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c-span.org, or you can go to the c-span radio app and download that allison to what they are debatingis is the headline in "the washington times" -- left launches late rally to delay net neutrality repeal. groups associated with -- host: some also say that the public commentary where they received 23 million public comments, some democrats are saying there were false or fraud comments put on the fcc's website, and they say because of that they should be delaying today's vote as well. times"dline in "new york madel of this activity has a former lawyer for verizon and a longtime government bureaucrat the target of many angry protests. in recent days, government officials and dozens of democratic members of congress have asked the fcc to delay this vote. again, 10:30 a.m. eastern time on c-span3, c-span.org, or get the radio app. randall in stephenville, texas. republican. caller: i am going to try to be an american. and down thep scale on different issues, so i am 20 try to be an american -- i am going to try to be an american. allison to mr. davidson. that is just capitalism -- wanting

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just think it is about time that this has finally come to light and i thank you for taking go c-span.ost: to suzanne in kent, washington, line for independents. suzanne, good morning. caller: hi, i'm calling because a feeling i know why don young has been in office so long. he's been around what, 40 years now? waiting for the president because his tax bill when the president does, they little piece of legislation that will turn over the most beautiful, in all ofeces of land alas to take it from the native americans who have lived lives and then they're going to go in there and drill 2000 g to square miles and try to pull oil of that land. guess who is going to get a way?e payoff along the don young. bye. washington. christopher is in tallahassee, florida, republican, good morning. caller: hey. host: go ahead. caller: i didn't think i was get through so quick. first of all, i seen your bus yesterday down by the capital, i really appreciate you bringing it to the capital city. checking itiate you out on the 50 capitals tour. appreciate you all, your representatives asked our concerns ab

it's going to get bad. i hope c-span is ready for this. for c12 12 euros henry pace was brought in, he was told is going to have to have this leg removed without any anesthetic. when he was told this he asked the surgeon was it would hurt, as children do the assertions that it would hurt no more than having a twofold. henry pace was there and prepared for what was to come to you was brought into the operating theater, blindfolded, restrained. he was still awake, still loose. he remembered counting strokes of the saw before his leg fell off. we are so lucky not to have to endure at the horse of pre-antiseptic surgery. i i imagine c-span will blur this one. like poor stephen in 1820 he had to have a bladder stone removed. i'm not going to go into too much detail about how that was done in the 19th century. there's a lot of detail in the "the butchering art", that might be an incentive or deterrent even know who you are but you been fairly warned. suffice to say you can tell two very important things from this image. number one, it hurt a lot.

to engage in. >> we will go back to calls. good morning, c-span. mr. dyson, and america. tonight at 7:00 pacific standard 720, the phony race baiters will be exposed in our government left and right. very realistic about the problems during this country apart, i hate to say it, but you sound like an elitist. why does he sound like an elitist question mark -- why does he summit can elitist? >> trump has never said anything racist that i have heard in my life. i think you are pushing this race is a bit too all ofke tearing down our statutes. i think you are a person who would like to tear down all of our statues. you sound like a black elitist like farrakhan, and reverend wright, you are taking a few racists in this country and making it look like the majority of white people hate black people. that is a big mistake. >> i am addressing this already, but anything else? >> it's astonishing, again. the magical powers of our callers to discern my intent or my sociale anatomy of recommendations without reading the, talking to me, assuming that i am saying things that i haven't s

c-span. right now, we go to the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the marriage, we will air the audio this coming friday on c-span. right now, we go to the house of representatives. speaker's room, washington, d.c., december 5, 2017. hereby appoint the honorable jody b. highs to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, paul d. ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will receive a message. the messenger: mr. speaker, a message from the senate. the secretary: mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: madam secretary. the secretary: i have been directed by the senate to inform the house that the senate has agreed to the amendment of the house to s. 371, an act to make technical changes and other improvements to the department of state authorities act, fiscal year 2017. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alt

