In recess with votes on judicial nominations expected at 5 30 p. M. Eastern and starting on g. O. P. Tax reform bill tomorrow. Watching live coverage of the senate floor here on cspan2. The senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Our father, god, thank you that we see you in the world around us be holding your works in the earth and sea and sky. Your everlasting mercies sustain us, enabling us to borrow our heartbeats from you each day. Today, be for our lawmakers and abiding and sustaining presence. May they live to serve and honor you bringing glory to your name. Make them patient in debate, charitable in judgment, and slow to anger. Lord, empower them to defend and maintain the right as they seek justice and freedom for all. We pray in your sacred name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of ameri
, acceptte has to decide the house plan or risk a christmas shutdown. Kevin cirilli is on capitol hill with the latest. We have been through this before. One of the prospects looking like at this point . Kevin it looks like at this point . Kevin it looks like they are going to kick the can. They are going to vote at 5 00 for a onemonth continuing resolution. It could get more complex when it gets to the senate. No locking no lawmaker wants to jinx it and by their ticket home because they want to wait and see what the senate is going to do. All indicators suggest that republicans are trying hard not to step on themselves one day after passing a tax reform package and would like to get out of here by close of business tomorrow but it is going to be up to the senate. Senator rand paul has concerns about surveillance programs. It is interesting it is going to be interesting to see how much noise he can make. David you also have senator collins who is holding a iou from majority leaders. Wh
Correspondent daniel new howser and congressional reporter pitterson, later anthony from the center for strategic and International Talk about the Foreign Policy challenges that are facing in 2018. Social media. But voters, wed, should make it a priority that basic knowledge pertaining to our government. Amy says it helps. I have learned so much from the social media. I can adjust my opinion to include new facts. Ive change my mind is some because of conversations with people online. One more from saul. A lot of people do not care about the research, it hurts, they end up spreading false information. That is a sampling of the discussion on our facebook page. Here is a poll. Different wording, but same idea, this is from surveymonkey from october, asked whether social media does more to help, promote democracy and free speech or does more to hurt it. 51 surveyed in the late october poll said it did more to her democracy, 45 said it did more to help. Large majorities among hispanics and
We have a washing a washington congressional reporter with us as well. Lets talk about what happened over the weekend, when Mitch Mcconnell and paul ryan joined the president at camp david for a retreat. What do we know about the agenda their . Agenda there . House Speaker Paul Ryan indicated he is interested in doing some kind of overhaul of welfare programs. Shown he isell has not that interested in doing a Major Overhaul of entitlement programs. Sure if there is some narrow sliver those two leaders might need to work on. The president has told House Republicans he is interested in doing something with welfare programs. But it is a midterm year and, there is anysure appetite in the senate to take up a big, controversial change. Host can you talk about what happened at camp david . Senator mcconnell is trying to convey the political realities. His missile majority in the senate has slimmed to 51 republicans. The tax billot done and failed on the obamacare repeal. That changes a lot. W
The second session of the Congress Officially begins tomorrow. For roundtable discussion on the agenda ahead, we are joined by the staff correspondent with the National Journal. Us asina peterson is with well from the wall street journal. Wall street journal. Be agenda is likely to shaped by what happens over the weekend when Mitch Mcconnell, paul ryan joined the president at camp david for a retreat. What do you know about the topic, the tomorrow. It seems like senator Mitch Mcconnell is trying to convey the realities. His majority has slimmed from 52 to 51 and that will change. They can barely get the tax bill done. They failed on the obamacare repeal. As he told reporters, that changes a lot and when it comes to entitlement reforms, whatever they might be, that is really hard to get any democrats on board. I would expect him to try to convey that. Paul ryan has been a big think leader. For him, you know, he may try, as he said he will, to the these, but he is facing some hurdles in