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That's cleared for floor action in probably another day. that had been held up because they wanted jeff sessions, the senator, to vote for betsy devos. they had not a single vote to spare. >> i was going to say, not just wanted, needed. needed him to vote for it because it was 50-50. look, i think what you learned here in the immediate aftermath of susan collins of maine and lisa murkowski of alaska coming out last week within hours of one another and saying they were not going to vote for devos is that mitch mcconnell, senate majority leader, knew what he had. and that those two, i think, sor...

Iran if we get one. we are now going to turn our attention to the authorization of this nine-month war against isil t. if we can act in a bipartisan way on the iranian nuclear negotiation we can do it on this and our troops deserve it. they've been fighting without any indication that congress even cares about the war. we can put our bipartisan support behind a mission that i think americans see. eyeisil is not shrinking. they're not going away. they're growing. the united states nex to take action. >> when will there be a roll call vote authorizing the use of force? >> i think it's going to s...

Electrical system of the united states, on airport computers of the united states. we're getting into the arena of major attacks. right now, it has to do a great deal with private industry. but the cost for private industry is now in the trillions of dollars. and it has to be stopped. so the question comes, how do you stop it? one step is allow companies to share information, both with each other and through what we call a portal with the federal government and get responses, where necessary, from technicians in the federal government and be protected for liability for so doing. that's part of...

It is clear now that in the mist of the shutdown that getting a vote on hr 813 as amended, the putting the veteran's funding first act, is necessary in the critical tep and the serves are not put at risk when there is a lapse in appropriation. and i want to thank you for signing on a letter with me that thissing scheduled for floor action. i encourage all members of the committee to sign on to that letter and send a message that veterans should not, cannot, and will not be disadvantaged by party politics in the future, regardless of which party is in control. mr. secretary, i look forward to y...

Congress and their employees, the gold plated plan we found out about yesterday. but what we're going to do is solve problems. the democrats identified a problem at the nih. cancer trials for children aren't enrolling patients. well, we passed the bill to solve that. >> what appropriations bills were sent before october 1st. >> my gosh, we sent the defense, the military -- we sent homeland security, we sent four different appropriations bills over to the senate. the senate took action on none of them. that's why the defense department needed an emergency measure last week, which thank goodness...