harkin: mr. president, i ask consent that if the final vote on passage is successful the statement of the managers for the work force innovation and opportunity act be printed in the record immediately following the text of the senate-passed bill. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. harkin: mr. president, i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from georgia. mr. isakson: i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. isakson: mr. president, how much time remains on the republican side? the presiding officer: one minute. mr. isakson: mr. president, i'd like to ask unanimous consent that five additional minutes be extended from the democratic side to the republican side. the presiding officer: is there objection? mr. harkin: how much time is on our side? the presiding officer: 25 minutes. mr. harkin: absolutely. mr. yook isakson: mr. isakson:

senator harkin will be here shortly. i'll be back in about an hour and then we'll be voting a little later this afternoon. but this is good news for the workers of america, for the governors who felt hamstrung by washington, for the work councils who've had an overcomplicated life, and for all those who have, such as senator coburn, who's been a real leader in pointing out how many duplicative work programs we have. we've gone a long way in the direction he wanted us to go and i congratulate all those senators for their result. mrs. murray: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: as provided under the consent agreement, i now call up the substitute amendment number 3378. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from washington, mrs. murray, for herself and others, proposes an amendment numbered 3378. strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following -- mrs. murray: i ask unanimous consent that the reading be dispensed with. the presiding of

and iowa and indeed the entire country will be forever blessed because of tom harkin's great service. [applause] and i know tom and ruth would join me when i say -- you want to know what sort of lasting tribute you can give to tom harkin? you want to know what sort of tribute you can give to him and to ruth after the thank you parties and the thank you dinners are done? the best tribute you can give to tom harkin's work is to elect bruce braley your next united states senator. cheers and applause] it's all about the beliefs we share, isn't it? about our belief in the dignity of every individual. about our own responsibility to advance the common good. and that's what i want to talk with you about today. i want to talk with you about the story of us. the ongoing story of us. the story of baltimore and iowa, the story of maryland, and america. when i was elected mayor of baltimore in 1999, my city had become by that year the most violent, adetected and abandoned city in america. and there was a big difference in those days between the baltimore that we carried in four hearts and the bal

senator harkin, chairman harkin has some important remarks to make this morning. he graciously allowed me to go ahead, and just want to reflect a little bit on where we are with respect to whistle-blowers and the ability of intelligence agency employees to speak out on matters that do not affect national security but are important to the debate about how to ensure that our country resolutely fights terror and protects the public's right to know. now, i think it's fair to say -- and i make this judgment on the basis of having been on the intelligence committee for 13 years now -- that the very important and worthwhile efforts to protect national security after the terrorists murdered more than 3,000 of our people on 9/11, those important efforts to protect our people from terror were also accompanied by a lot of overreaching by the intelligence leadership. in recent years, i think it's fair to say reformers have made some real progress in our efforts to address that overreach, and now with the patriot act and other measures coming before us and the country really u

[laughter] can you imagine someone with those sorts of extreme views holding the seat that tom harkin so ably filled on your behalf all of these years? look, from education to agriculture, to his unflagging commitment to the sick, to the poor, to the voiceless, senator harkin's success can be measured by the millions of american lives that he has touched and that he has made better. and iowa and indeed the entire country will be forever blessed because of tom harkin's great service. [applause] and i know tom and ruth would join me when i say -- you want to know what sort of lasting tribute you can give to tom harkin? you want to know what sort of tribute you can give to him and to ruth after the thank you parties and the thank you dinners are done? the best tribute you can give to tom harkin's work is to elect bruce braley your next united states senator. [cheers and applause] it's all about the beliefs we share, isn't it? about our belief in the dignity of every individual. about our own responsibility to advance the common good. and that's what i want to talk with you about today. i

and iowa and indeed the entire country will be forever blessed because of tom harkin's great service.plause] and i know tom and ruth would join me when i say -- you want to know what sort of lasting tribute you can give to tom harkin? you want to know what sort of tribute you can give to him and to ruth after the thank you parties and the thank you dinners are done? the best tribute you can give to tom harkin's work is to elect bruce braley your next united states senator. [cheers and applause] it's all about the beliefs we share, isn't it? about our belief in the dignity of every individual. about our own responsibility to advance the common good. and that's what i want to talk with you about today. i want to talk with you about the story of us. the ongoing story of us. the story of baltimore and iowa, the story of maryland, and america. when i was elected mayor of baltimore in 1999, my city had become by that year the most violent, addicted and abandoned city in america. and there was a big difference in those days between the baltimore that we carried in our hearts and the baltimor

