senator kirk, senator heidi heitkamp, senator jeff flake, senator joe donnelly, senator jeanne shaheen. it was a wonderful group of people united by our determination to demonstrate that we could compromise, we could govern, we could bring an end to this impasse and do it in a way that was worthy of this great country and our constituents. we worked together over and over. there were a lot of tough decisions to be made, a lot of lengthy negotiations, and we came up with a plan which we presented to our two leaders, senator reid and senator mcconnell. not all elements of our plan were incorporated by the leaders but i think that they would say that they built on our work and did, indeed, take some of our provisions verbatim. i continue to believe that our plan was a great path forward but i am pleased that it waived the way to what i hope will be a solution to the impasse that we -- that we have been facing. that has been so unfair to the american people and has hurt so many people. and, madam president, i think it's important for us to remember that the damage goes beyond the hundreds

the good news is that the meeting that senator reid and i had with senator alexander and senator mcconnell give me a bit of cause for optimism. clearly the talks are. >>> these are the senate democrats discussing the failure of the senate to get clot injure today. susan collins, republican from maine, will be speaking at that same podium soon. i want to bring if brianna keilar, who is at the white house. brianna, senate democrats clearly trying to tell the american people that we reached out, we tried, they won't come to the table. what's going on here? >> well, right now the future of whether the debt ceiling will be increased and how perhaps the government will be reopened is very uncertain. this is a sort of bad turn of events today here in terms of moving towards a solution miguel. you have one bill, which would have just extended the debt ceiling for more than a year, pushed it beyond the midterm elections, because it is such a political hot potato issue, it becomes different to deal with. that bill failed on basically a party line vote in the senate. you have that, but the other thin

maine, senator collins, followed by senator from alaska, senator murkowski, and that we would continue to alternate between both sides. senator collins would be recognized at this time. the presiding officer: we'll rotate back and forth but we'll be right back to her. mr. baucus: reserving the right to object, would the senator renew his request? mr. sessions: i would ask consent the two republican speakers on this side be senator collins from maine and senator murkowski and that we continue to alternate between both sides and that since i just butted in as part of the budget debate, i want -- i did not intend and desire to take senator collins' time who patiently has been waiting next in line. mr. baucus: i certainly will not object to that. no objection. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. baucus: the -- the presiding officer: the senator from montana. mr. baucus: mr. president, i'd like to underline the gravity of the financial condition that our country is in at this point. i think the back and forth we tend to overlook just how serious this matter is. here in the united

the presiding officer: the senator from -- the senator from iowa. mr. harkin: i ask does the senator from wyoming still have the floor? the presiding officer: the senator from wyoming has the floor. mr. harkin: mr. president, i ask if the senator from wyoming would yield for a question? mr. enzi: i would. mr. harkin: my friend from wyoming mentioned the fact that we should bring up appropriations bills. as someone who has been a member of the appropriations committee for quite a long time, i would just remind my friend from wyoming that earlier this year on the first appropriations bill that we passed out of the committee, under the leadership of senator mikulski, was the transportation, housing and urban development bill. if i'm not mistaken, it had some -- it had a number of republican votes in committee. it was brought out onto the floor, an extraneous amendment was offered on egypt by the senator from kentucky whereupon the -- i believe senator mikulski, our leader, filed cloture on the bill so we could vote on the appropriations bill. but, mr. pres

senate. biden spend decades in the senate. i want to play for you what mccain said. >> i'm hopeful that we will get negotiations. i hope the president will become engaged. maybe we need to get joe biden out of the witness protection program because he has good relationships with -- >> we haven't heard very much from him. >> all right. so pretty cute but it's -- there's an element of truth there because biden has not been very visible. behind the scenes, he'll be in the meeting with the president today but when mccain says get him out of the witness protection program, those are pretty biting words. >> it's very clear biden is not leading any negotiation. there's a reason for that, which is that harry reid, the democratic leader in the senate, does not want joe biden meding any more in the senate. he feels like he did not cut a good deal on the debt ceiling negotiations backing in 2011. reid wants to do it himself. the only problem reid has is he and mitch mcconnell, the leader of the republicans in the senate don't get along a

