from commerce men bobby scott of virginia, who is a cancer survivor. -- from congressman bobby scott of virginia, who is a cancer survivor. this is about an hour. >> on behalf of the foundation, our ceo, who is not in attendance, but sends his gratitude for your attendance, thank you for being with us today. country, 1600 people will die of cancer. every single day of this year, 1600 people will die of cancer. have hadnd, we will 585,720 people in the united states who will succumb to cancer. our nation will have spent $201.5 billion in health care costs to fight cancer and to provide treatment to the $1.6 million -- 1.6 million americans who will be diagnosed with cancer this year. these statistics are not numbers. they are families. they are futures not realized, and they are failures. they are failures we all share as we have been waging this war on cancer that was declared 50 years ago. progress.de 2000, life8 and expectancy for cancer patients increased by four years, which translated to 23 million additional years of life and roughly $1.9 trillion in value added to the economy.

this is legislation that was introduced by representative bobby scott, a democrat in virginia and base cliz states receiving federal funds would be required to report every quarter on the number of deaths that occurred of persons in the their custody. and think, i believe, speaks to a lot of the wave and movement and protest and outrage you see happening on a daily basis. i have want to offer one final piece before i submit the rest in me more yum i'd like to request we close the board meeting out in memory of my great uncle. he was laid to rest earlier in afternoon. he passed away on december 9 at the age of 96. louis was born november 17, 1918 in ocean springs, mississippi and he attended elementary school at xavier preparatory high school. he was married to my aunt on june 28, 1939 at holy ghost catholic church. as newlyweds they started their family, and with the birth of ten children. but 1942 is needs of the family had my uncle louis seeking to obtain higher wages for loading freight for the louisville and nashville railroad. like many african americans, migrating from the south

it is sponsored by senators durbin, lee, leahy, cruz, and representative bobby scott and reuel labrador. the bill also has considerable conservative support. the time is now to pass the smarter sentencing act. it's only a first step in reducing over incarceration. there is another tragic outcome incarceration binge. almost 6 million of our citizens have lost the right to past criminal a conviction in many instances for very low level crimes. upon release from prison, these citizens work. they pay taxes, they live in our communities, and they raise families. but millions cannot vote. one out of every 13 african-americans of voting age has lost the right to vote. that is four times the national average. but millions have no input on our political process. that is unacceptable. we commend senators ben carden and rand paul for their leadership in this area and we urge the passage of the democracy restoration act, a bill that would restore voting rights in federal elections to illions of citizens. ending discrimination should be and historically has been a bipartisan issue. just consider the

[applause] we have bobby scott, who has just not the piece of legislation through congress that willre the reporting of death at the hands , thee constabulary do police. we want to make sure congress gets an annual report on what is happening. that is not enough. pendinghave legislation , which will require body across on peace officers the length and breadth of the country, because we understand that although body cameras don't make all the difference, it will make a difference when we can see what happened to people like garner.rte without the camera, he would be like michael brown. pass legislation for body cameras. not enough. we must give the justice department the additional authority so that it can investigate every one of these questionable shootings. we must take it to the federal government so that we can get a greater degree of transparency. that is not enough. takely, it's going to people like me saying to young people that we are not here to lead you. we are not here to be in your way. we are here to get out of your way so that you can continue the movement that started

the sfa is sponsored by senators durbin, leahy, leahy, treachery and representatives of bobby scott and raul leopard were. the bill also has considerable conservative support. the time is now to pass the smarter sentencing act. it's only a first step in reducing overincarceration. there's another tragic outcome of our nation's incarceration binge. almost 6 million of our citizens have lost the right to vote because of a past criminal conviction, in many instances for very low level crimes. upon release from prison, the citizens work, they pay taxes, they live in our communities and they raise families. but millions cannot vote. one out of every 13 african-americans of voting age has lost the right to vote. that is four times the national average, but millions have no input on our political process. that is unacceptable. we commend senators ben cardin and rand paul for their leadership in this area, and we urge the passage of the democracy restoration act, a bill that would restore voting rights in federal elections to millions of citizens. ending discrimination should be and historicall

