of the justice system as a whole that starts with the laws passed by congress. pornographychild and sexually related crimes has been one in which congress has increased penalties repeatedly. the reality of how that impacts individual people and individual families can often be very devastating. i am sorry that that has happened to you and your family. our guest has been michael nachmanoff. thank you for the insight. thank you forest: having me. host: we will be back tomorrow morning, like we are every day. have a great day. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014]

>> congress is back in session today. the house gavels in at noon eastern for general speeches. 2:00 eastern for legislative work. the senate is also back at 2:00 p.m. here is a preview of the week ahead on the hill. >> we want to take a step back and talk more broadly about congress. it is going to be a busy week. is on therowicz phone. he is a reporter with the hill. thanks for joining us. budget us about the first. we've been waiting for the larger omnibus spending bill to be unveiled. is that happened -- has that happened yet? >> and has not as of last night.

that is the big mission of the week for congress. they will have to do it in two stages. they will have to pass a short- term bill through saturday and that will give them time to wrestle through the giant, a little bit more than $1 trillion spending bill, for the rest of the year. it seems like there's is a lot of agreement just to do it that way. and then that will fund it and give them three or four days to figure out the spending bill. that is the big mission for the week. all of theat for drama that we've had so far, they should be able to push that through. a lot of members will have a few days to look at it. surprisesgs come with sometimes, so we will have to look through to see if there is language there that puts up some opposition. otherwise, it should be finished

by friday or saturday. >> take us to the unemployment benefits bill that has been working its way through the senate. what is the latest on that? with a news came up idea for an extension on emergency unemployment benefits paid for by sending the famous sequester that we all talk about for another year. and then democrats said it would not look at any republican amendments. that hit a lot of people funny, because a lot of republicans advanced -- helped to advanced the bill earlier in the week and suddenly, democrats are saying they will not look at any of their ideas. that will probably change and they will look at some of public amendments, but did not say which ones. will determine how they will proceed, a certain number of amendments they might look at to help pass the bill. >> what is the timing on the bill, and you see the house --?ng this up at all q mark

-- taking this up at all? get support for how it is paid for, then you might see the house consider it. the house has made it clear that the public has made it clear that they want them to focus on things that get people back to work, as opposed to extending and implement benefits. the senate has to go first, no matter what, to even generate any interest over there. but they can do it in the senate, then the house could look at it. do it in then senate, then the house could look at it. we will see what they are capable of doing and what they can agree to first. >> it is only monday. right now, they do have a one- week recess next week. they are looking to move forward as far as they can. take us over to committee. last week was not necessarily the busiest week in committee.

what do you have your eye on this week? pushpublicans continue to that issue. they even have a vote on the obamacare bill that would require people to -- i'm sorry, would require weekly reports on how the enrollment is going, ont kind of reports we have the website. republicans are not letting that go. this is something that we could expect all year. the premiums are higher and people are losing their plans. it seems like there are one or week,k, -- one or two a hearing wise. >> one more question. it is down the road, but the state of the union is coming,. what can you tell -- from what you can tell on the hill these days, and at the white house, what will that speech likely focus on?

how will republicans likely combat the root -- the president's message? the think right now, president is caught between two realities. they want to say there is improvement in the job market. it always comes down to jobs, it seems. and yet, at the same time they are pushing this unemployment benefits, to have it extended. i think most people think it is still a mixup economy and that will make it a difficult speech to tie all of these ideas together. you know, to say we are improving, but we still need help for people. that has been the overall messaging problem that the white house has had. and you have a bunch of republicans that are there still fueling opposition to obamacare. we are still in the classic battle of a split government, which you hear a lot of. i suppose people call it messaging, but it sounds like a lot of fighting back and forth and how to play for votes and say, our vision is better.

it will be similar to what we've seen in the last few years. i think the gop will combat it by saying they have a better handle on how to get jobs. it is coming into election season, so everything is a message. the speech will be a message and the gop will give a response and we will be messaged to death. from theasperowicz hill, thanks for the update this morning. >> sure thing. at 12:15e to join us p.m. eastern today with a look at the use of military force by the u.s. you will be able see it live on our companion that work c-span2. a little later, a look at childhood health care at the robert wood johnson foundation live at 2:30 p.m. eastern.

paul ryan will be speaking at the brookings institution at 4:00 eastern on social mobile a team -- social mobility. that will also be live on c- span3. the first towas address the nation in a joint appearance with the president. the first ladies to address the nation in a joint appearance with the president. >> open your eyes to life, to see it in the vivid colors that god gave us, of the precious his children, to enjoy life to the fullest and to make it count. say yes to your life, and when it comes to drugs and alcohol, just say no. >> first lady nancy reagan has the original -- as our original aties continues tonight live 9 p.m. eastern on c-span and on c-span3 and also on c-span radio and at www.c-span.org.

the virginia governor's inauguration ceremony took place in a rainy richmond virginia where democrat terry mcauliffe was sworn in saturday as the state 72nd governor. he comes to office after defeating republican state attorney general ken cuccinelli in a close election last november and succeeds outgoing governor bob mcdonnell. attendees, former president bill clinton and secretary of state hillary clinton. of hillarycochair clinton's 2008 presidential race. he is also the former chair of the democratic national committee. the summer -- ceremony is just under an hour.

>> fema -- the honorable mark r herring and family. [applause]

>> the gentleman from colonial heights, mr. cox. >> mr. president, i have the honor to present the lieutenant governor elect, the honorable ralph northam. [cheers and applause]

>> the gentleman from colonial heights, mr. cox. >> mr. president, on behalf of the inaugural committee, i have the honor to present the governor elect, the honorable terence r. mcauliffe and family. [cheers and applause]

>> the joint assembly will come to order.

