after about two years i found out that he got caught. they may have paid the money back. he didn't go to jail. he told them some lie about it being an error and dates. ever since then, he found out that i didn't and he has been calling saying that i did this and that, and i'm being harassed by all these different agencies because of the lies that he says about me. guest: i'm sorry about your circumstances and the fallout from that. i think you did what you were supposed to do. if you see someone committing this kind of activity, it's the right thing to do. the issue here -- the ig and others receive these tips quite

frequently. they have to make a determination based on how long things have occurred, the benefits involved, the level of criminal intent, and they make a decision whether to pursue this criminally or civilly. it sounds like in someone's eyes, there wasn't enough information to pursue this criminally. they went the civil route. they also have to contend with u.s. attorneys. the fall that could be to pursue it civilly. it's a fine line to go over this civilly versus criminally, but the bar is high to approach this from a criminal standpoint. host: our guest has been daniel bertoni.

thank you for all of your calls this monday morning. the house is coming in and a couple of hours, just like the senate. they will work on the budget resolution this week. the senate begins their work today. the house begins a little later in the week. over on c-span 2, you can watch live coverage of the announcement by ted cruz that he is running for president. he is doing that live right now. here on c-span, you can hear about urban issues. we will take you live to the center for american progress. this is a discussion about expanding opportunities in america in urban areas. featured speakers include hillary clinton, former secretary of state, and also julian castro. we will hear from the mayor of california, the head of american teachers, and other folks. this is live coverage here.

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>> good morning and welcome to the center for american progress. i'm really honored to have all of you join us for this very special roundtable focused on expanding opportunity in american cities. we are very proud to cohost this event with the union focused on improving our cities. we are also very fortunate to host the participants including former secretary of state clinton. [applause] in a moment, i will introduce our other guest. first, i would just like to say a few words as to why we are here. american cities are the engines of our economy, generating opportunity and prosperity, not

only for the people who live in them, but for suburban, rule, and urban areas as well. i nations top metro areas account for 75% of our nation's growth the president -- gross domestic product. more more families what to live in cities. the more we make that possible, the more urban cities and our country will grow. yet, urban areas face ongoing challenges -- shortage of affordable housing, concentrated poverty. that is why we are here today. to bring together leaders from across sectors to bring new ideas to the city so that families can grow and prosper. secretary of state hillary clinton, before serving as

secretary of state was senator from the state of new york. leaks out is is the president of apne. we are also very privileged to have julian castro. he is the former mayor san antonio. mrs. brown has served on a number of initiatives, as the youngest mayor of content, and california. glenn hutchins is cofounder of an investment firm, which has invested in many cities. bruce cast is the vice president of the proteins institute -- brookings institute. janet mergadea is president of la crosseraza.

randi weingarten is president of the american federation of teachers, which represents 1.6 million education professionals. finally, seth williams is ceo of a company with a mission to get back to observing community by providing jobs with earths products. i would like to start this discussion with lee saunders. lee, why should we care about our urban areas? mr. saunders: we believe that this is a discussion that is long overdue. there is a tragedy going on within urban centers across the country. the lack of jobs, good paying

jobs, and we have to talk about it. not only on the labor side, but businesses, academics, elected officials. all of us have to think outside of the box to talk about the problem that exist in urban areas right now. you know about detroit. you've heard about atlantic city. you've heard that some of these cities are actually having a comeback. if you look at those specific comebacks, you will see that it is affecting to small areas of that particular city. in fact, when you go outside of that area, you see poverty joblessness, problems with education, infrastructure. we believe that we've got to have a dialogue, a conversation collectively thinking outside the box. our urban areas are the engines of our states with job growth and job creation. we have to pay particular

attention to this problem and rebuilding our urban centers across the country. we view this discussion at the beginning, not the end. we believe that they should be a priority, not only of the federal government, but a priority between federal, state, and local levels to solve the problem. to provide employment, and provide hope for people who reside in these areas. they are playing by the rules everything obeyed. they want to have a chance and opportunity to achieve the american dream. we are very excited about this session. we're looking forward to having more dialogue on it. >> excellent. secretary clinton, as i mentioned, you are senator from new york. why should the country care about the cities success or failure? fmr. sec. of state clinton:i join with lee and thanking you for joining us together on this.

i think you, lee, as well as apne for motivated this conversation. i did represent new york for eight years. not only new york city, but rochester, albany, and a lot of other places that had very different challenges. they all fell under the category of how do we make sure our cities are good places for people to live and work. that has become even more important as we have watched how cities are driving economic prosperity. it used to be that jobs were moving out of cities into suburbs and rural areas. that trend is reversing. people want to live in cities. there are all kinds of reasons. there is research that i'm sure we will hear from ruse about millennial's money to live and work in the same place. cities have always been entered a prosperity. now, what we're seeing is unless

we pay attention and come up with some very creative, and i would argue, affected solution -- effective solutions, we will not see our cities doing what they do best. it goes to leave point -- lees point. a lot of our cities are divided. they have a lot of inequality. they have some of the most educated and affluent people in the world, and people trapped in interracial poverty with jobs are not keeping up with the demand. i'm looking at at not only what can be done by working across governmental lines -- as lee said, that has to be absolutely critical. but, what we can do in partnership with the public and private sectors. i'm glad we have people on the panel speaking to that. let me just make three quick points.

one, i think that we, for long time at the federal level, but also the local level, have shifted resources to follow people. we shifted resources out of cities. it made sense. rhodes had to be developed. all kinds of utilities and infrastructure had to be put into place in suburban areas and further out. i remember having al qaeda conversations as a senator with people who wanted to bring jobs to upstate new york, in particular. they would move out to what they called green areas, or clean areas. even though the utilities or infrastructure was in the old cities. how do we begin to make what we already have more of an attraction? that raises the second point. how do we repair an update of our of our infrastructure? in a lot of the older cities, we have terrible problems with water systems, sewer systems, to

say nothing of not keeping up with an electric grid or broadband access. we have to do what we would hope to see to be a mapping of our cities and understanding that when it comes to the physical infrastructure, we have to take care of what we already have, updated, modernize it. we have potholes in new york. all kinds of issues. we have to really invest and then go into the future. the second issue is the human infrastructure. that is the most important part of any city. it is the most important part of our entire country. what do we do to better equip the people to get jobs. how do we keep middle-class families in cities where they want to stay? they don't want to leave but they are being priced out. we need to do more to fit the human needs -- starting early

with pre-k. i'm very in favor of what merit of loss yielded in york creating pre-k access for every child in new york, regardless of who that child is and who their parents are. we also need to do more when it comes to affordable housing so that families can stay in cities. i want to publicly acknowledge randy because through a clinton global in notion initiative come mid-may, public pension money was pulled to train people to do energy retrofits. they have now created tens of thousands of jobs. that's the kind of creative work that we can do together. i've obviously proud that cgi help to make that happen. the final point i want to make is this. we know a lot about social l mobility. one of the biggest issues that we face is income inequality combined with wage stagnation.

