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The Dan Bongino Show
Sen. Mike Lee: This Imposter Bill Puts the Onerous on Republicans
"I find it odd that we undermine their own piece of legislation which already passed the House for a week or bill that you now have to fight to pass the House That call me crazy center but that sounds like regression not progress It is regression precisely And we undermine that in the process we undermine all Republicans Look a few weeks ago I put out a letter a letter that we signed by 43 Senate Republicans We only needed 41 but we got 43 three others that they agreed with the substance of it for strategic reasons didn't want to sign it What that essentially said was let's assuming those 43 at a minimum would have been willing to vote to pass Bill like limits save grow What that meant was that it would be up to the Democrats because it'd be up to the Democrats to limit safe growth had already passed in the House They didn't even need to Democrats over there All we needed then was for Chuck Schumer to find 17 Democrats to vote for it So as to avoid what the Democrats themselves are touting as an imminent emergency By doing this by coming forward with this impostor bill that purports to have all these savings measures in it but on further examination it's just smoke and mirrors he's now put the onus back on Republicans You watch remark my words Dan what they're going to do this is going to unite Democrats Democrats are going to be just thrilled about this You will have more Democrats excited to vote for it than you have Republicans This will be good for them put the onus back on Republicans You're already seeing conservative Republicans who are opposing it Being attacked And that is because of this very thing And by the way the reason the only reason why they have any ability to claim that this is the only deal is because of this fake June 5th deadline
The Dan Bongino Show
Sen. Mike Lee: Current Biden-McCarthy Deal Is a 'Bad Deal'
"So the deal I've told my audience you know I don't like to bury the lead I should it's fair that you understand my position on it Bottom line up front I think it's a bad deal My fear senator is is this the only deal So I just would like you if you could to address those two questions Is it a good or bad deal And second given our numbers and the fact that we don't control the Senate or The White House do you feel tactically it's the only deal The floor is yours sir Okay I asked her the first question I do think it's a bad deal I think it's arguably an irredeemable piece of legislation Not only fails to live up to limit save grow initiative which passed the House a month ago But that actively undermines our fiscal future So it's designed to limit the good Bill Let me save crow But the fiscal responsibility act is they're calling it Instead guts all of the key elements of fiscal discipline betraying the very principles it purports to uphold and despite its veneer of fiscal prudence it exacerbates our budgetary woes without offering any legitimate redeeming offsetting features or significant reforms As your second question of whether this is the only deal as far as I can tell that is exactly how this is set up And it's set up for that very purpose to be the only deal which is exactly the problem with it This is exactly what people hate about Washington D.C. this thing was negotiated by a small handful of people in private in secret And then those who negotiated it come back and they tell people including the people who had fought so hard to put together the limit save grow act like our friends in the freedom caucus for example this is the deal Take it or leave it but this is all you're going to get The only thing you have to vote on
Mark Levin
Brett Tolman: The Real Authority of U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves
"Want you to listen to this We can do it here We have multiple platforms Want you to listen to this This is Brett tolman who was a U.S. attorney in Utah really really top lawyer And he's very soft spoken so check it out Cut 22 go But you make a very good point The us attorneys nominated by the president not the attorney general and confirmed by the Senate They are presidential appointees and they serve at the pleasure of the president So despite what the practices may be the last couple of decades you're making the point It's a very important point that the U.S. attorney in Washington D.C. I believe his name is graves That he has his own authority to act that he doesn't have to sit around and worry about what the criminal division of the public integrity section or the U.S. attorney's office or the attorney general or anybody else has to say to open an investigation at a minimum and to bring an indictment correct That's exactly right He has all that authority and I'll tell you something else that I've learned relative to this The outgoing U.S. attorney at the time of January 6th Had identified a very small number of individuals that should be prosecuted And had indicated to DoJ that that was his intention They forced him out because he did not have the same vision that they did in terms of what they would turn the January 6th prosecution into And so I think about that and who they put in in their place and it is someone that will toe the line and follow what Washington D.C. wants And that is the greatest injustice we have because now we see that they will do make decisions and use their power to based on politics rather than based on the facts and the evidence which would result in a lot of people being prosecuted and put in jail including the Biden family
AP News Radio
Impeachment trial of Texas’ Ken Paxton to begin no later than August 28
"The impeachment trial of Texas Ken Paxton is to begin no later than by the end of August, I'm Lisa dwyer. A historic impeachment trial in Texas to determine whether Republican attorney general Ken Paxton should be permanently removed from office will begin no later than August in the state Senate. The Texas Senate has unanimously adopted a measure that calls for the trial to begin not later than August 28th. Paxton was suspended from office Saturday when the GOP controlled Texas House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted to impeach the three term attorney general. Paxton has been dogged by ethical and criminal accusations since taking office in 2015. He has called the House investigation that led to his impeachment corrupt and denies wrongdoing. I Lisa dwyer
AP News Radio
Fight still ahead for Texas' Ken Paxton after historic impeachment deepens GOP divisions
"This weekend's historic impeachment of Texas attorney general is plunging Republicans into a bruising fight over whether to banish one of their own in America's biggest red state. Texas AG Ken Paxton says he has full confidence, as he now awaits trial in the state Senate. His conservative allies there include state senator Angela Paxton, his wife, the decisive one 21 to 23 vote in the House amounted to a clear rebuke of the GOP controlled body Republican state representative David spiller. No one person should be above the law. Least not the top law enforcement official of the state of Texas. Audio courtesy wv final removal of Paxton requires a two thirds vote in the Senate. He was impeached on 20 articles that included bribery and abuse of public trust. I'm Julie Walker
AP News Radio
Texas lawmakers recommend impeaching Attorney General Ken Paxton after Republican investigation
"Texas lawmakers are recommending impeaching attorney general Ken Paxton after a Republican investigation. I'm Lisa dwyer. Texas attorney general Ken Paxton is facing a historic impeachment vote after years of scandal, criminal charges, and corruption accusations. A Republican led house investigative committee has recommended impeaching the state's top lawyer. It means Paxton, a conservative, faces being ousted at the hands of GOP lawmakers just 7 months after easily winning a third term over challengers, Paxton has been under FBI investigation for years over accusations that he used his office to help a donor and was separately indicted on security fraud charges in 2015. Unlike in Congress, impeachment in Texas requires immediate removal from office into a trial is held in the Senate. Republican governor Greg Abbott can appoint an interim replacement. I'm Lisa dwyer
