the we talked with two capitol hill reporters about what they will be working on a congress is worried about what to do andco joining us with rollcall he's the senior senator staff writer joining us. returning congress has one main aiaim, no shutdown. the company? >> guest: we have until the end of the month to pass a continuing resolution to the federal government.contin it's how the resolutions should

last. the obama administration. the odds are that the senate democrats will win on that because there are several that agree. if the administration does something with regulation or something that happens after it is one last chance for republicans to put a stan stamp. the administration. said? >> would you agree as far as what this said? stomach absolutely. and particularly because you have retiring lawmakers and the democrat from maryland in the senate over in the house. they are the chairman of the

appropriations committee in the republican from eastern bordersr of kentucky. they have these priorities they want to get done before the end of the year but if you are a conservative activist or someone associated with the conservative group of house members, these are the people you don't like making the law and the fact that they are the ones who get to decide how the money is spent because they want to spend more than you do so that is the tension that we will have andha that folks like paul ryan and the speaker of the house will have to deal with in the next few weeks. there are several things that they want in addition to this longer-term continuing resolution. and there may be some bargaining tips. the difficulty is that the

speaker hasn't yet been able to figure out the right negotiating tactic that this group largelyp. unpredictable and their motivation has shifted when they've done negotiations like this in the past. so they would like to get a vote of the impeachment and it may be the trade-off. >> the question will be what bargaining chips there are for the commissioner's impeachment resolution it seems like it might be a logical one which tells you something about the way that this works related to the amount of money sen spent be federal government. it's a bargaining chip to the other thing that's going to come to play is how much there is an appetite for this continuing

resolution. for the viewers that may not be as familiar in the process a straightforward continuing resolution would flatline the federal government spending. the folks should be reminded that we haven't addressed the funding to battle the virus and the cdc and nih and other agencies say they need more money to do that. that's what needed to be added on to the continuing resolutions and to throw something else out there, there's also a question of now we've had storms hitting lately and so there may be emergency supplemental money that may come to be needed for this storm that's been cranking off the east coast in louisiana

and all that would have t but ht added into this box. if the minority leader reid said, noted that they woul theye to be expanded to include some of these things. they haven't been adding additional funding to the bills. >> that is the starting point of the congressional workload before they leave again in october. you can ask questions, (202)747-8000 come and

(202)748-8002 for independence. if you want to post you can do so on c-span. talk about the strategy in the process will they wait until we arthey are closer to the deadlie for september 30 how does that work putting the clock out? spinnaker seems way too early to have this conversation now which is crazy if you try to work on a deadline. but these are procrastinators. at the most basic level they tend to push things off until the second and sometimes that is a strategy to convince members they need to go along with something. so we will probably see the meetings this week the senate will have their normal launches tomorrow and then there will be house conference meetings as well.

and i think that the real discussions will kick off towards the end of next week. part of the reason the conservatives in the house want a continuing resolution that takes into calendar year 2017 is to try to avoid the lame-duck session and the swearing-in of the new congress on january 3 under which there's all sort of lame-duck priorities that could be potentially an active. trade is one of them and that is i think the other piece that'st in play is whether or not someone like paul ryan can say

okay we are not going to do the transpacific partnership and make a list of things we will not do in the lame-duck. that is a possibility for what we might see as a bargaining chip. >> it would be difficult in the senate where you have a large number of senate republicans to. go back to say we plan to stop doing work when you pass the vote. they got the message they would very much like to avoid. but do you think we will start seeing some of this happen tomorrow afternoon when they have their weekly lunch is the house will meet in the morning and the largest group will be meeting for lunch wednesday so we will see these negotiationsoe march out wednesday into thursday.of a shu >> none of you see the reality of a shutdown happening. >> i can't imagine worse than to

say we are going to shut down the government and that has to come back after the election exists. >> and neither party -- if you are mitch mcconnell and you want to have a chance of holding onf to the senate, i think that chance leaves town as the government shuts down. you are gone with the guest, go ahead. >> i am so glad to finally ditch the calls congress at the last minute want to try to get something done because they are up for election_much pressure. right here at the very end of

president obama speak time. eight years we had the opportunity to put russia in its place as far as the cyberspace and everything.about it eight years. think about it. to buy or sell a house in eight years come mitch mcconnell's congress, the delay now you want to get up there with the last two months and try to get don something done and blame it on obama. i'm going to tell you something. i am a dissatisfied disabled the veteran and it comes with the congress people please get it. >> dot it.

