Between christmas and new years. I do not know. Maybe they should finish their work. You will see some push in the next few days to get a small deal done. Viewers are fan of the process. Anything that gets done needs to be done quickly before new years to be signed into law. Today is the 27. And so you have a few days left for lawmakers to make a deal. The president s should land at some point. There is a 5 hour time difference. They have to figure out something. It seems likely will go over the cliff. It has been looking like that before the holiday, but certainly now, particularly if you remember for congress broke for the christmas break, speaker raynor was not able to get the backup plan through his caucus, so there was no pressure on democrats to try to counter that immediately. Senate democrats saying we passed a bill that raises tax rates on incomes over 250,000, we ran on this and this is what we are offering. House republicans were saying, no, we want to negotiate something, f
The senate is in at 1 00 eastern time. Votes are scheduled at 2 00 p. M. Eastern. Majority leader harry reid and minority leader mcconnell had set a deadline of 3 00 p. M. When theyre planning to convene a caucus meetings and update members of the parties on a possible plan for taxes and spending on the new year. Will bring you live coverage of the senate on cspan2 started at 1 00 eastern. In the house, the return of 2 00 p. M. Youll be considering a number of pieces of legislation. What the live coverage of the house here and cspan. Next, retiring senator kent conrad reflects on his career in congress to. It is currently Senate Budget Committee Chairman and was first elected to the senate in 1986. This is about half an hour. Senator conrad, your Farewell Speech was yesterday. What is that like . It has been great. I had the Going Away Party the night before. A lot of my colleagues were there. Then the Farewell Speech, in which i had a chance to reflect on my service here. But also, to
On his 26year career. And a discussion on corporations and stock values. Dan burton is retiring from the house this year after 30 years in office. The 15term congressman represents the Fifth District in east Central Indiana which includes parts of indianapolis and the surrounding suburbs. Earlier he talked with cspan about his past investigations of the collective demonstration and the oversight ruled congress. This is 30 minutes. As you exit the institution how would you say it stated . It has changed a great deal. It is not the same as when i came 1983. There seemed to be more comedy. Tip oneill was speaker. I will never forget he was the first time he was on the floor raising cane with democrats. He had someone take his place and he came down and started giving me the dickens. After that we became very good friends and played golf together. Michael was a wonderful leader. There was a spirit of camaraderie even though we had differences politically then that we do not have now. Now i