senator patty murray called them out. >> i know some republicans are trying to roll back the clock.have that fight. we've had it many times before. but we should not be putting veterans into the middle of it. don't take something that should be above politics and pull it down in the muck of petty politics. >> if republicans want to fight about women's health care, they should say it. and not go after veterans while they do it. joining me now jess mcintosh of emily's list and laura who covers women's rights and those issues around women's right for the "huffington post." >> great to be here. thanks. we've seen a lot of efforts over the years. why go after the veterans in the process? >> yeah. every time republicans try to defund planned parent hood they overplay their hand. we saw this the last time. they almost caused a government shutdown. that went really poorly for them but it did take a couple weeks to build up to that. in this case, they overplayed their hand within days. within hours. and they did it for a bill to help wounded veterans have children. i mean, if any bill is goi

the fact you have senator alexander, a former secretary of education, banding with senator patty murray who has a track matter -- track record of being able to negotiate deals is a positive momentum behind us. we think it will hopefully pass the senate and go to the president before the end of the year before the next year which is an election year. as you mentioned earlier the law has not been reauthorized in eight years. 42 states have waivers from the u.s. department of education. they are doing things differently because the requirements were too difficult for them to abide by. their will continue to be a lot of debate around testing and accountability at a time when we need to have a greater focus on meeting the needs of poor students. i think this congress is poised to pass it. hopefully, they can come to the table to rectify differences. host: nina rees is the president and c.e.o. of the national alliance for public schools. phillip lovell is the vice president of the alliance for excellent education. jean is next on the independent line. caller: i want to talk about something i

clinton says she backs the legislation sponsored by patty murray to raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour because she wants to get behind a proposal that has a chance of succeeding. however republicans who control both chambers of conscious are mostly opposed to boosting the minimum wage. >>> a restaurant in salt has had great success. sister along wit menu prices. the restaurant now tells diners they don't have to tip. both workers and customers are reacting positively. businesses in seattle will have to pay a $15 an hour minimum wage by 2018. >>> time is 6:39. some signs of change at one of san francisco's oldest neighborhoods. coming up at 7:00, red flags some people say they are seeing in a community that is rich with tradition. >> but first new signs that the search for malaysia flight 370 is coming to a close. the questions that still remains surrounding the planes disappearance. feduring sleep train's you'retriple choice sale. to save big for a limited time, you can choose up to 48 months interest-free financing on a huge selection of tempur-pedic models. or choose to save hun

he teamed up with the ranking member of the committee, patty murray, and they started hashing out a deal. a spent weeks working on a bill that they felt bridge the biggest divide between democrats and republicans on this law. what you wound up with was a bill that i think some republicans like to see move to the right democrats would like to see it move to the left, but more a less people have been able to kind of swallow those concerns and they passed it out of committee with a unanimous vote. a couple years ago people would have thought that was difficult, considering the divides between democrats and republicans on education. that is the state in play with the bill. as it was getting to the floor. on the floor there will be a lot of an amendments, dozens of ideas for how to improve k-12 education. this was last taken up 15 years ago, so that is the last time, add it was july when the senate was debating this hill. there has been a lot of turnover, a lot of senators who have not staked out positions on this before, people who want to bring ideas to the floor, so i think you will see a

that's what patty murray and i are doing this bill to move our measurement system by measuring the effectiveness of the war on poverty from inputs and efforts, programs and spending and bureaucracies to outcomes, results. is it working. what that ends up doing is it propels the resources and the power into the hands of local community poverty fighters who are succeeding. when they can show what works you can cross-pollinated. that's what you do is darryl has this great program perhaps you can share what book it does in indianapolis. maybe you can share that with the kansas city or dallas. we have milwaukee. cross polity share ideas. that's the thing we want to see more of instead of some bureaucrat in some way with ph.d and out of anything about cutting poverty and bureaucracy kind of the rules and reductions to prevent that kind of thing from happening. so to me it's about changing the approach, not based on judgment based on grassroots bottom up and show what works and go with what works. to me that is how you successfully take on the poverty pentagon by saying justify the results. they can't.

