From earlier tonight, the oregon kitrnors debate between solver and his republican challenger. Coming up wednesday, Michele Bachmann is the speaker of the Heritage Foundation where she will discuss the effect of the tea party and the political process. You can see that event live starting at 10 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Later, we will hear from defense secretary chuck hagel when he speaks before the association of the u. S. Army. Coverage of his remarks at 12 30 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Here a few of the comments we receive from our viewers. I am a nurse and i just watched your segment on cspan regarding troops going to liberia in regards to the ebola virus and helping out over there. I am ok with that. However, i really do believe that the only way to keep prevents safe is to anybody coming over from liberia to the United States. Have a vaccine for this ebola virus yet. If an american does become ill and dies because of it, it is not fair to the american people. It is not doing us a service. I am really tired a retired practitioner. Listening to the medical experts speak on tv to the american public, i am completely about inaccurate comment. The concern about contagious s is that some viruses before theytagious even show symptoms. Enough localh colleagues to find out no. That has not changed. People are confronting that misinformation. Thehe ebola virus Shows United States is not prepared to do with this inefficient way in an efficient way. Homeland security is not efficient. The Transportation Security Administration did not do its job. The hospital did not do its job. It seems to me that people from dangerous areas should be either not allowed to come to the United States or should be quarantined or should be put into a special camp or at least medicalo undergo a examination. Continue to let us know about the programs you are watching. You can email us or send us a tweet on twitter. Join the ceas cspan conversation. Wednesday, live coverage of the Kansas Senate debate between pat roberts and greg orman. We spoke with a reporter from the capital journal about the race. Here is a look. Lot of them. Host i want to go to kansas now. Joining us on the phone is tim carpenter. Talking about the Kansas Senate race. The two candidates are going to be squaring off in a debate and cspan will have that coverage of it on wednesday at 8 00 p. M. Between pat roberts and greg. Rman a guest good morning. I think we will see more of the same from two previous debates. Will go on the attack against the independent candidate, mr. Orman. Host is this debate more important for one of these candidates . Caller thats an interesting question. It is broadcast statewide. The previous debates one was in Johnson County for business executives. The first one was at the state fair. So far, the state fair debate gets the purple ribbon. The wednesday tv debate will be important because more people will have their eyes on these gentlemen. Undecidedshandful of out there and they will decide this election. Both have a lot at stake because polling shows its anybodys race. Host greg orman came out with an ad. Republicans for greg orman. [video clip] i grew up in a republican household we have seen such gridlock in washington. They wont work together. Im ready for a fresh face. Someone who will represent the best interests of kansas. Greg orman will find innovative ways to solve problems. Being an independent gives him the opportunity to find ways to work with both sides to end the gridlock. I will be voting for greg orman. Host a new greg orman at. He has not said whether he will caucus with democrats or republicans. Is he appealing to republicans in kansas . Caller of course he is. He cant win without winning a large number of moderate republican votes. Ad isdividual in the sandy kreger, the state insurance commissioner. She is endorsing the independent. Senator Roberts Campaign is centered on the train mr. Orman as a democrat. Orman as a mr. Democrat. This is opportunity for orman to get a republican out in front of him and show people that republicans can come to the orman camp as well. Host heres a piece in the Washington Times this morning. Senatety backs roberts bid in order to defeat greg orman. Folks had tea Party Campaigning with the incumbent republican. You had gop establishment of also campaigning for him. The key to this is winning the support of martin wolf, who has the tea party backed candidate that greg orman was able to beat heading into this one. What are you hearing about his endorsement . Caller he was a tea party against senator roberts. He was a very challenging primary for this senator. Senator roberts narrowly won. He was a troubled candidate. He had been posted to the internet he was a damaged candidate, but really dug into roberts on a couple of points. Winrder for roberts to coming he had to alienate a bunch of tea party people. The general election sometimes candidates drive to the middle towards victory. Roberts is pushing back to the outside to try to reclaim those tea party votes. Theyparty expressed endorsed roberts. Occur, i would be surprised. It is certainly possible. Host i want to show our viewers s recent ad against the greg orman, trying to president obama. [video clip] debt. Llions in new obamacare. Nearly 10 million americans unemployed. Ack obama says these policies are his candidate greg orman. A vote for greg orman is a vote for the obama agenda. Is that strategy working for pat roberts . Two people in kansas believe that . Caner a couple of points be made. The president is not very popular in a very conservative republican state like kansas. Senator roberts has done everything in his power to try to attach greg orman to the president. In debates and public appearances, roberts will speak more frequently of harry reid and barack obama then he will greg orman. Convince voters that greg orman is a clone of the president of the United States, senator roberts has a much better chance of