he went on to get elected to the massachusetts legislature. up a law degree from harvard while he was a state legislator. and then in 1980, when ronald reagan won office, barney frank was first elected to congress, serving 32 years in the house of representatives. and every day of those 32 years he was the smartest guy in the building. he was not always the most effective. you need three things to be an effective, accomplished member of the house. two of them simply take time. experience and senority. the other requires a certain amount of luck, your party must be in the majority. you saw what barney frank could do with experience, seniority and his party being in the majority when he was chairman of the house financial services committee. >> why do you need bonuses? why can't we just give yourself a good salary, you're in charge of that. and do the good job. it troubles people, anyone wants the answer, please go ahead. >> i'll try, mr. chairman. it is a good question. and it is complicated. >> and, when he wrestled the dodd-frank banking bill

but there are none of those living in massachusetts now or from massachusetts.ut there is, there is one former chief of staff of the senate finance committee who is from massachusetts. and who, like ben affleck, now lives in los angeles. >> have you ever thought about running for public office yourself? >> i do have a great fondness and i admire the political process in the country. it is a big deal to come down and be on your show that i watched so much. but i won't get into speculation about my political future. >> come on, if ben affleck can be taken that seriously for the massachusetts senate seat, why can't i? okay, ben affleck is a lot better actor, screen writer, director and producer than i am, but i know like so much more than he does about governing. well, domestic governing, anyway. look, you know, i mean he knows a lot more than i do about a lot of foreign policy stuff. the middle east, africa, but that stuff is not going to be involved in the debt ceiling negotiations. i cannot believe it has come to this. that i have to float my own name to get in

culture and politics in massachusetts. grew up in the state that massachusetts, you don't have to go back that far to talk about the bussing riots and refusing to integrate. bill russell, his life was hell because of the race in and around boston. i can remember as a kid, the celtics were the best team in basketball in the late 1980s. in roxbury, they were wearing lakers jersey. things have changed. when i was a kid, it was a few irish names. now you have got in 2006 duvall patrick from the southside of chicago who came to massachusetts and broke into this system and became the governor anywhere. it wouldn't have happened in massachusetts. this appointment today it's not because of his race, that was something part of the massachusetts political establishment and because somebody like that was able to climb up and become part of it. the culture is changing a bit. >> finally earning the reputation. >> i would be more excited about the two black senators, in the senate for the first time ever since reconstruction. >> i find

this circulated throughout the country except in massachusetts. the post office here held it up because they didn't want this to be entering into political discourse before massachusetts had voted. so controlling the post office and controlling the flow of news is one of the essential things here that this book really helps us to see the connections between the connection between the free flow of information which is something different than the free flow of information today. >> i think that you're right, besides the printers are really weren't other people employed at these newspapers. there might be gentlemen like the adams cousins coming once or twice a week to make sure that essays look good, but there were no reporters. there were no editors as such. there is one moment in septemb september 1774 when we know the printer of the massachusetts, isaiah thomas, was outside the print shop at the scene of an event of something called the powder alarm in cambridge. we know that not because he came back and file an eyewitness report of what happened,

mitt romney of the state of massachusetts has received 206 votes. the state of the vote for vice president of united states is delivered to the president of the senate -- the whole number of electors appointed to vote for the vice president of the united states is 538, and a majority of which is 270. joseph biden of the state of delaware has received for vice- president of the united states 332 votes. paul ryan of the state of wisconsin has received 206 votes. this announcement of the state of the vote by the president of the senate shall redeem a sufficient declaration of the person selected president and vice-president of the united states, each for the term beginning on the 20th day of january, 2013, and shall be entered together with a list of votes in the journal of the senate and of the house of representatives. the joint session having been concluded pursuant to the senate joint resolution, the chair declares the joint session dissolved. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable sate

listen, i came to massachusetts 22 years ago for an opportunity.ryday been in massachusetts, i've had an opportunity to grow personally, professionally. i met my wife here. we the family, built a home here. massachusetts is a commonwealth of opportunity for everyone and that's what i've been busy promoting to the extent i promote anything. and pakistani before you today to follow in senator brooks steps. the reason i'm staying here is not because of my personal color, african american. i believe the governor has indicated he's got confidence to do the job he's sending me to do. you heard me talk about my mother. another one of her same as no matter where you are or where you're going, just understand you're better than no one, but you can be a one seat approach this and i intend to approach this work. [inaudible] [inaudible] >> just wishing and hoping? mail. [inaudible] yes, and i will. probably around june 26. you know, i indicated i plan to lease a service to return to privacy or any know my rationale and reached -- reason for that. that's what i