goo we have order in the senate, senate -- could we have order in the senate, please. the presiding officer: the senate will be in order. mr. reid: thank you, madam president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: his having this advanced degree in sociology has helped him in his work with the people of the state of new jersey and the city of newark. with him, one stanford degree wasn't enough; he got two. and then if that wasn't enough, which it wasn't, he was chosen to be a rhodes scholar and then got another advanced degree at oxford. and if that wasn't enough, he went to yale law school. this is quite a record, madam president. now, he's been a sitting councilman and mayor for more than a decade. he's lived with his constituents and kept in touch with them like no mayor i've ever come in contact with. i mean, we're so fortunate to have him here. he stayed in touch with his constituents because he has been with them in the inner city of newark. i commend him for his dedicated service to the people of new

senator warren, senator elect booker was on that flight this morning. she said it was really an emotional moment at the airport, where his team from newark, where he has been mayor for several years, were there at the airport to see him off when he will be sworn in tomorrow. as soon as he is sworn in tomorrow, the new senator will find himself tied into that part of congress. tomorrow, the first of barack obama's nominees to the federal appeals court in washington is due to come up for a vote. the republicans say they will filibuster that nomination, not because they don't like anything about the nominee, but just because they don't want the president to appoint new judges to the court. this keeps happening, the republicans have changed washington to make the u.s. senate a place where a super majority is required to do anything at all. not just constitutional amendments or treaties, but everything. i interviewed senator reid almost three years ago exactly about that being a problem in the senate back then. and at a time in 2010, he seemed quite determin

i suspect senator murray was one of those who blocked senator conrad. i think it is a bit aggressive to say republicans are blocking a budget. the legislation necessary to raise the debt ceiling again should be passed like legislation should be passed on the floor of the senate and it would require a 60 vote point of order. their concern is that in conference, a raising of the debt ceiling will be put in the budget, which only requires 51 votes. they will allow the budget to go to conference, but they want a commitment from our democratic colleagues. they have indicated they do not intend to put that on the budget. senator durbin said he did not think it was appropriate. it is a time of great importance, the american people understand it. they want us to take action to place this country on a sound financial path. we are heading to the debt ceiling. we limit the amount of money congress can borrow. how much money we can spend above -- we are now spending about -- think about it. that is what we are doing every year and it is unsustainable. august 2011,

the senate is still in session. maryland senator barbara mccull ski on the senate floor speaking. you can follow that on c-span 2. we'll have the house live when they gavel back in. we'll wait to hear from nancy pelosi. >> mr. speaker i yield to my friend, the gentlewoman pending which i yield such time as i may consume. >> for the purposes of debate. i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarkings. >> without objection. >> house resolution 367 of which we're here for today provides for consideration of the senate amendment to hj.res 59 to continue the appropriations act for fiscal year 2014. >> mr. speaker, at midnight tonight, just a few short hours from now, the federal government will shut down of congress, that is both the house and the senate, do not act to provide the necessary appropriations to run our government. the legislation we enforce today will ensure a shutdown does not happen. and we will take important steps to ensure that obama care, known as -- obama care is the affordable care act does not have the oppo

deal with the senate which would, i think, be a terrible deal to undermine the house. >> will senate republicans sell out their house counterparts. our exclusive with ran paul. >> i did have a opportunity to present the plan that many of us have been working on. >> democrats have rejected her compromised plan but maine republican susan collins labors on p she joins us along with her senate colleague minnesota democrat amy cobichar. plus, our political panel on the republican brand, the president's leg sapresiden president's legacy and the debt ceiling debate. this "state of the union." >> good morning from washington. i'm candy crowley. we're 13 days into this partial government shutdown and no signs of a deal. democrats met with the president last night and say they're united. they will not negotiate until congress ends the shutdown and lifts the debt ceiling. jim acosta is here. jim, take us inside last night's meeting. what was the purpose? >> well, the purpose was really, candy, to get democrats on the same page. and they have been very united through all this. you've seen some o

senator marco rubio of florida speaking on the senate floor right now. let's listen in. >> enrichment capability and that now is not the time to suspend pend sanctions but to increase them on the iranian regime. you see, all of us would like to wake up to the news that the ayatollah. >> senator rubio is speaking about iran right now. we'll monitor what he's saying, see if he says anything about the senate proposal, a bipartisan proposal to deal with this debt ceiling and get the government fully operational. senator rubio speaking there. we'll check in with him later. the house speaker is rather upbeat about his own plan, but the democratic minority leader, nancy pelosi, isn't feeling quite as good about it. moments ago she said the house republicans are sabotaging the senate's efforts to end the crisis. >> so why are they doing this to the american people? sabotaging a good faith bipartisan effort coming out of the senate? wasting the public's time and in this case, time is money. time is money. this is going to be very costly to our economy, even if ev

