>> c-span live election night coverage starts at 7:00 p.m. eastern. victor -- victory in concession speeches. what our live coverage on c- span. >> mr. speaker, he has got no plan for the economy. no place in -- no plan for the mess that they made. nothing worthwhile to say. that is that. ♪ >> now from london, prime minister's questions from the british house of commons. this week prime minister david cameron updated on recent economic news that the british economy grew twice as fast as expected. last week the prime minister

announce comprehensive spending cuts that would cut the deficit in half over the next four years. later, ed miller band challenged him on changes to legislation. >> questions for the prime minister. harriett baldwin. >> number one, mr. speaker. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i am sure that the whole house will wish to join me in paying tribute to corporal david barnsdale from 33 engineer regiment, explosive ordnance disposal, who died on october 19. he was a brave and highly skilled member of our armed forces whose service and sacrifice must not be forgotten. our thoughts must be with his family, his friends, and his colleagues. this morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. in addition to my duties in the house, i shall have further such meetings later today. >> harriett baldwin. >> may i associate myself with the condolences expressed by my right honorable friend? does the prime minister agree

that yesterday's excellent growth numbers show that the private sector is growing and will create the jobs that my constituents need? >> the honorable lady is entirely right. the growth figures yesterday were twice as good as market expectation. of course, members opposite do not like good news, but they should celebrate it when it comes. this was strong growth, largely driven by the private sector, and it was accompanied by the standard & poor's agency saying that we should no longer be on the danger zone for our credit rating, so welcome news. members opposite who are waiting for a double dip have had a bit of double depression, but i am sure that we will get lots of questions about the economy this morning. >> edward miliband. >> mr. speaker, can i start by joining the prime minister in paying tribute to corporal david barnsdale from 33 engineer regiment, explosive

ordnance disposal? he died serving his country. we honor his memory and send the deepest of condolences to his family. there are reports this morning that the government is reconsidering aspects of their housing benefit reforms. are they? >> no, we are bringing forward our plans for housing benefit reform. let me tell him why we are doing that. housing benefit for working-age people over the last five years has gone up by 50%. this is a budget completely out of control. the proposals we are bringing forward are difficult, but they need to be done, not least because we want to make sure that we protect the schools budget. we want to make sure that we protect the nhs budget. that is why we are taking difficult decisions about welfare and i hope that he will be able to tell us this morning whether he is going to support them. >> ed milliband. >> i thank the prime minister for that answer. let me get complete clarity from him. the work and pensions secretary is reported as saying that the

government are "open to suggestions" on the issue of housing benefit. is the prime minister saying that all the aspects of housing benefit reform are fixed and are not going to change? >> we are going forward with all the proposals that we put in the spending review and in the budget. what i would -- i am sure that we would all love some suggestions from the right honorable gentleman. >> it is prime minister's questions -- the clue is in the title. he is supposed to answer the questions. now -- now i do have a specific question for him on one aspect of the housing benefit changes. the plan is to cut by 10% the housing benefit -- the help with rent that someone receives after they have been out of work for a year, even as they have been searching for work. does the prime minister think that that is fair? >> these are difficult changes, but i think that this is right.

everyone on jobseeker's allowance is expected to work, and everyone knows that there is a problem when people claim jobseeker's allowance and maximum housing benefit for long periods of time, which creates a serious disincentive to work. that is why we are making this change, and that is why it is right. the key change that we are looking at is this cap on 20,000 pound on maximum housing benefit claims. is he really saying -- i have answered the question, yes. i know that you do not like the answer we are sticking to our plans, but we are sticking to our plans. the point that everyone in this house has got to consider -- are we happy to go on paying housing benefit of 30,000 pounds, 40,000 pounds, 50,000 pounds? are constituents working hard to give benefits to other people to live in homes that they could not even dream of? i do not think that is fair.

