other politicians who really make sure to root out the corruption right so keeping that in mind todd akin is still on the fence about letting you the voters decide who represent you in washington so for blatantly misunderstanding the purpose of the seventeenth amendment and for trying to align itself with the tea party stupid idea that taking the power away from votes actually restores liberty it's not a can is tonight's tool time winner a misery let's make sure this guy doesn't make it to the senate all right. hi guys it's time for happy hour and joining me this evening is lauren lister host of the capital account here on r.t. and comedian ryan shot thank you for joining me. let's start with i mean this is not a funny story at all it's really just insane really crazy but you know everyone is calling it the zombie apocalypse story because it involves this guy that was eating this other guy's face off police say thirty one year old rudy eugene was found naked attacking another naked man by biting off part of his face and officer shot and killed eugene after trying to stop the assault polic

todd akin. the clerk will call the roll.[roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] .. [roll call] [roll call] >> the clerk will report the tally. >> mr. chairman there were 36 aye votes, 25 no votes. >> the amendment is agreed to. if there are no further amendments the chair recognizes the gentleman from south carolina, mr. wilson for the purpose of offering a motion. >> mr. chairman nye.two vote the subcommittee report for the subcommittee and military personnel as amended. >> questions on the motion of the gentleman from south carolina? so many as are in favor will say aye. those opposed, no. a quorum being present the ayes have it, the motion is agreed to. the committee will now consider

senate candidate todd akin taken a republican senate candidate from missouri told voters during a primary debate last week that he might support eliminating the direct election of senators a right guaranteed under the seventeenth amendment take a listen. i have a very serious concern about a row should have states' rights very serious concern of that and this reversing this decision might pull lead balance back. a strong conservative i don't think the federal government should be doing a whole lot of things that it's doing and it may well be that a repeal the seventeenth amendment might tend to pull it back just so you know that phrase direct election of senators means you and i get to vote for our senators who used to be before that amendment was passed that the senators were appointed by governors or by the states usually because they got paid mr aiken wants to take away any control we the people have left over our government elected officials and that is very very unlikely. in florida election fix is already in right now this guy republican governor rick scott is priming his state for

resulted in endless wars and limitless debt the seventeenth amendment weakened state sovereignty todd akin is correct on this one power corrupts and the federal government has too much power then mexico munchen also said on you tube the reason the seventy the mic came to pass was because the senate had become an outright political whore house with the wealthy bribing governors and legislatures to get seats the seventeen made it far more difficult for politicians to whore themselves out but they still found a way now i'm going to agree more with the latter argument on this one obviously if you saw my take on the matter last night but really guys think about it this isn't about the federal government if your beef is if there are many mins made that apply better really well then why do we get rid of all the of them and the entire constitution now the truth is that taking away voting rights from the people and then letting politicians pick more politicians that's just asking for corruption plain and simple now jerry gooch tweeted about our newest information spreading avenue hulu he tweeted th

todd akin on the challenges that have been presented by the f-35 program. it is an enormously expensive program that has slipped repeatedly and had problems. this committee has taken a variety of steps to get it under control. we have tried to force the dod and force the manufacturers to get back on track. it is hugely problematic. both because of the struggles that we have had with it and because it is so important. it is intended to be somewhere, i think, over 90% of our fighter attack aircraft fleet -- at some point. we need this program. mr. akin recognizes this. the problem with the amendment by creating the possibility that we will not, in fact, by half of the gentoo's, it is possible that we will not ultimately support the program. the reason that is a problem is another aspect of the program is that we have a number of foreign partners. i'm sure that everybody on this committee has read about the foreign partners and their angst about the future of the f-35. we want them to buy it. because if they don't, our costs will go up. and if they see us step