i want to start by thanking senator mcconnell both for his french and for the honor of being invitedhere today to address this impressive institution here in the bluegrass state. senator mcconnell and i spend an awful lot of time together and i could not be blessed with a better partner. he is a man of integrity and one of the best legislators that i have ever worked with. i am truly grateful for his friendship and for our partnership, and i'm deeply honored that he asked me to, and be with all of you here today. i also want to thank our host, dr. ramsey, the president of the university, and dr. greg of the mcconnell center, who happen to get his doctorate from the university of ohio, which is located in my district. also, senator mcconnell told you a little bit about me growing up, a big family and working around the tavern. the lessons i learned growing up are the lessons i need to do my job every day. we learned to get things done together as a family. if you grow up around a bar mopping floors, washing dishes, waiting tables, tending bar, you have to learn to deal with every char

as long as harry reid is faced with mitch mcconnell in the filibuster he can't move bills. who has had his foot on the neck of his country's economy and the polls now show that americans understand that republicans are willing to sacrifice the health of our economy to have political advantage. >> i wish we had more time. congressman jim mcdermott in seattle. congressman robert dole here in our studio. thank you great to see you. >>> talking a lot about 2012. today see lection day trending on twitter. today's tweet of date comes from you. writing, don't forget to go out and vote. occupy that voting booth. another tweet. we know what you have to do. go forth and do it. kent state writes, go tout your local precinct and vote affecting your education, safety and your pocketbook. [ male announcer ] want to achieve more with your money? pnc virtual wallet gathers your spending and saving in one place. credit and debit purchases, checks, bills, and other financial information. it lets you see the details as well as the big financial picture. so you can do more with your money. see

a silver lining specifically for kentucky senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell. "mcconnell quietly helped direct the agricultural commissioner campaign from washington." so the one republican race that won, mitch mcconnell now trying to take credit for it. that attempt to essentially shine up a the turd led some to laugh out loud for mitch mcconnell to even trying to spin this as a positive, but also to think politico.com to being the totally credulous stenographer for whatever it was that mitch mcconnell wanted them to report, no matter how ridiculous it was on their face. gamely spinning kentucky as if it was a big win for republicans and mitch mcconnell as they lost all state-wide races except ag commissioner. yeah, right, politico, that'll do. one perhaps unremarked upon feature from last night's election results that the there were really big margins in a lot of the races that were expected to be hard-fought. that iowa state senate race wasn't close. the democrat won there by 12 points. in maine where voters citizen vetoed a voting laws, by reinstating same-

so the one republican race that won, mitch mcconnell now trying to take credit for it.sentially w3 shine up a turd that led some t1 laugh out loud for mitch mcconnell to even trying to spin this as a positive, but also to think politico.com to being the3 totally credulous stenographer for whatever it was that mitch mcconnell wanted them to report, no matter how ridiculous it was on their face.Ñie1e1 gamely spinning kentucky as if it was a big win for republicans and mitch mcconnell as they lost all state-wide races except ag commissioner. yeah, right, politico, that'll do.okÑit( one perhaps underremarked upone1 feature from last night's election results that the there of the races that were expected to be hard-fought. that iowa state senate race wasn't close. the democrat won there by 12 points.t( in maine where voters citizen Ñi vetoed a voting laws, by e1 reinstating same-day voter registration, the margin was 20 points. the mississippi personhood amendment which had the beltway had been saying was likely to pass in mississippi, it not only lost but lost by 16 points.

i want to play you what mitch mcconnell had to say about it.ough congress. i want to come back and get your reaction to it. >> the democrats have deliberately designed this bill to fail. deliberately. designed the bill to fail. so the truth is, democrats are more interested in building a campaign message than in rebuilding roads and bridges. >> their goal is to do everything they can to drag down this economy, to do anything they can to focus attention negati negatively on the president of the united states, in hopes that he can get my job, perhaps. >> so, gene, deliberately designed this bill to fail. what say you? >> i would say that the minority leader is somewhere between flat wrong and dead wrong. somewhere in that margin. there's no truth to that at all. the president put forward this plan because we've got 9% unemployment. how mysterious is this? he put forward this plan because we're projected to have weak growth next year. and if we don't do something significant here, we're going to let our people hurt, we're going to let unemployment

