on c-span2. if the house comes in, it will be lit on c-span. all of our coverage is available at c-span.org. next up, newsmakers here on c-span. susan: our guest on "newsmakers" this week is representative virginia foxx, republican of north carolina. the chair of education and workforce committee. a former educator and college administrator, which brings expertise to the writing of this legislation that was recently passed out of her committee and soon scheduled for floor action. thank you for being our guest. let me introduced the two reporters who will ask questions. both of them cover education beats for their publication michelle hackman of "wall street . journal" and michael stratford of "politico." as we get started, we are taking -- taping this on thursday, yesterday, betsy devos gave a well-covered speech where she was highly critical of the bush and obama era law, no child left behind and essentially said it , had no tangible results and is seen as the death knell of -- -- of the federal education departments. is your critique of the legislation as strong as hers? no tangible results? rep. foxx: only knows what the re

on c-span2. if the house comes in, it will be lit on c-span. all of our coverage is available at c-span.org. next up, newsmakers here on c-span. susan: our guest on "newsmakers" this week is representative virginia foxx, republican of north carolina. the chair of education and workforce committee. a former educator and college administrator, which brings expertise to the writing of this legislation that was recently passed out of her committee and soon scheduled for floor action. thank you for being our guest. let me introduced the two reporters wi

on c-span 2. >> here on c-span, newsmakers his neck with democratic senator chris van hollen of maryland. then a look at the relationship between the press and the presidency. that is followed by president trump and republican leaders holding a news conference at camp david to talk about the congressional agenda. at 8:00, our conversation with heinrich meyer on cue and day. -- q&a. greta: this week on "newsmakers," congressman chris hollen, democrat from maryland and i want to you thank you for being here. we have kevin robillard who is with "politico" and sean sullivan with "the washington post." john sullivan for the first question. sean: you guys in the democratic caucus have narrowed the republican advantage in the senate this week. it looks like there are some other interesting senate races. some retirements. we are less than a year for the midterms. will democrats win the majority back in the senate this november? sen. van hollen: so this was a great week for the senate. for alabama and for the country with the swearing in of doug jones, who ran a campaign based on kitchen table iss

on newsmakers. he talks about what is ahead for congress, democrats picking over the house, and congress is relationship with donald trump. newsmakers is this morning at 10 a.m. eastern here on c-span. >> sera vers reports on appropriations and joins us to talk about budget talks and the government funding deadline. sarah, what is the status of the talks at this point?

ou can follow the house live here on c-span and the senate live on c-span 2. >> "newsmakers" is next with democratic senator chris van hollen of maryland. after that, we'll show you the swearing in of senators doug jones and tina smith this past week. followed by senate leaders mitch mcconnell and charles schumer discussing the congressional agenda. >> you guys have narrowed the advantage in the senate this week. it looks like there are some ther interesting senate races, some retirements. e're less than a year from the midterms. will the democrats win the majority back in the senate this november? >> this was a great week for the for alabama and for the country with the swearing-in of jones who ran a campaign based on kitchen table issues so not going to make any predictions about what will 2018.n in november, what i can say is all the signs you have a very nergized democratic base plus lots of independent voters who are crossing over to support democrats as they did with doug of disaffected republicans and i believe that the republicans in congress have taken are actually going to

on newsmakers. atsmakers is sunday morning 10:00 eastern here on c-span. congress returns to capitol hill on tuesday facing a government shutdown. house members will also consider an abortion bill. this week, the supreme court heard oral arguments over voting rights. here the argument in its entirety tonight or listen with app or youspan radio can follow the arguments at supremecourt. with supreme court video on demand, you can watch all of the arguments. mississippi governor phil bryant delivered his annual state address to lawmakers in jackson. he highlighted what he considered advancements in

c-span's "washington journal," in the morning. sunday on "newsmakers," our guest is house minority whip steny hoyer. spoke with several issues including president trump's recent tweets on the fights of surveillance. here's part of what he had to say. just talking about the unorthodox presidency, we saw talking about that might have been the best of the president. been theat might have worst of the president pretty tweeted out criticism of the bill, the intelligence reauthorization bill. came out against the bill. his administration had endorsed not 24 hours earlier. what was your reaction to that and what does that say about the grasp of thehis policies he's promoting? >> this is the dangerous aspect of this presidency. reliable inused, many respects leadership, which much onits views pretty a dime from time to time. in this case, the president with the administration sent down a statement of administrative policy, supporting the intel recommended bill to revise section 702 of the foreign intelligence act. sometime this morning, the president sent down a tweet or send a tweet out, which appeared to contradict that statement of the ministers of policy and oppose the legislation that was under considerati

on c-span 2. >> here on c-span, newsmakers his neck with democratic senator chris van hollen of maryland. then a look at the relationship between the press and the presidency. that is followed by president trump and republican leaders holding a news conference at camp david to talk about the congressional agenda. at 8:00, our conversation with heinrich meyer on cue and day. -- q&a. greta: this week on "newsmakers," congressman chris hollen, democrat from maryland and i want to you thank you for being here. we have kevin robillard who is with "politico" and sean sullivan with "the washington post."

on newsmakers. he talks about what is ahead for congress, democrats picking over the house, and congress is relationship with donald trump. newsmakers is this morning at 10 a.m. eastern here on c-span. >> sera vers reports on appropriations and joins us to talk about budget talks and the government funding deadline. sarah, what is the status of the talks at this point? >> basically, they have been working for weeks on this budget deal. towards ang closer agreement on defense and domestic spending, but holding everything up is the immigration that is ongoing. and grabbed headlines this week, so we don't know how much the government is going to spend next year -- this year, until we see something on dreamers, because that is something democrats say they need to have to go ahead with the budget deal. is helping in terms of coming together, getting members together to a board -- of art a government shutdown? democratic and republican leadership don't have to convince their leadership that a shutdown is bad. both parties are working to avoid a shutdown for months, and the reason they keep going after stop cap bill after stop get well is because -- the tricky thing is getting enough repu