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Last month a threejudge panel on the d. C. Circuit court of appeals heard oral argument on the constitutionality of the senates 60vote filibuster rule. The case is common cause v. Joseph biden. It seeks to have the 60vote threshold needed to overcome the filibuster thrown out and replaced with a simple majority rule. The Lower District Court had dismissed the case saying common cause lacked standing to sue. The oral argument runs about half an hour. Good morning. May it please the court, im emmet bondurant, and with me is Steve Spaulding who is staff counsel with common cause. The District Cou...

At Andrews Air Force base. In order to meet the debt ceiling. President clinton did at first but the democrats in 1993 and that it again with republicans in 1995. There were seven of these negotiations during bush 41. The reason the debt ceiling is therefore is for the power of the purse. Thats it and youre supposed to have negotiations leading up to it. I think its just slightly inappropriate to say i voted against it but now you guys have to vote for it without negotiating with me. There we go. I will bring it back to the distinction between appropriations and spending versus the debt limit....

That is nonDiscretionary Spending. That is the essence of discretion. If we are going to have an entitlement culture that now funds three quarters almost of the budget spending, and we will say congress has no say at all in funding those three quarters, we push the limit here. It is to favor the ease and convenience of governments. I think we are giving up something in the process. I think it is an inelegant way of doing it, but i think the right path is to have negotiations. The reason you have the debt ceiling and cliffs and any decisionmaking apparatus is to force decisions. Every president...

Timothy geithner talks begin with the 20072008 financial crisis as president of the Federal Reserve bank of new york and later as president obamas treasury secretary. This is about one hour. I have a Pretty Simple question to start. Why did you write your book . Olga komyagina write the book . I never thought it would. Because i the hard time sitting still and it takes a fair amount of patience to do it. But i wanted to give people a sense of what it was like to every chance to look at these choices we face through our eyes. It has they were pretty bad choices. I think its hard for people to u...

Country back from the worst recession since the 1930s. And its been a busy week on the 2016 campaign trail. Are you still thinking about running for president and when will you make a decision. Yes and later. Schieffer analysis on all of the above from our allstar panel. 60 years of news because this is face the nation. And good morning again. The scandal at the vet answer Administration Hospitals may be even worse than we thought. The v. A. Admits that 23 patients died at v. A. Hospitals because of delayed treatment. But this morning the Dayton Daily News reports that since 2001 the agency ha...