peered son of wisconsin to be united state. peterson of wisconsin to be united states district judge. cloture motion. we, the undersigned senators in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, hereby move to bring to a close the debate on the nomination of nancy j. rosenstengel of illinois to be united states district judge for the southern district of illinois. signed by 17 senators. the presiding officer: by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. the question is: is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of nancy j. rosenstengel of illinois to be united states district judge for the southern district of illinois, shall be brought to a close? the yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: the presiding officer: do any senators wish to vote or change their votes? if not, the ayes are 54, the nays are 4 and the motion is agreed to. the clerk will report the nomination. the clerk: nancy j. rosenstengel of illino

what is wisconsin doing? if you were to compare wisconsin's record with what mark dayton and the democrats are doing in minnesota, it's only a -- i mean, it's two totally different worlds. the economy is booming in minnesota whereas wisconsin is struggling. what do you make of that? >> you're exactly right. it's because we're spending our time on all these, you know, extreme policies that really have nothing to do with what matters to individuals, which is making sure that he keeps his promise that he said, 250,000 jobs. at least three-fourths of wisconsinites are concerned he hasn't kept that promise. instead, doing things like voter i.d. legislation, you know, racist mascot legislation. we've been doing things to address issues that are not frankly the concerns. and i can't tell you why. we're doing things like tweaking away at people's voting rights with changing so many election laws. and i know in the end 54% of individuals say maybe that they feel that wisconsin is on the right track, but it's because t

benefitted the top 1% of wisconsin. over in jersey christie faces an $800 million budget gap going into the end of the fiscal year, his solution? tax cuts, $600 million worth of them. what about the jobs? with less than five months before the end of the term how is scott walker doing on the goal of his? >> 250,000 new jobs. that's my goal. >> so far governor walker has created less than half of that. as of january wisconsin ranked 9 out of 10 in private sector job growth. new jersey is dead last in job growth in the entire country. while christie has two more years to inflict fiscal pain scott walker only has a guarantee until november. a new poll finds walker in a dead heat. joining me now is washington correspondent for the nation and associate editor for the times. for someone running on his stellar election record shouldn't scott walker -- a stellar economic record shouldn't he have a stellar economic record? >> you would certainly think so. the thing about scott walker is he has tried very, very hard to adjust expe

he's from jamesville, wisconsin, he's a guy who loves studying budget numbers. he's now making a tour of america to introduce himself to the bro. that's what he's doing. >> the problem is, the big problem is, that the numbers don't lie, and if you look at paul ryan's budget proposal, he whacks away at every program, at every funding program, and everything designed to try to help the problems he claims he wants to address. >> the column i wrote about ryan wasn't was he racist, was he not racist, it's that he kept saying, culture, culture, culture, culture of the inner cities. that's a very lazy argument for a bunch of mush, basically, in my opinion, this cultural hypothesis that culture explains everything. what's the number one problem poor people have? they don't have money, and they don't have a job, and they don't have good housing. >> also, culture in america is having a job. >> yes. >> it's a very, very lazy argument. >> well, thank you. and let me just go back to my simple replica of history. the old neighborhood i lived in in north philly, which was once

oh, that's interesting in wisconsin to this day, isn't it? joining me tonight on our rapid response panel, the editor and chief of "progressive" magazine and wisconsin state senator. great to have you both here. ruth, you first. what's going on? walker is trying to rid himself, get this, out of the way. what does it mean that he's trying to settle? >> well quarterback as you know and you've reported. scott walker has a lot to hide. there's a lot of embarrassing e-mail that came out in the last investigation and he has plenty of reason to make this investigation go away. what's really fascinating is to see the "wall street journal" come out with really for the "wall street journal", the most outrageous, editorial, perhaps, that they've ever published basically threatening walker not to reach a seem. don't forget they almost threatened him. they said, don't forget who's backing you. they don't want walker to undermine their claim that this whole thing is made up. it's groundless. though don't want the funders and they're saying on the side of t

dairy farmers like mike fischer know why. >> cheese is wisconsin. we do it well. we can compete on the world market. that bothers the eu. >> reporter: it bothers brussels enough to want to start a cheese war with the u.s. we visited the front lines. jim's family has been making cheese in wisconsin for 75 years. >> how many pounds of milk in one of these vats? >> 40,000 pounds. >> reporter: cheese so good, his parmesan won an international competition europeans protested because sartori parmesan didn't come from parma, italy. >> they said take down any reference on your website to sartori cheese winning first place. >> reporter: europe wants america to stop using parmesan, feta, gorgonzola, because those names imply a place in europe. and there's an important precedent. thank you. with a few rare exceptions american made champagne can't be called champagne because the french insist the only real champagne comes from the champagne region of france. what kind of an impact it would have on the state of wisconsin. >> a tremendous impact. we're america's dairyland. it's