"god bless america" will now be performed by the virginia state university gospel chorale under the direction of mr. james holden, jr. and under the choreographry of mr. perry a. evans ii. ♪

>> ♪ while the storm clouds gather far across the sea while the storm clouds gather

far across the sea let us swear allegiance to a land that's free let us all be grateful for a land so fair as we raise our voices in a solemn prayer god bless america, land that i love stand beside her and guide her through the night with a light from above

from the mountains to the prairies to the oceans white with foam god bless america my home sweet home god bless america my home sweet home ♪ >> [all] ♪ god bless america land that i love

stand beside her and guide her through the night with a light from above from the mountains to the prairies to the oceans white with foam god bless america my home sweet home god bless america my home sweet home ♪

[cheers and applause] >> [inaudible] reverend everly ashburn, pastor at friendship baptist church.

newport news. ok, how about this? ok, stay right there. >> let us pray. most gracious god our father, we come thanking you for this day you created, and we rejoice in thanking you, lord, for allowing us to be witnesses to this it -- inaugural ceremony of the 72nd governor elect of virginia, terry mcauliffe, lieutenant governor elect, ralph northam, and attorney general elect. -- elect, mark herring. we pray, lord, as we celebrate the swearing-in of our elected

officials that you will grant to them your divine wisdom as a runner elect terry mcauliffe, other elected officials, and the general assembly embark on this new journey, lead and guide them as governor elect terry mcauliffe. when they are faced with difficult circumstances, remind them as david did to look to be hills, from which cometh thy help. knowing that all of your help will come from the lord. help them, lord, to remember you are the source that is dependable. you are the advocate that is understanding. you are the counselor that is wise. we pray, lord, that you would bless and protect our first family -- dorothy mcauliffe, peter, sally, mary, jack, and dori. along with the families of all of our elected officials.

lord, we ask your blessings and guidance upon governor elect mcauliffe's cabinet, elected and appointed leaders, and the general assembly that they may work in harmony for the common good of the citizens of this great commonwealth of for genia virginia. governor mcauliffe, lieutenant northam, and attorney general herring, as i close this prayer, may the lord less and keep you bless and keep you. may the lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you. may the lord lift up his countenance upon the and give you peace -- may the lord lift up his countenance upon thee and give you peace. in jesus name, amen. >> please remains pending for

-- remain standing for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and the singing of the national anthem, "the star-spangled banner." the pledge of allegiance will be led by united states naval academy midshipman john f mcauliffe, george r jamison, and collin a jefferson. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> the national anthem will now be performed by sophia nader of midlothian.

>> ♪ o, say, can you see by the don's early light -- the dawn's early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming

whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets' red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave ♪ [cheers and applause] >> the joint assembly and guests will please be seated. "america the beautiful" will now be performed by the world

children's choir falls church under the direction of its artistic director. artistic director, sondra harnes. ♪ >> ♪ o beautiful for spacious skies for amber waves of grain for purple mountain majesties above the fruited lane --plain america! america!

god shed his grace on thee and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea o beautiful for pilgrim feet whose stern impassioned stress a thoroughfare for freedom beat across the wilderness america! america! god mend thine ev'ry flaw confirm thy soul in self-control thy liberty in law

o beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife who more than self their country loved and mercy more than life america! america! may god thy gold refine till all success be nobleness and ev'ry gain divine o beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years

thine alabaster cities gleam undimmed by human tears america! america! god shed his grace on thee and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea ♪ [cheers and applause] [applause]

[laughter] >> the oath of office will now be administered to the attorney general by a retired judge for the 25th judicial circuit of virginia.

>> if you would repeat after me. i, mark r herring, do solemnly swear that i will uphold and defend the constitution of the united states of the united states -- the constitution of the united states and the constitution of virginia and that i will faithfully, impartially discharge the duties incumbent upon me as attorney general of the commonwealth of virginia to the best of my ability, so help me god. congratulations. [applause]

>> the oath of office will now be administered to the lieutenant governor elect by the honorable glenn a tyler, retired judge of the second judicial circuit of virginia. [applause] >> are you prepared to take the oath? >> yes, sir, i am. >> would you raise your right hand, placed your a 10 on the bible, help -- held by your wife's hand, acquired by the virginia military economy, and

repeat after me -- i, ralph s northam, do solemnly swear that i will uphold the constitution of the united states of america and the constitution of the commonwealth of virginia and that i will faithfully and impartially discharge all of the duties incumbent upon me as lieutenant governor of the commonwealth of virginia according to the best of my ability, so help me god. congratulations. [applause]

>> the oath of office will now be administered to the governor elect, the honorable terence r mcauliffe. [applause] by the honorable cynthia kinzer, chief justice of the supreme court of virginia. [applause] >> are you ready to take the oath of office? >> i am. >> raise your right hand and place your left hand on the bible and repeat after me. i, terence r mcauliffe, do solemnly swear that i will support the constitution of the united states and the

constitution of the commonwealth of virginia, and that i will faithfully and impartially discharge all the duties incumbent upon me as the governor of the commonwealth of virginia according to the best of my ability, so help me god. [cheers and applause] ♪

[applause] >> i have the honor -- [cheers and applause]

i have the honor to present to the sovereign people of virginia the new governor of the commonwealth, his excellency, terence are not mcauliffe -- terence r mcauliffe -- terence r. mcauliffe. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. thank you. mr. speaker, lieutenant governor, attorney general, members of the general assembly, justices of the supreme court, guests from across our commonwealth and nation, my fellow virginians, it is humbly and the highest honor of milo -- it is humbling and the highest honor of my life to stand before you today. it is humbling because of the responsibility you have given me and because of the history and tradition of where we stand.