victory. He doesnt really talk about policy issues or ideas. Its more of a labeling attack. It appears like that is working. The polls are narrowing. Host what is the latest . Caller the latest polling they came out yesterday said that orman was up 3 . That is within the margin of error. Its a tossup. Host we will be watching wednesday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern time. Cspan will have live coverage of the Kansas Senate debate between pat roberts and greg orman. The live Kansas Senate debate airs wednesday night at 8 p. M. Eastern here on cspan. Atnext, the second arKansas Senate debate between mark pryor and his republican challenger tom cotton. This race is listed as a tossup. From the university of arkansas in fayetteville this is one hour. Good evening. I am angela taylor. I would like to welcome our viewers all across arkansas across the river valley in those watching us in jonesboro. And those joining us across the country on cspan. Debatebring you this live from the university of arkansas global campus in fayetteville, arkansas. Our thanks to the university of arkansas for their help with the first and only live televised debate between the two u. S. Senate candidates. The first and only live televised debate between the two u. S. Senate candidates. The debate focuses on three topics education, transportation and economic development, and job creation. 60h candidate will have seconds to answer followed by a 32nd rebuttal. We will make time for a 92nd closing statement. Joining me on stage tonight are michael panelists are my copanelists. And the moderator from talk business and politics, rosie bronx. Our audience of more than 300 invited guests has been asked to remain silent during this debate. I know it will be difficult but i have total faith in our audience tonight to be able to do this. We will make an exception at this moment as we welcome the stage the candidates for the United States senate, tom cotton and mark pryor. [applause] mr. Pryor, mr. Cotton, it is to see this evening and have you in the same room at the same time for a change. Occasion thatrare we decided to invite the state of arkansas and the rest of the nation to file in here. I talked to both of your mothers to get the debate pointers of how to keep you guys under control should you get out of line tonight. I got a lot of recommendations from them. If i call you by your first, middle, and last name, you know you will be a little out of bounds. A drawing earlier today determine the order for opening and closing statements, how that would be and how the questions would be answered and mr. Pryor, you are up first with your opening statement. Thank you. When i talk about arkansas coming first, that is not a slogan for me. Arkansas is written on my heart. You know i love this estate. You know the most important thing i can do is listen. That is what i have done. I have taken your good ideas to washington and we have made a difference. Not so with congressman cotten. Two years ago when he was running for the house, by his own admission, he was down in his own polls and struggling. That changed one day when he got a fedex. He opened it up and looked in there and there were 300,000 in checks from outofstate billionaires. He mustve thought, this is easy. All i have to do is carry their water and they will keep writing checks. That is exactly what he has done. This year it is not 300,000. This year it is over 20 million from the outofstate billionaires that have written to try to buy the selection. Why . Because they know they can count on tom cotton. They know he was the only one in arkansas to increase the age of medicare and Social Security to age 70. He was the only one who made big cuts at arkansas childrens hospitals. Only one to was the vote to double the Interest Rate on Student Loans. That is the difference in this rate. I listen to you and he listen to the billionaires. That is what i mean when i say arkansas comes first. Mr. Cotton, you have 90 seconds to open. I spent the last year traveling around the state, speak to a truck driver, a farmer, a nurse. They are frustrated with washington and they should be. I have not been in washington very long, but i have been there long enough to know washington needs change. It could use more of the comments as i learned growing up on a farm. It could use leadership and courage. Washington simply is not working for arkansas families. Wages are down, prices are up, obamacare is a disaster it, and we are 18 trillion in debt. Parents are worried about their kids future. So am i. My wife and i are expecting our first child. We do not want her baby to have a future that is less prosperous and less safe. That is the future of obamas policies. Less prosperity, lesson safety and security. Senator pryor has voted with 93 of the time and he cast a deciding vote for obama care. There is a better way. Lets get the economy going. Lets for po obamacare. Lets balance the budget. Lets rebuild the military. Fors stop apologizing america. Cotton, the 188 Fighter Wings mission was previously changed. It may have been transferred out of state. The river valley was promised new jobs when drones were added to the mission. What will you do to ensure these jobs return to fort smith . Officerformer infantry who has been in combat, i can tell you there are few things that an infantryman love to hear better than the sound of an a10 warthog coming over the mountain. It is not sleek, it is not modern. It does save lives. Close support for information infantryman. I try to fight it from the very first day that i entered into office. We need a manned up flying mission in arkansas. As your next senator, i will work to restore that because we have some of the lowest cost, highest efficiency Training Facility in the river valley. Im going to work depend again work the pentagon day in day make sure they provide tools for soldiers overseas as well as jobs at home. Thank you. I love working alongside people in fort smith. I started working on the 188. R. A. Tl years ago when b came along. We were able to get that mission converted from f16s to a10s. That is converting from a10s to drones. To answer the question specifically, we need to get faa approval to have those drones fly over this particular airspace and i have been working on that. I dont have that done, but i do know that recently we have been working to save the fire trucks in the emergency vehicles at that airport and that is an important part of keeping the airport open. I love working for fort smith. I love working alongside fort smith it is a very patriotic community. The 188 is a very proud wing. They have a long history. They have done great things. We need to keep them flying and strong. Mr. Cotton, you are entitled to a 32nd rebuttal. 