frist calls for a point of order suggesting a filibuster is unconstitutional is ignore their parliamentarian saying it can be debated or steam roll over the parliamentarian, and basically break own rules by not allowing debate in the case. he also argued,

byrd of west virginia.he said it's a long history filibuster that preceded our republic he said in may 53 years in congress never seen a matter that came before the congress come before the senate or the house as a matter of fact it is a dangerous conservative mainstream, so radical as this one. abstract type six and form although not known as filibusters ancient origin. while caesar was in spain, the election of consoles was approaching. he applied the senate for permission to send a candidate, but cato strongly opposes request attempts to prevent his success by gaining time with which you until it was too late to conclude on anything that day. the filibusters only been around 2064 years since circa 59 b.c. don't believe the left of the falsely claim the filibuster was a mistake in 1805 by aaron burr. the late robert c. byrd would say otherwise. norman ornstein -- from 2005 cents in things about republicans and his nuclear option and judges that i agree with. now let me emphasize this is a radical step. th

it wasn't a really great move to run against harry byrd, but he did get the -- you know, he ran as -- can he did have the opportunity in 1976 to attend the democratic national convention and speak on behalf of the defense plank for the democrats. and, indeed, he supported carter in 1976, and in 1980 he broke with carter because he really felt if carter had been reelected -- and i spoke at the carter library the other night and someone asked me about this, and i had to say it. he felt that his grandchildren would not be safe, that they might not actually survive their entire lifetime. and he joined -- he actually was one of the founders of democrats for reagan. and he became a strong supporter of reagan, although reagan would ultimately disappoint him with respect to the agent orange issue which i discuss in the book. because it was the policy of the reagan administration to do everything possible, and these new documents are available, you'll see, but it was the policy of the reagan administration to do everything possible to make sure no link was ever made between exposure to herbici

about thirty years ago by lawrence summers who was then a professor of economics at harvard and robert byrd a professor of economics at the university of michigan explaining the relationship the traditional historic relationship between the gold price and interest rates basically they found that the gold is a determinant of interest rates it's the determinant of the price of government bonds that's what the gold price suppression scheme really is about it's a it's a it's a mechanism of supporting government currencies of suppressing interest rates and supporting government bond prices and a little bit later i want to get into some more kind of the best facts or circumstantial evidence that exists that support that view first i want to talk a little bit though about silver because silver market manipulation is something that has been it's been being and but it's been investigated by that sea f.t.c. it's still ongoing since i had both of you gentlemen on my show last week have interviewed bart chilton the commissioner of the c.f. if you kind of think of when you think of this silver investiga

and member timothy byrd now attacking teachers over the school shooting in newtown connecticut he said the parents must take away the power of the radicals in the classroom and lawmakers most interviews right to work laws to cripple teachers' unions he said liberals destroyed the family and encouraged the shooter to be coddled all his life given free reign to indulge in senses but not to face the responsibilities of freedom necessitates going on to say that he lived in the world of the progressives making not in reality or now even suggest the president obama will use the shooting to advance the cause of disarming the american people and that we should have people like george zimmerman guarding our schools you know besides making my head explode and this kid was not living in a progressive world his mother was it was she called herself a proper preparing for the end i mean it was full before glenn beck. so much of this seems to revolve around these senses this sense of masculinity and and tough and you know this kid was coddled and it are we are we look at a problem of too many guys wh

only robert byrd served longer. senator inouye's tradition of service began long before he came to the united states senate. he was working as a medical volunteer when japanese warplanes attacked pearl harbor. he was just a boy, a teenager. from the time he was just a kid, he wanted to be a doctor, a medical doctor, but a different fate awaited dan inouye. after the attack, as we all know too well, japanese americans were deemed enemy aliens and were therefore not subject to the draft. in spite of that, in spite of the humiliation, more than 110,000 people of japanese ancestry were imprisoned in american internment camps. i have seen the pictures, we have heard the stories. they were in prison. yet dan inouye and other japanese americans, in spite of the unfair designation of being an enemy alien, volunteered to fight for this nation's freedom overseas, although many of their own families were denied freedom at home while they were overseas. senator inouye fought famously with the famous 442nd regimental combat team

