this time you gis rahal are. >> yes. at this point we hope your turkey has been thawed in cold water or in the refrigerator and you want to cook it to the proper temperature. that should be cooking the white meat to 165 or 170 and the turkey thigh should register -- excuse me -- 185. >> i understand you've probably been doing a lot of talking in the last couple of days for sure. what questions are asked most often? >> yes, we do. the number one question is thawing. people don't realize how long it takes to thaw a turkey. if your turkey is not thawing this morning, you can put it in a cold water bath, still in the original wrapper and you can start to cook from froze i don't know. if you're cooking the turkey from frozen, the two thengs that are really important would be a thermometer to get if to the right temperature and a flexible serving schedule. >> i know this question pretty subjective. simply put the bread on a flat rack in an open shallow pan. that would be kicking it at a temperature of 3:25. we feel cooking it

nick rahall and mark barron lost. arkansas.ion to see mark pryor lose by 18 points -- blanche lincoln lost by 21 points, and we covered her race completely differently than we covered mark pryor. >> we were told the entire cycle, mark pryor is no blanche lincoln. >> that is the perfect segue to the next question. stu rothenberg wrote a column this morning about the results and what happened. i am going to read a small portion of it about polling. you can read the whole column at rollcall.com. first, either democratic polling has significant problems, or pollsters and operatives intentionally misled pollsters and handicappers about what was going on during this cycle. republicans had a tough polling cycle in 2012 and went through a process of public reflection and self-criticism. it will be interesting to see whether democrats will do the same thing. i should ask the pollster first. >> do you think the polling problem is more widespread than that? >> i think it's more widespread than that. the democratic pollsters and

we saw a rahal having lost his race. i broke my teeth on that committee when i came to the congress. not to belabor the earmarks issue but that bill has been part of the surface transportation which has been a hard bill to crack without the issue of earmarks or directed funding in the bill like that. that is a perfect example of a serious piece of legislation that is overdue for bipartisan participation. >> complete abdication of leadership by everybody in washington on the infrastructure question. we have known since we wrote the bill in 2005 that you have to have more money. there are only a couple of ways you get more money, you tax important barrels of oil. raise the gas tax. the president has been awol, the congress has been awol and no one wants to take the mantle. i'm telling you -- as a republican, transcontinental railroad, interstate highway system, the republicans are known for building america. we should be ashamed of ourselves. >> i wondered what the panel thought harry reid's approach is going to be in his

i have greatly enjoyed working with ranking member rahall island about how to do my job from watching that. chairman gibbs with whom we worked closely on the water resources and environment subcommittee i have enjoyed my service, cherished my time on this committee and i wish you the best in my future. thank you, mr. chairman. >> i have been on this committee my entire tenure in congress. the chairman of the subcommittee, you will then in resources, nick came to my district for interesting hearing but i tell the story the day after election day, i will miss nick a lot. jim doyle who has been with nick almost the whole time, i have stories about jim too in the days when we used to earmarks which we would bring back and how we promoted them. kim, it might n , it might not, your district and transportation investments are important to the american people. thank you for that great work and i look forward to working with you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. to all of our departing members we wish you well. just had an incredible run. in my short tenure as chairman, ranking member, we all remem

. >> yeah, a rahal. they had to come in to work on thanksgiving. it incredible to think thursday morning people can start their christmas and holiday shopping. the lines began forming in the wee hours this morning. i counted at least 60 people in lien by the time the door opened at 6:00 a.m. the first customer told me he gotor around midnight employees say they had to work on thanksgiving or risk losing l j jobi don't think ho howing a fro. >> it should be a m. i think they should have the choice. >> it said basically we're have to work for thanksgiving or we're going to get fired. >> kmart says this sfchl railroad retailers claim it up to customers to decide whether they want to shop today on thanksgiving. ifpuchl that's some stores are resisting the urge to earn and are staying closed on this holiday. >> all tho if a they p and there are quite a few. sport prchlt m. >> all lance are northward interstate 880 in hayward are stul clothes krn kplm zpchlt i think a sig alart was cip at this verting trash off windon >> look spn spchlt. officer blocked

by 2012 when obama ran for re-election, nick rahall in very serious danger of losing the seat.his was very interesting. this is a race where democrat jim matheson is retiring and it's an open seat. mitt romney got well over 60% of the vote in 2012. mia love, the first african-american republican woman ever elected to congress. obviously, she'll win this district. there has been some polling out, little suject people think in terms of methodology and some polling that suggests she will be in a much closer race than people realize. keep a close eye on this one on tuesday this is one republicans just much want to win. there are 30 democratic seats in pretty serious jeopardy here and there are 12 republican seats that we will put in that same category and that's why people keep saying the republican majority is eso saso safe. some republicans who are in the most danger. lee terry. this is omaha, nebraska. this is the best democratic district in nebraska and the reason lee terry is in trouble is because during the government shutdown when they were temporarily out of jobs and payche

we are beating nick-jo ray rahall.52 years and evan jenkins is up in double digits right now over nick rahall. in georgia, rick allen is up over barrow, double digits in georgia. and so we think while it's early, we're really excited about the results we're seeing. we've had a terrific group of candidates. they've done their job. we've been there to help them. and i think american people are speaking the president was rate. this is a referendum year on his policies. you're seeing that play out in ballot box after balance pot box all -- ballot box after ballot box across america. >> the r.n.c. crew have been so helpful to the cause at nrsc and i congratulate greg walden for the success that the house campaign committee is having in elections across the country. the r.n.c. has been particularly helpful to us in the ground game, in voter turnout. in making certain that we had the resources necessary to win in states that are very challenging to republicans. this is a wonderful night to date. to this moment in time. what w

