they did it on shaheen-portman. we had an economic development revitalization act, one of the republican cosponsors there voted to block that. small business innovation, three republican cosponsors voted to block that. now, that's a new one for the professors and the students to figure out. you sponsor a bill and then you vote to kill it before you can even bring it to the floor. so i guess cosponsorship doesn't mean -- or sponsorship doesn't mean any more what it used to mean. it means i'm sponsoring this bill but watch out, because i may vote against myself. so we're going to continue, madam president, to work on this side of the aisle to try to get things done. but observers need look no further than republican sponsors voting against their own bills to see where the problem lies. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session to consider the following nominations which the clerk will report. the clerk: executive office of the president. shaun l.s. donovan of new yor

what does portman have to say about him coming back? >> i said he may help bring the republican national convention -- could he bring lebron james back to cleveland? he's not using his political influence, but he is certainly a supporter. to see itn would love happen. >> a lot of people had just forgotten what happened before. topic andn is the louise iteris is one of al hunt's guests on "political up, a globaling economic perspective. while europe is floundering in china's growth slows, the u.s. economy is steadily rising. we will look at what's driving growth in the u.s. ♪ >> the u.s. economy is in its sixth year of expansion. the latest bloomberg surveys looking at 3.16% growth pace for the second half of the year. that would be the first time since 2004-2005 gdp had extended such gains will stop my guess is the senior trade professor at cornell university and author of "the dollar trap." he joins me now from ithaca, new york. welcome back to "bottom line or cap let me ask you what you think about this u.s. economic recovery. a lot o

peter cook., rob portman, from ohio.oming up on "market makers," streaming shows like oranges the new black take on the old school tv networks. we will see who did better when it comes to emmy nominations. ♪ >> this year's emmy nominations are out. there are some clear winners, hbo's "game of thrones" walked away with 19 nods. scarlet fu has inside. the shows with the networks, the big winners. >> cable has been trumping all the broadcast networks. hbo won 99 nominations. you highlighted one for "game of thrones." netflix, which came onto the scene last year, walked away with 29 nominations, including five in categories that we care about, like best drama, comedy. isrange is the new black" considered a comedy. >> is a comedy? >> i got it. >> best actress in a comedy series for taylor schilling, who olivia sterns -- >> piper's doppelgÄnger. >> she was also nominated. interesting stuff. it is interesting that the hbo shows are still produced in the old fashion way. they are so good that you cannot stop waiting for cindy to

let's take the vote on shaheen-portman. it is a critical piece of legislation, well thought out, comes right out of committee where lots of amendments were offered, where there was the ability to have a dialogue. it comes about the right way with the folks who are the bill's sponsors standing on the floor answering questions, debating what that bill does. but yet, because of this impasse, because of whatever happens behind a closed door that the american public doesn't see, they only look at what they see happening in the debate here and wonder why. i can only tell you that i support senator shaheen in her efforts to support this bill. this won't be the first time we come to and ask this. we will continue to do everything we can to move a vote forward on shaheen-portman, to move a vote forward on keystone pipeline and start getting the work done for the american people. mr. president, i yield the floor. mrs. shaheen: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from new hampshire. mrs. shaheen: before my colleague from

portman could be an ideal gop candidate. level positions in president george w. bush's administration. is he conservative enough? you better believe it. on the affordable care act and gun reform, but there may be one little issue that could hurt him with the republican base. >> my son and others who are gay and lesbian ought to be able to lead their lives as my wife and i have and for 28 years now been the, you know, had the joy and stability of a marriage. >> portman announced his support for same sex marriage last year, a change of heart that began after his son came out to him two years earlier. he was the first republican senator to endorse marriage equality and that support looked like it could cost him any chance of the presidency. according to a quinnipiac poll his support among the gop fell 13% in the month after his announcement. but a funny thing has happened in the last 15 months. a republican senator supporting same sex marriage turned out not to be such a big deal after all. reaching young voters may help portma

