sitting. so she was pretty lucky. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom. lower prescription costs, an historic national fight against climate change. senate democrats pass a scaled back version of the landmark legislation they ve chased for more than a year. it tooks months of negotiations and an exhaustive all nighter of whirl wind votes to reach a 50-50 split along party lines. vice president kamala harris then cast the deciding vote. the yeaj are 50. the nays are 50. the senate being equally divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative and the bill as amended is passed. [ applause ] cnn s melanie skin oh na is on capitol hill. reporter: if there was going to be any hurdle, it was going to be house moderates in the democratic party. but we have actually already heard this evening from two key house democrats, mikie sherrill, and josh gottheimer, that they are indeed going to support this package even though it doesn t contain s
Minority leader harry reid congratulated chris murphy for leading the 15hour debate against gun violence on wednesday in the senate. His remarks were followed by Mitch Mcconnell criticizing senate crast democrats for the debate calling it a talkathon. This is 20 minutes. Mr. President . For 14 hours and 50 minutes, beginning Late Wednesday morning and ending early thursday morning, the entire nation watched the senator from connecticut teach our republican colleagues a lesson and another things not the least of which is courage. It is easy to say we stood for 14 hours. We talk a lot about filibusters in the senate. They dont happen very often. I have been in congress for 34 heres and i have probably led two more than anyone else. They dont happen much. There are a lot of fake filibusters but this was real. I admire and appreciate the junior senator from connecticut very much. Four days after 49 innocent americans were gunned down in a nightclub, senator murphy stood here as indicated f
First formerly i was able to debate it. Mitt romney was side was that night. He walked away with it. Maybe he wouldve done better the first time. Seriously. Not everything i say is ironic or sarcastic. I mean the words they speak. That plane brings back memories. That very vehicle is where i learned we lost the presidency in 1980. If you go up and look at it again tonight, the first section seat i was sitting there. Its in the book, if you buy the book to me, im sitting there, carter is behind, jody powell standing there with a big pill in his arms. Is holding a pillow. Its saturday night before the election and jody will go to sleep in the hallway. There used to be a punk or. Cigarettes and put. Times have changed. Everyone was all smoking. I had just gotten the word in that seat that were going to lose by 10. We got the word in seattle the last stop, it was an amazing sprint. Thats in the book. I want to talk about my book a little bit but really i want to talk about what its about.
Society but i was also a believer in a tough approach to the soviet union which means i had ready 30 much at home in the Democratic Party at the time. You had pat point hand. You had Henry Jackson a great senator from Washington State and later on that element of the Democratic Party shrunk to nothingness. And as it did i was without a home. I remained generally without a political home. You could obviously fairly call me a neoconservative then. Host s been 18 years since the 1996 telecommute nations act was enacted by congress and signed by president clinton. Today on the communicators we are going to discuss that its goals and whether or not it should be rewritten rewritten. Joining us are two of the authors of the 1996 Telecommunications Act rick boucher who is a democrat from virginia served in congress from 1983 to 2011 and jack sub 3a republican in texas from 1981 to 97. Congressman feels what was your role in the development of the 96 pelka medications act . Guest it was actuall
For Telephone Companies, a box for longdistance, cable, satellite. To view awas hewe had eliminate the lines of demarcation and promote competition, believing that with competition there would be more investment, more consumer choice, more innovation and fortunately, i think the result has proven us correct that thats exactly what is happened. Now we are in a situation, not t later, thatrs there has to be a massive overhaul. All the new technology and modes of service. , you have boucher worked on telecommunications for a long time as a member of congress. Did congress understand what awawas going on with the Telecommunications Act or was it limited to a few members . Guest as is often the case, the committees that book us on subject matters took the lead. Jack was chairman of our subcommittee. Other members of her subcommittee have been focused on telecommunications for many years. And in some cases decades. We were certainly well prepared for this reform. There was a larger interest.