what right does a united states senator who doesn't even know her, doesn't know her husband, doesn't know her family history, doesn't know that she lost her mother when she was young -- what right does a united states senator have to step into that world at that moment and tell someone what they have to do? do we think so little of the women in this nation? we just had mother's day. we lauded our mothers. we're crying out for the girls who were taken by terrorists. we all care. then why would we support legislation like this? then there's bridget, a 25-year-old woman, who is looking forward to the wither of her third child. she initially had a normal ultrasound. her second trawl sound showed a cardiac malforformation, a fatal problem. because tests could only confirm this fatal defect later in the pregnancy, she couldn't make a decision until after the 20 weeks. now, what right does a united states senator have to get in the middle of her most personal, most private, most difficult decisions? there is place for government. it's to make life better for people. it's to say, we're with y

can't stand up to protect kentucky past women against violence, you don't deserve to be a united states senator. [applause] as your next united states senator i will work to make sure that kentucky women it equal pay for equal work, $.79 on every dollar is not acceptable. and let's get the record straight, it is on mitch mcconnell's watch, not mine, that we have lost thousands of coal jobs. mitch mcconnell's watch that we have gone without the necessary funding to implement clean coal technology. it is on mitch mcconnell's watch, not minds that overburdened some epa regulations have been imposed upon the commonwealth of kentucky. this election will be about holding you accountable for all that has happened on your watch. the three words that scare senator mcconnell the most, besides seeing alison munter send grimes on the ballot, it is pro-coal kentucky and. i do not agree with the president, a war on coal. i think it is wrong for kentucky. we cannot afford to have six more years of mitch mcconnell and washington, d.c. as kentucky's next united states senator i will fight to make sure coal has

but what has become of the united states senate, under this harry reid gag rule, is unconscionable. it should be reversed, and senators of both parties should stand in resistance to the idea that we cannot offer amendments and have them debated, as they've always been debated in the united states senate. i yield the floor, and i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from georgia. mr. isakson: i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: under the previous order, there will be two minutes of debate prior to the vote to invoke cloture on the marquez nomination. mr. isakson: madam president, i yield back all time. the presiding officer: without objection, all time is yielded back. the clerk will report the "no" motion to invoke cloture. the clerk: cloture motion: we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of steve paul logan of ar

his many legislative achievements and also soon in the edward m kennedy institute for the united states senatel open next march in ted kennedy's beloved massachusetts. envisioned by kennedy himself, the institute will be a lab for how democracy can work. it's center piece, a full scale replica of the senate chamber for simulated debates and voting sessions. this week ted kennedy's wife victoria, took a tour of the senate center's site and with me now. well, it's great to see you, vickie. i know this is bittersweet in many, many ways. >> but very exciting. this is the fulfillment of something that ted worked on and thought of for such a long time, really 12 years ago when he first started talking about an institute for the united states senate. he loved history. he loved education and he loved the united states senate. and he wanted a place that young people, old people, students, learners of all ages could come and learn to love the senate the way he did, but really learn to engage in their government by learning about the united states senate. and what we've done at this institute is take his

president, senator cardin and i are recommending these two outstanding men to serve on the united states district court in maryland. senator cardin and i are proud to nominate these men because of the outstanding qualities that they will bring to the federal bench in maryland that has had a long and distinguished career of absolutely fantastic judges. we have before us two maryland judges that will be taking a different status. judge titus and george wil geor. both have served in the southern district of the maryland federal court and we really salute those two for their outstanding service. on another day, i'll say what a great job they've done. but senator cardin and i take our responsibilities for recommending to the president the people of the highest caliber to serve as judges. we believe very strongly in the concept of an independent judiciary, people who will bring to the bench absolute integrity, judicial competence and temperament, a commitment to the core constitutional principles that have made our country great, and also, though, a history of civic engagement in maryland beca

united states is about. that's not what the united states senate is about. we're a democratic institution. democratic institution means the voices of the people can be heard. the voices of the people i represent are not being heard because i can come down here and talk about my amendments but i'm not allowed the opportunity to have full debate and a vote on those amendments. and the same is true for my other 44 colleagues here on the republican side. it's unprecedented. it's never happened before. it's dictatorial. whether it's "the washington post" or any other news media, they're scratching their heads also, saying, we've never seen this before. it's a tragedy that that's the case. now, here we are coming up to yet another major piece of legislation, the so-called tax extenders. these are provisions within the tax code that allow certain exemptions or credits or special provisions, for instance, research and development. there's a deduction allowed, bonus depreciation for businesses, any number of things that we're going to be talking about here that need to be legislated because they ex

