staggering tax breaks to the wealthiest 1% and shipping jobs overseas. 62% of the tax breaks in the enate bill go to the top 1%. that's what they're up to today. after an entire year squandered on republicans' special interests give-aways, they have an urgent overdo list. while the president tweets, i don't see a deal, democrats are simply asking, we're so sad because we want to give him some information and he could have some judgment. democrats are asking for action a broad set of bipartisan priorities but to make him understand how they fit into an appropriations bill. we want to keep government open. that's what we are about. they have the votes. they have the presidential signature to do whatever they want but democrats are committed to keeping government open. we need to raise the caps. we support additional resources for strong national defense and important to note that we need to increase the domestic budget because the domestic budget, the nondefense nondiscretionary budget, to those of you who write about appropriations and i'm an appropriator. nondefense discretionary domestic

enator grassley: [inaudible] senator leahy. mr. leahy: thank you, mr. chairman. senator from louisiana, i guess i am not important enough or been here long enough to have somebody tell me how i had to vote but i will rely on his experience that that might happen. senator kennedy: i think they knew i was new and from the south and therefore stupid. senator leahy: obviously you don't mean i thought that way. senator kennedy: not you, of course not. mr. leahy: i am from a small town in vermont. i guess they didn't think -- telling me how to vote. i do fear -- i watched this committee, i've been on this committee for 40 years. i served here for 42 years. eight different presidents. both half a dozen times in the majority. half a dozen times in the inority. independence of this committee. worrying that independence is disappearing. it's becoming a rubber stamp for the president. something i have not seen with republicans or democratic presidents before. we've worrying that independenc. at the request of president trump and circuit court nominees this month alone. that

enator toomy you will be next. >> just a final clarification. in light of this final amendment, a simple question. does the effective elimination of the individual mandate in e tax bill lead to anyone in any income class paying any additional taxes out of pocket? >> senator too manyy, as i explained, the original revenue reflected a lot of economic behavior. it -- the elimination of the mandate itself is not create a new individual income tax liability. >> thank you. >> is that it? ok. senator carden. >> mr. chairman, i am going to ask for your help here, if i might. in maryland, we had a national disaster declared, a major flood, about the same time in 2016. i don't know whether it would qualify as similar to the mississippi river delta flood that er, but i would hope you would work with other members if we have similar types of national disaster declarations where people are in a similar situation that we would be willing to accept amendments to this section for other areas of the country that may have similar sirblingses that occurred in the

it is enat hack. i will say this. campaign is a def ren experience than running the gom. but you are operating in a political environment then if you don't have some experience, understanding how the people get elect and not able to pan am the government well. there is some blen between governments and poll techs but murphy going to pick people on a bipartisan basis and pick people to a different geography. >> hire a couple of math teachers that will help reconcile the $1. 3 million to the 15 billion. >> treasury department. you don't want those folks in the communication cold. >> good luck to all of you? all right. >> thank you. >> right. >> thanks. let's check win dan zarrow with your freezing forecast. dan? what do you got for us. meteorologist: the count jun is on for the first optic cold front of the season and as i have been telling all week. the conditions are going to feel look the dead of winter here in mid-november. here's the setup. cold front rifes point did a. that is the day we're watching for the work. not going to be cold buttette is going to be windy. tha

president wants people both in the house and enate that support his agenda but as i have said and as the prohibits me from going further we think that is something the people of alabama decide and i'm into the going to graphics i am thankful for my wife was pregnant with our third child. sec. sanders: good luck, it only gets harder. taxes asstion is on well. the president seemed to suggest today that democratic health is all but gone for. getou still think you can democrats on board? sec. sanders: we would certainly like to. i don't know why democrats would not like to support tax cuts for class.dle we would welcome their support if they want to get on board and help that effort. firstm thankful for the amendment. , she was conway today here on the north lawn and she said that -- she warned alabama voters not to be full by doug jones. so is that the position by this white house? voters are better off voting for someone accused of assaulting teenage girls then a democrat? sanders: i've answered this three or four times today as times last week, the position has not changed for the whi

