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years ago, a center named robert byrd wrote a book -- senator called robert byrd wrote a book called losing america. it predicted the fiasco that is happening in washington today. >> the republicans are out of touch with the american people. the american people do not have trust funds to lead to their children. >> who is the book by? >> you need to get a grip. the republican party needs to get a grip. senacca falls. >> i am an independent. i am tired of the bickering and the fighting. it is definitely a spending problem and not a revenue problem. the rest of us have to live within our means and it is time the government live within its means. if we are spending billions of dollars overseas, we need to bring our troops home and let them start taking care of our borders and kicking out the illegal immigrants and everybody in our country sucking up our money that could go to senior citizens and other people who are legal citizens and could use the money. i just think that the debt crisis and the debt ceiling should not be raised at all because we are already at $14 trillion in debt. our

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work together, the two men understand the rules of the united states senate in the only way that robert byrd knew them. mcconnell and biden, they've talked twice in the last couple hours, they are talking about triggers oath. mcconnell's looking for a guarantee on no tax hikes. doesn't want taxes to be part of the trigger. what they're talking about is the particulars, sort of -- so how do you guarantee that second round of deficit reduction if the joint committee fails, which, of course, is where they've been stuck for three weeks. the president and boehner were stuck on it, reid and mcconnell were stuck on it. boehner and reid were stuck on it. this has been the sticking point for so long. now, what mcconnell does want here, there is a little bit of a game of leverage still going on, believe it or not at the last minute. reid has the leverage, he doesn't want to give it up. mcconnell wants him to give his bill up, so that -- they force more of the compromise that apparently mcconnell and biden, at least a framework of a compromise may have been agreed upon. he wants to force that to go. re

we, of course, know he replaced e great, legendary robert byrd. the people of west virginia should be happy with the peformance of joe manchin. his executive experience as governor of the state of west virginia which had an impeccable record of surpluses every year he washere. he's brought this talent to washington and has been very helpful to us all. mr. mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the republican leader. mr. mcconnell: five months ago president obama unveiled the only concrete statement he's made to date on our nation's debt crisis. continue a budget plan so preposterous, so unequal to the moment that it was rejected in the senate by a vote of 97-0. the president's response to this crisis was to pretend it didn't exist. two months later the president doubled down on his vision for a future of debt by demanding that congress raise the debt limit without any cuts to spending or a plan to rein it in. it was a total abdication of leadership, and it wasn't sustainable. so over the past several weeks the president has been doing hi

>> if robert byrd can change, maybe david duke has a shot. maybe it will be an endorsement.ible. i don't think anything is going to save pawlenty. he's four people behind the front-runner. >> pete, you changed this into a civil rights discussion here. leave it to pete to totally change the course of the conversation. pete, weigh in. >> what was the question, again? oh, right. mike huckabee's daughter has joined the tim pawlenty campaign because mike huckabee won the 2008 iowa caucuses. his daughter was part of the reason. unless she can inject some of mike huckabee's personality into pawlenty, i don't think pawlenty's got a chance. we'll see. maybe she can perform for him. >>> the president is holding a twitter town hall today. should he limit his responses to 140 characters? dana? >> i don't think that he would need to go over it. he's had jesse lee out defending white house policies for a couple weeks. he may not have to go over 140 characters. >> cornell? >> i think there's an important trend here. 62% of the electorate the first time around were under 30. this is a trend

forward and the nation forward without changing our constitution as a requirement room, i wish there robert byrd was still here. he would be on the floor with its constitution in hand and reminding people about the utility that we should show when it comes to this great document. approach this in a responsible and bipartisan way by starting with read suggestion coming together at a bipartisan basis. he is offering his measure and an olive branch or to work together for a bipartisan solution that is sensible and timely. i hope that senator mcconnell will join him. we do not want to put americans through this month after month every three-six months. we owe it to the economy in the constitution to do better. i want to thank senator reid for his leadership. we are listening to top democrats talking about how we need to find an effective solution to solve the nation's debt ceiling. we have live pictures into the kron 4 news right now. >> the fog is slowly lifting on the golden gate, louisa hodge has more. >> a similar picture, dealing with low cloud cover round the bay. we will continue that for the