it's a companion bill to bobby scott bill which passed the house by voice vote come voice vote, and passed this committee earlier this year. it's a pretty simple piece of legislation but it requires states to report how many individuals daiichi while they're in custody or during the course of an arrest. the stark come staggering fact is we don't know. and i'm going to ask that two recent articles be entered into record. one is from the post, the "washington post," september 8 and it's entitled how many police shootings a year. no one knows. the second is from "the wall street journal," december 3. it's entitled hundreds of police killings are uncounted in federal stats. the "washington post" article essentially says that we know that there are a lot of police shootings, but they are all self-reported. there's no requirement that they be reported. and again, that is in no way to indicate disrespect for the decisions that are made in those individual instances, i 17,000 law enforcement agencies, but the fact is only 750 of them report shootings. we know the number of police who were shot. we

people like mike pence, people like bobby jindal, scott walker. does not include chris christie.ys he doesn't want to talk at all about immigration reform, and he won't do that unless he decides to run. it's a question of whether or not this lawsuit will be kind of a litmus test going forward in 2016, whether or not he'll be pressured to sign on and how he's going to navigate that. that will be interesting to watch over the next couple of weeks. >> a couple governors signed on might be persuaded. >> rick snyder, the governor of michigan, has not gotten the same attention as some other gop governors. he was in washington this past week, got an award from "governing magazine" and while in the capital his folks reached out to reporters and brought them in to talk to the governor. it's a great dance you know. you talk to these politicians and they're waiting for to you ask the question. you finally do. do you want to run for president? of course, he has to enter down, he's fully focused on michigan and telling the michigan story and chief in that is the fact that the unemployment rat

bobby scott talks about the need for more research is -- resources.nd the conversation on whether justice would be served if the death penalty is abolished. >> monday night on "the communicators to get amie mitchell of the pew research center on political polarization and where people get their news. >> they look at facebook in particular because they are still really the largest, the outlet that has the greatest percentage of the american public using in terms of social sites. about half of our respondents said they got political news from facebook in the last week. that puts social media about on par with local television and some of the other really top outlets. a clearly does play a role in people's information environment and how they are learning and who they are communicating with. but we found when we broke down the differences is that the consistent conservatives were much more likely to have circles of friends and see political posts that are more aligned with their own political thinking more so than those that are mixed and also more than

commerce men bobby scott spoke about the work at the national patient advocate foundation located in his virginia congressional district. answer survivors and other members of the cancer innovation coalition who host this program also took part. >> on behalf of the cancer coalition members with executive board of directors of national patient advocate foundation, our ceo was not in attendance with us today, but certainly sends you his greetings and is gratitude for your attendance. thank you for being here with us today. today, 1600ry people will die of cancer. every single day of this year, 1600 people will die of cancer. by year end, we will have had 585,720 people in the united states who will succumb to cancer. our nation will have spent $201.5 billion in health care costs to fight cancer and to provide treatment to the 1.6 million americans who will be diagnosed with cancer this year. these statistics are not numbers. they are families. they are futures not realized, and they are failures. that we all share as we have been waging this war on cancer that was declared 50 years ago

sponsored by senators durbin, lee, lahey, representatives bobby scott and raul labrador. also has considerable conservative support. is now to pass the smarter sentencing act. first step in reducing overincarceration. there's another tragic outcome nation's incarceration binge. almost 6 million of our citizens right to vote because of a past criminal instances, in many for very low level crimes. upon release from prison, they pay taxes, they live in our they raise, and families. vote.llions cannot one out of every 13 voting agericans of has lost the right to vote. the nationaltimes average. but millions have no input on our political process. that is unacceptable. we commend senators ben cardin and rand paul for their leadership in this area and we democracysage of the restoration act, a bill that would restore voting rights in federal elections to millions of citizens. should becrimination and historically has been a bipartisan issue. just consider the multiple voting rights act extensions we had. fair sentencing of 2010. these would not have happened without bipartisan

congressman bobby scott spoke about the work of the national patient advocate foundation which is located in his virginia congressional district and is the main organization behind the cancer innovation coalition. he was joined by cancer survivors and others working to bolster innovation in combating cancer. cancerehalf of the innovation coalition members, the executive board of directors of national patient advocate , who is notour ceo in attendance today, but certainly sends you his greetings and his gratitude for your attendance. thank you for being here with us today. in our country today, 1600 people will die of cancer. every single day of this year, .600 people will die of cancer by year-end, we will have had 585,720 people in the united states who will succumb to cancer. our nation will have spent $201.5 billion in the health care costs to fight cancer and to provide treatment to the $1.6 million americans -- 1.6 million americans who will be diagnosed this year. the statistics are not numbers. they are families. they are futures not realized, and they are failures. that we all sha

