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Against the Electoral College. It is useful because it lays out all of the common arguments for it as well. Which is helpful for allowing each person to make up their mind about what they think about this institution genuinely speaking. I do a whole week on this americansry few understand the full extent of the process. If you take a course on the american presidency should probably walk away understanding how this process is used to select how our chief executive officer works. Also because of ...

Can you comment sen. Graham on what you said this morning. Sen. Graham anybody who was listening to who i am and what i said, you know that it was a deep sarcasm that i suggested that some legislative body would want to yearn for the good old days of segregationism. The point im trying to make is that there is nobody in the legislative arena wanting to take us back to the dark time in american history. For my opponent to suggest that, it says far more about him than me. I have been a United Stat...

To the stories that you have told, including the story of veronicas family. Very moving. If i were a justice, the commitment i would make to you and to all people affected by follows is that i would the law as you enacted it, and i have no agenda. I would not be coming in with any agenda. I would do equal justice under the law for all, and not try to force or disrupt in any way the quality choices that you and your colleagues have adopted. Sen. Hirono so are you saying that the impact of the Aff...

As you know, government funding runs out on november 21, less than two weeks from now. We are currently under a stopgap spending bill. What are your thoughts about why congress has not been able to complete the needed spending legislation thus far . Sen. Leahy there are a number of reasons, but most importantly , just vote on it. The oldfashioned way. Chairmanhelby is the of the Senate Appropriations committee, and the vice chairman. Only one of three committees that has a vice chairman. We have...

President tomorrow will be at Arlington National cemetery to lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns. We will cover that live on cspan. Lets go to scott in arlington, virginia. Go ahead, republican line. Caller i mainly wanted to comment and say what a great first step it is to break in the action from all of the drama that we have been going through and get out on the International Stage and me to it coalitions across all kinds of religions and to tryhe world to level the stage been back to ou...

Mike emanuel is on capitol hill tonight with the breaking news and what led to todays compromise. The houseboat was one oh 53 oh two. Now it goes to a signature with much left democrats divided. This is not the one we had hoped for but it was one that we will be voting on today. Under intense pressure, nancy pelosi surrendered a writing in order to get resources to the children fastest, we will reluctantly pass the senate bill. Policy to keep for many republicans. South carolina senator Lindsey ...

lets look at the provisions, the big ticket items in this $1.7 trillion spending bill. $772 billion for nondefense discretionary programs. $797 billion for the pentagon. ukraine will get an additional $45 billion in aid. there is $40 billion for disaster relief. breaking down that aid for ukraine, $12 billion for replenishing u.s. weapons stocks. $9 billion to train and support the ukrainian military. $7 billion to u.s.-european command support. $300 million for nuclear reactors and fu...