>> the whole house has heard that the prime minister has dug himself in on the proposal to cut by 10% the help that people receive with rent after they have been out of work for a year. can i now ask the prime minister, because he will have obviously thought about this, what advice he would give to a family who are seeing 10% of their income from housing benefit being taken away? what advice would he give them, when they are seeing such a large dock in their income, on how they should make ends meet? >> we will having in the work program the best and biggest program to help those people back into work. it will not just be the state doing it -- we are going to get training companies and voluntary bodies to help those people into work. i know that he likes figures, so let me give him the figures for london. there are 37,390 people who have been on jobseeker's allowance for more than a year, and those people would be affected by this

change. i accept that. it is difficult. every month, there are 30,000 new vacancies in london -- that is400,000 vacancies a year. we want to get those people back into work. what does he want to do? >> ed milliband. >> he is about to make 500,000 people redundant as a result of the cuts announced by the chancellor of the exchequer. it is clear that his policy on housing benefit is a complete shambles. in london alone -- he talks about london, but in london alone councils are saying that 82,000 people will lose their homes -- they are already booking the bed-and-breakfast accommodation. how many people does he think will lose their homes as a result of that policy? >> if you are, as we are, prepared to pay 20,000 pounds in housing benefit, there is no reason why anyone should be left

without a home. the leader of the opposition has talked about economic policy and cuts, and we now know from the labour party's own memorandum what their cuts would be. this is what they said. this is not the institute for fiscal studies, the government or the conservative party -- this is a labour memorandum. the cuts -- [interruption.] >> order. i apologize for interrupting the prime minister. members must remain calm. if not serene, then they must at any rate be calm at all times. we must hear the prime minister. >> the people responsible for making the mess should be quiet when they are told how it will be cleared up. the cuts implied by its spending plans would have been 44 billion pounds in 2014-2015. those are their cuts, which we are having to implement. i was always told that if you

have got nothing to say, it is better not to say it. >> we can see the faces on the liberal democrat benches. the honorable member for southwark and bermondsey has described that policy as "harsh and draconian". no wonder he looks glum. then we have glummer, the deputy prime minister -- it is no wonder that he is back on the fags. [laughter] is not the truth that the prime minister just does not get it? he is out of touch. other people will pay the price for his cuts. is it not time that he thought again on housing benefit? >> we all had the chance to read about it in "the times" this morning, the advice to the leader of the opposition. "it's important to have a cheer line that goes down well in the chamber." [laughter] you have to have something that "can be clipped easily by the

broadcasters." "it is important to get to your feet looking as if you are seizing on something new." [laughter] the right honorable gentleman has a plan for prime minister's questions, but he has no plan for the economy, no plan for the debt, and no plan for the mess they made -- absolutely nothing worthwhile to say. that is it. >> christopher pincher. >> thank you, mr. speaker. will the prime minister join me in congratulating ocado on creating 2,000 much-needed new jobs on the edge of tamworth? while he is at it, will he congratulate the chief executive, tim steiner, on making it clear that he supports the difficult decisions that the government are making to fix our finances and promote growth, decisions that the party opposite flunked? >> my honorable friend makes a very good point. business leaders in britain who are going to create the jobs to

employ thousands of people in our country support what the government are doing. they want us to follow it through. i am happy to congratulate the person running ocado, not least because i am one of its customers. >> mr. david blunkett. >> the prime minister sets great store by devolving decision making to ordinary people, which already exists, of course, with the welsh assembly -- population 3 million and devolved budget of 14.5 billion pounds -- and the scottish parliament, even after the cuts, population of 5 million and a budget, through the block grant, of 27.3 billion pounds. using the formula applied to wales, the 5.2 million people of yorkshire would be entitled to a devolved budget of 24 billion pounds. can he think of one single reason why the people of yorkshire should not determine their own priorities and, mischievously, one reason why the people of yorkshire should

not have their own white rose parliament? >> i did not know that the right honorable gentleman, for whom i have considerable respect, was making these arguments all through the last 13 years. this is a revelation. we are saying to councils in yorkshire and up and down the country, "we're getting rid of the ring-fences and giving you the power to spend your money in the way that you choose." we have got rid of the bossy, centralizing, interfering approach that i am afraid he was rather part of. >> tessa munt. >> thank you, mr. speaker. is the prime minister aware that more than 420 people died in somerset last winter from causes related to cold and poor living conditions? would he join me in supporting a local charity, the somerset community foundation, which has a surviving winter appeal whereby all those who can forgo all or part of their winter fuel payment can donate the money for redistribution to those for whom it is not nearly enough? >> i will certainly join the honorable lady in

