A senator mr. President. The presiding officer the senator for west virginia. Mr. Manchin are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer it is. Mr. Manchin wish to vitiate the quorum call. I will i am doing so because i believe he is well qualified for the job. He has been the commissions general counsel for the past two and a half years. He understands the complex legal issues that come before the commission. I voted to report mr. Danlys nomination both last november and last week on the strength of his qualifications, not on politics. I urge my colleagues to do the same. But the position to which mr. Danly has been nominated is one of five seats on the federal Energy Regulatory commission. By law, no more than two of the five seats can be held by one party. Only three of the seats are now filled. Two by republicans and one by a democrat. The other democratic seat has been vacant since last august. Traditionally when both a republican seat and democrat seat has been vacant, the presi
May it please the court. The issue before the court today was considered and decided by our founders on three separate occasions in 1787, 1788, 1789. By a vote of seven still at states against three at the Constitutional Convention is a key part of the ratification the very next year and with the very First Congress on each occasion the founders coated for a single individual rather than a plurality of the presidency of the structure best calculated to ensure a strong and vigorous and accountable executive. The president alone shall take care of the law shall be executed. That obligation according to James Madison in the supreme and the Supreme Court just seven years ago with Free Enterprise fund empowers the president to keep them accountable to hold the power to remove them from office. Didnt that change with humphreys executor . That case that i just quoted is Free Enterprise fund. That was many years later than humphreys executor but the Free Enterprise fund made it clear that ther
Executive says he was helping families refinance their home zplz our bank was able to do over 100,000 bank modifications to allow people stay in their homes. Unfortunately not all the homes were able to be saved and despite my best efforts some were subject to foreclosure. To rick perry now, trumps nominee to lead the energy department. He took the day trying to c consince centers he understands the agency. And he pledges to use all forms of energy and carefully dispose of Nuclear Waste and that Climate Change is real. And its on top of americans that voted for this administration. As we are back out live, you can hear some rehearsals underway and the beautiful scene here in washington, d. C. Today as they prepare for tomorrows momentous event. Despite the choreography of this event each of them purposeful and practices, there is no ignoring the fact that this is a president elect prone to being unpredictable. Some think that say good thing a breath of fresh air, it makes people across
Term Campaign Promise . On this one were doing a pure 10 tax cut for the middle class. We have an update on that. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. One day after a federal judge floated allegations of treason against the president s First National security advisor, the white house has made a variety of Foreign Policy moves that leave one asking whose interest is the president of the United States serving . Youll remember in federal court yesterday judge sullivan referenced the fact that Michael Flynn was secretly working for the turkish government taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from them and he questioned whether flynn could be charged with treason. Flynn had a plan to kidnap a lawful permanent u. S. Resident and he pushed to postpone a big bombing offensive against isis in order, it a peertppears to p the turkish government. Flynn was texting about a private Nuclear Business deal with the russians and saudis during the inauguration. And that
Term Campaign Promise . On this one were doing a pure 10 tax cut for the middle class. We have an update on that. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. One day after a federal judge floated allegations of treason against the president s First National security advisor, the white house has made a variety of Foreign Policy moves that leave one asking whose interest is the president of the United States serving . Youll remember in federal court yesterday judge sulivan referenced the fact that Michael Flynn was secretly working for the turkish government taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from them and he questioned whether flynn could be charged with treason. Flynn reportedly had a plan to kidnap a lawful permanent u. S. Resident and he pushed to postpone a big bombing offensive against isis in order, it appears to please the turkish government. Flynn was texting about a private Nuclear Business deal with the russians and saudis during the inauguration.