avel gordly was my state representative, my state senator in northeast portland so i knew her name and her face and her work as a citizen of portland. in the 90s, and in the 2000 and in 2007, i was lobbying the state legislature on behalf of education, on behalf of higher education and we were visiting around in salem and talking to legislators in the last of our delegation of portland state university with senator avel gordly and she was a great champion of positive education and as we were enjoying our conversation and wrapping up i said is an honor to meet you. you probably don't know me but i worked at psu and the librarian, the librarians there have told me that you gifted your personal papers, your personal archives to the university and the staff is a little overwhelmed right now but i wanted to thank you personally and also say that if you need help with that collection, i think i can give you a hand and she said yes, i would love some help with that. >> i got a call at my office and she's like, i'd like to meet with you. i said sure, i thought we were good. we learned so much,

states. now, i know the president of the senate is especially interested in this issue. flexibility for the states. he's given it a lot of thought. and i want him to know i am always open to talking to him about this issue. in the bill that i described earlier, seven democrat, seven republicans, we had a special section which became law in the affordable care act that in effect provided for what are called innovation waivers. and the theory -- and i'm sure my colleague in the chair has been thinking about these issues as well -- is based on the idea that we both have heard for years, conservatives have said if those folks in washington will just give us the freedom, we can find better ways to cover people, hold down the costs, and make what works in louisiana work for us, and folks in oregon can pursue what works for folks in oregon. and so i said at the time that every single bill that i would be part of in this debate about fixing american health care, we would have a provision that would respond to this argument that the states are the laboratories of democracy. we'd h

that's what the net state senate is supposed to do? there was no reason why we needed to take three days on this nominee. i say to my friend theblican democratic leader, and i say to the republican leader, this type of obstruction has gone on long enough. and it has to stop. as i said i'm happy to stay for the entire august recess to do the work the american people sent us here to do. but we must first have a plan of what we're going to do and how.v what are we to say to the american people if we stay here for several weeks, have no legislative plan and accomplish we nothing? we put in for six months now, what we done? we done gorsuch and we done gorsuch and we done gorsuch and we repealed some regulations. all of it, my party in control of all three branches of government. i'm not proud to go back to arizona and talk about that record of non-accomplishment. right now we have no consensus on how to repeal and replace the failed policies of obamacare. i can't tell you the number of hours i heard the same arguments go around and around a

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that's what the united states senate is supposed to do? there was no reason why we needed to take three days on this nominee. i say to my friend, the democratic leader, and i say to the republican leader, this type of obstruction has gone on long enough, and it has to stop. as i said, i'm happy to stay here for the entire august recess to do the work the american people sent us here to do. but we must first have a plan of what we're going to do and how. why don't we just say to the american people if we stay here for several weeks, have no legislative plan and accomplish nothing. we've been here for six months now. what have we done? we've done gorsuch and we've done gorsuch and we've done gorsuch and we've repealed some regulations. all of it, my party in control of all three branches of government. i'm not proud to go back to arizona and talk about that record of nonaccomplishment. right now we have no consensus on how to repeal or replace the failed policies of obamacare. i can't tell you the number of hours i have heard the same argume

and then when united states senate when senator sometimes can dictate what happens around here. if a senator against difficult, will we then have a special envoy? mr. chairman, i just think we have to have some orderly process which we are going to be dealing with these special envoys. >> my sense is that secretary sullivan agrees with that. and is more than glad to have a conversation about that. >> mr. chairman i have a question. since there is a boat at 5:30 p.m. how does the chair intend to proceed with the hearing? >> we will adjourned at 5:30 p.m. and come back at 5:45 pm any other procedural questions? >> senator young. >> chairman -- [laughter] >> thank you, chairman. thank you, mr. sullivan. just on the issue of special envoys. this is precisely why we need to look at the entire organization so we are not doing and and run around the regional bureaus and so forth. but it would be helpful i agree with folks on both sides of the aisle. at least over a period of time we need to establish principles and inform us when a special envoy will be appointed and when one will not.