there are 800,000 student debters in the state of wisconsin. they need more than just a tuition freeze. they need to pay off the debt they have accrued. i think this could be an issue like social security. there are 40 million people in america for whom this is a heart felt issue. >> what do you think walker will do to combat this? right now he is not with popular opinion. >> the truth of the matter is he thinks the tuition freeze is enough for him. i think he believes the efforts happening to help with individuals who want to go to trade schools, it's a trickle for what they have done compared to cuts that they have made. i want to say that he is just going to continue to beat that same horse. i don't see anything new in what walker has done. and i frankly don't see him winning that population. he didn't win 18 to 29 year olds. i don't anticipate he will win now. my issue is can we increase their turnout so that we can make it where it is going to make a huge difference in this election? i believe this topic will help him do this. this is 20 y

when i was 16 i moved to milwaukee, wisconsin. lived with my mother and then in 1992, that's when i caught my case. i had a good life, good parents, even though they were separated. but it was a good life. never needed anything. i worked. it's just one of those things. i'm just another man in another prison, just one of the guys. >> "b" range, joe. >> i'm not an angel, i can tell you that. you understand? i'm not here for being an angel i can tell you but, you know, i'm not a monster like everybody believes me to be. >> both the wisconsin and iowa departments of corrections have filed attempted murder charges against nieves. he refuses to discuss any of his cases. >>> up next -- >> as i was walking away, i turned around, i looked and one of the hunters shot me. he missed me. i turn around and i shot him. then i just start shooting all of them. >> we meet isp's most notorious inmate. ç??çwowog?w?k?o >>> right now on msnbc, a deadly case of sport and violence. a minnesota man is under arrest this afternoon after fatally shooting f

wisconsin winner, baby! steve: wisconsin over byu-- just one of my four winners i had today for about 200 clients. you know what that means. all right, you're doing good, keep it up. -well? -he's cool. good, now we can enjoy our evening. unless you're gonna keep worrying about lee. let's have fun. let's have fun. you're looking kind of horny and glossy. what's going on? ( laughs ) tell my mom to watch him an extra couple of hours? we'll have to go to the house anyways. unless you're gonna get a room, like old times. get a room, like old times. no, you'll do it. yeah, i'm ready. i've got one. this game goes from $500 here in vegas, okay? i guarantee you tomorrow morning when we talk, you're gonna tell me you wish you bet twice as much on the game. i guarantee you that. believe me, sir, i'm a little bit upset about last night's loss, too. but today's a whole different day. steve: lee's coming off a rough loss. was he pissed? he was pissed the ( bleep ) off. grab a pen so i can tell you what we're gonna do toda

>> indeed the great state of wisconsin. well, we are seeing a number of things happening here campaign finance laws in the state of wisconsin have been seriously questioned by the circuit, not just questioned but noted as unconstitutional dark money, concepts dogging walker throughout. what we keep seeing here is no sign of illegal campaign finance operations there has been john dough investigation to see if there are any sort of shenanigans by governor walker with this ruling in a civil matter about the wisconsin campaign law. does that somehow help governor walker. unconstitutional are those the very laws that governor walker is being investigated for for allegedly violating? >> absolutely sources on the ground here and talked to a former federal election commission source who told me today secretive probe going on targeting conservatives for the last three years now. longer if you take a look back at the targeting of scott walker's former aides and assistants when he was the milwaukee county executive director. this real

up missionary ridge during the civil war which is where we get wisconsin. his father, that man saw him as a general in the united states army and celebrated the highly decorated general but his view with the philippine insurrection with that approach to the of the philippines. event taft was the general and he said those are my little brown brothers and he said the soldiers there may be of the brothers of taft but not brothers of me. there was real animus and with the relationship with the civilian leaders and never promoted to army chief of staff as a result he was disliked by the secretary of of four. and you have to believe the id difficulties was passed on to his son. they queue for coming. thank you for your questions. [applause] i will sign your books of stairs this is a book for the whole family. not just one. two or three. [laughter] [inaudible conversations]

