he was in georgia, calling on the us senate to create national rules for early voting and voting by mailst—spreading omicron surge is still to come and there are currently more people in us hospitals with covid than at any point during the pandemic. uk prime minister borisjohnson is facing increasing pressure after accusations he attended a garden party during the first lockdown in may 2020. the government is neither confirming or denying that he and his wife were at the gathering.

senator braun was with us earlier. and i want to acknowledge senator braun's attendance at the hearing and maybe will be back here. we'll take a brief recess now to vote, at least so that ranking member scott and i can vote and then we'll come back and resume the hearing. the hearing. >> okay. the hearing will resume and um i wanted to start by um uh acknowledging that senator gillibrand senator >>> okay if hearing will resume. and i wanted to start by acknowledging that senator gillibrand and senator warnock have joined us via webex. and i'll start with my questions and then turn to ranking member scott. i wanted to start with kate kleinert. kate, kate, as i mentioned, your story is so powerful. and unfortunately for america, it is not unique. i think every member of the committee was moved by what you said. as i said, your written testimony was powerful enough, but hearing it directly from you had a big impact on me, and, i know, other members. so we're grateful you're here and we're grateful your story can help other

elizabeth: joining us from senate foreign relations, we have back with us senator bill hagerty. e new coming in the white house is sending officials down into congress to pressure senate democrats to stand down, do not go for senator ted cruz's sanctions on russia's nord stream 2 pipeline. are you hearing the same thing? >> i'm hearing exactly the same thing, liz. by the way, happy new year to you. it is good to be back on here. we're hearing exactly same thing as white house pressuring the democrats to oppose the nord stream 2 sanctions bill. the senate should overwhelmingly pass this bill, regain the leverage we've had. biden administration is about appeasement, giving up leverage, whether the extension of start. president showing up 16 industries the russians should not touch with cyberattacks. there should be no industry with respects to cyberattacks. we need to regain your strength. that is why the nord stream 2 bill should pass. elizabeth: senator, reports are coming in the white house wants to hold on to nord stream 2 in its own hip pocket as leverage itself in talks with

and us also representatives of $48.00 democrats, senators, and all that. so basically you have 296 u. s. a democrats, as governor, senators and congressmen, and you're telling me none of them are going to be look good for 2024. how bad is your party right now? yet the mid terms in november, as you say, should be interesting as well. christopher, thanks for your time today. christopher harris, executive director of the conservative news website on hyphenated america still i had in the program, emerick is in the grip all by supply chain crisis, which supermarket is running out of goods, but president biden safe olds. ok, the story edge. ah ah join me every thursday on the alex simon, sure. well, i'll be speaking to guess of the world of politics, sport business. i'm sure business. i'll see you then. mm. ah. hello again. american consumers are feeling the pain with inflation of its highest in a generation on supermarket shelves emptying out as cobit disrupt supply chains. president biden, and says it's all part of a global problem. but republicans are pointin

he was in georgia, calling on the us senate to create national rules for early voting and voting by mailalk.

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this is likely to be more theatre than a solution, but one prominent us senator has a new suggestion saying the u. s. can't give into rushes demands that ukraine will not join nato, but ukraine can. but it's his decision to make if he decides that the future membership, if there's to be one in nato, for ukraine, and the question of russian occupation of ukraine are 2 things to put on the table . i think we may move toward a solution to this. this week the us senate is expected to take the bill that would spell out severe consequences if russia acts, which would include sanctions, which would include more military assistance, which would include helping them to fight back against the cyber attacks that the russians will continue to use against ukraine and also to help on the disinformation campaign that rushes actively involved and to try to stabilize the zaleski government, but the biden administration to hold off on sanctions as a deterrent. hoping that the threat of freezing russia out of the international banking system is enough to stop any military action which russia says has n

senators no longer even have to speak one word. the filibuster is not used by republicans to bring the senate together but to pull it further apart. the filibuster has been weaponized and abused while the state legislative assaults on voting rights is simple. all you need in your house and senate is a pure majority. the united states senate it takes a super majority. 60 votes. even to get a vote. instead of 50. to protect the right to vote. state legislators can pass anti-voting laws with a simple majorities. if they can do that, the united states senate should be able to protect voting rights by a simple majority. [applause] today, i am making it clear. to protect our democracy irk support changing the senate rules. whichever way they need to be changed to prevent a minority of senators from blocking action on voting rights. [applause] when it comes to protecting majority rule in america, the majority should rule in the united states senate. i make this announcement with careful deliberation recognizing the fundamental right to vote is the right from which