i mean -- >> how about portman, becky?l put becky on the spot. >> no -- >> on social irus you're where i'm glad where you are, because i think, you know, that it's not divisive, and you speak -- you're kind of boring maybe, but it could -- we could spruce you up a little bit. but you know what? i think -- >> boring in a good way. >> but i think the social issues might not allow you to appease the base. >> but you would be -- >> joe -- >> i'm with joe. >> where are you? we're back to you know we got two families that can run this country? those are the only people that can run? i moon i don't get it. >> here's where i am. the country's in trouble. we're in trouble because we are slipping behind. because we're not doing what we need to do on tax reform as we talk about but it's much bigger than that. it's about regulations, it's about what we do in terms of international trade, where we are sitting on the sidelines and american worker's getting hurt. it's about what we're doing in terms of health care costs dramatically incr

chairman. >> thank you, senator portman. at this point, i'd ask unanimous consent that a statement by senator levin be included in the hearing record. without objection, the statement will be included. let me leave you all with one thought that we really haven't, i think, gotten into much this morning. it seems to me it would be one thing if there were just a few of these inversions. in other words, if there were a few of them, we'd work, as we've talked about this morning, on comprehensive, bipartisan, you know, tax reform. we fixed it, and then we wouldn't be back here again in another decade. part of what has influenced my judgments is that's not going to happen. and i spoke a couple hours ago from reports about the financial press about this feeding par ii. that's what's actually going on out there. it's not a few of these inversions you could put to bed with financial tax reform. according to the financial press, it is a feeding frenzy where you have the investment bankers going out to all the possible companies with th

senator portman is the junior senator of ohio. senator portman. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate you for letting us come together to introduce our fellow ohioan and a pleasure to be here with my colleague from ohio sherrod brown and i think sherrod said it well. you know, this is a distinguished patriot who's willing to step forward for his country and i hope you should consider his nomination that we get him as soon as possible to provide direction to an agency that needs it badly. bob's a friend of diane and bob friends of jane's and mine. we're delighted to be here today at their side. it's a tough job. as i've told bob when he asked me about it. and we just had town hall meetings across the state of ohio last several weeks. no one in the senate knows more about this than the members of this committee but there are a lot of concerns right now. some as the chairman has said has to do the health care side. others have to do with disability and the long wait lists on both sides. we've got an opportunity in this leader to be able to help turn this around. he does unde

chairman. >> thank you, senator portman. we will proceed with opening earlys based on how people came. we'll start with senator murray. >> thank you so much for holding this hearing. it was just last week that we current state of v.a. health care and the department's efforts to address challenges before it. and i want to star by taking a moment to thank acting secretary gibson who stepped up during this chris and is took immediate increase help transparency around the wait times and planned an ex-tecce al audit of scheduling practices and began the procurement of a system.cheduling about 16.6 billion in critical funding, needs to help increase veterans access to care, including 10,000 more medical providers and support clinicand additional space for patients to receive care. the actions that he laid out are veryis committee important, but their first steps, and even with some of the changes and additional funding it going to take some time to see improvement and waiting will still be for health care too long. and as we know

thank you. >> thank you, senator portman. >> tank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate letting us come today. it is a pleasure to be here with my colleague from ohio. i think he said it well. this is a distinguished atria who is willing to step forward for his company -- for his country. i hope you will consider his nomination, that the right questions are asked, and we can get him there as soon as possible to get some direction to an agency that needs it badly. but is a friend. i am delighted that we can be here today. bobs a tough job as i told when he asked me about it. we had town call meetings all across the state of ohio. no one in the senate knows more about this than the members of this committee. there are a lot of concerns right now. some have to do with the health care side, others to do with disability and the long wait lists on both sides. we have got an opportunity in this leader to help turn this around. he does understand the problem. we talked about his record as an army ranger and west point graduate. he understands how critical the need i

senator portman. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i have had some long conversations with you and i appreciate you championing tax reform. i liked your first response to the inversion proposal. we have a little difference of opinion on tactics here because i do think this is an opportunity for us to encourage solving the problem rather than dealing with the symptom. we heard a lot of testimony today about what will happen if we just go after this particular issue. i know there's some difference among the panelists as to i don't think there is any difference, i hope, about the fundamental problem. mr. stack and i just spoke. i spent a lot of time talking to administration officials about this issue, too. the bottom line is it is advantageous to being an american company. it makes more sense to be a foreign entity to be able to take advantage of a tax system with the great majority of our competitors who are 93% of our foreign competitors as peter merrill told us today who do have a lower rate. it's a deadly combination to have this hi

