The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be terminated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent that following the vote on calendar number 849, carnes, on monday, july 21, the senate remain in executive session to consider calendar number 789, lawson, and 537, reddick, there be two minutes for debate equally divided between the two leaders or their designees prior to each vote, that upon the use or yielding back of what time, the senate proceed to vote with no intervening action or debate on the nominations in the order listed. That any roll call votes following the first in the series be 10 minutes in length. The motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table, that no further actions be in order. That any statements be printed in the record and that president obama be immediately notified of the senates action and the senate then resume legislative session. The presiding officer
[silence] mr. President. The senator from texas. The mac as your president come i rise today to speak about one of the Saddest Development in the United States senate. Namely the allout assault on the First Amendment been led a Senate Democrat. It is important to clarify what the issue before this body is not about. The issue before this body is not about access to this, despite a whole lot of politicking by Senate Democrats to suggest to the contrary. In this body, the number of people who would do anything to restrict access to contraceptives to anybody is nero. Let me repeat that. There is no one in this body, there is no one i am aware of across the country who is advocating restrict in anyones access to this. Mr. President , my wife and i are blessed with two little girls. I am very glad we dont have 17. Nobody, nobody, nobody is talking about restricting access to this. What are we talking about . What we are talking about is the federal government using brute force to force peop
And some of the most closely watched senate races throughout the night and into the morning we want to hear from you with your calls, facebook comment. Campaign 2014 coverage on cspan next to some of our coverage with a debate between oregon democratic governor and his republican challenger Dennis Richardson. The political report is listing the race as likely democratic. It comes to us courtesy of kobi in medford oregon and it runs in our. Good morning from the kobi studios in downtown medford. I will be the moderator this evening. We are joined tonight by two men competing for the next governor incumbent democratic kitzhaber and richardson. Featuring democratic incumbent kitzhaber and challenger oregon state representative Dennis Richardson. Tonights debate is brought to you by care Source Program and the Oregon Association of realtors protecting your piece of oregon. Now your host and moderator for tonights debate, nbc news five director. Tonight governor kitzhaber and richardson wil
Tell us where they are today. The republicans, yeah. The republicans had 179 seats at the beginning of the obama administration. They are up to, if you look at current leads at 251, some of those leads may evaporate as california in particular takes a long time to vote to count its votes. They theyve taken as long as five weeks. A week ago sunday, brazil tabulates the votes in five hours. In california, which believes itself to be a more advanced state takes five weeks. In any case, it appears that republicans have won more than the 234. They won it in 2012, more than the 242, they won in 2010. And almost certainly more than the 246, they won in 1946. You have to go back to the 1928 cycle to find a time when republicans did better in house elections. Norm was covering that for cbs radio. And thats thats there. Its, you know, part of this is baked into the cake by demographics. You know, in 2016, 2012, mitt romney who many of you will remember carried 226 house districts, carried a majo
Democratic congressman collin for a 13th running term against republican Torrey Westrom in minnesotas seventh Congressional District. Recent debate came courtesy from pioneer television. Welcome to the minnesotas seventh Congressional District debate. Will have the incumbent collin peterson, a democrat. And Torrey Westrom, the challenger. To pioneer Public Television, minnesotas seventh Congressional District debate. My name is amy and i will be your moderator this evening. Well start out with opening remarks from both candidates. Onto ll then move something prayer questions. And then we will wrap up with closing remarks. Asking questions this evening are two members of the media. Have reed anthonson. And jp. Welcome, genteleman. Tonights candidates are peterson and Torrey Westrom. Welcome, gentlemen. Were now going to look at a map of this district. The seventh district includes western side n of minnesota, with the exception of the southern counties bordering ila. The largest city in