Republican Pete Ricketts and Democrat Chuck hassebrook. We welcome those joining us on adt television and radio where they can a. G. Web site and also Nebraska Broadcasters Association Member stations carrying us today and welcome to those joining us across the nation on cspan2. We are live tweeting this debate. Use the hashtag and e. T. Debate on twitter to follow us and you can give us your comments during and after the debate on our Facebook Page. For the next hour the candidates will face questions from nebraska journalists and each other. The rules are pretty simple. Each candidate will have 90 seconds to respond to the question and if warranted me give a 30second rebuttal. Tonights debate is taking place before a live studio audience. We have asked the audience to refrain from a pausing or cheering because it will only take semifrom the candidates. Before we meet the candidates lets introduce the panel of journalists who will be asking the questions tonight. Fred knapp of net new
Election. I applaud him the easy thing to do for elected leaders and politicians is take a poll. There is an old saying that politicians, basically a mob marching on city hall. He did not do that. Welling the spend Political Capital to cut taxes and restrict the size of government which will help the economy. I think that we need leaders that are willing to use the Political Capital to implement pulled strategies. A think he will be rewarded. As people see the results you will see poll numbers improve. We need more of that. We have too many politicians only paying attention to shortterm pools of but im willing to do things to address the escalating debt. We have one of the worlds highest tax rates, seeing companies toward overseas, seeing an anemic Economic Growth i think the lesson to be taken his eye when need bold leaders willing to debate things. The poll numbers were lonely. Your competitive curatorial race. Even when he was in the United States senate he took positions based upon
Mr. Murphy mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from connecticut. Mr. Murphy if were in a quorum call, i ask that it bees dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Murphy i ask seven unanimous consent requests for committees to meet during todays session of the senate. They have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. I ask unanimous consent these requests be agreed to and that these requests be printed in the record. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Murphy thank you, madam president. Last week, the house of representatives voted for the 53rd time to repeal or undermine all or aspects of the Affordable Care act. This is beginning to be a broken record. I was in the house of representatives for a period of time, so i got the privilege on voting on 30 or 40 of those different pieces of legislation. Republicans, of course, shut down the government a year ago because of their pique over the Health Care Law. There are those that still h
The common defense securing the border cannot be prolonged more than 28 years. Number four, i will promote the general not corporate welfare. And at last when i end my oath and i say so help me god i will mean it from the bottom of my heart and i will seek to ensure the blessings which is a gift from god and we the people need to get back there of liberty which isnt big thinking or governments for ourselves and our posterity that requires us to address deficits and unfunded liabilities for the next generation but the vote is in your hands in november. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. First of all as we wrap up this evenings debate we have an audience on hand that has been very polite and very attentive. I think they want to show their appreciation to the candidate this evening. [applause] thank you very much to the candidates and panel of journalists. We want to thank our Platte High School for letting us take over the facility. Theyve bee
At the last debate he said congress was too dysfunctional to do anything then focus on border security. Is Worker Visa Program antiquated and leaving out a solution to do with the 11 or 12 million illegal workers. All of them are connected. What he does not appear to know is all the illegal immigration in this country is a result of people overstaying the visa program. You cannot deal with the situation by focusing as he wants to on the border only. Also what he has to understand or should understand, in order to secure the border you will have to get a compromise. Democrats and republicans in the senate and house we have a compromise. In the senate and enough in the house to pass Immigration Reform. Ll notane or boehner wi bring it up to vote. Had a program and the right wing is supporting m actually torpedoed it. His approach is to do nothing only by closing the border and not doing anything else on the other aspects. This was a question related to border security. I want to hear wha