that's the sort of people dissatisfaction there is a lotea of reasons the congress pulls so low in the approval rating andpr it's always terrible. part of what we have seen and this is no surprise, but part of it is tied to the fact that the first two years of the obama administration and the democrats had control of the house and the senate, and they got through as much as they could have massivet massive overhaul of the healthym care system through the narrow margins in the senate and since then there's been a lot of back and forth.dissatis >> people are very dissatisfied as a whole but if you ask how they feel about the individual members in congress they are pretty happy. to so it's difficult to see if this would bear out in the upcoming election particularly in the

house the lines are drawn and it's difficult. >> there've been discussions about cybersecurity legislation for quite some time. i don't know if a calendar this short fear being completelyt moe honest at most eight weeks i believe it is closer to six and they will continue passing resolutions and they may or may not have a few last-minute regulation issues and i don't think that is on the list. >> let's go to north carolina on the republican line. >> host: >> americans are tired of the whole political process ofwian republicans and democrats trying to pass bills, trying to put

bipartisan issues. the last deal was a good examp example. it was so divisive in thisry ani country and in congress. why would a slowdown something that is so urgent and is i immediately needed. by putting something that is so partisan. the previous caller said he wass dissatisfied with congress because they hadn't been working with obama who just disowned the

constitution. i can see why he's upset that wu are all upset. there should be term limits in congress.was a >> guest: there was a bipartisan negotiation happening in july. senate democrats were participating pretty aggressively working on trying to do something in the funding. those talks crumbled in a bit of a surprise and the response was republicans in the house and ins the senate put together their own separate funding bill and added a position in the clinics that's one of the things they objected to a part of the reason they moved forward but they also objected to the regulations. there's been some concern that

would potentially kill mosquitoes and there is a big risk to other types of beneficial bugs like these. >> host: i will take what the caller at the end said in the term limits for members of congress that's been a recurring topic of conversation over many years. i know in the presidential race donald trump has started. if you talk to old-school members of congress, their response and the reason that they would never happen because he would need to amend the constitution to do but basically they would say we have term limits and if you don't like us, vote us out. to the point made earlier on the favorability of your own member of congress versus the congress of large, there's a whole lo tht of incumbents who've been around a long time who are going to

continue to be around a long time and that makes it really difficult to tell someone they should be voting themselves out of a job. >> host: spring hill florida next. you ar were on with our guest, o ahead. >> caller: why are they treating social security like their own private think they sold 150 billion. >> social security is one ofdi those places where it is difficult for lawmakers to think about spending money in the future with things in the current and changes made to programs and the way the programs have funded. i offered to handle the the

issue to make changes to programs tend to raise taxes or cut programs and i don't think they like doing it but that's the way that it ends up goinge most of the time. >> host: i'm thinking backck maybe because we had a call froa chattanooga buffet breakfastit that we attended with senator bob corker a few months back which i think c-span aired so it's probably in the archives somewhere in which he was who hb largely one of these folks trying to push and element reforms and overhauls for a long time and for the lack of athe better term he went off on the fact no one can come to an agreement.si

to figure out what needs to be done whether that is the retirement age and adjusting thy level that no longer has to pay social security taxes. to have a appetites to handle it is difficult. >> host: if it is to spend the last minute it is very difficult for them. speck thanks for the promotion by the way we did cover that event. let's go to south carolina democrats line tv attacking onel

the legislation was kind of a tool used in the method of compromise within the congress and the senate. and although the news media going to hollywood except for c-span, thank god, hang in there. it's changed the fundamental nature. that's what it's become and itit just drops down the legislation. yo could there be a rule that you could no longer because this is used as the compromise in the legislation to build and let the

bills more importantly stand on its own allowing the public to judge the true nature. i hope you have a good day. thank you very much. >> host: talk up the process and how it is used. >> guest: my response andle maybe this is a funny one, there is a rule again dropping these in the conference records for the formal agreements between thagreement between thehouse ane material that was neither in the house version of the bill or the senate version of the bill it says it isn't allowed to be there.

