Transcripts For CSPAN Washington Journal 20141112

Well get to your priorities, in congress. And, gallop, put out this poll, the majority of those polls, in the u. S. , want the republicans, in congress, 53 have more influence than president baraka obama, and, expect the nation to be better off, and, 19 off and, twothirds he have republicans are optimistic and 44 , fearful. And so, what are your priorities for congress, and what do you want this republican controlled congress, to do, but before that, the priorities for this lameduck congress. Beast controlled by democrats, and republicans on the house. Usa today, has this headli headline. President baraka obama, says i believes, lawmakers, can consent to those three issues, in the final days. Bob, in montaken north dakota you are up first, your priorities for congress. Good morning. Yes, you know, i am concerned about this idea of the term limits and i dont think that it will ever work. Theyre not going to vote themselves to be out a job, if we could get the congress, to put in a lottery system, that would limit the seniority and, put them in the committee hats, by lottery system, then, the public could determine, who they want to continue to keep in congress, knowing theyre not going to be a committee, with a great deal of power. Lawrence, good morning to you. Good morning, thank you for this at any time tics i would like to see congress, feam sizemore of the schnucksal issues, and no government, and, let people decide think, and the second thing is, economically relevant,. We can move for, if we had, a environment, which provided opportunity for people to generate income. Are you happy that republicans will take control of both chambers in january . You want limited government . Im happy that, they are, because i think it gives washington a balance of power. I dont think any particular time, in this country, one party should be in absolute rule. Next, patty. Hi. Our air. This is continue. Im calling in about immigration, i think we should get it, and every company, and, this way we know who were hiring, and then, secure our borders, this is very, very important. We dont know who is come through. All right. What are your priorities for congress . Well get some more, but back to that usa today, article, they report that,. In ca, good morning. Hello. What are your priorities for congress . I think its important for congress for acknowledge how the monitor policy is, and that contra, to conventional wisdom, you need to address your debt, and, we are seeing right now, the uncertainty of the federal reserve, and how clear it is, and, its not clear, and how we can different and be real about real economic ground. Our future depends t. These things are real, and, this is the kind of thing thats real for the future, and these are things, that take problems, and will have problems now. You cant have an economy, continued ground and, only have normal Growth Without there being some sort of contracttion. They dont want to accept it. Proper political clout and i think that kind of perspective, is going to hurt our future. Okay. Hi, chris. Hello. Good morning. The last election, says, and im very grateful, and feel that, live my life without being oh, horrified of the government, overregulated, and overtaxed. And, consensus. And what we have for our country. The financial takeover of our medical industry which is obamacare and, the v. A. Hospital, ive been on you know, vet transhealthcare since 1970. And, it doesnt work out very well. You know, if my injury, or whatever is wrong, isnt really lifethreatening, doesnt seem like they want to go to any length to address that problem. Okay. So you want to see more reform from congress of the Healthcare System for veterans. I want to be able to get an mri, when i pull an a c l. , in my knee. And because i am 65 years old. All right. We told you, that the. A. P. , this morning, called the senate race, and, had been counting absentee bal looks, and, this is from the a. P. That was at 5 30, and folks will be watching that. The a. P. Has called that senate race. We told you, about a deal announced by the president baraka obama and the leader of china,. The huffing ton post calls it a bold deal on Climate Change and thats the banner, this morning. And inside the post, they also have this story. Theyre the largest emitter of the carbon dioxide, so, democrats saying, its her comments. Tweeted out. Shes a democrat, and vocal supporter of Climate Change situation. Is is. Is so, extext push back from republicans. What are your priorities for this congress . Daniel, in dc, democratic caller. I would hope that this congress, in particular, would make an effort to reinstitute, the Republican Party as a party, whereby, government is not the enemy, you can work with it, and, have sense a bell plans, and, make policy, education, and, healthcare and, so on. I think that there needs to be a recognition, that president baraka obama has won two elections, and i would just hope that theres more common sense, while integrating government, and their congressional thinking. Patricia,. Independent. Good morning. Good morning. I am a veteran advocate, and, my First Priority is to ensure and, hope and pray that congress does not engage in warfare, and, that we do not squander lives, and our precious resources, and i pray that congress does secure obamacare as i am, a beneficiary, and, thirdly, i would like it see congress conduct themselves ethically, and, Campaign Reform and, im tired of the government, that is not the best government, that money can buy. Although, we are paying for our government. And, in fact, we are the last, 70 billion, and we are not getting the best candidates and thats what i want to see. And the people, that are seeing real reform, in veteran affairs. Thats a disgrace, and that should point out, this is a sham, all of this business about the v. A. Reform. It is a sham, indeed, when the light is on the v. A. , then you hear something. But as soon as the cameras turn off, they shut down. All right,er rea. Democratic caller. I just want to say the people who are helping doctors, who are nurses, who are helping with ebola, god bless you all and, i want to say that obamacare, we have to do away with the copays. Nobody can go to the doctors, i was told to have two sonograms, and, i dont have the 65 to pay to get in there. I cant go for the blood test lyme disease. You dont have health care. I do, medicare, and a. A. R. P. , and, i dont have the 65 to get in the door. I see. Her priority for congress. Healthcare. Your to do list, come back to washington, for their lameduck session, and it will be in for twelve days, in the house and, theyll be out for thanks giving, and then adjourning on december 12th. And come back in january to convene, 114th congress. What are your priorities for them. And first, is emily, the reporter, with roll call. We told our viewers, that senate race, has been called by the a. P. What do we know about this race, and how much of a lead, does sullivan have . Yes, the race was called early this morning, and is, 20,000 absentee bal lots were counted and, he had 8100 lead. But theres an unknown number of ballots left, so he does not want to the concede yet. There could be some ballots coming in from the rural villages, that could break his way. But, a 8,000 vote margin is a big hurdle. It would take anything short after miracle to pull out a win. Last time, that he ran, back in 2008, it was a close race against the late senator, why woulwould he out for these other ballots . 2008 was a very different scenario, ted stevens was having some legal troubles, and there was as sca scandal. So, the late votes that came in, were going his way. And he has some deja vu of that situation, and, also, the people, who likely support, him over sullivan. So hes holding those doubts, would benefit him. But in order for the rest of the ballots, the margin, is a big hurdle for him. Thats one senate race, where it has been called and, the senator is not conceding yet and, you have the Louisiana Senate race. Thats headed to a runoff, in december. So, we dont know. But in the house, there are also five races, that have yet to be called. Lets begin with arizonas race, whats the update . Last night, they completed counting all of the ballot the, and martha, has 133 vote lead. In arizona, its a race within a certain margin, it goes to a recount. So, this falls within it. So theres a row count scheduled early december. So this one is going to drag out. What about in california, theres three races, that have not been called . California is slow at counting ballots. 60 of cast boy mail. And so theres a number of mail in ballot, that are still being count ked, and each county takes its time to get them in, and theyre expected to have updates, in those three races today, up in northern california, and doug has about a 530 vote lead. That lead has diminish he, since election day. And he start said off, with about a 3,000 vote lead and, each time, a new batch the ballots comes out, it chipts. So well see if the next drop, tonight, show him taking the led here and the jim costa,. He also is, hes behind. Behind a republican, that nobody knows. And, 70 vote difference there, and, the ballots that remain are from the democratic part of the county. And democrats hope that those that come, hope to protell costa to a lead. And then, in southern california, 25th district, julia, has about 1,037 lead, and democrats expect that margin to hold. And then, in new york. The income bent, who is a ranking democrat, how is this race close, was that is a surprise . That was a surprise. That was not in anyones radar, we did not so that coupling, and that race is within 530 votes. And i have to tell you, im not sure why the ballot every taking so long. New york isnt usually this slow. And, you know, were not sure how many ballots remain there. And, it seems like shell hold her lead. Do we have a timeline . Because she is a top democrat on a committee slot, and as they are getting ready to vote for who should be ranking democrat, request be participate in that . As far as i heard, yesterday, we were supposed to get at update. But i have not seen any news. So, i think its a wait and see wakes. Democrats, think it will hold, and theres no indication that it wont, the election officials, need to get their act together. Okay. Emily, thank you for your time. Today, the house is expected to swear in 3 newly elected members, who won special elections to serve owl the remaining terms, until the end of this year. And fulltime into the next congress and so that means, for the first time, since june, 2013, they will all be filled. Were getting your priorities for your congress. And terrea,. Thanks for hanging on the line. Thank you, for taking me. To the senate, you know how it feels, to have everyone with the vote, thank you. Jim, republican. Yeah, key ann,. Yeah, the republicans, congress has already been doing this, but, and im sure, harry reed will continue to obstruct as he has done, over the past six years, and, they should begin to write as karl rove said, once the new Congress Gets in place, send up a bill a week for the president for signing and first is to repeal, and replace the obamacare, with free market reforms and number two, they need to enact progrowth legislation, that so many bills have been written already. And reduce the Corporate Income tax rate and number three, they need to repeal and defund, immigration executive orders, concerning the immigration issues. The dream act that he ends acted on his own. Frank, lloyd, in texas. How are you . I got a masters degree in education, and, i dont know people can think its for Climate Change and i think there should be a federal sales tax and, apololicks the income tax and, make a federal sales tax. And second thing, is to initiate, impeachment procedures for president baraka obama. Okay. Why . On. Laws that he has broken, i have thats one of my neighbors inlaw, and. Constitution, and, president baraka obama has broke the law so many times, if i had done that, i will be in jail. You mentioned, Climate Change, the president and the chinese leadder, announcing, new Climate Change goals and the wall street journal has the story. Heres president baraka obama on this deal. Thats right, im proud that we can announce an historic agreement. I commend them for the commitment they are making to slow peak and then reverse the carbon emissions, and also, the United States, has set a new goal to reduce it by 2628 below 2005 levels pie the year 2025. This is as ambitious goal, but it is achievable. And it will double the pace at which were reducing, carbon, in the United States, and, puts us on the path, to reduce the emissions. It will help improve public held, and grow our economy, and, it will put both of our nations on the path to a low carbon economy. That is major milestone. It will shows whats possible when we Work Together. In addition, by making this announcement, together, we hope to encourage all Major Economies to be ambitious. All countries to say work across some of the old distinguish so we can conclude, a agreement next year. President baraka obama, in china, announcing that deal, with the chinese president. He was at a news conference, and, the hill newspaper, with this headline, about that news conference. Take a look at some of the tweets. Lets go toe larry hey, good morning to you. Good morning. Q. I just want to make a few statements. He row public can, whatever the president thought they were getting, and the house, the house will impeach him, and, another statement, the row public can when a man dies, from not having Health Insurance, and theyre not for it, and theyre going to overturn, you can bet your hat on it. James, republican. Yes, maam, how are you doing . I enjoy your show, but, all the other callers, im for that, because the president baraka obama is real ajoke. Im a veteran and, yesterday, they were waving the nags and praising the veterans, and but what they dont tell you is, they were killing the whole troops, theyre going to sit there and, feed you on one hand and, take from the other hand. And, people that are joined in the military now, they only use them for a certain amount of time and, then after that, theyre not wanting you to do it, and, maybe 8 years, and then throw you out. Its amazing, how the government will sit this and, feed you one hand, and, thats why, every time, i talk to kids, i said dont join. Joe servetion what do you think . I want the comment on the state of healthcare. He said is, he did not want to end kentuckys Health Insurance and, he is already talking b redoing