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there was a deal between mcconnell, reid, boehner.and bargain. that was a small deal. >> a middle sized bargain. the semigrand bargain. as far as the prospects for the supercommittee, i'm rather glum to be honest. i don't think they'll get certainly 1.2. they might get just based on cuts, the leftovers from the biden talks, a little medicare savings from the coburn/lieberman plan and might get $500 million, $600 million. that still leaves a question for the remaining. >> i don't know, chuck. if you look at -- you had simpson and bowles on. the dominici plan. some tax hikes, spending cuts and medicare reforms. and the plan of the democrats. they got five democrats to go along with, included -- no, the democratic plan from last week that leaked. they were -- seems like they were willing to go along with things nobody thought some of those folks would go along with, including entitlement cuts. but the republicans are stuck as the only ones who will not do the same deal that every group of bipartisan member ooze. >> i've got stop it there

are you just rejecting out of hand senator mcconnell's counterproposal? >> well, two points. one, we're giving tax relief to over 99% of small businesses and entrepreneurs next year by cutting the payroll tax cut in half to have a taxncrease that affects only the 300,000 most well off americans. so this is a very significant tax cut for small business job creators, entrepreneurs. and as to the... mitch mcconnell's proposal, i really haven't seen the details and to be honest, gwen, it does get a little confusing for us because first republicans came in and told us that they didn't think tax cuts should be paid for at all and made a big point of that now they are... when we're trying to give tax relief, they're insisting that it must be. and so i don't know what they're... what exact t exact pay-fors are. but if he want f they want a bill that's fully paid for that's fair the easiest thing to do is simply vote for the proposal that majority leader harry reid has put out that president obama supports which would cut payroll taxes for every worker, every small business and ask fo

[applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the honorable mitch mcconnell.f all the stories of valor that have come down to us from the second world war, the story of the 100th battalion and the 442nd regimental combat team is among the most powerful and hardest to explain. how did these men, who had first been excluded from service by their own country, take up arms so valiantly in her defense? how did men whose families had been rounded up and confined by their own government go on to become the most decorated military units in u.s. history? president clinton put it well, i think, when he said of these men, "that rarely, as a nation been more well-served by a people it had so ill-treated." among them were our friend and colleague senator inouye. then there is the military intelligence service. drawing heavily from the 442nd regimental combat team, its members were in many ways america's secret weapons in the war against japan. general macarthur could later say that never in military history did any army, know so much about the enemy prior to an engagement.

and then we see mcconnell's office announce this. yeah, we're caving all right. we're going to cave the roof on the middle class, freeze federal civil salaries, cut 200,000 government jobs. this is outrageous. >> well, with the strategy of senator mcconnell is to make sure that nothing passes. so that when nothing happens, they can say, gee, we had a plan. the truth is, they know their plan can't pass and they are trying to ensure that we don't get anything done. that's no the interest of america. it's time to put partisan interests aside and make sure that they don't see a reduction in their paychecks. that's what is it at stake here. the plan that we brought forward is a fair plan. we're hoping that some republicans can join us and we can get this done. >> now, i want to be clear. this cut of 200,000 jobs comes right from senator mcconnell's office press release. i'm not surmising this. this comes right out of the simpson-bowles plan. this clearly says to us what you're saying, i think concurs with that, that, one, he doesn't want to pass anything. but, two, th

