The investigation and how the community is doing. Plus, an nbc news exclusive with Richard Engle speaking with ukrainian president zelenskyy. Well play for you what he had to say about the americans captured by russian troops. And this morning, we remember the 98 lives lost in the surfside condominium collapse one year ago today. We begin this hour with breaking news. Congress is one step closer to passing the most significant measure to reduce gun violence in nearly 30 years. Right now, the house is holding a rule debate on gun violence prevention bill, after it passed the senate overnight. These are live pictures from the capitol. Final passage expected in the house some time later today. In a 6533 vote, 15 republican senators joined democrats in passing the bill. The historic progress being made on capitol hill comes just one day after the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision expanding gun rights across the country. Joining us now, nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali.
Foundational civics. Can you name three branches of government in the freedoms injected in the First Amendment kristine noted overtake takes overrated the dough and the prerogatives of the various branches. When theres a a constitutional matter who gets to decide . These are things that are presupposition all all. He did understand the basic things happening in the news and some of those capacities ass citizens are not going to be top of mind to you in terms of a female and have been there so you might want to know for example theres a conflict between the president and the Supreme Court or congressman and the president. By the way there are three branches and we have checks and balances among them. Huskily put the numbers of this year surveying for that our viewers. Here are one of theof questions, asking those who responded to the survey if they could name all three branches of government in just 47 have responded and said they could do that. 18 could name two branches of government
U. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , february 13, 2013. I hereby appoint the honorable doug collins to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2013, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes each, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from maryland, mr. Hoyer, for five minutes. Mr. Hoyer thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the president spoke to us last night an
[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] sarah polk was on diplomacy and her strong suit is intelligence and political discussion. She made no bones about the fact she took an interest in politics. And that she was her husbands partner. She grew naup political household in tennessee. Her father was a local politician so she grew up loving politics. She married james after he won a seat in the legislature. Because she would not have married him if he had unfortunately for james k. Polk he died three months after leaving the white house. And sarah began a 42year widowhood. Polk place became a shrine to her husband and she would invite anybody who wanted to to come to visit and see the objects she had collected through her long and illustrious political career. To live there for many years on her own. During the civil war, generals on both sides would come and visit her to pay respects. It is an interesting commentary
The section 501 of fisa. That is no record of the actual conversation of the content that is recorded or collected by the National Security agency. The nsa has not been acting outside of its authority. The Metadata Program is carefully designed with program layers of oversight by all three branches of government. This is precisely where our government ought to operate. With input from article one, and article two and article three of the United States constitution. It is our duty to discuss the legal balance. We shouldnt be misleading the American People into thinking the nsa has been acting illegally. There is no program in the United States government that is as carefully monitored and overseen as this program is. Thise extent that some in chamber wish to review or provide more protections, we should proceed through debated legislative process, so the full implications for security are clearly understood. I reserve the balance of my time. The gentleman reserves. For what purpose does