The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be terminated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent that following the vote on calendar number 849, carnes, on monday, july 21, the senate remain in executive session to consider calendar number 789, lawson, and 537, reddick, there be two minutes for debate equally divided between the two leaders or their designees prior to each vote, that upon the use or yielding back of what time, the senate proceed to vote with no intervening action or debate on the nominations in the order listed. That any roll call votes following the first in the series be 10 minutes in length. The motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table, that no further actions be in order. That any statements be printed in the record and that president obama be immediately notified of the senates action and the senate then resume legislative session. The presiding officer
[silence] mr. President. The senator from texas. The mac as your president come i rise today to speak about one of the Saddest Development in the United States senate. Namely the allout assault on the First Amendment been led a Senate Democrat. It is important to clarify what the issue before this body is not about. The issue before this body is not about access to this, despite a whole lot of politicking by Senate Democrats to suggest to the contrary. In this body, the number of people who would do anything to restrict access to contraceptives to anybody is nero. Let me repeat that. There is no one in this body, there is no one i am aware of across the country who is advocating restrict in anyones access to this. Mr. President , my wife and i are blessed with two little girls. I am very glad we dont have 17. Nobody, nobody, nobody is talking about restricting access to this. What are we talking about . What we are talking about is the federal government using brute force to force peop
Republican leader comments on the 2014 Midterm Elections. House democrats present their economic agenda. Then the House Rules Committee considers a lawsuit against president obama. On the next washington journal, immigration and the influx of unaccompanied children from Central American with two members of congress, Iowa Republican steve king and Texas Democrat Eddie Bernice johnson. Washington journal live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. We are here at Salisbury House in des moines, iowa. Its a home that was built by karl and edith weeks in the 1920s. He was a man of many and varied interests. Nonone of the most notable are his amazing collections in terms of artwork, sculpture, the Library Collection is an amazing collection of rare limited First Edition works. Its incredible. He collected the books that he collected not only because they are important historical works but also because he believes that books themselves were works beyondand had a worse the words on a page. He collecte
And that susan collins. Of the seven contested democratic seats six of those obama got 42 or less won all seven of them. The democrats have a historical problem in a geographical problem. This election is going to be allow president obama. Two factors that factor into that. One come in Midterm Elections are about the current state of the country. Going back to any Midterm Election in particular as i said historically speaking a Midterm Election of a second term president but also with harry reid essentially shutting down the senate, you dont have a lot of senators who have passed legislation. Mark begich has never had an amendment or a roll call vote on the senate floor. I want to say kay hagan has only 15 bills that she sponsored and cosponsored after signing the law. The sportsmans package last week was one of her First National initiatives. These candidates have fewer and fewer things to run on. They have to run on big National Priorities like obamacare so how is the president doing
Baker is down five. It is a very expensive primary. Were going to have this. Currently the former governor had this by six and a points. There are nine that i would describe that the most competitive. Republicanwith incumbents. There is a tremendous pickup as theyity in illinois had reference. You just put these down. Florida and ohio has been to the biggest turnarounds as any governor in the country. Four months ago rick scott have this on the valid. He had 17 million. Ohio they issued a republic in the mid30s. Strong director cinnamon in the state. We are also in a strong position. Sector they care a lot about. They will be competitive. Our two most challenging defenses are states where they have records. There will be challenges for republicans. Committed. Three pickup opportunities i mentioned to you. In a tremendous turnaround. The rga has put 3 million in. It is a very important summit raise. Connecticut we have had three polls. Only numbers are soft. We have a repeat of four yea