. >> ryan mccrimmon covers appropriation matters for cq roll call as he suggested and the website of his organization has a busy week for congress as, the house as a tackle these issues. ryan mccrimmon thanks for your time. >> thank you. >> we're talking with karen handel who serves of georgia. thanks a talk to us he spent. >> delighted to be a. >> you been a washington a couple of weeks. what is up and like a whirlwind of what an extraordinary opportunity to be able to represent the people of the six district of georgia. >> what was most surprising thing coming into this position that you'v you picked up on in e last two weeks? >> not too much was surprising. it's a fast pace and that's important because we have a lot we need to get done. and then making sure on the issue side and policy side but also getting the team put in place as well. >> on the side of issues most brevis and is coming with some type of learning curve to learn issues but you come in the middle where you get with issues like a debt ceiling at a budget situation. how do you bring yourself up to speed in order to ma

>> ryan mccrimmon covers appropriations. the website of his organization has a busy week, tackling these issues. ryan, thank you. >> coming up next, q&a with david thank you for your time. biographer and gero.sor darrell -- david that's followed by washington journal with your phone calls and a look at today's headlines. >> this week on q&a part two of our interview with poland served davidinning by a for gero. a professor of law and history talks about his book rising star in the making of barack obama priorit covers his life to winning the presidency. you can watch us on our website c-span.org. david gero other of rising star, what was the hardest part of this book to you? aspectmost challenging of doing this book was dealing with the women before michelle obama. i am an academic historian. i am very different in how i deal with people than many journalists are. even when one is talking with intimate, personal hesitant,ips, i am deferential. i don't oppose intrusive questions. ,ut it is very important crucially important,

. >> ryan mccrimmon covers appropriations issues. week for congress, especially the house, as they tackle these issues. ryan mccrimmon, thank you for your time. >> the committee met this week to look at nominations. >> mrs. callista gingrich is the nominee to become the u.s. ambassador. is nominated for counterterrorism. mr. george edward glasses the nominee to be the u.s. ambassador to portugal. is nominated to be the counselor for foreign affairs. i want to welcome the nominees, their families, and this committee congratulates them on their selections. we havee that congressman rooney here supporting mrs. gingrich. he was the ambassador to the holy see during president bush's term. we are honored to welcome our distinguished colleagues who will introduce our witnesses. and sen.ron wyden, portman: ohio -- from ohio. thank you for your courtesy. as senator portman knows, we are in the middle of debating tax reform. i know it is a topic of great interest to many senators, and i am trying to help out chairman hatch. i will make this a f

mccrimmon. reporter when it comes to issues of appropriation. thanks for joining us. on your website, you have a piece along with other rollcall reporters saying that the quorum will be busy when it comes to issues, including appropriations, and one of those --ls with the on the this the omnibus spending deals. ryan:

mccrimmon. >> a reporter on issues -- thank you for joining us. you have a piece on your website with other reporters saying that the health core will be busy next week when it comes to issues including appropriations. one of those dealing with the senate. four spending bills. walk us through this. next week the house will take up a spending package referred to as a minibus -- four appropriations bills in one, so they are taking a bills to fund the military, energy programs, water projects, the legislative

covers mccrimmon appropriations. the website of his organization has a busy week, tackling these issues. ryan, thank you. ryan: thank you. announcer: join us on c-span3 sunday for in american history tv live special, the 1967 detroit riots 50th anniversary. at noon, pulitzer prize winning historian heather thompson of the university of michigan and an editor, stephen henderson. at 1:15 p.m., the former detroit police chief isaiah mackinnon. and journalist tim kiska. and in american history tv special, the 1967 detroit riots, 50th anniversary on sunday at noon on c-span3. sunday -- >> when we look at president obama's domestic legacy, i think there are two things that are very important that will have long-lasting good consequences for the united states that can be summarized in four words -- his two nominees to the supreme court. >> the second of our two poor interview -- two part interview with mr. gero who talks about whichok "rising star" covers president obama's life of to the presidency -- up to the presidency.

mccrimmon. reporter when it comes to issues of appropriation. thanks for joining us. on your website, you have a piece along with other rollcall reporters saying that the quorum will be busy when it comes to issues, including appropriations, and one of those --ls with the on the this the omnibus spending deals. ryan: the house will be taking up this spending package called a minibus. are taking up fund the military, energy programs and water projects, the legislative ranch itself, and veterans programs. that are four bills popular among republicans. this should be a partisan exercise. it is not expected to get a lot of democratic support if any. there should be a pretty partyline vote. there will be a lot of amendments. i think it will go late in to the night, several nights this week, so we have a busy week ahead of us in appropriations. >> one of the things you talk about is the lack of support from democrats. talk about the border wall and how it factors in. ryan: that is a big part of it. i think this would have been a fairly partisan package regardless of the wal

. >> ryan mccrimmon covers appropriations. the website of his organization has a busy week, tackling these issues. ryan, thank you. >> coming up next, q&a with david thank you for your time. biographer and gero.sor darrell -- david that's followed by washington journal with your phone calls and a look at today's headlines. >> this week on q&a part two of our interview with poland served davidinning by a for gero. a professor of law and history talks about his

. >> ryan mccrimmon covers appropriations. the website of his organization has a busy week, tackling these issues. ryan, thank you. ryan: thank you. announcer: tonight on q and a. we'd look at president obama's domestic legacy, i think there are two things that are very important that will have consequences good for the united states they can be summarized in four words, sonia sotomayor and elena kagan. the second part of our two-part interview with david garo, rising star, the making of barack obama, covering barack obama's life up to winning the presidency. course of barack obama's presidency, there were scores and scores of people in illinois who had known him years were deeply disappointed with the trajectory of the obama presidency, and disappointed in two ways. number one, disappointed that barack forgot many of the people, most of the people who were is central to his political rise. 8:00 p.m. tonight at eastern on c-span's q7a. announcer: c-span's washington journal live every day with news and policy issues that impac