joining us now senator james langford. what is your assessment? appreciate your monologue. i'm in that half as well. that thinks we still have an opportunity for rebirth. and there is always an opportunity for a man of faith. if i go become to biblical example, we need to pray and then get to work, for a lot of folks saying too far gone, i tell them, let's pray, get to work and keep going, we've seen difficult days in the past but that does not mean this great republic cannot survive and set example for the world, most of the problem is not our constitution or founders, it is we're not following through on the principles and the constitution. we get back to following founding principles we could have same advance to most powerful military and strongest economy and light for the world, the world is counting on us to get this right. >> you mentioned our founding, they gave us a house, that is wild, they gave us a senate. it is 50/50. that does not to me seem to be the time, right time for transformational change, i would say if vice president were a

senators no longer even have to speak one word. the fill buster is not use by republicans to bring the senate together but to pull it further apart. the filibuster has been weaponized and abused while the state legislative assaults on voting rights is simple. all you need in your house and nat is a pure majority. the united states senate it takes a super majority. 60 votes. toach get a vote. instead of 50. to protect the right to vote. state legislators can pass anti-voting laws with a simple majorities. if they can do that, the united states senate should be able to protect voting rights by a simple majority. [applause] today, i am making it clear. to protect our democracy irk support changing the senate rules. whichever way they need to be changed to prevent a minority of senators from blocking action on voting rights. [applause] when it comes to protecting majority rule in america, the majority should rule in the united states senate. and make this -- i make this announcement with careful deliberation recognizing the fundamental right to vote is the right

senator collins has shown great leadership, senator tell us and senator manchin and senator sinema andthers we have identified all the areas to work on particular areas. i also know that we have senator blunt and klobuchar that no separately and importantly through the rules committee holding hairy on —- hearings with a separatena initiative. so at some point we will meet our different ideas to come up with a reconciled bill. it is a b prediction and to deliver something to ourur leadership that can be brought to the floor and ultimately designed to the president to be brought into law.in doesn't seem highly contestedpr topic. and then to come together. and with beach on —- paging behaving badly. >> that is a fun #in beijing behaving badly. but it is a serious topic. and then the regime to further elevate his regime in the eyes of the world and to normalize much of the behavior. that's a diplomatic boycott. also we shouldn't let the opportunity be wasted. with modern-day slavery with that orwellian surveillance state and the encroachments of neighboring territories the seizure of hong

there are two senators who are working through this with us, but there are a whole bunch of moderates and people from states like senator tester of montana who have seen good democracy rules. and then suddenly, after 15 years, you've got same-day registration taken away in that state, yet thousands of people have relied on that. just one example you that don't always hear about that is this all-out assault on democracy across the country. when you look through history, and we were there in georgia, where history happened, the federal government responds. they may not do it right away, but we can't do it anymore. the federal government responded with civil rights violations, the federal government responded throughout history when things have happened and it's on us right now. and we're just making the case to these two senators as vociferously and i'm giving you the arguments all the time. this is not a radical change. what is radical is people who are undermining our democracy. we can always have differences of opinions, democrats and republicans. but our job is to make sure, as you

i urge everyone in the senate to think about the things that have preceded you and all of us. about the nation, to think about the history of segregation, jim crow the history of when you cast the vote in the senate you are casting it to do away with those things not to reaffirm them, thank you madam chair for. >> thank you. our power our message. thank you all for coming. to all the members thank you. [inaudible] [background noises] [background noises] [background noises] c-span offers a variety of podcast for every listener. weekdays washington today gives you the latest in the nation's capitol. every week book notes a plus has student interviews with writers about their latest work on the weekly uses immense archives to look at how issues of the day developed an art series talking list of features extensive list with about their lives and work. many of our television programs are also available as podcasts. you can find them all on the c-span now mobile app. and wherever you get your podcast. recorded conversations while in office. many of this conversation on c-span podcas