have bobby scott, who has just gotten a piece of legislation through congress that will again requiredlice. we want to make sure that congress gives an annual report to black s happening people in america. that's not enough. we also have legislation which will require body cameras on police officers we oss the country, because understand that even though by do not make all that much of a difference, it will make a difference what we can see what happens to people like eric garner. without the ccamera, eric garner would be michael brown. there will be questions about what happened. -- but that's not enough. will give it justice department additional authority so that it can investigate every one of these questionable shootings. the federal it to government so that we can get a greater degree of transparency. but that's not enough. finally, it is going to take to young ke me saying people, we're not here to lead in , we're not here to be your way, we're here to get out of your way to the you can movement that started before we all came to the podium. i want you to know that the congressi

the senate just passed bobby scott's 2013 death and custody reporting act which is a step in the right direction in terms of getting better data. but what we have to understand is that most of the time when police officers shoot, they don't kill anybody. they either missover the individual -- or the individual survives. so by focusing on dead bodies, we're missing the big picture. i'm working with jim bierman, and we are putting together a pilot study where we hope to get buy-in from many of the major police departments across the country, already the los angeles police department where i used to work many years ago is working with me and working with saleswomen to put together a serious -- jim to put together a serious data collection program that will permit us to track every single time a police officer discharges his or her firearm. so is i would ask you to use your leverage as legislators to assist us and other entities that want to get this up and running to go ahead and give us our support. your support. and so i think these two things in terms of improving police tactical train

[applause] we have bobby scott, who has just not the piece of legislation through congress that willuire the reporting of death at the hands , thee constabulary do police. we want to make sure congress gets an annual report on what is happening. that is not enough. pendinghave legislation , which will require body across on peace officers the length and breadth of the country, because we understand that although body cameras don't make all the difference, it will make a difference when we can see what happened to people like garner.rte without the camera, he would be like michael brown. pass legislation for body cameras. not enough. we must give the justice department the additional authority so that it can investigate every one of these questionable shootings. we must take it to the federal government so that we can get a greater degree of transparency. that is not enough. takely, it's going to people like me saying to young people that we are not here to lead you. we are not here to be in your way. we are here to get out of your way so that you can continue the movement that starte

individuals like ted cruz and rand paul, bobby jindal, scott walker, who have been laying the groundworkly do this, both on the social media site and a fundraising side. the big question i am interested in, and this is why what jeb did this week is so interesting, it is a battle for donors. a sliver ofng for donors shared by chris christie or potentially mitt romney. so when he gets in, donors need to figure out where they want to go. ted cruz and rand paul play for similar donors. hypersh put things into drive, particularly on the big money site, the wall street side of money. how donors operate now will be the most interesting thing to walk. >> who do you think wall street people will be donating money to? it is a wide-open field right now? >> i actually do not want to comment on that. >> fair, fair. >> the money part of this whole thing is big. do you have -- you have to have theseive war chest to win days. nearly guys in the race get an advantage. it forces the presidential race to be very early. we just finished the election, didn't we? an early nominee could give you advantage in m

i would also like to thank my fellow virginia representatives, frank wolf, jim moran, bobby scott, jerry connolly, and scott rigell, as well as chris van hollen of maryland and congressman randy forbes for their consistent support in getting this bill through the house. i first introduced this bill in 2008 and it has been a difficult road to get to where we are now. but the bay, too, has had a difficult road and with the house passage today, mr. speaker, we will be one step closer to the next chapter of the bay's long history of efforts to restore her to her previous bounty. today we see that there remains the economic foundation of our region is vested in the chesapeake bay and it continues to be a national treasure. we hope that with today's efforts it will continue to be enjoyed for generations and generations to come. mr. speaker, i urge my colleagues to support the chesapeake bay and this commonsense bill and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia yields back the balance of his time. does the gentleman from oregon seek recognition?

someone like scott walker, bobby jindal, rick perry, those folks have to kind of flank to the centerht business coalition, conservative but not the tea party conservative brand, and a lot of them are going to struggle to raise the type of my they would have been before -- the type of money they would have been. so might move up timetables for decisions. >> if you want to make a diamond, you have to put a rock under pressure. maybe this is a gooding there for the republican matter do you see any pitfalls -- we don't know yet who will put their name in the ring but we saw that picture that full screen with a whole lot of pictures on it. >> yeah, no. it's a very crowded field. that picture was like, who's who. so many candidates who could run and some of these candidates could do well or could not, and dependses how they too and whole is in there. marco rubio has a serious shot but if he is running and jeb is running, they share a donor class and he could struggle racing money. he was hoping for someone like chris christie. if jeb is it in, complicate it. the tear-party flavored candida

