tavis: a shout out to the hoosiers. i lived on reed hall. >> what floor?the fifth floor. >> i lived on the third. few i met josh he was a years younger than me, but i remember him pulling up in a porsche convertible, and he was all that. a fantastic guy and a great musician. now we have become friendlier. not the although it is when itto school comes to music, it is the largest music school in america. the beauty of it is there is nothing that goes on in indiana, so you had better get to the practice room. you are not going to clubs. there is no distraction. i was practicing 8, 9, 10 hours a day. i am so grateful for that time there. tavis: i didn't realize when i was a fresh man because reed hall is so close to the music holding, i didn't realize all hade future great artists been in that dorm because they could walk across the street to the music school. i look on that now and appreciate the fact i was around so many artists. it didn't rub off on me. i should have kept up my saxophone lessons. that you do not have in common with me. you stuck to your cra

he earlier this year lawmakers in the hoosier state rejected a bill to raise minimum wage above the federal level of $7.25 an hour. afraid if the minimum wage is raised to $15 an hour, he'll have to dismiss workers and raise food prices. mr. curry joins us from carmel, indiana. why not raise prices of those tasty things like the peanut buster parfait, you can pay people more and help the local economy. >> the impact it's going to have on our business will the consumer be willing to pay that price? will he be willing to pay $6 for a peanut burster parfait or small blizzard. >> never mind fans like me from indiana, your sense is that most of your customers will not be willing to pay those higher prices. >> we may offer a 10% discount just because you're from indiana. >> what percentage of your workers are simply saying, like i was once upon a time kids in the summertime who don't care what the wages are, they just simply want a summertime job versus people who depend on the minimum wage to pay rent, pay all those services they need in life? >> i really honestly in this store i don't have anyb

and now gay marriage opponents are making the hoosier state their next mark key battleground, the place where they hope to put the seemingly unstoppable momentum of gay marriage to the test with the ballot question this november, another constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage. this is how they hoped to prove to the country that this issue is far from resolved, that there remains deep popular opposition to gay marriage and a strong popular will to resort to altering state constitutions to prevent it. governor mike pence, christian conservative and former congressman, is now entering his second year in office. he opposes same sex marriage, but he is also notably exhibited limited public passion for the fight this time around. social conservatives are applying intense pressure on state's republican led legislature to put their marriage amendment on the 2014 ballot. and while the legislature will debate it, the republican speaker of the state house in indiana hardly seems enthusiastic about it. >> and, yes, while it is not high on the agenda, we all know we have to deal with whe

veteran michael kaiser says the phrase hides a decade of pointless conflict mission accomplished on hoosiers by cameron because you know politicians don't really say hey you know that wildly unpopular war that we sent you when your children to live to die in his legs for over a decade. well we messed up but it was all of its own they're not going to say mission accomplished by cameron means that he died three years at colonial exercise that was a total collapse of disaster. due to the arrogance of rich politicians. we thought the kid on a wintery searches for people in afghanistan using the blood of working class people from the united states and from uk for cameron to assert that there has been so called progress against the insurgency there is an absolute fantasy. yet another indication that cameron's victory speech was premature and how that an attack on a nato base in eastern afghanistan but three insurgents and one afghan policeman dead. it's the second such attack on the base which is a vital check point on the border between afghanistan and pakistan. the bosses of the world's top tech

particular bit of hypocrisy led to shelly lewis to give dan burton the greatest -- she calls him hoosier daddy. dan burton had his own scandals, but dan burton's lasting legacy in congress was not just his own scandals and hipocrisy, but rather the way he tried to make up scandals for other people and the way he use the power of one particular part of congress to launch witch hunt after witch hunt. when president clinton was re-elected in a landslide and the republicans lost seats in congress, the republicans themselves decided they were going to put dan burton in charge of the house oversight committee. that was the perch in which dan burton had the power to investigate the white house christmas card and socks's fan haters and the vince foster suicide and white water and white house fund rasing and, and, and, and. in the six years that they let dan burton keep that chairmanship, he used the facts that he was chair of that committee to issue more than 1,000 subpoenas. he issued so many subpoenas, at one point he issued a subpoena to a man who just had a name that was similar to one of th

jeff flock in the hoosier state joining us live from gary. jeff? >> it gets a bad rap.is deserved but look at blighted streets. you know, gary doesn't look too hot. look at this place. this is city methodist church t looks like a greek or roman ruin. a lot of city looks like this. this is postcard for urban blight. i tell you, gary has a lot going for it. we talked exclusively to gary's new mayor, he is fairly new, karen wilson. why she thinks gary has a pretty good so the at this thing? take a listen. >> we believe we have all the assets. we have the rail. we have the highways. we have the airport. and boeing is at our airport. they have a hangar in fact. >> chicago corporate headquarters and they keep their planes here in gary. >> exactly. so we think it's a logical place for them to grow their business, and it's a logical opportunity for us to be able to grow around our transportation assets. >> they do have a lot going for them here. i'll tell you. one of the things i think they actually have going is this is cool urban ruin. a lot of people come here. they have sho

