we know that now because patty murray in the president are bragging about it.but we also know it because they telegraph that when in all of of 2010, when the democrats have the super majority in the house come house come in the senate, and they have the presidency, if they wanted to make any part of those bush tax cuts permanent for any income group, they could have done that. but they chose to extend the tax cuts for nobody. not the poor or middle class. nobody. lou: grover, i think that i got it. nobody. i got it. what i don't quite get, is the fact that there seems to be some contentment that i don't perceive. i was going to november 6 without delaying the concerns and fears and anxieties in desperate need for leadership in this country by both this president, governor romney, and the republican house and democratic senate. and if we don't, it's going to have consequences, irrespective of the outcome of the election on november 6. it is, it seems to me, brutal ignorance. i am talking about both houses of congress, and this white house, to suggest, and anyone

patty murray said former troops are owed more than bumper stickers. a handful of republicans supported the bill, many in the party saw problems with the legislation. senator tom coburn of oklahoma said there was several job training programs under way. rand paul wanted to cut off egypt and pakistan. we'll talk to them on "morning joe." >>> the teacher's strike in chicago is over now. the city is facing a deeper crisis in the form of pension funds. "the new york times" explains how the chicago school district drained its reserves setting up a struggle to pay the teachers. it pays out $1 billion a year outpacing the cash it brings in. it could mean deep cuts to other services. rahm emanuel called for raising the retirement age. there was a rare moment of unity at the nation's capital to honor a woman fighting for human rights and democracy in her home country myanmar. aung san suu kyi arrived in washington to get the gold medal she was awarded in 2008 but was unable to claim while under house arrest. kelly mcdonal has the story. >> reporter: one extraor

joining me now, senator patty murray, chair of the campaign committee.ou very much for joining us. all eyes are now on what your counterparts on the republican side are going to do. they have not yet committed to money but they have been saying that they are supporting todd akin, and we heard from roy blunt, senator in missouri, republican senator in missouri, endorsing him. what do you think is happening out there? >> well, look, what todd akin said was so offensive that there were different kinds of rape using the term legitimate and saying that somehow women have defenses against rape so they won't get pregnant, so offensive to me and to women in missouri, women and men across this country, and so offensive the top republican officials up and down said, we can't support this man. what changed in two weeks that they now say that this is a position of their party, that they will support him? perhaps put money into the race, i find that extremely offensive and i think people in missouri and across the country will as well. >> isn't it basically that this

we have six incumbents and five challengers but it's not surprising because we have patti murray, the chair of the d.c.s.s. who looked for the candidates and found strong women challengers and a couple of those seats are pickup seats for democrats. >> woodruff: i want to ask you both about women voters because we've heard the republicans say last week that, yes, the democrats argue they're better for women but in fact women have been most affected by this bad economy attorney general kamala harris, don't they have a point? >> women are no different from anyone. women do have the responsibility for raising families and taking care of seniors and aging parent but women care as much about what's happening with the economy. women care about the affordable care act and what will happen when we roll it out in 2014 so women are intelligent people. (laughter) they pay attention to issues and they read and their circumstances may vary depending on where they live but the are reality is they're paying attention to all the issues and they will make decisions based on what makes sense for the cou

. >> patty murray indicated that democrats are willing to go off the fiscal cliff to get republicans to been on raising taxes. is that your position as congress is scheduled to come back? >> i can understand why patty said that in frustration. our position continues today let's work together. let's demonstrate to the american people -- >> when you say let's work together, what are democrats going to can see? what are they going to give up? >> we have put forward a plan. we have put forward a budget. when the other side says, even the presidential candidates say, listen, even if you a $10 of tax cuts for every $1 of revenue in come come up good to at least -- in come, could you least compromise on that? they say no. democrats are not going to design a plan on the backs of beneficiaries. we are not going to stand by and see more tax cuts for billionaires' what people like my mother have to go without. is personal. that is not going to happen. we have an opportunity -- there is the framework of these plants. hey, give the senate credit. the at least -- led by dick durbin -- they said, a

