Well, if i might to make sure we are not making a mistake senator coops. It is my hope that if you are confirmed and we do make progress on bipartisan criminal Justice Reform that as Attorney General you will carry out whatever legislative decisions might be made by this body. Last let me say in my six years here in addition to not working on a number of bipartisan proposals on criminal Justice Reform you have repeatedly voted against congressional attempts to prohibit torture in the military on text or the interrogation context and to defend enhanced interrogation practices. Are you clear now that our statutes prohibit torture and if the president were to rover yid that clear Legal Authority what actions would you take . On your previous question i would note the federal prison population has already dropped 10 or more percent and will drop
another 10,000 this year. What is happening now is reducing the federal population. This law only dealt with the federal prison population. And th
Bush looks like when hes not telling the truth and the duggar family has a new defense lawyer, megan kelly. Im running for president in 2016, if i run. Jeb bush has not actually announced his candidacy. Its pretty obvious that youre running for president. I would like to run, but i havent made the decision. Even hillary would like youre raising huge amounts of money. Do you feel that you have violated that . Of course not. The family name may be affecting jeb bush. My brother is not going to be a problem at all. Time has made george bush look better to people. Call it the United States of amnesia. Jeb bush said this weekend he has learned from his brothers successes. I havent even learned about his brothers successes. So the senate floor could be held hostage by president ial politics. Weve got some people running for National Office trying to you know draw attention to their campaigns. Using the senate floor to campaign for president. Rand paul who is fundraising off of this. Marco ru
Youre raising huge amounts of money. Do you feel that you have violated that . Of course not. The family name may be affecting jeb bush. My brother is not going to be a problem at all. Time has made george bush look better to people. Call it the United States of amnesia. Jeb bush said this weekend he has learned from his brothers successes. I havent even learned about his brothers successes. So the senate floor could be held hostage by president ial politics. Weve got some people running for National Office trying to, you know, draw attention to their campaigns. Using the senate floor to campaign for president. Rand paul who is fundraising off of this. Marco rubio, ted cruz. At the end of the day, the senate has to function. Lindsey graham could be the first bachelor elected president in 130 years. And hes also be the first candidate to choose his running mate in an elaborate rose ceremony. Fred wertheimer who was president of common cause for 14 years and is now the president of democ
Making sure we are not making a mistake. It is my hope that if you are confirmed and we do make progress on bipartisan criminal Justice Reform that as attorney general, you will carry out whatever legislative decisions might be made by this body. Last, let me just say in my six years here, in addition to not working with us on a number of bipartisan proposals on criminal Justice Reform, you have been one of the few senators to the president were to attempt to overriled that, what actions would you take . On your previous question, i would note that federal prison population has already dropped 10 or more per krenltd and will drop another 10,000 this year. What is happening is reducing the federal population. This law only dealt with the federal prison population. And that represents the most serious on finders. Our federal dea and u. S. Attorneys are prbting more serious cases. Prbting more serious cases. With regard to the torture issues, i watched them for some time. And have been co
Of that geniality weve come to know. And, really, it underscores how divisive and intense the fomoods right now among democrats to try and oppose donald trump in absolutely any way they can. It was striking to see all of the chairs in this Committee Room on the democratic side empty today. They used that tactic to delay these votes from yesterday by saying using an obscure rule in the committee that requires at least one democrat be present. Essentially the republicans flipped farther into the rulebook and found another rule that would allow them to change the rules and did so, and so then they went ahead and voted to approve these two nominations out of committee. They were approved 140 because there were no democrats present to object. So now tom price, Steve Mnuchin will be moved out of the finance committee and to a full vote on the senate floor. At this point, no indication that they wont have the votes to move forward in the full senate. At this point we anticipate they will be c