but number two, they are ready to it send to the united states senate a young, vibrant, energetic personross the aisle and get things done. ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome tonight kentucky's next united states senator, alison lundergan grimes. [applause] [applause] [cheering and applause] ♪ [cheering and applause] [cheering and applause] ♪ [cheering and applause] ♪ [applause] [cheering and applause] [cheering and applause] [cheering and applause] >> thank you. good evening, kentucky and. [applause] my fellow kentuckians, it is an honor to stand before you as your nominee. [cheering and applause] thank you for the overwhelming confidence that you have in their campaign we, together, are running and the race we will win in november. [cheering and applause] together we will take this fight to mitch mcconnell and hold him accountable for his 30 years of failed leadership. [cheering and applause] and together we will make history, and kentucky will finally get a senator who puts people above partisanship, one that will work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year to improve the

so why he would come to the floor of the united states senate and say it is puzzling to me. you know, we had two years when president obama and mr. -- and senator reid's party could do anything they wanted. how was that? well, because they had 60 votes in the senate, which is sort of the magic number that you can basically do anything you want in the senate because the minority doesn't have enough numbers to stop the majority or to check their power. and so democrats had the house of representatives, nancy pelosi as speaker. they had the senate with 60 votes and harry reid as the majority leader, and they had barack obama in the white houset in those two years? well, one of the things we got is obamacare. we know that when it was sold on the basis that if you like what you have, you can keep it, your premiums would go down $2,500, and, yeah, you can keep your doctor too, that none of that proved to be true. none of it. we got dodd-frank. you remember dodd-frank? that was the legislation following the financial crisis of 2008 and the meltdown on wall street that was very damag

that was richard burr's field of expertise before he came to the united states senate. now that mr. burr is in the united states senate, he is the ranking republican. so the top-ranked republican on the senate veterans committee. even though senator burr has never served in the military, he himself is not a veteran, he does represent north carolina, which not only has lots of military bases, it has a disproportionate share of veterans in terms of that state's population. and so apparently, i guess, out of deference to where he is from, if not who he is, senator richard burr, who is not a veteran, is the top republican in the senate on veterans issues. and, you know, you don't have to be a veteran to do right by veterans or to care about veterans issues. but with senator richard burr in particular, his key role for the republicans on this issue, it has at times been an awkward thing. because senator richard burr has made some inexplicable decisions over the years on veterans issues. and i mean inexplicable in the technical sense, in the sense that he has done things he himself cannot

here i stand before you as a united states senator, the granddaughter of an iron ore miner, daughter of a teacher and newspaper man and first woman elected to this job from my state, and one thing i know for sure. it would not have been possible without education. it would not have been possible without my parents, my grandparents and my teachers who believed in me and who believed in the value of education. and i still remember getting into college, and i still remember that back then -- well, okay, i graduated from high school in 1978, and back then it was $10,000 a year to go to college where i went. and i remember my dad thinking i can't afford this. we went and we met with the student loan and the financial aid people. and he was wearing his brown polyester pants and had coins in his pocket and somehow we were able to get through loans and finance ago good part of it. back then a journalist's salary, my mom's teacher salary, we were able to afford a college like that. now i see my daughter and i know how it's changed and how expensive it is. and yet it is so necessary. higher edu

the most difficult subject i had to deal with upon being elected to the united states senate was embryonic stem cell research. i am a real estate broker. you know what i did? i called the university of georgia i called a doctor, a scholar here. he was a knowledgeable person on the research. he knew what nuclear transfer was. he educated this real estate broker selected make intelligent votes and contribute to the united states senate. this university will serve you long after your diploma if you take it with you and have it validated over and over and over again. the second silent secret is respect. and the nation's conscience. martin luther king junior said it best. always judge a man by his character, never by the color of his skin. we are all different. we are different sizes, different shapes, different orientations, different religions, different ages, different sexes, different ethnicities. we all have gifts from god to contribute. what i speak at high school graduations, i always tell the 235 pound middle linebackers, don't you ever kick sand in the face of the 135 pound math and sc