Mark Levin
The Constitution Does Not Allow Democrats to Destroy Our Economy
"I am sick and damn tired Of the Democrats and the media and these fraudulent phony academicians telling us that the constitution allows the Democrats to destroy our economy when it gives them no such right Now I will ask you because you've been listening to this program many of you for years some of you from months but most of you for years Do you think the framers of the constitution even more do you think those who adopted the Fourteenth Amendment Both super majorities of the House and the Senate and the state legislatures Would have agreed to give a president the power to not only submit a budget but to fund the budget if Congress didn't get along it didn't go along with them That was that not asinine That's never been done in American history They can't find a single syllable that was uttered at the time either in Congress certainly not by the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment or the state ratification conventions not one person not one sentence nothing That supports their claim They take completely out of context half of a sentence in the Fourteenth Amendment In section four that has absolutely nothing to do with today's budget with today's debt with today's spending But the Democrats do not want to negotiate a reduction in spending This is how presidents in the past have avoided this situation But the Democrats today are more Marxist more radical than ever before in our history And they're saying you do it our way or attacking the economy
AP News Radio
South Carolina ready to renew abortion ban around 6 weeks of pregnancy after Senate vote
"South Carolina's governor is promising to sign into law a ban on most abortions after around 6 weeks of pregnancy. The state Senate approved the bill Tuesday, and Republican governor Henry McMaster promised to sign it into law as soon as possible. The bill restores a 2021 ban that took effect when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned roe V wade last year, but the ban was overturned by South Carolina's highest court because it violated the state constitution's right to privacy. Republican state senator Richard cash. Certainly believed the majority of South Carolina's carolinians value life. Republican senator Katrina sheeley offered a 12 week compromise, saying 6 weeks doesn't give women enough time to make a decision. They've got their mindset what they want. They think they know what women want. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic says as soon as the governor signs the measure, it will file a request for a temporary restraining order. I'm Donna Warner
Mark Levin
'The View' Attacks Sen. Tim Scott Following 2024 Presidential Bid
"Tim Scott is a wonderful person There's no reason to attack him You may have noticed he's a black man and he's a Republican in that you see that's the problem It doesn't even matter what his views are According to them Here is sunny Houston Cut 19 go After the police shootings in This is first of all and in the viral Now she in particular should be bowing at the feet of capitalism and freedom in this country Because she is a certified moron In more than one language I may add That 19 go After the police shootings in against African Americans in 2016 he did some speeches on the Senate floor that were incredibly impactful about what it's like to live in America What it's like to live in the south Let's remember he's from South Carolina in the skin of a black man Nor systemic racism pretends that what I'm saying to you is that they're not hearing it from Tim Scott They're not hearing it I think I could at least add that One of the issues that Tim Scott has is that he seems to think because I made it everyone can make it Ignoring again the fact that he is the exception and not the rule And until he is the rule He has then he can stop talking about systemic plans But there you go And you know what Sorry Anna Navarro you were actually good here And so I will salute you on this one occasion But you see if I'm wrong I correct myself So infrequent but nonetheless I will
The Breakdown
Biden Defaulting on the Debt to Own the Crypto Bros?
"Well Friends the president has gone and again made the debt ceiling political for the crypto crowd. And so today we are diverting temporarily from our normal Bitcoin and crypto industry coverage to move into the most significant market issue right now, which is the debt ceiling debate. This will serve as a bit of a primer. I will avoid the temptation to get political with it, as always, and we'll just try to understand exactly where we are going into this critical week. Right now, the debt ceiling is currently at nearly $31.4 trillion, with around 24.6 trillion held as bonds by investors, private institutions, and other market actors. The U.S. debt is the largest of any nation state, exceeding the amount currently outstanding for the next four countries combined. In mid January, the limit of borrowing was reached, leading the US Treasury to begin what's known as extraordinary measures to stretch the remaining cash a little further. These measures trim budget expenditure around the edges by deferring time and sensitive spending, such as making contributions into government worker savings plans, and topping up the assets held in the exchange stabilization fund. Earlier this month, treasury secretary Janet Yellen announced that despite these measures, the treasury looked set to run out of cash by the beginning of next month, leaving officials precious little time to sort out a deal. The negotiations had been ongoing for the better part of the last few weeks, although heading into the weekend the tone had soured. Earlier last week, both President Biden and House Republican speaker Kevin McCarthy, who is heading up negotiations for the GOP, expressed optimism that a deal could be close. And yet as the weekend rolled around, no deal was there to be had. Now part of the reason is that the two parties are very far apart in terms of what they want. The GOP are asking for significant budget cuts. In particular, they're looking for cuts across social spending by ramping up work requirements for government aid, as well as kneecapping flagship democratic policies like clean energy incentives with the inflation reduction act, and additional funding for the IRS. Last month, Republicans passed a House bill which would suspend the debt ceiling until March of next year, but the bill contains such deep spending cuts that it was viewed as a nonstarter for Senate Democrats to consider.
AP News Radio
Tim Scott launches 2024 presidential bid seeking optimistic contrast with other top rivals
"South Carolina senator Tim Scott has entered the presidential race, hoping to offer an optimistic contrast with other top rivals. Let's go. The Senate's only black Republican says the party and nation have to choose. Victimhood. Or victory. Grievance or greatness. I choose freedom and hope and opportunity. Scott says the GOP needs a candidate who can energize more than just its base and offer more than just political combat, essentially calling out the two men dominating the early primary field. Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump, who welcome Scott to the field in an online post, Sagar Meghani, Washington
AP News Radio
Tim Scott set to announce launch of his 2024 GOP presidential campaign
"Republican senator Tim Scott of South Carolina is set to announce the launch of his 2024 presidential campaign today. Scott, the only black Republican senator made his intentions to run for president official last week with the federal election commission. His announcement today will add him to a growing field dominated by former president Donald Trump and Florida governor Ron DeSantis who could declare any time now. On many issues, Scott a lines with mainstream GOP positions. He wants to reduce government spending and restrict abortion. But he outshines when it comes to his coffers, Scott enters the race with more cash on hand than any other presidential candidate in U.S. history, having $22 million left in his campaign bank account at the end of his last Senate run. I'm Julie Walker.
