gregory meeks, a member of the foreign affairs committee, welcome. glad to have you here in studio.lity the success of talks? >> from all signs, things are moving progressively. from -- it's been indicated by the iranian spokesperson and listening to some of our allies in the p5 plus 1, things are moving forward. for me, you take it day by day, step by step, you, you know, trust and verify, move forward and see where we go and where we are a few months from now. so far, so good, i think. >> the talk of sanctions, let's look at the number count. the ap reports 59 senators are backing new sanctions eight away from the needed. the house has the necessary votes. where do you come down on new sanctions? >> i'm concerned. clearly, i think that, you know, we have our problem with iran. iran has not lived up to some of its commitments in the past. but, this is a new development for me. we have five nations plus one that are negotiating and these are our allies. what's made it successful, forced iran to the table is the unified effort of our allies to force them to the table. i'm concerned m

to another politician is certainly no stranger to federal investigations new york congressman gregory meeks makes is being investigated for receiving a forty thousand dollar low interest loan in two thousand and seven and two thousand and twelve an investigation was launched into his organization for and explicitly misappropriating thousands of dollars intended for victims of hurricane katrina in fact meeks has been named one of the most corrupt members of congress by citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington three separate times what a guy when it comes to favors and dollars it's kentucky congressman how rogers who takes the cake mr rogers is under investigation by the inspector general of the u.s. army why is the earmark millions of taxpayer dollars toward a corporation whose the lobbyists have donated thousands to his campaign this seventeen term congressman is also the chairman of the house appropriations committee you know those folks who oversee. the our location of our taxpayer dollars which are about to see that the public purse is in good hands i don't want to leave our

gregory meeks is the ranking democratic member. can hear it live coverage on c-span radio or watch the hearing live on c-span3. those are the latest headlines on c-span radio. by 1895 or so, 9 different inlroads terminated chattanooga and that created quite an economic base. every railroad had a switching .ard or repair shop great terminal in the southeast. all of that employment, all of that money turning over by the provided the economic stimulus to the growing city of .hattanooga even state railroads move an amazing amount of carnage -- even today railroads move an amazing amount of tonnage through chattanooga. train after train after train loaded with grain going to the seaports in the atlantic coast or power plants in georgia, etc. there are still a lot of commodities that moved by rail. due to the terrain they have to come through chattanooga. >> this weekend on booktv and american history tv, a look at the history and literary life of chattanooga, tennessee. saturday at noon on c-span2 and sunday at 5:00 p.m. on c-span3. >>