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Nation's civil rights laws are such that he should be attorney general, and second, i strongly oppose the use of torture. senator mccain on the armed services committee where i serve, we put together a resolution to make clear that the army's anti-torture rules apply to every agency, including the cia. we had nearly 80 votes in the senate for that. senator sessions was one who voted no. i don't want an attorney general advising the president who is kwif equivocal about whether torture is okay. i want someone who knows it's not okay. >> what about betsy devos, do you think you can get republica...

They chose not to do it. they chose not to even try. >> they would -- >> so now they're blaming the federal government when they didn't even try to do it. if you're not going to do your job, you have got to be a little bit careful about blaming the people who came in to do it for you. >> that's all republicans were talking about, was local control and no government takeover and we can do it ourselves in the backyard, which i think walked the help committee down the road of framing it to their liking and then the rejection came and now we've got for lack of a better term, a small mess on our ha...

Reports, pushed through pages and pages of nominations for president obama yesterday, when everyone was focused on what the house would do on the fiscal cliff vote. and harry reid did that with the active but invisible help of mitch mcconnell, who did his part to make sure that no republicans would vote against any of those nominations. and what did the united states senate do today? that dysfunctional united states senate? according to the news media, absolutely nothing. congress is closed down, nothing to report. but at 5:03 today, harry reid was on the senate floor doing this. >> i now ask ...

There were committee hearings on this issue. in fact, back in june. >> please come to order. i welcome everyone to this important hearing. nine years ago this september we all remember that day and we all remember exactly where we were and what we were doing when that happened. >> that's tom harkin, chairman of the senate committee on health education labor and pensions. that's called the help committee. and if you go to senator coburn's own website, you'll see right there on the same page about senator coburn that among his committee assignments are, you guessed it, the help committee. the th...