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In january. Next, we look at the historical role of the Senate Majority leader and its four former leaders, robert byrd, harold baker, and we hear from Donald Richie and mitch mcconnell. Donald richie, thank you for being with us. The Senate Majority leader is not a position in the constitution. How did the job evolve . We looked at a former speaker of the house, who contacted us and say why is the president pro tem a matter of succession but not the majority leader . That is the functional equi...

Even though ive come to work virtually every day here for 25 year, never fails to impress me. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you. Appreciate it. You bet. That was senator Mitch Mcconnell speaking in 2010. Hes the Incoming Senate majority leader for the 114th congress which convenes on january 6. We continue our look at the historical role of the Senate Majority leader. Well hear from robert byrd of West Virginia. He spoke in 1998 inside the Old Senate Chamber. Weve had three lecture se...

He went on to get his law degree, and he had president kennedy come to present his diploma at his graduation. But i thought here he was in a body full of rhodes scholars and yale and stanford and harvard graduates and all of the ivy leaguers with terrific education. He never felt inferior about that. He felt that he never ended his education. He was always reading, he was always studying. I once went with him to an event, and i looked at the back of his car and there was the count of month crist...

Majority leader, the functional equivalent on the senate side. The speaker of the house is written in the constitution. No mention of a majority or minority leader. Thats because the constitution did not anticipate political parties. Parties. We had no majority leader in the history of the senate from 1839 to 1914. There were chairman of committees who would take care of things and the chairman of the Party Conferences that open up and close things the way they do today. But nobody sitting down ...

Of the house, who contacted us and say why is the president pro tem in the order of succession but not the majority leader . That is the functional equivalent. The speaker of the house is written into the constitution, to president pro tem is as well. No mention of a majority or minority leader. The constitution did not anticipate political parties. They thought it was going to happen, but they did not want to encourage political parties. We had no majority leader in the history of the senate fr...

Time as well. I want to begin as the freshman republican president. You you expect this funding issue to be a contentious debate . Do you foresee any possibility that dhs funding could be forestalled. I think it will be a contentious debate. I think what the president did was poorly designed. The republicans in both the house and the senate will react to it. Whether it in setup in some sort of Agency Shutdown down as opposed to government shutdown, i help not. I hope we can work through the issu...

we will then hear from elena kagan herself. im joined by marcia coyle of the national law journal and marcia, the senators are just coming into the room and ms. kagan has come into the room. this is not a day of questions but were going to get a sense of what the senators want to know from her. >> thats right, judy, this is opening day. she gets to ss= and listen to 19 senators lay out some of their concerns about her nomination, a lot of the issues theyre interested in and then at the...

forces into the isf? mr. rkin: mr. president, around this chamber i see men men of remarkable talents and abilities and i have a strong sense, we all do, that there is tremendous voidow in our midst. a very special senator, a very special friend, a member who play a unique role within this body for nearly half a century is no longer wit us. weve her many glowing and richly earned contribute outs to senator ted kennedy the last cole of weeks. he was not only the most accomp...