mr. edwards a question and mr. edwards you have a minute to respond and mr. vitter gets a 30 second review. the topic is governing style. >> john bel, you talk about shared sacrifice given the enormous challenges we face as a state. but when i look at your concrete record, and others look, i don't see the shared sacrifice from yourself and other insiders. i see something different. after coming into office, you voted for yourself getting 123% pay raise. you noted for yourself to get a per diem increase. you opposed a bill to mandate governments and illegal gifts. you expressed opposition to the concept of term limits. this really does go to governing style. what real sacrifice will you ask of political insiders and politicians? not just hard working taxpayers who have to pay more and more for government. >> senator vitter, you have been lying sideways to the public. you make $40,000 more a year now than when you got elected to the senate. that is more than i make -- you make more per month than i make into year. so i am not taking a back-seat to you on any of

mr. edwards, question for mr. vitter. >> david, you have consistently voted against job training against louisiana's veterans many who are seeking employment after their dedication and service. what kind of plan is it if you not dedicate your time to this? >> i have a strong record in terms of supporting our veterans. it starts with individual cases. helping them get the proper treatment and benefits they need. i spend a lot of time personally, along with my great staff, helping veterans on those issues with great results. talk to the veterans who have interacted with my office. talk to them and ask them how they feel about my representation of them. we are getting community-based clinics >> the question is about job training. >> job training at the va. i sponsored legislation as the chair of the small business community to put increased fluence through the va specifically for veterans as they make the transition from war time to work. i helped lead that effort. >> david, your record is you voted against the gi's

mr. edwards. it's now your opportunity to pose a question to mr. vitter on this topic of education. >> sure. just like bobby jindal with whom you share all the same political values, you were for common core before you were against it. and the fact you were a strong supporter of common core then you were against it in a fund raising letter then you were for it again and now you've flip-flopped again and you want people to believe you're against it. u you've repeatedly put your personal interests ahead of the common interests. and when political winds change, so do you. so just like bobby jindal you put personal ambition over what is best for our students and teachers. so on this issue why should louisiana parents trust you today? >> well john bel, you're talking about common core first of all. it's you who said at the press club, quote, with respect to the common core state standards i'm okay with those standards, close quote. you supported that. you said that. it's you said in the advocate in 2014 quote the standards themselves are fine, closed qu

edwards: mr. chairman, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 18 printed in part a of house report 114-326 offered by ms. edwards of maryland. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 512, the gentlewoman from maryland and a member opposed each will control five minutes. charity recognizes the gentlewoman from maryland. ms. edwards: -- the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from maryland. ms. edwards: thank you very much, mr. chairman, and thank you again to the chairman and the to the ranking member -- and to the ranking member. representative comstock of virginia and i have an amendment that's at the desk and i don't have to tell my colleagues who ride metro every day to and from work of the issues that metro has had with safety performance and management. our bipartisan amendment gives the secretary of the united states department of transportation the authority to appoint the four federal members to the washington metropolitan area transit authority board.

mr. edwards: together, always putting louisiana first. always tackling our biggest challenge together. together restoring opportunity , and prosperity for the great people of the great state of louisiana. now, let me tell you it is going to be difficult. but with god's blessing and your hard work and your prayers we will prevail whether it is our finances, education, job creation, transportation, taking care of the environment. we are going to prevail. and i want to invite all louisianans of all persuasions, all ethnic groups, everybody from all over the state of louisiana. i don't care your economic station in life. i want to invite all of you to join with us, to work hard, to work together, to pull together, to move louisiana forward. so, as abraham lincoln once said, to call on the better angels of our nature and catch this breeze of hope that these deep and abiding issues can be dealt with in ways that speak to the common good. i am going to be the governor of all the people. [applause] mr. edwards: and i am thanking everybody in loui

mr. edwards first. mr. e minute to respond and then you have a three-second rebuttal. the topic is about governing style threat to john, i would ask about governing style. you often talk about shared sacrifice, particularly given the enormous challenges we face as a state. but what i look at your concrete record, others a picture concrete record, i don't see that shared sacrifice required of politicians, your legislative colleagues, other insiders in the system. i see something different. very soon after coming into office you voted for yourself getting 123% pay raise. in addition you voted for yourself to get a per diem increase on top of that. you have opposed significant ethics reform, opposed a bill to mandate penalties on government employees who take illegal gifts. oppose greater transparency for elected officials. you have expressed opposition to the concept of term limits. so eventually does go to governing style. what real sacrifice will you ask a political insiders, the politicians not just hard-wo

