i urge my colleagues on this side of the aisle to vote no this schumer this schumer amendment made sense. i think that this is a bridge too far. >> we spent days and nights trying to get both houses together on the most important legislation of this administration this year. so this is important stuff command i have no doubt that we can handle it. you know we find. the clerk will call the roll. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] .. >> which is basically an amendment that in essence says no fast track for human traffickers. human trafficking in the terms of forced labor, marriage and the exploytation is a huge issue in our time. five million children are involved in this and it is estimated to profit $150 billion making it the second largest source of income. we should not offer our services to countries that fail to act on this. our state department puts on its tier three those countries that don't meet minimum national standards and are not making efforts to do so. my amendment says we cannot provide fast track to countries on tier three. there are 20 countries, and malasia is a party

some saying that schumer -- with schumer stepping into the top spot the second leadership spot shouldlot of intrigue a lot of tension here. we have our panel here in new york eleanor clift, adolfo franka. sahil, if you could take us through the personal elementis because i think that's what makes this so fascinating. schumer and durbin lived together over 20 years. there was a long time where durbin was the undisputed number two on the democratic side. he's going to be the guy who replaces harry reid. how did chuck schumer maneuver his way past dick durbin? >> it's true these two have feuded for years privately. they have lived together and been close in various ways but there's always a little tension because schumer's ambitions are clear. he's wanted to be the democratic leader for a while and he's pulled this off. the reason he's pulled this off as i understand it is that he has a knack for working with members directly he has a knack for sticking up for them. he has a way of building their trust and earning their loyalty and their respect in a way that durbin simply hasn't done. d

i was asked by senator schumer. he had more hair then. he asked how feel about currency manipulation. i said i think it affected trade. i believe that all along. it's not something the u.s. trade representative office typically handles. it's something done by treasury because it's in the area of currency. it's gotten to the point it's widely acknowledged. it's focus and narrow objective to ensure we're not talking about macro economic policy. it increase the u.s. trade deficit by $500 billion each year. the idea of trade just to be philosophical is we sell products to other countries. the hope is that then we use that money to buy their products and vice versa. that's balanced trade. when a country and china is the example, uses this as a way to distort trade and encourages the depreciation of their currency, you have this imbalance. we see this in terms of trade deficit. it's driven by two things. one is energy and the other is china. a lot of this goes to the currency manipulation. this is an important issue. we ought to address it and

schumer has positioned himself well. one thing is if they pass this bill, obama will veto it, then they'll have to have 67 votes in the senate. i'm not sure they can do that. >> it makes it hard -- and the senate rejects it. >> definitely a complication. i think if schumer gets behind it, he gets out there and lobbies for it, they could get 67 votes. they'll have the republican support. that's a free pass card for any democrat that wants to break with the wouts. >> there's a lot of people out there, the people, you know, durbin, a lot of these people represent large communities that care about -- not just the evangelical right, but the jewish community wants a deal that will protect the country. >> and for all we know, that will come out. >> i think the test of time is -- nobody is going to put their name on something that will not work. again envelope chamberlain is the role model. >> of course the administration is not going to let the details out until they think they have a deal with iran. we have to wait just a minu

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but let's get to senator schumer. senator schumer, thanks for coming on tonight. we had the president on yesterday, as you know. he said he wanted me to go to you. i can't explain chuck schumer's position on this. ask him. and i was saying that you have always represented a financial center of new york, which is generally pro trade. but you also have to worry about upstate new york which is an old industrial area. what it is in your constituency that you're particularly concerned about with regard to the pacific trade deal? >> well, it goes way beyond my constituent circumstances chris. as you know, i have said this on your show. the greatest problem america faces is the decline of middle class incomes. and to me, trade agreements while they may increase corporate profits and they may even increase gdp, we help middle class incomes to decline. and it's obvious why. the studies have shown it. it's obvious why, because of these trade agreements are labor moves. companies move labor to the lowest cost markets. i used to support these agreements. in the congress i los

josh barro how does the schumer factor complicate things for the president? >> it's a negative event for the white house. but in order for congress to prevent the implementation of this bill there would have to be several steps. it would have to pass through the senate the president would have to presumably veto it. but it just establishes the bill. then congress would have to disapprove any agreement if they were going to stop it. so you could have a substantial number of democrats to line up in congress and say congress should have this power, then when faced with the actual terms of the agreement, they might not choose to exercise that option. corker says he believes this strengthens the president's hand. it allows the president to say, gee, i can't offer that up because my congress will not agree to it. i don't know if that's correct analysis of it but it does demonstrate the fact that mere passage of the corker deal does not mean the death of an iran deal. >> looking at chuck schumer's role in particular, since he is the leader in waiting now of the demo

