coming up thursday morning, oklahoma republican senator james lankford will join us to discuss a report highlighting unnecessary or excessive federal spending. and then california democratic congressman mark desonier to examine president-elect's donald trump financial interests. and house democrats agenda in the next congress. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" beginning live at 7:00 a.m. eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. >>> all day saturday, american history tv is featuring programs about this week's 75th anniversary of the japanese attacks on pearl harbor beginning at 8:00 a.m. eastern. national archives christopher carter reads from u.s. navy deck logs describing events on ships under attack. followed by the burial of one of the casualties aboard the "uss oklahoma." rs he mains were recently identified. and then tour pearl harbor attack sites with national park service site historian daniel martinez. president reagan's december 8th, 1941 speech to congress asking for a declaration of war followed by the 75th anniversary ceremony at pearl harbor co-hosted by

republican senator james lankford talks about this years federal bumbles report which highlights unnecessary spending across the federal government. congressman mark desaulnier looks at donald trump's financial interests. "washington journal" is live. ♪ host: good morning, everyone come on this thursday, december 8. house lawmakers are preparing to vote on a continued resolution to fund the government until april. it continues the current level of spending for the first four months of 2017, the senate likely to take it up as early as friday. we will talk about the stopgap spending bill. first, we want you to give washington your ideas on where you would cut federal spending. here are the phone lines,

senator james lankford of oklahoma, senator chris chris coons of delaware, senator of minnesota and the one in only dana bash. [applause] thank you for coming how many students are in the room? and how many of you would consider yourselves politically active or politically aware? >> and how many predicted the president-elect would be the president-elect? >> let the record show i see about five hands. we are going to talk about where we are, what is changing, how i bipartisan group is going to interact and govern with a very unusual unprecedented president-elect. i'm going to invite my friend and journalist to enjoy in the question -- to join in on the questioning. we will come to the audience for questions. let me start with a broad question. what do you think it is going to be like? president elect is tweeting about flagburning. he has named new nominees to his cabinet. and moving against certain other things he promised on the campaign. we never had any way like this in the presidency. except andrew jackson served his country. what is the big change going to be? >> no one knows what t

. >>> democratic senators chris coons, amy klobuchar and james lankford on congress, power, health care, and his recent cabinet picks. >>> ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the george washington university and the jack morton auditorium. tonight, as with many that have taken place recently in universities, homes, forums, clubs, and places of congregation throughout the united states, tonight is an even -- an event of careful reflection on our future with learned guests as we move through the annals of history in the wake of the most recent presidential election. as is the tradition of the george washington university and our renowned school of media and public affairs, we are the promoters of respectful dialogue and exchange of views on some of the most delicate issues of our time. the conversation series at smpa has a long tradition of bringing together some of the leading minds in politics and media to engage in healthy debate to advance our democracy and our civic dialogue. behind every headline is a story, and behind every story are ideas and actions. as an institution of higher lear

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chairman james lankford and members of the subcommittee, i am pleased to be here today to discuss therenewable fuel standard program. in response to our request from chairman lankford we entered two studies on the rfs. one study reported on federal efforts to support r and d for advanced biofuels and the current state of technology as well as prospects for meeting the rfs category targets for biofuel production. the second strategy reported on epa's administration of the program and how that administration could be improved as well as it the prospects for meeting the rfs goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions among other things area to do these studies we entered into a contract with the national academy of sciences to identify a broad and comprehensive group of extra experts to assist us in answering a question. last spring we held a group meeting at the academy with 20 of these experts and explored the state of technology and prospects for meeting production targets for advanced biofuels and also met individually with 24 experts identified by the academy to evaluate the adminis

coming up thursday morning, oklahoma republican senator james lankford will join us to discuss the reportighlighting unnecessary federal spending. and the california democratic commitment will look at efforts in the house oversight committee to examine donald trump's financial interests. and the house democrat agenda in the next congress. watch "washington journal," beginning live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on thursday morning. join the discussion. at&t were on capitol hill today to defend the proposed merger between their companies. the senate judiciary subcommittee on antitrust competition policy and consumer rights hearing is about two hours and 45 minutes. >> welcome to the subcommittee on antitrust competition policy and consumer rights. before we start i would like to think the ranking member in her staff in preparing for this hearing today. i would also like to thank the chairman of the full committee for his support of the hearing. after i and the senators give the opening remarks about this hearing, we will hear from our panel of witnesses and i will introduce those witnesses shortly a

coming up thursday morning, oklahoma republican senator james lankford will join us to discuss a report highlighting unnecessary or excessive federal spending. and then california democratic congressman mark desonier to examine president-elect's donald trump financial interests. and house democrats agenda in the next congress. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" beginning live at 7:00 a.m. eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. >>> all day saturday, american history tv is featuring programs about this week's 75th anniversary of the japanese attacks on pearl harbor beginning at 8:00 a.m. eastern. national archives christopher carter reads from u.s. navy deck logs describing events on ships under attack. followed by the burial of one of the casualties aboard the "uss oklahoma." rs he mains were recently identified. and then tour pearl harbor attack sites with national park service site historian daniel martinez. president reagan's december 8th, 1941 speech to congress asking for a declaration of war followed by the 75th anniversary ceremony at pearl harbor co-hosted by