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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20131011

hour is a starvation wage. we need to raise the minimum wage. mr. president, anybody who has kids in college today understands that it is harder and harder for working-class and middle-class families to send their kids to college. and what the american people are saying to us, do something. you tell us what is true, is that it s hard to make it into the middle class unless kids have a college education. well, do something to make college affordable. don t have my kid leaving college or graduate school $50,000 in debt or $80,000 in debt. do something about that. and, mr. president, anybody who drives anywhere in america, in vermont or in indiana or anyplace else, understands that our infrastructure, our roads, our bridges, wastewater plants, water plants, our rail system is deteriorating rapidly. and they say do something about the infrastructure. and people are telling us that as global warming is perceived as more and more of a crisis, do something about energy efficiency. w

Transcripts For CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20131119

i know we have a very big debate going on, and everybody is torn asunder on the other issue of whether to keep the prosecution decisions and the chain of command for serious offenses, but on this one, limiting the scope of article 32, we have broad support, and i even have support, i m proud to say, of chairman levin and senator inhofe has helped. we have a tremendous group of people who have who have helped us. we will have these proceedings presided over by a military lawyer, when possible. the proceedings are going to be recorded. we will prevent victims from being forced to testify in these proceedings. they can have alternative forms of testimony instead. so these are the basic commonsense reforms. and i m very happy to say that with the strong support we have from so many on both sides of the aisle and with the support of chairman levin, i feel very positive, but to get this done, to stop this revictimmization of people who are just distraught by having been attacked

Transcripts For CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20140305

the presiding officer: are there any senators wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote? if not, the ayes are 58, the nays are 41, the nomination is agreed to. under the previous order, there will be two minutes of debate equally divided in the usual form prior to the cloture vote. who yields time? time is yielded back. the presiding officer: who yields time in support of the nomination? the senator from new jersey. mr. menendez: parliamentary inquiry. i understand the republican side has yielded their time back? the presiding officer: the senate will be in order. who yields time? the senator is correct. the time in opposition is yielded back. mr. menendez: i will yield back our time. the presiding officer: all time having been yielded back, by unanimous consent, the clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. the clerk: cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, hereby move to bring to a clos

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