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schumer. mr. schumer yes. miss cantwell. miss cant quel no. mr. nelson. mr. nelson no. mr. machinened ez. mr. menendez aye. mr. parker. mr. brown aye. mr. bennett. mr. bennett aye. mr. casey. mr. casey aye. mr. warner. mr. warner no. mr. chairman. the chairman votes no. >> the clerk will announce the results. >> seven ayes, 19 nays. >> the amendment is defeated. does anybody else have an amendment? >> mr. chairman. >> the senator from pennsylvania. >> mr. chairman, i have good news and bad news. good news is -- >> i like the good news. i like that in advance. >> good news is i'm not offering all of my amendments. the bad news is good news for me but bad news maybe for some others. i'd ask for a voice vote on the by america amendment. let me just walk through it. this is an amendment, casey amendment -- or amendment number 203. amendment number 2. i'm trying to insist that the buy america provisions which have been in effect for decades adheres well to this agreement. so that the effect of the amendment if it were to pass and be implemented would be to remove fast track priv

i think schumer will win that battle but schumer may back the deal. >> there are a lot of democrats thoughi'm talking about getting the senate there are a lot of democrats that would like sit on their hands, that would like to not be on record on this deal. the fact that chuck schumer is doing what the president has already said hess not going to do i think is fascinating. >> i agree with you. i can't imagine senator schumer would be calling for a vote on the deal unless he's prepared in going other way. otherwise you give the president going forward. the politics of it the optics the president is going to have to defer to congress. if he doesn't he faces real problems. they've got to start -- the white house has got to start making the case around issues that people are most concerned about. i think for the president to dwell on this point about whether the iranians recognize israel is not a winner he's got to focus on whether or not inspections are going to be able to take place at any given time and that these facilities where people believe uranium is going to be enriched if he focuses

senator schumer. senator schumer: thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for holding this discussion today. i thank our ranking member for pushing hard to get it and i want to thank both of our witnesses, mr. trumka, my belief is the greatest problem america faces is the decline of middle class incomes. it's harder to stay in the middle class. harder to gain the middle class. i know of almost no one who has tried to reverse that trend than you. thank you for your work. mr. done hue, thank you for your -- mr. donahue, thank you for your strong advocacy and leadership. we have worked together on many issues. immigration above all. but export-import infrastructure. and most important, you're from st. theresa's parish in brooklyn. it's good to have you both here. we know the administration, when they tried to sell me on t.p.p., it's almost the geopolitics that prevails over the economics. we want to keep these countries in our orb rather than china's. if there's an economic web between them and china and not us, it's hard to do that. i agree with tha

now we are hearing from chuck schumer. >> reporter: and chuck schumer as you said is significant, somebodyo is expected to take over for harry reid a leading voice on iran and obviously not with the administration would like to have heard. if this vote comes off, the sponsor, senator corker says it is going to the white house doesn't know which way it will go. a senior official told me too close to call this last week they said they could be one vote away from having enough to override the president's promised veto. at the heart of this really is the deal itself but the sanctions involved and we are learning over the last 24 hours or so that what was the division remains. we know that iran wanted those sanctions lifted unilaterally. the white house said all along that's a deal breaker, it has to be a phased rollout, but in this interim agreement made no final decision was come to so that's made a lot of democrats nervous. even though the white house thinks there are people listening to the president, they haven't gotten anyone to say i changed my mind at this. i spoke to senator ben carden

