where youngstown, we will see all kinds of job creation coming out of this that will make youngstown the vital stay sti it's been in much of its history and we want to see it become in the future. it's good for our country, it's good for manufacturing, it's good for families, it kept -- that earn their living from manufacturing. it will be particularly good for our communities. i yield the floor. mr. merkley: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. merkley: i ask to speak for up to ten minutes as in if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. merkley: i ask unanimous consent for my intern, bruce layman to have the privileges of the floor for the balance of the day. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. merkley: thank you very much. i rise, mr. president, to address an issue that should be of concern to all americans and that is the advice and consent function of the u.s. senate regarding nominations. this is the critical check envisioned by our founders in which the president has the power to nominate for the executive bran

increase, that money goes right into the economy in youngstown.ity to live with a little higher standard of living. >> are any republicans on your side of the capitol hill and the house going along with something like this? >> i think it's going to take a movement from the people and the people have got to start sending in messages to their congressmen who say we don't want you to cut social security, but increase it. i think scrap the cap is a good slogan for them to use. you're going to find that more and more people are going to be pressing their congressmen about this. >> in a little town, we just raised the minimum wage to $15. it was done by the people. >> that is all for this evening. the rachel maddow show starts now. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. the various branchs of the united states military all offer a service academy. that's about an hour north of new york city, west point new york. the united states navel academy, it is in a beautiful spot in downtown annapolis, maryland. and then there's the united states air

there's lots of little detroit as you know throughout the rust belt, places like youngstown, gary, indiana, and parts of cleveland. the title of my book is heartfelt but also somewhat ironic. you know, is a line from a song of the great detroit poet, ted nugent. [laughter] but it refers in the way to that moment i was describing at the very beginning of the top when i first arrived and all eyes were on detroit. detroit and judah toward project whatever you wanted on to detroit, right? so if people wanted to imagine it as this enclave for august, that's what detroit became. urban planners and urban theory types are also divided on how you could reinvent this city that was sort of like the unsolvable math problem of difficult cities for their field, were all coming to detroit to figure this out. urban farmers. so that's most of what i meant by the title. as far as a timetable for fixing detroit, it's funny, even over the course of the four years that i was there since i started working the book, i've seen some amazing transformation, particularly into downtown and midtown corporate a lot of

themes of the book and although overture, the ohio girl is a woman named tammy thomas who grew up in youngstown, ohio and watched the steel mill disappear almost overnight, replaced by nothing, and complete void that led to a kind of collapse with the city that was even faster and more breathtaking than detroit. and in this work absence of the mainstays of life, she had to raise three kids of her own on her own and did it in this auto parts plant job and that we should in the way of so many manufacturing jobs in and of itself and in midlife she was faced with the need to continue to survive and she remade herself as a community organizer. just in time for the election for barack obama in 2008. so as you can see, the washington operative attached his aspirations and his ambitions to joe biden and worked with joe biden for years and became disillusioned with biden and with government and became a lobbyist with just about everyone who made a fortune as a lobbyist and lost half of it in the financial process of 2008. and the whole book moves you towards this precipice of 2008. and in the face of th

cleveland, youngstown, down into cincinnati, and then it quits. the front goes through.mes in from the northwest. means cooler conditions for friday and saturday. and this weekend looks pretty nice. a will the of sunshine and more pleasantly cool temperatures. 20 knots in the afternoon. a small craft advisory in the afternoon tomorrow. overnight tonight, clouds increase. the norm aloe normal low is 31. 54 on friday. it will feel chilly because it will be breezy. freezing friday night. 54 saturday. warming up sunday and monday. upper 50s with partly to sunny skies. a pretty nice weekend >>> coming up, the ravens preach positive about their preach positive and then when you get up -- can i play? no! you don't even get football. [ male announcer ] when you've got 100% fiber optic fios, you get it. america's fastest, most reliable internet. it's the ultimate for downloading, streaming, and chatting. you have that guy all over the football field. thanks, joe! if the running backs don't start picking up the blitz, the quarterback is going to have a long night. is that your sis

cole went down to the year two thousand and eight no place in youngstown season and profits. history books say that being the most capital city of dishonesty was like incident this county here eighteen years ago the team in archaeological team called the institute of historical language. on the luncheon speech to the nation in modern china its lines reveal to the world. it disappeared more than three thousand years. will i. it is. so the school released a two bronze craftsmanship. in the history of time. on the use of the west and children see the empire of companies that time of coyotes with rebellions breaking out throughout the land. mccain could do nothing about us. social studies history is to the docomo and urged him to be diligent in his two c of the people and finest moments did you could mow describe the canes with some of prawns were trying to make the generations would fall into king's instructions this bronze tried post is known as the being of the two the deals that you can only doing a great you can eat in the great cool all a misunderstanding. seeing the mystiq

