dr. wayne frederick joining us. howard from baltimore you are next. >> caller: thank you c-span a good morning sir. howard founded by general howard during the civil war after the civil war. now i am glad we have gotten past the paper bag test and we are into a realistic discussion of our society and how it has done a great job in providing professionals to the general american society. sir there is a situation that howard right now. i never thought howard would become a part of the profiteering of the charter school movement. is howard a part of the lawsuit to increase per pupil expenditures on a charter school that you have on your campus? >> guest: two things. let me just be clear you mentioned are charter school. that is a middle school that is designated for math and science. it's an independent charter school and it participates in the charter school program in general. in 2005 when we started that school we receive students on basically participating in the general lottery to get students. those students who

dr. wayne frederick, the president of howard university. dr. frederick, thank you for joining us.ank you for having me. host: to start off, could you give your sense of a little bit of the history of black colleges and universities, and what their role was when they were first established? guest: yes, the history goes well back into the 1800s. as these schools were formed a given opportunity in the country in a segregation of education system and receive an opportunity for higher education. it was founded in 1867. it was necessary as we had a segregated system. over time, right now when you look at the other country, about 80% of the students would be considered black and universities. there are even a couple of historical black colleges and universities because of the history who actually have student populations that are more predominantly caucasian. they represented an opportunity for blacks at that time to get an education, and overtime has evolved into world-class institution such as ours. host: as far as the role they serve today, how would you describe that particularly as

dr. wayne frederick, howard university says graduation rates increase 10% among students who receive a full ride. >> if we don't have the historically colleges students can come in educating less people of color. >> reporter: obama's new free college proposals would cost the government more than $60 billion over ten years, potentially this will increase the cost of tuition for other students some say. >>> today there will be a lot of talk about the tolling you pay on the dulles green way, loudon candidate david ramadan will introduce a bill aiming to change the toll structure on the roadway. right now you pay the same toll no matter how far you travel on that road. ramadan says he wants distance-based tolling structured. he is also calling for stricter oversight of the private operate other than the road. the operator is currently looking to increase tolls by about 3%. if approved it would cost as much as $5.25 to travel the green way during rush hours. >>> even though gas prices are pretty cheap right now people say they will go out of their way to find even cheaper gas, accord togz a cons

dr. wayne frederick, howard university's president, says graduation rates increase by 10% among those students who receive a full ride. >> if we don't have his historically black colleges as places where these students can be taken in we certainly will be educating less people of color. >> the president's new free college proposal would cost the government more than $60 billion over ten years. potentially this will increase the cost of tuiti other students. >>> a principal who helped resurrect an underachieving school says she's retiring. the "washington post" reports that suzanne maxy will leave her post at tc williams. the school was singled out for having underachieving students but she's credited with changing the tone at the high school. they start the search for a new principal thegs weeknext week. >>> according to a new survey, teens are partying less than you did. the survey also found first year college students' sense of emotional well, is at its lowest level since 1985. ucla professor results indicate this generation faces greater pressure to succeed academically and has less time t

dr. wayne frederick will join us from the c-span bus as part of our historically black colleges and universities tour. >> the political landscape has changed with the 114th congress pl not only are there 43 new republicans, 15 new democrats in the house there is also 108 women in congress including the first african-american republican in the house and the first woman veteran in the senate. keep track of the members of congress with the congressional chronicle on c-span.org. they have voting results and statistics about every session of congress. it is on c-span, c-span 2, c-span radio, and c-span.org. >>> this sunday on q and a, david brooks, a columnist for the "new york times." >> the sidney awards are given for the best magazine essays for the year. and the idea is there is they always come out around christmas and new years. that is a good week to step back and not read little read instant stuff tweets, step back and have the time to read something deeper and longer and daze to celebrate those longer pieces. i do believe magazines change history. the new republic which until its recent zrun

