[laughter] i owe george mcgovern a great deal.i was in fall river, shaking hands, greeting voters in this elderly woman came to me and squinted and looked at me and said mr. mcgovern, i have to tell you is the proudest moment of that last one i voted for you against richard nixon in 1972. i did not to say, but i say thank you for a match hope you go from me again. she obviously good a night at 70% of the vote. the george mcgovern remains one of the best examples of public service that this country has ever seen. he was adamant to her my teacher and i kind of the line myself philosophically with his views. i am a liberal. i'm not afraid to admit that. [applause] i have a positive vision for our government. i don't want wasteful government, but i believe we ought to have adequate government. i believe in the great society. i believe in the united nations. i still think the body can be of good to help end violence and bring about world peace. all of us need to work harder. we allow our nation to get into wars. we have this great deba

[laughter] actually i don't george mcgovern a great deal. when i first ran for office back in 1996 i was -- shaking hands, greeting voters and this older woman came up to me and kind of squid to come look at me and said mr. mcgovern, i have to tell you it's the proudest moment of my life when i voted for you against richard nixon in 1972. i did know what to say but i said thank you very much. i hope you'll vote for me again. she did. i one with like 70% of the vote. you know, but george mcgovern, you know, remains somebody who i think is one of the best examples of public service that this country has ever seen. and he was my kind of mentor, my teacher, and i kind of ally myself philosophically with his views. i mean, i'm a liberal. i'm not afraid to admit that. i believe in -- [applause] -- i have a positive vision for government. i don't want to wasteful, bu bui believe not have adequate government. i believe in the media. i believe in the great society. i believe in the united nations. i still think that that body can get some good to hel

mcgovern: mr. speaker, let me respond to my friend from utah by simply saying, i think going on a week-long recess while people are being furloughed, while cuts in medical research go forward, while we see cuts in programs like w.i.c. and cuts in programs like food banks and scientific research, i think going on recess with all of this happening quite frankly is unconscionable. that's running away from our responsibility here. it's running away from our responsibility to our constituents. and we have had an alternative, the democrats have had an attorney sequestration -- an alternative to sequestration. mr. van hollen has tried on countlessow occasions to have the rules committee -- on countless occasions to have the rules committee allow him to have his opportunity to bring his alternative to the floor, he's been turned down every single time. so, you know, i mean, the reality is that, again, i really appreciated my republican friends who came down here and were upset about the flight delays. they

go back and take a look at the democratic program for the 1972 campaign when mcgovern ran for president and look at the current one. >> bill: it's very similar. >> back in 1972, mcgovern got his butt kicked and now barack obama is is in office. now, todd, you see the -- i want you to see the big picture here. you saw the usc professor. is he not something unusual. this is going on everywhere. >> right. >> is there anything that can be done? >> well, i don't think so. other than conservative students are starting to speak up like this young man in california who took a hidden camera in and filmed an entire semester's worth of those lectures. the same situation down in florida where we had the stomp jesus professor one young man stood up. if we hadn't of done the stories on that. if we hadn't exposed that this young man would have been expelled. he had already been suspended. >> this was the professor that ordered the stomp jesus thing. it doesn't seem like there is any solution to this problem. it seems likes a bob said there is a stranglehold on the university system. and that's just th

mcgovern, for five minutes. mr. mcgovern: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, today i rise to talk about the national shame of child hunger in america. i wish it didn't exist, but we can't ignore the fact there are more than 16 million kids in america who are food insecure. quite simply, that means more than 16 million children went hungry in 2011. that's unconscionable and that's unacceptable. hunger has no place in the richest, most prosperous nation on earth. letting anyone in this country go without food is bad enough, but letting children go hungry is more than heartbreaking. it's just plain wrong. yet, we let it happen every day in america. 16 million children, mr. speaker. that means one in five kids in america go to bed hungry and wake up hungry at some point in their lives during the year. that means one in five kids don't know when their next meal's coming. we are allowing more than 16 million kids to wake up hungry, go to school hungry and go to sleep hungry. we are allowing more

mcgovern, yes? it was the proudest moment of my life when i voted for you against richard nixon in 197 #. [laughter] so i really didn't know what to say, so i said, well, thank you very much, i hope you vote for me again. she, obviously, did. i won fall river with 70% of the vote. [laughter] you know, i -- but george mcgovern, you know, remains somebody who i think is one of the best examples of public service that this country has ever seen, and he was my mentor, teacher, and i align philosophically with his views. i'm a liberal. i'm not afraid to admit that. i believe in a -- [applause] in a positive vision for our government. i don't want wasteful government, but i believe in adequate government. i believe in the new deal. i believe in the great society. i believe in the united nations. i think that body can be of some good to help end violence and bring about world peace. i believe in peace over war, and i think they all of us have to work harder for peace and not be so easy to allow our nation

