Anything. Its that they want us to look for agreement. The Senate Republican leader and the president reflecting on the Midterm Elections. Today, we hear from the speaker of the house, john boehner. The News Conference will be covered live here on cspan. Is nowrning, the senate set for a lameduck session this month. Republicans look at what went right on election day and democrats question what went wrong. We will be following your comments on the Midterm Elections, what it means for you, the congress, and the president. What was the message to washington . The numbers are on the screen. As always, we are taking your comments on social media, and you can join us on facebook. Or send us a tweet. Or you can send us an email. The front pageh of the louisville courierjournal. As Mitch Mcconnell is the next is poised to be the next Senate Majority leader. Late yesterday, she issued this statement to members of congress. She said in part, our won a hardfought campaigns supported by an committed to their constituents and strengthened by the tenacious leadership of israel. Unfortunately we lost some valued members of the house, but we must continue to fight for the middleincome families who are the backbone of our democracy. There is important to do to jumpstart the class, which well put can do with bipartisanship and fairness. That statement yesterday from the former speaker of the house, democrat nancy pelosi. Cowritten by john boehner, the speaker of the house, and Mitch Mcconnell, the republican leader in the wall street journal we will get to your comments in just a moment. Here is more from Senate Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell as he talks about what changes institutionally he expects to see in the senate in january. But another thing another thing that is not astonishing to all of you that the committees need to be relevant again. You have by partisans a bipartisanve constituency for moving forward. Having said that, there are differences. We will certainly be voting on things as well that we think the administration is not fond of. Senate republican leader Mitch Mcconnell and the front times e what message did washington get from the election . Anne isining us joining us. Caller now it is up to the republicans. Last time, they didnt do anything. The reason they won is because of gerrymandering, he been here in tennessee. Even herehe polls in tennessee. A lot of the polls are closed that were supposed to be open. Polls in areas that were supposed to be open for people to go, they wasnt open. That needs to be looked into, too. In northnk is carolina. Francis in North Carolina. Caller good morning. The reason im calling as i want to express my opinion on the election. Hopefully, it will convey a message to the president that we dont like his policies. I have nothing against him. I think he is a wonderful man. He is a wonderful husband and a wonderful father, but i dont like his policies. And im hoping that he gets the we are tired of harry reid blocking all of the legislation and wont let any amendments go through. Harry reid is not a king as far as i know. We dont collect keying in this government. King in this government. I hope he gets the message and not only he, but his party, begin to work with the other party and get things done. Host francis, thanks for the call. One of our viewers is saying when you get tear of taxation. I do not use as much resources as walmart and shell. Let me go back to this story about Speaker Boehner and Mitch Mcconnell. They have something they want to focus on. Next, joining us from tyler texas, democrat line, good morning. Caller good morning. Im calling, because living in texas, there were big lies told about jobs in this state. I live in the city where we lost most of our big companies. They are gone. I believe that i thought would never have left ear. But 40 years of republican governors, a lot of things have happened to texas. A lot of people dont know unless you live in the state and know what is going on. Democrats, they do not rally around our president. He is doing a good job. We need to take a look at our own selves in america about race. Its funny how when people go to war and we send out our men and women, when they get over there in the middle east fighting isis thoseaeda, whoever, countries dont see colors. We are the only country that still sees color. We are the United States of america. We are americans. When they kill our young men and women, they are killing americans. I want to see what the congress and the house is going to do now. Host thanks for the call. Politico is reporting this money on what this means for democrats. And the title is the democrats lost generation. The party is depleted of not just his major league talent, prospects. Cruiting it is a setback that will require more than one election cycle to repair. There will be difficulty producing new stars in states like kentucky. Democrats hope to have new heavyweight in blue democratic states like Maryland GovernorAnthony Brown who lost, and in maine with governor mike michaud. Cat is joining us from rhode island, independent line. What is your message to washington . Caller the message to democrats is they have abandoned their base. The base leans left. The Democratic Leaders have been moving to the right. They are totally spineless. I left the Democratic Party in september, 2011 because democrats will not fight for us. The Republican Leadership definitely fights for the base. But the Democratic Leadership ran away from any of their competence, they ran away from their base. Why a the the why should a base go along with leaders that abandon them . Host