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There is a lot of equality in the senate. Most of what we do is under unanimous consent. Any one of the hundred of us could object and throw the place into a stupor. Every senator has some real clout. The majority leader has more clout in the ability to set the agenda and be recognized first, which gives you some tactical advantages. But the house always says we are like a pyramid. At the top, you have the speaker. The senate is more like a level Playing Field with the majority leader having a l...

Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. If you want to post thoughts on us, and you can find us on facebook as well. Here are some headlines looking at last nights effort. Congress on the brink of tax overhaul, that is how the wall street journal laid it out this , and the gop tax rate for Corporate Tax now at 21 as part of that new package. Washington times, when bill, three wins for republicans. Not only highlighting the tax cut plan, but what it does for the individual mandate ends...

Amendments are the socalled grassley amendment which is popular supported by the white house and they also have the mccain agreement that is a more narrow agreement that would offer a path to citizenship and provide for some Border Security although not the money for the border wall. Then we have a placeholder by senator schumer that will likely be replaced by this bipartisan proposal that we so emerged today from the socalled common sense coalition. And who were some of the members of the coali...

Gathered in this little room off the Senate Chamber, and he came bustling in and sat down with us. For the next 30 to 40 minutes, we all talked with him about health care while literally a dozen members of the u. S. Senate at one point or another poked their head in. And in those kinds of conversations you have with people that you really know, abbreviated little, did you look after yeah, i am on that and did you take, yeah, i got that. Back and forth, back and forth between him and his colleagu...

One lucky San Clemente surfer had an up close encounter with what he believes was a juvenile shark, while surfing T-Street

It was 1987 and Matt Biolos was 17 years old when he shaped his first surfboard in a friend's garage in Dana Point. It was a a thruster with glass-on fins.