when senator murphy and sinema and i started working on this months ago, we were working to solve it.e were not able to get that done. but today is not a bill. today is apr political messagin exercise. today is an opportunity to be t sitting out there so people can send fundraising e-mails out later tonight and said, i tried to get something when no work was actually done to get something done and completed a in fact, i anticipate there will be fewer v tod than there were two months ago whether this came up -- when this came up on bo because everyone sees this for what it is. it is not an eor it is an effort to do political messaging. country. we still have peohat are illegally present here that need attention. and we're notngit. we can say democrats can bring the bill up and we tried to do republicans can do the same thing. we brought house resolutiontwic. that's passed the house with a broad sweeping piece in the house to come over here to be able to change the way ise entire process. that's been voted twice on a strictly partisan vote. so we could have this votean sa republicans vo

sinema, aye. mr. barrasso, no. the clerk: mr. kaine, aye. mr. casey, aye. vote: the clerk: mr. booker, aye. the clerk: mr. king, aye. mr. scott of south carolina, no. the clerk: mr. cotton, no. the clerk: mr. mullin, no. the clerk: mr. hickenlooper, aye. the clerk: mr. schumer, aye. mr. murphy, aye. the clerk: mr. boozman, no. mr. graham, aye. ms. stabenow, aye. vote: the clerk: mr. lankford, no. the clerk: mr. braun, no. mr. hoeven, no. mr. coons, aye. the clerk: mr. cramer, no. the clerk: mr. risch, no. the clerk: mr. tillis, no. the clerk: mrs. murray, aye. mr. budd no. the clerk: ms. klobuchar, aye. the clerk: mr. young, no. the clerk: mrs. blackburn, no. the clerk: ms. murkowski, aye. mrs. fischer, no. the clerk: mrs. hyde-smith, no. the clerk: mr. thune, no. the clerk: ms. hirono, aye. the clerk: mr. markey, aye. tes the clerk: mr. hawley, no. the clerk: mr. brown, aye. the clerk: mr. mcconnell, no. the clerk: mr. daines, no. the presiding officer: have all senators voted? does any senator wish to change his or her vote? if not, the yeas are 51, the nays are 42, and the n

kyrsten sinema felt that was important. interestingly all of her colleagues, i think all but maybe one or two of her colleagues several years ago -- >> 33 of them. >> 33 democrat senators several years ago when republicans had the white house, the senate, and the house of representatives, all three, the democrats realized, we could -- if we got rid of 60-vote rule we republicans can do anything and donald trump was saying i want to do all these things, i'm going get rid of all the unions inin for public sphere and 33 democrats -- >> 33 democrats. >> she has better numbers than i have. 33 democrats signed a letter to mitchte mcconnell, do not get rd of that rule. it is absolutely essential to the preservation of democracy to make suree that we compromise ad guess what? when the time came when the democrats inhe the house, senate and white house, every single person decided to vote to get rid of 60 vote rule. and who was it who took the blame for saying no. it was extraordinary to me there cry about the democratic party to sa

i thank senators lankford, murphy and sinema of their work on this bill.nk senator schumer and senator mcconnell for their leadership. there is not controversy about this bill except on the political side. if you look at this from the viewpoint of americans, and what makes people safer, and what will stop kids from dying, because they take one pill they don't know has fentanyl in it, the answer is simple, vote for this bill. thank you, madam president, i yield the floor. >> madam president, first i want to thank senator murphy for organizing this important floor block. and i want to thank my colleagues who participated. and thank senator blumenthal and klobuchar and others who participated. and what we're talking about is the need to pass our bipartisan border bill to crack down on fentanyl entering our country. every one of us in our states have talked to families who lost loved once because of fentanyl. particularly young people, it breaks your heart. some of the family members didn't know their loved ones had fentanyl, had taken fentanyl and were dead w

i thank senators lankford, murphy, and sinema for their work on this bill. i thank senator schumer and senator mcconnell for their leadership. there is not controversy about this bill, except on the political side. if you look at this from the viewpoint of americans and what makes people safer and what will stop kids from dying, because they take one pill that they don't know has fentanyl in it, the answer is simple -- vote for this bill. thank you, madam president. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. schumer: madam president, first, i want to thank senator murphy for organizing this important floor bloc. i want to thank all of my colleagues who participated. i see senator blumenthal, of course senator klobuchar and others who participated. what we're talking about is the need to pass our bipartisan border bill to crack down on fentanyl entering your our country. every one of us has talked to families who lost loved ones because of fentanyl, particularly young people. it breaks your heart. some family members didn't know thei