. >> then investigators identified a fourth suspect, chris harkins was heather's friend who stayed in when he was in myrtle beach on business. >> after interviewing chris, it was found that they were just friends, that there was no sexual contact or anything like that between them. >> and harkins had an alibi. he was in lexington, south carolina, 160 miles away, the week of heather's murder. then investigators got an unexpected call from an antique dealer 26 miles away in south carolina. he and his wife read about the murder in the newspaper and had some information they thought might help. >> they told us of a gentleman who had come down there. he looked like he had been in some type of a scrap or a fight. and he was trying to sell a camera. >> the cameras was the same make and model as the one missing from heather's apartment. >> just real suspicious acting the whole time. he even got a little aggravated when they told him they didn't want it. and he had a look that scared them. >> he described the man as white, mid-30s with dark hair. and he had the presence of mind to write down h

and iowa and indeed the entire country will be forever blessed because of tom harkin's great service. [applause] and i know tom and ruth would join me when i say -- you want to know what sort of lasting tribute you can give to tom harkin? you want to know what sort of tribute you can give to him and to ruth after the thank you parties and the thank you dinners are done? the best tribute you can give to tom harkin's work is to elect bruce braley your next united states senator. cheers and applause] it's all about the beliefs we share, isn't it? about our belief in the dignity of every individual. about our own responsibility to advance the common good. and that's what i want to talk with you about today. i want to talk with you about the story of us. the ongoing story of us. the story of baltimore and iowa, the story of maryland, and america. when i was elected mayor of baltimore in 1999, my city had become by that year the most violent, adetected and abandoned city in america. and there was a big difference in those days between the baltimore that we carried in four hearts and the bal

congressman who here in iowa is going to have to defend a seat being vacationed by the retiring senator tom harkin and now becomes one of the contests of the republicans hope for a pickup. the g.o.p. is looking for six seats to win the majority next year and iowa is one that first was considered difficult but if joany ernst republicans think they have a chance of knocking off braley. >> now to mississippi as karl just mentioned closely watched senate primary six term incumbent facing tea party challenger. live in jackson. john? >> hey, greta. this really has been a bloody nasty race marked by allegations of dirty tricks and vitriolic attacks back and forth. thad cochran fighting for political life. in the polls his lead has eroded in the past five months from 23 points to just outside the margin of error. senator cochran running on his record of bringing federal dollars and lots of them to mississippi.

and iowa and indeed the entire country will be forever blessed because of tom harkin's great service. [applause] and i know tom and ruth would join me when i say -- you want to know what sort of lasting tribute you can give to tom harkin? you want to know what sort of tribute you can give to him and to ruth after the thank you parties and the thank you dinners are done? the best tribute you can give to tom harkin's work is to elect bruce braley your next united states senator. [cheers and applause] it's all about the beliefs we share, isn't it? about our belief in the dignity of every individual. about our own responsibility to advance the common good. and that's what i want to talk with you about today. i want to talk with you about the story of us. the ongoing story of us. the story of baltimore and iowa, the story of maryland, and america. when i was elected mayor of baltimore in 1999, my city had become by that year the most violent, addicted and abandoned city in america. and there was a big difference in those days between the baltimore that we carried in our hearts and the balt

