Donald ritie, thank you for ing with us on america history. The senate jority leader i not a position in the constitution. How did the job evolve . That puzzles a lot of people. We once had a former speaker of the house contact us and say i was the president pro perso ray in the pro tempore but not the majority leader because e speakers of e usee the nate majority leader as their equivalent, their functional equivalent on the senate side. Ofourse the speaker of the house is written ito the constution, and the president pro tempore is. But no mention of a majority leader or minority leader and thats because the constitutn did n ancipatepolitical parts. I think they thoughat it was probably gng to happen, but they didnwant to encoure litica parties. Theyake no provision for it. And for most ofthe history of thesenate we had no jority lead. Om 1789 until 1913 there was noajit leader ofth senate. There re chairmen committees who wld sort of take care of things on the floor, there were th a
Were political factions, really political parties. He said he worried that future americans would put the interests of the political faction ahead of the interests of the country. Really, were living washingtons nightmare today. Used to be quite diverse. Do thisee if i can quickly. Every year, one of the magazines washington rates members of congress in three areas, social policy, foreign and National Security policy. Ad they rate them, us, on liberalconservative scale. Years, most years, youd middle, about 20 or 30 people, which was a mixture of democrats and republicans. The last recent years, you a democrat who is more liberal than any republican do i have that right . No. The other way around. Seepublican who is more what an independent i am . You know what im saying. Its like warring camps. Heres the bottom line. Youmain point, are republican, democrat or an american . And obviously youve got to put america first. The second thing is, youve got to be willing to compromise. You can
By all reports, some of them have come back, upwards of 100. They are not here, folks, to buy a house with a white picket fence. Theyre here to hurt and kill us and change our way of life. Joe and i had the foresight a couple years ago to file a bill that would restrict their strip their citizenship, not allow them to hide behind the United States, the rights guaranteed by our constitution, not use that passport freely to come back and north on a whim. We should keep them there, with their new friends. And let them stay there. Right. [applause] unfortunately, it was filed again in this last session. Before they went on their second vacation, two things. They did not close the border and deal with the very serious border threats and they did not also take up that very important bill, as uk has done, as france has done and other countries are doing, because they recognize, hey, lets keep them there. Lets not let them hide. And were not saying, oh, we think these people are on facebook, t
Now an amazing tale of survivor. A boater who never came back from a short thanksgiving sail. The coast guard had given up. He never did. Two weeks later hes back an dry land. Abcs ted rowlands has the story. Reporter 67yearold ron ingram went for a thanksgiving day sail off the coast of hawaii when his boat started ta eed ta water. Mayday, mayday. Im in the middle of alenuihai channel. Reporter the coast guard heard his call and launched a massive 12,000squaremile search for the experienced fisherman. After four days and 59 search and rescue flights there was no sign of ron or his boat. Gans the wishes of rons son, a decision was made to call off the search. I said, man, i dont think you should call off the search because i dont think hes gone. Then Tuesday Morning after 12 days of radio silence. Mayday, this is the malia. Anybody picking this up. Reporter the dramatic rescue. Ron found floating 65 miles off the coast of oahu. Hes doing okay. A little tired and weak. They got him some
Funeral services are scheduled for today and later this week for the victims from the amtrak crash. New questions this morning on what caused the amtrak train to derail. This is also the part of the larger debate on americas infrastructure. Do you support or oppose more Infrastructure Spending . If you support more spending 202 7488000. If you oppose, 202 7488001. You can also join in on the conversation on our Facebook Page, facebook. Com cspan. Send us an email, journal cspan. Org. Or send us a tweet, cspanwj. Good sunday morning to you. This is the headline from todays philadelphia inquirer, suddenly there was darkness and chaos. Jumping the tracks just outside the 30 street station in philadelphia. We want to get your comments and calls. First, the president who spoke about infrastructure last thursday. Here is what he had to say. [video clip] president obama we should not be thinking smaller today, we should be thinking bigger in this Global Economy. My hope is that we have a chan