at c-span.org, videos of key hear, debates an other events feature markers that guide you to interesting and news worthy highlights. these poifnts interest markers appear on the right side of your screen when you hit play on select videos. this timeline tool makes it easy to get an idea of what was debate and decided in washington. scroll through and spend a few minutes of c-span's point of interest. >> join us tonight for the premier of c sparvetion's new series "books that shaipped america" in. partnership with the library of congress we explore 10 books from american literature that provoke thought, won awards, led to significant societal change. this week we feature "common sense" a 47-page pamphlet written by tom malt paine at the height of the tension between the colonies and great britain.

our presenter talks about how paine, in his pamphlet, strongly urged independence from the monarchy. watch "books that shaped america," featuring thomas paine's "common sense" tonight on c-span, c-span you -- c-span now, our free mobile video app, or c-span.org. you can learn more about the authors of the book featured. hos that cohen, congressional reporter with bloomberg government to talk about the week in congress. let's pick up where we work just on for the first hour and we were talking about what's being negotiated behind closed doors between what many call the hard right freedom caucus and the moderate mainstream caucus. what do we know about this

negotiation? guest: the house freedom caucus late last night which is more fiscally conservative and hard right once two/government spending but also opposed kevin mccarthy speakers up earlier this year and they reached a deal with the main caucus which is a more moderate business friendly faction of the house conference. they came together on this framework and quickly put out a nearly 200 page plan that wouldslash nondefense spending for 8% by the next 31 days starting at the end of september which essentially would give the good negotiators more time to come up with full year government funding bills. the september 30 deadline is coming up and they asked for legislation that would pass a stopgap measure or full year budget bills which seems unlikely. host: what has the speaker said

about how he would bring this deal to the floor? what happens first? guest: the plan is for them to bring up this bill thursday. the way the house worked as they will come back later tonight for a vote which is the bed check vote. the house rules committee will also me today to mark up what's called the continuing resolution. normally, acr would keep gumbel it -- government funding flats. it's more of a stop gap measure because it decreases funding. over the next couple of days, there would be a procedural vote to set the terms of debate to pass a rule for debate on the house floor which then would tee final passage of this bill and send it over to the senate which has its own obstacles. host: is the rules committee the first hurdle for this potential deal? tell us why. is it because of the makeup of

the rules committee and is that related to speaker mccarthy's position as the leader? guest: any legislation that wants to get through the house the dozen have wide bipartisan support needs to go to the rules committee first. because this stopgap measure is unlikely to attract democratic support given the cuts on spending and security measures that democrats oppose, it will need republicans only to carry this bill so rules committee allows them to set the terms. mccarthy's allies make up the majority on this panel. i believe it's seven republicans and four democrats. the four democrats are likely to oppose but there's two members of the house freedom caucus on the rules committee. they could vote with democrats to make it a tight vote in the house rules committee which could block it. there are three steps over the next couple of days, the stopgap measure, the rules committee and the rules on the floor and final

passage for it to be sent to the senate. host: we read some posts on x this morning from some conservatives. i want to show a few of them to our viewers who may have missed it and get your reaction.

what do you make of just those four and there are couple of others. does speaker mccarthy have the votes now? guest: the answer is no. it makes it a difficult week for him and his leadership to fund -- to find those votes. democrats are likely to oppose this bill given the border measures and the deep cuts to non-defense programs which democrats tend to support as well as the defense programs the public likes sticky flat. the issue here is that mccarthy only has a four seat majority. it was five sees but repub >> we are going to break away