they then hear from house transportation committee bill shuster on efforts to pass a transportation bill in congress. also today, live coverage from the and national republican rantstee, remarks from previous. party leaders will vote today to hampshire atopew the primary calendar in 2016 while shortening the time frame for the gop primary process. republican south carolina senator tim scott speaking at the winter meeting. we will have that here on c-span at about 1:15 eastern. senator caroltic moseley braun, and others are planning to attend, well anything but has been extended to president obama, among others. >> no matter what party they belong to, i bet most americans are thinking the same thing right about now. nothing will get done in washington this year, or next year, or maybe even a year after that. because washington is broken. can you blame them for feeling a little cynical? the greatest blow to our confidence in our economy last year did not come from the events beyond our control. it came from a debate in washington over whether the would pay its bills or not. who benefited f

[applause] >> that was transportation committee chair bill shuster also addressed the mayors committee meeting on friday. he spoke about a number of issues including natural gas presumption and efforts to pass a new transportation bill in congress. he spoke for about 15 minutes. >> so we're going the adjust the ram really quickly, because we have a very important dignitary with us. i'm going to introduce him and invite him up, and this person has been a champion for our organization. we are honored to have representative bill shuster, chairman of the house transportation infrastructure committee with us today. [applause] it goes without saying we all think very, very highly of you. he's here to talk a little bit about his efforts to increase federal investment in the nation's infrastructure. the chairman traveled to vegas to be with us at our annual meeting and, again, is with us here today showing his commitment to the nation's mayors. they're not even in session, and he's still here to be with us to honor that commitment. so, again, we thank you so much for your commitment. his leade

we will hear from the conference committee chairman bill shuster with live coverage at 10:45 a.m. eastern here on c-span. in the afternoon, south carolina senator tim scott will deliver remarks to the republican national and it is winter meeting. that is live at 1230 eastern. >> now, former arkansas governor and 2008 republican residential primary candidate mike huckabee. he talks about the health care law and women voters. this is 30 minutes. [applause] >> thank you, thank you. thank you very much. when i got the introduction, he talked about all the things i was doing and i got nervous about what the end would be. one of these days, he will find something he is good at. [laughter] an honor to be here. thanks to all of you for braving the weather. he was talking about the musician part of me. last night, i was in anaheim california, playing on stage with new york yankees bernie williams who is an amazing guitar player and skunk baxter from the doobie brothers are in [laughter] i wanted to bring them with me. you would have loved them. but then i would have had to play with them a

we are honored to have bill shuster, sherman of the infrastructure committee with us today. it goes without saying we all think very highly of you. little bitto talk a about his efforts to increase federal investment in the nation's infrastructure. be withled to vegas to us on our annual meeting. he is with us here today showing his commitment to the nation's mayors. they are not even in session and he is still here to be with us. thank you so much for your commitment. his leadership has arty produce broad consensus on a major renewal bill. awaiting final congressional before signing into law. they also started hearings on the renewals of the surface transportation law, invited our own transportation chair mayor kasim reed to participate last week. we appreciate that. what he did when he was there, he basically brought our pledge and our commitment to work with the chairman to develop additional resources to invest in our transportation and infrastructure. as give another round of applause to our chairman. come up and addresses. we are glad to have you. [applause] much.you v

we will hear how -- we will hear from bill shuster. then, south carolina senator tim remarks todeliver the republican national committee winter meeting. >> no matter what party they belong to, most americans are thinking the same thing. nothing will get done in washington this year. or next year. or maybe even the year after that. washington is broken. can you blame them for feeling cynical? the greatest blow to our confidence in our economy last year didn't come from events beyond our control. it came from a debate in washington over whether the united states would pay its bills are not. who benefited from that? about theked tonight deficit of trust between mainstream wall street. the divide between this city and the rest the country is at least as bad. it seems to get worse every year. 's obama delivers this year address. our preview starts live, tuesday night. followed by the response from cathy mcmorris rodgers. the state of the union, tuesday night, live on c-span. >> former arkansas governor and 2008 presidential candidate mike h

shuster: this bill modifies recording rerments of the executive branch agencies that falls within the jurisdiction of the committee on transportation and infrastructure. this bill does not reduce the congressional oversight or affect the agencies. instead, it rids the agencies of outdated reporting requirements that are no longer utilized or have been replaced by different methods. or information collecting. this enabling the agencies to concentrate on more oppressing aspects of their mission. . it modifies existing reporting requirements, bringing consistency across law and regulation, eliminating duplicative and wasteful efforts, making technical corrections and improving the ability of congress to conduct effective overoversight. it makes several reporting requirements digital, resulting in reduced production and delivery costs, it exat the indicts delivery -- expedites delivery. it will be made publicly available, enhancing transparency. according to the c.b.o., this legislation could reduce the administrative cost of these agencies. this legislation is a basic good government fis

bill passed by parliament in the late ninety mergence the session says the protesters want to be prosecuted if they leave they do the two dozen administrative buildings they've seized all over the country like sierra shuster reports from kiev last night on wednesday the parliament stayed almost until midnight to find a solution they managed to pass and then and i'm still all which provided those conditions but the opposition says they're not willing to take these to meet these demands they're not willing to make concessions of their own the opposition wants all those detained in the protests to be released from prison send. government the ruling party says they're ready for it only on one condition that other protesters d. o. keep are all the ministers of buildings they have captured over the past several weeks and dismantle the barricade in the governmental quarter in kiev and this is the sticking point right now here is what leaders of the opposition said regarding the new amnesty law which from syria unfortunately did doctor to bewitch you know abuse is not the best solution to the crisis on the contrary it's true the deteriorating situation heats up tensions in society because. of the british how can