. >> and now joining us on booktv is edward hudgins, mr. hudgins, what is the atlas society that you work with? >> guest: atlas society is named after atlas shrugged about a world collapsing and falling apart because the achievers, the men of the mind and the women to have mind, were being punished not for their vices, but for their virtues, for being productive individuals who loved their work. the book was published in 1957, and one of the reasons it's still a bestseller today is people read it, say, my gosh, this is what's happening today. well, unfortunately, it is happening today, and so what we do is promote a philosophy of individualism, of rational self-interest, of achievement of life on this world, in this world that can be and should be. >> host: are you associated with the ayn rand folks? >> guest: with the ayn rand institute? >> host: yes. >> guest: no. we're actually founded as an alternative, in a sense, to the

mr. edwards? >> well, it's a little bit -- i don't to want say unclear but it depends on who's speaking who did what. at this moment i don't think we want to reveal any of that, right, chief? there were three people, we're pretty certain, acting in concert. let's put it that way. who pulled the trigger is all being worked on to delineate it. we do know, in fact, these are the individuals who were involved in this. >> reporter: did one lead the victim from the apartment into the alley and the other two were involved? >> he was definitely lured from the park where he was playing basketball with some friends. i guess that's the best way to describe it. >> reporter: can you describe the background? what was it between the families? >> this goes back to a number of violent episodes, including a murder. at least -- no, actually, two murders. two murders that we know of. this was the third murder we know of that we're able to identify in a series of events. >> reporter: the gentleman, the second one who'

mr. edwards is trying to reverse the trend in louisiana which has to elected a democrat statewide office in seven years. we will have the debate live tonight at 8:00 on c-span two. an intergovernmental organization whose membership includes all of the member countries of nato called on the u.s. to close the prison facility at guantanamo bay and to transfer, release, or prosecute the remaining prisoners. the "wall street journal" writes the detention of prisoners violates international standards and law. >> good morning. i would like to welcome me of year to this event, the press conference to present the report on the human rights situation of hastanamo detainees that been produced by the office of democratic institutions and human rights. hereto prevented the findings are omar fisher, deputy head of human rights department, and lucille sanger, and advisor on has-terrorism issues who been involved in the production of the report from the very beginning. i hope you had an opportunity to pick up the press release on the way in. on your way out, the report, in hardcopy, will be available on

mr. edwards?uest: i think states can raise their own gas tax whatever they want to pay for their highways. we would have more efficient funding if that were the approach. that is fine with me. bestnot say what the approach for taxes is -- for texas is versus vermont, versus virginia. i think we should let the states decide for themselves. they should be the laboratories for democracy on infrastructure. some states like texas have gone towards athat was used to wident and virginia, which i think worked well. states that have raise the gas tax, how controversial has that been? it is less controversial than the federal government. most people are against raising gas taxes. i would favor a decentralized approach. it is up to legislatures and governors to balance the pros and cons themselves. do they raise the gas tax? do they increase polling? that is probably the most efficient way to raise money for fixing and expanding the interstate. or, do they cut other parts of the budget? statistic is that abo

mr. bel edwards: i love our great state and its wonderful people. i am especially grateful tonight to my beautiful wife. 26 years. my partner. [applause] mr. bel edwards. yes. she is a public school teacher. and she is the last person i talk to every night. i want to thank our children as well. for over two years, they did not see much of their poppa. and i have missed them tremendously. but they are the best children i could ever have hoped for. and i love them very much, and i want to tell them i appreciate them for everything they have done. they have sacrificed like you would not believe, but they knew that tonight was possible. i want to tell you that i thank my family. i am standing next to my mother. a charity hospital nurse a , charity hospital nurse who taught all of her children compassion for their fellow human beings. very much,you, mama, and tonight i cannot help but , think about my daddy. my poppa who i lost in april of last. a great man. a great public servant. who, along with my mother, raised eight children. a wonderful man who love

