Is closed and theres a shooter in the building that locke will slide in. Tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. Each week in the segment of the washington journal we take a look at how your money is at work in a different federal program this week we focus on the 911 Victims Compensation fund. To do that were joined by a Congress Reporter for the new york daily news. Started off with a history of this fund. How long after 911 wasnt established in the criteria to qualify as a victim of 911 . There was a fund initially begun right after 911 and it lasted for a couple of years and that lapsed it do not take into account things liket people getting sick in the subsequent years. Numbers from new york including hillary clinton, pete king pushed for six years until he finally got another bill passed in 2010. At the end of 2010 it was letting the past congress avenue the victims competition fun for couple of billion dollars worth and then that expired in 2015 so they had to come back and do
You can catch up with us on social media. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. Very good monday morning to you. You can start calling in on this question of war Power Authority. Here is the basics. The constitution and powering the president to wage wars as commanderinchief. The constitution empowering congress to declare wars and fund wars. President s can order u. S. Troops when the country is attacked or attack appears imminent, but the war powers resolution requires a president terminate combat unless there is congressional passedzation to continue over the veto of richard nixon. The war powers debate has stemmed from how much the war power authorizations have been stretched and some argue stretched too far. In particular, the 2001 authorization of use of military force a week after the september 11 attacks. That said the president is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those authorizations or organizations in order to prevent f
Moving out of the area. Look at all this clearing out there. Thats all sunshine that is going to be headed our way for today. As far as what our current temperature is, 67 degreesnow. Winds are the main story today. Theyre pushing in from the northwest. No humidity. Pushing allthat down to the south. 81 will be the daytime high, around normal for this time of year. We have lower result, and again, breezy northwest winds. No rain today, but we have a chance for tomorrow and into thursday. Well talk about timing and the fathers day forecast in detail coming up. First lets talk about traffic. Good morning, melissa. Reporter good morning. Chopper 4 showing an issue in prince georges county. Nn this is the i loop near st. Barnabas rd. A crash and report of a tree partially blocking the right lane on the beltway. We have some real delays there this morning. It is going to be a little bit difficult through that section. Thats not an compare we expect a slowdown trls eay in the day. Outer loop
Mcconnell to press for passage of legislation to fix the shortfall in the Victims Compensation fund. This is the fun that awards compensation to the families of 9 11 responders who died from 9 11 related illnesses, often cancers and fatal respiratory illnesses. He makes me sick to my stomach that every time we have this debate these suffering First Responders, many in wheelchairs are forced to travel to washington to shame politicians into supporting their healthcare. I am sick of these delays. I am tired of temporary re authorizations and ive had enough of watching our First Responders endure the indignity of waiting for a lastminute must pass bill so that members will not vote against it. It should not be this way and it shouldnt be this hard to pass aid for 9 11 responders and everyone who worked on the pile in the weeks and months thereafter. Now, who has been standing in the way, at the top of the list unfortunately is my collie, the republican leader. Leader mcconnell has got to
It is not an easy thing to come up with the numbers. They have gone through them and to the public program. It is not meant to be a windfall. It is meant just to replace losses. Like, if you have a Life Insurance policy for instance that would be subtracted from any award you get. So its just meant to replace what people lost because of the attack. Were talking about the Victim Compensation fund. Taking your questions and comments those who live in the mountain and pacific time zone and a special line for families of 9 11 victim 20274880024 is the number. Norma is up first from ogden, kansas. Good morning. I am normal, i am 75. I remember 9 11. They were heroes. You know something, for the first time in years i saw our country come together. Everybody was nice to everybody else. Everybody volunteered. People went to church and they prayed. These people, the 9 11, the firefighters, reporter tatian for the slaves youre working on, this leaves have been dead 150 years or more, our firefig