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Thats cleared for floor action in probably another day. that had been held up because they wanted jeff sessions, the senator, to vote for betsy devos. they had not a single vote to spare. >> i was going to say, not just wanted, needed. needed him to vote for it because it was 50-50. look, i think what you learned here in the immediate aftermath of susan collins of maine and lisa murkowski of alaska coming out last week within hours of one another and saying they were not going to vote for devos ...

Iran if we get one. we are now going to turn our attention to the authorization of this nine-month war against isil t. if we can act in a bipartisan way on the iranian nuclear negotiation we can do it on this and our troops deserve it. theyve been fighting without any indication that congress even cares about the war. we can put our bipartisan support behind a mission that i think americans see. eyeisil is not shrinking. theyre not going away. theyre growing. the united states nex to take action...

Electrical system of the united states, on airport computers of the united states. were getting into the arena of major attacks. right now, it has to do a great deal with private industry. but the cost for private industry is now in the trillions of dollars. and it has to be stopped. so the question comes, how do you stop it? one step is allow companies to share information, both with each other and through what we call a portal with the federal government and get responses, where necessary, fro...

It is clear now that in the mist of the shutdown that getting a vote on hr 813 as amended, the putting the veterans funding first act, is necessary in the critical tep and the serves are not put at risk when there is a lapse in appropriation. and i want to thank you for signing on a letter with me that thissing scheduled for floor action. i encourage all members of the committee to sign on to that letter and send a message that veterans should not, cannot, and will not be disadvantaged by party ...

Congress and their employees, the gold plated plan we found out about yesterday. but what were going to do is solve problems. the democrats identified a problem at the nih. cancer trials for children arent enrolling patients. well, we passed the bill to solve that. >> what appropriations bills were sent before october 1st. >> my gosh, we sent the defense, the military -- we sent homeland security, we sent four different appropriations bills over to the senate. the senate took action on none of t...

To delay the individual mandate, but thats sort of a giant distraction from whats really on the slow boil over there which is immigration. and which we are not likely going to see anything significant happening as far as floor action on that before they leave in august, but you are seeing republicans kind of wrestling with this idea of how do we address this in some way without appearing to do nothing. leader cantor working on its a version of the dream act although if you talk to republican aid...

Using them for what they want them for. >> so now that its out of committee, whats the next step? is it scheduled for floor action? >> we have three more that have to come out of committee. senator feinstein has a major bill, listing a number of weapons she wants banned. >> the assault weapon ban. >> yes. and senator schumer has one on, on background checks. senator boxer has one on schools. all of these will be voted out. theyll have differing chances on the floor. but i think that we ought to ...

Hopefully you wont get attacked after this appearance. its probably likely. 3 # minutes before the top of the hour. its illegal for congress to campaign for the president on the senate floor action but it sounds like harry reid is doing just that. were going to play that for you. and country music star josh turner is here, the summer concert series ready to take place. he put the stage together himself. we rolled out the turf and hes going to close out the summer for us mornings arent alwayserfe...

My bill has just passed out of committee. i think there are four senate appropriation bills now, out of the committee awaiting floor action. nothing has stopped. the government is moving. >> shannon: great to see you again here on "fox news sunday." thanks for sharing part of your mothers day. happy mothers day. >> thank you, shannon. much of the best. >> shannon: up next, policy and politics with senator john thune. one of the most mentioned names

My bill has just passed out of committee. i think there are four senate appropriation bills now, out of the committee awaiting floor action. nothing has stopped. the government is moving. >> shannon: great to see you again here on "fox news sunday." thanks for sharing part of your mothers day. happy mothers day. >> thank you, shannon. much of the best. >> shannon: up next, policy and politics with senator john thune. ♪