October. In honduras, the president ial election is set for tomorrow. The race is racer thin. The wife of ousted leader Manuel Zelaya is running against the head of the Ruling National Party and is dominated by the soring crime rate. The bones said to be those of st. Peter will be an display for the first time. They are kept in an urn in the papal palace. Inside story is next, those are the headlines but you can find us online at aljazeera. Com. Have a great day. Sh the daytoday operation of the upper chamber. Well talk about it all on this edition of inside story. But fist this background. The American People believe congress is broken. The American People believe the senate is broken. And i believe the American People are right. At the start of the session, harry reid made history, and called for a rule change that would allow an up or down vote or judicial nominations and executive decisions. The change would ensure nominations and up or down vote, on confirmation. Yes, no. The rule
And significantly alters the daytoday operation of the upper chamber. Well talk about it all on this edition of inside story. But fist this background. The American People believe congress is broken. The American People believe the senate is broken. And i believe the American People are right. At the start of the session, harry reid made history, and called for a rule change that would allow an up or down vote or judicial nominations and executive decisions. The change would ensure nominations and up or down vote, on confirmation. Yes, no. The rule change will make all nominations other than the Supreme Court a majority threshold vote. Yes or no. The senate is a living thing. And to survive it must change as it has over the history of this great country. To the average american, adapting the rules to make the senate work again is just common sense. This is not about democrats verses republicans, this is about making washington work, regardless of who controls the senate. To remain rele
Of the majority, before we do something that cannot easily be undone and we have now done it before we discard the uniqueness of this great institution, let us use the current rules and precedents of the senate to end the abuse of the filibuster. Surely we owe that much to this great and unique institution. There was a conversation, which was a formal conversation, between the majority and the Republican Leaders just last january, and heres what the majority leader said. In addition to the standing order, which is what we had adopted, i will enforce existing rules to make the senate operate more efficiently. After reasonable notice, i will insist, he said, that any senator who objects to consent requests or threatens to filibuster come to the floor and exercise his or her rights himself or herself. This will apply to all objectionobjections and unanimot requests. Senators should be required to come to the floor and participate in the legislative process, to voice objections, engage in
Both houses. I would like to remind people of that. I forgot my second comment. My third comment will be my commentsow second now. I would like to thank god for the tea party. Without the tea party there are no laws. One last week. Tweet. Chris murphy suggest that the rules changes should apply to bills as well. Keeping in mind that just applies to executive and judicial nominees, not Supreme Court nominees. Peggy in washington is our last caller on the republican line. Ra, i would like to say that i think our country is in big trouble. Paulnk ted cruz and ron are the ones keeping things together. The africanamerican, black beple, in our country will crazy surprised when obama comes out with a turban on his head. I believe that this man is not black. You believe he is not black . I guess we will not find out. Thanks for your calls. Next i will tell you about tomorrow morning on washington journal. We start the day with a look at the 50th anniversary of the assassination of president jo
Out of the chain of command. I wont even bother without. What im am saying, and i say as passionately as i came to my colleagues, that if we do not trust the Commanding Officers who take our young men and women into battle, our most precious asset, if we dont trust them, then we obviously have better reevaluate our entire structure of the military. But i do trust them, mr. President. I do trust them. The finest people ive ever known in my life are those we have given, who will work their way up to positions of authority and command to a very severe screen process. If they make mistakes, can we find an example for a case where the right thing was not done . Of course we can. Theres no way nowhere in a society where we cant find examples of people having not done the right thing. Today im embarrassed that Navy Officers were involved in some kind of bribery scheme about overseas ships. And from time to time we are embarrassed by leaders of her military, but they are the exception and not