us about him. why did that happen? senator reid: when i was a senior in high school, i was student body president in high school. i remember -- i guess we thought we were big shots as seniors. first day of school, here comes this funny man, had a funny gait. walking by. he had a combover. we thought to ourselves, give us a week or two, he'll be puddy in our hand. well, it was a couple weeks later we were puddy in his hands. we had such admiration. first all, we feared him physically, immensely. he was -- he could be very hard. some of the things he did to students at the time, you couldn't do now. but he did it. he had a -- he lost his leg in korea, was highly decorated, but he was wonderful. he just -- he was so good. taught me -- was one of my people who helped me understand later in life i could make good grades -- senator daschle: your lives were intertwined. senator reid: yes. this man who is on a pension sent me money when i was in law school. when i cam back and took the bar, i was so poor. he met me at the airport and

he was in georgia today, calling on the us senate to create national rules for early voting and votingaws meant to prevent discrimination. this is one of the big drives of the biden administration after many republican—controlled states introduced tighter voting regulations after the last presidential election. jim crow 2.0 is about two insidious things — voter suppression and election subversion. it's no longer about who gets to vote, it's about making it harder to vote. it's about who gets to count the vote — and whether your vote counts at all. it's not hyperbole, this is a fact. look, this matters to all of us. the goal of the former president's allies is to disenfranchise anyone who votes against them. simple as that. let's get some of the day's other news. north korea says the missile test it carried out on tuesday was of a hypersonic device. state media announced that the launch was attended by the country's leader, kimjong—un. it was the second missile test carried out by pyongyang in a week. the missile plunged into the sea east of the korean peninsula. cuba's president has ac

us. senator, thank you so much, you remain hopeful. on board for changing the filibuster, thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. >> okay. victor, doctors are celebrating a major medical breakthrough. a man received a genetically modified pig heart transplant. this could be a game changer for transplant patients. we have more ahead. touch, pampers, the #1 pediatrician recommended brand, helps keep baby's skin drier and healthier. so every touch will protect like the first. pampers at vanguard, you're more than just an investor, you're an owner with access to financial advice, tools and a personalized plan that helps you build a future for those you love. vanguard. become an owner. with ww, i lost 30 lbs and i feel incredible! i love the new program because the app does all the work for you. it's never too late to start. don't pay until spring! join today at ww.com hurry! offer ends january 17th! new projects means new project managers. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. when you sponsor a job, you immediately get you

just four years ago 61 of us, 61 senators and myself being one, 33 of us on the democrat side and one positions. i have not. i respect that this is a twoway street and i would hope you would respect where i am. i respect that you have changed your position on this. i would hope that you would respect that i have not and i have never wavered on this. i do not and will not attack the contents of the character of any anybody who has changed their position and i would hope you would give me the same opportunity and not attack mine. allowing one party to exert complete control in the senate with only a simple majority will only pour fuel on the fire of political whiplash and dysfunction that is tearing this nation apart and you don't have to look very far to see how we're tearing ourselves apart. i can tell you every part of this country people are divided now. it used to be we couldn't talk about religion at the supper table. now you can't talk about politics. it's truly become a blood sport and should not be that way. the rest of the world is looking at us. they're depending upon us. the

we know that the senate, as many of us remember it, has changed. dramatically. with 25 years ago that i came to the senate. we voted a lot. we actually had 12 appropriation bills come to the floor of the senate every year. every year. under an open process where any amendment could be offered and debated and voted on. that appropriation bill would go into conference with the house and in doubt doing what it was supposed to do, funding our government. i can't remember the last time that happened. i think it's been ten years now since the senate committee for appropriations to their normal business with the budget resolution and prepared these bills. it's gone. why? why is it can't? was if the tradition of the senate that you can see those bills are gone because of the abuse of the filibuster? any amendment that is offered is threatened with asphyxiation vote requirement, and things grind to a halt. and you know the net result of it. we have something called an omnibus bill, all the bills with one massive piece of legislation, staff writer let the member look over

senate tradition is not to use the 60-vote threshold on everything. let's be honest. we're not going back to a world in which senators self-regulate the filibuster. and there is no sign that the claim the filibuster is an incentive for bipartisanship is going to suddenly come true. today millions of voters are wondering why they vote to change the people who get elected but then nothing actually changes. and we should have a better answer than just

