>> he is out of touch with the voters of massachusetts. i understand he will use every photo of possible to go to the white house to talk about the fact that he co-sponsored a bill that got 93 votes in the united states senate, not exactly a profile in courage. at every opportunity wary had a chance to stand up against his own party, to stand up on the votes that mattered, he has failed to take that opportunity whether it is tax breaks for the biggest oil companies, whether it is his obstinate on the buffett rule, he is out of touch. it also has to do with our candidate is. elizabeth warren, if there is one fighter for the middle-class in this country to make sure they get a fair shake in a fair share, it is elizabeth warren and that is why we've gone from a race where we were down double digits just five months ago to erase that is essentially a margin of error rates. the other reason is because of the makeup of massachusetts. there are 800,000 more people that will turnout in this election then turned out in a special election against ma

and approve the new constitution of the commonwealth of massachusetts." it goes on with paragraphs of praise and then it predicts, it says, "we formed the most austicious omens of prosperity." those omens came to. the constitution served as probably the most important model to the federal constitution and today it's the oldest constitution in the western world. and i think in the entire world for that matter. but the letter from these soldiers turned from praise to plea. the soldiers reminded the legislature that they were still at war and the liberties promised in the new constitution of 1780 would be meaningless without support for the troops who were fighting for our freedoms. if only the legislatures of the respective states will vigorously carry into immediate effect the resolutions of congress, the enemy will be deprived of their hope of conquest. it seems clear, the soldiers in the field with washington knew that the fight for independence was far from over and that our new constitutional freedoms were still in jeopardy. they knew of the american c

the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. tierney: thank you, mr. speaker. just before i eld i want to correct the gentlema there is somebody that would get the free lunch and that is the oil companies that made $80 billion in profits last year. i recognize the gentleman from illinois for unanimous consent. mr. davis: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks in opposition to robbing health and education to pay for oil. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. tierney: with that, mr. speaker, i yield one minute to the gentleman from michigan, mr. kildee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan is recognized for one minute. mr. kildee: mr. speaker, i rise todayn strong opposition to the majority's faulty attempt to extend currentstudent loan interest rates. the ryan budget, which most of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle voted for, allow those interest rates to expire. it was only when they started gettg criticized by the press they decide to offer an alternative to our proposal. ev

i'm a republican in massachusetts. which they want back very, very badly, and it's literally me against the capitol hill and beacon hill machine. i'm not surprised. >> mike, you actually were predicting that scott brown was going to win before anybody else was predicting scott brown was going to win. >> yeah. >> and you explained it talking about the roads that led from boston. >> yeah. going out to worcester almost every day on the weekend, i take one of my sons out there to hit with rich getman, the boston red sox catcher. and going through the small towns, you see all sorts of scott brown signs. and this is in december right before christmas. and i told joe and mika one morning, i said, this guy is going to win. >> yeah. >> you could just feel it. but this year, running against elizabeth warren, it's going to be a terrific senate race. one of the best senate races ever was john kerry and bill will. >> sure. >> and this has the potential to be another good race like that. but we know what you have going against you.

in the space of a month in different towns in massachusetts. since the bell has just sounded, take a break for about 10 minutes and then we'll come back and resume our discussion of the grimke sisters. okay. let's resume our discussion. anybody have any questions about anything i talked about so far? please feel free to ask. if you have a question during the lecture, please raise your hand. let's resume our discussion of the grimke sisters of south carolina now leading extraordinary lives as outspoken abolitionists in the north. in 1837 the sisters gave 17 lectures in the space of about a month all over massachusetts. and we have a rare eyewitness account of what they said and how they related to the audience. this person witnessed angelina, the younger of the grimke sisters speaking. one man said that he would never forget the wonderful manifestation of her power as a speaker. she had a calm and simple eloquence as she spoke, and furthermore, elaborated angelina grimke had a wonderful gift which disarmed prejudice and carried her audience with

of clara's when she was a teacher back in massachusetts early on. so when she heard that they were the fellows wounded and being held or cared for at the senate chambers, she made a mad dash over there to visit them because she knew that those were, you know, former students and friends of hers. and she saw that they had absolutely nothing. they had lost all of the things they brought on the train with them in baltimore, and the u.s. government was unprepared to have to treat wounded this way, so they are sitting in the senate chambers on marble floor. and so she came home, gathered everything she could spare, started asking her friends for supplies, wrote home to her friends in new england for supplies, and now she's in the humanitarian relief supply business. so, she very quickly realized what a large job this was, and something that she was very, very well suited for, so basically, after years of kind of floundering and not knowing what she really wanted to do with her life, she found it here in washington, d.c. in the senate chambers. so she sta

