on may 27th, a texas runoff pitts ralph hall against tea party challenger john ratcliff.ews senior political editor mark murray is here and he joins us now. it seems that the tea party groups, they haven't had the same amount of power this time around as they did in 2010 and even on the presidential level as they did in 2012. >> right now the juice seems to be on the establishment side, luke. if you were to ask me two or three months ago i would have told you that the tea party folks were the ones who looked to be strong. but just look around the map. north carolina, tom tillis seems to have the edge. of course once you get to a runoff, all bets are off. in kentucky, mitch mcdonneconne seems to have the edge over matt bevin. and in georgia, the two establishment folks, david purdue and jack kingston seem to be out in front of paul brown as well as phil gingry. so much can change but this establishment/tea party race, you've got to say the establishment has a bit of an edge. >> so the empire is striking back. why? where does it come from? >> a lot of people often say they'

got elected to the house of representatives in 1978 along ith such stalwarts as phil gramm and ralph hall came a little bit later, marvin lee from waco came later. weevilme known as a boll . president reagan asked a number of them to carry the reagan tax cut, which really began the renaissance of america, and that young man was congressman kent hance of the 19th congressional district. he was on the ways and means ommittee as a democrat and prevailed -- i would assume the chairman was dan. in 1984, he decided to go back to texas and gave up his seat in.larry combest came bow rmiey, joe barton, boletter and max sweeney. he switched parties and became a republican and got appointed to the railroad commission. he was the first republican to be named chairman. he did run for governor a time or two in that time span and did not have the same luck for governor. went into the private sector. became a consultant and an attorney and helped me politically on a number of issues. then as has been pointed out, became chancellor of texas tech and the students who hardly know what a chancellor is, most

dislocations in the marketplace and that we experienced the deepest recession that anybody, maybe ralph hall is an exception, that anybody in this auto body has experienced. -- in this body has experienced. in other words, we had the deepest recession that we had in the last administration that carried over into this administration was the deep depression, and you have to be 90 years or older to have really remembered and experienced that. . there's a lot of pape out there and all i'm saying we agreeing, there is no disagreement. we want to get people back to work. as i told you and he we haven't done it as vigorously and that's as much my fault as anybody. i want to do that. you're focused on your skills act. clearly we want to make sure people have the skills to get employment. but i would hope that we could look at, assuming the senate passes this bill, to give relief to some 2.8 million people who are in dire straits, increasing by 72,000 a week, get them some support while we are trying and hopefully together to create the kinds of jobs and skills necessary to get them out of the hole t

dislocations in the marketplace and that we experienced the deepest recession that anybody, maybe ralph hallis an exception, that anybody in this auto body has experienced. -- in this body has experienced. in other words, we had the deepest recession that we had in the last administration that carried over into this administration was the deep depression, and you have to be 90 years or older to have really remembered and experienced that. . there's a lot of pape out there and all i'm saying we agreeing, there is no disagreement. we want to get people back to work. as i told you and he we haven't done it as vigorously and that's as much my fault as anybody. i want to do that. you're focused on your skills act. clearly we want to make sure people have the skills to get employment. but i would hope that we could look at, assuming the senate passes this bill, to give relief to some 2.8 million people who are in dire straits, increasing by 72,000 a week, get them some support while we are trying and hopefully together to create the kinds of jobs and skills necessary to get them out of the hole th

dislocations in the marketplace and that we experienced the deepest recession that anybody, maybe ralph hall is an exception, that anybody in this auto body has experienced. -- in this body has experienced. in other words, we had the deepest recession that we had in the last administration that carried over into this administration was the deep depression, and you have to be 90 years or older to have really remembered and experienced that. . there's a lot of pape out there and all i'm saying we agreeing, there is no disagreement. we want to get people back to work. as i told you and he we haven't done it as vigorously and that's as much my fault as anybody. i want to do that. you're focused on your skills act. clearly we want to make sure people have the skills to get employment. but i would hope that we could look at, assuming the senate passes this bill, to give relief to some 2.8 million people who are in dire straits, increasing by 72,000 a week, get them some support while we are trying and hopefully together to create the kinds of jobs and skills necessary to get them out of the hole t

gentleman from alaska, the young former chairman of the committee, and want to thank the gentleman, ralph hall, the gentleman, sam johnson, also from north texas, that joined with me in this important bill. i want to thank my friends on the democratic side, in particular mr. defazio, for his not only effort and understanding but his effort in making sure that water resources all across this country, the needs of the people are understood. mr. speaker, we're under increased problems all across this country, distressed because of lack of water. we have lots of areas of the country that are undergoing tremendous changes and that means that local people have to make accommodations. that also means that many times they have to work with the federal government, in this case through the u.s. corps of engineers. and i would like to also thank the u.s. corps of engineers and the north texas water municipal district for their hard work on this important issue. the opportunity for us to resolve this issue means that 1.5 million north texans who need to make sure that they have adequate, safe and good wat