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Four mr. Galston let me try to call this full house to order, if i may. Welcome to brookings. My name is bill galston, senior fellow in governance studies. Thanks so much for coming and welcome also to the people who are watching this event live on cspan. Todays topic is the past, the present, and possible future of the u. S. Senate. The occasion of this discussion is the publication of ira shapiros second book on the senate, this one is titled, broken can the senate save itself and the country ...

Neutrality has become the law of the land. Hows that going . Guest well, its early. Our rules have just become final, so we have some implementation to do as well so its early to know exactly how the rules are going to play out and what are the impacts. We still have a court case going on, and well see how that moves through the process and see what happens in the litigation side of the equation. Host well, theres some talk up on capitol hill with the republican ares about doing republicans abou...

We just got back. We were in ames earlier today enduring the family leaders event. It went well. Big crowd. You were there . [inaudible] well, its my opportunity to talk to you today. The county chair puts me here. He asked me to stand in for him. Welcome. Im going to call on hester kim crummer from the Monroe United Methodist Church for an opening prayer. Pastor. I asked god if i could write my hartnell in this piece of paper so i can pray for all those who live in this great nation. So let us ...

[inaudible] when it comes to our approach which doesnt take into account to continue to almost take on the evidence of those roles to take both sides. Why is it that we cant get this right to this changing approach and lack of analysis doesnt inspire confidence. That is a gross misrepresentation of the situation. What happened is the situation on the ground has changed. When we were first looking at the situation in syria it was a civil war with opposition groups fighting a regime which was resp...

Mr. Mcconnell madam president . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i ask consent that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell i move to refer the house message on h. R. 601 to the committee on appropriations with instructions to report back forthwith the presiding officer morning business is closed. Under the previous order, the senate will resume consideration of the house message to accompany h. R...

Watching, but there are a significant number of people in my whole state of florida on Social Security and on medicare. As i said, my mother is one of them. Im an enormous supporter of these programs. I also look at these programs and i look at the number of people going into it and how long they are going to live, and the math tells you these programs are going to have some big problems in the years to come which threaten not just to take them down but threaten to trigger a debt crisis in ameri...

Replacing clinton as the nominee. Donna brazile joins me in the studio, good to have you here. Wonderful to be back on the west coast. Well, you write in your book that when you took the Democratic Partys top job in july 2016, you looked for evidence that the dnc was rigging the system. In favor of Hillary Clinton. Did you find any evidence . I became chair because the dnc was a victim of a hacking. The hacking that occurred allowed wikileaks and others to release emails. After the convention, i...

Nominee. Donna brazile joins me in the studio, good to have you here. Wonderful to be back on the west coast. Well, you write in your book that when you took the Democratic Partys top job in july 2016, you looked for evidence that the dnc was rigging the system. In favor of Hillary Clinton. Did you find any evidence . I became chair because the dnc was a victim of a hacking. The hacking that occurred allowed wikileaks and others to release emails. After the convention, i promised bernie that i w...

Replacing clinton as the nominee. Donna brazile joins me in the studio, good to have you here. Wonderful to be back on the west coast. Well, you write in your book that when you took the Democratic Partys top job in july 2016, you looked for evidence that the dnc was rigging the system. In favor of Hillary Clinton. Did you find any evidence . I became chair because the dnc was a victim of a hacking. The hacking that occurred allowed wikileaks and others to release emails. After the convention, i...

Replacing clinton as the nominee. Donna brazile joins me in the studio, good to have you here. Wonderful to be back on the west coast. Well, you write in your book that when you took the Democratic Partys top job in july 2016, you looked for evidence that the dnc was rigging the system. In favor of Hillary Clinton. Did you find any evidence . I became chair because the dnc was a victim of a hacking. The hacking that occurred allowed wikileaks and others to release emails. After the convention, i...