so it's the responsibility of every one of us to make sure that the senate works better not for us, but for the american people. in cloafg, in 18 -- in closing, in 1805 vice president aaron burr suggested that the senate remove from its rules the previous question motion which allowed the chamber's simple majority to end debate on a bill. he viewed the rule as completely unnecessary and urged the senate to clean up its rule book because after everyone spoke and debated, they'd vote. a year later the senate removed the previous question motion, leaving a loophole that allowed the minority to take advantage and use what we now know is the filibuster. unfortunately, byrd could not foresee the obstructionism of decades to come. proslavery senators co-opted the filibuster to protect the interests of white southern enslavers. men such as january calhoun eabd the filibuster. 30 measures favored by the sitting president, simple majorities in the house and senate, half of which addressed civil rights, they all died thanks to the filibuster. the same procedural tool proved to be even more useful

joining us now senator bill hagerty from senate foreign relations and congressman darrell issa from house affairs. we welcome both of you gentlemen to the show. thanks for joining us tonight. senator, your reaction to the state department warning it will not be in a position to evacuate u.s. citizens from ukraine if russia invades? what is your reaction to that? >> liz, it takes america back to the afghanistan debacle. they don't even know how many americans are there. i can assure you there are far more americans in ukraine than afghanistan. we're found not prepared for this. this will be a very, very difficult situation. i know the state department already made the call to begin to move certain people out of the embassy already. that is one of a last calls an ambassador would do. it will set a new wave of concern off for people of ukraine. it will send a pretty strong signal to vladmir putin as well. elizabeth: so to the senator's point, congressman, your reaction to what's going on there as the president today ignored questions about russia and ukraine as he returned from camp david. c

senate. i mentioned earlier the congressional review act. the process that uses a simple majority to negate regulations for departments and agencies. if you were to see a republican majority in the senate, they would advance those bills with a simple majority. they could attempts to send messages about up ending president biden's epa regulations, hhs, treasury, wherever. get those bills to the presidents desk. then again president biden way veto them and go back to the senate and house and have failed override votes. there is a lot of this showboat political divided government can happen without needing to actually change the filibuster rule, if all you are sort of looking for is the veto vehicle, anyway. >> the last thing i will say, because we were talking about the failed attempts to change the senate procedures in order to pass a voting rights, election administration piece of legislation, is that i suppose it is possible, there is renewed interest in change to accomplish that piece of legislation. we know now, at least at this moment in time, that is not lik

us. senator shaheen, you first.s who are right now preoccupied with covid and a number of other things at home, explain to them why it should matter to them, whether russian troops go into ukraine. [44.5s] -- into ukraine. >> well, we don't want to see a reprisal of the cold war, and unfortunately, that's what we began to see with vladim putin. and the fact is, if he does invade ukraine, it would be the worst conflict on europe since world war ii. that's not good for our allies, and it's not good for america. we want to see ukrainis like americans and other democracies have the opportunity to determine their own futures. and we do not want to give vladimir putin and russia a veto power over what happens in ukraine in the future. judy: but senator portman, if the united states is not prepared to send troops of its own into ukraine, which is what bipartisan leaders are saying is not in the cards, how are the american people to understand why this is a priority for them? >> well, first of all, the cause of freedom is b

he's the us senator from vermont and a great friend of the show senator bernie sanders will be joiningshe is the most decorated female skier of all time -- a four-time olympia, gold-medalist, and a world cup champion her book, "rise: my story" is out now. lindsey vonn will be here. but before we get to all that, one of the key supporters of the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election - congressman jim jordan -- has said he'll refuse to cooperate with the january 6th investigation just days after fellow pro-coup republican ted cruz went on fox news to debase himself after calling january 6th a terrorist attack for more on this, it's time for "a closer look." ♪ well, here we are again -- doing a show outside our studio due to the world being, as winston churchill once called it, "a giant [ bleep ]-eating cluster-[ bleep ]. he had some bad days today, we are in our fifth remote location since the pandemic began, and not to toot our own horn, but i think this one looks the best yet and not to untoot that same horn, that is a terrible development. it's not good that we're getting better at d