senator schumer. senator schumer: thank you, mr. chairman.hank you for holding this discussion today. i thank our ranking member for pushing hard to get t i want to thank both of our witnesses, mr. trumka, my believe is the greatest problem america faces is the decline of middle class incomes. it's harder to stay in the middle class. harder to gain the middle class. i know of almost no one who has tried to reverse that trend than you. thank you for your work. mr. done hue, thank you for your strong advocacy and leadership. we have worked together on many issues. immigration above all. but export-import infrastructure. and most important, you're from st. theresa's parish in brook lifpblet it's good to have you both here. -- in brooklyn. it's good to have you both here. we know the administration, when they tried to sell me on t.p.p., it's almost the geopolitics that prevails over the economics. we want to keep these countries in our osh rather than china's. if there it's an economic web between them and china and not us it's hard to do that. i

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senator schumer talked about doing it through a specific mechanism. i support that and i am a cosponsor of that legislation but this is within trade promotion authority's, that we look at currency. the specific measure that senator schumer talked about because it is targeted and has to do with those partners that we negotiated a free trade agreement with and we are very careful in terms of how we do it. i heard earlier from the treasury department that there is no universal standard on what constitutes or and seek manipulation. i would disagree. the imf has standards. all of these countries we are talking about are members of the imf. the wto has established practices that are prohibited. they had said that currency manipulation should be prohibited. there are standards here and our legislation follows the standard. >> the ones we went to target our protracted large-scale interventions to gain entry unfair competitive advantage in trade. so this is not monetary policy. this is not macroeconomic policy , including the united states. this is intervening

senator schumer: don't let us in on the secret. ok. just one question with regard to that quick answer. wouldn't it make sense that wherever it's feasible in some airports, it may not be, that whenever possible these employees go through a screening the way the pilots do and the flight attendants do? secretary johnson: you know, i asked myself that question and i think that a one-size-fits-all approach to every airport in this country is not -- senator schumer: i said wherever feasible. secretary johnson: atlanta is not martha's vineyard. i think that appropriate balanced way to go is random unpredictable, continuous screening of employees when they show up. the way it works in atlanta is there's a guard house at the parking lot and you show an i.d. and then you drive on through. and i think that some form of continuous random screening of those people is the appropriate way to go. senator schumer: i have two questions on the northern border. one is the peace bridge, an issue we talked about regularly. as you know is my urging customs

senator schumer: thank you, mr. secretary. mr. secretary, i was shocked aand appalled by the gug smuggling ring that operated out of atlanta georgia in which criminals abused loopholes to bring loaded weapons right on to airplanes. i know you shared my outrage when it was revealed by our d.a. in brooklyn. and you quickly acted in ordering a top to bottom review. can you provide an update in the security of our airports regarding t.s.a. activities, what canges can we expect how long can it take? question one. i have a bunch of questions. i'm trying to move through these quick lease. and how can they be held accountable for the security at the nation's airports? secretary johnson: good question. senator, you said you appreciated my candor at these hearings. so i have made a public fact of the record number of firearms seized by t.s.a. last year so -- at screening points in carry-on luggage. you can imagine my reaction when i found out that someone's bringing loaded weapons in the overhead compartments of commercial airplanes. so i w

that is what chuck schumer wants. you hahave a rare moment here.er is endorsing the e policy of the democratic leader inin the senate. rebecca: you are wearing a boot on your legrom stress fracture, but people think it is because i kick you under the table when i disagree with you. josh we ly have 30 seconds. we want to talk about economic rerecovery. one of the issues it is coming down to, housing is one funny mental issue. you say when people have the rent out parts of their home to rent the mortgage -- pay the mortgage, it's not a good thing. guest: incomes have not kept pace with housing prices. we are starting to see that in particular in the d.c. area. rebecca: thehe job market is picking up again, oil prices are low, butonsumer confidence is lousy. ththe consumer price index is not goodod news. now people are saying, was that a one-off oror are we going toee recovevery. gues we will have a second-quarter recovery, but it will not be as robust as the federal reserve hoped. inflation is starting to pick up again, so they will be betweeeen a ro