>> your own byrd. >>> santa suit sounds good, it is cold. >> dress in layers if you can coldest morningon. good morning, looking from is. in san francisco all the way cross -- sutro tower in san francisco all wait cross mount diablo in the east bay. hardly a include in that -- picture, a few trying to move into the north bay and that will be about it, sunshine for today and no rain in the forecast for today. upper 20s to low 30s inland low 30s to low 40s around the bay up towards san francisco 41 oakland 38 san jose 34, 31 concord and live more. there are places cooler fremont 24, 27's around also,. some of those 27's pleasanton, dublin, petaluma. sunny and cool today, almost as chilly tonight rain thursday through sunday high pressure sneaking in now bringing us the dry cold air going to whole the next system through -- going to hold the next system through tomorrow. 5:00 in the morning nothing going on not a lot of cloud cover, chilly again tomorrow morning. 5:00 steadier rain starting to move into the north bay, midnight moving along i-80 moderate rain north bay, yellows and will it

only robert byrd served longer.ator inouye's tradition of service began long before he came to the united states senate. he was working as a medical volunteer when japanese warplanes attacked pearl harbor. he was just a boy, a teenager. from the time he was just a kid, he wanted to be a doctor, a medical doctor, but a different fate awaited dan inouye. after the attack, as we all know too well, japanese americans were deemed enemy aliens and were therefore not subject to the draft. in spite of that, in spite of the humiliation, more than 110,000 people of japanese ancestry were imprisoned in american internment camps. i have seen the pictures, we have heard the stories. they were in prison. yet dan inouye and other japanese americans, in spite of the unfair designation of being an enemy alien, volunteered to fight for this nation's freedom overseas, although many of their own families were denied freedom at home while they were overseas. senator inouye fought famously with the famous 442nd regimental combat team in

senator robert byrd, a well-respected democrat pulled aside some of the top republicans and said, don't is -- this is an affront to the way the entire congress is set up with the house being sort of the bubbling tea cup and the senate being the saucer where it's supposed to cool off. and you will make the simple where a simple majority rules look just like the house. you will up end the way the senate and the house is supposed to work and they didn't wind up doing it. >> robert byrd served in the senate -- way back in the 70s that created the circumstance where they said what we want to do -- since filibusters are possible and you always need 60 votes to end a filibuster. let's just assume if one side says they are going to filibuster, we'll call it at that and let it stand. what democrats say that should be done away with and it should be a simple majority in the senate and the republicans say we have been operating this for 40 or more years. how about let's just go ahead with this instead of you trying to jam us. what republicans are concerned about is if this fiscal cliff stuff gets

byrd's funeral in west virginia. mr. president, it was one of the hottest days i can remember. we were up there just baking in the sun at this memorial service for robert c. byrd. and i had intentionally picked a seat right next to danny inouye. i was taking off my coat. mopping the perspiration off, and i looked at him, in his dark suit, without a bead of sweat. i said, how do you do this? well, he says, the asian roots are important and they believe that mind over matter can achieve great things. and i can visualize myself sitting in a deep freeze now. i'm not hot at all. and i thought, this man is a amazing, inso so many different ways, what he has done with his life and those stories, some serious, some light-hearted, just reflect so well on this man and what he meant. mr. president, one of the most important things i have on my agenda is the passage of the dream act. i worked on it for 11 years there was a time on the noor of the senate, september 21, 2010. when i couldn't break the republican filibuster on the dream act, and i was despondent. senator reid came to the noor

senator byrd walked up to danny and senator byrd, as we will recall was very much opposed to the unitedstates entering the war in iraq. he stood up here on the floor, very eloquently explained why it was the wrong thing to do, the united states should not send troops over to iraq. well, senator byrd walked over to danny and said danny, i've got to ask you if you can support the resolution. i know you can't because my gosh, you're a war hero, given your military service and danny right away says no, i'll vote with you because it's the right thing to do. it's wrong for the united states to send troops over to iraq. and danny said it's largely because of that experience when that soldier reached in his pocket and showed danny photographs of the soldier's family that it just changed him, changed danny and made danny realize just the importance of not going to war unless absolutely totally necessary and going to iraq was not necessary. i was so impressed with danny in so many different ways. when i was first here, danny was assigned to defend harrison williams, who was charged with abscam vi

