buck? -- mr. buck? ok, our second question will be asked by clint. >> demel men, we want to thank you both for your service. -- gentleman. -- gentlemen, we want to thank you both for your service. clinics are a vital part of the safety nitpicky -- the safety net in rural colorado. what will you do to ensure that the rural health clinics remain vital and thrive? >> i have worked very hard in the last 20 months to fight for rural health care. i think this is something that we need to address. we also need to make sure that we recognize that we of 425,000 veterans living in colorado, when of the largest populations per capita of veterans in the country, and a lot of them live in the rural part of the state, and a lot of them are having a tough time getting access to health care. because the v.a. is not where the are, so i believe we need more rural health clinics, and there are roughly 1000 been built across the country in rural america as a consequence of the health care reform bill that we passed. [appla

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buck, what was your reaction when mr. christie, the governor of new jersey, told you that you were the problem in this country? people that stand up and paraphrasing now, that's pretty much what he said to you, isn't it? >> well, yeah you know, it's very hypocritical of a man who wants to espouse this whole free speech, and that to say that we need to have a dialogue, but not have it with me. as soon as he doesn't agree with my speech here, cuts me off. as long as i'm saying apple pie and waving the american flag, he's okay with that. but if i begin to ask a critical question, chris christie becomes a school yard bully. >> did you feel like he was bullying you in any way? >> oh, well, absolutely. absolutely. i mean, think about it, this massive man comes off the stage as i'm seated in a chair four feet below him. if anybody was the intimidator and the rude person, it was chris christie. look at this. >> did you think that he was doing this just in an effort to get the crowd on his side? >> well, i mean, as i say, i think

mr. buck? >> an interesting position you take. there were eager for people who got together and worked on the base issue. what happened was that governor ritter and interior secretary salazar pulled the rug out from under them after they can up with a plan that environ missed, county commissioners, and local -- and local leaders adopted and you said nothing. he said absolutely nothing when the political forces in washington, d.c., and a denver pulled the rug out from under them on a plan that would have worked. [cheers and applause] >> the fourth question for the first round will come from amy walter and senator bennet will be the first responder. >> i like that you have matching outfits. [laughter] >> i wear the same clothes every day. [laughter] >> there is a difference in footwear. >> i cannot see that from here. >> do yours have holes in them? [laughter] >> i did not realize we would go that far with this. the question is about independent voters. the fastest growing block of voters are the unaffiliated voter does that believe

ken buck. the more you hear, the more you wonder. jenna: mr. buck, do you want to rewrite the constitution and privatize social security? >> i don't. but it's interesting that my opponent, michael bennett, wants to run away from the votes he has been making for the last 18 months. he has voted for the stimulus package, he's voted for health care, he wants to do whatever he can to not have the debate about his voting record in colorado. and it's unfortunate, because it's what the voters want to talk about. they want to talk about spending and the economy and jobs. they're not interested in talking about the 17th amendment or privatizing social security or, frankly, someone who the various news channels and newspapers have said is running with misleading ads and taking three, four words out of a three paragraph answer is just flat misleading. jenna: we can mention we invited your opponent, democratic michael bennett on and we look forward to having him on as well. a quick final question for you mr. buck: as i mentioned you worked as a high school

and mr. loony said that those details were simply the cause of an administrative error. >>> authorities in louisiana are trying to determine what caused a massive fish kill in a bayou near the mississippi river. hundreds of thousands of dead fish were found floating there. fish kills are common in the summer months along the gulf coast, especially by the mouth of the mississippi river. what's unusual about this one is that it's so large and a number of species are involved. officials are looking at the bp oil disaster as the possible cause. >>> today marks the opening of the 3d entertainment summit in las vegas. los angeles. >> my only care for survival is finding the source of the signal. >> "resident evil after life 3d" did more than just survive this weekend. it opened at number one. it was supposed to make the future of films so bright that you had to wear shades or your glasses, but is 3d all that it's cracked up to be? jewel gentleman boorstin is like to explain. what are we learning ab

