stacy apple, right here. we're in her district. [cheers and applause] and jim nower for his past service with our nation in the military in iraq, thank you for that. but thank you for your future service in getting steve king out of congress and getting in there. where is jim now we are? -- 't speak too highly of pat murphy is going to replace bruce brayly in the 1st district. [cheers and applause] and in the 2nd district, i want you to know i've never seen anybody work harder than steve. he is out there all the time. i know he's going to get re-elected. i want to thank him for his great service and thank him for winning the next election. dave! [cheers and applause] this can all happen but we need your help. we need you to volunteer when you leave here today help us get the absentee ballots in, door knocking. if democrats who voted in the last election this time we win, we've just got to get those votes. democratic people and power in iowa will win every time! cheers and applause] job and noud hillary clinton who spoke at this eve

[applause] i met stacy apple and her formly when she was in her first year in the state senate. she had worked her way up from minimum wage to manager at an iowa department store. and as a financial consultant she helped families plan for retirement and save for college. and she did it all while being a great mom to her six kids. [applause] her firsthand experience with the economic pressures facing iowa families made her look around and think we can do better. nd now with your help, she's poised to be the first woman ever to represent iowa in the united states congress. [applause] and dave and jim and pat will bring wisdom, compassion to a congress where those qualities are in short supply. and bruce, bruce has his own story. after his dad was badly injured in a grain elevator accident, his mom went back to school and worked like crazy to get her teaching degree and to support their family. she inspired bruce to devote his life to fighting for other families facing hard times. as a congressman, he's done just that. he went to bat for iowa's national guard members and won them t

i expect hillary clinton will be mentioning that democratic candidate, stacy apple, a former state senator she is running against a .esser-known republican that is going to be another close one. i am not sure who is going to win on that one. and the governor's race, you have a long time incumbent going for his historic sixth term. that is a big deal. if he wins again, that race is not so close. i am not sure any democrats are confident they are going to bag that particular race. u.s. house race in the des moines area could go to the democrats. >> you are doing a great job. i know it is loud out there. the crowd continues to intensify. we know the clintons are scheduled to be in the grilling seven orilling area in eight minutes. i want our audience to hear what hillary clinton said back in 2007, and she made her first appearance at the steak fry before today. >> i am so grateful to tom harkin and his wonderful wife ruth for their 30 years of public service. senator harkin has been a strong progressive voice year in and year out, and it is an honor to serve with him. all of the other elected

stacy apple, end the back room deals and put iowa families first. >> i'm david young and a prove thisbama promised us hope. then he ripped apart our health care system, be shrewed our economy and crumbled our national security. but if we band together, and fight for our conservative principles, we can put our economy and our country back together again. >> iowa's answer is not magic. it's david young. >> iowans want a good meal and good government. we get the good meal, but our government overspends is, overtaxes and overregulates. it underperforms. i get it and you get it. why can't they? i'll bring a dose of iowa reality to washington. then maybe we can have a good meal and good government. i'm david young. and a prove this message. >> those were ads for candidates running for iowa's third congressional district. see tonight's debate for that seat at 8:00 p.m. eastern on our companion network c-span2. and on c-span tonight, ceremonies from today commemorating the 13th anniversary of the september 11th attacks. we'll have events from the white house and pentagon as well as the world

taking part, democrat stacy apple and republican david young.their platforms and future plans and answer reporters' questions. here are two of the tv ads running in that race. >> when republican and tea party brokers went into the back room saturday, they chose d.c. insider david young 20 years on the payroll of a broken congress. young won the room by standing up for cutting social security and ending medicare as we know it, even raising the minimum retirement age. what washington really needs is a healthy dose of iowa common sense, staci apple, a mom of six worked as a financial consultant who knows small business is key to job growth. a state senator, she got results helping to make equal pay for equal work the law in iowa. as iowa's first woman in congress, she'll fight to protect social security and medicare. staci appel, end the back room deals and put iowa families first. >> i'm david young, and i approve this message. barack obama promises hope, then he ripped apart our health care system. shredded our economy and crumbled our national s