there are very diminishingly few united states senator who you would always want to have dinner with.re were an awful lot of them. there are very few of them today that you would be dieing to go out and have dinner with. john mccain is someone i would have dinner with seven nights a week. always interesting. a spirit of independent judgment. god, i hope he gets well. >> to that point, john, i think about people working in the senate today and especially the young people working in the senate today who will do two or three years, some of them less. but it will be the memory of their lives. one of the things they talk about whoever is who was serving in the senate when they worked there. every one of them is going to say john mccain at the top of their list. >> lawrence, you had it exactly right at the beginning of the show when you talked about this man having the energy of a 25-year-old and the enthusiasm of a 25-year-old. president obama sent out a greet tweet tonight where he said, cancer doesn't know what it's up against. and i hope that's right. >> thank you both for joining us to

it's crazy but i've seen it before. 20 years ago when bob torricel united states senate the state of w jersey, the new jersey legislature and the democrats made this end around and somehow at the last minute were able to plug then and then future senator frank lautenberg back into that race, a race that he was not going to be in and then frank lautenberg returned to the united states senate for years after that. so, it would be remarkable if that happened but if we learned anything this year it's that don't get tied to what's not remarkable. >> oh, yeah, i mean that's just the way it is day after day right here in washington. thank you fitz. >> and this is ever changing, the war between incoming communications scaramucci and reince preibus. >> the new yorker used very choice language. >> very choice. >> and anthony scaramucci had to tweet out a few moments ago i sometimes use colorful language. i put not give up the passionate fight for donald trump's agenda. this is about the fact that scaramucci says he's going to crack down on leaks from inside the administration. >> and this all s

, and we welcome them back and thank him for service to the united states senate, to the people of arizona, to the people of america. but also thank you most especially for his service in the united states military. another great hero in my life that in our country's history is my predecessor in the united states senate, senator bob dole, who earlier this week celebratei his 94th birthday. service to kansans at all americans exemplified bob dole's life and while i admire him for his time in the united states senate, i respect and even more so for his service to our country during world war ii, and to care for those who have come into harm's way as a result of their service. i often see in the world war ii memorial when there's an honor flight from kansas or across the country, and he is such a role model for so many people. again, i admire him for his othr commitment to other veterans in to making certain veterans who served the care and the gratitude that they deserve. one of the most important ways that we can demonstrate that we honor those who served our country is by making

former congressman chaka fattah, former state senator vince fumo, former city treasurer corey kemp, former state house speaker john perzel, former councilman rick mariano. these are all individuals who are philadelphia politicians within the last two decades have gone to jail. >> at the philadelphia citizen, we printed up philadelphia all-star corruption playing cards, so people can trade them with their friends. and in that exercise, we found that it much worse now when you read what people have done. they're more inventive -- you think of vince fumo, who innovated in terms of using non-profits. >> sure, sure. >> and, you know, you actually pine for the days of buddy cianfrani. >> but this is nothing new. look what lee beloff did back in the day, look at abscam. i mean, i grew up in south philly, i say to my dad, "why do we keep voting for these people over and over again? the neighborhoods get worse and worse, crime gets worse, taxes get higher. people are leaving the neighborhood. you can't attend the public school, and our guys keep going to jail." you know, there's two councilmen and

a state harry reid represented in the senate for many years. people living everywhere else in his home state will have one choice. maybe more. but in terms of these counties, no one is selling obamacare insurance at all. the state health insurance exchange put out a statement in his home state saying the people living in the rest of the state face what they describe as a health care crisis. democrats predicted there is a health care crisis all across the country. people in that state are going to have no access to plans that were promised. a lot of americans are not much better off. there was a headline in usa today i saw on the independence day, front page, big headline, 1370 counties only have one aca insurer. the study done by the robert woods johnson foundation found people living in more than 1300 counties have no choice when it comes to the obamacare plan. one company offering the mandated coverage. washington says you have to buy it. not many want to sell it. washington doesn't care. democrats don't seem to care about the fact that what t

jim's efforts as a candidate and state senator help signal the rejuvenation of the state gop p. when gene snyder announced he would retired in '86, jim decided to run for his spot. jim assembled an all-star team of a different kind. a political all-star team. lee atwater ran the campaign, roger ailes did jim's media and bob teeter did the polling. all three would later be reunited on george h.w. bush's presidential campaign two years later. even with this topnotch group and a tremendous personal effort, both jim and mary agreed election night was tense. tense. it got to the point where mary could no longer sit around waiting for the returns. as she recalled, when i get nervous, i go shopping. to which jim replied, and then i get nervous. ultimately there was no need for them to be anxious. jim wond handily 55-44 which in our line of work is a nice marg margin. not long into his house tender he secured a seat on the house ways and means committee with jurisdiction over taxes and many entitlement programs. committee assignments are much more important than in the senate. it's a re