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the office of veterans committee chair patty murray told us in response "it's good to see that at leasthey say the secret hold has been lifted and that's a testament to veterans learning about these back room games and standing up to demand accountability. we won't know for sure until november when we now have to try this over again. my hope is that they have learned their lesson. the vote on this payment, the vote on the veterans payment will now happen in november after the election. it will be really tight. they've got to pass it quickly in order not to affect those checks. but presumably when they bring that up in november it is going to pass. in the meantime we are all hoarding exclamation points just in case it gets hung up again. machine [ male announcer ] how do you make america's favorite recipes? just begin with america's favorite soups. bring out chicken broccoli alfredo. or best-ever meatloaf. go to campbellskitchen.com for recipes, plus a valuable coupon. campbell's. it's amazing what soup can do. and get outstanding deals with the travelocity fall hotel sale. you can save

we have six incumbents and five challengers but it's not surprising because we have patti murray, the chair of the d.c.s.s. who looked for the candidates and found strong women challengers and a couple of those seats are pickup seats for democrats. >> woodruff: i want to ask you both about women voters because we've heard the republicans say last week that, yes, the democrats argue they're better for women but in fact women have been most affected by this bad economy attorney general kamala harris, don't they have a point? >> women are no different from anyone. women do have the responsibility for raising families and taking care of seniors and aging parent but women care as much about what's happening with the economy. women care about the affordable care act and what will happen when we roll it out in 2014 so women are intelligent people. (laughter) they pay attention to issues and they read and their circumstances may vary depending on where they live but the are reality is they're paying attention to all the issues and they will make decisions based on what makes sense for the cou

. >> please welcome senator patty murray from washington state.e standing with president obama. for me and for so many americans, this election is personal. when i that the middle class tradition president obama is fighting to save, of the one mitt romney's policies would destroy, i see the very reason i am able to stand here tonight. when i was a teenager my father was one of the first soldiers on the beaches and was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. our family relied on veterans' benefits to help provide his care. we relied on my mom to provide for all seven of us kids. she had the chance to participate in a worker training program. she seized the opportunity. it was not easy for us to make it. for a while we were on food stamps. without federal student loans, my brothers sisters and i would never have had a shot at a college degree. potential and our children's potential is the story of many american families. it is a story that president obama understands. it is the story he has lived. that is why president obama is fighting for an economy in

the office of veterans committee chair patty murray told us in response "it's good to see that at leasty the secret hold has been lifted and that's a testament to veterans learning about these back room games and standing up to demand accountability. we won't know for sure until november when we now have to try this over again. my hope is that they have learned their lesson. the vote on this payment, the vote on the veterans payment will now happen in november after the election. it will be really tight. they've got to pass it quickly in order not to affect those checks. but presumably when they bring that up in november it is going to pass. in the meantime we are all hoarding exclamation points just in case it gets hung up again. [ ross ] the streets of monaco, home of the legendary grand prix circuit. the perfect place to bring the all-new cadillac ats to test the 2.0-liter turbo engine. [ engine revs ] ♪ [ derek ] 272 horsepower. the lightest in its class. the cadillac ats outmatches the bmw. i cannot believe i have ended the day not scraping some red paint off on these barriers. ♪ [

the first woman to ever chair the senate veterans affairs committee, washington state senator, patty murray leading our effort to make things and grow things in america, michigan senator debbie stabanau. standing up for the middle class and working with the farmers and businesses of her state, from the land of 10,000 lakes, the great state of minnesota, senator amy clabashar. the first woman in the united states history to be elected governor and u.s. senator, new hampshire senator jean shaheen. senator hick begin a senator to fights to keep north carolina first in education and first in honoring our military troops and veterans. fighting to make sure we see made in america again, new york senator kirsten gill brand. and now, the america's women senators and fighter for the middle class here is the history-making senator from maryland, barbara mikulski. >> good evening. i'm senator barbara mikulski from the great state of maryland. [cheers and applause] 26 years ago, i became the first democratic woman elected to the senate in her own right. i was the first but i made sure i wasn't the only

