Good evening from the civic center in philadelphia, pennsylvania. I am dorothy ridings, president the legal woman voters. Sponsor of the Vice President ial debate between republican george bush and democrat gerald dean perot. Our panelists tonight are john mashek, National Correspondent for u. S. News and world report, jack white, correspondent for time magazine, Norma Quarles, a correspondent for nbc news, and robert boyd, Washington Bureau chief for night bitter newspapers. Sander vanocur, senior corps responded for abc news is our moderator. Thank you dorothy. A few thing about the order of the format tonight. At the order of questioning was determined by a toss of the coin. Congresswoman ferraro one, she wants to speak last. Vice president bush will get the first question. The debate will be built on a series of questions from the reporters on the panel. A reporter will ask a candidate question. A followup question. And then the same to the other candidate. Each candidate will get
Because medical care is o denied to those children. This should bring us together and i heard our colleagues on both sides of the aisle stand together for life. Every life, as a precious unique gift from god, every life with her child has a disability, whether the child is valued or not. That child should be valued. Should be protected because that child is precious. I feel the floor. Is must be a day that ends in y because once again, republican senators are pushing for backwards ideological bills to restrict womens Constitutional Rights to abortion. Once again, republicans are peddling a band that is blatantly unconstitutional. In once again, they are pretending we dont already t have laws on the books that protect infants and using that as a pretense to drama fear and misunderstanding about one of the most heartbreaking situations a family can face. Push for antidoctor, antiwomen, antifamily legislation aso once again i am here on behalf of women and men across the country to delive
We break away from this portion of washington journal to fill our longtime commitment to bring you live Senate Coverage. Follow this at cspan. Org, senate gasoline and next coming up shortly. Senator Tammy Baldwin will deliver the annual reading of washingtons farewell address. After that the senate will debate the nomination of Robert Malloy to be a district judge for the Virgin Islands with the vote to limit debate on the nomination is scheduled for later this afternoon. Live Senate Coverage is here on cspan2. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, the center of our joy, make us your captives so that we may live liberated lives. Provide our senators with the spiritual, mental, social and physical revitalization they need just for today. May they place their trust in you and experience your profound peace. Grant that they will relinquish their worries to you, as they permit your perfect love to cast out every fear. Lord, show them your redemptive purposes in every problem they must so
Chattanooga, and charleston. We want to get your check thoughts on background checks. Should they be strengthened . If you support the idea, 202 7488000, oppose it, 202 7488001, and a third line for gun owners, 202 7488002. You can also check in on twitter and facebook. Senator joe manchin, a democrat from West Virginia who has worked on this issue of background checks, with pennsylvanias senator pat toomey. The hill newspaper reports that under federal law, licensed gun dealers are required to conduct a background check either online or by phone using the National Instant criminal background check system. In every state, the system searches for criminal convictions. But the system only scanned Mental Health records in 30 states because it is not required under federal law. Take a look a listen. [video clip] is there any federal solution to what we are talking about here . I need my friends on the republican side of the aisle to help with the most reasonable, sensible path forward. Bas
But theres another narrative that says that no, negotiations have to be tried because their common interest to the world is changing. The main threat in the region as defined by ran itself is not the United States but it is actually isis. Add that if there is a real negotiation and if there is a given day, if i ran into a strategic utility to the United States, a to relationship can emerge. If these negotiations collapse it will be the indication of the wrong narrative and that will put back into charge the people in iran who prefer to drive a more confrontational foreign policy, visavis the est. I had two questions. Been talking a lot about the difference in kind of the u. S. And iran, the cooperation if this deal were to go forward. Im just kind of wondering, other than these neutral interests, what is the part of the u. S. Gains from this deal . And also there was some mention the hit the gulf states will take if the oil prices would drop. I think mr. Hill said three or four years o