yesterday at the age of 88, the second longest serving member ever beyond the late senator robert byrdnia. former vet bob dolan said "senator inouye was one of the senate's giants. he believed in civility and compromise when necessary and he was a good, good friend." senator dole and inouye long before they were both senators were in a military hospital for almost two years together in michigan while they were both recovering from their injuries from world war ii. two great friends. soledad back to you in newtown. >> my goodness and the story of what he did, what happened when he lost his arm and how he was able to save himself in world war ii, that is an incredible story. thanks, john, appreciate it. >>> the horror of newtown brings to mind so many other shootings, the assassination attempt on arizona congresswoman gabby give fords, january 8th of 2011 and left six people dead. among those wounded was ron barber, giffords district director. he took down when she stepped down. he won a full term last month. congressman barber thank you for being with us. >> good morning, thank you for

i proposed with senator mccain, senator byrd, senator jack reed, a bunch of others the creation of a national commission on violence three weeks after columbine in 1999, and it passed the senate but it was -- it didn't make it through the house in conference committee. so i understand why people are skeptical, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't hear the cries of those children as the guns of that madman turned on them and actually see their blood on the ground of that -- the floor of that schoolhouse until we get something done. we can -- we can prevent this from happening to people again. we can certainly prevent it from happening to some people. i see signs of hope around us, people, colleagues who have been protectors of gun rights saying in the last few days this has got to change, we have got to come together and reason together and act together, and everything has to be on the table including our gun laws. there was a poll in "the washington post" today, it was very striking to note that for the first time when people have been askedhis question after -- and they have been aske

senator robert byrd of west virginia was a critical member of the gang of 14. in addition to his many, many accomplishments over the years, everyone knew then and knows now that there isn't anyone more well versed in the history of the senate or who was more protective of it as an institution. and i'll never forget that after the agreement was finalized and we were all sitting in a room, senator byrd said that he was proud of the work accomplished and that we -- quote -- "saved the senate." hearing those words from the distinguished senator byrd was undoubtedly one of the proudest moments of my career. and besides senator byrd, i've had the opportunity to serve with so many dedicated public servants in this body. i'd like to thank all of them. i start name so, i'll leave some out. so i just want to thank all present and past members of the senate that i've worked with and thank them for the occasion that i've had to work with them so closely. i also share the sentiment that many of my colleagues have noted in their farewell addresses, that of appreciation for t

at his death, he was the senate's longest serving member, second only to robert byrd of west virginia. >>> back here in the u.s., the president is spending the christmas holiday with his family in hawaii. cnn's brianna keilar is there. there is no official word when he is coming back to the mainland but as that fiscal cliff deadline gets closer what do you think will happen as it rolls on? >> reporter: no official word the president will return to washington, i think that is the expectation. as you know, miguel, the senate will convene on december 27th, that's thursday. and in a perfect world, what the white house would want to see is the senate take up some sort of measure to avert the tax hikes that will hit people earning $250,000 or less. that's what they would want. that of course, would require some buy-in from senate republicans and ideally, as the white house would say that would then pass the house. now, that's lot of sort of wishful thinking, you might say, especially considering some of the pessimism we are hearing from democrats and republicans about whether the u.s. is go

coming up representative and marie byrd told joins us from the capital.: the ceo of a company that brouuht 900 jobs to america plans to bring 2,000 more next year. find out why and how and what skills are needed to fill those jobs later this hour. you know how painful heartburn can be. for fast, long lasting relief, use doctor recommended gaviscon®. only gaviscon® forms a protective barrier that helps block stomach acid from splashing up- elieving the pain quickly. try fast, long lasting gaviscon®. liz: breaking news. the president's schedule has been updated and they are saying the president will speak at 5:00 eastern time in just about thirty-second minutes about the fiscal cliff. president obama will be taking to the brady pressroom and giving a statement at least. don't know whether he will take questions but fox business will take this as soon as the president begins speaking top of the hour. liz: that will be interesting. dave: we are step closer to the fiscal cliff after republicans rejected john boehner's compromise plan for raising tax rates. wit

