. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome roy blunt, orrin hatch, mitch mcconnell, paul ryan, george w. bush, and dick cheney. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please and stand for the presentation of the colors by the u.s. armed forces colorguard, the singing of the national anthem, and the retiring of the colors. ♪ oh say can you see by the dawn's early light what's a probably we hailed at whotwilight's last gleaming is broad stripes and bright stars fight, overperilous the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air nightroof through the that our flag was still there o, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave freethe land of the brave? ♪ome of the ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please stand as the chaplain of the u.s. senate, barry black, gives the invocation. >> let us pray. eternal god, our refuge and strength. as we begin this unveiling ceremony of the marble bust of vice president dick cheney, who we think you for his service to you, and country. remembering the many years he labored in the political arena, we are gra

. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome roy blunt, orrin hatch, mitch mcconnell, paul ryan, georgedick cheney. [applause]

. >> ladies and gentlemen, please , orrin hatch,unt , paul ryan,ell george w. bush, and dick cheney. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please and stand for the presentation of the colors by the u.s. armed forces colorguard, the singing of the national anthem, and the retiring of the colors. ♪ >> present arms. ♪ ♪ pleasees and gentlemen, stand as the chaplain of the u.s. senate, barry black, gives the invocation. >> let us pray. refuge and, our strength. this unveiling ceremony of the marble bust of , whopresident dick cheney we think you for his service to you, and country. remembering the many years he arena, in the political we are grateful for your gifts of people who are passionate about keeping this nation strong. bless and keep vice president cheney and his loved inspirationeceive from his contributions, remind power, we areour to overcome the difficulties that trouble our nation and world. lord, strengthen our commitment to you and country by turning our thoughts toward hope, our hearts toward justice, and our works of peace. ,e pray in your sovereign

senate president pro tempore, orrin hatch --. speaker of the house of representatives, paul ryan. president, george w. bush. and vice president, dick cheney. [applause] [applause] [indistinct chatter] >> ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the presentation of the colors by the united states armed forces color guard, the singing of our national anthem, and the retiring of our colors. >> ♪ >> halt. >> ♪ o say can you see ♪ by the dawn's early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight over the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets' red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there star-spangledt banner yet wave the land of the free and the home of the brave ♪ >> halt. forward. >> ♪ gentlemen, please stand as the chaplain of the united states senate, dr. black, gives the invitation. -- invocation. >> let us pray. refuge and, our strength, as we begin this unveiling ceremony of the marble bust of vice president take cheney, -- d

(sot: senator orrin hatch/ (r) utah :58-1:01) "i mean in all honesty my greatest fear is more attacks and more dead americans." as investigators dig for clues in the couples' smashed phones and hard drives, we're also learning there may have been other targets: this california a gh school farook inspected for work... or another building or public gathering. lawmakers are expected to learn homeland security and national counterterrorism center. also here: the state department is supporting congress' attempt to overhaul the visa waiver program. anyone traveling here from who's been to syria, iraq, iran, syria or sudan in the last five years would be required to get a visa. i'm tracie potts in washington, now back to you. >> dozens of people converged on new york city hall yesterday to rally against donald trump in his own home town. city lawmakers and faith leaders came together to denounce trump's proposal to ban muslims from the u-s. new york's city council speaker sent a letter to community leaders, urging them to unite to oppose trump. have commented on the protest. trump's comments

as i've grown fond of saying, if we were living in the united states of orrin hatch, this legislation would look a lot different. though it pains me to admit it sometimes, that's not where we live. here in the real world, any undertaking wornl thest i worths going to require compromise. i know i say that a lot. this is a good bill, period. anyone, if they are so inclined, would cling to the parts they don't like and make excuses to vote "no." but taken as a whole, both parties should be able to support the overall package we've put together and without question every one of us should welcome the positive impact this bill will have on our economy and future legislative efforts here in the congress. so i urge all of my colleagues to support the path act and provide real tax relief at this critical time. now, before i close, mr. president, i just have to note that a lot of work has gone theinto this legislation. every provision of this bill has had a number of champions in congress who have worked for years to preserve and enhance these provisions in the hopes of eventually making them p

think mcconnell and orrin hatch do not like some of the provisions.he tobacco industry are unhappy with some of those provisions, but politically, this is about ron portman, a free trader who cares deeply about the issue, but in a tough race in ohio does not want to have to vote on that before the election, and i think that is what mitch mcconnell is doing here. 2017, theyt until are saying the next president will see in deep trouble, but they could do it in a lame-duck session. for a lot of republican senator's who are up for reelection, it's a tough vote in . lot of those places i think mcconnell is trying to move anything off the calendar here that will cause vulnerable republicans in purple states to have to take a vote that might be unpopular with centrist voters or swing voters or independent voters. al: i agree, and the one it affects most is portman who could not possibly vote against it because of his pencils, but it would be hard in ohio. i do agree it is about politics. it really does augur poorly for any possibility of legislating in 2016.

