mrs. clinton: i want to thank thom tillis you -- i want to thank tom for coming out here.le of opening another of his great restaurants. smalls he has these two kids and he had to come and be part of lifting up this election and creating the kind of commitment that will bring a record-breaking number of americans to vote. we are on the path to see more americans vote than we have ever seen in our history. [applause] and i -- i am -- obviously, i hope you will vote for me. but i also hope -- i hope you will send katie mcginty to the united states senate. electedgot some great officials here, and i want to recognize congressman mike doyle . county executive rich fitzgerald. bill.ittsburgh, mayor from brad x, pennsylvania, mayor john federman. but mostly, i am here to say thanks. thanks for taking time out to think about what the stakes are. i love you all too. crowd: [cheering] [chanting "hillary"] , for those --so for those who are still making up your mind, or thinking maybe -- maybe it is not worth voting at all, let me say today the choice in this election could not be c

mr. tillis: thank you, madam president. madam president, i come to the chamber to talk about a devastating event we've experienced in north carolina. last month hurricane matthew skirted along the atlantic coast, and then in plowed right through north carolina with devastating results. matthew was the worst storm we've experienced in almost 20 years and it's already responsible for taking some 28 lives. millions of people in north carolina and across the country watched this storm make landfall. but after a few day, many of them turned their attention back to their daily lives. i don't fault them for doing this because unless you're there and you see it firsthand, it's really easy to think it was just a lot of rain and a storm that came and went, but it's far worse than that. thousands of adults and children will take years to recover from the devastation that they've experienced over the last month. first current i had to survey the damage was just two days after the hurricane made landfall. i traveled across the state in