scott brown, the united states senator from massachusetts. junior senator from massachusetts. it began as a grassroots response for americans look for a voice. tea partiers are gathering for their first ever convention. we are going to nashville. >>> saw scott brown being sworn in as the junior senator from massachusetts. she about to hold a news conference. walking in to meet with the reporters right now. there he is. i don't know if he will mick an opening statement or go right to questions. let's listen in. >> thank you very much. appreciate everybody taking the time to come. i know we have a storm brewing down here. it is a big storm up our way. just a little dusting. i want to read a statement and then i will take your questions. it has been a great honor to stand before you as the united states senator from massachusetts. i want to express my gratitude and appreciation to many people starting with my wife, gail, who is here. honey, thank you. to the vice president biden. i have always wanted to meet him. i'm finally glad hi an opportunity. obviously senators kerry sxsh l

that, the independence of massachusetts won it. i am from massachusetts originally and i know what drives that state and it certainly isn't a republican policies. i think it was a wonderful thing that happened and i think that you put your finger on something. the people in this country have said they're not happy with either the democrats were the republicans and if the republicans behave like they've done in the past, the recent election will have meant nothing. i was reading "the wall street journal" a few days ago and there was an article in there that talk about how the american people were disgusted with those parties. i think in fact what they're disgusted with his politics. and i think the message i got out of that wall street journal said that the republican party has an opportunity to rally around a central theme, and that is term limits and getting those people in washington that are professional politicians, not interested in what happens to us, but what happens to them, the power, the greek and the bipartisanship that

and i know his wife as a role as a reporter in massachusetts. have sat together now a couple times. we are going to work for massachusetts. we are going to work for the country. we are going to try to find the common bround. we are going to work hard to do it. >> larry: you are disappointed in the election? >> i was in massachusetts when that thing was going on from the beginning of january until when ever, the 18th, 19th. i had a chance to see the debates and the campaigning. and he is an appealing figure. we have a bright, capable attorney general who doesn't have that appeal. and john said, the patience, and this and that, and think it was important. >> larry: talking about division what do you make of the tea party? that is from your neck of the woods, the boston tea party? >> entirely understandable. >> larry: really? >> are you kidding. it's enormous deficits. i completely understand it. you bet. and none of us should presume that you can just oppose things and have a strategy of obstruction and not suffer consequences. i think the america

the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr.mcgovern: madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mcgovern: madam speaker, the resolution provides for consideration of the senate amendment to h.j. res. 45, the debt limit and statutory pay-go resolution. the rule makes in order a motion offered by the majority leader or his designee that the house concur in the senate amendment. the rule waives all points of order against the motion except those arising under clause 10 of house rule 21 and provides one hour of debate on the motion. the rule divides the question between concurring in the matter preceding title 1 of the senate amendment and concurring in titles 1 and 2 of the amendment. the first portion of the question shall be considered as adopted. and if the second portion fails, then the house will be considered to have made no disposition on the senate amendment. madam speaker, this vote is both historic and difficult. it's historic because it's reinstati

also today scott brown of massachusetts gets sworn in at 5 p.m. eastern. he replaced kirk who is scheduled to give his farewell address. live now to the senate here on c-span 2. senate will come to order. the chaplain, dr. barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. the chaplain: let us pray. almighty and everlasting god, in whom we live and move and have our being, we invoke your divine presence among us. draw our senators nearer to you and to one another, as you give them the gift of your peace that is beyond all human understanding. lord, give them also courage, fortitude, and stability that will keep them firm and steadfast in the face of difficulties. may they serve with fidelity the cause of our nation and of our common humanity. lord, help them to build alliances with others who seek to bring sense and system to our disordered world. we pray in your holy name. amen. the presiding officer: please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it

if our democratic friends don't understand what massachusetts was about, that is scary. scott brown took ted kennedy's seat in massachusetts the bluest of blue states running on the idea that he would be the 41st vote against this massive health care bill. what's their response? to accuse us of crying when they try to it through with 51 votes and ignore the american people by making it bigger. i think they've lost their mind. >> greta: what are the

