schumer: mr. schumer: schumer i ask that the reading of the names be waived.out objection. mr. schumer: did i send the cloture motion to the desk? the president pro tempore: the cloture motion is at the desk. mr. schumer: i ask consent the reading of the names be waived. the president pro tempore: without objection. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to legislative session to be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: madam president, i have two asks for committees to meet during today's session of the senate, they have been approved -- they have the approval of the majority and minority. the president pro tempore: duly noted. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to consider of h. con. res. which was received from the house and is at the desk. the presiding. the president pro tempore: the clerk: . the clerk: concurrent resolution. the presiding officer: president pro tempore is there objection? mr

schumer: yes. unlike republicans, who passed the republican tax cuts on the very wealthy and the ultra big corporations, which increased the debt by $1.7 trillion, we democrats have reduced it. it's gone down in the biden years from the trump years. in the irs, we passed the first major piece of legislation -- the ira, we passed the first major legislation. the ira is properly named, the first time any party passed a bill that reduced the debt, reduced the deficit. we are proud of that. we believe we can do both. we can reduce the deficit. answer the phone. it's my intelligence guy. he's always in a skiff. way in the back. >> do you accept president biden should put tax revenues on the table as part of negotiations with speaker mccarthy? sen. schumer: as we have said, it was the tax reduction of the trump tax cuts that helped create this deficit in a very large way, and we didn't hear any republicans even shrugged a shoulder about that at all. it's our view that debt ceiling, because of the danger,

schumer: they postponed the trip of blinken. i know the administration is looking at other actions that can be taken. thank you, everybody. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2023] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy visit ncicap.org] >> lookinghe to tonight, karyn tumulty, editorial page editor for "the washington post" treat*eted this this is an annual reminder that the seats along the centeaie on state of the union night have long been known on capitol hill as, hand kisser's alley. you'll get a fleeting shot on national tv with the president. long-standing bipartisan tradition. also, chad of fox news sent this message. on fox, elise stefanik said, i don't think joe biden will be reaching across the aisle. i think he'll try to lecture house republicans and double wn on his failed policies we have seen for the last two years. president biden: the state of the union is wrong because you, the american people, are strong. >> president

schumer: i send a motion to the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. the clerk: cloture motion: we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of executive calendar number of, maria araujo kahn, signed by 18 senators as follow -- mr. schumer: i ask consent the reading of the names be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: finally, i ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum calls for the cloture motions filed today, february 13 is be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: now, for my remarks, madam president, first and foremost, i begin today as happy as i could possibly be. last week by daughter allison and her wife celebrated the birth of little henry, their first child, my third grandchild. the tie i'm wearing today is the very same tie i wore on the day my daughter and her wife got married. the last

schumer: i yield the floor. mr. kaine: madam president, i rise in support of jamar walker, who is nominee natured to be united states district -- nominated to be judge for the eastern district. he is the acting chief for the financial crimes and public corruption unit. he was raised by a single mother on the eastern shore of virginia, where he graduated from nandua high school. he's a double graduate of the university of virginia, and he clerked for judge raymond jackson, whose seat he has been nominated to fill in a particularly nice turn of events. mr. walker counts judge jackson as among his mentors who inspired him not just a life of service but also a deep commitment to the commonwealth of virginia and the eastern shore. following his clerkship, mr. walker worked as an associate at covington and burlington and worked for the head of the litigation session, and then he joined the u.s. attorney's office in the eastern district of virginia. given his deep history, it will come as no surprise that mr. walker has br

guest: this is the plan schumer has been making. he kind of does not like to call it a negotiation, because he thinks until senator mccarthy talks about what they want and delays at his side of the argument that it is not a negotiation. mccarthy is saying he met with biden in the white house last week. they are negotiating. that is something they are positioning as a win that the democrats are even in the room after biden said no negotiations . he says this is such an important vote, you cannot tie it to anything. you cannot hold it hostage. they are pointing to that on the republican side. they have not set a date for a new meeting, as far as i know, but they have said that they want to meet again. democrats will be pushing that same message of what do actually want, and is there anything you could pass through the house because mccarthy's majority is very narrow, and he has had one member suggested that he would not vote to lift the limit under any circumstances. there is some questioning of mccarthy's status as a credible negotia

