finally tom harkin and some of my republicans friends. i said, tom, let me show you the problems. we both got on the phone and called everyone from the president's office all the way to kathleen sebelius to the fda and they finally agreed. i know we are going to save hundreds of thousands of lives throughout america. that is a pretty proud moment when you can make a difference such as that. i was proud of that. [applause] >> actually, mine relates to something that joe has worked on two and that is what i've done to support our men and will afford -- men and women and uniform. the work i've been able to do on behalf of the military and some that's the comeback disabled, those kinds of things -- >> we worked on student loans. it was former governors have set down a worked together. we can tell you the solutions. we have made all the mistakes we can make thomas so why don't you take some of our experience. >> what you mean we made all the mistakes? >> come on. we are growing and we need to come together. i see, sometimes, politics, more than not, trumping what is good for our countr

tom harkin can say that he was the author along with bob dole, he could say there was a time when an employee could be passed over for promotion simply because they were living with a disability. thanks to tom harkin and many others, the americans with disabilities act put an end to that kind of discrimination. speaker boehner has said that the current law already prevents this type of discrimination and for that reason come in the house of representatives considering his bill could ask speaker boehner to go home and take a look around the state of ohio. his home state of ohio was one of the 29 states which allow employers to discriminate based on sexual orientation and it is unconscionable that we are given an opportunity to write one of these last remaining civil rights issues, speaker boehner and those who follow his lead in the house of representatives are turning their backs and we have an opportunity to outlaw one of the last vestiges of discrimination in the workplace and let me close by saying that anyone who is a student of history knows that our history books are literally

if we have a total of social mobility in this country is completely collapsed and important but tom harkin is pushing to expand so just to take this it a step further so security is arguably part of the social safety net although we all pay into it our entire lives so you know you could say at a certain level it's our money coming back to us it's funds itself there is no it does it is you know there is there is you know it's not coming out of the general fund it's there's a two point eight trillion dollars surplus there but ennio it tom harkin is saying do away with the cap so the bill gates pays the exact same amount of so security is all the rest of us do and as a percentage of his income and if you do that you could change the cost of living calculation and use it based on things that seniors actually use like pharmaceuticals rather than i pads or seem to be going down in price for them and you could boost beneficiaries by seventy bucks a month right now which would stimulate our economy and would help a lot of seniors what's wrong with that. could i say something one quick point about

, i'm honored to be joined by someone who knows the facts better than anyone, it's iowa senator tom harkine health committee. >> nice to be with you, karen, thank you. >> so i want to start, you had quite a moment this week where, senator, you pointed out and helped to dispel one of the biggest complaints that we hear from conservatives or from those forces opposing the affordable care act with the excuse that they don't want to have to pay for maternity care costs. can you tell us a little about that? >> well, yeah. we heard, you know, some of the republicans were complaining they got one person who said, well, i've got to pay maternity coverage, but my husband and i, we're too old, we're not having anymore children. why should i pay for maternity care? i said, you know, that's like my wife and i, our kids are grown, they no longer go to public schools in our neighborhood, so why should we have to pay our property taxes to pay for the schools? maybe the only parents with kids in school should pay those taxes for the schools. you see, that's what they're missing, that we're all in this tog

. >> i want to bring in senator tom harkin, democrat from iowa. good to see you, senator. good morning. >> good morning, chris. >> are you ready to make news here on this program and say, run, hillary, run? >> listen, i'm focused on a lot of legislative matters that we're dealing with here in congress in the senate. the campaign -- this is starting too soon. i mean give me a break, we've got interim elections next year. that's the time that campaigns ought to start for president, not now. >> but you are somebody who's been around the game a very long time and obviously your steak fry is a legendary event in iowa. do you think that there is kind of an era of inevitability around hillary clinton right now? >> i've been in politics long enough to see ebbs and flows. people come up and go down, they come up, they go down. listen, hillary clinton has a lot to offer still to this country. whether she decides to run for president or not, that's her decision to make. but i think it's way too early to be getting involved in the 2016 campaign. let's focus on the problems we have in

