The u. S. House will resume on november 29. Theyll vote on funding of the federal government. It is set to expire december 16. We now take you back to the Law Conference. Live coverage here on cspan. A lot of both suffering but also like genuine, amazing organizing, creative thinking strategizing and its happening in a lot of places. So i offer that as a like, a friendly amendment to the discussion that sort of the question isnt so much what one focus on, the question is what are the conditions under which the kind of demands that are already being formulated have force. And have durable force. And i think thats true historically too. We talked a little bit about the new deal. I was struck by even as the new deal itself had its own sort of reaffirmation of the history of racial discrimination, its also true that forces like the c. I. O. , for example, as one of the few, if not only, racially inclusive unions, formed the left flank of the new Deal Coalition and played a huge role in mak
Fiveday losing streak and nearly the same position since a very similar budget battle. Jeff bezos saying he doesnt care if his new kindle makes money when they buy it, only when they use it. And jpmorgan avoiding a wave of separate litigation. And alibaba planning to list right here in the old u of a. If the s p finishes to the down side, its the indexs first fivesection losing streak sinces fiscal showdown at the end of 2012. One of the recent headwinds about a Government Shutdown. Republican governor ted cruz of texas and allies have been on the floor, but do threaten to strip a defending provision of obama. Harry reid has scheduled a test vote today at noon, like live one of several procedural votes. There is an increasing amount of chatter that we might get a continuing resolution. It does seem like there is something hidden going on, even so we have the s p down five, the depth of decline is not that great the nasdaq was up yesterday, transports were up yesterday. Last 20 minutes
The fiscal cliff comes along. You get a deal. You voted against it here and you were the only democrat to vote against it. Why did you vote against it . There were several of us on the democratic side that voted against it. My sense is that if we are going to really move this country forward, we have to start dealing with the big challenges we face physically, socially now, not do these shortterm fixes. A longterm fix would have included something that would have disposed of the socalled fiscal cliff. I believe this shortterm deal creates three new fiscal cliffs, which is not the way you want to run whether it is a Small Business on main street or the largest economy in the world. We need to get to the point of dealing with the biggest deficit in the country, the jobs deficit. To me, this bill simply put a bandaid on the problem. It did do something the president wanted to do, committed to do. He delivered on the promise to try to help protect the middle class class. My theory is that
In the newsroom just stopped and we looked. Why . Because this was a big deal. This was a huge event in the history of the United States senate. And this is what senator reid said and Everybody Needs to know how it happened. He said i raise a point of order that the vote on the cloture under the rule 22 for all nominations other than for the Supreme Court of the United States is by majority vote. The vote on cloture, to shut off debate, he moved that under rule 22, he said under rule 22 that the vote on cloture, to shut off debate, for all nominations other than Supreme Court, he thought that up, i suppose, is by majority vote. But look, this is what rule 22 says. A motion signed by 16 senators to bring to a close debate on any measure, motion, or other matter pending before the senate shall be decided by threefifths of the senators duly sworn. So the majority leader of the United States senate knowing precisely what rule 22 said, stood right there and asked the chairman, the presiding
Promise to the American People. Another promise. If you like your from, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your Health Care Plan, youll be able to keep your Health Care Plan, period. No one will take it away no matter what. The words of the leader of the free world, mr. President. And, of course, we know from story after story of real people who are being hurt by this law that time after time after time again, in thousands of homes across the United States of america that promise just as the promise made to the service men, that promise is being broken. If my friend from georgia will indulge me, let me give one example of a family of real individuals, honest, hardworking americans who feel that another promise is being broken in the form of the socalled Affordable Health care. I got an email from a father from greenville, mississippi, who is concerned about his 27yearold son. For the past six years his son was covered under a policy provided by humana. When the h