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c-span 3, c-span radio and c-span.org. we're asking you which supreme court justice is having the biggest influence on the health care oral arguments. log on. cast your vote. facebook.com/c-span. >>> now a look at the past two days of oral argument and the preview of the two cases from the washington journal. >> this morning, to start off our coverage of the supreme court health care oral arguments, we have two reporters here to share some insights. emily etheridge, thanks for coming in. >> thanks for having me. >> and supreme court correspondent for "the wall street journal." thanks as well. >> sure. >> jess braveman, justices are questioning the health law. what was your overal from yesterday's arguments? >> well, the takeaway was pretty much what the take in was, which was that the court is very skeptical about the original mandate of the law. see it is consistent with prior press events. and it will come down to the votes of probably justice anthony kennedy, who expressed concerns about both positions in the argument and perhaps chief justice john roberts. >> there's been some scrutiny and some looks at the attorneys who are arguing both sides of the case. tell us

facebook.com/c-span. you can also click on a link to an article about the recent visit of the secretary of defense there. >>> in congress today, capitol hill empty. both chambers of congress out today. the house returns monday from a week-long district work period. at 4:00 on monday they'll begin legislative business. budget committee chairman paul ryan is expected to present his budget next week. watch the house live as always on c-span and in the senate also in on monday starting the day at 2:00 eastern with general speeches. at 4:30 they'll return to work on a small business bill that aims to loosen securities regulations. and on tuesday, the chamber plans to take several votes including one that would limit the debate on the bill. we also expect several amendments. the senate's live on c-span 2. >>> i was quite e rat cal as a young person. i was the one who thought that, you know, we -- saying we should overcome was really not a very effective way of gaining civil rights. and i think that i thought th

you can host your comments at facebook.com/c-span. by the way, that soldier is being blown to ft. leavenworth, kansas, as early as today. the house and senate are out today. the house will be back on monday, back from their district work period at 4:00 p.m. eastern for legislative work. votes scheduled at 6:30. we expect budget committee chairman paul ryan to present his 2013 budget proposal next week. you can watch the house, as always, live on c-span. the senate also returns on monday at 2:00 p.m. for general speeches and 4:30 they'll return to work on a small business bill that aimed at loosening securities regulations. on tuesday, the chamber has several votes on that. president obama has got a couple fundraisers to day, in particular this afternoon in chicago. we'll have live coverage of that at 1. . 20 eastern. and then the president heads to atlanta for a fund-raiser there that is hosted by his african-american leadership counsel. again, coverage of the fundraiser in chicago on c-span at 1:20 eastern. a federal court unsealed a special report that described widespread misco

weigh in with your comments on facebook facebook.com/c-span. the house is back from the district work period on monday. also next week on the house side, we expect budget committee chairman paul ryan to present his 2013 budget proposal. the senate is back next week, too. they'll come in for work, continuing work on that small business bill that aims at loosening securities regulations. follow the house on c-span and the senate on c-span2. >> our system is fundamentally undemocratic in several ways. one is closed primaries. so in half the states in the country, 40% of all the voters can't participate in the prime yarz. they have no say in who gets nominated. and as a result, we get more and more extreme candidates on both endsst spectrum. >> saturday night at 10:00 eastern on "afterwards," linda killia writes that most electorate block in the u.s. are independent voters and they decided every election since world war ii. also this weekend on book tv, saturday at 8:00 p.m., david ross on how roger ails turned the network into an extension of the

that's at facebook.com/c-span. that's cspan with no dash. we've been following the debate from the beginning. you will find archival video of hearings, speeches, and rallies to other web pages. that >>> follow c-span's local content vehicles throughout the weekend american history tv explore the history little rock, arkansas. saturday starting at noon eastern on book tv on c-span2. author grif stockily on the little known riots and killing of at least 20 african-american sharecroppers. >> you had calls going all up and down the mississippi delta, and saying that blacks were now in revolt, and the next morning between 600 and 1,000 men, white member, pour into phillips county to begin shooting down blacks. >> and on american history tvon c-span3, sunday at former student bruce lindsey on integration and north little rock high school. >> it's as happen, but we don' know what's going to happen. wereale what's going to happen when we get up those steps. but they seem toecis wh us now. the momentum is behind us, and they are pushing us up the step

go to facebook.com/c-span to register your feelings. we have been following the health care debate from the beginning at c-span.org. you'll find videos and related documents and links to other webpages. that's at c-span.org. following the oral argument we heard from participating attorneys, republican presidential candidate rick santorum also showed up on the steps of the court to comment. and after that we'll hear from spokespersons for special interest groups on both sides of the issue. this all is about 30 minutes.

