Senate majority leader, says he shares Common Ground with the president on International Trade. What does this mean for the Transpacific Partnership . The controversial socalled free trade pact. Well speak with lori wallach, of public citizens global trade watch. Then, maui v. Monsanto. 87 to 1. That is the ratio agribusiness giants outspent supporters of a moratorium caps on hawaii, but they lost. In a victory for food safety advocates, voters on tuesday passed one of the strongest antigmo measures ever. If you want to have a conversation about gmo crops in maui, lets. But stop calling a suspension on gmo crops of farming ban. Please stop using us local farmers as pawns in your propaganda campaign. Campaigns claims are one more example of what this questionable Industry Needs more oversight. Well go to hawaii for an update and well speak with jerry greenfield, cofounder of ben jerrys ice cream. The company has campaigned heavily for gmo labeling, renaming one of its iconic flavors, fo
1. 4 trillion. Today its 480 billion. Its dropped by a trillion dollars per year. Now, do we want it to be zero . Yes. Do we want to have a surplus so we can start paying off the debt . Slowl. But you actually have to get Recovery First get some treatment. Thats what we have been doing. And then reinvest into the future. And that means infrastructure, education, the things that matter to Everyday Americans and everyday alaskans. But i sit here and i listen to these comments, and today i it happened a little bit before 12 30 before we took our caucus break but we break at 12 30. I was going to go home. And then i turned my mistake. I turned on the station and i heard the commentary. I thought jacob is going to have to wait a little bit for dinner and im going to have to come down here. It amazed me. Exports, business we create in this country and we ship out up 37 over the last several years. Now, ill give you an example of a company in alaska when i was campaigning. I ran into this com
Became the oldest serving member. In an interview with cspan, Congress Representative hall reflects on his years and the Space Program. This is about 35 minutes. Congressman ralph hall, you have been in the house of representatives since january of 1981. You had hoped to be here for one last term. The voters thought otherwise. How are you processing your departure . Havell, of everything i checked on during that race, i was 12 points ahead. And it taught me that you never depend on people who tell you you are ahead when you are not. Coming back that night at 3 00 in the morning, i had to think as i was driving out to my house, that happened. I pulled out some old elections and checked how i had done, and i finally figured it out. The other guy got more votes than i did i got beat that is all there is to it. It hurt me because it hurt so many of my close friends. How does it feel now when youre getting down to the wire when there is only a matter of weeks until you are leaving the insti
Anyone. I resist on that, totally. We dont go out to dinner very much with people. That part of our life seems to have dwindled. Much more when we came here over the years, whatever the time pressure was, whatever the reason, there is less of that hat goes on. I have too much respect for too many. And oh i will regret it and kick myself and say how could i have mentioned him without mentioning her. Lets go to president s, then. It was the president that you have enjoyed working with and havent enjoyed working with . Ive worked to a degree with ll the president s. I havent had a bad relationship with any president , for starters. I think president obama is very, very thoughtful, very careful. Does how to weigh pros and cons and gets along very well. I thought president clinton was unusual in terms of his ability, not just a think through issues and he has got a heck of a great mind, but he also had the ability has the ability, still very vigorously to connect with people on a personal w
Looked at roberts rule. I figured it out finally. The guy got more votes than i did. I got beat. Thats all there is to me. It didnt bother me but it hurt me because it hurt some of my friends. How are you feeling about leaving . Well, when i wanted a doughnut this morning, i went down and get it. Ive been a member of congress for 34 years and to finally get beat, if i was a manager for a be able or Football Team and i had 341, id be in the hall of fame, so doesnt bother me. And really it didnt bother me to get beat, because i wasnt just set on going. I had 18 cochairman who were chairman of my 18 counties in my district that were supporting me and wanted me to run, and i did. Its better judgment was it its hard toe get elected if you are 90 or 91yearold and they dont tell people that you run two miles every morning, that you vote 99 plus percent of the time. Theres a difference between that and old people. That wasnt brought up by the Dallas Morning News because theyre not in my favor.