president, that will destroy the united states senate. that will make it no different than the house. i would say to my friends on the other side, if they want to make the senate like the house where a freight train can run through it with 51 votes, they might not like it so much when the freight train is the tea party express, which it could be. republicans could be in control of the united states senate after this session. republicans would could have a president and then where would obamacare be? where would a whole series of things be? there will be a great many senators on the other side who would say, wait a minute, late slow down the train, let's think about what we're doing. that was the original intention of the founders much this country. the house is majoritarian 51 vote control. in the senate, we stop and think and minority rights are protected. usually that forces us to have a supermajority in order to do anything big, such as the time when finally the civil rights bill was enacted in the 1960's and senator russell who led the

united states. i'm a united states senator and vice president of the united states for one reason, because i was educateducated by louis l. redding and i was educated by reverend maurice moyer. i was educated by lent mitchell and hicks anderson and i went through the battle with mouse. mousey, are you out there? hey, mouse, how are you doing, man? mouse and i go back a long way to the days when i was a public defender. each before that. to the days i was the only white employee on the east side, remember, mouse? and by the way, mouse got my back a bunch of times. in any rate, it is so, so good to be with you all. i want to thank you all for your leadership and your friendship and again, to be personal, for your loyalty. it is not an exaggeration. were it not for the leadership of the naacp, for the men and women who educated me when we'd sit over in reverend wright's churches as we were talking about desegregating the queen movie theater, remember, mouse, those days? i learned so much. i learned so much, and i owe so much, but ladies and gentlemen, this is as much as i enjoy it, this is not about me. thi

the question is the united states senate and the president, obviously, they are not going to do that. that means the people of this country, through this election need to give us a better united states senate and need to elect mitt romney president so we can finally repeal and replace this law, which was passed on a whole series of broken promises. >> what is interesting to me now that it's a tax. you guys have repealed it before. it hasn't gone anywhere. >> right. >> now, will clair mccaskill and bill nelson and joe mansion, democratic senators up for re-election, they will have to vote up or down on this. is that going to happen in the september? >> i doubt t. it's up to harry reid, he decides whether to make them take the vote or not. what do you think he will do? i don't think he wants to put the vulnerable democrats up to these votes, like for 3 years, he has prevented them from having to vote on a budget. even though the law says we have to pass a budget every year, he has not had them pass -- >> how is the obama budget? it's a constitutional mandate. i am trying to understand,

and we heard coming over this bull horn, "this is your candidate for the united states senate." i mean, we were like moses when he realized that burning bush. we didn't know fit was a politician. we didn't know fit was god. we didn't know what it was. i mean, just this thing. and it landed. and there was this big cloud of dust. and lyndon johnson got out of that helicopter. and he made the most rousing speech you can ever want to hear. and at the end of it -- he never took off his hat during the speech. at the end of the speech he took off his hat and threw it into the crowd. and then got on that helicopter and flew away. now, mind you, i was 11 years old. i can remember every moment of that day. i can't remember the commercials from the last presidential campaign, but i can remember every minute of that day. well, let me tell you what. i later told that story to jake pickle, who was a long-time congressman for boston. jake said, oh, yeah, that was my job in the campaign. i said, what do you mean your job? he said, well, i was going to the university of texas but my job was to d

i was 11 years old, and we heard that lyndon johnson who was running for the united states senate, this was the year of truman versus dewey. we heard lyndon johnson was come the baseball, vacant lot, and we heard he was coming and it was a big thing in the community and my dad took me down there and the reason we were all so excited about going down there is we heard he was coming in a helicopter and none of us had ever seen a helicopter. this was a long time ago. so on that day we all went down there and we're standing there in this vacant lot and all of a sudden we hear this big noise up in the sky and here's this airplane with no wings on it and we hear coming over this bullhorn, this is your candidate for the united states senate and we were, like, you know, moses when he realized it was the burning bush. we didn't know if it was a politician or if it was god. we didn't know what it was. and it was this thing and this plane and this cloud of dust and lyndon johnson got out of that helicopter and he made the most rousing speech you could ever want to hear and he never took off his ha