we don't have enough good jobs or social mobility. there are some really interesting work being done by a professor and his colleagues at the harvard. i think it really wakes us up as to what we are facing. they have looked at the indicators of social mobility. why do some communities have, frankly, more ladders for opportunity than other communities? how do we promote success and upward mobility? is not only about average incomes, as important as that is. you can look at cities that on average have similar affluence but people are trapped and not able to move up in one city, and are moving up in another. i will give you two examples. two cities with similar affluence. seattle and atlanta. they have markedly different rates of economic mobility. it's not about race -- white and

black citizens of a city like atlanta both have low out word. it turns out that places where the fabric of community is strong, with a vibrant middle class, places that are more integrated across class, places with good schools, places with unions, places with religious organizations and civic organizations help people feel rooted, part of a community, and then are able to pull together all of the aspects that full factor into upward mobility. we now need to think about what we need to do to make sure our cities are not just places of economic prosperity and job creation on average, but do it in a way that lists everybody up to deal with the overriding issues of inequality and lack of mobility. that's why i think this

conversation is so timely and hopefully cath and others will continue to work on these challenges. >> thank you so much, secretary clinton. building off of your remarks, we at cap worked a little on this issue and found that the size of the middle-class actually affects how much social mobility you have in these metropolitan areas. that's a really important point. in the 90's, we saw articles about how cities were dying. secretary clinton reference that. now they are being seen as the engines of growth. what are the strategies that you have seen that actually succeed in making cities at more hospitable to families who want to live there?

>> i think the secretary has is right. this is a very different conversation than what we would have had 10 years ago. cities have much behind her back. it is millennial. it is also companies that are not staying in their silos inventing in the four walls of the company. they are looking towards cities. there really important strategies that have played out in the past. innovation. continuously innovate on products and sur services. medical cap and is campuses. skills. science, engineering, matt. not just people with for years degrees, but people coming out of high school, community colleges, business

training efforts. infrastructure. to move ideas. broadband. ports. cities are trading entities. last, a quality of place. this probably matters more now than it did in the last 50 years. authenticity. amenities. vitality. that is really critical to make cities home. there is a recipe out here. it has worked in the past for a bunch of cities. as we go around the country, what we are seeing is that cities, not just governments but private, civic, community philanthropy are stepping up to do a lot of work. in lexington, they are making manufacturing a party. in charlotte, they are changing community colleges to equip workers with the actual skills that they need. you can go to denver and l.a.. they are usand you can go to the heart

of buffalo detroit, and you can see cities coming back. it is still a very small landmass, but when you put that economy on steroids, one job can equal five jaws. it can expand out into the neighborhood if we are smart about skills. there is a race of the -- recipe out there. it is about innovation. it will fundamentally -- if we can come back to this -- change what the national government does. in some cases, the national government does need to lead. a lot of this advance research is coming out of the national government. on skills, infrastructure, quality of life, the national government needs to be a better partner in the service of cities priorities and vision. there is exciting work out there. there is a roadmap for prosperity -- shared prosperity.

it does mean that we need to recognize that the world has fundamentally changed. >> thank you so much. secretary castro, i will ask a come back to you to discuss what the federal government needs to do. first, i would like you to talk about your experience as mayor of san antonio. you did a number of policies to address these key challenges. what works for you at their? secretary castro: thank you. i think this is a very timely subject. im convinced that we are living in a century of -- i am convinced that we are living in a century of cities. and here in the united states we are falling in love again. the census bureau estimates that we will save 80 million people in our country.

130 million people will live in cities. if i have advice for leaders around the country, it would be to break through the silos at the local level. one of the things we saw the administration here doing was an effort at very sustainable communities, hide, the department of, with epa. hey, what we should do is this in a similar way. we need to talk to our elected utility, our water utility. you would be surprised how often that does not happen at the local level. what we found is there are a lot of resources going out there that could be coordinated in a better way. they could make a bigger impact. secondly, it really allows you as a community to create a

long-term vision for lifting up parts of the urban core that are most in need. in our case, in san antonio, we focused on the east side of the city, one of the poorest areas of san antonio, and look that improving the roads, improving the roads, making neighborhoods safer. that will help us eventually get -- the promise neighborhood grant, the choice neighborhood grant, the promise's own. but more importantly, we saw the attendance rates go up. we saw the high school graduation rate going up review start to see by coordinating and making investments in housing, it in education, in safer streets, the actual on the ground bottom line results you want to see -- and the advice for local leaders out there, the

number one thing you can do immediately is break through your silos and get into meetings with the community and amongst each other to look to the future. moderator: thank you so much. mayor, you have focused on disadvantaged communities. what have you been doing in compton? mayor brown: i looked at what the residents wanted from their community. we focused on the tough issues first. why do middle-class residents flee from the inner city? because they want to raise their

kids in a safe environment. every entity that touched compton came together. we focused on two issues. eradicating human trafficking. 90% of those involved in human trafficking are actually minors. and we really focused on what factors allow these activities to happen in our community? let's face it. tourists do not rent motels by the hour. [laughter] mayor brown: we were able to identify where the hubs of this activity were. we wrote out prevention programs. we focused on truancy and how can we work with the kids and get them back on track. we looked at every single area of gang activity.

who was going to be the last man standing? at the end of the day, it became really apparent that it was a cycle. eight months later, violent crime was down 80%. we looked at membership grants, to make them accountable and the community better. we also focused on the job creation component. we are a 126 --year-old -- 126-year-old city. we sat down with labor leaders and said, how can we make this a group project? neighbors are excited about the opportunity not just to have clean streets, but have jobs.

we have community benefits legislation where 40% of new hires have to be compton residents. but we also have employment development programs. there can be no excuse that they are not qualified resident ready. it is really about empowering the stakeholders in the community because i have learned that everyone is doing amazing things, but there are silos. though, so we came together to do just a few good things together well. and we focused back on people and thought about what america is. and the pride of being an american. so we are just focusing on the basics in the city of compton and we have had tremendous results. moderator: thank you so much. that is very inspiring.