schumer, mr. schumer, aye. mr. bennett, mr. mccain, no. okay so there you go. a couple of jay votes followed by a no from senator john mccain. libby casey is following this for us i guess that's to be expected that senator mccain would vote no, but i guess the question i asked you is about to be answered, libby are the votes there for this? >> it does look like they are. we have seen five republicans vote in the affirmative so far, you can see this is on going, roll call right now but the key number was five republicans who join with democrats and independents. she needs 50 votes technically, if it is a tie joe biden would break that by voting for her but the white house would like to see her get more than that, of course. so as long as all the democrats are present and accounted for and cast a vote yes, this is looking good for her, i have to tell you we are hearing reports that members of the congressional black caucus, on the house side are watching this vote, also members of loretta lynch's family. a lot view this -- but important for the african-american c

senator schumer i want to make it clear that i believe this is a serious issue. and that i don't think it should be part of this agreement which has been very very fast id yusly worked out, i am willing to work hearings and do appropriate work after we pass this bill if we can get this passed with everybody's attention. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'm always struck when you two gentlemen are before the committee that there are many things that you actually agree on and workforce training and xm back seem to be two of those, do i have that right? >> yes. >> you're both supportive of like a apprentice programs for job training? >> we don't have enough of them. the private sector spends something in the area of $60 billion a year on this. the public sector rich and i have talked about this and the bill that will have to be a bill that on job training and trade adjustment assistance to follow all of these trade deals but we really believe that has to be thought out more. we're doing old things in job training. we can do new things to train people for new industries b

schumer: thank you madam president. i rise today to discuss the nomination of loretta lynch a proud new yorker and soon to be attorney general of the united states of america. born in north carolina, her father was a fourth-generation baptist minister a man who grew up in the segregated south and her mother picked cotton when she was a girl so her daughter would never have to. well their daughter grew up to be one of the keenest legal minds our country has to offer someone who has excelled at every stage of her education and her career. while cultivating a reputation well deserved, as someone who is level-headed fair, judicious and eminently likable. madam president, if there's an american dream story loretta lynch is it. and still despite her intellectual and career achievements miss lynch has always been a nose-to-the-grindstone type, rarely seeking acclaim only a job well done. throughout her career, she's had a yearning to serve the public which began when she took a 75% pay cut to join the eastern district as a pro

he has not swayed chuck schumer. are the other prominent supporters within the democratic party of fast-track authority like this? >> there are several centrist democrats who are strong on free trade. mark warner and michael bennet of colorado. you have to get to 60 in the senate. are there six democrats who will be willing to join the president and republicans on this. it's really good he will get that number. in the house, the people to watch our nancy pelosi ends any lawyer -- steny hoyer. if they go the other direction, the president has some problems. erik: he doesn't need those democratic colleagues for reelection support. matt: of a higher for hillary clinton may make the elizabeth warren way of the party happy and it's a bloomberg exclusive. erik: welcome to the yearbook aim. here he is. he works in the technology world and he graduated in 1983. i think i reckon ties that be speckled young man. you can tweet us your guesses. remember, you can't just get a name. we want added value. tell us something about thi

schumer say yes. senator brown, you are next. >> this is amendment number 17 striking the investing stake. it strikes language that refers to investor state dispute settlement which provides for an extra way for corporations to sue government for regulating or passing laws. corporations in one country suing a government in another country for a health and safety law or some law they have chosen to pass even when their courts upheld it. state, local and federal governments should not have to look over their shoulder at every issue every time they decide to pass a public health measure or deny a permit for environmental reasons. that is why i oppose investor stake. the argument is to insure american investors have adequate protection so our goal should be to improve the legal system with our trading partners so they can develop their own property rights and strengthen their institutions. we seek to improve institutions and raise standards in other areas like labor. but in the legal system we are setting

senator schumer has signed on the corker billleader signed on the corker bill saying wait a minute, we want a say. you say that's not the right way the deal should go down. >> well, i think there are a lot of democrats who believe congress should have a role in approving of this agreement, and in this case, nearly all the republicans in the senate agree with senator corker who pushed the bill forward to make sure the senate has a role. i believe the republicans will get enough democrats to make it veto proof, 13 democrats have to join the 54 senators. but then the question is if a final agreement is reached on june 30th will congress approve that agreement? i think that's closer. i think ultimately president obama will get the agreement passed. >> before i go to matt, david, you think if the 13 or 14 democrats join with the republicans and have a veto you think the president should veto a bill put on his desk that says give congress a shot at looking at this? >> well, i think that's up to the president. if the president wants to make this deal happen, part of putting the pressure on co

