Mcconnle about former u. S. Enators from kentucky. Thank you very much. Its great to see all of you. I enjoyed my tour of the museum and i recommend you do it. Ive been doing a series of speeches over the last couple of years on some of the more significant members of the United States senate from kentucky that weve had a bunch of them because we came into the union in 1792. But honestly some were way more significant than others. And the man im going to speak to you about today was by any estimate one of a handful of the most significant senators weve ever sent to washington. Ive been pleased to become a friend of his grandson, alvin is sitting here to my left. I had an opportunity take he and his wife around the capitol when they were up there a couple of years ago. And he noted that i had in my office in the capitol the Leaders Office two portraits up on the wall, one of Alben Barkley and one of john sherman cooper. Nd of course barkley was quite bored frankly after serving as Vice
This afternoon, someone beat the white house immigration plan. Leaked the white house immigration plan. Lawmakers are warning president obama to back off after someone leaked the white house proposal that would immediately protect 11 million Illegal Immigrants and allow them to become citizens within eight years. It does not guarantee what republicans want, Border Security first. That tells us that he is not looking for a bipartisan solution. This is the president poor punt torpedoing his own plan. The white house says that the proposal is a backup plan for the group working behind the scenes on a compromise. If those do not work out, we will have an option to put out there. Does the president really what results . Or does he want another cultural to beat up republicans to take political advantage in the next election . The gop said that the white house proposal would be dead on arrival if it came up for a vote today. With the clock ticking down to a critical march 1 deadline, congress
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