hats off, joe manchin, mark warner, susan collins, jeanne shaheen, all of them, i'm going to miss them as we go through, lisa for dinner, again. we've come this far and this bill shows, 748 billion

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i'm particularly proud of the 300 million-- 300 billion dollar package that senator jeanne shaheen and i were the lead in putting together. it includes an extension of the paycheck protection program which has saved millions of jobs in this country, including 250,000 jobs in the state of maine alone. it is essential that we have another round of ppp for our hardest hit small businesses, which we define as those that have suffered a 30% decline in revenues in one quarter of this year compared to a quarter of last year. it's essential that we keep these small businesses afloat so that they can continue paying their employees. there are many other provisions that i know we will get into in the days ahead, but surely, let's not go home for christmas without passing this much needed relief, for the american people. with that, let me make just one other comment and that is, i'm for both bills, just want to go on record as being for both of these bills. it gives me great pleasure to introduce senator mark warner who has been one of the leaders of this effort. mark. >> well, thank you, susan.

to move to biannual budgeting, something that i support as well and something that my friend jeanne shaheen has been working with him on. so, senator enzi has a lot of smart proposals that he put forward. i mostly will remember his spirit. his spirit that we saw and see every week at the prayer breakfast. of course, he can still come back to that as a former member, but also, the work that he did in the senate, and how he would genuinely try to find common ground. i've told him how many times how much i love his state having once biked minneapolis to jackson hole to get there. 1200 miles in 11 days with my dad and how when my husband and i in the middle of a pandemic decided to drive one place this summer, we drove to wyoming and hiked in the tetons. so i look forward to seeing mike and diana there and i hope him all the best in his retirement. senator gardner. so senator gardner, and i served together on the commerce committee and throughout his tenure as a member of congress he has been a champion of public lands, and of course, with the beautiful, beautiful national parks in colorado i t

the democratic side of what you think mark warner, virginia, joe manchin of west virginia, and jeanne shaheen of new hampshire. it's been my honor to sit at the table and zoom callsal our after hour after hour as we hashed through some difficult choices that need to be made. on the republican side, susan collins, lisa murkowski, bill cassidy and mitt romney. they have put as much time as i have a many times more in this effort to bring us to a point where we can offer a solution. they announced this morning that they've come to a conclusion that the spending part of this is going to be manageable, doable on an bipartisan basis ad should be called ont the floor for passage. i will tell you that the $908 billion package they put together is not what i wanted. i believe there should be dramatically larger amounts put intoll this effort but there's someone at thee side of the aise to believe that little or nothing is needed. they have tried to find a a mie ground and i believe i have with the $908 $908 billion. the way it's allocated across the board inbo a draft framework hits the major elements

to move to biannual budgeting, something that i support as well and something that my friend jeanne shaheen has been working with him on. senator enzi has a lot of smart proposal that's he has put forward -- proposals that he has put forward. i will remember mostly his spirit that we see at the prayer breakfast and of course he can come back to that as a former member and of course the work he did at the senate and how he would genuinely try to find common ground. i told him how much i loved his state having biked from -- from minnesota to jacksonville and how my husband and i in the middle of the pandemic, we decided to drive somewhere this summer, we drove to women and hiked in the tetons. i hope him all the best in his retirement. senator gardner. senator gardner and i served together on the commerce committee. throughout his tenure as a member of congress, he has been a champion of public lands and, of course, with the beautiful, beautiful national parks in colorado. i think you couldn't be doing your job for your state it -- state if you weren't such a leader on lands. he has worked ti

over the next week, or so, in the congress, to turn this -- the beginning, the first step as jeanne shaheen said into the reality of relief for the american people. and i want to call on my good friend from alaska, the bookend of the other bookend of the united states, maine and alaska, lisa murkowski. >> thank you for acknowledging the other side of the country. i am, indeed, very pleased and honored to have been working with an exceptional group of senators and working with colleagues in the house to respond to the crisis at hand. i think it's important as we look to not only the men and women that are assembled here, but recognizing who we represent, where we come from, and what has happened in our parts of the country. in my home state this morning at 8:00 in anchorage, we are going into our third round of hunker down. basically we're shutting down the businesses, the restaurants, the bars, the hair salons, the gyms, basically what happens in a day-to-day life for the people of anchorage. and what that then means to them. they're going into a pretty dark and cold time of year, with job