john sullivan testified before the senate foreign relations committee on proposed reorganization of t state department. the plan is part of president trump's fiscal year 2018 budget proposal. the entire hearing is about 90 minutes. >> senator cardin wanted to make sure and said that everyone had the opportunity to hear everyone's questions, and so in order to accommodate that gladly, at 5:30 we will recess for 15 minutes and come back at 5:45 so everyone can go over and vote and be back so that everyone's able to hear what everyone else's questions. we thank you for being here, mr. secretary, again so promptly. we appreciate that you've made time to appear before this committee twice in a week's time. passing an annual state department authorization bill is one of the fundamental responsibilities of this committee, and when we shirk that responsibility and decline to exercise our oversight we in essence surrender our authority to the executive branch and other congressional committees and fail to do the jobs our constituents sent us here to do. restoring this annual practice was a top prior

avel gordly was my state representative, my state senator, in northeast portland. so i knew her name and her face and her work as a citizen of portland in the '90s, and early 2000s, and in 2007, i was lobbying the state legislature on behalf of education, on behalf of higher education, and we were visiting around in salem and talking to legislators, and our last stop of our delegation was with senator gordly. she was to great champion of the cause of education and was we enjoyed tower conversation and wrapping up i said, it's an honor to meet you. you don't probably know me but i work at ps and the librarians there and historians and the librarians told me you gifted your personal papers, your personal archives to the university and the staff is a little overwhelmed right now but i wanted to thank you personally and also say if you need some help with that collection, i think i can give you a hand. and she said, yes, i would love some help with that. a few weeks later i got a called in my office, and she is like, i'd like to meet with you. i was like, sure. i though

in the united states has one senator and every other state has a number of senators equal to the smallest state's population divided by the population of a bigger state for the number of senators yes so if you got it you know how to divide it up by the result of that you divide that math so that for example becoming the senator one of the senators from california doesn't involve massive expenditure on media bias and the other things that bring corporations into it come on kind of said what i was going to say in a different way which is before the seventeenth amendment the senate was america's house of lords and let in a fact and let's face it that's what it's become again by and large in most cases because it takes so much money to run for the united states senate in this country that it's become almost a purchased seat i mean there are a few happy accidents and cases where that isn't true but by and large it's not a democratic institution it does not reflect the will of the people i mean we've even seen gerrymandering congress doesn't represent the majority of two thousan

stephanie hansen, delaware state senate. valdez bravo, portland, oregon. rita moore, oregon school board. natalie vowell, st.

a state harry reid represented e in the senate for many years. people living ever else in his home state will have i think one choice, and maybe more but in terms of these counties, no one is selling obamacare insurance at all. the state health insurance exchange put out a statement in his home state that said that the people living in the rest of the state faced with a described as a health care crisis. democrats predicted wonderment and happiness about obamacares but there is a health care crisis all across the country.ce people in that state will have no access to insurance plans if democrats promised them under obamacare. a lot of americans are not much better off him in better shape right now. those headline "usa today"," mrn president, that i saw on the addition to came out for the third and fourth of july, theene ended the addition day, front headline 1370 plus counties have only one aca and sure, only one. 1370 counties. the article is about a study done by the robert wood johnsoni foundation to it on people living in more than 1300 counti

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our states are different, districts are different, and decent senators are trying to do what they think is best in their home state. what i think is best for america is, we move forward on the debate for repeal and replace obamacare. you have good senators, who are freaked out about changing the current health care package of obamacare, but julie, we have to recognize that obamacare is failing the american people. we have this debate about what the republican party is doing, we have to look at democrats who have been obstructions in the process in our pricing american families out of their ability to purchase health care. now once a driven health care car into the ditch, with obamacare, down the sidelines and obstruct. you have a two-party system that is at fault, not just republicans, but democrats that sit there as well and say, we will not help you unless you go with a single pair government run system. california is going to try to have a model, of single-payer. they could not afford it. they scrapped the package. it will bankrupt america as well. ill empower government. not familie