massachusetts a nice try. god bless him. [laughter] that you had a candidate that did not give up because he believes something he brought that to the table and shared it with the people of the massachusetts said what they are doing now is not good for you. to be accountable as a leader when i go to washington. number two, but i am going to washington and i am taking you with me. very different conversation that is our moment we are the parties are are not afraid to account any more prickly want to be held accountable and when we go lead we want you with us because you have our faith in the business and the people not the government. that is very powerful to make this into this question will allow us to achieve the goal to take control of the congress this year if the people have the faith in us that when we get it we will do the right thing. >> chairman thank you for being with us today. my name is chris and i am a student at pepperdine. along the same lines of communicating with americans and getting them to understand our

we're going to work for massachusetts. we're going to work for the country.the common ground. and i think that's what's he's interested in doing. >> larry: are you disappointed in the election? >> i was in massachusetts when that thing was going on from the beginning of january till whenever, the 19th, the 18th? >> yeah, the 19th. >> i had the occasion to see the debates, to see the campaigning and to see all of that. and i wasn't surprised. plus he's an appealing figure. >> larry: he is. >> we had a very bright, capable attorney general who was -- doesn't have that kind of appeal that he did. and very different style of campaigning. and i think that people liked that, for the reasons john said, the anger, the impatience, the this, the that, and i think that was important. >> larry: talking about division, what do you make of the tea party? that's from your neck of the woods, the boston people. that's where it first happened. >> without water. >> larry: without water and dumping tea. >> entirely understandable. >> larry: really? >> absolutely. are you kidding

the adams returned to massachusetts in june 1788. within the year of their life changed again when john was elected the first vice president under the new constitution. he served eight years in what he called the most insignificant office. [laughter] >> during those years and later during the presidency, abigail frequently return to quincy to oversee the farm and preserve her health. she preferred village life in massachusetts to that in any of the three capital cities. first new york, then philadelphia, then washington, d.c.. more than 500 of john and abigail's letters survived from this period of their lives. >> new york, may 14, 1789. my dearest friend. i have received yours on the fifth. you think it best to leave thomas at college, but i pray you come on to charles as soon as possible. as to money to pay your expenses, you must if you can borrow enough to bring you here. if you cannot borrow enough you must fill horses, oxen, sheep, cow, any rate rather than not come on. not if no one will take the place, leave it to the birds o

maybe he was bipartisan up there in massachusetts some of the time. i think he's going to be very much a part of the team, the republican rejectionist team from the get-go. that was my dominant impression especially having made that crack about not one job having been created by the stim. >> is that why he flip flopped on the date of being installed? he had said the 11th and now suddenly it had to be today. is this about a filibuster of the jobs bill? >> partly. i think possibly because that would make sense because his crack about the stimulus bill came in answer to a question about what are you going to do about the jobs bill? and so his predicate there was, you know, i don't believe these kinds of bills work. they don't work at all. so if the stimulus package didn't work at all, i'm assuming that's what he thinks about the jobs bill that the president is trying to put forward, which is kind of stimulus junior. so, yeah. i think he couldn't wait to get down there. i got the sense of a real, as i said, combative guy, couldn't wait to get down here an

time was higher than it is in massachusetts today. his first as a president and as a political leader in our country are numerous. he was the first school teacher to become president. he was the first new englander to become president. he was the first harvard man to become president. he was the first real farmer. in other words, as opposed to a planter or slave master. he also is the only -- he and abigail are the only ones among the founding fathers, as we call them, who did not own slaves. ever. and, as a matter of principle. a very important aspect of their outlook on life. it is often said in trying to understand slavery, trying to understand the culture of the south, that we have to remember to see things in terms of the times in which they happened, that we must understand the slave master's point of view in the context of that time. well, jol john adams -- well, john adams lived in that time, abigail lived in that time. other new englanders owned slaves, and it was quite common to hire slaves out at harvest time, and the adams

