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Im ben olinsky im the Senior Vice President for structural and governance here at the center for american progress. And its my pleasure to welcome you this afternoon for an incredibly important conversation on on the filibuster with senator jeff and mike zamore coauthors of the newly released book filibustered how to fix the broken senate and save america. And i want to just take a minute to thank you all for your patience, given the vagaries of senate vote timing, its thought that president buchanan was the first to call the senate the worlds most deliberative body to better understand charac...

These televisions providers give you a front row seat to democracy. Next, the Social Security administration is commissioner Martin Omalley testifies and addresses delays and weight times for beneficiaries and modernization efforts in this is his first appearance since becoming commissioner and the hearing is about two hours. Good morning everybody. Senate will come to order. The title of todays hearing is keeping our promise to older adults and people with good morning, everybody. The special committee on aging will come to order and the title of todays hearing is keeping our promise to older...

Can the senate save itself and the country . He spoke at the brooking institute. Let me try to call this full house to order, if i may. Welcome to brookings. My name is bill gallston. Im a senior fellow in governance studies. Thank you so much for coming and welcome also to the people who are watching this event live on cspan. Todays topic is the past, the present and possible future of the u. S. Senate. The occasion of this discussion is the publication of ira shapiros second book on the senate, this one entitled, broken can the senate save itself and the country . Those of oh you who read hi...

Mr. Galston let me try to call this full house to order, if i may. Welcome to brookings. My name is bill galston, senior fellow in governance studies. Thanks so much for coming and welcome also to the people who are watching this event live on cspan. Todays topic is the past, the present, and possible future of the u. S. Senate. The occasion of this discussion is the publication of ira shapiros second book on the senate, this is entitled, broken can the senate save itself and the country . Those of you that read his first book on the senate will know how passionately he reveres the senate as a...

Day two, and the senate barely out of first gear on immigration debate. Alex bollton, senior staff writer on the hill has joined us, what has kept the debate from moving forward on tuesday . Well, republicans and democrats cant agree on what the first votes are going to be, and more specifically democrats dont want to vote on a proposal sponsored by pat toomey, the republican from pennsylvania that would penalize cities, socalled sanctuary cities that dont cooperate with federal Law Enforcement on immigration law. Thats a vote that democrats dont want to have and republicans have insisted on i...