there was a great deal of alarm about george mcgovern opening the door to and blacks. she quotes him as saying in the 1972 convention in miami, we listened to the and people the people who want to legalize marriages between boys and boys in marriages between girls and girls and we heard from the abortionists and the people that look like -- [inaudible] how we are talking now about the same issues, and finally with karen's book it was very interesting because we always like to blame the media for so many things. it's always the media's fault perpetuating immoral things. in her book, she talks about how we have to think about the influence of media on young people. this is something we worry about. and she has a section in a book where she talks about the whole notion of childhood and how that came about. so she says in her book she's talking about how we created the concept of childhood and adolescence after the great depression. apparently before the depression there were only adults. after the depression we had leisure time and we were more relaxed. she writes, the hi

in the past, it has been used, 1972 thomas eagle to know, george mcgovern's running mate had to leave ticket. whether or not they would have actually used that against ashley judd is something of a question. they pretty much threw everything that they had at her even before she actually declared she was rung and before she eventually dropped out. it's a question of whether or not they would have used it, and i think that probably, if anything, would have been sort of a last gasp thing they would have used. cenk: this is yet another example of politics that are pervasive in washington d.c. cenk: we do here people laughing throughout the tapes. i'm going to go further than kevin. i think it is fair game. if i was running against a republican and thought he had issues with mental health, i'd bring it up. >> you're right. i think it's fair game. also i agree with kevin because, you know, what kevin is saying is we don't know if it's fair game. they didn't use this on an ad or a campaign trail. this was a conversation and a really cool thing for people to see of what it's like in one of th

i walked in he says mcgovern? we were just talking about you. i said really? he said and it wasn't good. [laughter] great. he said come over here. look we don't want this health care bill. really? why? >> we don't want the government running our health care. do you know what the bill does? it removes the co-payment for preventative care. it's good for you. it's going to close the doughnut hole. >> yeah the other things. >> what other things? i had a guy and a business meeting the other day told me that i need to get the government off his back. i said be more specific. he said the whole thing. help me. i'm not a politician. i said but ibm and you are supposed to tell me. it's done a lot of good. it saves people's lives you can have water in the faucet and not die because we have regulations governing clean water. the stuff that you buy and a supermarket that is expected by the usda. i mean, you have medical devices and medications that are regulated in a way that they are tested before they get them to you. there are things we have a safety net for poor people

. >> if you recall, remember nixon went after mcgovern in his first pick for vice president for the nominationton had mental illness, et cetera and mcgovernor dropped eagleton from the ticket and picked shriver to replace him. this is not uncommon. the problem is when you have a politician who goes after his or her opponents on a personal level for their family doing something, kids or cheating on their wives or this sort of stuff, american all the illness it may help you in the short term. in the long term history looks back on those sort of things and judges them very poorly and dimly. it's not like anybody loves mitch mcconnell with a warm and fuzzy feel about this guy but it will hurt him eventually in the eyes of the nation. >> jimmy williams on why it matters. appreciate it. >>> so we've heard a lot about the gang of eight the group of senators working on an immigration bill. they could unveil their proposal on tuesday. one of those senators, marco rubio is planning to hit the air waves to push that plan appearing on seven talk shows this weekend. some conservatives in the house are push

mcgovern, for five minutes. mr. mcgovern: i ask unanimous consent to address the house, revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. speaker, 10 years ago crimes by the government of sudan against its own people in darfur were just beginning. the world witnessed the burning of villages, poisoning of water, murder, rape, brutal asalt, and displacement of entire villages by violence. in 2004 they were characterized by the u.s. government and congress as genocide. for the past six years the international criminal court has indicted and issued arrest warrants for sudan's high official, military commanders for multiple counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity. in 2009 and 2010, president bashir himself was indicted by the i.c.c. for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. international movements in support of the people of darfur arose around the world, including a broad coalition here in the united states of religious, labor, peace, human rights, and student organizations calling

since the primaries were handed back over to the voters from , mcgovern himself was a caretake care candidacy of rfk's tragic assassination. my thoughts are she's going to stay out of the water. but anyone who gets back on the inevitably bandwagon doesn't understand how democrats have historically looked at do-over candidacies. >> if i'm not mistaken, i think he just commented on the future, did he not? >> a little bit. >> promised to never do that. >> i think she's going to sit back as long as possible. but as long as she's sitting back, this sense of inevitability will continue to envelope her. a lot of people say, she was going to in '08. 9 i don't think the inevitability was a problem in '08. she ran against a candidate in barack obama. early on, democratic primary voters who wanted something that didn't make them feel hypocrite call. that's not going to be a problem in 2016 or 2015 when we start this run-up. one of the things it does for hillary this time, she's such a large figure that she doesn't need to do anything to get attention the way you see rubio and paul making big policy move

