messer said he did nothing but that cabellero and brown were both involved. >> messer said he was ins living room when cabellero and brown raped and murdered denise o'neil in the bedroom. >> i sat there with my fingers in my ears and the tv was up loud. i could barely hear the tv now but i heard her screams. all three men were charged with first degree murder but when dna results came back only one of the three, louis cabellero was tied to the sexual assault. based on the forensic evidence and witness interrogations investigators believe cabellero planned the attack on an afternoon when denise was doing her laundry. when no one was around, he grabbed her and forced her into his apartment. with isaac brown's help gagged and tied her up. he took her atm card and forced her to divulge her pin number. cabellero then left to get some money and on the way back picked up robert messer. isaac brown stayed behind. at some point denise was able to remove her gym membership card and hide it underneath a card board box leaving proof that she had been in cabellero's apartment. when cabellero retu

and alisa messer. >> okay. >> good morning, supervisors, campos and yee, i am the vice president for the para professionals for the united educators of san francisco and also a working parent and i represent the parent professionals who are low income workers in sfusd. and i know that the struggle that it is to keep the health insurance and to make ends meet. uesf supports compromise because it will close the loophole to be sure that the money goes to the working people and there are laws that the public health department to come up with a plan to cover working san francisco. and we appreciate co-sponsors supervisor kim, mar, and avalos and we applaud supervisor yee for his commitment to close the loophole and now let's hope that mayor lee and the board of supervisors move out to cover all working san francisco, as the affordable care act is implemented thank you. >> thank you, very much. next speaker? >> my name is amber bauer and i am the political director at the san francisco labor council and i want to applaud supervisor campos for being steadfast on your work on this issue and

hi jeffrey. >> caller: good morning and thank you representatives messer i just wondered if you could share some thoughts on diane ravitch's research that actually shows charter schools actually perform worse than traditional public schools read in fact not only her research that the research from stanford university says only 17% of charter schools outperform public education. so i wanted to comment on that and the other thing i would like for you to comment on is when the students are in a local community, when students are removed from traditional public schools and put into charter schools and the public funding goes to charter schools and the boards to not function like a traditional public education. they are not subject to the freedom of information act. they are not subject to the same actions in terms of the school board, the school code and so that essentially erodes democracy in our country and i would like to speak about how charter schools would continue to promote democracy in that vein. thank you and i will take my comments off-line. >> guest: thanks. there's a lot in t

. >> indiana congressman luke messer was a 2014 commencement speaker at ball state university. the republican freshman class president of congress told his story to capitol hill which included four years as an indiana state representative and serve as direct your of the state republican party -- dire ctor other state republican party. [applause] >> wow. what a day. thank a university president for that generous introduction and everyone at the university for this tremendous honor. i have a confession to make -- i love amendments. -- commencements. they are day to celebrate achievements and new beginnings for each graduate. it is a day to remember the families and the teachers who have health you reach your goals. i love all of the well earned smiles. congratulations to each of you. congratulations is in order for the university president who is retiring after 10 years of leading this world-class university. you are a force of nature. [applause] she even brought the sunshine today. there was no way it was going to rain on her last commencement. your groundbreaking efforts will l

we're talking with congressman luke messer.he legislation will likely get a vote on the house floor. you can watch that on c-span. the legislation quality charter schools act will consolidate existing charter school grants, refocus the new program to promote higher-quality schools -- charter schools at the state and local level and allow states to use federal funds to start new charter schools and expand and replicate existing high-quality charter schools. caller: thank you. thank you for taking my call. and iformer u.s. marine served 13 years including a combat tour in iraq. is at what point investigate the independent -- our topic.is not we are talking about investigation. if we're talking about terrorism or something related, you're welcome to call back. caller: good morning. senator congressman. i agree with you. you that charter schools are better for the kids today. the public schools of no education at all. my grands kids -- grandkids go to private schools. the unions fight because they do not want the charter schools be