republicans senators. do you think they have all the leverage and they can just demand that republicans cave? >> that's the only reasonable explanation for the fact that they are moved the goal post. if an iron principle was that they wanted a clean cr and a clean increase of the debt limit. now they've attached something to it. now they want to change the law, the budget control act of 2011. to break the sequestesequester. for years we have been told if only the moderates -- let's delay the medical devices tax for which there are bipartisan majorities for complete repeal of them and let's just enforce the affordable care act for having criteria for eligibility for the subsidies. >> as i pointed out to the senators, this whole issue has been joined because the president says obamacare is the law of the land and you cannot change it. forgive me, but the sequester is the law of the land, which raises the question, senator bye, is there rampant hypocrisy here? >> hypocrisy in washington? i'm shocked. of cours

>> it has now passed the senate. and they're skipping a lot of procedural steps that they would usually do, like taking it to a rules committee to hash out things, and the fact that they're expediting it is significant. with power struggles in washington. >> 18 days, the bill was reported as passed, and as amended. the title amendment is agreed to. without objection, the p motions agreed to. >> so it's official, libby. you're talking about the process, so from here, a lot of people are watching this, and how long does it take to go to the house? >> it could be faster or it could drag on a lib. we have to wait for it to get to the house floor, so stay tuned, we expect it to get there fairly quickly. but in the meantime, you'll start to see a lot of other wheels start to turn. like senate democrats talk about what it means it them. we have to watch the house floor and see how quickly they are able to move. >> we'll talk about, is there a debate that will go on at the house floor for this bill? >> it will be an hour bef

we just left a press conference where senator mick cull sky of maryland, senator carden, senator cain spoke about the local economy of the loss of these 0 joshes in the government shut down. i can tell stories there were over 50,000 federal workers have either been fur loid -- fur low -- furloughed or checks being withheld, for the most part. it's unnecessary and up acceptable. we were the in midst of a terrible accident last week right before october 1st. a train ran in to one of our met -- metro trains coming back from the airport. 30 people were sent to the hospital. the national transportation safety board went out to investigate the accident, to find out when lead to -- what lead to the terrible thing. they had to leave at midnight on october 19st. after collecting what evidence they could because the government was shut down. the investigation was suspended. that's one example of five families grieving. it goes goes on and on. what we hear from republicans we'll take care of each of these as it arises. we'll pick out the vital function of government. so far all of the bills pass

senator from -- we have a senator who's chairman of the budget committee, senator murray. it's bigger than her. it's bigger than the senior senator from new york, senator schumer, who's on this floor. mr. president, we have to start working together for our country. that's what we've been trying to do. this is so disappointing. on the eve of financial destruction for this great country, and that's what it is, to appease a small group of people over there, i'm so disappointed. >> would the senator yield for a question? >> i would be happy to. >> i'd like to ask the senator, majority leader through the chair, one of the key elements in this new proposal from speaker boehner is to diminish this president's authority to deal with a default on our national debt. this authority, so-called extraordinary measures or emergency measures, gives to presidents going back to president kennedy the wherewithal through the treasury department to try to avoid an economic disaster which could impact families, businesses, jobs and the reputation of the united states in the world. i ask throug

as you look live at the senate, in the next hour, we expect a senate vote. the house is hoping to do the same sometime afterwards. the bill, we assume, will head to the president. after all that's approved and the president will sign it tonight. breaking news, word we could hear from the president after the senate votes but before the house votes. which is kind of unusual. we have fox team coverage. ed henry is at the white house with how the president may be celebrating what democrats are privately calling a huge political win and how big a win is it? we begin with chief correspondent mike emanuel on the hill. >> it does not solve any of the nation's major problems but would allow the government to remain open and the fight to continue. >> thank you for lawmakers who understand that when everyone los loses, america loses. >> reporter: even the senate chaplain is reluctant to call anybody a winner on day 16 of the government shutdown. the deal brokered by senate majority leader harry reid and mitch mcconnell would fund the government through january 15th and