. >>> in the ongoing tremendous vails of wisconsin governor scott walker, candidate for re-election and probable presidential aspirate, it's never going to be a good day when there's news like this about an investigation into your campaign finance. a judge who ended walker probe attended finance by junkets financed by koch, bradley, and other conservative foundations. a analyst by the center for media and democracy shows the that judge rudolph randa attended seminars put on by george mason university in 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2012, according to publicly available financial disclosure forms. the george mason university seminars are bankrolled by a long list of foundations like the charles g. koch foundation, the linde and harry bradley foundation, and the searle freedom trust, in addition to u.s. corporations like ge, and dow capital. that judge who attended those meetings is a reliable conservative of the branch, gained some notoriety for striking down a law, a ruling reversed by the seventh circuit. he recently issued a pretty remarkable and scathing opinion that ordered a preliminary i

it's a big weekend in wisconsin, too. the state's gop convention kicks off tomorrow and the top item on the agenda, a vote on secession. that's right, the state gop will vote on whether they endorse wisconsin's right under extreme circumstances to secede from the union. extreme circumstances. the whole idea is extreme. but its supporters don't seem to think it's a big deal. one wisconsin republican wrote on his plog, quoblog, secession american as apple pie. as american as apple pie? secession is what southerners used to try to preserve slavery with. it's what started the civil war. only a small fraction of the wisconsin gop is actually supporting this absurd proposal. but the fact that it's even up for discussion is outrageous and silly. what gets me is the people that always come up with this sigh they're the real patriots. they really love the country that they're trying to provide and split. >>> some very good news. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. the jobless rate down to 6.3

that magic marker mistake in wisconsin also ended up roping in one of wisconsin's sitting united states senators. they not only disclosed the name of the alleged victims and they revealed that one. people informed was the u.s. senator himself, senator ron johnson. after first refusing to comment on that scandal, senator johnson after this redaction thing happened he finally had to admit that, yes, he had known about the allegations all this time while the a rejed perpetrator was rising through the ranks of the wisconsin republican party but he said the alleged slim not wanted him to say anything about it. all of that had to happen because the police department didn't buy a second sharpy. they didn't use a dark enough marker or go over it enough times to actually obscure the very sensitive information in that criminal complaint. you could read right through it, johnson's office, as in senator ron johnson. so there are two ways too look at this issue technologically. if you get your hands on some official document and you're trying to figure out what's been redacted, there are a whole bun

little town called chippewa falls, wisconsin. 25 lumberjacks and no beer. so he said he had an immediate audience. he started to brew along with a partner, and today, sitting here with the fifth and sixth generations, we say thank you, great-great-grandfather, for starting this brewery. >> not such a bad thing. reading a little bit about your past, not only have you followed in the near footsteps, but also the footsteps of the university of wisconsin-madison, also in the u.s. marine corps, right? >> that has become a tradition. >> what is the link with the beer? what is it that told you to want to be in the family business? >> that goes back all the way through my grandfather and watching him and how passionate he was about the brewery. when you have the family name tied to a product, you cannot be any more passionate about that. then, being able to see my father and my uncle's, and how the brewery means so much to us. that goes back to quality and how you want the community and the people that drink and to think about your product, and that really drives y

if you look at his decision, by the way, in that wisconsin case, what's fascinating about it is not the substance, because you can argue that the prosecutions were pushing the envelope a little bit on their theory of the coordination in that case with scott walker. what was striking about it was the tone, where he celebrates and says, if they can find a way to evade these campaign laws, great. fantastic. >> so this investigation, basically, is, look at the recall election, as far as we know, from previous reports, in which they are, you know, prosecutors think it may be the case they violated wisconsin campaign finance law by essentially coordinating illegally. >> yes. >> that's what's being looked into it too. and he says, the plaintiffs have found a way to circumvent campaign finance laws. stop for a second. normally, any legal authority using the word "circumvent" about law is saying you're doing the wrong thing. >> in fact, circumvention appears over and over again in the penal code, the criminal code, as something you should not do. >> right, exactly, you don't say, hey, mom and da