AP News Radio
South Carolina moves closer to abortion ban, a Southern trend that puts pressure on Virginia
"Another southern state appears ready to pass tighter new restrictions on abortion access, joining about a dozen other localities in the south. The South Carolina House of Representatives just passed a near ban on abortion access after 6 weeks before many women even know they're pregnant, and the state Senate will likely take a vote next week. It was one of the few places left in the south for those seeking abortions. With North Carolina lawmakers this week, overriding the governor's veto of their 12 week ban, which will now take effect July 1st. Doctor Erika pettigrew is disappointed. Really devastating to have a patient in front of you who needs something that you could clearly give, but the lawmakers tell you that you can't. She says she's been helping out of state women get abortion care and now she'll be helping her own patients to other states. The moral injury to physicians and to other medical professionals just can't be underestimated. Virginia remains an outlier in the south, where women still have unrestricted abortion access. The new limits follow the Supreme Court last year overturning roe versus wade. I'm Jackie Quinn
AP News Radio
Republican wins state House special election in central Pennsylvania; GOP 1 seat away from control
"Voters in the suburbs of Philadelphia are deciding control of Pennsylvania's state House. A special election in Delaware county will determine which party has the majority in the Pennsylvania House. Republican Michael stender won another special election Tuesday for a vacancy in the central part of the state, giving the GOP 101 seats in the 203 member House. The Associated Press has not called the Delaware county election. If Republicans retake the house, they would control both chambers since the state Senate is firmly in GOP control. A Republican House could vote to put a proposed constitutional amendment limiting abortion rights before voters as a referendum. I'm Mike Hempen
AP News Radio
North Carolina GOP overrides veto of 12-week abortion limit, allowing it to become law
"North Carolina Republicans have overwritten a veto of a 12 week abortion limit, allowing it to become state law. I Norman hall, legislation banning most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy will become law in North Carolina after the state's Republican controlled General Assembly successfully overrode the democratic governor's veto. The house completed the second and final part of the override after a similar three fifths majority voted for the override in the state Senate, the outcome represents a major victory for Republican legislative leaders who needed every GOP member on board to enact the law over a governor Roy Cooper's opposition. I Norman hall
Mark Levin
Biden Vetoes Bipartisan Resolution Resuming Solar Tariffs
"Biden vetoes bipartisan bill protecting U.S. solar panel makers from Chinese competition So Biden keeps forcing us into industries that are controlled by the communist Chinese So let's take a look at this from Fox President Joe Biden vetoed a bipartisan resolution Yesterday that would have reversed his executive action last year in which he ordered the Department of Commerce not to enforce tariffs on Chinese solar panel manufacturers for two years So in other words they were trying to force him force him To enforce those tariffs By an explained that the passed by Democrats and Republicans By an explained that the legislation which recently passed the House and Senate with Democrat support quote bets against American innovation Really last year Biden implemented the 24 month moratorium only enforcement of solar panel anti circumvention tariffs designed to protect U.S. companies and move The White House said would facilitate investment in domestic solar panel production Capabilities I hope you're all following this Passage of this resolution bets against American innovation he said It would undermine these efforts and create deep uncertainty for American businesses and workers in the solar industry Therefore voting it That makes no sense in its intended to make no sense
The Charlie Kirk Show
Can We Take Away Chris Wray's Plane? With Devin Nunes
"Is there anything to the fencing off the funding? Is that just some sort of abstract wish item? I mean, you know it better than I do. You were you were a total winner in the house. Yeah, Charlie, I mean, look, it's a tool, but in order to get that done, you still need a Senate approval, and you need, you need a signature by Biden. So you can fence off money and you can make a bunch of noise about it, but actually cutting off the money. So ray doesn't get his jet. I think it's going to be difficult to do. But that's why, look, I would put, I know, I know people don't like to hear this, but really sunlight is the best disinfectant. It's the number one thing they can do right now. And look, we're a year and a half away to the presidential election. If they could shine a lot of light on this for the next 6 to 8 months, I think it would really help president Trump and the Republicans right this wrong to show all these people who have led America through this nightmare. They need to be exposed and all the Republicans need to get on the same page. I mean, I'm actually, look, I get it. You know, there's other people that want to run for president. That's fine. It's their right to do. But a little bit shocked at some of the candidates that are out there running and even some of my former colleagues, especially in the Senate. Who are not today coming out and say, look, we may not like Trump, but this is wrong. This was an attack on our democracy. This was an agreement on the Republican Party.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
OpenAI CEO Testifies on Capitol Hill
"Gen, take us to Capitol Hill. What's up? All right, OpenAI Sam ultimate testified before the Senate judiciary community on artificial intelligence this morning a growing list of tech companies have deployed AI tools as we know. We talk about them here often like to touch UBT recently shining a light on how regulation should be applied to the industry, sounds very, very familiar. Let's take a look at what Altman had to say. We believe that the benefits of the tools we have deployed so far vastly outweigh the risks. But ensuring their safety is vital to our work and we make significant efforts to ensure that safety is built into our systems at all levels. Before we release GPT four, our latest model, we spent over 6 months conducting extensive evaluations, external red teaming, and dangerous capability testing. However, we think that regulatory intervention by governments will be critical to mitigate the risks of increasingly powerful models. All right, there we had all time calling for regulation, Zach, I'm gonna toss it off to you. What do you make of this? Feels oddly familiar to another industry. We talk about often. It is funny to see this sort of parallel conversation happening, right? With a lot of the same echoes of, okay, what's the government's role? How do we protect these people? What's going on? I think it is interesting that this industry is sort of ostensibly asking for the government to backstop it, should things go horribly wrong. It's a bit different, I think, from the crypto conversation in some respects, but also quite similar, right? There is a general wariness of these new technologies among those in Congress. They're looking to a sort of ride the wave as people become fascinated by these technologies and B, kind of implement some stuff that could put some guardrails on these technologies such that things don't go horribly astray. So it is funny that we hear both these things happening in concert. I wonder if there's ever going to be the intersection of the two conversations because I think there is a world in which crypto is the native currency of the AIs, right? And that becomes really potentially interesting world. Like mass adoption of humans in crypto, never going to happen. Too complicated. But mass adoption among AIs of crypto, I think that's really what people should be talking about.
TIME's Top Stories
"senate" Discussed on TIME's Top Stories
"Using this assistive technology in the Senate to help with his stroke recovery by many racker. The 164 year old Senate chamber was not designed for wires and screens. Senators aren't even allowed to use their phones when they're inside. But to help with freshman senator John fetterman's stroke recovery, the chamber just got a digital upgrade. As fetterman learns how to do his new job while struggling with lingering auditory processing issues, resulting from the stroke, he's relying on some extra tech. The new assistive technology installed in his workspaces requires some adjustment from colleagues in an institution known for its stagnancy. But in securing the devices that are helping him begin a new job during a very public recovery process, advocates say fetterman is forging a path for people with disabilities and health challenges to make it in public office. The auditory processing issues that sometimes make it difficult for fetterman to communicate became a focus during his Senate campaign last fall. Opponents criticize the Pennsylvania Democrats October interview with NBC. During which he relied on closed captioning technology to understand the reporter's questions and sometimes mixed up words and slammed his shaky debate performance. Though fetterman provided some information from his doctor in the months leading up to the election, he would not release his full medical records and critics questioned his ability to function in the Senate, voters were less concerned. Handily beats Republican doctor mehmed Oz in one of the most competitive races in the country. Soon after the election, the office of congressional accessibility services began talking with fetterman about what accommodations he would need when he arrived. Primarily, he required the same sort of technology he used on the campaign trail, which allows him to read what people say in real time, much like the closed captioning that TV viewers might use. According to information shared exclusively with time, the sergeant at arms SAA has installed a permanent live caption display monitor at fetterman's desk in the Senate chamber that can be raised or lowered depending on whether he's sitting or standing. There's a similar monitor with a custom desk stand that can be placed on the dais when he takes shifts, presiding over the Senate, both wired screens will work without Internet if needed, relying on the Senate office of captioning services stenotype machines, caption encoding hardware, and staff in the capital itself.
