barbara jordan added texas under the bilingual and a lot of other places. it is really sad that we have come full circle. now, states can make those changes because they decide to do it on a political limb. most people do not give up power willingly. you have got to take it. i have lived long enough and been in this game long enough to be more interested in my legacy more than the next election. the real tragedy is most of the decisions and the be made by people who were put in a certain position to protect a certain group. the next- i hope in congress, they can find our to do it democrats and republicans, historically, have done. realize the significance of lbj and martin luther king and cesar chavez and voting rights. in language will voter education before the hispanic audience? >> english and spanish. >> what format? >> you can go to votetexas.gov and it gives you the outline. terms of unlocking the hispanic vote, that does not seem to be successful, so what other ideas to think would hit to be more successful to the hispanic audience? back, i still thi

registration drives and trips to albany with my church area and one of my earliest memories is barbara jordang the watergate hearings. , a strong,r intelligent, persistent, insistent powerful woman using asking important questions. i asked my father, who is that lady? my dad explained to that nine-year-old self who she was in what she was doing and why she was doing it. and i knew i wanted to be smart like her and strong like her and persistent like her and a democrat like her. 50 years ago, fannie lou hamer attended our party's 1964 convention and demand it to be heard and pressed her right to be seated as a delegate. and as i rose in the ranks of i grew inatic party, all all of the tenacity and fearlessness of women like ms. hamer. i used to think she could not time and thisthis day. she could not have imagined all of us together in this room, strong, accomplished, powerful women come a working together. she could not have imagined me in this position. but then one day, i realized that wasn't true. foughtzed the reason she so hard, the reason that she made so many sacrifices was exactly bec

barbara. >> rosiland jordan with the latest from washington, d.c.lyn, thank you. >>> meanwhile the u.n. security council is holding a briefing on the humanitarian situation in syria. more than 250,000 people have been killed since the war began. 6.5 million have been displaced, while more than 4 million have left the country all together. and three weeks since russia launched air strikes, the u.n. estimates another 120,000 people have been forced to leave their homes. mohammed jamjoom has the story of one syrian family who say their life is hellish. >> reporter: this woman used to carry her youngest child into an actual home. now she says ruefully this is where we live. the mother of seven prepares what she can for her kids. today inside this dark dingy structure, it's potatoes. >> translator: our livelihood is gone. our livelihood is gone, our land is gone, our homes are destroyed. >> reporter: her family is just one of the thousands of newly displaced in syria since be the beginning of russia's air campaign. an increase in fighting has resulted in

but you also had people like barbara jordan.arbara jordan and andrew young became the first black members of congress from reconstruction in 1972. and barbara jordan felt very, very strongly that the voting rights act needed to be broadened to cover states like texas to deal with other disenfranchised minority groups. and she was joined by john lewis who famously marched on bloody sunday in selma. and john lewis testified before the congress in 1975, and he said it would make a mockery of the whole voting rights act if we didn't cover hispanics and asian-americans and native americans who are facing the same type of obstacles. so when the voting rights act was reauthorized in 1975, it required english-only ballots -- i mean, sorry, it required a ballot to be printed in languages other than english in states all across the country, and it also required those states with a long history of discriminating against language minority voters like texas to have to approve their voting changes with the federal government. so when texas be

and one of my earliest memories is of barbara jordan during the watergate hearings. [applause] ms.try: watching her, a strong, intelligent, persistent, insistent powerful woman using big words and asking important questions. and i asked my father who is that lady. and my dad explained to my nine-year-old self, who she was and what she was doing and why she was doing it, and i knew i wanted to be smart like her and strong like her and persistent like her and a democrat like her. [applause] ms. daughtry: 50 years ago, fannie lou hammer attended our 1954 convention and demanded to be heard and pressed her right to be seated as a right. as i rose in the ranks of the democratic party i was in awe of the tenacity of women like ms. hammer. i i used to think she could not have imagined this time and this day. she could not have imagined all of us together in this room, strong, accomplished, powerful women working together. she could not have imagined me in this position. but then one day, i realized that wasn't true. i realized that the reason she fought so hard, the reason she made so man

and one of my earliest memories is of barbara jordan during the watergate hearings. [applause] ms.y: watching her, a strong, intelligent, persistent, insistent powerful woman using big words and asking important questions. and i asked my father who is that lady. and my dad explained to my nine-year-old self, who she was and what she was doing and why she was doing it, and i knew i wanted to be smart like her and strong like her and persistent like her and a democrat like her. [applause] ms. daughtry: 50 years ago, nnie lou hammer attended our 1954 convention and demanded to be heard and pressed her right to be seated as a right. as i rose in the ranks of the democratic party i was in awe of the tenacity of women like ms. hammer. i i used to think she could not have imagined this time and this day. she could not have imagined all of us together in this room, strong, accomplished, powerful women working together. she could not have imagined me in this position. but then one day, i realized that wasn't true. i realized that the reason she fought so hard, the reason she made so many sa