i want to thank senator mikulski and senator collins for organizing a letter to the president to urge him to include boko haram in the united states -- the united nations al qaeda sanctions list. i want to thank the other senators who have introduced the resolution that we have passed this afternoon condemning this attack. but i -- i've got to tell you that we've got to do more. it concerns me, honestly, that this is occurring in a country where the leader of this country not too long ago signed into law a measure that anyone entering into a homosexual relationship can be imprisoned for up to 14 years. and in this same country, we have a terrorist organization capturing young women and enslaving them for dollars, to be child brides, proudly proclaiming that it is a sin for these young women to want to get an education. and that this action was necessary to purge them of their sins and marry them off. i -- i understand that it takes all kinds of people to make up this great world and i understand there's all kinds of beliefs, but i've got to tell you, it is very hard for me to get my arms around the notion that there could be any f

rule that existed here that are vented a member of the house of representatives from naming a united states senatorhere on the floor. it was a kind of shield of protectionism so that the senators could not be directly criticized in the dialogue that we have here on the floor. my good friend and then member of congress tom feeney from florida read through the rules as a good, honest lawyer newly elected to the u.s. congress would. he saw that rule and wondered why can't we either the name of a united states senator on the floor of the house of representatives. he could come up with no reason why we shouldn't be able to, so he brought an amendment to the rules that struck that prohibition and thereafter, thanks to then congressman tom feeney of orlando, the rule has been gone and it was amended. that is a good thing, because now i can actually name the people who are attacking me on the floor of the united states senate. you know what is going on, mr. speaker, in that other body, that other body that constantly calls for bipartisan work and bipartisan cooperation. from senatori get chuck schumer of n

not partisan interests. [ applause ] as kentucky, kentucky's next united states senator, i'll answer le of this state. i won't answer to the president, no matter who he or she might be. as a proud kentucky woman, i will speak for myself and no kentucky woman, mitch mcconnell, will sit on the back bench. we all know washington is broken, it's not working for kentucky. and after 30 years, it is mitch mcconnell at the center of the gridlock, obstruction and extreme partisanship that we see. kentucky is tired of a senator who proudly calls himself the doctor of no, the guardian of gridlock. i am running because kentucky deserves better. we deserve a senator for the people of this state. [ applause ] this election, it is not about party control, it is about two very different visions for the common wealth of kentucky. one, that wants to take us forward where we should and deserve to be. and another that wants to continue to hold us back as he has for the past three decades. mitch mcconnell, he stands on the wrong side of every issue that is out there for kentuckians. when it comes to incre

that was his expertise before coming to the united states senate. now that mr. burr is in the united states senate, he is the top ranked republican on the senate veterans committee, even though senator burr never served in the military, is not a veteran. he represents north carolina, has a disproportionate amount of veterans. out of deference to where he's from if not who he is, senator richard burr who is not a veteran is the top republican in the senate on veterans issues. and you know, you don't have to be a veteran to do right by veterans or care about veterans' issues. it has at times been an awkward thing. he has made some inexplicable decisions over the years on veterans issues. i mean inexplicable in the technical sense, in the sense he has done things he himself cannot explain. tammy duckworth, flew black hawk helicopters. when they shot a rocket grenade, the crash caused her to lose her entire right leg and left leg below the knee, almost lost her right arm. when tammy duckworth returned to her home state of illinois after her rehabilitation, she was ap

the united states senate cares.e want to get one million people to sign a petition that says we care more about investing in students then in billionaires. we have to make our voices heard. right now doing it through our petitions is the best way to do that. we have to be organized, and we have to be loud. >> let me close by going back to your new book. what do you hope to take away would be for readers who would get to know your story a little better? >> the answer is to understand we once had in america trying to build a fighting chance not just for some of our kids but for all of our kids. in theed away from that 1980's. we have gone to a world that is all about i have got mine. the rest of you are on your own. voices to us to make our heard, to make our votes count, to say on our own behalf and on behalf of our children and grandchildren we are going to rebuild an america that gets every kid a fighting chance. called "a book is fighting chance," and the author is the massachusetts democrat. she has both -- only