his margin of victory because men voters in massachusetts it was a tie. were the key to kennedy's victory in massachusetts. >> so as far back as 1994 romney had trouble getting women voters. and then nearly two decades laters, it doesening seem like much has changed. in swing states obama leads romney among women by 18 points and leads among women under 50 by 30%, 60 to romney's 30. that means the president's nine-point overall lead in those swing states can be entirely acontributed to the female vote. the only group where romney does better than the president is men over 50. but that group is not going to be enough to carry mitt romney. so he has started to unleash his best weapon which is his life anne. here she is desperately trying to persuade voters that his reputation for being a stiff is really just a big misunderstanding. >> sometimes he appears stiff do you have to fight back -- like my husband isn't stiff, okay? [ laughter ] >> well you know, i guess we better unzip him and let the real mitt romney out. he is funny. he is engaging. he is it with

massachusetts and north carolina put it to a popular vote. that's a good idea. should we have a census, very democratic idea. should we have direct election? all of the states have direct election. represent the articles of confederation didn't. that's a big democratic reform. should we pay people? yes, pennsylvania does and that's actually a good system. how should we structure our executive, well, massachusetts has the best model and so let's sort of copy that one and add to it. if you read gordon's first book, creation of the american public, it's how the federal constitution is a reaction to the first and second is round of the state making in 1776. more democratic than you thought. that's the good news. we the people. do establish this constitution for the united states of america. alas more slave-ocratic. they get one thing wrong, it's not so little a thing. three-fifths means this -- what does it mean? what should it have been? slaves are counted for three-50s of purposes. that's wrong, right? everyone should count for one, right? should be five-fifths, r

the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. tierney: mr. speaker, at this time i yield one 1/2 minutes to the gentleman from michigan, mr. levin. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan is recognized for 1 1/2 minutes. without objection. mr. levin: the republicans have taken a 180-degree turn on helping with student loans. the republican budget said no. in february, governor mitt romney said this, the right course for america is to make sure that we provide loans to the extent we possibly can at an interest rate that doesn't have the taxpayers having to subsidize people who want to go to college. want to go to school. now he and the republicans here have shifted. shifty indeed. now they're doing so is not only politically expedient but extremely harmful. they hit health care. health care. they refuse to end a tax break for bill oil that never should have been given in the first place. even though the big five oil companies made more than $32 billion in the fourth quarter of last year alone. this bill is shameless.

>> he's got that massachusetts accent he can't deny.vered andy for years. i think he's a straightforward guy -- no, he said, i love mitch daniels. i tried to convince him to run for president. that sort of explains the situation. i think there are a lot of people in the party, including andy carr, who wanted somebody else examine they'll settle for mitt romney. >> let's make it tougher for you. a new nbc poll just came out. this is fascinating among the numbers. let's take a lookç at this. obama versus romney. look at these numbers. among latinos, take a look at this group. 69% to 22% among latinos. that's a pretty strong set of numbers there, 69 to 22. among younger voters, 18 to 34. 60% to 34%. women, 53% to 31%. independent voters, 31-34. these numbers almost triumphant for the president. how does mitt romney change the minds of latinos he's sort of been bashing all this campaign saying he wants them to self-deport. and younger people, how does he become hip? how does he convince women he's not from the yahoo party, and how does he

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joining me now is duval patrick from the common wealth of ma s massachusetts. >> good morning, luke.s for having me. >> there will be a cost containment bill in regard to the new massachusetts health care law. it said there's 99% of your state has garnered insurance, but premiums continue to go up and rising costs are a tremendous problem, so much so that the legislature will limit the amount of money that can be spent per patient. how is the health care bill a success in massachusetts beyond the insurance if it's the costs are still rising out of control? >> well, first of all, it's not rising out of control. we are, as you said, first of all, we reached nearly every individual, 98.2% of our residents have insurance and 99.8% of children and i don't think there's another state that can touch that. we are healthier, as well and there are all kind of independent indicators with the number of cancer screenings and the reduction in cancer rates to smoking cessation. more businesses are offering insurance to their employees and frankly, premium increases have slowed and we were around 17

president obama will win, i would say, 58, 60%, something like that in massachusetts.ant problem for scott brown, whatever the preelection polls say. i think elizabeth warren has a good chance to pick up that seat. >> what do you think? >> i agree with larry. >> because of the coat tail effect of the dramatic obama win. >> and i think massachusetts is inherently a democratic state. i think if the unemployment rate is high, scott brown by a little bit or elizabeth warren a lot. >> i think scott brown is a pure, and i don't mean this positively, a pure politician. people can read that any way they want. i mean, pure. this is what he is at, getting votes. with the truck and barber coat and he is so smart at not being an elitist. let's go to your state, larry, george is coming back after the problem he had a while back. he lost six years ago, he was heading for the presidency. now he is trying to get his seat back against tim kaine. popular moderate, i would say, recent chair of the democratic national committee. tim kaine versus george allen in your case. larry? >> chris,