dr. wayne frederick, the president of howard university. the first of many stops we will make in february looking at historically black colleges and universities. dr. frederick, thank you for joining us on the first day. guest: thank you for having me. host: if you want more information, including today's segment, go to our website. morehouse, spelling, this -- spelling in college and for any and and university will be part of the tour. you'll go to the house of representatives. r pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's room washington, d.c., february 4 2015. i hereby appoint the honorable david w. jolly to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, john a. boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 6, 2015, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority andinit leadersorng hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties

dr. wayne frederick. you can join the conversation with your calls and comments on facebook and twitter. keep track of the republican led congress and follow its members through session. >>> james chairs the senate environment and public works committee. this is 2:15. . meeting will come to order. the whole right side back there is oklahoma. i came in last night and they were having a dinner. i thought two or three people. i knew gary ridley would be there. he's always there. i looked over and all familiar faces there. we have this concern there's a lot of things about is government really spoedsupposed to be doing. and quite often -- the reason i got on the committees i did 20 years ago, was because this is what we're supposed to be doing, defending america, building infrastructure. that's it. so we all understand that in oklahoma. we know that we have gone through a process that most of us -- some of us remember, most of us have not been around that long, but i do rare over in the house on the t. & i co

dr. wayne a.i. frederick, president of howard university, dr. alfredo quinones-hinojosa neuro surgeon at john hopkins university and documentary film maker jonathan goodman levitt talking about his film "follow the leader." watch them all at c-span.org. on the next "washington journal" we'll focus on president obama's 2016 budget request which is being released tomorrow. we'll hear from democratic maryland representative john delaney, a member of the financial services and joint economic committees. republican south carolina congressman tom rice, a member of the budget committee and william hogueland, senior vice president of the bipartisan policy center. as always, we'll take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> with the sec focusing on net neutrality, we spoke with two industry executives. chris riley and hank hultquist. >> at the end of the day, the internet needs strong, enforceable, effective rules. those need to include non-determination and resou

dr. wayne a.i. frederick president of howard university dr. alfredo quinones-hinojosa neuro surgeon at john hopkins university and documentary film maker jonathan goodman levitt talking about his film "follow the leader." watch them all at c-span.org. host:[captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> yet cece focusing on net neutrality in february, we spoke with two industry executives at the consumer electronics show in las vegas. >> we believe at the end of the day, the internet need strong and forcible effective rules to protect the users and developers. that needs to include nondiscrimination, subject to reasonable management and they need to be effectively enforceable. >> the problem we have now with where the net neutrality issue is is that they are not focused on certain areas. i think there is a lot of consensus around this. it's focused on the fcc legal authority. the fear is that they

dr. wayne frederick. you can join the conversation with calls and comments on facebook and twitter. >> the political landscape has changed with the 114th congress. not only are there any three new republicans and 15 new democrats and 12 new republicans and one new democrat in the senate, there are also 108 women including the first african-american woman in the house in the first woman republican in the senate. the congressional chronicle page has lots of new information including voting results and statistics. new congress, best access. >> tuesday, the u.s. house voted 239-186 to repeal the current health care law and work toward creating new health care legislation. three republicans joined all democrats in voting no. nine total members did not vote at all including speaker boehner. the house has voted some 60 times to repeal the current law and the measure next goes to the senate and president obama has promised to veto the bill. this is two hours and minutes. i yield myself such time as i may consume.

dr. wayne frederick. "washington journal" live every morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern. you're welcome to the conversation on the phone and on facebook and twitter. >> the political landscape has changed with the 114th congress. not only are there 43 new republicans and 15 new democrats in the house, and 12 new republicans and one new democrat in the senate, there's also 108 women in congress including the first african-american republican in the house and the first woman veteran in the senate. keep track of the members of congress using congressional "chronicle" on c-span.org. the congressional chronicle page has lots of useful information there, including voting results and statistics about each session of congress. new congress best access on c-span, c-span2, c-span radio and cspan.org. >> next up here on c-span, from today's "washington journal," a conversation about paid maternity leave. president obama's recent state of the union address is the maternity leave policy, or lack there of. claire suddath is a writer for bloomberg business. her new article is titled --