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September 15, 2018
>> is this a defining issue for the remaining months? >> no, fiscal is one of the issues. >> unpress departmented in american history. >> lehman brothers filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy. the truth, the whole truth and nothing, but the truth. >> the record will indicate that mr. paulson answered in the affirmative. >> i take full responsibility for the decisions that i made. >> they want a bailout, they say get out! >> and for the actions that i took. >> and here the worries that lehman brothers...
September 10, 2018
Or is indifferent to the insidious way in which women can be victims of pay discrimination. congress intended to govern real world practices and that world is what the court ignores today. initially you may not know that men are receiving more. only over time is their strong cause to suspect that discrimination is at work. >> shes hit the nail on the head because she definitely said, they do not know what its like in the real world. >> today the ball again lies in congress court to correct the e...
September 4, 2018
Without further debate passes with 11 votes in the affirmative, one of which must be cast by the minority. i ask for a vote on my motion to adjourn under rule 4, mr. chairman. these are rules that we are obligated to follow, the chairman has no right, with all due respect, to simply override them by fiat. >> we are obstacle its gaed -- obligated by that rule in executive session. were not in executive session. i would -- i would -- [ shouting ] >> i would respond to the issues brought up by sena...
September 4, 2018
>> today the ball again lies in congress court to correct the error into which the court has fallen. >> she was laying down a marker for congress. >> and in fact federal law was changed because of her dissent. >> three fifths of the senators have voted in the affirmative, the bill is passed. >> its fitting that the very first bill that i sign, the lily leadbetter fair pay restoration act is upholding one of this nations founding principles, that we are all created equal and each deserve the chan...
September 4, 2018
Like in the real world. >> today the ball again lies in congress court to correct the error into which the court has fallen. >> she was laying down a marker for congress. >> and in fact federal law was changed because of her dissent. >> three fifths of the senators have voted in the affirmative, the bill is passed. >> its 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 an...
September 4, 2018
Access to basic information about his public record. his public record as secretary to the president of the united states, staff secretary. 35 months of public service. weve been told cannot even be considered. the documents of that service cannot be considered. i would say to the senator from north carolina, there was a conversation yesterday about these documents. i had no idea at 11:00 last night 42,000 documents would be put on top of us and asked to take them up today. it added insult to in...
September 4, 2018
Votes in the affirmative. one must be cast by the minor y minority. i ask for a vote on my motion to adjourn under rule 4, mr. chairman. these are rules that we are obligated to follow. the chairman has no right, with all due respect, to simply override them. >> we are obligated by that rule in kexecutive session. were not in executive session. i would respond -- i would respond to the issues brought up by senator durbin about confidential documents. i was criticized for my decision to receive s...
September 3, 2018
Being used now as a slave was being used to over state it a little bit. but not much. and it breaks my heart, i visit campuses, i talk with black students, they tell me all sorts of stories about their roommates, and white roommates say, you wouldnt be here if you were not black. affirmative acted -- ruins of very people it claims to help, it dispier itit -- disspirits tu get groups like "blac black livs matter that take it to while extremes of claiming how victimized they are. >> we have to tak...
September 2, 2018
Do you think the use of napalm of phosphorous of fragmentation bombs of all the other insidious devices they have invented do you think that the united states would use them in europe today and it was a stream li difficult to reply in the affirmative. the main people who brought the war to an end were the vietnamese by their resistance and consistency. but the united states and t. war movement was a unique event in global history its the first time that had name peter real power was really force...
August 8, 2018
The country. worse in this state because the republican congressional people took votes that were adverse to the interest of the citizen of this state. that tax reform bill had a penalty for new york and other democratic states that eliminated deductibility and raised taxes for everybody 30%. i would like to see the democratic party be less negative because trump is doing the best negative case that we can ever do and start to be more affirmative about what the democrats will do when we get in p...