in fact, massachusetts was very resisted to the new constitution the supporters in massachusetts havebeen to control the mails in one of the most influential document as the opposition of the minority to the pennsylvania ratification and the circulated come except in massachusetts. the post office hold it up because they didn't want this entering into the political discourse before massachusetts had voted. controlling the post office and the flow of news is one of the essential things here in this book really helps us see the connections between this, the connection between the free-flowing information, which is somewhat different from the free flow of information today. >> i think figure writing the observation that besides the printers, there weren't other people employed at these newspapers. there might be gentlemen at the adams cousins coming once or twice a week to make sure the essays looked good, but there were no reporters. there were no editors as such. there's one moment in september 1774, when the note the printer, isaiah thomas was outside the printshop at the scene of an

instead it's someone unknown out ofside of massachusetts, the former chief of staff, william mo cowanining me now with insight on who the new interim senator is, i want to play for everybody, though, so they can hear from cowan himself what he said in reference to this appointment by the governor. >> there is no greater calling than to be able to go and serve the people of massachusetts, to give back to the state that has given so much to me. >> no greater calling. now the interim senator will be in place after john kerry becomes the official secretary of state. we know as we explain the number of heavy hitters that duvall patrick could have picked. explain why he is putting him in this spot. >> some of the folks you mentioned earlier are people all known to folks in d.c., but not necessarily in massachusetts. remember, politics is always personal. and mo cowan is somebody who has been friends with duvall patrick for a long time since they've been lawyers in the boston area. he was the chief of staff as you noted. one point of history, this is the first time there's two black senators

this did not sit well with england or with massachusetts. by an act of parliament, all of the copies of this were said to be burned. luckily, this copy was not. >> more from rhode island state capital, . behind-the-scenes, the history of literary life of providence. saturday at noon eastern. sunday at 5:00 on c-span3. >> on fridays, we look at america by the numbers. q. what to look the latest unemployment rate, which has remained unchanged -- we want to look at the latest unemployment rate, which has remained unchanged, 7.8%. guest: the economy has enough underlying momentum that it was able to withstand the fiscal cliff, all this controversy in washington, as well as hurricane sandy. there was some pretty big-waits on the economy, and yet is still continued -- weight on the economy, and yet it still continued dto churto churn ahea. every month, we have traded on average 153,000 jobs. -- created on average 153,000 jobs. host: in a country with well over 3 million americans, they're more than 12,000,002 are currently out of work. almost 5 mi

senate today is actually the second one that governor deval patrick of massachusetts has made as massachusettsernor. when senator ted kennedy died in office, the governor made a similar choice for the appointment to that seat when he chose, also like mo cowan, a trusted former staffer who had no designs on running for the seat himself. and if you think about that, it's actually a pretty respectful way to handle the profoundly anti-democratic process of one person just getting to designate a person to be a u.s. senator because there is a vacancy. we don't generally do that for the house, right? but we do that for the senate, which is a kind of grossly undemocratic thing about the u.s. senate. and when a governor is given this grossly undemocratic power to be the individual designator of who gets to hold a seat in the u.s. senate, how that governor chooses to use that power says a lot about that governor in terms of his or her ethics. they can, as deval patrick did both times, they can appoint a real place holder to neutrally care-take the seat until an election can be held, an election that is

mitt romney of massachusetts has received six votes for president. paul ryan of the state of wisconsin has received six votes for vice president. >> mr. president, the certificate of the electoral vote of the commonwealth of kentucky appears to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears there from that mitt romney of the state of massachusetts received eight votes for president and paul ryan of the state of wisconsin received eight votes for vice president. >> mr. president, the certificate of the electoral votes of the state of louisiana and appears to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears there from the that mitt romney of the state of massachusetts received eight votes for president, and paul ryan of wisconsin received eight votes for vice president. >> mr. president, the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of maine appears to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears there from bed barack obama of the state of illinois received four votes for president, and joe biden received four votes for vice president. >> mr