CNN Political Briefing
"senate" Discussed on CNN Political Briefing
"Hey everyone, I'm Jeff zeleny, reporting from Georgia in for our political director, David chalian. And this is the CNN political briefing. Here's what you need to know and politics for Tuesday, December 6th. Today is election day in Georgia, giving former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump, one last chance to have an impact this cycle. Now as David has talked a lot about on the podcast this year, a major story during the midterm election cycle has been Donald Trump. Does he still hold sway over the Republican Party if so, how much? And what about his effect on independent voters? Now that we're finally reaching the end of the line in a prolonged 2022 midterm election cycle, we can look back and take stock of how Trump and his handpicked candidates have fared and his influence on the broader electorate. We could talk about Arizona. We could talk about Michigan. We could talk about Ohio, but of course here we are in Georgia. The final Senate race of the year. Now we are in this runoff race because neither democratic incumbent senator Raphael Warnock or Republican challenger Herschel Walker won more than 50% of the vote back in November. So they're pitted together in a runoff happening today. Now, both men made their final pitches on the campaign trail this morning. Right now, Georgia looking for a senator is going to speak for them. Rafael has not spoken for George. Everyone knows that. And they never say anything about it. Right now I'm going to speak for the Georgia people to join the people good people. The people of Georgia deserve to have someone who understands the concerns of ordinary people. Yeah. And who will just be president with them? We talked about the Georgia election yesterday and how two presidents, president Joe Biden, and former president Donald Trump have been noticeably absent from the campaign trail. Well last night, Trump finally showed up for walker. Albeit virtually as part of a brief teller rally. A vote for Raphael Warnock is a vote to give Chuck Schumer and the unhinged far left Democrats total control of the United States Senate. We can't let this happen. So now we find ourselves repeating the question myself and so many of my CNN colleagues have been asking. Will Trump be repudiated one last time tonight? Going into election day, the latest CNN poll conducted by SSRS showed senator Warnock with a narrow lead over walker. That lead widens among independents. As American politics gets more and more divided, independent voters are becoming more and more important, particularly here in Georgia around Atlanta. Those are the pivotal voters that we'll be watching tonight. And we've talked before, don't focus on polls focus on turnout, but that CNN SSRS poll does give us a snapshot on a growing issue for the Republican Party. As my colleague Ron brownstein discussed in his analysis out today, this year's midterm elections marks the third straight cycle where the GOP has underperformed among independents. Take a look at this piece, no one looks at data better than Ron, and he talks specifically about how independent voters have just been turned off by Trump's handpicked candidates. Now, Trump was competitive with independent voters when he ran his first presidential race back in 2016, but not since then. In fact, in each subsequent election, these independent voters have been less enchanted with his brand of Republican politics. They've also been unhappy with president Joe Biden and now he's handled the economy, but they still cited largely with democratic candidates. But as we saw during the November elections, that is one of the main reasons why the house was narrowly won by Republicans. And there was not this big red wave we were talking about. It was because of those independent voters, many of whom said they were just turned off by Trump's candidates and his brand of politics. But now that we're finally closing up on the last big race of the year, here in Georgia, we're able to get a bit of a better perspective on the cycle as a whole. All of these questions boil down to this, has Trump hurt or helped his candidates. So far, most candidates who either denied or raised doubts over the 2020 election results have failed. That includes, of course, high profile candidates like doctor Mahmoud ahs in Pennsylvania Senate race or Carrie Lake in Arizona's gubernatorial race. Both are part of a large roster of poor showings from Trump endorsed and hand picked candidates. Now here in Georgia, Trump has had a particularly bad showing recently. Of course, losing this state narrowly to Joe Biden in 2020, followed by losing two Senate seats. Now all this might be surprising given the states overall red lane. Of course, Republican governor Brian Kemp was overwhelmingly elected just a month ago, as was the entire slate of candidates, except Herschel Walker. So yes, the state does have a conservative lean, but all this becomes a little less surprising when you consider Trump's efforts to repeatedly overturn the state's election results in 2020. Now take a listen to Georgia's lieutenant governor Geoff Duncan, a Republican who told CNN Monday how he sees Trump impacting walker's chances. He went from being a massive tailwind early in Herschel Walker's campaign. It's really the only reason why he became the nominee was because of Donald Trump early on, but fast forward 12 months, and reality setting in. He's now probably the biggest headwind that Herschel Walker has. In fact, he doesn't mention him anywhere he really goes. And if he could do it all over again, he probably would never mention his name on the campaign trail. And we were talking about independence earlier, but it's clear from Duncan and other Republicans that Trump's own party is worried about him going into the 2024 presidential election. We're just trying to break this vicious cycle of addiction to Donald Trump as Republicans. We just got trounced when it should have been one of the biggest, easiest layups we've made in years and decades, but unfortunately we put the wrong candidates in place all over the country. I'm sure the folks in Arizona wish they could have somebody other than Blake masters and Carrie Lake.
