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minority leader harry reid congratulated chris murphy for leading the 15-hour debate against gun violence on wednesday in the senate. his remarks were followed by mitch mcconnell criticizing senate crast democrats for the debate calling it a talk-a-thon. this is 20 minutes. mr. president? for 14 hours and 50 minutes, beginning late wednesday morning and ending early thursday morning, the entire nation watched the senator from connecticut teach our republican colleagues a lesson and another things not the least of which is courage. it is easy to say we stood for 14 hours. we talk a lot about filibusters in the senate. they don t happen very often. i have been in congress for 34 heres and i have probably led two more than anyone else. they don t happen much. there are a lot of fake filibusters but this was real. i admire and appreciate the junior senator from connecticut very much. four days after 49 innocent americans were gunned down in a nightclub, senator murphy s ....
first formerly i was able to debate it. mitt romney was side was that night. he walked away with it. maybe he would ve done better the first time. seriously. not everything i say is ironic or sarcastic. i mean the words they speak. that plane brings back memories. that very vehicle is where i learned we lost the presidency in 1980. if you go up and look at it again tonight, the first section seat i was sitting there. it s in the book, if you buy the book to me, i m sitting there, carter is behind, jody powell standing there with a big pill in his arms. is holding a pillow. it s saturday night before the election and jody will go to sleep in the hallway. there used to be a punk or. cigarettes and put. times have changed. everyone was all smoking. i had just gotten the word in that seat that we re going to lose by 10. we got the word in seattle the last stop, it was an amazing sprint. that s in the book. i want to talk about my book a little bit but really i want to talk ....
for telephone companies, a box for long-distance, cable, satellite. to view awas hewe had eliminate the lines of demarcation and promote competition, believing that with competition there would be more investment, more consumer choice, more innovation and fortunately, i think the result has proven us correct that that s exactly what is happened. now we are in a situation, not t later, thatrs there has to be a massive overhaul. all the new technology and modes of service. , you have boucher worked on telecommunications for a long time as a member of congress. did congress understand what awawas going on with the telecommunications act or was it limited to a few members? guest: as is often the case, the committees that book us on subject matters took the lead. jack was chairman of our subcommittee. other members of her subcommittee have been focused on telecommunications for many years. and in some cases decades. we were certainly well prepared for this reform. there was ....
they are close to as big a problem as not having people. you have doctors there but you don t have examination rooms. do you have a construction plan moving forward? i know it s unfair. you have been in the job six weeks. i m not trying to be critical. it s five, actually. all right. obviously, you are right. facilities are very important. the action you took with the bill gives us the ability to have 27 more facilities. not surprisingly, one of the facilities will go in phoenix where, obviously, we have a need. we have an issue right now that we re working. it s around leasing. we have been following an appropriate, i think, strategy of leasing facilities rather than building them. because the population is moving. you have talked about the increase in veterans in montana. we re currently working through the gsa on this process. because the to get down to it, i appreciate you telling me what you are doing. all i want to know is, do you have a construction pla ....
hopefully he s going g ting by the rules. hopefully everybody has been tested and hopefully it works out the way the rules are. i m looking forward to this. he s looking forward and there may be reasons why he s excited to come on the stage one more time because in every way we can measure, joe biden is win thing air war on tv. his town hall out rated trump as the president s was aired on more channels. joe biden drew better reviews in the first debate, which was most watched. 73 million people tuned in. biden is on air more because his campaign is flushed with cash, trump is looking at taking out a loan ordeal l delaying bill pay in the home stretch. those metrics show preferences that can change. democrats are banking on the apparent need in the early vote that doesn t change, these votes are in and tops a record-breaking 40 million ballots in battle ground states that matter. democrats building on an edge now over a million votes. you see there. while biden is up ....