. >> reporter: it was all discovered by accident, when chris byrd got engaged to elmer's mother, liz.hris' mother was pulling out old photos. when she looked at santa, something clicked. or in this case, jingles. >> she gave me a call, looking at an old santa picture. it looks like liz's dad, elmer. >> i knew it was my dad. i remember going to the mall that year and taking a picture with him. >> reporter: the year was 1999, the first time elmer worked at the maplewood mall in minneapolis. >> my parents wanted a picture with my sister and i. >> reporter: chris can't remember what he asked for that year. >> i think, at his age, he might have been asking me for a girlfriend. >> reporter: and he got it, 12 years later. >> definitely, a christmas miracle. >> that just warms your heart to see how things are connected. >> you got to love that one. liz and chris burd displayed that santa photo at their wedding. and now, they have shared their story with america. >>> coming up, is the man behind the dance craze sweeping america actually an anti-american? why psy is now apologizing. >>> also, g

americans it was sort of a foreign conclusion that their side when and win easily because most are byrd a host of racist beliefs about mexican men foremost among them being that mexican and one lazy and cowardly to fight. in point of fact mexican troops fought very hard, as you can see , very few images, so it's rare when you find one. you can get a sense. mexico lost all of these battles and ultimately lost the military side of the war because they have vastly inferior weapons. their leader was terrible. mexico's government was in turmoil. there were broke. there were various panels were there was no money even making it to the army to support itself . because hostile net of american tribes in the north of mexico has so ravaged on the mexican that there was very little will to resist. now, on the mexican side most of the army was made up of conscripts who did not tend to fight as hard as some of the mexican troops. on the u.s. side most soldiers were volunteers. that is the interesting thing. the start of the war support was so overwhelming, particularly here in the midwest that many m

. >> probably the most respected parliamentarians we have had is robert byrd and his " was every senator should have the ability to oppose any amendment on -- to propose any amendment on any issue that he or she so desires. that means it doesn't guarantee passage of that amendment. the second point is, people did not send me here to just take easy votes. sometimes you have to take tough votes. so, we take them. that is not why i came here. >> [indiscernible] >> but there will be a vote on it. even if there is clotures and votes on those amendments, -- even if theres clotures invoked on those amendments, nevertheless, they must be voted upon. they can be tabled, by the way. there has to be a vote. there is no guarantee this will be voted up or down. but this is the way it can be done. i am not going to characterize what my leader feels. >> all i can say is we are hopeful that both our leaders now are using this proposal as a template, to be able to sit down and reach common ground. and to reach the goals which i just articulated. democrats, the majority understandably wants to move forwar

the late robert byrd was the otherwise to another speaker, norm orenstein, from 2005 said some things about republicans attempt use nuclear options and judgments i agree with. let me emphasize that this is a radical step it has taken. this will require breaking the, steamrolling the parliamentarian. and i must tell you i've been very disappointed in the reporting of this issue which tends to use a kind of cost and shorten over matters making it appear as if this is something that anytime can be done by a majority. they just haven't elected to before. that's not the case. it's very clear in senate rules if you challenge a ruling constitutional, that challenge is debatable and the debate itself can be filibustered. but what they're going to have to get in this case, senator calls for a point of order suggesting the filibusters unconstitutional. is ignore the parliamentarian who will say can be debated and steamrolled over the parliamentarian and basically break their own rules by not allowing debate. ornstein also argued quote basically the essential character of the senate in the syste

in the end majority leader byrd had to back down." so in both theory and practice, you can't sustain the process of having those who are filibustering actually debate when they voted to debate. so what many of us are proposing is that we change the rule and say that if you vote to debate -- and that takes a minimum of 41 saying yes, we want more debate -- of those 41, at least one has to be on the floor here talking. now, this is only fair to the american people. they turn on c-span and they see quorum calls. they see silence. and they wonder why isn't the senate working on that jobs bill that they had on the floor a few days before. they don't realize it's still on the floor but the silent, secret filibuster is being used to prevent the senate from proceeding and nobody is even willing to talk because they don't want to be seen in public defending their position. well, that needs to end. this process in which senators do not have the courage to come down and make their case before the american people has to end. because only if folks

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