it. I live here in bristin, and i have been uninsurable, since 2001. When i had insurance, i got dodged, and an ils in and, i cant get healthcare and, i wont be able to have healthcare again. Your point about healthcare, this is from senator orin hatch. Heres some other reaction, about what they want this congress to do. Chris murphy. So, thats what the president had to say and, nancy pel low six applauding his comments or Net Neutrality, and internet, and, the representative says, that gives you an idea of what some of the members of congress, what to do, in this lameduck and, in the next congress. On the fcc, the president , pushing the fcc, to up its regulation of the internet. And Washington Post has this story. Joshua, an independent. Good morning. Whats on your to do list . Number one, is real simple, the joint house, meetings stop stealing with three hands, and, put yourself, directly back under the laws, that all the rest of us have to follow, including insider trading, and remember, there is no arc of safety for yourself and, your children and much there is no place to run and, hide. America, is the last best experiment we have under the law. About youre a liberal or conservative. Just remember, when you look at your children and, grandchildren, the things that you were promised, to set this country, are not going to be there. You have to restore this country, youll find yourself in a place you wont like. Larry, a republican. Good morning. First thing, this congress should do, is to implement impeachment proceedings, against president baraka obama, and, you ask him, about fast and furious, and the cremation of the the cover up and, also, he made a statement, right after the mid term elections, that he has two more years. He only has 26 months remaining. So, it will be six years. And, thats eight years. This president , hes going to provoke a constitutional crisis, with an executive orderer for illegal aliens. Hes going to declare marshall law, hes a dictator. And start it as quickly as possible. And this. All right. Couple of tweets for you. So, those tweets from the Washington Post, this morning. Up on capitol hill today, and well be covering a hearing, on ebola hh s. Secretary, will be testifying before the senate, and, well have coverage on that, on cspan 3. And shell be joined by johnson, and, an on fish from the pentagon, and the state department. The Washington Times reporting on another hearing, thats happening up on capitol hill,. Health and home land officials will testify, and, as Congress Tries to figure out what went wrong in the initial response, at a dallas hospital that left two nurses infected. On another issue for congress to address is, that is this isis strategy. They are gaining ground. Jeanette, what do you Want Congress to do . I Want Congress Work Together, do their job, what they are supposed to do, and, get this, the president stuff that he can be in order. I want the people to understand, and remember, what Mitch Oconnell said when he first got in there, and what their Main Objective was, is to make him a one term president. Theyre not doing their job. They did everything they could, to doe instruct, and railroad, and he went down there, between ohio, and kentucky, trying to get him wait a minute, money for the infrastruck sure. And they turned it down. Now, kentucky, has six cars in a sinkhole because they wouldnt take the money. Okay . So, just remember, its not president baraka obamas fault. Congress, and the senate, supposed to mat laws, and write them out. I am a 77 yearold black woman. I work. Yeah, i worked, and i went to school. And i took care have my kids, and i went to school. Okay. You got to work. Richard, republican caller. Yes, thank you for taking my call,. Three things, that maybe the congress and the president can both work on, is, restoring the United States back to the world leader, i feel right now, that the world is not taking america seriously any more, because i feel that were leading from behind instead of being the leader. Second thing, is the republicans cannot stick their heads in the sand about this immigration deal. We have to deal with it, and keep on kicking the can down the road is not an option. Well have to come up with a solution. Ralph, democratic caller. Yes, maam, id like to see this congress right here, do pretty much the same that thee always been doing, while president baraka obama is nothing. The difference between the republicans and, democrats and, what they promised, the republicans, i found out as a truckdriver, you got Distribution Centers on both sides. All i see, the democrats, is a promise. So, i would need to get on the ball and, if they impeach president baraka obama, when they come up, i can guarantee you, the outcome wont be what they think it will be. They will not be in that white house. In 201. All right. More of your thoughts. And washington returns, today, and the house and the senate for a lameduck session. Theyll be in the house, for twelve days, and, out for thanksgiving, and theyll adjourn or december 12th. And come back in january to convene the 114th. What do you Want Congress to be working on . C. N. N. s money website put this story together. More news for you. Your priorities for congress. David, hi. Good morning. Okay. You know, i believe that, what has happened, in our previous generations, and the ones, that, were not asking things, dont ask what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country . Thats where all previous generations got together, and, all, to fight and, everybodys minds and values, have just gone down, and, greed. And, were at the edge after cliff and, we can be the next central power, instead of number one. And, greed. Hi, bob. Good morning. Is thank, god bless brian lamb and thank you for cspan. And we voted for are the republicans, half of which are Tea Party Members and, we sent them to congress to, stop president baraka obama. What do you want stopped . The aggressive agenda, the epa, and most of government, which needs to be reduced, and stop feeding off the wallets of the people and we dont need this. We need government to leave us alone. In california, nurses are planning to strike ahead of a larger protest over ebola measures. This ahead of a hearing, as we told you, this afternoon, on the senate side and, thats at 2 p. M. And, so, 2 p. M. Or c. Span three, were covering a hearing about ebola be. Q. And also, this tweet, this morning, that,. Now, your up. Thank you for cspan. I dont think that we need another bush in, there. Were heading for dynasties and, the United States is almost like a king. And thats my comment. Thank you very much. James, newark, new jersey. First of all, im an independent. Y will fight defense. And now, what happens is, they should stop listening to Rush Limbaugh. He is not the master. And i heard one of them say Rush Limbaugh was the mat master, very stupid. Dawn. Good morning, my comment is that, as a democrat, we really, you know, im upset, but we cant blame the Republican Party for this. We have shown that, we voted, and, if they dont vote, for the issues, and, then we call in and complain, because the republicans are beating them up. They did a good job and, they got your message out and, they did punt initial the democrats. Whether they were good or bad, they stuck with their people. They backed them, and, carried them. They campaigned. Some other views for you, this from cbs, with this headline. It was too much and the incident, originally was broadcast, instead, as a forwarded video, and, it was soon clean, and the intense control. About top leaders, and, also pointing to cultural differenc differences. On russia, and then what they have been doing, the Washington Times reporting, that president baraka obama and, putin, start cold war, for chinese alliance, and both of them wanting to be a close ali with china and, they signed a memorandum of understanding. Also, inside the Washington Times, they have another story, that rush sharks announces, a nuke deal with iran. It is complicating the talks, with tehran as a deadline nears. The deadline, is november 24th. So, those are some headlines, for you, about what is happening, with that summit that president baraka obama is attending, and, other World Leaders and, travelling onto other countries, hell there be for a week. Lets hear from. First i want to shed you yesterday, something that happened, in washington, while he has been overseas, vicepresident joe biden, sat in for him, at the Arlington National cemetery. You are the veterans of america, the most trusted and, the most tested, of all americans, collectively, you represent generations of soldiers, sailors, and, airmen and, marines and, coast guards men, which served and sacrificed for all of us. You are not only the heart and soul, but you are the very spine of this nation. And as a nation, we pause, today, to thank more than 23 million surviving veterans, who so bravely and faithfully protected our predom. You gave and, they gave, and you deserve our thanks. [applause] vicepresident joe biden. Marking veterans day here in washington. So go to our website. Independent could you teller,. Well take a couple more calls. Whats your priority . My priority, they do the best they can, if they could only Work Together, it would make my life easier, and my 60 years of life, i have never had it harder with income, and i lost both my legs. Diabetes and, i have medicaid and, it could be a lot better. Theres a lot of poor people. I just wish it could be better. Randy, youre last on this. What do you Want Congress to tackle . Have them tackle the drug war and, marijuana law, and, in wisconsin, i cant live this, because of marijuana law, and in this state, i can legally grow marijuana and, i dont have to take all those pain pills, from all these years. Okay. How can we all, 14,000 people be shot and killed in our country, and, search and see sure of marijuana plans when it helps. Well be talking about what Congress Must pass. Several agenda items, and well talk, with david, about that, and then, later, women in politics director joins us to discuss how female candidates fared and first, house and Senate Orientation begins today. And yesterday we interviewed, Candace Miller about what these new members can expect. Were joined on the phone by congresswoman, miller, and, she is overseeing the orethen tasting. Who gets invited . Theres still some races that have yet to be called. That he, thats true, theyre quickly being called, and so, every everybody that has been elected, is extended the invitation and, we also extend an invitation to both parties, both candidates until those races are they have not been called. So there are a couple of those. And, pretty much, understand it. And, its my first time going through, as a chairperson. But, i know every cycle, theres always one are two thats outstanding, and we want to make sure, whoever is successful, in the contest, is right up to speed,. In terms of what happens, at new member orientation, one like ended it to college orethen tasting. Getting toness you, fellow freshmen and, meet up, posing for a flat photo watch do you make of of it . I suppose theres some truth in that. I can remember when i was a freshman, and characterized and trying to take a drink of water out of a fire hose. But we have tried this time to im prioron what was a very good new member orientation and try to understand, what we can do to present all of this information, in a easily understood way and, something that, the kinds of things that they need to know,. Copy in mind, we are not talking about any kind of politics or policy. Just about mechanics, of being a member of congress. It is totally bipartisan, and, it is talking to the new members about ideas that, we have or how they should approach, setting up their new office, but just as importantly, their District Office or officeses. Some will only have one and, some would have a handful. So, how do they set their offices up . What is their budget . We did a salary study, so we give them some idea, of what the average is, and the range of salaries for chief of staff, for a deputy chief of staff, and, press person, and a scheduler. And your district director. Because thats really the basic things that people want to know, how much will their budget be and, what are they, when theyre looking at stacking up there, how do they approach that . Everything comes out of that. , you arenew member essentially looking at i would say it is like setting up a small business, and you have to do a very rapid fire so that when you are sworn in after the first of the year, you are ready to go. You do not have to have every done, certainly, but you need to be as far along as you can so that you can have the most success and be most impactful for your citizens. We try to help them with that. For instance, what kind of equipment they want to think about historically, you inherit whatever equipping your predecessor had. If your predecessor had antiquated equipment, maybe not into technology, you are probably going to make an investment on that. When i got there, i had that situation and i actually did not hire one particular staff position. I instead spent the money on equipment. On the other hand, you might walk into an office that has everything up to date. We help them with those decisions what kind of equipment you want to be purchasing that are within house contracts. Then, of course, we help them with helping with, for instance, the house officers. They will need a session where you will need the clerk of the house that will say you are now on the floor of the house this is how you vote, when you get your card, you insert it on the voting station, and it is how it goes. They will hear from the parliamentarian telling them what is germane and what is not germane, one it is appropriate one minute, what a special order is i am the person who can help you turn your great ideas into a draft and into a piece of legislation that you can then drop in the hopper. , a few ofresswoman the highlights of the week a session on how to set up your office, congressional sessions, and then a lot of members looking forward to choosing their own office. Before you that you go, what is the one question you get most often . From myow do i get office to the capitol building. [laughter] just let him just logistically, figuring out where everything is located. They know everything is coming out of the budget, and also they will be advised that it happened , not often, but occasionally if the member runs over their itget, they have to pay for personally. You cannot pay for it out of Campaign Funds or anything