thank you. >> thank you, senator portman. >> tank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate letting us come today. it is a pleasure to be here with my colleague from ohio. i think he said it well. this is a distinguished atria -- patriot who is willing to step forward for his company -- for his country. i hope you will consider his nomination, that the right questions are asked, and we can get him there as soon as possible to get some direction to an agency that needs it badly. bob is a friend. i am delighted that we can be here today. it is a tough job as i told bob when he asked me about it. we had town call meetings all across the state of ohio. no one in the senate knows more about this than the members of this committee. there are a lot of concerns right now. some have to do with the health care side, others to do with disability and the long wait lists on both sides. we have got an opportunity in this leader to help turn this around. he does understand the problem. we talked about his record as an army ranger and west point graduate. he understands how cri

senator portman. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i have had some long conversations with you and i appreciate you championing tax reform. i liked your first response to the inversion proposal. we have a little difference of opinion on tactics here because i do think this is an opportunity for us to encourage solving the problem rather than dealing with the symptom. we heard a lot of testimony today about what will happen if we just go after this particular issue. i know there's some difference among the panelists as to i don't think there is any difference, i hope, about the fundamental problem. mr. stack and i just spoke. i spent a lot of time talking to administration officials about this issue, too. the bottom line is it is advantageous to being an american company. it makes more sense to be a foreign entity to be able to take advantage of a tax system with the great majority of our competitors who are 93% of our foreign competitors as peter merrill told us today who do have a lower rate. it's a deadly combination to have this hi

portman: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. portman: madam president, earlier today the senate voted to proceed to debate on legislation called bring jobs home act. and it's about tax reform, it's about the tax system in this country. i'm glad we're having the debate. i voted to proceed to that debate. i think it's really important that we talk about it. i had a reporter come up to me earlier on the floor today and said i hear that democrats are going to talk about inversions, that means when a company in the united states goes overseas, buys a company, usually smaller than they are and then inverts, meaning they become a foreign corporation. and they said, you know, are you concerned about that? i said no, i think that's great. i think we need to talk about it. i think it's a hidden problem that no one is talking about and i think it's terrific that we're talking about it. i hope that's what will happen over the next week here on the floor of the senate we'll have an honest conversation about what's happening in our great coun

let's go with natalie portman.ig boo, but no one ever says anything. >> if we get a scene with the two of you, totally worth it. maybe you should play the female thor. right? what do you think? audience, yes? show of hands. let's get your tweets. >> traveling companion. >> all right. well, we've experienced a lot of your fantasies. we're looking forward to seeing more and more of you on screen. also, you're going to be performing in province town. >> that's true. >> we're going to bring you back next time there's a rights fight in a pop culture medium. >> thank god. i am the voice of reason. >> saving tv one show at a time. and that wraps things up for today's edition of "rf daily." >> you are so pretty. >> back at you. we're going to cut her mic. now it's time for "the reid report" with my colleague joy reid. joy, what do you have coming up? speaking of pretty. >> leah just gave me life. we got leah, betty, and veronica. brave new world for all of cable tv. i love it. thank you very much. have a great day. i'll be

but i think that if the entire republican party were to very quickly evolve and to adopt rob portman's decision, that arguing about technicalities would subside quickly and everybody would be pretty grateful that the issue was put behind them. then the parties could contest for voters on other issues. >> democrats have only evolved recently as well. >> well, look, the democratic party doesn't have a pristine record here on this from a partisan perspective. it's a debate we've had on the show. what you're referring to as a technicality some people would refer to as a moral fill os iph. if you were born long enough ago, you probably need to evolve. i think one of the questions is, do you have a political philosophy to explain why you do things not only out of pure self-interest? >> absolutely. that's right. brian, do you want to respond? >> i actually completely agree. i believe what's going to matter to voters and people most is that the country and their representatives come around to respecting their lives, their livelihoods. and if, you know, the politician in question came about for