i thank the senator from washington patty murray, who suggested the way that we proceed today.e fell into some partisan differences in the last two congresses that kept, that made that impossible. and she has as much as anybody helped solve that problem. we're making good progress. we've adopted a number of amendments. we voted on some others. some passed, some have been defeated. but people have had a chance to have their say. and senator murray and i have received a large number of amendments several dozen actually that senators on both sides have offered that we've agreed to recommend to the full senate that we adopt by consent. in addition to that, we adopted 29 amendments in the committee consideration, and many of those were amendments from democrat members of the senate. so i think most senators -- in fact i haven't heard a single one say that they haven't had a chance to have their say on no child left behind. yesterday i put that the record an op-ed from the "washington post" from the virginia secretary of education ann holton who made the argument that i think stays l

senator patty murray from washington, she worked in the early childhood space years ago before she entereds. so this is something that's very, very personal very real to her. and she's been a passioned advocate and helping to move this in the right direction, but this should have nothing to do with politics or ideology or republican or democrats. we should have more children entering kindergarten ready to learn and be successful. >> you know president obama has spoken about how a good education is really setting a child on the right path. watch this. >> it turns out that when they're succeeding at school and have resources they're less likely to get pregnant as teens as less likely to engage in drugs and less likely to be involved in the criminal justice system. >> every dollar spent on early life on education is really something that you save money on later, isn't that right? >> that's exactly right. and again, this law is fundamentally -- it's a civil rights law, reverend. we have to make sure our latino children african-american children children that live below the poverty line childre

>> patty murray is one of the most effective legislators in the senate bar none.tever she advocates i pay a lot of attention to because she knows how to get it through the congress and not just do it for the sake of having a higher number but get behind a proposal that has a chance of succeeding. i have seen her over the years be able to do just that. [inaudible question] >> well, it certainly did. we had several conversations about trade in general and the tpp in particular. there are three tests i want to see med, raise wages and increase economic opportunity. at this.i am hearing from various players who are involved in a negotiation that there are changes in a direction i might approve, but i don't no if there have been enough and will not until i see what has been negotiated. >> hillary clinton in silver springs, maryland talking to reporters, getting questions on everything from donald trump and immigration both of which she refused to entertain and allegations about the scandal on the front page of the "wall street journal" today, concerns she abused her po

that is the kind of conversation we ought to have full why patty murray and i are doing is bill to move our measurement system from inputs and efforts on programs and spending a bureaucracy to outcomes, results. is it working? and what that ends up doing is it propels the resources and the power into the hands of local community poverty fighters who are actually succeeding. when they can show what works you can cross pollinate. that is what cna does. you have this great program. perhaps you can share what does. maybe you can share that with kansas city or dallas. milwaukee. cross pollinate, share ideas that is what we want to see more of instead of some bureaucrat. trying to put rules and regulations that prevent that kind of thing. it is about changing the approach not based on input and top-down but organic grassroots bottom-up and then just show what works. that is the way this debate should involve. >> i am not a math major. people's wydenwigle support. two plus two is war. zero. >> of the same thing. we're working toward the same goal. that is why from. the people literally doing i

and then patty murray worked with lamar alexander and they came out with an education bill. and then i worked with senator inhofe and he worked with me, and mitch mcconnell worked with senator durbin. and we came out with a product that is supported by a majority of both caucuses. i'm proud of the product. i know it's not perfect. i know if i had my way i would have drawn up a very different bill. so would senator inhofe. so would senator mcconnell. so would senator durbin. but here's what's at stake -- i'll show you the bridge again -- this is what's at stake. this is the face of what we are doing. it is bigger than our egos. it is bigger than our taking a five and a half week break. i served as a count supervisor and we knew the building we were in was earthquake deficient. it is still and it is beautiful, frank lloyd wright's last built-out government building. and i served in that gorgeous building. when i found out it could collapse in an earthquake and the five county supervisors found that out we were told those many, many many years ago that it was possible we could