viewers can join in the conversation by phone and facebook, facebook.com/c-span and also follow us at twitter.com. we'll also simulcast a part of politco's election night coverage. can you also watch us online at c-span.org's dedicated site, c-span.org slash campaign2012. the o the obama administration blocked a texas voter id law. it helps to prevent fraud and election tampering, they're saying that law harms elderly citizens and hispanic voters who are less likely to have a driver's license or personal identification card. we're asking if you're for or against a voter id law. the poll is now nearly sighed, 175,000 people are voting for, 188,000 again. now is your chance to weigh in. cast your vote. >> i hope that as we move forward in this world there are a number of problems that we have to resolve. problems with genocide in darfur, problems with the growing problem with people's republic of china. we have a lot of problems to deal with. i think diplomatic solutions are going to have to be the answer in the future as we start to deal with the problems coming. >> congressman donald

to a twitter feed from reporters who cover the court as well as a link to our facebook page, facebook.com/c-span where we will post daily questions to field viewer's comments. and same-day airing of the audio of the court's oral arguments on the health care law will be carried on our companion network c-span3 and also on c-span radio and you can check in online at c-span.org. on "washington journal" tomorrow through wednesday we will have special guests and topics on the health care law. we will start off tomorrow with challenges to the affordable care act and details about the arguments, including the anti-injunction act. finally tomorrow, a look at the composition of the supreme court. next we will see the fourth circuit court of appeals in virginia which heard oral argument by the state in may last year and dismissed the argument of the health care law. the court sadse only individuals have the right to challenge individual mandates, not states. jim cuccinelli filed on behalf of virginiaians who did not want to have to buy insurance. and the court ruled that requiring americans to buy insuran

also you can post your comments on facebook.com/c-span. let me show you the "baltimore sun" this morning and their headline on eric holder's speech yesterday. we covered it here. holder lays out the rationale for u.s. targeted killings. it says this. the president has legal authority to target and kill americans overseas who are working withal kide and its allies. when they pose a threat to the country and cannot be captured "we must take steps to stop them." want to show them more of what eric holder had to say in his own words from his speech yesterday. >> an operation using lethal force in a foreign country, targeted against a u.s. citizen who's a senior operational leader of al qaeda or associated forces and is actively engaged in planning to kill americans would be lawful at least in the following circumstances. first, the u.s. government has determined after a thorough and careful review that the individual poses an imminent threat of violent attack against the united states. second, capture is not feasible. and third, the operation

to answer, good to facebook.com/c-span's. -- facebook.com/c-span. a hearing is next on c-span. then, an update on general john allen on the situation in a afghanistan, and later, in case you missed it, today's supreme court oral argument on the health-care law. >> in march of 1979, c-span began televising the house of representatives to households nationwide, and today, are content of public affairs, non- fiction books, and public history is available on television, radio, and online. >> we are talking now about the supreme court, that they are the ones to change the country inevitably. the march towards knocking down the walls of discrimination that prevented us from passing the civil rights act, so people it could go into restaurants and go into hotels. public accommodations. a 1965 act or voting rights. the 1973 act that says that women are going to be treated equally. the americans of disability act that says that the disabled are going to be part of the american family. all of that is progress. and, my friends, the one organization, the one institution, that protects it is

