democrats have won the retirement there -- jerry costello. they even have a very strong possibility of losing that state. host: are we expecting more retirements? guest: there are certainly people on the board right now look like they are going to retire who have all but said they are going to retire. david dryer in california. with e in centin 1981 reagan. it seems clear to everybody that he is not going to run for reelection. everybody in washington expects that to happen. there will be a couple of others. host: on your question, jonathan allen, to steve israel about super pacs and the amount of money going to republican super pacs appears as democrats. he said it keeps him up at night. what do make of that? guest: there is a lot of money that will be flowing into these races from outside the republicans are dominating right now. that money chase. maybe the democrats will find a way to keep up, but it sounds like at every level they are having difficulty. we saw that last time around. we saw outside groups, the crossroads groups come in and

i am very happy we've had jerry costello to represent us on this issue for so many years. recognize him for as much time as he wants. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from illinois is recognized for as much time as he may consume. mr. costello: thank you and i thank the ranking member of the full committee, mr. rahall, and not only thank him for his kind words but his leadership on the committee on so many issues. as the chairman pointed out, we were in a markup until almost 3:00 a.m. this morning, and mr. rahall led us on our side of the aisle in working together to try and come up with a better product than was presented to us last night. so i thank him. mr. speaker, i rise in support of the conference report. i want to say from the outset that i am deeply disappointed in the change to the railway labor act that was added to the conference report during final negotiations on the national mediation board provision. between speaker boehner and majority leader reid, the language that had been dropped altogether, as mr. rahall indicated in his statement, congress shoul

democrats even had one retirement there, jerry costello, and that turned into that noo a tossup seat as we rate it and it could be a strong possibility of losing that seat. >> are we expecting more retirements or is it almost getting too late to retire? >> there will be more retirementless. there's certainly people on the board right now who look like they're going to retire, who have all but said they're going to retire. david dreier from california doesn't really have a district to run in. republican. he's been here since 1981. came in the reagan sweep in 1980. he raised $10,000, $20,000, something like that in the last quarter. it seems clear to everybody that he's not going to run for re-election. he has not said that yet but i think everybody in washington expects that to happen. i think there will probably be at least a couple of others. >> on your question, jonathan, to steve israel about superpacs and the amount of money going toward republican superpacs versus democratic superpacs. he said it keeps him up at night. what do you make of that? >> it should keep him up at night,

costello, abc2 news. >>> now the latest on the child sex abuse case against jerry sandusky. his attorneys want prosecutors to release testimony from secret grand jury proceedings. sandusky's attorney said waiting could cause delays. sandusky is facing more than 50 child sexual abuse charges. >>> now to our coverage of the susan g. komen foundation fallout. karen and -- handel is out. komen decided not to renew a partnership with planned parenthood. in a statement, susan g. komen's founder said they take responsibility for the mistakes. >>> a federal appeals court has ruled california's same-sex marriage ban to be-- unconstitutional a judge hup held the -- upheld the ruling who said that proposition 8 violated the rights of gays and lesbians. >>> well, the italian captain of that ship wrecked cruise ship must remain under house arrest. the captain is aslowsed of manslaughter, ship wreck and abandoning ship. the ship hit rocks off the italian island of giglio. the captain said the cruise line instructed him to sail close to the island. he denies allegations that he was sailing