both chambers of congress are in session today. the house gavelled in to begin work on a couple of bills, including one related to veterans and access to tax credits in the health care market and allowing tax credits by the house health care bill to pay for continued coverage of those under cobra. follow the house live on c-span. and the senate returned this morning and recently approved legislation that imposes sanctions on companies or people who help iran develop its ballistic missile program and added russian sanctions to drop other sanctions against russia. follow the senate live on our companion network c-span2. well, despite yesterday's shooting of congressman and three other people in virginia, tonight members will play ball in the annual congressional baseball game. earlier today, both democrats and republicans released their rosters for this evening with 26 democrats and 2 -- 33

republicans set to take place. it takes place at national stadium here in washington, d.c. and for more about security measures being taken, we spoke earlier today with a capitol hill reporter. >> billy house on the phone, a congressional correspondent with bloomberg to talk about security. billy house, let's start with the basics. when's the criteria of a member of kon to get security detail? >> well, essentially, right now to be assigned a security detail which means having several capitol police officers with you at almost all times, you have to be a house leader down the chain of command. and that's why of all the lawmakers out there on that baseball field yesterday, house whip steve ska lease was the only one with the detail. >> if you don't have that type of security, what do you have as a member of congress as we have learned, some members telling us that they have received tlets,

too. >> they have. including congresswoman tenny of central new york saying that she got a threat right after the incident yesterday morning. there is security, certainly, in the capitol complex. and many of these lawmakers have district offices in courthouses and local police for instance help gear up their security at public events but they do not have anybody surrounding them or walking with them or driving them wherever they go. most of these don't unless there's a threat that has been voiced directly at them. so, they're kind of out there. we do know that some and we have learned this in the last few days, some, more than one, also pack heat of their own but that is something that is not widespread. >> chris collins i believe saying this morning he will start carrying a gun. >> absolutely. there are rules about even

members of congress carrying guns in the capitol complex. and back in their home states, they have to abide by the rules there. but i've talked to the sergeant at arms office today and they say that they have gotten a lot of calls from members of congress over the years and certainly chris collins isn't the only one that probably has a handgun somewhere in his office here in the capitol. >> so what sort of security measures are members talking about taking now after what happened yesterday? >> well, because of the early town hall controversies and turmoils over obamacare this year, sergeants at arms has already requested $2.2 million in upgrades for members of security including in their home districts. members yesterday voiced that they wanted those things and even more. among those items that are being looked at are so-called panic buttons in each office to link

up directly for instance if you're in florida, if you're in tallahassee or wherever your district office is, link up directly to the local police immediately but to the capitol police hierarchy here in washington and other enhancements to the local offices but as for giving each member a detail of their own, that's just financially and structurally not seen in the cards. >> all right. billy house, congressional correspondent with bloomberg news, thank you. >> thank you. and we'll have live coverage of the congressional baseball game tonight at 6:30 eastern. the first pitch is at 7:05. it will be live on the companion network c-span. this weekend on american history tv on c-span3, saturday at 8:00 a.m. eastern, on reel america -- >> general secretary gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the soviet union

and eastern europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate, mr. gorbachev, open this gate. mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall! >> president ronald reagan's 1987 trip to berlin. then at 8:00 p.m. on lectures in history, hillsdale college professor morano on how the baby boom, teen culture changed postworld war ii society. >> to get a separate youth culture, advertisers are looking at this, young people begin to adopt their own styles of dress, kind of music they listen to, especially, is very different. there's a kind of segregation, a separation of youth culture from mainstream culture. >> and sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on the presidency, on the 45th anniversary of the

watergate break-in, joe halderman with an insider's view of richard nixon's white house and the scandal that resulted in her husband serving a 18-month prison sentence. >> the white house phone rings. and i instantly assume it's that dreaded call from nixon. the conversation is surprisingly brief. the president wants john and me to chopper up to meet him at camp david at 1:30 today. when the white house phone rings again, i fight to stay composed. that was ron zigler press secretary bob says. he's at camp david, too. the president now feels very strongly that john and i should volunteer to resign. >> for the complete tv schedule, go to c-span.org. sunday on q & a -- >> barack is very deeply committed to presenting his

story. and i think that's different from history. >> part 1 of our interview with biographer david garro talking about "rising star: the baking of barack obama" covering president obama's life up to his winning the presidency. >> i think that barack's political aspirations and sense of destiny lead him to push sheila jager aside. during that time, there was a well-known political figure in chicago. hugely respected man. senator dick newhouse. whom everybody in black chicago believed could never go higher because he was married to a white woman. so it is in the political tradition of black chicago in the late 1980s in the early 1990s that for a black man to aspire to represent black chicago it is