an onboard our bus president john silvanus wilson, junior. they give joining us. guest: good morning, pedro. host: part of your background includes working with the white house on something called an initiative on bcu's. could you talk a little bit about that initiative, and what the white house policy is doing? ? guest: yes, i served under president barack obama as the executive director of hpc you -- hbcu. i happen to be president obama's appointee. the job of the executive director is to do whatever you can to increase the funding from the federal government to the 105, at that point hbcu's. so we worked with the federal agencies, the private sector all in an effort to strengthen the hbcu sector. i thought we got some pretty good results in my time there. the first term of barack obama. just before barack obama took office, the federal government was channeling about $3.6 billion in two hbcu's. that is from all sources. and by the time i left, we were at roughly $5.3 billion. so that was significant progress. host: as i understand it, it was your time when the

host: and that is the present morehouse college president john silvanus wilson, junior. n the c-span bus in atlanta. several colleges in the next. we'll have more next week. president wilson, thank you for your time today. guest: thank you. host: again, if you want more information about this tour, it started at howard university. in the following days, we will speak to the heads of florida a&m university, tucking the university. you can find out more about this tour when you go to our c-span website, www.c-span.org. the the speaker pro tempore: will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communicati m the speaker.

host: and that is the present morehouse college president john silvanus wilson, junior. joining us on the c-span bus in atlanta. several colleges in the next. we'll have more next week. president wilson, thank you for your time today. guest: thank you. host: again, if you want more information about this tour, it started at howard university. in the following days, we will speak to the heads of florida a&m university, tucking the university. you can find out more about this tour when you go to our c-span website, www.c-span.org. the the speaker pro tempore: will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communicati m the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's room washington, d.c., february 11 2015. i hereby appoint the honorable david w. jolly to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, john a. boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will receive a message. the messenger: mr. speaker a message from the president of the united states. the secretary: mr. speaker, i'm directed by the president of the united states to deli