and that is why patty murray and i have a bill which are moving through.we're going to pass this this year. figure out how to measure this and how to go from an input measurement system to an outcome based measurement system. this is not ideological or partisan command if we can get to measuring success based upon outcomes, improving people's lives, and the and the federal government has a role to play. communities, subsidiaries. there is a lot that we can learn from people who are successfully fighting poverty every day. we should be behind them, not in front of them and support them not displace them. look at our comeback miniseries that shows you what is amazing that is happening out there. go back to the bill, let's have a debate about what works and what does not work which is, to me the better debate which will produce progress. if progress. if we just have this republican democrat liberal conservative this cap this was been moron that we will just have more of the same. if we try and fix this problem by having an outcome based results-based approach

so we had three big prairies to fix no child left behind and thanks to ruth patty murray the senior democratcould form a bipartisan working group to get the bill through 81 / 70 last week which is pretty remarkable given that complexity of the issue and the difficulties. [applause] but we are results oriented. second common it simplified federal rules and regulations to govern higher education there is well-intentioned rules put the institutions are struggling with the red tape we have a variety of bipartisan efforts to deal with that. a the third area that we identified earlier this year the real approach to the same bipartisan way is to try to space federal policies in such a way that we are able to move discoveries through the entire process of innovation , regulation and investment into the medicine cabinet more rapidly. the house of representatives has a similar goal and passed a bill called 21st century cures i was going to tennessee with obama earlier this year to announce the community college initiative. i told him about the three goals he said he is interested in precision medicine

and antipoverty activists that hillary clinton said she packed the legislation and sponsored by patty murrayraise the minimum rage to $12 pause she wants to get behind a proposal that has a chance of succeeding. >>> shuttle bus drivers for apple, yahoo! will be voting on a un-- union contract. if approved, the drivers would get a pay raise. right now the drivers don't get any paid holidays or overtime pay. the teamster's union has been helping in negotiations. >> apple lovers can rejoice coming up, when the new apple tv is -- apple tv is due to hit shelves. >>> and the gets that still remain surrounding the malaysian airline disappearance. having necessary school supplies can mean the difference between success and failure. the day i start, i'm already behind. i never know what i'm gonna need. new school, new classes, new kids. it's hard starting over. to help, sleep train is collecting school supplies for local foster children. bring your gift to any sleep train, and help a foster child start the school year right. not everyone can be a foster parent, but anyone can help a foster child. >>>

paul ryan and patty murray, a leading house republican and a leading democrat, sat down and hammered out a bipartisan agreement. it wasn't perfect. there were some aspects the president didn't like. what it did was avoided a second government shutdown and showed bipartisan ground. making investments above and beyond. not just in our national security, but in our economy. we believe that is what democrats and republicans in congress should do. democrats indicated a willingness to do that. you haven't seen the same from republicans. that is a source of disappointment. we have seen this movie before. this ending is not get. my goodness. -- this ending is not too good. my goodness. that is why it had in a touch of -- republicans have resisted talking to democrats to pass a budget. what the president indicated is to start having these conversations even if they are informal, phone calls, around a table at the beach somewhere. we could have constructive conversations in the right at a bipartisan budget agreement that doesn't risk any sort of government shutdown. reporter: human exactly cle

patty murray and i have a bill we are moving through.s of this year to set up a commission to figure out how to measure this. how to go from in input measurement system to one output-based measurement system. this is not partisan. if we can get to measuring success rates on outcomes and improving people's lives -- the federal government has a role but not the role to play in this. mickey's and subsidiaries, there is a lot we can learn from people successfully fighting poverty every day. we should be behind them, not in front of them. we should support and not displace them. we have a come back miniseries that shows you what is happening in the world. back to the bill is let's have a debate about what works and what does not. that is the better debate which will produce progress. if we just have this republican, emma cracked liberal conservative, cut this or spend that, we will have more of the same. both we try to fix this by having a results-based approach, we will be a whole lot better off. there are proven successes we can get behind