the women's campaign fund and she should run and dan bongino republican candidate for the united states senate from the state of maryland the louisiana governor bobby jindal all as overhauled his state's education system including creating about your program that allowed state funds to be used to some students to religiously based schools and is playing a lot of support from legislators in the state including initially state representative valerie hodges until she realized that if you're going to send kids with state funds to religious schools they might not all be christians she said i do not support using public funds for teaching is a lobby anywhere ever ways yanna but she's all for explicitly all for using state funds to teach christianity what has happened to to religious freedom in america dan do republicans not believe in all that is my signature issue parent choice i am a product of the fact though school choice i am a firm believer that parents tax dollars parents should pick and they are entitled to the same education as students look like me in and around the county and religious in

so i remind my colleagues once again that all of this process starts not here in the united states senate but in the white house at the other end of pennsylvania avenue, so when one wants to complain about judicial vacancies, start first by looking there and then to the democrats who controlled the senate during this period. because of those delays in nominations and decisions made by the senate democratic leadership, only 13 judges were confirmed during president obama's first year. that was the choice of democrats who controlled the white house and the senate, not because of anything the republican minority could do. yet, democrats argue that somehow president obama is somehow behind in confirmations and based upon that flawed logic, there is some perceived notion that he is entitled to catch up on nominations. the fact is we have confirmed over 78% of president obama's district nominees at this point in his presidency, 75% of president bush's nominees had been confirmed. president obama is running ahead of president bush on district confirmations as a percentage. it is not the fault of

and this is now the third year in a row that the united states senate has failed to do that. again, i might simply add that the house of representatives did do a budget, has been passing appropriations bills, has been following the law in accordance with what has been the practice around here, at least up until the last three years, of actually working on a budget. when you're borrowing 40 cents out of every dollar that you spend, it would strike me at least that it would be really important that go through an exercise of figuring how you're going to start exit telling away -- whittling away at that deficit, get that debt at a more manageable level and how you're going to spend the american taxpayers' dollars. but as the senator from pointed out -- and again, i don't think we can emphasize this enough because we last summer already called for $500 billion in defense cuts, and that was half of the amount of reductions that were made last summer. it was about $1 trillion, a little under that overall in spending cuts last summer immediately. immediate spending cuts, half of whic

we want to give encouragement to have jobs here in the united states, i guarantee you it would be overwhelmingly passed. the united states senate better wake up and say we passed it, too. i thank the senator from michigan. and, mr. president, one thing we all agree on and the distinguished presiding officer and i both from vermont where we have open and available government. he did in his role as major of our larges -- mayor of our largest city. we know the right to know is a cornerstone of our democracy. during my three decades in the senate i've urged democratic and republican administrations alike be open, be transparent to the american people. that's why in march i joined a bipartisan group of members of congress, senator grassley, senator burr, senator hagan, senator bill nelson, senator rubio, in writing to the secretary secretary of defense panetta to request the release of government records regarding the contamination of drinking water that occurred over several decades at camp lejeune marine base. the the drinking water contamine anything at camp lejeune was one of the worst environmental disasters in american history

marco rubio be the first hispanic president in the history of the united states he could be president of the united states. >> senator. >> sean: senator rubio, this keeps coming up. people have confidence you can go as far as you want. do you think about that? >> you know i shouldn't the truth is that what i've learned is that people get into a position planning to use to it catapult into something else almost always end up destroying themselves. a great example of someone doing it right is jeb bush, taking on every difficult issue. and i think at the image of his career as governor. people didn't agree with him, respected him. i learned a lot from watching that example as a kind of leader i want to be. >> sean: the senate seat you ran for opened up you had a phone conversation with jeb bush and assumed he was going to run. and in that conversation he suggested you run. >> he decided not to run. i thought he was going to run. i was convinced and he thought bit over christmas holiday and we came back and he said he wasn't going to do it and encouraged me to think about it. it was a process we're very concerned about t

. >> now the secretary of the united states navy, ray mapis. >> governor o'malley, senator, the entiremadam mayor, to the ambassadors from the united kingdom and canada. i have two observances for you. one is that i had the privilege of participating in the normandy 68th anniversary of the landings there earlier this mochlt it went to three british events. i was soaked at each one. but this is also, mr mr. ambassador, navy weather, and to our canadian friends, on my visit to canada earlier this year, both our countries are celebrating the war of 1812 as great victories. so it is fitting that we're here together at friends. we declared american independence in 1776 in philadelphia. we won our independence in 1781 at yorktown, but we secured our independence in the war of 1812. mere in baltimore on the great lakes and new orleans and on the high seas. this war which lasted for not one year but until the peace treaty in 1815 began 200 years ago today as you have heard with this signing of the declaration of war by president madison. the lasting impact of that war is many ways greater than

