kay bailey hutchison is basically leaving politics this year.tion of the senate. olympia snowe is not running for re-election in the senate. lisa murkowski is in the senate because she ran as an independent last year. she lost the republican primary to a conservative republican challenger. these are women that are liberated a bit from the political games that the rest of the republicans in washington are playing and have to play. >> i think that's so smart in looking at the individual circumstance of these women that feel like they can speak out. that goes right to, i guess, the most important pragmatic at least political question here which is whether or not this shift in position by the republican party, whether it's going to hurt them among republican women or whether this is only something that hurts them among independent women, potential crossover voters and potentially even some men who see themselves as being alienated by these issues and otherwise seeing themselves as in the center. is this something that's really only for independent v

kay bailey hutchison, other republican women have agreed that these attacks on women's reproductive health is bad for the party. it's bad for america. let's look at where ryan takes us and where romney goes. cutting day care. what do women depend on? they depend on -- working women. cutting education. what are women depending on to equalize this? >> that's not true. >> of course it's true. mitt romney wants to decimate the department of education. paul ryan -- that's exactly where mitt romney's taking pit p that's going to disproportion e disproportionately affect women. >>> more from our round table coming up. we're also going to hear from my colleague brian williams who's going to talk about his exclusive interview with president obama this week to mark the one-year anniversary of the successful raid in the killing of osama bin laden. >>> later, general election preview. on a lighter note, "saturday night live" style. it's all coming up. >>> "meet the press" is sponsored by ge. imagination at work. [ male announcer ] you're not the type of person who sets goals

senator kay bailey hutchison of new hampshire and susan collins would be the first to say we don't see any evidence of this. >> really. mcconnell should check with members of his own caucus because senator olympia snowe has called it a retro debate. senate kay bailey hutchison expressed her interest for planned plant hood. >> it makes no sense to attack women. if you don't view this an attack on women and you need to go home and talk to your wives. you need to talk to your daughters. ask them. >> can we come to the conclusion that the leader in the republican party does not want to sit there and answer to his own. certainly are totally off base and have no clue. well, senator olympia snowe has called the battle a retrofit. mitch mcconnell threw him a lifeline and echoed his talking points. >> they're trying to manufacture, for example, this phony republican war on women. >> the republicans attack on women is extending beyond health care as dnc chair points out the gop is taking aim at women's economic security. >> the policies that have come out of the republican party saying that we s

senate kay bailey hutchison expressed concern for planned parenthood, who her party wants to defund. lisa krakowski from alaska -- >> it makes no sense to attack women. if you don't view this as an attack on women and you need to go home and talk to your wives. you need to talk to your daughters. ask them. >> so can we come to the conclusion that the leader in the republican party doesn't want to sit there and listen to his own caucus? is that what we're going to do? are we going to sit there and believe these three republican women are certainly totally off base and have no clue? well, let me tell you, senate rt olympia snowe has called the battle a retrofit. fortunately for mitch mcconnell the republicans party true leader threw him a lifeline and echoed his talking points. >> they're trying to manufacture, for example, this phony republican war on women. >> the republicans attack on women is extending beyond health care as dnc chair debbie wasserman schultz points out the gop is taking aim at women's economic security. >> the policies that have come out of the republican party say

chris van hollen goes up against kay bailey-hutchison. >> good evening, larry, two days after the tax filing deadline for americans, the house of representatives stepped up with a proposal to cut taxes for business. they passed it on a party line vote in the house of representatives as expected. now, here's what's in the bill. it's a 20% deduction from taxable income for businesses with 500 or fewer employees. that's about 99% of businesses in the united states. the one-year cost to the treasury for this proposal is $46 billion. and that's part of why president obama has threatened to veto this as an unnecessary give away. he's not going to have to veto it because it's going nowhere in the senate. this is a tax cut that would go to people who don't need it. >> how our colleagues across the hall can figure out more ways to help the very -- >> so larry, this is simply like the proposal that went down in the senate on the buffet rule earlier in the week. it is not intended to become law, it's rather an effort to frame the political debate going into the election season, and that's a deba

i'll turn to senator kay bailey hutchison. >> thank you very much, mr. mueller, for coming before our committee. i'm happy to say that last year we thought it would be the last time you would appear before our committee, and i was very pleased that the president offered and you accepted an extension of your term, because i think what has happened at the fbi during your term is exponential. i think the changes that have taken place and the responsibilities that you have had have been more transformational than probably any time since the beginning of the fbi. i do want to start my remarks just very briefly by recognizing also the chairwoman of this committee who will on saturday become the longest serving woman to serve in congress in the history of the united states congress, and we're going to make a big deal of that because we're really proud of this little pint-sized mighty mite who has outlasted them all. so mr. fbi director, let me just state a couple of points. think that senator mikulski has really outlined the big picture. there are a couple of a

