house, but let s start with alexandria hoff who s tracking the races in three key swing states. reporter: hi, mike. let s start in pennsylvania, dre once-sizable lead that john fetterman once held. on tuesday the two are going to hold their first and only debate putting fetterman s health in focus. he spoke earlier today. you know, we had a stroke back in may. and it really [inaudible conversations] and despite all that, i survived to be back. reporter: fetterman will be relying on closed captions during the debate. oz has questioned whether fetterman is well enough to perform job and will likely have to appear not insensitive on stage. another toss-up, georgia s senate race where senator raphael warnock is facing off against republican candidate herschel walker. this week former president obama will rally support for warnock and for stacey abrams. the former president will also head to detroit to campaign for governor gretchen whitmer who leads tudor dixon although b
as a domestic servant. cooling down and staying safe amid extreme heat warnings with record breaking temperatures possible this weekend. gazing into the earliest galaxies. the james webb telescope the largest and most powerful ever launched into space sends its first image. and england s women storm to victory over norway with the biggest win by any team in euros history. hello and welcome to westminster. we have been spending lots of time here, another busy day ahead. labour says it will put forward a motion for a no confidence vote in the government today, with the vote expected to take place on wednesday. it comes as the race really gets under way for conservative mps hoping to become the next party leader and prime minister. let s have a look at that timetable for the leadership contest, which was decided last night by backbench mps. the aim, they say, is to balance the need for a quick result with having enough time for debate. 11 candidates have come forward so fa
House of representatives is hereby declared vacant. And with that, Kevin Mccarthys nine month term as speaker was over. The final straw his decision to do a deal with democrats to keep the government open. He didnt hesitate to point the finger of blame at the eight republicans who ousted him, led by matt gaetz, his nemesis. Look, you all know matt gaetz. You know, it was personal. It had nothing to do about spending. The unprecedented removal of the speaker has Left Congress in chaos. So much so, theyve decided to take a week off while they work out what to do next. One rebel, though, was unrepentant. This was the right call. The American People deserve a leader and a speaker who will tell the truth, and so too does the international community. They need to know that the next speaker is going to be honest and wont go back on their word. With republicans focusing firmly on themselves, the question of funding for ukraine, which congress controls, remains undecided. It does worry me. And.
government. where do they get that third of funding from? where he will, i think the point here is that planned parenthood does abortions. and i think that mitt romney and governor perry and myself do not believe that government should in any way be funding abortions. because so many people don t believe that that s the right thing to do and their taxpayer dollars should not be spent on doing abortions. but you disagreed with rick perry on the issue. what i disagreed is that they are not allowing the side of planned parenthood to give the services to women, the contraceptive services, the mammograms, the kind of health care that these women are not getting anywhere else. so given that health care sorry for interrupting, is mitt romney wrong for wanting to defund planned parenthood? i think he s talking about the abortions that planned parenthood does, not the health care services. we don t i mean, myself, mitt romney, no one believes that we should defund the he
jobs last month. so it was private sector hiring. companies hiring that drove the jobs number. this is the last year, carol. 2011 i want to show you. last spring things are pretty strong. we were having 200,000 jobs gained every month. in the summer it got real slow. we were worried about a double dip recession. picked up again in the fall. now we have revisions. the bigger picture is a little bit better. you have better than expected january, february, now it s 8.3% the unemployment rate. there were jobs created in business and professional services. there were jobs created in mining. we see that every month. there were jobs created in health care, in social work. there were jobs created in computer systems design and technical consulting. you saw jobs last in retail, for example. so overall you re seeing a broad base of job creation. you want to see 200,000 plus again and again to show you that it is a trend, and what this tells us is that in an economy that was really real