on twitter you can get us c-s n cspanwj and facebook facebook.co facebook.com/c-span. we will start by taking a look at an article in the "washington post" about an item that has again viral -- gone viral and we will use that to set up talking about online activism. it is kony 2012 goes viral. 71 million watched it as it translates to offline action. host: we want to talk to you about what you think about online activism and things like the kony 2012 video going viral. we want to show you a little bit of that infomercial/documentary and we will start taking calls. >> in order for cohney to be arrested this year the ugandan military has to find him. in order to find him they need to have the technology and training to track him in the vast judge. that is where the american advisories to come in. but the u.s. government has to deploy them. they have done that, but if the doesn't believe that people care about arresting kony the mission will be canceled. in order for people to care they have to know and they will only know if kony's name is everywhere. host: we are talkin

remember you can go there, facebook.com,/c-span and post yours there as well. this is from the "washington times" this morning. mr. holder did not mention the classified legal opinion that details the government's justification. some law makers, among them chairman of the senate select committee of intelligence have called on them to publish it. their office had no immediate response to the speech which did little to reassure critics of the targeting killing program. this also makes the headlines in a campus newspaper up on capitol hill. they say, in a lawsuit filed under the freedom of information act, the aclu is demanding that the government disclose the legal basis it hold for making such a decision which the administration has refused to do. it also goes onto say that holder did not talk about specifics but the administration has worked especially hard to keep the appropriate members of congress informed. mike rogers, ranking members, were told about the al-awlaki operation ahead of time while on a trip to yemen. so arguing that that is the checks and bala

c-span, that so is our handle. no high offen in cspan in that case or add pound cspan, and if you'd like to vote in a poll, go to facebook. facebook.com/ cspan, again no hyphen in c-span in this case. so @cspan.org/healthcare on our website you'll find all sorts of information and issues before the supreme court plus links to each day's oral argument when they become available. so we've already got yesterday's up there at c-span.org and in about an hour or so today's transcripts should be released. you can go to the website and see a lot of related activity as well. contact us electronically but we want to show you the sights and sounds as the activity around the supreme court continues. we're going to begin taking your calls and start with a call from john in shreveport, louisiana. john, you're on c-span. >> caller: yes, sir. i would just like to comment that the obamacare supposedly that's being voted on is the biggest forcing on the american public. i'm 82 years old and never in the presidencies that i have lived through vie seen such a thing come about. home ownership is at risk. a lot of our liberties are at risk, and this is cer

you can weigh in on our facebook page at facebook.com/c-span.nd so far 338 people have voted very interested. 16 people somewhat interested and 9 votes for not interested at all. senators are back today. the house returning at noon eastern for morning hour and 2:00 pm for legislative business. this week they plan to take up a short-term 90 day extension of a bill dealing with surface transportation programs and they'll also consider the budget resolution for 2013. live coverage of the house is on c-span. the senate gavels in at 2:00 pm eastern, at 4:30 they'll begin on a debate on a motion to roll back oil industry tax breaks. votes on that at 5:30 eastern. live coverage of the senate when they gavel back in here on c-span2. the stockholm international peace institute recently hosted a panel discussion on international arms transfers and trade and its impact on global security. leading experts who took part in the discussion agree there are very few controls in this area and that means change. the u.s. along with several other countries will att

log on, let us know what you think at facebook.com/c-span. >> the strong support we have, and our region of the country for where this movement originated gives us an excellent base to go forward on the day of november the 5th with and we in my judgment will go forth in the beginning with at least 177 electoral vote that comprised the states of the south and border and when you couple that with just a few other states of the union, then you have the 270 odd electoral votes necessary to win the presidency. >> as candidates campaign for president this year we look back at 14 men who ran for the office and lost. go to our website, c-span.org/thecontenders, to see video of the contenders who had a lasting impact on american politics. >> this has been honest convention, spirited disagreement and i believe considerable argument. but don't let anybody be misled by that. you have given here in this call a moving and dramatic proof of how americans who honestly differ close ranks and move forward for the nation's well-being, shoulder to shoulder. >> c-span.org/thecontenders. >> we're going to ret

