Congressional leaders need to look in the mirror after a disastrous election day. They stay tuned senator rich indian who served as dnc chairman 20082011 said his family pitches for needs and a serious discussion wyatt got voted out and reflecting the mood in the old senate cheevers this morning a tweet hear from senator mitchell rascal mcc k mccaskill and will know for harry reid for leader. We will know the results later on today and later today the senate will gavel in at 2 15 eastern and shortly thereafter the gene amber will hold confirmation of the 3 two District Court nominees a vote to limit debate on a housepassed bill that authorizes a federal law that helps lowincome families the for child care. Looking ahead to next week harry reid said votes tuesday for two key pieces of legislation, one that would overhaul the government surveillance powers, the other is a bill authored by senator Mary Landrieu. You heard a lot of debate on this yesterday, she sees in runoff in louisiana. That would authorize the Keystone Pipeline, and the challenger in that runoff, congressman bill capacity introduced keystone built in the chamber. The house will begin debate on that, the rule for that this afternoon with a final vote likely tomorrow. The house voted nick vito and keystone bill until Environmental Review is done, completed by the state department. For a look at all this, preview to those elections and what is ahead for keystone we spoke to a capitol Hill ReporterRon Washington journal. To set the stage as far as the votes, specifically looking at keystone. Mike willis is with the hill. Mike lillis, good morning. Can you give us a little bit of background on scheduled votes on keystone and how this happened . This is naked politics at its best, something the republicans have been pushing for a number of years. Obama has delayed it and belated. He was hoping to get out of the white house without having to deal with and what happened is the Louisiana Senate runoff is forcing him to address it. No one anticipated this would happen in a lame duck. They believed the race would be close. When the republicans said lets vote on this one more time, this is not the first time they voted on it. A pressing issue getting in the headlines. In that Runoff Election against Mary Landrieu is going to be the cosponsor, we cant let Mary Landrieu go back over the holiday and run against this guy who just passed this thing which is very popular in the state. Harry reid and the democrats can match that. And so both candidates the back to the state and say they stopped the legislation, were successful getting an offer of the floor and probably pass those chambers and it will create a headache for barack obama who will have to decide what to do with it. Host what will happen on the outside starting today. When is the senate expected to act on it . The house will bring it up before the end of the week. But they will delay it a little bit. I have not seen a calendar vote, and is this bill going to head to a desk . For a number of years, he waited on the state number of reviews and a belated and still waiting to see how it will impact the environment and the economy and they dont damage they keep saying we dont have a verdict yet. That is an argument republicans reject out of hand. They say this has been reviewed and how many more reviews do we need before we know this thing creates jobs is their argument. It is going to push the envelope. When it lands on the desk with democratic support, it is going to force Barack Obamas hand. He is a lame duck so we dont know what he will do with it but no indication from the white house what he will do. Host mike lillis with the hill, a congressional reporter about Keystone Pipeline and the. We ask you on the program to talk about leadership elections in the house and senate and what is expected to take place today. Can we start in the house as far as the scheduled events and what the outcome will be . Guest for all the talk of this election being such a shakeup there will not be too many faces back on capitol hill in the next congress in terms of leadership in either party. The house in the House Republicans met last night, candidates made a pitch, i say candidates but there arent a lot of elections. No one is being challenged. John boehner will come back as speaker, Majority Leader Kevin Mccarthy with conference catherine rogers, elections are happening today. On the democratic side, same thing. Nancy pelosi, any lawyer, jim cliburn, joe crowley, on the democratic side running unopposed. Those are not until next week, those are tuesday but it is possible a challenger could emerge but even if one does it is not expected to be any kind of real challenge. It would just be a symbolic thing. Host on the house side couple people are campaigning to be head of the Republican Study Committee. What is it and who is making the via for the position . Guest Republican Study Committee is the conservative wing. Honestly i havent followed that closely at all. I dont know whos running for that right now. We do have the positive policy committee, James Langford went to the Senate Following in his footsteps candidates have emerged. Tom read in terms of the Study Committee i dont know the answer. Host when it comes to the lowest board, what are the scheduled events between now and what congress has to take . What will happen in both bodies aside from keystone which you talked about . On number of things must pass. You have a Defense Authorization bill, a Government Spending bill that has to be done by december 11th, big package of tax breaks, the tax expenditures. Both sides went through repeal a ban on Internet Access taxes. Those are things that will happen. Because of the elections you will see a