Farewell ceremony. We are also following the Breaking News of the passing of senator Dianne Feinstein, and trail blazer, and the longest serving female senator in history. She has been serving in congress sense 1972, and A Storied Political Career Starting in San Francisco. That is where we will begin. She was the first female to serve on the San Francisco board of supervisors is and then became the first San Francisco female mayor. And she had a Lasting Impact to be elected to the u. S. Senate taking over for harvey milk. She helped to pass a weapons ban, and helped to develop lgbtq rights, and helped to develop the amber alert. She worked all of the way up until yesterday, and voting on legislation to prevent the Legislation Shutdown that is looming. Trying to prevent that. We will be hearing from the colleagues, and throughout the day. The Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer called it a very, very sad day. He is expected to speak from the senate floor. We have received a statement
democrat terry mcauliffe running for his old job against republican glenn youngkin with local issues like jobs and covid competing with the national realities about the state of the biden agenda, that spending vote which may in the end come too late to boost any enthusiasm for the democrat on the ground there. and a test for the republican party balancing trumpy drama with electoral reality. a republican candidate trying to have it both ways, as the washington post editorial recently put it, appealing to the suburban centrists out there while trying to pacify the maga faithful. it has been a dance occurring in public, democrats exploiting that as a weakness potentially for republican glenn youngkin. he s created hatred and division just like donald trump. tyranny is running against an acolyte of donald trump. we don t want trump, we don t want youngkin. he won t allow donald trump to campaign for him in this state. state.
raped, i became pregnant, and i chose to have an abortion. choosing to an abortion was the hardest decision i had ever made, but at 18 years old, i knew it was the right decision for me. she is speaking about her own personal legal choice and also making the choice to share the difficult story to put something of a face on these decisions. congresswoman lee discussed her experience before roe. i m compelled to speak out because of the real risks of the clock being turned back to those days before roe v. wade, to the days when i was a teenager and had a back alley abortion in mexico. i was one of the lucky one, madam chair. a lot of girls and women in my generation didn t make it. they died from unsafe abortions. congresswoman jayapal has been one of the progressive leaders clashing with pelosi about tonight s spending vote. but while playing that role this week, she also took time to speak out and explain what she calls her tough choice after a dangerous first pregnancy.
soon, it going to be hard for me to vote for any spending vote. moments ago jeanne shaheen spoke to me about what she was told about why the cia wasn t present. senator shaheen, welcome. thank you. reporter: were you told why gina haspel wasn t present today? i inferred from what was said the white house said she was not going to be allowed to join us. the request was made and it was denied. so you re conforming the white house blocked her briefing you all? i don t know if it was the white house but i inferred from what was said to us that it was the white house that said she was not going to be there. was there any explanation provided as to why? no.
the freedom caucus isn t say shut down the government, they are not saying my way, or the highway, those members, my best members, my most aggressive members on the oversight committee, what they are saying is $2.4 trillion of spending condition we get a few bites at the apple every time there s a tough vote. can t you at least come up with something? they have got their list. they have made their budgets. jim jordan and many of the other members, these are thoughtful legislators and it can t be vote for this that increases spending vote for this one that has everything the president wants and when we get a president, we ll do something different. i served with a republican house, senate, and president, the one thing i know is when you delay waiting for the perfect