both houses. i would like to remind people of that. i forgot my second comment. my third comment will be my commentsow second now. i would like to thank god for the tea party. without the tea party there are no laws. one last week. tweet. chris murphy suggest that the rules changes should apply to bills as well. keeping in mind that just applies to executive and judicial nominees, not supreme court nominees. peggy in washington is our last caller on the republican line. ra, i would like to say that i think our country is in big trouble. paulnk ted cruz and ron are the ones keeping things together. the african-american, black beple, in our country will crazy surprised when obama comes out with a turban on his head. i believe that this man is not black. you believe he is not black? i guess we will not find out. thanks for your calls. next i will tell you about tomorrow morning on washington journal. we start the day with a look at the 50th anniversary of the assassinati
that s a lesson that sadly most of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle haven t learned for the simple reason that they ve never really served a single day in the minority. so the majority has chosen to take us down this path. the silver lining is that there will come a day when roles are reversed. when that happens, our side will likely nominate and confirm lower court and supreme court nominees with 51 votes, regardless of whether the democrats actually buy into this fanciful notion that they can demolish the filibuster on lower court nominees and still preserve it for supreme court nominees. i yield the floor. mr. levin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. mr. levin: first i would ask unanimous consent that after my remarks, the senator from alabama be recognized. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. levin: mr. president, in the past, a few senate majorities, frustrated by their inability to get certain bills and nominations to
can see there is a lot of potential good data sources from psych evaluations and other interesting things for my human resources and excuse my ignorance here but i don t know what the limitations are. what are your limitations of your ability to pull those resources and utilize it for threat profiling? one of the limitations to the psych evaluation, and this is not limited to the geyer government am a but industry partners as well, but psych evaluations are considered medical and are protected under the laws under hippa laws. where i think the community is going is figuring out ways to kind of take that diagnostic, you know, the diagnoses and break them down so they are not clinical, so you are so getting at the factors that are most important. again, there are still a lot of work to figure that out. you can t use clinical terms from the dsm. that is where you draw that line from medical territory. that is what the biggest challenges. biggest challenge is. you mention
it, the senate would reach a point where we wouldn t be able to function. well, i thought perhaps perhaps at that time i thought my words were a little apocalyptic. but as it turns out, they weren t at all. and so this is a bright day for the united states senate and for our country to finally be able to move ahead on nominations so that any present not just this president, any president can put together his executive branch under our constitution. a president should have the people he or she wanted to form their executive branch. every senator here gets to pick his or her own staff. we don t have to have the house vote on it or anybody else. it s true of every member of the house or senate. it s true of the judiciary, the third branch of government. they can hire their clerks, their staff without coming to us. and so now i think it s appropriate that any president can now form their executive branch with only 51 votes needed in the united states senate, not a supermajo
many respects. that has never been more true than today. texas has always sort of lead the way for america in so many respects. we had three presidents from here in the last 60 years. lbj, president george w. bush and president george w. bush, so texas is an outsized presence in american life, and texans wouldn t have it any other way. you have worked with one of those presidents as well. well, have you worked with all three in some capacity? let s start with lbj who is right here in boston austin. mark: i with the director of the presidential library from 2009 to 2017 and now, the presidency or the lbj foundation. i ve written several books including one that we will talk about today, indomitable will: lbj in the presidency. but one of the reasons i wanted to be the director of the library now 13 years ago was the fact that lbj is one of our most consequential presidents and so many respects. i think he is known for predominantly, but there is so much more to his leg