else. It has to come out of your personal pocketbook. And tension to your pocketbook. It is always good Pay Attention to your pocketbook. It is always good. Host Candice Miller, we appreciate your time this morning. Washington journal continues. Host we are back with David Drucker to talk about the lameduck congress. What is the biggest item on the agenda . It depends on what you talk to and what the election democratsan for the to ram through before the majority expires. They need to pass more spending because the continuing resolution, basically the bill that is funding the government, runs out december 11. Tight to that is the tied to that is the approval to arm and train the Syrian Rebels to fight the Islamic State of iraq and syria. I know members want to vote on a measure that would grant the president new authority to fight this war, which is essentially what it is, even though the Administration Says they have all the approval they need going back about 10 years. So, i think for republicans and for democrats, they will have to decide we need to fund the government, do we do something big, clear the decks, get a lot of things done, and let it run deep into next year through the end of the fiscal year, or do they do something short set the full Republican Congress that will convene in january with republicans controlling the senate and the house, and then vote on something more expansive and have the power to direct spending that way . Host go ahead. Guest i was going to say related to that is to deal with crisis. Isis. Is a feeling there is a feeling among republicans that it should be the newly elected congress that should deal with that longterm and not the outgoing congress. All of this is part of the calculation. Finally, i would throw you in on whether the president follows through with his promise to Illegal Immigrants some form of amnesty or the right to any in the country through executive action. That would depend on how republicans in the house in particular deal with the government funding bill in december, and that could really affect the politics of this, and it could affect how republicans look at things in december and affect whether they want to do something short term to get to january, or have the fight right then and there. Host both sides are waiting for an opening salvo. Has there been that yet . The president said he would act on immigration. Guest he has done that and both Mitch Mcconnell, the incoming majority leader, and Speaker John Boehner said do not do it, it will cause problems. Whether or not you think this is the right thing to do, whether or not you think republicans are correct in not wanting the president to do this, the truth is if you talk to not just very conservative republicans, people affiliate with the tea party, but the establishmentminded republicans, people that do not want to pick unnecessary fights, talk to them what a largescale legalization move, up to 5 million talk about what that would mean. That would mean to them the president was infringing upon their Constitutional Authority and place in our system of government and it would leave them no choice but to fight back, and to fight back aggressively, using really the only means that they have, which is the power of the purse. That is when the expiring resolution continuing resolution excuse me, becomes a very big deal. It also means, they could decide let not have the fight in january. So, everything gets caught up in this backandforth over immigration, isis, ebola funding, funding the federal government . Guest i think ebola funding can be done separately. Most want the government to effectively deal with a ebola so we can probably deal with that separately without getting it cut off. Also, fighting isis is something that could be dealt with separately. Again, there is wide, bipartisan agreement that has to be dealt with. There could be differences in terms of how it should be funded, how the war should be prosecuted. A lot of this will depend on for. The president asks because republicans control the house and will control the senate, they will not give the president a blank check , but they want the president to spell out the warfighting powers he wants approval for, and that is probably something the democrats will demand as well. The vote to grant the president Additional Authority for isis which Everyone Wants and necessary, ands the administration has said is good for the country, it depends on if the Administration Sends a resolution, and depending on what it says, congress would tweak it on the floor, so it is a long process. You could separate that out from other things along with ebola, but immigration could affect everything else. Out could use separated from the money needed to fight isis because the administration wants another 6 million for this. Guest there could be some quibbling on either side of the aisle about the money, but the big thing is what is the strategy. You will see hawkish republicans if you look at how the senate an taliban,you have anorak war veteran, putting that together with the dan iraqvan, and a rack an war veteran, putting that together, it becomes easier to spend money on the military and a war on terror type of action. I do not think that is as problematic as it would have orn, lets say a year ago, two years ago, when republicans were looking to cut everything including the military and the libertarian wing at an extended influence on foreign policy. Host the lameduck congress convenes today. David drucker taking your comments and questions about what this congress will do. The phone lines are open. Start dialing in now. Talk about the other factions of the party. You say the republicans would like to do certain things. When it comes to the continuing resolution, in passing some sort of funding bill, is the tea party of the Republican Party on board with the spending that they want to do . Guest well, we do not know until we know what the bill looks like. If we are talking about what is going to happen in december, the tea party and the budget option the republican side will still wield enormous influence in terms of getting 218 republican votes on the house side. You still have a Democratic Senate and a Republican House. The president , i am sure, just wants to make sure the government is funded. It could be easier to do something that is bipartisan, sort of, acrosstheboard. It is the same way we saw the last continuing resolution get a broad, bipartisan majority, because nobody wanted to shut of thee government ahead elections. A much of an internal fight the republicans have how much of an internal fight republicans have depend on what they do after the new congress convenes. Host well get to phone calls in a minute, but lets talk about what happens this week. Guest ok. Host much on the floor. What is happening off of the floor . Guest new member initiation. It is like the first day of school. You are dealing with eight new republican senators elect, and at least one dozen republican members of the house that are members elect, and at least two. Emocrats that i know of they will be here to figure out where their office spaces, where the bathrooms are, when recess is, when do they get to eat lunch, and they will start to put together their staffs and try to figure out the mechanics of running a congressional office. Ngs like writing a bill you read a bill and it reads like chinese. They need to hire people that know how to do that and turned their visions and agenda into legislation. Host who teaches them all of that . Guest well, i know in the senate each memberelect, each new member, if im not mistaken, as a, sort of, mentor that they work with, both of their party and of the other party. It is what they try to do in the senate to keep things collegial content issupposedly nature of the senate, and it helps them establish relationships, which in the senate are extremely important. In the house, i think it is something similar, but you end up with leadership staff working with new members to help them higher chiefs of staff, and other aids that are going to help guide them. Itt and this orientation, is not like it is one day it is about two weeks time. Guest correct. They said in a lot of classes, get a lot of direction. I do not want to oversimplify it or diminish it, but in some ways it reminds me of college orientation. I remember 20something years ago, before my first day at school, you know, they sent us through one or two days of classes to help us navigate the university, figure out where everything was, and how to go about it, she what we were there to do. Get to calls. Sharon in minneapolis, democratic caller. Thank good morning, and you, cspan, for taking my call. I have two questions ok, i want to know more about what president obama wants to do with the immigrants, the Illegal Immigrants that are in the United States. I want to know what the republicans want to do, and what is the pro and cons of doing nothing . Also, my second question is about health care. If the republicans appeal the healthcare law, what will happen to all of these people that do not have insurance . I does not affect me because am 66, and you know, my insurance is fine, but what will happen, and how long will it whento get things running they do come up with some suggestions on health care . Host ok. All right, sharon. The healthcare bill will not be repealed because the president will not sign it. The senate will try to move it on the same time that they try to move their own suggestions for overhauling health care postobamacare, but the president is not going to sign any of it, so the most youre going to see, possibly, is a repeal of the medical device tax that helps fund the Affordable Care act, and possibly rewriting the law to move the official work week back from 40 to 30 hours, which republicans think has been a huge drag on hiring and employment. Continue to try to repeal all the way up to 2016 . Think first of all, i youre going to see repeal votes because republicans voted against this or ran on repealing it, and they just won a pretty big victory so there is no reason for them to feel they should not hold is votes. They will control the senate and the full congress, so they have the power to put a repeal bill on the floor and put other Health Care Overhauls on the floor, and i think you see them try to move it through. If they can get it to the president s desk, which is not necessarily that possible, but if they can get it partially to the president s desk, he will veto it. Republicans will have to try to sell the overhaul and hope they get something done after the president ial election in 2016. With immigration, with the president is looking to do is take a broader population of undocumented immigrants and so that their status they can live in the United States has legal residents. The question is, does he do something small on the level of 500,000 or so, but does he go two 5 big, 1, 2, 3, 4, up million, which is what a lot of democrats think he will do. It depends on your opinion of that policy as to how good or bad it is. Republicans, although they have different ideas for Immigration Reform and whether or not the system should be reformed than the president does, the issue for them, if the president goes big, he comes constitutional in their minds. It is not so much we do not agree with your policy. It is you do not have the Legal Authority to do this. Therefore, we have to fight it. Host some of our viewers will be interested in this story on the front page of the Washington Times this morning that, in order from the obama administration, according to comments made during this lawsuit. The Washington Times has that frontpage story if youre interested this morning. Daniel, virginia beach. Republican. You are up next. Caller hello. Thank you for taking my call. I do not think there is a thing wrong now that could not be fixed if he would simply reform entitlements. There is too much money going out of the treasury. It increases every year. The other day i was looking at some numbers on paper. I made a couple of tweaks that would save hundreds of billions of dollars every year if we just find the courage to do that. Thank you. Host ok, daniel. What do you think, David Drucker . Guest republicans are going to try to move some bills. I do not know how much will make to the president desk, how much he will sign, but with paul ryan as the chair of ways and means, which will happen, you will see House Republicans act on this. You will see Senate Republicans put her on the floor and move elements of entitlement reform. Floor and movee elements of entitlement reform. The question is, can it pass . Democrats, i am sure, will use the filibuster just as aggressively as democrats have republicans have in the minority. Host paul ryan will be heading up the taxwriting committee, the ways and Means Committee in the house. What about tax reform . Somewhere Mitch Mcconnell talked about as an area where he hopes the public and the democrats can find consensus, and there is a hope with the changing of the guard on capitol hill and more of a truly divided government you could get the president to come around on tax reforms impacting individuals that he has not been in favor on. The big disagreement on tax reform is that the president is all about Corporate Tax reform, which the republicans are, too, but he has wanted no part of their plans for individual tax reform glowing individual lowering individual tax code, broaden the base, flattening out the code. So, it is possible and democrats in the senate also have no desire to do that, at least not the leadership. Hoping, in are controllable houses, they could negotiate a compromise. Of wyden, the Ranking Member the senate financing committee, who could play a key role, has been where the republicans are on tax reform, generally speaking. Baucus, the last top democrat on finance, but harry reid has never been there. The changinge atmospherics on the hill could help bring this about. It is at least something republicans are pushing as hey, here is a big area we can compromise. They want to find some areas of compromise to prove to the American People they are wavingng among not just a red dashed governing, not just waving a red flag. Host orrin hatch guest he is a dealmaker. He famously cut deals with ted kennedy. Orrin hatch is the quintessential senator he is a dealmaker, conservative, but he feels he is there to legislate. It is something he would like to do, but again, it is going to come down to whether or not the president is interested in this and that opens up space for 60 votes. Democrats will need you will need to find six or seven democrats, maybe up to 10, depending on where the republicans are, to do bipartisan tax reform bills, and it seems that is how you will see tax reform, in the senate, it is bipartisan. Jesup, georgia. Democratic caller. Caller good morning. Host good morning. Caller let me get my thoughts i want my republican do what the republicans did, of struct, obstruct, of struct. This is mike much into you, mr. Drucker. I have heard this is my question to you, mr. Drucker. I have heard the republicans have sent bills and they will not come to the floor, but you have heard of the whip count. Of the bills, how many were for abortion . 