while makeshift, the virginia state capitol first came to richmond in 1780 at the urging of thomas jefferson during the height of the american revolution. through the courage and sacrifice of so many who came before us, our commonwealth survived the revolution. freedom was born. tyranny was defeated, and a permanent capital was constructed here in richmond. this capital, where i stand today, reminds us not only of the are ability of virginia, but of what virginia overcame -- not only of the durability of virginia, but of what virginia overcame. we overcame the evils of slavery, civil war, and segregation. now, what is 200 years later, virginia has grown even stronger. [applause]

relative to the nation, we have emerged from the great recession with an economy more resilient than many of our sister states. we are a stronger commonwealth because of our leaders wisely investing in superior public schools. we are one of the best states to do business because we have worked together to minimize regulation and to keep taxes low. our colleges and universities are models for the nation, because there is bipartisan consensus in richmond that higher education drive long-term innovative growth. and virginia is the national model for fiscal discipline. because our leaders decided long ago to put the common good ahead of short-term politics. [cheers and applause] that is the virginia way. it is a tradition that we should

be so proud of, but it is also a tradition that must be sustained through constant work by leaders who choose progress over ideology. common ground does not move towards us. we move toward it. [cheers and applause] on behalf of all virginians, i want to thank governor bob mcdonnell for his leadership during the last four years. [cheers and applause] governor mcdonnell provided for the smoothest transition imaginable, and i am so grateful to him for that. he and the lieutenant governor boeing will long be remembered for their leadership on transportation, not just for the policy accomplishments, but for the manner in which it was achieved. it was an approach that built consensus worthy of the virginia way.

[applause] it is the same approach taken by governor warner to save our aaa bond rating while investing in education, and by governor cain who prudently guided our commonwealth through the recession, but as we celebrate our past, the truth is that we still face serious economic headwinds over the course of the next four years, and, like four years ago, the skeptics are predicting divided government, driven to gridlock bipartisanship. together, we will prove them wrong again. [cheers and applause] and, virginians, the spirit of service is built into the fabric

of our community. we are home to so many of the founders who sacrificed their lives to build a nation based on the principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and now, today, virginia is home to so many who serve to protect those everlasting rights. join me in recognizing them and their families. [cheers and applause] i remember growing up hearing stories of sacrifice from my father, who served in world war ii. these are the same stories that virginians hear every single night from their parents and grandparents and from brothers and sisters returning home now. we will honor their sacrifice by ensuring that they have access to the education and health care and career opportunities that they deserve. [cheers and applause] our servicemen and women have the technical training our innovative industry demands, and

they embody that strong sense of teamwork, leadership, and drive that makes them valuable asset to our workforce. that is why we need to make it easier for them to get good jobs when they come back home from serving abroad. our community colleges have and will continue to play a major part in this effort. they are our workforce development engine, and over the past year, i am proud to say, i visited each and every community college in the commonwealth of virginia. [cheers and applause] they are preparing our students for the jobs available today and equipping them with the knowledge and skills the emerging industries of tomorrow. with a community college within 30 miles of every single virginia and -- virginian, they are key to attracting and keeping the future industries across the commonwealth, but in

order to do that, we must work to reduce unnecessary mandates and achieve adequate funding. [cheers and applause] we must also recognize that virginians expect transparency, and we need to make sure that the decisions we are making, we avoid any improper context, and that's why i will sign an executive order later today imposing a strict limit on gifts on myself and the members of my administration. [cheers and applause] i commend the members of the general assembly from both parties who are making significant steps toward this issue, and i will ask the entire general a simile to enact the -- entire general assembly to enact the strongest possible new ethics rules to hold all

virginia elected officials to the highest of standards -- i -- to the highest of standards. [applause] while there is fierce debate on health care and washington, d.c., the choice we face here in virginia is simple -- like the majority of other states, we need to act on the consensus of the business community and health care industry to accept funding that will expand health care coverage and spur economic growth and job creation. [cheers and applause] with a stronger health care system in virginia as our objective, i will work with the legislature to build on the medicaid reforms that the general assembly has already achieved and to put virginia's on tax dollars to work, keeping families healthy and creating jobs here in the commonwealth. [cheers and applause] finally, the great policy

challenge we face is diversifying virginia's economy in the face of inevitable federal spending cuts. and the heightened competition from abroad. mr. speaker and members of the general assembly, as we begin this new term together, know that my top priority will be to lay the groundwork for a diverse and growing economy in every single region of the commonwealth. and i know it is your top priority as well. over the last four years, i have traveled every corner of the commonwealth, and i have met hard-working virginians who are struggling to provide for their families, unable to access to -- the quality education and training that they need to get

good paying jobs. they are even worried about just providing healthy meals for their children. when you think about those virginians, you realize that the decisions we make over the next four years will determine whether parents who work hard their entire life will be able to retire with some security, whether those who return home from serving abroad can find work or start their own businesses, or whether children in rural virginia can live, work, and thrive in the community where they were born . and whether a kid who is trying to make enough for his newspaper business can thrive and work. [cheers and applause] and the legislature and my

administration will work to nurture our economy, and we need to remember that our sense of urgency is written by those in virginia who struggle each and every day just to get by and whose dream is simple -- to give their children the opportunities that they may never have had. my administration will work tirelessly to ensure that those opportunities are equal for all virginia's children, no matter if you are a girl or a boy, no matter what part of the commonwealth you live in, no matter your race or your religion, and no matter who you love. [cheers and applause] there is still work to do. we must work to ensure that the children of new immigrants in virginia have equal educational opportunities. we need to ensure that someone cannot lose their jobs simply because they are gay. and we need to ensure that every

woman has the right to make her own personal health care choices. [cheers and applause] an open and welcoming state is critical in a 21st-century economy, but it is also an imperative for justice and fairness, values i learned from jack and milly mcauliffe -- jack and millie mcauliffe. while we grew up in a middle- class family, my brothers and i were often reminded of the struggles of the less fortunate and our obligation to do something about it. it is that same message that has guided dorothy and me as we have raised our five children in fairfax county over the last 21 years, and as our children have grown, they have constantly impressed us with their dedication to service and improving the lives of others. it is those values that shaped me as a person and drove my

