You can continue the conversation on twitter as well. You can send us an email as well. And are some of the stories how they are playing this week. Here is usa today. Fires andure of the california. 100 of the state of california is in danger of fire. The lead story is about the Net Neutrality vote at the fcc yesterday. Battle for the internet begins is the headline. They lead with Eric Shin Seki up on capitol hill. He is grilled over care. The New York Times leads with quiet unrestrkers in cities in east ukraine. Thousands of Steel Workers fanned out on thursday, establishing control over the program and militants who until recently had seemed to be consolidating their grip on power. By late thursday, minors and steelworkers had deployed and at least five cities, including the regional capital. They had not become the dominant force of that they were in the second largest city. The lead story in the New York Times. Wall street journal leads with Net Neutrality. Up tolls proposal sets battle in a move that is divided. Giants try to figure out how to keep the internet open and handle web traffic. Tom wheeler said he would ban broadband providers from blocking or slowing down websites, but leaves the door open for them to strike deals with content companies for preferential treatment or fast lanes to customers. Votedmocratmajority fcc 32 along party lines to open the proposal to Public Comment for 120 days, with an eye towards voting on final rules later this year. President at the new 9 11 museum with michael bloomberg. This is from politico. Republican senators call for benghazi select panel. Theyre calling on harry reid to establish a committee to investigate the 2012 attacks in benghazi. In a letter by lindsey graham, the republican senator said the only has a partial view of the facts about the attacks on a u. S. Compound that killed four americans, including ambassador chris stevens. The New York Times they have this article about the firing of Jill Abramsons. Seeks to reassure its staff. A day after they had dismissed Jill Abramson, the first female executive editor, it found itself mired in controversy, having to reassure employees and rebut reports that her removal complaints about receiving less pay than her male predecessors. Departure on her wednesday, the company said she had been fired because of management issues. Through thursday, a strong counter narrative had emerged in the news media, including me morning joe show that she had been a victim of sexism by being held to a different standard than male editors. The news reverberated on capitol hill. The debate star around the issue of gender, senior times editors met with employees to reiterate the companys rationale for dismissing ms. Abramson. The decision did not reflect aboutome sexism and pay disparity, but about her style of leadership. From the hill, gop blocks tax breaks bill. Senate republicans blocked progress on an 85 billion tax anger aimedd deep at harry reid. In a 5340 vote, they failed to end debate on the tax package. 60 votes were required to move it forward. Kirk ofator mark illinois voted with the democrats. Of the republicans blocked the measure, even though many support the slew of expired tax , out of frustration with reed, who is preventing the Minority Party to offer amendments to the bill. We do not have a chance to amend it. Mitch mcconnell said that ahead of the vote. Also from the hill this morning, this article about senate panel approving 265 billion highway bill. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved 200 62that would spend 5 billion on Transportation Products projects over the years if congress can come up with the money. Would provide 204 billion over the next six years, which is not enough to pay for the projects the panel wants to fund. Yet to takes significant action on a transportation bill and some observers are skeptical a deal could be carved out. A little bit of some of the news moving in the papers. Democrats, 202 5853880. Republicans, 202 5853881. Independents, 202 5853882. Cornelius is a democrat in roanoke, virginia. What is on your mind . Caller how are you doing . Host good. Caller im calling to ask you if this coming week theyre going to be working on the unemployment extension on the insurance. Host why is that important to you . Caller a lot of people are looking for jobs for over a year. Some ran out in april, that is what is wrong. Host have you been using Unemployment Insurance . Caller mine ran out in december. I have been looking for a job every week. The whatas been is the market out there for you . Caller i am in my 50s. It is hard for people in their 50s to look for a job. Thank you for calling in. A reminder to our viewers, turn down your volume. This is the article on what happened yesterday in the senate. Spurredoblems democratic unease. Democrats showed an theeasing nervousness, agencys expected Inspector General found no evidence patients died because of long waits or care. Out ofarizona republic, phoenix, where the story began, here is the big front page story. Investigators join probe of vets care. [video clip] i came here to make things better for veterans. Every day i start out with the caret to provide as much and benefits for the people i went to war within the people that i spent a good portion of my life with. I am here to accomplish a mission that i think they deserve and need. The pastl you over five years, we have done a lot to make things better. Were not done yet. I intend to continue this mission until i am satisfied. Line, thet the goal commanderinchief that my time is served. Anthony, sioux falls, south dakota. Caller good morning. Thank