states. next the senate tried care bill. then there was a second version of the bill then came the orra that i call repeal and ruin in that started back in 2015 then g this morning the public got a look at the third version of the bcra.aving so of your having coffee mr. president in oregon overse lunch your head must me spinning and as you hear the news i also want to make sure that folks know about the strategy coming out of the white house over the last few days. the president first endorsed the senate trumpcare bill. but then it was repealed only then while the country watched the administrationpresid sabotage the affordable care act the president said everybody ought to sit back and watch what happens then back to calling the senate majority calling child-care nobody in this chamber the possible exception of the senate majority leader mcconnell can really claim wit about coming down the pikeke and american health care so with the well-being of hundreds of millions of americans at stake this wretched process really just l

a state senator. i think he is still a state senator. conyers. it could have been conyers. they gave the order, don't shoot. be cool. just let it go. that is the order they gave. word got out. word got out and suddenly, there is 50,000 people on 12 streets. saidnk part of what they was ok. heart of it was not. people started dying. fight in a meat market and they hung one of the guys on a meat hook and killed them. then a liquor store. they looted the upstairs. went to get the taste of the blues upstairs, they put the place on fire. everybody in the basement died. it started to escalate. i'm jumping ahead a little bit. this was a 14 day situation. picture this. when the fire department came out, they would shoot at the fire department. lynwood, i have pictures of this. they were breaking into the stores on lynwood. then they would step the sores -- set the stores on fire. they would go down henry. you have to understand, this is very important. maybe 10% of the people in the community. all kinds came up to us and said please help us. 10% of the rioters easily were white. oc

or is it the united states senate? part of why i am not announcing to you today what we will do is our family hadn't figured it out yet either. we are honored by all the people who stepped forward to support us and we will make the decision , not on any calling bickering or distortions in the primary. to move back to the policy agenda, what needs to happen on raising the debt ceiling? it is a difficult challenge. the american people are tired -- tired of the nation continuing to build up debt. to any debteases ceiling, i need to see spending reforms, steps taken to stop the spending money we do not have. i think that is where most of the house in congress is. they would have a hard time supporting what has come to be blanche open debt ceiling increase without policy reforms. my guess is that is where we have to be -- part of congress, we have to be spending reforms as well. james: do you have spending reform house would like to see? rep. messer: a couple $100 billion in spending reforms. clear over thery last several y

tomorrow the united states senate will have the opportunity to begin the debate on the bill to repeal and replace obamacare. as the president said this morning, after years of talking and campaigning on it, now is the time for republicans in the senate to act. republicans in the senate will have a chance to do the right thing, to keep their promise to the american people and these families and families all across this country. this president and the american people are counting on the senate to act. so, with gratitude for his leadership, and his persistence and determination to make american healthcare great again, it is my high honor and distinct privilege to introduce these families the 45th president of the united states of america, president donald trump. [applause]

the head of the democratic party of the united states senate has openly stated obamacare is on the table for democrats. an analysis of one of our democrat colleagues' single-payer plan estimate thad it would cost $32 trillion over ten years. $32 trillion. well, that would require a tax hike so staggering that the "washington post" pointed out that even the senator who proposed it, an avowed socialist, didn't offer anything close to what would be needed to pay for it. we are the only hope americans have of getting out from under obamacare's burdens. madam president, this week, we have a chance to pass legislation to finally provide them with relief. and i heard my colleagues get up and talk about the impact that the proposed legislation that's before us would have on people across this country and american workers, and i have to say that i have talked to a lot of rank-and-file, hardworking south dakotans and south dakota families who have been hit so hard by these premium increases. i have talked to families, mom and a dad, two kids, who are paying more than $2,000 a month in premiums to

and we see what happened in california when their legislature passed a similar thing in the state senate. >> it was the cost, $400 billion. but the what the budget of the entire state of california, 190 billion so what they propose in the state senate passed in california. it cost twice what the budget of the state of california was to give what the people of california have been promised, you have to raise taxes on people and then you get the rationing of care and the lines and the waiting time, what happens around the world with government mandated, government run insurance and we see that in canada and we see that in england. i was practicing medicine prior to coming here to the senate as an orthopedic surgeon in wyoming. i knew we needed to do healthcare reform but obamacare was the wrong reform. democrats were wrong then and all the talk about government run healthcare, it is wrong today. wrong today for the people of this country. but we understand that we need a better solution than obamacare, that's what i hear about every weekend. we need to put patients in charge, not the gover

