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find those stories and more on --th.com/c-span facebook.com/c-span.asupreme court ruling the lacks authority in some cases to force companies to evaluate ways to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. affect the recent epa proposals for new and existing power plants. the u.s. house is about to gavel in. the first couple hours have been reserved for general speeches on any topic. legislative work against at 2:00, debating on bills begins later after 4:00. seven builds on the schedule for the midafternoon, mostly dealing with energy. they plan to vote on those 6:30. now to the floor of the u.s. house. the speaker 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., june 23, 2014. i hereby appoint the honorable adrian smith to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, john a. boehner,

facebook.com/c-span. this is the first time the administration has formally testified on the may 31st swap for army agent bowe bergdahl, who had been in taliban captivity since 2009, swapped for the five taliban detainees from guantanamo who are now under the observation of the government of qatar, and secretary hagel testifying about the process through which bowe bergdahl was released. he is not back in the united states and the secretary had a number of questions about that as well. let's get to some of your tweets. lots of comments on twitter. here is jenny who says, as a military parent, compassion for bergdahl's folks but thanks to obama administration, it's open season for kidnapping any american ransom. another says, still not sure how hagel and obama square that circle of not leaving anyone behind when one considers the men in benghazi. also this from maggie who says, hagel, this committee directed obama with numerous resolutions to do whatever was necessary to recover sergeant bergdahl. and one

c-span networks. and you can continue your comments as well. as you see there, twitter, #c-span chat. and at facebook.com/c-span. we're also going to take you to live coverage of another story. last night in virginia, the seventh district, in that primary, you probably know, the majority leader eric cantor falling to david brat. 56% to 44%. the majority leader has announced he's holding a news conference this afternoon at 4:30 eastern. we will have that live for you here on c-span3. what's more is that the republican conference is set to meet shortly. and we have cameras there as well. if there are any comments following that meeting, the house republicans, we'll have live coverage of that here on c-span3 as well. while we wait for the news conference at 4:30, what we'll do is show you a portion of today's very lengthy house armed services committee with chuck hagel and mr. preston. >>> meeting will come to order. please hold the seats for the public. >> at the start of this hearing, i'm pleased to welcome members of the public, who have such an interest in these proceedings. we intend to conduct this he

dan says -- -- ken wrote thoughts asr your well at facebook.com/c-span. while the committee was in recess for votes, irs commissioner john coss can and koskinen spoke briefly with reporters. in the february time frame that her computer had crashed in the i.t. department verified that. then we started retracing the issue of if we lost e-mails in our own production. we ran the process again starting from scratch and then in the course of pulling all of the e-mails in the march timeframe discovered the trail of e-mails that said my hard drive is crashed and what can you do about it. at that point, we've been told all 82 custodians who had been searched for the relevant information to see if there was bething in their information on the relevant information that were lois lerner e-mails. there were 24,000 lois lerner e-mails from other accounts. thenat point, that took us intimate to get all of that done. ok, now i want to know on the other 82 custodians at his hard drives crash all the time, how many of them had a hard drive issue. that was what i.t. was rev

good to our facebook page, facebook.com/c-span.imits on theerm three in the house and two in the senate." people responding to that as well. including theresa, who says a cap should be put on their pay. me thoughts this morning on how to fix congress. this as we showed you the gallup , in the mid-1980's it was at 40% plus, now it is at 7%, people showing confidence in congress. if you have ideas for fixing congress and want to share, the phonelines are available as well as facebook and twitter. e-mail, too. lee, indiana, democrats line. caller: good morning. i know congress is a mess right now. i think republicans take most of the marching orders. they taket a slam, most of the marching orders from limbaugh. get talk radio off the air and get him off the air so they cannot run everything by him and we will have a better america. host: you turn your direction to radio talk shows and the like? do not think republicans can do one thing without running it by him or getting his input. of course, he hates obama. you think that people tur

