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Three members of congress with shared interests. Firmly believe that comcast and Time Warner Cable would have been too big of a company and anticompetitive, not in the Public Interest. It would have led to higher prices from consumer, less choice and it would be too possible these with service. We are also working on dealing with people property and protection of civil liberties. That is legislation dealing with the nsa and foreign Intelligence Surveillance dealing with the revelations about the...

Caller yes, i would like to say that we need to keep the conversation and its context. And the context is right now is that the state who has the power to exercise violence against individuals. In this case, were talking about black men. We need to keep it in the context. It has nothing to do right now with poverty which is a side issue that we can have. We can also have a side issue about black men committing crimes with each other because theres no phenomenon called blackonblack crime. Because...

Thank you for spending a halfhour with us to talk about your 12 years in washington. It ended with the reelection of barack obama. If you could think of adjectives, what would they be to describe these seven years . Interesting. Challenging. Sometimes totally frustrating. Full of opportunities for the country. There were good times during these 12 years, laced together with some that were not so good. 9 11. The anthrax scare. There were also positive things. The election of barack obama i though...

Ago, whatever plan he had then is over with. This is a new election. The deal that he had a year ago, that does not count. For republicans and people to say they dont understand whats going on, i have a problem with that. The republicans deny anything he puts forward. The president left his vacation and came here. Theyre not being fair. Republicans say they are christians. Theyre not. They did this during his last term and now are causing and all of us to suffer because they dont like the presid...

Was then called the nuclear option, changing the rules, turning the senate into a smaller version of the house, where the rights of the minority caucus are ignored. Consequently, we were able to Work Together that way, crossing party lines, crossing with the id administration wanted done or what the caucus leadership on both sides wanted done, it showed we had a certain independence. I will never forget the late senator robert sitting in an office with us all together, sobbing, saying, we saved ...

Want, and how you want. Responsive design froms to fit any screen, your laptop, tablet, or smartphone prayers. Smartphone. Cspans live coverage of washington and you can search our library whenever and wherever you want. It makes it easy for you to keep an i on what is happening in washington. Coming up next, a debate from liberal activists bill ayers and conservative author Dinesh Dsouza. First, an article in the on mr. To examiner sousa. The fbi about what led to the investigation and the hist...

All that you know, all that appealing. Either he didnt know or he did know. Either one he gets in trouble. You mention the bush book, which is very nice of you to mention, it does go back to the Bush Administration. These are the same issues, right, for going on for more than a decade. To have begun in 2002 happened during the run up to the war in iraq. In that time we were bugging delegations at the u. N. Trying to get a resolution through about that. What president obama has done inherited sur...

Schools heats up after mayor bill de blasio blocks three schools from using spreads space. We will speak with steve barr. Suspendsern university the Group Students for justice in pakistan palestine. We will get the latest on a Hunger Strike inside of a detention prison in washington state. Im hoping we can get support from all of the people that are listening. Hear. Believe what you life here is not easy. We work for four hours, five hours, just one dollar. All that and more, coming up. Welcome ...

I was dissatisfied with it. I thought it turned out to be not entirely honest, and so im kind of trying to tell you all a little bit of a different story about the back story for this book. Because theres sort of an interesting back story to this book. What happened with the writing of othe divide a classic example it began as a classic example of what can happen when journalists get lazy, and i was a classic example of that phenomenon, and this book very nearly turned out to be a lot worse than...

What i believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, it is the simple profound belief of opportunity for all. Opportunity for all, the theme of president obamas state of the Union Address in january 2 months ago. The president s opportunity agenncludes hiking the minimum wage from 7 and 0. 25 to 10 and 0. 10 per hour and ensuring equal pay women. White house analysts noted that the president backed away from an earlier theme of his, ...