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Ago. should the president have asked congress to declare an act of war? >> he could have asked for declaration of war or authorization for use of military force. unfortunately, he didnt do either. >> and do you think theres any prospect of being able, through the budget process, especially in the house of representatives where the amendment process is so limited, do you have any parliamentary procedure you can use in the budget process to actually get this question to a vote? >> well, wed have t...

Now. some moderates feel that cuts should be strung out over a lot of different programs, not just specifically on the ones that affect lower income people. then you have conservative members who are upset with the amendment process. this is the first bill to come to the house under an open rule meaning members allowed to add amendments in a long time, some years actually, chris, and some of these folks on the right side of the republican conference are upset their amendments may not be listened...

It or change it. our founders allowed for that. youre not an enemy if you want to do that. if you want to injure, overthrow or confound it, yes. oppose? no. you dont like the constitution the way it stands? great, fine. it makes you a founder, not an enemy. as long as you want to change it through method that the constitution sets up. its the amendment process. youre enemy to constitution if you want to change it or obliterate it, not antagonistic, you want to injure it or overthrow it through c...

Not people who want to update it or change it. our founders allowed for that. youre not an enemy if you want to do that. if you want to injure, overthrow or confound it, yes. oppose? no. you dont like the constitution the way it stands? great, fine. it makes you a founder, not an enemy. as long as you want to change it through method that the constitution sets up. its the amendment process. youre enemy to constitution if you want to change it or obliterate it, not antagonistic, you want to injur...

A little bit more about what you started with about constitutional changes? >> sure. >> just to show my commitment to being open. >> sure. go ahead. >> you said something that triggered a thought in me. as you said, there are these many changes that happened to the constitution. i think that it is important to realize that those changes do come in sort of two varieties. one is the formal amendment process. i think it was senator corning yesterday that talked about the process. thats tremendously...

>> thank you for those kind words. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and i meant that. one thing i -- before i get started, i would like to ask about your discussion of constitutional change earlier. you indicated that there is an amendment process in the constitution and two ways to do so in the constitution. is there any other way than those two ways that the constitution approved to change the constitution? >> senator sessions, the constitution is an enduring document. the constitution is the const...

Critically important is because the people have spoken. only the people can change it through the amendment process, constitutionally prescribed. if nine people on the supreme court can change it, you no longer have free government. you have some kind of a la carte or deptism. >> glenn: we stopped studying the federalist papers. the notes on the convention. we stopped studying them in laws around 1920. now the same law school that started that, harvard, now is -- we dont even study american law....

Intent of the constitution is critically important is because the people have spoken. only the people can change it through the amendment process, constitutionally prescribed. if nine people on the supreme court can change it, you no longer have free government. you have some kind of a la carte or deptism. >> glenn: we stopped studying the federalist papers. the notes on the convention. we stopped studying them in laws around 1920. now the same law school that started that, harvard, now is -- we...

Anger among voters over the bailouts and the bonuses. i wanted to talk about three amendments that were considered in the senate. lets look at the full screen here. republicans wanted to make it harder in this bill for big banks to get bailed out because they are too big to fail. democrats actually liked this tougher language. that passed overwhelmingly 93 to 5. there are some republicans who also wanted to push the administration to start fixing fannie mae and freddie mac, the housing giants. w...

Than installment payments, like paying off a childs braces at the orthodontist or payments on an engagement ring at the jewelers and the other big issue is derivatives, used by farmers and businesses, such as airlines, and trucking companies. and to lock in prices for things they buy or sell, like fuel, not the kinds used by wall street, of course, which are, everyone has doubts about. big differences, remain, on all of those issues, and heres what the democrats say about the process. >> i belie...