he won in '72 the year the democratic presidential candidate george mcgovern was slaughtered by nixon but joe biden won and served in the senate for 36 years. let's hear it for the long shots for the people who have the guts to run when everyone says it's hopeless because as we can see in that race down in south carolina, it isn't. and that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes and thank you for joining us tonight. since the moment we found out the boston marathon had been bombed, the biggest universal unanswered question surrounding the attack has been, why? that's the thing we all want to know. it's the question everyone is asking each other over beers and in offices. and it's, in the first hours and days after the attack speculation about motive and intent was all over the place. while credible information was actually nowhere to be found. but that is slowly starting to change. now today we are finally getting bona fide reporting, nuggets of information which we have not had until now upon which to piece together the answer

you know, senator mcgovern was a very liberal democratic senator. ran for president i believe against richard nixon. he didn't win at all. he is a very good senator, stayed as a senator, but retired and opened up a business, and after he had the business for a few years he wrote something pretty profound. he said i had no idea as a legislator that all these well-intentioned things i do was a new burden for a business and there was a cost to it. and what i think we should do, we should elect people to congress who have been in business because they'll understand that there's always a tradeoff for anything well-meaning. so what can the government do? i hate to say it but consider the fact jobs are the biggest -- we need jobbed jobbed and if yot that as number one, like bill clinton did, they'll approach it differently than the other goals. i could spend hours giving you other examples but i appreciate the question, and again, thank you for coming here. >> gary, you revved to the "wall street journal" here at the press club, very pertinent article toda

mcgovern, my colleague from massachusetts, r. mcgovern. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i first want to thank my colleague, mrs. sonkas, for organizing today's -- ms. tsongas, for organizing today's special order, it's with immense gratitude that i rise to commemorate massachusetts first responders today. while i'm proud to call myself a resident of the commonwealth of massachusetts, being from massachusetts has carried a very special significance these past 12 days. the tragic bombings that occurred on april 15 took three precious, innocent lives. and caused hundreds of others to suffer devastating wounds. a former intern of mine, patrick downs and his wife jess, were wounded and i want them to know that we are continuing to pray for them. and for all the others who were wounded. and we also remember officer sean collier, an m.i.t. police officer, who was shot and killed. and our prayers with his family. so many lives were upended by this tragic, senseless act of violence. citizens of the commonwealth and americans across the country are still coping with the h

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and mcgovern in 1972. i thought they were too service. -- conservative. it was trying to think things through. i was more of a libertarian. i was trying to figure things out. people were telling me, you are black. we already have the views you are supposed to have. you're not supposed to read ayn rand. that is bizarre. why do we go to school? give us a list. we could read what am i supposed think today. his remarks in their entirety tonight on c- span starting at 9:00 eastern. about the summit hosted by bloomberg in washington, looking at the global economy and ted, we will have remarks from alan krueger, the chair of the white house council of economic advisers that will start in just a couple of minutes. while we wait for comments i alan krueger, we aired the early session of this on c-span2 today and one of the speakers was the outgoing fcc chair who spoke about expanding access to broadband. >> is nice to me here. it is tougher to talk about the deficit and debt than it was years ago when i was covering president reagan. i asked him if he worried abou

mcgovern, for five minutes. mr. mcgovern: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. speaker, my grandmother used to say an apple a day keeps the doctor away. i hated it when she said that, but you know, mr. speaker, she was right. good nutritious food will keep you healthy. that's because food is medicine. fruits, vegetables, and other healthy foods like beans, legumes, grains, proteins are critical for proper development. simply put, healthy people eat healthy food. the opposite is also true. the more junk food we eat the less healthy we are. but there are different reasons why people eat less nutritious food. many people choose to eat nonnutritious food, but there are many others who cannot afford to buy healthier options. these low-income households have to stretch their food dollars in order to make ends meet. this requires them to buy less nutritious, high calorie foods that are more affordable on a fixed income. this is why we can have an obese

and mcgovern, the great liberal, george mcgovern, who was a very decent guy, but he wasn't doing much either. he was the congressman, the only one from the state, so i ended up writing a lot of stories about them that got the chicago tribune. you know, the wire service is great, because you never know where a story's going to bounce. that got me to washington, chicago first and then washington covering the vietnam war be about, oh, early '65. and it was like on the job training for why to learn to hate a war. because going there, not that much, but mostly working in washington as a correspondent for the ap, and the ap has a lot of juice because, you know, every story you write is on every editor's desk theoretically, or could be if it's a good one, in a few minutes around the world. and the other thing was you get to know military guys. and i was saying earlier at dinner -- although i'm very critical of my government, i really am. one thing that you find in the cia and all these agencies and particularly in the military what i, what makes the world work for me anyways as a journalist,