we have all kinds of things dealing with the disabled because of tom harkin. the disabilities act, so important for our country, is now the law. so i appreciate chairman harki harkin's work on this legislation. it is a shame for iowa and the country that he's decided not to run for reelection. what a good man. but working also on this legislation is jeff merkley from oregon. he ihe has devoted huge amounts of time this legislation. i admire and respect him so much. these two fine senators, is i respect and appreciate their leadership. i hope speaker boehner will reconsider his decision not to bring this up for a vote in the house of representatives. mr. president, this legislation would pass by a nice margin in the house, if the speaker would allow a vote on it. i can't understand what's going on in the house of representatives. legislation that the american people want is held up over there. the farm bill -- the farm bill, saving this country $23 billion ... they won't bring it up. the american people want this. there are reforms in that legislation that sena

thinking they can reach even higher right now a group of liberal lawmakers led by with senator tom harkin and california congressman george miller are gathering support for a bill to raise the minimum wage to ten dollars and ten cents an hour by two thousand and fifteen the president himself has reportedly backed this proposal and for good reason too if the minimum wage had actually kept up with inflation it would be way higher than what it is now just seven dollars and twenty five cents an hour in fact the real value of the minimum wage and wages in general has declined so much in the past half century or so that even if the harken miller bill passes the minimum wage would still be sixty seven cents shy of its nine hundred sixty eight high of ten dollars and seventy seven cents an hour also worth noting raising the minimum wage is a great economic stimulus going to a recent study by the economic policy institute increasing the national minimum wage from seven twenty five to ten ten per hour by july first two thousand and fifteen would result in a net increase in economic activity of appr

thinking they can reach even higher right now a group of liberal lawmakers led by with senator tom harkin and california congressman george miller are gathering support for a bill to raise the minimum wage to ten dollars and ten cents an hour by two thousand and fifteen the president himself has reportedly backed this proposal and for good reason too if the minimum wage had actually kept up with inflation it would be way higher than what it is now just seven dollars and twenty five cents an hour in fact the real value of the minimum wage and wages in general has declined so much in the past half century or so that even if the hard. miller bill passes the minimum wage would still be sixty seven cents shy of its nine hundred sixty eight high of ten dollars and seventy seven cents an hour also worth noting raising the minimum wage is a great economic stimulus going to a recent study by the economic policy institute increasing the national minimum wage from seven twenty five to ten ten per hour by july first two thousand and fifteen would result in a net increase in economic activity of appro

finally tom harkin and some of my republicans friends. i said, tom, let me show you the problems.ndt on the called everyone from the president's office all the way to kathleen sebelius to the fda and they finally agreed. to savee are going hundreds of thousands of lives throughout america. that is a pretty proud moment when you can make a difference such as that. i was proud of that. [applause] >> actually, mine relates to something that joe has worked on two and that is what i've done to support our men and will afford -- men and women and uniform. the work i've been able to do on behalf of the military and some ,hat's the comeback disabled those kinds of things -- >> we worked on student loans. it was former governors have set down a worked together. we can tell you the solutions. we have made all the mistakes we can make thomas so why don't you experience. our >> what you mean we made all the mistakes? >> come on. we are growing and we need to come together. i see, sometimes, politics, more than not, trumping what is good for our country and government. when politics trumps cou

i'd like to thank chairman tom harkin for his leadership and for the bipartisan help committee staff process that was crucial to producing this legislation. i'd also like to thank ranking member lamar alexander and senator pat roberts for their commitment to getting this bill right. i'd also like to thank the staff who worked so hard on this bill. specifically, i'd like to thank janelle christian-amorte, elizabeth youngman, and nathan brown. with senator harkin, mary sumpter and gray stumps. and with jennifer boyar with senator roberts for their hard work and dedication to developing this important legislation. i'd also like to thank hanna catch on my staff, who has worked tirelessly on this bill. i'd also like to thank chairman upton and ranking member waxman and their colleagues in the house for their work as well as the many stakeholders who have worked productively with us to develop and improve this proposal. in particular, i counted on input from the minnesota board of pharmacy, the minnesota pharmacists association, thrifty white pharmacy and many other experts and pharmacists

thanks to tom harkin and many others the americans with , disabilities act put an end to that type of discrimination. speaker boehner has said that the current law already prevents this type of discrimination. for that reason, they will not consider this bill. i asked him to go home and take a look around his state of ohio. his home state of ohio is one of the 29 states which allow employers to discriminate based on sexual orientation. it is unconscionable that, when given an opportunity to right one of the last remaining civil rights issues of our time, speaker boehner and those who follow his lead in the house of representatives are turning their backs. we have an opportunity to outlaw one of the last vestiges of discrimination in the workplace. let me close by saying this. anyone who is a student of history knows that our history books are littered with those public figures who said we cannot end discrimination based on age, race, disability, gender. think about their place in history today. i will not recount the names. speaker boehner, think about the party you belong to. the rep