you for cspan. I would like to comment on secretary said checking shinseki, his leadership. You cannot lay this all on him. System has been like that for decades. Than are more employees there are veterans. Mess, massive bureaucracy. I am a vietnam veteran. I remember when Max Cleveland was appointed as secretary of the v. A. A triple amputee and all of that. He wanted to make some changes. They wheeled him around and he could not get into the knicks and crannies. They did not show him anything. Shinseki cannot do anything with those people. They should not be blaming him. Host thank you. A Washington Times editorial the v. A. Keeping veterans waiting. And we do not question the. Incerity of Eric Shinseki he would never allow his brothers in arms to suffer if he could help the. What we do question is whether the government knows how to provide Effective Health care. Notedptical observers when president obama peddled his Health Care Takeover of few years ago, putting the government in charge leads to a shortage of doctors, bureaucratic interference, and what we are seeing at v. A. Is a sign of what is to come under obamacare. That is the Washington Times. Thisational journal has article. Obama has every reason to fix why hasnt he . V. A. Backlog isnt just about putting the proper resources into the agency. Solving it would require not a dysfunctional bureaucracy surrounding the v. A. Claims system and decades of neglect, it would also mean overcoming a perfect storm of factors in the past few years that has made the problem much more worse. The v. A. Received one million new claims during obamas first year in office. The count climbed from there. Annual claims peaked in 2011 at 1. 3 million, following the 1. 0 4 million claims received in 2013. That is the National Journalists morning. Melissa, hawaii. Good morning. I want to comment on these Affairs Going on right now. Everything, this is a nightmare for our family. Obamacare is taking everything away from us. On thing. Ment with the nsa, when they are trying to spy on us, it is really bad for us. I am being honest. When the nsa listens to our conversations, it is really embarrassing. The do you really think nsa is listening to your phone conversations . Caller i know they are. Think about this for a second. Do you want to listen to you and your personal private stuff . It makes no sense. This is unpatriotic. Host that is melissa in hawaii. From the hill this morning, senators want inquiry into ocare center paid to sit and hit refresh. Paid to doting virtually nothing. Recent reports have revealed employees do not have the workload they expected at the center. It was awarded a 1. 25 billion contract to handle paper insurance applications under the Affordable Care act. The facilityruns has told employees to stay put and continue refreshing their computers for new cases. Member of the Senate Committee on health education, labor and pensions wrote a letter to senators for medicare and Medicaid Services administrator, maryland tavener, asking the agency to detail when it became aware of the problem and what it is doing to address them. 660ays this facility has workers. Michael, fort lauderdale. Caller good morning. Are we still speaking about the veterans issue . Speaking about Public Policy issues, that is one of them. Caller i am a 17yearold. I am in high school. I am in my homeroom. I want to provide insight. I am a republican. It is not that it is Barack Obamas fall. It is decades of negligence. Placea bad system put in by both republicans and democrats. It has never been our priority. They come back, you do not do anything to rehabilitate them. [indiscernible] one of the First Special operations unit, he told me, us at a high train level, so once we come back, we dont have anything else to do. Most people are joining the military for college benefits and stuff. When you go to Something Like that and experience ptsd, youre not expecting to have a stable life when you come back from that. Fromyou come back deployment, like my grandfather was saying, in korea, he pretty much said that you are physically not there. You are expected to go into the workforce. It is conflicting. Host you are 17. Have you thought about joining the military . His roommateother, is a navy seal. Thats what i wanted to do since i was seven years old. Whered do you go to high school . Caller st. Thomas aquinas high school. New york times, the lead of theal is on the issue Net Neutrality vote, searching for fairness on the internet. Voted 32 along party lines to consider two options. As long as the conditions are met, Telecom Companies would also be able charge businesses like netflix fees to deliver movies faster to consumers and others. Under the second option, the commission would reclassify broadband as a telecommute and a telecommunications service, akin to a public utility. That would allow for more stringent regulation that could prevent Companies Like verizon and comcast from engaging in unreasonable and unjust discrimination. The fcc should take more time if it needs to. These rules are too important to rush through. Tom is a little bit of wheeler from yesterday. [video clip] i have had handson experience with the importance of network openness. The nationallow asset of an open internet to be compromised. Issue in my this bones. From when myars inpanies were denied access the preinternet days. The consideration that we are beginning today is not about whether the internet must be when wet about how and will have rules in place to ensure an open internet. Journale wall street also has a common on the Net Neutrality vote. One sure result, if Telecom