> president trump qualified nominees for starters later this afternoon, advance nomination of barbara barrett, president's choice to be secretary of the air force. speaking of our armed forces, congress can waste no more time getting appropriate process back on track and delivering the funding our service members need. just two months ago, the president and speaker of the house produced an agreement to guide the appropriates process. the white house set top line funding target for defense and nondefense. and agreed to forego bills. last month unfortunately, democratic colleague went back on the deal, routine funding negotiations were subject to poison pill threats and urgent resources for operation of the pentagon were withheld for the sake of politics. look, we need to put political games aside. democrats need to stop filibustering pay raise for troops and the funding commanders need. we need to get our funding process back on track for the entire federal government. and house democrats need to stop slow walking the u.s. mca, the landmark trade agreement that stands to create 176,000 new ame

continues work on the president's executive and judicial nominations including anniversaries nominee barbara barrett. watch live gavel to gavel coverage of the house on c-span, on the senate live at c-span2, or listen live on the go using the free c-span radio app. the british parliament start add new session questioned with the traditional speech by queen elizabeth. her remarks commonly referred to as the screen's speech outline the government's policy priorities including brexit, the u.k.'s global leadership shall and investments in science and education. queen elizabeth ii will make a queen elizabeth: please be seated. my lords and members of the house of commons. my government's priority has always been to secure the united kingdom's departure from the european union on the 31st of october. my government intends to work towards a new partnership with the european union based on free trade and friendly cooperation. my ministers will work to implement new regimes for fisheries, agriculture and trade seizing the opportunities that arise from leaving the european union. an immigration bill ending fr

with debate expected on the nomination of barbara barrett to be the next air force secretary. vote to advance of that nomination scheduled for 5:30 p.m. eastern. now live senate coverage here on c-span2. the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. today's opening prayer will be offered by pastor andrew brunson from chapel hill, north carolina. before i pray, i want to thank the senate. i am standing here because so many of you fought for me. i'm deeply grateful. you were unified fighting for my release. thank you. the guest chaplain: let us pray. our heavenly father, may your holy name be honored. may your name be held in high regard in this senate. we give thanks to you for you are good, and your steadfast love endures forever. you have watched over this nation through various times of peace, prosperity, turmoil, and war. may we continue to look to you and be a people who seek your face. draw us near, and may we draw near to you. blessed is the nation whose god is the lord. reveal to us our sins and forgive us. reveal to us also your love, and enable each of us to l

when they come back the senate will complete work on the nomination of barbara barrett to be the next air force secretary, with a final vote on her scheduled for 4:15 eastern. and now to live coverage of the u.s. senate here on c-span2. the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. today's opening prayer will be offered by giani sukhvinder singh of milbourne, pennsylvania. the guest chaplain: good morning. let us pray. "one universal creator god, by the grace of the true guru."

with debate expected on the nomination of barbara barrett to be the next air force secretary. vote to advance of that nomination scheduled for 5:30 p.m. eastern. now live senate coverage here on c-span2. the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. today's opening prayer will be offered by pastor andrew brunson from chapel hill, north carolina. before i pray, i want to thank the senate. i am standing here because so many of you fought for me. i'm deeply grateful. you were unified fighting for my release. thank you. the guest chaplain: let us pray.

work on the president's executive and judicial nominations including air force secretary nominee barbara barrett. watched live gavel-to-gavel coverage of the house on c-span c-span senate live on two, or this and live on the go, using the three c-span radio app. free c-span radio app. >> max, nasa historian eric conway joins the discussion on whether the public distrusts science p he spoke at an event -- science. he spoke at an event. this is just over an hour. extreme greatmy pleasure to introduce tonight's moderator. she is an award-winning science journalist. her reporting on the state of the world's oceans earned her both a pulitzer prize and the cross taken award for the understanding of science. she regularly contributes opinion pieces to the los angeles times and is a senior writer at the huntington. please give a very warm welcome to her. [applause] >> thank you. it is great to see such robust crowd and energetic