. >> somethin' tells me tom harkin was watching. he said he read it in the paper.lease. >> there was a story in the other day about a paper somebody said well gee now i have to take this policy that covers maternity care but my wife and i aren't having any more children. i don't know if they were older or something like that. why should i have to have a policy that covers maternity care? i got to thinking about that i thought well, you no what? maybe because my wife and i don't have any more children and they are grown up, maybe i shouldn't have to pay property taxes to pay for my local schools. huh? >> huh? that's exactly what george schwabb said after he heard that. george, what do you make of it? by the way he was watching you and listening to you and recounting your experience even though he didn't want to give credit to here, that's my thought, opinion. what do you think of the way is he trying to justify you paying a higher premium or because it helps a lot of other folks? >> if you are in your 60's and just had your insurance cancelled because you don't have

including the chairman democrat tom harkin. >> the thing that i'm most concerned about right now is security. to make sure that when someone signs up, and they give them their social security number and their tax information and all that kind of stuff that no one can get that. i want that to be as secure as -- well, as when you give your credit card number to amazon.com. >> the whole point of this is to get more healthcare for americans and the point that i'm upset about is credible estimates show about 30,000 citizens of illinois will lose their health insurance from this. exactly the opposite direction from what the president assured us. >> senator, what's your impression of what ms. tavenner has to say? >> he she hasn't answered the question why should we put into law the president's words that if you like your insurance you can keep it? the white house web site today says that but 16,000 tennessee residents who had insurance called cover 10 received notice that their insurance is cancelled because washington doesn't think it's good enough for them. >> i know have you called for secretary

. >> at the time max baccus called your move to try to fix this a political stunt, senator tom harkinhis was another attempt on a pledge to undo critically important patient protections. senator durbin accused you of trying to empower the insurance companies, and on and on it went. did you feel like the message went through? >> the president's mantra controlled the democrats, they were not listening, they didn't intend to listen, they should have listened. i couldn't believe what some of my colleagues were saying, even though the federal register said considerably different than what they did. it predicted millions would lose their insurance in wyoming, the least populated state in the nation lost their health care. and the administration assures me it is coverage they wanted to have. across the state, 3 million at least lost their insurance they were promised they could keep if they liked it. they liked it and don't like the extra requirements in there right now. >> and as you saw these millions of people start to get cancelled in the past couple of weeks, what did you think to yours

. >> senator tom harkin, he is retiring from the senate. you are running for his seat. match -- or what do you expect financially the koch brothers or americans for prosperity to do when you are the competition? >> well, as my friend sherrod brown found when he ran in ohio, the sky's the limit, ed. i had told him that he could expect millions and millions of dollars to be used against him. and i think the final total was nearly $40 million in a state the size of ohio. the groups you've mentioned are already attacking me. they're out in all parts of the state. and we know that they're going to be a significant presence in the 2014 election. that's why it's important to educate iowans about what's at stake and who's trying to influence their elections even though as you pointed out the donors themselves are secret at this point. >> do you think that iowans are onto this? and how do you think they feel about this outside money? >> oh, i think they are onto it and i think the people of coralville got onto it very quickly. if you look at the election outcomes, you can see th

. >> i am thankful we have half a dozen senators that have signed on to tom harkin's bill to expand social >> yes. >> it looked like it is wa very possible, if not likely, we were going to see cuts in social security, because the president offered that as part of the budget. it seems like that ship has sailed. we are sort of out of that harbor. we are looking at not a social security crisis in the future but a pension crisis. the 401(k) experiment has failed. it is good to start to see. we are seeing some offense here. >> we did a whole thing on this, about expanding social security. it is amay zing when you look a what people have saved and what they are going to need. it is a really big mismatch. we are all coming down the pike and these are our parents, our loved ones. there is going to have to be solutions. >> i want to thank the women of texas for showing all of us what it means to stand up for your rights. i was so inspired of their hard work in times of adversity that i have found a team of my own to start focusing on what's going on in the backyards of all the states in america. so

