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Kind of programs we should be cutting right now. >> well it's interesting. right now i'm hopeful there will be a backlash, that head start is a program that should not be cut. in the next couple of weeks, the maine state legislature, controlled by republicans, will be making that decision. i'm hopeful they won't, but the fear is that they will make that decision. a couple of years ago when i was in the legislature, the then senate president libby mitchell to make state funding to go to public school breakfast programs. she got an unbelievable backlash that we should be having to pay for breakf...

the week, towards a real nanny state. there are two big differences between last mother's day and this one. one political, the other personal. the political difference is not only does this mother's day take place during an election year, it hits a few weeks after motherhood, the value of mothers and women's work more broadly were at the center of a news cycle. hoping to revive this theme ann romney wrote an op-ed called three seasons of motherhood. it extolls the crown of glory that all mothers wear. the personal difference for me of course is the birth of my daughter. today i'll be...

the mother of my child. so much about the birth of one's first child is vivid and indelible. almost as if it happened in another country you briefly visited and might go back to. there's one moment that stuck with me that i think about a lot in the context of our national political conversation about mothers and children and social opportunity and hard work. it's the terrifying surreal moment when you leave the hospital. crossing the threshold into the fresh air, bearing this tiny creature toward a waiting car and you think, this is it. there's no one there to say good-bye or to, do ...

>> i think we ought to work across the aisle in a bipartisan fashion on preserving and protecting social security, it's a huge issue. secondly, i think we should change the debate on health partisan health care bill that was passed last year, no discussions with republicans until after the election in massachusetts, and have a bipartisan agreement on reforming health care. environmental reform is the same way. no discussions with republicans over the last 12 months on environmental reform. as for the pay raise issue, annie and i have the same position on pay raise no cost of living a...