View of government. We are funded by these Television Companies and more, including podcasts including comcast. Comcast is partnering with 1000 Community Centers to create wifi enabled list so students from low income families can get the tools they need to be ready for anything. Comcast support cspan is a Public Service along with these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. Next the chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign committee gary peters talks about the Key Senate Races in the upcoming midterm elections. Posted by the Washington Post. Washington post. The podcast on Washington Post live. I am jonathan capehart, associate editor of the Washington Post. Midterm elections are less than a month away and democrats are not only hoping to hold their majority in the senate but also to pick up two more seats. The person leading that effort is the chair of the committee, senator gary peters, welcome to capehart on Washington Post live. Sen. Peters thank
Associate editor of the Washington Post. Midterm elections are less than a month away and democrats are not only hoping to hold their majority in the senate but also to pick up two more seats. The person leading that effort is the chair of the committee, senator gary peters, welcome to capehart on Washington Post live. Sen. Peters thank you. Over the summer, you know the democrats seem to have the wind at their back. But we are less than four weeks from election day and key races are training for democrats. What changed . Sen. Peters nothing change from what we anticipated. We knew the polls will be tightening, we knew the elections would be nailbiters it would be very close. If you asked me last year where you see these races going into the last few weeks, i wouldve told you all of these battleground states are going to be tight. It is going to be critical for us to have a ground operation to make sure we turn out voters. As you know, voter turnout in the midterm tends to drop off whe
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer and majority leader Mitch Mcconnell, both will speak and then we will move to the vote. Before that happens, chad pergram reporting live. Good afternoon. How is this going to go . Well, it is always said that history plays out in this building under the capitol dome. It happened in the past hour as mitt romney announced his decision to split his votes when it comes to convicting the president of the United States on these articles of impeachment. And it will come at 4 00 when they actually vote. The full senate will take that vote. Mitt romney says he has not been getting any sleep past 4 00 a. M. Every night. Listen. I am aware that there are people in my party and in my state who will strenuously disapprove of my decision. And in some quarters i will be vehemently denounced. Im sure to hear her abuse from the president and his supporters. Adam schiff just told me mitt romneys decision showed a lot of moral courage. There were questions whether mod
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And i am uma in for jenna lee. To find a way forward on the immigration crieses, sources telling fox news, they are making progress and two tough bills could be voted on today. Mike emmanuel joining us live with more from capitol hill, mike . Reporter a number of house members and today is the day to get something done on the border issue. Here is a couple of House Republicans on where it stands. It is a new draft. And what this is instead, it is a copy or paste and cut and paste of existing amendments that are there. There was always the same. Few people had questions of how the language was worded and i was part of the pain staking process to tighten the language up. Reporter now 694 million plan and tightening up a law so Central American children can be deported quickly. And block the president from allowing more illegals in through executive action and tightening up a marshala blackburn proposal to stop the president from putting deportations on hold. We heard a lot of nos and yes