That tipped the balance of the senate evening. In west village, Republican Congress woman shelly more kapato beat Jay Rockefellers seat. In arkansas, one term congressman and decorated war veteran tom cotton unseated democrat incumbent mark pryor. In south dakota, mike brown won the seat of tim johnson. In montana, an expected g. O. P. Pickup with steve dane winning that race against amanda curtis. Finally, in iowa jonni earnest defeating bruce braley. I wans electing their self their first female congress woman. In colorado, kori gardner ousting mark you remember udall. As you said, a great night for republicans so far, john. Stephanie, thank you. David, the Biggest Surprise tonight in your opinion . I think the Biggest Surprise is that congressman michael grimm, republican from new york under a 20 count criminal indictment, even he won his race. Thats how bad a night it is, they couldnt beat the guy who was indicted. This is a complete wipeout for the republicans. In danger of it los
Out and a republican picks that up for a net gain of one. Youre going to be seeing on the lowerr right portion of your screen as we look at shellys victory what is the break down of the guaranteed races we know. We are literally doing this in a way backwards so you can see the race to 51. Remember republicans will need 51 because the tiebreaker in this senate goes to joe biden s president of the senate if ts a 50 50 senate. He will be the tiebreaker so republicans would need that extra seat. Growing indications tonight just might be the night they get it. For my money, the big shocker of the evening is the still hard too call race in the state of virginia. Thats right. Virginia. Because dont look now, but an established incumbent who led by as much as ten points, a little more than two days ago, 20 points two months ago, well, senator mark warner the incumbent is in the fight of his life against ed gillespie, the former chair of the national committee. Nowhere on anyones charts was thi
Tart start. Ms. Collins madam president , i ask unanimous consent that the calling of the quorum be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Collins and, madam president , i ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Collins thank you, madam president. Madam president , last week the Senate Passed the National Womens History Museum commission act, a bill that i authored with the dean of the Democratic Women senators, senator mikulski of maryland. It passed finally as part of the National Defense authorization act. Our legislation will create a commission to evaluate and plan the establishment of a Museum Dedicated to womens history right here in our Nations Capital, and i know that the presiding officer shares my view that this is long overdue. I am, in fact, pleased to have had all of the women senators as cosponsors of this bill, and im thankful for the support of many of our other colleagues as well. Sen
Insulin pumps. And the 30hour workweek provision which is forcing employers to cut workers hours and wages in order to afford obamacaremandated health care costs. We will also work to repeal the Health Care Laws individual mandate. The federal government should not be in the business of forcing americans to buy a governmentapproved Health Insurance product. Finally, republicans will tackle some of the big challenges that need to be addressed if were going to put our country back on a path to longterm prosperity. We want to make our nations costly and inefficient tax code fair and simpler for families and for businesses. We also intend to take up regulatory reform. Recent regulations released by the president s e. P. A. Illustrate just how pressing the need is to reform our countrys outofcontrol bureaucracy. Just one of the recently proposed e. P. A. Regulations the president s National Energy tax would eliminate tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of jobs and devastate enti
Then finally, when i was 25, i took my fathers name. Cspan where did you get the name skippy . Guest from the time i was born the day i was born, my uncle raymond called me skipper, and then it became skippy. We were piedmonts on the river piedmont, West Virginia, is on the Potomac River, two hours west of washington, so theres a whole marine mentality there, and so i became the skipper. Cspan before we go back and talk about the past, what are you doing now . Guest im the chairman of afroamerican studies at harvard and a professor of english. Cspan and how long have you been doing that . Guest this is the beginning of my fourth year. Cspan you write to your daughters in the beginning and you suggest that, eventually, after going through all the different names, they may get back someday to calling people of africanamerican descent or whatever colored. Do you really think so . Guest yeah, it could well be. I mean, Stranger Things have happened. You see, most people dont realize that we