senator harkin, i supported it, as did many others. and it worked the way the senate is supposed to work. this body is for the purpose of taking an important issue which student loans is, having an extended debate on it, which we did, until we came to a consensus, which we did, and then coming to a result that the american people, of which they could approve, and we did that as well. now, this week we're seeing something entirely different. senate democrats would interrupt a serious discussion that's going on in the senate education committee about reauthorizing the higher education act, which was first enacted in 1965. senator harkin is our chairman, the senator from iowa. i'm the ranking republican on that committee. we have had ten hearings. we have been hard at work. we have had some terrific testimony, some very good ideas about the student loan program, about a whole variety of issues affecting higher education, and we're doing what you're supposed to do in the united states senate. we're trying to come to a conclusion so that we

harkin: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. harkin: madam president, first i ask unanimous consent that rae lee, jacqueline vazquez and jay will inson be granted floor privileges for the duration of today's session. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. harkin: madam president, i want to speak for a few minutes on the bank in favor of student loan refinancing act, which is the measure before the senate now, also referred to as the fair shot for college affordability. we have been calling this agenda a fair shot, but let's be honest about it. it's just plain common sense. i don't want to go any further without thanking the present occupant of the chair, the distinguished senator from massachusetts for her dynamic and great leadership. on this issue and these kinds of issues that affect college affordability, and especially this overburdensome student debt that is hanging not only over students but our entire country. now, there are some things that i said are just plain common sense. raising the minimum wage is good for

thank you, senator, harkin, for the question. all institutions are required to notify perspective students and employees about this material, what we call the annual security report and make it available upon request. most schools have put it on their websites, and it is right there when you go on to apply to a school, for a job or for enrollment. >> are you saying again that the stools are basically dong a good job of this, they're being accurate, they're being honest about reporting this to perspective students and families? >> they're doing a relatively good job of producing the reports. now, we do find significant violations at some institutions with the statistics. so i would say that there are violations out there, we know that, we find those in our cases, and where we find them we take action. we're hoping that these new requirements will give us some additional tools and require additional disclosures that will allow students to have better information about the environment that they're going into with regard to sexual as

his father retired colonel harkin led the unit in vietnam. they are rich in family legacy.pokesman said this is a first. >> a nine-year-old girl is safe after wandering away from the family camp site. hikers found her after hearing her yelling for help. she tried to find her way back. and all smiles when she was reunited with her family. hundred volunteers sevened the park after she went missing. >> new yorkers scrambled for signs of hidden loot in the manhattan and brooklyn this weekend. a san francisco real estate envestor system tweeting the clues on twitter and calls the money give away a social experiment for good. it was not that good in new york city six years ago. in central park, laura, today went smoother today than last time, right? >> it d. last time it was in new york union square and caused a riot and sent one person to the hospital. today was a civilized easter egg hunt. people searched for the white envelopes and went in the bushes and the lined central park pond. and got on all fours and looking through the grass and looking at their phones for a clue on tw

>> we want to make sure the company is 100% well capitalized to take advantage of the harkin harkin -he market opportunities that we have. as we have talked about on a few occasions, most people think of us as a film studio. that is about 50% of our business. we are heavily tech focused and content focused. we are the largest supplier of reality television. we are the largest sports agency. we want to be liquid and have the capability of growing at the same speed as other large public companies. we would like to make acquisitions in the tech sector. we want the liquid stock to do that. >> you could see yourself listing in new york and hong kong. >> we consider ourselves as much a chinese company as a u.s. company. skyland. we want to be listed where our business is. that focus is important. icbc. we did a public ceremony yesterday. it speaks well to having the support from the chinese economy and the government to do a listing. >> let's talk film. it's all about film. "earth to echo" is a fun film. "e.t." feel. >> the movie is about a $13 million movie. yet we, as usual, we tried to m

>> bruce is favored to replace tom harkin who was one of the architects of president obama's healthcare. this is a state that demographically favors democrats a bit more, of course, than mississippi. president obama won the state twice. there's 40% of the state that are independent or unaffiliated with democrats or republicans, and that's where this battle is going to be fought. republicans feel like this ernst can use the message of conservative woman who was a soldier and a mom, that that can really win over some of those independents, and brailey hoping at the same time some of the demographics of the state help him. >> woodruff: we'll be watching. domenico montanaro, thank you. >> ifill: again, the other major developments of the day. the taliban apparently taped a video showing the release of u.s. army sergeant bowe bergdahl last saturday, as questions continued about his capture and the deal that won his freedom. and president obama met with the incoming president of ukraine in poland and promised u.s. support. and late today, an attorney for donald sterling said he's now agreed t