Regulation as applied to the internet is that fewer new networks will be built and fewer startups will even tried. Public will await comment on its two alternatives before it writes a final will. Rule. May need to try selling my business before anything like this can be an active. William is calling in from las vegas. What is on your mind . To talk about the ineffectiveness of washington to get anything done. Were talking about unemployment extensions, Net Neutrality, veterans affairs. Onare having a hearing everything, but nothing assault. The ineffective of our government to get anything done is mind blowing. Why hearingsrstand you havezi, irs this, families who cannot get through the next month because they cannot extend unemployment. We can spend that money offshore to Foreign Countries to settle their issues. I thought you took care of your own first. Host what do you do in vegas . Caller i work for a company in vegas. It is a factory. Host how is the economy out there . It is improving, but it is still bad. I have over a dozen friends i cannot find a job out here. They are just making an hand to mouth. Politicians, they are doing everything they can to get everything done. I am an independent for one reason. I am an independent because i do not feel either side is getting the job done. Ton i post my vote, i want in sure that i am voting for the right people and i am not picking a side. Host thank you, sir. Did you have Something Else to add . Venting as i am just to how ineffective the government is. Host this is anthony, arizona. Caller good morning. [indiscernible] disabled veteran before i went off on the last mission. I was 40 disabled but i went because i still wore the uniform as a reservist. I left my Civil Service job to do that. In order to return back to that Civil Service job, i had to make discharged,onorably which meant i would not do anything to threaten and 80,000 year job. At the time that i was [indiscernible] to be 100 mined [indiscernible] issues haveancial been affecting me. I am going to push that to the side. I could die at any moment. [indiscernible] the fact that we have so much Hidden Information that they want to portion out to us. Why do we have to hide information about what one employee makes over another . Gottenamson should have more money from the previous editor when she started that job. When you go ins and take over someone elses position, you have to put your imprint on that organization or else you are not a change manager. A lot of ink on the issue of Jill Abramson. Salary, 100,000 below mail editor. Substantially less than her male counterparts, sometimes by as much as 100,000 for the last 14 years of her career. Compensation may have had something to do with her firing. Reports that as executive editor, her starting salary in 2011 was 470 5,000, compared to 500predecessor salary of 59,000. Her salary was raised to five 3000, then again to 525,000 after she protested. It goes on to talk about some other figures that she made over the years. That is that political if you ico if you aret interested. Beats times in pr fight. Her downfall has become a flashpoint for conversation about gender and inequality that is eclipsing what sources cited as the reason for her termination. The swift passage of this narrative to conventional wisdom has elevated her standing while highlighting the times ina abruptto manage his own transfer of power, which caught the Media Industry offguard on wednesday. ThisWashington Post morning Jill Abramson, enduring bias . There were disputes intentions. There were differences over strategy. Hours after the first woman to run the New York Times vaunted newsroom was unceremoniously shown the door, much of the discussion came down to a single issue sexism. Was she the victim of a double standard . Did she lose her job because she was some of the things tough, imperious, aloof that men in management are allowed to be and often rewarded for, but for which women are punished . Amonge taken down for, other things, having the gall to seek coppin station equal to her male predecessor . Totter rain with accusations that effect on wednesday and thursday. What happened to Jill Abramson has shows everything that sucks about being a woman leader. Republic laid out the sexual politics with a piece that carried the subhead trying to explain a singularly humiliating firing. The theme bubble to the surface on wednesday in the times newsroom, too. Stunned reporters, who gather to learn news they did not see coming about abramson, asked publisher if abramson was being treated differently than a man. No, sulzberger said, adding a as womenness coda reach the top, bill get fired just as men have been. And with that, he, along with abramson, declined to comment further about the circumstances of her departure. Yesterday, andet instagram picture of her yesterday, boxing. By hers instagramed daughter. She has a couple of tattoos that have been written about. One with the New York Times t and a new york subway token. An article from last sunday, where you can see her name still on the top. Masthead. Is mornings is now see dean baquet the executive editor. What is the Public Policy issue on your mind this week . Thank you, cspan. You have donehat about the Net Neutrality and the articles that you read, i feel that that is a very interesting probably one of the most important decisions made by the commissioner he did not make it, but it was 32 as described in the article that you read so excellently. Theuation is this protesters, i consider their point. Concerned that capitalism was trying to take over the internet. Well, its not. It is really freedom. Free