that will then head to the senate, where majority leader, chuck schumer, is planning to use this new at will allow the senate to begin the debate on voting rights, without having to reach a 60 vote threshold, just to begin that debate. earlier today, chuck schumer said this, >> we're having a lot of serious, long, and intense meetings with senators manchin and sinema. we are trying to come to -- want to dilute anybody intodn thinking this is easy. but, we are trying to come to a place where 50 senators can support the two bills, the freedom to vote act and the john lewis act. and, with a change in the rules -- >> senate majority leader, chuck schumer, could begin the voting rights debate on the senate floor, as early as tomorrow. looks like that will happen, because he will take up the message that the house will send to the senate, tomorrow. it's called a message, in this situation. senator schumer plans to employ a rarely used senate maneuver, that will allow debate to begin on that message from the house, without having to clear a 60 vote threshold, just a permit the debate. it is

us. house speaker pelosi: good afternoon, everyone. it is indeed a great honor to join this tribute to the towering titan of public service, senator harry reid. wasn't it deeply moving for all of us to hear lanna and rory and josh and key speak adoringly of their father. you along with his grandchildren and great-grandchild are his greatest pride. but hearing you speak about him shows us what a source of strength you were to him. of course, the love and happiness he shared with his adoring and beautiful wife landra was a source of joy to all of us who know them. all of us here today are here personally to celebrate the life of our dear friend terry. -- dear friend harry. some of us, including two presidents of the united states and members of the senate and house, are also here officially to salute a legendary statesman. i had privilege as speaker of the house to bring the sympathy of the house of representatives, where harry once served. chuck will say, not as long as he served in the senate, but i lay claim to harry because that is where i met him. i wasn't in congress then, but he was in the house and he was running for the united st

senator van hollen: what happened in between was a lot of us here in the senate and the house and folks around the country looked at those projections and said, that is not the kind of course we want to be on and we passed the american rescue plan, which helped stabilize the economy and helped result in those much improved employment numbers, isn't that right. chairman powell: yes. senator van hollen: let me talk about inflation. i think all of us recognize americans are experiencing price increases in many areas. the federal reserve has predicted -- the cleveland fed projected a 2.6% inflation rate for this year, which matches the federal reserve board's projections. if you look at consumer expectations not surprisingly they are running higher than that because of where we have been in the last couple months. can you explain why you are confident at the federal reserve that we can hit that 2.6% target while continuing to push for full employment? chairman powell: that is the median of expectations of individual expectations. we don't have a committee or official fed forecast. it's cond

i guess senator collins is here with us. um ranking member scott made reference senator collins to the years when you were chair and producing the fraud and scams book the that the committee has been using for so many years. so, we thank you for being here. senator braun was with us earlier and i want to acknowledge senator bronze attendance at the hearing and maybe we'll be back here. so we'll take a brief recess now to vote at least. so that ranking member scott and i can vote and then we'll come back and resume the hearing. mhm. >> okay. the hearing will resume and um i wanted to start by um uh acknowledging that senator gillibrand senator warnock have joined us the webex and i'll start with my questions and then turned to ranking member scott. i want to start with with kate kleiner kate. as i mentioned, your story is so powerful and unfortunately for america it is not, it is not unique. i think every member of the committee was moved by what you said as i said, your written testimony was powerful enough. but hearing it di

the practice of the filibuster doesn't jive with this call because the senate tradition is not to use the 60 vote threshold on anything. let's be honest we are not going back to a world in which senators self regulate the filibuster and there's no sign to claim it's f an incentive tht is going to suddenly come true. today millions of voters are wondering why they voted to change the people who get elected but then nothing actually changes. we should have a better answer than just senate tradition military officials testify before the house subcommittee on the impact short-term spending bills have on the military. they talked about several topics including modernization and treatment. >> this hearing will come to order. this hearing is virtual and we will go over a couple of housekeeping matters. someone needs to mute. the chair may mute participants microphones when they are not de

so i intend to vote against this legislation and support senator menendez's legislation that will give us the tools we need to continue to address potential russian aggression. thank you, madam president. i yield the floor and look forward to hearing senator murphy's comments because i know he shares the same concerns that i'm expressing. mr. murphy: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. murphy: thank you very much, madam president. first and foremost, let me thank senator shaheen, she has been a leader in the senate and in our caucus about raising alarms about nord stream 2 to drainian security -- ukrainian security and i am so glad to work with her and i'm here to join her in our opposition to the legislation that is pending on the floor as we speak. if this bill passes, it won't make the nord stream 2 pipeline any less likely. it won't stop russia from invading ukraine. in fact, it will do the exact opposite. it will make the completion of nord stream 2 more likely and it will be a gift to russia, dividing us from our european allies right at the mom