endorsed a $9 minimum wage but congressional democrats are saying that's not enough, and senator tom harkin of iowa, a democrat, and congressman george miller of california, are cosponsoring a bill that would raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour in two years. the white house signalsarilier this month they would back a wage of $10.10 an hour. i think it plays very well in the party's liberal ring. the question is what will happen in the house of representatives? john boehner said he didn't think raising the minimum wage is a good idea. he said it will result in fewer jobs. i have a story in the "new york times" today that says the american public supports a higher minimum wage by 69% to 25%, when which is a pretty overwhelming majority, and the republicans support a higher wage. sphwhrar steven greenhouse, thanks so much. >> nice to be here. >> sreenivasan: in recent years, tablets and e-readers have topped many holiday shopping lists. jeffrey brown looks at one program aimed at using that technology to get people to read. >> brown: more than 770 million people around the world where ill

obama is on the record with it, nancy pelosi, joe biden, harry reid, tom harkin, a kathleen sebeliusay and ultimately we want to get a single payer. this has been designed to fail and collapsed. they will say we have no choice to get a single payer because we are dependent on this. stuart: maybe i am totally naive. i cannot see all democrats in the house going up for reelection next year and going with this debacle. >> they may appeal away but they are not the ones running this operation. it is obama and h 8 s and kathleen sebelius and their all-out on this plan because it is about a fundamental transformation -- stuart: this latest obamacare bomb shall we broke last night. i saw it on meghan kelly's show last night, first time i had seen this thing, we haven't had their reaction yet. i have not seen the white house reaction. i don't know what jay carney has to say or what harry reid has to say or democrats in the senate who are up for reelection and on shaky ground, is mary landrieu going to go with this and welcome these millions of cancellation letters in her state? >> you will se

this to happen all along because he is on the record along with harry reid, kathleen sebelius, tom harkin saying obamacare is a way station on the way to single-payer. i don't have a thought the disaster would have been the way it did and probably happened so fast. if this president was really sincere, there is an immediate fix making its way through congress right now in a bipartisan way which is a bill that would restore the health plans allowing americans to keep the plans they like and they can afford. back in 2010 republicans put forward a bill to do exactly that, making sure guarantees were in place. they said absolutely not. they may change their tune now, but i'm not so sure they will move in that direction. gregg: you saw jay carney a moment ago, you almost feel sorry for him because he is trying to justify that which is arguably unjustifiable are. he minimizes it, it is just a small% of american people. that small comfort to the millions of folks losing their policies and paying something bigger. this is only going to get worse? >> it is. this just affects about 15 million peopl

we heard from tom harkin. marilyn tavenner is sitting alone at that table. we'll go in and out of this and monitor the headlines. and where we have gone last week in terms of progress. martha: we'll be look at the questioning here and we'll be taking you back and forth to mayor continue tavenner who is on the hot seat as a white house memo surfaced that shows a healthcare advisor warned the administration three years ago that the rollout would be a mess. david cutler writes to a white house economic adviser. he wrote this -- he wrote this to the economic adviser, larry somers. i do not believe the relevant members of the administration understand the president's vision or have the capability to carry it out. here we are. we are going to be talking in a second to bob beblg, the former democratic campaign manager and cohost of the five and he joins me now. this an interesting memo from david cutler. one of the things that stands out to me is we are starting to see the scramble process and see people involved in this saying just for the record i raised a red fl

senator tom harkin of iowa has filed a bill to pay out for all current and future retirees forevermorenow how to pay for it. there is a cap on taxes, 12% for the first $113,000 per year in pay. half from you, half from your employer. but they want to slap the 12% tax on all income. even that won't save this program because it is simple math. as market on social securiiy, fewer workers spent the system to support us. even though we are living a lot longer on their dime. we support 45 million older americans today, that will hit 77 alien in 20 years. we had five workers for everyone but terry. now it is below three it will be only two. as social security began in 1935 come if you made it to age 65 that year he lived another 12 years did today live almost another 20 years on social security. she would make this burden even worse? this is cynical, deceptive at its worst. hell-bent on financial suicide. we need to cut this program and get real. not all ourselves into a stupor by going deeper into debt to buy more goodies for grandpa. do we need to cut social security or expanded? cheryl: go

