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Consent the reading of the names not be necessary. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i ask consent the mandatory quorum under rule 22 be waived. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i now prove move to proceed to legislative session. The presiding officer the question is on the motion. All those in favor say aye. All those opposed say noah. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes have it. The motion is agreed to. Mr. Reid i now move to proceed to executive session and c...

But somebody needs to carve it out. And he died short shortly there after and oxford turned to me and said, how would you like to be the guy to carve it out. Thats how i got involve in this project. How much did you have to write yourself . About 20 of the book. He had 250,000 words. My job, all they wanted was 150,000. I boiled it down to 120,000 of his words and added 30,000 of my own words as well as, what, 1400 footnotes and extensive bibliography and, you know, i knew what i was getting int...

Citizens all, whose votes have populated this peoples house. Each member of this house has been given the sacred duty of representing them. Today we mourn the loss of former congressman ike skeleton a true Public Servant and staunch supporter of our military. May he and his family find solace and peace at this time. Bring each of us, at last, to that place where our hearts will rest in you. Bless us this day and every day and may all that is done within the peoples house this day be for your gre...

Intelligence threats, cyber terrorism, and edward snowden. This is a little more than an hour. This is a list you do of accomplishments of a man and i have to recite them but i will go really fast. He was a white house fellow and he had the experience of working with the National Security council with such deadheads as Henry Kissinger whats the generals name . General brent snowcroft. He had three major positions in the senate including being the Administrative Assistant chief of staff, Internat...

Measures of asset prices and whether or not they appear to be diverging from historical norms. Namely its hard but trying to spot any asset price bubbles that might be emerging. Were looking at leverage, which build up in leverage can be very dangerous to the Financial System and pose stability risks. Were looking at trends in leverage. Were looking at credit growth to see whether or not that has potentially worrisome trends. In addition to that were looking the particularly through the stress t...

Emphasized, and i agree, there is no need to bring down the size of our portfolio in order to tighten Monetary Policy. We have a range of tools that we can use to raise the level of shortterm Interest Rates at the time that the committee deems it appropriate to begin to tighten Monetary Policy conditions. Thats a way off. But we continue to develop tools to make sure that we have an arsenal of tools to be able to, as appropriate, tighten conditions, and not have to do asset sales or manage our p...

If adopted, this amendment would lower by two levels the base Offense Levels associated with various drug one of these involved in drug craft thing in Drug Trafficking crimes. Reduceould modestly guideline penalties will keep in t. E guidelines consisten this straightforward adjustment to sentencing ranges, while measured in scope, would nonetheless send a strong message about the fairness of our criminal justice system. It would help to rein in federal prison spending while focusing limited res...

Good morning, everyone. It is monday, november 11th. Welcome to morning joe. With us onset we have msnbc and Time Magazine senior political analyst mark halperin. How is it going . Good morning. Double down. And National Affairs editor msnb chris political analyst john heileman. Theyre coauthors of double down. Were going to begin on a somber note. The absolute devastation from a super typhoon in the philippines. Overnight the first u. S. Relief flight loaded with water and generators arrived in...

Buying program. And Steve Liesman is going to join on us in the next hour with an exclusive finding of the latest cnbc survey. Also on todays economic agenda, august cpi is coming at 8 30 eastern pim. Economists say the headline inflation number likely rose by 0. 2 . Also, here is a little bit of news for wall street. U. S. Grand jury has now indicted two former jpmorgan traders involved in the banks london Wales Trading scandal. They accused of hiding hundreds of millions of dollars of losses o...

Lenders. I think thats something that id like to talk a little bit about here today because members of our military have to resort to financing from these predatory lenders all too often. We know military Service Members are three times more likely than civilians to use predatory payday loans that charge exorbitant rates. Thats three times the civilians use. The military families carry 10,000 or more in Credit Card Debt compared to 16 for civilian frames. 10 of military families carry more than ...