and joining me is gwen moore of wisconsin, and good morn, congresswoman. >> it is fantastic being withng. >> i know that the cbc sent a list of questions to paul ryan in advance of the meeting, and have you heard back from him, and what do you want out of the meeting? >> well, first of all, chris, this is not an ambush. we have sent the questions to him. we see it as an opportunity to have a serious discussion with him about poverty, and about ways to alleviate the lack of job and job opportunities with african-americans as we speak with paul ryan having one of the classic discussions of poverty in the budget committee right now as we speak. what we want to do is to challenge his assumptions about the laziness as it were of the inner city men, and, you know, point out some very specific proposals that we have regarding training opportunities and the economic development opportunities that help not only african-american men, but all poor people called the so-20 -- called the 10-20-30 program, and we want to challenge him on the assumptions that creating gre greater inequality is good fo

i don't think there is much room on the fiscal issues for compromise. >>> gwen moore gwen moocongress so much. >> thank you for having me, too. i think your panel is just spot-on. because right before this meeting with the cbc paul ryan is having yet another hearing on poverty, he's having two very distinguished black conservatives, bob woodward and wish shholloway. i hope he really wants to converse with us and not just cya. >> i hope you're right. >>> the panel stays with me. >>> still ahead, closing the confidence gap among women even as we speak of the possibility of two female presidential contenders. that is coming up. woman: everyone in the nicu -- all the nurses wanted to watch him when he was there 118 days. everything that you thought was important to you changes in light of having a child that needs you every moment. i wouldn't trade him for the world. who matters most to you says the most about you. at massmutual we're owned by our policyowners, and they matter most to us. if you're caring for a child with special needs, our innovative special care program offers strategie

. >> joining me now is democratic congresswoman from wisconsin gwen moore.hank you very much for being here. i would like to ask you about when you put together the president's two speeches this week, what do you think his message is on the state of civil rights today? >> well, i can tell you that he presented himself as the epbodiment of what the civil rights movement produced. really, the ability for african-americans to vote for representatives of their own choice and to have some power in that. i think that his speech was inspirational. i think that it was designed to mobilize and motivate voters to rise up, despite the voter suppression laws that are being put out there now. >> ma'am, it's been about ten months or so since the supreme court struck down parts of the voting rights act. what do you see the effect of that so far? >> i can tell you the effect of the voting rights act being struck down is really emboldened several states since then to initiate more voting restriction laws, including voter i.d. laws, ending early voting, the souls to the polls

earlier today, my colleague across the aisle, gwen moore, and i introduced a resolution supporting the goals and ideals of prail as sexual assault awareness and prevention month. i'm glad to see we are coming together in this chamber on a bipartisan basis to identify this issue, speak about this issue, and coming together to solve this critical problem for americans across the nation. also, i just wanted to say, from this personal experience as a husband, as a father of a beautiful girl who is 15, the uncle of my beautiful niece who went through this horrific can't on, that we just express enough how horrific and tragic sexual assault is when it comes to families, young men and women, men and women across the country. i stand here today to say no more. with that, i'd like to at this point in time yield some time to my good colleague, mrs. capito, to speak on this important issue. mrs. capito: thank you. i'd like to thank the gentleman from new york for bringing highlight to an issue that we all feel a certain sadness that has to be highlighted. i'm sorry for his personal tragedy for hi