nick rahall held on to the very end of the race, but i heard on both sides that president obama's approval rating in his district was 22%. i just thought if president obama had come and play golf it might have made it a little easier to be there but instead -- i'm not saying that he had a mandate to do that but if there , had been some kind of outreach just to say if he had been the first president in 60 years to say, hey this is a great golf , course i think it would have , brought a little pride. that was just my observation. it would had made it a little bit easier. i don't think that race was ever when it will. shelley moore capito was like the michael jordan of west virginia. it could have been less hard. the other anecdotes i feel ok saying now that when i a while we saw what was happening with bruce braley it wasn't that he wasn't doing well but the seats below him were going down. i talked to the democrats when i was like, oh my gosh, it is like bruce braley is like the most this -- disliked person in politics right now and he said no, it is president obama. i think he created an e

we saw a rahal having lost his race. i broke my teeth on that committee when i came to the congress. not to belabor the air marks issue but that bill has been part of the surface transportation which has been a hard pill to crack without the issue of earmarks or directed funding in the bill like that. that is a perfect example of a serious piece of legislation that is overdue for bipartisan participation. >> complete abdication of leadership by everybody in washington on the infrastructure question. we have known since we wrote the bill in 2005 at you have to have more money. there are only a couple of ways you get more money, you tax important barrels of oil. the president has been awol, the congress has been awol and no one wants to take the mantle. as a republican, transcontinental railroad, interstate highway system, the republicans are known for building america. we should be ashamed of ourselves. >> i wondered what the panel thought harry reid's approach is going to be in his new job as minority leader. will he be

rahal, i found out where beckley west virginia was with our very first transportation hearing on the reauthorization. some things could not be accomplished. one party have the house, senate, and the white house. we had some rough-and-tumble, bd accomplish for the american people a record number of pieces of legislation. i thank him for his service and all of the departing members for their service. we have an important responsibility and building the nation's infrastructure, and infrastructure, and i intend to continue to work with everyone. i yield back. >> i think the gentleman. with that we will with that we will go on to our panel now. our panel consists of calvin's cove all the third, the third, the inspector general for the department of transportation, john engler, president of the business roundtable, president of the airline pilot association, president and ceo. president and ceo of airlines for america and traffic controllersal air association. association. thank you all for being here. before i let i let you start, mr. larson wants to be recognized. >> i ask unanimous cons

let me end with west virginia. , necick three rahall loses to evan jenkins. host: fresno, california. democrats like. -- democrats line. that has am a mother son that has been in the military. he has been in the military since he was 18. he is serving the country. economy.ied about the i voted for obama. i see there is not a lot of jobs now. iraq. went to he was there three times. who isa son, michael only 24 years old. i have two grandbabies. reactiont is your electio to election 2014? caller: i am worried that we are not going to have the jobs, the housing for us to be able to buy homes. change, for health care, for a lot of stuff. i don't want to see our kids going back into war. dana in move on to florida on a republican line. caller: good morning. -- thereting nervous was a comment about someone being set to be american. -- sad to be american. regardless of who one, the system worked today. it doesn't matter if you voted for republican or democrat. it is the fact that we were able to go out and vote for who we wanted to win. morning go to work this and n

nick rahal spent millions of dollars to hang on and just couldn't hang on any more.rieu in louisiana in grave danger. a lot of southern appalachian states that voted for clinton in the '90s. put tennessee in that. you see the republican share of this starting to grow and then you start to see a battleground take shape for 2016 and that's the best news of tuesday for republicans. you'd have to say if you look at these battleground states, the ones that are yellow on here. republicans won a senate race in north carolina, a contested state in 2016. republicans won a senate race in iowa, a state they did get in 2016 and republicans won a senate race in colorado. again, another quintessential battleground state. georgia, democrats are talking about getting because of demographic changes and democrats thought this is the year we show the numbers have changed there. michelle nunn ran at the same level as president obama. that's one republicans are feel good. virginia a state president obama carried twice and nobody thought the senate race would be close there that year and

thanks and gratitude to senator tom udall for working with me on this bill, to chairman shuster and rahall for their help in bringing this legislation to the floor. with that, mr. speaker, i urge my colleagues to support this bill, that helps the amy biehl high school continue to provide albuquerque students with the first-rate education while also preserving an historic piece of downtown albuquerque. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. the gentleman from indiana reserves. the chair recognizes the gentleman from north carolina. mr. meadows: mr. speaker, we'll continue to reserve the balance of our time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the chair recognizes the gentleman from indiana. mr. carson: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i yield four minutes to my good friend from florida, representative murphy. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. murphy: thank you for yielding. thank you, mr. speaker. i support the bill before us and appreciate the hard work of my colleagues to bring it to t

our senate is split 17-17 for the first time in the history of the state, and we beat congressman rahal8 years newcomer by a tremendous amount. you know, we are in a small state and we have a wonderful united states senator. i am a registered republican and i have the highest respect for him. but west virginia really made history for the republicans. >> shelley winning 69% of the vote. she was one of seven republican pickups. 52 is the number so far in the 114thjority in the majority. randy is on our democrats line. how did things turn out in your eyes? >> good. i voted for hogan and i was happy to see it turn out. i am a democrat but was tired of all of the spending and the borrowing that we were doing. so i decided to switch party allegiance this time and go with republicans. a lot of people -- >> a lot of people were surprised by that are the number in talked about the spending. what other issues with her in maryland that toward the republican candidate? >> we were talking about $32 million in money that we did improve old rundown buildings. i don't think we we don't e money that hav