in 1899, copper billionaire william clarke was elected to the united states senate by the montana stateislature. the contest was considered so blatantly swayed by bribery, the senate refused to seat him. here's how clarke responded. -- quote -- "i never bought a man who wasn't for sale" -- end of quote. now, mr. president, we in nevada have some connection with that name because las vegas is in clarke county. clarke county was formed in the early part of the 20th century, split -- at the time was the largest county in america, called lincoln county. and that was divided and -- between lincoln and clarke county and this character, clarke, was named -- it was named after him. after he said this, and people realized that he had blatantly swayed the state legislature by bribery, the senate here refused to seat him. but he became a senator anyway, mr. president. not for long, but he became a senator. as i've learned from people who know a lot about montana history, he was very clever. the governor of the state of montana went to san francisco, the acting governor, lieutenant governor, after

[applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the junior united states senator from the state of north carolinahonorable kay hagan. >> senator reid, senator mcconnell, congressman boehner, congresswoman pelosi, senator burr, congresswoman brown, congressman west, thank you for being here and commandant amos. we are so honored to be here. good afternoon, everybody. it is truly one of the greatest honors of my career to be here as a u.s. senator today to recognize the most heroic and courageous veterans in our nation's history. i can think of no group more deserving of this congressional gold medal than the montford point marines and all of you that are with us today. when these men walked through the gates at montford point in my home state in north carolina in the 1940's, you came young, brave, and committed to serving a country that did not yet appreciate the sacrifices. a country that measured a warrior, measured a man not by his courage or dedication but by the color of his skin. your road was not easy. to be simply allowed onto the nearby camp where the white counterparts were trained on ba

they deserve better than what they're getting from the leadership today of this united states senate. the senate armed services committee version of the fiscal year 2013 national defense authorization act provides $525 billion for the base budget of the defense department, $88 billion for operations in afghanistan, and around the world, and $17.8 billion to maintain our nuclear deterrent. in the area of pay and compensation, the bill authorizes $135 billion for military personnel, including costs of pay, allowances, bonuses and a 1.7% across-the-board pay raise for all members of the union formed services consistent with the president's request. the bill improves the quality of life of the men and women in the active and reserve components of the all-volunteer force and helps to address the needs of the wounded service members and their families. it also authorizes important military construction and family housing projects that cannot proceed without specific authorization. all major weapons systems are authorized in this legislation, including those that will benefit by the committe

americans. >> huma abedin has long been a top aid to hillary clinton both in her time in the united states senate and now as secretary of state. what john mccain was referencing there and railing against was this conspiracy theory we talked about last night on the show. it was cited by protesters in egypt who threw tomatoes at hillary clinton in her recent trip. it's that the united states government is in bed with the muslim brotherhood in egypt. the source of the conspiracy theory as cited by some of the protesters themselves in egypt is all of the sources on the american right that traffic in this kind of stuff. it's former republican presidential candidate michele bachmann who is now demanding a state department investigation into huma abedin. coming from michele bachmann and four other fringe members of congress. from the same people who helped orchestrate the monica lewinsky scandal and it originated in part in the washington times. the same paper that today is running the fast and furious $100,000 bounty ad. again, the conspiracy theory here is there's a secret muslim infiltrator high up i

i don't know whether your side intends to offer exactly the plan that was defeated in the united states senate, but it was a plan that the president of the united states, as the leader knows, said he won't sign. so what i ask my friend respectfully so we know what to prepare for and we know it will be made in order that consistent with the clear meaning of this statement that mr. boehner made just a few hours ago is that we would be given the opportunity to offer the senate-passed plan and would have a vote on that plan, either in the form of an amendment or a substitute. and i yield to my friend. mr. cantor: mr. speaker, i would say back to the gentleman, we do expect and our intention is to allow your tax hike to be made in order. i mean, i don't understand, mr. speaker, how many more times i have to say that. the speaker has always represented that we would work towards an open process, and i would remind the gentleman that when his party was last in majority and considered an expiring -- the extension of expiring rates in 2010, that his party made in order just one amendment to h.r. 4853,

