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Deeply held beliefs on all sides. The bill we intended to consider last night strengthened privacy protections and made substantial improvements to the law. The bill as amended by the senate is a good and important package of reforms. Now you may disagree with that assessment. You may genuinely believe that the bill doesnt go far enough to reform the fisa system or perhaps that it goes too far with those reforms. If you disagree with me on the merits of the bill i respect that disagreement. I ca...

Perhaps that it goes too far with those reforms. If you disagree with me on the merits of the bill i respect that disagreement. I cannot accept and what i accept Many Americans will not accept is a transparent, inexplicable, totally unjustified flipflop on this bill. A bill important both to the security and the privacy of the United States. Just a few weeks ago, 126 republicans joined 152 democrats in support of a nearly identical measure. Differed only in that the senate added one amendment, a...

Impeachment trial and senators sworn in as jurors. Well take you live now to the senate floor on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal king, ruler of all nature, thank you for the opportunity to serve you and country. Help us to give government what belongs to government, as we render to you our faithful stewardship. Lord, guide our lawmakers to make right choices in challengin...

The house judiciary had already undertaken that and had established that the inquiry could really run very widely. It was not going to be limited to just a certain number of witnesses or certain number of days, or even just to the Monica Lewinsky question. They gave themselves wide running room rate democrats try to keep that from happening. ,he rules were established and our memory is, partyline vote, the republicans were in control of the committee and moved pretty swiftly. The house floor was...

Obviously anything you have in writing, you can enter for the record. We welcome you, we congratulate you and miss granger for bringing all of this together and all of the appropriators, and we will begin with you. I thank you for your congratulations but you have a great team. I will accept the congratulations on behalf of all of my colleagues and all their staff who brought us to this day. I know you are all eager to support this great product. Mr. Chairman those raise funding for Critical Nat...

The House Judiciary Committee had already undertaken that and had established that the inquiry could really run very widely. It was not going to be limited to just a certain number of witnesses or certain number of days or even just to the monocle to the Monica Lewinsky question. Democrats fought to keep that from happening. But the rules were established. And the committee you know, because our memory is that in 2116 party line vote, the republicans were in control of the committee and they wer...

Articles of itch peachment, our live coveraging beginning at 11 00 a. M. Eastern. On your screen is tom rice, republican from South Carolina. Theyre wrapping up testimony on proposed legislation dealing with state and local tax provisions. Live coverage on c span. Mr. Rice i dont know how it could be subsidizing for communities and states that are donees rather than doe nor states, said to be subsidizing new york. If theres some way that paying 35 billion more than we receive is a subs die di fr...

Cspan. Next, a look back at the 19981999 impeachment of president bill clinton. We will show you a portion of the u. S. House floor debate on four articles of impeachment. The house voted to approve two of those articles, making bill clinton the second president in u. S. History impeached since Andrew Johnson in 1868. Steve on december 18 and 19th, 1998, the house of representatives taking up articles of impeachment against present bill clinton. We will show you highlights coming up in a moment....

Really understands. Its a great combination of things. This is the fourth position secretary bunch has had at the smithsonian. Something i dont believe any of your predecessors could claim in 1978 secretary bunch began his smithsonian career at the national air and space museum as an Education Specialist 11 years later he joined the National Museum of American History. He most recently served as the founding director of the National Museum of African American history and culture. As the founding...

Committee. Secretary bunche outlines his priorities for the institution and efforts to reduce the maintenance backlog and comments on public, private partnerships is with sony and funding and the challenges for the National Latino museum. From earlier this month this is about 50 minutes. The committee on rules and administration will be called to order pretty good morning. I want to thank my colleagues for attending and before i can thank the secretary for bringing some of their great collection...