congratulating the charity on the work it does. it sounds absolutely essential. i know that she will welcome, as i did, the decision by the chancellor in the spending statement that cold weather payments would be put on this higher level permanently, not just before an election. >> eric illsley. >> yorkshire forward, the yorkshire regional development agency, owns assets in my constituency in barnsley which are crucial for a major redevelopment program in the town center. will the prime minister look urgently at ensuring that the ownership of those assets is transferred from yorkshire forward to the local authority so that the program can go ahead? could that transfer be facilitated before the abolition in 2012? >> the honorable member makes a good point. the transition from regional development agencies to the new local enterprise partnerships has to be handled carefully, to make sure, as he says, that such assets are put to good use. so far the proposals for local

enterprise partnerships that are coming in are extremely encouraging and will lead to more of what the right honorable member for sheffield, brightside said, which is more local control rather than in distant regions that people do not identify with. >> andrew turner. >> it is claimed that the eu will need a new treaty to legitimize money going to greece. what is the prime minister's response? >> this is an argument being put forward, particularly by the germans, that a new treaty clause is needed to put the eurozone on a stronger footing. clearly, from our point of view, we are not in the euro and we are not planning to join the euro, and so any treaty change would not apply to us -- just as, in terms of the new rules on the stability and funding mechanism, we have always had a carve-out from them. but we will be discussing that at the european council this week. the greatest priority for britain should be to fight very hard to get the eu budget under

control. i think it is completely unacceptable, at a time when we are making tough budget decisions here, that we are seeing spending rise consistently in the european union. i think that is wrong and i am going to be doing everything i can to try to sort out the budget for next year, and also to look at the future financing of the european union, where we want to see strict controls. that should be our priority. >> kate hoey. >> the prime minister must realize that the british public are facing cuts in services and their livelihoods. they do not want to see a single penny more given to the eu. in fact, they would like to see some of the money brought back that was given away, unfortunately, by our prime minister. will this prime minister please ensure that when he goes into battle for our money, he does not -- as happens to many leaders when they are involved in that bloated bureaucrac -- roll over? will he promise that if the eu demands that money, we will just say, "sorry, we're not paying"?

>> as ever, the honorable lady talks a good deal of sense. it is worth recalling that since margaret thatcher won that rebate at fontainebleau it has saved britain 88 billion pounds. that is what tough negotiation achieved. the european parliament has insisted on a higher budget than the one set by the council, so the first thing is to say that is not acceptable, and build a majority on the council to get the budget down again. it pains me to say this to the honorable lady, we would be assisted if labour meps did not keep voting for higher budgets, which is exactly what they did this week. >> andrew bingham. >> last year, the prime minister saw how high peak borough council, through a pioneering alliance with staffordshire moorlands, had delivered efficiency savings of almost 2.4 million pounds over the past two years. will he assure the house that he will strive to support councils such as high peak, which have sought to deliver better value for money and ensure that local people benefit

as a result? >> the honorable gentleman makes an extremely good point. my council does exactly the same thing -- it shares a chief executive, and soon more of the management team, with a neighboring council. all councils can look at that. frankly, it is not just councils. police forces and other organizations can look at shared services to drive down costs, so that we make sure we focus on the front line. those are some of the reforms we need, to make sure that at a time of tight budgets we keep the good services we want. >> angus robertson. >> in a few weeks' time, the prime minister will decide whether he will close raf lossiemouth, in addition to closing raf kinloss, which would lead to the biggest loss of jobs in scotland since the tories closed manufacturing industry in the 1980's. as a consequence, this would mean that scotland would have fewer service personnel, fewer military bases, aircraft, vessels, and army battalions and less defense spending than all our independent scandinavian neighbors of comparable size.

