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Against the Electoral College. It is useful because it lays out all of the common arguments for it as well. Which is helpful for allowing each person to make up their mind about what they think about this institution genuinely speaking. I do a whole week on this americansry few understand the full extent of the process. If you take a course on the american presidency should probably walk away understanding how this process is used to select how our chief executive officer works. Also because of how it structures have elections turns out. Just like how we started our discussion on president ial nominations by talking about the history and processes and a deep dive into the process rules, the rule nominations today. We should start a president ial election the same way by taking on how we select a president. Youre reading for this week was George C Edwards book on why the ....
Can you comment sen. Graham on what you said this morning. Sen. Graham anybody who was listening to who i am and what i said, you know that it was a deep sarcasm that i suggested that some legislative body would want to yearn for the good old days of segregationism. The point im trying to make is that there is nobody in the legislative arena wanting to take us back to the dark time in american history. For my opponent to suggest that, it says far more about him than me. I have been a United States senator for three terms. I represent a state with 31 africanamerican population. I want to make sure that everybody in my state moves forward. In terms of that statement, it blows my mind that any rational person could believe that about me. This is not a game we are playing here with the people of South Carolina. There are plenty of differences between my opponent and myself. Manufa ....
As you know, government funding runs out on november 21, less than two weeks from now. We are currently under a stopgap spending bill. What are your thoughts about why congress has not been able to complete the needed spending legislation thus far . Sen. Leahy there are a number of reasons, but most importantly , just vote on it. The oldfashioned way. Chairmanhelby is the of the Senate Appropriations committee, and the vice chairman. Only one of three committees that has a vice chairman. We have met continuously. With boths week senator mcconnell and senator schumer. They said, leave it to us, we can get it done. We are having a meeting next week with our two counterparts, congresswoman lowy and congresswoman granger in the house to try to work it out. They do have questions of allocations and all. If it was left to us, if it was left to the memos of congress, republicans and democrats alike, before thet it done continuing ....
President tomorrow will be at Arlington National cemetery to lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns. We will cover that live on cspan. Lets go to scott in arlington, virginia. Go ahead, republican line. Caller i mainly wanted to comment and say what a great first step it is to break in the action from all of the drama that we have been going through and get out on the International Stage and me to it coalitions across all kinds of religions and to tryhe world to level the stage been back to our domestic policies with the president. Host lets hear from chicago. Al is on the democrat line. Good morning. Caller i think donald trump is an embarrassment. Composesof the way he himself, he makes statements that are really crazy. He is just really an embarrassment as far as im concerned. He was not president ial at all. Stands out to you best not president ial in this over ....