more of of your comments welcome at facebook.com/c-span. and "the wall street journal" tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern you can see all of the news conference with eric cantor at c-span.org. it was a five-hour hearing today in the house arms services committee. that too is available online. we'll have all of it in our program schedule later on this c-span networks. but let's resquloin the hearing underway now with john kline of minnesota. >> i'm sorry but these responses are very, very torch rouse as we're trying to weave around legalities. there are probably a lot of lawyers here on the committee. but fundamentally i'm just trying to understand who made the decision, when it was made to do the transfer and who made the decision on the notification and why. we're just walking around here. i'll just close because my time is rapidly running out. by saying that this confusion leads to this, this belief that was treszed by mr. turner and others that in fact the united states did set a precedent, did break the policy of negotiating with terr

toin, if you want participate in the conversation, facebook.com/c-span.hat conversation will be posted all day long about the military advisers going to iraq. "what adviceer, are these advisers going to relate?" --andeaux says here's bill -- here is @marietweets -- aaron says -- here is another tweet -- today, there is a hearing and the ways and means committee on the irs e-mail situation. and the last e-mail situation. today" had this article in yesterday's paper -- "how the irs last lois lerner's e-mails." what is the focus of today's hearing echo guest: the ways and means committee is going to try to figure out what happened to these e-mails, why they were lost, when they were lost, where they are, how many of them there are. they will have the commissioner of the internal revenue service in to give testimony about the missing e-mails. host: what happened to the e-mails? we are talking about 111. -- about 2011. guest: lois lerner is the central figure in the irs controversy over the targeting of tea party groups beginning in 2012and going through the e

karen posting about it -- join the conversation on our facebook page, facebook.com/ c-span. 'll find a number of discussions about today's events and the previous d-day speeches. you can see all of the events in normandy 10 at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span including president obama's speech and a keynote address by french president francois hollande, who hosted a ceremony marking the anniversary at the sight of the allied landing. president obama and several world leaders were in attendance including german chancellor angela merkel, russian president vladimir putin, and british queen elizabeth ii. we will show you the ceremony now. it runs about two hours. ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] ♪ ♪ [applause] ♪ [applause] ♪ [applause] french]g [speaking french] ♪ [speaking french] ♪ ♪ [applause] ♪ [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [speaking french] ♪ [speaking french] ♪ [indiscernible] [speaking french]

the conversation is going on now at facebook.com/c-span.here you'll also find speeches that other u.s. presidents have made on various d-day celebrations, including president carter, who spoke at the 35th anniversary. and ronald reagan who spoke at the 40th. and bill clinton who spoke at the 50th anniversary of d-day in normandy. 70'sht, we will have the -- the 70th anniversary of d-day in france, if your money including the president's speech including the keynote address i french president francois hollande. that is coming up at 8:00 eastern here on c-span. to show you president obama's remarks this morning at the american cemetery and memorial, which over -- overlooks omaha beach, one of during then spots normandy invasion. in his speech, the president talks about the allied effort and says that the world had seen nothing like it. he thanked veterans for their service and greeted many of them following his speech. this is about one hour, 20 minutes. flex presenting french president franÇois hollande and the president of united states of

you can join the conversation at facebook.com/c-span. ill have all of senator mccain's press conference later onay at 7:35 p.m. eastern c-span, or any time at c-span.org. queen elizabeth will deliver a speech by the government that outlines the priorities for the coming year. members of the house of lords will join the house of commons to hear the queen's address. and on tomorrow's "washington journal," charles simpson of the heritage foundation looks at the history of u.s. leaders who said they would not negotiate with terrorists. we look at campaign finance laws. livengton journal is wednesday on c-span. they look at the effect of climate change on agriculture. this is two hours. >> i call this hearing of the green jobs subcommittee to order. historicdent made a announcement, moving forward a proposal to tackle coal-fired power plants. this action could not have come too soon. what we are seeing already are real impacts of climate change, impact being felt today, on the ground. longer a conversation about hypothetical events or computer

would like to share your opinion or your d-day message with others, we invite you to log onto facebook.com/c-spanin the conversation. statesia and the united is a nation which believes in its mission. and our missions are very similar. we believe in freedom. we believe in distributing our which suddenly disappeared in the 1990's and to thousands. but they did not go anywhere. they were still there. the biggest idea for rush all those years was victory day. main holiday, and that is what unites the whole nation in the fight against fascism. however was presented to the nation by president putin is had a fascistne and illustrated that with the flag of the ukrainian liberation army. he used that to prove that these are fascists who are fighting against both russian and ukrainian nation. there is an interpretation that we are looking to just protect russians. no. we are continuing world war ii. we're liberating, really liberating ukraine from the fascist threat. >> this weekend on c-span, a look into the politics of putin's russia. on c-span twos book tv, live today coverage of the chicago printers r