schoumacher: wisconsin became the model for the 1996 reforms. welfare recipients could only receive a check for a limited time and new incentives like child care were made available for mothers who went into the workforce. what he was able to demonstrate is that if you emphasize work and you provide families with the necessary work support so they can go to work you can dramatically reduce the case loads, you can dramaticalally increase earnings on the part ofhe families who were previously on welre and you can dramatically improve the wellbeing of cldren. i think this interveion caed welfare reform worked for some families buthe very same intervention di't work for other famies for some families they may have needed a little more motivation and then maybe they didn't have as many employment barriers. for other families where the mother was depressed where she only had a ninth-grade education, where her reading and employment skills weren't nearly as great, those mothers actually i think, are worse off as a result of this bill. we have seen case

a republican sponsored bill in wisconsin seeks to define legally personhood as the moment of conception and fertilization in alabama republican lawmaker clay scofield introduced a bill that would make all of the mandatory for all women seeking abortions and doctors who fail to provide those ultrasounds could face up to ten years in prison and a fifteen thousand dollars fine meanwhile in tennessee republicans of approved legislation that would allow almost side and assault charges to be filed against any woman who has a miscarriage during the first eight weeks of pregnancy and in kansas republicans have introduced a bill that would put a six point five percent sales tax on all abortion procedures additionally republicans worked in other ways to disempower women in america opposing the will lead better pay fair pay act cutting funny funding of family planning programs cutting funding to programs that help low income single mothers provide for their families and a host of other things or republicans may not be burning towns and kidnapping schoolgirls it's pretty clear that they're just as

then there's judy in wisconsin. "i know," she says, "what it's lininlike to live without a mot" she tells the story that four months into her pregnancy she developed a pregnancy-induced blood clot in her arm. the only guarantee that she wouldn't die and leave behind a 5-year-old son was for judy it to terminate the pregnancy. she and her husband made the very difficult decision to terminate that pregnancy. what right does a united states senator who doesn't even know her, doesn't know her husband, doesn't know her family history, doesn't know that she lost her mother when she was young -- what right does a united states senator have to step into that world at that moment and tell someone what they have to do? do we think so little of the women in this nation? we just had mother's day. we lauded our mothers. we're crying out for the girls who were taken by terrorists. we all care. then why would we support legislation like this? then there's bridget, a 25-year-old woman, who is looking forward to the wither of her th

, which is where we get wisconsin. his father, batman done, macarthur's father was a general in the united states irony and they celebrated highly to read a general. but his view of how to philippine insurrection managed the looking was different than the civilian approach to the philippines. william howard taft was governor general of the philippines and said we don't need to be enemies. are the filipinos are my little brown brothers, to which arthur soldiers would chant, they may be brothers of william harvard taft, the mayor brother sydney. it really poisoned arthur's relationship civilian leaders and batteries altered that, he was disliked by the secretary of war you have to believe some of arthur's difficulties with civilian

great work in the middle 0 the country in wisconsin. for more let me bring in minnesota congressman, keith ellison. congressman, this is a movement, evolving into a movement. >> absolutely. >> what happens going to happen here, what do you think? >> well what i think is the workers are going to keep fighting until they get a fair wage and a voice on the job. they have a right to organize a union, and as everybody knows, unionized workers make more money than workers who are not in the union. >> can the corporations afford $15 an hour? can -- is this too much to ask -- >> absolutely. absolutely. if the ceo's making 1,000 times more than the workers, i think the ceo can -- he can go down to 400 more times the worker, don't you think? in 1980 the average ceo made 42 times the average worker. i think we should have legislation in congress which limits the amount of money that a ceo can make above that of the average worker. because the truth is if we don't have some kind of legislation like that, you will will see people who are reaping dra

that magic marker mistake in wisconsin ended up into that scandal one of wisconsin's sitting united states senators, because they not only inadvertently disclosed the name of the victim and witnesses, they disclosed one of the people informed that the assault took place was the u.s. senator himself, senator ron jon son. after first refusing to comment, senator johnson had to finally admit yes, he had known about the allegations all this time, while the alleged perpetrator was rising through the ranks of the wisconsin republican party. the senator said the alleged victim had not wanted him to say anything about it. all of that had to happen because the police department didn't buy a second sharpie. didn't use a dark enough marker, go over it enough times to obscure the information. you could read through it. johnson's office, as in senator ron johnson. if you get your hands on some official documents, legal document and trying to figure out what's redacted, there are a bunch of ways to look for that information. turns out people make lots of errors when they're trying to redact stuff. unred