40something for a motion. Obamacare. L i cannot remember how many it was for the keystone pipeline. This is my question to you, namely name me one bill the Republican House sent the senate to create jobs. Not two bills, but one. Please do that for me, sara. Host i did not all right. Guest i did not come with my cheat sheet, but the republicans will tell you they said dozens of bills to the senate that were never brought up for a vote and caused him frustration to know especially republicans who had not been in congress and came here with a schoolhouse rock view of how things were going to work where if we pass a bill, they have devoted down democrats did not choose to do that. Passed on the house side conservative priorities like prolife issues, repealing the Affordable Care act, and other things that democrats would find either politically offensive work, just to prove a political or, just to prove a political point. I think it is fair to say the same way House Republicans did not want to do anything Senate Democrats wanted, that Senate Democrats did choose to ignore a number of economic and jobs related bills passed by republicans because he simply did not agree with them, but they did choose to ignore them, and it did happen. Do we know assuming that harry reid becomes the minority leader for democrats, what will will he play . Harry reid is a very skillful parliamentarian. He was a minority leader before and ran circles around then send majorityate republican leader bill frist. He was effective at wielding the filibuster and keeping bill frist with a 55member majority, iur member republicans renumber republicans thinking they could do anything they want, and harry reid nature that did not happen. Made sure that did not happen. They have found that even if you have majorities, if you do not have 60, there are a lot of things you cannot do. I think you will see harry reid, as minority leader, if he is reelected this week, which we expect him to be reelected, i think you will see him be a very able follow to Mitch Mcconnell oe to mitch fo mcconnell as majority leader. It will be somewhat entertaining and i am going to enjoy it. When harry reid was the ,inority leader to bill frist many times he threatened a nuclear action. He never actually pulled the trigger. Senator harry reid did. I cannot tell you how much it made Senate Republicans want to slow things down even more. Some democrats say they could not have slowed it down even more. But said republicans reacted to Nuclear Option by saying Senate Republicans reacted to the Nuclear Option by saying we will cooperate even less. The question has been, for Mitch Mcconnell, because he was opposed to that move, will the reverse it . Will a vote to put the rules back to the way they were . It is something he said will be discussed. He said he wants to rinse it to regular order, give Committee Chairman there power back, to amendment. Open up the floor to amendments. There are political reasons to think that will happen. Whether or not he sets the rules back, i am not sure. The one thing that is different this time around for harry reid as minority leader and republican majority leader, there is a democrat in the white house, not a republican, so it will be different in terms of the decisions made and how they are viewed by the public. Host really quick, leadership elections are this week, and House Republicans next week, and next week house democrats. Any races to watch, or will we see the same Leadership Team . Guest it looks like we will see the same Leadership Teams. On the republican side, you will see a lot of status status big. Ecause they won sometimes they are rewarded when they lose. They are definitely rewarded when they win. You are saying a race for the nationalhip of the Republican Senatorial committee between dean heller, the republican from nevada, and roger wicker, the republican from mississippi. Interesting thing about dean heller is if harry reid is on the ballot in 2016, he is from nevada as well, there is no love lost between those two, and that would make things interesting. I know whicker is trying to tell his colleagues he is one of the they were able to survive a run up against a tea party candidate. Scarsdale, new york. Cragg, a republican. Thanks for hanging with me. Caller thank you very much for taking my question. My question is, is there another part to the Nuclear Option, where if they wanted to go further, there is a way to do that . Someone said they did not go all of the way last time as far as pushing the envelope. Host all right. David drucker . The one thing harry reid did not do lets be clear what the Nuclear Option is. It takes a vote of 167 members to change a senate rule. Senate rules are not written. You create your parliamentarian rules within it. When harry reid did was change the senate along a simple majority. That is really what was nuclear because if they had done it with 67 votes, they never would have had the votes to do it harry reid did, which was to bring the number of votes it takes to break a filibuster down from 60, basically to 51. What harry reid did affected executive branch nominees, including executive branch nominees for judges, except for the Supreme Court. So, what could be done to go further . You could basically take away the ability to have a 60vote filibuster for Supreme Court nominees. I do not expect republicans to do that. There are actually republican and democratic analysts who would probably be in favor of doing that, and just say let the president have what he wants to we fight it out in the elections, but i do not expect Mitch Mcconnell to push this further, but you never know what another congress, another majority leader does not the rubicon has been cross. Host brandywine, maryland. You are up, joe. Caller good morning, greta, cspan, and mr. Drucker. One of the problems we have with our government is we need a realignment. The Supreme Court has become the head of congress, and they are the ones making the laws, and congress is supposed to make the laws. They need to realign the thing, and put it back into example give us an example of where the Supreme Court is making the law. Take for caller instance, the Affordable Health care. Host ok, lets take that example. Guest that decision will come down in the spring, for the end of june, and it will deal with whether or not the federal government has to follow the letter of the law which said to receive a subsidy to purchase Health Insurance you need to be buying insurance from a state exchange. Many people are buying from the federal and change put in place to deal with states that did not create their own exchanges, except the medicaid expansion. So, i think the question here is what does the Supreme Court decide, and do they make any decisions that are similar to what the Supreme Court did in the main obamacare decision, which was ruled that it is not a mandate, but attacks. They said they were not raising taxes, but forcing you to buy a product. Thread the chief justice areneedle, he said mandates illegal, but taxes are fine and i am calling it a tax. That is how it survived. Some people want the Supreme Court to interpret the purpose of the law, even if it was not written in a certain way. Others want people to interpret the law as written, and sometimes laws can be open to interpretation because they are so unclear, and it is the reme courts job to make a what we refer to as a final interpretation at least until another law is passed. Have about 15 minutes here or so with David Drucker of washington examiner. Taking questions about congress the lameduck returning to washington. They will be in session for about 12 legislative days, out for thanksgiving, and then adjourning for good in mid december. George. Knoxville, tennessee. Independent. Greta. Good morning, i guess the question i have for david is, in my view, the biggest security problem, and the biggest problem for this country is our huge debt. I know the administration has been making a lot of noise the last two years because of the improving economy and some. Egree of control by the house they have reduced the annual deficit, but we still have in the order of active a billion dollars i mean half of a trillion dollars a year of annual deficit. Do you think the lameduck congress,or the next is going to do anything effective on the National Debt . Know, effective is the operative question. I would not look for anything in the lameduck. I do know republicans say in the new congress there plan is to try to rein in federal spending and try to rein in the Regulatory Regime that has built up over the under the current administration. If youre looking for areas where republicans will openly pick fights with the obama administration, it is going to be on spending, because the main Power Congress has is the power to set spending limits. Look for them to attack us. The question is whether or not they can reduce spending over the long term and reduce the debt it is a different question. The president still has a veto and a large role to play. A federale spring for budget that he proposes to see how much different it is from the budget resolution you can expect the congress to pass next year. See how far apart they are to see where they might end up coming together. There is always a difference in washington in terms of spending, because you know, one mans waste of money, is another mans necessary object and program. I think it is the best way for the country to deal with the debt problem more jobs, and faster economic growth, because that speeds the increase of tax revenues into the federal government. Host on our line for republicans. Bill. Virginia beach. Caller thanks for taking my call. How are you . Host good morning. Caller i will make a statement and then ask a question. My statement is i do not think a whole lot will be a college in the next two years, mainly because until we get a republican accomplished in the next two years in the mainly because until we get a republican in the white house we will have a problem getting enough votes to overcome president ial veto. I think it will be mostly gridlock for the next two years. My question is do you know of any ideas that are on the drawing board or republican bills that have been conveniently pushed under the desk by the democrats and not brought to the floor for consideration which would reduce the cost of health care under the new healthcare law . I will stand by and listen to your answer. Host all right, bill. Guest it is a great question, because what republicans have been trying to grapple with is how do they Fix Health Care from their Vantage Point in a postobamacare environment. Plans, and there were a lot of them, were based a paris obamacare threeobamacare world. Or republicans were trying to figure out what to do was what do we propose to overhaul the new system, because what they are posing to do and there is one bill out there put together by a group of conservative republicans in what we call the republican study committee, which is a collective of the more conservative elements of the House Republicans congress, everyone is a member these days. They had a bill dealing with the Health Care System as it stands today. A lot of the proposals have to do with just loosely speaking, giving them the ability to purchase insurance across state lines and having more control over which dr. Dacey, and things of that make which dr. They see, and things of that nature. Any bill that would go away with the end of this congress would be reintroduced. What i would look for, if youre looking for republican proposes to do with health care as it currently is, and there is a huge amount of support in public to continue reforming Health Care Look for a joint proposal coming from paul ryan and marco rubio next year. Both of them might run for president. One of them might run for president , but they both spent a lot of time on this. You might not like it, but it will probably be the very first serious proposal to reform the obamacare system of health care the republicans have put out. In the partylout stared a bill like that could go far, especially paul ryan in ways and means. Host lets talk about immigration again. We learned that Chuck Grassley the senator from iowa, decided not to try for them finance Committee Chair should. He will stick with you dish era, the committee immigration legislation will have to go through. He is adamantly opposed. He was around 1986 when they passed Immigration Reform with ronald reagan, and he said anything is amnesty. He is up in 2016. He could have been in charge of a panel like finance where he could have cut a deal in tax reform, it decided to stay as chairman of the Judiciary Committee and be the foe for obama on immigration. Does that set him up well for 2016 . Guest i think, especially if Chuck Grassley is going to be looking over his shoulder in 2016 with a republican primary, it does. I do not know if he has to worry about a primary. They love him there. If tom harkin had not retired, he would be easily reelected. Chuck grassley, who was the republican on the debate, he made a decision on where he wants to be in the work he wants to do. He has been here so long. It is interesting because there are a lot of agricultural interests in iowa, but Chuck Grassley feels very strong about this. I think it signals what most people already know republicans are not going to be moving a, sort of, broadbased, comprehensive Immigration Reform bill like the one that passed the senate in 2013 again. You could look for president bill having to do with border bills,y targeted maybe having to do with employment revocation and things like that, but you will not see employment verification, and things like that, you will not see what the president wants, which is a broad bill. Does notck grassley have a republican challenger yet, but the des moines boblenger reported that krause is exploring a run. He explored this last year and threw his support behind the credit candidate jack hatch. Frank, fort lauderdale. I need clarification. The press makes like even though the republicans have both houses, no legislation can be passed. What exactly do they need in the senate in votes to override vetoes . 