not that the poverty line isn't questionable in a whole set of ways. but the fact that there is a poverty line focuses attention on poverty in a way that it never was focused on before there was a poverty line. if there was an annual deferred maintenance burden, it would generate attention on this, and people wouldn't want to be at the bottom of the list. people wouldn't want to be -- ct to the attack adams ads, and it would be something that somebody entrepreneurial, , e the brooks institution could start to generate. >> i got that. i've got an app for that. there are new technologies

called street bump. it will report to city government where there are pot holes. it could be a fantastic problems for brooks. >> join me in thanking larry and ed. [applause] no break. you guys get up. dan and cliff. can you come up? >> and president-elect donald trump's choice to be attorney general, senator jeff sessions is on capital hill tomorrow. he testifies at his confirmation hearing. we have life coverage from the senate judiciary economy at :30 a.m. on c-span-3 and c-span de jager. later on, president obama delivers his farewell address to the nation from chicago. he will talk about his last eight years as president and offer some thoughts about what is ahead for the country. that is live at 9:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span and

c-span.org. you can also listen on our radio app. ere is a tweet from c-span's kaplan. edical students are in opposition to repealing the health care law. eadline from bloomberg news, republicans group pushes to delay a bill repealing obama care until march, potentially enough pressure to force the party's leadership to comply. the latest sign of some republicans going unease about the replacement play plan as part of an effort to deliver swiftly on one of donald trump's top campaign promises. senators porter, portman, collins, bill cassidy of

ouisiana and others offered an amendment monday to the bug resolution that would extend to rewrite an obama care repeal to march 3. charles schumer wrapped up his remarks a moment or two ago. >> republicans and democrats are here because we get that others aren't as fortunate. they got sick and diagnosed with something terrible and that our role should be to try to help get them some cures and treatment. we are here not because we think it is fun to run elections. we are not here because we just like the look of our name on the door. we are here because we care desperately about people. i think that is what senator king was getting at in his remarks.

all of the tabloids, and the tv news shows, they spend 80% of their time focusing on politics, and we end up chasing our tale off in here -- our tail off in here because if the daily pretty ration and news are talking about politics, maybe we should be talking about politics as well. but that is not why we decided to do this. we decided to run for the united states senate because we care about people. is hy we are here today pretty simple. ultimately the repeal of the affordable care act with no replacement, with no plan for , will hurt xt millions of real people in very real ways. i just don't believe in the end that my republican colleagues

here want to cast a vote that will do that. this tall guy right here is josh. he lives in connecticut. he is from gilford, and he is standing next to his bone marrow donor and her boyfriend. this is josh's wife. josh was diagnosed with stage four non-hodgkin's lymphoma in 2012. here is what josh says. he will tell you the unvillar nishikoried truth. josh says the affordable care ack is entirely responsible for me still being alive. the affordable care act is entirely responsible for me still being alive. he relapsed after an additional diagnosis before he turned 26, and the only way he was able to get insurance was because of the affordable care act, which allowed him to stay on his

mother's insurance up until he turned 26. during the course of his treatments, he underwent stem cell transplants, which could be up to $200,000 each. because of those transplants, he needed ongoing weekly treatments at a cost of $10,000 per treatment. he recalled how he was getting his first stem cell transplant, and he was in the hospital during the supreme court deliberations on the affordable care act. he said i was in the hospital bed watching tv when the supreme court approved the affordable care act. i just remember feeling i had in my body. it was a feeling that i had never experienced before, bus i knew that i was going to be taken care of. now josh -- >> so there you see senator christopher murphy, the connecticut democrat, using some of the diem's 25 hours of debate team, 25 hours to each

side of the aisle on the repeal of the affordable care act legislation. there is discussion going on, on the senate floor. the democrats state farmed about five hours ago. we are not sure how long they will go. coverage gavel to gavel of the c-span-2.ays on early yes we go a preview of confirmation session for senator jeff goodman on "washington journal." first of our two the roundtables today on the nomination of jeff sessions for attorney general, we are joined in studio by susan crabtree, senior congressional reporter for "the washington examiner," and steve flowers. i want to begin with you. in your columns since jeff sessions was nominated, you're confident he will be nominated for the post of attorney general. why are you so confident? guest: generally speaking, i think