. >> and even as senators reid and mcconnell were announcing the deal, red senator ted cruz who led the charge for shutdown announced he would not use a procedural tactic to try to block the vote. >> there's nothing to gain from delaying this vote one day or two days. the outcome will be the same. every senator, every member of the house will have to make a decision where he or she stands. my focus is on the substance, my focus is i think where the american people's focus is, what are we doing to provide real relief to the people hurting because of obama care? unfortunately today the answer is the united states senate and the washington establishment is doing nothing to provide relief for the millions of people hurting because of obama care. >> the sources tell nbc news the bill is still being written and the senate will vote for first time this afternoon. kelly o'donnell reports a number of republican senators will vote yes to send a signal to house republicans that the deal will pass and give cover to house republican leadership so they will not need to provide all of the votes. house

so anyway, appreciate the work that senator alexander and senator schumer did. i'm grateful for prior and the gang of senators that they did some things that helped us. so i would hope that in the future the work that was done by senator prior and collins will be able to get together to create some separation from all this shrill voice, these shrill voices here over that are not helpful. this crisis is historic. let's be honest, this is pain inflii inflicted on the nation for no great reason and cannot make, cannot, cannot make the same mistake again. so as we move into the next round of negotiations, i'm depending on stable, hard working, always available patty murray. she's the stereo type of what i believe a senator should be. i'm very, very grateful to her for being willing to take the leadership of trying to work something out, to page sure that we don't have another one of these crisis, man pack toured crisis. she worked so hard and we were so close but as you know from all the experiences the president had and i had with speaker boehner, he was never able

it will go to the senate. the senate will reject it. send back a clean, so-called clean continuing resolution that will fund the government but won't touch obama care. then once again it will be up to the house tonight. no one is leaving, dana, so don't leave. i know you're not leaving, i'm not leaving, we'll be here for a while. all right, we'll see what happens next as this pingpong goes back and forth between the house and senate. let's go to the impact on this right now, wall street remains nervous that the government will shut down the skittish economy, today, the dow drove down the average by nearly 30 points, the s&p also fell. so if the government closes up shop, more than 800,000 federal employees will be furloughed, what is the economic impact? will it be felt far and wide? i guess a lot depends on this shutdown, if this lasts. let's bring in our correspondent, christine romans, i assume if it is just a couple of hours, it could be all right, but if it goes on this could be huge. >> reporter: well, you're right, if this were a

released by senate staff. it had all sorts of specific spending measures in it that nobody expected. there was funding for recovery effort in colorado, funding for recovery from wildfires in the west, money for prevention as well, funding for the privacy and civil liberties oversight board, funding for a big construction project on the lower ohio river in illinois and kentucky. there is even a very specific provision in the bill for the payment that is due to the widow of the new jersey senator frank lautenberg. that was passed 81-18 tonight in the united states senate. why is that? why were all of those professvis in this bill? and why would anybody risk getting that list of stuff done? why would you risk getting that stuff done by this very delicate means, when none of this stuff has been debated by this process. when any slide back into standoff mode would surely throw the nation into overtime on the debt ceiling with all the disastrous consequences that would entail. what happened here? joining us now, joh

a senator: will the senator yield for a question? mr. reid: i will be happy to yield to my friend, the distinguished president pro tempore of the senate. mr. leahy: mr. president, the senate -- and i was there when i saw how hard he worked to pass a continuing resolution at the number the republican leadership of the house asked for, based on their assurances that they would use it. mr. president, i'd ask my friend, the majority leader, was that sort of a classic bait and switch operation? because if it is, i think of another one where they asked us to pass a budget and senator murray led us in passing one, we finished our last vote at 5:30, 6:00 in the morning on a saturday, having gone around the clock, and then we wanted to go to conference after they, the republicans, had demanded we pass one. they then refused to let us go to conference with a republican-led house. are these bait and switch? mr. reid: mr. president, through the chair to my friend, the senior senator from vermont, we had a law in place. the presiding officer voted fo

the senate. let's be clear. the senate passed a bill and i thank god for the senate. they passed a bill, took the house numbers, which was unacceptable to all of the democrats, unacceptable, took those low numbers in order to pass a continuing resolution so we could have discussions. but what happened to the house? they're missing in action. because there's no leadership on the republican side. . mr. doggett: i thank the gentlewoman from hawaii the opportunity to join her on this. the numbers she refers to is back during the summer, and speaker boehner acknowledged this last sunday on abc, there was an understanding reached between the house and senate that democrats would compromise and agree to a level of government services that we think is totally unacceptable. ms. brown: would you repeat that again, sir. mr. doggett: there was an understanding he acknowledged, reached between the house and senate, that we democrats in order to keep the government functioning, would agree for a time this fall to accept an unacceptable low number that we know won't deliver the leve