on the president's executive and judicial nominations including air force secretary nominate barbara barrett. watch live gavel-to-gavel coverage of the house on c-span and the senate live on c-span2. online at c-span.org or listen live on the go. using the free c-span radio app. announcer: and about half an hour we will take you live to the convention center in washington, d.c. for discussion about the u.s. military's upcoming exercises in europe. hosted by defense one. we welcome at our table this morning with the hell newspaper -- a national reporter with the hill newspaper new ipsos c-span , talking about our new ipsos c-span poll, crisis of confidence in u.s. elections. americans who believe the 2020 election will be open and fair, 72% of republicans thought that, but total overall, only 53% and 39% of democrats believe that. what do you make of those? reid: it is remarkable. we are the only western democracy -- democracy of any time that has decentralized elections. that elections are not run to the federal government but to the state governments and in many cases, county and local gove

they will finish debate this afternoon on the nomination of barbara barrett to be the next air force secretary. 415 eastern. over in the senate today, they are debating the measure expressing disapproval for the president's decision to withdraw troops from syria. the senate here at 215 on c-span two. in just a bit on c-span three, house foreign affairs subcommittee holding a hearing on a final report on the bipartisan syria subgroup. they will discuss that decision. watch coverage live at two pm eastern. also online and on the free c-span radio at tiered fresh off last night's debate in ohio, joe biden campaigns today in davenport, iowa. that is live at 5:00 p.m. eastern also on c-span three. tomorrow, president trump back on the campaign trail with the campaign rally. democratic and republican house leaders briefed reporters this morning, both talking about the house legislative schedule in the impeachment inquiry. here is what they had to say we will start with democratic leadership. >> good morning, everyone. we had a very robust discussion in the caucus meeting today around issue

as well.e in session voting today on a number of judicial nominations and the barbara barrett to be the next air force secretary. we showed you president trump president.alian the two will hold a joint news conference starting in just a few minutes. that will be live at c-span.org. the speaker: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, reverend father brian k. burgess, christchurch

work on the president's executive and judicial nominations including ir force secretary nominee barbara barrett. watch live gavel-to-gavel coverage of the house on c-span senate live on c-span2, nline at c-span.org or listen live on the go using the free c-span radio app. ipsos poll shows that americans support a variety conductes to how states elections. a small majority agree that presidential candidates should release their recent tax returns in order to appear on the ballot. only 26% of republicans 57% , 3/4 of democrats and of independents support the idea. here is greater partisan consensus on passing laws that requires people to show i.d.'s before ued voting. the polls show 78% of americans support such voter i.d. laws. this includes significant majorities of republicans, democrats, and independents. addition to requiring candidates to release their tax i.d. ns and passing voter laws, majorities of americans also favor making election day a national holiday, randomizing the order in which candidate appear on the ballot, automatically registering all citizens to vote, and allowing convict

and the air force secretary nominee barbara barrett. watch live on c-span. >> the new c-span poll shows american supports for a variety of changes to the way states conduct elections. agreed thatrity presidential candidates should have to release the recent tax returns to appear on the ballot, while only twice 6% of republicans agreed. 75% of democrats and 57% of independent voters are in favor of the idea. the poll indicates that 78% of .mericans support voter id laws this includes significant majorities of republicans, andcrats, and independents, in addition to requiring candidates to release tax returns and passing voter id laws, a majority of americans also favor making election day holiday,nal randomizing the order in which candidate names appear on the ballot, automatically votetering all citizens to and allowing people convicted of felonies to vote after serving their sentences. >> the former u.s. special representative for north korea holocene will talk about the north

work on the president's executive and judicial nominations, including air force secretary nommy, barbara barrett. watch live gavel to gavel coverage of the house on cspan and the senate live on cspan 2. online on cspan.org or listen live on the go using the free cspan radio app. sunday night on q&a. american university distinguished professor of history, allen kraut looks back at policies on managing immigration. >> i would argue that the current wave of nativism of anti-immigrant sentiment, xenophobia is not different from what we've seen in the past. and while it seems to us to be peppered with acts of violence and ferocity, there have been other acts of violence. anti-immigrant riots in the period before the civil war, anti-immigrant riots in the 1880s. there have been a lot of moments in american history when the anti-immigrant sentiment has been translated into true ugliness. >> watch sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on cspan's q&a. >>> up next, a house panel looks at school safety and gun violence. a parkland shooting survivor was among those testifying. we'll hear from a father of a stud