to include certainly joe manchin of west virginia and mark warner of the state of virginia and jeanne shaheen of new hampshire. for all of them, i thank them for bringing forth this measure and now it's going to be in the hands of the leadership. i hope that we should call it this week. we should not go home without it. madam president, i yield the floor. mr. schumer: madam president. the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. schumer: thank you, madam president. as the republican leader acknowledged a new moments ago, joe biden will be the next president of the united states and kamla harris will be the vice president of the united states. republicans should acknowledge that joe biden will be the next president and kamala harris will be the vice president. president trump should take his cue from leader mcconnell that it's time to end his term with a modicum of grace and dignity, what is a grand traditional of a peaceful transfer of power. enough is enough. for the sake of the democracy for the sake of the peaceful transition of power should stop the shenanigans, stop the misrepresent

and you look at joe manchin, mitt romney, susan collins, even lindsey graham in there, jeanne shaheen, while mcconnell were saying no no no, the moderates in the republican party and rep -- republican and democratic party were going we'll get this done. it ends up that, you know, the majority and minority leaders don't have a complete strangled hold on their parties. if they decide they want to move together and forge consensus, they're going to do it in the last couple of week -- and the last couple of weeks prove that. >> it did. it proved there was a center of the senate that still works like you just indicated and what the center was able to do better than anything was create a menu from which the leadership was able to eventually choose. and i think that is an important thing here. they showed that there was support for a variety of proposals that then mitch mcconnell and nancy pelosi got into a room and narrowed down. so i think -- i mean, despite it being very late and not including everything that anybody wants, this is a good sign that shows that there is some functionality l

. >>> joining me now is democratic senator jeanne shaheen.for taking time this morning. >> thank you. >> first of all on stimulus are you headed for a short term continuing resolution to get to a deal on stimulus? >> i think that may be necessary but the bill still has to be written. much of it has been written because it's my understanding much of what they're using is the freshmamework that the bipartisan group of senators have been working on almost since the election and we had language we handed over to leadership. the written language we had consulted with committees and experts in most cases in preparing that language. so i think a lot of the bill has probably been written but as you heard there are still some sticking points that need to be worked out. so i think we may need a short-term extension of government funding in order to make sure that both of the bills are done and that we can pass them. so i'm hoping this weekend, that's what i have been told by a number of my colleagues. and so, hopefully we can get this done. it absolute

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the state department wouldn't even let this report go to congress until jeanne shaheen, a number of republicansll and democrats complained. they only got it thursday, thursday or friday. we then got it as well. and, look, they finally th lly released it. the academies released it. they wanted it released all along. four months have gone by without anyone doing anything that we know of. the state department says this is possible a sort but not probably, not conclusively. so they're still downplaying it. >> well, we'll see if that changes with the biden administration. and new leadership at the state department. andrea mitchell, thanks so much for staying with us, and thanks for bringing us this reporting. >> you bet. >> this is a story that's been intriguing me for years now. i'm glad we're getting at least something of an answer about what could likely be the cause. andrea, thank you very much. and that's going to do it for me today. if you are going outside, do your part. wear a mask. if you're staying inside, ayman mohyeldin picks up our coverage after a quick break. ♪ [ beeping ] [ engine re

i am particularly proud of the $300 billion package that senator jeanne shaheen and i were the lead in putting together. thencludes an extension of paycheck protection program, jobs has saved millions of , including 300,000 jobs in the state of maine alone. it is essential that we have ourher round of ppp for hardest hit small businesses, which we define as those that have suffered a 30% decline in revenues and one quarter of this year compared to a quarter of last year. it is essential that we keep sose small businesses afloat that they can continue paying their employees. there are many other provisions that i know we will get into in the days ahead. but, surely, let's not go home for christmas without passing this much needed relief for the american people. let me make just one other comment. that is, i am for both bills. asust want to go on record being for both of these bills. it gives me great pleasure to introduce senator mark warner, who has been one of the leaders of this effort. mark. warner: thank you, susan. first of all, to joe and susan. abouts been relentless keeping an