first he created massachusetts right to bare arms day. then he became a lifetime member of the nra and began bragging about all of his hunting exploits take a listen. >> i'm not a big game hunter. i have always been if you will, a rodent and rabbit hunter. and i began when i was -- oh 15 or so and have hunted those kinds of varmints. >> not only did he say he went hunting more than two times, he also said he owned two shotguns. it was later revealed they were actually owned by his sons but by the end of 2007 the transformation of mitt romney was complete. he was a full-fledged been-loving, second amendment, defending friend of the nra. here he is in a taped message to that gun group, rewriting his entire record. >> as governor i worked closely with the nra and the gun-owner action league to advance legislation that expanded the rights of gun owners in my state, and my door was always open to you, and that will continue to be the case if i'm elected president. >> joining me now is john rosenthal, he has worked to pass gun control legislati

the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. tierney: mr. speaker, i yield myself three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized for three minutes. mr. tierney: i thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, it's nice to have our republican friends finally agree the interest rates will be a problem if they rise and doubled. since 2007 when the rates were first reduced when the democrats were in the majority, it's been resisted by our friends on the republican side. resisted in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and this has been raised to a degree where students and families started to really get involved and engaged that our friends on the other side of the aisle decided, well, they don't want the rates to go up either. but cynically, some might say, the only way they can find a pay-for is to attack women's health and children's health. women don't want this bill that way. children -- students don't want the bill this way. public health groups don't want the bill this way. the senate said they won't ac

>> i understand why he didn't answer it because he's got that massachusetts accent. i've covered andy for years. i think he's one of the most straightforward guys. no. no. no. andy, you said, i think, i love mitch daniels, ió[Ñ tried to convince him to run for president. >> i did. >> that sort of explains the situation. i think there are a lot of people in the party, including andy carr -- >> andy, you have a tough job and this is going to make it tougher. >> yes. >> let's make it tougher for you. let's look at this new poll that just came out. this is fascinating. let's take a look at this obama versus romney. among latinos, 69% to 22% among latinos. that's a pretty strong number. among younger voters, 18 to 34. 80% to 34%. 60% to 34%. women, 53% to 41%. independent voters, 44-34. these numbers are really triumphant for the president. highway does mitt romney change the mind of latinos? he's been bashing this campaign saying he wants them to self-deport and then young people, how does he become hip? how does he convince people that he's not from the yahoo party and

and then on to new bedford, massachusetts. in new bedford, he worked as i caulker, and a day laborer until about 1839, 1840. he escaped in 1838 but he began to speak at a black church. the african methodist episcopal zion church of new bedford and it was there that he was discovered as an orator in his fledgling youth of mere 21, 22 years old. he was discovered by william lloyd garrison's massachusetts's anti-slavery society. they invited him out to a big rally on nantucket island in august of 1841. he's only three years out of slavery. and there he gave his first public abolitionist speech. he was so talented, so effective at telling his own personal story as a slave that the garrisonians hired him, took him on the road and within a couple of years, he was probably the most sought after and famous abolitionist speaker on the entire northern circuit. >> we have lots of folks waiting on the line to talk to you, professor blight. it's hearer from david in pennington, new jersey. welcome. >> hello, professor. thank you so much. i

there were rallied, and also in massachusetts, fiery rally there, but all these rallies, randy, have been peaceful rallies and marches. everyone basically making the point that they want to see an arrest ms case. >> george howell for us. george, thank you very much. >>> well, many of you are thinking right now you have a better chance of getting hit by lightning than winning the lottery, but one of those things happened to a mega million tickets buyer in kansas, and he is telling us all about it. plus -- hi, reynolds. >> it's time for weather, i guess. >> are you ready? >> yeah. actually, absolutely. we're going to be seeing today a chance of severe weather across parts of the ohio valley. severe thunderstorms are possible, and maybe oon ace late. more snow in the mountains of the west, including the sierra nevada ash all that and more coming up. more than 150 million professionals are connecting here. linkedin connects with the big board. this is my grandson. and if it wasn't for a screening i got, i might have missed being here to meet him. the health care law lets those of us on m

something to drive home for massachusetts voters.y as somehow a bad guy or too conservative, going to be harder for her to win. she has to vector in on two or three issues. >> richard, you edited the piece, i'm curious what your take-away was from immersing yourself in this reporting. >> it was interesting that ej found a lot of people hadn't heard about either warren or brown yet. right now the campaign is sort of listening tour mode and biographic introduction mode. the two candidates both have very compelling stories. they had very difficult childhoods, elizabeth warren, white working class, had a terrible horrific childhood. >> scott brown had a childhood that involved an alcoholic mother, 17 homes in 18 years. i didn't know about it that much. >> and the memoir is beautifully written and very compelling. and they're both going around the state introducing themselves to voters and using their personal narratives to draw these subtle political messages. so elizabeth warren's is about how my family had problems, economic ones and t

