they wrote it out in longhand. we're not even teaching cursive in a lot of schools anyone -- any more but someone on the staff knew it to try. the problem is they wrote it on the margin here about subchapter s corporations and what they don't pay and how much they pay. i defy anybody to read it because the problem is when they copied it they chopped off-line so there aren't sentences. there are just little phrases and words. this is your united states senate at work. this is what happens when you push through a bill late at night desperate to pass it without really stopping to ask yourself will this make us a stronger nation? will this help legitimate businesses that happened to expand and create jobs? is this good for american families? well, the joint committee on taxation told us yesterday -- that's our scorekeeper. they are the ones we hired to be our scorekeeper. they're nonpartisan. they told us what they learned about this bill before we got the new version with the new amendments that our friends at k stree

they wrote it out in longhand. we're not even teaching cursive in a lot of schools anyone -- any more but someone on the staff knew it to try. the problem is they wrote it on the margin here about subchapter s corporations and what they don't pay and how much they pay. i defy anybody to read it because the problem is when they copied it they chopped off-line so there aren't sentences. there are just little phrases and words. this is your united states senate at work. this is what happens when you push through a bill late at night desperate to pass it without really stopping to ask yourself will this make us a stronger nation? will this help legitimate businesses that happened to expand and create jobs? is this good for american families? well, the joint committee on taxation told us yesterday -- that's our scorekeeper. they are the ones we hired to be our scorekeeper. they're nonpartisan. they told us what they learned about this bill before we got the new version with the new amendments that our friends at k stree

they wrote it out in longhand. i defy anybody to read it.opied it, they chopped off lines. this is your united states senate at work. this is what happens when you push flew a bill late at night desperate to pass it, without really stopping to ask yourself, will this make us a stronger nation? >>> joining us now, a congressional scholar and co author of the new book "one nation under trump." i have to tell you, when i was writing tax legislation at the senate finance committee and bringing it to the senate floor, we never hand wrote it. it was never handwritten the way it is tonight. >> you also didn't have a 500 page amendment that no one except a few lobbyists had red. the most stunning vote we've seen tonight an unconscionable process, i've never seen anything like this before. democrats said, we haven't been able to look at this give us the weekend. all 52 republicans threw all of that out the window and said, no, we're going to rush headlong into voting for this tonight. that tells you something, that including bob corker, who voted in

they wrote it out in longhand. even teaching cursive in a lot of schools anymore, but someone on the staff knew it enough to try. the problem is -- [ laughter ] they wrote it in cursive along the margin here. it's about subchapter s corporations and how much tax they pay and what they don't pay. i defy anybody to read it, because the problem was, when they copied it, they chopped off lines. so there aren't full sentences here. they're just kind of like little phrases and words. >> seth: even the copier didn't have enough time to read the bill. [ laughter ] senator elizabeth warren did her best to try to make out what those words said, but didn't have much luck. >> adjustments attributable to conversion from s corporatia -- oh, it's been cut off. to corporation. section 481 is amended by adding at the en -- i assume they mean end. but again, it's all cut off. the following new subsection. adjustments attributable to conversions for a corporation -- something -- c corporation, paren -- dangerous? that can't be right.

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you might remember in the senate that was one of the problems with things in the margins and longhands they think they can pass it just before christmas. the one wildcard is keeping the government (can they do both before the end of next week questions. >> i'm interested in tax cuts. >> you are the guy we come to for the nuts and bolts of how legislation is made, how it moves through congress. you are nuts and bolts guy. them and ask a different question. as you observe things from the center of the action, do you think we, america, will we ever get used to president trump and his very abrupt and abrasive style? >> this is a question that chuck schumer, the democratic leader fielded a few moments ago. he said one of the reasons why there is a performance in alabama last night is because of president trump. this just wasn't about roy moore. he said there will be many more alabama is down the line. i talked to senator my ground is from south dakota and he was being asked about the tweet that the president sent out about the senator from new york and he said we should pay attention to hi