. >> an interesting point because senator patty murray when she first ran for office her opponent derideds a mom in tennis shoes. >> yep. >> and they loved that. they jumped on that. they started giving out every year a mom in tennis shoes award and she's been in the senate a long time. why is it just on -- i want to talk pure politics, why do these male candidates say things to attack and demean more than half of the voting population? >> i think we need to take akin and then take male candidates, right? i think that that's a little bit unfair. >> you know all men are the same, melissa. you know how male candidates are. >> what we know is that women are much less likely to throw their hat in the ring to run for office at every level from dog catcher to the president of the united states. we know -- >> or wild cat catcher. >> and one of the things we know about that is that when there's an open seat race women are as likely to win as their male opponents assuming they have equal credentials. one of the key reasons we have fewer women in elected office is because of the nastiness of campai

the office of veterans committee chair patty murray told us in response "it's good to see that at leastthe secret hold has been lifted and that's a testament to veterans learning about these back room games and standing up to demand accountability. we won't know for sure until november when we now have to try this over again. my hope is that they have learned their lesson. the vote on this payment, the vote on the veterans payment will now happen in november after the election. it will be really tight. they've got to pass it quickly in order not to affect those checks. but presumably when they bring that up in november it is going to pass. in the meantime we are all hoarding exclamation points just in case it gets hung up again. [ thunder crashes ] [ male announcer ] if you think all batteries are the same... consider this: when the unexpected happens, there's one brand of battery more emergency workers trust in their maglites: duracell. one reason: duralock power preserve. it locks in power for up to 10 years in storage. guaranteed. so, whether it's 10 years' of life's sunny days... or

housing and urban development, i worked very closely with the subcommittee's chairman, senator patty murray, to craft a truly bipartisan bill for fiscal year 2013. the bill strikes a balance between fiscal investment and fiscal restraint. in fact, this bill honors an allocation that is nearly $14.5 billion or 22% less than the fiscal year 2010 levels. these deep cuts reflect an even deeper commitment to getting our fiscal house in order. i'm proud of the work that senator murray and i did on this bill and the strong bipartisan vote of 28-1 this bill received from the appropriations committee this past april. like our bill, the agriculture appropriations bill, the commerce, justice, and science bill, the department of defense bill, energy and water, homeland security, legislative branch, military construction and veterans' affairs and the state department and foreign operations bills were all reported from the appropriations committee on a bipartisan basis. in putting together all of these bills, the appropriations committee functioned the way committees are supposed to. we worked together t

thanks to the great support of senator dan akaka and senator patty murray, we passed it.linois. i tell that story because when we talk of the real cost of 9/11, it is not only the massive tragedy of the lives that were lost on that day and the families affected by those lives and those wonderful first responders who risked and gave their lives, but it's also the lives of the men and women in uniform who served us well, many of whom are carrying the scars of war for the rest of their lifetime who still will always need our commitment and fervent devotion to make sure that they are taken care of. the edmondson family in north carolina comes to mind immediately and so many others just like them as a reminder of what we need to do, the obligations we have as a government to the people who have served us so well in the military. mr. president, we have a bill that's coming up here, and i hope that we can in that same spirit consider it on a bipartisan basis and pass it. it's an effort to give returning veterans a better chance to get a job. it's a disappointment. more than that

patty murray saying if the republicans do not do anything, we will take them off the cliff. have a great deal of disagreement with all those statements. going off the cliff is not the preferred strategy. calling off the cliff will not make the world better for the people who are unemployed trying to get jobs. figuring out how to address the clip in the short run -- and this problem in the longer run -- is what we want the people in congress and in the administration to do. figure out a way to keep from going off the cliff, and then figure out a way to address the long-term fiscal problems of this economy and of this country. we spend too much money with the recession's we have had recently come out the tax take is down, we have to figure out a way to balance the tax take with the spending and balance it in a long-term sense. if you grow at 2.2% a year as we have been doing for the last three years, and you have a cassette that is more than 2 per 2% of the economy, you are going to add to the debt levels. we have been running at levels that have been up to 10% of the economy

patty murray says she wants to go over the fiscalclifff. i want to find solutions.ost: a republican from north carolina, go ahead -- caller: good morning, we hear so much about you gotta us, , the republicans being obstructionist and it is somewhat true but we never look at the other side of that coin. how many bills since january, 2011, as john boehner and republican-held house sent over to the senate that senator reid has not allowed to go to committee or brought up for debate? he has pretty much killed them. i have numbers between 20 and 30 and most of these bills were related somehow to taxes, the economy, jobs, so on and so forth. you probably know the answer. guest: a lot of that has to do with american energy and security. and affordable energy. you are right, harry reid continues to block every one of them. he said earlier that senate floor action will be planned less to make law than to bolster the obama charge that republicans are obstructing. that is why we have seen only 65 days of voting in the senate this year. there are very many bills, dozens and doz