kirsten zip ma felt that was -- kyrsten sinema felt that was important.erestingly, all but maybe one or two of her colleagues several years ago -- >> 3 3 of them. >> if 33 democrat senators several years ago when republicans had the white house, the senate and the house of representatives, all three, the democrats realized we could -- if we got rid of the 60-vote rule, we republicans couldn't do anything. and donald trump was saying i want to do all these things, i want to do -- i'm going to get rid of all the unions in the public sphere and so forth, and these 30 democrats -- 3? >> 3 3. >> these 333 democrats -- 33 democrats signed a letter to mitch mcconnell saying do not get rudd of -- rid of that rule. it is absolutely essential to the preservation of democracy to make sure that we compromise. and guess what? if when the time came when the democrats had the house, the senate and the white house, every single person who'd signed it on the democratic side decided to vote to get rid are of the 660-vote rule -- 60-vote rule. and who was it who took the pl

sinema. ms. smith. ms. stabenow. mr. sullivan. mr. tester. mr. thune. mr. tillis. mr. tuberville.an hollen. mr. vance. mr. warner. mr. warnock. ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. mr. young. the clerk: mr. lee, no. the clerk: senators voting in the affirmative -- brown, butler, cassidy, collins, cortez masto, crapo, heinrich, murray, padilla, sinema. senators voting in the negative -- barrasso, britt, cotton, grassley, lee, sullivan, vance. the clerk: mr. young, aye. the clerk: mr. markey, aye. ms. stabenow, aye. vote: vote: the clerk: mr. romney, aye. the clerk: mr. scott of florida, no. ms. hirono, aye. mr. mullin, aye. mr. kennedy, no. mr. kaine, aye. the clerk: mr. casey, aye. ms. ernst, no. mr. whitehouse, aye. the clerk: ms. baldwin, aye. the clerk: mr. peters, aye. mr. sanders, aye. the clerk: rounds, aye. mr. coons, aye. mr. graham, aye. mr. reed, aye. mrs. capito, aye. ms. rosen, aye. mrs. gillibrand, aye. the clerk: mr. wyden, aye. mr. bennet, aye. the clerk: mr. daines, aye. the clerk: mr. kelly, aye. the clerk: ms. warren, aye. mr. durbin, aye

. ♪ ♪ >> thank you all so much for joining us today, and thank you, senator sinema.have a lot to talk about. >> we do. >> we're going to try to get through as much as possible. we, obviously, are at the mccain institute's sedona forum named for the late senator john mccain. his last act in the public arena, a historic thumbs down on the gop's repeal bill. it crossed party lines, and it cemented his reputation as a maverick. here we are just a few, ten years -- seven years later. you've notably said that you are leaving the senate because americans don't want the collaborative approach that you've said you model after him by crossing party lines. why do you think that that approach has been devalued in such a short amount of time? >> well, you know this, i've been kind of talking about this for, you know, 20 years now in -- and it's a real privilege to serve arizona from my time in the state the house and the state senate with my former colleagues right here, hater serving in the u.s. house and the u.s. senate, some of my colleagues are here, and literally for the las

we had an independent senator kyrsten sinema from arizona arizona. we all understood the problem is serious and it's a he very real threat to our economy. it is spiraling out of control on the border. october is the highest month ever in the history of our country. november was the highest number in the history of our country. december was the highest number ever in the history of our country with the largest day of illegal crossings in the history of our country in december of 12,000 people in a single day. things were spiraling out of control at the border and they continue. so we sat down in a serious conversation and said we had differences of how to be able to resolve this but we all want to be able to fix this. so we spent months trying to be able to hammer out a resolution. this is serious dialogue that we hope to be able to get to conclusion. but we failed to do that. we created a bill that i felt like was a great bill with common ground in it. it didn't have everything that i wanted in it. but it did have the essentials in it to be able to c

murphy: madam president, i am deeply grateful to senator sinema, senator lankford, senator mcconnell, senator schumer, and others who worked with us over the course of four months to craft this landmark, unprecedented, bipartisan border security bill, that if enacted would take the biggest step that we have taken in decades to bring order to our southwest border. it would give a shot of confidence to our constituents that we can find agreement on even the toughest of issues. i maybe come to a slightly different conclusion, though, on the reason that we are here today than my very good friend senator sinema and my great friend senator lankford. i think one of the most important enduring values in politics is the value of persi persistence. if you believe something is important, you don't give up the first time. we worked very hard to achieve this compromise. it's a good faith compromise. you'll see that it's a compromise because there will be democratic members who will vote against it today. we solved some big problems in this bill, reducing the amount of time to process an slaument c