they have a ping-pong where they send one bill from the house too the senate in the back and for forth. bil even if you airdrop a positionon anand they can say we are goingo allow that even though it isn't supposed to be there. >> guest: congress has a lot that people find objectionableat but as many that allow them to get out of those rules, so i think that creating more have typically helps congress to do its job better. that's a good question. maybe i shouldn't even open that up. there are so many different things congress could be doingr. to make themselves function better. >> host: but the clean bills with no amendments, does that ever takes place?

>> guest: when you are watching the floor of the senate ethics:30 7:00 at night passing by unanimous consent it seemed to be innocuous. often times there was a deal that was hatched out that get something through and somebody made a trade-off to get something else to so when things seem to be clean, you may have as it happened earlier this year or last year in the congress there was a case where the ambassador got confirmed inr exchange for the bill passing. >> as often as it is the case of the problem for legislation sometimes it takes creating a big piece of legislation that absolutely need to get done. but that has been one of thehe

most effective ways to get anything passed. spent talking about the congressional agenda in theth weeks ahead before they go out in october. on the republican line, go ahead.s >> good morning, pedro. one of the things i learned inin watching c-span, you can really learn something. the last three have been touching on the same topic i that's what i would like to ask is in this legislative sausage making something i never heard is that the democrats actually have pushed the agenda on the virus of having planned parenthood in the middle because every majobill becauseof a majos talks about the problem is the republicans are blocking the bill because they want the planned parenthood taken out.

that is an funding mechanism planneplanned parenthood gets fg no matter what. so the media doesn't tell us that they've gotten that game. they only tell us republicans are getting it out. how do they feel about the way the information is communicateda on topics like this? >> perhaps there is a misunderstanding on how that works. so, it is more that bill has as it stands right now. it's not the planned parenthood is always definitely getting money from something like this but because it is a reproductivi issue and most of their clinicsd are allowed to get funding to handle these issues in ways that extend the provider of choice or the provider of availability in

an area that would normally get money and the bill as it stands says they may not. >> i think the point is interesting particularly in mac it might be different if there were a republican president. a if the base level if it is ada part of the appropriation there were further restrictions on how that groups like planned parenthood could get money genuinely we might be having a different conversation. as it stands, the way that it seems to have been settled for the last. it's to provide abortion. g

they are able to get money for reproductive health and the thing people still do not entirely understand is in addition to being transmitted bs mosquitoes, it is a sexually transmitted disease and that ist partly why groups like planned parenthood tha and reproductive health clinics are eligible or would be eligible. >> they also provide the postnatal care and that is beside the federal government is helping subsidize for all low-income individuals were to pay for a programmatic research operations. it's a little bit complicated and i can understand why you collathecaller would be confuset the way that is being handledots particularly because the political reason to try to obscure the facts. >> from new york, independent

line. >> caller: [inaudible] anyway, to get on topic these people do not ever accomplish anything. they do not want to accomplish anything at all they are doing is hurting the country by trying to get back. people are mentioning it was the root of all evils. maybe give them a dollar more than the minimum wage and they would put them in the public housing. you won't have to worry about term limits. how is it that it cost a billi billion. when i was a boy i was told anybody could become president

of the great united states. however today it costs somewhere around 1 billion to be like hillary clinton or donald trump. >> host: lets me take the point about the accomplishment because i think that you would want to be a congress that publishes something or maybe the candidate that involves changing the calculus as well. it also means voting for things you may or may not want on the record because every single rule that taken in the building over there becomes an attack ad. >> if you look at what the republicans in the senate are doing, they are trying to focus on those that are up for reelection and accomplishments are bipartisan in nature thatif are significant but not the

largest thing ever. they fight opioid abuse which is an important problem and a serious problem in large swaths of the country quite frankly but it's also a relative drop in the bucket in terms of what congress does overall. you see them fighting opioid abuse more than anything else. >> host: lisa. >> caller: hello. my point is what congress gets done. i might be wrong about that but wasn't it 113 days after you get anything done in 113 days of

work out of the year? they want to rush back in and it's ridiculous. i wish more would take the lead from my district and donate the salary to charity. every bit of money goes to charity and more people ought te do this. nothing gets done. >> i think we wonder sometimes how anything gets done as well. i understand completely why the voters are confused about what it is the congress is even doing. what th i don't know what the final tally will be part of this.

