Speaks now for itself. It now comes to the senate. And im here tonight to kick off that debate. For hours after hours after hours and the last several days, i have heard what is wrong with this bill. I dont dispute my colleagues analysis. I will debate it. But now weve got to Start Talking about what are the good aspects of this bill and why we did this bill in the first place. And tonight i want to remind people what we are doing. First of all, we are funding the entire United States governments discretionary spending. We have 550 billion in here for National Defense to stand up for america, to make sure our troops have the best weapons and the best support and the best medical treatment. 550 billion. More money for peacekeeping, to money to fight isil, to refuel an aircraft carrier. We did our job. Youll hear more about that. We wanted to also fight ebola, which had the American People near panic this summer, and we said, we have a plan, working with the administration and some of th
If you want to make a comment on our twitter feed, facebook. Com cspan, and you can send us a juror an email at journal c span. Org. Here are some of the headlines on this issue. Here is the letter of constitution the atlanta journalconstitution. A little bit from this article in the Financial Times joining us now on the line is a congressional reporter from politico. Where do we stand . Guest that is an excellent [applause]. Efforts to block the measure from coming forward, we are expecting it pass expecting it to pass sometime this afternoon and sent back to the house. We talked House Republicans aboutday and asked them the way forward for the continuing resolution. There really is no clear answer. Are expectingans to send that measure backed the senate. Back to the senate. It has to be done by monday. That is the quickest way to a Government Shutdown. What happened in the House Republican conference chair in yesterday e conference yesterday . Congress had to deal with another major