Leader Mitch Mcconnell that he has no parameters for this bill, is not bringing a specific set of requirements to the floor. He is basically opening the door to a series of bills being voted on, and let see if any of them get 60 votes and pass. This is our immigration debate. It is fascinating. Host until he is bringing up tonight has nothing to do with immigration, just a vehicle for this. Guest it could be about anything. It could be about french bread pastries. The whole idea is the senate does not know what there is a majority to support. ,he majority leader has said lets bring up all your immigration proposals, we know that there will be one that looks similar to what the president asked for, which will be border wall, rollback of some Legal Immigration, but some sort dreamers. Ship for put that package on the floor, see if it get 60 votes. If it doesnt come up with Democratic Alternative on the floor. If it doesnt come at a bunch of things and see what happens. Host what role wil
Give us a call, republicans, 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Independents, 2027488002. You can also catch us catch up with us on social media. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook, it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good monday morning and you can start calling in now as we talk about the president s fiscal 2019 Budget Proposal and what is being reported is the plan does not include the goal of balancing the budget over the next 10 years. Here is the Washington Post on that this morning. President trump slated to announce a new budget plan that will no longer seek to eliminate the deficit over a decade, forfeiting a major republican goal. The plan will call for a range of spending cuts that reduce the growth of the deficit by 3 trillion over 10 years, but it will not attempt to balance the federal budget. It will relinquish the deficit the goal comes after President Trump pushed a 1. 5 trillion tax cut through late last year and signed budget deal last week that lists federal spendi
Somewhat unique debate on immigration. Explain how and when this will go down. Guest this is one of those things that is where in washington. A bill that is coming to the floor that we dont know what is going to happen. We have been told by Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell that he has no parameters for this bill. That he is not bringing a specific set of requirements to the floor. He is going to open the door to a series of hills being voted on and lets see if any of them get 60 votes and pass. Bill he is bringing up tonight has nothing to do with immigration. Guest it to be about anything. You can put up a bill about french bread pastries. The whole idea is that the senate does not know what there is a majority to support. Has said, okleader lets bring up all your bordern proposals wall and rollback of some Legal Immigration. Some sort of citizenship for most of the dreamers. But that package on the floor and see if they get 60 votes. If it does not come up with the Democratic Alternat
The presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, on this vote, the ayes are 71, the nays are 26. Under the previous order, requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is agreed to. Order. Order in the senate. Order. There are now two minutes of debate prior to a vote in relation to the carper amendment. Mr. Carper madam president . Madam president . Madam president . The presiding officer the senator mr. Carper may we have order . The presiding officer order. Senators, please take your conversations out of the chamber. The senator from delaware. Mr. Carper madam president , let me say to our republican colleagues, this bill is going back to the house. This bill is going back to the house. We can send it back to the house correcting what i think is a misguided approach on pension smoothing. We can knot knock out that 3 billion pension smoothing. We can set a dynamic that will ensthiewr we do our jobs this
Also. So i think we i dont think its an either or situation. The first point that you were making, frank, is exactly what this legislation is talking about. And, actually, i live in north in a lot of and a lot of my neighbors go to the v. A. Hospital in memphis, tennessee. So thank you. A recurring theme were hearing compliments about the service theyre getting. But this legislation provides more doctors, more nurses and more facilities to address just what youre talking about. Host and the last caller in this segment is tony from north providence, rhode island, on our line for independents. Tony, weve got about a minute here. Caller good morning, how are you . Host good. Caller thank you for cspan. Took me about six months to get through. Ive got a claim in with the, an injury that i got during my service time. And ive been going through heck with them. I finally got a meeting with a judge. I told the judge exactly what was going on, how they were treating me and i had to keep telling