guest: we haven't seen the .enate bill yet we have seen a detailed summary. we will get the actual text of that. i don't know what the page number ended up being on the house side after they amended -- it is shorter than what you are mentioning in pennsylvania. but it is complicated stuff and every time you change one thing in one area, it has a ripple effect in another area that has to be adjusted. toi will expect the tax code remain collocated. host: from arkansas on the republican line, william. i stand to gain by the debt tax repeal. i guess i have to see my tax attorney and then i have to go talkshington, d.c. and face to face about the people in government there. this is the part i don't understand. they keep telling me that they will give me my money back but they will run up the deficit by up to $2 trillion in 10 years? that doesn't make sense. you are giving me my money back but you are borrowing money to give my money back? highwhole deal stinks to you know what. host: go back to state tax, how does that affect you personally? caller: most people wo

i want to focus our conservative .enator this man has been accused of assaulting teenage girls. something has to give. you cannot sit there with those two statements forever. you have to either believe that it is fake or you have to stop supporting him and you have to resolve it. when people believe something is fake news >> i have a question about if there will ever be a media source that the majority of the population believes to the extent these -- people believe tv news >> i have a question about if there were ever be a media source that a majority of the population believes to the extent that people believed the tv news or to get for its word or took it as truth in the 1960's and 1970's, like with dan rather. will there ever be a figure like that on national television again, worthy majority of the population believes them? bill: i think the first answer to that is it is going to be difficult because there is an enormous amount of media fragmentation. the 1950's, 1960's through much of the 1970's and 1980's, you had three networks that were dominant. you had three choices,

do overnight did you mentioned the reserve bank searches, we have a diverse bunch of candidates. .enator: it is a change thank you for your comments. republicans will pass a tax cut will geared to large corporations are in the committee is about to consider legislation to rollback rules for some of the largest banks. what can you do with the fed to ensure this deregulation actually benefits workers and does not translate into more executive offices and stock buyback? jerome powell: our tools are what they are. policy, whichry can shove the economy in the direction of stable prices and maximum employment. we have regulations that can provide sound this. when institutions become more profitable, some of that is going to go to shareholders and some is going to go to customers and some to employees. we don't have tools that affect the distribution of profits. have consumero protection. you do have a concern about the workforce and growing the workforce. part of the concern that i am hearing, and i haven't heard a lot about this discussion, what would you do to address those consumer protecti

i will do it in this case. .enator stabenow i will be reasonable but let's lotowledge it is asking a of the majority. >> mr. chairman, i appreciate your comments and i will say that what we are doing will impact millions and millions and millions of people. it is very serious. the discussion and tax the entire economy -- impacts the entire economy. senator cornyn did a wonderful job -- cardin did a wonderful job. americans will be with a mental illness sometime in their life. this is a critical issue for our veterans returning home who served us. to keep our country safe. they open your addiction issue is impacting every community i know in michigan and across the country. i think it is important to take a stand and say we will not allow people to lose critical services. >> you have one minute. >> thank you, mr. chairman. amendment.e the when i think about opioids in my state, i think of a man sitting with his 30-year-old daughter in cincinnati. he said, if it was not for medicaid, my daughter would not be alive. i think about how 200,000 people in my state are getting opioid treatme

guest: we haven't seen the .enate bill yet we have seen a detailed summary. we will get the actual text of that. i don't know what the page number ended up being on the house side after they amended -- it is shorter than what you are mentioning in pennsylvania. but it is complicated stuff and every time you change one thing in one area, it has a ripple effect in another area that has to be adjusted. toi will expect the tax code remain collocated. host: from arkansas on the republican line, william. i stand to gain by the debt tax repeal. i guess i have to see my tax attorney and then i have to go talkshington, d.c. and face to face about the people in government there. this is the part i don't understand. they keep telling me that they will give me my money back but they will run up the deficit by up to $2 trillion in 10 years? that doesn't make sense. you are giving me my money back but you are borrowing money to give my money back? highwhole deal stinks to you know what. host: go back to state tax, how does that affect you personally? caller: most people wo

if the house bill gets passed it would have to face off in the .enate we will have the latest on thatloomberg. ♪ ulia: "what'd you miss?" it has been an intense week for tax reform as senate leaders debuted their own bill yesterday. that set off a debate in the house over what exactly would make its way to the president's desk. and entertainers here with all the details. she has been following this story. ton. it feels like we have a manufacturer tax reform plan on both sides. what are people saying about how difficult it will be to bridge the gap? anna: you can tell that each bill is designed to pass in the chamber. someouse bill is threading needles in order to pass and the senate bill is doing the same. once each chamber passes its bill, if they manage to do that, then to reconcile the differences, like you said, it is going to be a face-off, and i think a lot of house members are wary it will end up looking like the senate bill since they have a smaller margin in that chamber. joe: one factor people need to be aware of -- and there is a great story on the bloomberg today -- that n