. >> kay bailey hutchison who is living and mel martinez is going to leave. >> that's true. it could be up to six. 1945-1946 there were 13. >> 13? >> 13. and i think one of the answers to this is better medicine. longevity. it was -- during a two-year congress it was not unusual for as many of eight members of the senate to die just of old age. that all changed in the late 1960s with the improvements of medication. >> senator byrd, november the 19th of this year, will be the longest-serving human in history in the united states congress. how's he doing? we haven't seen much of him. saw him vote in the sotomayor vote. >> right, right. that's the last time i saw him also. i don't know. >> how important is it? you know him. how important is it making that milestone? >> vastly important. vastly important. i would say he's going to hang in for that -- for that milestone. he's got a long list of milestones that he's succeeded over the years and that's, of course, the ultimate. >> more than anything else, what do you want to do in retirement? >> continue to write history. history r

there is no issue senator kay bailey hutchison and susan collins and olympia snowe from main and lisawe don't see any evidence of this. >> mitch mcconnell calling it a manufactured issue and if you don't believe it, ask a lady republican. ask senator kay bailey hitchison about this. ask her. >> planned parenthood does mammograms. they do so much of the health care, the preventive health care. if they are doing that, then we need to provide those services. absolutely. >> she spoke out against her own party's attack on planned parenthood. a big part of the republican people say the republicans are waging war on women, those attacks on planned parenthood. she was not backing up mitch's point there. how about olympia snowe. he was on the list of women that would debunk this war on women myth. last month she voted with the democrats against the blunt amendment to roll back access to contraception and just last week at a women's campaign fund event in new york, she said this about the birth control battle being waged by her party. she said i feel like it's a retro debate that comes from the

kay bailey hutchison, other republican women have agreed that these attacks on women's reproductive health is bad for the party. it's bad for america. let's look at where ryan takes us and where romney goes. cutting day care. what do women depend on? they depend on -- working women. cutting education. what are women depending on to equalize this? >> that's not true. >> of course it's true. >> not what we're doing. >> mitt romney wants to decimate the department of education. paul ryan -- that's exactly where mitt romney's taking it. that's going to disoptionately fect women. >>'moi tcuaith rtf e ba. want tgea eainer > reroourod bl congp. wee sooi t fm gog tk oulis e siba ma bin laden. >>> later, general election preview. on a lighter note, "saturday night live" style. it's all coming up. >>> "meet the press" is sponsored by ge. imagination at work. you think you take off all yr make-up before b. but doou really? [ fe announcer ] neutrogena® mp remover erases of your stuorn makeup with oneowelet n youreup r do t femannounc] utr® mup r >>> wre bacwi o rnd tae. wreoi tgoo w rk noto brian wlis

include mexico governor susanna martinez, south carolina governor nikki haley, of texas senator kay bailey hutchison and new hampshire senator --. >> the dow jones will start the day above 13,000 again today after wall street had its best day in months on tuesday. analysts credit the rally on easing worries about europe. all eyes will be on berkshire hathaway stock today if one day after businessman warren buffett announced that he has stage one prostate cancer. the 81-year-old told investors the condition is not life- threatening. we will have more on the company's future coming up in today's america's money report. >> athere have been two fires on a particular metrobus model. >> this was a long route 50. more than 90 buses are out of service now. brianne carter is live in falls church with the latest. >> metro says they are looking into exactly what is causing this problem. in the interim they have pulled 94 buses off the roads while they try to figure out exactly why the two buses burst into flames. yesterday one bus burst into flames along route 50. last thursday the same thing happened on a bus

senator kay bailey hutchison and kelly ayotte and susan collins and olympia snowe from maine and we don't see any evidence of this. >> the problem with rebutting the whole war on women thing saying it's manufactured, these women that you're citing might agree with you on it. but the problem is the woman when who say agree with him on this do not agree with him on this. >> if you do not agree this as an attack on women, you need to go home and talk to your wives, talk to your daughters. ask them if they feel that this is an attack. >> so at this point we have three strikes, which under normal circumstances would mean the end, it would mean you're out. but the republicans are still out there swinging away. they have to. they will lose the election with numbers among this bad on women. the idea that republicans are acting contrary to women's interest and women are turning away from them is polls is not going away. so yesterday the romney campaign convened a conference call to talk about how a romney presidency would be for women and the economy in particular and how awful president obama was

senator kay bailey hutchison and kelly ayotte from new hampshire and susan collins and olympia snoweould be the first to say, and lisa murkowski from alaska, we don't see any evidence of this. >> lisa murkowski of alaska would say you don't see any evidence of this. the problem for senator mcconnell that the republican women who he say would agree with him on this issue do not agree with him on this issue. >> this is not only discussion in congress, but you've got presidential wannabes that are talking about whether or not contraception is good, bad, indifferent, wrong. women feeling that the party that i have chosen to affiliate myself, the republican party, is ignoring their concerns. is, is causing them to feel like the rights that they believe were settled a long time ago are now being threatened, possibly eroded. it makes no sense to go down this road. it makes no sense to attack women and if you don't view this n women, then you need the to go home and you need to talk to your wives, you need to go talk to your daughters. ask them if they feel that this is an attack. >> yeah, s