and for me i for instance i will i will never go into doing i'm never going to be like a natalie portman's someone that can really like channel things and become another per cent of the model is acting yes when you're doing that photo and you're doing that jump like you're channeling something with your eyes and me you're going to get the same boat every time it's either i mean it's me laughing at myself or it's i'm pretty one note when it comes to mothers you get to be to swim suit cover cuddly tell you that they surprised us actually they brought us out we do a traditional press press week every february for the launch of the magazine and they just happen to film it live for a show called as i now and we walked into a room lily and i mean it was via satellite and i just it was completely unexpected awkward and we don't know how they got there if you know if you've done the issues before yeah i've done yeah so five six years no where did they do the shoot where you the cover that is cook islands new zealand and the i think the only reason i got it was because i was actually shooting an ai

tomorrow, peter cook will bring us an interview with senator rob portman, talking about congress's to the election. as we just heard, there could be a fight over that highway bill. peter will also be talking to senator portman about immigration and overhauling the tax code. >> it is 56 past the hour. bloomberg television is taking you on the markets. matt miller has more. >> thanks very much for that. stocks are gaining a little bit of ground falling -- following the biggest two-day selloff since may. investors are awaiting the latest fed meeting minutes. today'sjoin us for options inside or you can join us for fed coverage at 2:00 p.m. joining me now, equity derivatives strategist at baycrest partners. first i want to talk about volatility. it has been so low. this span ofeen short swing since 1995, 50 six days until yesterday of less than one percent on the s&p. what about the vix? are they cheap at these levels? what do you think about the vix? >> as we have been hearing more and more, that lo does not necessarily mean cheap. things are low on volatility space across all asset clas

and for me i for instance i will i will never go into doing i'm never going to be like a natalie portman someone that can really like channel things and become another per cent of the model is acting yes when you're doing that photo and you're doing that jump like you're channeling something with your eyes and me you're going to get the same boat every time it's either i mean it's me laughing at myself or it's i'm pretty one note. so tonight nine pm tonight here on our team america and i does it for now for more on the stories we cover go to youtube dot com slash our team america check out our website r t dot com slash usa you can also follow me on twitter at amir a david and have a great night i'm happy martin the stories we cover here here in iraq start at the same time there's a reason they don't want you to. know let's break the set. dramas that can't be ignored to. stories others you know. change the world right and. some are still a. lot. done. if you google the words burn pits and agent orange together you'll get a lot of results here's why those words together are gaining in such

and for me i for instance i will i will never go into doing i'm never going to be like a natalie portman someone that can really like channel things and become another per cent of the model is acting yes when you're doing that photo and you're doing that like you're channeling something with your eyes and me you're going to get the same boat every time it's either i mean it's me laughing at myself or it's a pretty one note. so tonight nine pm tonight here on our team america does it for now see right back here at eight. b. martin the stories we cover here here in iraq. there's a reason they don't want to do. it. now let's break the set. google the words burn pits and agent orange together you'll get a lot of results here's why those words together are gaining in such popularity first the agent orange part of the search in vietnam the u.s. sprayed agent orange everywhere and the result was millions of vietnamese being born with birth defects still to this day massive ecological ruin and almost forty thousand u.s. soldiers claiming horrific health impacts from exposure to the herbicide eve

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some like senator rob portman has a different view of marriage. but i don't see an ideological civil war but one about tactics and divided government. we saw that with the federal government shut down. the ted cruz wing versus the john boehner wing. do they differ on policy, probably not. they have a different perspective on how to and of the obama era. >> you spent time in mississippi , a brutal race down there. significant? >> it was significant. cochran was able to win by going after democrats and asking for their vote. i'm not sure we're going to see that across the map and 2014. some republicans like cochran and others are trying to broaden the electorate on the republican side. maybe that is reaching out to black democrats, to young voters. >> you can't forget haley barbour. one of the greats who work for me in the white house. [indiscernible] >> everybody agrees that when youexpand the party, how expand the party may be irrelevant to mississippi. i don't know if i would use the phrase tension. there is a healthy debate going on. it is only