you are the ceo of a company that does a similar thing. you are hiring people. 10% of your hires have a criminal record. you have a goal of revitalizing your community as you do business. what has helped enable you to grow your business and stay mission focused? guest: first i want to thank you for having this and inviting me. we are seeing tremendous revitalization in pockets of these city, and there are pockets that are being left out. basically my company's growth has been focused around green technology and really has benefited from the corporate diversity program. at roxbury, we work every day to increase employment opportunities for a low skilled

labor force that are often trapped in that circle of poverty as we have talked about and they have no real clear path out. as you think about it, this is not new. american cities were built on manufacturing. immigrants came here. built skill sets. the american dream, as he said. people need opportunity. we proudly supported the criminal offenders record reform . 20% of our workforce are ex offenders and ask gang members. -- ex-gang members. we feel that particularly young men, young men of color are extremely at risk in our country and unless we do something about it they are tremendously at risk as well. it is great to hear some things that you are doing mayor brown. we have to have jobs. we can talk about innovation, research studies. people want jobs.

i felt like i had people at my job -- yes we built supplies. it is not just that they are learning how to build a toner cartridge. they are learning quality procedures, shipping and receiving, skills they can take on to other companies. so, i feel like i am successful when i have turned a young gang member around. and now i am working as an apprentice or working at a warehouse at neiman marcus. those are the things that say success to me. and we have really made a positive impact. we made manufacturing happen in the inner city of boston. and the value of a company like that in bringing those partnerships together between corporate and small businesses and minority businesses have the capacity and the ability to do that is you create a primary business, if you will, that feeds the secondary business at

main street. my folks go to lunch. my 75 employees. they go to the nail salon. that is what revitalization means. someone asked in our debriefing room, how do you get your people. it is word-of-mouth. we live in a labor surplus. the name has changed so many years -- affirmative action. labor surplus. but there are tons of workers we have the just want jobs. when they heard -- anywhere i go if i say i higher ex offenders oh, my god, my cousin, brother. can they come fill out an application? it is really, really critical that corporations and governments continue their focus for outreach in women and minority owned businesses. typically when these were established, they were established, too, with the mindset that women and minority owned businesses or companies

will hire people from their communities. the government is one of the largest consumers in the country, so i really hope that you all, as we continue to look at this issue, that we try to figure out ways we can tweet these programs to make -- twe ak these programs to make them more effective and figure out how to grow these as mrs.. moderator: thank you so much. glenn, i am going to turn to you. glenn hutchins. you have invested in companies in a range of cities. innovation is a clear component. i would like your view on what is working and what is not working? mr. hutchins: after hearing this i want to invest in compton.

and philadelphia. i want to talk very quickly over three minutes. the last three years i have had the opportunity to help build businesses that have become world-class businesses. during that time i saw one city go through a renaissance and another go through bankruptcy. i had a front row seat. pittsburgh -- by the way, both cities were vulnerable to declining american industries. basically the same set of problems. pittsburgh lost its metal deployment, but over 30 years building word class city. i saw collaboration of all the levels of government businesses, etc. they built a tech hub around

carnegie mellon, a health-care hub around the university medical center. they invested in education. historical preservation projects. maybe city a good place to live. the government and private players invested in a lot of downfield revitalization projects. and then the students who came to go to university's got good jobs and affordable housing and stayed and created a resurgence in the economy. so by 2009, when the automobile industry in the united states was in bankruptcy, it's berg was voted as -- it's berg was voted as the most livable city in the united states. -- pittsburgh was voted as the most livable city in the united states. in contrast with detroit. a massive increase in

obligations for pensions and a decline in the tech space. what i observed was a response based on a culture of contention rather than collaboration. i often thought it was out of the historical relationship between the city and its labor base. what i observed was a zero-sum exercise in a dispute over 20 resources. and the capital -- and i mean capital defined broadly, financial capital, human capital -- all migrated away from the city. a very nearby place florist at the same time it was in decline -- flourished at the same time it was in decline. if you can have a collaborative approach in a forward thinking point of view, you -- or you can find yourself mired in old disputes that you are really getting in a culture of

contention. it seems pretty straightforward. it is also about post bankruptcy. its leaders are focused and they have exercises getting to it but it's a lesson we have to learn and relearn and as a business person there is only so much we can do. we can succeed in the cultures of contention, but it's a lot easier to see elsewhere. moderator: i hope that those in washington will take note of this culture of -- glenn: i do not mean to create national policy. [laughter] moderator: i want to talk about something that glenn mentioned as well as, resources and capital. part of attracting growth is attracting the human capital. what are strategies to make sure

our schools are developing the human capital of tomorrow? guest: in three minutes? moderator: you can take a few minutes. guess: it is absolutely doable to create these kinds of human capital strategies. the real question is, how do we do it for every child. the difference is sustainability and scalability. let me start with this. three districts really quickly. lawrence, massachusetts. it could have closed schools but instead decided, with a new superintendent, decided on a strategy -- this will sound familiar to glenn and secretary castro -- invention collaboration, working with teachers, parents, and kids.

and within one year -- and i do not want to make this sound like it will always happen in one year -- they turned around schools so in messages as they had a five or 10 increase in scores within one year. second students, counselors, support for housing, early childhood settings -- moderator you said this is the school system? randi: yes. in cincinnati. and what we have found is that cincinnati is the highest performing school district in ohio. third, and this goes to the whole point about cities. think about a school where students are going to learn

about building and operating boats, building submersibles -- yes, i know it is your husband's favorite school. this is the harbor school. it is one of premier schools in new york city and this is what is so important about the schools. when you align the work in the community, just like you talked about in terms of manufacturing we are doing this in pittsburgh as the. . , illinois. -- peoria, illinois. you create this amazing robustness in terms of that pipeline. and in fact, that is where someone like nick, the chairman and ceo of snap on tools, has said we are in a global competition for jobs and the single best weapon is cte. we need to out scale the competition. why do i start with these three

and i am going to end? because if we know we can do it we need to make this the norm, not the exception. if we want to help all kids, the way we have to do it, to borrow a phrase the secretary used it many, many years ago, "it takes a village." and even though it is not an urban setting, we learned this. in miguel county, west virginia where we are actually building housing, trying to create jobs. the poorest county in the united states, while at the same time working with folks in san francisco to build housing there. it is a public-private partnership where we are collaborating, as opposed to simply engaging in conflict. we can do it, but we can do it in this ad hoc way. if we do not have the kind of intervention and strategies that promote this all throughout the

