Let me introduce the candidates. May i ask there be no applause in interest of saving time. To my immediate right, senator joseph biden of delaware. [ cheers and applause ]. Please, we save time for the candidates to speak. Next to him, former arizona government, bruce babbitt. Jesse jackson. Massachusetts governor michael dukakis, former senator or rather senator albert gore jr. Of tennessee. [ cheers ] missouri congressman Richard Gephardt and illinois senator paul simon. [ cheers and applause ]. May i remind those men in the audience, these men are going to be restricted to as little as a minute and a half of time. If you insist on applauding, theyll have less time to express their views. On my left, george noah, managing editor of woitv. The official timers for this debate are john delighten and del la sherman. Ground rules include the following no smoking, no ka pain paraphernalia, no camera flashes, no applause until the end of the debate. Any kind of interruption may result in y
Former senator, rather senator albert gore jr. Of tennessee. Missouri congressman richard gephardt. And illinois senator paul simon. May i remind those in the audience, these men are going to be restricted to as little as a minute and a half at tatime. If you insist on applauding, theyll have less time to speak and express their views. On our panel sitting on my left, Crayton Canal farm director of radio in shenandoah. George wily, manager editor of wiopd, and john fensinger, news director of knms radio. The official timers are john delyden and phyllis sherman. Ground rules for the audience, for this nonpartisan sponsored debate include the following. No smoking, no campaign paraphernalia. No camera flashes. As we say, no applause until the end of the debate. Any time theres interruptions might result in your candidate being deprived of that much time. We ask you please remain seated during the debate. We outline these rules in the hopes that the very best of use can be made of the tim
Now. And welcome back, everybody, to the closing bell. Im mandy drew i sitting in for maria bartiromo. Lots of drama in washington. Congressional leaders have arrived at white house. They arrived there about an hour ago with three days to go before we go over that proverbial fiscal cliff. They are meeting with the president and the treasury secretary timothy geithner, and they are trying to hash out a deal. But reports that the president has nothing new on the table has ended up spooking wall street in a big way just in the last hour, and as bill said we finished down near the lows of the day, down about 157 points for the dow. Settling up right now. Down what, about 165 at the very low, bill . I think so, yes. And the nasdaq finishing down 25 points and the s p off by 15, a fifth straight day in the red. Well, it is the last friday of 2012. Its in the books. Check. Still no deal in sight and no new offer either on the table from the president as eamon javers told us a little while ago
Speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2013, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip each, to five minutes but in no event shall the debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, mr. Speaker. We are here in the capitol awaiting decision by the republicans in the house about the next step to deal with the fiscal crisis they have created. Its not really that complicated. The monday deadline approaches to continue the operation of the federal government with a shutdown looming because the republicans have refused to work on a bipartisan basis to resolve the funding issu
Those of you who are here in the audience those of you who have joined online on cspan. Welcome. This is going to be a riveting conversation and i say that as someone who is a historian. So just a couple of minutes of comments before i turn it over to my friend and colleague steve moore who really will be running the show tonight. And that is in 1994. I was president of my universitys college republicans. And it was more than a dream as a son of the reagan revolution. That army would soon be the majority leader. That phil grahams economic expertise along with leader armies at least for a narrow window in american political history would be ascendant in this town. And while we have to be careful as historians not to dwell in the past we can as we are on the brink of a red wave and i mean that philosophically not as a partisan. This year know that that isnt merely about party registration. About one party being in charge instead of another it is about the ideas that define us as a people