decision to run for governor. [cheers and applause] in four years, we will gather again here at jefferson capital to welcome the next governor of the commonwealth. when she or he takes office i am confident that they will commonwealth a with growing 21st-century industries. they will lead a commonwealth that have expanded advantages in pre-k through 12. they will lead a commonwealth that strives to keep all of its families healthy. and they will lead a commonwealth that will have strong fiscal management. they will lead a commonwealth that never stands still on the road to greater equality or all -- for all our people, and they

will lead a commonwealth that will deliver those results in a manner worthy of the virginia way. [cheers and applause] the impediments to consensus are well known. ideology, personal political ambition, partisanship, or score settling. identifying the roadblocks is not a challenge. what is hard is having the humility to admit that each of us has allowed these impediments to influence our decisions, and even more challenging is having the foresight to put them aside for the greater good. as i said on election night, the test of my commitment to finding common ground in virginia will not be a speech at an inauguration. it will be my actions in office. i suspect those who did not

support me in the member to hold me to myember to hold word. has served as an elected official can look back and wish that they had been more rigid, more ideological, or more partisan, and long after giving up elected office, describing himself as "near the end of my voyage," thomas jefferson wrote from monticello, "a government held together by the bands of reason requires much compromise of opinion." -- by the bands of reason only requires much compromise of opinion." [cheers and applause] mr. speaker, delegates, and senators, these next four years will be our moment to again show americans what can be accomplished by mainstream leaders and to show virginians that we will live up to their expectation of consensus-driven

process. -- progress. [cheers and applause] in washington today, the talk of consensus and same quaint, it orcan seem quaint, illusory even naïve, but in virginia, political progress in a divided government is a tradition that we must continue. i will work to live up to that tradition. now i begin serving my term with humility, to the accomplishments of my predecessors, and to the gratitude of all people of virginia. thank you, and may god bless the commonwealth of virginia. [cheers and applause]

>> guests, please be seated. please welcome members of virginia's 11 indian tribes as they present a blessing dance to honor governor mcauliffe and bless the capitol grounds, with best wishes and a stronger ties between virginia's indigenous peoples in the commonwealth. as part of tradition, all those who are able are asked to stand during the dance.

[singing and chanting in native tongues]

[drumming continues] [cheers and applause] [applause] >> please rise for the benediction, which will now be

pronounced by rabbi jack of the congregation in alexandria. >> author of liberty, power that has made and preserved us a nation, bring down your blessings upon this commonwealth, on our new governor, on our new lieutenant governor, on our new attorney general, on all who exercises just and rightful authorities, r on all who exercise just and rightful authority. on their families who sustain them. their constituency rely upon them. the heroes that prove the liberating strife that protected them and to protect us. gratitude for those who complete their service on the state. guardian wellspring. we stand on the chartered stores of history, uncertain of what

lies ahead tomorrow, awaken us to this new day. disturb us by what we have yet to repair in this broken world. throughout us by our accomplishments and inspire us to join with governor mccullough in seeking the promise of our first families and our most recent arrivals. let our hearts be filled with compassion, our thoughts and wisdom. our willpower strengths in with confidence to see our elders sustained, and people of every age and circumstance from the blue ridge to the chesapeake standing on common ground for virginia. fewer call by a multitude of names, bring down your blessings on these people who shoulder this burden for us all. sustain us. and able us to reach such moments as these. amen.

>> the senator from arlington. >> the motion is agreed to. franklin.r from jointow move that this assembly adjourned. >> as many will favor the motion will say aye. like that is agreed to. the joint assembly has adjourned. i invite each of you to stay and remain to view the inaugural parade. please remain in your seats. it will begin momentarily. the house in the senate may now adjourned to their respective houses.

[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [laughter] [applause] to session returns this afternoon. both bodies are in the house. the house cavils in at noon for legislative work. the senate is also back today at 2:00 p.m. eastern. here is a preview of the week ahead on capitol hill. >> i want to talk more broadly about congress at this point in this morning. it will be a busy week. on the phone. he is a reporter with the help. good morning, pete. guest: how you doing? host: talk to us about the

budget first. we have been waiting for the on the business spending bill to be unveiled. has that happened yet? guest: you know, it hasn't been as of last night and you remind me to check for you guys. we hadn't seen it yesterday. it is the mission of the week for congress. they will do it in 2 stages, past the short-term bill for saturday. that will give them time to morele through the big than $1 trillion spending bill for the rest of the year. that is what we figure they will do this week. the sense is that in the house it will pass pretty easily on tuesday. the senate will probably follow on the same day and knock that out. given 3 or number four days -- it will give 3 or 4 days left to figure out the rest of the spending bill. they should be able to push that through. would you make a good point that we have to see the bill, and a

lot of members will see it and have a few days to look at it and it is usual cap -- as usual these things, with surprises. it looks like they will finish by friday or saturday. host: take this through the unemployment bill. --st: that sort of blue was blew up in the senate. the democrats came up with a new idea for an 11 month extension of emergency on employment benefits paid for by extending the famous sequester that we'll talk about -- we talked about. then democrats said they would not look at any republican amendments and then hit people funny because a lot of republicans held to against the bill earlier in the week and suddenly democrats were saying we won't consider any of your ideas of paying for this. that seemed to change by friday. will probably look at some republican amendments but do not say which one. are there a certain number or in

certain kinds of amendments they would look at that might help enact the bill? host: what is the timing on the senate bill and do you see the house taking this up at all? it is really hard to say. the senate could take a while. we need to hear more this morning and early this week to see what their plan is. if they can pass something to get republican support for how it is paid for, you might see the house consider it. moveouse is not going to first. republicans over there made it clear that they want to focus on things like job training, things that get people back to work as opposed to extending unemployment benefits. the senate would have to go first no matter what you even generate any interest. if they can do that and get some gop support, the house could look at it. theill have to see what senate is capable of doing and what they can agree to first. host: it's only monday. they do have a one-week recess next week, so they are looking