will the prime minister explain why he is concentrating defense spending in the south and cutting defense spending disproportionately in scotland? >> we are going ahead with the building of the aircraft carriers, which are being built in scotland. i have to say to the honorable gentleman that if we had an independent scotland, you would not be flying planes -- you would be flying by the seat of your pants. >> dr julian huppert. >> can the prime minister reassure the house that the government have no plans to revive labour's intercept modernization program, whether in name or in function, and that he remains fully committed to the pledge in the coalition agreement to reverse the substantial erosion of civil liberties and to roll back state intrusion? >> i would argue that we have made good progress on rolling back state intrusion in terms of getting rid of id cards and in terms of the right to enter a person's home. we have rolled those back, too. we are not considering a central government database to store all communications information,

and we shall be working with the information commissioner's office on anything we do in that area. >> paul goggins. >> ending child trust funds will close off a route for children in care to build up a modest nest egg, with which they could start their future life as adults. will the prime minister ask his treasury colleagues to work with me and others to devise an affordable alternative that will give looked after-children the prospect of an asset they can rely on? >> i am very happy to ask my colleagues to work with him because we all want to see saving encouraged, but i am afraid that when it came to the child trust fund, we had to take a difficult decision, which was that that was 500 million pounds we needed to save. my honorable friend the chancellor and i sat on the committee considering the bill that introduced child trust funds, but we have to take some difficult decisions on spending. this was one of them.

can we look at alternative ways of encouraging saving? yes, we can. we are happy to work with him. >> david rutley. >> i know the prime minister is aware that last week's decision to cancel the nimrod program will lead to the early closure of the bae systems woodford site near macclesfield. does my right honorable friend agree that it is now an important priority for the ministry of defense to work closely with bae to ensure that the dedicated and highly skilled staff get the best possible support for both retraining and redeployment? >> my honorable friend is entirely right. the m.o.d. should work closely with bae and with his constituents, who have worked extremely hard over many years to produce that equipment, to make sure there is a strong future. we have had to make difficult decisions in the defense review, and we have made the difficult decision about nimrod, but in terms of bae as a whole, we will be spending 17 billion pounds with that company between now and 2015 on a range of projects, including the a400m. but he is right -- we should make sure that we help those people to find new jobs.

>> luciana berger. >> video games development is a highly skilled, low-carbon creative industry which provides more than 600 jobs in my constituency and is important for the north-west as a whole. before the election, all three main parties pledged to introduce a video games tax relief so that we can compete internationally on a level playing field. why have the government reneged on that promise? >> we had to make difficult decisions about tax relief. the honorable members opposite groan. can we think of one thing they will support to get the deficit down? i cannot think of a single thing. we have to take difficult decisions, and i am afraid that that tax relief, which was not particularly successful or well targeted, has to go. those are the difficult decisions that we have to take. >> rehman chishti. >> can the prime minister confirm that the government has no plans at all to build an airport in the thames estuary, or in medway or kent? >> the department for transport

has no plans for a new airport in the thames estuary, nor in any other part of medway or kent and, as he knows, we have scrapped the plan to build a third runway at heathrow. >> siobhain mcdonagh. >> as a former pr man, does the prime minister agree with me that no matter how much bell pottinger tries to spin the sri lankan government, the demands for an international independent war crimes tribunal intensify as more evidence of alleged assassination and civil rights abuses comes out? >> the honorable lady makes a fair point. we need to see an independent investigation of what happened. everyone has read the papers and seen the tv footage, but we need an independent investigation to work out whether what she suggests is right. >> mark pawsey. >> the development of land without planning permission for use as gypsy and traveller sites is of concern to many

communities, including the villages of barnacle and bulkington in my constituency, where local residents have had to put up with illegal developments on their doorstep, but they are pleased with the proposals of the coalition government to give additional powers to local authorities to deal with the matter. will the prime minister acknowledge the wish of my constituents to see those powers made available at the earliest opportunity? >> as my honorable friend probably knows, we will bring forward the localism bill. it is important, as i have said before, that everyone obeys the law of the land, including about planning. that should apply to gypsies and travellers as well. in the localism bill we will make sure that it is worthwhile for local authorities to go ahead with development. they should see a benefit when houses are built, whereas at present there is so little benefit for local areas in getting businesses in and getting homes built. there should be a benefit where they make available sites for gypsies and travellers, but that should not be done on the basis of lawbreaking, which it all too