edwards: mr. speaker, i would inquire of the gentleman, we have no more speakers remaining and i would be prepared to close. but if the gentleman has other speakers, i'll reserve. mr. carter: -- mr. mccarthy: i have two more speakers. ms. edwards: i reserve. mr. mccarthy: i yield three minutes to mr. briody bridenstine. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. bridenstine: i'm convinced what the industry represents. we rely on commercial space in so much and we will see this industry continuing to expand. worldwide internet coverage and remote sensing and weather architect turs, affordable access to space, science and commerce. utilization of space resources and the list goes on. we must make sure that we as members of congress does president do anything that stifles this industry. this act is crucial. the most important aspect is the extension of the so-called learning period where a moratorium on human space flight. need to create it on real data. the bill exte

mrs. ethel kennedy, the wife of senator robert kennedy. there is senator robert kennedy. senator edward kennedy, his wife and the senator himself. the prime minister of ireland has just been presented. i correct myself. that is senator edward kennedy now. the cardinal is approaching the holy father behind senator edward kennedy. the deputy prime minister and the foreign minister of ireland. you see the delegates, the senior officials of the secretary of the organization, the cardinals of the papal party. coming now is the foreign minister of france who has been presented followed by the french permanent representative to the united nations. the pope, of course, during the official visit of the general two years ago, he was accompanied by the foreign minist minister. the exchanges words with the prime minister. the ambassador. the foreign minister of chile. the secretary of state, dean rusk, followed by the ambassador, the united states permanent representative. mrs. goldberg, the ambassador's wife. an expresident of the general assembly of peru. and the madame. >>> c-span presents landm

edwards: mr. chairman, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 18 printed in part a of house report 114-326 offered by ms. edwards of maryland. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 512, the gentlewoman from maryland and a member opposed each will control five minu.

mr. edwards, we've been looking for him for quite some time.rews, and then we're going to hear from the sergeant who supervised the investigation, and then i'll come back up and we'll take your questions, okay? dean? >> so, one of the things we're going to do and provide for you today is kind of a recap and a timeline of the investigation and what got us here today. before we do that, i want to thank the detectives, the supervisors involved, and everyone that worked on this case. their service, their professionalism, their integrity was just exemplary. they worked literally 24 hours, seven days a week, never wavered, and all of our cases are important, extremely important to us. this one was a little bit different. it's truly an act of barbarism. it's a 9-year-old boy that was targeted and executed. police officers have families as well. they have feelings as well, and this one was a little bit different, and i just -- i truly want to highlight their professionalism, their integrity, their dedication, and i mean, they went days and days and day

mr. chairman. >> thank you ms. edwards and without we go to mr. farah told for an opening statement. santa thank you very much mr. shuster. investing in this country's infrastructure should be a top party for congress. as a member of the house transportation and infrastructure committee i was delighted to work on the important passage of a multiyear transportation bill which is critical to all those responsible for maintaining and using america's roads and bridges. this bill provides more flexibility and certainty for states and local government accelerates project delivery and promotes innovation to make our transportation programs more effective. in my own state of texas we have seen massive growth both in population and in our economy which presents a major and unique challenge for state to build and maintain our current and future infrastructure. with major projects underway such as completing interstate 69 rebuilding the harper bridge in my hometown of corpus christi and ensuring reliable access for waterways and ports is critical to get to work on completion of the conference r

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right in front of us this one i feel that because of king edward across the street we had a difficult times there was an important facility to mrs. place in san francisco and a enemy i didn't situation their plugged into the city i covet we're within the thousand feet radius of schools and other sources that at risk youth facilities were included in the risk i don't know enough about the business. >> anticipate that will be on the ballot and legalized i'm curious where we are as a city and when the legal phase happens will repermit that citywide are have our own restrictions i don't know about the locations are they grairgd in or someone can educate me but again, it is a difficult one e-mail supporting a continuance at this time. >> commissioner antonini. >> i'm not completely clear on where the green zone begins and evens i'll take the commissioners comments on lombard in the advisory committee general cal hallowing affirmative action and russian hill and marina area other seats that qualify in the near future on larkin somewhere in russian all right on the calendar there are other seats available and quite a few of the sites b

mr. polis: i'd like to yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from maryland. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from maryland is recognized for two minutes. ms. edwards: thank you very much, mr. speaker. i thank the gentleman for yielding. i rise today in opposition to the rule, precisely because it makes in order various export-import bank amendments that are actually designed to kill what we just did to make sure that we could re-authorize the export-import bank. nonetheless, i'm grateful that chairman shuster and graves and ranking members defazio and norton and their committee and the personnel staffs for their leadership in trying to move forward a six-year re-authorization. all of us have acknowledged that this is far from perfect. but the fact is america's literally falling apart, by asphalt, by rebash, by steel, by rail. pot hole by pot hole, just falling apart. the united states now ranks 16th in infrastructure according to the world economic forum. according to the american society of civil engineers, the overall assessment of our infrastructure ranks a whopping d-plus. as some of you remember from "the washington post" back in february, a

