everett dirksen was extremely important at his time.t seemed fitting to name the building after him. liked to say he was a man of principle. one of his greatest principles was to maintain flexibility at all times. that made him a very agile senator and a man who understood that you have to compromise to build consensus. state senate, compromise is essential for passing any kind of legislation. rarely does the majority party have sufficient votes to pass something entirely by itself. always, majority leaders have to persuade members of the minority to come on board. that is one of the reasons why the u.s. senate wanted to commemorate senator dirksen by naming the second building after him. watch this or other american artifacts programs at any time by visiting our website, www.c-span.org/history. ♪ our goal here with aarp is to get where the candidates are standing on social security and how they plan on saving it. if they are, what are they going to do to save it? >> i am participating in the selection because it is important to get out

traffic is being diverted off on to dirksen. if you want to avoid all together, i made you this map. take 472 exit and then back to 17-92. use caution driving through the area. if you need to use i-4, definitely give yourself extra time. we have the crash at hiawassee and silver star. still partially blocked but not causing significant delays. and the crash at sand lake and0 sun port. that's not causing any delays either. the big one is i-4 in volusia county. taking at drive times. jun young to downtown, 6 minutes. and 434 to faimpleghts takes you about 6 minutes. 434 to fairbanks. that's it for your live drive traffic. >> john: we have breaking news orange blossom trail is finally back open after a deadly hit-and-run. >> amy: they did eventually catch the driver who was responsible. fox 35's andrea jackson has more at the scene. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the all lanes have been reopened. we just learned the identity of the man who caused the crash. >> troopers are at the hospital evaluating him. we're trying to s

there's another major effort of translation in the dirksen senate office building 0th century. of course in the late nineteenth century and dirksen senate office building 0th century lot of educated americans could read german so people were reading him in the original but it did require the translation for him to take off. why am i calling him henry? h.l. mencken has a lot to do with each's superstar adam. not to say there were not other folks reading and popularizing him in the united states but h.l. mencken is the one who writes the first full-length monograph on nietzsche in 1908. that is where we get a kind of synopsis about the jack's wife, his travails, struggles with christianity, struggles with health, we get a little bit about nietzsche and sexuality. would not be h.l. mencken if there wasn't something racy thrown in and then we get nietzsche's ideas and this book sold widely and sold well and it held to do two things. it helped establish nietzsche's reputation in america but it did something else, it helped h. l. mencken. >> host: if someone says i love frederick nee

troopers want to remind you they spotted debris i 4 westbound from saxon boulevard to dirksen drive, 4 mile stretch. if you see that on the road, keep that in mind. >>> central florida attraction opening the gates for free today. free admission will say the holy land millions. >> i do not think i should have to pay. i think they are thieves. >> why more than 100 people celebration are spending their days in the dark with their homes covered by blue tarps. >>> police are's -- are looking for suspects near bcu campus for two shootings. we are asking police if any students in bethune-cookman university waking up to warning. >> the suspect in two shooting near the campus is still wanted. eyewitness news this morning kimberly eiten live in daytona beach for us. officers searched overnight for the common. >> reporter: -- for the gunmen. >> reporter: mucus he left over crime scene tape as the search continues for the person who opened fire here on sheridan road getting two people setting parts of bcu in landau. students alerted to the inside as police launched a manhunt 1 mile away. it star

he understands dirksen wants to be remembered too for having done something important so he said if you come with me on this bill and bring some republicans to break the democratic filibuster, 200 years from now school children will only two names, abraham lincoln and everett dirksen. i think the key thing is what vicki was saying, you have to understand they are there and they're used to be a greater sense in congress and the senate when they were casting joint legislation that they were doing something they could be proud to tell their children and grandchildren. i was and that congress. sometimes republicans will be proud of defeating something they believe is wrong too but when you can do something that improves the lives of children, how incredible that feels when you look out and you know you made a difference, i fear that that is not what is happening now. requires people across the aisle being seen as fellow colleagues rather than partisan enemies. everything about our media today encourages them to become enemies. the cable networks that have only one side on versus the oth

[laughter] so senator kennedy and hatch and others understand that dirksen wants to be a member to. so he said if you come with me on this bill and bring republicans schoolchildren will though avery of lincoln anderson. [laughter] -- abraham lincoln and dirksen. >> so they used to be that greater sense when they were passing joint legislation but they to be proud to tell their children and grand children and. i was in that congress. the when you came into something how incredible that feels when you know, it has made a difference. i fear that is not happening now to move across the aisle rather than as partisan enemies. that encourages them to become an enemy is. that they like most, when you need to raise the money for the election. the compromises are pushed out of that process so it is less likely to have that extraordinary moment. >> which leads me to the next question. >> natalie with conagra amount personally in getting to know them personally as an example is on disability where congressman sessions even to this day has a child with down syndrome. they have walked together wi