you can continue to comment on the gop leadership elections on facebook at facebook.com/c-span or twitter #c-span chat. we are going to rejoin the house hearing we were showing you before the briefing, the head of general motors appearing before the house panel addressing her company's response to safety defects. we pick it up with congressman michael burgess questioning miss barra. >> that's why we've employed a lot of innovative ways to do that. the dealers are reaching out. >> the story in new york times, yesterday or today, people talk about receiving multiple postcards. they tried to get the car fixed. they tried, but the part is not available. are we going to see less and less of those stories? >> they should. we are starting another line. right now, we have the parts. we have tried to be incredibly fair in a first come first serve basis as customers raise concerns. we are complying with the law. >> thank you. mr. valukas, let me ask you a couple questions. i think i understood from your introduction, you are a trial attorney, is that correct? >> i am. >> i mean, i have to tell you,

you can weigh in at facebook.com/c-span. hearing president obama may come to the white house briefing room to make a statement. if he does, we will bring that to you. we bring you more about the situation in iraq right now. >> obama ways direct action on the militants is the headline. here is the president from yesterday. >> it indicates the degree to which iraq is going to need more help area they will need more help from us and the international community. my team is working around the clock to identify how we can survive the most effective assistance to them. i do not rule out anything. we have a stake in making sure not these jihadist are getting a permanent foothold in either iraq or syria. host: and the "new york times" says u.s. scramble to help iraq fight off militants. you can see this picture on the front page here, some shiite muslim iraqis volunteering for military service. , obama weighs air strikes. the white house confronted by an unexpected crisis on a battlefield it thought it had left behind, scrambled thur

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you can weigh in with your thoughts at facebook.com/c-span. we are going to go back and replay what the president had to say and the u.s. response in iraq. >> good morning, everybody. myterday i convened with national security council and the received an update from my daysover the last several we have seen significant gains made by i s i l that operates in both iraq and syria. iraqi security forces have proven unable to defend a number of cities which have allowed terrorists to overrun a part of a rock's territory. it poses a danger to iraq and its people and given the nature of these terrorists, it could pose a threat to american interests as well this threat is not brand-new. we have been steadily ramping up to theurity assistance iraqi security forces. now they need support to break momentum of the extremist groups and bolster the capability of iraqi security forces. we will not be sending combat troops into iraq. i have asked my national security team to prepare a range of other options i and i will be reviewing those options in the days

sheriva says -- share your thoughts at facebook.com/c-span.ry saiday, john that protecting the oceans is vital for national security and food. the state department hosted this conference with government officials and scientists reviewing involving the protectf ocean ecosystems. >> welcome, all. we have many scientists, leaders, people from ngo's. we are lucky to have experts and concerned groups come together to discuss this critical issue. tom personally very grateful the leadership of our terrific undersecretary for economic growth, energy, and the environment. it is a big package, obviously. who has been working diligently to put this together. you can tell from the surroundings this will be interactive. there will be a lot of visual input to digest. science to deal of document what we are talking about here over the course of these next couple days. i am really grateful to my team at the state department that has worked overtime under kathy's leadership to help bring everybody together today. i thank you all for coming. i welcome you to th

let us know what you think at facebook.com/c-span. >> from the washington institute or near east policy we will have a discussion on the escalating violence in iraq live at 12:30 p.m. eastern here on c-span. and again a reminder that another pentagon briefing coming out 1:00 p.m. here on c-span2's. we will hear from rear admiral john kirby at 1:00. >> one of the things people don't always recognize is that during the war of 1812 it was really about america reestablishing its independence against the british. this was sorted our second american revolution and this flag is the object for which francis scott key penned the words which became our national anthem. >> the image in i.t. 95 that the flag was made to look pole and restored and there's a whole section that was reconstructed. when the flag was moved to the space there was a deliberate decision by the curators not to do that again and what we wanted was the flag becomes a metaphor for the country. it's tattered and it's torn but it still survives in the message is really the survival of the country in the flag and we are not trying

