Would recognize them. The counties, you never would. Gardner ran behind romney. It was a rural issue, not an acrosstheboard issue. The same thing is true in other places as well. Iowa, its less obvious but the same distinction prevails. Then the question is, what does this mean for 2016 if what were seeing is not a uniform swing but a localized swing . And is this a turnout question . Well, ive done two states, colorado and iowa, and colorado keeps moving up. But the differential, if you compare 2014 turnout to the 2012 turnout, is not very great. Its slightly higher as far as the percentage of people voting in rural areas versus urban areas, in 2014 versus 2012, but not enough to explain the difference. The reason joni ernst won is not because republicans were an unusual share of the electorate. The reason why cory gardner is the new senator from colorado is because he won persuadables and a few of them within the denver metro area, not because of massive turnout differentials. If tha
Corrosive damage to our National Security is not the result of objective factors, logic or reason. Its not that we have some new breakthrough in military technology or some novel strategic insight that somehow provides the same security for a smaller budget. Its not that sequester is forced upon us that makes taking grave security risks absolutely necessary. Its surely not the case that the world has suddenly become more stable. Or that america has less to do to keep it safe. Allowing us to take a peace dividend. Its not even that these cuts solve the nations overall fiscal challenges because the sad math is that theyre large and sudden enough to damage defense but fail to resolve our longterm fiscal issues and the real drivers of the deficit and debt. Sequester was not the result of objective factors. Sequester is purely the fallout of political gridlock. Its purpose was to compel prudent compromise on our longterm fiscal challenges. Compromise that never came. This has been compounde
I thought that susan rice did a magnificent job at her aipac speech yesterday laying out with those choices are. It was not made on the house of representatives with every media outlet right there. I think that right now with the secretary of state in geneva that the white house will have to respond in some way that wouldnt have happened had the Prime Minister not made the speech. I want to add to that, if i could. I think the white house needs to keep its eye on the ball. The white house says is an uphill fight to get yes on iran. To let this be a distraction from what is already a tough mission would be unfortunate. I think they will move forward. This is a Prime Ministers who has never seen a war that he didnt want our country to fight. They need to finish a tough job. In may not lead to a deal, but if theres a possibility that it can, we need to stay focused and give it a shot. You mentioned earlier the Prime Minister mentioned the holocaust and genocide to congress. This a questio
You have a request for an additional 100 million. In the president s 2016 intudget 116 million for antimike robe qual resistant research. Thank you and ill submit my questions for the recorder. Now to the gentlelady from connecticut. Let me follow up on my colleague, mr. Dents, questions on antibiotic resistant bacteria. There is a significant increase in the budget. Can you talk about the new technique discovered to deal with this and also there is some misunderstanding of how long its going to take to be able to use that. Can you give us an idea about how long a timeline for the potential availability of, and i dont know if im pronouncing it right, but tecksabat. Recently i was in haiti and i met a doctor who talked about the eablet resistant tuberculosis. Are there drugs in the pipeline to treat drug resistant t. B. . And again, finally, i understand youre dealing with looking at a database. For this effort. Antibiotic resistant infections. But there are many of them pork tu to put