. ♪ senate majority leader chuck schumer and other democratic senators held a news conference on effortsise the u.s. debt ceiling. p he called on both parties to reach an agreement while voicing concern over gop proposals to cut spending. this is about 20- minutes. [background noises] [background noises] okay, good morning everybody. i am proud to be joined by sheldon lighthouse, chris van hollen. we expect senator cortez amassed out, do expect senator lujan? he could not make it. look i think my colleagues for joining me on the topic to the urest of america and frankly to every american family. that is making sure america pays its debts. herman thanks about the fiscal implications for the federal government. we are here to talk about this is ann economic nightmare for every american family. this is devastating for them. it has never happened in the history of the country. it would threaten the health we know of our economy and the very stability of the global financial system just at a times when we are recovering. or the handful of maga extremists republican party that is the almost ab

no one has done more to make today a reality and this is truly chuck schumer day, pal. it done. chuck, you've done a hell of a job and big thanks to the rest of the delegation as well. the true champion of the state and always puts new york first and makes sure everybody in the military is straightened up too but that's a different story. mayor adams, where are you? good to see you, pal. thanks for the passport into the city and governor hochul, thank you. we got a chance to speak and governor murphy, your leadership has been vital to the project and the new jersey congressional delegation fought like hell to push forward all this entails and i want to thank everybody here and i want to thank bob menendez and cory booker, two great senators from north carolina. while others tried to shut this down, i made clear this is a national priority, and i told you that i would get this done and we did it together. i want to thank representative gotheimer as well and two members of the new jersey congressional delegation, rob menendez, who's smarter than his dad and don goldman, i

senate majority leader chuck schumer. we have susan page, washington bureau for usa today your master of ceremonies tonight. house minority leader hakeem jeffries. deborah berry, national correspondent for usa today and vice president of the press, -- press club foundation. senator amy klobuchar, chairman of the senate democratic steering and outreach committee. then we have connie the recipient of the lifetime achievement award. we have representative nancy mace of south carolina, a republican headliner tonight. there's george caley kaylee, editor at bloomberg governor and your other cochair. finally, the vice chairman of the house democratic caucus. thank you so much. this dinner would not be possible without our sponsors. we have airlines for america -- sponsoring the reception. punch bowl for the vip reception. politico for sponsoring the after party. chevron, toyota is the sponsor of our twitter feed. if international franchise association, money and advocacy. the national association of manufacturers. ups. great new

let me get you out responding to chuuk schumer. are you going to demand negotiations over the debt limit? >> i agree with that. we'll come forward with a plan. we're still debating that plan. we're having robust debate amongst our conference. that's what democracy is supposed to be about, and thank goodness for the house republicans. thank goodness that somebody's willing to step up and say, we can't keep going down this unsustainable path of spending $1 trillion to $2 trillion more than the government takes in. someone has to be the adult at the table, and house republicans will hopefully be that person. >> hopefully or you will? are you going to be coming forward with a plan? >> yeah. we're going to be coming forward with a plan. this doesn't have to come forward before july. obviously i would like for the plan to come forward next week. it's tough, george. as you know, you have been involved in government. it's easy to spend money. what unites the democrats is spending money. when you get to the point to where we are now where y

leader schumer also defended by administration handling of the chinese spy balloon.his is about 20 minutes. >> good morning. happy days at how you call it as i hear pronounce it? do you say that on the air so too? no state of the union. i'm going to talk about i was lucky enough i brought nine guests each symbolizes not only something important and go to new york, but going around the whole country. kevin kozlowski from rochester, new york, i stood with kevin he was a veteran of the 82nd airborne exposed to burn pits. took known and took a book as a crusade along with other rochester veterans who were one of the people exposes probably bad word, who taught me about the need for the pact acts to help push it through so he'll be there in the gallery. pollard is a syracuse university student. the navy veteran. the very first hire of microns massive $100 billion in central new york that's being built because of liability chips and science bill. there will be all over the country. people are getting jobs on first times with great futures which we are returning from china

schumer. mr. schumer. not guilty. mr. sessions. mr.. sessions. guilty. mr. shelby. mr. session. mr. guilty. mr. smith of new hampshire. mr. smith of new hampshire guilty. mr. smith of oregon. mr. smith of oregon guilty. ms.. no. miss snow. not guilty. mr. specter. not guilty. mr. specter. not guilty. mr. stevens. mr. stevens guilty. mr. thomas. mr. thomas. guilty. mr. thompson. mr. thompson. guilty. mr. thurmond. your. mr. thurmond. guilty. mr. torricelli. mr. torricelli, he not guilty. mr. voinovich. mr. voinovich. not guilty. mr. warner. mr. warner. guilty. mr. wells. down. mr. wells down not guilty. mr. widen. mr. widen not guilty. the galleries will be in order order. on this article of impeachment. 50 senators have pronounced william jefferson clinton present the united states guilty as charged. 50 senators have pronounced him not. two thirds of the senators present not having pronounced him guilty. the senate a judges that the respondent, william jefferson clinton, president of the united is not guilty as charged in the second article of impeachment. the chair directs judgment

