shutdown, here on capitol hill. the house democrats have a plan, you know, now they re planning on voting, it keeps getting later and later into the evening tonight. we re anticipating the votes may not happen until 9:30, 10:00. they want to pass a package of bills that would reopen the government, keep most of it open through the end of the fiscal year, punt the border wall discussion into february, but at least get those paychecks flowing again, get the national parks cleaned up, all of those things. mitch mcconnell had said he wasn t going to put it on the floor if the president wouldn t sign it, but again, i think we re picking up some signs that there may be pressure increasing on him, and of course, everyone set to head to the white house tomorrow morning at 11:30, chris. thank you so much, kasie and hallie, both of you. so, we ll talk about that appearance by the president a little later on. i want to stick with what the real news of the day is today, which is, there s a new s
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vetoes the bill. arizona chamber of commerce weighing in saying they, too, hope jan brewer vetoes the bill because arizona probably cannot stand yet another nationwide boycott of their state for being a pariah on civil rights issues. governor jan brewer has until saturday to make her decision about what to do on this bill. if she does sign it, the state s economy would probably have to endure something similar to the treatment arizona got back in the 90s when it became notorious for rejecting the federal martin luther king jr. holiday, how arizona lost super bowl in 1993. that was all familiar to the state by 2010 when they became nationally famous, again, this time for the state s anti-immigrant papers please law. even with the papers please law now half gone thanks to a ruling by the u.s. supreme court, arizona and specifically the state government of jan brewer in arizona, they re still a major priority and a major focal point for immigration activists. like, for example, the immigr
wow. when you say that the u.s. is definitely not going to take away that foreign aid money, even though the government put out a statement today saying they would review it, we also saw president obama review it, we also saw president obama put out a statement in advance of the bill saying he hoped the president wouldn t sign it, but obviously he did. what do you make about the statements of objection and the pressure from the u.s. government sneer. a lot of human rights organizations are calling it empty rhetoric but i don t think it s quite right. i think it s a rhetoric that s filled with calculation and posturing. it sounds good. we get to talk about human rights at home. but what the president of uganda has discovered, like the homophobic demagogues around the world, have realized that ho homophobia is a kind of no-cost posture they can take against the united states. the united states will denounce it, but time and time again we have shown reluctance to act on it. i hope i m
if you do read it out loud, it takes at least 45 minutes to read. in 1962, the senate historian says one west virginia senator who was reading it to the senate that year actually took well over an hour to read it out loud. when paula hawkins did it, she broke the record. paula hawkins holds the record for the fastest reading of that speech in senate history. paula hawkins read that thing in 39 minutes and nobody else has ever done a more mathematically efficient reading of george washington s farewell address to the nation to congress ever. george washington wrote that speech in 1796. they started the tradition of reading it out loud in congress in the middle of the civil war, interestingly, 1862. because, yes, that speech is really dense and it s 8,000 words and takes an hour to read it out loud unless you re paula hawkins. it s also a really beautiful plea for the union. for how important it is that the united states stay together as a country. and so in the middle of the civil war i