and one of my earliest memories is of barbara jordan during the watergate hearings. watching her strong intelligence , insistent powerful woman using big words and asking important questions and i asked my father who's that lady and my dad explained to my nine year old self who she was and what she was doing and why she was doing it and i knew that i wanted to be smart like her and strong like her and persistent like her and a democrat like her. [applause] 50 years ago, fannie lou hamer attended the 1964 convention and demanded to be heard in depressed her rights to be seated as a delegate. as i rolled wrote in the ranks of the democratic party, i was in awe of the tenacity of the fearlessness of women like her. and i used to think she could not have imagined this time into this day. she couldn't have imagined all of us together in this room strong, accomplished, powerful women working together. she couldn't have imagined me in this position. but one day i realized that wasn't true. the reason she fought so hard and made so many sacrifices is precisely because she co

she was on the watergate committee as a staffer where barbara jordan was the only african-american memberwith her and had a great respect for her. i remember hosting her at texas southern university, one of her first, i believe, prepolitical announcement for president and what was her message? the message of voting rights. empowering of african-americans and other minorities in the real power world of voting. and how we would take way the obstruction such as voter id and also ensure the integrity of the voting process that has universal registration. she's one of the candidates that engaged with black lives matter, jose, seriously and in supporting legislation that would in essence stop mass incarceration of african-american youth. we want the enthusiasm of young people, the only way we can get it is that they understand who hillary clinton really s. >> congressman, enthusiasm of young people is important in any campaign, right? especially in a national campaign. but when you look at the african-american community, lyo look at the unemployment level among young african-americans, it's 40%

489 congratulateic southern texas university in 88 years, a school that has graduated not ly barbara jordannd mickey leland. tonight we will honor them. i pay tribute with introducing h.res. 489. but unfortunately there are bad things. let me cite the reconciliation bill that cuts discretionary funding that will help our children in education and environment, in health care and as well, providing the, if you will, the cuts in the affordable care act. i like the idea of the cadillac tax provision but that is not the basis of the bill. bad bill h.r. 3762. and 11 hours of testimony. what did we find in the benghazi hearing? we found that secretary clinton could present the facts to the american people and be transparent, but we found no new facts, no smoking gun. it is time to end the benghazi committee. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> permission to address the house for one minute and revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. lamalfa: after two years the

but the most interesting thing barbara was that we had john kerry the secretary of state say after his meeting in jordan with the palestinian president that he wants leaders to lead. he wants the violence that we've seen there, the cycle of violence, tamped down in some way. he wants a call from both sides, but the israeli side and the palestinian side for the violence to stop. so what we were waiting for from the palestinian president was some sort of sign that he would call on people to stop the violence going on. but instead what we heard was that he was blaming very much the israeli attitude, he was blamin emblaming them for changing the status quo in the noble sanctuary, the temple mount, the al-aqsa mosque. he was blaming incursions what he called, incursions on the al-aqsa mosque the temple mount by jewish leaders, a change in the status quo he called. very much he blamed on the israelis for changing that status and he said it was time that stopped. but there was no call while i was inside the press conference for the people of palestine and israel to stop the cycle of violence. >> david chater,

jordan, turkey, an iranen nuclear facility. they are being reckless. today ash carter said one of his big problems is that russians aren't even giving any notice of these missile launches, anderson. >> barbara starr, thank you. >>> more to talk about with ann marie slaughter, president of the american foundation and policy planning at the state department, her book is unfinished business, women, men, work, family and u.s. retired u.s. army general and cnn military analyst and cnn national security commentator, former chairman of the house intelligence committee. general, russia denies this happened but if true and i know you believe it is, you echo concerns russia is reckless and not notifying other countries about missile launches? >> yeah, if you look at the missile launch from the caspian, it will go over countries. i'm sure the iraq government didn't notify them and you're also talking about the potential for hitting aircraft or in terms of commercial aircraft or fire aircraft or in case of crashes like it may have done in iran or reported to have done in iran, you're talking about civilian gasties. >> two f-16s diverted to steer clear of russian fighters. how concerned are you it could

barbara starr, thanks very much. let's get back to congressman kinsinger. congressman, if they miss their targets in syria, hit some place in iran, that could happen, they could hit some place in jordance in israel. that neighborhood relatively pretty small. what happens then? >> well, it's 100% true. i mean, look, they're new so-called amazing cruise missile system by your report has about a 20% error rate, which is pretty high. it could go into turkey, nato ally, israel, jordan, into iraq. we have troops stationed in iraq for goodness sakes. this is a very dangerous thing. and obviously the russians brought out the brand new weapons system that really is not living up to its hype. >> it's a really dangerous situation. congressman kinsinger, thanks very much. we'll stay on top of this. we're getting more breaking news into "the situation room." we have more details of the house republicans after speaker dropping out of the race. plus, my interview with republican presidential candidate ben carson. he tries to explain his controversial remarks about the oregon college shooting. >> knowing that you were next to be killed and that they were going to continue to down the line killing pe