it eventually gets warmer although i have yet to see that here in wisconsin. every year at the beginning of to do fun things related to tourism. i get to drive sports cars in the dells. it has a roller coaster. i get to go to other places around the state. in brown county outside of green this is called the new z were they opened the new adventure park. would you be willing to come and help us open up the new adventure park? we want you to break the ribbon. he must have gotten confused. he said that because the main attraction in their new adventure park is a zipline. he wanted me to come through the zipline with him and break the ribbon. much to the chagrin of my staff i said yes. tonight i want to share with you for a moment about the experience and how it relates. bear with me for a moment. there were three simple stages. the first was the trading. we came in little bit earlier before the public had arrived. lodge theya little had. things like i was informed that they had trained on this a little bit. i was not literally the first one. these are people who

wisconsin is not alone. on thursday the aclu took on ohio for that state's dramatic new restrictions on early voting. the american civil liberties union filed a suit against ohio petitioning the federal court to strike down the law on the grounds that it violates section 2 of the voting rights act. the law in question removes ohio's first week of early voting, a period known as the golden week, that allows ohioans to register and vote on the same day. in the 2012 elections, at least 157,000 voters cast ballots during the golden week. the aclu, which filed the complaint on behalf of the naacp's ohio conference argues that the law disproportionately impacts minority and low income voters who cannot afford to take time off from work necessary to wait in lines. lines that were reported to be the longest in the country for the ballot box on election day. so, dale, tell me about your level of confidence about the kinds of arguments you're making here to this judge. >> we're really confident about this case. ohio -

you was going to consider withdrawing when he got to wisconsin. however when he got to wisconsin they learned they scored an upset victory in won 52%-47% in north carolina. reagan couldn't have held the campaign together that long so it was a huge. texas primary came along, texas has 100 counties, reagan carried a hundred counties and that is how he became president. >> the other ironic aspect is barry goldwater in '64 and reagan in 76 were lost but also they won. >> it is not an original with me. maybe george will said it. barry goldwater was -- senator goldwater running for president in 1964 was the most quintessential loser in american political history and also barry goldwater won 1964 reelection. it just took 16 years to count the ballots. >> before hanging 10. any other questions from the audience? you are bound to have a question. >> i'm supposed to wait until i have a microphone. >> if you don't raise your hand -- you have a statement anyway. >> i'm going to lay the groundwork. in 1980, when reagan so up the nomination george herbert walke

and it's not just my home state of wisconsin. across the country tuition at public four-year colleges has tripled. this all means that more students are borrowing through federal student loan programs to cover the high cost of a higher education. for students in the university of wisconsin system, unmet need after grants and scholarships is over $9,000, nearly doubling in the last decade, yet the federal government limits on subsidized loans have remained relatively stagnant over those same 30 years. in many cases the limits on what a student can borrow through the stafford loan program means their loans will not even cover the cost of the tuition, let alone other significant college expenses. the promise of a higher education has instead become a burden that has fallen squarely on the shoulders of students and their families. today, reflecting the trend of shifting costs onto students, 44% of college operating spents spent expenses are paid through tuition. 43 states are spending less than higher education than they did before t

it hundred 40 seven years ago, our great great grandfather came to chippewa falls, wisconsin, after he and his brothers learn how to brew beer from our ancestors who came from germany. our great-great-grandfather knew that there was all this lumbering going on in the northwestern part of wisconsin. little town called chippewa falls, wisconsin. .5 lumberjacks and no beer so he said he had an immediate audience. along with a brew partner, and today, sitting here with the fifth and sixth generations, we say thank you, great-great-grandfather, for starting this brewery. >> not such a bad thing. reading a little bit about your past, not only have you followed in the near footsteps, but also the footsteps of the university also innsin-madison, the u.s. marine corps, right? >> that has become a tradition. >> what is the link with the beer? what is it that told you to want to be in the family business? >> that goes back all the way through my grandfather and watching him and how passionate he was about the brewery. when you have the family name tied to a product, you cannot be any more passion

i'm a physician at university of hospital at madison, wisconsin. i'm a member of the public hospital of society of hospital medicine and association that represents nation's more than 44,000 hospitals. observation care is provided same hospital bed as inpatient care to a physician and patient the care provided is indistinguishable but considered outpatient not covered by medicare part a. misdemeanor he had care beneficiaries how can they be outpatients when they're staying overnight in hospital. many can ask me to change to inpatient which is something i can't not do under current policy. they describe it as well-defined set of services last only 24 hours and rare exceptional cases span over 4hours. we published the hospital data in earnnal medicine last summer. one in six of our observations patients lasted longer than 4hours. we had 1141 distinct observation codes. we concluded that observation status for hospitalized patient was markedly different from the cms definition i just stated as length of stay longer than 24 hours, observation stays bey