we will hear from governor bobby governor louisiana, patrick of massachusetts, and representative messer of indiana. earlier this month, louisiana governor bobby jindal gave the commencement address at liberty university. the republican governor explained his conversion to christianity as he addressed an audience of 40,000 people at the g, virginia campus. this is 30 minutes. [applause] >> thank you for that very generous introduction. congratulations to the class of 2014. let's give them another round of applause for this wonderful congressman. [applause] -- this wonderful accomplishment. [applause] i have got to warn you in advance i have done a number of these graduations. you will bear with your parents today. you might witness them shedding a tear or two. when you see that come you might think they are replaying the years in their minds. you might think a remember when he first learned how to ride a bike when you took your first steps. you think they will be wondering where all those years have gone by. but you would be wrong about that. those tears you see are tears of joy. from kn

one of the lawmakers giving a speech was indiana congressman luke messer. he spoke to the graduating class at allstate university in muncie earlier this month. he was the president for the 113 congress. he told the story of the path that led him to capitol hill. his speech is about 20 minutes. >> what a day. i want to thank the president for that introduction and every one of the university for this opportunity. i love commencements. they are a day to honor achievement and celebrate new beginnings for each graduate. it is also a day to remember the families and the teachers who helped you reach your goals. i love all the well earned smiles. congratulations to each of you. congratulations also to the university president, who is retiring after 10 years of leaving this world class university. president, you are a force of nature. [applause] she even brought the sunshine today. there was no way it was going to rain on her last commencement. your groundbreaking efforts will leave an indelible mark on this campus for decades to come. thank you for your incredibl

we will start with addresses from louisiana governor bobby jindal, deval patrick thomas luke messer, and georgia senator johnny isakson. tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. with graduation season upon us, we are asking the question, what's your advice to this year's graduates? greg says save your money. stay at home and wait until you are ready to have a family. not what you know but who you know. leave your advice on facebook.com/c-span. >> if we don't step up the enforcement side, the enforcement side brings the media attention. on isly thing we can rely to make these universities and colleges do what they should be doing is for them to get a bad story, first of all, that a lot of the dems. that, to me, would be a depressing conclusion. we've got to figure out some way short of another tragedy hitting the front pages. >> again, i think the changes i have seen that institution start to make our when they are immediately under investigation. we don't know what the fines will be yet. i would almost rather see that investment in that. >> the fines will be paying for this. we have an issue wi

messer of indiana.the chair: pursuant to house resolution 576, the gentleman from indiana, and a member opposed will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from indiana. mr. messer: i want to thank the champlee and ranking member for their leadership on this bill. i rise today to offer a simple amendment that will encourage the opening, republically occasion and expansion of high quality secondary charter schools. too many students don't have the chance to attend the secondary charter schools of their choice because there are simply not enough of these schools to meet the demand for them. many charter networks don't have a secondary school and where there are such schools, the demand for the spots in these schools exceeds the number of slots available. the underlying bill takes a big step in the right direction to meet this challenge by clarifying that state determined waited lotries are permitted under the charter school program. the bill allows for students to continue in the sc

ite messer wide open.se. it's more exciting there's no doubt. >> so a lot of people are paying attention to the draft, myself included because i was looking for michael sam and johnny manziel who went very because clearly the fans want to see him and he's a backup quarterback. >> jimgy haslam said he's their backup quarterback going into camp. if y trend right here. when you draft the quarterback in the first round these days, you go ahead and play them from the start. i would be shocked if johnny manziel does not play. >> how do you think the fans and media are going to take it if he's not the starter. brian hoyer is on the field, throws one incompletion and they're going to go crazy. when you're a quarterback and they draft a quarterback on your football team you'd better play well and win and usually that's not enough. >> how well do you think he's going to do? >> people forget his offenseive quarterback trainer was carl shanahan. he did an unbelievable job with rg3. so i expect him to create a new kind