and on monday, mr. biden said the base needs to stop whining and buck up. this could keep voters at home on election day. the message they're hearing from the president is they're slackers. but president obama was optimistic that won't happen. he said last night if everyone who voted for change in 2008 comes back in november, democrats will win. rob and vinita? >>> president obama has given rare insight into his religious faith. some conservatives and opponents have questioned if mr. obama is a christian. mr. obama told a crowd in new mexico that he did not grow up in a church. but came to it as an adult. >> i'm a christian by choice. i came to my christian faith later in life. and it was because the precepts, jesus kris, spoke to me in the terms of the life i want to lead. >> it's part of an effort to express his christian faith. >>> 11 people are missing after a huge mudslide hit a small down in southern mexico. hundreds were buried in the slide. but officials have backtracked. it took ten hours for soldiers and relief workers to get to the area because m

mr. bennet holding the democratic base. buck holding the republican base. the tea party candidate getting 50% of the independent vote. that's the difference, independents breaking for the republican in the tea party candidate. you look at the delaware race as well, we bring this in, look at the same dynamic. cans holding the democratic base. 77%. that's all of the republicans. people who say they're republicans, 15% of them say they're going to vote for the democratic chris cans. that's one problem for christine o'donnell. look at this. the democrat in this race is winning the middle. independent voters for cans here, independent voters for buck here, why can one candidate in colorado, ken buck, get the middle, and keep his base, and christine o'donnell's having a problem with the two most important rules of politics, keep your base, get the middle? >> they're different states and they're different candidates. in colorado, the democrats nominated the establishment candidate. the republicans nominated the insurgent candidate. so in an anti-establishment, ant

mr. biden said it's time for democrats to remind the base to stop whining and buck up. this approach could keep voters at home on election day. >> he is telling voters on the democratic base they are irresponsible, the slackers, they don't care enough to show up. >> reporter: president obama was optimistic that won't happen. he said that in everyone who voted for change in 2008 shows up this november democrats will win. karen travers, abc news, madison, wisconsin. >>> today a senate committee talked infrastructure, specific he millions of miles of aging underground gas pipelines and earlier this month one of those peoples ruptured causing a fiery explosion in california. they have called for tougher standard, increased penalties for violations, and automatic shut off valves wherever possible. there was no automatic valve in that gas line when it ruptured. it took nearly 2 hours for utility cruz to turn off the ruptured pipeline. >> i don't think we can wait. we know if there was an automatic shut off valve we wouldn't be here today. >> yesterday the san brown oh explosi

mr. president, i object. >> oh, come on. you know, republicans, they just love to talk about debt when it comes to helping people in need, but couldn't care less when they're talking about tax cuts for millionaires. senator stabenow fired back on the floor at lemieux. >> when folks talk about the deficit and leaving deficit for our children, we will never get out of debt in this country until people get back to work, until they have good paying jobs, and in between times we will not move in economy forward until we are helping people to be able to keep going in this recession. >> on behalf of the 99ers last week i spoke personally with senator stabenow, and i asked her to bring this to the senate floor. because this would be the last opportunity for any kind of help until the middle of november. she told me she would. and she did. it's nice to know that there's a politician in washington that is still good to their word. she is. and i made a commitment to stay on this story, but i'm afrai

in an interview with "rolling stone," mr. obama said democrats need to wake up. monday, mr. biden said it's time for democrats to remind the base to "stop whining and buck up." some democrats say this approach could keep voters home on election day. because the message they're hearing from the president is they're slackers and they don't care enough to show up. but president obama was optimistic that that won't happen. he d la night that if everyone who showed and up voted for change in 2008 comes back again in november, democrats will win. ro vinita? >> thanks a lot, karen. >>> a lean, green futuristic machine is about to hit the road and it's coming with a rock-bottom sticker price. >> $600 a pop. you heard that right. it is billed as the most economical car in the world. volkswagen plans to roll them out in china next year. promises 258 miles on the gallon. >> ain't bad at all. nine years ago, volkswagen executive drove an earlier prototype of the car across germany. he wanted to prove at the time that the car was super-efficient, as well as super-futuristic. that ain't a

rove needs to buck in, in an interview i saw on fox news we should mention sarah palin contributor to fox news like karl rove and described karl rove as one of these good old boys of washington saying she doesn't have anything against karl rove but need to rally behind christine o'donnell in the name of party unity. >> you have a state like delaware. leans blue. it's going to be an uphill battle. if you have people who maybe karl rove being realistic about whether or not she has a shot in a blue state. >> right. exactly. >> sat tat the same time, you w the female candidate and guys looking like they're against her. that's a problem republicans don't want either. >> we're watching a political experiment in realtime. for the last 18 months, tea party movement, this was -- these were rallies happening all over the country. people upset about the bailout, people upset about the deficit and size of the national debt and now fielding candidates in political races all over the country and because, you know, most tea partiers, the vast majority of them are conservative, they're putting republ