tom: what would you say to senator schumer this morning? he is a 1940's, 1970's mode whatever. >> it is global. that is the only way it has to work. we have to make these changes because we have to compete in the marketplace overall. brendan: what has changed to allow this to happen? >> i don't know what happened but it did happen. it is probably because this is good for the country. we need to be more competitive. brendan: there has always been the argument that trade is good for everybody overall and there has always been the resistance from unions. it is an ancient dance, as tom described it. the unions to not have the power they used to. the argument you are advancing his winning the day. what i can't figure out is what has shifted in the last five years? >> may be something in the politics that is behind the scenes to bring the country back to more normalcy. i am hoping that is the case. brendan: nothing has changed in the arguments. >> nothing has changed. it is a repeated game that is being played. tom: i want to turn you to twitter

chuck schumer the heir-apparent to harry reid said he's skeptical about it. and here's what he needs to get on board. thee thinks there is no teeth on the deal, that all the countrieses can manipulate their currency and increase trade in their direction. schumer wantes more currency manipulation protections displiefl in the blink of an eye the president came out with a statement supporting this agreement today. what the is significant of a white house endorsement? >> i think it's huge. we knew the president liked this, but what was interesting in the statement, gwen, is he went out of his way to say i care about american workers. i think this is good for american works. he knows this is a problem for him on the left with unions. >> sreenivasan: and he can can say we're working on it. >> this is huge for the trade rep that has been working on this for a long time. and also a trade deal in europe in the works as well. >> ifill: lisa desjardins as usual, you go behind the scoons for us, thank you. >> i love it, thank you. >> woodruff: there was an important and

chuck schumer put out a statement and unlike what we were used to from senator schumer, not a verbosetwo sentences. praising kerry for working hard and saying i'll take a look. >> you say a lot this week, republicans against the deal. >> all unified. >> democratic -- murphy was enthusiastic just now, but hillary clinton, schumer, a lot of democrats, i'll look at the details. one thing about menendez is that he's not going to be a ranking member anymore of the committee. that does matter when the hearings start. when you have ben cardman, much less hawkish than menendez, they're very opposed to the president's views. >> if i'm bob corker, i'm trying recruit tim kaine to become the sponsor. >> going into the conspiracy theory for a minute, there is a republican governor of new jersey. so if he were to leave, would a republican be picked to replace him? >> temporary. >> but still important. >> will we have a new jersey senator serve a full successive term. >> they believe in giving everyone a chance. >> fair enough. before we go. i tell you, your colleague over at "the new york times," t

the other question i have is sender chuck schumer of new york has come out in favor of open primaries of some sort. >> sure. >> i don't mind addressing that. earlier, i mentioned a need to simplify. i don't think that means top two has to be the ultimate decision. i think we should have other systems and we see if they work. our lawsuit, we had an oral argument on tuesday. we had an amicus brief explaining different systems. what we need is a discussion about the electoral process itself and to go into the discussion knowing that none of us have the right answer or the best solution because very few solutions have been tried. how would we know? >> an example, the louisiana's us system, where everyone goes to the november ballot. if it is a legislature, you have more than one person winning. if you are electing people to the state legislator, instead of one see, you may have three. everyone would vote a rank choice ballot. that is a statutory change. that is an example of how they fit together. >> a question on the schumer campaign that the gentleman asked, yes senator schumer wrote ,

senator schumer wrote an editorial punished during the summer which came out very vocally and strongly in support of the top to open primaries, and he never said another word. we decided let's remind him this is the position he took. there has been a campaign run in new york over the last several months where thousands of new yorkers are signing on to a letter to senator schumer calling on him not only to lead the effort to bring the primaries to new york, but in particular to have the democratic party make a decision to open its primaries in new york to all independent voters, something senator schumer is in a position to do because the party could do that without having to go to the legislature or any such thing. how many signatures? over 7000 signatures. there you go. people can sign at the open primaries table. please do on the way out. >> the congressional lobbying of the new york delegation. >> there has been a series of meetings to push them to follow the lead of their senior democrat leader with regards to the top two issues. we continue to push the issue from the bottom up. >>