united states. it is the oath we all took as senators to defend the constitution of the united states. it's the oath that the chief law enforcement officer took. president obama. and we have a duty to defend our citizens and our people at a time when they are struggling financially. there's just no doubt about it. so there was one group of people not referenced when majority leader reid and senator schumer talked earlier this morning. do you know who it was? completely omitted was the american worker. that's who's not being discussed in this debate. we know how the chamber of commerce is viewed. they would like more workers creating slack labor marks markets and lower wages. we know special interest groups want more, certain politicians think this is going to be good. but acoarnl the congressional budget office, our own professional team that is selected in a nonpartisan way that give us advice on ramifications of legislation we pass, that group has looked at the reid-schumer bill that passed the senate. according to c.b.o., senate democratic immigration bill, supported by a number --

not partisan interests. [ applause ] as kentucky, kentucky's next united states senator, i'll answer he people of this state. i won't answer to the president, no matter who he or she might be. as a proud kentucky woman, i will speak for myself and no kentucky woman, mitch mcconnell, will sit on the back bench. we all know washington is broken, it's not working for kentucky. and after 30 years, it is mitch mcconnell at the center of the gridlock, obstruction and extreme partisanship that we see. kentucky is tired of a senator who proudly calls himself the doctor of no, the guardian of gridlock. i am running because kentucky deserves better. we deserve a senator for the people of this state. [ applause ] this election, it is not about party control, it is about two very different visions for the common wealth of kentucky. one, that wants to take us forward where we should and deserve to be. and another that wants to continue to hold us back as he has for the past three decades. mitch mcconnell, he stands on the wrong side of every issue that is out there for kentuckians. when it comes t

enemies foreign and domestic, and i take a similar oath as a united states senator. former chief of staff of the united states army gordon sullivan famously wrote hope is not a method. i didn't come to congress to hope. i approach my work here with the lessons i learned in the military -- find solutions and work together to overcome challenges. unfortunately, that approach is not how things work in washington. too many people here don't care about solutions, and many ignore the problems. there is no greater proof than climate change. here we are in 2014, almost 50 years after president johnson warned that by burning fossil fuels humanity is unwittingly conducting a vast geophysical experiment, and yet irresponsible leaders in washington pretend that climate change isn't real. they pretend that humans aren't causing it. they hope they can go along with the status quo. but montanans know better. here are the facts. carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are now higher than at any time in human history. the 12 hottest years on record have been in the last 15 years. the

they've summoned the united states ambassador in beijing, the former senator max baux. 're demanding the charges against five senior officers be dropped. joining us, our chief international correspondent christiane amanpour. you had the chance to speak to the chinese ambassador to the united states. what's he telling you? >> well, as you can imagine, the line from beijing is a firm denial. as you said, demanding that these indictments be withdrawn. the ambassador told me in an exclusive interview that the only way to get over all of this is by dialogue. but, as a condition, as a precondition, they demand that those indictments be withdrawn. that doesn't look like it's going to happen. he also said that the u.s. has no business telling china where to get off when it comes to cyber spying. listen ton wh what he said. >> amazing to see some people still believe they have the moral high grounds and credibility to accuse others, if we consider the snowden revelation and so on, so forth. it's a bit incredible. the fact is is china is a victim to such cyber attacks. there has b

that was his expertise before coming to the united states senate. now that mr. rr is in the united states senate, he is the top ranked republican on the senate veterans committee, even though senator burr never served in the military, is not a veteran. he represents north cana

in the united states senate, we're moving at a glacial pace on climate change. we're frozen. but while we do nothing, the pace of glacial collapse is accelerating. the world's ice is melting. the senate has been called the cooling saucer of democracy, but when it comes to climate change, it's the warming plate, cooking the earth as we continue our slide into an ocean of dysfunction. the next major piece of the west antarctic glacier that breaks off into the ocean should be reserved as an island for all of the climate deniers. we'll just call it the island of deniers, and they can all live there because there will be plenty of room on this huge, massive body of ice that keeps breaking off and heading into the ocean. and secondly, we're about to take up tax extenders, and we have a fantastic chance here to extend the production tax credit for wind in our country. unfortunately, because of the unpredictability of the tax breaks for the wind industry, 30,000 people in the wind industry who were laid off last year, that's not because the wind industry didn't prove that it could inc