on the republican side, who i want to see as president -- i like scott walker. alike bobby jindal. -- i like bobby jindal. goodnk they would make leaders, good presidents, that their executive experience would be much more helpful in terms of cleaning up the messes made over the past eight years, that maybe someone who has just been in the senate. >> what would your reaction be if jeb bush was the candidate? >> my reaction would be republicans would lose. >> why? >> if you look at the pattern in history of republican candidates, a lot of candidates were similar to jeb bush. i think jeb bush, although he has some good things to offer, doesn't have a lot of support the conservative base. he is a candidate very similar to the one before. a lot of baggage comes with his last name and i don't think the country is going to vote for another bush. >> katie pavlich, news editor of hall.com. her book is "assault and flattery." thank you for joining us. >> thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy.

but you've got ronald reagans in bobby jindal and john kasich and scott walker. these are good solid conservatives that have a proven record and prove that during their stint as governors that a conservative agenda is a prosperous agenda. sure. we have plenty of them. i mean, there's some that aren't mentioned now that will probably become more prominent. we're talking about 20, 25 different people that will be running for president in the next few months. neil: about that, that might be a small number there. i talked to a number on both sides. the real conservative side of the republican party. the rhino part. they all say the same thing. we can kind of support the other guy if he ends up being the nominee, but not with great zeal. i had to squeeze it out of ken whether he could accept even a rand paul or ted cruz. it was almost like i was putting a lemon under his nose. >> well, neil, all the republicans, including ken is going to enthusiastically support whoever the nominee is. because it will be in comparison to hillary clinton or warren or any wacko liberal

scott walker. tk -- y like bobby indian jindal. and mike patton. i thinking they would make great leaders and good presidents and heir executive experience as governors would be more helpful in terms of cleaning up the mess over the past eight years with than maybe ama someone who has been in the senate. i would prefer a governor. would your reaction if general bush were the candidate? guest: republicans are going to and hillary clinton will win. host: why? guest: because if you look at in pattern of behavior history of republican candidates over the past couple of residential cycles we have run candidates similar to general bush. romney, john mccain twice. although general bush has some has though general bush some things he doesn't have a he is ative base and similar it candidates and a lot of baggage comes with his last the and i don't think country will vote for another bush in office. editor tie pavlich news of town hall.com. that is how people can find your work. write a column for the hill every other week. host: her book from this year is a

scott walker is very good. bobby jindal in louisiana. those are all very serious people. on the democratic side, i'm not a favorite -- i'm not in favor of any of the. not as worried about hillary clinton as i was president obama. i just do not think she is a particularly impressive political talent. i think the chances of elizabeth warren giving stiff competition and even beating hillary clinton are higher than most other people, because i think elizabeth warren has tapped into disenchantment on the left, which i think is very real. i think hillary clinton is tone deaf to it. host: of the names that you mentioned, do you think they could beat hillary clinton in a general election matchup? guest: i do. but i think overall the democratic nominee would be a slight favorite because of certain demographic advantages. if you want to take a step back in an objective way, what is happening is that the people who are traditional republican voters, that group is shrinking. the people who are traditionally democratic voters, younger voters, single women, minorities, that is growing.

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scott walker is very good. bobby jindal in louisiana. those are all very serious people. on the democratic side, i'm not a favorite -- i'm not in favor of any of the. not as worried about hillary clinton as i was president obama. i just do not think she is a particularly impressive political talent. i think the chances of elizabeth warren giving stiff competition and even beating hillary clinton are higher than most other people, because i think elizabeth warren has tapped into disenchantment on the left, which i think is very real. i think hillary clinton is tone deaf to it. host: of the names that you mentioned, do you think they could beat hillary clinton in a general election matchup? guest: i do. but i think overall the democratic nominee would be a slight favorite because of certain demographic advantages. if you want to take a step back in an objective way, what is happening is that the people who are traditional republican voters, that group is shrinking. the people who are traditionally democratic voters, younger voters, single women, minorities, that is growing.

