hardcover or e-book at presidents.rg/the a journalist and author discusses his book, a good american family, the red scare and my father. that is q&a, next sunday, at aided clock eastern and percent .- at 8:00 eastern on c-span >> in the coming up -- in the the house has already passed an eight package, so why are they taking up a revised measure, and what changes were made to it? passed its measure way back in january, and that was before the midwestern flooding. in the senate sat on that bill for a long time amid the discussion about puerto rico eight and the inflammatory back

and forth on that discussion. the senate took that up, the blotting had occurred and the back-and-forth of the ,ight about puerto rico aid that the democratic plan does not have any eight for the midwestern floods and the , it's becauselike you guys drag your feet for so long. so now the house is taking this of passing this amended bill, even though it really includes the bones of what they already took up before. basically as a way of saying we are still focused on the fight. this is our latest legislating offer in case you forgot what we are seeking in terms of legislative language of the senate. get that version passed in the senate.

fromat have you heard house republican leaders on potential support for the measure this time? it will definitely pass the house. the question is what will happen with the version they are working out behind closed doors? ite us said, the bones of will probably be the same but there is still some debate of what will happen with puerto rico aid and stipulations on what kind of oversight measures will be implemented their in terms of making sure puerto inan official spin the money a way that federal officials think is not a waste of money. >> you and your colleagues writing about the effort, the headline on the piece, senators near a deal on disaster aid with trump on board. 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? purdue has been talking with the president frequently for the last several months on this as president has done again on his opposition to extra aid for puerto rico. the was really what sunk senate effort before. we had test votes on this earlier this year and neither one was successful. the democratic and republican plans failed and leader mcconnell said we are going to pull these from the floor and let people figure this out behind closed doors. in the meantime, things only got more heated in the debate over puerto rico aid. president tweeted last month insults against puerto rican officials, saying they were incompetent, saying they just take from the united states to the chagrin of democrats, who said they are not going to pass a racist bill.

in the meantime, since the senate votes failed, things have only gotten messier. it's one the most politically charged legislative fights of president trump's residency so far. now, behind closed doors, the final text of a sickly what both chambers will hopefully be able to pass in the next few weeks is being hashed out right now and talks are expected to continue over the weekend theeen the four corners, top leaders, the two women who run the house-senate panel and the two men who run the senate spending panel, their staffs will be really getting into the details over the weekend. if they don't come to some kind of agreement on final text and it looks like the white house is not going to sign off on it, then the house is going to continue with this passage vote

sayingr revised version, we have not forgotten about this. we passed a version back in january, here is the updated version. really that measure on the house floor is not the shiny object of what you should be looking for if you are reading the bill and with the changes are and what is going to be the final version. that version behind closed doors right now. you write it is $17 billion they are talking about. disaster aid package. the president asking for an .5 billion 4 dollars. how does all of this effect the appreciation's -- appropriations prospects? >> lawmakers want to get this

package out of the door. it has languished for so long, we have money for disasters from 2017 and fires that happened in november. people are waiting on this money. reallyre communities behind because they don't have this cash. hurricane season starts on june 1. getting tangled up in the spending process which lawmakers are mindful of. the more time they take to do this, the more disasters happen in the more money they have to add to it and the harder it is to get the momentum. as the chairman in the senate ago, there iss extreme urgency here. they want to get this going as soon as possible. they feel like this is the end of the road. they need to pull this together

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