i ask for the y next week, the house will consider a bill that will block the java ministers and from allowing states to opt out of certain health care -- lawmakers will also debate a disasterat a revised response package. the senate continues work on nominations.senate live coverage is on c-span and the senate is on c-span two. also watch live online at c-span.org, or listen on the free c-span radio app. here's more from the capitol hill reporter. >> in the coming week, the house takes up a revised impact,

revised disaster package. the house has already passed a revised aid package. so what changes of a making to the measure. house passed its measure back in january. then the senate sat on that bill for a long time. and really the inflammatory back and forth on that discussion. by the time the senate took that up, the flooding had occurred and gop lawmakers and the and the-forth democratic plan doesn't have any made -- doesn't have any aid for the midwestern floods. floods didn't happen when we passed the bill. now the house is kind of taking of passingstep up

the amended bill, even though it includes the bones of what we took up before, basically as a way to say we are still focused on this fight. in case you forgot what we were seeking, and still a way to get its version passed in that chamber. >> and the latest round of disaster aid, what have you heard from house republican leaders on potential support for the measure this time? >> well, it will definitely pass the house. the question is, what is going to happen with version that they are working out behind closed doors? like i said, the bones of it are probably going to be the same, but there is still debate on what will happen with puerto rico aid and stipulations on what kind of oversight measures will be implemented there in

terms of making sure the puerto rican officials spend the money in a way that federal officials think is the least amount of money. >> you and your political colleagues writing about that with the headline, senator is a near disaster aid, with trump on board. there is a picture of the senator from georgia. what has been his role in this discussion and negotiation and what is left to be done on the senate side before the deal is sealed? >> senator perdue has been talking to the president frequently for the last several months as the president has really dug in on his opposition for extra aid for puerto rico. that is what the senate effort was before, so we had several test votes on it earlier, and neither one was successful. democratic and republican plan failed and leader mcconnell said, we are going to pull these

from the floor and that people figured this out behind closed doors. in the meantime, things got more heated in the debate over puerto rico aid. the president tweeted as recently as last month insults against puerto rican officials, saying they were incompetent, that they just take from the know, thetes to, you democrats who say they will not pass "a racist bill." in the meantime, since those senate votes failed, things have only gotten messier. messiestne of the most -- politically charged fights and probably the biggest congressional fight besides the shutdown. so right now, behind closed text ofhe final basically what both chambers will hopefully be able to pass in the next few weeks is being hashed out now and talks are expected to continue over the

weekend between the four corners, and that is the four the twoding leaders, women who run the house panel senate men who run the spending panel, they were really get into the details over the weekend. if they don't come to an agreement on final text, and it doesn't look like the white house will sign off on it and it doesn't seem like the ink is dry, than the house will continue with this passage about on basically their revised version, sticking their flag in and saying, we have not forgotten about this. we passed a version in january, here is our updated version as things go behind closed doors, but really that measure on the house floor is not really that shiny object here of what you should be looking for if you are reading into bill text and what the big changes are and what is going to be the final version. will it be the version behind closed doors now --

some $70you write that million is what they are talking about. $17 billion federally package, the disaster aid package, and the president asked this past week for an additional $4.5 billion in emergency funds for the border. how does all of this work could all of this affect the negotiations process and spending bills that need to be passed by the end of the fiscal year? >> lawmakers really want to get this disaster aid package out of the door. it languished for so long that we have money in here for disaster that happened in 2017 and money in here for fires that happened in november, and people are waiting on all of this communitieshere are really behind because they have not gotten the cash. atlantic hurricane season starts on june 1, so besides us getting tangled up in the regular spending process, which lawmakers are mindful of, it is

just the more time that they take, the more disasters happen in the more money they have to add to it, and the harder it is to get the momentum, so as chairman shall be in the senate ago, there iss extreme urgency here, and they just want to get this going as soon as possible. i think that they feel like this is the end of the road. they need to pull this together now. coversifer shoulders budget and appropriation issues for politico. you can read her reporting at politico.com or on twitter. thank you for the update. >> thank you. >> once, television was three giant networks on the government supported service called pbs. in 1979, a small network with an unusual name rolled out a big idea. let viewers decide on their own what was important to them. see,span open the doors to

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