is turning to a race to the bottom. >> bruce braley supports obamacare and caught putting down chuck grassley to an out of state crowd. >> a farmer from iowa who never went to law school. >> we've all heard the one about pigs squealing, but when jo joni ernst had the chance to do something in iowa, we didn't hear a peep. in the state senate, she never sponsored a bill to cut pork. >> this is just a taste of what i think is coming in this one. the ugliness of the race is already being reflected in our polling. 36% of voters view braley favorably but 32% unfavorable rating. one thing to keep in mind in iowa, democrats have an organizational advantage, a better early voting program, a better ground game. it all started frankly back in 1998 when tom vilsack won the governor's mansion. democrats pulled ahead then and haven't really looked back. can republicans make up that ground there? >>> turning to new hampshire, another state with -- that is a late-developing campaign. the democratic senator there, jeanne shaheen, has a comfortable lead against former massachusetts senator scott brown. she's a

inevitable so says best-selling author ed klein here with his new book, lou: republican senator chuck grassleys he is known for two months the former irs official lois lerner threatened to audit him back in 2012. that is about the time the irs was also targeting conservative groups and conservative donors. we obtained e-mails show the big issue with the offer to pay to attend the event. the senate rejected the invitation the irs rejected this just in to audit him. but it does perhaps he was some sense of the state of mind, her state of mind at least. joining us to psychoanalyze what is administration when it comes to ignoring law selectively. psychiatrist a member of the a team. telling the president again the 2012 decision in and missed putting his appointee that he is overreaching, that he is abusing power and violating the constitution. >> you can tell an alcoholic 12 times he is an alcoholic until he is ready to detox there is nothing there. he is impervious to feedback because he doesn't have the united states constitutional flawed. i believe he would say the high court in applying the pr

prosperity bought nearly $1 million of ad time to highlight a comment braley made about senator chuck grassley that offended some farmers. >> if you you're looking out for iowa or washington specialists. >> you might have a farmer from iowa who never went to law school serving as the next chair of the senate judiciary committee. >> in arizona a republican congressional candidate is now eating crow after a protest he led yesterday against migrant children. he faces a republican primary next month was speaking against migrants being moved into his district when he got word that a bus was heading down the road. he got a first-hand look and then tweeted at the scene, pus coming in. this is not compassion. this is abrogation of law. he included a photo of the yellow school bus. >> i was able to actually see some of the children in the buses in the fear in their faces. this is not compassion. >> yes, the problem is those weren't migrant children on the school bus. they were ymca campers from the local school district. after being corrected he said, those kids were sad, too. later he apologized. >>>

she wasn't sitting at her computer -- minus chuck grassley. >> doesn't that bring it full circle as toy everything is so suspicious and why we don't have all the answers yet? i hope at some point we do get them, but it must be a fox news alert because you two agreed and normally you don't. great to see you. >>> the dictionary lists several meanings for transparency, but the obama administration came up with its own definition. they're advising local police to keep us all in the dark about secret surveillance technology to track and even tap into their cell phones all without a warrant. shannon live for us in washington. shannon, how does this work? >> it's called a cell site stimulater or sting ray and sends signals to cell phones tricking them into thinking they're communicating with a cell phone tower. from there it can send information about the source about exactly where the phone is located and other personal information. ginger mccaul and another privacy expert i spoke to had this to say. >> the fbi has been instructing local law enforcement not to disclose some of their methods

director; senator pat toomey, senator chuck grassley, senator ron johnson, a businessman and accountant. they know about these numbers. they've been working on them. they've been gorkting. they've been producing plans. he has no knowledge of that, cannot discuss it with them intelligently. he has shown no interest in it. i suspect he was stunned when he was offered this job. he sevenly ha certainly has notd himself for it. i'm saying, this is not the kind of person we need today. there's nothing in his background to suggest that he's up to the task that this urgent hour requires. more troublingly, mr. donovan himself has a poor record of financial management. at h.u.d. -- he was the secretary of housing and urban development. but at h.u.d. they received repeated and stark criticism from his own agency's inspector general. they appoint within these cabinet positions an inspector general who analyzes and acts independently to advise the secretary and the congress if something is wrong. well, i would suggest that what i'm going to say evidences that mr. donovan's skill is in spending money

draft proposal that would roll it back and is highlighted in a recent opt ed by senators chuck grassley and klobuchar, to protect its market share and profit at the expense of american consumers. as they wrote, quote, the federal law has helped displace oil imports, increased domestic energy security, create jobs in rural america, curb pollution with cleaner burning fuel, and lower price it's pump for consumers, end quote. in iowa bio fuels created 73,400 jobs, pumping $5 billion of wages annually into our economy. and $19.3 billion of economic activity annually. in the united states, it's $42.6 852,000 jobs, billion in wages, and $185 billion in economic activity. why would we push back and go backwards instead of moving forward into the future? with that i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? >> unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> as the saying goes, you can fool all of the pe

. >> iowa we talk about the polarization, tom harken and chuck grassley, how about that. >> they camethe house. both were in watergate babies, i didn't realize this until harken reminded me of this, doing my exit interview series for august. he said hey, grassley is a watergate baby, too. but you know, harken's theory on the whole reason why, he says iowans are fiscally conservative and socially progressive. they've decided to always have one senator, one of each. >> that's an interesting way to look at it i want to get to the last category here. this is democrats these are sort of the senate safers for democrats, even if things go wrong in a lot of other races, a last category of two seats now with republican-held seats, kentucky and georgia where democrats actually have a chance. kentucky, we all know mitch mcconnell, you know the endangered 30-year republican incumbent. republican leader. georgia, republicans had their run-off this week, david purdue is going to be their candidate. sam nunn's daughter, michelle running against him. when you look at those two states do you see one a

i want to thank pat leahy, the senator from vermont, the chairman of that committee, and chuck grassley from iowa, the ranking member of that committee, for doing a judicious hearing, for giving all sides a chance to be heard and commending unanimously on a voice vote julie carnes to the united states senate. i'm not going to talk for a long time but i want to make a couple of very special points. julie carnes is a very special lady. for 22 years, she has been a judge in the northern district of georgia. the last five years she has been the senior judge. before that she was on advisory panels for judiciaryial sentencing and many other technical and judicial issues. her nomination is the nomination of someone with immense capacity, outstanding integrity and outstanding ability, just the type of person you and i would want to go to the bench. she is as we call them in georgia a double dog. she graduated from the university of georgia in her undergraduate degree and got her juris doctorate degree from the university of georgia law school whose emblem is a bulldog. she is an outstanding ind