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they're often referred it to as the conscience of the congress. having worked there almost two years, i can't think of a better name. it is really the heart of the people. >> executive direct or and general counsel of the black caucus, angela rye on the role of the black caucus. >> it is designed to make sure members of congress, who are african-american, can come together on issues plaguing the community at-large, issues that maying plaguing their districts where they can find commonality, to discuss legislative solutions, proposals to advance the causes of people who don't have a v...

okay. we'll try this a couple different ways. looks like they are calling the vote on that. if they are, we can do a round of questions and come back and do a second round or try to stall and do both rounds. we can take this either way. we're going to pretend this is a democracy for a moment and talk about it. >> if we wanted to maybe not take our full five minutes in order to get some questions in. >> come back around. >> mr. kelly? >> we'll try to do three minutes in this fist round and do a second round. we'll do three minutes in the first round and the second round we'll do 18 mi...

in on your prefirst day on it. we're verifying right now. i think they may be calling the votes. if they're calling the votes right now that's going to interrupt your schedule. i don't want us to jump into our questioning time if we call the votes on it. we'll just hesitate for a moment and see if they're about to do that. okay. we'll try this a couple different ways. looks like they are calling the vote on that. if they are, we can do a round of questions and come back and do a second round or try to stall and do both rounds. we can take this either way. we're going to pretend this ...

gentleman from which is currently numbers, >> members of congress held a ceremony for the victims of 9/11 at the u.s. capitol. coming up, we'll here from john boehner and other congressional leaders. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] ...

progress the u.s. has made in emergency communications since 9/11. and what they see as remaining shortcomings in emergency public safety communications. >> host: well, one of the major policy issues that came out of 9/11 was the interoperability or lack thereof of emergency communications. that's our topic this week on "the communicators," as the tenth anniversary of 9/11 is now upon us. jack brown is the director of emergency management services in arlington county, virginia. mr. brown, if you would, tell us, first of all, your experience on 9/11 and then apropos to our conversatio...