get any cutbacks, he doesn't even have to give back a bonus or -- >> mr. minez is a -- will have his salary freeze for the next two years. >> at $356,000 that's not a hardship. >> it's not a hardship but when you look at what's going on and what he has done to maintain the quality of life -- >> that the activity -- >> state attorney general jerry brown's office is going to take a look at whether salaries are comparable to those in other cities and how transparent cities were when they set the pay range. the investigation comes after revelations about huge salaries in the city of bell. >>> our last week we told you about the so-called frankenfish. today we've got a close-up. what stands between this genetically altered fish and your dinner table. >> what we do is go out and kick the ball. >> and one of the bay area's stand out soccer players trying a different sort of kicking game. the one demand her coach made of her new teammates. >>> the 49ers are officially retiring number 80 today. we'll hear from jerry rice. the great got cow ski was brought in as a r

in a rolling stone interview, mr. obama scolded disaffected voters saying, quote, the idea that people are sitting on their hands complaining is just irresponsible, people need to buck up. part of the problem, experts say, is the jobless rate that remains stubbornly high despite nearly a trillion dollars in deficit spending and then there's health care reform that doesn't seem to have energized mr. obama's supporters as much as it angered critics, but the president's star is fallen and giving him a high profile role in the mid term elections could carry a price. >> there is some risk of having barack obama out there talking about why people have to vote. they're going to be independent sweing voters who are reminded that the election is about president obama. >> since the election is not about reelecting president obama, it's unclear whether his personal appeal will work to get people under 30 to do what older people are more inclined to see as civic duty and critics say a chance for pay back. >> bret: wendell, thank

nobody is tougher with a buck than i am. make no mistake about it. >> marion russ, you get the next question. >> mr. brown, this question comes from a student here at uc davis. as governor, would you roll back all of the funding cuts to the u you c, csu and community college systems? why or why not? >> all the fees back? not my first year with an $18 billion deficit. we have to get real here. i certainly don't want to see them go up you. university is something i love. i went to the university of california. so did my mother. when she went the tuition was $22 a semester. when i went, 30 years later, it was 120 $120. now it's astronomically higher than that. i care about this university, it's the key to our technological future and intellectual and civic future. i'm going to do everything i can to protect the university and advance its cause. ear going to do that by being tough you on the budget. getting real with these legislators, living within our means and building up a surplus. and certainly not driving a hole in the gen

people need to buck up." former president jimmy carter became ill today as he flew to cleveland for a book signing event. mr. carter was taken to a local hospital for overnight observation. a grandson said he had a stomach bug, but was doing fine, and planned to continue his tour tomorrow. the former president turns 86 years old on friday. in afghanistan, a suicide bomber assassinated a deputy provincial governor. the bomber rammed a motorized rickshaw into the official's vehicle, as it drove to his office in the eastern province of ghazni. five other people were killed as well. later in kabul, president hamid karzai made a tearful appeal to end the violence. >> i swear i feel the pain. i'm scared. i'm scared that maybe my son will flee afghanistan and abandon the country and become a foreigner. for the sake of god, stop the fighting. i don't want my son to be a foreigner. >> sreenivasan: shortly after the attack, the afghan government appointed 70 people to a new high peace council. it will try to reconcile

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news flash mr. president the people are lethargic and fed up because you and your policies have let them down. hannity back in 90 short seconds. >> sean: as we close in on the november elections americans are expressing their discontent like never before. frank luntz spoke with florida voters this past weekend and got their take about the direction of the country. >> sean, every time i come to florida, the sparks fly. because this is such a key swing state. let's find out from our florida voters, are you happy or glad about that 2008 decision? who is glad that barack obama won, raise your hands? who is disappointed? why are you happy and why are you disappointed? you first. >> i'm happy because i am seeing change in my community. a park where there was nothing but gangs and different bad stuff going on is now a beautiful skate park. >> you want change come to my community you can buy 15 condominiums for nothing. >> where is your community? >> in the middle of broward county. >> not a result of barac