CNN Political Briefing
"senate" Discussed on CNN Political Briefing
"Here's what you need to know on politics for Tuesday, November the 29th. One week to go, George is the last piece to the puzzle that is the next Senate majority. Neither democratic senator Raphael Warnock nor Republican challenger Herschel Walker got enough votes earlier this month to avoid a runoff. So voters will head to the polls next Tuesday, December the 6th. But that's not stopping George and from casting their ballots before then. We already know Democrats will control the Senate in the next Congress, so you might be asking, why should I care? Well, this election will determine if Democrats get one more seat in the Senate or if it will be 50 50 again. Democrats still love the advantage either way. If walker wins, vice president Kamala Harris can be the tiebreaker on the floor, just like she has been. And if Warnock wins another term, Democrats will have more leeway. Math does matter. Having one more Democrat would meet confirming more Biden nominees can be a bit easier for the majority. And moderate democratic senators lose some of their leverage, especially Joe Manchin and kyrsten sinema, who are both up for reelection in 2024. Here's how both walker and Warnock have been describing the stakes of this election recently. The choice in this election, I think, couldn't be clear. I know that there are differences in this country, but I think it's safe to say that in my race, this is no longer about Republican and Democrat right and left. This is right and wrong. It is time we get this right and the way we get it right by putting me in the Senate because I'm not going to dance and sing for nobody. I never have and never will, because I represent the great people of Georgia, both candidates are trying to capture undecided voters and the supporters of reelected Republican governor Brian Kemp. Earlier this month, Kemp won his reelection bid by a comfortable margin, so Kemp's popularity in the state combined with the power of moderate swing voters could decide whether Warnock wins a full 6 year term or whether walker unseats him. Walker has kempf's endorsement, but Kemp outpaced walker in total votes on November 8th by more than 200,000, which signals walker can either grow his share or that he's already been written off by voters who would support Kemp. Warnock is hoping for the latter, hosting events in cutting ads that feature cross voters, AKA people who voted for camp, but have said they'll vote for Warnock this time around. You have a listen to this ad from the Warnock campaign where it looks like voters are watching and reacting to what Herschel Walker would bring up on the campaign trail. But I want to tell you something that I
Today, Explained
"senate" Discussed on Today, Explained
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Today, Explained
"senate" Discussed on Today, Explained
"Sometimes scary, always human. I'm Phoebe judge, and this is criminal. Now part of the vox media podcast network. Andrew, President Biden did not want to change the filibuster last year, but it sounds like he maybe does now. What changed for President Biden? Well, Biden was a longtime creature of the Senate. He spent over 30 years there, worked with them closely as vice president, and I think he had an instinctual inclination to respect the Senate. Traditions in the way they'd done things. I think he also came in not wanting to ruffle feathers among the key moderate Democrats in the Senate. He had and still has the narrowest possible majority, just 50 Democrats in a 100 person body. And he wanted to focus on things where he thought he had a good chance of winning those moderate Democrats support, not the stuff that would be a heavier lift. And this approach worked for passing the COVID relief bill early last year. He also got a bipartisan infrastructure Bill through, and then he devoted the latter half of the year through build back better, which he was trying to pass through the budget reconciliation process. So you don't need a 60 vote super majority for that. You can pass it with a simple majority. But that stalled and as he's trying to revive that, what's been happening in the background is that he's been hammered with criticism from advocates, voting rights groups, progressive members of Congress, on the left, saying, why aren't you doing more? Republicans keep on passing these restrictive measures in the states and you are not do not even seem to be fighting for this. You don't even seem to care that much. You give an occasional speech, you say it's bad, but where is the full investment of The White House in trying to actually do something about it? So what does he want to do about it? So the solution that he has proposed is to not fully get rid of the filibuster, but to get rid of it for certain bills that would impact constitutional rights or voting rights in particular. Antibody laws, simple majorities. If they can do that, then the United States Senate should be able to check voting rights by a simple majority. So this is known as the carve out approach. There would be an exception to the filibuster sort of like they're already is for budget reconciliation, which is restricted to measures affecting taxes and spending. But now this would be for voting rights measures as well. So it's like an additional half measure it feels like, why not just get rid of the filibuster, which is not in the constitution or something that even exists in the House of Representatives once and for all? The simple reason is just that the votes aren't there, and the votes aren't there for the carve out either, but it's at least somewhat more plausible that he will get the holdout senators to yes on the carve out. He hopes at least as opposed to ditching the filibuster entirely, which Manchin and cinema have been very, very clear for over a year that they are not going to do. This is a no. So the votes aren't there for getting rid of the filibuster whole cloth. There may not even be votes for doing what President Biden wants to do, but let's hear about how that might work. Let's talk procedure. How exactly do you go about changing the filibuster? Does that not also require 60 votes? Well, it actually requires a two thirds vote of the Senate to change its rules. According to those Senate rules, but there is a catch, which is that any Senate can use what's known as the nuclear option. Set off that nuclear bomb, wipe out the rules and just ram something through with a simple majority if they want to. This power always exists and can always be used by a majority. The thing is that majorities generally haven't wanted to do this, but we do have some recent precedents. Democrats used the nuclear option in 2013 to get rid of the filibuster for almost all types of nominations because they were frustrated that McConnell and Republicans were blocking too many of president Obama's nominations. To the average American, adapting the rules to make the Senate work again is just common sense. Then in 2017, McConnell had the majority in the Senate by then and Trump was president and McConnell finished the job. He eliminated the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations as well so he could get Neil Gorsuch past a filibuster and confirmed. We need to restore the norms and traditions of the Senate and get past this unprecedented partisan filibuster. Therefore, I raised a point of order that the vote on cloture under the precedent set on November 21st, 2013 is a majority vote on all nominations. So that finished off the filibuster for nominations, but it still exists for bills. And I imagine Republicans don't like the idea of Joe Biden doing this right now to get through his voting reforms. You could say that Republicans are resolutely in opposition to any sort of nuclear options, rules change, that's not done by them themselves when they're in the majority. McConnell has promised a scorched earth response if Schumer actually does try to ram this through and succeed in it. Wow. People kind of laugh at that, they say, well, McConnell isn't he already blocking everything. And that's actually not true. The way the Senate runs, it's very much determined by negotiations between the majority and minority parties about the schedule about how long things take. And McConnell could theoretically do a whole lot more to slow things down in the Senate, really bring everything to a crawl than he is currently doing. Everything that Democrat Senate did president Bush and Trump. Everything the Republican Senate did to president Obama. Would be Charles play compared to the disaster. The Democrats would create for their own priorities. If they break the Senate. But if he did do that, then Democrats could always use the nuclear option again to change the rules further and limit his ability to use such obstructive tactics. But you see that this would just be a kind of spiraling tit for tat kind of showdown going forward if this did happen. Okay, so that's the word from the official Republicans. What about the unofficial ones? What about senators Joe Manchin and kyrsten sinema? Would they be on board for making up the 50 votes that Biden needs here?.
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"And republicans just were eager and flocking towards this so people to judge is now taking a victory lap. Is he now knows. They are one step closer to eradicate thing oil and natural gas to push the green agenda Three here's the way i think. Transportation is the biggest sector in our economy. When it comes to emitting greenhouse gases so to me that means we have to be the biggest part of the solution. And what's exciting about that. Even though it's daunton is that we can also create a lot of jobs as we go whether it's jobs making the electric vehicles of the future that are gonna provide clean transportation or whether it's jobs in the transit systems that we're funding that are going to help give people alternatives and take cars off the road. Take cars off the road not to mention the economic impacts of this. Are you experiencing inflation. Are you experiencing rising prices. Well you can thank senate republicans for that. Instead of standing for sound currency is that a standing for a stable dollar senate. Republicans basically are now saying inflation. So what we're rich and powerful. It's not like we're our constituents solid. We care about our voters senator. Mike lee who is one of the good guys and a very decent person. I disagree senator. Mike lee on immigration. That's about it senator. Mike lee is amazing on the size and scope of government and really good on monetary policy. And honestly he's a very good person. Yes he's honest. He is fair and he was just terrific on our recent play cut. Twenty nine senator. Mike lee sang inflation's going up because the federal government's been spending too much money doesn't have cut twenty nine. Please look inflation's going way.
Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry
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"It's not popular with the folks in the senate it's also what they've pinned radical ideas on which i'm sorry expecting a good education expecting people to not have to live in debt or to live without a home. These are not radical ideas. Sorry not sorry. yeah exactly. These are common sense things but the issue is we don't have enough officials who actually have skin in the game when it comes to the results of this public policy or are they forget some how they evolve into something differently and they don't wanna look back at what made them who they are in the struggle that they have because i see that a lot in the entertainment industry right every actor every person in the entertainment industry has a pretty humble beginning. Unless you're born into a hollywood family which sure there are of those but most actors artists in my industry. They do so for that reason. You wanna change your life do something about it because we have no way out and so i feel that there is an element that some people don't want to look back at the struggle once they've had certain amount of success and that could also be what's happening with certain elected officials. I think there's certainly examples of ad that people can pull out. But i think because of how broken our core parts of our democratic process that you have to raise gobs and gobs of money to even get to congress in the first place because of bad the system as currently constituted then.
Amicus with Dahlia Lithwick
"senate" Discussed on Amicus with Dahlia Lithwick
"Well yeah i mean you know. I'm not gonna defend the senate. It would be much healthier for the senate if it would confront its own shortcomings. Part of it's it's great weakness is ability and it's Eagerness to wrap itself in its own myths and and sort of get high on its own supply about how great it is You know in the mind of senator. Everything does is wise if they if they take too long to pass a bill. That's wise the fact that it took eighty seven years after the end of reconstruction for them to pass a civil rights. Bill that was considered the cooling saucer effect. And you know that self delusion hides the fact that the american people were ready for civil rights decades before the senate was was willing to pass them. This is something that we don't learn much about But as early as eighteen ninety one there was majority support in the house and senate and a president willing to sign a bill to eliminate poll taxes in the south in the nineteen twenties. The house of representatives started passing bills to end lynching that by overwhelming margins that came over to the senate where they have majority support of their blocked by the filibuster there were and taxes there were built and workplace discrimination in the nineteen thirties and forties and the key here is that they also had extremely broad public support Gallup polled a federal anti lynching laws in thousand nine thirty seven and found seventy two percent of the american people in support of federal anti lynching laws in nineteen forties. They pulled a federal anti poll tax laws and found upwards of sixty percent of the american people support So you know. The senate is deeply broken and the dysfunction that it imposed on civil rights during the jim crow era is what it imposes on every other issue So how do we fix that to the point about. What do we do if it won't. It won't fix itself you know. i'm actually encouraged. By the fact that we are so close to having fifty votes for for filibuster reform You know i was there in two thousand thirteen when we Did version of filibuster reform for most judicial nominees and at this point of two thousand thirteen. We certainly weren't as close to having the votes to do that. Kind of reform as close as we are today at doing a broader filibuster reform. All this focus on mentioned in cinema. I read the stories every day. But i have a different reaction which is willing to votes to get. That's that's not bad so look there's there's no there's no downplaying how a a vehement they've been in their opposition and they're gonna feel pressured not just from the left or from the grass roots although they will and that is very important that they do they're also gonna feel pressure from their peers in the senate they're gonna feel pressure from other democratic senators. Who are up for reelection. In two thousand twenty two senators cinemas fellow arizonan senator mark. Kelly is up for reelection again even though he got elected because his election was a special elections where you have to run again in two thousand twenty mark. Kelly wants to be able to go to voters in twenty twenty two with a robust array of accomplishments to make the case for his own reelection. And so. I think that what's going to happen at the end of this summer In the coming weeks and months is that the question that mansion are facing is going to be extremely acute and the pressure is going to build probably in a way. The neither of them has ever experienced in their entire careers. So you know the last two votes are always the hardest to get and they certainly are presenting a challenge. But the fact that we're this close to me is a positive sign will be back with more from the cross cut festival on amicus about cooking. You should invest in your kitchen. Tools made ends cookware and kitchenware products are used by thousands of the world's best chefs. I know that last time. I talked about maiden i bragged about my gorgeous persian to dig. I am back to bragging about my palm. Anna which is like this incredible potato thing with pround sage butter. It was so beautiful. I photographed it. I really did not a big food..
Amicus with Dahlia Lithwick
"senate" Discussed on Amicus with Dahlia Lithwick
"The process and the senate was designed more than any other branch to facilitate that minority input but they were extremely clear that at the end of the day after the minority had say after there had been extended debate in the senate that the issue at hand should come up for a majority vote so the dysfunction that we see today is that that system over two hundred years primarily throughout the course of history for the maintenance. The primary the primary driving factor in this tilt was the maintenance of white supremacy Again and again for two hundred years. That system has become tilted to Over empower the minority and that is what is caused our system to lose this ability to adapt and change because the minority in every situation wields veto. the senate isn't a body that exist independently. It's at the heart of the legislative process so by imposing this minority veto every bill that the passing the law has to go through the senate. If you're not imposing minority veto on the senate you're imposing it on the entire system and it's that tilt towards minority rule that has that has caused the system to be as as dysfunctional as it is today. Okay so we've done the diagnostic work in eight minutes. Well strong work friends Let's do a little bit of repair and ellie For what it's worth. I think you're exactly right The courts didn't completely bring the house down in twenty twenty. But i i don't see any reason to spike the football and say that can be replicated and i wonder if we can start with this big sort of elephant in the room question about court reform and i know you and i've talked about it a million times the kinds of things that need to happen and oh by the way needs to happen in the next year seem to be unlikely to happen. And i know you've had real criticism of the biden court commission which is going to think about thinking about some of these solutions for one hundred eighty days. But i wonder if you could just again briefly give a sense of what court reform would look lake and why it is. You're so discomfited by the idea of thinking about it for a really long time it is. It is insane that the people currently in power which happens to be for this brief moment in time a democratic administration and a bear thinnest possible majority in the democratic. Senate is ridiculous to me that these people are thinking about these problems in terms of legislative action when the courts not just supreme court literally any two bit. Just add a law school thirty five year. Old trump judge that was put on the court specifically because of their blogging experience. That any one of them can frustrate for the entire country. Anything in the congress does any single bill that gets through that difficult house and adams great point about the completely minority raw tenant. Even if you get something through those two bodies one district judge can put a temporary injunction and stop the whole thing. Liberal should know this. That's why there's no wall okay. We should know the power of district court judge in our system and so for us not to be willing to even seriously consider expanding the courts both at the supreme court and the lower court level is just political malpractice. Anything that the democrats want anything that liberals want anything that voting rights activists want. We'll be frustrated by the republican courts. Now there are reform reasons for expanding the courts. Far beyond the political. Tit for tat. If we look at the lower courts we are long overdue for an expansion of lower courts. We use to add. You know couple of judges here a couple of judges there on the various Circuits about once. Every ten years we created a whole new circuits. We haven't done that. Since nineteen ninety the judicial conference which is an independent nonpartisan body of retired federal judges and big thinkers says that we need at least seventy five judges just semi five district court. Judge just like now today now. Let's go on just to handle the load we. Are you know your litigious people it. Has we get there more of us. They're just more cases to handle so at the bare minimum. We should be talking about expanding the lower courts just to just to lighten the load the burden on the judicial system and then obviously the supreme court look i. I can make all again. The revenge arguments about hypocrisy between merit and amy coney barrett i have all the revenge arguments like you know as as as clear as day but again when we talk about reform one of the things that we have to realize that our process where every time supreme court justice dies. It's an all hands on deck full on go to the mattresses fight in again the completely ridiculous senate that the only way to stop that the only way to stop that is to put enough justices on the supreme court that their replacement becomes a manner of wrote as opposed to a desperate political battle. If you had nineteen justices if you had twenty nine justices and if you think that's too much that's exactly. How much the ninth circuit the covers. California and most of the west has if we had twenty nine justices. Then every time one of these octogenarians dies which is not something that should be that surprising than eighty year. Old people die every time. One of these octogenarians die. It ruin it. Be all hands on deck political fight so we should expand the court for those reasons as well now last thing to the extent that the current democratic administration might get to choose a bare majority of those new justices. Well that's just that's just part of the bargain. And i wanna give you a chance to defend the completely ridiculous senate but i also wanna ask a version of this question which is what do you do about filibuster reform when joe manchin and kristen cinema just say no How do we do the kind of big structural fixes when the institution declines to be fixed..
