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Talk about the swamp. All the folks out there that voted in this election do not have a swamp in washington, d. C. , are watching this happen right in front of their eyes tonight. We have a bunch of amendments that were dropped in by lobbyists here last night. We havent seen except we got a list from them, and we have got ill legible amendments now at the desk that the american even if we could read them, we wouldnt be able to. It just doesnt make any sense. I tell you Something Else that doesnt make any sense. It doesnt make any sense that in our economy, 90 of our folks, the bottom 90 earn t...

90 of our folks are in the sane amount of the top 10 . Top 10 earn 50 of the income and 90 bottom and the other 50 and you can see the directions these lines have gone over a number of years and thats the issue we confront with our economy. Thats what we should all be working on in a bipartisan way to try to address and unfortunately instead of improving the circumstances for people in the bottom 90 the decisions been made because of an economic philosophy that has to do a trickle down economics to give the benefitse to the people doing pretty well not just pretty well, but better than they ha...

Friday night and you hand out the work product for all the members of the senate to take a look at before they vote on changes in the tax code that will affect the people they represent. This is what happens. 479 pages were handed to us. They tell us some of this has been around for a while. Some of its new. They dont tell us which part is new and which part is old. But, lucky for us, on k street, and there is nothing wrong with lobbyists, but on k street where the federal lobbyists live, they are following this really closely and they have given us basically a cheat sheet. A score card. So we...

Now on booktv, your opportunity to talk with professors cornel west and Robert George lead cornel west has written many books including race matters and brother west living out loud. Robert george has written making men moral and conscience and its enemies. Robert george, when did you first meet the man sitting next to you . Must have met in the 1990s after brother cornell came and we were together in faculty, seminars under the auspices we didnt know each other very well. We would just say hello, we interacted a bit in the seminars. We began teaching together in 2007 and there is a whole stor...

Bblg of. Mr. Sanders mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from vermont. Mr. Sanders thank you, mr. President. Mr. President , as everybody knows, the Republican Party now controls the u. S. House, the u. S. Senate, and the white house. We also know that unless a budget agreement is reached by december 22, the United States government will shut down, which will cause serious harm to our country, including the men and women in the armed forces and our veterans. Mr. President , i do not know why the Republican Party, which controls all the branches of government, wants to shut our go...