leader in the senate. once again, house republicans have made a decision to hurt middle-class families, to reject a commonsense solution in order to advance their political agenda. that is very disappointing. house republicans are in a car. the car is speeding to a cliff. the car has no brakes. the steering wheel only turns to the far right. somebody in the house republican caucus has to grab the wheel and hit the brakes. stop the house republicans from speeding our economy off this cliff. driving middle-class families off this cliff. are 17, 20, 30 house republicans who have said they are willing to grab the wheel and hit the brakes. now is the time to do it. we are getting to the point of no return. no return is when the car goes over the cliff and takes middle- class families and the american economy with it. yield to the ranking member of the house budget committee, who has been leading us toward a balanced approach to deficit reduction and the right priorities, chris van hollen. >> thank you, steve. r

so in the senate right now, you've got a senator from texas, senator cornyn, who is blocking that particular provision we passed unanimously. i hope he will let it go. but over here in the house, we have a bill that the president is waiting to sign right now. all we need to do is pass it. the votes are here in the house to do it. and if the speaker doubts that fact, there's an easy way to figure it out, we all know that. put it up for a vote. what is the speaker afraid of? a little democracy in this house? we're going to be paying all the federal employees as we should because they should not be penalized, not for one day that we're forcing them to be out of work. but these are men and women dedicated to providinger is various -- service for our country. they want to get become to work. what the house is say is, we're going to keep paying you but we're not going to let you work for the american people. that's an astounding position so take. let's take up the senate bill, get it done. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. crenshaw: we d

senate here on c-span2. the president pro tempore: the senate will come to order. the senate chaplain, retired admiral dr. barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. the chaplain: let us pray. god of heaven, your are great and we come before your throne with reverence. lord, look at us and hear our prayers for our congress, our nation, and our world. make our lawmakers so transparently just and fair that falsehood may be banished by the truth that sets us free. supply the needs of those who are hurting because of this government shutdown, as you give our senators the conviction that, with you, all things are possible. we pray in your great name. amen. the president pro tempore: please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: following leader remarks the senate flb a period of morning business for debate only until 4:00 p.m

senators reid and mcconnell announce a senate deal. in terms of moving ahead in the house, would this first go to the house rules committee and what does that do in terms of the timeline for a vote in the house of representatives? >> that's the ordinary expectation in this case that once the senate passes something, they get a -- the senate gets a timed agreement by unanimous consent and moves the matter through to final passage rather quickly. once the matter arrives in the house, the physical papers are carried across the rotunda from one side of the capitol to the other, the rules committee will meet at some point and presumably, assuming it's all systems go and, you know, i point out there is still a house republican conference meeting between now and then, but if it is all systems go, the house rules committee probably reports out what's known as a closed rule, that doesn't allow anyone to offer any amendments and you have about maybe an hour of debate on the rule is typical and then an hour of debate on the bill itself is typical

senator ken har wrote a letter to the senate. quote unfortunately it appears that politics may be interfering with the purpose and the intent of the study. i do not want $44,000 of the public's money wasted on an unscientific study which will not help the citizens and industries of nebraska prepare for climate change, which after all is a thing. governor har asked hiss colleagues to please make this right. so nice to have you here. >> i'm not a scientist. but most importantly, i have three grandchildren, and i do look at what science tells us about a changing climate and i'm concerned about their future. >> if we look at what science has to say, we don't cherry pick, we don't say i want this data, i want that data, i really feel that's a distortion of science, if we're going in and asking science as i had hoped we would do at the university. we're saying what does the best science tell us about the changing climate in nebraska? and some of them will tell you if you look at their work, for example, the current best models show tha

senator paul on may 2. senator toomey on june 19. senator cruz, who's been the leader of this irresponsible and reckless strategy, which is getting, i don't think, his party or his future anywhere, but we'll have to see about that. mike lee on july 17. and then senator rubio on

