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Shooting there was a bill called the fix mix bill which enforces the current laws that we have around background checks. doesnt expand them further by requires agencies that are not spending their information to the system to do so. that of course may have presented the shooting in sutherland springs because the shooting in that case had a record with the air force that was not logged in the database that was supposed to keep him from buying those guns. before this most recent shooting in parkla...

Concerns people like bob corker, and runs afoul of senate rules. given that dynamic, how in the world can they get this through? >> theyre going to try to give things away. thats what you do in tax politics, at the very end you try to give benefits. but theyre running into one big problem called the deficit. it matters so they can use this rule the reconciliation process that prevents a filly buster and it also matters with the economy. the problem is for a bill thats already going to blow up th...

Just for your listeners to know, all it takes to get a filly buster in the senate is for any one of the 100 senators to say you have to get 60 votes. not a single senator, not one, not ted kennedy, not joe biden, no one said you had to get 60 votes. so even though i very much disliked the way the senate democrats did this in 2013, in effect it restored the practice, the practice and the custom of the senate down to 2000. chris: the government runs out of money on april 28th which means we could ...

All it takes to get a filly buster in the senate is for any one of the 100 senators to say you have to get 60 votes. not a single senator, not one, not ted kennedy, not joe biden, no one said you had to get 60 votes. so even though i very much disliked the way the senate democrats did this in 2013, in effect it restored the practice, the practice and the custom of the senate down to 2000. chris: the government runs out of money on april 28th which means we could have another government shutdown ...

Just for your listeners to know, all it takes to get a filly buster in the senate is for any one of the 100 senators to say you have to get 60 votes. not a single senator, not one, not ted kennedy, not joe biden, no one said you had to get 60 votes. so even though i very much disliked the way the senate democrats did this in 2013, in effect it restored the practice, the practice and the custom of the senate down to 2000. chris: the government runs out of money on april 28th which means we could ...

You were part of, a decade ago, a group of 14 senators who tried to prevent a filly buster and approve judicial nominees. now if, and theres a lot of talk among the democrats about a filibuster, would you be prepared to vote to to break one? >> i dont think im going to have to do that, but i will do whatevers necessary to make sure this president is able to the choose a qualified nominee, and neil gorsuch is beyond qualified. i voted for sotomayor and kagan not because i would have chosen them, ...

Latter. i was at the white house when the republicans took down clintons nominee. i watched as they took down senator tower who was to become the republican secretary of defense. both parties do this unfortunately after an election. the losing party almost seeming to want some sort of sacrificial lam out there. i hope this, that what this nation most wants is to have trust once again in washington, d.c. its a part of the program down in washington that doesnt seem to be there. while i have great...

Students just have to make this rate increase work. frankly, i dont buy it. >> mmmm. the barackness monster aint buying it. we know were tossing and trng late into the night. still republicans disagree. they can filly buster but if they do the president says theyre going to feel it, buster. >> the reason its so important to keep down costs is so we keep college affordable. >> and the president knows his stuff, yall. thats why they call him the podest, which means person on top -- what is it? >> ...

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