. >> in terms of women's leadership in the senate, it seems like senator schumer is going to be releasingemocratic leader and others have played leaders over time, would it change to have a woman as senate majority or minority leader? >> i'm so happy, gratified that we have women who lead the committees. feinstein, works, patty murray, budget. maria cantwell, small business. on and on with the women who are just so dynamic and prior to mccullski and i comes here, the answer is question. the country is ready for a woman to be president of the united states and of course the senate's ready for a woman being -- it's just a question of time until they will replace reid and schumer, there will be leaders that come from the ranks of women who serve so adequately here in the senate. >> in terms of -- i guess in terms of women and men being different and female and male senators havinging different styles, you said something to my colleague john harwood about john mccain. senator john mccain, i told john harwood, had threatened to kirk the bleep out of you. was john mccain actually threatening to

of example an example of how they ought to be put together spent on the question about the chuck schumer campaign that judgment as to yes senator schumer wrote an editorial was published in "the new york times" during the summer which came out very very vocally and strongly in support of top two open primaries anthony never said another word. [laughter] so we decided in our new york operation decided, well let's remind them that this is the position that he took. so there's been a campaign that's been run in new york, now over the last several months, where thousands and thousands of new yorkers are signing on to a letter to senator schumer calling on him not only to leave the effort to bring top to open primaries to new york but now in particular to the democratic party make the decision to open its presidential primaries in new york to all independent voters and something that senator schumer is actually in a position to do because the party to do that without having to go through the legislature or any such thing. how many signatures have been -- >> just over 7000. >> over 7000 signat

that's a statutory change. >> on the question about the schumer campaign yes, senator schumer wrote an editorial published in the new york times during the summer which came out very vocally and strongly in support of top to open primaries and then he never said another word. [laughter] our new york operation decided let's remind him this is the position he took. there has in a campaign that has been run in new york over the last several months were thousands and thousands of new yorkers are signing on to a letter to senator schumer, calling on him not only to lead the effort to bring top to open primaries to new york but to have the democratic party make the decision to open its presidential primaries in new york to all independent voters something senator schumer is actually in a position to do because the party could do that without having to go through the legislature. how many signatures? over 7000 signatures will stop people can sign at the open primaries table. there has been a series of meetings with the congressional delegation of new york. we continue to push that issue from

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chuck schumer: all evidence i have seen is that this hurts middle-class incomes. i can't before it in that regard. emily: president obama says the transpacific partnership would protect american jobs and open markets for u.s. companies. the ceo of airbus is defending pilots in the cockpit even after the deliberate crash of an a320 in the french alps last month. he says pilots should not be replaced by fully automated systems because they make flying safer. he says even when it is technically possible to take a human out of the cockpit, that step should not be taken. the international space station got a coffee upgrade. a spaceship arrived today with more than 4000 pounds of supplies, including the world's first espresso machine designed for space. astronauts used giant robotic arms to capture the capsule. in the meantime spacex released this new video of the rocket that helped bring that capsule. the booster can be seen landing on a platform then tipping over in flames. we will be back with more. emily: this is "bloomberg west." i am emily chang. as ibm races to m

like schumers.ck schumer, the us senator from new york will be having -- she can tap into his fund-raising database to get to that number. so that's what she has. she'll have very, very powerful forces pushing her. >> doesn't she need wall street? charlie: she does. we shouldn't poinwe should point hillary has close ties with major banks, major hedge funds and equity funds. look at her top four guys. this is off the top of my head, but the four people that i think she's closest to on wall street. you got to list lloyd blankfein, the ceo of goldman sachs. larry fink, the chairman and ceo of blackrock. tom nice. and hamilton tony james. that doesn't look like him. >> it's a logo. charlie: whatever that is. but he's the number one guy at blackrock. tony is the resident democrat. when are her four top guys. blackstone is a (?) private equity firm. blackrock is the biggest money management firm in the world. goldman sachs is goldman sachs. and morgan stanley the big investment bank. that's a pretty formi