. >> olympia snow, kay bailey hutchison. >> those are the people who do the deals. >> you were crying over dick, i know you were. >> i'm not touching that. it's not only the candidates, it's not only the outside groups, it's spending, right? crossroads is going to drop 17 million on these congressional races. that is certainly going to have an effect on the landscape, the positions people feel they can take. i look forward and it is a bleak picture in terms of how congress is going to function, especially given the fact that everybody's constantly running for constant re-election. >> hugo makes a fair point. there's a lot of generallization especially in congress counsel races of the specifics of what happens. there are also a lot of local factors at play in every single one of these races. that's worth something worth keeping in mind. there's general trends. interesting to see whether what happened in 2010 remains an upward swing that way for the tea party. you have a lot of people, orrin hatch is another race, obviously not the same kind of thing. somebody who's been in the senate f

he points out that gloria steinem was dismissed kay bailey hutchison as a female impersonator. this goes on both ends. guest: women can be as brutal to women as men. focus on the issues that everybody cares about. host: margaret is on the phone from new jersey. caller: you have yourself in a pickle this morning. i would like to concur with the lady from chicago. if you listen to hillary's it was thatonsents, women of means have an easier time deciding whether or not to stay at home as opposed to those women who have to work outside the home and care for their children. i have another comment, if i may. this fellow from north carolina, i would like to know if he commentss ted nugent's reflected of romney's views. thank you. host: thank you, margaret. guest: the obama campaign did that this time. host: please ask, the first families have been poor. the president talked about this week, a growing up in a single family. laura bush broke up central texas and a middle-class family. guest: a great number of them. abraham lincoln. his wife tried to prove to the country and prove to the

he said there is no issue. [ mumbling ] >> senator kay bailey hutchison, from maine, i think would behat they do. >> yeah, they do. [ applause ] >> the senior senator's -- as tom delay would say -- >> kay bailey hutch enson, the senior -- senior senior citizen -- senator -- >> yeah. he needs to go back to his ter rare um and talk to his little turtle family. >> he needs to go back to his turtle tunnel. >> and have a little chat. >> once the egg hatches, i will have a discussion with my fee meal offspring. >> the eggs that elaine chow laid? what that is his wife. [ buzzer sounds ] [ laughter ] >> speaks about the war against women, albright has some us in for donald trump, the world does not evolve around his penis. she explained to trump the whole world does not revolve around his anatomy, and she would have to use a magnifying glass -- >> you know what she was thinking? what would stephanie miller say? >> sure. huge! >> huge! >> hi kaz in syracuse. >> hi. i got a question. zimmerman did the policemen get the gun or give it back to him. >> i assume they gave it back to him, kaz, since

the bill includes a provision that i added along with my cosponsor, senator kay bailey hutchison of texas, that will help law enforcement more effectively target high-tech predators. because stalking, just like any of the other crimes recognized in the violence against women act, is a crime that affects victims of every race, age, culture, gender, sexual orientation, and economic status. the numbers are truly alarming. in just one year, 3.4 million people in the united states reported that they had been victims of stalking and 75% of those victims reported that they had been stalked by someone that they knew. overall, around 19 million women in the united states have at some point during their lifetime been stalked. the national center for victims of crime estimates that one out of every four stalking victims is stalked through some form of technology. you know this is a change, mr. president, and that is why senator hutchison and i drafted this amendment that basically says that the same -- the laws have to be updated, because law enforcement has to be as sophisticated as the people who

first, senator pryor, kay bailey hutchison from the senate. amy, tom harkin, chuck schumer., the most senior of them all! we are getting there, we are getting there. ok, i want all of our colleagues from the house to raise their hands so they can be acknowledged. [applause] wave to barbara. and now for our surprise guest. barbara kept saying to me, "why can't we start the program? people have to get to the food and refreshments and the dessert." i said, "just a few more minutes." "who are we waiting for?" she is never impatient, you know that. [laughter] it is a tremendous honor for all of us and a real sign of the respect and regard with which senator barbara mikulski has been held for decades, and now passing this great record, the longest serving woman, most accomplished woman in the congress of the united states ever, for us to have with us a person who has been a champion for the american people, a person who has been a champion for america's women. a bill that is coming up soon, the violence against women act, has no greater champion than our vice-president, joe biden.