when kyrsten sinema said she would not seek another term, but it was the impact of that on this senatee? >> it did have a significant impact. there has been some mystery around this race since she switch to independent in late 2022. it made it difficult to get a fix on with the shape of this race really was. she was an incumbent senator who used to raise a lot of money. she never really pull out of it. from a polling perspective it made it difficult to get a read on what dynamics people were going to face. that has cleared up in the past month, though there have been other newsworthy items that every shape race as well. >> before we get to those, who is running? >> u.s. representative ruben gallego is the only prominent democrat. we have two notable republicans running in a primary that former editorial candidate kari lake, it a former tv broadcaster and ran and lost the 2022 governor torres in arizona. we also have the county sheriff mark lamb, from a county that is roughly between phoenix and tucson. >> what is the primary race like between those two, and what are the polls showing?

senators voting in the affirmative -- cantwell, hassan, hickenlooper, kelly, sinema.ators voting in the negative -- barrasso, cassidy, collins, daines, ernst, grassley, hoeven, hyde-smith, johnson, marshall, scott of florida. the clerk: mr. risch, no. mr. blumenthal, aye. the clerk: mr. king, aye. cleric climate change mr. braun, no. -- the clerk: mr. braun, no. mr. cramer, no. the clerk: mr. durbin, aye. ms. klobuchar, aye. the clerk: mr. padilla, aye. the clerk: ms. rosen, aye. the clerk: mr. graham, no. mr. sullivan, no. the clerk: ms. cortez masto, aye. the clerk: mrs. murray, aye. the clerk: mr. fetterman, aye. the clerk: mr. warnock, aye. the clerk: mr. hagerty, no. mrs. shaheen, aye. mr. coons, aye. the clerk: mr. lujan, aye. the clerk: mr. wyden, aye. mr. kaine, aye. the clerk: mr. ossoff, aye. the clerk: mr. schmitt, no. the clerk: mr. merkley, aye. the clerk: mr. paul, no. mr. cornyn, no. mr. mullin, no. mrs. gillibrand, aye. ms. stabenow, aye. the clerk: mr. schatz, aye. the clerk: ms. baldwin, aye. the clerk: mr. cardin, aye. mr. thune, no. mr. reed, aye.

sinema. ms. smith. ms. stabenow. mr. sullivan. mr. tester. mr. thune. mr. tillis. mr. tuberville. mr. van hollen. mr. vance. mr. warner. mr. warnock. ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. mr. young. the clerk: senators voting in the affirmative -- baldwin, bennet, blumenthal, buicker, cantwell, capito, cardin, carper, collins, cortez masto, crapo, daines, durbin, hine -- heinrich, kelly, king, klobuchar, lujan, lummis, markey, marshall, mcconnell, merkley, murphy, ossoff, padilla, paul, peters, risch, rosen, rounds, schatz, schumer, smith, stabenow, tillis, van hollen, warner, warnock, warren, welch, wyden, and young. mr. coons, aye. mr. graham, aye. the clerk: senators voting in the negative -- barrasso, brit, cornyn, cotton, cruz, earns, grassley, johnson, kennedy, lankford, lee, paul, rubio, and thune. the clerk: mrs. murray, aye. vote: the clerk: mr. sullivan, no. mr. cassidy, aye. the clerk: mr. tuberville, no. the clerk: mr. wyden, aye. the clerk: mr. romney, aye. the clerk: mr. mullin, aye. mrs. fischer, no. the clerk: mr. vance, no. the clerk: mr. s

sinema and langford voted against it and sinema denounced political theater on both sides of the aisley kidding? this is playing politics at its worst. we have a crisis on the border. we have a presidential election around the corner and we've got mass deportation that is a hot button issue on this presidential campaign. why doesn't the senate see that? >> they do see it. senator schumer knows better. it is a pure political stunt thinking the american people are stupid and not paying attention. the reason the border is broken is because joe biden and kamala harris broke it. democrats issued out of the white house 100 executive orders changing the trump policies. they didn't seem so keen on doing legislation. they did it through executive order. remember, the democrats had the house and senate and the presidency the first two years of the biden administration. so don't tell me and cry me a tear that we have to fix something that is broken. you broke it and you could fix it right now today by enforcing the current law and reversing all those executive orders that joe biden put into place

