Page 25 - Test Vote News Today

Negotiate the diplomacy of something like this. certainly he can help them to allow to have a test vote that would allow them to go on the board with what they want to do and message about it but that is different than getting the votes and even if you could use reconciliation, even if joe manchin would agree that reconciliation would be an option you still need 51 votes. im just not -- were all watching the same show since january 20th. >> i was going to say, they have to remake schoolhouse roc...

This is all about politics, i think the answer is yes. republican lawmakers have been surprisingly frank about their political aversion to this commission. think back to the second impeachment of donald trump. you had republican lawmakers at the time saying we dont need a second impeachment, these questions will better investigated by a bipartisan commission. democrats on the house gave republicans everything they wanted in these negotiations, and in the senate, it couldnt even pass a test vote....

Political aversion to this commission. think back to the second impeachment of donald trump. you had republican lawmakers at the time saying we dont need a second impeachment, these questions will better investigated by a bipartisan commission. democrats on the house gave republicans everything they wanted in these negotiations, and in the senate, it couldnt even pass a test vote. mitch mcconnell, the day after donald trump said he did not support the commission, mitch mcconnell said, you know w...

Until 3:00 in the morning as the republicans have stalled whats known as the endless frontiers act, a bill aimed at increasing americas competitiveness with china. theres a long way to go. let me lay it out for you. once they resume at 9:00 a.m., they still have four votes on the china bill they need to get through. thats going to then open up to 30 hours of debate. now, were not expecting them to take that long, but republicans are expected to use eight hours of that debate. it could be faster,...

Washington post" and host of the sunday show with jonathan capehart on msnbc. and, jim, you know how seniority works in the senate. on msnbc, seniority goes to the anchorman. so, jonathan capehart, we will begin with you. the anchor men and women. jonathan capehart, here we are. the test vote of what is possible in the united states senate will turn out to be the vote on a bipartisan commission, a completely bipartisan idea, a bipartisan commission to investigate january 6th. we are going to fin...

You know how seniority works in the senate, jim. seniority goes to the anchorman. we will begin with you, the anchor men and women. jonathan kaye part. here we are. the test vote of what is possible in the united states senate will turn out to be the vote on a bipartisan commission, a completely bipartisan idea, a bipartisan commission to investigate january 6th. we will find out in that vote, exactly what is possible in the rest of the senate votes this year. >> you know, i thank you for giving...

But its almost as if they dont know until the morning they see the folks arrive if ner going to no matter what. but on where the weekends in terms of the politics of this, i think carlos humilities put it this way in the times. reflects are now faced with the challenge of mounting a compelling case to the public that can cut through the political noise and generate even the barest of bipartisan consensus. knowing that the greater likelihood is that mr. trump will be acquitted in the republican-l...

About a six person majority. so i expect all of these to go on party lines. unless for some reason they have someone that adds something that the democrats want. thats just the rules. and you know, i think pelosi, as weve been talking about over the last month or so, has set this up very well. and it is almost like shes walked them into a couple of traps, and we are where we are. >> this is a big moment. >> it is going to play out on tv today where people see this first vote in the impeachment i...

Line debate. think of this has a road map to how they want to conduct the rest of the inquiry. it is lead by the intel committee, and another round of public hearings tr, and then the judiciary committee will decide on a number of impeachment articles. we dont know exactly how many. and then it will go back to the fullous. this vote this morning will be something of a test vote, can democrats keep everyone in the party in line. there are half a dozen that have not been supported thus far. this i...

Table for open hearings, moving this process into the sunlight, which ive heard even from a lot of democrats, saying it is past time to do that, ali. >> you, yesterday, talked about nancy pelosi, when you said, is the vote really going to happen? you said, its not going to happen if she doesnt have the votes, because nancy pelosi is a master vote counter. talk to me about her strategy. >> and it looks like she had some significant margin for error today. we knew going into todays vote, there wer...