neither of the two companies really have any enat this time chris that compete with each other and theretrump slam then he was campaigning to become president and he said if i become elected i will not let this deal go through. fast forward to now and we see that the justice department had earlier this month had asked at&t and said if you want this to go through without any regulatory difficulties you are going to have to dump some of the entities. why don't you dump cnn. at&t won't do that because cnn is the big money maker. fast forward a few weeks and there will be a lawsuit filed by the department of justice to prevent this happening. it is impossible to disentangle politics from business absolutely. ata politics from business absolutely. at a press conference late on wednesday, tuesday, monday, sorry, i've forgot what day of the week it was! we heard from the ceo of at&t speaking really forcefully about this issue and addressing that whether or not this has anything to do with politics and he said, "look, i don't know but what i will tell you for sure is we are absolutely going to f

i want to thank several senators on this committee that have asked for this hearing. .enator baldwin, senator cortez thank you for all the more bringing this to the forefront. so if you start with the massive each of the choice point breach in 2005 and then and nuing with target neem cti group, heartland payment systems and many, many others, the parade of high profile data breaches seems to have no end and billions of consumers have had their sensitive personal, personally identifiable information compromised, including social security numbers, drivers' licenses, addresses, dates of birth. that offer identity theft protection and credit monitoring services can't safeguard their own data from hackers, than how can consumers trust any company to protect their information. and let me say also, when you get up against the sophistication of state actors, such as russia and china, it's going to be hard to protect against them. so sadly, the question that millions of americans are now king is, as they struggle to figure out how to protect themselves in the wake of these massive preaches, wh

during her decades of service in our community in the house and .enate, her record is exemplary she isside of righteousness. eight years ago in a closed-door senate caucus, she implored her colleagues to support marriage equality. she grew up knowing what it was like to be treated less than. she always worked toward the goal of making sure no one felt less than. honored to present this award to senator betty lasky. [applause] >> wow. thank you all. i could not be more surprised or honored. in this season of thanksgiving, i just want to tell you how grateful i am and have been for the last 30 years. to have served all of you and the people of new hampshire and the people of our great country. so ithink you so much -- thank you so much and i will treasure this always. thank you. [applause] >> new hampshire democrats please welcome congressman tim ryan to the stage. [applause] ♪ >> thank you. we have a few ohio guys here. i want to say i wish i had brought our 13-year-old daughter there tonight to hear these amazing democratic women that we have up here. [applause] but i did bring my beau

one of the things we've seen in is that in the last few ab abbott, overnor enator cornyn, have won thenic market, the hispanic voter base, and we fully expect see in this next set of elections we'll win a traight-up majority of the hispanic vote coming in 2018 republican candidates will do so and it is a proper alignment of those individual voters, interests and with our party's principles and our policies. it should be. host: mr. dickey, what about onald trump's call for the wall, how has that affected your position? guest: you know, in texas, we have the biggest stretch of the so we are most impacted by illegal immigration and those citizens along the border have season first hand the tragic rise in murders and crime and happened n that has from an utter failure of the federal government to take seriously the fact we have a the border should be respected and our laws about immigration should be respected. texas voters of all stripes are glad to see and will be glad to see the benefits of taking our immigration laws seriously. that doesn't mean we can't have an argument about what the

i'm calling from his same district, he was our state representative and state ,enator, lieutenant governornd i voted republican yesterday. republican.e was a this is goingis .o be a national trim for trump won the 2016on vote here in virginia, 50%-40 yesterday went 53%-40 in the state for ralph. you see the change there. gillespie asas ed a candidate or his campaign, how effective do you think it was? ad thati have seen the everyone was saying was controversial. host: the latino victory fund ad? caller: yes sir. i could say to a point -- honestly, the exit polling is showing there was a big difference. there were some ads for the northam campaign that some people thought were controversial as well. as far as the midterms and how much this actually affects the trump, if trump has had any kind of national effect as far as having negativity across the country. host: we will hear from even in new jersey. hi. caller: i want to say thank you, c-span. jersey and virginia proved that votes speak louder than tweets. host: when it comes to the governor's race there, who did you vote for and why? cal