67 votes tot override vetoes, which means you will need 12 more votes than they currently are going to have. Well, currently, they will need 13 more votes. If bill cassidy wins a runoff in louisiana and ousts senator mary landrieu, they will need 12 more votes. The key then is they would need six more votes to get to 60. Democrats had a 60 vote majority and it was how they were able to get most of the Affordable Care act through. There is a narrow window, early next year, with the budget resolution, to avoid a filibuster and pass a piece of legislation with 51 votes. It is not a grab bag. Basically, one, thing. They will probably use it to pass an Obamacare Repeal not a full repeal, but a basic gutting of the law by getting rid of the individual mandate and a couple of other provisions. The president will veto it, but basically youre dealing with the need for six more votes and to override a veto in the senate you need to get to 67, and you need to get to something on the nature of 290 or something in the house to override a veto. Host one last phone call for you here comes from jordan in d. C. Democratic caller. Caller hi, am i on the air . Host you are, go ahead. I have a twopart question given congressional accountability given the fact that we have a lameduck congress. Is there any truth to the rumor that mr. Mitch mcconnells fatherinlaw shipped drugs into kentucky and contributed about 2 million to his campaign . Stop youdan, can i where did you hear that . Aller i heard it on broadcast on cspan. One of your callers called in and informed everyone. I would like to know, if it is true, what is going to be done about hearing this and asking questions, and possibly holding mr. Mitch mcconnell accountable . Host all right, jordan. For the was in kentucky last five days of the senate campaign, and with every tough race, there was millions of dollars and adds thrown at him and some regulations, the mcconnell camp found egregious. It is compared to those found typically egregious. This is one that was never heard. I think democrats would have been happy, and it would have if itmart to dig it up existed, but if we have not heard it, i do not think there is anything there. Go, this storyu in private polling, both sides saw the gop wave coming. What did you learn . Guest these are the polls the candidates depend on to make correct strategic incisions. If their message is not working, they need to try another message. They need to know that. Usually, some of the best polls out there are some of the private ones you never hear about. One of the reasons is when things are going back, and for instance, he for number democrats, things are going bad, for a number of democrats, they are going bad. They start to release internal polls and it shows them waning, but they are not releasing the real private poll, which shows we are in trouble. All of the private polling showed republicans having a good night, but some public polling did not show how good was going to be. The private polls, by the final few days of the campaign, were very clear, unanimous on both sides. We are in trouble. Youll never hear the losing side that says i have a private poll that will show me losing. They will never do that. The democratic pollsters in 2012 were just as good in 2014, but it was not as good of a night. For republicans, their polling was suspect in 2012. They felt they would have a good election. They did not. They went back and changed methodology. They were cautious as time. They gave democrats credit for expanding the electorate and do with turnout what they were promising to do. They do not want to get caught flatfooted. Even in the campaign, my cautious republican sources had grown bullish and said we are in for a great night. Host if you want to read the story, you can go to washington journal. Washington examiner David Drucker, thank you for your time. Guest thank you. Host next we will talk to jennifer lawless about this not being the year of the woman. Fortunefocus on magazine october piece on the role plantbased medicines are playing in the combating diseases like ebola of diseases like ebola. We will be right back. Tour takesan cities booktv and American History tv on the road. As we can we partner with Charter Communications for a visit to madison, wisconsin. There is work for everyone. Service, thisus service for the country. The call comes to every citizen it is a nonending struggle to make and keep government representative. Bob latta hollen is probably the most important political figure in wisconsin history, and one of the most important in the history of the 20th century in the United States. He was a reforming governor. Progressivismt is. He was one of the first to use the term aggressive to self identify. He was a United States senator that was recognized by his peers in the 1950s as one of the five greatest senators in American History. He was an opponent of world war i. He stood his ground, advocating for free speech. Above all, he was about the people. War,e era after the civil aerica changed radically from nation of small farmers, small producers, small manufacturers. 1880s,ate18 70s, 1890s, we had concentrations of andth, growing inequality, we had concern about the influence of money in government. So, he spent the later part of the 1890s giving speeches all over wisconsin. If you wanted a speaker for your club or your group, bob would give a speech. He went to county fairs, every kind of event that you could imagine, and built a reputation for himself. Was ready to run for governor advocating on behalf of the people, and he had two issues one, the direct primary, stop the interest, specifically the railroads. Watch all of our events from madison. Washington journal continues. Host and we are back to jennifer lawless who is the director of American Universitys women and policy institute here to talk about campaign 2014. The headline the next day, after november 4, women had a good women. 100 and one what did you find . My feeling was even though i did not want to diminish that, we went in with governors before the election and five after, and just a net gain in the house, it did not seem like a year of the woman. And 2036 does not look good either. What you mean . Guest the eternal pessimist. [laughter] when women are not competing in a lot of races, there are not chances. We disk discovered a gap in political ambition among adults, and the report he put out is the gender gap in the interest in running for office is just as big. Unless there is a jolt to the system and real change, theres no reason to expect the next generation will look much different than this one. Host why the lack of ambition . Guest is not a lack of ambition overall. Young women and young men are interested in wanting to improve the world, achieve success, and do well in their careers, but women are less likely to enter politics were couple of reasons. The first, they do not think they are as qualified as men, and this is the case for College Students as well as adults. We have done surveys of male and female lawyers, business leaders, educators, and political activist. 60 of the men think theyre qualified to run, and fewer than 40 of the women thing they do. On paper, you were not able to tell them apart. Men they do not think they are qualified still give a serious pause. Women not only doubt the qualifications, but let selfdoubt hold them back. The second reason is women are far less likely than men to be encouraged by anyone to run for office. We compare this country to other countries with women in politics and government roles . Fare well. O not 99 nations surpassed United States in the percentage of women serving the legislature, and that is not only because of quotas. Many of the design of us do not have gender quotas, so we are well below the worldwide action average. Host what are these countries doing differently . Quotas, so make sure women appear on the party list running for office. In United States there is no evidence of voter bias, that women cannot raise as much money as men when they run, and at least at the congressional level, there is no evidence to suggest that the volume or substance of Media Coverage is any different. If women can get on the campaign trail and get to election day, they are just as likely to win their races, they are less likely to put themselves out there. Host what about reelection . Guest just as likely to win reelection. This election cycle is an example. At and women challengers won equal rates. Host where talking to jennifer lawless from American University about the role that women played. Take a look at the report. Only onethird how does the selection compared to previous elections . It is pretty typical from what we have seen. Some states are seen a net decrease in the percentage of women serving. At the congressional level, to have an additional two or three women each election cycle has become par for the course. When you did this poll, the gender gap and political addition, and you asked if you ever thought about running for office, more women thought about it than men do. Guest that is have not thought about it. Host have not thought about. Ok. What is going on there . Collegence you get to you see a gap emerge, and what happens at that point is men and women start to sears to consider what they want to do with their lives and women look at the political system and say absolutely not. We found that substantial perceptions of bias in the electoral arena. Even the women do just as well as men when they run for office, most do not know that to be true, and that could be part of the reason they got the qualification, why women do not think about throwing their hat into the ring. You think you would be too difficult and it would not be treated fairly. We want to disseminate the information that once you are on the campaign trail and you make it to election day, you have just as good of a shot. Host what you think needs to be done a policy option like the needs to be quotas like there are in other countries . Guest that is not going to happen here. I am not sure quotas solve the problem. Quotas suggest you have to, and you will see women are capable. Ere, we have a supply problem what has to happen is the parties need to make a concerted effort to put forward martin female candidates. The good news is when women are encouraged to run for office, even by a collie, family member, or friend, the suggestion resonates. A lot of parties are waiting to do this and we can all get out the door and if i women that we think would be great candidates, young women identify women that we think would be great candidates, young women in particular. Host does this have to be a cultural shift . Guest it has to be a cultural shift in terms of how proactively are. Most Public Opinion polls reveal they think there should be more women in government, but they do not often have a chance to elect one because she does not appear on the ballot. Host lets get to calls. John. Herndon, virginia. Democratic caller. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. I am four me angry is daughters, and i always tell them if you work hard enough, you will get paid this amount is anyone else. What makes me angry is when i see a Republican Congresswoman denying the equal pay for men that she works for, saying we do not need that the democrats are playing games. That is nothing to do with it. There are a lot of young women graduating universities, smart enough to get any position they want. Way, women are the ones that raise the men, and they can do better assessment in any situation than men as far as im concerned. And knowd to stand up that it means something for them. We need to educate Young College girls to understand that you have to climb the ladder, and you need to understand that you have to speak up in order to get what you want. Host ok. All right, john. Guest there is no question that that is true, and i would have couple of things that the first is that pay equity and student Loan Interest rates are two the great opportunities organizations that care about getting women involved in politics to appeal to College Women on because these are the issues that will matter to them so soon after graduation. It is important not to conflate female candidates with democratic and Republican Party edibles. It is true that about 70 of female elected officials are democrats, whether there is a democrat or republican in front of their names tells us more about how they will vote as opposed to whether they will have an x or y chromosome. What about issues he started talking about women needing to get paid as much as men, and that sort of thing. That has been an issue in this campaign. I mean, democrats ran on equal pay. They ran on minimum wage. Do those issues propel a female candidate to run . Democrat,she is a maybe, but a lot of those issues propel mail Democratic Candidates to run as well cared we have reached a time where Party Polarization has made it such that the sex of a candidate is a most irrelevant in terms of the policy agenda and the way you are she will cast a vote if elected. Askingou also do a poll folks about her congressional career if the following jobs paid this amount of money, which would you most like to be. What do you think these numbers say . The mostthink important fact coming out of that graph is that young people hold congress in just as low average american citizen does, and this is an indictment against government. It demonstrates how the solution people are common and it also suggest something has to change if you want the next generation to pick up the mantle of public service. Even though the gender differences are important, the more telling finding coming out of the data are that people, young people, have no interest whatsoever in running for office. Host so, the call to serve is not there. Guest i think the call to service their. The call to serve as an elected official is now falling on deaf ears. Host , kentucky. Republican caller. I voted on abortion, the bible speaks against a, of course common sense speaks against it. If i see somebody doing something wrong, and i go along with them, i am just as guilty as they are, so a lot of people have got blood on their hands. I do not understand how anybody can do that. Host we are going to leave it there and move on to jerry in reno, nevada, independent caller. Caller what about the war on men . Host why do you say that, jerry . Caller