To focus on now of course is a trade deal with the uk and so i have joined a number of other senators and asking you can watch this online at cspan. Org. The senate gaveling in at 3 30 p. M. And they will take a procedural vote on a couple of abortion measures. Live coverage now of the u. S. Senate. 18. The presiding officer under the previous order, the time until 3 30 p. M. Will be equally divided between the two leaders or their designees. The senator from alaska. Ms. Murkowski madam president , just very briefly here this afternoon, we will have beginning at 3 30 p. M. A series of votes to include the nomination of Katherine Macgregor to be deputy secretary of the department of interior, and i would like to provide my support for this nomination. I want to thank my colleagues on the energy and Natural Resources committee for working with me to report and rereport ms. Macgregors nomination moved out on a bipartisan basis. I thank the majority leader for filing cloture on her nominat
Down the floor in our room that ran from one wall across to the other wall. We had an oldschool stereo record player in our room, the line ran up the record player so that he had on one side the tuning knob and i had on the other side the volume knob. So we would have to reach some sort of detente to listen to anything. If he turned into a station i didnt like, i could turn the volume all the way down. I we would have to bill to work things t out. The line even went through our closet with his close, my close on it we had a clear line of separation that you could not cross that line. And the rules were very clear in our room. And for whatever reason, our mom put up with it for quite a while, as we had our dough to cross the line into my side kind of moment. Its interesting today, in the senate, was in some ways a line drawing moment. Not to draw a line, but to try to figure out where are our lines. Whereal are our boundaries on an issue that americans talk about all the time. They talk
Regular camera crew, but to have cspan with us this evening. And we are also Live Streaming facebook page,c and any of you who want to find them later, you can go to our page, and will upload it on youtube. Is that correct . So, again, im sharon pratt. On the founding director of the is it due to politics, policy, and history which is housed here at the university of the District Of Columbia. We were launched up january of last year. And we have sort of the same kind of focus as do other institutes of politics, except a very strong focus as well on the and by so this city, doing, the history of this country, because we are entirely a creature of the politics of creating a new nation. For those of you who saw the musical hamilton, there is a song that says, in the room where it happened, and we are what happened. [laughter] washington, d. C. So, while we have topics that are contemporary, we always try to sort of drill down on that topic to talk about its historical origins, and that is
Good morning everyone. How are you . To say over and over again, every day we are involved in impeachment is a sad day for america. And yesterday was one the winner given no choice but to send to the senate to articles of impeachment against donald trump, the president of the united states. For his president s acetate does by his abuse of power and obstruction of congress. And his actions that undermine our national security. He violated his office to protect and defend the constitution and jeopardize the integrity of our elections. Every day, new incriminating evidence comes forward, you are well aware of the hearings last night i think that only speaks very clearly of the need for the senate to enter the documentation into their discussion. Today, and this is the day the Government Accounting Office confirmed that the president s actions at the center of our impeachment articles withholding congressionally approved military aid from ukraine was illegal. And these are their words. The
[inaudible] to the president. But thats why the framers gave the senate the responsibility to try impeachment cases. When it came to matter as serious as a potential removal of the president , they believe the senate was the only body of government, with enough independence to rise to the partisan consideration and act with the necessary impartiality. Will we live up to that vision . Right now the republican leader and i have very different ideas about what it means to conduct a fair trial. Democrats believe a fair trial considers all of the relevant facts and allows for witnesses and documents. We m dont know what the evidence will say. It may exculpate the president it may very well incriminate him. We only wanted trial that examine its all the facts and lets the chips fall where they may. The republican leader in contrast apparently leaves at trial should feature no witnesses, no relevant documents, and proceed according toen the desires of the white house, the defendant. The republ