power shift next year taking control of the senate. Republicans want to do as little as possible this year while they are still the minority in the senate and push the tougher fights until next year when they will have more control and more seats in the house. Democrats on the flip side want to get as much done and jam as much through as they can before the holidays so you will see a lot of nominations. You saw that yesterday. First day back in the senate, a lot of nominations, 150 administrative nominations sitting out there waiting for action and republicans will stall, democrats will rush. How much gets done we are not quite sure. The keys dont sing is a wild, which will deny a lot of things. A lot of that will be pushed into next year but the things i mentioned will pass. Host mike lillis with the hill, thank you. The scene from a short while ago in the Capital Visitor Center area, the incoming part of the incoming class of 114th congress, the freshman class of 114th congress and the orientation happening today on capitol hill. A little bit of advice. A great session. I know what you all said. That is true. I have to tell you about that. Never been involved in that. They are out there in great numbers. Incoming class of freshmen of the u. S. House for the 114th congress are briefing. We have cameras over there and we will get any reaction from the incoming members if they come to the cameras. Outside the u. S. Senate chambers waiting to hear from potential remarks from leaders of republicans and democrats. Democrats began their leadership elections at 9 00 eastern in the Old Senate Chamber in the mansfield room. Republicans began their deliberations. We will bring you any comments live as we are able, the senate itself doesnt get it until 2 15 eastern. Our cameras are over capitol hill. We have a briefing coming up at 10 45 this morning, democratic leader, House Democratic leader nancy pelosi, we will have that live on cspan2 once it gets underway in 35 minutes or so. Until then the conversation from this mornings washington journal. Our first guest is representative tim ryan from ohio, the budget and appropriations committee, welcome. Can you give your assessment of what happened this past election season and what happened to democrat specifically . Do i have to . You know, we got our buts kept. It was clear in ohio and clear across the country. My real concern is i dont think we necessarily talk about the things that we have done that the president has done and democrats of dung, stabilizing the economy. Bending the cost curve on health care, gas prices are low, those kinds of positive things and i dont think we talked about the big pieces about growing the economy, creating jobs, increasing income, securing pensions, making sure people have a board ability. When democrats dont talk about economics we usually lose elections. We look at the history of the party we dont do that. Voters didnt come out to vote, and why they were going to vote, there are still huge levels of economic insecurity, huge levels of economic inequality and if we dont talk to average voters, democrats, not just democrats but on the sidelines, we dont get them out to vote. How do we grow the economy . We should talk about it because democrats growing the economy, i was at a meeting in cleveland, ohio at this round table and he says i have never done as well as i did under bill clinton. We know how to do this, how to put the Public Private partnerships together. We recognize the value of investing in our economy whether it is transportation, infrastructure, education, research. Ease of the things that have always groaned the economy. We need to say this is what we do for people who carry lunch bucket. We dont talk about that. We have the kind of elections we have last night. Host could your leadership have done Something Different in preparing a message this election cycle . Guest i would have liked to talk more about economics. We did talk about it. We didnt talk about where we were in 20089, how we got here, we didnt talk about how we saved the auto industry. We didnt talk about those things that really stabilize us, we didnt talk about the stock market. Those are all positives but we have a long way to go. Why would we turn the keys back to a party who got us in that predicament in the first place. Look at what we have done, campaign on our successes. I think moving forward leaning to talk about how we are the party of Economic Growth, Economic Opportunity and halloween build a new economy. Everything should sit and revamp her contract. That should be what means do. We grow the economy, we know how to undo it. If tax cuts for primarily the top 1 were going to be great for the economy we would be experiencing it right now. I always said after the republicans controlled congress and president bush was in we didnt have to think about supply side economics or what it would look like. We experienced it. The regulation of the financial institutions, tax cuts across the board, with this investment and we saw the collapse. We didnt have to pretend what this would look like, we experience it and we shouldnt go back and the democrats need to have confidence in what we do to grow the economy. Host nancy pelosi did an interview that i dont believe what happened the of the night was a wave election. Was no waive approval for the current republicans. They won the election but there was no wave of approval for anybody. Do you agree . In the sense there was an approval for the republicans, in ohio there was no message, there was no message from the republicans. Was we like puppies and Senior Citizens and women and those were generally the commercials but i dont think that was necessarily an affirmative vote. She is correct in