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to san marcos, texas, sam, line for democrats. go ahead. caller: yeah, good morning. thank you for c-span. so i actually want to say the biggest losers or two losers of 2017, roy moore and donald trump , especially with the harassing claims that were going on everywhere and how donald trump was claiming to roy moore or about roy moore that he is not appreciating roy moore's values or he doesn't support him but he's still, you know, being accused of harassment. and with the recent tweet by donald trump, you can tell that he's kind of -- he's kind of edgy on this whole harassment thing when he tweeted out -- ♪ i like big ♪ host: and we will move on to bill, line for independents. bill, go ahead. [indiscernible] how can you pass a law and put a trillion dollar debt in this country? i don't understand it. and we, the taxpayers, we're going to have to pay this off and by doing that, we cut the senate. we cut the congress. we cut the pay in half. we cut the per diem in half. and we cut their staff on the two people. one that's in d.c. and one in the state. if these guys tagged up together and pas

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i'm so glad i do not have to go to jail for saying that. thank you, c-span. we appreciate the call. merry christmas to you. morgan on the democrats line. go ahead. caller: good morning. thank you for c-span. that woman that was just on is one of the problems. they have totally taken jesus and related his image and what his image and what he stood for. they are full of sin, bigotry and hatred and are trying to use jesus to justify it. but they will pay the price of what they have done. real quick, the bible is clear. who youot love god cannot see and not love your brother who you see, excuse me, every day. that is why all this racism and bigotry that is going on is against the very nature of god. and these people with their fake christianity, people need to understand that calling yourself a christian does not make you one. that is how you live and how you treat people, especially how you treat people who have less than you. have a good day, happy holidays to everyone. host: from the jerusalem post, the big story at the united nations, 128 nations declaring the

a lot to watch here on c-span today. go to c-span.org for all of our coverage details. a lot of back-and-forth in washington today as lawmakers try to pass a continuing resolution to keep the government running for one month as a long-term deal was not in the cards right now. dorothy in arkansas. you are somewhat concerned about our nation's debt. go ahead. caller: yes. i was concerned because the children's health insurance program is going to be the poor going to suffer and the rich are going to keep getting richer if they are not very careful with priorities. because a lot of poor people don't know how to work the system and when they lose funding they lose their health insurance and the children's health insurance program is very very important to me. very important. pelosiisten to nancy yesterday. this is what she said about the impact of this tax cut. >> the gop said it would pay for itself. instead it will explode the national debt. on that score when speaker ryan was asked this morning while mitch was in the small hours -- this morning. he was saying the speaker

going to a co-management scheme, so tribes will say how theyw some are managed. host: lauren up next, baltimore, democrat's line. caller: hi, hello. i love c-span, thank you, caller.me i spend money going to national the when i can and monuments are national parks in the making. a canyon was proclaimed monument by teddy roosevelt, usingan tick wittys act to it uranium mining. i watched the speech yesterday, talking about the monument to thepeople access back land. the truth is, right now they have access, you can hunt, graze cattle, people can hike and bike. these places are an economic powerhouse in and of themselves. plus billion economy out of them. it is important people realize and work to keep the places in tact. here is more on the chopping block. there is 27 in total, these are just the first two. concerned about this and the onuments and i love to hear your guest speak on the issue. host: noelle straub, could you alk about the economic aspect and expand on that? guest: absolutely. the outdoor industry recreation, recreation industry is very, issue.nvolved in the several big companies have changed the front page of their today. yesterda

president, c-span is an interesting phenomenon. when i go back home to illinois, i run into people who say i saw you on c-span, and i often joke and say do you have trouble sleeping? why are you watching c-span? because i wonder who it is that really watches c-span. it could be a lot of people who are really fascinated by politics. it could be folks who are finding it difficult to sleep. and it could be some older folks who just pass the time by watching what goes on on the floor of the senate and the house. but tonight i think we have a special audience on c-span. tonight i think it is entirely possible that we are going to have the wealthiest section of crowd awed yens, television viewers in the history of c-span. do you know why? they have a bill coming up, a bill that is designed for them, for the wealthiest people in america. and so they are probably at this point trying to figure out how to livestream c-span onto their yachts so they can see if this tax bill is going to pass. why would they do that? why would they be tuned in? because this is the b