i came in and our friend orrin hatch, there was a guy from south carolina who got elected -- jesse helms. i kept in touch with his wife. i will remember walking on the floor when i would show up. i did not particularly want to be in the senate and that time. i wound up once a week at the office of the majority leader. he would give me, every tuesday, assignments. i had just turned 30. i thought that is what happened. leaders give assignments for real. i realized after the fact he was just taking my pulse. what i had been through, i said i would only stay six months. a lot of people wish i had kept that commitment. one day i walked in and the men later became my friend jesse helms -- i had to go to my meeting with the leader. i guess i looked upset. what's the matter, i went on to really go after jesse. why would he not help, i went on and on. i never forget what he said to me. he said joe, what would you say if i told you that in 1969 sitting in the living room in raleigh before christmas there was an advertisement in the observer. as a young man said all he wanted for christmas with som

there's not a finer gentleman in the senate than orrin hatch. and i apologize for reading over my notes. i appreciate very much your friendship and your leadership. mr. hatch: i thank the leader, and i feel the same way towards him. he and i, we are friends and we're going to continue to be dear friends despite our differences. madam president, i ask that my remarks be placed in the appropriate place in the record, probably right before the vote. the presiding officer: without objection. hatch hatch i rise today to -- mr. hatch: i rise to discuss the state of the united states senate. in my 39 years of service in this body has given me an increasingly unique vantage point to reflect upon this institution. over the years i've seen the senate both at its best, rising to meet the lofty expectations of the framers and unfortunately seen it at its worst. last year i came to the floor to speak about what i viewed as the abuse of the senate and this body fell into great dysfunction. in addition to identifying these abuses i did my best to lay out a vis

how long has orrin hatch and his counterpart kevin brady in the ways and means committee, how long havethey been working on putting this tax package together? >> i think it's fair to say republicans in general in congress have been working on a plan like this for the better part of a year and a half. remember almost two years ago a big, big tax reform plan came out but it did not go anywhere in congress, frankly, but it laid the road map for something like this so republicans pivoted and decided to chip away and let's do piece by piece elements of it and they made very popular but often temporary tax breaks permanent in this package that's going to get voted on later today. >> that $622 billion figure, that's how much it's going to cost? add to the deficit over a period of time or so. who comes out as winners and losers? >> a lot of households will feel a positive impact from this. they don't have to think some popular tax credits that families get, talking about the earned income tax credit, the child tax credit, something else called the american opportunity tax credit. these were set

time ago from who is been the leader of the senate, who is a-- i came in and remember our friend orrin hatch, remember that there was a guy from south carolina that got elected, jesse helms and actually became a friend. i kept in touch with his wife who just died about a month ago. i remember walking on the floor and i would show up-- i didn't particularly want to be in the senate at that time and i would show up once a week at the office of the majority leader and he would give me every tuesday, mr. justice, i would get an assignment and i had just turned the 30 and i thought that was what had happened. i thought they gave assignments for real, so naÏve i was. i realized after the fact that he was just taken my pulse because of what i had been through and i said i would only stay six months. a lot of people wish i had kept that commitment. [laughter] >> one day i walked in and men that later became my friend, jesse helms was with bob dole and ted kennedy. i had to go to my meeting with the leader and i went in and i guess i looked upset and i asked the question of him-- he looked at me and

chairman of the senate committee on rules and administration, roy blunt; senate president pro tempore, orrin hatchte majority leader, mitch mcconnell; speaker of the house of representatives, paul d. ryan; president george w. bush and vice president dick cheney. [cheers and applause] [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the presentation of the colors by the united states armed forces color guard, the singing of our national anthem and the retiring of the colors. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ o say can you see by the dawn's early light -- ♪ what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? ♪ whose broad stripes and bright stars, new the perilous fight -- ♪ or the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming! ♪ and the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air -- ♪ gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. ♪ o say does that star-spangled banner yet wave -- ♪ o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave ♪ >> [inaudible] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please stand as the chaplain of the united states senate, dr. barry black, gives the invocation. >> let us pray.

late monday night and into yesterday afternoon between three leading ,epublicans, chuck grassley orrin hatch lisa murkowski, all heads of committees who deal with puerto rico and one way or another. and also chuck schumer and maria cantwell. it broke down around noon yesterday. grassley was insisting he did not want to extend bankruptcy protections to puerto rico. the result is there is going to be a default in two weeks. is government of puerto rico going to roil the bond market of the u.s.. the only weapon the governor has left and say i'm not going to pay the debt and let wall street deal with the consequences. amy: i encourage people to see your speech that we played on thanksgiving. you can go to democracynow.org on puerto rico's debt crisis. we will continue to follow this. juan: the nine leading republican presidential candidates squared off last night in las vegas at the venetian casino, owned by republican billionaire backer sheldon adelson. sheldon adelson and donald trump held a private meeting before the event. it was the first debate since trump shook up the race by proposing to