then let it majority schumer speaking to reporters about solutions to debt limit. later president biden vice president harris marked the 30th anniversary of the family and medical leave act with former president bill clinton. officials in the agriculture department testified on the farm belt which covers agriculture, nutrition, conservation and forestry policy for the next five years. witnesses also talked about

senator schumer, particularly for for getting enacted the senate. but we still a country haven't done what we need to do to deal with climate change and. a lot of that is because of special interest lobbying. special interest, special. who worked very hard to raise question about the science for long time, once helped. they had sort run that string out and couldn't make more progress on that they they basically got to where they were just support candidates who would oppose any bold action by the federal government to deal with with change. and accordingly we we were not able to pass a cap and trade bill through the congress. we were not able pass a clean energy or clean electricity bill. and or any kind of a tax on on energy from fossil fuels. so what we what they that they passed this was good. it was it was increased for people to do what they should do. but it was very a package of carrots with with very few sticks and i hope it gets the job done. i mean, it's not going to get the whole job done. i think everyone acknowledges that but it is it w

this is chuck schumer day, pal. you got it done.ck, you've done a hell of a job the big thanks to the rest of the delegation as well. senator gillibrand who's here , the true champion of this state and who always puts new york first. she makes sure everybody in the military is straightened up too , but that is a different story. where is mayor adams? where are you? good to see you. thank you for the passport into the city. i and governor hochul, thank you, we got a chance to speak earlier. and governor murphy has been great friend for a long time. your leadership has been vital to this project and and the new jersey congressional delegation fought like hell to push forward all that this entails. bob menendez, where are you -- good to see you, bob. and cory booker. two good senators from new jersey. we tried -- while others tried to shut this down, i made clear that this is a national priority. i told you we would get this done and we did it together. i want to thank representative gottheimer and the two members of the new jersey con

and i asked schumer about this yesterday, jake.ou're asking to show a plan, it kind of sounds like you might be open to negotiations here. and he wouldn't answer that directly. he simply said we can't move forward or have any discussions without a plan. it's worth noting too p when he was asked if that was a red line for senate democrats today he didn't answer that question either and said they are united, they want a clean ceiling bill. that is where things stand tonight. >> jessica dean on capitol hill for us. let's discuss with my august round table. audie cornish, let me start with you. nothing's changed. democrats and republicans have the same position. republicans are saying we demand spending cuts with this debt ceiling bill. and democrats are saying no, it has to be a clean bill. what's going to happen? >> i mean, that's okay. it's still early. and we don't want to kind of rile people up and think we're at the precipice just yet. one of the things i'm sure you guys all know from covering congress is that silence is golden.

this is chuck schumer saying i dare you. put it in writing. >> we have a clear position.t brinksmanship. do it without this risk of hostage taking where things could blow up. he will not even say what he wants to cut. i'll tell you why. he can't pass a plan with cuts. his hard right will demand the kind of deepest cuts that his more mainstream republicans won't vote for. >> senator schumer is not wrong about the complications in the house republican family. here's my question, though. can he keep the democrats? can he keep the democrats in trump states like jon tester from montana, sherrod brown from ohio, who have to run in 2024. can he keep them from saying let's do this clean? we don't want any kind of spending cuts. >> that one thing we're starting to see, whether it's joe manchin who said he's fine with negotiating and trying to encourage president biden to negotiate, even though the vast majority of democrats which is probably what majority leader schumer is speaking to, do want to do this clean. and also economists whether they work for the u.s. chamber or elsewher

schumer: i send a cloture motion to the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the cloture motion. the clerk: cloture motion: we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of executive calendar number 5, cindy k.chung of pennsylvania to be united states circuit judge for the third circuit signed by 18 senators as follows -- the presiding officer: i ask consent the reading of the names be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: i move to proceed to legislative session. the presiding officer: question is on the motion. all those in favor, say aye. those opposed, say no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. mr. schumer: i move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 9. the presiding officer: question is on the motion. all those in favor, say aye. those opposed, say no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. t

