also one of the more conservative incumbents to lose a tea party challenge, within 96% lifetime rating for the american conservative union. what makes the upset consequential for the obama agenda, is cantor s record. he positioned himself to the right of speaker john boehner. that didn t help him win tonight. obviously we came up short. serving as the seventh district congressman, and then having the privilege to be majority leader, has been one of the highest honors of my life. and, you know, when i set out to do, what the agenda that i have always said we are about its we want to create a virginia, an america that works for everybody. and, we need to focus our efforts as conservatives, as republicans, on putting forth our conservative solutions so that they can help solve the problems for so many working middle-class families. that, that may not have the opportunity that we have. i know there is a lot of long faces here tonight. and it is disappointing. sure. cantor s
that. out of this process? well, yeah. i mean, my, my part time job is being the president of the main street partnership, a group that was started by moderate republicans 15 years ago. and we are getting a lot of phone calls from people who are republican donors saying what are you crazy? said what happened to my party. i can remember when i ran the first time. i would knock on doors. older people would come and say, democratic party left me. i didn t leave them. and they don t know what the he l. l they are talking about to. night i know what the h lechell they re talking about. steven latourette. thank you for being here. good to have you here. with main street partnership and president of the mcdonalds hopkins lobbying firm. a live report on what is happening in the house right now from one and only john stanton. the house has not yet voted. they re getting close. stay with us. that is a luxury this country cannot afford need a spoon, dear?
0 back live. on its way back to the house where they re expected to vote on it. our coverage continues with the rachel maddow show. good evening, chris, it will be a long night. thank you for joining us, there is a lot going on. president obama just a little while ago made this short statement in the press room. just after the senate voted to end the government shutdown and to avert the debt ceiling crisis. here is the president. tonight, republicans and democrats in congress have come together around an agreement that will reopen our government and remove the threat of default from our economy. the senate has now voted to approve this agreement, and democr democrats and republicans in the that is what i believe the american people are looking for, not a focus on politics. not a focus on elections, but a focus on the concrete steps that can improve their lives. that is going to be my focus. i m looking forward to congress doing the same. but once again, i want to thank the leader
republican leadership team, senator john barrasso from wyoming, and mandatory spending cuts take effect 11 days from now. it would have destructive cuts on national security, defense. average wait times to clear customs will increase by 50%. all this is purely the collateral damage of political gridlock. senator jack reed of rhode island and intelligence committee chairman mike rogers on whether sequestration is that dire and that inevitable. sort of predictable. the head of the motion picture association deflects criticism that entertainment violence contributes to gun crime. that and more with our political roundtable. i m candy crowley. and this is state of the union. before taking his show on the road, the president laid out his agenda in front of congress. house speaker john boehner called it more of the same and suggested where the president could take his proposals. the president likes to attack congress, but if he s serious about enacting his agenda,
i know the speaker wants to get something done. are you worry ied that the house republican conference will receive the blame if the united states goes over the fiscal cliff because they want this bill amended? i watch your network a lot and republicans get the blame if it s sunny outside. i m not really worried about that. you know, people will make their own judgments. but the people that i represent and i come from a swing district says this is a problem. people should pay their fair share. but we ve got to do something about spending. okay. that was ohio republican steven latourette speaking earlier today. first of all we heard from the senate floor, senate majority leader harry reid say he was talking about waiting games and tired staffers. he then adjourned the senate until tomorrow. again, the question out there is if the house does amend that bill they received today and send it back to the senate, will the senate take it up or not?