the bill already passed the state senate and moves to the state assembly today for a vote. jessica flores, kpix 5. >>> starting today, sonoma county begins accepting applications for businesses looking for permits to sell marijuana. california's now just five months away from allowing the sale of recreational marijuana and this time next year pot products might be sold at state fares part of a bill signed by the governor last month detailing how the legalization of marijuana would take shape and lets local jurisdictions rent campgrounds for events centered around marijuana. >>> police are trying to track down the suspects who stole a utility truck from a fire station. officers found it in san francisco's dogpatch neighborhood. the truck was reportedly stolen from oxnard fire department in southern california on monday. there's no word yet on any suspect descriptions. >>> samsung is expected to report a record shattering quarterly property this month. roxana saberi has that story and more from cbsmoneywatch.com. >> reporter: u.s. stock markets return to business today follow

then if it's voted out of committee, bring it to the floor of the united states senate for the same thing to happen. do you know who came up with that radical idea? that we go through the committee process and both parties participate in writing this reform? none other than senator john mccain. he came to this floor a couple days ago, it was an historic moment. everybody, both political parties, on their feet, cheering this man whom we've served with and love and respect. and he warned us -- he warned us that if we didn't do this together, democrats and republicans, the results would be terrible. can we afford terrible results when it comes to health care for your family, for you, for your baby? of course we can't. we've got to do our level best not to win the political debate but to win the confidence of the american people that we understand how to make health care better and more responsive in america. i have been through a lot of measures and i have voted on a lot of things over the years. my proudest vote was for the affordable care act because i knew that we would extend the reach a

then if it's voted out of committee, bring it to the floor of the united states senate for the same thing to happen. do you know who came up with that radical idea? that we go through the committee process and both parties participate in writing this reform? none other than senator john mccain. he came to this floor a couple days ago, it was an historic moment. everybody, both political parties, on their feet, cheering this man whom we've served with and love and respect. and he warned us -- he warned us that if we didn't do this together, democrats and republicans, the results would be terrible. can we afford terrible results when it comes to health care for your family, for you, for your baby? of course we can't. we've got to do our level best not to win the political debate but to win the confidence of the american people that we understand how to make health care better and more responsive in america. i have been through a lot of measures and i have voted on a lot of things over the years. my proudest vote was for the affordable care act because i knew that we would extend the reach a

it is gut check time in the united states senate. the legislation that we're going to consider tomorrow, it would hurt a lot of people in ways i think that are very hard to fathom. one of our colleagues said, i didn't come here to hurt people. everybody came here with designs on how to make their community, their state, their nation a better place. and we are on the verge of taking a vote on a bill that objectively will rain a level of devastation down on this country that's really hard to fathom. i can't match senator kaine's eloquence talking about the personal stakes here. we take for granted the fact that, as employees of the united states senate, we get a health benefit that makes sure that if we do fall ill or if our children fall ill, we won't have to think about whether or not we have the money to be able to afford treatment. but that's not how it is for all of those families that lined up in virginia to receive care. that's not how it is for those that come to a similar event in connecticut that's targeted just for dental se

on that date, the united states senate from the center joe mccarthy by a vote of 67-22. mccarthy stood up to speak on the senate floor, the chamber was empty. when he sat down with other senators in the senate dining room, his colleagues would make lame excuses and leave. the reporters who had once hung on his every word work on. in late 1955, army council john g adams visited mccarthy at his home in 1955. they said down and poured six ounces of june. he looked awful hence recalled. he lost about 40 pounds in his team's show. adams describes the man as quote the cadaverous space-age of mccarthyism, standing silently in the shadows slowly dying. indeed, joe mccarthy did die on may 2nd, 1957 at the age of 48. that is a peek into a very complicated story. and if i confuse you in the next few minutes, just remember, randy brooks will appreciate this, the book is better than the speech. in terms that these three stories, on the mystery bus. this is a how done it, not a whodunit. in a how done it we must follow the clues to figure out who did the crime. in a how done it, we kno

now, the bill already passed the state senate. today it moves ahead to the state assembly for a vote. jessica flores, kpix 5. >>> many san francisco residents know how tough it is to save money. so the city is stepping in to help out with a new campaign. they are even paying people to save. katie nielsen cat is here to tell us what the plan is. >> reporter: the city treasurer is launching this new program to try to help san francisco residents become more financially stable by building up some emergency savings. it's called saver life. and basically, it's what they are going to do, pay you to save your own money. now, the reason that that is so important is about half of all americans don't have enough savings to cover an unexpected $400 expense. that's according to the federal reserve bank. it means sometimes people can't pay their rent or property taxes. maybe utility bills. the urban institute estimates that costs the city of san francisco 24 to $54 million every year. so that's where saver life comes in. the idea is to get peop

