. >> i appreciate it, reid, tim reid from "reuters," i know there's a lot to be done here. john glenn is with me. there's your camera. what is this again? >> this is video, we're speaking about dorothy vaughan, the woman inside who thought it was a drill. the "l.a. times" has posted this video, shot from inside. >> what bat are we on? >> bat 8. >> and bat 10 is the source here. i read this thing from her a few minutes ago. play it. >> i was looking out the window. >> what is that? they're coming on here. they're running right there. okay. they're coming over here? >> that's where they're coming. >> see them, they're all right here. she thought it was an active shooter drill. they have them around once a month or so. because they have people who are not entirely stable there all the time and she and others like her thought it was an active shooter drill and now we know from what we're seeing on the big wall behind me, it is certainly not. authorities are massed trying to get all the information they can. they brought five bus loads of people. five bus loads of them to the to

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reid: madam president, i ask unanimous consent that a staff member of senator tim kaine, ryan willebrand be granted floor privileges for today. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president -- madam president, i'm sorry -- the accomplishments of this senate, this first year of this senate, this session of the senate, has been a demonstration of what can happen when a minority is not trying to block everything. there's been no need this last year for scores and scores of cloture petitions being filed because we didn't block things. we rarely did that. when in the past, of course, it was done all the time. so we have demonstrated that it's important to have a minority that is responsible. of course, we know that the issues that have passed this year, issues that we'd worked on for a number of years and they'd been blocked by republicans, we're glad to have been part of this congress and were able to move forward on a number of issues that have been languishing for a long time. but of course next year we need to do more for the middle class. there are lots of things that

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