often is at present. >> emma reynolds. >> in july the education secretary promised that wolverhampton's building schools for the future program would be unaffected by cuts. can the prime minister confirm that the much needed refurbishment of secondary schools across the city will go ahead as planned, and not suffer devastating cuts of 40%? >> i am afraid that what happened was that the last government set out 50% cuts -- [unintelligible] i know they do not like hearing it. they set out 50% cuts in capital spending, but did not tell us where one penny piece was going to come from. that is what happened. we have had to scrap the unaffordable and badly put forward building schools for the future program, but let me toell here -- in the spending plans for the next four years are 15 billion pounds additional capital for school building, so there are plenty of opportunities for additional school building, and not just secondary schools, but primary schools as well. that is what we will be making available. >> neil carmichael.

>> in my constituency, stroud college, a further education college, has launched an engineering center to encourage training and apprenticeships. does the prime minister agree that in the light of the encouraging economic figures, such programs should be supported by business? >> my honorable friend is absolutely right. we are making sure that money goes into fe colleges. that is essential for the skills agenda of the future, and we want to free up those colleges to have more agreements with business. in the past they were over- regulated about the courses they could run and the qualifications they could offer. we want to see much greater collaboration between fe colleges so that we get the skills that we actually need. >> tom harris. >> until 18 months before the general election, the prime minister supported labour's spending plans. at what point did he decide to rewrite history?

>> we realized that the spending plans were unaffordable, and we came off them. we went into the last election promising to make spending reductions. it needed to be done, and i remember sitting where the right honorable gentleman is, week after week, asking the former prime minister, "aren't you really saying there are going to be cuts?", and he said, "no, no cuts. there won't be any cuts." do you remember? it happened week after week. now we have the evidence from labour's own memo. 44 billion pounds in cuts you were planning, and not a word about it to anyone. that is thoroughly dishonest. >> sajid javid. >> yesterday, the international credit rating agency standard & poor's said something that would make opposition members quite upset. it upgraded our nation's credit outlook from negative to stable, but will the prime minister also heed its warning that that credit rating upgrade would be at risk if, in its own words, "against our expectations the coalition's commitment to fiscal consolidation faltered"? >> that is an absolutely vital

point. it was this government's changes that took the british economy out of the danger zone, and since the election we have seen interest rates coming down in britain, whereas in some other countries they have been going up. why? because they have not taken the necessary action to get their budget and their deficit under control. what we are now seeing is businesses throughout the world recognizing that this is a great country to invest in, because we are sorting out the mess that we inherited. >> robert flello. >> the prime minister will be aware that by july 7 the education secretary had already understood the financial situation and the "state of the books", as the prime minister is so keen to keep stating. so why on july 7, in this house, did the education secretary say -- "one announcement that i was able to make on monday was that stoke- on-trent, as a local authority that has reached financial close, will see all the schools under building schools for the future rebuilt"? is there some confusion between

the prime minister and the education secretary? >> we were left a complete mess in terms of building schools for the future. here was a program that took up three years and hundreds of millions of pounds before a single brick was laid. the cost of building those schools was twice what it should have been, so we have scrapped that program and made available 15 billion pounds for the next four years. that means that school building will be higher under this government than it was under the labour government starting in 1997. yes, it will be. go and check the figures. do your maths. you'll find out that's the case. >> alun cairns. >> figures published this week show that 80% of economic growth is coming from the private sector. does the prime minister accept that it is wrong to say that public spending is propping up economic development?

does he further recognize that more work needs to be done in supporting the private sector across all parts of the united kingdom? >> this is the news that the opposition do not want to hear. 80% of that growth was coming from the private sector, and that is an encouraging sign that we should be celebrating rather than look miserable about. >> sharon hodgson. >> the prime minister talks of difficult decisions, and last week the chancellor said that government is about choices. we on this side would agree, but we would have made different choices. for instance, yesterday -- >> order. >> for instance, we would have chosen to tax the bankers more heavily in order to have avoided the shameful attack yesterday on women and children in the form of the abolition of the child trust fund and the health in pregnancy grant. does he agree with his chancellor's choices to continually penalize women and children in this way?