scott brown scratched some panic in massachusetts, otherwise would not be here. you and charles krauthammer, who normally sits in that position, disagree about the long-term significance of this. >> in massachusetts, voters for whom health care was the primary issue voted for martha coakley, not scott brown. charles and others -- i don't want to attack him in his absence, but they want is to be some great ideological -- there is dissatisfaction -- >> new jersey -- this guy -- >> no question of all. in all three cases, the democrats lost the middle, lost independents, who obama kerri, and in all three cases, the republican candidate was more likable and appealing than the democratic candidate. >> that is what the tea party stuff is all about. >> i don't know if the tea party people than ever smashed into a real movement way they can deliver on the kinds of threats that they are making. they are very fractured. but also, if you look carefully at what is going on even in the republican party, they are not having the kind of impact that people may believe. you look a

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and we got to show whose side are you on and the public, this massachusetts -- polling out of the massachusetts ray the voters thought government is more on the side of wall street than main street. >> yeah. >> and that can't be with the democrats in power. we have to show whose side we are on. >> senator, the folks that i ran into yesterday at hartford, connecticut, they think washington is broken. they like obama, they want him to succeed, but they don't believe that this congress is ever going to get together or work together on anything and they feel like they are being left behind and there is a real, no offense, throw the bums out attitude out there. >> i get that i get that. >> and i know you get it. so considering that, if it's about getting something done, have the democrats in caucus talked about reconciliation on everything? reconciliation on everything? they haven't come your way in over a year. what's going to change this? you have to create jobs. if they don't want to do it, the hell with them. you got go reconciliation on this as well, don't you? >> as much as we can pass with th

some of her field operatives in massachusetts and new hampshire are now, as i understand, working fordemocratic nominee there. they probably should have been there a little sooner. most people watching the race closely believe that their involvement is being done at the last minute, very quickly, and may be too little, too late, if i may use a cliche on c-span. host: steve on the republican line. caller: i'm wondering if you could talk about mitt romney, the conflict between his public image and private conduct. and also mike huckabee. thanks. guest: for a variety of reasons, we did not spend as much time on the republican race, because it lacked the drama. but there are some things on it romney could to the specific question, there is one of very striking example of the striking public image and private reality and the kiss of romney. mitt romney's public image, if anything, was defined as a competent ceo character. he was an arch catalyst and had run -- arch-capitalist and had run bain capital. he could run government like running a board room. throughout our coverage in the book of

he's all about massachusetts.aple holds of his campaign was saying, we don't need this national health care system because we have it here in massachusetts pep really is trying to brand himself as massachusetts first, party second. >> now i have -- we want to segue -- i couldn't even come up with a natural segue for this. but apparently the president and the vice president had an interesting visit from a certain high profile columbian singer. >> usually we look at these and maybe someone like hengry kissinger. but on monday, they met with shakira about early developmental childhood education issues. she had an early morning meeting with the president and the vice president. that's an early one to come up on the log. i'm sure both of those men were more enthusiastic to meet with her rather than a henry kissinger. i know i would be. >>> and the senate has passed the jobs bill. so there you go. >> that's a big win for democrats to really shift the narrative to jobs away from health care, showing that they're trying t

look at scott brown's election in massachusetts. what did he say?ould spend -- money should be spent to defeat the terrorists, not for lawyers to defend them. and that resonated across the country. i still hear about it in wyoming. i heard about it at a chili feed the other night by our meals on wheels group. people all across the country want to make sure we are safe and don't feel it this way with this attorney general making these decisions. >> i give your side of the aisle tremendous credit for the way you message to your base and how it reverberates throughout some who don't have all the facts. we are just as safe or safer today under president obama. miranda rights has nothing do with security. michael bloomberg did the biggest flip-flop this city has ever seen and new yorkers that i talk to are not afraid about their security. it's just i guess a measure of how we want it view it all. senator, good to have you on tonight. >> thanks, ed. >>> joining me now, joan walsh, editor in chief of salon.com. joan, is this just political pandering? in yo