that but it was a whale, theres no question. In ohio we got our buttss kicked and around the country wasnt what we wanted. Host is president obama one of the reasons why you lost the election . There is plenty of blame to go around. The problem is we didnt talk about president obama in the sense of his successes too, the stock market, bending the cost curve, in ohio and other places they have health care, protecting people from not getting denied health care because of a preexisting condition, young people can stay on their parentss insurance. Those are positive things. The stock market is higher than it has ever been. We couldnt even get out the 40 that approve of obama. You get caught in the middle of the roads a year wont embrace the president who has had some successes, the second term, he is not going to be as popular but even those people werent coming out to vote because you are not even talking about the things you did right and you are not increasing the policies and so we wont come out and vote for you. We saw a dropoff in mahoney county in ohio, 20,000 voters from the 2010 election, 2010 was the hardest we have been hit as far as waive elections in ohio in recent history so my largest county we were 20,000 plus votes, i dont think we were necessarily talking in the grand scheme about why you should get out and vote and why it is important. Host the representative from ohio joining us, the budget and appropriations committee, if you want to ask questions 585388 zero for democrats, 5853881 for republicans and for independents 3882. Lets hear from brenda in houston, texas. You are on with representative tim ryan. Caller am i glad to be talking to you. I watched you for years now. For as long as you have been in congress and i applaud that you have always been positive, you have always been supportive of this president. However, i did volunteer for the Democratic Party, this past late summer and relief fall, and i have to tell you the writing was on the wall even with our democrat constituents. They were very upset about this immigration thing. I think that really hurt us and i tell you what hurt me as the black woman, i will find it very hard to vote for hillary because of the way the Democratic Party, i wont say all of you guys, we know the ones, how they treated this president. This is beyond humiliation and i am very upset about it. We are democrats. We will have our disagreements. I disagree with the president as well. I think you cant run from what youve done. If we did we believed in it and we thought was best for our people and our constituents, then you stand by it. If the president was part of that you stand by him as well and i think you get credit from voters for saying we wanted to do health care. There are some issues but look at what is happening. Started to bend the cost curve of a little bit. It is good for everybody, and the insurance companies, and then getting covered, and those hit home and what people call my Congressional Office about. In ohio. We did something about it and we should be proud of that. Host republican line in pennsylvania. Caller good morning, everybody. We are in the low 30s for the first time, a little chilly. Just want to make a quick comment. A complete split completely for republicans, completely against democrats on the mid line but after the beginning of the obama presidency, it is a shift and the first couple comments you opened up with, how we kind of brought the cost of health care down. Actually, this week if you had been purchasing a lunch with any of the news we followed on the cost to the american student, i am a Health Care Provider and i know the insurance companies, in fact we cannot increase the pocket amount everybody pays. I know my husband is an employer and we have cut hours down. We have laid off as well as many other players in the area. That is the first comment, and a stable economy. How many do we have . Full time greases part time. We dont have a stable economy. The economy has declined. No employer wants to hire an employee. I wonder why. The democrats had costs and as far as the economic stability and oil and gas, very recently i can think back before the obama administration, only 2 for a quarter of gas. Guest the National Numbers are in, about spending the cost curve on health care and i think that is important. I dont think you can just say the health care isnt working out the way we want it to. Some folks act like it was hunky dory before the Affordable Care act. Everything was perfect with the Health Care System prior to. We brought some justice to it. Is a perfect . Absolutely not ultimately will be good for the economy because we are starting to reduce health care costs. Think about innovation, we want young people, people in our economy to be able to go out and innovate, started business. When you are tied to your employer for health care reasons, you need Health Care Coverage that they provide, an innovative and hire people. With the Affordable Care act you know you have access, you are more inclined to take a risk. And to support the entrepreneur is that are out there in a variety of different ways. The Health Care Bill as an opportunity to do that. Things were not perfect before. We can revise history, we brought some justice to the Health Care System, lets get back to work and fix what needs to be done. Ocala broad statements saying we talked about the part of the stupidity of the american voter. What do you think of those statements and how does it affect discussions on the Affordable Care act . The American People are not stupid, period. I think the point that needs to be made, these are complicated issues. Theres no way to reform the Health Care System without having to have details. If you are home, y