mr. brownback also ran for the republican nomination for president in 2008. back on capitol hill, congress returns monday when members come back, work as expected on the bush era tax cuts as well as federal spending for the next budget year >> there is nothing in the united states constitution concerning birth, contraception or abortion. >> on wednesday, president obama's 2008 campaign manager, david plouffe, told a knotty and at the university of delaware that the 2012 election will be much different than the 2008 election that brought president obama into office. he predicted that voters would be more moderate, but he still believes president obama will win and second turns even after democratic losses in last weeks midterm election. this event is about an hour and 10 minutes. >> welcome back to the university of delaware's o national agenda program.i am rah i'm ralph begleiter, director of the center for public edition.al last week's election, all ournts predictions that have been made for many months about the american people.ate fey hate congress and the

mr. waltzman? >> guest: you know, i always felt when i was on committee staff as well as when i worked for senator brownback on senate commerce that there was a good dialogue with the fcc, both the commissioners and bureaus many terms of coming up and doing briefings, you know? and both republican and democrat-led commissions, sometimes we liked what they were doing, sometimes we didn't. i always felt like there was a good healthy dialogue and the fcc always made themselves accessible to hill staff. >> host: this is c-span's "communicators" program. we're talking about the upcoming tuesday midterm election with howard waltzman, former counsel for the energy and commerce committee when the republicans were in charge, and gregg rothschild who was the chief telecommunications counsel when the democrats were in charge. tony romm, politico, next topic area. >> host: thanks. so i think, you know, as we just said, there's been this huge preoccupation with net neutrality in some cases to the detriment of members who would like to see members talking about the national broadband plan. let's start talking about those

mr. brownback: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from kansas. mr. brownback: mr. president, thank you very much. i thank the majority leader for setting this period of time up. this would be my last speech probably to the body. it's a speech that i want to give in talking about leaving the united states senate. i was just elected to be governor of kansas, which i'm very excited about that post. i have served here a period of 14 years, which has been a wonderful chance to be able to serve the people of kansas, the people of the united states, and i love this body and i love this country. a lot of folks talk about when they leave about the partisanship and the bickering. i like to think about the beauty of the country and the ability to come together because it does happen. the predecessor of the person sitting in the seat, i worked one of the flagship pieces of legislation on human rights protection, it was on human trafficking. the initial bill was with paul wellstone that i worked with from minnesota. a delightful individual. it was a great chancer for us -- a gr