[applause] i met stacy apple and her formly when she was in her first year in the state senate. she had worked her way up from minimum wage to manager at an iowa department store. and as a financial consultant she helped families plan for retirement and save for college. and she did it all while being a great mom to her six kids. [applause] her firsthand experience with the economic pressures facing iowa families made her look around and think we can do better. nd now with your help, she's poised to be the first woman ever to represent iowa in the united states congress. [applause] and dave and jim and pat will bring wisdom, compassion to a congress where those qualities are in short supply. and bruce, bruce has his own story. after his dad was badly injured in a grain elevator accident, his mom went back to school and worked like crazy to get her teaching degree and to support their family. she inspired bruce to devote his life to fighting for other families facing hard times. as a congressman, he's done just that. he went to bat for iowa's national guard members and won them t

on sunday, i was in iowa with a candidate for congress named stacy apple. she is a great mom who worked her way up from minimum wage to management. with enough support she would be the first woman ever elected from iowa to the u.s. house of representatives. stacy is one of more than 100 democratic women. >> continuing to campaign for mid-term election democrats. msnbc's stacy hunt, welcome both. as we face the mid-terms, you have the president and the vice president on campuses and coming out of the justice department of title to make all colleges and universities take proactive steps to protect and lower the purpose on campus. it's a big deal. at the same time joe biden is speaking at a women's event earlier today. let me give this a sense of history here in washington. >> it was republicans who expanded access to the polls. it was republicans in the judiciary who did the motor voter. republicans were involved. guys like packwood and so many others. it wasn't democrats. >> a great senator from maryland, but bob packwood, he was expelled from the senate in

we continue with stacy apple r versus david young. watch it live on cspan 2. ...

. >> stacy apple who is our candidate in des moines, yes. >> you are doing everything in your power to democrats back in power. have you asked her to help certain candidates? >> she will be -- i don't want to make announcements for her, but it is in the public domain that she will be doing events for us in the end of september and middle of october and we are excited about that. i can just imagine the excitement generated from that. >> all of this amount of money and you yourself are an incredible power house fund-raiser for candidates is important because of the issues at stake. you have been banging your head against the wall on immigration and not getting much traction. i know you think we could have progress on the issues with different leadership. as a whole, this has been called a do nothing congress. 142 bills passed by this congress down from 906 in 1948's do nothing congress. >> you can manage this. >> do you feel culpability lies with democrats? >> i don't. any of this equivalent from both sides, we never treated president bush the way they treat president obama. it would hav

[applause] i met stacy apple and her formly when she was in her first year in the state senate. she had worked her way up from minimum wage to manager at an iowa department store. and as a financial consultant she helped families plan for retirement and save for college. and she did it all while being a great mom to her six kids. [applause] her firsthand experience with the economic pressures facing iowa families made her look around and think we can do better. nd now with your help, she's poised to be the first woman ever to represent iowa in the united states congress. [applause] and dave and jim and pat will bring wisdom, compassion to a congress where those qualities are in short supply. and bruce, bruce has his own story. after his dad was badly injured in a grain elevator accident, his mom went back to school and worked like crazy to get her teaching degree and to support their family. she inspired bruce to devote his life to fighting for other families facing hard times. as a congressman, he's done just that. he went to bat for iowa's national guard members and won them t

participating are democrat stacy apple and republican david young.hey'll discuss their platforms, future plans, and answer reporters' questions. that's tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span2. >> this weekend on the c-span networks, american history tv is live from baltimore's ft. mchenry for the 200th anniversary of the?r star spangd banner sunday morning at 8. 306789. later at 6:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv, we'll tour ft. mchenry and hear how war came to baltimore in 1814 about the british barrage on the fort and why francis scott key was there to witness the fight. saturday night at 8:00 on c-span, the presidential leerdship scholar as program with former presidents george bush and bill clinton. and sunday afternoon, live coverage the harkin steak fry and sunday evening at 8:00, q&a with author rick pearlstine. and on c-span2 saturday night at 10:00, on book tv's "afterwards," ken silverstein on the secret world of oil. and on sunday book tv, democratic senator from new york kristen jill brand on her life in politics and her call for women t