he is introduced by senator mcconnell. >> some of my equipment is falling off here.thank you, jim, for an overly- generous introduction. at the risk of this sounded like >> transfo that has occurred here during your tenure. it is absolutely spectacular, is it not? [applause] and this center started before gary greg got here, but you can hardly recognize before and after. gary, you have an absolutely superb. thank you for your leadership. [applause] today, as gary indicated, we celebrated a first. this is the first time in the 20-year history of the center that we have had a sitting speaker of the u.s. house of representatives. as the second in line to the presidency right after the vice- presidential, and one of the few congressional offices specifically mentioned in the constitution, the speaker of the house plays a uniquely important role on capitol hill. our guest today has performed that role exceptionally well. this is a moment of great challenges for our country. to many of our neighbors are what -- are looking for work. here in kentucky is one of 10. spending

residents refused to leave senator mitch mcconnell's office. more than 20 people are camping out on capitol hill. they want to talk about jobs. mcconnell recently blocked the rebuild america act, a $60 billion infrastructure bill. they thabill could put them back to work as of the last hour, they were still there and. >>> she's been d.c.'s police chief for five years now. cathy lanier talked about the possibility of renewing her contract. she makes $250,000 a year. she told wtop she has no reason to leave. >> it's such a fun job, mark. truly, honestly, i love what i do and the city. as long as i feel that way, yeah. >> and she discussed the georgetown shooting on halloween night. no one's been charged and there is always more violence near halloween, calling yet a dangerous night. >>> wal-mart plans to build four stores in the district. no one's happy about that. >>> the group in point of view -- empower d.c. teamed up with kid rock to make an anti-wal- mart video accusing the retail giant of mistreating employees, especially women and hurting

i know this is personal for me, and for senator mcconnell as well. we want these things to happen. i did not take this job to preside over some partisan screaming match. i took this job to be speaker of the whole house, so we can truly listen to the people of our country, those who truly hold power in this country, listen to their priorities, and get step down. -- get stuff done. as i said earlier, faith in government has never been high. it does not have to be this low, though. i think it is natural to have doubts about the government. americans have had a healthy skepticism of the government since our founding. but we should never lose faith in our country or the system the founding fathers designed for us. it has worked and kept the nation's strong for two centuries and i believe it will do so for centuries in the future. i want to thank all of you for the honor of being here with you today and i look forward to your questions. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, speaker boehner. in the same spirit of common ground, i should note that we have a number of dignitaries in the audie

he sat down with mcconnell and according to reports mcconnell said essentially what you said, that democratseal, that the president wants this stuff to fail. geithner said no, that's not true, we've put forward a number of plans. >> yeah, but when you hear him on the campaign trail he says we won't pass his jobs plan. the vice president says we're responsible for rape and murder because we won't pass their jobs plan. that's the kind of rhetoric -- people are saying we're not going to compromise, that gets us nowhere. i had a very good discussion with the president one-on-one and personally said i would work with him. i still stand by that. i will work with the president. i will work with him to find middle ground. but it doesn't help if he's calling us names on the campaign trail all the time. >> senator rand paul, appreciate your time, sir. thank you. >> thank you. >> keep in mind you heard senator paul claimed president obama called republicans stupid. i did some checking. we found no evidence of that. but in talking about his jobs plan and how congress was voting on it in pieces, he did s

as you can tell, senator mcconnell and i are great friends, kreag partners, and we work at this. does not happen -- great partners, and we work at this. it does not happen by accident. i really appreciate the opportunity to be here with all of view. i am just a regular guy with a big job. thank you. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> mr. speaker, this has been a great honor for us. and we would like to present you with a small token of our appreciation. join me one more timepppppppppp@ we think it is a mistake. >> coming up and a few moments, a regent university forum on the economy. then "washington journal" is live at 7:00 a.m. yesterday what the work of the joint deficit- reduction committee. a couple of live events to tell you about today. a senate judiciary subcommittee holds a hearing on international organized crime at 10:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. witnesses include representatives of the department of justice and treasury. later on c-span3, the joint deficit reduction committe