there is all this hype about the war on women, which there isnt. Men love women. Host ok, so where do you see the war on men . Caller well, because it is always this juncture between keep women host jerry, are you still there . Caller i am still here. Women keep saying we are fighting them. We are not fighting them. Women have the same opportunities we do. Host ok. Guest there is a polling about differences and politically relevant extrinsic in high school and college and jerry brings me back to that if you i am wondering are majoring in Political Science and are more likely to run for office, or if you have a family who is politically active, are you more likely, so yes, there are certain circumstances that propel ambition for men and women, so those are a politicized upbringing, if you take Political Science classes come if you talk about policies with your family and friends come if you follow a lot of political ifsites or political media, you play a competitive sport it what is interesting and important as that women are less likely than men to have those experiences, so although those experiences propel ambitions for both young men and women, men are more likely to have the ingredients required to do so. Host why is that . Guest and part when they get to shackles come off, women and men get to make their own decisions. In high school, often parents tell you what to do and what are to be super taken, your teachers tell you, you are competing with your male and female counterparts in high school to get into the best college. Once you get to college, you kind of get to do what you want, ambitions stay flat and men go through the roof, and so they gravitate toward the politicized science classes, they migrate toward mock trial and debate and other competitive sports teams where they can really showcase their competitive spirit, and that reinforces or might even trigger running for office. Host we are taking a request and sent comments about women in politics with jennifer lawless. Here are the phone numbers for you. Ostdemocrats, 202 5853880 republicans, 202 5853881. And independents and all others, 202 5853882. The phone lines are open. What percentage of women make up the electorate in this country and what is that percentage in congress . Guest women make up the majority of the electorate like they do the majority of the population and they are slightly en tolikely than m turn out to vote, but their numbers and all other comparisons pale in comparison. 81 of the u. S. House of representatives are men, 45 of the 50 states have male governors, more than 90 of the largest cities have male mayors, elected officials are men, so there is a clear disconnect. Host when can we expected it to change and be more reflective of the electorate . Guest not anytime soon. What we need to do is really engage in systematic efforts to encourage more women to run for office, and the party needs to make a concerted effort to ensure that they have women on the bench who are ready to run and special elections, who are ready to run an open state contest, and who are ready to take on an vulnerable incumbents. The majority of women run as democrats, so as long as womens electoral fortune are tied to the clinical environment, we are never going to see substantial gains. This means when democrats have a bad year, women disproportionally have a bad year, so until the democrats in a book and Start Fielding comparable numbers of female candidates, the opportunities for it is almost absent. Host although this year in 2014 we did see the republicans send part of theenators, 114th congress, and this is the first time for these states, and West Virginia and iowa. Guest that is right, and with joni ernst going in iowa, that leaves only mississippi as a state who is never got to washington here to 49 of the 50 states have had one woman in their congressional delegation at least once. Host you say either house or senate. Guest yes. Although there have been these two gains on the republican side of the aisle, even the senate we have a pretty big party differential, so when a new senate convenes in january and 70 will 20 women, still be democrats. Host do we know how many states of never had a female senator . Guest i do not know those numbers, but iowa which is never had a fema governor or female senator and only had one woman in its congressional delegation of the state. That is not to say there were not interesting independent gains. Joni ernst is the new republican senator, mia love in utah became the first African American woman republican in congress. There are certainly milestones that were achieved. In totality, the election cycle did not fundamentally shift the landscape for women. Host lets hear from shauna next, republican. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. It sounds like it is not a war on women come go in my opinion, it sounds like what the guest that there is just a lack of women interested in the political arena because if you think about it, most women graduate from college, a lot more our career minded, but they take on roles that are conducive of heading a family, and a lot of the times when you have republican women like myself, we are scrutinized because we have conservative values and a lot of women who do feel that they have conservative views, they kind of keep it to themselves because they do not want to be criticized for those values. It just seems like in this country if you are a democratic woman, you are allowed basically i am a everyone, hey, democrat and i am interested in politics, but if you are a republican, you have to keep that closed mouth because you are criticized. It is notif we about a party, it is not about being a republican or democrat, it is more about getting women more interested in wanting to country in a direction that best suits the American People, and i think women can do that. Women just need incentives to what to be in that arena. Guest a couple of things, and this is actually good news, which i do not offer much of. Andfirst is that we found, this is the case in the population as well, very few differences in the interest in politics or willingness to produce a paper between women and men, so the really drop off for women is when we get to running for office. It is not at they are not interested in Community Events or Current Affairs or serving their society. But the interesting thing is the gender gap in political ambition is the same size for democrat and republican come so Democratic Women are less likely than democratic men to run come in the same is true for republican women. That it played no role, which is somewhat counterintuitive. We have reached the point where women are now accustomed to balancing worklife and responsibility to become the new normal for women, so those impediments are no longer Holding Women back. The factor means that on both side of the aisle, women are less likely than men to be recruited to run. Host all right, north carolina, marie, an independent. Caller hi. I just wanted to ask the lady t heir opinion on whether we can continue to call our electoral process fair and democratic where we completely excluded such a large portion of the through citizenry artificially manufacturing such a large prison population of primarily black males, and since black males do make up such a large portion of our citizenry, yet they are often incarcerated host we are talking about women in politics. I dont know if there is summit you want to address there, jennifer lawless. Guest there is no question of Voter Suppression efforts across the board or the gree reenfranchisement across the ballots, there is nothing to suggest the man women feel differently or minimum in a popular generic testing their votes are being excluded any differently now. Women are taking full advantage of the franchise and their suffrage, theyre just not running for office. What about redistricting and the method of allowing incumbents to really solidify their reelection prospect . Has that led to a slower pace of getting women into office . Because you have from earlier times, 10, 20 years ago, men who were in politics and are reelected every year, every two years or every six years. Guest right. It is true that the incumbency advantage is an impediment. State level, 16 states have term limits, which is whether incumbency is proving to be a potential barrier, and what scholars have found is that states with term limits actually dont have a better record of electing more female candidates because not only are men term limited out, women are, too, so there are more open seats, but women do not get the benefit from the incumbency advantage, and in open seats, more men think about throwing their hats into the ring, so incumbency would prove to be more of an impediment than we might see it to be right now if women and men had equal likelihood of running for office. At this point they dont, so term limits or worrying so much of skiers the big issue, which is that women are less likely to even consider a clinical career. Consider a political career. Host john is next. Mader a caller or two ago my point, when he sees the way republican women are treated by the liberal media, and sarah palin is a glaring example of that, if i were a conservative woman, why would you even consider putting yourself up with the ridicule and things womenhe liberals heap on candidates who are of the conservative bent . Host john, democrats were the same around the way Hillary Clinton was treated, the things the media looked at, they would not have done that with a man. Guest that is true, possibly at the president ial level, but i would argue that that is not what actually happens in most cases. Hayes, a professor at George Washington university, and i have analyzed all of the newspaper coverage in the 2010 midterm elections that all of the candidates received, and we are doing is in thing for 2014, and we found that men and women were equally likely to receive coverage, the same volume of coverage, were equally likely to be talked about with their leadership, the same range of issues, and only 3 of the articles, more than 6000 articles, mentioned the candidates apparent that all, and men and women were equally likely to garner those missions. While at the president ial level we might scrutinize appearance, we might engage we might have a punditry that talks a lot about superficial consideration, the Mainstream Media simply does not do it. A lot of reporters do their job, if there did, and there is no incentive to do so. There is no incentive to treatment and women differently if it is going to be calling attention to what will be seen as underlying sexism. If you ask Chris Christie whether he has been treated well or when we think back to paul ryan, i am not sure those candidates were say that they were not treated a little bit superficially as well. Host what about how the candidates treat each other as a barrier for women to enter politics . It can get nasty. The attack ads that are out there, whether it is on their appearance or not, it can get nasty. Guest it can. It is a contact sport. There are 500 20,000 elected offices in this country, and it is only at the residential level in the only hotly contested that are all offices where we see this kind of contention and debate and fighting and this kind of money being spent. Encourage people to do is stop trying to use National Politics by the lens in which they assess everything in the political arena and think about the other half million offices that need occupants, most of the local level, most involved very little money, not a lot of campaigning. Host start small first. Guest you dont even have to add the first. He could just go small if you do not like the idea of the media possibly rifling through your trash pure differently i have got to tell you i ran for congress in 2006, and i lost my race, but when i got really heated and competitive, it would not have bothered me is a reporter was going to my trash. Host where did you run . Guest in rhode island, second Congressional District in the democratic primary. Host we go to marcy, independent caller. Caller good morning here it i have been interested in politics as i was a child, and i am now 59 years old. That withted to say all of the special interest money being in the race is now with the Citizens United decision, you have to be and really beors out there asking for money, and i think i had the opportunity cosmetics one time, and i just went on and paid for it myself versus asking people for money. Ithink that is a barrier, and do agree that you start small, maybe with the school board, county elections and that come of thing type of thing. Example, if as an have a hard time asking for money from people. Thank you. Guest i had a very difficult time, too. The first eight months of my to dogn i did not want it. Then when we could not pay the rent, i had to start picking up the phone. It is a terrible experience, but you get accustomed to it and it is part of the job. When you do not like doing it, but men do not like doing it, either. Money and politics might account for why we do not have the best candidates in the highest quality people we might want to see, but it does not do much to account for that gender gap. And women are just as effective as men when they decide to raise money. Host what about if Hillary Clinton to make a second bid for the presidency . 