They do not like the way they perform on the house floor . Ray a lot of things they can do and oftentimes argue on the floor. There is not much they can do in terms of changing the legislation. The house works by numbers more so than the senate. Whereas if the Majority Party pretty much calls the shots of what gets on the floor. So theres only so much you can do on the floor if you do not like somebody. Of course, you have the chamber quorum but even if you do not like somebody you are supposed to call them nice things. My distinguished colleague, for example, instead of you rotten s. O. B. But, that is part of parliamentary procedure and parliamentary style. Brian what do they do in the senate . Don well, we are still influenced by thomas jefferson, who wrote the manual of parliamentary procedure to really cool down the tempers that would be there for any legislative issues. Members are not to address each other by name. They are not to criticize another persons state or question thei
Whereas if the Majority Party pretty much calls the shots of what gets on the floor. So theres only so much you can do on the floor if you do not like somebody. Of course, you have the chamber quorum, but even if you do not like somebody you are supposed to call them nice things. My distinguished colleague, for example, instead of you rotten s. O. B. But, that is part of parliamentary procedure and parliamentary style. Brian what do they do in the senate . Don well, we are still influenced by Thomas Jefferson who wrote the manual of parliamentary procedure to really cool down the tempers that would be there for any legislative issues. Members are not to address each other by name. They are not to criticize another persons state or question their motives, and they are not to read a newspaper while another person is speaking. The senate has a high sense of decorum. I remember senator robert byrd who epitomized the sense of decorah, decorum, and when he was mad at somebody, he would pour
About today. Guest thats the understatement of the century. Host why dont we start out by talking about Harvey Weinstein . That sort of the story that everybodys talking about right now. And every day some new atrocity occurs. Yesterday or the day before whenever it was three more people came forward with the idea that he had raped them. This has been going on for years and years and years, and there were eight settlements against him. Obviously everyone in the company knew about it. I have to say i wonder about his wife who i gather last night announced that she was leaving him finally. How she could possibly not have heard about this. But how do you think this happened . How was this allowed to go on and on and on and if nobody ever speak out until now . Guest because as as a sociy and as a culture we protect harassers. If somebody host y . Guest that is the 20 million question, why . Why do we do that . Is a because were protecting our own jobs . Is it because we are protecting a pe
Opportunity to stand up and fight for the values that we know to be absolutely absolutely fundamental to american democracy. Ms. Brawner representative elect, thank you very much for talking to cspan. Rep. Elect jayapal thank you so much. General jack bergman. You are here for orientation week. How has it been going . Great meeting all of the staffers who will be doing all the organizational work. Talk about your military career. When did you begin it and talk about moving through the ranks . I joined thean marine corps through an officer flightte program, did training and flew helicopters in vietnam and then got out from active duty, but i stayed in the reserves. While i was a reservist for the 1880s and 1990s, i flew airplanes for Northwest Airlines and started a couple of Small Businesses in the medical equipment arena. Byoved up through the ranks just doing what good marines and other Service People do, taking on tough missions and getting them done. You were commander of the marin
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