>> he's a dream candidate in terms of conservatives in massachusetts. we're talked about the most liberal state in the country. so you can't get much better than that. >> neil: you can't get much better than that in massachusetts but you're saying generally, what he campaigned on and for, might not register nationally? >> you know, every state is different. so in rhode island, i think his message is going to resonate quite clearly. there will be a similar theme come election time. his message may not be exactly what needs to be said in other parts of the country. but he really didn't focus on the fiscal issues, the healthcare issues. that's something that all americans care about. they don't care about all of this horse trading that's going on. people just want jobs. they don't want their houses foreclosed upon. it's all about the economy and that's what his focus was on for the -- that's why he won. >> neil: all right. that's the why he's going to become a senator in 51 minutes. that's right. >> stimulus, 2009. jobs. if stimulus bills won't get them, p

they sent a slew of figures saying in scott brown's office in massachusetts, they spent $1 billion in funds that went to nine jobs. the bottom line is that is something that democrats are saying, huh-uh, that's not exactly right. what's very interesting about this press conference is that's the only detailed response we got from scott brown who is very careful to give general answers about the kind of senator he is going to be and the kind of votes he's going to cast. we'll just have to wait and see, wolf. >> probably smart for him to be very, very careful, on this the first day being a state senator. >>> the filibuster-proof senate majority, but are the parties on the same page at all? listen to what the house republican leader and the president both said today. >> it's kind of hard to figure out there is some kind of shell game going on here. i know bipartisanship when i see it. it's not seeing one thing and doing another. >> there is a sense that something is different now, that something is broken. those of us in washington are not serving the people as well as we should. at times

the independence in massachusetts one this. i'm from massachusetts are originally, and i know what drives the state and it certainly isn't the republican policies. i think that was a wonderful thing that happened, and i think that you put your finger on something. the people in this country have said they are not happy with either the democrats or republicans, and if the republicans behave like they've done in the past, the recent election will have meant nothing. i was reading "the wall street journal" a few days ago and there was an article in there that talked about how the american people were kind of disgusted with both parties. i think in fact what they were disgusted with his politics. and i think the message or got out of "the wall street journal" article said that the republican party has an opportunity to rally around a central theme and that is term limits and getting those people of washington that a professional politicians, not interested in what happens to us, but what happens to them, the power grab, the greed a

scott brown, the massachusetts republican who won ted kennedy's former seat, was sworn in yesterday by vice president joe biden. senator brown told reporters he is willing to work with democrats on health care and the economy, but is concerned about huge new spending deficits. >> people back home, i can tell you, were very upset at the amount of spending not only in massachusetts, but you couple that with the amount of tax dollars that are being spent and sometimes wasted, people are fed up. >> brown gives republicans 41 senate vote, enough to blokt democrat prs pushing through president obama's agenda. >>> brown's surprise victory in massachusetts was thanks in part to the tea party movement which opened its first national convention thursday in nashville. tea partiers fiercely owe pose government taxes, spending policies and regulation. their convention will climax tomorrow night with a speech from former alaska governor sarah palin. >>> scientists are reporting a brain scan breakthrough in their study of people with severe brain injuries. researchers in belgium and bret tip found un

it seems to of happened in massachusetts.places like boston and plymouth county, those voters decided that we have had enough and we will take out our anger at the ballot box. i think scott brown spoke to them. host: a writer writes about the role of independents going for it and she quotes summoned from brookings. obama can improve the economy. people are worried about their jobs. prosperity we do a lot to reduce the populist anger. guest: i would agree. one thing that animates the independents right now is their economic prospects. i used to be older workers, middle age and beyond, the were looking at their prospects negatively. younger people feel the same way. looking at independents in general is tough because they are a diverse group of people. they lean democratic because of you can see they are soft democrats. this sometimes go there and is sometimes stay in between. there is a group that are leaning republican. these people are very animated. they make up a lot of libertarians. this group has been coming out in drove

