Voting to reopen the federal government and funded through february 8 as well as to stop holding hostage the Health Coverage of almost 9 million poor kids. Not a moment too soon. Perhaps congress will finally get around to taking up a bill to protect the nearly 700,000 socalled dreamers, immigrants who were brought to this country illegally as children. Legislation that almost nine in 10 americans support. That, at least, was the offer the Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell made in order to break the stalemate. Promise,t an ironclad of course. That from the New York Times editorial Available Online at nytimes. Com. Republican line, your reaction. Are you with us . Gracious, i am. Go ahead, please. Donald trump was voted the president of the United States. It seems to me that everybody that has been capable to go against him has. That the people from daca, the dreamers, they should come into thisto to. Try as they are trying the problem is they came here illegally. So to demand that they have the right to be citizens of this United States is not correct. If i breakthe law, the law i am punished. If they break the law and have allowedhe law, they are to come in. Host dan, fort lee, new jersey. That evening. Caller i have been watching ever since you are on the air. I miss brian lamb. Host he is still here. Every sunday night at 8 00 eastern time. Caller there is an author who books, onehe has to deceptionher side of or co he has kind of disappeared but he used to have a museum in arizona but anyway, he has the whole story on who lied to get us into a wreck bank and into a rack and how they got benghazi in 1986 in someone. I want to talk about Chuck Schumer in the israeli lobby tonight. Immigrationng about tonight. If you remember when Ronald Reagan was president , he had an amnesty. There was about from cuba, castor dumped all the criminals out. Dumped all the criminals out. Millions of people came in that. Lly after i remember come i graduated from high school in 1970 and we read aboutcarlet pimpernel this guy that helped aristocrats escape from france and i remember being impressed. How hard it was to get across the border from france to england and how tight their borders were. Canadars were loose with and mexico for years and years and years and that we had the theret workers i think were four maya and illegal mexicans here and 16 or 17 million illegals and 90 of them are hispanic. There is a history of resistance because there is a whole group of republicans who do not want any kind of amnesty for anybody since the reagan amnesty in 1986 or something. And by the wayg, the israeli lobby is the biggest washington, d. C. Israel is the only country that has a lobby. If you scratch the service, there is a report on the internet, 62 pages, how they falsified their irs form to get nonprofit religious status in 1962. If you look at contributions to congress youll find things like 438,002 rubio. They claim they are nonpolitical but you talk about foreign influence, they have their top spies hear coming out of canada with perfectly forged passports. About the birth of the dreamers but you have got israeli spies making 30,000 a month, 300 a day spending money. That is 19 a day. Host you are getting off track. I am going to stop you there. We will take your earlier comments. They do have Political Action organizations in washington, d. C. And we should point out that Vice President pence was in israel today. Announcing the American Embassy will be officially opening in jerusalem before the end of 2019. The Vice President stopped in jordan, also announcing the palestinians would come back to the negotiating table. Republican senator steve daines following a pointless government shutdown. I am glad the government made the right choice to keep our government running and also thank the protests for ceiling the deal. Darla, florida, democrat line. Good evening. Myler thank you for taking call. Im a 57yearold him a credit woman and i have been voting since i was 18yearsold. I am a 57yearoldwoman and i have been voting since i was 18 years old. To see them line, making things up, it breaks my heart to see what it has become. I think we need to go to term limits. Most people working for state and local governments have term limits. I do none understand why the congress and the senate to not have term limits. All they are up there for us to make themselves richer and be in power. They are hungry for power and great. Theyre only doing this for themselves. Theyre not doing it for the people of the United States of america, the citizens. They use the mexicans. And the dreamers. For their benefit. They dont care about them, they just want them to run for them to keep them in power. I feel sorry for them, too. It is a deserve it. They deserve to be here. There were not brought here on their own. But it needs to be done legally. Host we will go on to allen, of employee in washington, d. C. , outside of virginia. Are you back to work tomorrow . Workingactually i was today, too. Im glad they found the money for the week to keep us going. I wanted to say, we are here until the eighth and then maybe another week. This could happen again. I think the previous color was talking about term limits and such. I think another possibility is fars structural reform is some sort of filibuster reform because i think weve gone to potentiallyere we have had a legislative shutdown for the last 40 years and with the filibuster, nothing can lly get done so power is it cant be abdicated. Theres no legislative power. You have these well things in policy. Daca was one of the things that came. There wasnt any solution. Obama did what he did and trump did what he did. I think maybe theres some sort of reform that maybe, right now we have the 50 votes on nominations and 60 votes on legislation and what that nominees take him at 30 hours, and in our office we dont have maybe you can] get people in the room and be like, all right you can just get 55 votes for nominees, legislation, get the debate time down to two hours to actually confirm some people. Maybe then youll see some progress because 55 votes, the filibuster is supposed of this moderating influence and instead now they just cant legislate. So i am thinking that with 55, you have a majority but you can push things to a vote and make people take a vote and may be the get five votes for you cant get the next it tends was. I mean, theres no accountability because each party says im going to do this and make things better and then a well i cant do anything because the other party still blockingajority everything. So you never know the ideas put forth will really work because they can say, oh i tried but i couldnt do it. This goes on her ever. Host earlier today, congressman Kevin Mccarthy come the leader and house of representatives talked about the issue of immigration and where the house and senate will go moving forward. This from mid afternoon here in washington. The leader Mcconnell Open a path for discussing immigration. We have already talked about immigration over here. We have been in meetings everyday in my office with the senators and congressional members i do not know how this is any different from a priority shutdown. The only thing we will vote on today different is one week. It is one week shorter. We thought giving ourselves that full month we can get to unsolved this problem. I know we have less time wild government has been shut down to finish that agreement so we will get back to work. Credits will the house passed the bill on daca before the march deadline will the house pass the bill on daca before the march deadline . We want to solve this problem and not have a come back in two years. He dont want to have some weket deal that two years dont want to have a daca deal the two years from now will come around again. Daca, border security, chain migration, then the merit system. There are some very conservative voices in your caucus who are concerned about what might be agreed to on daca and some of the government on the liberal side are saying theres no agreement. I hope the democrats leadership learned that you do not gain by shutting government down. That now we can stay at the table and find Common Ground to solve this problem. Im very helpful. Hopeful. We have two different houses. We will both do our own work. From that standpoint, we passed a lot of appropriation bills. We passed a lot of bills for those have gone through the hurricane from florida, to texas to puerto rico to the virgin islands. What i think is best is that is why we have done these bicameral bipartisan meetings in my office where you have the white house involved, the secretary of homeland as well. Get is the best avenue to agreement. I dont see anything wrong with the Senate Passing a bill, the house passing a bill, going to congress. There is no problem either way with either body. This be a bipartisan bill for immigration . I think anything coming out will be bipartisan. I am hopeful we are learning the lesson about the shutdown, that we can come to Common Ground. The youre not going to try to hold the government hostage. Youre going to sit at the table. Nd finish the job at the end of the dad think youre going to find what you never majority of votes. Why can you protect the border, solve the daca issue, deal with chain migration to you dont have a problem in the future, deal with the merit system and make america from the standpoint still be a melting point but have more ability for for theals coming in lottery. I believe we can have all that. Can you support protecting the dreamers and not acting on their deportation even at this goes past the march deadline . Iswhat is so outrageous nothing happened. He of the court case. This has slowed the ability to already have this done. The day before the shutdown, you could ask those members on the other side of the aisle that were in the office with me on a meeting on this, they said it was the most productive meeting they had on it. We have been held down and not been able to continue to meet because government is shut down. I have very helpful government gets open up today hopeful government its opened up today and we get back to work on it. [indiscernible] mccarthy was kevin outside the chamber of around two 10 00 p. M. This afternoon. 250 votes in the house, 150 votes against it. Moving had on a shortterm cr, the president signing it tonight. We are getting your calls and reaction. This from cq roll call, heres a report saying even though congress has voted to reopen the government after a shutdown, house leaders that did not sign off on it plan to continue their push on immigration and spending issues with the key leverage. Oint, the budget caps the house on monday evening voted to 66150, sending the bill to the president. The cr largely mirrors won the house passed on thursday. Installed in the senate, leading shutdown. Show that from cr rollcall. Lets take a call. Caller it steve, right . I have been on hold for about 15 minutes. Host sorry, go ahead. The form is yours. Buter i am a republican joe had it right. These arcane roles they have in the senate is what makes everything go to hack. You cant get nothing done with the rules. He is right when he says each leader has too much power. I could never figure out how one guy could basically control everything that happens in the United States. It is like nobody elected him president. Why has this guy got so much power . Host how would you change this in as his institution . Many of their resistant to change, feeling the senate plays a vital role in our democracy. Caller i agree. The senate does play a great role. They have our role. I think and im not the one that can come up with the answers but the senators themselves, think too much pressure is put on them from the leadership. I think the senators themselves should have more say. I mean, if joe manchin knows that some roles should be changed and what they should become im sure there are other senators that would like some changes. ,o i would leave it up to them the 100 people in the senate to make their own rules. There has to be some changes i think it is clear. I want to give you guys kudos for airing their shut all weekend. I know there was a lot going on. I watched that shutdown from i amt start to finish and so disappointed in our government and leaders. They go in and give these speeches and you can just see the falsehoods on them. Were Mitch Mcconnell, the first bell i would bring up his becausethe military every democrat said we are for funding the military, we want to find the military, we tried to do it we tried to find it separately. Tomorrow morning mcconnell lot to put the funding for military up there and lets see what the withnment democrats do it. You have all the records, you know when these funding bills are put to floor and then the Minority Party gets a chance to not bring it up. So a lot of these bowls are there but then question ofa not bringing it up on whether they try to block it. And the minority likes to block these bills. Host youre right about that. Caller giving the speeches saying you are demanding the military but it is like, you guys blocked the bill. How can we find the military when you guys blocked the bill . So if i were mcconnell, the first thing i would do is bring up the bill because all weekend the democrats were saying how they wanted to find the military. Ok, steve. Thank you. Should send you a coffee mug since you are waiting so long. Caller thats ok. I appreciate your job. Keep these people speak to the fire. When they say these bills have not gone up there, you need to remind the public, they tried to put that bill on the floor but it was denied. Host joe, thank you very much. Can you stay on the floor for a moment . I want to get your reaction. Withlist the leaders begin the Senate Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell. Reference to joe manchin on just a few minutes ago and House Speaker ryan who avoided any blame for the shutdown. Also the democratic contenders listed. The losers, Chuck Schumer, the left, and the dreamers. What do you think . Caller i think that sounded good, that was correct. I would add the president on there. Heschumer tried to say is been absent all weekend. No, he has not been absent. He told Chuck Schumer on is the government is closed and you are not paying my troops, i am not talking to you. Host he comes under the category of mixed from the hill newspaper. The president getting mixed reviews. Lets go to sheila joining us from mckinney, texas. Hopefully you have not been waiting for an hour, sheila. Caller no, just 20 minutes. Ive lived in texas since 1948 which tells you a little bit about my age. Without hispanics, our state could not run. I admire them very much. They came and it illegally and otherwise and we put them to work. Without hispanics in our state, we would be in trouble as a state. Construction, restaurants, lots of service industries. We could not function as a state presently. We do students, kids, they come in because their parents come in looking for work. I think we ought to find them a path to citizenship. They are educated, they are working hard here. We need immigrants. You know, our population is aging. I think they contribute to the economy and i do agree our economy is the most important element in without that, other things do not work very well. Host sheila, thank you for the call. Lets go to graham texas, republican line. Good evening. Caller can you hear me . Host we can. Caller i am calling them because, you know, ive been around for quite some time in weve had president after president. I never liked any of them. That is the bottom line. I have been listening to everybody talk about everything and i have not heard anything about them talk about indians. In my grandpa was cherokee indian. Needs to giveump him a fair shake. Him and his family have been bad talking, bad doing, and everybody knew he was running. Nd he was a businessman host thank you for the call. Our last call for this segment is linda. Caller thank you for your coverage on cspan. Ive learned a lot from watching your programs. I am for daca. How come there is not like a deadline on the filing date for people to get like a green card . I am kind of disappointed that they do not have the emigration all by itself. The main reason im thing that saw theme congress, i trying to pass Something Back in 2014 but hiring 2000 border patrols and donald trump wanted just 5000 but no one has been higher for that. Looking at the daca and all of the paperwork and so forth that they are saying there is a lot of paperwork, do our departments, do we need to hire more people to help with the visas and the green cards and stuff like that to make things flow better . So that things really do get done . Host thank you for adding your voice. From roll call. Com. The shutdown divergent. Movie had on that bill signed by the president. 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