good morning, from new york. i m chris hayes. a draft of egypt s new constitution will be delivered to president mohamed morsi today. private first class bradley manning accused of leaking classified documents to wikileaks will return to court in fort meade maryland. right now i m joined by richard a renberg. allen frumin who retired as parliamentarian of the u.s. senate last year. this is his first interview since then. akil amar and sterling professor of law at yale law school. and msnbc contributor, victoria defrancesco soto. great to have you all here. all right. if president obama wants to get anything done in his second term, democrats in the senate will have to overcome one major obstacle, the filibuster.
0 good morning, from new york. i m chris hayes. a draft of egypt s new constitution will be delivered to president mohamed morsi today. private first class bradley manning accused of leaking classified documents to wikileaks will return to court in fort meade maryland. right now i m joined by richard a renberg. allen frumin who retired as parliamentarian of the u.s. senate last year. this is his first interview since then. akil amar and sterling professor of law at yale law school. and msnbc contributor, victoria defrancesco soto. great to have you all here. all right. if president obama wants to get anything done in his second term, democrats in the senate will have to overcome one major obstacle, the filibuster. since democrats took control of both chambers of congress in 2007, republicans have used the filibuster as a bludgeon against them to pass basic legislation. the senate bills that actually passed has dropped from just over 25% to a record low of 2.8% this year. the rate held
good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. i m jim milngto it s about 40 minutes. library of congress who enjog this extraordinary national book festival. [applause] we have involved more authors than at any time in the 12 year history of this festival, and it s for them we re especially thankful. your responses make the free public event possible, and one of them is the wells fargo, which has been the sponsor of this particular pavilion, history and biography. in a moment, i introduce to you michael l. golden, wells fargo s regional president for greater washington, d.c., who will introduce our closing authors today. we re privileged to have with him, of course, not only an extraordinary biographer but also the two inheritors of the legacy of the man who is not only led what is often called the greatest generation to victory in the world war ii, but also led the country to eight years of peace and prosperity, which are now becoming recognized in good part thanks to these au
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rulings would have good or bad policy consequences? the former. obviously it s good to have that understanding, that we are a society based upon law and not upon what judges just happen to think it might be. you are right. i always have to watch out for those tough chairmen. on that last question, do you know anybody who disagrees with that? yes, i am afraid i do. they don t admit it. but do you know anybody who should disagree? no. i thought so. mr. kroger, it s good to have you here. we always like having attorneys general here. we have fortunate to have two former attorneys general on this committee, senator blumenthal and senator whitehouse. you represent the state of oregon. you said that oregon is a sovereign state, but i am trying to summarize your testimony in terms of protecting the health, welfare of its citizens, do you have any concern about the constitutionality of the requirement that to purchase health insurance? none whatsoever. thank you