we heard from senator schumer this morning. questioning why the united states didn't know about these balloons earlier. he said that is something that congress is going to be looking at. just the existence of the balloons generally. we also heard from congressman turner, the top republican on the house intelligence committee talking to jake tapper this morning questioning the u.s. defense of our air space. and if that is adequate as it stands now. questioning if there is need to introduce new radar, so those are the questions that members of congress are raising and those are the kind of conversations they'll be having with the pentagon and the white house and the state department over the next few weeks once they figure out what these two objects were. >> and jasmine, it was only a week ago and there were people who were asked and criticizing the president about what took so long to take down the initial chinese spy balloon over the u.s. before it traversed across the u.s. and then was finally taken down over the coast of sout

that is a huge coup for the united states. >> schumer says the u.s. gains intelligence information from surveilling the balloon. >> rescue workers continue search through the devastation and destruction in turkey and syria. they are hoping to find more survivors nearly a week after a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake. . the death toll stands at 32,000 lives lost across the two countries. >> nearly a week after devastating earthquake struck turkey and syria turkish officials issuing arrest warrants targeting more than 100 30 people allegedly involved in the construction of those collapsed buildings that killed thousands of families as they slept. the hope of finding a survivors continues to fade. >> it is many days beyond now. naturally the temperature the climate is pretty rough here. and the type of collapse and structures down on them make it very difficult. >> still glimmers of hope as rescuers worked tirelessly to find survivors. a two-month-old baby pulled from the rubble of the decimated building. nearby a seven-year-old boy rescued at the 13

is senator schumer right about china being humiliated?> yeah, i think in a lot of ways there's a strategic loss here. there's clearly a strategic win in one sense that some of our allies are going, wait a minute, you let this thing traverse all across the united states but the other side of that is we now know about the program and very clearly the american people are pissed off and that's a bad thing for china. ashley: how concerned are you about these objects? what kind of threat? we don't know exactly what they are but the fact they now seem to be cropping up on a regular basis has to be disturbing does it not? >> yeah, absolutely. obviously, our filter systems on the radars we've been using have been focused, have been set to look for aircraft and so they filter out jet stream speed things and now, we've changed those settings and we're going to see a lot more of these kinds of things. the question is as we go back and look at the old tapes how long has it been going on, that kind of forensic analysis is going on right now and they ar

military bases and so pumping senator chuck schumer be so flippant about this doctor grant.rebecca: i agree with farmers when from the spend is outrageous. i'm offended by it in china has a lot of reasons to try to collect and conduct surveillance and we know there doing that just shows you china's global military omissions that we have got to do these were and telling you with urine american company and have a supply chain refectory in china, you might want to think about other arrangements because these balloons tell you how quickly things can change be to god thank you for joining us and that was a great conversation is good have you want it will have you back on the gun soon okay vice, keep an eye on your wallace, the white house is joining forces with co very thinking, they want your retirement savings pretty retirement many of 52 million americans, my income is now say with they want is absurd doctor fauci try to down downplays also night and he said that now covid-19 vaccines from the get-go are not effective and after thousands were fired over vaccine mandates and co

reporter: schumer says the u.s. gains intelligence information from surveilling that balloon. dion: rescue workers search through the destruction and devastation in turkey and syria. they are hoping to find more survivors nearly a week after a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake. the death toll stands at 33,000 lives across the two countries. reporter: nearly a week after the devastating earthquake struck turkey and syria, turkish officials issuing arrest warrants targeting more than 130 people allegedly involved in the construction of collapsed buildings that killed thousands of families as they slept. i hope of finding any more survivors buried beneath the rubble continues to fade. >> naturally the the climate is pretty rough year -- here. and the type of collapsed instructors down on them make it a very difficult. reporter: glimmers of hope as rescuers worked tirelessly to find survivors. in turkey a two-month-old baby pulled from the rubble of a decimated building. nearby a seven-year-old boy rescue, after the quake hit this 10-year-old girl now freed from beneath the des

chuck schumer is moving behind the scenes to try to prevent any retirement.wild cards. in arizona, what does christy sinema do? she is independent now and debating whether to run for re-election but there is a democratic candidate and also the potential of a hard right republican candidate. we talked about kari lake. she is considering running. republicans are very nervous if she runs that could put that seat at risk. there are so many significant dynamics here and major players. bernie sanders has not decided whether to run for re-election and neither has mitt romney who told me he believes he can win but hasn't made a decision yet. >> i want to play a little bit >> i make a decision based on have i been able to deliver for the state and basically support the constitution and oath i've taken. i think i have. >> we can get a lot of good things done because of my position on veterans affairs and defense chairman. but it's something we just -- i just think you need to take the time and talk it over. >> the problem for democrats is that really the only democrats