messer: mr. speaker, i rise in support of this important bipartisan bill, to promote human rights in venezuela. i want to commend my colleague, chairwoman ros-lehtinen, for bringing this important measure forward. it makes clear that as a nation we do not condone recent human rights abuses against venezuelans as they fight for democratic change. venezuelans speaking out for basic rights and freedoms such as the ability to speak freely and live free from intimidation and violence, have been harassed, intimidated, threatened and killed as a result of their desire to determine their own destiny. just this month 41 people have been killed, over 100 injured and 60 tortured in venezuela in response to pro-democracy demonstrations. these are alarming statistics and action must be taken to prevent this violence and hold the perpetrators accountable. this legislation does that by placing sanctions on those in president maduro's government who are responsible for this violence against those exercising thei

messer, four minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized -- the chair: the gentleman is recognized for four minutes. mr. messer: thank you, mr. chairman. rise in support of h.r. 10, the success and opportunity through quality charter schools act. i want to commend chairman kline and ranking member miller for coming together on this important bipartisan legislation. i also want to thank my good friend from indiana, todd rokita, who chairs the subcommittee on elementary and secondary education for his work on this bill and i thank the good member polis for his comments as well and appreciate the opportunity to work with him. every child deserves the opportunity to learn. but too many families in america today live in neighborhoods with struggling schools. where their children don't have access to a high quality education. that is why education choice matters. lots of kids live in communities with great schools, but too many don't. parental choice is the ultimate local control. it allows --

representative luke messer talks about charter schools. later, nicole lee, the outgoing resident of transafrica this gus's efforts to search for the nigerian schoolgirls who were captured. washington journal is on at 7:00 a.m. he could join the conversation --his book, twitter stop these worked when -- facebook or twitter. >> we set up our own prison. we set up our own trap. drugs,u get addicted to every signal the world is sending -- that is a beautiful sunrise. it is a beautiful day. people love you, but everything gets closed-end. all i could think about was, i got to go all stop we get caught up in those traps. we take it on personally. we can see what is really out there. there are angels and mentors to care for you. is "it tv/book selection calls you back." it is by a former gang member, louise rodriguez -- luis rodriguez. join the conversation in our book club chat room. find us on book tv.org. the house is in recess. our live coverage will continue on c-span when members return. earlier, the house adopted a resolution finding lois

and the only thing they could get, they got four screwed up messer schmidt 109s that were put together with mismatched parts from czechoslovakia, flew them into israel, and they were not even bolted together yet. meanwhile, the egyptian army was coming up the coast towards tel aviv which is only about 60 miles. and there was a famous fight called the odd mordecai where women fought in the trenches against the advancing egyptian brigade. anyway, is planning to take his four lanes and attack this base. suddenly onto the air base where they are comes a jeep with a guy who was in charge of the jewish forces defending against the egyptian army coming up. so he said, lou, we need your planes, we need your lanes. lou said, no worries, i'm be attack -- i'll be attacking tomorrow. he says, no, we've got the egyptians held at this half blown up bridge, and if we don't stop them right now, they're in tel aviv tonight, and that's the end of israel. so lou took these four planes up. the bombs didn't work, the guns didn't work. it was a total debacle, but the emotional shock of seeing four messersch

death the british government has denied all the allegations but former lieutenant colonel vehicle as messer who was the british army's most senior legal officer jerry they rock invasion says he saw atrocities with us on nine. as early as march two thousand and three of the war was just days old and i went into the camp to deal with another issue and looked into an interrogation facility where i saw approximately forty prisoners and in stress positions and the use of generators which in my view was being used literally well i would think if you're a prisoner you just freshly caption you're about to be interrogated and someone's got a generator running outside interrogations the city and you got a hold on your head you probably think it's being used to muffle the sound of someone being and to get it out of whatever's going on in the interrogation facility said that the it was part of u.k. doctrine when i complained that it breached the geneva conventions i was told that i got the law wrong it's british under international law under the un convention against torture it's pretty dumb domestic l