eastern to consider the nomination of barbara barrett to be the 25th secretary of the u.s. air force. a.m., the at 9:00 u.s. coast guard, not katl schu ltz speaks on national security. pole -- c-span if so's ipsos shows a small majority agree presidential candidates should be required to release their recent tax returns in order to appear on the ballot. while only 26% of republicans agree, three quarters of democrats and 60% of independents support the idea. there is greater consensus on requiring people to show government issued ids before voting. the poll indicates 78% of americans support such voter id laws, including civic and it -- significant majorities of republicans, democrats, and independents. in addition to requiring candidates to release their tax returns and passing voter id laws, majorities of americans also favor making election day a national holiday, randomizing the way in which candidates names appear on the ballot, and allowing people convicted of felonies to vote after they have served their sentences. dive deeper into the numbers at c-span.org. next, fo

over in the senate floor votes are planned on air force secretary nominee barbara barrett and so we just district court nominations. live coverage of the house today at 2 p.m. eastern on c-span, and the senate here at 3 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >> c-span and the polling firm it sows conducted a survey on americans attitudes towards voting and elections. we asked how committed the political party or to making sure elections india's are fair and accurate. voters attitudes toward republicans are split nearly down the middle with 49% believing the gop is committed and 50% believing they are not. meanwhile 61% of americans think democrats are committed to fair and accurate elections, and 8% disagree. why the discrepancy? it's largely due to those identified as independents. 48% of those believe the republican party has a commitment to fair and accurate elections while 60% of self-identified independently the saint of the democratic party. we asked how much trust in confidence voters have it was of the american people it comes to making choices on election day. only 46% of voters had either a

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on the president's executive and judicial nominations including air force secretary nominate barbara barrett. watch live gavel-to-gavel coverage of the house on c-span and the senate live on c-span2. online at c-span.org or listen live on the go. using the free c-span radio app. announcer: and about half an hour we will take you live to the convention center in washington, d.c. for discussion about the u.s. military's upcoming exercises in europe. hosted by defense one. we welcome at our table this morning with the hell

work on the president's executive and judicial nominations including air force secretary nominee barbara barrett. watch live gavel-to-gavel of the house on c-span 2nd the senate live on c-span or listen live on the go using the c-span radio app. thinking about participating in c-span's studentcam 2020 competition but you've never made a documentary film before? no problem. we have resources on our website to help you get started. check out our getting started and downloads pages on studentcam.org for adducing information and video links to footage in the c-span library. teachers will also find resources on the teachers yourial page to help introduce studentcam to your students. >> my advice to anyone who wants to compete this year is to find a topic that you are truly passionate about and pursue it as much as you can. >> we are asking middle and high school students to create a short documentary on issues you would like the president -- presidential candidates to address during the 2020 campaign. c-span will award $100,000 in total cash prizes. >> just get a camera, get a microphone, and go star

eastern to consider the nomination of barbara barrett to be the 25th secretary of the u.s. air force. 3, u.s. coast guard speaks on carl schulz national security. gary lawsonofessor explains why he thinks robert mueller's appointment as special counsel was unlawful. he is also a founding member of the federalist decided he, and he spoke to law students at this event held by boston university. it is about an hour and if teen minutes. >> good afternoon. i'm the dean of austen university's school of law, and i'm delighted to welcome you to the philip beck lecture. philip beck graduated having theed as editor-in-chief of boston university law review. after clerking for one year with the u.s. court of appeals for the district of columbia, he joined kirkland and ellis where he spent the next 17 years establishing his reputation as one of the country's leading courtroom lawyers. in 1993, mr. beck and his colleague founded one of the mosthl

secretaryair force nominee barbara barrett.e, gavel-to-gavel onerage, of the house and c-span, c-span.org, and using the free c-span radio app. announcer: a new c-span poll shows americans support a variety of changes to how states control -- conduct elections. a small majority agree presidential candidates should be required to release their recent tax returns to appear on the ballot. while only 26% of republicans agree three quarters of democrats and 57 percent of independent support the idea. there is greater partisan consensus on passing laws that require people to show government issued ids before voting. 78% ofl indicates americans support such voter id laws. this includes significant majorities of republicans, democrats, and independents. in addition to requiring candidates to release their tax returns and passing voter id laws, majorities of americans also favor making election day a national holiday, randomizing the order in which candidate names appear on the ballot, automatically registering all citizens to vote, and