he knows education and he's got a good partner to work with, patty murray. the senior senator from washington is a legislator first class, and the work they've done as leaders of this important committee has been very, very good. i appreciate the kind words of my friend from tennessee. mr. president, but this is an example of what i talked about a few minutes ago. we're not treating republicans like they treated us. i repeat: every piece of legislation i brought to the floor we had to file a motion to proceed on, with extremely rare exception. everything. we wasted months going through this senseless two days 30 hours and on and on with all the time spent on this. and it was an effort to embarrass president obama and they did their best to do that. and -- as cynical as it was it helped in their 2014 elections and i acknowledge that, and that's too bad. but it's too bad we had to go through all that because it's really hurt the country. i say to my friend, i have great respect for this man from tennessee. he's a good legislator, and i look forward to go movin

and that is why patty murray and i have a bill which are moving through. we're going to pass this this year. figure out how to measure this and how to go from an input measurement system to an outcome based measurement system. this is not ideological or partisan command if we can get to measuring success based upon outcomes, improving people's lives, and the and the federal government has a role to play. communities, subsidiaries. there is a lot that we can learn from people who are successfully fighting poverty every day. we should be behind them, not in front of them and support them not displace them. look at our comeback miniseries that shows you what is amazing that is happening out there. go back to the bill, let's have a debate about what works and what does not work which is, to me the better debate which will produce progress. if progress. if we just have this republican democrat liberal conservative this cap this was been moron that we will just have more of the same. if we try and fix this problem by having an outcome based results-based approac

government shutdown with sustained for a few weeks, there was a patch put in place in a paul ryan and patty murray, a leading house republicans and a leading senate democrat, sat down at the negotiating table and hammered out a bipartisan agreement. it was certainly not a big agreement, and there are some aspects of the agreement that the president did not like, but what i did do is it avoided a second government shutdown, and it identified clear bipartisan common ground where we can make investments above and beyond the sequester, not just in our national security but also in our economy. we believe that as a template for success, and we believe that is what democrats and republicans in congress should do. democrats have indicated a willingness to do that, but we have not seen the same willingness from republicans. significanturce of disappointment because we know what is going to happen. we have seen this will be before -- the ending is not very good. they will come back in early september, and it will say oh, my goodness, look at us, we only have three for a government shutdown. and they will c

i'd like to start by commending senators patty murray and lamar alexander for accomplishing what haseluded the senate for so many years a truly bipartisan compromise that deals with some critical but often divisive issues at the heart of america's public schools. they've worked tirelessly on this bill because they understand the urgency of our national education crisis. in the wake of no child left behind's federal micromanagement of schools this bill heeds an important lesson, that communities need to have some flexibility and some space to innovate and find their own solutions to their education problems. but i would urge my colleagues as we work together to fix many of the law's weaknesses that we not lose sight of some of no child left behind's important accomplishments. for all its many problems, it exposed uncomfortable realities in america's classrooms and empowered policy-makers with real data that simply did not exist before. most importantly it refused to lower our nation's expectations of any school and demanded that every child in america get the education he or she deser

and my colleague and friend and fellow leader on the democratic side senator patty murray of washington. she and senator alexander have done an extraordinary bipartisan job of bringing this measure to the floor. that's not to say that i agree with every provision nor that any senator does, but to have this reported unanimously from committee by both political parties with the political climate we have in washington is nothing short of amazing. so we find ourselves on the floor debating the specifics of the elementary and secondary education act. i'm glad this bill increases impact aid for districts like north chicago in my home state of illinois which is neighbor to the great lakes naval training station. the bill also preserves the universally agreed on triumph of no child left behind, to dig aggregate data among subgroups of students. now, i remember back in 2002 when we passed no child left behind, i was relatively new to the senate and i sat back there and directly behind me when a -- was a senator from minnesota named senator paul wellstone. to say paul well it-- wellstone hated no

