later, "q&a" with angela wright. -- angela rye. >> joining us on "newsmakers" is the chair of the committee. thank you for being with us. >> yes, sir. joining us here with the questioning, contributing editor of the national journal, thank you for joining us. senator stabenow, let me begin with you. you have indicated this is not your father's farm bill. what is in this legislation and what is the difference? >> this is very different. i am so proud to be partnering in this effort with senator pat roberts. this really is a partnership with us. what we have done, rather than protecting programs with what are the principles, what are the goals, production agriculture, conservation, energy and so on, and we have taken a look at everything in the farm bill. we have made some important decisions about reform. we're not going to pay farmers anymore when they're not having a good year or four things they do not grow -- crops they do not grow. we want it to this and the marketplace. not the government telling folks what to plan and what the press ought to be, but the marketplace. we will be right i

the council of the congressional black caucus and angela wright on the role of today's caucus. >> it is designed to a sure that members can come together on issues like in the at large on the issues that may be taking districts to discuss legislative proposals to dance people that don't have a voice. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. [cheers and applause] >> today, senator john mccain current member of the armed services committee and senator joe lieberman, chairman of the homeland security committee came to the floor to address why they believe the administration needs to take action in syria apart from the united nations.hould their remarks or 25 minutes. >> it should come as no surpriss to any of our colleagues in detd a certain weeks. icons horrific news of a massacre that bashir al-sadr's forces committed in the syrian town of jula. at least 108 civilians, the majority of them women and children, are now believed to have been killed, some from repeated shelling by assad's tanks and artillery, but most slaughtered in their homes and executed in the streets. survivors describ