We start the first halfhour asking you what your message is for congress for this brief session. For democrats, use 202 5853880. Republicans, 202 5853881. And for independents, 202 5853882. On twitter, our twitter handle is cspanwj,. You can post on facebook. The question is up as we speak. Facebook. Com cspan. Your emails are welcome too,. Journal cspan. Org. Susan davis usa today piece, congress back for a brief session. Shortterm funding bill is the top priority. Congress returns for a threeweek sprint to the legislative finish that will focus on political messages before the midterm election. If the transfer control of the senate to republicans. John boehner advised lawmakers on a recent Conference Call to expect a brief but busy session with the key agenda items being the must pass shortterm funding bill to keep the government running until early december. The funding runs out september 30 and congress is on track to extend until a postelection lameduck session. Willol of the u. S. Senate determine what happens next. Defendingare their majority, republicans need a net gain of six to take control of the chamber. More from her piece on what Congress Might do. These final weeks before the election, a wave of political posts aimed at driving the parties election your messages. Measurey bill and they that would crack down on the irs and the spots to the targeting of tea party groups. For is your Message Congress as they come back for their session on this monday morning . Bodies in at 2 00 eastern. It has gotten the attention of the Washington Post editorial board. The lead editorial, mutual inaction. The editorial says that operating on the notion that the public prefers political theater to authentic compliments, the house and senate are preparing to achieve almost nothing. A quick look at their editorial cartoon. Former eric cantor, majority leader, who during the august recess announced he was going to work for a wall street firm. S. Government political decision, dont let the door hit you on your way out. Banking division, or your way in. Mr. Toles version there. California, independents line. What is your message to congress . Net neutrality is critically important for free speech online. Congress should pass common carrier rules. Host common carrier rules . What would they do . That thehat means internet backbone cannot be restricted from terry and the speech from carrying the speech of americans. You have something important you want to ask is on one of the news organizations online. You should not have the speed of your access tdegraded. Internet one of the providers does not agree with the speech on that particular website. Host right. Caller they should be required to allow your access to that website and not degrade the speed at which it is provided. Host new hampshire, cap around the independent line. Your message to congress . With president obamas foreignpolicy of nuggets on the ground in iraq. I Hope Congress supports the president. I have a suggestion that might help the u. S. In the future when combating terrorists and dictators. Missiles,ehind military trucks, tanks, guns. Why not install program computer chips in this war equipment, if it fell into terrorist or possession, we can shut it down. Trucks and tanks would not work and missiles would not fire. Space satellites and ships that could do that. And then the terrorists would not be able to use left behind equipment. Host the president s making on wednesday, when he won he hear from him . He is doingink terrific. I think congress should stand for everything he believes in. Strikes and no boots on the ground. Host thank you caller and using other countries as pressure against these horrific terrorists and dictators. Host president obama spoke yesterday on meet the press, he talked about some of the things he might address and s to theys comment American People. [video clip] you to will allow understand very clearly and specifically what we are doing but what we are not doing also. We are not looking at sending in 100 thousand american troops. We are going to become as part of an international coalition, carrying out air strikes in iupport on the ground by iraq and kurdish troops. We will help to put together a plan for them so they can start retaking territory that isil had taken over. Over the course of months, were going to be able to not just blunt the momentum of isil, we will shrink the territory that they control. We will systematically degrade their capabilities and defeat them. Host president obama on meet the press. The New York Times, their take on this. Destroyingh issi isis may take years. Lets go back to your call. Your message to congress. Elizabeth, pennsylvania, harry on our democrats line. Caller good morning. Theomment, they have to get unemployment extension done. Everybody is losing their homes, i am losing my home. I have sold everything i can sell. To maintain some sort of lifestyle. I do not see the president he never gets on tv anymore. Seems like he forgot about us. Im asking congress and john boehner to have a hard and please get this done. Bring it up for a vote and get this over with. Help us until we can find a job. Finding a job in pennsylvania, i worked all my life. It is so hard to find something. Host how long has it been since your Unemployment Benefits and it ended . Caller december 28 of last year. Host california, tom, independent line. Caller i just Want Congress to start thinking about family law and Child Support people in america. Ive been dealing with them for the last 15 years. They have done nothing but steel and she steal and cheat. They say its for the kids. Theres no Constitutional Rights anymore for men. It is sad when they try to tell you it is for the kids. In reality, it is for their paycheck. Country, we go to other countries and help their kids. Our government will not help our kids. The sad thing about