Good point. Our state constitution has a provision so that if you are selected you can still run a four the office at the same time. But the fact that he is trying to hold on as a safety vest for the likely proposition that he loses the guy running for Congress Come he is running a Great Campaign against paul ryan. He is on television right now. I think robb is one to give paul ryan a run for his money. Paul ryan has not come back to talk to the constituents, to talk to the people whose votes he is seeking for congress. Host this is our look at wisconsin, the battleground state. Joining us is mike tate, Wisconsin Democratic party chairman. On our line for republicans, adele, wisconsin. Go ahead. Caller we have it Tammy Baldwin running for the United States senate here and wisconsin. I believe she is also what we call the house of representatives, did she give up her thing and there as the house of representatives when she ran . I am not sure. But i want to say, i am really you talk about medicare. When they took away 716 billion of medicare, that scares me. Also, how can you broach or stand up for, i am sorry, but our president. And in benghazi, when that whole group allied for weeks on what happened. When the whole group lied. When the new two hours later the truth. I am sorry for you, sir. And you talk about spending money, about a recall, 13 million before the recall. Ridiculous. Thank you. Guest theres a lot going on and that col. Let us see what i can do to address it. Tammy baldwin is representing the district since 1998. She did give up her seat to run for the United States senate. The democrat is one to the next member of congress. And reference to the 716 billion, that was money that was allocated to actually defray costs and make medicare solvent for a little longer. It is the biggest lie that the republicans tell, that the president stroll 716 from medicare. He talked to a bunch of people and said, if we move these costs, we are going to make it solvent for a little longer. Was such a good idea that paul ryan put it in its own budget. It is a line the keep selling because they do not have anything real to offer the people of wisconsin right now. And it is unfortunate that they keep repeating this fly over and over again. That the president stole 716 million. Senior should be afraid people as young as myself should be afraid, the republican plan to turn medicare into a voucher care. It is a benefit we have provided for so long, now we would have a voucher or there would go out, Purchase Health care and likely have to make of the difference in costs. It could cost seniors up to 6,000 a year out of pocket. I do not think that is the right way to go. That is the way the republicans want to go, that is their idea. I think that is the wrong place to take our retirees, our seniors. It is why i think we are going to defeat mitt romney and paul ryan and reelect the president. And Tammy Baldwin will be a stalwart champion for Social Security. Piercing Tommy Thompsons campaign is about 1. 30 billion in cash. Is that a concern to you . As far as the numbers are concerned . Theres been a lot of spending in this campaign. I do not a scared or deterred by how much money the republicans have. Tommy thompson, after you left wisconsin went off to serve in the george w. Bushs cabinet. But one of the reasons i think his campaign has so much money, and you see so much outside spending is that he cut this deal on a Medicare Part d where he made it so that the government cannot negotiate with the Prescription Drug companies were lower drug prices. I think this is the ultimate payback for tommy, giving such a great giveaway to the Prescription Drug companies. Tommy thompson is not the same guy that people remember from his heyday in 1980s. That may be what is special interest friends are spending money as a reward for tommy for making himself so much wealthier. Host nate, missouri, go ahead. Caller romney is a businessman. Whenever he says, he is born to come to the president s way of thinking. You saw that in the last debate. We set up here and talk about, well, about the president and he doesnt have any idea. The president knows that whatever he is going to do, romney is going to copy it. The first debate they said romney won that debate. The seventh or third debate, romney doesnt win the debate, they do not want to talk about the debate. And then you polls, ryan i have not seen one paul where he is leading. And his own home state, they do not even want to make that a point. He cannot even when his own state, and i watched the polls all year. And the only reason why the republicans do half as good as they do, especially in a lot for college, is because a lot of the states like michigan, pennsylvania, a lot of the states up there, even wisconsin, is following for the president. And there will not move him over and keep him in a neutral,. Host can ask theres a usa today survey out talking about what people perceive as the victory of all three debates. And they say mitt romney. Guest i think the debate turned opportunity for people to hear from their candidates. And last debate mitt romney this is one thing when he is running in the primary. Toit is a completely different thing when he is behind in the polls. To moderate his extreme positions. It is hard to see where he stands on womens issues, taxes. He does not really tell the truth. And i think i do not know if we have ever had a president ial candidate in modern times a display such falsehoods in the debate as we have seen from mitt romney. Host on our line for republicans, jessie. You are on. Go ahead. Caller good morning. I am calling to talk about jobs if you do not mind. I am a kind of a republican. I am