mr. speaker, do you agree with that, edward snowden in terms of what geraldo was saying in terms of so muchighted we were that geraldo's daughter was safe and we followed that family dramatic that we really are thrilled. maria: that's true. >> that she is safe. and geraldo's exactly right. first of all, snowden is a traitor, he's a person who has blood on his hands and he has distorted-- we're probably going to have to outlaw encryption not shared with the government. that's a huge change, the fact is, we have sophisticated encryption that the government can't break and that's what the terrorists are using to communicate and find the way it's plain outlawed. and i just finished a novel called "due policety about the somal somalis", there are 124,800 are probably totally patriotic and came over long before this war started and they're settled into the community and we have one in my novel running for congress, a totally patriotic american, but there's a very tiny number, as geraldo pointed out, and this is going to be the challenge. are we prepared to go through the kind of scrutiny to find

mr. chairman. >> thank you, ms. edwards. and to mr. farenthold. >> thank you for investing and modernizing in this country's infrastructure should be a top priority for congress. i was delighted to work on and support the passage of a multiyear transportation bill, which is critical to all those responsible for maintaining and using america's roads and bridges. this bill provides more flex blts and certainty for states and local deposits, promotes innovation to make our transportation programs more effective. in my home state of texas, we have seen massive growth both in population and in our economy which presents a major and unique challenge for our state to build and maintain our current and future infrastructure. with major projects in texas under way, such as completing interstate 69, rebuilding the bridge in my hometown of corpus christi, texas. it is critical we get to work on completing this conference report. we must also continue to support in know vacation in our transportation system. the 21st century is going to be very di

edward snowden. >>> britain's queen elizabeth was in her 50s when trudeau was a pm. now appearing with trudeau's son justin, not lost on an 89-year-old queen. >> thank you, mr.prime minister of canada, who made me feel a bit old. >> and that is your morning dish of "scrambled politics." >>> time to welcome in kevin cirelli, politics reporter for bloomberg. hope you had a great thanksgiving. >> same to you and happy cyber monday to you. >> to you as well, sir. over the weekend, chris christie picked up the endorsement of the "new hampshire union leader." in the past sometimes this really mattered. mccain other times it hasn't, gingri gingrich. what does it mean? >> this is huge for governor chris christie because his campaign hasn't caught traction this far in the cycle. he's he been largely eclipsed quite frankly by someone like donald trump. and i got to be honest, i think that as more establishment type candidates such as of course former florida governor jeb bush and senator marco rubio are battling it out, you have an opportunity and an opening quite frankly for someone like governor christie to rise. it will be interesting to see whether or not he capit

mr. shuster: i yield back. the chair: the gentleman from pennsylvania yields back the balance of his time. the gentlelady from maryland is recognized. ms. edwards: with that i would yield the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlelady from maryland yields back the balance of her time. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentlelady from maryland. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed to. it is now in order to consider amendment number 36 printed in part b of house report 114-325. for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 36 offered by mr. calvert of california. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 307, the gentleman from california, mr. calvert, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from california. mr. calvert: thank you, madam chair. the highway bill crafted by my friends, chairman bill shuster and peter defazio and rest of our colleagues on the transportation a

edward r. murrow and her friend and classmate david brinkley. while a reporter for the legendary/editor of the rally news and observer, mr. daniels, she met a young man on the sports desk named jesse helms and the rest is history. ms. helms was a leader in christian causes such as her sponsorship of the children's camp willow run. while in washington, she taught at gallaudet university and wrote a book on great americans who happened to be blind. anin the senate, she was the leader of the senate ladies bible study and the u.s. chapter of the red cross. she was a confidant and pillar of many friends in -- on both sides of the aisle, including elizabeth dole, erma byrd, and lynda johnson robb. politically, she was a close friend of ronald and nancy reagan. in 1976, she took the unusual step of campaigning tirelessly across the state of north carolina in support of then-governor reagan's insurgent presidential candidacy. the governor carried the north carolina primary against a sitting president, in no small part due to the work of dot helms. two years ago the governor awarded dorothy helms the order of the long-leaf pine. f