Amicus with Dahlia Lithwick
"senate" Discussed on Amicus with Dahlia Lithwick
"I mentioned this discussion was taped in may and in the intervening weeks. It seems to me that the issues we were grappling with their which is the filibuster court reform. voting rates. Have actually only become more salient and more urgent with the end of the term supreme court decision regarding voting rates and the lack of progress for big voting rights reform in the senate. I also wanted to mention that as the filibuster comes up quite a bit in. This conversation inevitably the names mansion and cinema. Come up too. So i want to recommend to you. One of our sister podcasts. Here at sleet Recent episode of what next the one titled what's kirstin cinemas deal as a really good companion to the discussion that i had with and adam at cross cut and the discussion that you're about to hear really concerns. What i think can only be described as the existential issues facing democracy structural to representative government. And all the ways in which the courts the ballot bucks and government itself are now being weaponized to ensure that democracy is a just a little bit less democratic every single day. So i think want to start with the twenty twenty election with the caveat that i know we all have ptsd. But i think we'd like to tell this story about all the ways the quote system held and you know this decentralize broken archaic machinery of voting held up so well despite the massive assault on vote by mail on the certification of the electoral college results on truth itself. And we like to say. Hey this proves it all worked. There's of course a counter narrative which is the system held by the skin of its teeth and but for a handful of court decisions. A couple of really honorable non-partisan local elections officials it could have been otherwise stanford. Mit elections project described as the miracle in the tragedy. Elie i wonder if we could start with you and you can just tell us how which of those two narratives you subscribe to and how worried you are about how close we might have come to a very serious election meltdown. I'm completely terrified that we came so close as we did and i have every confidence that eventually the people the forces who who want to destroy democracy we'll succeed if things keep on as they are going one of the list of heroes that you didn't have mentioned of course are just the heroic efforts of voters especially black voters to overcome the structural hurdles placed in front of them to vote. It shouldn't be that hard and we can't count on literally heroic efforts on the part of minority voters to save america every two years every single election cycle the other thing that i think people kind of miss when they talk about twenty twenty and the way that the courts held during the election is that is simply one thing to ask a jurist to thorough way and discard votes. That have already been cast counted and certify that is that is a high bar to try to get a judge to throw away boats that are actually already in the system. It takes nothing to get a certain kind of judge to make it harder for those votes to be cast in the first place. And i'm saying that not prescriptively. I am saying that we saw that. In twenty twenty we saw time and again at the state level or at the supreme court level. Cohorts working to make it harder for people to vote during the crisis during the pandemic grant in the context of this kind of global meltdown of health crisis that we saw we saw a law after law aimed at just making a little bit safer for old people to vote which is something people like to do. As far as i can tell we saw courts regularly down laws designed to make it easier to vote adnew restrictions like notary requirements and that sort and only in a few situations. Was this pink court willing to stop the kind of late breaking expression efforts as we ramped up to twenty twenty so yeah did certain institutions. Hold that certain individual either jurists or politicians kind of stand up and do the right thing. Yes at the ad but the the the road to get there was fraught and the key thing is that i don't know that that is repeatable atom. I want to ask you. Maybe a version of the same question but maybe slightly more forward-looking Which is let's say. The system held and the senate. Okay some heinous on certification day. But now we're in a weird world looking forward where everything rests on a single vote in this badly. Malibu senate. We saw eminently qualified. Vanita gupta barely win. Doj confirmation because a single vote Defected to to to push over the line. And i think we don't even know how to think about what's wrong with the senate and how broken it is and i wonder if just at the risk of asking you to i know retread ground. You know so well but can you just help us walk through this confounding. Utter broken this of this mala portions senate and the senate that now has us in a really strange hostage situation. Yeah absolutely and i definitely subscribed to elliot's view of of the current state of play here But you know the role. The senate plays here. I mean look. I won't won't go through two hundred years of history right right here. But i think the way to think about it. Is that what the framers were trying to do. And and also just to be clear. You know i'm not an originalist. Doubt speaking to many originalists here This was a challenge in writing the book. But i think that you know what was interesting in in doing. The research was to try to look at the the system design and and the fundamental feature of the system. That is being blocked today. That was a good feature. The system was its ability to adapt and change. And it's that feature and that ability to adapt and change. That is being blocked today primarily by the filibuster and i think the way to think about it is that the framers were trying to create a delicate balance within this system between majority rule and the right of the minority protections of minority rights and speaking of minority factions in any given situation. And you know why were they trying to protect minority rights. There were some pretty bad motives to that. They were mainly concerned. The the people are going to rise up and take their property You know this was a such an elitist impulse And certainly a racist impulses as well but but that was the system they designed but but what's interesting about their design was it. They placed far more emphasis on majority rule than we do today. Even in seventeen eighty-nine They were very clear that within this complicated system of checks and balances every decision point should be majority rule The reason they were so focused on that is that they had had just had direct experience with a system that did have a supermajority threshold in it. Which was the articles of confederation. The first draft of american government the system that was in place during the revolutionary war and put it in place that supermajority threshold for all the reasons that defenders of the filibuster defended today. Which is the idea that would promote compromise and consensus. They quickly saw that. The exact opposite happened. It created gridlock and allowed the party out of power. The party in the minority to throw a monkey wrench in the system and make the majority look and so they when they went to write the constitution. They were very clear in the federalist papers and their personal correspondence and the note to the convention a everywhere that they didn't want to repeat that mistake and so they created a system where we had a bicameral legislature three branches of government and judiciary That was designed to to hold this delicate balance and they wanted the minority to have the ability to have input and to have a say in the process and the senate was designed more than any other branch to facilitate that minority input but they were extremely clear that at the end of the day after the minority had say after there had been extended.
