Following a commission on president reagan. Since then, we have been and covering and exposing uncovering and exposing government waste. Host how are you funded . Solely by individuals, companies, associations, no government monday. Host this conversation about earmarks is a response to a comment the president made. Our system lends itself to not getting things done. I hear so much about earmarks, the old earmark system, how there was a great friendliness that they had other problems with earmarks. Maybe all of you should start thinking back to going back to a form of earmarks. You should do it. I am there with you, because the system really lends itself to not getting along. It lends itself to hostility and anger and they hate the republicans or they hate the democrats, and in the old days of earmark, you could say what you want about certain president s where they all talk about they went out to dinner at night and they all got along and passed bills come a that was an earmark system
Reopen the government but how to get towards a pathway of resolving our most dysfunctional aspects of the senate. How to get an appropriations process moving again. How to get a negotiation that could actually hold out hope of funding our domestic needs, addressing disaster relief, opioids, addressing Community Health centers. We have many things that are not resolved. Reporter do you trust leader mcconnell to move forward . Senator coons we cant move forward if we dont trust each other. I will trust both that leader mcconnell will keep his commitment of a date certain and we now have a window of opportunity where this group has to show we can Work Together and build a bipartisan consensus that produces a product worthy of time on the floor. Reporter take leader mcconnell at your word here . Senator coons i trust a lot of the folks i have been listening to, not just the last two days but seven years i have been here. If you have a Bipartisan Group that trusts each other that are commit
Fully funding our defense and domestic needs, addressing disaster relief, opioids, Community Health centers. Do trust Mitch Mcconnell to follow through . He made a clear public commitment on the floor of the senate. I am going to trust that he will keep his commitment and that we now have a window of opportunity where this group has to show that it can build a bipartisan consensus. You are basically having to take leader mcconnell at his word . I trust a lot of the people that i have been working with. The more that you have a Bipartisan Group that trust each other, that are committed to a tocess, the easier it is trust that the leader of that caucus is going to carry through on commitments. You had promised that commitments to dreamers would be part of any deal. We dont have a spending deal, do we . What changed to make you believe Mitch Mcconnell more . I have greater confidence in than ever to members of the Republican Caucus who are committed to making progress on this. We have got
Community health centers. Do you trust Mitch Mcconnell to follow through . He made a clear public commitment on the floor of the senate. I am going to trust that he will keep his commitment and that we now have a window of opportunity where this group has to show that it can build a bipartisan consensus. You are basically having to take leader mcconnell at his word . I trust a lot of the people that i have been working with. The more that you have a Bipartisan Group that trust each other, that are committed to a process, the easier it is to trust that the leader of that caucus is going to carry through on commitments. You had promised that commitments to dreamers would be part of any deal. We dont have a spending deal, do we . What changed to make you believe Mitch Mcconnell more . I have greater confidence in than ever to members of the Republican Caucus who are committed to making progress on this. We have got a window of opportunity and i want to contribute to it in a constructive w
Cspan. The bill before us does three every democrat and republican should be able to support. First, it ends the shutdown and restores full funding for the federal government through february 8. Second, it extends Health Insurance for 9 million vulnerable children. Third, it will enable congress to resume serious bipartisan talks on the important issues facing our nation. Federalthat, the government is beginning to reopen after a weekend shutdown that moved into a third day. Welcome to washington today on cspan radio. Scully. Ve 17 days until government funding runs down. Todays agreement is a shortterm continuing resolution that expires on february 8. In exchange for ending the stalemate, republicans have promised to take up the daca issue, deferred action for childhood arrivals. Here are your other monday headlines. Steve scalise of louisiana returning to the capital after undergoing another round of surgery, part of his recovery from the shooting that took place last year at a baseb