earlier today, senator harry reid told reporters the democrat and republican leaders in the senate were getting closer to seeing eye to eye. check out this rare moment of sunshine and unicorns on the senate floor. >> i'm very optimistic. we will reach an agreement, it's reasonable in nature, this week. >> we had an opportunity over the last couple of days to have some very constructive exchanges of views about how to move forward. those discussions continue and i share his optimism that we are going to get a result that will be acceptable to both sides. >> optimism? constructive exchanges? who are you and what have you done with my congress? at least one person still seems hesitant to sip the rose-colored kool-aid. listen to what president obama had to say while visiting a local food shelter in d.c. earlier today. >> not only is it untenable for us to continue the shutdown, this week if we don't start making some real progress both in the house and the senate, and if republicans aren't willing to set aside some of their partisan concerns in order to do what's right for the country, we s

the state of senator mcconnell and senator rand paul. it's an amazing outpouring of interest. >> so you say it's been a successful, sir? >> i think it's on it's way to be a substantial success. if we're talking about accountability, i have a question for the republicans. it has cost hundreds of thousands of jobs and the republican party brand is at the lowest level in the last 30 years. who will be held accountable for that? a question about the future of senator cruz? >> it's a very good question, you have 30 seconds to answer. >> senator durbin and some others think this is a big win for their party? nobody won in. the last three weeks. the president saying he won't negotiate. democrats in the senate rejecting offer after offer in the house. people ease confidence was shaken. democrats look terrible, republicans look terrible, the president looks terrible, we better figure that out before we go into drawing lines in the sand like changing the budget control act in this next set of negotiations. >> on that happy note, thank you both for

one senate republican aid placed the blame on a particular senator from texas ted cruz and his tortilla coast republicans are -- susan collins to try to come up with a plan. meanwhile senator reid and senator mcconnell had reengaged in negotiations and are optimistic an agreement is within reach, according to reid's spoekman. senator, what is the state of play as far as you understand it. what communications must be given to senators about what's going to happen in the next 48 hours? >> you couldn't make this up. this has just gone from bizarre to ultrabizarre. you hear of that singing of "amazing grace" in the republican caucus, it sounds like something you do before you all sit around and drink cool laid. this has presented the senate to essentially try to be the adults who finish this deal off. reid and mcconnell are back talking today about essentially a straight forward reauthorization of continuing -- i guess that's as good as we are going to get. ultimately, though, it's going to depend once it passes the senate, which i think it will on john boehner making a choice between prote

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president, the majority of the senate refuse to allow the senate even to vote to fund the v.a. i want to you imagine, mr. president, all 46 senate republicans, if we had stood together and simply supported the house republicans. in saying the house of representatives has voted to reopen our national parks, to reopen our war memorials, and the majority leader of the snalt refuses to allow the senate even to vote. mr. president, i want to you imagine simply the senate republicans had stood together and said, we support the house republicans in standing with the

senate. medical device tax remains about the most significant thing we can get out of this. it shows they are pursuing pretty symbolic politics. the scheme of things doesn't really matter about the rollout of obamacare. this is more about the political stuff. dagen: due to the last debt ceiling fight we lost the aaa debt reading, if these fights continue and they become more frequently, do you think how much we have to pay to borrow money will go up long run? there could be not just psychological, but financial damage done to the country if they keep playing chicken in washington. >> i think right now we're at a different spot tha then we weren 2011. 201,100 different economic environment in the u.s. and certainly one in europe. the u.s. is much stronger today than it was in 2011, companies are doing well, i think you have seen revival of europe certainly it is not strong but it is much better than it was and you also see progress in china. i think we're at a different point so i do not see i

host: in addition to senator ted cruz, the other senator that was helpful was senator mike lee. he, too, spoke before tonight's vote. >> here we are again. another unnecessary crisis. a proposal that maintains the status quo. very little time to read and evaluating bill. in fact, we still do not have a final version of the text. no time to explain it to our constituents. this is washington at its worst. it's exactly the kind of thing the american people are fed up with. and exactly why several colleagues and i began this effort to delay and defined -- defund obama care in july. it appears that this particular fight will end much the same way a last-re began - -i- in minute deal negotiated in back rooms and forced on congress and on the american people. the washington establishment cannot bring itself to believe that this is why congress's approval ratings are so low, because washington does not listen to the american people. it ignores them. and when the american people can no longer be ignored, the administration shuts down national parks, blocks veterans from going to their ow