that gets underway tomorrow at 11:00 eastern on c-spafpblet you can go to facebook.com/c-span to share your thoughts and comments via twitter. use the #v-spanchat. >> when i started covering congress you had people like senator russell long, wilbur mills, danny rostenkowski, howard baker, people who were giants in their own way. got a couple of those guys themselves into trouble. but overall, these were people who knew how -- they were all very intelligent. they knew how to craft legislation, they knew how to do a deal and they all worked with whoever the president was, whether it was their party or the other party. yes, it was politics, but at the end of the day they usually found a way to come together and make decisions for the good of the country. today, you don't see that anymore. first of all, i think the quality of the congress, house and senate, in terms of their intelligence and work ethic has diminished. they're still great people and i shouldn't malign -- there are wonderful members on both sides, but i think that they are a minority. i think increasingly people are driven b

write us at facebook.com/c-span. >>. >> one of the things people don't always recognize is that during the war of 1812 it was fought from 1812 until after 1814, early 1815. it was really about america re-establishing its independence against the british. this was sort of our second american revolution. this flag is the object for which francis scott key penned the words which became our national anthem. >> the image in 1995 that the flag was made to look whole and restored. there was a whole bottom section that was reconstructed. when the flag was moved into the new exhibition space there was a deliberate decision by the cure it curators is not to do that again. it's tattered, and torn but still survives. the message is the survival of the country and the flag. we are not trying to make it look pretty. we are trying to make it look like it's endured its history and can still celebrate its history. >> this year marks the 200th anniversary of the british naval bombardment of ft. mchenry during the war of 1812. learn more about the flag francis scott key wrote about while we tour the smit

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join in the conversation at facebook.com/c-span and also on twitter at #chat. >> russia as united states is a nation which believes in its mission, and our missions are pretty similar. we believe in freedom. we believe in distributing our core values, which suddenly disappeared in '90s and 2000s. but it didn't go anywhere, you know, because at our core it was still there, and the biggest national idea for us during all those years was the victory day. that is our main national holiday, and that's what unites the whole nation is the fight against the fascists. and how it was presented to the nation by president putin is that in ukraine those are western sponsored fascists who came to power, and he illustrated that with flags of former ukrainian liberation army who were allied with us during world war ii, and so he used this to prove that these are fascists who are fighting against both russian and ukrainian nation. so it's misinterpretation that we are looking just to protect russians. no, for the overwhelming majority of russians we are continuing world war ii and we are liberating, real

you can join in on facebook.com/c-span.nie says -- there is this from harry who much prefers policy. dana says this. president obama break about ending the iraq war. now he says he did not. he is incapable of telling the truth. speaker of the house john boehner also weighing in on all of this. this is what he had to say. [video clip]an.or >> the white house thought the american people were going to cheer when the president released these terrorists. i think his misreading of the american people is shocking. presidentked for the for a strategy to reverse the momentum of terrorism. i heard a little bit about iraq yesterday. the white house is known for months about the situation in iraq. not just iraq, it is libya, egypt, syria. of terrorism has increased exponentially under the president's leadership. i said i hoped the president would seize this moment and take look at thisou presidency and can't help but get the since the wheels are coming off. " a poll saying the president -- the survey -- just 37% approve of his handling

is facebook.com/ c-span. only for the extracted chemical use for pain relief in cancer studies. there are other comments on facebook as well. we will start with new york. this is james. good morning. what do you think? think that marijuana should be legalized. i believe it was always in the wrong category as a narcotic with cocaine and heroin. restricted the amount of research and development that could be done with cannabis-based products. we have been way behind on all of this. right from the get go, from here on through research and development we need to find out that cannabis-based products not only have a great medicinal use recreationalave a ability. of it. huge supporter think about the hemp products from this.be made clothing, paper products, if everybody could grow hemp on every farm in this country, we would not have to cut down another tree. would there be some consequences for allowing recreational use? how do you work around map? just like he did with alcohol. i don't see any difference. i truly believe that alcohol is worse than cannabis could ever be. is all fro

