U.S. Senate live C-Span 2 feed

[greyl]

https://www.c-span.org/video/?438001-101/us-senate-headed-final-vote-gop-tax-reform&live

Dems are there now, working hard like they have been all day.

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[L. Coyote]

1. PBS: WATCH LIVE: Senate continues to consider GOP tax bill

[greyl]

2. This vote is really stretching out, eh?

Are they stalling for a resignation?

[L. Coyote]

3. They'll still be writing it as they vote.

[greyl]

4. They are, yes. This happened Re DeVos money and Hillsdale:

Friday 1 December 2017 22.56 EST
US tax bill: Democrats attack exemption for college linked to Betsy DeVos

In a tense exchange with Democrats on the Senate floor, Pennsylvania Republican senator Pat Toomey defended the provision, which would exempt Hillsdale College from an excise tax on universities and colleges with large endowments.

“I do understand that my colleagues on the far left do not have fond opinion of Hillsdale – but I do,” Toomey said. “I actually think it’s a wonderful institution.” He added that the university saves taxpayers a “tremendous amount of money” by refusing federal aid.

“We don’t have a fond opinion of discrimination and of giving a tax provision for just one college that happens to be funded by one of the wealthiest families in America because they happen to be a Republican donor,” senator Jeff Merkley, an Oregon Democrat, shot back.

Hillsdale College is a conservative liberal arts college based in central Michigan that enrolls about 1,400 and focuses its curriculum around “western philosophical and theological inheritance”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/02/us-tax-bill-democrats-attack-exemption-for-college-linked-to-betsy-devos

[Hekate]

5. KnR

[greyl]

6. Kick, Dear Wyden pleading now...!

[murielm99]

7. CNN just posted that the bill has passed in the Senate. n/t