>>harkin retiring after 30 years. >> there could be a runoff there too, you never know.he has to get 35% of the vote. that's a pretty big field. >> gloria, thanks very much. >>> could be a startling development in the search for malaysian flight 370. why scientists think they may have heard the plane crash. >>> also, we'll have a rare look inside a terror group that has operated inside syria. we'll get an exclusive report on how social media plays a role to recruit new members. that's coming up as well. marge: you know, there's a more enjoyable way to get your fiber. try phillips fiber good gummies. they're delicious, and an excellent source of fiber to help support regularity. wife: mmmm husband: these are good! marge: the tasty side of fiber. from phillips. nineteen years ago, we thought, "wow, how is there no way to tell the good from the bad?" so we gave people the power of the review. and now angie's list is revolutionizing local service again. you can easily buy and schedule services from top-rated providers. conveniently stay up to date on progress. and effortless

iowa state senator gets her shot at the democratic seat held by tom harkin as he retires later this yearaighting and tea party favorite, she garnished over 56% of the vote. in last night's republican primary she's one step closer to becoming the first female elected to federal office from the state of iowa. she may have pull add head of the pack as a result of her gimmicky campaign commercials. behind the folksy rhetoric, all you have seen what you really have to see is how far right she is. ernst would vote for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. ernst has spoken out against amnesty of any form, immigration reform and she said the federal government shouldn't set a minimum wage. and she called the clean water act one of the most damaging laws for business. earnst embraces privatizing social security and she's going right from the koch playbook. she wants to abolish the department of education and the environmental protection agency. industry's going to love that. the self-proclaimed farm girl said she would have voted against the farm bill? joni erns eechlt is an extremist.

her clipping the testicles of pigs ad and then look at her policies which is in a state where tom harkinefelt she wants to dismantle social security. i hope the result is that people will take a look at her policies. i don't think these attention getting things are a silver bullet for someone winning a race. look, i will give her some credit. i think it separated her from the pack in this primary. >> holland, what about the female vote coming up in 2014? this stunt pulled by candidate land in michigan apparently has not won her much favor with women voters. and gary peters who has been a real traditional kind of guy and supported the automobile loan and has been there with the president on health care, as well, that hard ball politics still works. >> as a guy i wince at the castrating pigs thing. it is hard for me to evaluate the other commercial as a woman would see it. to me it seemed to be condesc d condescendi condescending. in this 30 second sound byte mode impact takes precedent over awareness. nobody knows it better than the people here in massachusetts. the ultimate example was t

turns out the race for tom harkin's old seat, the republican candidate for that seat will be the candidate got a lot of national attention for her campaign ad about castration. >> i agree up castrating hogs on an iowa farm. so when i get to washington, i'll know how to cut pork. >> joni ernest squealing castration ad propelled her to the race for senate last night. she won by enough that she doesn't have to go through anymore rounds of voting. joni ernst will be facing off against bruce braly. and he's out with iz h first general election ad, which presumes if you've only heard one thing about republican joni ernst, you've probably heard about her and the ad for castrating. so the bruce braley campaign is just starting there. >> we've all heard the one about pigs squealing, but when joni ernst had the chance to do something in iowa, we didn't hear a peep. in the state senate, ernst never sponsored a bill to cut pork, never wrote one measure to slash spending. in fact, the iowa republican says she backed measures to actually increase spending. >> so it's going to be peeping chicks versus sq

voters in iowa tuesday giving the gop a real shot at whipping seats long held by retiring democrat tom harkinstate senator and iraq veteran joni ernst. but in mississippi the outcome wasn't such a landslide. we're back with kim strassel and joe rago, alicia finley also join us. kim, we'll talk quickly about iowa. joni ernst put the state in play, is that a toss-up for november? >> this is suddenly a good prospect for republicans. this woman won decisively. this is what happens when you have pretty much everyon chamber of commerce, a lot of the tea party groups, everyone from sarah palin to marco rub beau and mitt romney supporting this woman. she got a lot of recognition out of it. her name went up in the states and now she's a real contender to the democrat bruce brayley. >> we have 14 senate seats in play, which really does make this the possibility of retaking the senate very real. except there may be a problem with mississippi. and talk to us a little bit about why republican primary voters didn't want, didn't seem to want to renominate fred cochran who has been there for 40 years or so.