he was in georgia, calling on the us senate to create national rules for early voting and voting by mail, and to restore state voting laws meant to prevent discrimination. the us has recorded more than one million new covid cases as officials warn the peak of a fast—spreading omicron surge is still to come and there are currently more people in us hospitals with covid than at any point during the pandemic. uk prime minister borisjohnson is facing increasing pressure after accusations he attended a garden party during the first lockdown in may 2020. the government is neither confirming or denying that he and his wife were at the gathering. the remains of a wealthy roman trading town have been unearthed in a remote field in northamptonshire by archaeologists working on the construction of the h52 rail network. they say it's one of the most impressive sites they've found so far. our correspondentjo black has been looking at what they've uncovered. it is the high—speed line which divides opinion, but as hs2 develops, some of the excavations along the route have provided opportunities for us

we'll continue the effort to develop legislation, many of us, senator markey, senator thune, senator klobuchar, myself, working with senator blackburn who has been a great partner in this effort. this hearing record will remain open for two weeks if you feel you want to supplement any of your answers. my colleagues would like to submit questions for the record should do so by december 22nd and we ask that your responses be returned to the committee as quickly as possible in no more than two weeks after receipt. that concludes today's hearing. thank you very much for being here. i think we are very much on time. thank you. >> thank you, chairman blumenthal and i appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> good to see you. >> take care. yeah. i'll see you on twitter. >> hello. how are you? >>> get c-span on the go. watch the day's biggest political events live or on demand any time anywhere. on our new mobile video app. c-span now. access top highlights, listen to c-span radio, and discover new podcasts all for free. down load c-span now today. >> so how exactly did america get up to its ne

senate in prayer. the chaplain: let us pray. eternal god, our king eternal, guide our lawmakers to obey your precepts, finding in sacred scriptures a lamp for their feet and a light for their journey. lord, watch over our senators as they seek to do your will. may they hide your words in their hearts, striving always to live with integrity. give them the courage to stand for right and leave the consequences to you. break the power of so that legislators will leave a legacy that will prompt future generations to praise your name. lord, transform discord into symphonies of peace. we pray in your merciful name. amen. the president pro tempore: please join me in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the president pro tempore: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. morning business is closed and under the previous order, the senate will resume considerati

senators no longer even have to speak one word. filibuster is not used by republicans to bring the senate together but to pull it further apart. filibuster has been weaponized and abused. while the state -- all you need in your house and senate is a pure majority. in the united states senate, it takes a super majority, 60 votes even to get a vote, instead of 50 to protect the right to vote. state legislators can pass anti-voting laws with simple majorities. if they can do that, then the united states senate should be able to protect voting rights by a simple majority. [ applause ] today i'm making it clear to protect our democracy, i support changing the senate rules. whichever way they need to be changed to prevent a minority of senators from blocking action on voting rights. when it comes to protecting majority rule in america, the majority should rule in the united states senate. and i make this announcement with careful deliberation, recognizing the fundamential right to vote is a right from which all other rights flow. and i make it with an appeal t

as a us senator, with the white feared more than anything else. the reconstruction my succeed in my succeed reordering, southern society, waits in an intense hatred for blacks. wanted to get ahead. if successful, black was a dangerous black and incompetent illiterate black hoes, though threat, his labor was valuable. but the black got out of his place, who aspired anything above the place to which she had been assigned. that is the kind of black, the white could not tolerate with . so the country started in that road and then they were there. and they decided to basically to create another expression of racial dominance. the southerners wanted to control these 4000000 people that had been free. they still needed them to do the work. they also needed them to understand and to know their place in this was something mad, even northerners would come to understand and agree with that. the states were really free to do whatever they wanted to do in terms of controlling this inferior people as they continue to see that ah, your challenge with chinese iss

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i urge everyone in the senate to think about the things that have preceded you and all of us. bout this nation. to think about the history of segregation and jim crow. the history of exclusion so that when you cast that vote in the senate, you are casting it to do away with those things, not to reaffirm them. thank you, madam chair. mrs. beatty: thank you. our power, our message. this ends our press conference. thank you. thank you all for coming. to all the member, thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2022] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy visit ncicap.org] spensed with.

