Earlier today, the republican fax overhaul plan cleared the house with 227 votes in favor, 205 against. Cspan 3 will continue live coverage of the Senate Finance Committee Review of the gop tax reform proposal tomorrow morning if they havent finished today. We head now to a conversation with senators bob corker and mark warner. They sat down with the New York Times for a discussion about bipartisanship and efforts to overhaul the federal tax code. A. We are going to visit for about 50 minutes together. Its kind of like im seeing you in the Senate Subway and the doors are closed and youre trapped taking questions from me. Well take questions from Facebook Live and the New York Times. So we kind of take it as an article of faith that bipartisanship is good. Polling says we want people to work across the aisle. This is a good thing. We like bipartisan bills. But when we get into the nitty gritty of governing, thats not really always the case, that even that as a positive connotation. I kn
In the Senate Subway and the doors are closed and youre trapped taking questions from me. Well take questions from Facebook Live and the New York Times. Lets get into it. So we kind of take it as an article of faith that bipartisanship is good. Polling says we want people to work across the aisle. This is a good thing. We like bipartisan bills. But when we get into the nittygritty of governing, thats not really always the case, even though it has a positive connotation. I know that when democrats were in charge, republicans would say, we dont want to give them any victories, its too close to election year. And then when the tables turned, republicans were in charge and they dont want to help each other. Even pass simple things, simple bills together. We have to start by asking the question is can it happen and is there any point to bipartisanship anymore . And what function does it serve . Senator corker, do you want to start with that . Sen. Corker sure. Bipartisanship means when you
Lets get into it. So we kind of take it as an article of faith that bipartisanship is good. Polling says we want people to work across the aisle. This is a good thing. We like bipartisan bills. But when we get into the nittygritty of governing, thats not really always the case, even though it has a positive connotation. I know that when democrats were in charge, republicans would say, we dont want to give them any victories, its too close to election year. And then when the tables turned, republicans were in charge and they dont want to help each other. Even pass simple things, simple bills together. We have to start by asking the question is can it happen and is there any point to bipartisanship anymore . And what function does it serve . Senator corker, do you want to start with that . Sen. Corker sure. Bipartisanship means when you pass a piece of legislation, it will stand the test of time, when you pass a piece of legislation when you have no support from the other party, the othe
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Faith that bipartisanship is good we like bipartisan bills. But when we get into the nittygritty of governing, thats not really always the case, even though it has a positive connotation. I know that when democrats were in charge, republicans would say, we dont want to give them any victories, its too close to election year. And then when the tables turned, republicans were in charge and they dont want to help each other. Even pass simple things, simple bills together. We have to start by asking the question is can it happen and is there any point to bipartisanship anymore . And what function does it serve . Senator corker, do you want to start with that . Sen. Corker sure. Bipartisanship means when you pass a piece of legislation, it will stand the test of time, when you pass a piece of legislation when you have no support from the other party, the other party tries to unwind it. When you can get 70 or 80 , theres always some overlap, youve got a piece of legislation that again, will