stacy apple work as a financial consultant who knows small business is key to job growth. as state senator, she got results, helping make equal pay for equal work the law in iowa. she will fight to protect social security and medicare. end the backroom deals and put iowa families first. >> just some of the ads running ahead of iowa's third district race as candidates run to replace tom latham who announced his retirement after 10 terms. 8:00ht's debate for my p.m. eastern on c-span 2. tomorrow morning, michael peron joins us from the washington examiner to talk about his column on the republican party. former 9/11 commission or vice chair lee hamilton reacts to last night's speech by president obama. and the president of the university of iowa looks at issues affecting higher ed. lost your phone calls, facebook comments and tweets on washington journal live tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> this weekend, american history tv is live from baltimore for the two hundredth anniversary of the star-spangled banner sunday morning at 8:30. later, on american histo

[applause] i met stacy apple and her formly when she was in her first year in the state senate.ked her way up from minimum wage to manager at an iowa department store. and as a financial consultant she helped families plan for retirement and save for college. and she did it all while being a great mom to her six kids. [applause] her firsthand experience with the economic pressures facing iowa families made her look around and think we can do better. nd now with your help, she's poised to be the first woman ever to represent iowa in the united states congress. [applause] and dave and jim and pat will bring wisdom, compassion to a congress where those qualities are in short supply. and bruce, bruce has his own story. after his dad was badly injured in a grain elevator accident, his mom went back to school and worked like crazy to get her teaching degree and to support their family. she inspired bruce to devote his life to fighting for other families facing hard times. as a congressman, he's done just that. he went to bat for iowa's national guard members and won them the pay they

one of those is for the open house seat between staci apple and david young. here's a quick look. >> first of all, you have to take a look at how we got there. it's out of control. i have outlined some budget pribs principles such as auditing the federal government so we can get those programs. setting legislation, a balanced budget amendment. when it comes to the debt ceiling, over 40 times there have been other items tied to the debt ceiling. i think there are opportunities you could add that. maybe it's the keystone pipeline. maybe tax simplificatiosimplifi. but i think it would be healthy to get something out of this for those who are not in favor of raising the debt ceiling. >> would you vote to raise the debt ceiling? is there a point at which you would say, okay, the credit limit has been reached? and also address the issues that he brings up. tying future debt ceiling votes to other issues. >> well, i think once again we need to work on where the money is being spent and how it's being spent. when i was in the state senate, i became the chair of state

when staci apple voted to spend your tax dollars she voted to spend $120,000 on decorative flower potsd spend $80,000 to repair an organ. her spending priority are offkey. the republican national committee is responsible for the advertising. >> mrs. appel, you catch the drift there. and it's big spending. flower pots. you said you would set priorities, spending priorities. yet the commercial says she spent money for flower pots and repairing organs. >> this is a negative ad. they try to take away from what my record actually is, and the smaller parts of it. my record is about creating preschools for every four-year-old in the state of iowa, re-organizing state government and saving millions of dollars, creating equal pay for equal work in in the statewe smoking ban. those are big pieces of legislation. >> are those votes, in the commercial, votes you wish didn't exist? >> it -- they both were vetoed on it. the organ was matching program with senator grassley when my opponent was his chief of staff. so, -- >> i think i need to point out, too, neither of you are paying for those negative

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, are pinning those hopes on staci appel, she is a former state senator serving a term from 2006 to 2010. republican david young hasn't held elected office, but he has apple hill experience as senator charles grassley's chief of staff. welcome to the special edition of iowa press. you are familiar with our true original format. we are in a different setting. they have agreed not to cheer during the debate. we are following the regular iowa press format. rules, andno debate no opening or closing statements. just ideas and issues. i will be moderating and questions are coming from political journalists, des moines columnist and kathy henderson. mr. young and ms. appel, we are producing this debate on the anniversary of 9/11. there are half-mast flags flying throughout the nation today. i am wondering where were you on 9/11? >> i was feeding my third child on my couch with my 2-year-old son sitting beside me. >> how did it change your life? >> it made us more aware it is a dangerous world. i was driving two kids into the school and went by gray's lake and hundreds of flags were there. it was really moving to think of the lives lost that day and families left