want to thank and recognize my colleagues, senators mark kirk,, geoff murphy, susan collins, and tom harkin for their lead, working across party lines and leading this legislation forward. i take great pride at being a part of this effort.at i think it shows great promisece of what can be achieved if we work together in a bipartisant t way i also want to take the time to recognize the 55 co-sponsors, of this bill. both democrats and republicans who made a commitment to ending discrimination against our fellow citizens simply because of who they are and do they love . i realize that for some this is not an easy vote.ome i understand it, for some, they may believe that it is not the politics, but i want to say that i have a deep respect to for those who choose to stand on thy side of progress for our countro this week pyridine so for thoses that stand up this week and answer the call for courage, ie can say with confidence, yourspd courage will be respected and remembered in the history of this struggle.akt engen i had the i opportunity to speak at the department of justice during its observa

>> tom harkin, the head of the health committee, and lamar alexander, who is the republican ranking member of the committee. it's got wide spread support. you don't really have a division between the parties here and that senator alexander, like many other republican senators comes from a state that is badly affected be i the outbreak. he has a very personal and strong connection in trying to make sure. >> republican senator of louisiana has an amendment that deals with health care. how does it tie to the bill? what is he hoping to do? >> in large part, the big picture he's drawing to more attention to what he sees in obama's health care law. the affordable care act. this is something he's been doing to a number of bills over the last few months trying to put an amendment and away on the bills to bring attention. the specific piece of the amendment he has here has to do with members of congress and the staff in which -- and those who might be exempted from the requirement. he's making the point that people should not exempt themselves from this requirement of the health care law because it

senator tom harkin of iowa supported it. he spoke eloquently from this desk yesterday before the vote, and then two minutes were allocated to those in opposition. no one stood to speak. but then 30 voted against it. so what i'd like to do is encourage my colleagues to take, in the spirit of senator kirk and senator collins, this opportunity for us to truly do something in a bipartisan way. let us move this employment nondiscrimination act forward and let's do it with dispatch. we know that it's the right thing to do. america is not a stronger nation when there is discrimination anywhere, anywhere, including the workplace. and this bill will end that form of discrimination. now there are those who say, you're just wasting your time, senator, because speaker john boehner of ohio has already announced he not only opposes this, he will not let it see the light of day in the u.s. house of representatives. mr. president, you served there for many years. i did as well. the speaker has a lot of control in the house. he can decide wh

had last year, one of the most moving moments in time was to have two senators, john mccain and tom harkin, talking about what they had done together so many years ago to move the ada law into existence, and so many things have occurred since then. we had a unanimous vote in 2008 on the ada amendments act, and we have continued to make tremendous progress. i do think that last year when this was considered, it was not considered in its fullness. it was rushed, and we did not have a kind of hearings that it takes to ratify a treaty. treaties have a different standard, for obvious reasons. i am glad this year we are taking a more methodical approach to that. i want to say to the advocates of this piece of legislation, this treaty, it is tremendous to see the effort underway to move people along in this regard. whenever a bill or a treaty is passed, there are some unintended consequences, and i think it is our obligation to look at the effects that a treaty like this could have on domestic law. i am not one of those folks who thinks they're somebody behind every woodpile trying to do somethin

last year i think one of the most moving moments in time was when the two senators john mccain and tom harkin talked about what they have done together so many years ago to move the ada law into existence and so many things have occurred since then. i know we had a unanimous vote in 2008 hundred ada amendments act and we continue to make progress. i do think that last year when this was considered it wasn't considered in its fullness. it was rushed and we didn't really have the kind of hearing that takes to ratify a treaty. the treaty had a different standards than most laws with 67 votes for obvious reasons and i'm glad this year we are taking a little bit more methodical approach to that. i do want to say to the advocates of this piece of legislation and this treaty, i am really -- it's tremendous to see the effort that is underway to move people along in this regard. whenever a bill or a treaty is passed there are some unintended consequences and i think it's our obligation to look at the fx a treaty like this could have on domestic law. i'm not one of those folks who thinks there are some

had last year, one of the most moving moments in time was to have two senators, john mccain and tom harkin, talking about what they had done together so many years ago to existence,a law into and so many things have occurred since then. we had a unanimous vote in 2008 on the ada amendments act and we have continued to make tremendous progress. i do think that last year when not was considered it was considered in its fullness. it was rushed and we did not have a kind of hearings that it takes to ratify a treaty. treaties have a different standard, for obvious reasons. i am glad this year we are taking a more methodical approach that. i want to say to the advocates of this lease of legislation, is tremendoust to see the effort underway to move people along in this regard . whenever a bill or a treaty is passed, error some unintended consequences, and i think it is our obligation to look at the effects that a treaty like this could have on domestic law. i am not one of those folks who thinks they're somebody behind every woodpile trying to do something. i want to make sure that we in fact pa

