Vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not the yeas are 83. The noes are 9. The motion is passed agreed to. Mr. Grassley madam president . The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley ive got a couple of issues i want to speak on. One would be trade and section 232 issue. That would be my second one. The first one, i want to speak about commonsense entitlement reform. In the past year weve seen a flurry of drug pricing proposals. Im encouraged by efforts from my colleagues here in the senate, especially Ranking Member wyden, colleagues in the house that agree in the house of representatives who agree with this effort to reduce drug prices and the president of the United States who has already been involved for a year and a half in lowering drug prices. All have made lowering Prescription Drug costs one of the Core Principles of our efforts and particularly a core principle for this administration
Court. Not always an edifying experience. It was a mean and ugly fight at times we know how it turned out. Judge kavanaugh, nowjustice kavanaugh, was narrowly confirmed on a largely partyline vote. But it was a memorable fight, so why did you two choose to retell this story in a booklength form . Guest carrie and i were both involved in the confirmation battle, working on the confirmation, covering it as journalists. We knew that we had a good story here, we knew that we had good access, and we wanted to lay it down, get the record down. And so we interviewed more than 100 people including the president and various other people at the white house, Supreme Court justices, people in the senate, and we are so glad we did because this was something that gripped the nation last year. And when youre in the chaos of it in the moment, its worth reflecting on after the dust has settled about lessons to learn from it, what were some of the things that happened behind the scenes, and were really
Court. It is not always an edifying experience but a mean and ugly fight at times and we know how it turned out, judge kavanaugh now Justice Kavanaugh was narrowly confirmed on a largely partyline vote. It was a memorable site so why did you to choose to retell this story in book links for . Guest we were both involved in the kavanaugh confirmation battle. She was working on the confirmation and covering it as a journalist. We knew we had a good story here and knew that we had good access and we wanted to lay it down and get the record down and so we interviewed more than 100 people, including the president and various other people and several Supreme Court justices people in the senate and we are so glad we did because this was something that gripped the nation last year and in the chaos of it and in the moment it is worth reflecting on after the dust settled about lessons to learn from it and what were the things that happened behind the scenes and were glad we got to do it. Guest ab
Sometimes it seems nothing is happening on the senate floor. The action is going on elsewhere. Order in committee rooms, and senators offices and the offices of the Senate Leaders. But thats all preliminary. Sooner or later, everything has to come here. Here is where the final say, the final act takes place. Here is where the law is made. The United States senate has been legislating and carrying out its unique constitutional duties since 1789. The framers believed the senate should and could be the venue in which statesmen would lift america up to meet its unique challenges. We are still a work in progress in the United States senate. It is time for the United States senate started acting like a senate instead of kindergarten. If you think were emotional, wait until you see what happens if this bill fails. Reflecting the nations politics and made up of 100 members, two from each state, serving sixyear terms, this is how many have come to know the senate today. Democrats have been putt
Sometimes it seems nothing is happening on the senate floor. The action is going on elsewhere. Order. The senate has been carrying out its duties in 1789. The framers believed the senate should be the venue through which statesmen would lift america to meet its unique challenges. We are still a work in progress in the United States senate. We should act like a senate instead of a kindergarten. Wait until you see what happens with this bill. Made up of 100 members, two from each state, this is how many have come to know the senate today. Democrats have been putting up roadblocks one after another. It is not what the founders had in mind. There is a great deal of human affection around here. It is in private. You came to the wrong town at the wrong time. With a history of conflict and compromise, we will go inside the senate to tell its story. Its informal workings, we will learn about it as a legislative body. Following the footsteps of members in the core doors around the chamber, we w