country, there will still be outliers as opposed to the norm. moderator: fantastic. thank you randi. randi is talking about place-based -- a place-based strategy. dixon i want to talk to you about how a number of areas are facing these issues about housing, health, and one of the initiatives that secretary castro was talking about was promised zones, really looking at the fact that today research says that a person troll zip code has more to do with their life acceptance -- expectancy than their genetic code. how can we really address what is happening to the individual in that community? promise stones is one of the initiatives. can you tell how all that

affects some of the challenges? guest: yes. i would like to thank you for inviting me to be part of such a distinguished panel this morning. truly we have a modern-day war on poverty. we are thrilled in los angeles to be at the forefront of these efforts, efforts to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty. targeting specific geography, in our case a community with about 200,000 residents and really saturating that need with resources. our nonprofit use policy institute happens to be the only agency in the country awarded all four of the white house signature initiatives around neighborhood development and that is the los angeles neighborhood promise known, the partnership with the city we have heard about.

there are 12 promise neighborhoods in the u.s. choice neighborhoods out of hide and the burn initiative out of the department of justice. in the last two years 100 million dollars in targeted federal investment has come into the los angeles promise zone. these are not big capital budgets or loans. this is programmatic funding for a specific community. what we are learning on the ground is there is no so over bullet for urban challenges. you have to do everything and you have to do it well. -- there is no silver bullet for urban challenges the review do everything in you have to do it well. we have early education, wraparound services for youth and family. targeting people who have dropped out of school. it has to be driven. we have partners in the

community so we can track these outcomes over time. i think you have got to have everybody at the table. nla we are lucky. the annenberg foundation has put something together to bring local philanthropy and to associate these public sectors. the leadership is fantastic. we have a fantastic mayor in l.a., eric garcetti, who believes in this approach. and none of this would have happened if the obama administration had not taken on what i think is the herculean challenge of getting federal agencies to collaborate, to break down silos, to better support place-based work in communities like l.a. honestly i think it is the best kept secret of the last six years here in d.c. we are happy to be part of it and happy to be here today. moderator: excellent.

shannon, i want to come to you. one of the areas we have seen pickup, latina outreach. how do we harness that energy as part of an economic agenda for the future? guest: sure. latinos are clearly entrepreneurial and we are punching above our weight -- there are more than 3 million hispanic home businesses in this country generating more than a trillion dollars into our economy and one of five every new entrepreneur is latino and has spanish women owned businesses are leading the way. latinos are the fastest-growing segment of the small business owner community.

a lot of times when they are doing it they are doing it out of sheer grit and well, but there are not enough support services to keep the small businesses sustainable. the things we have heard today something that needs to be reinforced and one area -- i guess a sector i would like to highlight is community-based organizations. they are doing so much to pitch in and collaborate with those community colleges and with the larger businesses, often with the chambers. for us it is essential that community-based organizations know these communities can give them the skills and the support that they need so they can have that access to capital. often times it does not take much. secretary clinton knows. the deputy secretary was part of a great model with accion

international. now they are in texas. and there is a new spinoff. they are doing it by infusing this model we have talked about, breaking down the burials -- the barriers in the silos. and we are looking to make sure that our affiliates -- dixon is one of them and a shining example -- there are lots of ways we could be doing more. prince charles was an washington d.c. last week and while he did many things, one of the things he did was visit the carlos were sorry of center -- carlos rosario center, and he was looking at i was told, the way they are integrating immigrants to have these skills to succeed in the mainstream. oftentimes they need assistance and access to capital.

but sometimes it is just the language that we need to transition them so they can be fully successful and i think that there is more we can do. one of the things i would say as i close is we are doing a lot as a community to be part of that vitality in the urban core, but i would say oftentimes people turn to the small business sector because the labor market is not an even landscape and i would hope that we would still look at ways we can support our workforce development systems. we need to be moving on several fronts to make sure the urban progress we make is inclusive of all of our communities. guest: can i say something

question i know i am not on the agenda. we are not looking at businesses with the small businesses, particularly small businesses. we do not have the bandwidth to invent ourselves. we need to be partnered with some of these corporate partners and be a part of that, be at the table. you know what i mean? and we are not. so i could not agree more, 100% at go it because that is kind of where i am right now. i know a lot of folks, but i am looking at my peers and what is happening and what we're seeing, big, big changes happening. it is not filtering over. really, we can look at ways for corporate and government to pay attention to the small businesses and integrate into community colleges etc. that

would really have an impact. neera: that is great. janet, do you have anything -- janet: no, i was finishing up. what is important is to reinforce this notion that the hidden gem in these urban core doors are these community-based organizations. and they are hustling. i really credit a number of folks in the public and private systems to offer us model so we can scale these programs. but it has to be a partnership and there has to be collaboration. there is a lot of folks working really hard out there that want to make it. they need just a little bit of help. having a small loan. it doesn't have to be a big one. for our folks to open those doors, but keep them open for their small business. that is going to be how we are really making sure her vibrant

communities and urban centers. neera: glenn? glenn: the only thing that i would have come out of this -- who have never had a job, the jobless, the unemployed, and the incarceration population. that is a lot about skills training integrated with the local businesses, small and large. it is still amazing to me our unemployment insurance system is based on job insurance as opposed to training paired if we are going to break into the hard-core unemployment levels you and i were talking about earlier, you have to be able to do that. hillary clinton: this is exactly on point. we have five point 6 million young people in america between 16 and 24 who are neither in school nor at work.

