Find out where cspan local content vehicles are going next, online at cspan. Org. You are watching American History tv. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] next, Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell speaks about the life of fellow kentuckian senator Albin Barkley who was majority leader of the u. S. Senate between 1937 and 1947 and was minority leader from 1947 to 1949. Democrat, Alben Barkley it was 35th Vice President of the United States elected with hair harry truman in 1949. This 45 Minute Program is part of a series of talks by Mitch Mcconnle about former u. S. Senators from kentucky. Thank you very much, linda. Its great to see all of you. I enjoyed my tour of the museum and i recommend you do it. Ive been doing a series of speeches over the last couple of years on some of the more significant members of the United States senate from kentucky. Weve had a bunch of them because we came into the union in
Jooirksz. Hello, im don lemon and this is cnns top 10 of 2012. We look at the stories that captured our attention, what we see as the biggest stories of the year around the world, in crime, money, weather and even the biggestscandals and later this hour, those stories chosen by you. Anchor of state of the union, candy crowley, with the top Ten Political stories of 2012. Like finding your favorite grain of sand on the beach. Impossible number of possibilities. Catch phrases become boomerangs. If you got a business you didnt build that. I like being aable to find service members. Im an American Woman who uses contraception. Lets start there. Its like an etchasketch. You shake it up and we start all over again. Im not going to shut up. Its my turn. I think its called romneysia. If i were to coin a term it would be obamaloney. There were game changers, too, moments that shook up the race or made history and made our top ten list. Wisconsins republican Governor Scott walker in a showdown ov
you don t actually do something. in the crossfire tonight, communications director for the democratic national committee and communications director for the republican national committee. that was a mouthful. i know, i got it out, though. congrats. so sean, every republican pretty much acknowledged they needed to raise the debt ceiling. otherwise it was going to be catastrophic to our country. and yet republicans in general were so reluctant to do it. not only did they make mitch mcconnle walk the plank, embarrass them, but they had the mikes turned off on the senate floor during the vote. is this not an incredibly pathetic and embarrassing week for republicans? yeah, sean, is it? well, gosh, you re right. well, we re done here. all right. no, look, the fact of the matter is i think what s embarrassing is the fact that every one of these democrats who has been complicit in raising the debt, $6.7 trillion since obama think this is funny or not
government shutdown in the fall and it was clear today when he filibustered raising the debt ceiling. this vote was never going to be easy, but this was high drama. for 45 minutes the senate was in limbo. two votes short of the 60 needed to overcome a filibuster waged by republican ted cruz on raising the debt ceiling. thanks to cruz s tactics, what republicans feared most, putting the nation s credit and americans stock portfolios at risk, was about to happen. then suddenly the senate s top two republicans walked the political plank together. mitch mcconnle and his number two john cornyn approached the desk to vote yes. they re both facing primary challenges from the right. both knew full well voting to allow more borrowing to pay the country s debt would give ammunition to their conservative opponents but they did it anyway. that was the 60 votes needed to break cruz s filibuster.