Are doing. Their tax bill is such a mess in terms of not helping the middle class, in terms of the deficit that they are just tying themselves in a knot. Its like yogi bear all over again. There again raising, sorry they are cutting taxes on the wealthy and taking Health Care Away from millions in raising the premiums on millions of others all to help reduce taxes on the rich. Does that sound familiar . Well it does to us because thats why the Health Care Bill failed and that is why their tax bill is going to fail as well. Its a backdoor attempt to get trumpcare back. The American People dont want trumpcare just like they dont want this bill which focuses its tax cuts on the wealthy and raises the taxes of 13 million middleclass americans in 2019 and 20 million americans by 2026. To take away Peoples Health care and raise their premiums, to lower the top rate is what President Trump suggested is so against what the American People want and again they are just headed for failure. To lis
Bradberry. I rise today to speak in opposition to the nomination of Stephen Bradberry the general counsel of the department of transportation. I must say to my colleagues, the years i have been here. I never thought that we will be considering the nomination of a person who supported, who supported commission of what the Geneva Convention says his war crimes. That is a serious, serious issue. And the constitution charges the senate to give its advice and consent to Senior Executive branch nominations. As a check against the appointment of people to important government positions. Who, because of one spelling or another should not be entrusted with the interest of the American People. I do not believe that mr. Bradberry deserves that public trust. And i will oppose his nomination. And mr. President , i am astonished, i am astonished that we are here considering the nomination of a person who is in violation of the Geneva Convention rules of work to which the United States of america is
[inaudible conversations] good morning to everybody who is here, and especially those who are prepared for testimony today. We welcome everybody on what i think will be the final day of judge gorsuch confirmation hearing. Weve already heard todays of impressive testimony from the nominee. I think is shown great command of the law, and i think he has showed a humility with his humble delivery, and i think people learned a lot about not only our political system but our judicial system with whats going on the last three days. Today we will hear from a number of outside witnesses. We will they are from a number of distinguished witnesses, bot in support and in opposition to the nominee. They will all speak to then qualifications to be a Supreme Court justice. Mi i look forward to hearing from all the witnesses today. Let me modify this a little bit because im going to spend maybe 15 minutes at the agriculture community, because the nominee for secretary of agriculture is before the commit
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On the floor, the pentagons budget bill is expected with an amendment on the nsa, syria, and egypt. One an amendment could curtail the nsas ability to collect telephone and other data. We want to get your reaction to that provision. Host remember, you can send us a tweet or post your comments on facebook host let me begin with the New York Times story. This piece host we want to get your take on this. What do you think about this amendment the house is expected to vote on later this week . It was introduced by a republican in the house. I want to get your take on it. Host a little bit more from the New York Times this morning. It says host the senator spoke at the center for American Progress yesterday about this program. Is a liberal progressive think tank here in washington, as many of you know. And we covered his speech here on cspan. Here is a little bit. [video clip] at this point i think weve gotten in front of us some very serious questions. ,hat happens to our government our ci