Cspan washington journal, live beginning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern thursday morning. Join the discussion. Next on cspan2, a hearing discussing ways to improve the procedures for the consideration of executive and judicial nominees. This hearing is a little more than one hour. This hearing will come to order. Today the committee will receive testimony on Senate Resolution 355. Improving procedures for consideration of nominations in the u. S. Senate. I want to thank senator langford who is here with us today at the table for agreeing to appear before us today to discuss the merits of his resolution. In 2010, this committee undertook a comprehensive examination of the filibuster in the United States senate. That examination was conducted in response to an ongoing debate about invoking the Nuclear Option. While no action was taken immediately following the conclusion of the committees work the senate did take steps in early 2013 to modify some of the roles and procedures for considering bills
The u. S. Senate. I want to thank senator lankford who is here with us at the table for agreeing to appear before us today to discuss the merits of his resolution. In 2010 this committee undertook a comprehensive examination of the filibuster in the United States senate. That examination was conducted in response to an ongoing debate about invoking the Nuclear Option. While no action was taken immediately following the conclusion of the committees work, the senate did take steps in early 2013 to modify rules and procedures considering bills, conference reports and certain nominations during that congress. Later that same year the senate took a more drastic step and invoked the Nuclear Option for certain nominations. Invoking the Nuclear Option affected a permanent change as my colleagues well know, but the other changes which improved the efficiency of the senates operations were temporary and expired the at end of the 1 13th congress. Today well resist it one aspect of the temporary c
Consideration of executive and judicial nominees. This runs about an hour and 15 minutes. The meeting will come to order. Today, the committee on rules and administration will receive system on Senate Resolution 355, improving procedures for consideration of nominations in the u. S. Senate. I want to thank senator langford, who is here with us at the table, for agreeing to appear before us today to discuss the merits of his resolution. In 2010, this committee undertook a comprehensive examination of the filibuster in the United States senate. That examination was conducted in response to an ongoing debate about invoking the Nuclear Option. And while no action was taken immediately following the conclusion of the committees work, the senate did take steps in early 2013 to modify some of the rules and procedures for consideri ining bills and certa nominations during that congress. Later that same year, the senate took a more plastic step and invoked the Nuclear Option. Invoking the Nucle
The dust has settled. From the . First president ial debate. The numbers arent out yet but predictions are that this was the most watched president ial debate in us history. The candidates went after each other on everything from border security, to cyber security, the economy and race a good shot for clinton. And trump also hit clinton hard. On the nafta trade agreement things also got heated when the issue came up over whether trump . Supported the war in iraq. He argued for several minutes with clinton and the moderator. There was also a . Chuckle from the crowd when trump said he had a better temperment that clinton. To run the white trump and clinton still have another two debates. Before election day. The second one is sunday, october 9th at Washington University in st. Louis. It will be moderated by cnns anderson cooper. The format will be a town hall meeting. Where half the questions come from the moderator and the other half come from people in the audience. The third and fina
Station is down the block. Officers came quickly and they began first aid. The driver opened his door to escape and the woman wounded man got out that door but collapsed on the sidewalk and died at the hospital. Officers look for witnesses and Surveillance Video from several businesses across from the shooting. Reviewing all the video footage of not only the shooting but the escape path. Reporter it appears the suspect ran around the mcdonalds to golden gate avenue and got into a gray sedan with black paper plates with gold lettering. He was identified as a male with a ski mask. Reporter a brazen killing so close to a Police Station was startling. There is always argument, but Something Like this, not recently that im aware of. Reporter inspectors will look this is unfortunate circumstances when someone gets shot like this. Whether or not he was targeted, it is an Ongoing Investigation and will be determined later. Reporter people who claim to know the victim tell me he was 26 and from