marie buerkle will be here. we will be right back. ♪ announcer: this sunday on "oral histories," we continue our series on women in congress with former democratic congresswoman pateder. when we first got elected, i was in this idealistic mode of this is wonderful. how long do you think it will be before almost half of the houses female? so i asked the library of congress or somebody with a thought. they said probably 300 years. [laughter] it is very incremental. very incremental. announcer: in the weeks ahead, we will hear from sue myrick, eva clayton, barbara canales, nancy johnson, and lynn woolsey. watch "oral histories" sunday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. weekncer: on c-span this in primetime, tonight at 10 a p.m.,p.m., -- at 10:00 the net roots conference with cory booker. on friday, more from the netroots conference with senators elizabeth warren and kamala harris. ,his week on c-span www.c-span.org, and the c-span radio app. announcer: "washington journal" continues. host: conor o'brien is the defense reporter with politico joining us this morning. as we try to tackle this massive bill, break it down into its main categories. a