thank you for the call. The heads of the house and Senate Campaign committee, including senator jerry moran of kansas talk about the more immediate issue before lawmakers in the lameduck session. Here is what he had to say. I think it is important we do the things that are necessary to govern a country in the lameduck session. At the issues that are not required to be determined now, not required to be determined in the lameduck session should be considered by new members of congress, the ones that the voters just elected. I think you will see us doing things that are necessary to operate the government, certainly the appropriations bill is one that would be front and center. And i cannot imagine the republicans would not be supportive of providing the necessary money, for example, to combat evil in west africa as well as the United States. Potential nomination for attorney general, if the president decides to put that forth in his majority before the new congress . This seems irrelevant to me. When the rules were changed, republicans dont have much to say about the confirmation of executive officers when only 51 votes are required. Host that from senator jerry moran yesterday. By the way, all of these events are available on our website at www. Cspan. Org. We welcome our listeners on cspan radio. The question we are asking as you look at the Election Results, what is the message to washington . One comment says republican dictionary probusiness equals antiworker. Theres an interesting map, for example, in northern virginia, a democrats did well, but also republicans did well. And ed gillespie narrowly lost the election to senator mark warner, although that race will not be officially certified for another two weeks. And inside the Washington Post from yesterdays News Conference, the president in the east room. Obama looks to the last two years of presidency with resolve. President wayne is joining us from shreveport, louisiana, republican line. Good morning. Caller good morning, cspan. This election is about stopping obama. We dont want to deal with obama. We want to stop him. We are living in tearing me already. This campaign was about stopping obama. Republicans dont want to deal with them. I dont want to do with him. And this country dont want to deal with him. Obama is destroying america. Deal with reality. You still going to be president for the next two years. How should republicans deal with that . Caller were going to have to the senate is going to have to stop him somewhere along the lines. Ted cruz said he will do something. And all of his other garbage about Climate Change. He wants to sell all of our energy. This man is a man that a madman. If American People can see that commodity was wrong with them goes up we are living under an occupational government. We know that, this country is being occupied by communist. Republicans were elected to stop obama. They dont want to deal with him. From louisiana, thanks for the call. Peggy has this on the twitter page. Conflictns into something, like lowering Corporate Tax rates. But they will blow up any chance of they go too far with the Affordable Care act. And this morning on the wall obamaurnal, boehner and mcconnell pledged to Work Together, but its is they wont give up on key policy goals. Posed to the was quest does to the president yesterday [video clip] i would enjoy having some bourbon with senator mcconnell. I dont know what his providence preferences. To this point, hes never made a promise that he couldnt deliver. Process the legislative well. The obvious he knows his caucus well. Hes always given me realistic assessments of what he and get what he can get through his caucus and what he cannot. I think we can have a productive relationship. Host that is the president yesterday in the east room. Upperis joining us from marlboro, maryland. Good morning. Caller good morning. In yourite a surprise governors race in your state. Caller it was a surprise, and the reason it was is electric did not go out to vote that particular day. Regardless of your race, black, brown, or white, if you e a party that that is not going to participate, that is what will happen. If you go back to 2008, and you forward,rself [indiscernible] the economy is much better than it was. As we said before, this country and for someward reason the american electorate sat on their butts for the selection. Just over one third vote in this election. I understand. Im a g. I. , and you have to let the folks do what they do, but the Republican Party has to do their part. Two thirds of elected of eligible voters stayed home. The president is back at the white house today as he issues a medal of honor ceremony. We will have live coverage of that event. Served atsomeone who gettysburg. And then off to australia next week. Back in washington the following monday. Caller on the democrats line, good morning. Caller good morning. The independent who voted republican. Did they Pay Attention to the numbers, or was it just because of ebola . What was the reason for them to vote republican . Host how do you answer your own question . Basically, i think it is a racial issue. You know, they dont like a black president of the house. They focus on too much bad news, focusing on ebola, focusing on isis, forgetting about how bush attacked iraq and gave wrong. Nformation that is my opinion. Host thanks very much for the call. On our facebook page, marjorie has this point. She says red states voted red, no surprise. Whoe they were few stayed up late in the midterms. 