it is our government is paying these trout support and family law people to do what they are doing. They change documents, they sign , they do forgery. Nothing is done. Host pittsburgh, pennsylvania. Is yoursking, what message to congress . What do you want to see them get done . Caller looks like they already told us what theyre going to get done nothing. I want to adjust the isis situation in iraq. What we need is for all the members of congress, like weve been asking and telling them, and all the people who want to support this we, we, we. They need to go over there and fight isis. These people are talking about how the people in this country are tired of war. Tired of having to all the dirty work. The fighting and sacrificing. We are always called upon in this country but we are never invited. They better think about that. Let them go fight these guys. They make thehile sacrifices. They are going to ghosts home theyre going to go home in seven weeks and do nothing, why dont you go fight isis. You are not getting nothing done. You are talking about coalitions. Either get a coalition over here and you better wise up. Host before the president s speech wednesday, he will meet with congressional leaders about laying out his plan for dealing with the Islamic State. One of the leaders will likely beat mike rogers, who was on cnns state of the union was those leadersof will likely be mike rogers, who was on cnns state of the union. [video clip] thee needs to a Knowledge Problem of isis. This is the toughest talk we have heard, that is a threat. Alltor feinstein and i see the intelligence. This has been concerning. This is important that he lays out the case to the u. S. Of why its a threat. He has been reluctant to posture america in a position that is willing and understanding to aid in dismantling them. T is not just iraq and syria it is also everything in the levant, they want lebanon, israel, jordan. Out aesident needs to lay certain case. He has put together a coalition of the willing to tackle this problem. We need to be aggressive and posturing ourselves to get ready for this. These are things the president can do. Senator feinstein and i would both support those efforts. He needs to engage congress, the American People, on what exactly were going to do. We dont have to talk about targets and how many strikes we do, we do have an endgame and the president ought to lay out that strategy. Say we are going to invest with our partners and our arab league heart mirrors and there is some repairing happening with those relationships. Thats important. Ont mike rogers yesterday cnn, joined by dianne feinstein, his counterpart in the senate. This is the headline on her lead editorial, her oped hes in usa today. Isis threat cannot be overstated. Asking you this morning, your message for congress as they come back. 2 00 p. M. Eastern, the house and senate gaveling in. For democratss, 202 5853880. Republicans, 202 5853881. For all others, 202 5853882. Heres the wall street journals take. Lawmakers face a tight timeframe. Ken in lancaster, South Carolina on the independents line. Caller can you hear me . My question for congress, they do not pass the Immigration Reform bill because no one knows what is in it. As a black american, i feel that he has not done nothing for our community. For foreign policy, we went into libya, we destroy that country. We told qaddafi he had to leave. We went to egypt and told mubarak he had to leave. Then we went to afghanistan, we are still there. We want to iraq. Who are we going to kill . The world . In iran side, the shia. The government of iraq did not include the sunni. Thank you. The president announcing delay on Immigration Reform. The headline in the Washington Times, of him the delay means 60,000 reported. The president was asked about his decision on meet the press. [video clip] the reason. Ot a couple things i want to say about immigration. Number one, i have been consistent about why this is important. The country is going to be better off if we have an immigration system that works. That has Strong Border security. Legalas streamlined our immigration system. So that the best and the brightest who want to stay here, investor, and create jobs, can do so. So families can be unified. And a system where millions of people who are here, in many cases for a decade or more, who have American Kids and who are our neighbors and our friends, that they have a path to get legal by paying taxes and getting aboveboard, paying a fine and learning english if they have to. The good news is, we have bipartisan support for that. We have a senate bill that will come push that. The House Republicans refuse to do it. What i said to them, if you do not act on something that is so common sense that you have got labor, business, evangelicals, Law Enforcement, folks across the board supporting it, i will look for all the legal authorities i have to act. I want to make sure we get it right. When make sure that all the t s are crossed looks like Election Year im being honest about the politics of it, the problem with unaccompanied children we saw a couple weeks ago. Where you have from Central America a surge of kids showing up at the border, it got a lot of attention. Of americans started thinking we have this Immigration Crisis on our hands. What i want to do, i want to make sure it is sustainable. Host the Houston Chronicle talking about the practical impacts. The issue of immigration was on face the nation. Marco rubio of florida was asked if the decision to delay immigration action was political. Politics. Efinitely i think we have to deal with immigration. We have a broken enforcement system. We have a Legal Immigration system is outdated and needs to be modernized. We have millions of People Living in this country illegally, many of whom have been here for a decade or longer. We need to find a reasonable but