senator murray asks again. senator mike lee blocks. they blocked going to budget because the tea party years -- partiers in this party said, we will go to budget but you can't talk about raising any revenues in budget. we will try to solve the budget problems but you don't -- democrats cannot talk about raising revenues. the only thing we want to talk about is cutting. cutting, cutting, cutting. they look at anything. they will cut headstart, education, the epa, that is all they want to do is cut. we said, you can't solve a problem with just one side of that equation. we don't know where the revenues might need to come from but there has got to be a balance. we have to start paying down our long-term debt. i don't want anyone in this do thinkt or world that democrats aren't concerned about the debt. we are concerned about the debt. we don't like the debt being this high. we want to find ways and we have reduced -- produced -- reduced spending trillions of dollars. the senator from tennessee to his credit -- i have supported a lot of wh

senator cornin joins us. good evening, sir. senator, can you hear me ? >> i sure can. >> good. thank you, sir. now it's been kicked back from the senate back to the house. the senate, i take it is open for business. what do you anticipate will happen next hour and now 55 minutes? >> i'm hearing the house may make another attempt to ping-pong a bill over to the senate. but, greta, i'm pretty much reached the conclusion that the president and harry reid want a government shutdown. they think they win that. unfortunately the loser will be the american people. the last bill seemed to me to be a reasonable proposition. delay the individual mandate like the president has for businesses. the employer mandate. and eliminate the special carve out provision for members of congress keeping them from having to go to the exchanges created by obamacare like everybody else. i don't know how they defend this. it may be that that's the issue we fight on leading up to the 2014 election. >> i can understand -- i know people on both sides of the aisle on capitol hill. i understand the ideological

with 12 senators, bipartisan senators. so this plan may have a good amount of southern in the united states senate, but, of course, that chamber is controlled by democrat harry reid, so all eyes will be watching his next play after this bill may be sent over to him to consider. bill: interesting observation. so house republicans may be trying to revive senator collins' idea from over the weekend. we were just watching the floor of the senate, so they're getting underway right now. have you heard how the meeting went with house republicans? do you get a sense of where they are in terms of unity on this or not yet, mike? >> reporter: i have not gotten that readout just yet. we were tig that going in they would not be very happy with what the senate was considering, and so by coming up with their own plan, some kind of bipartisan perhaps compromise, that may have made the rank and file a little bit happier to say you don't have to just accept what the senate's going to send over, we're going to take our own action. so perhaps

the senate's passed zero. the house has no motive -- the democrats have a motivation to shut down the government buzz the democrats believe they can use it as a campaign tool in 2014. hence the democrats set this situation up in the united states senate by refusing to vote on a single appropriations bills, 12 that would fund the federal government. that's where they're coming from. >> why won't you guys open the government piece by piece when you can open the government entirely in one fell swoop? >> we did that. we passed a continuing resolution that fully funds the federal government. it made the white house subject to the same obama care that the american people are going to be subject to. and second it delayed for one year the individual mandate. that's all it did. otherwise, the federal government was wholly and fully funded. >> congressman mo brooks, republican from alabama, i appreciate you coming on, sir. >> my pleasure. >> big thanks to kayla tausche and a big thanks to dave weigel as well who we lost

in the united states senate. now steve lonegan, of course he had the misfortune of being a tea party republican at a time in our nation's political history when tea party republicans were busy elsewhere in the country making themselves less popular than paper cuts or tripping. but even without that baggage it's fair to say that steve lonegan would have been a long shot in this race no matter what else is going on. mr. booker is popular and ran a good race. and this is new jersey which is a blue state. and number three, steve lonegan is steve lonegan. and to get a sense of what i mean, consider this moment from when mr. lonegan spoke to his supporters tonight after he learned he lost the race to cory booker. this is one of the strangest sound bites i have ever heard. >> moments ago i called senator booker to congratulate him on his win and as we should, wish him the best in serving the people of this state and the people of this country. and i'm hoping god will be with him in the decisions he makes as he goes into

