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Democracy. | |
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| It's a process. | ||
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| This is your government at work. | ||
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| It's time for our open forum. | ||
| Any public policy, any political issue that you want to talk about, phone lines are yours to do so. | ||
| 202-748-8000 for Democrats. | ||
| Republicans, 202-748-8001. | ||
| Independents, 202-748-8002. | ||
| As you're calling in, here's the schedule on Capitol Hill today. | ||
| The House not in session today, though we are expecting to hear from Speaker Mike Johnson. | ||
| That's scheduled for 10 a.m. Eastern. | ||
| That's where we're going to head here on C-SPAN after our program ends at 10 a.m. | ||
| Over on C-SPAN 2 at 10 a.m. Eastern time, Georgia Republican Congressman Rich McCormick will discuss how the U.S. can lead the world in artificial intelligence technology. | ||
| It is happening again on C-SPAN2, C-SPAN.org, and the free C-SPAN mobile app. | ||
| Also today at 2 p.m. Eastern, Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook will speak on the outlook on the U.S. economy. | ||
| That's going to be live here on C-SPAN and also on C-SPAN now, the mobile app and c-span.org. | ||
| So a lot going on today. | ||
| There'll be a lot going on all week long. | ||
| Tomorrow, it's Election Day, the off-year elections in Virginia, New Jersey. | ||
| That New York City mayoral race that's being closely watched on Wednesday. | ||
| It's the Supreme Court case on Donald Trump's tariffs policy. | ||
| That's at 10 a.m. Eastern on Wednesday. | ||
| So even though the government shut down, there's a lot for us to cover and talk about with you. | ||
| And now's your time to talk about any of those topics. | ||
| It's open forum. | ||
| This is Anthony in the Keystone State Republican. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
| You're up first. | ||
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Good morning, Mr. McCardle. | |
| Good morning, C-SPAN. | ||
| I was trying to get in touch with your guests. | ||
| I have a question and a comment. | ||
| I'm going to get my comment first. | ||
| Obviously, Chuck Schumer was getting battled by his left wing during the last vote for a continuing resolution, and he felt that he couldn't go down the same road. | ||
| It's all about him and his reelection and AOC bringing on a primary against him. | ||
| Now, that being said, this shutdown's been going on too long. | ||
| Democrats have to realize that's their problem. | ||
| It's America's problem, but their fault. | ||
| I think I have a solution, but I'm not sure. | ||
| Maybe I wanted to ask the other guests if that's possible. | ||
| Currently, the Senate, they don't have a filibuster for judges and for Supreme Court nominations. | ||
| Now, why can't the Senate create a rule that says 30 days after a clean continuing resolution is not voted on or doesn't pass, then the filibuster would kick in and the filibuster would go away and we'd come a 51-vote majority only for clean continuing resolutions that are not approved. | ||
| It's 30 days. | ||
| So it gives time for everybody to talk. | ||
| So the filibuster stays in place for the vast majority of legislative business, but when it comes to funding the government, this rule kicks in after a CR expires for 30 days. | ||
| Is that what you're saying? | ||
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That's what I'm saying. | |
| And, you know, I'm surprised, you know, it seems like a really good way to fix this. | ||
| You know, you're only going to have a shutdown for 30 days at most, and people will not be suffering forever. | ||
| The way things go now, it doesn't look like we're going to get a resolution for this by next year. | ||
| I mean, it's just the way everybody's so divided. | ||
| But I believe the filibuster is in jeopardy because the Democrats tried to do it last year, because except for cinema and mansion, the filibuster would have been gone. | ||
| I totally disagree with getting rid of the filibuster for most legislation because the Senate was set up as a common cup, as somebody would say. | ||
| Anthony, what about, I mean, it's gone for judicial nominations, Supreme Court nominations, and for cabinet nominations. | ||
| Do you think it should be gone for those nominations, the filibuster? | ||
| I can give you the exact dates, but do you think it should be back? | ||
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No, I don't. | |
| I think that, you know, it's proven itself to be functioning and the government still functions with the legislative filibuster in place. | ||
| I mean, there are cutouts already. | ||
| So why can't they use a cutout for a clean? | ||
| And my emphasis is on clean, continuing resolution after 30 days. | ||
| They close a majority vote. | ||
| That's my question. | ||
| I don't know if you could find out if that's possible. | ||
| But Mr. McCarlton, I respect you. | ||
| I love watching you every day. | ||
| You're a great guy. | ||
| Stay with me. | ||
| My response to that is: I think the Senate can kind of do whatever they want, right? | ||
| They have their own rules of the Senate. | ||
| They also have their traditions, the filibuster being one of those. | ||
| What you're saying doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility of what they could do. | ||
| It's just whether they would want to do that. | ||
| But in terms of who makes up the Senate rules, the Senate does. | ||
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Yeah, so why not? | |
| I mean, just for continuing resolutions, nothing else. | ||
| Got your point. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I mean, it just seems like you don't bury that. | ||
| Anthony, thanks for the call from Pennsylvania to Florida. | ||
| This is Sandy Democrat. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Hello. | |
| I wanted to actually call and speak about the government shutdown. | ||
| I wanted to correct the woman that called and said that the children aren't going to go without food. | ||
| Well, I live in Florida, and the children don't all get food in free food in the schools. | ||
| It depends on the district that you live in. | ||
| The other thing is, you know, we have a lot of people in Florida who are going to lose their health care. | ||
| There was a big article in the Orlando Sentinel just yesterday about the sticker shock. | ||
| And I have two worthless senators. | ||
| They're both Republican, Ashley Moody and Rick Scott. | ||
| You could call them all day long, talk to them, or try to talk to them. | ||
| Rick Scott never answers his phone or his people. | ||
| So I just, I appreciate that the government is shut down. | ||
| And my congressman from Florida, Maxwell Frost, he's amazing. | ||
| He's a Gen Z, and he should, he goes to Washington every week, even though Congress is closed, to be there to work. | ||
| So come on, Republicans. | ||
| Do your job. | ||
| That's Sandy in Florida. | ||
| This is Vincent out of Maryland. | ||
| It's Gaithersburg, Maryland. | ||
| Go ahead. |