tensions at such a precarious time in the senate. this is not unusual for chuck schumer to lay into republicans. they have been battling over the debt ceiling for months, and then ultimately they were able to get a deal, just a punt for two months, extending the debt ceiling until early december, and only after 11 republicans agreed to break a republican led filibuster after an intensive effort by the republican leaders to get enough to do just that, and schumer made clear where he stands. what's different this time is that this was a full senate. typically when the senate majority leader was making his speech in the morning, tit's an empty senate. at that moment, all hundred senators, who were in attendance, 98 senators who were there, sitting there listening to chuck schumer give that speech and directed very pointedly at the republicans and that's why when i talked to a number of them afterwards, they called it classless, according to mike rounds, one of the 11 to vote for it, as well as john thune, the number two senate