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A senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator from minnesota. Ms. Klobuchar madam president , are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer no, we are not. Ms. Klobuchar madam president , we are here today to vote on a nominee to be a commissioner at the federal election commission, the independent Agency Responsible for enforcing federal Campaign Finance laws. I am deeply disappointed in todays vote which is a departure from the senates longstanding tradition of considering f. E. C. Nominees on a bipartisan basis and another step in eroding the fra decisions of the the traditions of the senate all for a candidate that hold extreme views towards the agency that he would be appointed to. Prior to today, the senate has voted to confirm 47 f. E. C. Nominees and 42 of those nominees have been confirmed through a bipartisan process. As the ranking democrat on the rules committee, i have repeatedly urged my republican colleagues to work with us to get the f. E. C. Running a
Very much for joining me. I want to express to each of you, my deep gratitude for helping to create an unprecedented grassroots hadtical campaign which is a profound impact in changing our nation. I want to thank the hundreds of thousands of volunteers who knocked on doors, millions of them in the freezing winters of iowa and New Hampshire and in the heat of nevada and south carolina, in states throughout the country. Want to thank the 2 million americans who contributed financially to our campaign and showed the world that we can take on a corrupt Campaign Finance system and run a major president ial campaign without being dependent on the wealthy and the powerful. Thank you for your 10 million contributions averaging 18 and . 50 per donation. Didnt to thank those who the phone bank for the campaign and those who sent out millions of texts i want to thank the many hundreds of thousands of americans who attended our rallies, town meetings and house parties from new york to california.
You. When i think about this book i see it as having three major parts, after you introduce a situation now, you do a really good job of talking about through stories how workers struggled, they themselves built the middle class in this country to a great extent by organizing, by striking, bargaining through a lot of adversity and demanding more from policy changes and then you go through a lot of the hard times of what i call the reagan era which we are still in Work Companies and starting with the president of the United States really attacked workers a lot and their unions and then you tell a lot of hopeful stories about different creative and innovative ways that workers have been organizing and unions and other forms and make policy recommendations and one thing i have to say, a lot of books like this are criticized because they come up short on the policy recommendation but i hope we really get into that because you made quite a few interesting suggestions on what might be done t
Steve greenhouse, thank you so much for coming in to talk about your new book, beaten down, worked up. It was a real pleasure to read it and i look forward to having time to talk to you about it. Guest thank you for your kind words, congressman. Great to speak with you. Host when i think about this book i think of it as having three major parts. After you introduce the situation now you do a really good job, i think, of talking about, through stories about how workers struggled, really they themselves built the middle class in this country to a great extent by organizing, by striking, by bargaining and through diversity and by demanding policy changes and then you go through a lot of the hard times of what i call the reagan era which i think we are still in where companies and starting with the president of the United States really have attacked workers all hot and their unions and then you tell hopeful stories about different creative and innovative ways that workers have been organiz