there's a property in wisconsin. it's arguably the first concrete building in the united states. it was built with what they called line mortar, grout construction, poured building in 1984. it was also built by an abolitionist and is the only documented underground railroad site in the state of wisconsin and is a national landmark because of that historic association and not its architectural significance. so five little shops have been added on to it. in the 1850s and changed in the 1860s, by the 1890s they looked like this. there was a canopy room that had been removed. the day after it was given to the local historical society, four of those five buildings on the right collapsed and so they were lost so for many years what was preserved was just the building and the first and then the historical society wanted to build an addition, and that got everyone mad. everyone was upset with this addition. it was strikingly modern, it was unadorned, ed, unpopular with everyone. it doesn't create a false sense of history, but it's on the same site where there were buildings of that scale

oh yeah the wisconsin decision is really important and make no mistake mistakes scott walker hears it very well he had been previously planning to call a special session to reconvene his state legislature to tweak this this law if it went down at the state supreme court because there's a separate state case against this law as well he said this was the only law that was pressing enough that he needed to call back the the legislature well now he has said no we can't do it because the federal judge blitter rated this law so thoroughly that there is no tweak that we can do between now and november when by the way scott walker happens to be on the on the ballot this november so yeah you got a right and this is big not just for wisconsin but for the entire nation because this is the first federal case to strike down photo i.d. restriction laws like this under section two of the voting rights they all have as part of the read let me ask you about that people watching this program they want to know in their backyard this is going on do they have a new tool and what do they do with that new t

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lead to a change in wisconsin law. she is pregnant and her unborn baby also dead. allowed defendants to argue they were too drunk to form intent to murder. that led to a hung jury. tribune reports since then the mother has pushed to change the law. wisconsin governor signed a bill to change at last month. >> number of victims of gun violence in chicago. the funeral for the 14 year-old is being held this changes temple. allegedly shot and killed by another 14 held due to were reportedly arguing over a boy. >> funeral for another victim of gun violence being held at the united methodist church. shutting killed after an anti virus. a budget analyst for the chicago public schools. could testify this weekend. given to a local restaurant and daly was mayor. wants to cancel chicagos three-year contract with the restaurant and millennium park. claims the daily administration cheated taxpayers out of millions of dollars of tax revenue. he argues the chicago park district had no right to let the restaurant opened. the first of two public hearings being held at this hour on p

the gentleman from wisconsin continues to reserve? mr. duffy: if i could, i would yield one minute to the gentleman from california. the chair: the gentleman from california is recognized for one minute. mr. royce: i thank the gentleman. mr. speaker, i rise in support of mr. duffy's amendment. the current way the internet is governed is soon set to change as we all know. the question remains who will take over? the answer will have consequences for human rights, for the global economy, as well as internet security and stability. we must get it right. it is important to the future of our economy. it's important to the type of world we want to live in. we need to ensure the continuation of an open and accessible internet which can serve to fulfill people's aspirations for freedom and democracy and when it comes to internet policy, the administration has botched consultations over the transition of the duties at the ntia. we cannot allow countries to use their influence to stifle speech and commerce on the internet. this amendment will give

go to wisconsin. go to ohio. look at states that have actually had these republican governors and they, uniformly have simply mint ad policy that literally gives tax breaks to the very top 1% while they pay for those by slashing education and raising taxes on the middle class. it makes no sense. it is economic policy that is doomed to fail. >> i think part of the answer is that there is increasing political segregation in the country and, that has been well-documented, and certainly, how many republicans are left in congress from new england? i don't think there are susan collins. >> yeah. susan collins. one in new hampshire. >> chris shays was last republican member of the house. democrats and republicans live in different universes today. >> can we talk a little bit about couple of states thaw din mention that are in blue states, new mexico, nevada. which again from a presidential perspective these were really strong states for democrats. what did the republicans governors there do so well or what did democrats

tornados are a threat to minnesota, wisconsin, and iowa. and at least two tornadoes touched down yesterday afternoon in northeast colorado. large hail accompanied the storms, but there are no reports of injury or damage. >>> strong winds from a severe thunderstorm caused a freight train to derail in central kansas last night. 33 cars were forced off the track. two people were on board, but no one was injured. >>> president obama got a firsthand look at nature's destructive power. the president visited arkansas communities that were destroyed by tornados last month. in vilonia, mr. obama assured victims the federal government would help. more than 50 homes were destroyed and 15 killed when the storm hit the state of april 27th. >>> and coming up on the "morning news," a house fire mystery in tampa, and a wedding party photo interrupted. two men strip off their suits to help a fisherman in trouble. this is the "cbs morning news." d by a heart valve problem. that puts jim at a greater risk of stroke. for years, jim's medicine tied him to a mon