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c-span networks. and our facebook question of the day involves the 2012 campaign. we're asking women voters in the republican party we welcome your comments at facebook.com/cspan. that's cspan with no hyphen. friday, the vice president's national security policy adviser reinforced the administration's continued commitment to post war iraq. anthony blanken says while the conflict is over, work in the country continues. he added that since the war ended u.s. officials have increased their dialogue with iraqi leaders. his remarks came in a discussion at the center for american progress. the nearly 9-year conflict officially ended december 18, 2011. this is about 45 minutes. >> center for american progress, i'm rudy deleone, the senior vice president for national security. on behalf of all of my colleagues here at the center and with the national security program, i want to welcome you. for the first time in nine years the united states does not have troops fighting in iraq. president barack obama fulfilled his promise to end the war in iraq as part of an overall strategy to rebalance america's national security priorities. today we'll discuss this and have this pr

facebook.com/cspan. caller: good morning. thank you for c-span. have taken a great interest in this campaign for mitt romney. back in 2008 i did. i'm not ashamed to say, i am of the same fate as mitt romney. i think he stands for the core values of america in that faith. aside from that, he has excellent leadership. the founding principles of our country that free enterprise system we all benefit from. he has lived the legacy that the founding fathers gave us when the station was established. he sees a vision for which, i think, obama and all of his followers and all the people who loved clinton, the democrats and all of those people, -- mitt can expose obama and all of these floors and what they're doing to our country. host: rick santorum made a speech last night. here is part of what he had to say. [video clip] >> we are going to head to louisiana from here. we're feeling very good about winning louisiana, i might add. [applause] we are heading to louisiana for the rest of the week and then we will be back here in pennsylvania and we're going t

facebook.com/cspan as well as follow us at twitter.com/cspanroadwh. we will simulcast a portion of politico's coverage. watch coverage online at c-span.org's dedicated site for campaign 2012, c-span.org/campaign2012. >> c-span's 2012 local content vehicle cities tour takes our book tv and american history tv programming on the road. the first weekend of each month. march featured shreveport, louisiana, with book tv at the library. >> mr. noll was a local man who was born here and lived here most of his life and he started accumulating books when he was a teenager, and continued until he was in his 80s. over his lifetime, he accumulated over 200,000 volumes. if we have a gem in the collection, it is probably going to be this one. it is one of the books we're most proud of. it's in the original binding from 1699 and it was once owned by a very famous scientist. you can see he's written his name, i. newton, and we are not pulling it out so much anymore because it is starting to flake away on the title page. >> an american history tv looked at civil war era medical practices. at the pioneer heritage museum. >> pioneer medicine is a long stretch from what it is today. when you consider that the things that we take

c-span networks. >> we are also talking about the health care oral are you her facebook page. we are asking you how interested are you. you can weigh in at facebook.com/cspan. right now the u.s. senate is coming back into session. they are planning on working on a motion to proceed to a bill to roll back oil industry tax breaks. votes on that this afternoon at 5:30 p.m.-ish and. and now to live coverage of the u.s. senate here on c-span2. the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. the chaplain dr. barry black will lead the senate in prayer. the chaplain: let us pray. almighty god, look beyond the harmful paths on which we have walked and see our spirits created in your likeness and longing to commune with you. speak to our lawmakers today, and teach them to listen through earthquakes, wind and fire for your still, small voice. guide them to learn the language of prayer and daily experience its power in their lives. may they be calm when you would have them listen and obedient when you would have them act, always eager to receive directions from you. we pray in your great name. amen. the presiding officer: please join me in reciting the ple

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c-span cameras will be there as well. but this expected to get under way shortly. if you want a late entry into our facebook.com/c-span question which is what would you ask the question, you can post your thoughts there. it is up. and if we get the chance, too, after the president's comments this afternoon, we'll open up our phone lines for your thoughts on what he says this afternoon. the senate does come back at 2:15, so we'll take you live back to the senate then. >> good afternoon, everybody. now, i understand there are some political contests going on tonight, but i thought i'd start the day off by taking a few questions which i'm sure will not be political in nature. laugh -- [laughter] before i do, i want to make a few announcements about some steps we're taking to help responsible homeowners who have been struggling through this housing crisis. now, we've clearly seen some positive economic news over the last few months. businesses have created about 3.7 million new jobs over the last two years, manufacturers are hiring for the first time since in in the 1990s, the auto industry's back and hiring more t