the senate continues work on the nominations including barbara barrett.live gavel to gavel coverage of the house and the senate live on c-span2 online at c-span.org or listen live on the go using the free c-span radio app. commission on presidential debate has announced the dates and locations for all three 2020 presidential debates. forfirst is scheduled tuesday, september to may 9 at the university of notre dame in indiana. the other debates will take thursday, october 15 at the university of michigan. and exactly one week later on october 22 at belmont university in nashville, tennessee. and for the vice presidential candidates, they will meet up for their first and only debate on wednesday, october 7 at the university of utah in sully city. each debate is expected to start at 9:00 p.m. eastern and run 90 minutes without interruption. additional details about the format and moderators will come from the commission at a later time. next, republican presidential candidate, former massachusetts governor bill weld talks to republicans at dartmouth college.

continues work on the president's executive and judicial nominations including anniversaries nominee barbara barrett. watch live gavel to gavel coverage of the house on c-span, on the senate live at c-span2, or listen live on the go using the free c-span radio app. the british parliament start add new session questioned with the traditional speech by queen elizabeth. her remarks commonly referred to as the screen's speech outline the government's policy priorities including brexit, the u.k.'s global leadership shall and investments in science and education.

costs, and the outsourcing of jobs, and the executive and judicial nominations including nominee barbara barrett. watch gavel to gavel coverage of the house on c-span, and the senate live on c-span 2 and online at cspan.org or listen live on the go using the free c-span radio app. sunday night on q&a. american university distinguished processor of history al nashgs an kraut. >> while xenophobia is not different from the past and it is peppered with violence and ferocity and there are other acts of violence and anti-immigrant riots in the period before the civil war, and anti-immigrant riots in the 1880s, and so there is a lot of moments in american history when the anti-immigrant sentiment has been translated into true ugliness. >> watch sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's "q&a." >>> blue cross blue shield ceo scott serota said that millennials are slicker than other generations largely because of the mental health issues and he talked about prescription costs and other topics at the detroit medical club. >> thank you, steve. >> good afternoon, everybody. welcome to our d.c. members an

in the senate for votes are planned on air force secretary nominee barbara barrett and several districtcourt nominations. you can see live coverage starting at 2:00 eastern on c-span and the senate on arthel: starting at 3:00 pm. >> c-span bus team is traveling across the country visiting key battleground states in the 2020 presidential race asking voters what issues they want presidential candidates to address during the campaign. >> presidential candidates who focus on funding at public universities. not as much attention given to them as they should regarding funding for our va programs so to see how we could increase funding for those programs. that is an important issue to me being a student. >> i want a candidate to tell me and still the electorate how they are going to inherit and figure out down the line. >> presidential candidate to focus on gun control, climate change, abortion, women's reproductive rights. >> the most pressing issue is the student loan crisis and how it is crippling my generation. i am interested -- strictly for job security. i hope maybe i can have a house.

on the president's executive and judicial nominations, including air force secretary nominee barbara barrettlive gavel-to-gavel coverage on c-span, c-span2, c-span.org or using the free c-span radio app. >>> a new c-span/ipsos poll shows america's changes to how states conduct elections. a small majority agree presidential candidates should be required to release their recent tax returns in order to appear on the ballot. while only 26% of republicans agree, three-quarters of democrats and 57% of independents support the idea. there is greater partisan consensus on passing laws that require people to show government-issued ids before voting. the poll indicates that 78% of americans support such voter id laws. this includes significant majorities of republicans, democrats and independents. in addition to requiring candidates to release their tax returns and passing voter id laws, majorities of americans also favor making election day a national holiday, randomizing the order in which candidate names appear on the ballot, automatically registering all citizens to vote, and allowing people convi

right now we are considering the nomination of ambassador barbara barrett to be the next secretary ofthe air force. in fact, we're going to be voting on her nomination in a few moments. i wanted to talk about her experience and her qualifications which are diverse and very impressive, and i think she is extremely well qualified to be the next secretary of the united states air force. let me provide just a bit about her background and exceptional experience. she's a private pilot, astronaut, deputy federal aviation administrator, past c.e.o. of the aerospace corporation, past member of the defense advisory committee on women in the services, and the defense business board. and importantly, madam president, she's a former u.s. ambassador to finland. wow, that is a very impressive resume, very impressive background. i first met ambassador barrett in 2015 when i had the opportunity to share dinner with her and the late senator john mccain. prior to that dinner i was talking to senator mccain and he told me how highly he thought of ambassador barrett, and i can tell and i think many of my