do that in ways that some of the governor who is have never run for president before, like scott walker and bobbying money matter too much early on? we always use the word resources, it's a dignified word. he's forming a pac, it gives him an ability to funnel more money in. >> let's talk about how much money that is, he can raise $5,000 increments from one person. has to pound the pavement to get a lot of people to give him money. $5,000 is a lot of money, but it's not a superpac, not like one billionaire can write a check and fund his entire political ambition. like what happened with newt gingrich. >> this is a reminder of how much the actual process is preoccupied with money. the american people want to see it preoccupied with ideas. and that gap is just a reality of a campaign. you're creating a multimillion dollar organization that if it succeeds will go out of business in a year and you're doing it basically on the fly. but so the money, the degree to which politics and running for president is simply a money ball game and the way that distracts from what really matters and restricts a cand

scott walker gets 5%. rick barry gets 4%. and bobby jindal, 3%. again, republicans only. who would you like in 2016? party or tico -- tea braces for primary challenge from the establishment. four years ago when he knocked off the sitting senator, now the establishment might strike back. as the 43-year-old lee plotz's 2016 reelection bid, he is leaders under ess the radar hoping to head off a primary challenge backed by and other eaders establishment figures in his home state. billionaire john huntsman senior, and a former gop party chairman. some party establishment are tired s in utah of lee's hard-line positions. he stood with ted cruz of texas when the government closed, and again this month on n they tried to take obama on immigration. majority up giving leader harry reid of nevada leverage to confirm controversial nominations. -- has ffectively turned effectively turned the republican intraparty war on its head. . a little bit from the article. and one more from politico, is on jeb bush. jeb bush is trying to show he a modern-day un presidential campaign, when he declared last week that he is a

younger and fresher faces whether it is rubio or cruise in the senate, scott walker, chris christie in the governor's mansion, bobby jindal, and others as well. republicans have a lot of young talent. we had romney and mccain in the last two cycles. the younger candidate has won the popular vote in all six of the presidential elections. really, you're better off with the younger candidate host were. that is the rule today. yung, change, reform. cruise is a little more conservative, rubio is center-right. all the normal things that get debated in the primaries. i think it is a pretty good presidential field. jeb bush would be formidable. if one of these guys beat jeb bush, it makes them more formidable. like obama beating hillary clinton in 2008. you should go find him the first day their back on generate fifth and find out what they will do. the former governor of florida was kind of a mentor to rubio, came up to the state center there and a fantastic campaign that one in 2010. if rubio would announce an two weeks, i think it would be impressive. he respects jeb bush, he likes jeb bush, but he is not yielding to th

younger and fresher faces whether it is rubio or cruise in the senate, scott walker, chris christie in the governor's mansion, bobby jindal, and others as well. republicans have a lot of young talent. we had romney and mccain in the last two cycles. the younger candidate has won the popular vote in all six of the presidential elections. really, you're better off with the younger candidate host were. that is the rule today. yung, change, reform. cruise is a little more conservative, rubio is center-right. all the normal things that get debated in the primaries. i think it is a pretty good presidential field. jeb bush would be formidable. if one of these guys beat jeb bush, it makes them more formidable. like obama beating hillary clinton in 2008. you should go find him the first day their back on generate fifth and find out what they will do. the former governor of florida was kind of a mentor to rubio, came up to the state center there and a fantastic campaign that one in 2010. if rubio would announce an two weeks, i think it would be impressive. he respects jeb bush, he likes jeb bush, but he is not yielding to th

scott walker marco rubio. rick perry i think rand paul has a lot more support these early polls are giving him credit for. >> so if we do this you want to jump in here, bobby? but when you think of the establishment and nonestablishment, that really is going to be an issue in every presidential race. >> this is politics 101. go ahead. >> are you disputing the facts that there's going to be favorites among the establishment and favorites among the nonestablishment? >> i don't buy the establishment -- i think your base, as you consider your base as far right conservative, is much smaller than the democratic base, jeb bush can walk through that race, i have told you for a year, he worries me more than anybody else, for one specific reason, he can pull on the hispanic vote, which they desperately need or a republican can't win the country. all the money goes out of florida. he's gone. >> there's no doubt that jeb bush throwing his hat in the ring definitely puts of -- >> scott walker and -- >> bob they enjoy a lot of support for good reasons because of their policies, fiscal and otherwise. >> from who? >> from people who vote the same people that show up for t

younger and fresher faces whether it is rubio or cruise in the senate, scott walker, chris christie in the governor's mansion, bobbyl, and others as well. republicans have a lot of young talent. we had romney and mccain in the last two cycles. the younger candidate has won the popular vote in all six of the presidential elections. really, you're better off with the younger candidate host were. that is the rule today. yung, change, reform. cruise is a little more conservative, rubio is center-right.