>> yes, massachusetts is really in the lead.rough on that making a sustainable terrific health care system that we can afford is terrific. but i have hell with pediatricians, and safety and running cms, my goodness every day i was dealing with other agencies. with tax policy, with the irs, business and labor, so it really -- health care is a front door to a really brood array of very important social issues all of which interest me. >> jennifer: obviously you have a great reputation in the health care community. people have enormous respect for you, but your health care experience is only sort of one aspect of being a governor of a state. give me one other thing that you are passionate about that you would want people to know about you as you consider this run for governor of massachusetts. >> i'm passionate about a lot of things. i'll pick education and children. i think creating a proper future for our children which means a proper presence for families and i want to help build the future and improvement doing it together, wit

mitt romney of the state of massachusetts has received 206 votes. the state of the vote for vice president of united states is delivered to the president of the senate -- the whole number of electors appointed to vote for the vice president of the united states is 538, and a majority of which is 270. joseph biden of the state of delaware has received for vice- president of the united states 332 votes. paul ryan of the state of wisconsin has received 206 votes. this announcement of the state of the vote by the president of the senate shall redeem a sufficient declaration of the person selected president and vice-president of the united states, each for the term beginning on the 20th day of january, 2013, and shall be entered together with a list of votes in the journal of the senate and of the house of representatives. the joint session having been concluded pursuant to the senate joint resolution, the chair declares the joint session dissolved. [applause] >> next, the house debate on emergency funding for hurricane sandy victims. then chuck schumer

act, which any decades later became massachusetts day, now known as the university of massachusetts. >> that's an interesting question, and i'm so thrilled you know so much about the valley. skinner did not work with samuel wilson. wilson was an extraordinary capitalist in the mill valley and help support many industries therein. at one point i believe he was a partner with the hayden so started the hayden glass company of which you saw a portion of your earlier and which is on the cover of my book. like he did not do business with william skinner, no. thank you. >> sera, at skinnerville, what survives? hasn't been any kind of serious or amateur archaeological search for evidence of the mill? i mean, what can you find if you go to the site today? >> that's a great question, bill. if you go to skinnerville today, you will find a stretch of highway and you will find a few houses along the side of it. some of which are or were wrecked at the time of the flood that were refashioned into homes. and you will find a very tranquil, unassuming river flowing alongside of it which is the mill r

it's massachusetts. they can do whatever they want. democrats control it. >> the only show in town. >> the safer pick would be to go with a kennedy or dukakis because they have been there and have certain connection to massachusetts. >> let's get to secretary of state, outgoing secretary of state, hillary clinton. received a going away gift from the obama team. according to bloomberg, they decided to pay off her campaign debt $250,000 as of last year. 120 people cut checks to pay off her bills. in fact, they gave way too much to clinton's campaign, which was never officially shut down. now she has a surplus of $200,000 in the bank. should she run, there's a superpack supporting her calls vote for hillary. >> they can apply the surplus to the debt and say it's part of the deficit reduction plan. >> it is. i think it was a great moment of political drama on "60 minutes" with the president next to hillary clinton. the interview was a dud. it was dull. i don't think the questions were that tough. nothing breaking. the fact he was up there

ed markey is currently a member of the house from massachusetts. and what ed markey is doing right now to prepare for a potentially very difficult, very high stakes battle for this very high profile senate seat, a race that stand alone on the political calendar in the springtime, a race that will get a ton of national attention. what is ed markey doing now to get ready for that? he is picking a huge fight with the single most profitable industry on the face of the earth, woo-hoo! ed markey is known in washington for essentially being the sheriff of the oil industry. he is the top democrat in the house on energy issue, and he has been really confrontational with the oil industry, particularly on safety issues. at a time when lots and lots of his colleagues in congress have been quietly and happily awash in oil money. but ed markey has just been a bulldog on the oil industry over the years, particularly on public safety. during the deepwater horizon disaster in 2010, for example, it was ed markey who brought national attention to the fact that the bi

ed markey is currently a member of the house from massachusetts. and what ed markey is doing right now to prepare for a potentially very difficult, very high stakes battle for this very high profile senate seat, a race that stand alone on the political calendar in the springtime, a race that will get a ton of national attention. what is ed markey doing now to get ready for that? he is picking a huge fight with the single most profitable industry on the face of the earth, woo-hoo! ed markey is known in washington for essentially being the sheriff of the oil industry. he is the top democrat in the house on energy issue, and he has been really confrontational with the oil industry, particularly on safety issues. at a time when lots and lots of his colleagues in congress have been quietly and happily awash in oil money. but ed markey has just been a bulldog on the oil industry over the years, particularly on public safety. during the deepwater horizon disaster in 2010, for example, it was ed markey who brought national attention to the fact that the bi

