That nationwide the continues to see the effect break havoc in this country. What will you do to improve the voting and there it is again. I would like to see open primaries everywhere. Federal voting holidafederal vor registration in 18 years of age we have joel here to join us. You will hear it again. And the automatic voter registration. Lets start with the congressman on this money and if you can be specific on the primaries of the voting i think it is a great solution we should have been in the state of florida. I think republicans should embrace this because we can grow the party by embracing the conservative solutions that appeal to independents and those that are no Party Affiliations so i would say yes to the open primaries and on the other issue whatever makes the voting more accessible and successful so we have greater participation. Congressman. First i have to introduce legislation for this purpose as i indicated before it introduced more than any other member and i introd
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That we dont need these extra levels of production. Our concern is that assertion is not always on a full enough audience evidence and experimental data to justify making those decisions so the net reduction, so there could be a net reduction in safety if exemptions and other relaxations in safety procedures are granted based on our presumption that a new reactors safer without a full examination. So mr. Chairman the bill as a distracted is an assumption that there are inherent safety features built into advanced design reactors that make it safer automatically. Thats a nice assumption to make and its a nice assertion to make but thats going to be tested. We have to make sure that anyone additional potentially successful safety feature interacts with the totality of the rest of the Nuclear Power plants in terms of assuming the plant is safe. We dont know that. Its an assumption built into the language of the bill so this just goes to the question and it is an 8020 question. What are th
Today primary voters went to the polls in five states, connecticut, rhode island, maryland, delaware and pennsylvania. We have live Election Night results and analysis and live candidate speeches beginning in a half hour on cspan. Today two senators discussed the constitutional role of the u. S. Senate in confirming judicial nominees including nominees to the Supreme Court. Democrat Patrick Leahy and republican orrin hatch, both members of the Judiciary Committee, discussed their views on judicial nominations and Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland hosted by the Edward Kennedy institute. This is just under an hour. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations] good morning. On behalf of the edward m. Kennedy institute for the United States senate, i welcome all of to you the kennedy caucus room. For this timely and important discussion of the senates role, its advice and consent role in connection with the president s lifetime appointment of individu
Years. Now it has come to a functional standstill. As noncontroversial nominations some of which were approved out of the committee by overwhelming votes, the majority of republicans, majority of democrats, they languished on the executive calendar. Now our colleagues on the other side of the aisle did their best to slow the pace of confirmations when the senate was under democratic leadership. And now theyre sluggishly moving nominations under a senate they control. And, mr. President its culminated in the irresponsible partisan blockade of president Obamas Supreme Court pick. Lets talk about some real numbers here. More than a year into this new congress more than a year into this new congress the Republican Leadership has allowed only 17 judges to be confirmed. Okay . How many months do we have here . We have 12 in the last year of this congress. We now have, were in the end of april, so thats four. And so thats 16 months. Its one a month. Now let me show you the contrast. And id sa