hear from governor bobby jindal of louisiana, governor patrick of massachusetts, and representative messer of indiana. >> company's new book includes this man talking about his lifestyle. >> i decided to take it, because whether it's an illusion or not, and i don't think it is, it helped my concentration. it stopped me being board and stopped other people being boring to some extent. it would keep me awake and help the evening to go on long and enhance the moments. if i was asked, would i do it again, the answer is probably yes. i would have quit earlier possibly hoping to get away with the whole thing. of course it sounds irresponsible if i say yes, i do -- the truth is it would be hypocritical for me to say i would never touch stuff if i never had known. and i decided i am going to get a wager on this bit. and i can't make it come out any other way. >> read the interview with christopher hitchens ando featured conversations from our program. now available at your favorite book seller. >> you can now take c-span with you wherever you go with our free c-span radio a.p. for your smartphone

satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> indiana congressman luke messer was a 2014 commencement speaker at ball state university. the republican freshman class president of congress told his story to capitol hill which included four years as an indiana state representative and serve as direct your of the state republican party -- director other state republican party. ctor other state republican party. [applause] >> wow. what a day. thank a university president for that generous introduction and everyone at the university for this tremendous honor. i have a confession to make -- i love amendments. -- commencements. they are day to celebrate achievements and new beginnings for each graduate. it is a day to remember the families and the teachers who have health you reach your goals. i love all of the well earned smiles. congratulations to each of you. congratulations is in order for the university president who is retiring after 10 years of leading this world-class university. you are a force of nature. [applause] she even brought the sunshine today. there

signed, sincerely, luke messer, member of congress. the speaker pro tempore: without objection the resignations are accepted. for what purpose is the gentlewoman from north carolina seek recognition? ms. foxx: mr. speaker, by direction of the house republican conference, i send to the desk a privileged resolution and if -- and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the resolution. the clerk: house resolution 589. ms. foxx: i ask that the resolution be considered as read. the speaker pro tempore: without objection the reading is dispensed with. without objection, the resolution is agreed to and the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i move to suspend the rules and agree to conference report on the bill h.r. 3080. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 3080, an act to provide for improvements to rivers and harr tpwhoferse united states to provide for th

governor bobby jindal had university and massachusetts governor deval patrick representatives luke messer and john lewis at 920 eastern and later georgia senator johnny isakson. that's all on our companion network c-span. the house this week approved a bill that would make it easier for the veterans affairs secretary to fire top workers at the agency. thursday senator marco rubio tried to get the senate to vote on that measure but was blocked by senator bernie sanders who chairs the veterans affairs committee. we will have that debate in a moment. than 50 senators asked the nfl tours the washington redskins to change the team's name. later president obama this is the baseball hall of fame in cooperstown new york. >> madam president i am here in the floor to talk about an issue that has received a tremendous amount of attention and rightfully so over the last few weeks and it's the outrage of what's happening at the veterans administration. let me start by saying while certainly people he be held accountable to this they should not be and really is not a partisan issue. i think we all have

by louisiana governor bobby jindal, massachusetts governor deval patrick and representatives luke messer of indiana and john lewis of georgia. that's at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> what i'm trying to say is that fraud kills, okay? and it's nonpartisan, fraud. and we've got to do something about it. we are, we don't have unlimited budgets, and money gets wasted on a building that's never going to get used is money that could have helped people here in the united states. and you keep seeing this again and again and again. and i'm very proud to work for this administration. i mean, and i think it's important that people realize i was appointed by the president. and inspector generals are independent. but it's important that the people see that the government does care, and there are a lot of people. there are people in aid can and state and pentagon who care about wasting money. >> john sopko on his role as inspector general and how american taxpayer dollars are spent on reconstruction in afghanistan, sunday night at eight on c-span's "q&a." >> now, fbi and homeland security officials test

messer: they get up early and stay up late. often sacrificing their own time and money so our children have a fair shot at future success. they don't do it for fame, though glory they should receive. they don't do it for fortune, though riches they do deserve. they do it because they love their jobs and care about their students. it would be difficult to overestimate the importance of our nation's teachers to our country's strength and prosperity. one of those teachers is my sister-in-law, mandy messer, who teaches elementary school at north decatur elementary. a day should not pass we don't thank our teachers for their service on behalf of our children and country. so today during teacher appreciation week, i say thank you to my former teachers who played such an important role in my own life and i express my gratitude to all the teachers throughout my congressional district who are doing such wonderful work. thank you. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentlelad