Ok, everyone. Thank you for coming. I would like to thank senator murray for the care. We are expecting senator wyden and a few minutes but were going to start. I would like to thank my colleagues for joining me here to discuss this jobdropping report from the congressional budget office. It confirms what doctors, patients, democrats, and republicans have been saying for weeks. Trumpcare will lead to higher costs, less care, and lead to tens of millions of americans left without any insurance. For weeks, Senate Republicans try to tell us that their bill would be better than me how spell. It would be different than the hospital. It would be different than. He house bill many said they only voted for it because they thought it would make it better. Cbo makes it clear today that this bill is every bit as mean as the house bill. This cbo report should be the end of the road for trumpcare. Republicans should read it like a giant stop sign urging them to turn back from this path that would b
The proceedings of the United States senate are being broadcast to the nation on television for the first time, not that we have operated in secret until now. Millions of americans have set in the galleries and observed Senate Debates during their visits to washington. But today, they can witness the proceedings in their own homes. We might say that the nation is tuning in late. Woodrow wilson said that the informing function of congress should be preferred to its legislative function. Today, as the u. S. Senate comes out of the communications dark ages, we create another historic moment in the relationship between congress and Technological Advancement in communications through radio and televisi. That was june 2, 1986, 30 years ago this month, the and the occasion was the first day of permanent television of the United States senate. We would use the opportunity of the 30th anniversary to look back at the senate and how it is changed in the era of television. We have two guests that
Years ago this month, and the occasion was the first day of permanent television of the United States senate. We are going to use the opportunity of the 30th anniversary to look back at the senate and how it is changed in the era of television. We have two guests that have been with the senate for 40 years and their careers there, theretired, and they span age of the television before senate and after, so they are ideally suited to help us understand how the institution adapted to the coming of Television Cameras. Let me introduce them to you. Alan frumin is a Senate Parliamentarian emeritus, and as i mentioned he spent 40 years in , the Parliamentarian Office rising to the chief parliamentarian position. Thank you for being with us. Mr. Frumin i am delighted to be here. Don ritchie has set down at our table many times. Historian emeritus, again, 40 years in the United States senate and served as the chief to 2016 androm 2009 has written a number of books. Nice to see you and thank you
9 00 p. M. With Michael Hayden, nsa and cia director, former cia director to discuss National Security on both after words program. And thats followed at 10 00 with the panel on the history of the black power movement. That all happens tonight on cspan2s book tv. Give us some thoughts on what you all did, some of the things you did to create those relationships. Well, one of the things we felt strongly about a need for inclusion, and by that, the president and inviting leaders to the white house, we did that right after 9 11. President bush invite us down, he told us we had to be there at 7 00 in the morning every tuesday and that inclusion created a chemistry among us that allowed us to deal with a real crisis at the time and made a huge difference in the relationships that came from it really made a difference in terms of what we were able to get done. Joint caucuses, opportunities for republicans and democrats to sit together to break together and listen to the leadership together r
President bush invited us down and told us we had to be there at 7 in the morning every tuesday. That inclusion created a chemistry among us that allowed us to deal with a crisis and made a huge difference in a ships that came from it really made a difference in terms of what we were able to get done. Joint caucuses, opportunities for republicans and democrats to sit together and break bread together and listen to the leadership together rather than separately so these joint, maybe separate caucuses dont become pep rallies for your side. Bringing spouses together, and opportunities to get to know one another on an informal bases is the way we used to do things. It made a difference. We dont have that happening today. Several times we face the crisis of acting in the senate we would have a joint conference meeting. Tell him about the Graham Kennedy agreement. We came to terms with the house voting to impeach the president and we would have to have the trial. But we were not sure how to