i'm the daughter of a maintenance man who made it to the united states senate. i worked hard, but i made it because america invested in kids like me. coming out of the great depression, america made two fundamental decisions that changed the course of history. first, it decided to put in tough rules to help level the playing field. it was all about having a cop on the beat. no one should steal your purse on main street or your pension ?í4# other basic safety rules; safe drinking water, safe medicine and eventually safe toasters. markets would work better if we had basic safety regulations in them. second, america built a future for its kids. it invested in education so that kids like me would be able to get better jobs, produce more and make more money, make more of themselves and their families. invest it in roads and bridges so that anybody could start a small business, and the basic pieces would already be in place for how you could get your goods to market, how you could get electricity. all the pieces were there. and the other investment, america invested

may be a career as a law professor and then an improbable and hard-fought election to the united states senate. [applause] and perhaps even a primetime speech in the democratic party convention. [applause] but tonight we are not here to talk about barack obama. although there are some obvious similarities. senator warren's election in 2012 is the first u.s. senator from massachusetts likely became recognized as an exciting fresh face on the political scene. she has captivated the public with a clear voice a powerful message and a track record taking on and rigged against hard-working people like her own family does in her words who live on the ragged edge of the middle class. it has been our lives work as the title of her books are just to give hard-working americans a fighting chance. what you may not know about senator warren is in addition to her champion of bankruptcy reform is a lawyer and consumer advocate and taking on the big banks enter teaching had most recently harvard law school she is a prolific writer. i just found out this is her tenth book. she is written quite a few scholarly

that was his expertise before coming to the united states senate. now that mr. in the united states senate, he is the top ranked republican on the senate veterans committee, even

good, honest, lawyer newly elected to the united states congress would, and he saw that rule and wondered why can't we utter the name of a united states senator on the floor -- senator on the floor of the united states house of representatives and could come up with no reason why we shouldn't be able to do that. so he brought an amendment to the rules that struck that prohibition and thereafter, thanks to then congressman tom feeney of orlando, the rule has been gone and it was amended and that's a good thing because now i can actually name the people who are attacking me on the floor of the united states senate. and let you know, mr. speaker, what's going on in that other body, that body that constantly calls for bipartisan work and bipartisan cooperation. and this is what i get from senator chuck shumer, new york. may 1, 2014, on the floor of the united states senate. he decided that he would target me and blame me for the things he believes are failures of the entire house of representatives . here are some of the quotes chuck schume called me, an extreme outlier on the issue of immigration reform, closed quote. i would direct chuck schume

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no to collective bargaining, as he says no to prevailing wage, you will have someone in the united states senate who says right to work for less is just another name for union busting and i will have none of it. [ cheers and applause ] >> it's not just about keeping his seat in the senate. he's eyeing the role of majority leader should republicans take back control. >> there's only one thing we can do about it in 2014, in 2014 we can change the united states senate, make me the offensive coordinator instead of the defensive coordinator. >> all right. that would shift the balance of power gop candidates need to win six seats. mcconnell thinks that monica wehby may be one of them. >> i'm saying to you women in the room you'd love our candidate in oregon dominated today, tomorrow their primary is the same day as ours. she's a female pediatric neu neurosurgeon whose slogan is, change your senator, not your doctor. [ cheers and applause ] >> wehby, however, has faced a bruises end to the campaign with some newly disclosed accusations she harassed her ex-husband during their divorce back in 2007 and h

you know what, what you said is beneath the position of a united states senator. i asked you tonight, when was the last time you heard a united states senator refer to somebody in the white house, staffers doing their jobs, as scumbags? that's where they are. james dobson saying president obama is the abortion president. the people in the white house are scumbags accord to the united states senator. the same group that voted down a minimum wage. the same group that wants to get rid of health care. the same group that has obstructed this president at a historical level. this is where they come out with. this is where they are. this is who they are. they can't run from their record. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight's question, are republicans angry, are republicans angrier than two black labs fighting over a toy? text a for yes, text b for no to 27662 and go to our blog. we'll bring you the results later in the show. let me bring in media con settant holland cook. also with us tonight, liberal commentator john fuguelestein. great to ha