mrs. christensen: mr. speaker, to amend the ysleta del sur pueblo and alabama and coushatta indian tribes of texas restoration act to allow the ysleta del sur pablo tribe to determine blood quantum requirement for membership in the tribe. the speaker pro tempore: does the gentlewoman from move to suspend the rules and pass the bill? mrs. christensen: yes. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 5810, a bill to amend the ysleta del sur pueblo and alabama and coushatta indian tribes of texas restoration act to allow the ysleta del sur pueblo tribe to determine blood quantum requirement to determine membership in that tribe. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will remind the floor members that this is h.r. 5811. pursuant to the rule, the gentlewoman from the virgin islands, mrs. christensen, and the gentleman from washington, mr. hastings, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from the virgin islands. mrs. christensen: thank you, mr. s

yes, that is correct, mr. chairman. >> so that creates a conundrum, because we have two things that are working against each other here. on the one hand, we have got a series of policies that have been rated in terms of bang for the buck, extending the tax cuts is among the weakest in terms of helping boost economic growth, although it is positive. so extending tax cuts would have a mildly positive affect short-term, but it would have a negative affect long-term because they are deficit finance, just as additional spending would help us short term but the negative long-term. >> yes, that is record the effects are symmetric and that way. we have written this on a number of occasions. certain policies that lead to short-term boosts, higher government spending or cut taxes, it's just allowed to increase deficit and debt over time will have negative effects in the medium and long run. >> for many people, it is counterintuitive that tax cuts could somehow hurt future economic growth. how is that? why is it that in

mr. gohmert: thank you, mr. speaker. well, we were assured of a number of things when this congress started. for one thing, the swamp was going to be drained. we were told that. there have been a lot of allegations. there has been no drank of anything. there has been no draining. we were told this would be the most open congress in history and yet, instead, the exact opposite. for the first time in the history of the united states congress, we have gone right up and as i understand, we aren't going to be back in session before this election, we will have gone through this entire congress without having a single open rule for a vote. where anybody can make any amendments. you know, the old saying is democracy ensures that people that govern no better than they deserve. the people deserve better. they deserve bipartisan. when chairman dingell wanted to make a bipartisan approach to a bill, he was eliminated. we deserve better and may god grant we get it. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the

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how much bucks has she been able to raise since tuesday? maybe $50,000? that was her original goal. $100,000, $200,000, $500,000? she has now topped $1 million in 48 hours. >> right. in fact, i'm looking at her web site and right now she's at 88% of her new target which is 1.5 million. she has 1.135 million in the banks. where did that money come from? i understand on wednesday, rush limbaugh on his radio program said if every listener would just send a buck, well apparently a lot of them did because the next day, he said, well she's got already at least a million dollars and then i believe yesterday, he said, another million would b cool. >> yeah. i looked at the notes from yesterday and rush sent out that newsletter. he was talking about it the whole time. he's firmly in support and sounded a little bit upset judging from the tone of his letter with karl rove for not supporting her and he has to be upset with the senator for putting more pressure on mike castle to pick up the phone and be a good loser. we know you've won nine straight elections and losi

you got to spend big bucks on advertising in major markets. i hate to say it, but money will play a huge role here. mr. hill is way ahead in money. todd young was raising money at about the same pace. if he can keep up the momentum and ec's and national groups, in, -- and you see national groups come in, that is the difference. >> social security is not a huge problem to correct. we corrected it under ronald reagan. we are now at a time where we have to readjust again. the commission is going to get it and offer recommendations. those recommendations probably will not be forthcoming until we get to december. then we will have to vote the whole package up or down. we will fix social security. we'll not privatize it like of my opponent wants to do. >> i met the fact that congress has been so irresponsible with our finances that they spend our retirement money on everything but our retirement. they passed stimulus packages, pork-barrel legislation is, we have programs like social security that has to be preserved. there are others in this race th

another thing, i just want to add, mr. chairman, it is important to recognize this is the effect of per dollar on my budgetary impact. if one wants to have an effect on a certain size of the economy, some of these options can be done at a larger scale than others and that is a consideration for you and your colleagues as well. >> so let's go to the question of the tax cuts because that is one of the key issues that congress will confront when we return. as i analyze results of your work, it is that although they are pretty modest with respect to bang for the buck, extension of the tax cuts would be positive in the short term, 2011 and 2012, but actually be negative in the long term. that is permanent extension of the tax cuts, all of them, would actually be the most negative in terms of its effect on economic growth in the long term. is that correct? >> we haven't looked at all of these options over the longer term but of the tax options that we studied, the four different ways of extending the expiring tax provisions, the