host: there is a story on political saying this time around they do not have paul ryan and patty murrayorking together on this. who is leading the charge and what is the nature of the relationship? guest: absolutely. there are not similar leaders among the rank and file here. the expectation is that it will be top dogs working with the obama administration. some combination of john boehner, mitch mcconnell, harry reid, maybe the appropriations committee chairman to be involved, but it will not be a deal worked out on the sidelines and then embraced by leadership. problem -- probably. guest: from the administration side, it will be interesting to see if biden gets involved again, particularly if it is those leaders doing it. he has got a good relationship with mitch mcconnell as we have seen in the last few years. if the vice president decides to stick his hat in the ring for the 2016 campaign, maybe he will be less active here that is also an open question that will probably have an answer in the next few months. host: republican line. indiana. caller: i am calling from indiana and alth

it says the bill sponsored by patty murray will limit federal involvement in the public state. they help the performance of schools, teachers and students. as you know, democrats were opposed to what the republicans put on the floor. 27 republicans also voted against it. so, what is your prediction for the house and senate lawmakers coming together for the final bill? guest: i think the conference committee is where the actions will go. in some ways, i think the republican compromise, from my point of view will improve the bill slot -- slightly. in a way, what i mean, we did move from test and punish, to test and reveal. so, testing and punishing from my point of view matches the kind of sanctions on the federal accountability system. we have removed those. but they kept in place the annual testing. i would prefer that we bring the testing back, roll it back even further. like grade span testing. standard testing was designed to be a systems check on schools. to not be tied to individual teachers. and, the problem with annual testing is that it gives the wrong impression to peo

the fact you have senator alexander, a former secretary of education, banding with senator patty murrayho has a track matter -- track record of being able to negotiate deals is a positive momentum behind us. we think it will hopefully pass the senate and go to the president before the end of the year before the next year which is an election year. as you mentioned earlier the law has not been reauthorized in eight years. 42 states have waivers from the u.s. department of education. they are doing things differently because the requirements were too difficult for them to abide by. their will continue to be a lot of debate around testing and accountability at a time when we need to have a greater focus on meeting the needs of poor students. i think this congress is poised to pass it. hopefully, they can come to the table to rectify differences. host: nina rees is the president and c.e.o. of the national alliance for public schools. phillip lovell is the vice president of the alliance for excellent education. jean is next on the independent line. caller: i want to talk about something i ha

i wanted to thank help committee chairman lamar alexander and ranking member patty murray for their hard work on today's bipartisan compromise bill. today's every child achieves act isn't perfect but it makes good progress. for years, i have heard from hawaii's teachers, educators parents, administrators that no child left behind or nclb is broken. it's time to leave nclb behind. i have been working to fix this broken law first as a member of the u.s. house of representatives committee on education and labor committee in 2007 and now as a senator. i also began to work on education reform when i was lieutenant governor of the state of hawaii. let me start with one of the biggest problems with nclb, which is the testing requirements. i've heard from teachers in hawaii loud and clear that nclb brought us too much testing. teachers and students in some schools spent so much time on testing and test prep that they didn't have enough time for teaching and learning. today's bill includes senator baldwin's smart act legislation which i cosponsored to cut redundant state and local tests and it al

to the leadership of the senate health committee, chairman lamar alexander and ranking member patty murray the senate passed a bipartisan bill known as the every child achieves act that re-authorizes the elementary and secondary education act. this is the law where the federal government has with respect to kindergarten through 12th grade education. and i applaud my senate colleagues for reaching across the aisle and working collectively in good faith to expand access to early childhood education to improve programs for english language learners and ensure accountability in helping our neediest students. it is far from perfect but in 2002 the re-authorization of the same act known as no child left behind, was implemented and it gave this principle that we would look at the students who were falling through the cracks. it meant to serve our poor and minority students and students with disabilities and english learners. and after all let's not forget that the original esea, the original one in 1965 had an exact declaration of policy that said in recognition of the special education needs of