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if rob portman who made noise about running for president is the nominee and i suspect that plank will no longer be in the platform. secondly, what marco rubio is doing is a sophisticated are version of what cruz is doing. it's a flop, as you called it earlier. there is no foul here. he took a flying leap. what he's doing is something quite sophisticated. the christian community has long felt victimized. they felt like they were a minority. that people didn't treat them with with respect. that's what marco rubio is playing to here. the truth is many religions discriminate against people. they feel gay people aren't full citizens and some felt black people weren't full citizens. the mormon church changed their views in 1974 on this. you're a catholic, i was baptized catholic. it doesn't permit women to be priests. there are limitations on the roles of women in the church. that's church doctrine. it discriminates against women. the problem is marco rubio is trying to make a religious argument for the civil matter. we have equal rights under the law. he may endorse a religion that doesn't

senator shar rod brown and rob portman and it was far from contentious at the hearing today, senatorsboth sides of the aisle have welcomed mcdonald very warmly. >> it's tough for # anybody to envision why somebody would take this job. >> manner while, the clock is ticking for congress to pass a bill reforming the scandal in va. separate senate and house funding bills, ones that would allow veterans to seek outside care are stalled in conference. republican house members are -- cbo estimates to be around $30 billion. yesterday on the senate floor, majority leader harry reid blasted the opposition. >> it looks to me we're going to come back with something. why? because they have too spend some money on these people who were glad to spend the money to take them to war. but now they're back, they're missing limbs, they've got lots of post-traumatic stress problems. a lot of other medical issues. no money there. >> dave, it seems like people are very eager, people in congress are very eager to have a new secretary of the va, but whether they are as eager to actually fix the problem, remain

the headline, rob portman has an eye on the big stage in cleveland, saying i'm not eager to do it myself. i know what it's like, he said in a recent interview, but if nobody running is able to win and willing to address those issues, speaking about the run for presidency, then i might have a change of heart. portman is confident his position on gay marriage is not crippled his ability to be a national candidate, arguing it enabled him to connect to young voters. when they find out that he supports same sex marriage he said many shed the and takism they usually reserve for republicans. he can't become a national party unless you do a better job reaching to the 18 and 13. we are the votes of tomorrow. and we want them to listen to jobs and obamacare. from raleigh, nor cart line a. >> caller: all of these people calling in about immigration, if they knew the history of this country, immigration is a big plus to america. america is immigration. this is george bush's law about, and obama administration wants to change it. the democrats want him to. i think it's a good law, george bush put it

also to boehner and portman, both from ohio. procter & gamble is based there.right back.  >>> today with confidence i announce my candidacy for mayor of providence. >> we are back. that was the legendary former six-term mayor of providence, rhode island. the convicted felon announced his second comeback bid for the city's top job are last week. he's already served 21 years in office starting in 1974 when he defeated the ten-year incumbent on an anti-corruption platform at 33 years old. >> i will support measures to guarantee that city employment is no longer used to control the ballot box. [ applause ] >> he was a republican back then and was the first italian-american to win after a 150-year hold by mostly irish democrats. the period known as buddy one ended after he was convicted of assaulting a man he believed was having an affair with his estranged wife. >> i submit my resignation as mayor of the city to become effective at 7:59 p.m. on april 25, 1984. >> he made a successful comeback bid as an independent in 1990 and presided over 11 years of city-wide

portman: mr. president, we are talking about a lot of issues on the floor here in the senate as we go through this election year that might be considered political. i want to talk about one today that's both urgent and transcends party lines. it's a humanitarian crisis. we're seeing it in africa in the democratic republic of congress owe. -- of congo. in september of last year, the congo informed the united states that they would no longer issue exit visas, exit permits for congalese children in the process of being adopted by american parents. these are kids already in the adoption process and yet the congo government says they can't leave the country. this is a terrible precedent, terrible, unjustifiable action, and it's left hundreds of children and their new families here in the united states in limbo. last friday the congolese government announced an end to exit permit exceptions until the country passes what they deem are new adoption laws. so i stand here today to express the deep concern a