if we do not consciously try to set up at her systems to reach out and find these young people and train them, we are doing something at the clinton foundation called job one, because a lot of them have never had a job he four. so they do not have the hard skills but they also do not have the soft skills. part of the challenges working with companies that will do exactly what you are saying, and that is to make it possible to have these entries entry points. -- these entry points. the other thing that germany does is instead of an unemployment system, they have a wage subsidy system. i think there are a lot of creative ideas and both companies are being tried in comparable economies. we have to focus on the first job and get people into that system so they can maybe get

better educated and better opportunities will come. >> what we often do is top-down rather than bottom-up here the whole notion of neighborhood and thinking about how you work with the assets, you leverage the assets including human assets and community-based organizations and a faith community to actually find your kids in the neighborhood, that is the part of the reason that what's -- what we have seen with services around schools, and trying to think about the school as the center of community or the church as center of community, we find kids. kids, if we can engage them they do not drop out. if we can actually engage businesses, schools at large, in terms of the process, we actually have a pipeline to jobs . i sign getting a number of

things out of this discussion but, there are a couple of words people constantly repeat it one is collaboration. as a matter of fact, someone said there should be collaboration -- unfortunately in many cases, that is where we begin, in a contentious mode. i can give you a variety of examples where they were looking at cutting retirees benefits who were not -- who earned $19,000 a year on average. we were looking at cutting that just out of the box for we had to react to that. they care about the keys and provide essential services, but rather than starting off in a contentious mode, it seems to me there are enough examples that we talked about here this morning, where we can collaborate and bring all of our community together, whether it is a nonprofit community government labeler -- labor, and

we can talk about resolving these problems. that is what is missing in many cases. we have got to bring discussions together and bring everyone to the table so we can honestly have dialogue about how to rebuild our infrastructure and educational system, provide decent housing and quality jobs in the areas across the country. there are examples out there. people are doing it. we have got to talk about the strategic plan to get the job done. by thanks. ideas for us to go forward? >> collaborate to compete. it is denver and they were flat on their back in the early

1980's. the suburbs invested in downtown because they knew they needed a vibrant core. fast-forward, 122 miles of light rail transit to resources. the success goes to success goes to success. if you put your stem economy on steroids every job yields another five jobs. some that support it and some that are basically in the retail and housing sector. in many respects and cities, there is not a difference between the stem economy and downtown neighborhoods. i would just argue that going forward, we need to think about stoking the fires. you go to downtown detroit and downtown buffalo and downtown st. louis, and we have got to focus even more on supervising

those economies. the multiplier effect is really off the charts for people living in the neighborhoods. we have then got to connect them. >> put the arts in there as well. [laughter] crespo the on that, others have research on folks and the cities who raised the wages for everyone from those who never went to high school. mr. secretary of housing and urban development i will start to close with you. from this conversation what is the strategy we can learn to go forward. what are you working on at the federal level to support the local efforts? >> great points all around. i got elected to the san antonio

city council when i was 26, just last year, in fact. [laughter] i remember earlier on, we were trying to make a decision about where to put the limited resources the city had every year for street maintenance and repair. basically that happens in cities all the time. one of the neighborhood association meetings, iran into a woman who came up to me and said they had been waiting in the neighborhood for many years for sidewalks to be created on their street, and admin something to her because her mother, this was an adult woman her mother who was elderly had diabetes and a doctor advised the mother to try to walk, to help out with the health condition, but she could not do that because there were no sidewalks and also dogs -- for

me as a policymaker it drove home the idea that all of the things we do are connected in terms of policy. but the infrastructure for economic development and housing, the best thing we are doing is really bringing all those issues to gather ensuring there is good, and quality, and affordable housing and making sure cities are safe. we are celebrating 50 years this year and one of the things we are most proud of, that builds on the work of home six that said it is about housing promise zones and promise neighborhoods. i believe we need to do more of that in the years to come to lift up the urban cores of

communities out there that have been struggling but at the same time, it was noted at the beginning of the conversation today at the top metros make up 75% of our national gdp and in this toy first century, the united states five itself in an unprecedented opportunity for jobs and investment for nations arriving around the world, we need more than ever for those cities to excel. i think we can do that if we collaborate and think of a policy in away way that blends all those areas. >> thank you much. closing thoughts? lee: thank you for pulling this together. you got a good amount of recommendations and suggestions. [laughter] >> my report is coming out tomorrow. lee: this is just a discussion that i believe is a beginning. we should continue it.

let me just highlight a couple of things i have heard constantly. one is the key to rebuilding our city, good jobs are at the root of all of the other social and economic challenges. improve education in establishing programs, investing in public safety, dressing health disparities and preserving affordable housing. here is something else i heard today. every community has got to be included in this discussion in every community has got to have the opportunity to advance and make better lives for themselves and their families. we need to invest in our infrastructure across the country. we are going to need help here and we are going to need resources coming from the federal government but also from the private sector to do just that. i think this is the right thing

to do. it is an important thing to do. we have the examples of where we can be successful all across the country. the trick will be to pull all those countries together rather than continue to fight and argue one another. hillary clinton: amen. i love sessions like this because it is nice to get back to an evidence-based discussion about what works and what does not work and they try to learn from examples that teach us a lot of lessons. that to me is the most important take away. we have cities that are working well because they have been reinventing themselves and have

done so in a collaborative and inclusive manner. they still have work to do. they are at least demonstrating there are approaches that we can learn from and try to apply. we have other cities, which we know are having difficulty overcoming the contentiousness trying to figure out ways to collaborate, where it is really more of a political battlefield than a policy discussion. i hope that cap and the others represented here this morning and due to gather what is so needed, and that is to try to stimulate a conversation in cities themselves. i think it is both bottom-up and top-down. if we could get more cities going to state capitals and coming here to washington and saying, we need to abolish the silos, we need your help in creating the conditions for coordination and collaboration

we need to have your help in convening. that is something secretary castro is very focused on, and then looking at what works and looking at results which i think dixon has also report -- also pointed to. look at what works and get out of the very unproductive discussion we have had for two test for too long, where people have been an ideological bunkers, having arguments instead of trying to reach across divides and come up with solutions. mayor, i think what you did with gangs and gang members is exactly what needs to be done in so many places in our countries. -- do not be surprised if you get a call. maybe we will start not too far from here. [laughter] in a beautiful domed building -- [laughter] where we get everybody in the

same room and start that conversation. it could lead to collaboration and a better result for our cities and our country. thank you very much. >> thank you everyone for participating. [applause] >> great job. [inaudible] [indiscernible] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015]

