ms. swain: you are nodding your head. was there an anti-immigrant element? prof. barnett: i was nodding my head because that was a response to one of randy's earlier statements, it even those provisions of the act that were unchallenged as being constitutional had the tendency to drive small businesses out of business. i think it is a good thought that it might have had an anti-immigrant element to it. i never looked into that. prof. kens: there is another book about the lochner case by david bernstein. i'm a big fan of paul's book. david does talk about the anti-immigrant drive, particular anti-germans who were very much distrusted and there was a lot of anti-german sentiment. also, the anti-irish sentiment, but they were not in the bakery business. and also the anti-jewish sentiment. the jews and germans were doing most of the baking in new york. agreeing with the callers and small bakeshop's implementation of health and safety laws were firmly upheld, because there were health and safety law

ms. swain: questioning him this week is erica werner of the associated press, the chief congressional reporter, and susan ferrechio comes back to our set, chief correspondent for the washington examiner. thanks for being here, both of you. >> great to be here. ms. werner: wonderful. mr. jordan, thank you. friday as you know is the budget deadline will be blowing through it. you will be missing the deadline for the first time in six years largely because of opposition from the freedom caucus. how do you justify and explain that, and does it matter? rep. jordan: the only thing worse than not doing the budget is spending more money. you have to look at this in the real world context of the debt just hit $19 trillion. cbo reported six weeks ago this year's shortfall, this year's annual deficit will be $105 billion higher than expected. within that context, we said look, maybe we should not spend $30 billion more. maybe we should actually at least hold the line on spending to start to deal with the

ms. swain: welcome to c-span's "newsmakers." the house of representatives is once again in budget battles and our guest this week is in the middle of that. congressman jim jordan, republican of ohio representing the fourth district in that state and he is the chairman of freedom caucus fiscal conservatives in the house of representatives. thanks for being with us. rep. jordan: good to be with you all. ms. swain: questioning him this week is erica werner of the associated press, the chief congressional reporter, and susan ferrechio comes back to our set, chief correspondent for the washington examiner. thanks for being here, both of you. >> great to be here. wonderful. mr. jordan, thank you. friday as you know is the budget deadline will be blowing through it. you will be missing the deadline for the first time in six years largely because of opposition from the freedom caucus. how do you justify and explain that, and does it matter? rep. jordan: the only thing worse than not doing the budget is

ms. swainlcome to c-span's "newsmakers." the house of representatives is once again in budget battles and our guest this week is in the middle of that. congressman jim jordan, republican of ohio representing the fourth district in that state and he is the chairman of the freedom caucus fiscal conservatives in the house of representatives. thanks for being with us. rep. jordan: good to be with you all. ms. swain: questioning him this week is erica werner of the associated press, the chief congressional reporter, and susan ferrechio comes back to our set, chief correspondent for "the washington examiner." thanks for being here, both of you. >> great to be here. ms. werner: wonderful. mr. jordan, thank you. friday as you know is the budget deadline and you will be blowing through it. you will be missing the deadline for the first time in six years largely because of opposition from the freedom caucus. how do you justify and explain that, and does it matter? rep. jordan: the only thing worse than n

ms. swain: and so ends our episode on lochner versus new york. -- what you can do is look at a book written by tony morrow, 12 cases that we selected for the series. if you go to our website, /landmarkcases, you can purchase it and we can send it out to you quickly. as we close tonight, let me say thank you to randy barnett and to paul kens. gentlemen, thank you very much. announcer: on friday, c-span's original series, landmark cases, continues with shank versus united states, the 1919 supreme court ruling help define the limits of the first amendment right to free speech, particularly during wartime. you can watch this program at 10:00 p.m. here on c-span and the entire series anytime online. at www.c-span.org. coming up on c-span, bernie sanders campaigning in new york city. then president obama and the chinese president talked to reporters at the nuclear security summit. after that come our issue spotlight features past speeches by today's leaders on the supreme court nomination process. c-

ms. swain: thanks to both of you for your time this week. >> thank you very much. >> donald trump is in buffalo, new york monday. he is going to a campaign rally before tuesday's statewide primary. c-span2 as live coverage at 7:00 eastern. >> our live coverage of the presidential race continues tuesday night for the new york state primary. join us at 9:00 for viewer reaction and speeches, taking you on the road to the white house on c-span, c-span radio, in c-span.org. >> monday on of the communicators," george ford, chief economist of the phoenix center for public policy studies and mark cooper, research director for the consumer federation of america, debate the sec's proposal allowing consumers to buy their own set-top boxes instead of renting them from cable providers, a move to open up competition in the set-top box market. they are joined by lydia bay ude. >> we think we need competition in the set-top box market, and we want competition, competition, competition. someplace who has worked

ms. swainlcome to c-span's "newsmakers." the house of representatives is once again in budget battles and our guest this week is in the middle of that. congressman jim jordan, republican of ohio representing the fourth district in that state and he is the chairman of freedom caucus fiscal conservatives in the house of representatives. thanks for being with us. rep. jordan: good to be with you all. ms. swain: questioning him this week is erica werner of the associated press, the chief congressional reporter, and susan ferrechio comes back to our set, chief correspondent for the washington examiner. thanks for being here, both of you. >> great to be here. wonderful. mr. jordan, thank you. friday as you know is the budget deadline will be blowing through it. you will be missing the deadline for the first time in six years largely because of opposition from the freedom caucus. how do you justify and explain that, and does it matter?

ms. swain: thanks to both of you for your time this week. >> thank you very much. >> today with c-span's road to the white house coverage continues with a campaign rally in brooklyn, new york, for democratic presidential candidate senator bernie sanders of vermont. also scheduled to be there, hawaii representative tulsi gabbard, actors danny devito and justin long, and the rock band grizzly bear. rock band begins at 4:00 p.m. .astern on c-span , we give 72retary of our delegate votes. ♪ >> he had a couple of mules and a steam shovel. i think again it is one of the other ironies for those rapidly antigovernment and owe your fortune to the the governments largesse. >> the book "the profiteers," which takes a look at a large construction company. >> who else is the u.s. government going to get to build these, you know, projects broke throughout the world, and it is fine for it to be back till, but if the taxpayer is paying for it, it would seem the taxpayer should have some access to information a

ms. swain: let me introduce the reporters. -- leo shane of "military times" and david wood is the senior military correspondent for the "huffington post." mr. shane: i want to start with the wait times issue. we had a new report over what constitutes wait time and where we stand now. can you talk about this and what confidence veterans should have that the v.a. is addressing the problem? there still seems to be discrepancies over how the time is calculated and frustration over how it is being handled. sec. mcdonald: if you ask me, the ultimate measure for any veteran and how we deal at that veteran is how they are satisfied with what we do. we have put together a transformation program where the first strategy is to improve the veteran experience. we have used some of the best companies in the world like disney, starbucks, and procter & gamble to teach how to process experienced and work to build delight into those spornses. we're all about satisfaction. this wait time thing has taken over cont

ms. swainhim this week is erica werner of the associated press, the chief congressional reporter, and susan ferrechio comes back to our set, chief correspondent for the washington examiner. thanks for being here, both of you. >> great to be here. ms. werner: wonderful. mr. jordan, thank you. friday as you know is the budget deadline will be blowing through it. you will be missing the deadline for the first time in six years largely because of opposition from the freedom caucus. how do you justify and explain that, and does it matter? rep.or