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Brass tacks, it might happen there. tomorrow, the house will fund two bills. one a temporary bill to fund the department of homeland security through february 8. i should point out that the senate has already approved in some form either in committee or on the senate floor most of the bills. so this is a power play by house democrats to put pressure on the senate and say wait a minute. you already passed this. it gives nancy pelosi more power among her democratic members and say we stood up to t...

Senate rules requires a procedural vote of 67 yays. a rules change was out of the question. there was another way to lower the bar. establishing a new precedent. >> theres only 44 standing rules of the senate and tens of thousands of precedents. standing rules are the bare skeleton of senate procedure. the rules of the road are givened by interpretations of those rules by precedent. >> via fancy fin nagling, harry reid didnt change the rules. he instituted a new precedent for breaking filibuster...

Appropriate revisions were made. even if he continues to refuse, could democrats still find a way to get their memo to the public. professor tribe, you were tweeting this morning and theres a memo by letterman, that the white house doesnt have the power to stop congress from releasing the democratic me memo. can you please explain? >> professor letterman is completely right. the standing rules of the house rule 10, clause 11, part g, simply requires that the select committee on intelligence make...

Nomination of jeff sessions and wanted to read her letter, i was told that i had committed a rule 19 violation by impugning mr. sessions. and i just want to be clear here, telling the truth, reading a document that had been written back in 1986 by coretta scott king, i was impugning mr. sessions and i was the one ruled out of order and im not permitted to speak on the floor of the senate again until after the vote. >> until after the vote. said in violation of rule 19, standing rules of the sena...

Rape kits in detroit. nationwide, experts estimate up to 400,000 reported rapes, some decades old, likely remain unsolved because rape kits like this one have not been processed, largely due to the high cost of pursing dna evidence. >> this is a problem for everyone and for every community. >> reporter: for years, advocacy groups have been pushing for federal money to help cities end the backlog. >> they cannot test their kits or investigate their leads means they are losing out on the opportuni...

Impeachment." and you think john boehners plan is -- >> feckless, frivolous, fatuous. >> youre not a fan. >> running out of adjectives. >> "f" words. >> you know, look. its not a serious response. you have a president who doesnt follow judicial decisions already that dont go in his favor. you have a president who doesnt follow the laws of congress that he finds inconvenient. even if you could get a judge to rule in a case like this, and i seriously doubt you could given what the standing rules a...

Impeachment." and you think john boehners plan is -- >> feckless, frivolous, fatuous. >> youre not a fan. >> running out of adjectives. >> "f" words. >> you know, look. its not a serious response. you have a president who doesnt follow judicial decisions already that dont go in his favor. you have a president who doesnt follow the laws of congress that he finds inconvenient. even if you could get a judge to rule in a case like this, and i seriously doubt you could given what the standing rules a...

Other states, including vermont, that are more libertarian, and have longer standing rules, were playing catch up to them, georgia is, that is. but theres concerns that this will lead to even more looser restrictions in the future, like the capitol, like campus carry, like other provisions, down the road. >> thank you so much for reporting this. >> thanks for having me. >> i really appreciate it. from the "atlanta-journal constitution." next, we are minutes away, seven minutes, away from the c...

Because under the standing rules of the house, in the particular circumstance were in, where theres a disagreement between the house and the senate, the regular rules of the house would allow any member, republican or democrat, myself or anybody else, to call up the senate bill which would immediately reopen the entire government. republicans realized that, and so they changed the rule so that the republican leader would have that exclusive right. in other words, they took a right that belonged ...

One hand stands his reckless tea party caucus, and hes been feeding that beast all along, thinking that theyd be satisfied, but in fact, theyve just gotten stronger and more demanding, or will he stand up for the good of the country? and look, when the countrys on the edge of default and the country continues to be in government shutdown, you would hope he would stand up for the good of the country. >> i want to play a piece of tape of you having an exchange with one of your republican colleague...