mcconnell -- mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent reading be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. mcconnell: i'm offering this amendment on behalf of the senator from illinois, nor mark kirk -- senator mark kirk, because the time has come for our country to sanction the central bank of iran. it has become commonplace for political leaders to state an iranian regime with nuclear weapons is unacceptable. president obama has stated that an iranian regime armed with a nuclear weapon is unacceptable. unfortunately, the iranian regime has not been deterred from conducting activities relevant to the development of such an explosive device. the report of the iaea of november 8, 2011, makes clear that iran has worked on the development of an indigenous design of a nuclear weapon, including the testing of components, and that iran has yet to answer all of the iaea's questions concerning the military dimensions of iran's nuclear program. last month the world learned of the quds force plot to assassinate the ambassador of saudi arabia

he sat down with mcconnell and according to reports mcconnell said essentially what you said, that democratswant to make a deal, that the president wants this stuff to fail. geithner said no, that's not true, we've put forward a number of plans. >> yeah, but when you hear him on the campaign trail he says we won't pass his jobs plan. the vice president says we're responsible for rape and murder because we won't pass their jobs plan. that's the kind of rhetoric -- people are saying we're not going to compromise, that gets us nowhere. i had a very good discussion with the president one-on-one and personally said i would work with him. i still stand by that. i will work with the president. i will work with him to find middle ground. but it doesn't help if he's calling us names on the campaign trail all the time. >> senator rand paul, appreciate your time, sir. thank you. >> thank you. >> keep in mind you heard senator paul claimed president obama called republicans stupid. i did some checking. we found no evidence of that. but in talking about his jobs plan and how congress was voting on it in

chris plant, does mcconnell have a point that there may be some benefit to the white house in seeing fail? >> it's not some benefit it's essential. mitch mcconnell has never rooted for the united states to fail and you know perfectly well that's the case. secondly the republicans in the super committee came up with a proposal yesterday with $1.2 trillion in cuts and $300 billion in revenue enhancers as we now refer to them. and it was immediately spiked and dismissed by the democrats on the so called super committee. if the congress appears functional, the entire obama reelection campaign comes off israels. you can't run against a do-nothing congress if the congress isn't a do-nothing congress. the republicans passed 16 or 17 bills through the house of representatives and moved them relong to the senate and harry reid will not even take them up even though he knows they had bipartisan support. >> if this super committee succeeds, that's a victory for the president as well. i think he would rather see the country move forward. megyn: speak to plant's point about the republicans did pr

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republicans oppose the surtax and their senate leader mitch mcconnell announced the gop will offer anxtension of the 2% cut for individuals but funded in an unspecified way. >> we'll offer an alternative to the one being proposed in the senate, which as i indicate would have a permanent tax increase on very, very large number of small businesses. >> senate democrats say voting against an extension would amount to voting to raise taxes for 120 million families by about $1,000 each. the senate majority leader tried to make his case by citing the people in senator mcconnell's own state. >> every kentucky family will keep money under our expanded payroll tax break. 70,000 friends in kentucky will benefit from the new tax cuts. >> the administration says this is a critical time for the economy and this would help strengthen recovery, but the president's economic advisors do not want to discuss alternatives like cutting spending until the millionaire surtax receives a vote. >> i think that senator casey's proposal would provide very important support for the economy right now. i think it's

they want to expand that tax cut and mcconnell says they're going to go along with it. question is, how are you going to pay for it? it's going to cost $300 billion. >> let's bring back governor rendell and mr. steele. democratic nominees have won the state in every election year since '92 but saw the profile of scranton in the "new york times" today, hillary clinton country, the working class whites. they quoted a teacher who voted for obama saying that if the right republican candidate came along, they'd vote for that person. what is president obama have to do to win these voters back, get them back urn the base? zooing he started with his speech on the jobs bill. i think he's been finding his voice for white working class voters in the sense of he's got to talk about economic fairness. he's got to talk about the disparities in the tax code where the richest companies in the world and the richest people in the world pay less in income tax, less percentage in income tax than working people do. he's got to talk about the fairness of that. he's goss to talk about what's