. >> the courts in wisconsin have dealt a defeat to marriage equality. the state supreme court refused to hear a challenge on the band on same-sex marriages. the a couple argued the band violated the equal protection clause of the constitution. wisconsin supreme court did not give a reason why it would not hear the petition. and another challenge filed by eight same-sex couples is still pending in a lower court. >>> first lady michelle obama is fighting back against republicans to overall new school lunch standards that she strongly supports. serving more food specials and whole grains. the first lady says no one should be playing politics with a child's health especially since there's progress in childhood obesity. >> unfortunately, despite these successes, we're now seeing efforts in congress to roll back these new standards and undo the hard work that all of you, all of us have done on behalf of our kids. and you know, this is unacceptable. it's unacceptable to me not just as first lady, but as a mother. >> critics of the new rule say the costs make i

duffy of wisconsin. the chair: a recorded volt has been requested. those in support of the record vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having risen a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes y electronic device. this is a two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the chair: on this vote the yeas are 229, the nays are 178, the amendment is adopted. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on the amendment from the gentleman from new jersey, mr. garrett, on which the ayes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment offered by mr. garrett of new jersey. the chair: those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having risen, a recorded vote is

some roman and wisconsin are not areas north of the city. we're under it thunderstorm watch. we're not done with this yet. many view submitted some spectacular photos of the storms last night. dramatic cloud moving in right there. that is something. the storm produced hail and lots of it. shuttle's main storms were widespread. they affect many areas. the rainfall was stunning. it produced this flooding. send us the shot of sunday night's storm. looked like a sideways tornado. that is an observation. look at this. this tree down by sunday night's storm. one of her neighbors called this the wicked as stormy as seen in 50 years. suspected it might be the product of microbursts. those are those little gusts of wind. they have extreme velocity. at the ground and spread out in all directions. this is the view looking north of lake shore drive. we have some pretty good storage trucking up to the north of us. these things are formidable. they reach up to 35,000 ft. in the atmosphere. there uc the storm's coming along and there are returns coming in on the returns. we have a lot of ra

has gone to so far four states -- arkansas, michigan, succulent, wisconsin. there's a lot of speculation that the republican governors association will not be spending heavily, if anything. indications they are monitoring the race and if it looks like there's an opportunity for tom corbett, they will be prepared to invest. vickers, follow him on twitter or see his work on pennlive.com. thank you for joining us. we have asked our viewers about their thoughts on their governor as we discussed governors races around the country. texas, karen is a republican. good morning. caller: i am a moderate, i voted in the republican primary. there are certain races i prefer republicans but i want to say there is a lot of excitement in texas about the candidates for governor and lieutenant governor on the democratic side. leticia vanand derpew. the lieutenant position is a strong position. there has been a war on the woman. also in terms of public schools. the republican candidate are more in-line with the tea party. they support creationism. it is unfortunate that we do no

and republican senator ron johnson of wisconsin. let me turn first to congresswoman, if i might. i can't believe i'm doing this. but i'm going to end up quoting maureen dowd of "the new york times." now, i have to confess, this for me is a new start. she said, "especially now that we have this scary world war iii vibe with the russians, we expect the president, especially one who ran as babe ruth, to hit home runs." now, as you know, he was quoted i think in manila as saying, well, he gets occasional singles. >> right. >> don't you think that standing up to putin requires babe ruth more than a guy hitting singles? isn't this really the big leagues? >> well, i think it's the big leagues. i think president obama is used to the big leagues and i think that his leadership on ukraine has been strong. the europeans now are stepping up to the plate and clearly it's going to take all of us. it's the sanctions from the united states, but it is also the sanctions -- >> i have to ask, if this has been strong -- >> yes. >> -- what would weakness look like? >> i think weakness would look like

