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
Fall. Right now, fox news reporting, american payd payday the big squeeze. The election is almost upon us. And with the house of representatives firmly in republican hands and the white house of course off the table, everyones focus is on this side of the u. S. Capitol, the u. S. Senate. The republicans magic number is a gain of six seats. Anything less and democrats remain in control. So both sides are fighting it out in state after state realizing the National Implications of those local results. And if theres one issue thats got everyones attention, its the economy. President obama recently said that the economy is better than when he first took office. But the public is uneasy. Nevertheless democrats have been trying to establish that theyre the ones to be trusted with the economy. And over the past year theres a phrase theyve been using quite a bit. I believe this is the defining challenge of our time. Democrats have been talking a lot lately about income inequality. Theres no gre
Ballot. Right now fox news reporting american payday, the big squeeze. The election is almost upon us. And with the house of representatives firmly in republican hands and the white house of course off the table, everyones focus is on this side of the u. S. Capitol, the u. S. Senate. The republicans magic number is a gain of six seats. Anything less and democrats remain in control. So both sides are fighting it out in state after state realizing the National Implications of those local results. And if theres one issue thats got everyones attention, its the economy. President obama recently said that the economy is better than when he first took office. But the public is uneasy. Nevertheless democrats have been trying to establish that theyre the ones to be trusted with the economy. And over the past year theres a phrase theyve been using quite a bit. I believe this is the defining challenge of our time. Democrats have been talking a lot lately about income inequality. Theres no greater
Ballot. Right now fox news reporting american payday, the big squeeze. The election is almost upon us. And with the house of representatives firmly in republican hands and the white house of course off the table, everyones focus is on this side of the u. S. Capitol, the u. S. Senate. The republicans magic number is a gain of six seats. Anything less and democrats remain in control. So both sides are fighting it out in state after state realizing the National Implications of those local results. And if theres one issue thats got everyones attention, its the economy. President obama recently said that the economy is better than when he first took office. But the public is uneasy. Nevertheless democrats have been trying to establish that theyre the ones to be trusted with the economy. And over the past year theres a phrase theyve been using quite a bit. I believe this is the defining challenge of our time. Democrats have been talking a lot lately about income inequality. Theres no greater
Ballot. Right now fox news reporting american payday, the big squeeze. The election is almost upon us. And with the house of representatives firmly in republican hands and the white house of course off the table, everyones focus is on this side of the u. S. Capitol, the u. S. Senate. The republicans magic number is a gain of six seats. Anything less and democrats remain in control. So both sides are fighting it out in state after state realizing the National Implications of those local results. And if theres one issue thats got everyones attention, its the economy. President obama recently said that the economy is better than when he first took office. But the public is uneasy. Nevertheless democrats have been trying to establish that theyre the ones to be trusted with the economy. And over the past year theres a phrase theyve been using quite a bit. I believe this is the defining challenge of our time. Democrats have been talking a lot lately about income inequality. Theres no greater