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Filibuster Reform
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Brain Game: Oct. 29, 2011
Teams from Hunt, Western Harnett, and Raleigh Charter high schools go head-to-head in this competition of the teenage smarts.
Pages is correct between the house the senate to right over there all right this one is the readout six letters of that total number remains at 435. But -- -
Senators win shootout, thwart Canes' comeback
Carolina scores two goals in the final five minutes to force overtime.
That was generated an -- outgoing guy hustling senate health blog and and that's just -- for -- to try to put an end when it.
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Senate Republicans block part of Obama's jobs plan
Just two days after President Barack Obama visited North Carolina to push his jobs plan, Republicans in the Senate blocked his proposal.
Two days after the president pushed his jobs plan and our state senate Republicans blocked his proposal in the Obama administration said the plan help local governments protect the jobs of hundreds of thousands ofup for education. Days later it couldn't stand up to the US senate . Under the rules sixty votes were needed to defeat the GOP filibuster for all 47 Republicans in the senate voted against allowing the president's jobs billboard along to a full debate Democrats and an independent also voted against. Listen as the -
Obama town hall on deficit reduction
President Barack Obama holds a town hall at the University of Maryland to discuss reducing the national deficit.
see this week. This position taken by Democrats and Republicans in the senate . So we can pass. It balanced plan like this it's not gonna make everybody happy. Back to make -- based somewhat onconstrained. Even when we had a democratic congress because the way the senate works. These days you gotta get essentially sixty votes in order to get anything through the senate . Frank Roberts has got lot of good stuff out of the house that never survived in the sense. So because of what's the the rules of the filibuster in the senate . It -- that. You know on economic policy I might have done some things. More aggressively. If I could -- convinced more Republicans in the senate . To two goal. I do think that. In the first year. Right after there we found out that. Four million people have -
Senate debates abortion rules, voter IDs
The Senate considers legislation that would require a 24-hour waiting period before a woman could have an abortion and a measure requiring voters present a photo identification at the polls.
The senate will come to order.your seats. Remind everyone to silence your electronic devices. Members of the senate we're gonna go to supplemental calendar. Let me make. One announcement in reference to the calendar. On page seven. You'll see four concurrent second reading roll call senate bill 118. That was read in today that was the first reading so actually that needs to go over tomorrow. Four. Thesorry yes. On page seven. Sister or concurrent second reading roll call. Senate bill 118. Is my understanding since it is roll call we read -- in today that's first reading. That the second reading -
House OKs term limits, charter school reforms
The House approved a proposed constitutional amendment to limit the terms of legislative leaders, and a procedural rule was used to cut short a fiery debate on changing the way charter schools operate in the state.
If not a question for analysis -- with house go 59. The senate committee substitute for house bill 59 dollars and I were. I was supposed to vote -- welcome back. Card slot machine recorded.house bill 13 guys passed its third. You'll be sent to the senate and house originally three incorporate.haven't has grown to Nigeria's passes there. Will be sent to the senate . -
Brain Game: Jan. 8, 2011
Teams from Raleigh Charter, Western Harnett and Wilson Hunt High face off in this competition of the high school smarts.
Pages is correct between house and senate to -- and there all right this one is the read out six letters. The total number remains at 435. But that -
Debt panel announces vote on plan
Co-Chairs Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson lead a discussion and announce the result of a vote by their committee tasked with finding ways to reduce the national deficit.
careers. But I'm not single out one person. -- in the US senate for eighteen years. Ten years as assistant majority and minority leader under Bob Dole. And I always she enjoyed the system majorityStarting now -- gym working my colleagues in the senate to address the debate and a balanced progressive way. Kent Conrad and at a meeting yesterday with the number of our colleaguesto 910. To override or replace the role of the house and Senate Committees of subject matter jurisdiction. All the Budget Committee which is they oversee of the budget process all of these are necessary -
Democrats end filibuster on jobs, Medicaid bill
Senate Democrats on Wednesday broke a Republican filibuster over a $26 billion measure to help states and local school boards with their severe budget problems.
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Raleigh chamber holds forum on health care
The Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce holds a forum on what the health care overhaul means for the ordinary person.
advance I'm gonna miss something that's really important to somebody -- senate . We're trying to had a -- some Holloway issues this is reforming the sixth of the economy are health care sector. And it's very details and we will miss something but we're gonna try to give you gentler reviews of some of the key components. Talk about the implementation how long this is something that's going to be faced him. Really over the next eight years. And the politics of reform they're continuing and what's gonna happen next. So key components of reform we're talking about the senate bill and the reconciliation bill passed congress in March. I think it supported digital context before we talk about components -- whatpremiums. Unfortunately to -- actuaries CB. And the chair of the Senate Budget Committee at all said. This is not an actuarial -- on him. So that the next decade in the 2020s. It will hold they're bankrupt and require federal. I'm subsidies in order to sustain its 00001289 obligations to provide long term care insurance. So you've got an additional entitlement program that expecting him below the radar -- balloon. Government expenditures long term. I thought it was interesting that -- the chair of the Senate Budget Committee called this -- giant Ponzi scheme. Yet still voted for bill. This. We'll see how that plays well. Implementation Taiwan.that I think you're gonna have to have sixty Republicans United States senate . -- the only way you can get around democratic filibuster that would oppose a repeal so could they make changes on the margins into specific provisions absolutely. -- repeal it I don't
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