responsible way of incorporating them into american life. We tried last year, to do that through a onesizefitsall, conference of approach. I believe we should do this through a sequence of bills that begins by proving to people ilLegal Immigration is under control, modernizing our Legal Immigration system, and then dealing with the legal immigrants. I am glad he is not going to do it but i am disappointed he intends to do it after the election. He is saying he does not want to be held accountable by the electorate in the midterm elections by an action he knows is unpopular because the American People do not want to do a thing on immigration until they know the system is secure and the problem is under control. Minutes on your calls and your message for congress as they come back from obvious research. As they come back from obvious research. Caller my messages to the senate. Is sitting there knowing that their jobs are in doubt. They will lose control in the next election. They will not allow any deals to get through. Harry reid needs to be sent home , go home. Host here is michigan, robert, democrat line. Good morning. Caller pretty much the same republican that just spoke. These congressional members are coming into this session stating that they are basically not going to do anything. Every one of them needs to be recalled. It is ridiculous. If i were going to go to work until my boss i was not going to do my job for the day, i would be fired. Host is your representative . Lets see host lexington, South Carolina. Caller hi. My message for congress, for the republicans and the democrats is the president. If you get behind the president , something will get done. Stop fighting with the president. Is notep saying he leading. He is leading but they keep fighting him. If they get behind him and fall in line with him, immigration, unemployment, housing, foreign affairs, it will all be taken care of. It will fall into place if they get behind him and stop fighting and making this thing off political. Do what is right for the country. In the United States of america. That is my message to congress. Get behind the president. Host a couple messages on twitter and facebook. Carol tweets, congress should do no harm. On facebook, you are fired. Come together and make laws. Repeal the irs and then follow the instructions in the constitution. Ohio, bill, republican line. Caller hi. Good morning. A couple quick things previous people mentioned. I agree that the Family Court System is a complete disaster zone. I do not know that that is Something Congress can take care of. For congress, specifically, i think they should put together comprehensiveconferenc plan that they can work with obama as far as the threat from isis. It appears that he does not have any kind of land himself. Quite possibly, does not even have the desire or will to come up with and implement a plan as of otherat a couple people have said about congress not doing their jobs. Its a few. Would propose some bills and make an effort to get some of these difficult problems out of the way immigration, the terrorist threat, these types of things. Even if it does not go anywhere, it shows that they are making an effort. Hat is something you can go back and say to your constituents i tried and i did my best. I am doing what you sent me therefore. Instead of just trying to play it safe in the background and hope they can get through the election. Conway, missouri, democrats line. Caller thank you. According to google, there is. 25 million undocumented workers in las vegas. To build awants railroad from l. A. To las vegas so they can spend more money there. I went to san francisco, i landed there at the airport. I could not find my way out. I asked seven people who could not speak english, all of them work there. Host which airport. Caller san francisco. None of them could speak english. I finally found a black lady. She said follow me, i will show you where the exit is. I would like to know how you find out who voted for this. Down ress turned where they could not what do you call . Where they pass a bill and then they go out and put stock in that bill, Insider Trading . I would like to find out who the congress was that voted against getting rid of that. Host a couple more calls. Scott in oklahoma. Democrats line. Your message to congress . Ey, thanks for talking to me. I am a democrat but frankly i am speaking as an american. Know, the level of discourse we are at in our country right now is what is troubling. This, i blame congress. It has been a perpetual election 2008. Obama was elected in it has been nothing but stonewalling and hyperbole and just madness. Now we have a serious threat in the world. You know, everybody that is listening knows that tomorrow is going to be a lot of conjecture. Is anything going to get done . Where we canoint even rally around our president because it is so polarizing . Everybody is looking to november. Everybody is looking to 2016. It has been that way since november whatever, 2012. Host what would it take to stop that . Caller i think it takes raising the bar as a society. That is across party lines. Everybody is so extreme, you know . If i have to take into account all my friends political views and what they post on facebook, i would not associate with anybody. Host we appreciate your views. Lets hear from san mateo, california, mary on our democrat line. Caller good morning. I grew up as a child in grade school in the 1950s. Then in high school in the 1960s. You never heard Congress Talking about everything being broken. What i would Like Congress to do is reinstate the immigration policies that our country had after world war ii. Reinstate the glasssteagall act, that would get wall street under control. Somebody should look into the antitrust legislation. Ive been trying to figure out, for example, why all our news channels are so different. They