not really happy with my choice for president ial this year. But i am not really happy with obama either. He keeps on talking about jobs and what he is doing for america. But the only thing i have seen him do is run some program that takes care of a select group of people in this country. They are overpriced. These guys are making a fortune. It doesnt cost 30 million to do two miles worth of road. Is a just not right. Why is anyone why isnt anyone sitting down with the retail companies, and instead of farming money out to other countries, people that come in, and giving them money to develop holiday i cannns and convenience stores, basically for free guest president inherited a terrible mess. This country was absolutely hemorrhaging jobs. The Unemployment Rate is now down below 8 . It is headed in the right direction. We will keep going. The problem with the republican theory of government, you give of the money to the people at the top, and wealth will trickle down. It sounds good in theory, but it has never worked in the history of the country, i would argue the history of the world. It is an economic theory that makes the rich richer, while the people in the middle class are struggling to get into the middle class and get left behind by the side of the trail. The reason why the president is on the right track, the reason why we have had months of job growth is because we are investing in the middle class, we are investing into education, innovation and infrastructure. And making sure that we are going to lead a transition to clean energy and that will create thousands of new jobs. You really do see a clear difference between where the president will take us and between mitt romneys ideas. Host jay on our line for independents. Caller hello. Howre you doing . I want to ask a question. I am an independent. And i tend to look for some point of honesty in the campaigns. And i saw an interview during the Democratic Convention that was interviewing the Massachusetts Governor of the proceeding governor to mitt romney. And he was asked about his transition period into the administration. He said that was easy. They took all of the hard drives out of the massachusetts government computers. And for the life of me i cannot think of what legitimate reason you would take all of the hard drives of all of the government computers. It is beyond my comprehension. Host on our line for independents, maryland. Caller i am independent, but a little bit more progressive than most democrats. I tend to vote on the democratic ticket. You have a candidate in mitt romney hill, his entire focal point is fiscal issues and creating jobs. But when you look at his plan, it does not make sense. I am curious as to how someone would consider supporting this guy. His campaign oppose the plan is to increase the tax rate or lower the tax rate. And cut the debt. But it doesnt really add up when you think about it. We talked about the deductions. He refuses to tell us which deductions he would close. And even if you close all of the deductions that were there to close, it still would not make up for the lost in, that we would have with the tax rate lower. Host the question is caller the question i have is, how someone would support a candidate whose plan doesnt make sense. Guest if i could add to that, i think the caller makes a really good point. Which is, mitt romneys economic plan is give the people at the very top, the people have been doing very well, give them more money. And what you have got to do is replace that, you have to raise taxes in the middle class. What you basically do is to lock up the government. And you have to start cutting things, whether it is families that rely on Home Mortgage interest reduction as a way to make it and be a homeowner, weather is pell grant for students to study hard but cannot afford college, his whole plan, obviously in my opinion, doesnt enable the country to grow. And is an example of an Economic Policy that hasnt worked in this country. It has been tried other times and it failed. I understand the appeal, i understand it, if you give more to the people at the top, they will do more and it will employ people down the line. Has never worked. And i think that is the big problem that republicans face is the simple fact that their economic plans would not grow this country. Host 7. 3 unemployment in wisconsin, what does that do for voters . Guest it is been tough here. We lost the gm plant during the Bush Administration. We lost manufacturing jobs. We have had a governor who was had a regressive agenda that is not a lot of jobs to grow and flourish here. I do think that people in wisconsin know that things are Getting Better, we are turning the corner. Our Unemployment Rate is a little lower than it is a nationally. And i think they understand that this country is headed in the right direction. We are headed in the right track. We came from a big hole. The country has dug themselves of this whole. Host your job is it more difficult because of the recall election . Guest i do not think so. I do not know that it has an impact one way or the other. Host and so this is mike tate of the Wisconsin Democratic. Arty chairm one more call, ohio, on our line for republicans, barrette. Qr margatite. Caller there are so many people that are having to work part time jobs. Or are working two temporary jobs, trying to make ends meet because they are not hiring fulltime. Fullhey cant these as one job. I do not get that. The pride that obama can have on that. I like you skipped over benghazi. People are ignoring this and finding out the truth about how obama has lied about benghazi. And it is born to hit him in the face whether or not he is president again or what. As