it's this strange term when they decide to leave early so it is entirely possible that even the workload that we are expecting o will be short and our tables are taking more and more mondays off so that people can stay at home and campaign or fundraiser to get to the point earlier about how much everything costs. so the exact time i think willux be in flux but it's not a lot. >> if you think about it as a normal work period we were going for three weeks and then out in the district working for one. the last one is usually monday

through thursday. >> severe injury september let's say they get some type of the deal. how long are they away beforeth they come back? >> they usually come back about the first lunch in the senate would be the first tuesday after so that's when things usually in about and then they take a week off for thanksgiving and come back for a few weeks. >> host: independent line. hello there. >> caller: i call it the elephant in the room. the mind of the republican party as ah were not reallyy

republicans and then as a result, the indicative they pnald trump. to me, the democratic party isn't too far behind that they want something else. the two-party system is passé, it doesn't work. that's my question.i heard >> i've heard an interesting theory if you have the parties at the same time theyen to immediately both move into the sections. i don't know how that would work but it is part of what will happen in the debate stage. h >> host: as it relates tom capitol hill, the whole system in congress is built for the two

parties and there are two groups of leadership and whether you call them democrats and republicans were they become liberal or conservative or whatever it seems to me this is a complete theory and shot in the dark, but we have seen from the scarce number of independen that they always end up aligning with one of the two parties. so, bernie sanders as an id member of congress would always be in the democratic caucus. when we have people flip around we had a couple of occasions, the former senator from vermont left the republican party and then immediately aligned with the democrats and became a chair man and so that's the sort of

situation that plays out so i don't know how much you would need to actually upset the operating structure. >> we see some in the house where they are more powerful in the leadership at times and those are the factions of parties. there's a possibility that they could be in the coalition ol buildings in that way. >> another question thatat republicans and donald trump. >> we have been trying to get answers on that for some time. i was out in new hampshire and she said she would vote for him but not campaign for him. he came to do an event in new

hampshire and i was at a campaign events maybe 15 minutes from where he was and there was a decision to not participate it's a difficult decision to be in. >> and that has been my experience as well when you talk to people or go back to their ca home state you are running their own campaign. i was with john mccain ingr arizona at the grand canyon during the republican national d convention. therthere's athere was a slide s rollcall.com. >> democrats ha have coalesced around for the clinton or are the factors there as well? spent the majority are supporters of hillary clinton at

a pretty quick to say they would rather vote for hillary clinton than risk the idea. but she spent a lot of time into buildininthat building and thert of friends in the air and that's one thing they are pretty good t at this cultivating and captivating the relationships. >> there's a lot of former congressional staffers working for the campaign. if you look at the roster of people involved in the transition project and office communications a lot of them are old hands of capitol hill in a way that is within a few exceptions certainly not the case for donald trump. >> host: you were on with our guest. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. i thought i got hung up on.

saturday they had the today show on and nancy pelosi was on and they had asked her some questions about the deal and i know this may not have a lot to do with your staff but maybe they can answer my questions. they asked her straight up with the peoplesoft about hillary clinton and she went off on a rampage of doing this and that for the government and was the greatest whatever. i sit there and listen but my conction is do they actually really might conceive in their mind that all of congress tellbs

why is and nobody calls them on it. it. they are afraid to say i don't think that's true and i don't think that is what congress needs to do. they need to step up and benothn americans. get our work done and i think our country would be in a lot better condition than it is now. >> guest: i think one of the things we are going to beck to dealing with from a little bit earlier, the same will be trueka over the next few weeks undoubtedly about the various foundation issues and the e-mail servers and everything else.