to move forward as far as they can. take us over to committee. last week wasn't necessarily the biggest we -- biggie -- busiest week in committee. what do they have this week? on,t: not a whole lot going but the house has 2 obamacare hearings. republicans continue to push that issue. this week they even have a vote on an obamacare bill that would -- requireple to weekly reports on how the enrollment is going, what kind of glitches we have on the website. republicans are not letting that go. still a big issue for the gop. and this is something we can expect all year. republicans keep thinking that the premiums are higher and people are losing their plans and so it seems there is at least 1 wonderful to a week, a week,-- 1 or 2 hearings on obamacare. host: the state of the union is

coming. from what you could tell on the hill these days and over at the white house, what will that speech be like and just as importantly, how will republicans, the president must message -- how will republicans message?e president's guest: is a funny time. the white house is caught between a 2 funny realities. there is to say improvement in the job market. it always comes down to jobs, it seems a bit at the same time, pushing the unemployment benefits and having an extended. most people think it is a mixed economy, and that is going to make it a difficult speech to tie all these ideas together, to say that we are improving but we still need help for people. that has been a messaging problem. republicansunch of who are still fuming -- feeling the road to and all these other issues. although the things they don't want to let go.

-- all of these things that i want to let go. the classic battle of is the government. i suppose people call it messaging but it is fighting back and forth. in a lot of ways it is similar to what we have seen the last few years and the gop will combat it by saying we have a better idea to give jobs. is turning into one great election season and everything is a message. the speech will be a message and the gop response will all be messaged to death until we get to a vote o >> coming up live today on the c-span network, stay with us for a use of military force by the u.s. army. this comes to us from the new america foundation. you can see it live on c-span2. later it is a look at early

childhood childcare. it would be live at 2:30. today.an is busy he will be at the brookings institution at 4:00 eastern to discuss social mobility. >> nancy reagan was the first sitting first lady to address the united nations and the first to address the nation. >> go to my young friends out there, life can be great. not when you cannot see it. open your eyes to life. see it in the vivid colors that god gave us as a precious gift to his children, to enjoy life to the fullest and to make it count. your life. when it comes to drugs and alcohol, just say "no." our originalan as series "first ladies" returns at also on c-spanrn

radio and c-span.org. next, american universities institute hosts an event looking at the role of think tanks and advocacy. matt bennett is the senior vice president for public affairs. served as white house deputy assistants for governmental affairs. we talked about the influence in congress and how they move the public policy issue. this is about 45 minutes. >> may i have your attention. may i have your attention, please. patrick griffin. i and the academic director of

the public affairs and advocacy institute. welcome back. this is for the presidential presidential studies. the institute attempts to convey the skills and understandings that we believe are necessary to become a professional advocate. we do that in a number of ways, most prominently by bringing in experts from the field and around washington to share their experiences and their insight of how this business is done. today our next guest will be speaking to the role of think tanks and the advocacy process policymakingc process. historically, think tanks have been sleepy organizations that work hard on developing ponderous white papers on public policy. occasionally they do get into the decision-making process. it was a better bet that they did not. and a role forar

think tanks that was really unprecedented until they came on the scene. they have managed to maneuver themselves as critical to the public policymaking process in interesting ways. i will let mac talk to you when he comes up here. on other organizations he has been affiliated with. he is an old hand. president for wave. affairs at third he is a prominent spokesman and talking head, providing to antary and insights whole variety of policy issues that come to the forefront every day. we are really delighted that he is taking time to share that

expertise with us. [applause] thank you very much. thank you all. it is great to be here. i am here to talk about the tanks which is a term that can be synonymous with boredom machines. i am aware of that risk. despite, i am going to begin by throwing caution to the wind. i'm going to start by talking about a memo. memos at think tanks are sublime. they have a power of seduction to the world that is second only to white papers. if they produce per not griffey then you can think -- and you can thank your -- pornography, and you can be thankful they do not, it'll be issued in the form of a memo. most of you. than it was dated august 23 19 71 and

written by an attorney in richmond. he use the memo to issue to the a dire and powerful warning. he wrote "no thoughtful person can question that the american economic system is under broad attack? ." from theing not just people you expect, the , but from and hippies "perfectly respectable elements of society." the pulpit, literary journals, arts and sciences, politicians. cite ralph nader as the single most responsible -- single most effective antagonists.

author went on to call for a host of actions by the business community, campuses in the media in courts and politics. was not justcer any lawyer. two months after the memo was written, he was named the united states supreme court. one of his central insight was that the entire intellectual infrastructure of the political system at the time really belonged to the left. obviously, the left was and still remains a mostly in control of academia. beyond the universities, the there were fewer organizations that were dedicated to providing ideas and intellectual insight. was theright there chamber itself. there was the american enterprise institute that was founded in 1943 but very few others. well argued strongly that they

need more on the right. moranda had aner rand instant and galvanizing effect on the conservative movement in the united states. among many other things, the conservative infrastructure began to build institutions they thought they needed to counter the very threat that powell was talking about in the memorandum. it included the correction of a nk, citizensng ta for a sound economy and a bunch of others. the most important squall of the memorandum went on to become one of the most important voices in washington and in the policy debate, the heritage foundation. or a talk on policy and advocacy and the importance of think wordsdespite the kind

about the third way, you really have to start with the heritage foundation. this is how they are born and grow in importance. i want to talk to you about your views of the think tanks. you really have to draw a distinction between academic think tanks and advocacy oriented organizations. the mother of all think tanks as the brookings institute, which my brother is the coo. brookings is about 100 years old and a university without students. some people view it as tilted to the left.