>> thank you for your question, senator harkin. i think in the testimony i provided, i think what makes the most sense is to provide the office of civil rights with numerous avenues for compliance and for the punishment of noncompliance. if the school is found out of compliance, right now the only option is either the full removal of federal funding or no fines. there needs to be some middle ground here. what's been happening recently is students have been using the clery act more and more because they levy some fines. the clery act fines are not tied to a campus' endowment or yeary earnings. it's one standard set fine that is pretty low and doesn't have any effect on schools with hundreds of millions of dollars in their endowment. what makes the most sense is to have fines tied to a school's yearly operating budget or schools funds in some way. that way you see fines that are not unduly affecting the small campuses jim moore was talking about earlier. the small for-profit schools that have 12 students. also if you have school like

and then he harkins national success saying it is the light of the republican prosperity that is sending earthquake under the foundation of their thrown, meaning the pope, i guess, and they have no hope of rest except the extinction of their light. he brings up something that is the only element of this hole topic that is particularly american. i believe this kind of panic is a human behavior. i don't think it is a conservative behavior, a liberal behavior, american behavior. it as a human behavior. and there is one piece that is american and has elements in other countries and cultures. he writes if this nation is in the providence of god, destined to lead the moral of world. there is a scholar, very canadian and he wrote a book entitled the puritan origins of the american self. and in this book he argues that when the puritans founded the massachusetts bay colony they came with a mission. and it was an end root by john in a sermon and he said in this land we are going to create a new jerusalem, a city on the hill, going from the new testament with that phrase, and it will be a beacon o

that if the bill, the murray-isakson-harkin-alexander amendment to the title which is at the desk be agreed to and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table and there be no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask consent the senate proceed to calendar number 432. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 432, s. 1603, a bill to reaffirm that certain land has been taken into trust for the benefit of the matche wish band of potowana indians and for other purposes. the presiding officer: i ask that the bill be read a third time -- mr. reid: i ask the bill be read a third time -- the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. reid: thank you, madam president. what i'd ask and i would hope that this is what occurred, th that -- ask the bill be read a third time and the motion to reconsider be laid on the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: and the bill was passed, is that right? the presidi

>> we want to make sure the company is 100% well capitalized to take advantage of the harkin opportunitiese. as we have talked about on a few occasions, most people think of us is a film studio. that is about 50% of our business. we are heavily taxed focused and content focused. supplier ofargest reality television. sportsthe largest agency. liquid and have the capability of growing at the same speed as other large public companies. we would like to make acquisitions in the tech sector. we want the liquid stock to do that. >> you could see yourself listing in new york and hong kong. ourselves asr much a chinese company as a u.s. company. we want to be listed where our business is. that focus is important. public ceremony yesterday. it speaks well to having the support from the chinese economy and the government to do a listing. >> let's talk film. echo" is a fun film. movie is about a $13 million movie. as usual we tried to make it feel and look and act like a $100 million movie. we are very proud of it. it is an et meets goonies meets stand by me film. jon erlichman with ryan kavanaugh. t

the idea of a big tent harkins back to the -- hearkens back to atwater. in 1989 regarding conflict with the republican party, he said our party is a big tent, we can house many views on many issues. while atwater was speaking of party, the conservative movement and should also be seen as a big tent. conservativism is advocated by people with a wide range of views on defense spending, national security, foreign policy, legalization of drugs, abortion, marriage, immigration and numerous other issues. we debate all these issues among ourselves, often clashing fiercely with those in our movement who disagree with us about policy. in this vibrant -- this vibrant and lively internal debate within the conservative movement stands in stark contrast to the orthodoxy of the left. which seemed to adopt the position of no enemies to the left. on the left special interest groups join in a grand can coalition -- grand coalition. each group that gets legislation that benefits them in return for their support of other coalitions' members' interest. this approach assures

