[inaudible conversations] good morning with. By American People decided to change the majority of the u. S. Senate of was down in louisville the day after the election with the press conference that i pointed out the dysfunction in the senate was one of the issues of 2014 with the minority of the senate it is down to a very small minority. So we tried to avoid dysfunction and let people produce a paper co when defeated in alaska in did not have a roll call amendment on a full six year term. Not one. We had 15 votes amendments in let them participate to the maximum extent possible majority and minority. With the ideas of bullseye the deal and i have focused largely to have some bipartisan agreement with a president ial signature. The rewrite of no child left behind with all across america with the first fiveyear highway bill in 20 years with an out of body experience with the other accomplishments that demonstrate to achieve things some of the things from all of the shortterm deal remem
Appearance here because we are thankful to have you here and i think for obvious reasons hes not been willing to come. I think the focus of todays hearing will be syria and i dont think anyone here can be proud of the United States role and what is the greatest humanitarian disaster of our time and what we have done to enable that to happen. As i think about your appearance here today, i think in many ways it will be helpful as we think about the next administration and as we think about the next secretary of state as we think about the relationship that needs to access between the executive branch into the secretary of States Office i know that you came over from the National Security staff so you were at the white house. You came over to the state department i know sometimes executive branch folks like to have their own people at the state department and i know for instance you were up here yesterday that the president ordered you to turkey instead so it speaks to the sort of overlap
Issue of political points. This issue with iran is one of the most significant, if not the most significant Foreign Policy issue that we likely will deal with while were here in the senate. And so i think it is important while this is before us to spend as much time as possible talking about this issue, focusing on this issue, debating this issue, making sure that everyone understands what the consents of this iranian deal are. But let me just walk through, if i could, for a few moments and and and lay out why we are where we are today. First of all, four times i know the presiding officer is new here, brings a wealth of National Security experience in previous posts that he had with the state Department Prior to serving here. But what brought us here really was us acting almost in unanimous ways to put sanctions in place four times. This body four times since 2010, working with the house of representatives, put sanctions in place because we knew that iran was was doing things in the a
Justice holmes said the constitution is made for people with fundamentally different points of view. The constitution is a debate all citizens can participate in and cspan believes that with its great nonpartisan motto. My justice was the greatest justice of the 20th century. He reminds us public discussion is a political duty. Its not just a right we have of free speech. We have an obligation to educate ourselves about the best arguments on all sides of the constitutions. Thanks so much to susan for her vision in creating this series and to her phenomenal team. Tune in on october 5th. Thanks so much. [ applause ] number 759. Petitioner versus council. C. Madison is probably the most famous piece in court. It existed as laypeople here. Dead and harriet as laypeople here on land for slavery wasnt legally recognized. Odinga brown dissented to affect would take president ial orders. And the presence of federal troops and marshals and the courage of children. We wanted to pick cases that c
Vs if we get another hemisphere to say oh care. That we dont pay for stuff that we can use and also illustrates it has been years so let me just figure out if this is in the ballpark is fine if not we campeau bid up. I will lamborghini. What did you say . He said wanted lamborghini. An issue of political points. This issue with iran is one of the most significant, if not the most significant Foreign Policy issue that we likely will deal with while were here in the senate. And so i think it is important while this is before us to spend as much time as possible talking about this issue, focusing on this issue, debating this issue, making sure that everyone understands what the consents of this iranian deal are. But let me just walk through, if i could, for a few moments and and and lay out why we are where we are today. First of all, four times i know the presiding officer is new here, brings a wealth of National Security experience in previous posts that he had with the state Department