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As you know i announced i was not running for reelection and if i had known everyone was going to be so nice to me to my my have announced it earlier h. I am not the only senator who is giving a farewell speech. Many of us got to hear Lamar Alexander last week. He is the perfect example of what a United States senator should be. Before i was wet behind the ears in the senate, a first one my first week here he invited me and my wife to dinner. There it began to become fast friends and we grew closer pulling that kind of friendship that is essential here in the senate. We Work Together to get th...

Lot and im just astounded by the problem mankind has created for the oceans. We can be better stewards of gods creation and what were going to dog is have a hearing today about some solutions, and senator leahy and myself will sit down and find a way to create somee kind of fund that people can contribute to. I know theyre doing it at the world bank, that i like the fund idea where the world kd of comes together under amecan leadership to solve the problem. So too are two colleagues, thank you very much for your leadership and senator leahy. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. With all joking t...

New record. So theres hope. Sentiment mixed as Congress Faces a crucial week, folks. It needs to pass a spending bill to avoid a Government Shutdown on friday as well as billions and billions in coronavirus stimulus package to help struggling businesses and americans. Weve got up to the minute details. We are about to take you live to the white house. Meanwhile, college kids now protesting tuition costs, refusing to pay after being forced to learn online during the pandemic. The ceo of Online Education company and online textbook rental giant chegg is here on how this is all coming together wh...

Alexander last week. Lamar is the perfect example of what a United States senator should be. Before i was wet behind wet behs in the senate, my first week here, lamar invited me and my wife jill to dinner. There it began, jill and lamars wife honey became fast friends and lamar and i built the kind of friendship that is essential in the senate. We worked together to get things done for our states, bolstering our National Laboratories and conserving our great outdoors. Something else we shared was mario, our barber in the barber shop and to be honest, that is the best place to learn about the s...

Today we are going to start a week of starting specifically prof. Curry today we are going to start a week of starting specifically about the Electoral College, what it is, how it works, why its important, why most political scholars hate the Electoral College. With the book, hopefully you have read most of that if not all of it, you get an argument against the Electoral College but its a useful book because , he lays out all of the common arguments for it as well, which i think is helpful for allowing each person to make up their own mind about what they think about this institution generally...