senator sinema and independent.t in a room and negotiated a bipartisan compromise that would allow us to get tougher on the southern border to make sure that only the right people are coming to the united states into those that have a c legitimate claim of asylum that would create a more efficient system. we were engaged in this process because republicans demanded and said we want you to pass bipartisan immigration reform and get to a result and a vote if you achieve the result. they selected to senator langford as the chosen negotiator. we achieved that. senator mcconnell was in the room for those negotiations. it was endorsed by some of the most conservative. but i only got four republican votes and so i want to talk for just a minute about why that happened, what the bill does and why it's important that we have another vote this week. let's talk briefly about what this bill does. most importantly it fixes the broken immigration system, the asylum system in particular. it takes sometimes as long as ten years bef

this was a very complex race when independent senator kyrsten sinema was talking about running for reelection as an independent. s ra that we see a three-person senate race this day and age. enhe g out and became more clear how the race was going to look. the democratic likely nominee, the republic nominee or likely republican nominee, are held -- are headed towards a clash this fall. at was ruben has some real advantages in this race. he has a tremendous financial advantage. and he has the opportunity to introduce himself to voters in a favorable way. lake has less money as unpopula2 gubernatorial run. you combine those factors and you look at the posture of national republicans who are ve about montana, ohio, and a few other states and don't want toal arizona, who aren't as convinced and may not put anyg to be money towards helping lake win the race. all of that points toture where democrats are slightly favored to hold that seat. host: to callers. michelle, independent in maryland. caller: hello, can you hear me? yes, go ahead. caller: i wanted to talk about itics. it is my pet p flynn mar

democrat senator netiquette money deposit senator kyrsten sinema arizona and conservative center. we voice of the problem a serious in reference to national security, economy spiraling out of control. the highest mother in the history of our country in december chris the highest number with the largest date of illegal crossings in the history of our country. we sat down with a serious conversation is that we have differences on how to resolve is what we want to fix this so we spent months trying to them out a resolution. we hope to get to a conclusion but we failed to do that. it didn't have everything i wanted and it but it did have essentials to change the way you do asylum in the processing and bitterly took it from the very first person across the border each day would be detained, quickly streamed and deported. the very first person. a lot of caravan of up to 5000 a day, we can't control so in that situation instead of detaining, quickly screaming and deporting, we would just detain it deport. we were going to turn people around. it changed the structure dramatically from wha

people that helped write the bill, lankford and kyrsten sinema voted against the bill, as well? negotiators voted no. they said they realize this is a political ploy and charade. you don't have to go further than listen to what schumer said a day or two after the same bill failed in february. he said, we are playing chess, they are playing checkers and we got a ukraine bill. we end up in better shape on the border than three months ago. if you negotiate in good faith, if negotiate knowios fail, you do not rub your negotiating partners nose into how he did. if you secure the border, they did not get a bill, why say democrats are in better shape on the border than three months ago, all they were looking for was political cover, all they were looking for yesterday and kyrsten sinema and james lankford recognize this is political theater, not an attempt to secure the border. the bill failed, it codified open-border plsz, it was worse than passing nothing. >> lawrence: looks like this plan backfired, they wanted to blame donald trump for the border bill. they took to the american peo

an out this most recent everydai so applied senat murphy, sinema comments under lankford and others in administration who wke deal bipartisan border sitision witht provisions normalization of afghanuge in virginia than any other state but really important work in th bipartisan. it is not lost on me how har whe american immigration lawyers association and the border patrol union who t be quite opposite politically take a look at a compromise and say this is not perfect but we need to do this. i do notwf another issue where these two organizations have said we need to this. that was the needle these centers ripped a threat after n.nths and months and months of but just as in the first two instances aur significant effort to protectur make our country safer and bhot down prep came out and courage republicans to oppose it. had been briefed and negotiated every step of theay and supported president trump as soon as he said they should oppose it, fos ran. president trump was honest.onese region said he opposed it class c keep pretty much said we don't want tod fix this problem. we raise heck

including two o lawmakers who negotiated the bill oklahoma senator lankford, arizona senator kyrsten sinema. >> -- what two -- three negotiators went. >> political theatre what do you make of it. >> i look what they said about the bill we voted on bill not rhetoric, both of them put their to their credit put their harvest souls minds into this came up with a damn good product that should have passed until donald trump did his thing. >> you are reaction donald trump did this is things senator your reaction. >> it wasn't donald trump he rightfully was against it we need a border security bill an immigration bill we didn't need a bill -- donald trump with existing law secured the border joe biden opened the border that means drugs, criminals, terrorists coming across every day the border is wide-open, wide-open, in venezuela all criminals to united states criminal gangs, from venezuela other places in our country today, joe biden made this decision, we didn't need this bill. right? this was immigration bill we wanted whoa we wand biden to secure border what we want to do is say joe biden you w

