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>> she was laying down a marker for congress. and in fact federal law was changed because of her dissent. >> 3/5 of the senators having voted in the affirmative, the vote is passed. >> it is fitting that the very first bill that i sign, the lily ledbetter fair pay restoration act, is upholding one of this nations founding principles, that we are all created equal and each deserve a chance to pursue our own version of happiness. >> ruth and i were in new york city to see the play "proof." and as ...

>> reporter: they passed the bill out of the senate 83-16 vote, easily surpassing veto-proof majority. they got 83 votes in the affirmative to send this to the house. the house will vote tonight. we expect a bipartisan majority to sign this, end the shutdown threat that led to the 35-day government shutdown, longest in history, 800,000 federal workers and employees, government contractors the risk of furlough that they suffered in the early part of this year. after the senate acted, expect the h...

Begin by swearing you in. do you swear or affirm that the testimony youre about to give is true and correct to the best of your knowledge, information and belief, so help you got? thank you. let the record show the witness answered in the affirmative. thank you and be seated. please note that your written testimony will be entered into the report in its entirety. i ask that you summarize your testimony within five minutes. theres a timing light on your table. when the light switching from green ...

Penalty of perjury the testimony you are about to give is true and correct to the best of your knowledge, information and belief so help you god? thank you. let the record show the witness answered in the affirmative. thank you and please be seated. please note that your written testimony will be entered into the record in its entirety. accordingly i ask you summarize your testimony in five minutes. to help you stay within that time there is a timing light on your table. when the light switches ...

For cnn said that when the that happens, when its complete, when the mueller report is finished, nearly nine out of ten americans say they want to see the full report public. the chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge reporting live on capitol hill. high, catherine. >> shep, this is one of these situations that you want to do a little rewind. i think we may have had a significant piece of news in the final few minutes of that hearing. you remember earlier in the hearing, the acting ...

It does not do that by the way, but if it did, it is irresponsible as the leader of the free world and the country to take hostages like federal employees and contractors. >> those contractors, possibly more than a million of them, that will not get their pay. these are, for everyone that carries on about the government, the employees of the united states government dont tent to be the fat cats that we think they are. >> they make the country run and the president should lead the country in a ma...

February 8th. lets listen in. not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to. >> so there you have it, the motion was not agreed to. 52 senators voted in favor of this proposal. how many republicans did we see break with their party and vote to reopen? >> i dont have the whip count yet, i was with senator chris koons of delaware. he is saying about 20 senators of both parties are about to make their position known that they want to call for a three-week reopening of the governm...

Everybody across party lines thinks is ridiculous. and were asking the republican leadership to step up right now and help us get back to the business of government. we want to re-open the government. and then weve got legislation to re-open the democracy by getting rid of gerrymandering, by opening up the campaign finance system, by arming peoples voting rights so they cant be taken away again. >> those -- thats the first sort of affirmative -- i mean, after getting the government back and runn...

Billion because it doesnt make sense so spend $5.5 billion on a project -- >> for one year. >> -- unless you go ahead and complete it. >> right. >> youre right. its rearranging the silverware on the titanic. weve got this monumental challenge of climate change, which the rest of the world is talking about. record forest fires. drought. hurricanes. extreme weather events like no one has ever seen before. this is what we should be focused on. instead, were talking about this stupid medieval wall w...

By the fbi. making a false image of the fbi was a crime. that was not done. one of the reasons you do that, all prosecutors and agents generally speaking provide that advice, because that means its far easier to prove that the defendant, in fact, did know that lying to the faa is a crime. there is no legal requirement that that advice be given, does make it easier to prove. so the judge wanted to be sure that the defendant was pleading guilty because, in fact, he was guilty. thats why he asked t...