What are your thoughts on changing senate rules . Contact us. For democrats the number is 202 7370001 or republicans 202 7370002 and for. Ndependent 202 6280205 you can also reach out to us on social media. Twitter is [video clip] http twitter. Com cspanwj. We will start off with a call over the phones. Thank you so much for joining us this morning. Thank you. Host reported harry reid getting closer about the Nuclear Option. How likely is he to push that . Guest it sounds like he is increasingly likely of taking the action of going down the road of getting rid of the requirement for a super majority of 60 senators to cut off filibusters of executive, and at nominations,dicial probably excluding the Supreme Court. That action could come as early as today. There has been increasing could be thetoday day this all goes down and could be the last salvo before the thanksgiving break. Move thatt of been a has been telegraphed for a while. Senator reid although both on an of these nominations
Being held up for no reason other than they want to make sure that if we have somebody is going to be a Circuit Court judge we have to file cloture, thats two hours, i mean two days and then we have 30 hours and then and then we have on a simply moving to a piece of legislation we waste a week getting on that because of their obstruction and delay. So, madam president , its unfortunate that my friends talk about all the great things theyve done. Ill tell you the great things theyve done. This is i could give you lots of examples. We tried to do a highway bill. A highway bill. Important for this country. We have a deficit in infrastructure of 3 trillion. It wasnt much better a couple years ago. So what we brought believe that to that bill to the floor and this great amendment process, they want, what they wanted to stop women from getting contraceptives. That held things up a month, a month, before they got some sense and withdrew that. So, madam president , the republicans made a decis
Capability. To what extent is there concern cut into itss military capability . Can you give us any more feelings on that . You listed it as one of the , but can you be more graphic . Can you give us any more detail as to the extent about the cuts to our military capability. Our military capability . Statess in the united and one of those involved in protecting the governments thetion when we published strategic defense and security review in october of 2010. Remarks, in my opening the administration at that time, although there were some underlying concerns, they were persuaded that we were going to spectrum of full capabilities, that they were reassured that our defense spending would remain above 2 , certainly throughout the life of this parliament, and that the numbers we were talking about for interventions in the future were scalable. They were not as great as we have managed before, but they were nevertheless militarily significant numbers for continuing operations and for large
Host wolman david wolman, joining david wolman, joining us from portland, oregon, thank you, sir. Guest my pleasure. Live coverage of the house begins now. For morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip , but in o five minutes no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Schiff, for five minutes. Mr. Speaker, for much of the past decade, Irans Nuclear Weapons Program has been a Top National Security concern for the United States, and iran armed with Nuclear Weapons capable of threatening israel and other regional states would touch off a Nuclear Arms Race in the worlds most volatile region. For this reason i have pressed for everincreasing sanctions to isolate iran from the Global Economy and have supported a policy that leaves all options on the table, including military for
Football players at North Western university are employees of the school for the purpose of collective bargaining. The ballots cast have been impounded pending review by the full board. This,the track record of i suspect the board. Her stance that iraq i suspect the board will rubberstamp the decision. Schools, organizations, students in the public are searching for answers to countless questions. What issues would Union Representing College Athletes raise at the bargain table . Perhaps the union would seek to bargain over the number of games. What players go on strike . With student athletes on strike attend class . How would they provide Financial Support to the union . Would dues be deducted before scholarships . Are students expected to pay outofpocket . We know many student athletes struggle financially. Where will smaller colleges and universities find the resources to manager to manage labor unions . Schools ready to make some difficult decisions, such as cutting support to othe