Im ben olinsky im the Senior Vice President for structural and governance here at the center for american progress. And its my pleasure to welcome you this afternoon for an incredibly important conversation on on the filibuster with senator jeff and mike zamore coauthors of the newly released book filibustered how to fix the broken senate and save america. And i want to just take a minute to thank you all for your patience, given the vagaries of senate vote timing, its thought that president buchanan was the first to call the senate the worlds most deliberative body to better understand characterization. I looked the term deliberative. The cambridge dictionary defines it as involving careful and discussion when making decisions. So, for example, you might say she deliberated over the menu. And incidentally, when someone over the menu, they ultimately on what to order or they go hungry. But when we look to the senate these days, we see less deliberation. We see less real debate and comp
These televisions providers give you a front row seat to democracy. Next, the Social Security administration is commissioner Martin Omalley testifies and addresses delays and weight times for beneficiaries and modernization efforts in this is his first appearance since becoming commissioner and the hearing is about two hours. Good morning everybody. Senate will come to order. The title of todays hearing is keeping our promise to older adults and people with good morning, everybody. The special committee on aging will come to order and the title of todays hearing is keeping our promise to older adults and people with disabilities, the status of Social Security today. Today, we will hear from the Social Security administration commissioner, Martin Omalley. We are grateful you are here. The commissioner was confirmed in december of last year. I dont think i have to remind anybody in this room or listening how important this program called Social Securitys. It will serve over 68 million am
Can the senate save itself and the country . He spoke at the brooking institute. Let me try to call this full house to order, if i may. Welcome to brookings. My name is bill gallston. Im a senior fellow in governance studies. Thank you so much for coming and welcome also to the people who are watching this event live on cspan. Todays topic is the past, the present and possible future of the u. S. Senate. The occasion of this discussion is the publication of ira shapiros second book on the senate, this one entitled, broken can the senate save itself and the country . Those of oh you who read his first book on the senate will know how passionately he reveres the senate as an institution and will not be surprised to learn how distressed he is by what he describes as its precipitous decline. This topic could not be more timely. We are just days from the expiration of yet another shortterm continuing budget resolution and perhaps even more pertinently, from a promised open Senate Debate on
Mr. Galston let me try to call this full house to order, if i may. Welcome to brookings. My name is bill galston, senior fellow in governance studies. Thanks so much for coming and welcome also to the people who are watching this event live on cspan. Todays topic is the past, the present, and possible future of the u. S. Senate. The occasion of this discussion is the publication of ira shapiros second book on the senate, this is entitled, broken can the senate save itself and the country . Those of you that read his first book on the senate will know how passionately he reveres the senate as an institution and will not be surprised to learn how distressed he is by what he describes as its precipitous decline. This topic could not be more timely. We are just days from the expiration of another short term continuing budget resolution, and perhaps even more pertinently from a promised open Senate Debate on u. S. Immigration policy. Will the promise be kept . And if it is, will todays sena
Day two, and the senate barely out of first gear on immigration debate. Alex bollton, senior staff writer on the hill has joined us, what has kept the debate from moving forward on tuesday . Well, republicans and democrats cant agree on what the first votes are going to be, and more specifically democrats dont want to vote on a proposal sponsored by pat toomey, the republican from pennsylvania that would penalize cities, socalled sanctuary cities that dont cooperate with federal Law Enforcement on immigration law. Thats a vote that democrats dont want to have and republicans have insisted on it a couple times already to come to the floor. Mitch mcconnell tried to bring it up midday tuesday and then again at the end of the day tried to get a vote on the toomey proposal. Democrats objected both times. Instead the democrats want to vote on a bipartisan plan backed by chris coons of delaware and john mccain of arizona. That would essentially provide a path to citizenship for the socalled d