>> he teaches english literature in high school in massachusetts, and he's a very good teacher. >> oneof our teaching fellows this summer -- they sent me a lot of questions for you here. i will ask one of them. this comes from jennifer morle why teaches high school in tampa. what are the rewards for teachers who do have extensive historical knowledge and are excellent in their field? in other words, do they get anything special when they are good? >> well, i think they get the same thing that one ought to get no matter what line of work you're in, the reward of the work itself, and the knowledge that they are influencing hundreds, thousands of young americans in the course of their careers. i don't know what the statistics are on how many lives a teacher will touch in the course of a career over 25, 30 years, but it must number to a sizable crowd. and that's very important. and the love of learning. to convey the love of learning. that's the most important thing a teacher can do because the education only gets rolling after you leave school, after you leave college or graduate school.

the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. tierney: mr. speaker, i yield myself three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized for three minutes. mr. tierney: i thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, it's nice to have our republican friends finally agree the interest rates will be a problem if they rise and doubled. since 2007 when the rates were first reduced when the democrats were in the majority, it's been resisted by our friends on the republican side. resisted in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and this has been raised to a degree where students and families started to really get involved and engaged that our friends on the other side of the aisle decided, well, they don't want the rates to go up either. but cynically, some might say, the only way they can find a pay-for is to attack women's health and children's health. women don't want this bill that way. children -- students don't want the bill this way. public health groups don't want the bill this way. the senate said they won't ac

you obviously covered him in massachusetts -- >> i covered one of him in massachusetts. >> right. >>ered the other guy. >> that's what you say. there was a great deal of talk about how romney will pivot and move towards the center. this will undoubtedly being a towering truthless exercise and a piece of his towering truthless career seemed unworthy of discussion. this shall be one of the most stunning, shall we say pivots in history? >> yeah, it bothers me because it is not being discussed as something of a measure of this guy being as unprincipaled ooze he has been. and what that means. it is only being discussed as to whether or not it will work as a tactic. >> right. i hope it doesn't work as tactic. >> yeah, you go to the heart of it, as he money bombed his way to the nomination. willard has taken positions on the economy, reproductive choice, and immigration, that are odds at varying degrees of those issues he said he held and indeed he acted on as governor of massachusetts. >> it's not just he said different things about these things. he has actually done stuff. he have romney

at that point the massachusetts health care plan was in big trouble.ned. the cost had ballooned, the money was not there to pay for it. where does it stand now? >> that has never been the case. that's urban legend. >> i remember reading a "new york times" article before we went there and melt you that day. >> i believe up read it, i read it, too. but it's never been the case that health care reform has in the added more than 1.8% in spending. that has nothing to do with whether we do or don't have a universal health care plan. and on that i'm proud to say we're making stror progress as well. there were premium increases on average of 16%, 17% a couple years ago. less than 2% today because we've stepped in and we're working with the industry on a whole host of innovations. some of those tools to do this have come from the affordable care act. >> when you hear romney distance himself from the program in massachusetts or thread the needle between the state and federal issue, how do you think about that? >> well, i guess i understand it politically, if tha

the jerusalem from massachusetts is recognized. -- the gentlewoman from massachusetts is recognized. ms. tsongas: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: bob the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. tsongas: i yield myself such time as i may consume. h.r. 2947 releases a reversionary interest held by the united states to a parcel of land in cook county, minnesota. the release of this interest will allow cook county to use this land for a local highway. we have no objections to this legislation. i reserve the balance of my time. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from utah is recognized. mr. bishop: another great solution to a problem that should have been solved at another level. i urge its adoption and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass h.r. 2947? those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed and wit

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in massachusetts it's very close.t's a race that democrats really want their seed back in their column. we'll have to see. warren has a lot of buzz. she has to shake this label that mitt romney has tagged as as being from harvard and being an elitist. >> i thought elizabeth warren would skate through that one and win with a 10-point margin, but i was wrong. who is going to control the senate come this november. >> oh, my god. >> after election day. >> it really could come down to who is the vice president. it will be that close. at this point i would say the odds are with the republicans but it is so close. and if the economy continues to improve, albeit slowly between now and november that will help the democrats but it's 50/50 at this point. >> we're betting that the coin will end on its head. not a lot of clarity. could be mcewen from ohio. democrat strategist john hinko. and nia-malika henderson. if you have an opinion, you better back it up. >>eliot spitzer takes on politics. >>science and republicans do not mix.