there you see tom harkin of iowa. he be asking questions of marilyn tavenner. for medicaid and medicare and that branch or organization once in charge of the obama care rollout. but no longer. and we'll continue to monitor her testimony. and if she says anything new and exciting, we'll pass it along to you. >>> let's talk about the president now and his tweaking of his message. a new spin. it's now been five weeks to the date since the rollout of obama care. and it's sputtering website hasn't been the only problem. remember the reassurances that if you liked your plan, you wouldn't have to switch? for nearly four years, the president said this. >> if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. >> well, the president has a new spin. the white house is now tweaking that message. our senior courthouse correspondent brianna keilar is in washington. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. basically in the face that that promise could not be kept ultimately and that it wasn't as simple from t

>> in the senate it's tom harkin, the head of the health committee, and it is lamar alexander, the republican ranking member of that committee. it's got wide spread support. you don't really have a division between the parties here. in fact, senator alexander, like many other republican senators comes from a state that was badly affected by the outbreak. he has a very personal and strong connection to trying to make sure something happens. >> republican senator david vitter of louisiana has an amendment that deals with health care. how does that tie in to the bill? what is he hoping to do? >> well, in large part, the big picture he's trying to draw more attention what he sees as flaw in the affordable care act. this is something he's doing to a number of bills. try to put an amendment on the delay to the bill it to bring attention. the specific piece of the amendment he has here has to do with members of congress and their staffs and which ones are covered through health care exchanges, which the law requires. and most members their staffs to be covered by. and those who might be exempted fro

and finally tom harkin and some of my republican friends, i said, guys, listen. and we had a bill going through, tom needed help on that bill. and i said let me tell you the problems and i needed help. he said i'll help you, we both got on the phone and called everybody from the president's office to kathleen sebelius down to the fda and they finally agreed. now, i know we're going to save hundreds and hundreds of thousands of lives throughout america and i know. and that's a proud moment when you know you can make a difference such as that. i was proud of that. >> senator hoeven? >> that's the work i've done to support our men and women in uniform and our military and the great work they've done. and joe and i worked together on veterans and some of those things. so the work i've been able to do on behalf of the military, families and some of the vets that come back disabled and then trying to hire a vet. those kind of things. >> we worked on student loans. >> yeah. >> working that problem. it was governors, former governors that sit down, work together. we can t

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tom harkin, the chairman, started ostart ed off giving marilyn tavenner the timelime for fixing the site working smoothly for the vast majority of americans who try to sign on to healthcare.gov. he asked marilyn tavenner what the timeline looks like for that to happen. >> we actually are doing a series of software upgrades, pretty much several times a week. we will continue that. you will see improvement week-by-week, but this is weeks, not months. and we are not rewriting the architecture. >> that is one of the things that a lot of people have said, that the entire architecture needs to be rewritten. some of the pundits on the outside, technical experts. but she says that is not necessary. they are rewriting software. they had been doing it overnight, taking down the site at least for the foreseeable future. they will be taking it down between 1:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. they now have a notice about that on the front page. notwithstanding that, they did have an unplanned outage yesterday of 90 minutes that they did not -- or were not able to identify. meantime, senators on both sides of the

when it shows a larger seat of competitive races, analysis of mark begich of alaska, tom harkin of iowa, mary landrieu who on the senate side is introducing legislation to allow insurers to keep selling plans, carl levin and kay hagan, all lean democratic. max baucus of montana, jay rockefeller of west virginia, leaning republican, tim johnson of south dakota. going to the republicans racest, mitch mcconnell's is a tossup. saxby chambliss is leaning republican. jo, you're up next, island park, new york. independent line. in life, i observed that don't look at what people say but look at what they do. the republicans haven't signed up for this because they know it is a disaster. nobody really wanted this. , obama astonishing is has not signed up for obamacare. harry reid is not signed up for obama care. este pelosi has not signed up for obamacare. --y should be called the this should be called the on affordable care act. democrats don't want it, but they want to foisted on us. when they sign up, maybe americans will call. but they don't want it, so i don't want it. it is guy on twitter s