it's a reminder that wisconsin is still more blue than purple. >> and it's so divided. there's that great series in the paper about how divided milwaukee is. but this entire state is so and off for him, and this not a gimme election for scott walker. and some of these candidates could spend half of the time in other states across the country, but he is locked in lacrosse, milwaukee. >> many think that when walker, when all of the dust is settles, and jeb bush and chris christie, and if he wins, he will i ignite the republican party. >> if the republican party were ration rational, they would allow someone like walker to come in. >> and they would let chris christie get re-elected, they learned in the bridge state, but after that, they learned a lesson. and also, letting sand val, and others get re-elected in other states. >> yes, it is interesting about walker, because the tough races would help him in 2016, and he could lose and i all over. >> yes, and it is going to keep him in the same platform, and things to talk about in wisconsin and you begin to build a case beyo

called the wisconsin health information organization. it intends to be an all payers claim database that does some further analysis, disseminate information to increase transparency combat help improve quality, help rein in costs yet we have had some frustrations with regard to access to medicare claims data. i worked with a number of my colleagues on a bipartisan piece of legislation called the quality data quality health care act which would fix this by expanding what's known as the qualified entity program to allow entities to analyze and redistribute medicare data to those who can best use it for quality improvement and cost reduction purposes. and i was really pleased to see that the president's budget supporting many of the reforms that are contained within that they'll. i wonder if you can speak directly to the issue of expanding the current what's known as the qualified into the program and its potential to improve quality to reign in costs but also to talk more extensively about the role you would play in increasing transparency

sensenbrenner of wisconsin -- >> mr. chairman i ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered as read and open for amendment at any point. objection the amendment in the nature much substitute is considered as read mr. sensenbrenner is recognized to plain the amendment. >> thank you very much mr. chairman. i want to thank the members of the committee for coming together to reach this particularly chairman goodlatte, ranking member conyers for their come parent an expertise. it's no secret that congress has gotten more different vice it. gratifying to see this committee come together to address one of the most issues facing our country. i remember this committee similarly cooperating after september 11. i was chairman of the committee at the time of these horrific attacks. e wrp asked in short order to restructure how the government our nationalrotect security. the intensity of the debate exceeded anything i've in my career. then speaker hastert was under considerable pressure to bring a bill to the floor, quickly. de

back in 2010 only about 10% surveyed said wisconsin setting in the right direction. today after some changes we made over the last couple of years it's up to about 95%. i think that's a great message and we want to build off that. we look at our rankings as well. four years ago we about 41. now we're up to number 14 for a place to do business in. for those of you to get your train ones, whether charter for the first advantage of a with you in a job now and your employer or so this helping that will help improve your company and approved or business abilities, it's a great time to be in business but there's so much we can do and so many more people who need the need training and expertise and education that you've got your to not just for your success but for their success because you will help create more jobs and you will create more opportunity. there's someone somewhere in the state right now as we speak was looking for jo for a job or betb who will benefit because of our mba's here tonight and expertise in the training they got and they can put to use. then there

earlier in wisconsin a judge overturned that state's photo i.d. law issuing a forceful 90-page decision that shot down the entire logic behind conservatives voting restrictions. they said, "cases of potential voter impersonation fraud occur so infrequently, the judge wrote, that no rational person familiar with the relevant facts could be concerned about them." also this week, a court re-affirmed its decision overturning pennsylvania's voter i.d. law and in ohio the naacp joined with the aclu in a lawsuit against the state's cuts to early voting arguing they disbut portionately impact people of color. with voting rights groups around the country gearing up for a summer of activism is the momentum finally shifting in the right direction. sophia, i think the judge made it quite -- i know conservatives say it is about in-person voter fraud. but again, the instance of in-person voter fraud is .00000. and one of the important things they found in the wisconsin decision is that blacks and latinos are disproportionately likely to live in poverty and ther

we try to deal with that in wisconsin but it's not because of government action. i would also argue that if has roads that work in her area and people can get to her hair salon, small tax increases are what we need to do. host: from the front page of "the new york times" - at americansks buying cars and tvs and they can have internet but they are still struggling because other things cost so much. part of the problem is there is a growing gap between the very rich, the few percent on the top, and the rest of us, 98% of the rest of us. it's not just that the middle class is getting squeezed. it has a whole lot more to do with what we do to help those folks have more money in their pocket. we talk about raising minimum wage and we try to talk about a different set of taxes. the republicans don't take away any special interest tax breaks and they want to lower the top see to 25% so millionaires a tax break and middle-class people have to pay a next trip tax and that's the wrong direction to go. we have been trying to address it. how do you invest in those three thing