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Surveillance reauthorization, 6038 was the vote. The 60th vote was needed to announce that bill. Also on capitol hill, a number of hearings we covered, a rather lengthy one on Homeland Security. A routine oversight hearing with Kiersten Nielsen kirstjen nielsen. Testified before the judiciary subcommittee on this issue. And also talked with a number of senators about the recent changes in daca and immigration. Here is what she had to say with some senator amy klobuchar. Listening to your answers...

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You can send us a tweet at cspan or go to journal cspan. Org. Host here is Peter Sullivan to discuss the first vote. When will it take place and how will it go . Guest it will take place later in the afternoon. It is a procedural vote to actually start a debate on the bill to defund planned parenthood, cut off at 500 million, as you mentioned. The vote is likely to fail because it needs a 60 vote threshold. Hardly any democrats, if any will vote for it. There probably are not the vote. It will b...

Industry, target, home depot, so many other private corporations have had customer information stolen. And so what we have realized his we can try very hard to keep ahead of the hackers, but what we need to do is think about how we minimize the need for customers to put their private information onto website. Right now, there are legal prohibitions for sharing classified information with the private sector, and as legal prohibitions on the private sector sharing information back with the governm...

Exciting enough, for the first time in 13 years, i get to experience freedom. Access and freedom to me mean dont mean the same thing to you. Access to similarly insignificant things, like accessing the shopping mall, accessing the toilet, accessing Public Transportation that are inclusive of people like me. I get to experience it here in america after 13 years. [applause] grace i represent a Huge Community of persons with disabilities who do not have bases, who do not have voices faces, who do n...

It is clear how the republicans are spending their time locked in the back rooms. Now, we know the truth. Senate republicans were not even making house bill better. Theyre sitting around the table dreaming up meaner ways kick dirt in the face of American People and take with her healthr insurance. Orked remember, the Senate Republicans work for weeks on this new billw they worked really, really hard on it. This clear now exactly who they were working for. Es this bill has one flashing neon sign ...

Most of the work on it, him and his staff which was a source of frustration for many of the other rankandfile republican members who said even as a few days ago they had not seen it or know whats in it. Was a topdown process. Now, that has been briefed and all the republican senators had a meeting this morning to go over it. Its been released to the public and is online. Now everyone else can start trying to digest whats in it. Heres your article, you write that the senate bill has deep cuts to ...

Rep. Pelosi good morning, everyone. I just came from a speak out on the east lawn here of the capitol on behalf of Voting Rights. Two bills, one introduced by john lewis, Voter Empowerment act. Another introduced by terry sewell to advance the Voting Rights in our country to correct the mistakes made by the Supreme Court on that score. I always, always, always quote Martin Luther king in so many ways, but in this score he said, the ballot, the ballot, the ballot. Legislation, legislation, legisl...

Rep. Pelosi good morning, everyone. I just came from a speak out on the east lawn here of the capitol on behalf of Voting Rights. Two bills, one introduced by john lewis, Voter Empowerment act. Another introduced by terry sewell to advance the Voting Rights in our country to correct the mistakes made by the Supreme Court on that score. I always, always, always quote Martin Luther king in so many ways, but in this score he said, the ballot, the ballot, the ballot. Legislation, legislation, legisl...

Republicans have been hiding behind closed doors for weeks. It is finally clear how the republicans were spending their time, locked in those back rooms. Now we know the truth. Senate republicans were not making the house bill better. Instead, they were sitting around the Conference Room table ways to up even meaner kick dirt in the face of American People and take away their Health Insurance. The Senate Republicans worked for weeks on this new bill. They worked really, really hard and it is pre...