please, mr. speaker -- >> order. >> please, mr. speaker, will you ask him not continually to blame us on this side? he is in government now. >> order. >> i am afraid to say that the choice you have made is not to make any choices -- absolutely none at all. she mentions the importance of taxing the banks, but the point i would make is that we introduced a bank levy -- within six months of taking office, that has been sorted out. the opposition had 13 years. the leader of the opposition either sat in the treasury, as one of the chief economic advisers, or sat in the government, and they did absolutely nothing to introduce that bank levy. was he arguing for it across the cabinet table? we have no idea. it did not happen. we have done it. we are asking the banks to pay a fair amount. what we should be focusing on is getting the revenue out of banks so that they contribute to rebuilding our country after, frankly, the mess it was left

in. >> bob russell. >> hear, hear! [unintelligible] >> order. i want to hear mr. russell too. >> earlier the prime minister and the leader of the opposition had fun and games over housing benefit cuts. this is not a laughing matter for the thousands of children who could well become homeless. i am confident that this was an unintended consequence because the cost of putting children in bed-and-breakfast accommodation is greater than housing benefit. will the prime minister look at this again, please? >> i completely agree with the honorable gentleman. this is an incredibly serious issue. we have a housing benefit bill that is out of control -- 50% up over the past five years for working-age adults. the key change that we are suggesting is a cap of 20,000

pounds -- let me repeat that -- 20,000 pounds that a family can get for their rent. the fact is that there will be many people working in colchester, doncaster, or west oxfordshire who are paying their taxes and who could not dream of living in a house that cost 20,000 pounds to rent each year. it is an issue of fairness that we tackle this budget, get it under control, and do not ask hard-working people to support benefit levels to get things they simply could not have themselves. >> order. ♪ >> each week the house of commons is in session, we air prime minister questions live on c-span2. this year -- this week they air at 8:00 due to the daylight savings time change. at c-span.org, you can find the past archive of prime minister's questions.

contentn's local vehicles are on the road in the final days leading up to tuesday's election. we travelled at canton, ohio for a rally featuring john boehner. >> i am here to take our country back, and john maynard is the guy to do it in the house. -- john boehner is the guy to do it in the house. >> he will be a good leader. he will take a stand for what is right.

>> we are here to follow who is going to be the next speaker of the house. impression ofour who he is. what is he standing for? >> he has strong core values and the as the experience. >> he is outspoken. he is strong for constitutional policy. the health care bill was unconstitutional. you cannot demand that people have health care. he will definitely stand for better fiscal control of what we have right now and try to get this massive debt off our back.

>> do we seem extreme to you? we are very supportive of where the tea party is, and yet we're positioned as extremists. you can see a lot of people around the country that feel like that. i think that the visit in this is getting away from corps individual bedrock american principles. it's a different country today than it was. [applause] >> hey, hey. how is everybody? [applause]

♪ >> new york to l.a. there is pride in every american heart it's time to stand and say >> proud to be an american >> i want to introduce to you the next speaker of the united states house, john maynard -- boehner. [applause] >> i want to say thanks to all of you for being on our team. thank you for helping with this election.

i am going to tell you what, there is nobody that has run a better campaign for the last year-and-a-half and jim renacci. i am proud of him and his team and of all of you for the job you're doing on his behalf. if we want to send nancy pelosi packing, electing her will send the democrats back where they belong. back in march, we were all down at the white house for the health care summit. during that discussion, the president said that we might have ideological differences or philosophical differences, that is what elections are for. was he right? [laughter]

if you are tired of spending and a government takeover of virtually everything in america, and if you are tired of obamacare, that is what elections are for. [applause] the other day the president was giving an interview that he was talking about people who disagree with him. he referred to people that disagree with him as enemies. that is the word that he used. i have watched president reagan, president bush, president clinton, president george w. bush. the reserve that word for global terrorists and dictators around the world that hated freedom in america. for the president to use that word come enemies, for those who are against bigger government