go to prison get it for free at least in massachusetts.it is cruel and unusual punishment to deny somebody a surgery that has been designated medley necessary. >> bill: i'm thinking back to my sixth grade teacher and what she she would have thought about america today. >> james madison. >> bill: baby veronica is going to appear in front of the supreme court. >> this is a big deal. they took the case. we talked about this a while ago. family adopted a beautiful baby girl and then they lost custody of her when she was almost 3 years old to her birth father because of this thing called the indian child welfare act. it was supposed to prevent people from being able to yank children off of indian reservations because people outside the reservations had a different standard of how a child should be raised, that's nod at quat. >> explain this man put the girl up for adoption. >> when his girlfriend was pregnant with her he said i relinquish my parental rights i don't want anything to do with the baby. >> bill: three years later. >> gave up rights

ed markey is currently a member of the house from massachusetts. and what ed markey is doing right now to prepare for a potentially very difficult, very high stakes battle for this very high profile senate seat, a race that stand alone on the political calendar in the springtime, a race that will get a ton of national attention. what is ed markey doing now to get ready for that? he is picking a huge fight with the single most profitable industry on the face of the earth, woo-hoo! ed markey is known in washington for essentially being the sheriff of the oil industry. he is the top democrat in the house on energy issue, and he has been really confrontational with the oil industry, particularly on safety issues. at a time when lots and lots of his colleagues in congress have been quietly and happily awash in oil money. but ed markey has just been a bulldog on the oil industry over the years, particularly on public safety. during the deepwater horizon disaster in 2010, for example, it was ed markey who brought national attention to the fact that the bi

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the massachusetts republicans were shocked when the same people of massachusetts voted for a public policyofessor for senator, instead of this guy. in the election, voters made two massachusetts republicans the two biggest losers of the year. and no one was more shocked at being a loser than poor scott brown who ran a senate campaign who was worthy of the thugs in my boston neighborhood a generation ago. hey, you're not from around here. that was brown's basic campaign message, which he thought was going to terrify oklahoma-born elizabeth warren the way it rightfully terrified people who wandered into the town, or shall we say the insuelar boston neighborhoods when i was a kid. >> i don't need professor warren speaking or commenting on my vote. >> can you imagine 100 professor warrens down there? >> oh, my god, did you hear that? scott brown called her professor. you could see he wanted to call her "four eyes," but he can't on tv. so he called her professor. so it turned out the guys on the bar schools who loved that, were like wicked out numbered by the thoughtful people of massachusetts

align. >> 19,000 people in massachusetts vanish all of them welfare recipients at one time and stateicials add midding they can't find them. and it gets worse, the missing recipients are getting 90 million a year in benefits, that's taxpayer money. the governor patrick trying to downplay the mess. >> not all of those people are still on the the roles. many, if not most people, receive their benefits electronically not by mail, but for the 4% of mailings that were returned, you bet your life we're going to scrub through them and make sure that the information that we have is up-to-date. >> the 4%, 19,000 people is enough to fill the boston gardens, that's a lot of people that they don't know where they are. >> it's a lot of people, not all of whom do you or i know are actually on the welfare. >> but isn't that the-- >> so how did massachusetts lose track of all of these people and where is all of that taxpayer money really going? republican massachusetts state representative shauna o'connell joins us and is the governor correct that not all of those people, 19,000, are actually receiv

. >>> boston, massachusetts today, very warm, rainy this morning then it will be windy. the cold front will go through. the rains will stop but the rains will continue. that's the bottom line for all of new england. very difficult at the airports as you'd expect. a lot of people flying just across the country talking about how bad the turbulence was everywhere. >> nbc meteorologist bill karins earning his paycheck. >>> tempers are rising after the military strike in syria and hezbollah. >>> plus, she performed at the inauguration now she's another victim of chicago's growing murder rate. and police want answers now. "early today" is back in two minutes. >>> and welcome back. here are some other stories making news this morning. israel launched a rare strike inside syria. u.s. officials believe a targeted convoy bound for hezbollah militants in lebanon. >>> massachusetts senator john kerry gave a sometimes emotional good-bye speech to colleagues. >> standing here at this desk that once belonged -- at this desk that once belonged to president kennedy and ted kennedy. i can