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republican senator dirksen referring to the lame-duck status of president lyndon johnson, democrat. the senate gave the president's nominee a prompt hearing in the judiciary committee. as it turned out, the hearing ended up uncovering a range of ethics concerns about justice for it is a. and the republicans filibustered his nomination. fortas subsequently withdrew. on september 3, same year, election year, just a month before the election, "the new york times" reported that senator dirksen said there was still time for the president to submit a new name and rush it through the senate before the congress adjourned. republican leader said even with a month left, try to fill the vacancy. this was a month before the presidential election. where are the leaders like everett dirksen in today's republican party, senators willing to roll up their sleeves and get to the work of considering nominees on their merits so the supreme court can do its work? we have a constitutional responsibility, as does the president. make no mistake, the supreme court needs a full complement of justices on the

not far from dirksen. that's where this issue is going on. we are down to one travel lane squeezing by. we have had two open. the guard rail has been removed. eastbound we have a lane taken out as well. westbound, you are backed to saxon this morning, very slow moving. that is your traffic. >> outside today we are in for a warm-up. >> you can see lots of sunshine across central florida. we are going to see more clouds build through the day. we are 59 in orlando with light east southeast wind 3 miles per hour. we are 55 in palm coast, 52 in ocala. 82 at 4:00 with 20% chance of a new front moves in, strong storms tuesday and wednesday. high of 82 wednesday, 65 on thursday. >> big time change. thank you. you can get breaking news alerts with our local 6 mobile app. >>> good morning. it is monday, february 22nd, 2016. welcome back to "cbs this morning." there is more real news ahead, including the presidential candidates at a critical stage in the race to the white house. peggy noonan shows us how this hear that song, peggy? first, here's a look

we learn about its place in history and its namesake, dirksen. and -- rick century, the9 demands of the government were smaller than today. as demands grew, as government morices group,

it was dirksen who got his picture on the cover of "time" magazine. his votes were so essential. howard baker carry that on while he was the minority leader. transition for a nicely in 1980 into becoming the majority leader. we have the senate -- the senate had much of -- much less of a germanic turnover when the republicans won over 26 -- after 26 years of being the minority. in the house, when the republicans won after 40 years of being the minority, it was like the french revolution. it was like changing the months of the year. they change the names of the committees, everything. everybody went from the historian went, the chaplain went. it was a traumatic difference. i do think you have to look at the psyches of the institutions when you factor that in. question over here. in 2015,e important and increased gas tax, increased to the minimum wage, they did away with the death penalty, and they retained the secret vote which is how they elected this chairmannd committee thomas a you had democratic speakers -- is there any lesson and that from capitol hill? i think nebraska is a

phillip randolph, hubert humphrey, everett dirksen a lady was missing but there were many women that were foot soldier the point was made on the voting rights act, the vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they're different from other men and i'd modify it and say women. when the voting i.d. law because of the misgive offings the state of texas and its legislature was put in place, there were 80 counties at least in texas that did not have a department of public safety office for individuals to be able to register or to be able to get an i.d. i'd say -- that's a tragedy. and each moment there is something coming out of texas that wants to in essence put down the rights of individuals to vote and one case that should be brought to our attention is a case before the supreme court that indicates a group of petitioners who don't like the fact that you represent a population of people, they want to characterize and get a definition of what a person means. and they want to make that

countless courageous lead verse taken up the cause of justice, including former illinois senator dirksen and our colleague here in the united states congress, john lewis. walking on the edmund pettus bridge in selma with congressman lewis for the 50th anniversary of the selma to montgomery marches is one of my highlights of my tenure in the united states congress. as we look back on the accomplishments of the past, we cannot lose sight of the urgency with which we must address inequality in our society today. african-americans today face an unacceptable likelihood of being incarcerated a poverty rate that our nation's leaders should be achamed of -- ashamed of an everyday discrimination that flies in the face of everything our nation stands for. in memory of the heros who fought for equality throughout our nation's history, we are compelled to act. i'm committed to fighting for a more just and equal society. i implore my colleagues to do the same. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from nevada seek recognition? weather -- without objectio