Mate early. The organization conducted a poll and while it should they would win on the issue, they would probably win on a thin margin. The ford people know when you have a margin that then, anything can happen. They also know that if somehow the reagan forces push that through, there is a good chance it is going to cost mr. Ford some votes. That is why they will be working very hard against it and thats why the reagan folks will be working hard. Walter this has been a crucial day for the presence challenger, Ronald Reagan. The reagan camp is operating on the premise that the actual delegate battle is much closer than most counts indicate. Based on that, governor reagan was busy going from hotel to hotel, delegation to delegation, stressing two main things. First, reiterating very firmly that he would not accept a Vice President ial spot on a ford ticket if the income in order be this conventions nominee. Reagan said over and over he would go back to the private life, turning out spee
Indulgence. It had nothing to do with discrimination. It had to do with a new policy. And it is true that i did rule and put a selfexecuting rule in that did answer the question desire of the committee to handle this issue, and i did it accordingly. I thank the gentleman. Mr. Hoyer i thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, it appears that no one is going to be able to tell me what the schedule is for the week to come. I will tell you thats unfortunate. I hope there is a schedule for the week to come. Because theres a lot to be done. We havent done we havent finalized zika. We passed a bill here which we think was inadequate. We havent dealt with flint. We need to pass puerto rico restructuring. I think theyve made some progress on that. I congratulate the speaker. And the leader for facilitating that progress. We dont have a Voting Rights bill scheduled. We need to do that. There are a number of other serious pieces of legislation this house needs to consider. Were going to go out next week
Good morning, libertarians. [applause] it is 9 45. The Libertarian National convention will come back to order. First item on the agenda, the Credentials Committee reports. Good morning. Thank you mr. Chairman. We have sent to the secretary a list of names of voting members of the convention and their alternates who have been registered up until 9 12 this morning. There are 911 delegates. 6 alternates a total of 931 votes. Form equals 373 and majority is for 66, two thirds is 621, and 815. S i move the revised role of delegates submitted be the official role of voting members of this convention. All those in favor of that motion please say i. Opposed say no. Thank you. Additionally, we have a thens to the lifts lists from states and the Credentials Committee has found these people eligible to vote. I move that chad carlton be added as a missouri delegate, emily church as a missouri alternate, Ashley Lewandowski as a kansas delegate and marcus lopez as a live data as a nevada delegate.
Neither had a majority of delegates. Cbs news was there to cover a contested convention. Part of that coverage was a debate among delegates over a rule that would require president ford to name his running a made. Portion of that debate is 3. 5 hours. This is a cbs news special report. The Third Session of the Republican National convention. This portion is sponsored by merrill lynch. Now here is walter cronkite. Good evening. This may be the most exciting Political Convention session any errors a in years. The Republican Party is here to nominate a president ial candidate and an incumbent president for the First Time Since 1912 faces a serious challenge from within his own party. That comes tomorrow night according to the schedule with a scheduledt could be out on the floor of the arena tonight. Both sides will test their strength, which could make or break. New is the number of the rule proposed by the reagan side that would force president ford to name his Vice President ial running
Join with us,r happen together and win the [music playing]nr good evening and welcome to our special npbs news hournprc coverage of the Democratic National conventioncoth inxdnr philadelphia im judy woruff. And im gwen ifill, joining us as . ; they did t last week i leave land across the0l arena . Podium nprs rachel re, and in the anchor booth with us is mark shields andw3 new york re columnist, davidnihtxd brooks. And me havep, along with amyq havei]ni john yangnir congressional reporter, susan davis. Thee1 democrats roled intoe1 p1 but not without some controversy. We will get to all that tonight along with speakers after this break. H q thats quite frankly, many of them would have liked to have seen her on the vicepresident doorbell stage instead of tim caine. An Bernie Sanders will give us a sense of how this is going but i bumped into david and he said it takes a long time to get over this, this campaign has gone a long time, he went all the way through california, there are a