that's today's united states senate. committees aren't being used to generate good legislation. in other words, they're viewed as an obstacle to overcome in the effort to make a point in front of the cameras on the senate floor. and the latest such effort is the disclose act, a bill aimed at doing something, doing something about people exercising their first amendment right to participate in the process. well, my question is: doing something about what? do something about races which previously would not have been competitive but now are? do something about individuals and organizations criticizing unpopular positions and policies? do something about groups advocating on behalf of their members to promote or oppose the very positions for which their members joined? as george will has pointed out, the political process isn't a private club. with the parties and candidates controlling membership. and under the citizens united decision of 2010, independent groups are not able to speak again under the first amendment, regardless of who, when and what they're speaking about. this is

senate, a bipartisan way, a transportation bill that received on the record 75 members of the united states senate. democrats and republicans. senator boxer, the chairwoman, the ranking republican on the committee, senator degrees, you have to be a contortionist to have a further spectrum of how far they are on most issues, but together on this transportation bill, because everything that we're talking about here is about jobs now. it is about connecting communities. it is about transportation. it is about quality of life. quality of air. it is about commerce. product and people to work and to market and back. it is about economic development that takes us -- about growth. about growth. it takes us to a special place. and yes, our projects have to be of national significance and we can compete with anybody on that score. so i'll accept your compliments, tiffany, and others on what i have done. all i can do is advocate for what is happening here and what's happening here in every respect is excellent. excellence at ucsf, in ideas aboutability in our community and in the contributions of the front p

reporters with adult bosses, a whistleblower, some white house tapes, and a handful of honest united states senators. watergate, a stain, a cleansing, a proud moment, a terrible moment. something to remember with pain and shame or with pride and cheer. take your choice. which we will do now with some of those people who were there 40 years ago. the first three are john dean, who was the white house counsel to president nixon. [ applause ] >> fred thompson, who was the chief minority counsel of the republicans on the senate watergate committee. [ applause ] >> and richard benviniste who was the lead prosecutor in the prosecutor's office. [ applause ] >> the discussion among them will be moderated by timothy naptali, a historian and former director of the president nixon library and museum where he created a watergate exhibit. tim? you're on. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. first of all, i want to thank mary jordan. and secondly, i'm going to sit down. what we're going to do now is set up the -- set up the story a little bit for you so that those of you who are listening here or watching it on th

this is what is going on, on the floor of the united states senate. this is a republican vote, that calls for extending all the bush rates to what todd was talking about for at least another year, thought just those for 98 percent of tax filers but all filers including the wealthy. bottom line, this doesn't go much further than this body, i hate to break it to you, the democratic plan or the republican plan, but it is good theater. it is that. >> coming up. >> those ads taking my words about small business out of context are flatout wrong. >>neil: the president bush -- the president pushing back. but which side is really pushing ahead? ♪ you want to save money on car insurance? no problem. you want to save money on rv insurance? no problem. you want to save money on motorcycle insurance? no problem. you want to find a place to park all these things? fuggedaboud it. this is new york. hey little guy, wake up! aw, come off it mate! geico. saving people money on more than just car insurance. every communications provider is different but centurylink is co

one as a united states senator and other as a prosecuting doctor.what does it mean to the patient and doctor? >> it puts the government bureaucrats between a patient and a doctor. nobody should be between a patient and a doctor. i think this is a law that is going to be bad for patients as it has been. bad for the nurses and doctors that take care of them and terrible for taxpayers. justices said it is a tax. >> greta: if i came in for my shoulder, how i would notice the difference if i had insurance before and if i am now, i go into some other program? >> reimbursement for taking care of you under these programs is less. there is something called the independent payment advisory board that is going to determine what the government chooses to pay for different procedures. the amount of paperwork that is being done is increased, number of forms being filled out is increased. doctors are going to have less time to spend with you as they try to see more and more patients because more people that have insurance coverage as a result of it trying to get i

because what some people may or may not remember is in 1994 when mitt romney was running for the united states senate against our incumbent democratic senator ted kennedy he told ted kennedy that he must release his tax returns because obviously he had something to hide. and if he wouldn't release his taxes, he must be hiding something and then of course, senator kennedy wouldn't release his. mitt romney would not release his as well. so i challenged him frankly because i felt that understanding his background at bain company -- his investment background but also because we had just completed a challenge the democratic party had just completed a challenge of his residency whether or not he actually was a resident of massachusetts. >> jennifer: i want to talk to you about that. >> still unanswered. >> jennifer: i want to talk to you about that in one second. let me finish on the tax return thing. >> sure. >> jennifer: obviously he didn't release his tax returns. what do you -- what do you surmise given your history with him and your in-depth knowledge of his finances and everything. what do you think