and that we ought to have a less costly, more accountable government -- i have got a word for those people. it is not in me. for those whose fight for strong government, the fight for the constitution, fight for our freedom, and the fight for a more accountable government, that word is patriot. [applause] i want to say to all of the patriots, if you have differences with what is going on in washington, -- remember what president obama wants you to do -- that is what elections are for. what is happening here is happening all across our

country. i have seen it with my own eyes, through my district, all around the state and all around the country. the american people want something done about what is happening in washington. if we're lucky enough to be in the majority, and i am lucky enough to be speaker of the house -- [applause] it is going to be a little different, and not just different from what the democrats are doing. a difference that even republicans were doing the last time we were in power. [applause] it is time to get serious about spending. it is time to get serious about the big problems that confront our country. it is also time to fix the congress of the united states. no more 23-hunt -- 2300-page bills. no more amendments out of committee. it is time to fix congress. if we do not, congress cannot

fix the big problems of our country. you know it is not going to happen. i have got 11 brothers and sisters. i grew up doing every job there ever was. i intend to tell you what. i am here because i grew up in america, a country where you could be anything you wanted to be and do anything you wanted to do. i left my business to go to washington and did this. i went there because i believe in our country, because we create great opportunities. if we do not get ahold of this government, those opportunities will not be there for our kids and our grandkids. this is a fight, this is a fight all around the country.

got less all of you and god bless the united states of america. [applause] >> hi, guys. i've talked to him three times already. all right, all right. that would be good. all the on, hold on. hold on. how're you doing? good. thank you, thank you. how're you doing?

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congressman boehner. the constitution is not a living document. it is set in stone from the beginning to the end. >> based on what i have heard and read, he would be a strong leader. he will carry that forward. >> looking forward to change in the right direction. change to conservatism, change away from the socialism, and i want our constitution to be safeguarded and the role -- ala of the land to be safeguarded and for our freedom to be safeguarded. >> i think that he will be an awesome leader. he is not for big government, lower taxes -- he is not one to

tax everybody to death. that is the problem, no one has any money because they are being taxed. >> based on what he said, i think he is a dead person. he is a politician so you have to wonder if any will keep their promises. -- he is a good person. he is a politician, as you have to wonder if any of them will keep their promises. >> firing up the troops, pretty much. there is a lot of anger, a lot of people cannot explain the same rigid the details of the politics. there was a lot of emotion. it was upset at the president and people in congress today. >> c-span's local content vehicles are on the road covering campaign 2010 and

events leading up to the midterm elections. c-span's local content vehicles are run the road in the final days leading up to tuesday's midterm elections. on saturday, we travel to west virginia for that tea party express events. >> today is a rally. we've had a cross-country tour of the tea party express. we have gone a lot of different places today. tonight we will be in pennsylvania, new hampshire, finishing up in key states where we want to rally people to know that it is tuesday, very close, to make a difference. it is coming up cross country. there are races where things are close and people have a lot of it at stake. there will be speakers and singers. a pep rally for people who want

to get out and get the voters to the polls, making sure that people will do that and get in there on time, talking to their friends and neighbors to participate. it will be the most important election for a very long time. the issue is the economy in the jobs. it is an indictment against the obama administration who say a solution of a mountain of new debt and spending. i think everyone understands that. we do not want more of that. we want change. their people on the executive board the race against harry reid in nevada, and others in this local area. someone running for senate will be here against jim manchin, and

john raese and sarah palin. >> we want to make sure that we the people demand their constitutional republic, a free- market economy, and liberty for all of us. [applause] >> i am here because i am one of the tea party organizers for we the people, a local tea party group. we invited to tea party express this year. we're down here to support them and the effort to get control of this government, because it is completely out of control. what we gather from the people here -- everyone is pretty upset that our government is spending money into our future and taking our kids' future away from them. someone has to pay that debt. also the health care bill that

was passed is a disaster for some many people. we want it repealed most of the people we're talking to one it repeated. we don't -- we do not wanted partially repealed. the entire thing has to go. >> the economy is a big issue. government spending is out of control. i believe we need to take people off of the government programs and facilitate better economic stimulus, better growth, get people to work, not on programs. >> what did you come out? >> we wanted to help with the mckinley for congress campaign. people are going toward the democratic party and we want to show that we look at the issues. we are trying to show young people out for the conservatives. >> why did you decide to get involved or to margin my kids and my grandkids.