. >> in iowa, both sides fighting to replace tom harkin.any ernst ran an ad. >> i grew up castrating animals growing up on a farm. when i get to washington i know what to do. >> cockman dr. kingman >> two 12-year-old girls in wisconsin reportedly stabbed their friend after a slumber party because they wanted to please a mythological creature who lived in the for for forest. the girls lured their girl into the woods and stabbed her 17 times and left her to die. we blurred the girls' faces because they're not even teenagers yet, just 12 years old. investigators say the girls stabbed their friend over and over again to please this fictional character slenderman, a demon, they said. more on that in a moment. the victim somehow managed to survive. police say she crawled out of the woods and a bicyclist found her and called for help. doctors say the suspect missed a major artery near her heart by just one millimeter. later, one of the suspects told investigators, and i quote, it was weird that i didn't feel remorse. the other suspect said, quote,

the gop trying to flip the seat following the retirement of longtime senator tom harkin.ces in alabama, california, montana, new jersey, new mexico and south dakota went largely as expected. >>> all right, we'll have the latest on the new video, break it all down for you right after the break. we will have live team coverage ahead. on their face. who are so congested, it feels like the walls are closing in. ♪ who are so stuffed up, they feel like they're under water. try zyrtec-d® to powerfully clear your blocked nose and relieve your other allergy symptoms... so you can breathe easier all day. zyrtec-d®. find it at the pharmacy counter. zyrtec-d®. when salesman alan ames books his room at laquinta.com, he gets a ready for you alert the second his room is ready. so he knows exactly when he can check in and power up before his big meeting. and when alan gets all powered up, ya know what happens? i think the numbers speak for themselves. i'm sold! he's a selling machine! put it there. and there, and there, and there. la quinta inns & suites is ready for you, so you'll be re

in the book of proverbs, it says if a ruler harkins to lie all of his servants are wicked. and that means if you don't hold people accountable they will observe that and say we can get away with that. there needs to be accountability and it is hard to have accountability when you have a government that is so large no one understand where the problems are. we need to reduce the government and i talk about doing that by attrition. we have thousands of government workers that retire each year. let them go. if we need more workers we can shift from other areas. within five years, you have a lean, trim and efficient government. these are not difficult things to do and not things that have to be mean to anybody. we use our collective common sense and start thinking about how we improve our severals and governme government. i may never say horrible things about the president. maybe his policy. but not him or anybody for that fact because why get in the mud and act like third great graders when we have big problems to solve. [ applause ] >> why did you decide to retire as a neuro s

turns out the republican candidate in iowa this is tom harkin's old seat. he's retiring. candidate is going to be the one who got a lot of publicity for her ad about cass administration. >> i grew up castrating hogs on an iowa form. i'll know how to cut pork. >> her squealing ad helped propel her to the republican nomination. she won by enough that she doesn't have to go through any more rounds of voting. she will be facing off against bruce braley. he is already out with his ad. if you've only heard one thing about joanne earn st. >> in the state senate earnst never sponsored a bill to cut pork. in fact the iowa republicans says she backed measures to actually increase spending. >> so it's going to be peeping chicks versus squealing pigs. and i cannot say i'm not in favor of us pushing this barnyard thing as far as it will go for that seat. that said, like in montana, this iowa candidate has a very hard core abortion record including sponsoring a person hood constitutional amendment, which would make all abortion in every case and ban popular forms of birth control. so t

there is a seat up for grabs being vacated by tom harkin. how could that race affect the balance in the united states senate. >> joannie earnst did something very few republicans are able to do, attracting establishment and tea party support. she has been able to thread that needle in a way other candidates have not been able to do. she came out strong, 54% the last time i saw it. may have gone up. she beat the 35 she needed to avoid a run off. she has turned her sights on a democratic contender that had a huge slip up early in the race when he spoke ill of iowa farmers, wimp is something you don't want to do when you're in iowa. this is a case in which we're going to see potentially the first female elected out of iowa. joni earnst is a really strong candidate. the question now is can she raise the money, does she have the stature. a general election is going to be far different. this is a woman with very conservative views. she has called the clean water bill the biggest threat to big business in this country. she supports a constitutional

