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Affordability, tax reform and health care. This is live coverage on cspan2. For those of you out there who want to comment on twitter the hashtag is sanders brookings, thats at, not the sign. I want to say at the outset before i do the formal part of the introduction that it is a pleasure to welcome a selfdescribed proud democratic socialist here to brookings. You know these days the word socialist is thrown around as an end that the, and the socialists i know are insulted when president obamas called a socialist because they argue he is too moderate to be a democratic socialist. But the thing...

Good morning. I welcome everyone to this very very important hearing. Before we start id like to state a few things. These are some ground rules, pretty much the same as what former chairman and my friend senator leahy and others have done stated in the past. I want everyone to be able to watch the hearing without obstruction. If people stand up and block the view of those behind them, or speak out of turn, its not fair or considerate to others. So officers would then remove those individuals. I know that theres a lot to protest regarding this administrations policies, but this isnt the time o...

Burdens. Keeping them on board is going to be an effort. So if we wind up in a situation where we reached an agreement that all of our partners believe is in their security interests, our security interests, the security interests of other partners beyond those making the agreement and then that agreement was to be in some fashion unravelled here i think what would result is the sanctions regime that so many in this chamber have labored so hard to put in place, that would likely unravel. Implementing additional sanctions, we would be unable to implement the existing regime. Iran would be off i...

With us on washington journal tomorrow. Now president obamas pick to be the next attorney general Loretta Lynch testifies at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary committee from earlier today. [indiscernible] good morning. I welcome everyone to this very, very important hearing. Very important hearing. Before we start id like to state a few things. These are some ground rules, pretty much the same as what former chairman and my friend senator leahy and others have done stated in the past. I want everyone to be able to watch the hearing without obstruction. If people stand up and...

The problem with where the Net Neutrality issue has gone is it is not focused on the substance, which there is a lot of consensus around. It is focused on the Legal Authority to drop to adopt rules. Our concern is they are going to undo a regulatory status now for over a decade. On cspan two. The Senate Judiciary committee recently held a confirmation hearing her attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch. She serves as the u. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of new york. She would replace current attorney general eric holder who has been with the Obama Administration since 2009. She would als...