go to bill pressshow.com. we are on every platform, like c-span, we have a podcast. we are on free speech tv, part of directv. we are on youtube. you can stream live. you can connect with all of those, going to bill press show .com. host: let's go back to this photograph, yesterday in the new york times, from the south lawn of the white house. among those on hand, the chair of the senate finance committee, orrin hatch. >> mr. president, i have to say that you are living up to every, everything i thought that you would. you are one heck of a leader. and we are all benefiting from italy could not have passed- -- and this could not have passed without you and the leadership in the house and the senate, paul ryan and mitch mcconnell. and other leaders as well. all i can say is that we are making headway and this is just the beginning. just stop and think about it my this president has not even been -- about it, this president has not even been in office a year and look what he has gotten done. i just hope we all get behind him every way we can and we will get this country

to take votes on a corporate governance bill. we'll have live coverage when they get back here on c-span. until then we're going to bring you debate on the tax reform measure from earlier today starting with the opening rules debate. cuts and jobs act. mr. speaker, last evening the senate on a vote of 51-48 passed the tax cuts and jobs act which i believe is in the interest of the american people. this is a bold, pro-growth plan that will overhaul our tax code and unleash the free enterprise system. it lowers tax rates on businesses of all sizes so the job creators can focus more on bringing not

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and how far you can reach and the speed of the communication. >> for the full schedule, go to book tv.org. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. >> following a brief tour the president made remarks at the opening of the mississippi civil rights museum in jackson, mississippi. he spoke at a private gathering before the official opening ceremony took place. some civil rights leaders including the georgia congressman john lewis objected to the president being invited. the president is introduced by the mississippi governor phil bryant.

listen in on c-span, c-span.org or you can get the c-span radio app. they're expected to go the day, voting incrementally on all the issues that were raised during the 2016 primary process. again, c-span, c-span.org or the c-span radio app. chuck in alabama. independent caller. hi, chuck. good morning to you. caller: yeah. thank you for taking my call and allowing me to make some comments. if you'll let me make about three points. about roy moore -- i'm originally from gagston and i live about 23 miles from the county. oore was elected circuit judge in that county about 40 years ago and he was a popular judge but the liberals, they were after him from the first day because he put behind the bench a frame of the 10 commandments. and he kept them there. every -- all through his lections as circuit judge. he was battered. they tried to get him out there but they couldn't because he as so popular. now comes this 14-year-old girl and her mother doubts her story. and it's been said in the paper they were inundated by these reporters. ey just kept coming in groves. ll hours of the

with the house judiciary committee, you can also go to c-span.org and the c-span radio app to find outout that hearing. tax conferees me today to start work on the tax reform effort at 2:00. watch that on c-span3, and the president will sign his closing argument for tax reform at 3:00. those conversations taking place at the treasury department. you can look for that at c-span.org. the lead on one of the stories in the "wall street journal," takes a look at information that came out yesterday. about exchanges made by members of robert mueller steam -- former members of robert mueller's team. an agent and a lawyer who were involved in the investigation to hillary clinton email investigation exchanged texts disparaging donald trump. host: a goes on to show the other content from the email and you can read that in the "wall street journal." max's first from rockwell, maryland. republican line. caller: last night, when i was watching the coverage of the election in alabama, i saw that n and i was disappointed that eight libtard like him could win in the god-fearing seelig america actually

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going to conference with the u.s. senate. live coverage of the house now on c-span. 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 rooms, washington, d.c. december 4, 2017. i hereby appoint the honorable bradley byrne to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, paul d. ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. chaplain conroy: let us pray. god of wisdom, we give you thanks for giving us another day. the great compromise, benjamin franklin addressed the constitutional convention. we indeed seem to feel our the want of political wisdom since we have been running about in search of it. in this situation of this assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us. have we now forgotten our powerful friend? lord, you are the powerful friend referred to by franklin, and we turn, again, to you to your wisdom might br

going to hurt us, we can't afford to do that. >> watch "the communicators," tonight at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span two. >> this week on "newsmakers," we are joined by sander levin, longtime member of the health subcommittee. >> glad to be with you once again. >> in studio with us, we have two reporters from the hill. >> nice to be with you, congressman. there's a lot of news happening on the hill and we want to talk you about the tax conference you are participating in, but some of our biggest headlines have been about the sexual harassment obligations against her colleagues, including -- allegations against her colleagues. there have been new allegations against blake farenthold. do you think of the members who have not yet resigned should resign? you have been up there a long time, what have you noticed? is this a big problem on capitol hill? >> well, it's a problem. each case has to be decided on its own. but i think they're really has to be a new day here. i think it's coming. areink the people who responsibly speaking out are doing a credit to themselves in this institution. it's not only thi