acknowledge and commend especially commend the work of chairman lamar alexander and ranking member patty murray who worked so hard to get us together to get to this point. and this is something rather unique in the senate. we are coming together. we are percolating with regards to important bills. this is a tremendously important bill. due to their bipartisan leadership the every child achieves act was approved back in april by the help committee of which i am a proud member, 22-0. i was very proud to vote "yes." let me repeat that. it passed 22-0. and because of that hard work led by senators alexander and murray, we are currently debating esea in the senate for the first time since 2001. that's 14 years. 14 years that we have not had a reauthorization bill come to the senate floor with a lot of hope that it will pass. this is a prime example of what is possible when the senate functions as it should and committees are actually able to legislate. recently 10 national education groups representing educators principals, school boards, superintendents, chief state school officers parents and p.t.

host: there is a story on political saying this time around they do not have paul ryan and patty murray working together on this. who is leading the charge and what is the nature of the relationship? guest: absolutely. there are not similar leaders among the rank and file here. the expectation is that it will be top dogs working with the obama administration. some combination of john boehner, mitch mcconnell, harry reid, maybe the appropriations committee chairman to be involved, but it will not be a deal worked out on the sidelines and then embraced by leadership. problem -- probably. guest: from the administration side, it will be interesting to see if biden gets involved again, particularly if it is those leaders doing it. he has got a good relationship with mitch mcconnell as we have seen in the last few years. if the vice president decides to stick his hat in the ring for the 2016 campaign, maybe he will be less active here that is also an open question that will probably have an answer in the next few months. host: republican line. indiana. caller: i am calling from indiana and al

patty murray and i have a bill and i feel it will pass this year to figure out how to measure this andfrom an input measurement system to an output measurement system. this isn't ideological. it isn't partisan. if we can get outcomes on improving people's lives it has a role to play here, but not the role. i think there's a lot we can learn from people fighting poverty every day. we should be behind them, not in front of them and putting them not displacing them. but opportunity list.com. it shows you what is happening out there. back to the bill is let's have a debate about what works and what does the word. back to me is the better debate that will produce progress. if we just have a republican have a republican democrat liberal conservative caucus or spend more on that, we'll have more of the same. if we tried to fix the problem by having an outcome based on the results-based approach, that is a debate we want to have. there's a lot of things out there that we can get behind to truly help get at the root cause of poverty instead of simply treating systems. i know you want me to stop

i want to give credit to lamar alexander, senator alexander and to patty murray for joining together and doing the things necessary to improve that bill. the culture of education had shifted in this country to high-stakes testing to looking at measures that made no sense to educate artificial deadlines that could not be met. for even doing things that undermine the very goals and aspirations we have for our country which is to lead the globe in educational excellence. and so i'm encouraged that senator bennet and myself and the majority of this body agrees that this legislation needs to be changed, it is a left-right coalition that is encouraging to me. but i want to echo senator bennet's concerns about a problem that is not being addressed, that is a -- as the pendulum swings away from the problems of no child left behind that we do not create new ones that cut against the very ideals in which this legislation was put in place by lyndon johnson. lyndon johnson said clearly that this was a bill to bridge the gap in this country between help and the helpless, between those children wh

been accepted thanks to the work of senator alexander our great chairman, and the ranking member, patty murray, would empower students to use these kinds of programs. the it a how eligible schools to use title 1 funds for concurrent and dual enrollment programs so they can simultaneously receive credit by college-approved teachers in a second education. it would allow eligible schools to use 50 partnerships with institutions of higher education-to-a how students to participate in concurrent enrollment in the year directly following their senior year of high school. so earning a post secondary degree has become a prerequisite for jobs in the 21st century. going back ttatistics we shared 74% of graduates -- 74% of jobs in colorado will require by the year 2020 a postsecondary education degree. and as we face more competition in the global workplace as we face more competition abroad, we have to have the kinds of education and educational opportunities that gift next generation of business leaders innovators entrepreneurs the skills to succeed. i believe that concurrent and dual enrollment progra