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Now, we requested to have single-subject legislation, we requested for what they call an open rule process which would allow every single member of congress to be able to propose amendment as on the floor as long as they were germane to that legislation. and basically, it was going to help us to eliminate 2,000-page bills that no one was able to read, that were trillions of dollars worth of spending. and, yes, the motion to vacate must be a part of that. and its interesting that it was in place ...

Get 60 votes to pass it. there are these negotiations that are going on between senator manchin, a big critic of changing the senate rules with other people with senator tester, senator cain and senator king as well and other people having separate conversations to try to come up with a way to pass these voting rights through the senate rule process. senator kirsten gillibrand put a hamper on negotiations when her person put out a statement she believes the 60-vote threshold in the senate should...

Moderate. she sometimes books the party line and shes done so in the kavanagh nomination as well as health care. she has said that she is disturbed by mitch mcconnells discussion of coordination with the white house. that to me, i dont know how big of a chink of in the armor that is for republicans but could it affect the ultimate rules they used going forward in the senate when this trial actually gets underway. >> i honestly dont see how. the rules are going to be decided by the senate. correc...

Carbon monoxide emissions. two years ago states and regulators petitioned the epa to revamp its stands. the last time the epa updated commerci rules for commercial trucks was two decades ago. theyre beginning a formal rule process for what they call the cleaner trucks initiative. and ocasio-cortez kicked off with a a protest outside pelosis office. she was on the hill for the first day of her new memberrianitation. they were calling on democrats to take more action on climate change. she said ...

Followed the rules. and what the trump administration has tried to do is undo that without following the rules. and the courts have now sided with us twice. and with the supreme court decision has said go through the regular rule process, donald trump, in order to make your case. >> so thats interesting. president obama went through a process, came out with, created daca. what youre saying is the trump administration probably has the power to take it away in the eyes of the courts. the way they ...

Followed the rules. and what the trump administration has tried to do is undo that without following the rules. and the courts have now sided with us twice. and with the supreme court decision has said go through the regular rule process, donald trump, in order to make your case. >> so thats interesting. president obama went through a process, came out with, created daca. what youre saying is the trump administration probably has the power to take it away in the eyes of the courts. the way they ...

Action taken against him is, i think, fantasy. >> i agree with you. i understand what the republicans are saying because they dont like roy moore but the idea of the voters in alabama sending him here and then have some rule process seems to me to be unlikely. also trump won alabama by 28 percentage points in 2016. his endorsement matters there. >> and the fact is that its probably what they were saying about threatening to strip him of a seat to try to get him to step down. >> right. >> but tha...

Spotlight when it wasnt before. >> dear members of congress, even if the rule process is byzanti byzantine, how about common sense and ethics? dont make your colleagues and your subordinates have sex with you. youre gross. up next, roy moore has been able to remain competitive in the alabama senate race by rallying his christian supports. im going to speak to a man who says moore has made a career of willfully misrepresenting those very evangelical ideas.

>> one of the things -- the rnc just came up with this. it says in their rules that any candidate to be considered for the nomination has to win at least five states, in some form or another, a plurality of five states. right now, ron paul and newt gingrich have delegates but are unlikely to get to the five states. what happens to the delegates? theyre going to get back to us on that. but my point is, when i say that there is still a lot of parts to this process that we dont understand the rules...

Speaker gingrich would challenge the rules before hes lost as opposed to after he has lost. he did that in virginia. he said, look, i dont think its fair to have to get 10,000 signatures. thats after he worked hard to get the 10,000. i got them, ron paul got them, but he didnt so he wants to change the rule afterwards. apparently he wants to change the recall in florida. we knew what were rules were going into it but now that he lost florida he wants to find some way to do better. im not terribl...