in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and is brought to you today i your cable or satellite provider. next on c-span, going counterterrorism director discusses his tenure dealing with threats. visit tosident trump the mississippi civil rights reason opening. later, the dnc unity reform commission meeting. "afterwords,"t on khizr khan recalls his ,mmigration in his book "american family." >> this is a common trait, two things are really common among authoritarian mentalities, and the audience can draw the conclusion. one is they do not like the free press, the free press criticizes them. the second thing is rule of law. they do not like judges and rule of law. me such aad given prospective of not having any civil liberties to having all of these liberties. as we speak further, i will tell you what a moment it was when i went to take the oath of ci

go ahead. >> caller: i to question anything for c-span. on the exemption, i understand the final billtahe eliminates te exemption for individual 4000 for 50 or 150 each. if that the case from a married couple of this $8300 in exemptions and 12,000 gain in the standard deduction would not help the individual that much. mr. rosenstein statement on its contributionstr by employees hih level ought to be considered srs repercussion against the employees, e-mails and so for us involved in that situation. thanks for your answer and that's what i have to say. >> we will be the hair if you want to respond. >> one of the problems with this bill, why it has been so difficult for republicans to sell it to members of their own parties, that there was an uncomfortable number of losers in the belt, people live in blue states that have high state and local taxes are not necessarily going to see a break in their taxes. there are mid-to high-level income families who are not necessarily going to see a break, so there are a lot of families you and i would co

to the house with a scheduled the tomorrow. we will have it live here on c-span television as it goes to, it's. the bill could go number of ways. there are for individual tax brackets. the corporate rate takes effect bill.8 in a house 2019 in the senate bill. democrats say this will blow a hole in the nation's debt which is where we begin this morning on sunday, december 3. the debt growing, and does it concern you? republicans, (202) 748-8001. democrats, (202) 748-8000. independent callers, (202) 748-8002. a number of you are weighing in on our facebook page. thank you for being with us. we want to talk about the tax debate in the house and the senate and what it means for the nation's debt which doubled andr president barack obama it is expected to double again over the next eight years. the debt is $20 trillion and growing. hope republish the -- i hope republican congressman and jim says "crickets when obama overspent and screams of outreach with a tax will that adds one $.5 trillion -- focusing on the democrat. here's the front page of the new york times. , the geo-pre-is sprinting to send the tax overhaul t

c-span two. or, watch it sunday night at 9:00 eastern time on c-span. .org to also go to cspan find other british public affairs programs. "washington journal," live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. monday morning, we will talk about the week ahead in washington with bloomberg congressional reporter anna edger 10, and sarah westwood. and, the state of race in .merica, and its implications c-span's washington journal, live beginning at 7:00 a.m.. join the discussion. the house and senate could vote on the tax reform bill on tuesday. here's more about what is in the bill from today's "washington journal." this is about one hour. steve: sunday roundtable looking at the plant. joining us is andy greene, managing director for economic policy at the center for american progress. and, grover norquist. grover, let us begin with you. will it simplify america's tax code? grover: it will simplify it will reduce it. it is both tax reform, which means a lot of the complications that was there goes away,

c-span in the classroom effort. it's on our website at c-span.org. let's go toan joining us from baltimore. >> caller: good evening. thank you for taking my call. a couple of quick questions. first, the reginald f. lewis maryland museum of african-american history and cultu culture down the road in baltimore has done an excellent job partnering with the department of education to put together an excellent african-american curriculum. they do ongoing staff development, professional development opportunities for teachers. my first question is are there any plans for the national museum of african-american history and culture to do similar types of projects either with nonprofit organizations or any local or other school districts, maybe department of education? who knows? my second question is more personal. as a charter member, i've been trying to log onto the charter member ticket site, and i've been having some difficulty getting any dates. is there any information about how that site is going to be up and running again, or will that be up and running again to

