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pleased with the way you have opened up senate order and the way you are conducting business there after two years of majority leader? sen. mcconnell: we had in the first year of the 114, 200 rollcall votes, previous years were 15. we passed massive, five-year highway bill that had not happened in 20 years. we did a complete rewrite of no child left behind. a whole variety of things that not going to make the front page of the new york times, but important. there was bipartisan agreement and we got a presidential signature. did we have differences? yes, but i try to focus on the things that we could agree on that were worth doing. by any objective standard, we had a very accomplished 114th congress. mr. goodman: what third of conversations have you had with your friend chuck schumer who takes over for harry reid? sen. mcconnell: we will see, democrats are in a feisty mood these days. mr. goodman: will they use the filibuster on a daily basis? sen. mcconnell: they will ....
hudible conversations] hello. i am so happy to be here with courtney martin and you can be here with us. one of the co-founders of the project is very sad he cannot be here, he is sick today. courtney cent and e-mail yesterday we were not looking at the calendar to say what is happening this weekend chief meld yesterday s and said it should redo this? should be have a book launche to talk about the new better off in the week that it is momentous and the unsettling landscape? and i said absolutely because of what happened andd how unsettled puerto rico it is important we sit together in a room and talk about what matters to us.. so i will not do the big introduction you can read her credentials and i love the presence that she brings to our media space on her blog that is eliminating for everybody reading it. per rigour as a journalist and a thought leader and also a human being. somehow i want to introduce courtney is i love her.y. [laughter] she is a journalist, ....