campaign. and now we see that he, himself, needs an investigation for lying. it s against the law and the top law enforcement officer should know that. the administration clearly cannot be trusted to investigate itself. there must be an independent, bipartisan outside commission to investigate the trump political, personal and financial connection to the russians. our colleagues have had this legislation for a while. 100% of the house democrats have signed on to it and now they have republican co-sponsorship as well. at the same time, we have a special where i am told, you may know better, that the republicans are hiding their draft of a.c.a. repeal bill in a basement room and planning to
connection to the donald trump campaign. and now we see that he himself needs an investigation for lying. it s against the law. and the top law enforcement officer should know that. the administration clearly cannot be trusted to investigate itself. there must be an independent, bipartisan, outside commission to investigate the trump political, personal, and financial connections to the russians. our colleagues eric swolwell and elijah cummings have had this proposed legislation for a while and now they have republican co-sponsorship as well. at the same time, we have a situation where i am told, you may know better, that the republicans are hiding their draft aca repeal bill in a basement room and planning to
this is a critical issue. they need democrats to override a veto. has this changed the math of that? the expectation before was the proponents of that legislation that would cripple whatever obama was able to negotiate. has that math changed or is it change sng. there are four democrats that have supported that kind of legislation that president obama opposed who criticized republicans. tim cane has questioned it h. i don t think any of them have denounced their co-sponsorship of that. it s an open question as to where this goes. so i think that if you drew a diagram of people who are genuinely outraged about this letter and people who read the letter tr is not as much overlap as you would think. when i saw this new story popping up then i read the letter, it s constitution
that doesn t sound like an independent, that sounds like somebody that s a democrat. why not just switch parties? well, one of the analysis groups, there s some gov track or something like that that analyzed by co-sponsorship of bills, which i think may be as good a measure and actually i was i think right over in the center where i want to be. and in terms of those votes, if you take out the votes on nominees, and i voted for cloture and just about all the president s nominees because i think as a former governor, i think that s i would do that if it was a republican president. i think the president ought to get their nominees. so if you adjust that, i ve cast some votes that have irritated by mooi colleagues. i m going to call them as i see them. if i think the democrats are right, i m going to vote with them. if i don t, i m going to vote the other way. i want to update folks on what s going on at harvard. i think you understand that. of course. angus king, thank you very
floor, allowed the members to vote their conscience. i appreciate i appreciate the point there, but so on this question of enda, though, if you re saying there has been movements since the 2012 election, do you expect in this congress that the house of representatives, the republican house will take up and pass enda and would you consider it a failure in proof that they did not learn from the autopsy if they don t? well, number one, you know, i think that the violence against women act and the passage gave us as an organization a road map to pass enda and showed me that while passage of enda in this congress with this republican-controlled house may be difficult, it certainly is not impossible. the fact is, if you have significant push from members of congress who have already stated their support and their co-sponsorship of enda and you have a similar and concurrent push among grassroots, especially among republicans, 56% of republicans nationwide say they support enda. if you m