i am a strong kentucky woman who is an independent thinker who when i'm kentucky's next united states senator, the decisions i make will be what's best for the people of the commonwealth of kentucky, not partisan interests. >> throughout heavily contested states that could decide who controls the senate next year, it was a similar story. tea party candidates took a beating against establishment republicans. in georgia, the candidate backed by the likes of sarah palin, karen handle, came up short against congressman jack kingston. he faces millionaire david purdue in a gop runoff. that winner will meet michelle nunn and another female candidates. >> as i travel across the state of georgia, i've been highlighting what washington can learn from georgia. you know what? i think that washington's going to learn a thing for two from our campaign. >> in arkansas the unon posed republican and democratic candidates won their primaries. they face off in other key race that could sway the balance of power in washington, but oregon could tip the scales, too. political newcomer dr. monica webby won the gop

the american people give republicans the majority of the senate, you will be proud of the united states senatee again. [applause] i will never say one thing and do another. i will restore the senate as a place of high purpose. i will carry out my office with dignity and respect. these are my values and i intend to practice them. when i travel around, i can see it in people's eyes. the sense that washington does not care about them. they view people as an obstacle to overcome rather than someone to help. the government is working against them. the question before us how to we change that. how do we get america back on track? we can take the reins of power away from harry reid and make this president accountable. [applause] make me the majority leader and kentucky will lead america. [applause] put this son of the commonwealth in the senate. [applause] i will do everything i can to repeal and replace obamacare. [applause] i will keep the liberal judges from rewriting our courts. i will hold the bureaucrats who are waging war on our people and our way of life to account. [applause] kentucky my fri

500 million people, only 1,950 men and women have been given the opportunity to serve in the united states senate our presiding officer, the newest senator from the state of montana. 1,950 men and women who have occupied this chamber in the chief united states senate becoming part of the history of this nation and contributing to this great institution. i have been fortunate enough to serve with some of the greats, and i have noted their presence, their impact and i have noticed their absence, too. but when you take stock of the senate and what it has done for america, what it means to america, it goes way beyond the men and women who occupy these desks. it includes a lot of people who make a contribution to this institution who may never be recognized for it but nevertheless make this the great institution that it is, serving this great nation. today we honor two of those people. first, i'd like to join in honoring darryl chappell. darryl, thank you so much for 41 years of service in the united states senate. his legendary smile has warmed my spirits on days when i was really down in the dumps.

for many years the united states senate is involved. some people have come to the issue fairly recently and we welcome that. intellectual property copyright issues. the united states has been so committed to this issue going back years we served the judiciary committee and you heard earlier from bob goodlatte as the cochair to the caucus to the house and senate on these issues. he's entirely since then on the zephyrs. when we saw the changes that occurred from our relationship on the code is an there are a lot of people who contributed to that. no one, absolutely no one made as much as a difference in the outcome of that negotiation than the vice president of the united states. today the fact as i mentioned a moment ago some 15 screens being built today in china consume a greater and greater quantities of content. the ability now for coproductions without any quotas and of course the reason from 20 to 34 as well as box office receipts in no small measure as a result of the efforts of the vice preside

in 2014, you which change the united states senate and make me the offensive coordinator instead of the defensive coordinator. >> take that, harry reid, bevin may be down in the double digits but don't count him out yet. >> the only poll that truly matters, really, is the one being taken right now. it started at 6:00 this morning and it will end at 6:00 this evening. in the voters of kentucky will decide who they want. he is not a conservative, he just pretends to be one every six years to trick his way back into the u.s. senate. the voters of kentucky are becoming weary of this. >> there it is, the he's not conservative enough argument getting thrown around in a lot of races but will it prevail in kentucky. joining me now is james carroll, thanks for joining us. >> thanks, ronan. >> up next would be a democrat allison grimes, he would be up against her. she has a very minor disadvantage in the polls right now. if bevin doesn't throw his support to mcconnell, there's some word that might happen, what kind of impact do you think that will have? >> you now, mcconnell is a name brand here

terrorist list when every other group, the intelligence community, you and among others in the united states senatethis. boy, is this turning out to be a big mistake? >> well, chuck, i think it's important that all of us in the united states, policy leaders, business leaders, community leaders, elected officials be better informed about and pay more attention to the rising threat of jihadist activity in africa. i try to spread a positive message about africa, about the economic and development opportunities there, but we shouldn't take our eye off the ball in terms of the very real challenges of jihadist groups like boko haram. we could quibble over exactly why a decision was made two years ago to designate three of boko haram's leaders individually as terrorists rather than the group. at the end of the day, what i think we need to do is to provide every possible assistance to nigeria so that we waste not one more day before these girls are safely returned to their families. >> nigeria has a history of negotiating with boko haram. they have given them prisoners before, they have paid them money in