i like america. >> i think this tea party is the best thing to happen to this country. if you are democrat or republican, it does not make any difference because of the tea party will hold these people responsible. that is what we need, responsibility in the country. that is all i have the said. i hope we get the right people in there and we will hold you responsible. we love our country and that is why we are gathered here fighting this fight. we have a great program for you. we have great music. most of all, we will stand together with a love for our country. [applause] >> here is the message today in a nutshell -- i do not want you to wake up the day after the election, look in the mirror, and say i wish i would have done more. do not have that feeling next

wednesday. i wish i would have done more. now is the time to do it. if you have not taught to every one of your family members, to go down to vote and do it right, everyone working in the barbershop and where ever else you come across people, make sure that they get out and vote, and that they return to our country to sanity. that is what this is all about. that is why we're traveling around in the bus. >> promoting the free market our only foundation should be our constitution >> the tea party express is so proud to be here today. i had people reach out to me and beg us to come here. to support john raese for u.s. senate. [applause] we did our tour and we are here today to endorse and support

john raese for u.s. senate in west virginia. >> we have been to all 55 counties of west virginia. we've been talking about how we despise cap and trade. [applause] how we're going to repeal obamacare real quick. how the only stimulus that i know is hard work. and how this country was made -- on free enterprise, hard work, and the value of the american dollar. we will bring all three to the forefront very quickly. we had a very special guest today with us. do you know who it is? >> yes! >> i gave it away, did night? -- didn't they?

this is a great honor. i have with us today, the 2008 vice-presidential candidate, that governor of alaska, the best governor that alaska ever had. we want to see her real senate in 2012. sarah palin. [applause] >> hello, west virginia. it is so good to be here. it feels good. the election, november 2nd, things are finally going to be turned around in this country. i attribute this change, this type that is changing, to tea party americans. it is you who have made that message loud and clear. both parties having to rethink

the way that they had been doing business, and knowing that they will be held accountable now because of a tea party americans saying, no more status quo. no more business as usual. >> my fellow patriots. i am not an african-american. i am lloyd marcus, american! i've got a message for mr. obama. your policies have failed. ♪ the only thing it will do is kill the american dream

having a tea party across america if you love america, stand up for freedom and liberty ♪ >> it has been a great day after. a lot of people have said, plus the country. but sing it. >> god bless the usa! [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> c-span's local content

vehicles are on the road covering campaign 2010 defense in the final days leading up to tuesday's midterm elections. our political coverage continues with an update on the alaska senate race. abc news reports that gop leaders are switching support from republican candidate joe miller to incumbent and right in candidly some rakowski. his approval ratings have been falling since he admitted lying about using computers for political purposes. 100 people registered as right in candidates hours before the deadline in an effort to flood the list of rights ends. republican leaders worry that democrat scott mcadams could win if too many bright in ballots for lisa rakowski are tossed out. our political coverage continues with an update on colorado's midterm elections with the "

denver post" political editor. on the call from denver by a political reporter. a local race is the subject of a front-page story of "the denver post." the republican candidate and the democratic candidate who replaced ken salazar as the interior secretary. let me ask you about the influx of outside money. colorado has seen a huge amount, almost $30 million in this midterm election. guest: it has been something to behold. anybody in color of watches television has had a front-row seat. it started back in our primary campaign. once the general election season kicked in, supporters for both candidates began to pour lots of money into both races. host: the voting takes place on tuesday, there is early voting

in colorado. the governor's race is not -- has not generate as much inrest as expected, why? guest: it generated quite a bit of interest early on when the governor decided not to seek reelection and the denr mayor gavin and a tea party candidate upset the former congressman scott mcinnis at the republican assembly. that was over the summer but there were a number of missteps which prompted tom tancredo to get into the race as an american constitution party candidate. initially, people looked at the race and thought it was not going to be competitive becse it was a three-horse contests. tom tancredo has cut the intodan mayes' support. he has polled 10% or less and tom tancredo has made it tom tancredo has made it