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We want to show you live images from the floor of the house, where lawmakers plan to vote this evening on that plan. It would prevent another government shut down and ease some of those across the board budget cuts that came about as a result of sequester. Libby casey joins us live now on capitol hill, and when can we expect the house to vote . Lit be this evening, dale, and in about an hour, hour and a half, although it is subject to a little bit of wiggle room, and it is looking quite likely t...

Joining our Time Warner Cable partners to showcase the history of green bay, wisconsin. Cspan. Org local content. This is American History tv on cspan 3. The joke was that with every pullman sleeping car, one of the standard pieces of equipment was the Pullman Porter. He was the person on the car to serve the passengers. He greeted you when you came on board. He took care of your luggage. The ladies usually would be wearing a hat. He would offer them a hat bag in the time when that was fashionab...

The people who you are with add , to the experience. You have the whole family walking onto the train, or up to the big boy, it is the discussion between the generations that become so important and intrinsic to how you learn and enjoy things. All weekend, American History tv is in green bay, wisconsin. A french explorer became the first european to discover Lake Michigan and presentday wisconsin. He landed near green bay on an exposition to find a way from lake huron to the pacific ocean. He na...

We learn this money that americas jobs outlook could be headed towards a big jolt. Thats according to the latest job openings and Labor Turnover or jolt report put out by the labor department. It counted 3. 9 million job openings in october. Thats a 7. 7 jump compared to the same month last year. Its the largest number of jobs advertised in more than five years. This suggests that u. S. Employers after years of caution are finally in a mood to expand. Relatedly there are more signs of healthy ch...

Committee will come to order. Welcome, commissioner koskinen. On december 20th, the Senate Confirmed John Koskinen as the 48th commissioner of the Internal Revenue service. Commissioner koskinen joins the service after a very distinguished service in the leadership of freddie mac, deputy mayor and city administrator of washington, d. C. And as Deputy Director for management at the office of mansionment and budget and before that, as ceo of a Management Consulting firm where he helped to turn aro...

Heard from Polly Williams . No, there wasnt, david. Thats a big problem. In august i actually talked to some pastors who wanted to spread a similar message of peace, but when i asked them about education in the community, and education, as you know, leads to jobs. Your ability to do the job, to get a job. They werent talking much about that. Unfortunately, there wasnt a Polly Williams down there, and that is a tragic, tragic circumstance in that city right now. But, rich, i get the impression th...

This poll that you mentioned come from Marquette University law. A highly respected, widely read in the badger state and it shows a potential shift heading toward ted cruz way. 40 of republicans in wisconsin are supporting cruz. Note ofable because thats a 21point jump since the last poll at the end of last month. Donald trump now according to the poll, 10 points back. And then there is kasich came, 9 back. 21. It will probably point to in head to head matchups, he is the only one that would bea...

White house. Joshua holt has been in prison for almost 2 years now. In about two hours, he is expected to arrive at the white house with his family. And his wife boarded a plane in venezuela early this morning. He is with his wife as well as tennessee senator bob corker. He met with the venezuela president. He played a very big role in securing mr. Holt and his wifes release as did one of his staffers was also traveling back with them today. Holt is from utah and went to venezuela two years ago ...

Holt went to venezuela two years ago, he went to get married. The woman he was marrying, his wife, two later arrested on weapons charges and the u. S. Said arrest was political. President trump announced the release of holt on twitter writing in part good news of release of american hostage from venezuela. Great people of utah will be very happy. Senator bob corker met with Nicolas Maduro this weekend, corker as well as a staffer who they say was instrumental in helping bring this all of this ab...

People should be encouraged by is all of the people who were on the list that President Trump put out when he was still running for the presidency are incredibly established jurists very much in the mold of scalia much like nile gorsuch. Word is that it has come down to 2 or 3 finalists. Bret kavanaugh who sits on dc circuit, Raymond Kethledge on sixth circuit and amy cony barrett on the seventh court of appeals. All of them have their different qualifications and points in their order but may c...