i have to thank senator schumer and senator leahy. thank you so much for being here. thank you for your support not just today but over the years and doing what i thought was impossible, making the senate a welcoming place for me and my family. thank you so much. thanks to my wonderful family. we are quite the force multiplier. many of you have come to know my father to this process. he has been in every hearing and every vote. it did not just start now. i remember looking up and seeing him in the gallery at my first trial. he was there for everyone. he has encouraged me in all things, even when my choices were not ones he would have made for me. he has been the best of fathers and i thank him. [applause] i hope you know that without him, i would not be standing here before you today having just been sworn in as the 83rd attorney general of the united states of america, just one week after his 83rd birthday. [applause] my mother could not be here today, but she is never far from my thoughts here it she grew up in a world where she was told what she could not do. or wh

schumer. awe. mr. schumer. awe. stab know. mr. parker. mr. brown. by proxy. awe. and mr. warner. awe. and mr. chairman. mr. roberts. will announce the vote. mr. chairman. 18 ideas. 8 nays. yeah. mr. chairman. i would like to change my vote to no. want to change the outcome? no. it will not. my understanding is that it was a final passage. yeah. when you asked if there was further amendments. talking about. enjoying this so much. didn't want to forego the possibility here. all right. we will move along here. and considering the chairman. and a bill to extent african growth opportunity. and the generalized preferences and the duty treatment program for haiti. and for other purposes. considering legislation extenting and first let me say that during months of hard work and toughing inations ranking numbers were able to reach agreement on the bill with the ways and means committee chairman ryan. and ranking member 11 the result of the legislation to be considered in the house. and i hope that we can pass that into law for a short order. and i hope that the member left side support it

and then the other question i have is senator chuck schumer of new york has come out in favor of open primaries of some sort. and i would appreciate comments on both of those questions. >> sure. yeah. >> i don't mind addressing that one. because earlier i had mentioned the need to simplify. i don't mean that top two has to be the ultimate decision. i think that we should have other systems that are tried and that we see if they work. our lawsuit that we have oral argument on tuesday. in fact, we had a great amicus brief offered by fair vote explaining different systems. i think what we need at the core is a discussion of about the electoral process itself and go into that discussion knowing that none of us have the right answer to the best solution because frankly very few solutions have been even tried so how would we know? >> and as an example, rank choice voting like the louisiana system, which is where everyone goes to the november ballot, you could use a rank choice ballot in that november ballot. and then if it was multiseat if it was a legislature, you'd have more than one pers

schumer jabbed the white house on its iran nuclear framework saying he strongly believes congress should have the right to disapprove any agreement. meanwhile, as the president tries to generate momentum for a transpacific partnership trade deal massachusetts democrat senator elizabeth warren says it should raise alarm bells for everyone and has accused the administration of lacking transparency. >> they refused to make the text of the trade agreement public. if they are sure they have fixed this problem, then they need to show up the new provisions not wave their hands around and just say don't worry. >> senator warren occupies a pig space in the democratic party right now. she clearly is looked to as the leader of the most liberal, the most progressive faction. they traditionally have been very skeptical trade deals. might feel freer to do it with the presidential clock ticking down. >> reporter: today, massachusetts freshman congressman seth molten said lawmakers should hold elections to determine committee chairs instead of following a seniority-based process it is a time of transiti

we saw harry reid endorse chuck schumer and what is going on behind the scenes?uest: this site has started because senator durbin and his staff say that chuck schumer when harry reid stepped out, said he would support the durbin in keeping the current position. they say that did not happen. you rarely see these interparty disputes spill out into the public which is what makes it fascinating. kind of in the middle is patty murray, senator from washington state who is maybe looking at durbin's job. the rumor was that chuck schumer was going to endorse murray even though it was a he said, she said, who said. i think the most notable thing about this is that you do not see these disputes and this does not usually happen. chuck schumer and dick durbin lived together for 22 years, so this is a personal fight. it is pretty nasty of their right now. we will see what happens as this plays out going forward. host: bill from fort pierce, florida. go ahead. caller: good morning. the reason for my call is that the law that was passed in indiana -- usually when the law passes,