committee chairman, senator tom harkin's, says he wants straight answers to questions on when healthcare.govill be working, why testing wasn't done, and why the severity of the problems were not foreseen. watch live coverage of the hearing on c-span or listen to it on c-span radio. it all begins at 10 a.m. eastern time. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> amy was from a well-to-do family of all daughters. fromve her report card denver, colorado. english, shen actually got a c minus in european history. who knew that in later years, as a military wife and future first 80, she would be so well traveled and have some much to do with european history. she loved charms. early on ike bought her this armyall charm, showing the and navy game scores of 1913 to 1914 when i was coach for the army football team. tookmilitary wife, she great pride in creating a home for ike in each of the 36 different places they lived throughout their marriage. on may meur program eisenhower. -- on mommy eisenhower. eisenhower. >> washington journal continues. host: it was adjusted by a viewer, sa

so, we know how politicians operate, but i was going to ask you -- >> just all these guys, tom harkincrat in favor of it, says he's been waiting for 18 years, eight years ago said this was absolutely the wrong thing to do with the institution s . mcconnell who was in favor of it eight years ago is opposed to it. basically, they just traded sides. >> am i okay with what? >> here's what happens now, he's not going to get anything through legislatively -- >> yes. >> so, he's governing through regulatory measures now. >> correct. >> now, any of the regulatory measures that are challenged at the district court of d.c., he can stack that court so he can -- >> yes, he can. >> okay. the other thing is, polls have him at 37%, 40%, somewhere between there -- >> not a good -- >> well, no! he can't -- who's going to be -- how much below -- i don't think he had 47%, like romney said, but he's got 37%. he's got 37% that will never waver for him, so -- >> he can't go any lower! >> i don't think he's worried about it. >> he's a lame duck. >> not now! how many votes do you need to repeal obama care in

with my colleagues, chairman tom harkin, chairman of the health education, pensions subcommittee, share odd brown of ohio, i'll introduce the payroll protection act of 2013, which will protect workers of being misclassified of independent contractors, thereby ensuring safeguards of fair labor standards, health and safety protections and unemployment and workers' compensation benefits. the act would also prohibit employers from using misclassification to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. this is not a new problem, as i mentioned before. in 1984, the internal revenue service found that 3.4 million employees were misclassified as independent contractors. at that time, this cost taxpayers $1.6 billion in income taxes, unemployment taxes, social security taxes and medicare taxes. that's 19 years ago. that report 19 years ago found that 15% of employers had misclassified employees. a new review is being undertaken. unfortunately, we will not see the results of that new review for some time. a 2009 treasury inspector general's report on misclassification acknowledged the lack of comprehe

i also want to acknowledge the work of chairman tom harkin in bringing this bill to the senate floor.he, too, has been a champion of civil rights throughout his long career, and i hope that as he retires at the end of this congress that this bill will be one more of his accomplishments. the time to pass it has come. madam president, all americans deserve a fair opportunity to pursue the american dream. over the years, we have rightly taken a stand against workplace discrimination based on race, gender, national origin, religion, age and disability. it is past time that we ensure that all employees are judged solely based on their talents, abilities, their hard work, their capabilities by closing an important gap in federal employment law as it relates to sexual orientation. for the right to work is fundamental. how can we in good conscience deny that right to any lgbt american who is qualified and willing to work? especially in today's economy, job security has taken on an even greater importance to all americans. how can we in good conscience tell one segment of americans that they a

i also want to acknowledge the work of the chairman of the committee, tom harkin, in bringing this bill to the floor. other senators who helped to improve this bill include senators portman, ayotte, heller, hatch, and mccain in their effort to draft strong antiretaliation language. their ability, which was adopted unanimously, improves this bill by strengthening the protections for religious institutions that are legitimately exempted under enda. and i would like to thank each of those senators and others, such as senator flake, for their willingness to work with the sponsors and cosponsors of this legislation. senator toomey also has worked hard. mr. president, all americans deserve a fair opportunity to pursue the american dream. enda is simply about the fundamental right to work and to be judged according to one's abilities, qualifications, and job performance. much of corporate america has already voluntarily embraced lgbt protections because they know that doing so helps them attract and retain the best and the brightest employees. nearly two dozen states have versions of enda. in