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[indiscernible] >> a reminder if you missed any of this event, you could watch it any time at the c-span lard berry -- since they library. secretary ted cruz said he is running for president. he said he is running for president and he wanted to stand with courageous conservatives to lead the fight to restore america's greatness. mr. cruz also gave a speech this morning in lynchburg, virginia playing host to other virginia candidates including john mccain of arizona in 2007. we showed this speech on c-span

two. mr. cruz is only beating others to the punch by a few weeks. and a two republican senators rand paul and marco rubio. they indicated they will do the same. mr. cruz is alone on center stage for the time being. you can watch the speech from this morning in the c-span video library on c-span.org. here's a portion of what they had to say this morning. ted cruz: i believe in you pair it i believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to reignite the promise of america. and that is why today, i am announcing that i am running for president of the united states. [cheersand and applause] >> again, you can see the entire

speech right now on our companion network, c-span2, but you can also watch it online on c-span.org. -- we invite your thoughts on your facebook -- our facebook page and twitter. ahead of a two-week recess, the house of representatives and u.s. senate focused on the two dozen 16 budget this week. both measures would increase defense spending. without house rules committee meets today to set up debate on the to the f-16 budget. the house will gavel in a noon eastern for general speeches and 2:00 p.m. for legislative work including a bill providing aid

for ukraine's military. you can see that live on c-span two. tonight, on the communicators we met up with wired magazine reporter tim moynihan at the consumer-electronics show in las vegas, who gave us a tour on the latest technology. >> organic light emitting diode. it refers to the backlight system, led backlight's two color liquid crystal display and then this one is actually using the individual led particles as a source of light. they could be turned on and turned off independently. you always going to take some sort of light through their pair to my eyes, this is pretty amazing. these are the two big buzzwords

and it has been for years. >> tonight on c-span two. former governor martin o'malley address democrats on friday in davenant -- in davenport on friday. the remarks are about 30 minutes. [applause] ♪ thank you very much. >> let's give it up for dave. [applause]

>> my goodness. thank you congressman. thank you for your kindness, generosity, and leadership. i want to thank everyone for being here to propel scott county forward into the future. i understand there is a big game on tonight. go, hawks. yes. [applause] i ask you to raise refrain from shutting out the latest score. feel free to do it in another 18 minutes. thank you for your gracious introduction, and thank you for your perseverance. and your leadership. congratulations on your victory in a really, really tough year. we are lucky to have your leadership in washington. we are blessed by it. you will, i have no doubt, soon have company from the great state of iowa and congress. [applause] i want to congratulate you on

your selection as your party chair. tom and i were speaking. we share a common affliction, we are both irish. [laughter] he said it is not an affliction. we look for to your leadership and thank you to all of the scott county democrats for the invitation to be with all of you tonight. dr. maguire, thank you for your leadership of the state party. sometimes, you know there is a truth that it's not how low you go, it is how high you bounce. [applause] tonight, i wanted to talk with all of you tonight about the story of us, about all of us. about the story of baltimore and the story of iowa, about the story of maryland, and also the story of america.

the story of us. 200 years ago in the war of 1812, the british had just taken washington, and they had burned our public buildings to the ground, the capital in the white house. we knew they were coming for us. amidst the ashes of washington the commanding british general of the time declared "i am going to march on baltimore and dine there." even then, we had great restaurants in boston. [laughter] then he said," then i'm going to burn baltimore to the ground." our nation was not yet 40 years old. think about it. the american dream was facing extinction. imagine what we felt at that moment, anger, fear, disbelief confidence shattered, trust gone. there are moments in the life of our country, and these are the defining moments, when it seems the american dream is hanging by a thread. and yet, for america there is

always a yet. the final thread that holds us could just be the strongest.

50% of us in the city then were immigrants, one out of five were african americans of the still as yet very imperfect country. only one third of those black defenders were themselves free. somehow, together, we transformed our loss. we transformed our despair. instead of digging grades, we dug trenches and built ramparts by the sea. against the overwhelming shock and all force of its day, the people of baltimore stood firm. all of us as we did tonight announcing the star-spangled banner, that giant flag that was wasted in defiance over fort mchenry when the british guns finally give up. as we sing that song today, let us also remember that the colors of the actual star-spangled banner were stitched together by black and white hands, men's

hands, women's hands, hands of freedom, hands and bondage, the hands of a nation that has always grown and always evolving. the threat that held it together then, is the thread that holds us together now. it is the threat of human dignity. [applause] the dignity of every person, the dignity of home, work, neighbor helping neighbor so that all of us can succeed. in other words, with our country's future hanging in the balance, we stood as one. the american dream lived on.

fast-forward, in 1999, there was a different sort of battle unfolding on the streets of baltimore. this time come up honestly, we were losing. when i decided to run for mayor that year, my city had allowed ourselves to become the most violent, most addicted, and most abandoned city in america. our biggest enemy was not the drug dealers or cracked cocaine, it was a lack of belief, a culture of failures, countless excuses about how nothing would work and why none of us should even bother to try. we set out to make our city work

again, to make the dream real again, in our fight to survive we brought for a new -- forward a new way of getting things done. i started setting goals with deadlines. what is the difference between a dream and a goal? it is a deadline. [laughter] instead of simply counting budget inputs, my team started measuring the actual outputs of the actions that we were taking could we started managing for results. we saw trask -- trash in our streets and alleys, so we picked it up every day. we begin to relentlessly close open or drug markets down. guess what?

when the people of baltimore saw the government was working, they rallied as well. [applause] together, we put into action that most important belief that unites us, the believe that we are all in this together, that in our community there is no such thing as a spare american and over the next 10 years baltimore went on to achieve the biggest reduction in crime of any major city in america. [applause] in this battle between our violent past and are better, safer future, the future won. and the dream lives on. seven years ago, sometimes we americans have short memories, but just seven years ago it seemed like our entire economy was hanging by a thread, did and it? -- didn't it? the meltdown on wall street nearly plunged our nation into a second great depression, millions of people all over the country lost their jobs. millions lost their homes. as a nation, we refused to give up, and we elected a new

president and barack obama to make the tough decisions to move our country ford, and that is what we are doing. -- move our country forward, and that is what we are doing. [applause] the president provided leadership, and then the states had to make choices of their own. unlike some other states, they tried to cut their way to prosperity. in maryland, we did more not less to make our children winners in this challenging economy. we tossed a side the failed policies of the past, the trickle down economics that got us into the mess in the first place, and we embraced instead a different sort of economics, the economics of inclusion. we returned to the truth that our parents and grandparents

understood so very well in their hearts, that the more a person learns, the more a person earns. that a stronger middle class is not the consequence of economic growth. a stronger middle class is the cause of economic growth. [applause] in other words, we returned to the middle class economics that actually made america great, the commonsense economics that understands that the more workers earn, the better customers businesses have, and the more our entire economy grows. we pass a living wage, became the first state in the country to pass a living wage, and we raised the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. [applause] we make college more affordable former people, in fact we froze college tuition increases, zero increases for four years in a row. by investing more rather less, by partnering teachers rather than belittling teachers, we made our public schools the best in america for five years in a row. [applause] economic participation also means political participation,

and while other states were putting up barriers to keep people from voting, in our state, we made it easier for all people to cast their vote. [applause] and we harnessed the power indeed as i or has harnessed the power, of renewable energy, to create new jobs in this new economy while answering the moral challenge of climate change, to create jobs, to create stronger communities, and we took action to restore the health of the waters of our chesapeake bay, and together we

made marland one of the top states upward economic mobility. together we maintained the highest median income in the nation, and together maryland is creating jobs at one of the fastest rates in our region. better choices for better results, we are americans, and we make these choices for the future of the dream we share and the dream that we have the privilege, if we should so choose, to pass on to our kids. when a family can send their children to a good school and get a good education, the dream is alive. when every family through their hard work can claim a seat at the table of american prosperity, then, my friends that dream is alive, and none of these happened by accident. they all happened by choice. our our economy, in other words, is the product of the choices that we make together.