. >> this is really unique in the medical literature >> it is >> new hampshire senator jeanne shaheenor the victims. >> i fear that what we have seen to date is not going to end. we're going to see more of these kinds of attacks in the future and we need to be prepared for them >> and what countries have developed this kind of technology in the past >> well, we know russia has it >> russia has denied any involvement in the incidents the state department kept the report secret for months, even from congress, until a bipartisan group of senators demanded to see it a state department spokesperson says the investigation is ongoing and each possible cause remains speculative. not to mark, suffering from debilitating migraines for the last three years and why would the russians want to target you? >> i was in charge or one of several officers in charge of overseeing our efforts against them. >> reluctantly after 26 years with the cia he resigned last year at the age of 50. >> we have to find out who did this i'd like to see a robust investigation by our intelligence services and others to s

this was led by joe man thin, susan collins, bill cassidy, jeanne shaheen, democrat from new hampshire problem solvers caucus is also onboard. they did the maths, they counted the numbers, they said they have the votes for this package to pass. we'll have to see what happens. there's a lot of pressure on house speaker nancy pelosi to do something now, and this raises that ante, $908 billion. back to you. stuart: sure does. looks like we might get something, and the market's responding. edward lawrence, thank you very much, indeed. good stuff. now this. ah, watch out, world. here comes modern military theory. never heard of it? this is how the far left will pay for everything. bear we me here, please, just bear we me. this is not technical, it's not complicated. modern monetary theory says printing money has no consequences. just print what you need so you get what you want. easy. alexandria ocasio-cortez is a follower of this theory. to cover the astronomical costs of the green new deal, she would just turn on the printing presses. after all, she says if we can bail out the banks, why

there is senator dick durbin there is jeanne shaheen and myself. on the republican side there is senator lisa michalski, et cetera susan collins, senator bill cassidy and senator mitch romney. from there it grew. then we brought the bipartisan group over congressman tom greene. and the problem solvers and we kept growing from there. we have more senators coming in. so we got input from every quadrant we could possibly order to do what we did. and it took quite a while. the biggest hurdle we had is how much can we agree we need an emergency. democrats were one -- two, one -- three. republicans were five or six but we cannot move off of that. it took us a while to say let's look at the emergencies and everything this going to run out of time in december and be nullified. people are going to lose their lifeline spread start putting all this figures together and came up with a 900 billion-dollar figure. that is where it came from. i understand their silty 900 which we appreciate very much. i am hopeful we can help break that deadlock can be a part of t

when chairman marco rubio and i, together with senators ben cardin and jeanne shaheen, put the p.p.p. together at the on-set of the national emergency, none of us could have imagined that the pandemic would still be forcing shutdowns and curtailing operations and that extreme mitigation measures would be necessary these many months later. yet, sadly, the virus is still spreading and many of the steps taken to fight it, though they may be necessary to protect public health, threaten catastrophic damage to many of our small businesses and their employees, small businesses that have now spent their p.p.p. loan funds but are still unable to return to normal operations. i talked with a restaurant owner in bangor, maine, where i live, who told me that he, because of the size of his restaurant and to comply with the public health spacing and social distancing guidelines, can only have four tables a night. and because the governor of maine has imposed a 9:00 p.m. curfew, he can't turn over those tables to compensate for the reduced number of people he can serve at one time. it is so tough, an

robins of virginia -- warner robins of virginia, joe manchin of west virginia and gene shaheen -- jeanne shaheen of new hampshire. we've been on zoom calls hour after hour as we hash through some of the difficult choices that need to be made. on the republican side i want to thank susan collins, lisa murkowski, bill cassidy, and mitt romney. they have put as much time as i have and many times more in this effort to bring us to a point where we can offer a solution. they announced this morning that they have come to a conclusion that the spending part of this is going to be manageable, doable, on a bipartisan basis. it should be called on the floor for passage. i will tell you that the 908 -- $908 billion package they put together is not what i wanted. i think there should be descra matically larger amounts put into this effort. but there are some on the other side of the aisle who believe that little or nothing is needed. they have tried to find a middle ground and i believe they have with the $908 billion. the way it's allocated across the board in a draft frame work hits the major elements tha

on our side, there was senator mark warner, senator dick durbin, senator jeanne shaheen and myself. on the republican side, there was senator lisa murkowski, senator susan collins, senator bill cassidy, and senator mitt romney. from there it grew. we brought the congressmen over and the problem solvers and we kept growing from there and we had more senators coming in. so we got input from every quadrant that we could possible in order to do what we did. if took quite a while. the biggest hurdle we had was how much could we agree on how much we needed for emergency. the republicans were at one, two, one, three. we said let's look at the emergencies and everything that will run out of time in december and be nullified and people will lose their lifelines many we started putting those figures together and came up with a $700 billion figure. and i understand they are still at $900 billion. i am hopeful that we can break the deadlock, but there's so much more that has to be done and so much more need that will need to be done and we must come behind president-elect joe biden and make sur