you see the situation with scott brown up in massachusetts, he's pro-choice. they can't win with a pro-lifer up there, so they go with a guy that can win. it looks like the fellow who won in illinois the other night, mark kirk, i'll bet on him in the general. they're picking a guy that's not a tea party guy. they didn't beat him either. >> i agree with you. i don't agree -- >> i don't think the republican party is ready to throw in the towel. >> i don't think you ought to have a national litmus test. let the state party do it. i can tell you this. if a guy comes in at the state level and wins the united states senate seat and he's pro-choice, and liberal on the social issues, i can tell you, chris, he's got a cutoff after point in -- >> where are you in mccain versus hayworth? >> if i'm out in arizona, i would vote for j.d. hayworth who is a friend of mine. >> we know where you stand. >> we absolutely know where you stand. he's a birther, an extremist. thank you, pat. >> this is why you lose -- do you know why you lose these people? because you show contempt f

that i've introduced in the house of representatives, distinguished senator from the state ever massachusetts, senator ted kennedy, who has done a marvelous job, not just with this legislation that we hope to pass -- [applause] >> not only with this legislation that we hope to pass to create an adams' memorial, but maybe some day there will be a kennedy memorial in our nation's capital to the great things that that family has achieved over the span of their many, many talented generations of public service. i also -- i'd also like to say in my remarks here as well, too, that in the dinner that we talked about, we talked about

two weeks after massachusetts elected a republican senator, the president tried to regain momentum with voters in new hampshire. >> sometimes it's easy for politicians to exploit the anger, the pain that people are feeling right now. i have to point out, though, that some of the very same folks in congress who oppose the recovery act and claim it hasn't worked have been all too happy to claim credit for recovery act projects and the jobs that every those project produce. they come to the ribbon cuttings and they found a way to have their cake and vote against it too. >> okay. although the president says his policies are not a bolshevek

and on capitol hill, newly elected massachusetts senator scott brown was sworn in today, a full week earlier than expected. >>> and a moderate magnitude 5.9 earthquake rattled the northwestern coast of california. this there are no reports of any serious damage or injuries. >>> and a brutal selloff on wall street today. the dow plunging more than 268 points, dropping below 10,000. now back to "hardball." >>> well, if i'm a rhino, so is ronald reagan. i mean, i'm a less taxing, less spending, more freedom kind of guy. i just take a pragmatic, common-sense approach to government. and if that's not what the people want, they'll let me know. i'm confident. >> welcome back to "hardball." that was charlie crist, fighting a big fight on the right out in florida.

the independence of massachusetts won it.i am from massachusetts originally and they know what drives that state and it certainly isn't the republican policies. i think that it was a wonderful thing that happened and i think you put your finger on something. the people in this country have said they're not happy with either the democrats or the republicans. and if the republicans behave like they've done in the past, the recent election will have meant nothing. i was reading "the wall street journal" a few days ago and it was an article in their bed talked about how american people were disgusted with both parties. i think in fact what they're disgusted with his politics. and i think the message i got out of that wall street journal article said that the republican party has an opportunity to rally around a central theme and that his term limit. and getting those people in washington that are professional politicians, not interested in what happens to us, but what happens to them, but parker m., degree, the bipartisanship tha

republican scott brown is going to be sworn in as the massachusetts newest senator at 5:00 eastern.s a democratic strategist, he was senior adviser to the gore presidential campaign in 2000. terry hold is a republican strategist serving as national spokesman for the bush cheney campaign in 2004. first to you, bob, good to see you. let's talk about this 59-member majority. what the president was saying to the democratic senators yesterday was man up on this. you have 59 votes. why can't you get anything done? you have the second largest majority in history. what's the problem? >> when we had 60 votes, we didn't really have 60 votes in the sense he had to negotiate so hard for the last couple of votes. the significance of the massachusetts election was the overreaction to it, especially on the part of some democrats. the seating of scott brown -- >> some of them in the white house themselves talk about changing the whole state of the union on a dime. >> i think the president in the end ended up in the right place, refused to retreat into a non-position, bite-sized presidency that woul

