Term senator. I thought that was quite possible, but then it got a little bit easier getting reelected. I did not expect to be here this long. And my wife, marcelle and i talked about it right after the last election. And we pretty firmly said thered be a last one. I knew from the polls that every day out i could easily be reelected this year. But i. Me too. We wanted to go home. I want to have more time. My kids are grandkids. We both like school, but i would have more time for that. But also, i. Its time for somebody else to come in there. And i wanted to be able to do things, but i. University of vermont and other places to help people. Oh, whats happened . The last half century, you know, youre you are not, in fact, the youre the president protem of the senate, but you are not the oldest senator. There are four others who are older than you, senator feinstein is 89. She was just elected to another term. Senator grassley is 88. Hes in the middle of a reelection campaign. Why is it s
Committee is saying, dont you know theres an election and i say i have cleared these names in the white house and anyway, all my guys did just terrific. They were confident, they were competent, even some of the people who had objected called and said we love you guys and jim was the secretary and he later became our ambassador of japan and he went over, he was president of northwestern university. Sophia had ruled all of these people out because they were registered democrats, i would not have had the confidence. Im not saying that i shouldnt have asked the question. But anyway. If you have competent people, they are going to do much better than if you dont. The first job is to form your team and give people who are competent. If something happens that is surprisingly good to my would like ted know about that, too. We can learn from those things. You have got to give people leaders and objectives and hold accountable. Accountability is very important. Economics or governmental systems
Nice to see you. Kids all grown up today. Thank you, mr. Speaker. You two. Here. Lefthand here, righthand up. These guys, these two are really bad. Come on. Lets go. Where do you want me to be . . Right here. 1, 2, 3. Perfect. Good job. Thank you. Mr. Speaker, how are you doing . Im doing well. Who am i going to hold . [laughter] you could be a member of our caucus. Righthand up. [laughter] this is by far the best photo of the whole thing. [laughter] hey mr. Speaker, how are you . Lefthand here, righthand u p. Welcome. Glad you are all here. Thank you. Thank you so much. See you all. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute] the 113th congress has 84 memebers. 35 are republicans and orting nine are democrats. 49 democrats. Republican senator of north dakota and another senator will talk about the legislative agenda. Today marked the arrival of new members and also senator mark kirk. He has been absent from the s
Encourage voters to do the same. All across the country were seeing a lot of early voting. It means you dont have to, you know, figure out whether you need to take time off work, figure out how to pick up the kids, and still cast your ballot. If something happens on election day. And dont be late, first Lady Michele Obama shares her unique strategy for getting people to the polls with jimmy kimmel. Election day, election day. Up and adam. Lets go. Its election day. Come on, lets go. Get your shoes on. Up up. All right. Okay. Time to vote. You can do it. Okay. Im going. Out the door, out the door. And eat some carrots. In truth thats not a bad method. Im Chris Cizilla live in washington in for Andrea Mitchell. We begin with hurricane sandy, as the storm barrels towards the east coast. Its expected to cause major coastal flooding, widespread winds and Power Outages. The weather channels Brian Norcross joins me. This is a rapidly and always changing situation. Whats the latest. The latest
Of africanamericans in this country. So by the time Robert Smalls died in 1950, he died brokenhearted, and financially, not near as well off as he once was. And so i have spent a lot of time talking about the history of this. As i used to say to my students when i taught, if it happened before it can happen again. And we see all the speculation about what the Supreme Court is going to do with the most important civil rights act, which i think was the Voting Rights act of 1965. And most experts think that thats about to come to a significant, and i call, a noble end. Oh grams of affirmative action, that simply means youre going to take positive steps. You cant be passive. Youve got to take positive steps to overcome the current effects of past discrimination, the history. Not going to happen by itself. If you bring that to a close, and people are speculating that that is about to happen, in fact i saw a few days ago one of the leading scholars, legal scholars in this country who was say