the who, it's mississippi senator thad coch n cochran, backing jeb bush for president, joining orrin hatchhe two longest serving senate republicans. doesn't get any more establishment than that, does it? let's go to the what, a half million dollar ad buy for ben carson. he's got tons of cash. this new ads are showing people sharing their life experiences, they aim to counter doom and gloom style of politics. here's the where, off the coast of maine where the u.s. navy's biggest and most extensive destroyer set sail for the first time. the ship's captain is james kirk, but the boat's name is the uss zumwalt, not enterprise. to the when. february 1st, iowa caucus day, but some folks won't have to be there in person. that's right. for the first time ever, iowa plans to have a telecaucus, over the phone, open to military members out of state. there's been a lot of complaints about the caucus process, that it keeps people out. now the why. millenials have taken over everything. bloomberg says baby boomers have taken over as the largest share of the voting population. 3 in 10 of voting age ameri

, i'd like to acknowledge the impressive work of the chairman of the finance committee, senator orrin hatch, on the tax side of this issue. permanent reform is never going to be easy to come by, but this thoughtful legislator, senator hatch, never gave up and he and his staff continue to work on this issue for a very, very long time. the result is a significant accomplishment for american families and the american economy, and i can't thank senator hatch enough. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. reid: before the republican leader leaves the floor, i want to say a few things. in the years i've served in public office, i really brush aside most press. i don't let it bother me. but once in a while something comes along that does, and there was an article in one of the hill newspapers this day that really troubled me. "bad blood: reid-mcconnell relationship hits new low." mr. president, i have a difficult job, and so does he. we both have done our respective jobs. we started out in leadership positions here doing different things. but when we first start

legislation that, again, cleared the senate with the great help of senator orrin hatch.t bill built upon the excellent work of our distinguished late colleague bill young of florida to facilitate bone marrow transplants and created a brand new national umbilical cord blood donation and transplantation program. you know, dr. jeffrey shell, the c.e.o. of nmbp, be the match, has noted for many diseases, including blood cansors and sickle crel anemia disease, cellular therapy is the best hope for a cure as he told chairman pitts in his committee that patient population rising most quickly is the elderly population, growing by double digits every year and the reason for that is that the medical conditions for which transplant is often the only cure tend to occur in older populations of diseases ike acute leukemia and mylofibrosis, closed quote. it has turned medical waste, postbirth umbilical cords, treating more than 70 diseases, some say as many as 80, including leukemia, limb phonea and sickle cell anemia. let me conclude by saying -- lymphoma and sickle cell anemia. let m

next, orrin hatch on the extension of the expiring tax provisions. he indicated for the agreement citing the benefits of the new tax policy for businesses and individuals. pro tempore. mr. hatch: i ask that the quorum call be dis missed. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. hatch: i also ask that i be permitted to complete two sets of remarks here. last night after months of discussion and several weeks of intense negotiations bipartisan leaders from both the house and senate reached an agreement on both the substance and a procedural path forward for legislation that will provide millions of american families and businesses with much-needed tax relief and set the stage for comprehensive tax reform in the future. the bill which we're calling the protecting americans from tax hikes, or path, act of 2015 would make a number of temporary tax provisions permanent, putting an end to the repeated tax extenders exercise that has plagued congress for decades and giving certain -- giving greater certainty to u.s. taxpayers across the board. there are

. >> ladies and gentlemen, please , orrin hatch,unt , paul ryan,ell george w. bush, and dick cheney. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please and stand for the presentation of the colors by the u.s. armed forces colorguard, the singing of the national anthem, and the retiring of the colors. ♪ >> present arms. ♪ ♪ pleasees and gentlemen, stand as the chaplain of the u.s. senate, barry black, gives the invocation. >> let us pray. refuge and, our strength. this unveiling ceremony of the marble bust of , whopresident dick cheney we think you for his service to you, and country. remembering the many years he arena, in the political we are grateful for your gifts of people who are passionate about keeping this nation strong. bless and keep vice president cheney and his loved inspirationeceive from his contributions, remind power, we areour to overcome the difficulties that trouble our nation and world. lord, strengthen our commitment to you and country by turning our thoughts toward hope, our hearts toward justice, and our works of peace. ,e pray in your sovereign

as i've grown fond of saying, if we were living in the united states of orrin hatch, this legislation would look a lot different. though it pains me to admit it sometimes, that's not where we live. here in the real world, any undertaking wornl thest i worths going to require compromise. i know i say that a lot. this is a good bill, period. anyone, if they are so inclined, would cling to the parts they don't like and make excuses to vote "no." but taken as a whole, both parties should be able to support the overall package we've put together and without question every one of us should welcome the positive impact this bill will have on our economy and future legislative efforts here in the congress. so i urge all of my colleagues to support the path act and provide real tax relief at this critical time. now, before i close, mr. president, i just have to note that a lot of work has gone theinto this legislation. every provision of this bill has had a number of champions in congress who have worked for years to preserve and enhance these provisions in the hopes of eventually making them p