Thank you for spending a halfhour with us to talk about your 12 years in washington. It ended with the reelection of barack obama. If you could think of adjectives, what would they be to describe these seven years . Interesting. Challenging. Sometimes totally frustrating. Full of opportunities for the country. There were good times during these 12 years, laced together with some that were not so good. 9 11. The anthrax scare. There were also positive things. The election of barack obama i thought was a very positive statement for the country and moving forward in a way out of a fiscal of this. Abyss. Thi i could not have imagined a better time to have been here with all of the things that have happened. Let me ask you to look back over those 12 years and ask what the high point was. When we could Work Together. Maybe the single event that would and body that is the gang of 14. John mccain and i put together six other democrats and six other republicans to avoid what was then called the
Ago, whatever plan he had then is over with. This is a new election. The deal that he had a year ago, that does not count. For republicans and people to say they dont understand whats going on, i have a problem with that. The republicans deny anything he puts forward. The president left his vacation and came here. Theyre not being fair. Republicans say they are christians. Theyre not. They did this during his last term and now are causing and all of us to suffer because they dont like the president. This is personal. This has nothing to do with raising taxes. This is a personal attack and i think its a shame. We look like a third world country. We dont look like the United States. Host lets get a republican voice. Our next caller is calling from west bloomfield, michigan, on the republican line. Good morning. Caller i would like to get your thoughts on a balanced approach and have unbiased taxation by using a flat tax. That way you can calculate the amount of taxes we need for the defi
Was then called the nuclear option, changing the rules, turning the senate into a smaller version of the house, where the rights of the minority caucus are ignored. Consequently, we were able to Work Together that way, crossing party lines, crossing with the id administration wanted done or what the caucus leadership on both sides wanted done, it showed we had a certain independence. I will never forget the late senator robert sitting in an office with us all together, sobbing, saying, we saved the senate. We came to an agreement that we were going to vote to give a judicial appointees and up or down vote, rather than having to go to a filibuster. It was very difficult to get 60 votes. It was difficult at times to get 60 votes to tell what day it was or whether it was day or night. We proved we could Work Together. That did not work in perpetuity. For that period of time, there was a willingness to cooperate and Work Together, the likes of which we have not seen since. Harry reid has a
Mr. Sessions madam president . The presiding officer the senator from alabama. Mr. Sessions i would ask consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer the senate is not in a quorum call. Mr. Sessions madam president , i wanted to share some remarks that senator ayotte had relevant to the amendment that she offered that would pay for the Unemployment Insurance extension and veteran pensions benefits and would just say its an issue her payfor is an issue that i have had some experience with, offering several years ago an amendment to fix it and was disappointed when the majority leader, senator reid, objected to that amendment. Senator ayottes amendment would pay for the jobless benefits of unemployed americans, restore veterans pensions by cutting off fraudulent tax payments to illegal aliens. This is a very simple concept and theres a clear abuse going on here that needs to be fixed and it should have been fixed a long time ago. The amendment contains offsets of
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