2016, wase to win in sort of message do you think that was sent to women to get involved . Guest i think it would send an Important Message and a very vital one because it would illustrate that the United States actually walks the walk. We would have cracked the highest, hardest glass ceiling, as Hillary Clinton called it in 2008. It is important for everyone to keep in mind that if she runs and if she wins, although that achieves one level of success, and that is a huge milestone, that is only part of the problem. That is not automatically mean we are then going to see 40 of the u. S. Congress he women or that we are going to have 50 of state legislators women. There is nothing to suggest that she alone can trigger political ambition and interest in the next generation and the generation after that the pipeline a female president ial candidates is not very deep on either side of the aisle. Most president ial candidates are governors are currently will have five female governors, one who will be starting her first term, and the other two are relatively recent to the governors mansions in their own states. Host all right, cameron in california, democratic caller. Hi, there. Caller good morning and good morning, jennifer. Guest good morning. Caller i have been listening to you come in here is what i see. It all has to come down with colonialism, and that is what you guys are fighting with, the women trying to get into politics. It is already an uphill battle. I hope you guys get it, i hope Hillary Clinton gets in there and wins. She even went, you will see people on tv, looking at their spouses. Look at hillarys spouse, why would shouldnt we vote for her . Her spouse used to be the president of the United States. Going in anden getting into politics, and here is what i see, in this is what i have heard, when i talk politics with my friends, is why are women in politics . That is what i hear a lot. Host and what is the answer, cameron . Caller my answer is i think that they are in there because they will do a heck of a lot better than the menfolk have. Look where we are at now. Host all right, Kristin Gillibrand tweeted this out recently Research Shows that when more women are elected to office, more legislation gets passed that actually helps families. Does the Research Shows that . Guest over time, women have been more likely than tmen to prioritize issues that have to do with family and children. There are not that many interparty differences anymore, but within each party, women are more likely to focus on those issues. Inds of there has been commentary about ocrat and republican women republican women are just as likely as a rubble in meant to win their primaries and just as successful in the general election. Host angela in georgia, republican. Caller good morning, jennifer. Guest good morning. Caller i just feel that women who have to work families are somehow affected, and i think unless your children are grown, that being an elected official even makes it harder for the families. What is your opinion of that . Guest you are right in that women are still disproportionately responsible for the household tasks and labor, and that is the case even for her profile working women who have reached the pinnacles of professional success, but the havenews is that they figured out a way to balance this, so our studies show that women who are married, who are not married, and let children, who dont have children, who have children who are no longer home, women who shoulder the majority of the response ability for women who dont, are all equally less likely than men to be interested in running for office, so this is not to say that we do not have a problem in this country and that there has been no kind of shift on the homefront in terms of the distribution of labor, but it is to suggest that that is not what is keeping women from running for office. Host what about women who are elected to congress and the positions that they hold with in congress, whether it is leadership roles or the Top Republican or democrat on a committee . Guest this election cycle was actually bad for women in that way because again the majority of women are democrats, so in the senate, they lost the Committee Position that they had when the republicans come to power they will no longer hold those positions. Given Security Plus being a democrat pretty much determines whether or not you hold these positions, women are just not going to fare valerie well. Weve only had one woman, nancy pelosi, who has been speaker of the house. Chaired aughter committee in the house, but we have a lot of work to do on that front. Host her race has not been called for this election cycle. Guest right. Ez is not been called, and her race has not been called. Ourl onis is the line for democrats. Caller i am really i do not think that we havea woman as head of state here the only reason that a woman as president of the United States i do not think is possible because we have heads of state are women, and that is what the states need because we to be a headwomen state as well as minorities are handled the same way. Host ok, jennifer lawless . Guest it is important to remember that when we say we do not value women as head of state , we really only have one so wee and one case, should be clear how these variances of Hillary Clinton in 2008 might not be indicative of the spirits of of a female president ial candidate or even her eighth rinses if she decides to run in 2016. Not only was she incredibly unique because she was a senator, a former first lady, her husband was beloved and knocked and be loved again, but in ae was also involved primary campaign against a candidate like nobody ever seen before, who also by one election would make history, so it is important for us i think not to take too much about gender from what happened in 2008 and assume it will apply in other circumstances. Host has any research been done on the impact of having sarah palin as the vp candidate . There have been other female bp candidates, too. Any research that shows that has had a negative or positive impact . Guest it really does not matter because in a president ial level, partisan vote their party, and by the end of the election cycle, sarah palins presence on the ticket was not shoring up in a kind of independent support. It might have motivated the base initially. Host thomas, you are our last four jennifer lawless. Caller i am only 22, but in my experience, i have noticed that we tend to raise young girls and more feminine roles. We give young girls dolls and teach them how to cook and do all these things while we are giving men interactive tools like legos and interactive video more that spawn Critical Thinking or how big of a role will talk at education play in getting women involved in politics in the future . Andt childhood education parental enforcement and socialization patterns of , but wey matter did not see the gender gap in High School Students, so that suggests that up through high school with the girls are not necessarily being socialized if early or if they are, it is not having a differential effect on their ambitions. What happens is when they have more freedom and they are not sort of pulled in by that kind of socialization we see a regression to the mean and what we would expect in terms of these gendered roles. Intervention on College Campuses early on to sustain and trigger womens interest in politics are the way to go. Host jennifer lawless with American University, thank you very much for your time this morning heard we appreciate the numbers. Guest thank you. We turnming up next, our attention to a recent Fortune Magazine piece about the littleknown plants made pharmaceutical industry that help save ebola patients with treatment from tobacco plants. We will talk with erika fry of fortune coming up next right after this news update from cspan radio. Time. Is 9 26 a. M. Eastern while consider Mitch Mcconnell is promising Louisiana Republican Senate Candidate bill cassidy a seat on the senate both the Energy Committee if he defeats democratic incumbent senator mary landrieu. 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Latestre some of the headlines on cspan radio. The 2015 cspan student cam competition is underway, open to all middle and High School Students to create a fiveminute to seven minute documentary on the theme the three branches and you, showing how policies, law, or action by the executive, legislative, or Judicial Branch of the federal government has affected you or your community. Fore are 200 cash prizes students and teachers, totaling 100,000 per for a list of rules and how to get started, go to studentcam. Org. Washington journal continues. Host we wrap up with our spotlight on magazine series octoberrtune magazine edition, and inside is a piece by erika fry, who joins us from new york this morning. How to stop ebola. That fry, your story says a littleknown industry, Plant Made Pharmaceuticals, has had the spotlight put on them because of ebola. What is the what our Plant Made Pharmaceuticals . Guest good morning, greta. Drugs andcturing plants has been around for several decades, but the been on the really front of the pharmaceutical industry, so how this works as there are viruses that can be we usually usend tobacco plants, so tobacco plant viruses, which have been reprogrammed with, you know, proteins ore for antibodies you want to make, and then at the plant grows, it produces the antibody or drug, and you have your medication. Host are tobacco plants the only plants that are being used . And why tobacco plants . Plants aretobacco the most commonly used plant leafy, they are produce a lot of biomass, so they also grow quickly, so you can produce the drug quickly. Also has advantages because of the history of the tobacco plant. We know it well, and scientists understand the viruses and have with them andork understand them, but there are other plants used. Host erika fry, you write in this piece that this is not the first time Fortune Magazine has written about plantbased pharmaceuticals, but who are the players in this industry . Guest right, so the industry has been around for several decades, but it has really been a handful of biotechs working in the field, academic, the government has actually been probably the biggest supporter of the industry. With a very kind of different science, and as science developed, the techniques have advanced, and the sciences have in vance, and it has become easier and a faster way to produce drugs than methods used by the pharmaceutical industry. Host for the tobacco plants, are you saying that the companies that are involved in creating plan based pharmaceutical treatments are the Cigarette Companies . Guest actually, that is troop your one of the surprising things, i have not been clear about this, but zmapp, the exterminator will drug given to a couple of the ebola patients who have recovered, was produced in tobacco plants at a Company Called kentucky bioprocessing, which is owned by reynolds ,merican, the Tobacco Company so yeah, they actually have a hand in this in supporting the industry. Zmapp standse does now . As you say, that was used for a couple of ebola patients. They ran out. Where does the treatment stand and the production of more of it . That zmapphe time was tried on these patients come it was very early into its development and had not even gone through the first few in human spirit inhad only been humans. It had only been tested on primates. They only had very small dosages. This is only met no one expected, you know, the company that is actually working to produce the drug and tobacco plants had a very small staff, so efforts are being ramped up. They are working on it around the clock, but the drug was not quite ready. They were still figuring things out such as dosages. Right now you need a ton of tobacco plants to produce a single dose of zmapp, which is a three antibody cocktail, so right now they are trying to figure out can we give people a smaller dosage and therefore produce more of the drug . Could we produce a more quickly if we could give people smaller doses . They are still trying to figure out exactly how to produce it most efficiently and tobacco. Host by the way, as we heard from cspan radio, there is a hearing up on capitol hill this afternoon about the countrys response to ebola, and in the future, the hhs secretary sylviaberw burwell is a for the Senate Appropriations committee 2 00 p. M. On the sentry and as well radio. Span erika fry, use of the government is the biggest supporter of this industry. Why is that . Guest yeah, it is interesting. If i am a pharmasset what industry, these techniques are being developed implants at the same time the form suitable industry has actually been producing drugs, and believe it or not, chinese hamster ovary cells,nd memory sales, so so that is more extensive than what they can do implants, and the techniques are slower to develop, so the government got interested in Plant Technology or the potential of making drugs implants because of the need to be four and a make ready this, so if a be, for, like, pandemic readiness, so if a pandemic comes, they can make the vaccines so quickly. The Defense Department has supported to some extent these biotechs, and there is a program in 2009, the blue angel program, which actually gave money to a handful of companies to test whether they could develop 2 million vaccines in a month, flu vaccines in a month, and they were able to do that. So really it was about readiness for infectious disease, flu season, or like a biological threat. Host is the government than contracting with these companies to ramp up if they need to in case of some sort of pandemic or epidemic . Guest exactly. To they on hand , so theycap ability will support the government if that arises. Bola, then figuring out, you know, the government, a few agencies now have a 25 million antract i believe by pharmaceutical to ramp up the production. Host if our viewers are interested in learning more about this plantbased pharmaceutical industry, little is known about it. It came to light because of this country and other countries response to ebola. Magazinefortune october 13 edition, and inside is erika frys story, how to stop ebola, you can find online, fortune. Com, erika fry, i want to thank you for your time this morning and being a part of our spotlight on magazine series. Thank you. Guest thanks, greta. Going tonext, we are go to open phones paired a lot in the news they with congress are turning to washington. We want to get your thoughts on that as well as president obamas trip to asia. He is there now, a week long the chinese with president as well as other asian leaders trying to strike a deal on trade, and the news this morning that he was able to get a deal with the tiniest on Climate Change, so we will get your thoughts on all about. Democrats 202 5853880, republicans 202 5853881, and independents, all others, 202 5853882. A little bit about this deal that the president was able to get with china on Climate Change, it is the front page of many of the newspapers this morning, we will begin with the New York Times coverage of it. Mark winger who is traveling with the president said the agreement, which was worked out quietly between the u. S. And china, over nine months and included a letter from mr. Obama to mr. Xi host he goes on to say as part of the agreement, mr. Obama announced that the United States to 28 less26 carbon in 2025 that ended in 2005. That is double the pace of reduction in targeted for the period of 2005 to 2020. China pledged to reduce carbon emission by 2030 if not sooner is even more remarkable. That is from the New York Times about this agreement, and now by the two leaders in china. The reaction from capitol hill, this tweet from senator barbara boxer, who in the 114th congress will be the top democrat on the environment and public works committee. She says now there is no longer an excuse for congress to block action on Climate Change. Republicans have been saying that the u. S. Needed to wait for china to act first before passing any sort of Climate Change that is nation, but Mitch Mcconnell, the leader in the senate, he said this according to one reporter our economies cannot take the president was the ideological war on coal about this u. S. China climate pact. Whitehouse says u. S. And china, worlds top emitters, sending Important Message by jointly announcing new goals to act on climate. Imate,s the actoncl something senator whitehouse has been very active on on the floor and on twitter. This morning am of the lines are open, so start dialing in pure it we want to get your thoughts on any Public Policy issue we about, debates that congress will pick up when they return to washington for the lameduck session that will go until middecember and then they will adjourn for the rest of the year. They will be back in january for the 114th congress. Gallup put out this recent poll yesterday that the majority in the United States want the gop in congress to set the nations course. That is what they found in this poll put out by gallup yesterday. Do you agree with that . The question for you this morning. Also on ebola, we were just talking about that as part of our spot on magazine series, the Washington Times with this a fight to beol a top topic for Congress Host there have been positive development in the fight both abroad and in the United States where a new york doctor was a cleared ebolafree on tuesday meeting the u. S. Is the longer has any active cases of someone determined to be infected with the disease. The Associated Press with this tweet this money ebola forers are asking congress 6. 