Conscience to vote with us to break this partys filibuster of Homeland Security funding and help us protect american democracy. Now, mr. President , i would ask unanimous consent that the motion to proceed to h. R. 240 be agreed to and that it be in order for the managers or their december knees to offer amendments in alternating fashion with the majority manager of his diss ig knee being designee being authorized to is there objection . Mr. President . Reserving the right to object. Mr. President , there is bipartisan objection to the request by the majority leader. But, mr. President , it is worth spending a minute or two hearing what republican senators have had to to say the last few hours. John mccain, senior senator from arizona is that the definition of insanity, voting on the same bill over is and over again . Jim inhofe i think threes enough. Theres Division Within the conference on this. Jeff flake arizona, we can go through the motions, sure, but i dont think were fooling an
Is and we arent addressing it. So you take revenue up and discretionary and mandatory spending are falling as a percent of the economy over the longterm . It is yes. As you know. I think we are finding places on the mandatory side where we are reducing spending and i think i wanted to respond to your earlier point where we are stopping spending, with 4 4 million of reduction in medicare and medicaid and prop insurance and programs. [ overlapping speakers ] and on those entitlement and Social Security and debt you take it from increasing 105 , to increasing 99 over the next ten years. I mean obviously that is the issue. So Discretionary Spending goes down, on both sides, they say this is great. It doesnt have more Discretionary Spending. It has less. It has less. For both defense and nondefense. Health care entitlements do go from 105 to 99 . But it is 7. 8 of gdp now and rises to 8 and it is scary because it is unsustainable so were heading toward record high tax revenues and they go t
He is very sensitive and working in the area of Mental Health and crime. A few months ago someone observed that in every single state in this country there are more people who have been determined to be potentially dangerously mentally ill in our jails and prisons than in all private and public Mental Health facilities in those states. Its a real problem on the inside and outside and congressman sensenbrenner is working on that. And throw in a side issue i noted today that he has legislation on civil Asset Forfeiture which is a problem that one of my old heroes henry hyde also a midwesterner fought to correct for many years when he was in congress. So jim. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you very much for that very kind and generous introduction. Yes, you have known me since i was in high school. At that time my hair was black. There was years that have gone by sense less here and more there. I guess thats the way it will be with all of us. You are younger than i am. You never did disclo
The crisis in the middle east, blackwater on trial, and more. And iraq veterans against the war. It has been personal, we have been transformed in our own lives. Each of our stories is important and people need to understand the reality and the human cost of war and occupation. A group of veterans came back from combat to form iraq veterans against the war. A decade later, the group is now organizing against another war in iraq. All that and more coming up. To democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Australia has become the latest country to join the usled military campaign against militants from the Islamic State in the iraq and syria. Prime minister tony abbott said australian planes will take art in air strikes and special forces would be deployed. Turkeys parliament has also authorized the government to order military action against the militants. The news comes as the Iraqi Defense minister claims iraqi forces have made gains against isis. The
Have been injured or killed so far this year. We will speak with jeremys cahill, author of dirty wars the war is a battlefield about the crisis in the middle east, blackwater on trial, and more. And iraq veterans against the war. It has been personal, we have been transformed in our own lives. Each of our stories is important and people need to understand the reality and the human cost of war and occupation. A group of veterans came back from combat to form iraq veterans against the war. A decade later, the group is now organizing against another war in iraq. All that and more coming up. To democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Australia has become the latest country to join the usled military campaign against militants from the Islamic State in the iraq and syria. Prime minister tony abbott said australian planes will take art in air strikes and special forces would be deployed. Turkeys parliament has also authorized the government to order milit