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Brass tacks, it might happen there. tomorrow, the house will fund two bills. one a temporary bill to fund the department of homeland security through february 8. i should point out that the senate has already approved in some form either in committee or on the senate floor most of the bills. so this is a power play by house democrats to put pressure on the senate and say wait a minute. you already passed this. it gives nancy pelosi more power among her democratic members and say we stood up to the president, one of our first votes in congress was to reopen the government and we voted against f...

Senate rules requires a procedural vote of 67 yays. a rules change was out of the question. there was another way to lower the bar. establishing a new precedent. >> there's only 44 standing rules of the senate and tens of thousands of precedents. standing rules are the bare skeleton of senate procedure. the rules of the road are givened by interpretations of those rules by precedent. >> via fancy fin nagling, harry reid didn't change the rules. he instituted a new precedent for breaking filibusters on all nominations except the supreme court. >> under the precedent set by the senate today, nov...

Appropriate revisions were made. even if he continues to refuse, could democrats still find a way to get their memo to the public. professor tribe, you were tweeting this morning and there's a memo by letterman, that the white house doesn't have the power to stop congress from releasing the democratic me memo. can you please explain? >> professor letterman is completely right. the standing rules of the house rule 10, clause 11, part g, simply requires that the select committee on intelligence make a determination that the public interest would be served by disclosure. the committee made that d...

Nomination of jeff sessions and wanted to read her letter, i was told that i had committed a rule 19 violation by impugning mr. sessions. and i just want to be clear here, telling the truth, reading a document that had been written back in 1986 by coretta scott king, i was impugning mr. sessions and i was the one ruled out of order and i'm not permitted to speak on the floor of the senate again until after the vote. >> until after the vote. said in violation of rule 19, standing rules of the senate to impugn another senator or senators, any conduct or motive unworthy of becoming a senator. he'...

Rape kits in detroit. nationwide, experts estimate up to 400,000 reported rapes, some decades old, likely remain unsolved because rape kits like this one have not been processed, largely due to the high cost of pursing dna evidence. >> this is a problem for everyone and for every community. >> reporter: for years, advocacy groups have been pushing for federal money to help cities end the backlog. >> they cannot test their kits or investigate their leads means they are losing out on the opportunity and ability to hold the offenders accountable. >> reporter: finally, this year, a glimmer of hope...