none of that goes away obviously and we will all be dealing with that over the coming week. it's interesting that the extend democrats are defending clinton right or wrong versus the republicans who just sort ofhaso walk up to the microphones as mitch mcconnell has done and said i'm not seeking any questions about donald trump today. >> guest: they feel more comfortable because they know her and particularly on the issues it's something they feely has been already litigated inng congress and they feel that they have done their job in the investigatioinvestigation and tl confident and whatever findingsd they may have and it makes it

easier for them and when they may not give a clean answer i guess she may not have given the answer and i didn't see that intervietheinterview but i thine also what makes people distrust them where they don't answer the question yes or no first and then they tried to come back to the point and they don't always get back to the point and i understand why that would be hard to understand or apprecia appreciate.pu >> cleveland ohio, good morning. >> a good morning to all of youa >> all of the shenanigans and dancing around congress they are all political things. this country is sinking deeper and deeper in debt due to something legal interest. there is no national debt in the country. what brings it on is an old biblical word and if you look it up, look up the word usery and

you'll find out w out we have a financial problem and the intent of globalization to control all countries through the banking system. now this is a segue point about the absurdity that we are living in. if we were to come up with an idea that all kids and puppies should be aborted because wema have too many cats and dogs and the eat too much food there would be an uproar but killing babies in the womb, that's okay for planned parenthood and i thank you so much for your time. >> i come from a background where i focus mostly on the budget tax policy. the issue of interest on the debt is something people worryer about that there continues to be work on if that is somethingg necessary for the economy to grow and i think that it's a pretty serious debate that goes on not just in congress but within the economic circles and people are thinking about it.

it is not an easy answer at this point. >> one of the things that would come up if we go back to the beginning of the conversation one of the things that would come up is i think next year we have to deal with the debt limit again and the question would be if we have a continuing resolution that kept the funding for the government going and pushed it off sometime next year we may find ourselves in one of the situations where we are dealing with the debt limit and the budgetary running the government stuff at the same time. .. a critique of the system, but the time at which we worry about interest rates and that surface is when the debt limit is about to be breached, and that is probably, frankly, i conversation for next year.

guest: if that does happen, then we restart the nagging conversation about tax reform. you cannot get into debt limit conversations without someone saying -- asking for another conversation about tax reform he worked on the last one. david from colorado, democratsod line. >> caller: good morning and good morning to chelsea and niall. chelsea your explanation about how planned parenthood issue got mixed in with the zika bill was crystal clear. you gave to clear explanations about how it happened that planned parenthood got into the

bill and why the senate democrats objected then the first explanation you gave, you even talked about how hard the senate work to come up with ad bipartisan measure that was changed by house conservatives. but yet, you had to republican callers almost back to back call up and want to blame this on the democrat. are they so propagandized by what they're hearing on fox news that they can't listen? secondly pedro, what is the hard order they have about planned parenthood. planned parenthood cannot fund abortion, it helps with reproductive rights, therear clearly is an intersection between zika and what planned parenthood does.

it's something i really can't understand. >> host: caller, thanks. is there some other angle to put on a? >> guest: part of the problem here is that it's a sensitivityl issue that people have really passionate feelings about and often times when people have passionate feelings about something it's hard to have those conversations and it's hard to deal with just the numbers in the money. >> the other part of the problem to is i wasn't timing the explanation, but it took a while and that is something that we have the luxury of doing on this program that whether it's fox news or msnbc or cnn, it's usually too short to get the whole explanation out on air before there's a commercial break anyway.of >> a couple of thoughts for both of you on senator harry read who

is about to retire and leave the centipede what will his legacy be and what will he do before he leaves. >> guest: i'm going to turn the first word to this to neil because they have a close relationship. >> guest: we actually were both at harry reid's news conferencee at the democratic nationalnv convention a few weeks ago in philly and his seems like he's getting looser and looser with his rhetoric as his final weeks took down in the senate. his number one priority clearly is to bash the republicans inwi any way possible that he thinks will help chuck schumer who will be his successor as democraticun leader and majority leader next year. if you are on his fundraising list, he is raising money