some of the speakers in the first hour, then president of the afl-cio, richard trumka, senators patty murray and charles schumer, and representative emanuel cleaver of missouri will be speaking in the 6:00 p.m. hour. in the 7:00 p.m. hour, nancy pelosi, tom vilsack, barbara mikulski, education secretary are the darkened -- are the duncan are some of the speakers. in the 8:00 p.m. hour, steny hoyer, philadelphia and their michael nutter. chris then holland, sandra fluke, and the governor of delaware will be speaking in the 9:00 p.m. hour, and then finally elizabeth warren, running for senate in massachusetts, and former president bill clinton will give the nominating address this evening for barack obama. then there is the traditional roll call of states. that is coming up, with gavel- to-gavel coverage on c-span radio and c-span.org. we have been talking about the role of first ladies. we have a new series beginning on c-span on the first lady's early next year. here is a preview. [video clip] ♪ >> if we turn away from the needs of others, we align ourselves with those forces which are bring

the first woman to ever chair the senate veterans affairs committee, washington state senator, patty murray leading our effort to make things and grow things in america, michigan senator debbie stabanau. standing up for the middle class and working with the farmers and businesses of her state, from the land of 10,000 lakes, the great state of minnesota, senator amy clabashar. the first woman in the united states history to be elected governor and u.s. senator, new hampshire senator jean shaheen. senator hick begin a senator to fights to keep north carolina first in education and first in honoring our military troops and veterans. fighting to make sure we see made in america again, new york senator kirsten gill brand. and now, the america's women senators and fighter for the middle class here is the history-making senator from maryland, barbara mikulski. >> good evening. i'm senator barbara mikulski from the great state of maryland. [cheers and applause] 26 years ago, i became the first democratic woman elected to the senate in her own right. i was the first but i made sure i wasn't the only

this was one where patty murray, the chair of the veterans committee said to republicans if you needr support, give them to us. we included a lot of provisions that republicans wanted including a request from the senior republican and veterans committee, senator burr and they still filibustered it. the problem with this, bill is one thing. it might make barack obama look good when he signs it. that's the problem with the bill. >> bill: that's really it. >> it's incredible. you know how -- unemployment rate for veterans is persistently higher. has been for some time. and we've passed some good legislation the veterans reassistance, the veterans retraining act. done some things that are making a difference. this would have been a huge shot in the arm for veterans coming back getting jobs. it is outrageous if they filibuster it again. >> bill: just showed again that their one effort led by mitch mcconnell is deny anything that looks like a victory for president obama. >> then they like to say that -- media like to report because the media want to look fair. and they like to report well,

hear from representative diana degett of colorado, afl- cio president richard trumka, and then patty murray of washington state. looking at the prime-time lineup and to you can watch on c-span in our gavel-to-gavel coverage, in the 7:00 hour, house minority leader nancy pelosi will take the stage. we'll also hear from the agricultural secretary its tom vilsack, whose wife is running for congress in iowa, from senator barbara mikulski of maryland, in the education senator -- secretary arne duncan. looking at 8:00, representative steny hoyer of maryland. also, the president of planned parenthood, cecile richards, and congressman barney frank of massachusetts. eric shinseki also be speaking in that hour. in the 9:00 hour, representative chris van hollen, and sandra fluke, who gained public attention for her positions on contraceptives, and the uaw president bob king, and the governor of delaware, jack amrkell. at 10:00, elizabeth warren, and then the presidential nomination speech from former president bill clinton. there will be a vote on the presidential nomination and a roll call of states

and it is a glorious committee, brilliantly led by patty murray. and i was chairman once myself, perhaps not quite so brilliantly. so many brave service members, memememe, have brought to defenr way of life. people say that and it is true. and they protect us each and every day. after such courageous and selfless actions, the least that we can do is make sure that when they return home, they get good jobs because they deserve those good jobs. they deserve jobs, and they deserve good jobs. they can be different. military experience builds leadership and dedication and bravery and teamwork. and these tax rates are learned from working on the front lines. not everything in the military happens on the front lines, but i just happen to be talking about that particular aspect of it in my short remarks here. no experience could prepare these workers better for the jobs that they hope to do after they leave the military service. i have a nephew who's just come back from afghanistan, and he may be 23, he may be 24, maybe he's 25, but he's almost unreachable