Be determined by the two leaders. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell now, mr. President , this week our friend and colleague, the senior senator from tennessee, will mark a major milestone in his states history. As of tomorrow, Lamar Alexander will have served as tennessees governor or u. S. Senator for 24 years, eight months and 15 days. More combined years in offices than any other tennessean. Of course, senator alexander also remains the only tennessee governor ever popularly elected to the United States senate. The only Tennessee Republican to be undefeated in six statewide primary elections, and his 2008 general election vote total of 1,579,477 votes is still the largest ever recorded by a tennessee statewide candidate. So, mr. President , i ask consent that a statement from the tennessee secretary of state, trey hargan, who has calculated each of these political accomplishments, appear in the record following my remarks. The presiding officer without objection
We are honored today to have a group of engineers, heroes, i tried to get her to follow in your footsteps as quickly as i could since 1959. We will have a panel talking about lunar module lending operations today and if you want to know what that is they will tell you about it. As we go around we have the panel here jack knight to the immediate left, bob nance, bill reeves and hal loden, i will have them identify themselves briefly and say a little about what they did and then open it a little for questions and since i didnt introduce myself, my name is john charles and im a scientist here is the center, houston. I would like to turn the microphone over to mr. Knight to talk about what you did to apollo 11 and what brought you here in the first place in your recognition of that important day. Okay. I was the son of an air force family and we were in various places around the world and i went to Georgia Institute of technology and came directly here to the Space Flight Center and was hi
How would you sum it up . Caller guest the Democratic Party has lost Rural America and time we get it back. This is our attempt to say there is plenty democratic policies good for Rural America and listening the Democratic Party needs to do. Host was that clear cut the last election or before . Guest the trend has been continuing since 2008, president obama did well in 2008 and less well in 2012 and 2016 was a disaster and you can see the trend. It is important that people understand you cannot win National Elections and you cannot win back the senate if youre not speaking to Rural Americans. Host what is the message to Rural America you think has to be delivered . Guest getting out there and having the right message and part of it is all about health care. Almost every gas station where i am from has a donation box for someone who is sick or got into an accident. Candidates, we are the party of health care. That is the message, one of the many messages. You see what donald trump is do
House budget committee, discusses federal spending and efforts to avoid another government shutdown. And at 9 30, emily martin of the National Womens law discusses efforts to close the gender pay gap. Host political reporting that House Speaker nancy pelosi will meet with Steven Mnuchin to discuss finding ways to avoid budget cuts and raise the debt limit as congress possibly faces another federal shutdown later this year if these issues are not resolved. This is the washington journal for july 10. Part of his political many credit him for the rise of and airdparty system recent poll showed many respondents say the current twoparty system is broken. That is what we want to get your sense of in our first hour of the washington journal. When it comes to the twoparty system, do you think it is broken . Call us and tell us why. If you consider yourself a political independent, 2027488000 is the number to call and everyone else can call at 2027488001. You can post your thoughts on twitter a
Continues. Host a conversati on a reach out to rural voters with heidi from north dakota, former senator from 20132019 and a founding board member of the one country project, j. D. Scholten, and the state director for working hero iowa. One country project. How would you sum it up . Caller guest the Democratic Party has lost Rural America and time we get it back. This is our attempt to say there is plenty democratic policies good for Rural America and listening the Democratic Party needs to do. Host was that clear cut the last election or before . Guest the trend has been continuing since 2008, president obama did well in 2008 and less well in 2012 and 2016 was a disaster and you can see the trend. It is important that people understand you cannot win National Elections and you cannot win back the senate if youre not speaking to Rural Americans. Host what is the message to Rural America you think has to be delivered . Guest getting out there and having the right message and part of it