they view themselves as completely nonpartisan and centrist. they have folks from every administration back to the ford years i believe working at brookings. they had eric cantor speaking there yesterday. you basically had academic sitting in their silos cranking out stuff. sometimes white papers. often books, journal articles. they present them at academic conferences. they have experts who sometimes testify. they almost send people into government. on the spectrum of partisanship, brookings is at the very low end

of partisanship. others down there are the international studies. they have an area of study. some of them are multi-issue think tanks. they now call themselves cna maybe for that reason. at the other end of the partisanship scale is the founder for central american progress. these are groups like heritage and my group third way and our predecessor of the dlc. they generally have strong, well

defined political point of view. the dlc was centerleft. heritage is conservative. heritage describes the mission to promote public policies based on free enterprise. they take their conservatism seriously. they have this giant building on capitol hill. there was a book talk going on in one of their conference rooms. the name of the book was the misunderstood joe mccarthy. view ate a point of heritage. the mission is described as dedicated to improving the lives of americans through progressive ideas and action. it has come to dominate and define what is orthodox progressives and call it liberal thought.

our mission is to create a moderate policy. you can pretty much tell where we stand. you look at our staff and our cochairs and everything else, it is pretty easy to identify us. the orientede think tanks make it their mission consistent with some very boring legal strictures to have impact on public policy, i am going to focus on action tanks. we are really the ones trying to do the things you're talking about. where do they come from? how are they born and how do they grow? despite the sleepy implications of the term, the advocacy oriented ones are really born out of the fire of political warfare.

some ofh and rise of the most important of these groups really shares some remarkable similarities. let's talk about the heritage and you'll see some of the same patterns with the emergence of other groups. first, there is a crisis based on loss. they argue the pro-business side hooped andg w they needed to engage work in the folks declaring war on capitalism. a galvanized a set of committed billionaires. if you walk into the heritage foundation you will see the names. those three gentlemen donated a lot of money to the heritage foundation over the years and help them to get to what they are. then they pick a fight inside their own party. very important. it is easy to pick a fight with folks on the other side. these groups do it inside the party.

my organization has some passing familiarity from the last couple of months. in the case of heritage, they decry nixon as having the liberal consensus. the other conservative think tanks they found far too squishy for their liking. they focus on winning the white house and giving the new president his or her blueprint for governing. .eritage failed the first time they were launched before carter's victory. then they had ronald reagan. after reagan was elected, they wrote their blueprint for governing, a pretty big thick book that at the very first cabinet meeting of the reagan administration was put on the chairs of every single member of the cabinets.

reagan said to them "this is how we are going to govern." the kind of dream of anyone who is ever worked in a think tank. that is the very incensed -- essence of having an impact. is you have to have impact as a leader. he grew it into what it is today. now they have sprawled into three large capitol hill buildings. 300 attaff is probably this point. if you look at the founding stories of some of these other think tanks you get a lot at the same things. with the dlc, they have a crisis based on loss. in their case it was three losses. dukakis came right after the founding. there have been three in a row. by the time they really came

onto the scene in a big way with clinton. they had to congressional aides running them. they joined with a group of bother it's from the hill to form the dlc and its psychic organization. they have their own committed billionaires. they picked a big fight inside their party. one of the first things the dlc did was issue a paper called [indiscernible] on why democrats kept losing over and over in races for the white house. he was very tough on the corner of the democratic party. thee jackson dubbed dlc democratic leisure class and basically called him racist. racist.d them they hit the long ball with bill clinton who was their chairman when he was running for president in 19 91.

he kicked off his campaign i am sorry to say with a georgetown with a series of speeches called "the new covenant" where he laid out his vision for governing. it was really the dlc's vision for governing. governingd a blueprint called "the mandate for change" which clinton really did govern by. one of the big ideas was welfare reform which eventually became law under clinton. they have very effective the beginning. will marshall ran ppi. was in the clinton white house for eight years. they grew to 80. they believe if you read out the 96 new book that election really validated their

entire idea about why it was important to move the party to the center. if you look at the senate for american progress -- center for american progress, it is the same set of backers. you had a crisis based on a loss. it was 2003 and the kerry loss. they had a committed set of billionaires. george soros, sandler, peter lewis who recently passed away. they were the big seed money some thed continue at major donors today. they did not pick a particular fight inside their own party. he built it was the bill communications operations first. they were very aggressive. they have a core of very good bloggers. they are willing to take on folks inside their own party who they disagree with. they are feisty. they then focused on electing a

president. they struck out the first time in 2004. a blueprint for governing also to the obama administration. luckily for them, john podesta ran the transition for barack obama so that helped. that helped get the stuff into the bloodstream and a whole bunch of staff went into very senior levels at the obama white house. that continues. john podesta is joining the white house today or yesterday. they have their own effective leader, miles, who is one of the leaders in democratic politics. he is brilliant and inspirational. he knows how to raise money. he knows how to run organizations. gloomy that. he found one of the size and the scope. that is how they are born and how they grow.

policy, impact public there are basically three models .or a think tank to have impact one is impacting the debate itself when people are talking. one is focusing on the executive branch. third is trying to entice congress. -- impact congress. i'm focusing on federal think tanks. there are many that work on state and local politics. that is beyond the scope of today. how do they impact the debate? ambiguous. all say they do it. i'll want to do it. for the most part, that means focusing on an elite audience. the media, the people who talk to the media, academics, and other think tanks. spent a lot of time trying to get other people at think tanks to agree with us or to pick a fight with them or what have you.

focus onvery little the general public. try toly, think tanks leverage other people to make change politically. time not spend a lot of projecting outward beyond the beltway. we will try to get our ideas into the mix. we will try to get the media to talk and think about us. most of what we are trying to do is to get politicians to change how they are talking or thinking or acting. that is not true of everyone. taft has a big blog. they do a lot of outward projected work. i know here does that, too. i'm not as familiar with the details. they do work to change the way people out in the country are thinking and talking and acting. for the most part, the focus for policy change and the impact you try to have it on the beltway

elite. how do you focus on the executive branch? what are the transitions? those are very fruitful times for think tanks to have impact. everyone tries to do it. when your person gets elected, you write a big fat book and hand it over and hope for the best. it is really helpful when you're running the transition. you will see in 2000 and 16 -- 2016, heritage will not bother to write a book for president clinton but if it is president rubio there will be a big heritage books handed over to the transition team. the other thing is to install your people there.