maria: what you plan on doing here you heard what chuck schumer said they don't want any qualifiers with raising the debt ceiling they wanted clean and they world not have any discussion of areas to cut spending right now. >> chuck should catch up with the rest of his team. while it appears the rest of the leadership is riding in ink chuck is going to need a box of crayola's. the president invited kevin mccarthy over this week to have a discussion. i had a good discussion it was an opening discussion. it's a beginning hopefully of many discussions. chuck is stuck on the thing that you show a crs and we will show you ours. the fact is under the rules the biden administration must produce their budget by the first monday in february that would be this monday. they already said there knocking to do that they are going to produce their budget sometime in march, the way this works we will then have six weeks after that within which republicans can respond to the budget and actually provide ideas. this is the responsible, reasonable and sensible way to do this. the american public expects us t

he went on to say in that plan note to president biden, senator schumer and mcconnell as you know, this was never intended to apply to social security, medicare or the u.s. navy. so a move by rick scott to try to deflect criticism and scott himself facing reelection next year undoubtedly will be an issue in his race but trying to make clear, pamela, he never meant to touch entitlement programs as republicans are calling for spending cuts and rick scott saying that's not what he's talking about and making it clear there in the change today. >> manu, stay with us. i'll bring in cnn political director david alcchalian. what does it say senator scott is changing course now? >> that he realizes it was a political loser of a position to be in and he needed to reverse course here. remember, rick scott when manu said he introduced this plan last year to the chagrin of republican leadership, he was part of republican leadership last year as the head of the campaign arm last year for republicans and yet, mitch mcconnell the party leader in the senate still was stiff arming hip and totally distanc

chuck schumer was right. chuck schumer was right. the only one that's gone off to the runoff election is georgia. they won all other ones and this conference, joe biden came and said and i know he was just saying what he was told say. but still, joe biden came out and said, well, i think we're going to come close to keeping the house. we'll definitely win the senate. and i remember thinking, what drugs is this guy? i want a bit of what he's smoking. but sean, if we're only just winning the house, it got announced today by the slimmest the barest of majorities and the senate. well, let's see what happens in, georgia. but they've got 50 already. it's just going to be a question, 51 or 50. so these guys always seem to know what's going to happen. they had the same conference in 2020. and i thinking to myself, there is no in the world that the united states is going to throw out donald trump. there is no way. and sure enough, these guys, they predicted the election result they predicted. so they are always step ahead than us. they knew t

there's chuck schumer. >> you see senator schumer there, senator tim scott as well.senator pelosi there in a very different seat. one big question coming out of this for a lot of these lawmakers -- >> here comes the motorcade. >> our viewers can see it on the top right-hand screen is the motorcade happening right behind us pulling into the capitol here to bring president biden into this scene where you can obviously see members of congress -- he'll be seated of course by the time he gets into the chamber. >> the members of the house are there. the members of the senate are there, and theria see the presidential limousine, the beast as it's called arriving here on capitol hill. >> one thing we were talking back to police reform you've seen all these things presidents want to accomplish, actually what came out of it, what were the tangible take-aways, police reform is going to be the big question. i saw senator schumer today. he expressed cautious optimism about those things happening with senator cory booker and some republicans on capitol hill. we'll see what that lo

here is what mike turner and senate majority leader chuck schumer had to say about the incident >> you hadn't broken this story, the american public would not have even known there was no attempt to notify congress, no attempt to put together the gang of eight i think this administration lacks urgency. >> the bottom line here is that shooting down this surveillance balloon over water wasn't just the safest option, but it was the one that maximized our intelligence payload >> and schumer also said that the senate will receive a briefing on the balloon on february 15th in lieu of a previously scheduled classified briefing about china nbc news is also reporting that house republicans are in the early stages of a possible resolution condemning president biden's handling of the balloon situation. following this incident, it's expected that the topic of china will be a major component of president biden's state of the union address on tuesday phillip? >> all right the balloon may be down, be we have not heard the last about it all right, brie, thank you >>> the presidential primaries will lo

chuck schumer held a briefing about the mission. he praised the president for waiting to take it down over water so the crews might be able to recover most of the debris. new video out of myrtle beach, south carolina, shows military officials searching for that debris. tonight republicans are criticizing the decision to wait for it to reach the atlantic. house intelligence committee chair mike turner said today the biden administration should have shot the balloon down the minute they saw it. >> clearly the president taking it down over the atlantic is sort of like the quarterback sort of like tackling the quarterback after the game is over. the satellite had completed its mission. this should never have been allowed to enter the united states and never allowed to complete its mission. >> i would use two words in answering these gop criticisms -- they are premature and they are political. our friends are playing politics with u.s. intelligence. >> senator schumer said the biden administration is considering other action against chin