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Mr. Franken madam president . The presiding officer the senator from minnesota. Mr. Franken i would ask that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Franken madam president , i have eight unanimous consent requests for committees to meet during todays session of the senate. They have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. I ask unanimous consent that these requests be agreed to and that these requests be printed in the record. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Frank enmr. Franken madam , im just going to come out and say it. Citizens united was one of the worst decisions in the history of the Supreme Court. It was a disaster, a radical exercise of procorporate judicial activism. It was seriously flawed, both legally and factually. Legally, the court trampled its own precedence. Cases like austin v. Michigan chamber of commerce and mcconnell v. Federal elections commission, wh ....
Temp rate. Temperatures are coming down a little bit from yesterdays reading. Well talk about the second half of your weekend in just a few minutes. Developing news out of berkeley where ten people are displaced follow an apartment fire. The fire broke out just before midnight at a building on Martin Luther king, jr. Way. It took the fire crews an hour to put out the flame and the fires did 300,000 on damage. No word yet on what caused the fire. A five alarm fire that zoid several homes is out this morning. But the firefighters remained own the scene overnight. Heres what the fire looked like at 5 00 p. M. Yesterday. The front porch of a home on fire and a fire truck and a handful of firefighters trying to put it out. An hour later, another structure is destroyed by the fire. And as we zoom out, you see several fire trucks. By 7 00, you see the remnants of the first house we showed you. All that remains is a pile of smoking charred ....
Mark halperin, morning joe economic analyst steve ratner, author of the book a world in disarray richard haas. Columnist and associate editor for the Washington Post, David Ignatius. Joe, i guess its good he checked. I dont know. Ill tell you why. You start adding up all the people that the president has insulted, we start with the president wanting to get tax reform done, wanting to get something done on capitol hill. You talked about bob corker, a battle with Mitch Mcconnell. Of course, a constant battle with john mccain, Susan Collins who wont be governor because shes going to stay there to fight the good fight. You can go down the line. Ben sasse. The resistance on the republican side against this insanity, this lack of conservative governance is growing. And y ....