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to push our country forward? it is not simply a question of shall i go on c-span or run for office? it is what can we do to collect and organize americans together so we get the broadest democracy with the best dancers? it is a little bit more complicated than just run or don't run. susan: we have about nine minutes left in the conversation. darren: you have two or three more months to decide in the state of california if you would run for senator or governor. what is the next couple of weeks and months like? are you going to wait until the last minute on the filing deadlines? tom: i don't think so. my expectation is we have been doing -- i've been doing a lot of soul-searching in terms of what i described. in terms of considering a bunch of things away from running for office and what that would look like, and what the likelihood is of having an impact with it and what we can build for the future. i don't think that's the kind of thing -- i know what the filing deadlines are, too. the fact of the matter is if are going to do other things, we have to make plans and get organized. run

charge and why should they go out of their way to help republicans now that they have the white house? host: go ahead. caller: good morning and thank you once again for c-span. it's interesting and sarin dip tuss in terms of the previous caller asking how we get back to normal order as my own question effectively is on the back of that as well and is very much akin to that question. as an independent voter and someone who bleevels that we are in an extraordinary crisis that has been lingering for quite some years now. the question that i have is let's think outside the conventional ultra polarized box for a moment. the framers of the constitution created a constitution wrn the public, the people, the american constituency itself had the capacity to hold a congress and east coastively come together and discuss how they can contend with things if, for example, things in washington and things with the parliamentarian and with the politicians that are supposed to be our elected officials as on posed to our leaders go awry and astray. i would like to pose the question, what constructs should the american people be uelingt liesed in terms of one another as free-t

open phones go to in washington state, republican line. caller: hi. host: hi. c-span, nice to talk to you. i'm wondering, i'd like to state that hillary clinton was investigated because there was probable cause, okay. never not found innocent , okay. people wanted to know, the people wanted to know what she was up to and they were they obstructed and corrupt completely, that is investigation,der for what was being done. that is not important. me is that rtant to constantly we have the democrats running out, making a bunch of false claims and immediately we investigations going. getdes the document used to the warrant was unlawful thing, you know. of these good, decent in le, are being trashed the -- in public. armstrong , dave in creek, wisconsin, independent line. caller: hi. pedro. i'm interested to see where the investigation is going and i anywheres nearis being over yet. i would like to ask c-span to this someone on to clarify uranium one issue and hillary clinton's involvement in it it is people just blurt hillary ay, well, clinton sold 20% of uranium to is russ

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you can go to twitter as well at @cspanwj or facebook.com/c-span. art dialing in, this push for tax reform on capitol hill. the senate expected to take a final vote today. but first, they need to secure more yes votes. the banner page on drudge report -- tax hike to pass tax cut. the final vote was delayed yesterday. these deficit concerns. it played out on the senate afternoon,rday late when democrats pushed for -- many times yesterday, for the bill to be sent back to committee. during one of those votes, we led by senator bob corker, republican from tennessee, get into what looked like a heated exchange with leadership over the deficit. according to the "washington sent" senate leadership lawmakers home after this and began to search for a new way to offset the cost of the legislation. they are looking to win the support of several senators, including mr. corker, who led a small group of colleagues intimating that the bill not drive up the nation's debt. that vote was held open for a little over an hour while they all discussed what will happen nex

go, but i have to do a lot of practicing before i go again. host: let's see if i can get in ken, vermont, texas. go ahead. caller: think is so much for c-span, and i'm listening this amazing and i find it we are being polarized by the need of the parties to survive. we are saying rifts inside each one of them playing against ethnicity to try to get votes and stir up dissension. it is amazing to watch x president obama with eric holder running their deep state organization to play the role they are doing. this, i am ang at older person. i have worked hard all my life, and a lot of other folks have. when you start draining the swamp, the top of the letter looks smooth and calm. you find nasty things you do not like exposed. there is a lot of that running around washington, d c, and americans are tired of it. that is why trump won. i am convinced of that and i will get off my soapbox and listen to your comments. host: ken stern, i'll give you the finest minute -- final minute and a half here. guest: i think ken is right. i will defend my home and a lot of people in it. say there are a lot of people defended -- that are committed to the common