2016 will have more blue state of play and a president ial election to decide. Things will change, for better or worse, remains to be seen. This election was not a message to washington. It was a message to the apathetic voters who decided to sit this one out. Shame on them. ,ary on the republican line good morning. Morning. Ood a couple of things i would like to hit on, first, since president obama just report released those guys from guantanamo because he is running out of drone targets. The other thing is immigration. Weve got an immigration problem. And that is that of funding of plannedng , the birthright citizenship, and nafta. That is just what i see. I mean, defunding land yearshood i worked 15 with Health Workers and the first thing they said they wanted was birth control. Margaret writes about what is ahead for congress. She writes about a couple of issues. Throughks extended 2015. The irs has warned that failure to act by december could cause a delay in the opening of the Filing Season for some taxpayers. If congress does wait until next year, could make filing more difficult and republicans could face political fallout. She also writes about the keystone xl pipeline from canada through the u. S. To my divisive throughthe u. S. The u. S. , a divisive issue in the u. S. A decision was delayed until after the election, and yesterday the president was asked about it again. [video clip] there is an independent process. Its moving forward, and i will let the process play out. Ive given some parameters in terms of how i think about it. Ultimately, is this going to be good for the American People . Is it going to be good for their pocketbook . Is it actually going to create jobs and reduce gas prices that have been coming down . And is it going to be, on net, something that will reduce Climate Change . That is something we have to grapple with. There is a pending case before a nebraska judge about siding. The process is moving forward. I will note that while this debate about an 80 and oil has been raging keep in mind, this is canadian oil, not u. S. Oil. While that debate has been some of thee seen biggest increases in American Oil Production and natural Gas Production in our history. Host the president on the keystone xl pipeline yesterday at the News Conference. And he also said i hear you, that is the headline on the front page of the Washington Post. The new class of 2014, all republican seat senators won except for kerry peters. Ani ernst in iowa winning by point. Tom cotton in arkansas winning by 17 points. Cory gardner in colorado winning by three points. Thom tillis winning by two points. Steve daines in montana, winning by 18 points. Joining us from attleboro, massachusetts, independent line. Good morning. Caller good morning. There are a couple of things i have. Number one, how come the person that is running have a record, and get a person that goes off to vote that had a record and cleaned it cannot vote . Number two, this whole thing in the next two years is the fact that we are smarter than you think, republicans. And democrats that went against the system. Now thatll you right we are waiting for you to do something. You turned around and said that the time that you got in there up until now that you were going to do this. You are waiting to build this for the selection so that you could get your guys in there. Well, you got your guys in there. You are going to be a donothing, go Nothing Congress again . You are going to do nothing for us, the American People . Well, we will fix you when it comes 2016. We will vote your butts out and you wont stay in and you will show your true colors, because your true colors are going to come right through. You are not for the people. Host did you vote in the Midterm Elections . No, i didnt. I got busy. Im crippled. But i will tell you right now, im so angry at the way things went, because nobody they say it is a obamas deal. No way. Didybody sat up there and nothing and watch it happen because they said they were going to. God help you all. Ost a quick question why did Martha Coakley lose in the governors race . Caller well, i think the Koch Brothers came out and helped back it. Plus, you also have the paper, the boston globe. Committed crimes. Money. And shes investigating him still. The woman is clean as far as i know. She did Everything Possible to help the American People. Host im going to move on. I appreciate your analysis. This is from laura, who talked about another surprise state, a blue state, maryland, where the Lieutenant Governor lost in his bid to succeed martin omalley. Laura says, Anthony Brown ran a terrible campaign and omalley impose too many new taxes and fees. Thats what happened in maryland. And this from the Washington Times here are a couple of quotes from her piece. Have one races across the nation this week, they lost but a few. Randy is joining us from millington, michigan. Is Election Results, what the message to washington . Caller good morning. I would like to start by thanking you and all the folks behind the scenes for bringing up the bringing us this great program. It. we appreciate thank you. Caller youre welcome. This is an interesting election. I dont know what the messages. You have people voting in medical marijuana and then turning around and it letting republican representatives. You have red states raising minimum wage when they have the know, to vote on it, you democratic ideas. What i was on the school board i thesomebody asked me once first time president obama was to our, they came over little group and asked me directly, i bet you voted for that obama, did new . I turned and said, i will tie you one thing, ive never voted for a loser. Because once they are elected, they are our leader. Weve all got to take a breat