edward kennedy institute posted the discussion. it is moderated by susan glasser of politico. [applause] susan: good morning, everyone. thank you so much. thank you, louisa. thank you very much, mrs. kennedy. it is an honor to be here this morning. this is a perfect representation of what the new kennedy institute is aiming for. our conversation here this morning. i can tell you that there is such a thing as bipartisan legislating. i have seen it in action backstage in our union station greenroom here. people thought that it was dead, but i can tell you that it is not a dinosaur. i actually heard these two senators from different parties discussing legislative tactics right here and who they should call from across the aisle to lobby this morning on their bill. that is a perfect starting point for our conversation this morning. these two have teamed up on perhaps the most interesting project. which is criminal justice reform. it has brought together a very unlikely coalition of advocates. you have the koch brothers sponsoring the big event today on criminal justice reform. president obama, earlier this week, having his own big and very interesting role with sentencing reform acti

edwards or attorney general kennedy. and i yield back the balance of my time. >> the chair thanks the gentleman and recognize the gentleman from iowa mr. king, for five minutes. >> thank you mr. chairman. director, comey, thanks for coming to testify. i just would comment that i appreciate your response to when you used the reference the lens of history. that's a different set of values that applies today than applied back in those days. but i'm looking the aur vour va and looking for strong push for sentencing reform in the united states. i've watched as the president, the administration at least, has directed that thousands be released on to the streets before they serve their terms. and that we have seen that some of them have been charged with homicide, found guilty of homicide. i think they number's around 121 or so. number 36,007 felons released and then a subsequent number. i'm blurred by the parade of releasing that we've seen and now i see a -- appears to be a group of legislators that we believe we can save tax dollars releasing more on to streets. a wear of studies that would help us quantify impact of releases in terms of

edward kennedy institute for the u.s. senate and it is about 45 minutes. [applause] susan: good morning, everyone. thank you so much. thank you, louisa. thank you very much, mrs kennedy. it is an honor to be here this morning. i think this is a perfect representation of what the new kennedy institute of in boston is aiming for. our conversation this morning i , can tell you that there is such a thing as bipartisan legislating. i have seen it in action backstage in our union station greenroom here. [laughter] susan: people thought that it was dead, but i can tell you that it is not a dinosaur. i actually heard these two senators from different parties discussing legislative tactics right here and who they should call from across the aisle to lobby this morning on their bill. that is a perfect starting point for our conversation this morning. these two have teamed up on perhaps the most interesting project. which is criminal justice reform. it has brought together a very unlikely coalition of advocates. on the right and the left. you have the koch brothers sponsoring the big event today on criminal justice reform. president obama earlier this week, having his o

edward snowden, because disclosures like this and hand side of things rightly or wrongly has made it harder for intelligence officials to track alleged terrorists. >> that's absolutely correct. look, mr. snowden has pushed out legitimate american secrets about how we collect legitimate foreign intelligence. he's pushed that out into the public domain for the last two and a half years. of course it's had an impact on our ability to detect the kinds of things that happened in paris last week. >> general, what do you think about this move by -- a little more than half of the u.s. governors to say we don't want syrian refugees in our states' borders, setting aside whether or not they have the power to make that happen. do you think that's the right call? >> no, i don't think it's a right call. it's an understandable call, savannah, and in fact i'm hopeful that the governors are using that as a tool to put leverage on the federal government that they do this in a very, very careful way. look, if you're asking me what i in government, i would say we need to do the correct thing in a humanitarian sense, and then our executives at the state or federal level need to poke their fingers into th

right in front of us this one i feel that because of king edward across the street we had a difficult times there was an important facility to mrsan francisco and a enemy i didn't situation their plugged into the city i covet we're within the thousand feet radius of schools and other sources that at risk youth facilities were included in the risk i don't know enough about the business. >> anticipate that will be on the ballot and legalized i'm curious where we are as a city and when the legal phase happens will repermit that citywide are have our own restrictions i don't know about the locations are they grairgd in or someone can educate me but again, it is a difficult one e-mail supporting a continuance at this time. >> commissioner antonini. >> i'm not completely clear on where the green zone begins and evens i'll take the commissioners comments on lombard in the advisory committee general cal hallowing affirmative action and russian hill and marina area other seats that qualify in the near future on larkin somewhere in russian all right on the calendar there are other seats available and quite a few of the sites but the other