you can offer your remarks at facebook.com/c-span.lsewhere on capitol hill today, defense secretary chuck hagel is testifying on the administration's high profile -- five high profile prisoner change for army sergeant bergdahl. his hearing started just after 10:00 this morning. it's live on c-span radio and c-span.org. we'll show you as much of this as we can until the house returns at noon eastern. >> those negotiates as we were told in a briefing last week started in january of this year. with the tape, with the other things that went forth. and i have been told in a couple of different briefings now that somewhere, i think the final number given to us a couple days ago, was somewhere between 80 and 90 people in the department of justice, state department, the homeland security, i guess was one of them, and department f defense knew about this. 80 to 90 people. the only one i know of that was elected was the president, perhaps the vice president. we don't know who those 80 or 90 people were. yet in all that time the leadership of th

facebook.com/cspan. lots of posts to look at. c-span chat as well on twitter. we'll take you live shortly to the white house briefing. plenty of time to call in and make your opinion known. a couple of comments on twitter. michael burgess saying people can visit gm ignition update.com. that's a website general motors has set up. here is a look at the website on the ignition recall and the latest information. gm just this week recalling several million vehicles. let's go to gerald in pittsburgh who owns a gm vehicle. what are you driving and what do you think about the trust level in gm? >> caller: i drive an '03 tracker. it's 11 years old but i have low mileage on it. i pretty much trust gm. i have had good service from them. the thing with the ignition switches certainly set them back. it should have been -- the problem should have been remedied early on. but i pretty much trust gm. i have had good service from them. >> "new york times" writes as early as december of 2000 drivers of the chevy impala and other vehicles began lodging complaints about stalling wi

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facebook.com/cspan for more. ashley in clarksville, tennessee. ashley, this is on the independent line. >> thank you for c-span. with the speech of the president, i do not believe he should be able to take executive action for what is going on on the border. we have laws right now that are on the books that are not being enforced. we have an immigration border protection service that is being trampled by young people, children and parents with across thelking border and turning themselves in because they know they will not be deported or the process for deportation will take at least 10 years. if you have a 10-year-old walking across the border with the mother or relative, 10 years from now 20 years old and will otheris child knows no country except for america, we need to make them legal. >> vice president biden joined the president and president mentioned the vice president had several of the central american countries from which most of these immigrants are coming, honduras, guatemala, el salvador and that secretary kerry would be in those countries as well. next up, honolulu. catherine on the republican lin

c-span chat. we also are taking your reaction on facebook. go to facebook.com/cspan. we will note about to earlier this year when the supreme court held the oral argument in the case. we will show that you now. it is about 90 minutes. >> we'll hear argument this morning in consolidated cases number 13354, sebelius, secretary of health and human services v. hobby lobby stores, and 13356, conestoga wood specialties corporation v. sebelius. mr. clement? >> mr. chief justice, and may it please the court, when a federal government agency compelled employers to provide something as religiously sensitive as contraception, it knew that free exercise in rfra claims would soon follow. in particular, the agency itself provided exemptions and accommodations for the religious exercise of a subset -- >> is your claim limited to sensitive materials like contraceptives or does it include items like blood transfusion, vaccines? for some religions, products made of pork? is any claim under your theory that has a religious basis, could an employer preclude the use of those items as well

facebook.com/cspan. the conversation on iran continues his have been as the washington institute hosts a panel that will analyze the escalating violence with speakers include former u.s. ambassador to iraq, james jeffrey. c-spanwill have live coverage at 12:30 p.m. eastern. on c-span2 will be live at 1 p.m. eastern with today's defense department briefing. press secretary where admiral john kirby will answer reporters questions. then at 6 p.m. eastern hillary clinton recounts her tenure as suggested as she talks about in a new memoir, hard choices. she speaks with a former speechwriter at the george washington university here in washington, d.c. we will have live coverage here on c-span2. >> when i started covering congress, you had people like senator russell long, wilbur mills, danny rostenkowski, howard baker, people who were giants in their own way. a couple of those guys got themselves into trouble. but overall, these were people who knew -- they were all very intelligent. they knew how to craft legislation. they knew how to do a deal and they all worked with whoever the president was weather was their part or the other party. yes, there were politics but at the end of the day they found a way to come to