host: our guest is erik wasson, our focus the omnibus bill passed last week. our guest writes for "the hill" newspaper. from maine, republican line, good morning. caller: good morning and thank you for c-span. my question has to do with the -- i am concerned about this identity theft. toterday, i took the time call three of the four congresspeople in the house of representatives in connecticut. they all voted against it. then i called senator blumenthal's office and i was told that he voted against it. apparently, they don't understand that democrats, -- whatever latinos you are -- we are all americans and we all have credit cards. everybody has a lot of them in the united states. they have no concern. so what if we get hacked into? but just when this target department store problem -- innocent people have been hacked into. and they say, it's of no concern to us. the democrats are supposed to be, they love us and want to help the people who don't have a lot of money. .aybe you can explain it to me i would love to hear an answer. i wasn't quite following exactl

after that, the hill's erik wasson talks with the 2014 federal spending bill. in a conversation with michael singh about the next that's in iran's nuclear deal with the international community. ♪ ♪ host: good morning, the president will be spending this week in washington to commemorate the holiday with a community service project. on thursday he will meet with a number of the nation's mayors in town this week. that meeting will take place at the white house. congress is in recess for the mlk holiday. the auto show will be at the washington convention center on saturday. welcome to the sunday edition of "washington journal." we continue our series on america's first

host: read more from erik wasson at thehill.com. thanks for the update. in a few moments president obama's advisory group tells congress that the program hasn't had a sig can effect on stopping terrorism. in a little more than two hours, a forum on raising the minimum wage hosted by the economic policy institute. after that, it's a heritage foundation discussion of the economy. >> i think i had little antennas that went up and told me when somebody had their own agenda and not ronnie's. and i'd tell him. he didn't always agree with me but i'd tell him. it usually worked out. >> watch our program on first lady nancy reagan at our website on c-span.org/firstladies or see it saturday on c-span. and our series continues live on monday as we look at first lady barbara bush. >> president obama's advisory group, assigned to review the n.s.a.'s data collection programs, has determined the programs didn't have a significant effect on stopping terrorism. members of the group didn't call for ending the program but recommended taking certain information out of the n.

. >> read more from erik wasson on hehill.com and follow him on twitter @elwasson. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> as the president first stated in march and re-emphasized tuesday night, the goal of the united states in afghanistan and pakistan is to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al qaeda and its extremist allies. and to prevent its return to both countries. the international military effort to stabilize afghanistan is necessary to achieve this overarching goal. >> watergate served two presidents as defense secretary, from 2006 through 2007 and c.i.a. director in the early 1990's. friday at 6:30 p.m. eastern on c-span 2, a live book tv event. secretary gates talks about his management of the wars in iraq and afghanistan and his relationship with the white house and congress. and in a few weeks, look for women's history for beginners author. she'll take your questions and comments. live on "in depth," february 2 at noon eastern. and online for the rest of january, join our book tv boo

host: our guest is erik wasson, our focus the omnibus bill passed last week.uest writes for "the hill" newspaper. from maine, republican line, good morning. caller: good morning and thank you for c-span. my question has to do with the -- i am concerned about this identity theft. toterday, i took the time call three of the four congresspeople in the house of representatives in connecticut. they all voted against it. then i called senator blumenthal's office and i was told that he voted against it. apparently, they don't understand that democrats, -- whatever latinos you are -- we are all americans and we all have credit cards. everybody has a lot of them in the united states. they have no concern. so what if we get hacked into? but just when this target department store problem -- innocent people have been hacked into. and they say, it's of no concern to us. the democrats are supposed to be, they love us and want to help the people who don't have a lot of money. .aybe you can explain it to me i would love to hear an answer. i wasn't quite following exactly what

after that, the hill's erik wasson discusses the $1 trillion spending bill passed by congress and signed by president obama this week. then a conversation with michael singh of the washington institute for near east policy about the next steps in iran's nuclear deal with the international community. we'll also look for your reaction by phone, email, and twitter, as well as facebook, beginning live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. this weekend on "news makers" richard cordray talks about regulatory practices. most recently the agency put into effect new mortgage rules that ensure borrowers are more carefully evaluated. here's a portion of the interview. >> the bureau has been in existence for a couple of years now, i think 2 1/2 years or so. are consumers being treated better in the financial marketplace, do you think? >> i think i can sit here, jim, and say i know that they are, and i know that for the following reason. one of the things we've done that i'm really as excited about as anything we've done, enforcement action, mortgage rules, we've set up a consumer complaint function at the