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and as the chief executive of the commonwealth of massachusetts. to fix a broken economy, let me give you a piece of advice. it is something i think of regularly when i think my challenges. if you want to fix something broken, especially economic policies, you have to listen to governor mitt romney. i know what he is talking about. when you get through listening to him you know what i have known for many years. he means it when he says he is committed to rebuilding the republican party. he has done it not only in massachusetts. let me backtrack. i have been known to go off script. thank god my daughter is not behind me. [laughter] i remember when i ran for the state senate that he was the only one pushing me. he is the same person running as a u.s. senator, the first guy to push me and encouraged me. as i began, a lot of doors in the washington closed to me. mitt was there with money, expertise, but he held fund- raisers for me. he kept encouraging me to plow ahead. to keep believing. he saw in the beginning that i had a chance. for that i am so th

the independence in massachusetts one this.i'm from massachusetts are originally, and i know what drives the state and it certainly isn't the republican policies. i think that was a wonderful thing that happened, and i think that you put your finger on something. the people in this country have said they are not happy with either the democrats or republicans, and if the republicans behave like they've done in the past, the recent election will have meant nothing. i was reading "the wall street journal" a few days ago and there was an article in there that talked about how the american people were kind of disgusted with both parties. i think in fact what they were disgusted with his politics. and i think the message or got out of "the wall street journal" article said that the republican party has an opportunity to rally around a central theme and that is term limits and getting those people of washington that a professional politicians, not interested in what happens to us, but what happens to them, the power grab, the greed an

he was an arch capitalist in addition to the governor of massachusetts of course but the notion that he was a pragmatic businessman like he could run the government as if it were a board room. >> guest: the decisis captain of the industry. >> guest: what you see throughout the coverage in the book of romney is that his staff was constantly frustrated the fact he was indecisive and he couldn't decide on things as elemental as picking a campaign slogan to read this discussion went on for months and months and the never came up with a slogan because romney was constantly seeking more advice and the consultant site dominated. he would constantly ask for more input and was taking more and more data and the deluge of the data panel by stem from making decisions and for a lot of people love him they were stunned by that the disparity between that decisiveness the salles. his relationship with either candidates was a portable and we have some quite vivid details of the book, john mccain and mike huckabee and how much of the republican candidates disliked mitt romney and saw him as a prima do

that's the word from officials in freetown, massachusetts. the water started spilling over the dam this week and about a dozen people were advised to leave their homes. but last night officials said that the water will probably recede and the dam should be okay. this was a huge relief because safety experts were very concerned yesterday. >>> motivational speaker james arthur ray is out of jail and breaking his silence about the death of three people in a sweat lodge at a retreat that he was leading. ray was released yesterday, a day after a judge reduced his bond. here he is. here's what he had to say. >> i'm really, really grateful for all the love and support and the prayers i've received during this time. i have a tremendous faith in our legal system and i look forward to my day in court. >> now, prosecutors claim ray recklessly crammed more than 50 people into a sweat lodge last october while he led a spiritual retreat. ray insists that it was a horrible accident and not homicide. he has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter charges. >>> pre