. >>> all right, at the eastern edge of the hoosier state, in the small town of richmond, indiana, it was an average saturday. and in the middle of that average saturday in the early afternoon, something really quite terrible happened. it was 1:47 p.m. on a saturday, april 6th, 1968, and in richmond, indiana, the world just exploded. >> about the time we are ready to across 6th and "a," just a huge explosion, just two tiers of a kaboom, kaboom, like that, and it was large, and we couldn't imagine what in the world happened. >> we know now that an old cast iron pipe carrying natural gas had rusted out under ground and started leaking, and finally, that natural gas exploded. that was the first kaboom. but it happened underneath a sporting goods store known as the marting arms, and that store carried guns and ammunition and black powder. so, that first blast of the natural gas set off a second blast in the sporting goods store, and that second blast, or at least the combination of the two of them, essentially leveled much of the downtown in that city. they recovered nothing of the sporti

. >>> all right, at the eastern edge of the hoosier state, in the small town of richmond, indiana, itaverage saturday. and in the middle of that average saturday in the early afternoon, something really quite terrible happened. it was 1:47 p.m. on a saturday, april 6th, 1968, and in richmond, indiana, the world just exploded. >> about the time we are ready to across 6th and "a," just a huge explosion

. >>> all right, at the eastern edge of the hoosier state, in the small town of richmond, indiana, itd in the middle of that average saturday in the early afternoon, something really quite terrible happened. it was 1:47 p.m. on a saturday,

a lot of hoosiers, that's for sure. doug, a small business owner from bloomington, told me that he expects his company health insurance to increase over 30% next year. and he said -- and i quote -- "this will preclude me from providing wage raises to our employees and will make hiring additional employees much less attractive, if not impossible." the president promised a lot. the worse thing you can do to your constituents, people you represent, people who put their trust in you is overpromise and underperform. this could be the biggest gap between overpromising and underperforming of anything any president has said in history of the united states. and he punctuated his statements with "period." meaning, take it to the bank, count on it, trust me, your premiums won't increase. it's sad. it's sad but it can be correct corrected. we can work. we can repeal this thing now. we can work together in a bipartisan basis. we can fashion a reasonable, affordable solution to providing americans who are uninsured with insurance, to

a hoosier tradition since 1881.h, 2011, country mega stars sugarland are the night's scheduled entertainment. the video picks up moments before the duo is set to hit the stage. >> you can see the wind catching the curtains and blowing it. the big question is, is that structure created or rated for those types of winds? >> sudden wind gusts of nearly 60 miles an hour rock the framework of the stage. those near the front begin to panic and run, but it's too late. dozens are trapped beneath 35 tons of twisted metal. seven people are killed and nearly 60 people are injured. >> we can't control mother nature. she dishes out what she wants. you never know what you're going to get. >>> a dance floor, crowded with wedding guests, collapses. may 2001, a young bride and groom enjoy what should be the best day of their lives. 700 guests share in their wedding celebration, held on the third floor of a jerusalem wedding hall. >> everyone is having a good time. a guy is filming it with his camcorder. >> friends and family pack th

define our humanity that are universal, but which are often violated and denied by the government's hoosier spots ability is to protect them. we know in the history of the united states we have seen groundbreaking human rights leadership and we have also seen some tragic failures. the bill of rights -- what a monumental achievement -- it inspired the universal declaration, and the freedoms that we find even today in many ies'constitutions. the advances that we have seen regarding rights of people with disabilities, lb gt communities among these are examples of what we can coverage if we persevere what is often long-standing prejudices. i am encouraged by recent efforts in congress to further helprt those who need our with improvements we made to the violence against women act, the trafficking victims reduction act, and recently we have a congress so far in the senate in a comprehensive immigration reform. i might say the area we are talking about, the senate, i am so pleased that you are going to be honoring my friend bob dole this evening. thes there when bob was republican beater in the s

i'm proud to be a sponsor of the house version of this bill that garnered the support of all hoosier representatives, and i want to thank them for coming together in a bicameral and bipartisan way to get behind this meaningful and important piece of legislation. i want to encourage all of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle and thank them for coming together and to give closure to the koehl family, restore a sense of honor to our national cemeteries, and improve the protocols so an injustice like this can never happen again. thank you, mr. chairman. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from indiana yields back her time. the gentleman from florida reserves. the gentleman from maine. mr. michaud: thank you, mr. speaker. today we can take a meaningful step to ensure that the sanctity of our national cemeteries, these grounds are hollowed for r men and women who fought ed for our men and women who fought so bravely. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida. mr. miller: i, too, encourage or colleagues to join us to support senate 1471. i yield back the bal

these are hoosiers from all backgrounds, republicans, democrats, from all walks of life, sharing their stories with me about how they are paying the price for the president's broken promises. mr. president, i yield the floor. i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. reed: i would ask unanimous consent to vitiate the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. morning business is closed. under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session to consider the following nomination which the clerk will report. the clerk: nomination, anne w. patterson of virginia, a career member of the senior foreign service, to be ambassador. the presiding officer: under the previous order, all postcloture time is expired and the question occurs on the nomination. is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: the presiding officer: are there any senators wishing to vote or change th