pure fun across the street, an ice rink sits in the shadows of the massachusetts state house.you can see where the la alternatives were hung for the midnight ride of paul a veer where the decision was made to host the boston tea party. the burial ground is in the middle of downtown boston, only 2,000 vizzable gravestones. >> i often spend a significant portion of my tours here at the burial ground because so many famous american patriots are buried here. >> john hancock was the first governor of massachusetts. >> tim is a tour guide for the freedom trail foundation. he says heel you'll find ben franklin's family and the foot stone of paul revere's grave. >> an aebb chents hebrew tradition. >> there is even what is left of mother goose, really, the mother goose. the freedom trail is over two miles and you can pay for a tour or walk it yourself and these what these raven fans decided to do. >> there is not many cities outside of baltimore that has as much history as ours and boston has more. >> cool too, ravens one game away from the super bowl. the outlook? >> optimistic. >> to

the answer frederick gillett of course of massachusetts. took nine ballots in three days for him to be reelected to the speakership for a third term. thank you to frank thorpe for digging that one up. could he become a household name for the day? we'll be right back. [ man ] ring ring... progresso this reduced sodium soup says it may help lower cholesterol, how does it work? you just have to eat it as part of your heart healthy diet. step 1. eat the soup. all those veggies and beans, that's what may help lower your cholesterol and -- well that's easy [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. i'm here to unleash my inner cowboy... instead i got heartburn. [ horse neighs ] hold up partner. prilosec isn't for fast relief. try alka-seltzer. kills heartburn fast. yeehaw! >>> let's bring back the gaggle. we have a new congress coming in. 2013 brings the 113th congress. were the mayans -- >> we get to get rid of the old congress so let's take our chances. >> we have a whole bunch of new faces. everybody knows elizabeth warren is the

i came to massachusetts 22 years ago for an opportunity. everyday i have been in massachusetts, i have had the opportunity to grow personally and professionally. i met my wife here. we started a family. we built a home here. the commonwealth is an opportunity for everyone. i'm proud to be standing before you today and following in the senator's footsteps. i suspect that the reason i'm standing here is not because i am a person of color, african- american. as a governor has indicated, he has confidence in the job he is sending me to do. no matter where you are or where you're going, understand that you are better than no one, but you can be everyone's equal. >> [reporter inaudible] [laughter] >> just wishing and hoping? no. >> you did say you wanted to go back into the private sector. >> yes, and i will. probably around june 26. [laughter] you know my rationale and reasoning for that in the front row there. that is what i intend to do. mentionedmass i massachusetts was a land of opportunity for me here and there is greater calling than to gi

many decades later became massachusetts state, now known as the university of massachusetts. >> that's an interesting question, and i'm so thrilled you know so much about the valley. skinner did not work with samuel wilson. wilson was an extraordinary capitalist and the mill valley and he helped support many industries therein. at one point i believe he was a partner with the hayden's distorted paid nebraska but of which you saw a portion of their earlier. but he did not come he did not work with william skinner, no. thank you. >> at the skinnerville, what survives? has there been any kind of serious or amateur archaeological search for evidence of the mill? i mean, what can you find if you go to the site today? >> that's a great question, bill. if you go to skinnerville today, you will find a stretch of highway and you will find a few houses along the side of it. some of which are or were wrecked at the time of the flood that were refashioned into homes. and you will find a very tranquil, unassuming river flowing alongside of it which is the mill river. there's been no archaeological

mitt romney the state of massachusetts has received 206 votes. joseph biden of the state of delaware has received for vice president of the united states 332 votes. paul ryan in the state of wisconsin received 206 votes. the joint session is dissolved. ♪ more than a feeling, more than a feeling ♪ >>> misinformation campaign on the debt ceiling continues. congressman tim ryan on how democrats are fighting back. and eugene robinson and howard fineman join us to say which side of the party has the upper hand in negotiations. >>> later, bill o'reilly can't figure out why hardworking asian americans would vote for liberals. legendary actor and activist george takei is here to respond tonight. don't forget you listen to my radio show on sirius xm radio, 1:00 through 3:00. share your thoughts on facebook and twitter using the hash tag ed show. we're coming right back. >>> welcome back to "the ed show." thanks for watching tonight. the republican misinformation campaign on the debt ceiling got a big shot in the arm today thanks to senator john cornyn of

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