sinema. ms. smith. ms. stabenow. mr. sullivan. mr. tester. mr. thune. mr. tillis. mr. tuberville. mr. van hollen. mr. vance. mr. warner. mr. warnock. ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. mr. young. the clerk: senators voting in the affirmative -- booker, capito, cardin, cramer, crapo, duckworth, durbin, hickenlooper, klobuchar, lankford, lummis, marshall, murray, schatz, schumer, sinema. mr. coons, aye. senators voting in the negative -- barrasso, blackburn, braun, fischer, hyde-smith, johnson, rounds, schmitt, tuberville, vance. mr. murphy, aye. mr. thune, no. the clerk: mr. kaine, aye. the clerk: mr. casey, aye. the clerk: mr. bennet, aye. the clerk: mrs. britt, no. mr. van hollen, aye. the clerk: mr. lee, no. mr. blumenthal, aye. the clerk: mr. reed, aye. mr. graham, aye. mr. lujan, aye. the clerk: mr. merkley, aye. mr. peters, aye. ms. cortez masto, aye. ms. baldwin, aye. the clerk: ms. stabenow, aye. the clerk: mr. cruz, no. mr. kennedy, no. mr. romney, aye. mr. scott of florida, no. the clerk: mr. warner, aye. the clerk: mr. king, aye. the clerk: mr.

against it including two law to lawmakers who negotiated the bill james lankford in arizona kyrsten sinematy leader chuck schumer was questioned about it, watch. >> what you make of the fact that two of the three negotiators that sinema said it was political. >> i look at what they said about the bill, we voted on the bill not on rhetoric, both of them put to their credit heart, souls and minds and came up with a damn good product they should've pass until donald trump did his thing advancing a bill to repeal the noncitizen to vote in local elections, 52 democrats joining republicans to approve this measure, 143 democrats voted against it, joining the wisconsin congressman scott fitzgerald the house judiciary and financial services committee, let's go back to check chuck schumer, donald trump did his thing, what would that thing be, everyone knows chuck schumer knows how to count votes, what we ended up with was a situation with a lot of people in d.c. wondering what he was up to, at the end of the day what we saw there were a number of members that he thought would be there in the end tha

chair schatz: senator sinema. sen. sinema: thank you buttigieg for being hear. in arizona we feel the before impacts of the bipartisan infrastructure lawed a investments of over $7.7 billion. included $4.7 billion it improve roads, bridges, ports of entry and airports. arizona's airports have received over $263 million it make enhance wants and improved service. when i wrote the pwarsz infrastructure law working toward prince lake completing widing of efrpbgs 10 it moves tens of millions of people. thanks it the grant award by the pwarsz infrastructure law an expanded three lane i-10 through the indian community will be a reality. arizonans are excited for this and we look forward to our partnership in implementing all aspects of the bill. you said in your testimony that safety is d.o.t. agencies primary mission. you contacted me last friday it let me know a railway train derailed language the arizona and new mexico board with gas two of them caught fire. there coasted interstate 40 inial directions paused service on the chief and prompted a two mile evacuation

i would like to start by thanking senators sinema and lankford. i would like to start by thanking my colleagues, senators sinema and lankford for championing the 2024 reintroduction of their public service recognition week resolution, of which i am a proud cosponsor. for more than four decades, the first week of may has been set aside to show appreciation to the federal, state, local employees who form the backbone of our country. as we mark the 40th anniversary of this tradition, we have a renewed opportunity to salute those working behind-the-scenes in small towns and big cities, many of whom have dedicated their entire professional careers to giving back to their community and to this country. california is home to more public servants than any other state in our nation. as one of the two senators representing more than 40 million californians, i could not be prouder of that fact. whether it's here in the halls of congress or in the pockets of our nation, i stand shoulder to shoulder with millions of public servants who get out of bed every mor