have argued that it actually helps bring us together , something i don't agree with and which i have not seen evidence, as the eloquent statement by the senator from oregon we have just seen. but even for those who feel that the filibuster is a good thing and helps bring us together, i would ask this question -- isn't protecting voting rights the most fundamental wellspring of this democracy, more important than a rule in this chamber? let me say that again. even if you think the filibuster is a good thing, isn't protecting voting rights and preventing their diminution more important, particularly when this rule was not always in existence and was not envisioned by the founders? that is the key question we should each ask ourselves. to be clear, minority rights are a vital feature of this chamber, but the senate was never envisioned to allow an absolute minority party veto. never. in fact, the founders expressly rejected the inclusion of a supermajority requirement for the senate. hamilton called the idea poison. if there's anything undermining the spirit of the senate today, it's, frankly, the way things work right now. it's time for the sen

us about that? >> that's right. senator reid was a leader who never forgot about nevada. nd admire so deeply about him. you know, in nevada, i was able to support and be on his campaign in 2010. and i got to see up close how beloved he was by immigrant communities, latino communities, aapi communities. they knew his work. they knew he was championing them in the senate. and he was so clear any time immigrants were being used as scapegoats in the dealings of the senate, and it was for me as a young latina growing up in nevada who looked up to him before i worked for him, it was an honor to serve on his staff and see this beautiful tribute to him and his legacy today. >> zac, we've heard a lot of anecdote stories about the late senator hanging up on people. we actually heard it from even the former president over the weekend. we heard it from the current president. we also heard it yet again here from leader schumer and speaker pelosi. it seemed like he had a penchant to want to move on. it wasn't necessarily personal, but it was certainly something that was very harry reid.

takes 67 amendments to change the senate rules. a number of us have proposed amending the senate rules. i myself have repeatedly gone to democrats saying i'd be happy to work with democrats on proposals to amend the senate rules to allow senators on both sides to offer more amendments a. -- more amendments. the democrats have been been willing to do so. instead, what democrats intend to do, what they want to do, what president biden surging them to do is to break the senate rules, to change the senate rules. it's called nuking the filibuster. if their plan is successful, senator schumer will stand up and seek a ruling from the chair as to whether it takes 60 votes or 50 votes to proceed to legislation. the chair will say, if the chair is following the rules, it takes 60 votes. and then senator schumer will move to reconsider the ruling of the chair and overrule the ruling of the chair and say even though the words on the page say 60 votes, from now on it's 50. it's another brazen power grab. now, madam president, there may be some folks at home w

we got to this point where we had a senators using the absence of any motion to cut off and force extended debate. senate majorities often tried to end the filibuster and were met with more obstruction. in 1917, we got the document with a super majority. that is what calvin aided the 21st century with some changes, with exactly how many votes are needed. so, that brings us to today, where most things in descendant do require 60 votes to support a motion to debate and a vote on final passage. there are some exceptions. some of them are in the headlines. we have the budget reconciliation process, which i think we will talk about. we have nominations, which makes changes to the senate procedures. it now only requires a simple majority to cut off debate and move to a confirmation vote. for many, important things the legislative process, we do have effective 60 vote threshold. >> thank you, molly. i know, in covering all of this, your covering a what is known as partisan gridlock. there has been a lot of pushback on trying to find ways to get some things done, by reforming the filibuster. can y

we know the senate, as many of us remember it has changed. it was 25 years ago i came to the sentence. we voted a lot. heand we actually had 12 appropriation bills come to the floor of the senate every year, every year. under open process or any amendment could be offered and debated. and voted on. the appropriation bill would go into conference with the house and end up doing what it wasd. supposed to do, funding our government. i cannot remember the last time it happened. i think ithe has been ten years now since the appropriations of their normal business with resolution and prepared these bills it is gone, why? why is it gone? thyou can consider those bills it's gone because of an abuse of a filibuster. any amendment that is offered is threatened with a 60 vote requirement and things grind to a halt rating of the net of it were spending bills with one massive piece of legislation, staff writer let's the member slips over their shoulders if there's anything of interest and we pass that year, after year, after year. is that another fine trad