senate minority leader mitch mcconnell objected to the bill because it would put a new tax on america's richest 345,532 people. >> i'm sure that it is the case that most americans support raising taxes on high-income individuals. my guess is they might have a different view if they knew that 4 out of 5 of those individuals were actually business owners. nevertheless, it's time it seems to me for us to quit making the campaign speeches and remember the election is in november of '12, not this month of '11. >> so right in that sound bite mitch mcconnell what the american people want and then he went on to tell the rest of his colleagues in the senate that the american people are stupid, that they don't know how many businesspeople are involved in this. i mean, give me a break. the gentleman from kentucky, if we have to call him that, is protecting job creators from a .7% tax on any income over a million dollars a year? i'll have more on this later at the board. senate majority leader harry reid hammered his good friend for sabotaging the president. >> my friend, the republican leader, com

i'm going to leave it to you to speak for senator mcconnell.he president's proposal puts the burden on those who can most afford it. and it's a balanced and a fair proposal. we have a couple of days left before we're hoping it comes to a vote on friday. and what we're going to do is really work hard to encourage the american people to support this plan. and they do. and we're hoping their elected representative listens. >> valerie, you're a very good friend of ours, we love having you on. and i think mika especially looks forward to having you on because, well, she thinks if she sees you, she can get through another day with me. >> oh, lord. >> anything i can do to help mika. thank you, all, pleasure being with you. >> great seeing you again. >>> do you think rich galen got $60,000 a speech? >> i don't know. >> i wonder if newt gave him points. so if you get three points and newt makes $100 million cashing in, get money for rich! i hope he gets a deal. >> he's next. [ male announcer ] you are a business pro. premier of the packed bag. you know

mcconnell: madam president? the presiding officer: the republican leader. mr.mcconnell: it's been two months since the president came before congress and outlined his plan for tackling the jobs crisis, a plan that can be best described as a rehash of the same failed policies of the past few years disguised as a bipartisan overture. a political strategy masquerading as a serious legislative proposal. the president put this plan together knowing republicans would oppose it. in other words, it was actually designed to fail, as the white house aides have readily admited to reporters for weeks. this was not -- i repeat -- a serious effort to do something about jobs and the economy. it was a serious effort to help the president's reelection campaign by making republicans in congress look intransigent. so what i've been saying for the past few weeks is let's put the political games aside. we'll have time for that next year in the election. the american people want us to do something about jobs right now. it appears the message may finally be breaking through. i was ju

. >> if mitch mcconnell were to ask you or tell you right now, mitch mcconnell has endorsed continuing the payroll tax cut. would you go along with it? if the republican leader in the senate said, it's time to continue the tax cuts, would you support that? sf >> it's never as simple as that. >> i'm asking you! >> and i'm telling you. i said at the outset, at the end of the day, we'll have a deal with the democrats and republicans and president obama and you'll have that extension. as i said, this is more politics than it is substance. david talks about the republicans put tax cuts they don't want to pay for, that's the craziest notion i've heard in my life. you earn money. how much does the government deserve to have their hand in your back pocket, is the question? and the democrats don't want to touch entitlement reform. for this payroll tax holiday that we're talking about, it's $118 billion a year that's being diverted from social security. i think what this really addresses here, david, hang on a second, what this really addresses here is the need for the fact that we need to have

senator mcconnell left that unmentioned. you willing to at the end of the day if all you can get is the extension on the employee side, you'll take it? >> well, again, i don't want to negotiate what might happen depending on what the senate does later this week or what proposals might be put forward if it doesn't succeed in the senate, the initial proposal. what i can say is that the president believes as he put forward in his american jobs act that we should not just extend but expand the tax cut, so the $1,000 that 160 million americans got extra this year would be expanded to an average of $1,500 and as you noted, that we would have a payroll tax holiday for small businesses, because they're the engine of economic growth. they do the most hiring in america. so, you know, this president is for those kinds of tax cuts that will get the economy growing, will get people back to work, and we hope that republicans will support him in that. and he's also for paying for it in a way that most americans support, democrats, independ