barbara mcquade, former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan. both are msnbc legal analysts. barrett, as a veteran of the southern district of new york, i want to get your reaction to the irony and the substance of rudy giuliani now apparently being under criminal investigation by the southern district, a u.s. attorneys office he used to run. >> yeah, i mean, it's pretty startling to say the least. i think what you'll see throughout the southern district of new york's investigation is an investigation that will proceed in many ways very differently than the congressional investigation. first, just because somebody doesn't want to comply with the subpoena, they can't just voluntarily choose not to when that subpoena has the possibility of contempt of court behind it. the southern district of new york is not going to look favorably on people that decide to put forward baseless arrangements or just not show up for a grand jury subpoena. so i think you'll see a lot more cooperation with the investigation, but certainly the fact that the southern district of new york has now turned its si

on the president's executive and judicial nominations, including air force secretary nominee barbara barrett. live gavel-to-gavel coverage of the house live on c-span and the senate live on c-span2, follow live online or listen live on the go using the free c-span radio app. >> next, q&a with historian jeff gwinn talking about his book "the vagabonds," detailing the camping trip of henry ford and thomas edison. then, president trump awards the presidential medal of attorney general ed meese. after than, c-span interviews with presidential candidates john delaney and tom steyer. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ is the story you tell in the book "the vagabonds?" >> the story that i meant to tell at the beginning, how america morphed into a car culture, in just about 20 years. wagon,e going horse and to

and the senate continues work on the president's executive and judicial nominations including barbara barrett. watch live coverage of the house on c-span and the senate live on c-span2. you can also listen live on the go using the free c-span radio app. >> our c-span campaign 2020 bus team is traveling across the country visiting key battleground states in the 2020 presidential race asking voters what issues they want presidential candidates to address during the campaign. >> i would like the presidential candidates to focus on funding for certain programs at public universities. in the recent years they haven't had as much attention given to them as they should regarding funding for music programs, reading, some of our ba programs. i would like to see how we could increase funding for those programs because that's an important issue to me being a student currently. >> i want candidates to tell me as well as the tell the electorate how they are going to fix this country's budgeting issues in order to ensure that we can have the money to fund programs for generations instead of just leaving a

the senate also returns tuesday where lawmakers plan to work on the nomination of barbara barrett to be the next air force secretary. the chamber plans to to debate several u.s. district court nominations. see the senate live on c-span2. bob cusack with us to take a look at the week ahead in congress. the impeachment inquiry really ramped up with the hearings from trump administration officials. who is set to testify in the coming week? bob: we are going to have a number of people. fiona hale is one. she used to be a diplomat for the trump administration. she will testify. that is of concern because she europehat is going on in and it follows on the heels of marie yovanovich testifying today. we are just learning the state department, the trump administration tried to block her. she is a current state department employee. she clearly wanted to testify. she was subpoenaed and now house democrats say the subpoena forced her to testify but it seems like clearly, she wanted to testify. so the testimony going forward of hill and sondlund, another one whose texts were released recently, he

thune: madam president, later today, the senate will vote to confirm barbara barrett as secretary of the air force. i have just come to the floor directly from a meeting with her this morning. ambassador barrett has had an impressive career both inside and outside government. among other things, she has served as u.s. ambassador to finland, deputy administrator of the f.a.a., and as a member of the civil aeronautics board. most importantly, she has a deep understanding of the u.s. air force thanks to her work as a civilian advisor to the secretary of defense and the joint chiefs. as a member of the defense advisory committee on women in the services, she fought to expand opportunities for women in the military. she became the first civilian woman to land an f-18 on an aircraft carrier, part of a mission to demonstrate women's fitness to fly in combat. thanks in part to her work, in 1993, the military changed its regulations to allow women to fly combat aircraft. madam president, i am always particularly interested in making sure that we have an outstanding air force secretary because