. >> hebron about sinema politically and the bipartisan proposals that. >> that there first thing reducing benefits for higher partners. what i want to say is there is testing and social security in the sink back if you are a rare honor, the monthly benefit is going to be smaller because the benefit formula based. one right and social security making the formula even more progressive. the nice thing about the way the testing is done, it's an average of your earnings, there are some proposals i will be the current system but i don't think that's the right way to go. the current income during requirement is not as accurate based on current income during requirement taxes. older people are more sensitive that they are likely to reduce working hours. the existing benefit formula does it right we want to go away increasing productivity. >> one advantage the advantage of the benefit is not lowering benefit. in this retiree and you look further up be productive 10%, that's where we have the problem so as not just the low end but it gives people confidence. i'm going to tell people and reduce a be

certainly want to thank senators schumer, and thune and duckworth and sinema who helped to negotiate key pieces of this, as relates to pilot saving and training and i definitely, definitely, definitely, definitely, want to thank the very hard work of our committee majority staff and the committee minority staff for working diligently upon this important legislation. i can't tell you how important it is at this point in time for us to show that we are paying attention to these issues. over the last 12 months, several incidents, including a door plug blowout, had a string of close calls at airport have made the public question where we are with aviation safety. we need to show them that we are asking for, implementing and holding accountable the f.a.a. to a gold standard for safety. and these incidents underscore why we need a strong authorization bill and why we need to implement safety improvement. why we need to invest in a safety work force at the f.a.a. why we need strong, consumer laws on the books, that give consumers a right to a refund. the f.a.a. authorization bill does all t

sinema, aye. mr. graham, no. mr. wicker, no. ms. hassan, aye. mr. crapo, no. mr. daines, no. mr. marshall, no. vote: the clerk: mrs. murray, aye. mr. van hollen, aye. mr. boozman, no. mr. bennet, aye. the clerk: mr. lankford, no. mr. grassley, no. mr. schatz, aye. the clerk: mrs. shaheen, aye. mr. merkley, aye. the clerk: mr. fetterman, aye. the clerk: mr. king, aye. mr. tuberville, no. mr. cotton, no. mr. braun, no. the clerk: mr. padilla, aye. mr. murphy, aye. mr. thune, no. mr. welch, aye. the clerk: mr. tillis, no o. the clerk: mr. rubio, no. the clerk: mr. lee, no. the clerk: mr. heinrich, aye. the clerk: ms. collins, aye. the clerk: mr. brown, aye. mr. warner, aye. mr. paul, no. mr. moran, aye. the clerk: mr. kelly, aye. the clerk: ms. hirono, aye. the clerk: mr. sanders, aye. mrs. blackburn, no. ms. butler, aye. mr. trump dur -- mr. durbin, aye. vote: the clerk: mr. whitehouse, aye. mr. kennedy, no. the clerk: ms. lummis, no. the clerk: mr. casey, aye. mr. cardin, aye. mr. ossoff, aye. the clerk: ms. cantwell, aye. the clerk: mrs. fischer, no. mr. rounds, aye. the clerk: m

i also want to thank senator schumer and thune, duckworth and sinema for helping to negotiate key provisions of this bill related to pilot training. nearly 3 million passengers fly in and out of our airports and making sure that we have the safest skies by the faa doing its job is exactly why we needed this bill. this bill implements new safety improvements in that workforce and codifies, as i mentioned, strong consumer protections like refunds. and it provides direction and resources to build and well-train faa workforce. i want to thank the hard work of senators casey and fetterman, including in this bill that helps the faa require airlines to have a secondary cockpit barrier to ensure that safety and security of our flight deck is there. i want to thank senator klobuchar for advancing the aircraft runway traffic and landing technologies to prevent near misses, a conversation that has been very much part of this debate. the air service technology helps prevent, close quotes calls and at only 34 aircrafts, this bill was about expanding that as soon as possible because the ntsb said that was

, two nominal democrats, sinema became an independent.ed to have a true representative democracy and that requires 50 plus one vote. that's how democracy works. particularly in protecting fundamental civil rights, particularly protecting voting rights, protecting democracy. i've said this before, as we see attacks against our democracy, see them attacking and eroding every democratic institution, they're strategically attacking women's rights. and it's central to democracy because women's rights and democracy go hand in hand. when we organize, when we mobilize, when we create a movement, we win. but we also strengthen democracy here in this country. and so, this is a strategy. it's a well-coordinated effort. and i truly believe that if i'm in the senate, we need to put a pause in the filibuster to pass the voting rights act. we're in this mess right now with all the issues we're facing in this country because that didn't happen when we had the majority and we have to codify roe v. wade. i've been very vocal about that. we know this is goi