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tom harkin and george miller have a bill to fix that by lifting the minimum wage to $10.10. it's easy to remember. this will help families. it will give businesses customers with more money to spend. it does not involve any new bureaucratic programs. join the rest of the country. say yes. give america a raise. [applause] >> what do you think of the president? >> he's operating under one of the most difficult circumstances. the assault has not stopped from the day he was sworn in the first time. there's extreme feelings against him. some of it is race-based. it has been a tough sled for him. >> 25% of your district is hispanic. do you get all of that vote? >> i have spent a lot of time in the hispanic community. i was a farm worker among hispanics. i know that community pretty darn well. >> how important is that vote going to be in the future? will there ever be an immigration bill? >> there is going to be an immigration bill. that vote grows in importance every day. i meet these young people who have worked so hard, the dreamers who were so courageous to step out of the shad

humphrey, harkin. all over the midwest. and wellstone. don't forget paul wellstone.ng and that's the kind of race that i think will connect with the voters. >> that would be very progressive. >> there seems to be a tremendous amount of conversation, at least there was in this past super tuesday we had earlier this week, about economic populism. when you talk about minimum wage in south dakota, what kind of response do you get? when you talk about energy issues, what kind of response do you get? >> well, listen, we've got a minimum wage billion lot initiative on the fall ballot. i helped collect the signatures last fall to make sure it got on the ballot. of 2,000 south dakotians are going to show up to vote to give themselves a raise and a better chance at a better life. i'm a small business owner. i'll be the first to tell you, i think it's a job creator. not a job destroyer. you give a working family another buck and a quarter an hour and you think they're in going to invest that in offshore bank accounts? they're going to be buying things and that demand will creat

one of them, where several republicans are competing to run for senate seat held by democrat tom harkinot running for re-election. a democratic candidate is running unopposed in that party primary. let's talk about all of this with ellison barber, staff writer for the "washington free beacon." start with iowa. because hub republicans are hoping to pick up that seat. you could have, i will stop there. >> joanie earns seems at top of field for republicans. that is interesting because she has support from pail sarah palin pail and marco rubio. you have establishment and tea party side. jon: if she gets nomination she will face her fellow democratic member congress. two members of congress facing off to try to win that senate seat. >> both sides are, iowa is important state. always a state we like to look at. this is race absolutely both sides are hoping to win. have a chance with two big races are most important for the republicans at least in terms of the general election today are going to be montana and south dakota. those primaries are not necessarily that interesting and not necessari

this is open because tom harkin is retiring, one of the architects of president obama's healthcare law, he's leaving the senate and bruce bray who is a congressman from the state and also a former trial lawyer, he's favored by a few points, but a lot of people are saying ernst could bring some of the energy to the race that could make it difficult for brailey to run against someone like her. senator chuck grassley, the other iowa senator, a farmer who would chair the judiciary ricommittee, what does he know? well, here comes ernst with her let's make them squeal add. >> ifill: "just a farmer" isn't considered to be an insult. >> no, it isn't. >> ifill: thank you. >> ifill: again, the major developments of the day. president obama faced growing criticism over trading five top taliban inmates at guantanamo for the weekend release of army sergeant bowe bergdahl. the administration rolled out a major effort to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. some coal-state lawmakers and industry groups said they'd try to block the plan. and the seattle city council passed a measure that wo