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you could picture christie or rand paul, rob portman having to compete for cleveland's attention with lebron james, it would be an absolute disaster. >> maybe john boehner can sue lebron james. i am kidding. it is a story about cleveland, too. that's one of the reasons earnest was weighing in in the emotional way he was. this is the hope when he left, he would stay in ohio, give cleveland a fighting chance. do you think optimism that he is returning home will help the city, is that well placed optimism? >> look at the reaction, cars lining up for miles outside his home. this is one of the great storylines in sports. if he were to lead the cavs to the finals, it would be like the ending of a hollywood movie, cleveland would be going bonkers, but not going bonkers for republicans, which is what republicans would like them to be doing. >> it is amazing or not amazing, took all the negative five seconds for any ohio related politician to chime in. >> i don't know who won the official race, pretty much immediately my inbox was praising the decision, welcoming him home. good for them, good

chairman. >> thank you, senator portman. at this point, i'd ask unanimous consent that a statement by senator levin be included in the hearing record. without objection, the statement will be included. let me leave you all with one thought that we really haven't, i think, gotten into much this morning. it seems to me it would be one thing if there were just a few of these inversions. in other words, if there were a few of them, we'd work, as we've talked about this morning, on comprehensive, bipartisan, you know, tax reform. we fixed it, and then we wouldn't be back here again in another decade. part of what has influenced my judgments is that's not going to happen. and i spoke a couple hours ago from reports about the financial press about this feeding par ii. that's what's actually going on out there. it's not a few of these inversions you could put to bed with financial tax reform. according to the financial press, it is a feeding frenzy where you have the investment bankers going out to all the possible companies with th

ohio senator rob portman on fox news was temp erred. >> i don't think it helps us.on't think it takes us in the right direction in terms on making progress of dealing with this eternal issue we've got in america which is assuring we're doing everything we possibly can to fight racism. >> reporter: but the combative tone, much like sarah palin's call for impeachment of the president -- >> so it's time to impeach. >> reporter: has some republicans saying it's all playing into the democrats' hands in a midterm election year. >> impeachment is exactly what the president wants to talk about. just like he liked the republicans and conservatives to talk about him being born in kenya for five or six years, he is happy to have republicans talk about impeaching him. a bad thing to do. the politics of that are all wrong. >> all right, cnn's joe johns. thank you. >>> joining me now political commentator charles blow. ben ferguson is a cnn political commentator and host of "the ben ferguson show." and jason riley is author of "please stop helping us: how liberals make it harder

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rob portman, senator from ohio, recently said he is looking possibly running. chris christie from new jersey. matches up as well with hillary clinton as anybody else does. jon: yeah. >> i think republican side is fascinating to watch right now. jon: after some pretty dismal years do you suppose hope and change will be the republican slogan in 2014? >> i think those, i think those word will be put in mothballs for a long time. jon: all right. jonathan allen, good to talk to you. thank you. >> take care, jon. jenna: zeroing in on the whereabouts of a pregnant wife of a marine we'll tell you where police are looking in the care of erin corwin, missing now for more than two weeks. [shouting] >>> the border crisis setting off political fireworks across the nation. then came word of a plan to house some illegal immigrants near our border in a resort hotel. the latest on that. we want to know about jon's conversation about hillary clinton. is hillary clinton repeating same mistakes she made in 2008. our live chat up and running. fox news.com/happeningnow and click on

republican senator rob portman agreed that career diplomats should be given a quick confirmation, but he defended the delay of political and more controversial nominees to cnn's jake tapper. >> the leadership on the democratic side of the aisle has chosen for the first time ever, at least in modern history to say republicans are not going have a voice in the nominees. the only voice the republicans have is to slow walk the process. >> there are those who are questionable, for knowing little about the countries they were going to serve. and jake, secretary of state kerry has proposed taking out those controversial political nominations and giving career diplomats a quick blocked senate vote just like they do for top military positions and that's a compromise even many senate republicans on which they seem to agree. >> thank you very much. >>> dozens killed and hundreds wounded as violence escalates. israel's president says a ground offensive is imminent if hamas doesn't stop the barrage of rockets as that area of the world ste away. the horror, the shame, the tears and even the preside

and i am not so sure have is an ideological battle gng on, sure portman of ohio has a different view of marriage than the party line but not an ideological civil war but temperaments and tactics we saw with the shutdown government and the ted cruz wick of the party versus the john boehner wing that wants to govern govern and get through itable do they defer on policy on a lot of issues, but they have a different perspective on how to handle the .. area. >> you spent time in mississippi, a really brutal race down there, significant? >> i think mississippi was significant, one it shows cochran was able to win a tough runoff by going out to democrats and asking for their vote, i am not so sure we will see that across the map in 2013 but some republicans like cochrann't and others running this year are trying in some way to broaden the electorate on the republican side, maybe that is reaching out to black democrats in mississippi, maybe it is reaching out to young voters who support same sex major. >> you can't remember hayley barber, a great reagan night. >> he owns that state and did a