you can see the president -- it's a painful situation for him because when he was the united states senator and he was only a u.s. senator for a short time, he did serve on the committee, the veterans affairs committee in the united states senate. he made that an issue going into the campaign and going into the election to work to make sure the department of veterans affairs got all of these issues right and now he's learning, belatedly, there are so many problems still out there. >> it's painful in a couple of ways. first of all, this is an issue that he cared about when he was in the senate as you point out. he also made it a cornerstone of his first presidential campaign and he's continued to emphasize the importance of veterans. secondly, i think this is a personal issue for him. he went out of his way to talk about rick shinseki as he called him saying he's a very good man. a good person. i think it was sort of with a heavy heart that the president came to the briefing room today having to accept shinseki's resignation because as he said shinseki said and the president agreed, look, he

not only here in the united states senate, but in the supreme court. because after that was struck down, little kids like linda brown were able to attend class with little white boys and girls. this past saturday marked the 60th anniversary of the supreme court's decision, brown versus board of education. mr. president, my children are not little kids anymore, but in nevada we had some, we had segregation. i can remember a man i served on the state legislature with. his name was woodrow wilson, african-american. and he told me about las vegas taking his children to a lunch counter. it was in a drugstore. they told him to leave. he couldn't eat there. that's las vegas. that's not mississippi. so things, things changed in nevada. when my children were young, schools were not really segregated like i just described was going on in kansas, but they still had some issues. in nevada, all sixth graders, white kids, were bused to an african-american community to go to school for one year of their school career, but the rest of the time the black kids were buse

the american people give republicans the majority of the senate, you will be proud of the united states senate once again. [applause] i will never say one thing and do another. i will restore the senate as a place of high purpose. i will carry out my office with dignity and respect. these are my values and i intend to practice them. when i travel around, i can see it in people's eyes. the sense that washington does not care about them. they view people as an obstacle to overcome rather than someone to help. the government is working against them. the question before us how to we change that. how do we get america back on track? we can take the reins of power away from harry reid and make this president accountable. [applause] make me the majority leader and kentucky will lead america. [applause] put this son of the commonwealth in the senate. [applause] i will do everything i can to repeal and replace obamacare. [applause] i will keep the liberal judges from rewriting our courts. i will hold the bureaucrats who are waging war on our people and our way of life to account. [applause] kentucky, m

he didn't want rand paul to be the united states senator for kentucky, but he got them, and now they'vemmon cause to the point where mcconnell -- people generally feel like they don't stand up to the establishment don't stand up to the tea party. he said this about the tea party. i think we're going to crush them everywhere. i don't think they're going to have a single mom knee anywhere in the country. the goal is to deny them any senate primary victories. cut into their fundraising and diminish them as a future force in the republican politics. he said that openly. you now have the leader of the republican party of the senate openly saying they're going to crush the tea party. does that at all hurt mcconnell in his re-election? does it hurt the party overall? >> well, we're a party that needs to put some more people under our tent, but once you know mitch mcconnell, is e is a true warrior. he has been elected time and time again, he understands campaign elections and understands this state, and he will get re-elected wrush at the end of the day once all the dust clears, we hope we have

good, honest, lawyer newly elected to the united states congress would, and he saw that rule and wondered why can't we utter the name of a united states senator on the floor -- senator on the floor of the united states house of representatives and could come up with no reason why we shouldn't be able to do that. so he brought an amendment to the rules that struck that prohibition and thereafter, thanks to then congressman tom feeney of orlando, the rule has been gone and it was amended and that's a good thing because now i can actually name the people who are attacking me on the floor of the united states senate. and let you know, mr. speaker, what's going on in that other body, that body that constantly calls for bipartisan work and bipartisan cooperation. and this is what i get from senator chuck shumer, new york. may 1, 2014, on the floor of the united states senate. he decided that he would target me and blame me for the things he believes are failures of the entire house of representatives . here are some of the quotes chuck schume called me, an extreme outlier on the issue of immigration reform, closed quote. i would direct chuck schume