senators dole and mcgovern got together, wrote legislation, signed by richard nixon and we we creatend then hunger started to grow. this started way before the recession. it was beginning to creep up and compounded by the recession. >> we have supplemental nutrition program, called food stamps. we've done segments on the show before, mass expansion how many people are using it in the wake of the great recession. 44 million americans, 1 out of every 2 children will have food assistance. >> at some point in their life, 1 out of 2 children. >> is the point, that's not enough? the question, should that be bigger? should eligibility be expanded? >> it should be. it's not enough. especially when you look at how food stamps, how it's calculated. the government uses something called a thrifty food plan and there are four plans they use by which to sort of benchmark how much calories or what foods you can buy. there's a thrifty plan, a low plan, medium plan and high plan. it's used for things like pegging alimony or child support or how many calories the military can receive. it's somewhat pu

after that, jim e-government -- mcgovern talks about the news media. deputy secretary of defense ashton carter discusses the u.s. defense strategy in asia. live from the center for strategic and international studies beginning at 3:00 p.m. eastern, on c-span. >> the sec is actually structured, the way things used to be. it has got a wired division and a wireless division. it issues an annual report that is required by congress on the state of wireless. the hidden assumption, the implicit assumption is that the wireless market is somehow separate from the wired market area in fact, in the world of broadband, these two have increasingly converged. >> one thing that stands in the way of the telcos pushing up the network is that, unlike the cable companies, they are beholden to a special tax. this is sometimes called the legacy regulation. they have to maintain two separate networks, a copper network, our grandparents who insist on a landline telephone. and a broadband network. the problem is, this is a diversion of resources. it is not a trivial diversion

mcgovern, for five minutes. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, for the past two months, i have been speaking each week about hunger in america. today, i want to focus on hunger among our senior citizens which is a silent scourge in our nation. over 49 million americans are hungry and out of those 8.3 million are seniors. that's one in seven seniors and nearly 15% of everyone over 60 years old. in fact, from 2001 to 2009, hunger among americans over the age of 50 increased by nearly 80%. 80%. that is unconscionable. one reason for this significant rise in senior hunger is the economy. the recession has made hunger in america worse for everyone and has been particularly bad among people between ages 50 and 59, a population too young for social security, medicare, but too old for programs that target families with children. and it's not just the very poor. in fact, between 2007 and 2009, the most dramatic increase in hunger was among those whose annual incomes were twice the poverty line. food, good and healthy food, is important at age age

provocations, the growing seriousness of he dow industrial base and their critical ever structure the mcgovernand networks and the business committee from china and iran and that power if places significant demands with the entire defense enterprise. i believe the most pressing threat is from cyber attacks the daily occurrences are damaging on a variety of levels and they're not only persisting and dangerous the likelihood of serious damage to national security is very real. potential adversaries are more capable of conducting cyber operations. cyber attacks remained an important transnational threat to the united states was day actors such as china, russia, iran and north korea integrating these capabilities into the gathering methods and doctor and. malicious factors including terrorist organizations demonstrates the willingness of a limited capability to use cyber editing means to attack u.s. interests. one final point* regarding cyber attacks we need to keep in mind, behind these attacks are human beings. some corn on state, some are state-sponsored networks, a bit each with increasing cap

mcgovern: mr. speaker, the international sports spotlight will focus on the grand prix but will that spotlight shine into bahrain's jails as well? one sentenced to two years of jail simply engaging in political protest is one that needs to have focused attention. she is part of the tom lantos human rights commission for people to stand up against prisoners of conscience around the world. i ask my colleagues to take part in this opportunity. nabil is not alone. the bahrainian government has imprisoned 13 others and reports say they will soon jail anyone found guilty of insulting the king. it is the time for formula one silence. it is time for them to take a stand in favor of human rights and it is time for us to speak out for the nonviolence defenders, like nabil. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized -- for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? the gentlewoman? >> i ask unanimous consent to revise and

law school, in college i voted at 18 because i was from georgia, i voted for hump free in 1968 and mcgovern in 1972. so, and i taught they were too conservative. [laughter] it was, again, trying to think things through. i was more of a libertarian. i was trying to figure things out. but people were telling me that you're black, we already have the views you're supposed to have. you're not supposed to read ayn rand, you're not supposed to think about things. that's bizarre. well, why do we go to school? just give us our list of what we're supposed to think. that saves a lot of time. [laughter] then we just read, oh, what am i supposed to think today? you know? [laughter] >> that's just part of supreme court justice chairns thomas' remarks. you can see the entire event tonight at 9 eastern on c-span. >> the intelligentsia is driven by this certainty that religion and reason are many different boxes -- in different boxes, that science and religion are in different boxes, and the two actually are at war with each other, they are inimical to each other. someone who is rational is not religious,