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"You so much for coming onto. The jains are with us today. Also it was nice having you will thank you both so much for interviewing me and for taking the time to learn a little bit more about the senate very nice and we hope you out in the audience. Learn something to that was. I'm a dais and zen. Menendez talking with senator martin hinrichs staffer elsom menendez. Who is their aunt. Thank you very much for that wonderful piece. You're listening to the children's hour Seen there's no one. Lincoln really tall martin. Dinosaurs and fossils constitution and dream down a drew are you are you. Don could be heard but you have to tell the party. Hold up his stand up. Gather with the change in washington d. c. you washington. Dc is the not. it's you are listening to the children's hour. This next one is inspired by a law. That is taking shape in state legislatures around the united states. And maybe we'll become a federal law. It's called the crown act. It's a law that prohibits or stops discrimination based on hair. This is.
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"And those events again are highlighting The the work that they're doing again in support of their constituents so very very busy schedule Every senators got scheduler who of sometimes several schedulers who are coordinating where they're supposed to be at any given moment and it's very very it's a it's a lot they also travel back and forth right. So for example senator heinrich will be in dc and then he'll come and spend some time in new mexico and when he's in new mexico he's doing things like again meeting with groups here relating to us a specific topic or he's visiting A national forest or he is again to highlight specific issues. So it's it's a. It's a very busy busy life. They work very very hard. What is your favorite thing about. Working for senator heinrich. Well my favorite thing. About working for senator heinrich a couple of them one is that i really believe in senator heinrich. I really believe in in who he is and how. He's trying to represent our interest in in new mexico and how he's really trying to serve the people of new mexico Secondly just love the team that he has assembled with our state director. Edward tablet cabello and our chief of staff rebecca evita and all these amazing colleagues that i work with in new mexico and also in. Rdc offices and then my favorite favorite thing is getting to feel like i am helping to represent The people that i love in the state and the state that i love so much and helping to make sure that That the laws and the resources that are getting passed in the senate are having the most positive impact possible on the people of new mexico. Thank.
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"From schoolhouse rock the vote. That's three ring government with the roots in jazzy fastness. Thanks so much to then novice. They have a lot more coming up for us on the show about the senate and while you were listening to them you also heard coetze and you heard mellow see. Little was before zana nominee ask while i am very excited to have back with us on the children's our our own new mexico. Senator martin heinrich welcome. Back to the children's hour. Senator heinrich it's great to be here senator. You have been serving the state of new mexico since twenty thirteen. That makes you our senior senator now and you serve on a number of committees including the money. Spending committee appropriations intelligence committee as well as the natural resources committee and the armed services committee and today on the show. I know the kids. And i we really excited to talk with you about some of the things you've been doing in particular to address climate change but the questions could be all over the map. This is the children's hour usually these. These questions are harder than the ones that get from. Cnn so we'll try to live up to that. I'm gonna give you it easy first question. Can you quickly describe the difference between being a senator and being in the house of representatives. You've been both the house and senate have sort of different jobs in that. Both of them approved the laws that become national laws federal laws but the senate has additional duties including a approving the cabinet members of of new president approving judges that That serve at the federal level or even on the supreme court. So it's it's a little bit of of everything and you specialize a bit in that. Every senator sits on specific committees where you get deeper into the details of things. In addition to voting on the laws. I sit on for example. The energy and natural resources committee that sets a lot of policy of revenue energy and climate. It's also a committee that does a lot of policy around our public lands and new mexico has so many harksen forests and other public lands. That that's really important work as well. Why you do for our state well. I tried to advocate for our state. And make sure that we're able to address some of the needs that our state has that are different from other states. We have things in our state like Like cindy national labs and there are lots of states that don't have initial lab We have a lot of national parks of public lands. Lot of states back east. That don't necessarily have those things. We have whole. Tribal sovereign nations insider state when many eastern states. Don't have a tribal governments today. So i try to work on those things to make sure that things that maybe not everybody would be looking out for in in washington. Dc that the things that are important to new mexicans get attention that they deserve. What do you like most about your job. I think the thing. I like most is when i'm able to accomplish something that's really important to people in new mexico and sometimes it's hard to do that like changing laws is in hard But the people that come up to you afterwards who in one way or another have benefited from that and tell you stories That's that's really probably one of the greatest things about this job is being stopped in the grocery store for somebody to talk about something that was really important to them. We're talking with us. Senator martin heinrich. He is representing the state of new mexico in the united states. Congress in the senate and today's show we're talking about the us senate to learn how it works from people who actually work there. Senator heinrich we are gonna come back and talk to you. More about climate change and the efforts. You are making to address this incredibly critical issue. The kids are worried about the meantime. You're listening.
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"senate" Discussed on The Children's Hour
"Bet you at least heard of the us senate after all. It's pretty important but do you know what it is or how does it even work. Well as senate is of the. Us congress it has been around since seventeen eighty nine and has exactly one hundred members to members for each one of the fifty states. The us the people who work in the senate or call us senators not to be confused with state senators. Who will talk about in a moment. That's nice all you may be thinking. But what does the senate it's senators do. And in that question. My friends is where it gets interesting the. Us senate is all about making important decisions not little decisions like what sweater to where or how much ice cream to eat. Even though those can be really good to think about the senate can make decisions on passing laws voting in supreme court justices and even things like treaties involving other countries for the passing of laws and other matters that need to be voted on. The senate need sixty votes in order for something to pass. However when approving us supreme court justices and presidential nominees a simple majority of fifty one votes is enough to pass the roped when passing laws. The us senate actually needs to work together with the second part of the us congress. The us house of representatives both the us senate in the us house of representatives can come up with proposed laws also known as bills to be voted upon depending on which side of the us congress. A bill starts in the other side will then have the final vote on whether it becomes an actual law the us senate is considered the higher chamber and the house of representatives is the lower chamber one of the reasons this is so is because the senate has a little bit more freedom having unlimited debate time and is able to work with other countries.