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Million seniors at a rate sometimes approaching 400,000 people a week, the system wasnt always perfectly ready for them and there were a few glitches. but the point is, hhs or medicare responded. put extra people on board. worked out some of the glitches. >> kind of a stretch? >> like tmz meets c-span. big smoking gun. that program had some problems. this is a bigger deal. the whole countrys health care system being redone and theres other problems with the program. the president said that. they...

Seconds when he did not. the big news is it all passed. returning to workñi today. actually perhaps one be returning to work today. her name is diane reidy. she is a house stenographer. during the vote, i want you to watch. it is that familiar screen you see on c-span. look behind the word "yea. "for some reason she got up during the vote and she started yelling things -frpl take a look -- started yelling things. look at this. >> the constitution would not have been written by free nations that...

United states senate in the year 1815, ordered from a philadelphia clockmaker named thomas voight. >> just one of the many reasons why the c-span video archives are so amazing. i love your red jacket, sir. that clock, known as the ohio clock, is not in ohio. it is just outside the u.s. senate chamber and it is famous not just for being a handsome old clock, but also because it is a popular meet up place for senators and reporters. many a press conference has happened in the ohio clock corridor. ...

>> upheld by the supreme court. >> after scott brown was elected. >> what happened to respect for the rule of law? and the president goes on to win. >> the rule of law? our constitution -- >> what happened to respect for the law? >> the constitution is the rule of law. >> absolutely. >> that constitution gives the authority of spending not to the president but to congress. >> absolutely. >> they also were elected. they ran on a platform that said they would are peel this. my last question to you...

It was commissioned for the united states senate in the year 1815, ordered from a philadelphia clockmaker named thomas voight. >> just one of the many reasons why the c-span video archives are so amazing. i love your red jacket, sir. that clock, known as the ohio clock, is not in ohio. it is just outside the u.s. senate chamber and it is famous not just for being a handsome old clock, but also because it is a popular meet up place for senators and reporters. many a press conference has happened ...

Were standing just a few feet away from the main entrance to the united states senate chamber in the north extension of the capitol. the clock behind me here is the oldest clock in the united states capitol. it was commissioned for the united states senate in the year 1815, ordered from a philadelphia clockmaker named thomas voight. >> just one of the many reasons why the c-span video archives are so amazing. i love your red jacket, sir. that clock, known as the ohio clock, is not in ohio. it is...

>> upheld by the supreme court. >> after scott brown was elected. >> what happened to respect for the rule of law? and the president goes on to win. >> the rule of law? our constitution -- >> what happened to respect for the law? >> the constitution is the rule of law. >> absolutely. >> that constitution gives the authority of spending not to the president but to congress. >> absolutely. >> they also were elected. they ran on a platform that said they would are peel this. my last question to you...

And who is also former chief of staff, senate finance committee. mike lofgren, long time congressional aide, including six years on the senate budget committee. mark patterson, you worked in the majority leaders office. you know everything about how this stuff works. what, what is the staff doing backstage the c-span cameras are never going to find while their bosses are posturing the staffs know on both side we have got to fix this? >> the staffs are freaking out, lawrence. >> yes, there is tha...

Can be almost indescribably complicated. it might look like the senate was unwilling to pass the debt ceiling without those amendments but in fact, probably most of the senators had no idea that the debt ceiling was the underlying vehicle, the chassis on which these amendments were sitting. a lot of times members of the senate dont even know what the senate is. if youre playing very close attention on c-span you may not realize that the amendments are

>> it went up 18 times under ronald reagan. six times under president bill clinton and seven more times under president george w bush. now lets sit back and enjoy this c-span video montage of the horrible fights on the house and senate floor over raising the debt krooeling. >> yeah, there is no footage of c-span debt ceiling wars because, of course, raising the debt ceiling was never, not for one day, in doubt in those days.