we, of course, know he replaced the great, legendary robert byrd. the people of west virginia should be happy with the peformance of joe manchin. his executive experience as governor of the state of west virginia which had an impeccable record of surpluses every year he was there. he's brought this talent to washington and has been very helpful to us all. mr. mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the republican leader. mr. mcconnell: five months ago president obama unveiled the only concrete statement he's made to date on our nation's debt crisis. continue a budget plan so preposterous, so unequal to the moment that it was rejected in the senate by a vote of 97-0. the president's response to this crisis was to pretend it didn't exist. two months later the president doubled down on his vision for a future of debt by demanding that congress raise the debt limit without any cuts to spending or a plan to rein it in. it was a total abdication of leadership, and it wasn't sustainable. so over the past several weeks the president has been doing

the floor of the united states senate for my orientation in 1996, and your predecessor, senator robert byrd, would sit in that chair and tell all the new members and their spouses the history of the senate. and i sat right over here and loretta sat next to me, and at one point senator byrd said open that desk drawer in front of you and you're going to see a great senate tradition. remember how the teachers told you don't write on the desks? the senators never got the message. inside virtually every desk on this floor is the name of the senator who sat in the desk scratched in the wood by the senator at the bottom of the drawer. and so he said pull open the drawer on the desk and see whose name is in there. i pulled it open and sure enough it was john glenn right there. it was his desk that i was sitting at. i also looked next to it was paul douglas, the man that i worked for as a college intern and the man who inspired me to get started in public life. and so i have that desk today. i'm honored to have it and to add my name to the desk drawer of these two great men. i didn't realize at the

country for, this nation forward without changing our constitution as a requirement in law, i wish robert byrd were still here. he would be on that floor with his constitution in hand and remind people about humility we should show when it comes to this great document. there has to be another way, and the way to approach this in a responsible, bipartisan way is to start with majority leader id's suggestion. he has offered an olive branch to senator mcconnell to work together for a bipartisan solution that is timely and moves forward. i hope senator mcconnell will join him and hope that we can find that path forward. we did not put america through this every three, four, five, six months. we owe it to the people we represent and to the economy and to the constitution to do much better. >> thank you. i want to thank senator reid for his leadership during these difficult times. with only four days until a catastrophic defaults, the house continues to waste time. the senate cannot afford to wait on the house any longer. speaker boehner they should give it up. he throws piece after piece after piec

i don't know what robert byrd, the late senator from west virginia, would say if he were here. i think i know. i think he'd be very uneasy about the process that we've gone through this year when, through the power of the chair, the majority leader on -- has blocked legislation after legislation, has blocked us moving forward with a budget, refusing to allow the committees to move forward, refused to allow the budget even to come up last year. we're now i think 812 days without a budget in the united states senate running the largest deficits the nation has ever run. and those deficits are not transient things. they're not just going to turn around when the economy picks up a little bit. it's a systemic, deep, structural problem and we are endangering our future and we're being blocked from even being able to discuss it while people meet in secret over at the white house with the vice president and with the president and a few group of senators meet. nobody elected them but they're good people, they want to meet, that's fine. but we need to be seeing legislation, actual bills t

and i had the honor of serving with senator robert byrd, who most of us here have, and he always carried around this constitution in his pocket. so today i took a look at section 4 of the 14th amendment and do you know what it says? "the validity of the public debt of the united states shall not be questioned." and i swore to uphold this constitution. it says the validity of the public debt of the united states aougt rised by law shall not be questioned. so i'm not going to play games with this. and i'm not going to allow the public debt to become a political football. i want to show you before i leave the floor just a couch more charts -- just a couple of more charts. this is what speaker boehner said july 11. said i'm not interested in a short-term increase on the debt limit. he said our economy won't grow as long as we continue to trip it up with short-term gimmicks from washington. this is what speaker boehner said, so what does he give us, mr. president? a short-term extension of the debt limit a few months. we can't do that, even his own words he says we hurt the economy. eric cant