with the senator saying that he will not delay the vote in the senate. nothing to be gained in his wards. john, it seems as though this is going to move forward and move forward quickly. >> i think that's the last piece of information we needed to know when this deal was going to pass. it appears to me based on what cruz just said and the leadership aides have told me, that this is going to pass the house and senate today. go to the president's desk. we will not go to across the midnight deadline for a potential breach of the debt limit. it appears this thing is resolved and ted cruz has decided to shift the battle such as it is to a different location. he said he cares about the substance, not the timing of the vote and if he doesn't care about the timing of the vote, the rest of the markets, two political parties do and they're going to make it happen today. >> if you're just joining us, mcconnell and reid reaching a consensus to avoid a shutdown. a vote is expected later today. senator cruz just speaking publicly for the first time saying he has no pl

the problem is the senate. look, i know democrats don't like it, but the american people have given us divided government. two elections in a row now, they gave us a republican house and they gave us a democratic senate. that means negotiation isn't a luxury. it's a necessity. and until senate democrats accept that reality, these crises will only be harder to resolve, so i would suggest that they start thinking about how they might start playing a constructive role in the crisis and in the challenges that lie ahead. there is a time for politics, there is a time for sitting down like adults and working things out. republicans are ready and willing to negotiate. we invite senate democrats to join us. mr. president, i yield the floor. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. under the previous order, the senate will be in a period of morning business until 5:00 p.m. with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the senator from illinois. mr. durbin: m

senate not so much. you get a bigger vote in the senate. >> i have to say. i think with everything he is saying makes sense. he is being honest. it is a pathetic reality. that you have people casting votes hoping they don't get what they want because it smart for reelections. that is against everything americans would like to think is happening. >> in that case it comes back to us. we need to hold these politicians to a higher standard. in 1998 then there were 160 swing districts in the house of representatives which didn't seem like very many. guess what. that has shrunk down to 90 now. and i'll bet you it is shrinking even more. that's one of the big reasons the republicans have gone so far to the right. that's all they have to worry about is some tea party fanatic. >> thank you both. it gives us something to think about. when you get mad, think about who you voted for and why you did it. as the senate prepares to vote, you can see we have that live picture. we are waiting for harry reid. we'll go live if it does. just a few moments ago on this program, yo

i am happy for the senate tonight. i'm happy for the nation, but let us make sure that this is just the beginning. >> thank you. today is not a happy day. it is a somber day. we finally achieved our goal, but frankly, we ended up where we started. when we started, we said we would do three things. a fund of the government, pay our bills, and agree to negotiate. we started there, and that is where we ended up. that is exactly what the law does. no more, no less. so, the bottom line is that millions suffered. millions did not get paychecks. the economy was dragged down and confidence and faith in the united states credit and in the united states itself around the world was shaken. so, this is not a happy day. it is a somber day. because at the end of the day, we never should have gone through what we went through. we started here, we ended here. second the point, there are three people who i think i would like to praise and i cannot do it enough. the first, of course, is our leader, harry reid. he stood so farm from the

senators, welcome back to fox news sunday. as we sit here on sunday, senator corker, where are we? is there a deal in the offing? where are we? >> there was some movement a couple days ago. i think things are not moving now. a couple nights ago it looked like there was a way to go forward. i think the senate democrats have pulled back at the request of the white house. now may be trying to look at busting the budget caps established back in 2011. i think we're in a status quo. i do think we'll see our way through this. but the last 24 hours have not been good. >> let me follow up with you on that. as we said, the president rejected the house gop plan. yesterday senator harry reid rejected the compromise lead by 12 senators, half republican, half democrats. it sounds like the other side is demanding, senator corker, that you reopen the government and extend the debt limit with no strings attached. will senate republicans accept that? >> well, again, are they going to try to change existing law which is now where they are, or are they going to agree to leave the budget caps that have

the senate rules just allow for senators to drag it out. and it could take a lot longer, and this deadline is two days away. >> the clock is clearly ticking. all right, dana, stand by. >>> house democrats met with the president earlier this afternoon, and they're keeping the pressure on. let's go to our senior white house correspondent right now. still no deal, but the president has spoken out about the speaker john boehner. what is he saying? >> reporter: president obama gave interviews to three local stations. so three local anchors. and he talked about his frustration with the speaker simply saying negotiating with him is pointless. >> speaker boehner, for example. him negotiating with him isn't necessarily good for the extreme faction in his caucus. it weakens him. there have been repeated situations where we have agreements where he goes back and he can't control his caucus. >> reporter: now he also sent a message of he's not giving any concessions to house republicans even though senate democrats in concert with the white house have c