senator harkin, the senator from iowa, we have big ideological differences in our committee but that doesn't stop us from working, from doing our job. so we've passed 19 bills out of our committee, and 10 of them have gone through the senate and turned into law. no other committee in the senate can say that. and right now we're working on this very subject of the political stunt. so why not put the political stunt where it belongs, back in the committee, back in the committee that's already working on it in a bipartisan way, and let's go to the veterans who are standing in line and do what the majority leader said, which is let's deal with that issue. now why do i say this is not a serious proposal? it's not out of lack of respect of the sponsor. of course i have great respect for her and for other senators who are making the proposal. but let me outline why i say this is not a serious proposal, and everybody in the senate knows that. they know it's not going to pass. so why would we be wasting our time on it? number one, it does nothing, not one thing, for current or future students

and if you look at iowa, for as conservative as they are trying to make it out to be, senator harkin,re running for, was really one of the most stand-up, staunch progressives in the united states senate. so i'm not sure the electorate in iowa is as conservative as joni ernst might think it is. >> you know, go back to that mcdaniels race a minute, margie. the mississippi race has been downright dirty, and the district attorney still hasn't cleared mcdaniel's campaign from being involved in the photographing of senator cochran's wife. that's a real dirty race there. >> yeah, i mean, it's a race that i think a lot of people want to look at as the future of the republican party versus the republican party's past and i think there are many republicans who see mcdaniels as part of a new future republican candidate, but he really looks like the party of the past, of politics of the past, because he says -- he uses language like, i'm offended and fearful and reject this new foreign culture that's taking over america. language like that. that doesn't really sound like a modern candidate. that

ads to take the lead among the republicans who want the replace the retiring democratic senator tom harkinet to washington, i will know how to cut pork. >> joni ernst will take aim at wasteful spending and once she sets her sights on obamacare, joni is going to unload. oh, and one more thing, joni, does not miss much. >> and i want to bring in the nbc news political reporter k kasie hunt, and world news and reporter david catanese and jennifer jacobs from the "des moines register" poll. and this shows that ernst is 18 point points ahead of the closest competitor mark jacobs and sheep needs 35% to avoid a state convention to determine a nominee, and how much of the ads are the reason that she is ah d ahead? >> probably quite a bit. she was struggling to raise money a couple of months ago and then the ads hit, and suddenly she popped to the forefront and got the national buzz which led to attention here in iowa and here in the last few weeks that the consensus has been starting to gel around her. >> and throughout the campaign, david, i think that she has shown at least her supporters would

that's the retiring senator tom harkin's seat in iowa right now. >>> other races in alabama, california, montana, new jersey, new mexico and south dakota went largely as expected. >>> time for an "early start" to your money this morning. here's a look at stocks around the world right now. in the u.s., stocks not at that record, the first time we've said that all week. all three major indexes closed down slightly tuesday. >>> news this morning on gm. "the new york times" reports gm officials expect ceo mary barra to be cleared of any wrongdoing tied to the botched ignition switch recall that resulted in at least 13 deaths. results from gm's internal investigation are expected as early as this week. it's expected to name executives, employees and departments that screwed up, but officials, again, telling "the new york times" they expect barra to be cleared. one thing is certain, barra has kept sales at gm strong. look at this, john. the company's may sales jumped 13% from last year. >> that's unbelievable. >> that is double the expected increase and the best since august 2008. that's even

there was no way that tom harkin's liberal icon would be succeeded by any republican.as joni ernst moved the chamber of the commerce and the tea party express, they don't get together on every candidate, she united the republican party and has brace braly, a democrat, on the run. >> what about the new ad this week? >> i'm going to let the ladies talk at that. that's not my place to say, but don't -- >> it seems that he's doing unforced errors. >> there are a couple unforced errors. she had an ad about hog castration. she did. it was a very effective ad. he wanted to respond to it and just said she was making peeps and noise, but was not really into castrating hogs. this is a very iowa race. >> i love it! >> so he put chicks on to say she was teething like a chick. and as it turned out, yes, all women get upset when you call them chicks and blame-o. >> we'll leave it there. thank you for the preview. you'll be watching closely on primary tuesday to break it down for us here on fox news. thank you, chris. >> yes, ma'am. >>> a mighty display of mother nature in the night