comes in representing the people in massachusetts who are hurting and says he is independent, we will see. but from my perspective, ed, i'm willing to support whatever mechanism, whatever tools we have to get things done. that's our job. and we are going to do everything we can to get things done. we passed the recovery act last year when we had 58 votes. we passed children's health insurance, a whole range of things, mortgage help, credit card help, so on. so we are going to proceed. they can choose to be with us and govern or they can choose to continue. we are at 107 objections now, higher than any other time in our history. so they can choose to do that. >> we have talked about filibusters. you have talked about it in the past. >> right. right. >> you see this sea change all of a sudden, the republicans changing their attitude. i just don't see it happening because of the create jobs obama's going to get -- the president's going to get an awful lot of credit for it. >> right. >> but when you take a look at the obstruction numbers, what is different about a job package

are they as angry in illinois as they were in massachusetts a few week back? what's the white house, what's the president have riding on today's vote? lynn sweet, an expert in chi-town politics. washington bureau chief of the "chicago sun-times." and john heilemann is the best-selling author of "game change," also a reporter for new york magazine. lynn sweet on the ground, lynn, this race, what skin does the president have in this race in the sense that he'd like to -- i guess let me ask you the question. what skin's he got in the game? >> he's got a lot of skin because illinois, we are the first in the primary state. it's his state and it's his seat. symbolical symbolically, he's got a lot of skin in the game. and you have a lot of chicagoans in the race who are supposed to know a thing or two about winning chicago elections. the democrats are not the favorite to win in november. >> let's take a look at the anti-incumbent thing, we have an incumbent governor who went in appointed governor to take over for blagojevich. you have the president's own senate seat

are they as angry in illinois as they were in massachusetts a few week back?sident have riding on today's vote. lynn sweet, washington bureau chief of the chica"chicago sun " and john heilemann is the best-selling author of "game change," also a reporter for new york magazine. lynn sweet on the ground, lynn, this race, the -- what skin does the president have in this race, in the sense -- well, let me ask the question, what skin does he have in the game. >> he has a lot of skin, illinois is going to be used as a big fund-raising appeal for the national republicans starting tomorrow morning. we are the first in the primary state. it's his state, and it's his seat. he has a lot of skin in the game, also, have you a lot of chicagoans in the white house, who are supposed to know a thing or two about winning illinois elections. as we start out here, the democrats are not -- are not the favorite to win in november. >> let's take a look at the anti-incumbent thing, we have an incumbent governor who went in -- appointsed to take over for blagojevich. you have the pres

>> i had great respect for senator kennedy, everybody in massachusetts did. whether you agreed with him, we all had great respect for him. he had a super sense of humor. it's temporary housing, i understand that. i'm looking forward to when the cameras go away i'll settle down and get to work. >> thank you, everybody. >> did you get that business card? >> yes. >> still no business cards. the senator-elect from the state of massachusetts, scott brown, waiting for a swearing in. with us, jonathan wiseman. reporter for the wall street journal. how are you? >> good, how are you? >> how big is change is this? how much legislation difference will he make? >> it's amazing to think that the democrats have a majority of 59 and it has -- that one seat has made such a difference. this is still the second largest majority since the johnson administration. but the republicans have maintained remarkable discipline on obama's priorities. so this is a very, very big deal. republicans now need to be brought to the table on any major teal that president obama things he's going

. >> representative ed markey of massachusetts. >> if you take energy as an issue in massachusetts, thethat half of the trade deficit of the united states is importing oil so people understand that, and the understand that as a result we need policies that deal with that issue and a policy in a state that has no oil, has no gas, has no coal goes to creating new jobs in a renewable energy, the efficiency economy, new electric vehicles, all of it which can be invented out of mit, harvard, all of the university's. the same thing is true in the biotech sector and you can go down. so a lot of this is positioning massachusetts in a global economy. the country itself only has 3% of the population for the 24 -- 21st century. we have to decide where we are going to position ourselves in the economy such a large extent it is in this innovation economy is coming up with ideas creating the products and selling them across the planet so there is to be all of these new quote energy companies that are coming along the line much less like all the telecom companies and internet companies of the 1990's t