this was extraordinarily important for the dlc and moving their ideas. also their chairman was the president which helps to. exactlyelody barnes in the same job. the rent the domestic policy council in the obama white house. now jennifer palmeri is the director of communications. there are dozens of others in the white house and others. that also happened in the bush administration. you put your people inside. it is a great way of moving your ideas and getting your calls returned. we will put out statements, talk to the press without papers that amplify what he is talking about it we agree with him. after the state of the union

address i would expect we'll put out something that we normally do that says these are the things we really thought was important. they take notice, particularly in the white house for what is going on in the more important of the think tanks. in the agencies themselves, occasionally you will get your ideas circulating. it is tough to do something in the pentagon. sometimes it can be very difficult to get agency level people he were doing the level work to pay attention. then there is congress. congress is the most fruitful place for think tank s to cede our ideas.

they have small staff and not very many experts working for them. even if the president is of their own party, they have virtually no access. wellto anyone and see how they are doing and getting their calls returned. in the old days, it was smooth as silk. now it is a little tougher. for them. difficult they do not have access to that kind of expertise. they need ideas. they need advice on legislation. they need help framing and political context. you have to offer that help in a way that works for them. fuller was running heritage, he used to have the briefcase test. go view was if it did not home and the briefcase of the most important person in the

member of congress or the senior staffer, then it was not worth doing. now i suppose it would be the quick test. -- "click test." ours thattanks like led to impact the policy debate, we live in fear of a paper into it up on someone's desk unread until it is finally thrown into the recycling bin. once in the office of a former senate chief of staff who had his feet propped on like five brookings report. he went home and gleefully told my brother. [laughter] ever read those. he said they are a little long. try, if you look at our stuff, it is short. it is written in what we hope to be a timely way.

i think that is a trend that is continuing. we did nothing of the spirit heritage began doing this quite long ago. the president does things and particularly now congress doesn't do things. have reallyanks decided to just forget about congress entirely. others have not. heritage changed its focus in 1988 after they had a great run with reagan. they turned on torture h w bush and really decided not to focus -- turned their focus on george h.w. bush and really decided not to focus as much on the president. they started focusing pretty heavily on congress. in 1994, the freshman class that

was incoming with the gingrich revolution in new republican control of the house which had done its orientation at harvard every session going back started doing it at heritage instead. heritage really started to focus on the hill rather than on the white house. they believe that really helps with permanence. case in point, the dlc never did that. they never believed congress matters that much. for good reason. they viewed congress is very difficult to work with. very time-consuming. they focused upon the white house, which worked great in th. 1990s. it works a lot less great in the 2000 when george w. bush was president. ado not know if this is direct connection, but the dlc date closed doors for five years ago.

the doors fore five years ago. five years ago. they did not want to focus on congress. when congress was all it had, it became very tough. let me just close with a thought about heritage. where they are now over the future may be. or possibly 18 months ago, he step down from heritage. they completely stopped -- shocked the world by picking as a successor senator jim demint of north carolina. this is a really serious surprise. they assumed they would set into that role. the face of the tea party and the very essence of his work was the public

politics. it was very surprising that heritage with cast this lots with those kind of radicals. not because heritage was not very conservative. they were. getuse they never chose to involved in republican politics the way that dement had, to challenge his colleagues and folks was running against. that was very surprising. heritage has under dement really shifted in that direction. they have created an action arm under a different part of the tax code that has become very aggressive in pursuing all these things. they suffered an outflow of inolars, dozens have left the last year or so because they .ere not prepared to function

no one really knows what is going to happen. maybe the heritage people do. we do not know what the ark will be going forward. i am not suggesting that they are any weaker than they ever were. they are very strong, very powerful. their influential. essentiallyner has ejected heritage from the meetings of his leadership team. even the conservative caucuses have tossed heritage out. it has happened on the senate side as well. their reach inside the republican caucus for now seems to be not what it once was. it'll be interesting to see what happens to them in the long term. i am going to stop and hear from you about whatever you would like to discuss. >> speaking about heritage troubles recently. they recently published the report about the economic fact of the senate immigration bill.

they got a lot of critiques from conservative think tanks saying their methodology was bad, it did not use dynamic scoring or do not take into account benefits. report waske the more politically motivated than research motivated. they had an idea of what they wanted to achieve and just produced a report with the end result in mind. think tank with any political advocacy, how to prevent that from happening? we're going to do the research and let our policy goes with the research points as opposed to saying these are our political beliefs let's produce data and reports that much those beliefs. >> that is a great question. it is something that think tanks and myspace really have to keep an eye on at all times. if intellectual i

credibility is questioned, you are in trouble. there are questions about the author himself had written some arguably racist things in his past. aboutot know anything what happened internally other than what i read in the newspaper. reports, there was real dissent inside heritage. the folks who were more pushing toere release the paper. scholars were very uncomfortable with that. can beinds of things very damaging. heritage is fine. they are robust enough to survive that kind of problem. toer think tanks really have watch it. preserving intellectual integrity is something every think tank focuses on quite a

bit. just to be clear, everybody has been accused of being a shill for someone. think tanks get the money for peoplet part from rich and from companies and from foundations which were set up by rich people. for the most part, poor people do not donate to think tanks which is probably as it should be. we have been accused of this. everything came that has ever existed, including brooks, has been accused of being a mouth piece for the donors or the politicians they work with or whomever. long as you are able to be clear in your own conscious and prove that is not the case. then you can weather the kind of storm. there have been several examples of think tanks that were really set up by a sole company or sole donor with a very specific goal in mind.