30second rebuttal. It is one of the reasons we having to cut back on forces and arkansas. That is why soldiers deployed are being told when they return, they will not have a job. Mark pryor will not take National Security seriously because he is supported the radical military drawdown. One of the things i talk about to the military leaders in washington is the strategic important of the 188. They have great airspace. They are the crown jewel of this. It does not show up the first time you look at it. Fort chaffee is basically right off the runway. The fact that they can do joint training, the fact that the navy seals are there, the fact they can do close air support, drones, everything they need right there. The second question comes to you first. It is from scott inman. We reported last week that walmart is dropping its Health Insurance for parttime workers, following similar decisions by other Big Companies and they have raised premiums for fulltime workers because of an influx of workers required to buy Health Insurance under the federal Health Care Law. Do you believe this is an unintended consequence of the law was it expected and should the lobby changed . Let me say what i would say to those walmart employees. I dont know all the details about what they are doing and i dont know the inside details on everything. Let me tell you what i would say to walmart employees in arkansas. They now have an option. They have the private option. They can get private insurance, because the state legislature, democrats and republicans, came together to provide the private option. When it comes to the formal care act, the Affordable Care act, people in arkansas preexisting conditions were routinely denied access to coverage. They are one medical emergency away from bankruptcy. The Insurance Companies had all the power. What we needed to do was to get patients back in charge of their health care. I do want to make changes in the law. I have already supported many of those. I dont want to go back to those days. I think that would be a mistake to go back to those days. Mr. Cotton. Lostose workers at walmart their insurance and their premiums went up because of obamacare. Because mark pryor cast the deciding vote for obama care. This is not an unintended consequence. This was the intended consequence of obamacare. They want people out of private insurance and onto government insurance. Those people at walmart or other companies do not want an option. They want their Health Insurance. Mark pryor and barack obama promised them that if you like your plan, you can keep your plan. They did not keep that promise. But so many others, they are feeling pain and stress of losing their insurance and trying to find a better option when they have an exact plan that suited their needs. They took that plan away from them so they could have governmentrun Health Insurance. I dont think that is good for arkansas workers, families, or businesses. 30second rebuttal. You to Pay Attention to what the congressman did not say. He did not say he had any solution for people with preexisting conditions. The reason he does not say that is because he really does not. In other context, he talks about the high risk rule. I am a cancer survivor, as you all know. I have been in the high risk pool. I have lived there. It is no place for any arkansan to be. If we go back to the high risk pool, it is like throwing sick people to the wolves. Arkansas, and think of that senator pryor survived his cancer. But many people were happy with their coverage under the high risk pool before was a limited. They should have been allowed to keep that choice, but obamacare eliminated the choice. Senator pryor enforced changes in the law, but why did he insist then . Barack obamas legislation. The next question is from diana davis. When we speak of entitlement programs, first and foremost this Election Year has been a discussion and focus on food stamps and they are being tied to the farm bill. How long have food stamp spent a part of the farm bill and white you vote against the farm bill . And why did you vote against the farm bill . I voted for the farm bill. Food stamps have been part of the farm bill for decades. It is one constituency working with another 48 deal that was not good for arkansas farmers. I grew up in a farm. My dad taught me that you cannot spend more money than you take in. We are 18 trillion in debt. The food stamp will, which is what i would call the farm bill, is a most a trillion dollars of new spending. Farmers can expect to get one half of 1 on the return on that built and 75 of arkansas farmers get no benefit. What we need is a farm bill that focuses on the needs of farmers and i supported that. And a food stamp reform bill that gets people food when they need it, but also eliminates waste and abuse and the institutionalized fraud that you see in states like massachusetts and illinois. Mark pryor insists on doing things the old way. If you like the status quo, mark pryor and barack obama are on your side. I did votehe reasons for it as well as all the other members of the arkansas delegation, except for congressman cotten, is because we did a billion dollars in food stamps reform. We addressed 8 billion in this bill. This is an exa