a senator from massachusetts. and he was not alone in breaking ranks there, five republicans broke ranks to support this measure, olympia snowe, collins, voinovich. and kit bond. scott brown said i will vote for it paw it helps put people back to work. rick santorum is a fox news contributor, and maria, welcome, let me go 20 u -- and were you disappointed in the senator's vote? >> no, the principal objection that republicans had on this bill was it didn't allow republicans to offer an amendment, that we wanted to bring a bill to the floor and have republican ideas be put forward. you know, i don't think a member from massachusetts can get you and say look, i didn't vote for it, not because i don't like what's in it because he obviously did like it and most republicans liked what was in it, but because -- martha: what did they like about it? you go back to it, we still haven't spent at least one third of the other stimulus bill, i think americans go what about that money, why can't you use that for a jobs bill, why

caller: i am confused about what happened in massachusetts.asm. i campaigned for her. i tried my best. for example, our phone banks were not open when they were supposed to be. it was poorly organized. it was not a reaction to the obama policy, and i am sure it was not a reaction to her policy, but rather the way that she ran the campaign. guest: clearly, there is disagreement over whether or not she ran an effective campaign. i remember she was holding a fundraiser here in washington on capitol hill. that became fodder for scott brown. she had a lot of verbal miscues, and there were a lot of problems. that said, when you look across the state, 51% of the electorate in massachusetts are independent. if you look at what they said in exit polls, they said we are worried about the economy. i think that was reflected in the results. host: the economy is a key issue, but yesterday scott brown talked about his views on abortion. >> you are pro-choice. gay marriage is legal in massachusetts, but the republican party, apart from language, calls for th

scott brown was sworn in as the new senator from massachusetts.licans 41 votes, enough to sustain filibusters and change the senate's political dynamic. and wall street plunged on new fears about the january jobs report due out tomorrow. the dow jones industrial average fell nearly 270 points. the newshour is always online, of course. hari sreenivasan, in our newsroom, previews what's there. hari. >> sreenivasan: we look at the formal retraction of a study linking autism to a vaccine by the medical journal, "the lancet"; a comparison of how other countries handle gays in the military from charles sennott, editor of the global post, an international news web site. and for something different-- a poem about the housing crisis on paul solman's "making sense" page. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. jeff. >> brown: and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm jeffrey brown. >> lehrer: and i'm jim lehrer. we'll see you online, and again here tomorrow evening with mark shields and david brooks, among others. thank you and good night. ma

and then the next tuesday was the election in massachusetts. get the job done. we have got to get the job done in health care, and we have to get the job done in half -- in energy. in energy, people are already saying it is impossible. if we cannot get 60 votes for health care, how will we get 60 votes for an energy bill? there you need 60 votes. ironically enough, in my view, which may have an easier time getting the 60 votes for the energy bill, because with the republicans being so partisan, senator lindsey graham said to me, who is a republican, a lot of republicans want to do something important. they know we have got to do something in this area. if for no other reason, he underscores this over and over again, for our national security to be protected from being dependent on foreign oil. lindsey graham, republican. joe lieberman, independent. john kerry, democrat. are working together to get a bill and the senate. i do not want to be a pollyanna about it. it will not be easy. i think we will have a chance to get a bill through in the sena

i think he in massachusetts, he got the message. and i hope that actually now he's taking the health care back to congress and overcoming the filibuster, the 60% vote requirement. and i think that's the right reaction. so he's sort of taking a tough stance. and that may be the turning point. depends on how he follows it up. but this could -- we may have had, say last week, the deepest point of the -- of his -- you know, roosevelt in his first year was also sort of tentative and didn't take a really tough stance. and he wasn't that popular either. then he really got tough. he was threatening to increase the number of judges on the supreme court to overcome that obstacle. and eventually he succeeded, and that made him popular. >> he failed at the court backing, but he succeeded politically is what you mean. >> yes, yes. >> one of the proposals, because banks have been making these unexpected and many think undeserved profits has been in various ways to claw back some of the money. the british and the french are talking about a tax on