. >> reporter: waiting at the gate with me, stacy danko, trying to get home to youngstown. >> the flight coming here was delayed from texas. our crew is coming from memphis, which is delayed. >> reporter: but the wait didn't last long. total delay in atlanta about 90 minutes. now headed for pittsburgh. trading the rain in atlanta for a winter landscape on approach into pittsburgh. the airport blanketed by about an inch of snow. >> never been this bad. we travel from school every year like this. never this bad. >> reporter: further north in michigan, a sheet of icy led to a multi-vehicle accident near flint closing i-75 for several hours. near whitehall, a dashboard cam caught this truck jackknifing and barely missing an already-stopped car. near roanoke drivers were met with ice a quarter inch thick. while on long island in new york, trooper frank bendario has seen this before. a holiday rush and treacherous roads. >> it's just going to be twice as congested, i would assume. and then factor in the weather and the flooding, it's probably going to create a lot of traffic and very slow goin

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if that same hall i was attending in youngstown, i was there three years ago althoug an hall. a woman stood up and said i have two jobs, both $9, $10-an-hour jobs. i've worked all my life. i'm 63 years old. i've just got to find a way to stay alive until i'm 65, just for another year and a half, so i can have health insurance. imagine that. this is a woman living right on the edge. she -- she won't have much from social security. she has no savings. she just wanted to stay alive until they got health insurance. that's why it matters so much what we do on social security, why it matters that we protect medicare, really protect medicare, not protect it by privatizing it. and it really matters why we protect social security and not strengthen, quote, unquote, the program by cutting the benefits. that's why our work matters. that's why it's so important that we pass the harkin-begic harkin-begich-hirono-schatz-bron bill. mr. president, i yield the floor to the senator. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from new hampshire. mrs. shaheen: mr. president, i a

youngstown, ohio, going that way. going to pittsburgh, off in that direction.efinitely we're getting the flurries here, we have the icy conditions. let's take a look at the radar and see how many people are going to be affected by the storm and are currently affected by the storm in one way or the other. you guys described it perfectly. there is everything going on. we have rain stretching down to the carolinas. heavy rain even expected to get even heavier as the storm makes its way north today. on the back side, we have snow. right here in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. snow is out here. we've seen a lot of it. take a look at the snow totals. in ohio, 6 to 8 inches of snow have already been seen. yes, just north of us, here in pennsylvania, we've seen 10 inches and more of it on its way. here's the low making its way up the coastline. remember, it's coming from the south. a lot of rain packing a good punch out there. as far as rain, anywhere 2 to 4 inches can still be seen, especially if you're farther north, tapering off as the low makes its way north. the snow to

that's how economic development happens on the ground and youngstown or virginia.'ve got to have business and the public entities and the ngos all working together. that's not what we're getting from the tea party. the tea party is deregulate, defund. let the free market work, and as you stated with the social security numbers that came out, that increases inequality in the country. so mcauliffe, i think, has hit the sweet spot without democrats needing to talk about the economy. public/private partnerships invest in these new sectors that will put people back to work oh. a great campaign down there. >> i don't know how the republicans are going to rehabilitate themselves between now and the mid terms, because all of the issues that the democrats have been talking about clearly adopted by terry mcauliffe in virginia, and he wins. now, okay, it's 55,000 votes. would you take a 55,000-vote win in the state of ohio? absolutely, you would. any win, baby. that's the name of the game. and we saw two -- you know. we saw two minimum wage increases take place last night. in

mysteriouslstee best cars but that requires investment and your senator first manufacturing in youngstown he is now leading a bipartisan effort. he's now leading a bipartisan effort with senator blount of missouri to move more of these manufacturing innovation hubs all across the country. and then congress should pass sharon's bill. we should do everything we can to guarantee the next evolution of manufacturing happens right here in cuyahoga. it happens right here in ohio. it happens right here in america. let me make one last point. we have to do everything we can affordable health care, period. you may have read we have had some problems the last month with websites. i'm not happy about that. you know, i had a press conference today and i said you know what? we fumbled the ball in terms of the rollout, but we always knew this was going to be hard. there's a reason why folks tried to do it a hundred years and hadn't done it. and it's implicated. a lot of players are involved. the status quo is entrenched. and so, yes, there's no question the rollout on the affordable care act was much to

it's not the youngstown -- >> it was a real estate play. company and other things, they started a music festival. >> that's taken. so if i'm ever in charge of an institute, i'm thinking, i don't know. that's a good one. >> yeah. >> i like -- >> don't -- >> i like the way you think. i like the way you think. he's the best-selling author of the biography steve jobs. more from walter still ahead. that wasn't a smirk, it was -- smirk is an ugly word. >> a sneer? >> no. oh, my god. sneering is the worst. it was a knowing smile. >> just jovial. >> jovial smile. thank you. you have headlines. >> some other books. benjamin franklin -- >> i know. >>> we do have news, jpmorgan agreeing to pay $4.5 billion to settle claims by investors who lost money on mortgage backed securities. the bank reaching a deal with 21 institutional investors in 330 residential mortgage trusts that had been issued by jpmorgan and bear stearns. the settlement does not include trusts. the deal is separate from the preliminary settlement the bank reached with the government. y

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