and be the lion that he is in the united states senate. >> dana, you covered capitol hill for a long time. talk about the influence that senator mccain has there, and within the republican party. and also just what he's like personally. i've interviewed him a number of times, he has a great sense of humor. >> yes, he does. >> and generally engaged in not just domestic issues, but internationally. >> the only people who can call people little jerks and mean that as a term of endearment, which he does, frequently, as a term of endearment. i just want to echo what gloria is saying. there is nobody who is the kind of fighter that john mccain is. never mind all of the things that he went through in vietnam. the melanoma that he had in 2000. but just even the extent to which he is going constantly, in warp speed always. you mentioned the kind of impact he has in the senate. a huge impact. but he has a huge impact globally. my friend paul cain at the washington post just did a story about the miles that he logs. just this year alone, anderson, 75,000 miles, to more than 15 nations across thr

and add has been said, the senator from massachusetts, i know the senator from washington state as well, that the american people know this. that's why our phones are ringing in our offices and i know our senate colleagues, republican colleagues, saying don't pass this kind of legislation. i think about the fact that in the last couple of weeks, i had the parents of a number of children and young adults who had enormous disabilities come to my office, and being in virginia, we run a very skinny medicaid program. frankly, it's not been very generous. some of the individuals that come to my office have waited five, six, one person ten years to get a medicaid waiver. these families, these children, in any of the proposals that we put forward, would be the first to lose their coverage. family after family talked about the fact that right now both parents can work because they have got a little bit of relief to take care of their disabled, in certain cases young adult, in many cases because of some of this work that young adult can at least find some place to do some productive work themselv

no matter what happens today doesn't mean that it's going to pass the united states senate. what we're seeing here is -- and i do agree with president trump quite frankly on this -- and he was pushing this yesterday -- is that they should have vote to proceed to debate this on the senate floor. that's where things are hashed out. that's where people can talk about the differences. that's where they can try to get something done. the fact of the matter is in politic the, if you vote for the motion to proceed, which would allow debate on this, and you're a republican and you eventually vote against the bill, the underlying bill, at the end of this whole process, then you're really caught in a bad political jam. so, that's why i think it is very tenuous, but to the fact that john mccain is coming back today, can you imagine what john mccain is thinking this morning as he's looking at all these tweets from president trump which are all over the place and quite frankly, are demeaning. at the office of the presidency. john mccain has been very critical of president trump in his be

diagnosis he received, he comes home to hear his welcome as he deserves in the floor of the united states senate. what was so amazing right after this moment, don, that senator mccain one back to his desk and nearly every member of the senate walked over to him and started greeting him vjlien concluding a whole slew of senate nearly all of them come pretty good they're side of the senate to agreed him. there's no doubt that mccain's return has a psychological effect on the vote that you were talking about. arranging for mitch mcconnell to come back for this key vote has helped the effort to get the final last votes who may have a hurdle to jump over to get there, to get to 50 votes and allow mike pence to cast that tie-breaking vote. on the matter of healthcare this is just the beginning. they get on to the bill and start debating and we're already seeing the ideological divide that has proved so impossible for them to overcome in terms of coming up with a replacement plan still remains. they still don't have a consensus plan on what to do once they repeal obamacare. >> and here we go again. it'

imagine today an old ohioan or michiganian or somebody from senator mcconnell's home state or senator alexander's home state, they face this man on appeal, could they be confident their case would be decided fairly and impartially, that justice would be served. could we be confident when we have a man stand up in the largest city in kentucky and engage in homophobic slurs. i heard from african american and jewish organizations who are absolutely outraged at this nomination partly because he is unfit to serve, partly because now has senator whitehouse, my friend from rhode island and one of the best judicial minds in this state or in this body, senator whitehouse has said if we confirm bush, it's going to lower the bar in the future. it's okay to say -- to engage in racist talks or homophobic or massage i.n.s. it's okay because judge bush did. he's sithing on the sixth circuit so why not bring some more forward. is that the standard, that your votes today, the 51 members of this body that voted, is that the standard you want to set for the future? organizations with a history of fighti