obviously, senator sinema is not running for re-election. did her decision make democrats more vulnerable in 2024? how do you assess the state of the race? >> i have worked closely with senator sinema over a three and a half year period. her service to the state of arizona, it was significant. at the same time, we now have an open senate seat. >> it's a close race. >> right now. i don't think it's going to be close on election day. >> i talk to democrats and they say, they are worried about president biden's prospects for re-election. >> it's going to be close. it was close in 2020. my election in 2020 and 2022 were close as well. statewide races here tend to be close. we are a purple state. it's a battleground state. it's also a -- it's going to be a state that could decide who has the majority in the united states senate. we know how to win tough races here. i imagine we're going to see the president and vice president back here again telling the story about what this administration has done and the option of donald trump who again wants t

ms.çuv sinema says i am all for that. they have done nothing. >> the minute you talk about the filibuster the question comes to the use of filibuster or do you want to abolish the filibuster. >> but that is a binary choice. >> there is a way to do the filibuster in a way that is much different that requires real effort, and real significance. >> can you help understand why schumer has not started that process? >> it is not just schumer, it is other leaders as well, republican and democratic leaders. let me make one final point. we are talking about all of these issues, and there are dozens of them. the number of days that you work, all these. all of this happened in an intensely competitive environment. anticompetition is not lost on anybody that serves in the house or the senate. the question is who in the hell controls this place? and that has everything to do with every senate race, every house race. there is intense competition that surrounds everything we are talking about. that is just important to understand. polit

we said chris murphy of connecticut and kyrsten sinema independent democrat from arizona.he three of them went to work inob year. they worked on for weeks, months, went back and forth and many times it looked like it was we cannot reach an agreement. and lo and behold we did came up bill that massively change the weight weag border. and they brought to the white house and said to joe biden in this bip bill, thisaid we will e perfect formula bipartisan in a congress with the democratic senate and a republican house and a president of the united states it said what happened next? that is the best parts. they went w and asked the republicans, many of the republicans did not take yes for an answer because we this bipartisan bill the architect being the republican senator of eir choice. they decided to ask the one man whether they should gord you want to guess who it was question at donald trump. donald trump said n am sorry i do not want to see this issue go away. i want t b able to work on this issue as part of my presidential campaign in t year 2024. that bill.you right now

i believe we have some soundbites from james lankford and kyrsten sinema now let's listen to what theyaid acinar schumer's just bringing this up for political reasons on it. and i've said, hey, senator schumer, if you want to actually pass something let's sit down and actually work this out. but this is not a bipartisan attempt to be able to solve something. this is a partisan attempt for fundraising. >> all talk and no action goes both ways. today, the senate will hold a show vote. whose sole purpose is to point the finger back at the other party? yet another cynical political game dave, when this first one, when the bill failed back in february, cinema was on the floor and was really, really angry at what she considered the political games around this. >> and now we're hearing from her again saying this is more politics just to kind of a different shade. do you think the american people see it that way too and lankford, who you just showed, he he called it in another interviewer, a prop. so you can expect that the republicans are going to say that especially on the campaign trail, bu

sinema, aye. the clerk: mr. budd, no. mr. hawley, no. mr. wyden, aye. mr. padilla, aye. the clerk: mr. thune, no. ms. collins, aye. the clerk: mr. reed, aye. mr. crapo, no. the clerk: mr. moran, no. mr. risch, no. the clerk: mr. daines, no. vote: the clerk: mr. merkley, aye. mr. brown, aye. the clerk: ms. smith, aye. mr. murphy, aye. mrs. gillibrand, aye. the clerk: mr. cornyn, no. the clerk: mr. mcconnell, no. mr. booker, aye. the clerk: mr. wicker, no. the clerk: mr. hagerty, no. the clerk: ms. rosen, aye. mr. whitehouse, aye. the clerk: mr. paul, no. the clerk: mr. boozman, no. the clerk: mr. grassley, no. ms. hassan, aye. the clerk: mr. schatz, aye. the clerk: mrs. capito, no. the clerk: mr. tester, aye. the clerk: ms. lummis, no. the clerk: mr. markey, aye. the clerk: mr. schmitt, no. the clerk: ms. murkowski, aye. mr. lee, no. vote: the clerk: mr. rounds, aye. mr. young, no. the clerk: mr. peters, aye. mr. durbin, aye. the clerk: mr. rubio, no. the clerk: mr. heinrich, aye. the clerk: ms. hirono, aye. mr. welch, aye. mr. tuberville, no. the clerk: mr. menendez, aye