in case of microsoft funding a think tank that produced a report about antitrust. there are others. how do we as a public protect that kind ofm masking of a political agenda or guided research? do you think there should be a regulatory aspect? ?s it more the journalism how do we do that? >> i am wary of trying to regulate that too heavily. a bit aboutto worry imposing on the intellectual freedom of the think tank. you have to think of something at least somewhat similarly to university in academia. we do not get tenure. reserve that to

some extent. i do think that could be a problem. a citizen or a journalist or student, take a look at whether a think tank is multi or single issue. if it is a single issue think tank, whether they have a single donor or multiple donors. thathether they can show they sometimes take positions that are at odds with the point of view of their donors. tanksg respectable think have reams of papers that are at who give use people some of our money. that is a helpful way of checking whether or not there is real integrity. >> i had a couple of thoughts that come to mind. i interned at heritage last spring. it was actually april.

i was in the first class of 1997 to intern under two presidents. i do like the direction heritage has in. hea --is headed in. i think heritage is taking more of a leadership role within the movement. it was part of the reason that's wanted jim demint to replace him. with other organizations, i think they're taking the republican party in a direction that some of the republican congressional leadership does not like but essentially the rest of the movement is on board with.

i think there is a little bit of a generational clash there. i think heritage and other organizations like it are theucing it whereas republican party has become very stagnant and are not producing anything anymore. it is all coming from the nonprofit world within the movement. do you see that transformation favoring think tanks? do you think that it will shift back to the old power structure? >> you know a lot more about what is going on inside heritage than i do. all i know is what i have read. in theair, i have read mainstream liberal media there is more dissent than just a few folks moving into congress. whatever the case, there was a bit of the shakeup. there is a change of direction.

is question of whether that good or bad i think really depends on where you sit. i sits in the center left. i am a moderate. purityt too wild about driving the way think tanks are operating and whether they interacting with elected officials. many others including you believe that that is really a necessary cleansing of a system. i think that is, the question of whether that is good or bad is where it is leaning. from ando not know objective point of view is whether it is going to change the way think tanks have impact. the folks running have a theory that seems to be working out pretty well.

this is quite a different theory than the one that heritage and others operated on for a long time. when the battle of ideas because you are better. therefore we will have more influence. i do not know how that will shake out. i do -- do not know how others will pay that. we have not seen this in the left. it is possible that you will. >> my understanding of third that it is agenda is pretty broad. you are not defined by an issue area. involved in an lot of the mainstream debates in congress. is there one that stands up that might be an illustration from

inception to adoption that you might share and how it developed? >> i think this is true for most of the think tanks here. broadeas come in two forms. they can be political ideas thatd framing messaging sounds more bumper stickery then it actually turned out to be. the there are ideas that policies themselves. let me talk about both. often they are interconnected. enter as we and others debate that is already mature. let's take, at the risk of things being thrown at me, the affordable care act. when we got onto the scene, we

were founded in 2005, it took a wild to build the ship as we were sailing it. wethe time he got have -- got heavily engaged, the affordable care act was arty eady prettyed -- alr cooked as policy. there were a lot of questions about whether it would be a public option. widget viewpoint of you it should not -- we took the political view that it should not. it was formulated in the isitage foundation and owned by the right and picked up by the left. it was written already. when we got equally engaged in the spring of 2005 was failing congress. with some serious momentum, the way health. did back in the clinton years,

it was starting to droop in a big way. it look like it would eventually fail. rahm emanuel was saying we should pull the plug on this. we've got to do something else. the president was committed to doing it. what we did was a series of public opinion research, both qualitative research, intensive 101 research, and then a big national poll. what we found seems obvious now. it was not at the time. the way that the obama folks were trying to sell health care was the way we are trying to do it in the clinton years, which was coverage extension. people is uninsured bad for the economy and everybody. it is certainly bad for them. therefore we need to cover them. times of relative prosperity, that does not work. the people who vote mostly had

health insurance. 85% or so. intellectually they would say sure we should cover the uninsured. for the most part, they were saying what is going to happen to my insurance. what we said is if you could offer them stability and security, those were the things they really want in the health care. some of that because of what has gone on recently seems funny. if you think about it, people were very worried if they lost their jobs and had a pre- existing condition that they would never able to get covered. there is lifetime caps. if you focus on stability and security for middle-class families, that will help you politically. that did. they shifted to that. they handed out laminated cards on the floor of the house.

that was not the deciding factor. they can use this to pass aca. on the pure policy site i will take a small thing. a skewed it tactual that allows for master limited partnerships to come together to fund certain kind of fossil fuel extractions. you can run if you are going to pump oil. what you cannot do is use in mlp to build a solar or wind farm. we should take a foreword change in the federal code to extend mlps to clean energy products. we wrote that up.

we went up to the hill and talk to a few folks. kunz was very interested, really looking for something to make his name. he set on the national resources committee and was very interested. we worked closely with him. we did a public event. he was the lead speaker. we wrote op ed together. he recruited republican cosponsors. bill will move. it is getting caught up a little bit and corporate tax return. we would think about him as policy. >> you talked mainly about focusing on inside the beltway.

i was wondering if you could speak a little bit about the role you see think tanks playing on a state and local level and if they are engaged in if you .hink it is an effective way >> i do not know much about what heritage does at the local level. i know they do quite a bit. there are lots of right-wing think tanks focus pretty heavily on that. they're focused on helping state legislatures write bills and get them enacted. there are some very effective stuff going on the right. on the left there is less. there are individual state-based .hink tanks there is not a of federally coordinated washington based organizations.

there is a study. there's urban institute, the urban program workings. at brookings.- there is not a lot going on at washington. the dlc in addition to focusing on the president was seemingly interested in building a new, next-generation centerleft leaders. they had a pretty substantial focus on state legislators, mayors, lieutenant governors who are going to move up and run for governor. not to do that. it is very hard and very expensive and very time- consuming. we hope someone will. the firsteagan was sitting first lady to address the united nations and the first to address the nation in a joint appearance with the president. cano my young friends, life be great but not when you cannot

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