my guest tonight, a united states senator for the great state of florida. his new memoir is called "an american son." please welcome to the progra prm senator marco rubio. >> thank you. jon: thank you for being here thank you. jon: marco rubio, an american son. i have learned many things from this book. one, you married up. let's face facts >> that's correct. that's right >> jon: two, you were a free safety. in football you were a free safety in college >> well, yeah, i wasn't very good. >> jon: you were the starting free safety. >> yeah, i mean, i would have been better if i had size, speed and talent >> jon: but you had heart. i had a heart. jon: it was not a division 1 school but it was... >> wasn't even a division 3 school. it was a small school >> jon: it went bankrupt but it was still a school. >> not because of me though. jon: a lot about, listen, it is clear your experience in florida as an immigrant. this must be a very interesting time for you as a senator. you are part of this sort of conservative young guard but you also have very strong feelings

and that is not what the american people want or what we in the united states senate should be for. i yield the floor. >> this weekend on american history tv. >> begin to open the discussion by asking this way. what is the nature of the clash between macarthur and truman? at a clash over policy? a problem of personality? >> from lectures in history, truman and macarthur. elliott:on the president to relieve the general at the height of the korean war. advice stevenson had a bad case of hereditary policy. grover cleveland and his great-grandfather was first to suggest abraham lincoln as president and ran twice against eisenhower. contended that 7:30 eastern and pacific. american history tv on c-span2. >> the international aids conference held in washington this week. a travel ban on people with hiv was lifted in 2010 and the conference held in the u.s. for the first time. this part of the conference begins with an aids researcher working in kenya. he was introduced by former senator bill frist. this is 50 minutes. >> dr. mugo is a research scientist and obstetrician gynecologist at ke

. >> we have 30 bills in the united states senate to get our economy moving again and get the american people back to work. >> greta: do you ever talk to the president? does he call you up or say, let's work this out? are you able to call him? >> i guess i could. but i haven't heard from the president in months -- he is busy campaigning. he doesn't have time to call me. >> greta: why don't you give him a call? maybe he would return your call. >> i am sure he will be polite enough to return the call. i am sure, i could call him. >> greta: how about senator harry reid? i understand that bills are stalled at the senate, some are political salve thighs send over, but some are bills that really need to be discussed and debated and resolved. does he ever talk to you? >> i do talk to senator reid more often and our staff talks regularly about -- about trying to move things through this process. it's a very difficult process that the founders gave us. but my job is to keep it moving on behalf of the american people. >> greta: all right. what's your prediction what have is going to happen? take

he is one of the best senators in the united states senate. he knows what is possible and fights for it every day. >> we have time for just one more question. which one of the four has the best question? he beat you. this is a market question economy here. and look at this, this is the generosity that we talked about, you said give this gentleman the question. >> my name is marlin doorhout. i don't know much about bonds, but i know when you keep debt in the family, the family as a whole is better off. i'm just wondering if we can't find a way to sell u.s. savings bonds and pay off china with that -- with those bonds and other countries and have the debt in our family where we are paying interest to ourselves. would that not be better? that is one of the reasons that japan with 220% debt to gdp ratio twice ours has not experienced significant problems yet. but they will in the next five years. debt crises to go away without default. we have a chance to save our country and not default. i would encourage you all, if you are not getting much in t

and to make the difference in the united states senate to get something done.nd that really is in the hands of the leadership. it determines the agenda and what happens and what doesn't happen, how it comes about. for example, ali, the fact that we're postponing all of the key issues on the fiscal cliff, you know, until after the election. we wasted all of this year. we wasted all of last year and the way we handled the debt ceiling, for example. we created the super committee. we knew that wasn't going to be a possibility. they're going to achieve all these reforms in a short period of time with so few people. and then, of course, we've had no budget. and now we're facing this monumental fiscal cliff at a time where we're seeing international turmoil let alone our own domestic economic turmoil that could paralyze any one event could trigger a financial crisis. so all of that, everybody recognizes that. the question is it's not happening to change that. there is no circumstance to change that here in the united states senate unless you have the president and th