we, of course, know he replaced the great, legendary robert byrd. the people of west virginia should be happy with the peformance of joe manchin. his executive experience as governor of the state of west virginia which had an impeccable record of surpluses every year he was there. he's brought this talent to washington and has been very helpful to us all. mr. mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the republican leader. mr. mcconnell: five months ago president obama unveiled the only concrete statement he's made to date on our nation's debt crisis. continue a budget plan so preposterous, so unequal to the moment that it was rejected in the senate by a vote of 97-0. the president's response to this crisis was to pretend it didn't exist. two months later the president doubled down on his vision for a future of debt by demanding that congress raise the debt limit without any cuts to spending or a plan to rein it in. it was a total abdication of leadership, and it wasn't sustainable. so over the past several weeks the president has been doing

we, of course, know he replaced the great, legendary robert byrd. the people of west virginia should be happy with the peformance of joe manchin. his executive experience as governor of the state of west virginia which had an impeccable record of surpluses every year he was there. he's brought this talent to washington and has been very helpful to us all. mr. mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the republican leader. mr. mcconnell: five months ago president obama unveiled the only concrete statement he's made to date on our nation's debt crisis. continue a budget plan so preposterous, so unequal to the moment that it was rejected in the senate by a vote of 97-0. the president's response to this crisis was to pretend it didn't exist. two months later the president doubled down on his vision for a future of debt by demanding that congress raise the debt limit without any cuts to spending or a plan to rein it in. it was a total abdication of leadership, and it wasn't sustainable. so over the past several weeks the president has been doing

before the answer, i took her down the hallway of the robert byrd court house in charleston to the office of my friend judge blame michael. i said, katie, i have the fellow that will be able to give you the answer. and the judge michael in his patient, but judicious way to advise care be in response to your inquiry -- advised katie in response to her inquiry, that in his experience her pappy's job and that of all appellate judges is simply to sit in a chair and mark things up. she reported that back to merge schoolteacher, who was not at all amused. with a report of what judges really do. cady called me soon after and complained, you and judge michael got me into big trouble. she loves now that she is in high school to tell the story still. since leaving the bench, justice o'connor has been at the forefront, has been a tireless advocate for bringing the courts to the people. in her awareness initiative aimed at school children, cs.org sheg -- icivi teaches them about the courts. as children grow up, they are like many adults who are distrustful of lawyers, have contempt for the usual syst

essential air service, if i'm not mistaken, was initiated by your predecessor, senator robert c. byrd of west virginia. at the time of deregulation of airlines, a decision was made that the smaller communities across america needed a helping hand to maintain air service. we have it in illinois. over the years we have reconsidered it, amended it, changed it. it's really a shadow of what it started out to be. it's a very small program bystanders of the original program. -- by standards of the original program. there's a battle going on in the house and the senate now between republicans in the house and the democratic leadership in the senate about the future of this program. and, mr. president, i just want to say in all fairness and all honesty, for goodness sakes, to both sides, we believe you save that battle to another day. let us not jeopardize the operations of the federal aviation administration because of a squabble over an important but relatively small program. and that's what's going to happen. what we're going to hear after i make this request is an objection from the republ

if robert c. byrd was here today, sitting in that chair, he would be appalled.he would be making a speech in louder terms than i am with short, jerky sentences. he would point out that we're not doing our duty. used to be that we would have a budget. then we would have appropriations bills. and then we would have the commits of jurisdiction meet those budget demands, meet that number. and then we would debate it on the floor. members would have an opportunity to bring amendments. and that's how we worked. we don't work that way anymore. no regular order. what we do is we bring up huge bills like dodd-frank and like the health care bill, usually conducted in private. and then we're voting on it. and then the american public says have you read the bill? then they say have you read the regulations? we've got to restore regular order and restore the senate back to the senate. people are fearful. the american public is fearful today. they just -- they have a real conscientious worry that america is not the same as it used to be, that they enjoy, that they want their