it does not blow in here offer a polar vortex or across from a gulfstream, the choice to believe in one another, the choice to believe in the power of the american dream, and the choice to believe in our ability together to make it come true, our economy is the product of the choices we make. here is the good news. as a nation, we have now achieved 60 months in a row of positive job growth. [applause] there is no progress without a job. 60 months of consecutive job

growth. that is the good news. frankly, as a party, we have not done the job we need to do of talking about the good things we have done. but, the vast majority of us are working harder only to watch our families fall further behind. and we have to acknowledge the work that still remains undone. most of us are more it -- worried than ever sometimes that are children will not enjoy the quality of life that we have enjoyed, or a better quality of life than we have enjoyed.

in other words, there is a pessimism that has penetrated deeply into our collective consciousness as americans. as a party, we need to recognize that to her have seen the look in your neighbor size, and i have two. for too many of us, the dreams of what could be an what were seem to be slipping from our grasp. get this, 50 years ago, the nations largest employer was general motors, and the average general motors employee could pay for a year's tuition at a state university with two weeks of wages. americans are worried, and for

good reason. for the last 12 years, wages have been going down and not up. last year, wall street bonuses alone were double the combined earnings of every single american working for minimum wage to take care of the family. until we solve this problem, we cannot rest, not as a party, and not as a people. our nations future is at stake. not long ago, the washington times ran a story with this headline, " american dream is dead." well, let me say to the pundits writing these free obits worries of the american dream, that the american dream will never die on our watch, because we choose to fight and we intend to win. [applause] do you mean to tell me, do you mean to tell me that we can concentrate wealth in the hands of the very few, like we never have before, but we cannot eradicate childhood hunger in the united states of america? i don't buy it. are you telling me that we can invest in a driverless car, but we can't create a job that feeds a family or sends our turn to college?

i don't accept that. neither should you. this is not the american dream. this is not our country is supposed to work, and this is not how our economy is supposed to work. we still have work to do, scott county, don't we? [applause] dr. mcguire, it is going to be up to the democratic party to finish the work. it is up to us to restore the american dream. it is up to us to finish the work that we have begun, to make our economy work for all of us again. you see, the tea party republican party, is no longer the republican party of years past. would that they were.

there was a time once when the republican party had leaders of vision, foresight, compassion. lincoln asserted our unity and our common humanity. eisenhower liberated europe and he built the nation's highway system to connect us. but now republicans create traffic jams. now they fight against equality in any of its berries forms, and education. they are poor health care. and any increase in the minimum wage. think about that. an entire party dedicated to keeping wages low for the american workers. what have we come to? they even question taxing's and climate change. [laughter] give them a few more weeks and there will be shunning copernicus. [laughter] here and i will, house republicans are saying that your state can't afford to invest in their schools, but they're willing to spend twice as much on the tax cut that would benefit the wealthy. this is exactly what the field of 2016 republican candidates for president are offering. they want to double down on this strange, failed traveled on economics of the past, where you

concentrate wealth at the top, and keep wages as low as you can for everybody else. what kind of a are they creating? the choices give our children a future of less. we have better choices to make because making do with less is not an aspiration. it is not worthy of a great people are great nation. we will not be, and cannot be, the first-generation to leave our children with the future of less. not for my kids, and not for yours. [applause] we are americans to turn to your neighbor and tell them, we are americans. go ahead. we are americans. we are americans, and we make our own destiny, not anybody else, and the future we choose is the future of liberty justice, an opportunity for all. [applause] do me a favor.

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think for a second, closer rise if it helps. -- close your eyes if it helps. picture your grandparents. it should their faces. they understood the essential truth of the american dream that we share. -- picture their faces. the more we help our country the more she can get back to us and our children, and to our grandchildren. the poet laureate of the american dream, bruce springsteen. [applause] [laughter] bruce springsteen asked once, is the dream alive if it don't come true? or is it something worse? when the american dream is denied, our lives strength -- shrink, and our lives fade in the darkness of fear. to make the dream true again, we must fight for better wages for all workers so that americans can some port their families on what they earn. [applause]

what does this mean? you know what it means. your parents and grandparents knew what it means. in marines -- means raising the minimum wage, raising the threshold for overtime pay, and it means respecting the rights of all workers to organize and bargain. [applause] to make the dream come true, we must not allow another wall street melt down to bring down the hard-working families of our country. we have a responsibility to put that sort of repeat performance beyond the realm of the possible, by reinstating -- and

holding people accountable when they break the law. [applause] to make the dream come true again, we have to embrace our clean energy future, and recognize that renewable inexhaustible sources of energy represent the biggest business opportunity for our country in a century. [applause] clean water and clean air, a human right. these things are human rights, and no generation has the ability or the right to deny these rights to future generations. to make the dream come true again, we must expand social security benefits, and not cut social security. [applause]

and to make the dream come true, we must invest more in education, not less, which means universal pre-k to help all of our children reach their god-given potential. [applause] closing achievement gaps, making college more affordable again for all, these are the choices we make is americans in every generation, and to make the dream true again, we must recognize that policies of economic inclusion and economic participation are policies that are good for women, good for families, like equal pay, equal work, paid leave, expanded childcare is also good for our economy. [applause] sing it with me people, when women succeed, america succeeds. [applause]

but the most fundamental power the most fundamental power our party and our country has is the power of our moral principles. trying to asian is not a strategy that will move america forward. history celebrates profiles in courage, not profiles inconvenience. this day and each day, we must be unashamed and unabashed defenders of that american dream that we share, and the better choices necessary to pass it on to our kids, the dignity of every person tells us that the right to marry is not a state right, it is a human right.

