but also empore i -- emporia ste university is 150 years old and we would like to congratulate emporia state university. it is in the beautiful clint hills of kansas and very dear to our family. my mother attended emporia state studying education. she went on to become a teacher. emporia state is a teacher's university second to none. she in her day and time spent a lot of time educating kansas children up in atchison, kansas, and was very much like the other proud and accomplished alumni from emporia state. if you want to know about education, all you have to do, and also teacher involvement and teacher progress and some of the real serious challenges that we face today in education, stop by emporia state. they have many fine programs and nothing but the best in terms of graduates that do such a great job. throughout the past 150 years, emporia state has grown to accommodate the needs of the state and the 6,500 students that it currently serves. what was once the kansas state teaching college, emporia state has expanded greatly offering a wide range of academic programs. and in true k

. -- emporia state university in emporia, kansas. emporia state is much recognized today for its outstanding teachers college. one third of the degrees earned each year at emporia state are graduate degrees, the highest rate of any university in kansas. mr. huelskamp: today i join more than 5,900 current students and 75,000 alumni in congratulating emporia state university on its first 150 years and wish them the very best in the next 150 years. mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia rise? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. scott: thank you, mr. speaker. our right to vote is the very foundation of our democracy. in passing the voting rights act, congress relied on an extensive record on discrimination in voting. section 5 requires jurisdictions to submit changes in election laws to judges for prior approval. the areas covered by section 5 were covered the old-fashioned way. they earned it by implementing poll taxe

i saw one from a company called emporia connect. it has huge buttons aimed at seniors.s need big buttons. most don't but if you do, this is interesting because you, the family member, can program and manage this via an app on pur smartphone. so you can manage contacts, check where they are from your app. >> you're talking about seniors. let's talk about this >>> you its so showed a prototype of a gps connected cane so has arrows on the handle letting the person who uses the cane get directions simply where a map where you have entered the direction. >> i like that. we are quickly becoming the jetsons. >> very close. >> find his tech watch segments on cbssf.com/mornings. >>> wall street is looking for a bump today to help recover from yesterday's big drop. kcbs radio's financial reporter jason brooks reports. >> reporter: wall street on the comeback after its worst session of 2013 down more than 200 yesterday. worries over italy's political system following partment try elections. that's reviving fierce of the debt crisis in europe -- fears of the debt crisis in europe.

i-35 almost impassable now from around the wichita area up to emporia.t is soon going to be snowing in kansas city. the morning rush hour there is going to be very, very troublesome. snowfall totals, again, this pink color is 6 to 12 inches. a very large area. somewhere a little band just north of wichita and kansas city near topeka will end up with a foot of snow. that three to six inches is huge. it goes all the way to green bay to chicago to st. louis. my big-city snowfall totals when it's all said and done, a foot possible in kansas city. omaha, wichita, a little less than that. just a glancing blow really for our friends in minneapolis and chicago. you can probably deal a little better than your friends to the south with three to six. and everyone in new england, we're okay the next two days. i'm still tracking that potential storm for you as we go throughout this upcoming weekend. it looks like it's going to hit saturday night into sunday morning. significant snow interior sections of new england. more on that later during "morning joe." you're wat