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that was richard burr's field of expertise before he came to the united states senate. now that mr. es senate, he is the ranking republican. so the top-ranked republican on the senate veterans committee. even though senat b

but i was truly astonished when garbage truck drivers dump truck drivers nurses teachers united states senators jeff sessions tankers university presidents janitors and people from all walks of life would through the course of my day and their day would share what they were reading or what they were thinking. i thought you know people really do read more widely than i would have ever guessed and more deeply and of course some books everybody was reading like the da vinci code or what was the big look? the purpose-driven life but then a lot of other people would be reading things that would be totally surprising to me in such a privilege to me to get that peek into their intellectual life. i never will forget sitting in a restaurant in this older man and his wife sitting there and he said haight you do the books page. every night before my wife and i go to bed we have these tapes called learning. and we listen to these tapes about the democracy. for 45 minutes and this is extraordinary. how would i've ever known to look at back? they seemed like an unassuming couple. what a terrific trip which t

if in the united states senate, among the men and women that serve and work here for, someone was dereliction in their duty, they would lose their jobs. if in the private sector someone did not do their job, they would lose that job. in the military chain of comma command, if a commanding officer of a unit did not do his or her job, they would lose their job. and their superiors would have the able to immediately discipline them. and so i think many americans would be shocked to learn that even if the secretary wanted today to fire executive managers within the agency, he cannot. instead, he has to institute a long and drawn-out process leading to this absurd conclusion that you are likier to receive a bonus or a promotion than you are to have been fired because of mismanagement. and dereliction of duty. and that is completely unacceptable. and i think one thing we have to remember here is that the enormous and vast majority of the v.a.'s more than 300,000 employees and executives are dedicated and hardworking people. but they're -- and their departments' well-documented reluctance to make su

raise the debt limit. >> if you want -- he proves their part of the problem. >> we need a united states senatorill change washington. not just fit right in. >> separate washington special interests are spending dark money falsely attacking dinsdale. >> the state's gop primary for governor has six candidates with two top contenders, attorney general john bruning. and pete rickets was endorsed by a few presidential candidate. >>> west virginia is also holding a primary. they are both unopposed in their primary. capito is hed in the poles. there are seven republicans vying for the primary nomination. no clear front runner at this point and out of state super pacs are trying to influence the outcome. >>> a county clerk in michigan says veteran democratic congressman john conyers does not have enough valid petition signatures to be on the ballot. several people who signed his petitions were not registered voters or registered too late. couldn'tier he's -- he's appeal the decision. >>> ohio republican senator rob portman will be in our center seat. the panel on new allegations about veterans care acr

kentucky and yet he is obviously very popular within the minority of republicans who are in the united states senatete and running for re-election in your own home state. >> well, actually, being a leader in the senate can be a detriment for running in your home state. the fact is that people at home want you to be paying attention at home. and we've seen several key senators lose mainly in their primaries because they haven't paid attention at home. but for instance, like dick lugar who was a very respected member of the senate from indiana, chairman of the committee at various times lost to a tea partier. now, that's not happening to mcconnell. and that is an important thing to talk about today. because what the republicans have caught onto is that they are not allowing the candidates who can't win in november to win their primaries. and so mcconnell's going to win his primary in kentucky. it looks like the people who are running in georgia who are on the republican side, the more mainstream republicans are going to come out ahead in that primary. and in oregon, we'll see. because of the last-minu

vote no in the united states senate. no for efficiency jobs. no for the keystone pipeline. now it is very interesting, so i am going to read that some of the republican leaders have said about keys don't. maybe they've changed their mind and over the weekend maybe some of the press could ask them if they have had a change of heart. senator wicker said on january 25th, 2013, many americans understand the economic importance of moving forward with the keystone pipeline and what that means for job creation and energy security in the united states. it is imperative we continue to press the administration to approve this critical project. next week on monday or tuesday, my friend come the senator from mississippi is going to have an opportunity to vote to press the president on keystone and to vote for a bill that he is a cosponsor of the energy efficiency bill. again, he is going to have a chance to press the president of the united states to build the keystone pipeline using all the power that he had said the senator from the state of mrs. it be to do that and to vote on th ef