[applause] and when refugee children arrive on our doorstep, fleeing starvation and death gangs, we do not turn them away, we act like the generous, compassionate people we have always been. [applause] the enduring symbol of our nation is not the barbed wire fence, it is the statue of liberty. [applause] this is what we believe. this is who we are. [applause] we are americans, and in god we trust. [applause] yes. yes. yes, you and i are proud to be members of the democratic party.

let the tea party measure their success by how many times they can shut down our government. we measure success in jobs and opportunity for all. let them speak for the said yesterday's that were. we speak for the better days tomorrow. [applause] make no mistake. the american dream is what makes america exceptional. fear and anger never build a great nation. our country is told by compassionate choices. we love our country and what it is.

we love what our country can become. take pride, take pride. [applause] take pride in your work as democrats. take pride in what you believe. the next time somebody asks you after an election who you voted for, don't be shy. tell them. i mean it. if a child asked you who you voted for i want you to tell that child i voted for you. when you see someone sweating through another long shift and they ask you who you voted for i want you to tell them, i voted for you. when you see someone with health insurance who did not have it before, and they ask you who you voted for, i want you to tell them, i voted for you. when you see someone who wants

nothing more than to have their family treated with dignity and respect under the law i want you to tell them i voted for you. when you see someone who hungers for opportunity, and a good job, i want you to tell them i voted for you. we are democrats for a good reason. ours is the party of optimism. ours is the party of the people. ours is the party of the better future. ours is the party of the american dream. together, we will make that dream true again. thank you, scott county. [applause] >> thanks a lot. it was fun. >> nice people. >> nice having you here. >> thank you. thank you, guys.

>> and u.s. house is about to gavel in at noon eastern counting down to a two-week recess. they will be working on the 2016 federal budget would increase in defense spending is included in both bills. house rules committee will be meeting this afternoon at 5:00 to set up for debate on the 2016 budget. house began gaveling at noon eastern starting with general speeches. 2:00 p.m. for legislative work, including a bill writing aid for the military. watch the senate on c-span two. while we wait for the house to gavel income earlier today, we spoke with a reporter to get the latest on the u.s. negotiations with iran on nuclear technology. this is from sunday. host: thank you for being with us. let's begin with the very latest. we hear from john kerry that a deal was within reach.

what does the framework of that look like? i just got back last night. a few hours ago really. with secretary kerry. they are planning to return next week. i think the talks will resume again i caries level on thursday. they're really hoping that this next round will be the last round for this agreement. i just want to remind you that what they're trying to get now by the end of march, is the outlines of the parameters, or the main principles of an agreement. not the total, complete finished text, which won't come until the end of june. what it would do is constrained iran's capability to uranium. it would try to block their path to a bond using plutonium.

an important feature of the agreement is that it wouldn't last forever. it would be limited in time. once it expired, iran would be subject to the nonproliferation treaty and still not able to make a bomb, but have a much greater capability. there's a lot of debate about the agreement. not only outside government, but among the negotiating parties there has been some tension between the united states and the french over it. it's coming close, but not quite there yet. host: on the front page of "the new york times" this is the headline -- unstated factor in iran talks, threat of nuclear tampering. he sums up that region in accord is not reaching a state of trust. guest: the agreements has

never been based on trust. an important aspect of agreement -- i would say the remaining issues are verification. there is the u.s. as allies in the talk, ask you for verification, which is beyond what any country has been subjected to. that is one of the remaining obstacles. in iran, for example, the revolutionary guard doesn't really want inspections of military sites. it's never going to be based on trust. it has to involved verification. that is a big issue. another big issue is the pace as to which sanctions are released. since the agreement is that based on trust, the united states and its partners want to

remove sanctions gradually, only as i read performs under its accord. i ran once the sanctions lifted all at once. the economic pressure -- so that the economic pressure on its economy would be reduced. those are the remaining issues to grapple with. host: we appreciate you being with us early this morning especially after flying across the atlantic with the secretary of state and switzerland. i just want to show some comments from secretary of state kerry yesterday. [video clip] secretary kerry: we have not reached the that is like but make no mistake, we have the opportunity to get this right. it is a matter of political will and tough decision making. it's a matter of choices. we must all choose wisely in the days ahead. host: michael gordon, assuming there is an agreement, where does it go next, especially in light of the sentiment from the

hearing with congressional republicans over this reported deal? guest: i was sitting right in front of secretary kerry when he said that in switzerland yesterday. those comments about it's time to make the decision were aimed not only at the iranians, but at the french. the french have been raising concerns that the united states and other countries involved in this agreement six world powers plus iran, are rushing to fast to get a deal. the french have been concerned. they said this publicly. their master to the united states tweeted this. in the rush to get an accord, a framework accord by the end of the month the e agreement may not be as good as it needs to be. by setting a deadline, the u.s. is undermining its leverage to get an agreement. this is a debate between the united states and its own

allies. right after saying that, we movede flew to london, and he met with the french and the british on that very question. the reason secretary kerry is saying that is because people -- they are really worried about congress. they worry that unless they show visible progress, something tangible, specific limits, verification provisions, that congress may move ahead and the more stringent economic sanctions that could hurt the atmosphere for the talks. kerry is in a very delicate situation. he is trying to deal with iran on the one hand, and congress on the other and balance off those two factors. that's what's leading the united states to seek a framework

accord by march 31. host: michael gordon writes for "new york >> here are some of our featured programs for this weekend. saturday at 10:00 p.m. eastern on afterwards. the government housing policies caused the 2000 eight financial crisis, and it could happen again. sunday afternoon at 5:00, director of the earth institute at columbia university jeffrey sachs on a development plan for global issues like put go corruption and environmental decay. saturday morning at 10:30 p.m. eastern, on american history tv on c-span3, a discussion on the last major speeches of abraham lincoln and martin luther king jr. then sunday afternoon at 4:00, the 1965 meet the press interview with martin luther

king jr. find our complete television schedule on c-span.org and let us know about what you think. e-mail us, call us, or send us a tweet. join the c-span conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. on this monday morning the house is about to gavel in at noon eastern. we are expecting general speeches and then they are expected to return at 2:00 p.m. for legislative work criticizing boko barometer in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's room washington, d.c., march 23, 2015. i hereby appoint the honorable steve womack to act as speaker pro tempore on this day.