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Mr. Carper mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from delaware. Mr. Carper mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Carper thank you mr. President. Well mr. President Congress Says here we do a lot of oversight, oversight thats focused on what is going right and also what is going wrong in our government. Theres a lot of each actually. That oversight is critically important work. Sometimes overlooked but critically important. I think its also important to stop and recognize where things are going right fr...

Transportation security issues. Now the new president of the Kennedy Center for the performing arts, Deborah Rutter, outlines her u future plans and emphasizes the importance of arts and education and cultural diplomacy, from the National Press club, this is an hour. Good afternoon, and welcome. My name is myron delkheim, the Washington School of media and Public Affairs and former International Bureau chief with the Associated Press and the 107th president of the National Press club, the National Press club is the worlds leading committed to our professions future through our programming, wit...

Campaign 2014 has one outstanding race yet to be decided. Louisiana senate. Democratic incumbent Mary Landrieu is up against republican bill cassidy. Thats live at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on our companion network, cspan2. Congress is in recess for the thanksgiving holiday. When they return, lawmakers will work on extending government funding past december 11th when the current spending deal runs out. In the house, members will consider how to proceed on immigration after the president s executive action. In the in the senate, votes are scheduled on nominees beards to argentina and hungary. And work...

To be enough just to put up a little window dressing in front. Now they had to take what the local newspaper called a tourists eye view of their own hometown to consider what kind of landscape and atmosphere would be needed to attract vacationers and to compete with other communities that were trying to do exactly the same thing. So in short, already with this very first stretch of i70 to be built up in the high country we can already see a hint of how largescale postwar Tourist Development was going to change peoples view of the land. The way people related to place and the ways they saw fit ...

Senate for pass. And over on the house side republicans to approve a bill to ban most abortions. Lawmakers will vote in the house on legislation allowing congress to review any nuclear deal. The senate has passed the bill and the president said he would sign it if there are no major changes added. In philadelphia investigators are still determining what caused amtrak train 188 to derail. The train had been traveling 106 Miles Per Hour and that part of the track had not been equipped with safety programs to limit train speed. Well begin this morning with a debate in washington on amtrak and whe...