2 billion in emergency aid to help fight the crisis, mostly in west africa where it began, saying in order to rid the world of it, you have got to go to the source. Jeff, new york, republican caller. Good morning to you, jeff, we are on open phones. Go ahead. Caller yes, i do not think of the u. S. Puts forth this 6. 2 billion to research and fight ebola that that money is going to be allocated properly. Host you dont . Caller no, i dont. I think most all of the eight we have been sending to africa for the last 100 years is largely appropriated by local governments and sent overseas. Ok, clark, wisconsin, democratic caller. Caller i just wanted to say that since two thirds of the electorates did not vote, this is what we needed, for public and to take control of both houses in congress of the the country can see their true agenda for the next two years. Host what do you think happens because of that . Going to think it is switch back and we are going to have a democratic president , hopefully hillary. Richardl right, clark, from virginia, republican. Caller half of the senate, every bill should be read before passed. We would not have obamacare. Host richard, what do you want this Republicancontrolled Congress to do in the 114th . Caller every bill has to be read before it is voted on. Host i see. You want that to be one of their rules. Caller yes. Host jim, an independent. Caller good morning. I am just going to make a comment. I am happy to see that the republicans regained the senate. I think though when they go back until obama is out of office i do not think that anything substantial is going to get done because he seems to be more thatested in doing things are all the ethical rather than getting anything done that is important, and is Climate Change thing is an example of that. Right now, the countrys economy and things in this country are basically we are just coming apart from the inside out here. Instead he is more interested in performing for the world and showing that we have got a new attitude towards Climate Change. It appeared into do think it is scientifically proven yet. There has been more evidence that shows that this is the way the world works in cycles, and Climate Change cycles. It is evenlieve logical at this point, and i do not think that our congress is going to be able to do much until we get this full out of office. Thank you. Host on isis, the president is asking commerce to give him 5. 6 fightn more dollars to isis in iraq and syria. The tweeting out u. S. Led strikes, which began in late september, have killed 865 people in syria, 50 civilians they say. Also they say that the kurds are gaining ground, but not control in the struggle over the Syrian Border town. Michelle in birmingham, alabama, a republican. What is on your mind this morning . Caller hi, how are you . Host good morning. Caller good morning. The republicans talk about replacing obamacare. They are planning on keeping some of the things that make obamacare acceptable, like coverage for people who could not get coverage before thomas of the democrats that are fighting is so hard that it should not be replaced are the ones that are getting it for free, not the ones that are paying for everybody else. Black, itpresident is is that he has no content of character. That is what i have to say. Host ok, david, north carolina, independent caller. Ebola, yes come on the 6. 2 billion, we are in a worldwide economy right now, and i feel like the whole world needs to be involved in the 6. 2 billion to help out. Host ok. What do you think congress should tackle in this congress, or what are your thoughts on any Public Policy issue that you see in the news lately or that we have discussed here on the washington journal . A couple of you have brought up Climate Change your want to say what the president to say in yesterday in china when he announced this deal with the chinese leader. [video clip] that is why today i am proud that we can announce an historic agreement appeared i commend theident xi, his team, and Chinese Government for the commitment they are making to reverse theand then course of chinas carbon emissions. Today i can also announced that the United States has set a new goal of reducing our Greenhouse Gas omissions by 26 to 28 below 2005 levels by the year 2025. This is an ambitious goal, but it is an achievable goal. It will double the pace at which we are reducing Carbon Pollution in the United States and puts us on a path to reducing the deep in missions reduction by advance economies that the Scientific Community says is necessary to prevent the most catastrophic events of Climate Change. It will help improve public health, it will grow our economy, it will create jobs, it will strengthen our energy security, and it will put those of our nations on the path to a low carbon economy. This is a major milestone in the u. S. China relationship, and it shows what is possible when we Work Together on an urgent, global challenge. In addition by making this announcement today together, we hope to encourage all major , allmies to be ambitious countries developing and developed to work across the old divides so we can create a strong Global Climate agreement next year. Host president obama yesterday with the chinese leader hosting a Group Conference in other areas where they agreed. The press conference push for by the White House Press office. At that same news conference, it got a little awkward when the New York Times reporter mike lamb learner posed a question to the chinese leader. The hill newspaper with the headline this morning saying Obama Press Conference gets p chineseth the president. He first asked president obama a question, then posed two questions to the chinese leader, president obama answered his, but the chinese did not and went on to call on a chinese reporter. Your are a few tweets for you on reporters traveling with the president. Abc tweeted this out chinese president xi takes questions from New York Times but refuses to answer. Kristin donnelly says so president xi got around to answering mark landlers question, kind of blamed journalists, New York Times has been banned on the web in china since 2012. Lagash obama had a small grin on his face when xi declined to answer mark landlers question. Carol lee says except xi completely ignores markland questionnd takes from state media reported, undercutting the hope point of the white house pushing of the press conference. He rego, linda, democratic caller, here we go, linda, democratic caller. Go ahead. Caller as i told your reception is, i love cspan, it has more Congress Live instead of waiting for somebody to tell me what they think about congress. It has really given me a good education, and also, i was pretty much a moderate republican all my life. I am in my 60s, and they pushed me out of that party by their bad behavior. I am so a shame of the impaired i think president obama is doing i think theand republicans are completely geared toward making him look bad. That is their main goal. Its mcconnell said it, and they are all just imitating him, and his trip to china i think is excellent. The emphasis on good climate and good care of the earth is very i think thend republicans should reconsider who they are pushing out of their party. Host all right. Take a look at this Washington Post graphic that they tweeted out nearly half of americans will live in states under total gop control. Gregory, south carolina, democratic caller. Hi. You are on the air. Caller good morning. I am a democrat that worked for a union for 30 years or diane retired. If you look at the whole republican agenda, they would make the whole country a right to work stay pure it i did not understand that the time, but i understand what they are doing now. They do not want to increase the minimum wage. We are at a memo wage that i was paid eight dollars an hour in the 70s. On what theyive claim is not a problem . It is a shame when what the republicans are trying to push their agenda. Host ok, gregory, to that point about republicans agenda, take a look at this piece in the wall street journal this morning, the role that rand paul might play in the upcoming congress. Host so behind closed doors in washington today, rand paul gathering private advisers behind closed doors to talk about a possible president ial bid in 2016. Freddy in brentwood, california, republican caller. Hi, there, freddy. Caller i want to make a statement regarding a guy that called before. Used to be a republican, no longer, moving toward being an independent more or less. Issue when you have people who are bent on stopping the president at all costs, including people like the gop, particularly, i consider them like the kkk. The reason for stopping the guy has nothing to do whatsoever justpolicy differences but racial animus toward the president. I want to remind you and others to turn your tv down and listen to your phone. Judy. Caller hi. I have questions regarding Climate Change. One of them is they changed the wording from Global Warming to Climate Change because Global Warming, that name was not working anymore for them. Forbes n article in i met scientists have said there is no problem with Climate Change in this country at all. This is just we have so many blems in this country homeless people, fraud, foreclosures, unemployment, for us to be focusing on Climate Change i thought was almost laughable when obama did his address to the nation at the beginning of the year regarding Climate Change because it is a nonissue. Judy. Ok, dut aj in d. C. Caller good morning. My call. R taking there is a disconnect between the American People and facts. There hear callers say is no real warming in the climate. I think it is remarkable that people actually believe that. That is not the case good i think in general most scientists agreed that there is a warming, and i think the president s accomplishments on this is really on excited and remarkable. Aj, that could be something the Congress Takes up, the issue of Climate Change. I want to show you what members of congress are saying about what they want to see done. Senator orrin hatch tweeted out elected as us week republican commerce that is firmly committed to repealing and replacing obamacare. Then chris murphy said this congress has a constitutional is possibility and it is incumbent upon us to ensure that we never going to a war divided, talking about the isis strategy. John cornyn, republican from texas, said potus proposed executive order not only unconstitutional, but antiillegal immigration geared those who played by the rules are pushed to the back of the line. And senator ted cruz says any executive action by the president , american is governed by the rule of law and we can and must stop obamas amphitheater it on a house aside, the speaker of the house saying federal bureaucrats should not be the business of regulating the internet, not now, not ever, referring to the president s push to regulate the internet like a public utility. Nancy pelosi applauded the president s comments saying he was showing leadership on Net Neutrality we must ensure a fair and equal access to the internet. Crowley, democrat from new york and part of the house leadership for democrats, says americas prosperity depends on investment manufacturing jobs here at home. Starthe democrats jump to keep america thriving. That is some reaction from the capital about what they come up democrats and are publicans, would like to see as part of the agenda. About whether they, democrats and public and, would like to see us part of the agenda. Fred, go ahead. Caller i would like to say thank you for having me on the air. I would like to respond to the fact that Sheldon Whitehouse is not from arizona, he is from the state of rhode island. Host oh, rhode island, thank you. Caller one of my issues is on entitlements with the congress. They are so bent on destroying entitlements for the Common People in the general public, however, they have not address their own entitlements, which include payments for hair salons, payments for dog care, payments for trip rotation, living quarters, yet still they are considered federal employees. Host fred, you are the last thought for todays washington journal. Thanks for watching. We will be back tomorrow morning. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] with yesterday we talked representative Candace Miller, a republican of michigan, and she is chair of the house and Administration Committee p are we talked to her about what these new members can expect at orientation. Take a look. Host we we are joined on the phone by congresswoman Candice Miller who chairs the Congressional Committee thats charged with overseeing freshmen orientation this week. A question on who gets invited to orientation. There are still a handful of races yet to be called a week after election day. Thats