they va conducts -- i talked about in my introduction with senator portman and you 6.5 nonveterans, 85 million appointments. some of those audits are conducted by third party and private providers. i hear from these groups about va delays and payments for these services. sometimes they go for as long as a year. i just want to ask you to commit to dealing with prompt payment and working on this issue on behalf of veterans affecting those health care delivery people and institutions outside of the va. >> yes. >> thank you. last is one that's a little further a field and you and i talked briefly about in my office in your first visit. and that this legislation that i've worked on called the significant event tracker, where a number of soldiers in combat will get head injuries, minor head injuries, the marine or the range of me say, i got my bell wrong. it's not recorded anywhere. a soldier gets four or five of these into space of the year in combat or a space of two or three tours of duty. six years later, behavior begins to change. as kids notice it, has no documentation of the. they go

i don't know if the senior, junior senator, senator portman, they worked together on this legislation for months and months. in fact, about a year. and we had a bill here on the floor, and we were moving forward on it. and they -- i was told before the bill by republicans let's get this done. it's a great bill. so i just again reflect on what happened, a little history here. well, they said before recess, we need a sense of the senate on keystone. i said we have an agreement. why do we need to do that? but i said okay. a few hours later, if you want that, let's do it because this bill is important. so we agreed to do that. the recess was a week. we came back. they said well, we want to change things a little bit. we want andowndown vote on keystone. i said you keep changing things, it's not right. i said, okay, we'll vote on keystone. they couldn't take "yes" for an answer. we agreed for an up-or-down vote on keystone. they wouldn't take it. so it's the same thing on this. a bill that republicans support, they oppose their own legislation. so, mr. president, we're going to move forwar

senator rob portman, very close to the cheneys, has told liz he thinks she has a lot to offer. governor of wyoming, senator from wyoming or congressman from there, that she could achieve that. all of this is part of putting the cheneys back to where they were and as part of their tour on july 14th, playbook lunch. we'll have three cheneys. the vice president, his wife, lynne cheney and liz cheney will be all together on playbook lunch. >> thanks, mike. >>> business before the bell is next on "morning joe." >>> time now for business before the bell with cnbc's sara eisen. a shortened workweek, at least on wall street. >> kicking off july with record highs. two economic releases we'll be watch here today, auto sales will be trickling out throughout the day for the month of june. may with his a very strong month. june is expected to be higher as well, but not as strong as may was. everybody will be looking at gm's numbers specifically to see if all those millions of recalls will be having an impact on sales, which they really haven't so much before. gm is still a top seller in thi

rob portman reports in ohio federal and environmental permitting alone increases project costs on average by 20%. the reasons that these delays are so expensive is, you know, all of these delays, all of these permitting requirements, they all require consultants to carry it out. all kinds of engineering and consulting fees that get paid, often on retainer over time. it also means that while waiting for a road or bridge to be rebuilt or restored, there is longer commutes, there is a big detour, there is more consumption of gas. that's all a waste of time and money. the bottom line is that projects cost more the longer they take. that's the reality. the fact is recovering communities don't need to have to incur these extra costs. i'll give you an example. again in pennsylvania. since 2010, federal environmental permitting

senator rob portman saying, great news for cleveland. an opportunity to show the rebirth of cleveland as one of america's great cities. and john boehner, who represents close to cincinnati says, simply, congratulations, cleveland. u'll find more twitter.com/cspan. in washington yesterday, the white house announced a new initiative on education policy. we'll get more details on what the white house is proposing, part of today's "washington journal." good morning. guest: good morning, thanks for having me. host: could you give us the essentials of the program? guest: sure. so under this new program the administration unveiled they will be required to summit plans ensuring that students in underperforming schools have access to as many great teachers as students in more advantaged schools. it is actually not all that new. this has been a requirement of the no child left behind act, which was signed way back in 2002. some states have plans on file with the department of education , but many of those have not been updated for years. advocacy