constantly for democrats in the senate and otherwise his own seat, catherine is probably his number one priority, trying to get her elected against, grossman jill hack, but that is sort of where reads priorities seem to be. it seems to be a lot of allqu politics all the time and i think the question we will have and maybe kelsey might have some thoughts on this, the question we will have is how much of the actual negotiating over the next couple of months is done by harry reid versus chuck schumern >> i would think he would be present but schumer will probably be the heavy on that. i think for more of a 10,000 foot idea of how people thinky about harry reid is that he's proud proud to say that he was an amateur boxer and he has carried that swagger about him

around on capitol hill and that's kind of how he approaches negotiation. i think he will be thought of as a bashing brawling get it done kind of guy. he will probably also be remembered for those people in nevada who care about nuclear waste. >> host: will he stay in washington or go back to nevada. >> guest: he and his wife i think are planning to split time, largely they have moved a couple years ago, they moved out of his hometown, tiny area in the middle of nowhere to henderson which is a las vegasy suburb although they will probably spend a lot of time there, i wouldn't be surprised if they kept the condo that they have in d.c. which was always for campaign ads because it's literally at the writ carlson. >> in terms of another job, does

he have another one lined up? >> i wouldn't be be surprised if he doesn't take a formal position. he's older and has health concerns and talks a lot about those parts of his life. >> host: from the republican line, joe, go ahead. >> caller: cspan thank you for taking my call, you're truly a national treasure. in regard to paul ryan and tacking on the anders bill and the various levels of poisont wy pills of legality, it was my understanding that paul ryan was going to be running us in regular order, is is that the proper term? could you educate me on what that is because i thought, i hope i'm right, i thought the term regular order was supposed to prevent the tacking on of things. i'm probably wrong, but that's what i am calling. thanks for all you do with the.

>> you are not wrong. that is the intent, that's what they set out to say that this is a year about regular order and i think the political will of his republicans intervened and he has this forced to abandon his regular plans and i think the great plan now is to do the things you can get done before they become a tragedy.ptember >> in a world of regular order, by september 30, the house and senate would have agreed upon 12 individual appropriation bills. i believe the count is zero. >> it to go to conference. >> they started the process. >> okay so were sitting with the military construction, ano spending bill that can't move because of the zika stuff right now in the senate is planning to take another doomed to fail vott

on that this afternoon, but that sort of order of both the legislative calendar and also if the senate and the white house don't agree on your view of what regular order should look like, you are really probably doomed from the start. >> i also think that regular order is someways all a myth, and its hopefulness but the reality often gets in the way. >> elizabeth, green bay was johnson. >> caller: hi, i got ticked off twice now when i heard that the e-mails were compared to watergate. i lived through watergate in d.c. i was there and working for a republican congressman. there is no way that e-mails or even comparable to watergate

when people from high officials from the fbi and cia and so on went to prison so how can they compare the e-mails to that when it's nothing but a drop in a bucket as far as i'm concernedd. because i saw it all, i saw it unfold. >> how did the congress take the email issue with former secretary of state? what will they do with it? >> there's not much more they can do. at this point they can ask for more investigations or another special committee on investigation, they they are ready have one going now onth planned parenthood and i'm not sure if there's another- mechanism are ready this year. >> they can call the fbi director in for another hearing. there are things that you might do if you're republican lawmaker, particularly some of

the committee chairman in thee house perhaps, but there's not much that actually could be dono and the question is, the calculation that the republicans will need to make is at what point is overreach, and i'm suro they are doing polling on this, how much of it is political as much is substantive. that will to some extent drive the conversation. >> host: for two guests joining us this week covers congress. thank you for coming on both of you. >> on tomorrow's washington journals, veteran affairs director answers your call about veterans issues and the department of veterans affairs. watch at seven am eastern on c-span. we will have more veterans issue on c-span three with the hearing of the house veterans affair committee. coverage begins at 1015 eastern.

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thank you are we excited or what yes this is amazing. this is amazing. i have to tell you, i wait all year long just for these two days when we are on capitol hill what a privilege it is that we as citizens of this great nation can come to our nation's capital and look them in their eyes because they are no different than us. only in the united states that we the citizens have such an ability to make an impact or freedom of speech has amazing freedom that our founding