we said chris murphy of connecticut and kyrsten sinema, an independent frot to work in october much lastear and worked on this for weeks, months, went back and forth and it looked many times like it was hopele, couldn't reach an agreement. and lo and behold, they did. they came up with bill, a bill that massively changed the way we manage border. and brought it to the white house and said to joe biden in this bipartisan bill, this bipartisan bill, will y support it and he said i will. so we had a perfect form a bipartisan bill in a congress with a democratic senate and a republican house. and a president of the united states who says i'll sign it. wpened next? that's the best part. they went and asked the republicans, many of the republicans didn't take yes for an answer because wds bipartisan bill, the architect being the republican senator of their asking one man to go forward. want to guess who it was? donald trump. donald trump said no, i'm sorry, i don't want to see t ab this issue as presidential campaign in the year 2024. i'm telling you right now, stop that bill. stop that bipart

this is the bipartisan border deal that group of senate negotiators james lankford, kyrsten sinema and chris murphy struck back in february. it essentially would amend some asylum laws. it within the so-called program called catch and release and it would give the president authority the border if a certain number of individuals across the border if that reached a certain threshold. come together after months ofly those painstaking negotiations that initially convene republicans have demanded any aid for ukraine be alongside bordvion. that group convene, they came to an agreement unveiled this deal which was essen and immigration reform has been something that has lawmakers for years but very quickly after he became clear this bipartisan border deal finish line of republicans casting doubt on the significance of the legislations former president trump come out and urging republica tainst it. so essentially republicans have blocked this legislation from moving forward and then congress went ahead with considering foreign aid without border security. now schumer is trying to comeme back

why it we made a capital side o operate it.tz: senator sinema. g for being hear.ts of entry and airpor. airports have received over $263 million enhance wants and improved when i wrote the pwarsz infrastructure law working toward prince lake completing widing of efrpbgs 10 it moves tens of millions of people. thanks it the award by the pwarsz infrastructure law an exnd three lane i-10 through the indian mmunity ll be a reality. arizonans are excited for this partnership in implementing all ascts of the bill. you said in your testimony that safety is d.o.t. primary mission. you contacted me last friday it derailed lguage the arizona and new mexico board with gas two of them cgh there coasted interstate 40 inial directions pause service on the chief and prompted a two radius. aware eager it gets more information. details have been hard to come bythbake information like the fire duration or how figured out concernsment can yo investigation including how the cost of the derailment will be determineded a how will the department people are informed as it srls. sec. butt

ronald hansen when kyrsten sinema said she would not seek another term, what was the impact of that on this senate race? you know, it really did have a significant impact. there's been sort of some mystery around this race since she switched to an independent in late 2022. it really made it difficult, i think, to get a fix on what the shape of this race really was. she was an incumbent senator who used to raise a lot of money. it there was no indication that she was going to jump into the race, but she never really pulled out of it either. so i think from a polling perspective, if only it really sort of made it difficult to get a read on what dynamics people were even going to face that has cleared up. in the past month, though, there have been other newsworthy items that have sort of reshaped the race as well. right before we get to those who's running right now, we have u.s. representative ruben gallego, though he is the only prominent democrat running in this race. we have two notable republic wins running in a primary that is former gubernatorial candidate carrie lake. she is a for

senator sinema at seven or langford incredibly hard to negotiate a bipartisan bill last year that was most significant water bill and decades to strengthen our presence on the border. is past it would have been the most significant border bill in decades. trying to strengthen our presence on the board. i would certainly like to take a moment to thank them. thank you for your hard work, developing that compromise. fortunately, they didn't move forward. i have many colleagues that would like to talk about solving a problem. it is so much easier to throw rocks. even though the bill has potential to make substantial changes, it also would have provided critical resources for the funding operators. they got in the way. this is opposed to the problem solvers. these long-standing challenges, will have his budget with a chance to actually meet that president joe biden's budget request, includes resources for more law enforcement officials. this will keep fentanyl from reaching our communities. we have enough resources to the northern order. i was proud to secure funding, to establish the nort

[applause] >> this afternoon senators kyrsten sinema of arizona, bill cassidy of louisiana, james lankford of obama and joe manchin of west virginia talk about the current state of american politics peeking at the annual institute global conference in los angeles. live coverage begins 4:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span2. recently u.s. energy secretary jennifer granholm testified in president biden's 2025 budget request for house energy and commerce committee u.s. liquid natural g exports, appliance efficiencytandards, clean energy cld see it tonight 8:00 eastern on c-span2. he spent now, free mobile pretty graph or online at c-span.org. >> it information from members of government in the palm of your hand. when you order your copy of c-span's 2024 congressional directory with ir contact information every house and senate member of the 118 congress. important information on congressional committee. the president's cabinet these and state governors. congressional directory has 32.95 questioning and handling of every purchase helps support nonprofit operations. scan the court on the right or to