you guys think that you can hide everything from the United States people. Host go ahead. Guest i think the president has been very clear that we know that some people that have gotten back to work have not been able to find fulltime work. Unfortunately that is not helped by governors like you have an ohio and wisconsin who go out of their way to get organized labor and make it easier to provide healthcare benefits. The president is doing a loss to help that. With respect to foreign policy, i think that the record has been clear. I think this is a desperate act in a Desperate Campaign in the closing days to try to say that the president lied to the American People. I think that is not true, it is offensive to the good men and women who are neither democrats or republicans but get up and work for the National Security of this country. Host what are you going to be watching for in your state on Election Night . Guest in wisconsin, is a unique blend. About to turn that your base democratic voters and make sure you are getting the votes from the swing voters, from the milwaukee suburbs or the green bay, across markets. We want to see big turnouts in the madison area. 20 to hold our own markets like green bay. Is a swing market. I love wisconsin. Is a fabulous state to watch politics and. To be a top state politically. But it is a great formula to put together a democratic victory. Host joining us from milwaukee, mike tate, Wisconsin Democratic party chairman. Thank you for your time. Guest thank you. Host coming up next, we reduce switch over to our america by the numbers series. Housing in the United States. Joining us is raemeka mayo from the u. S. Census bureau and josh boak to talk about housing. That is coming up. I like cspan coverage because it is well diversified. It covers all sides, independent, democratic and republican views. Cspan is not boring. It is so topical. There are Current Events which is very interesting to me. I am a current event junkie. And i love what is going on right now. They are talking about issues that are important right now. Michael watch is cspan. Created by americas Cable Companies and 1979. Brought to you by your television provider. With people still talking about this months president ial debate, cspan student can the documentary competition once middle and High School Students to send a message to the president in a short video, tell us what is the most important issue the president should consider in 2013. For your chance to win the grand prize of 5,000. Cspan student cam competition is open to students in grades 6 through 12. Find out more at studentcam. Org. We are not very proficient. The dutch as well. During the very first days of the war, the japanese would occupy singapore, there would occupy the philippines and american possession they needed that oil to continue the war. So they occupy these areas. By the same token, the americans and the philippines were not only defeated by the japanese, but in many ways humiliated. This is a death march. 76,000 prisoners. About 11,000 of them were americans. 7000 of them would die in this 60 miles, 70 mile march there were forced on. And the way in which there were treated was nothing less than brittle. This is the real thing. The japanese be headed many of them. Tossed many of them into the path of oncoming tanks. Many of those american soldiers and of course the filipinos who were joining them, they died of starvation. This was war in its worst form. The americans are not going to forget that. Their plan to pay the japanese back. I would make the point now that the war in the pacific was in many ways a racial war. It became a racial war. The japanese mistreated the americans and the americans and turn would return the favor. This weekend on lectures in history, world war ii, with gary. Saturday night at 8 00 p. M. And midnight on cspan 3, American History tv. Washington journal continues. Host every weekend at this time we take at look would take a look of figures from the u. S. Census bureau. This time housing in the United States. Joining us raemeka mayo, with the u. S. Census bureau. We are also joined by josh boak of the fiscal times. On housing in the United States. Raemeka mayo, when it comes to the u. S. Census bureau, collect information when it comes to housing on three levels. Residential construction, residential sales and Construction Spending. Why is that important . Guest just to give you a brief overview, we collect data on residential construction, which is Building Permits, Housing Starts and housing completions. That is collected partially funded by housing funding urban development. How many units have been authorized to build in the United States. And new residential sales provides information on how many Housing Units have been sold and a majority of new homes a first currently for sale. And Construction Spending provides an permission on Construction Spending for the public and private sectors. In looking at that time it gives you a good overview of the measure of how housing and construction are doing over all for the United States. And again, this data is always available from the mobil added that we have. It gives you uptodate information on all of those indicators. When they are released and that sort. When looking at the data, many indicators have been improving, or appear to be improving over time. I would say the most recent release but we have had with the residential construction, the Building Permits and Housing Starts have increased over time. Host and that is with state authorized Construction Companies or whatever to start projects when it comes to Housing Starts . Guest that is how it works. A person or a contractor would go out