i work for the mayor here in pawtucket. the mayor had a meeting tonight and he apologizes that it went over. he asked me to thank you on his behalf for all the work you and your staff do throughout the years and obviously tonight as well coming out and doing this for the public. thank you. >> thank you, dylan. thank the mayor. he has always made me feel very welcome in pawtucket. thank you, everybody. good night. as i promised, i will be the last person to leave. >> i just wanted to say it is a pleasure. >> thank you. we will take you live another townhall meeting tomorrow. this one will be hosted by congressman bobby scott. he will be talking mainly about the healthcare law. it is the first of three scheduled, hosted by the virginia congressman. that is tomorrow night, 6:30 p.m. eastern time, that will be live here on c-span. next, a look at how news organizations operate and cover politics. we will hear from journalist from buzz feed, huffington post, and politico. then the new jersey senate debate between all four democr

is followed by democratic senator white house talking with constituents and a community dinner in pawtucket. right here on c-span. >> it was surrounded my grandmother. very beautiful. my grandfather could not talk to her. all rushed upstairs to do with a hack to do. and left her standing there. she knew her father was up there. went up the steps to the deck. he came running back. d.r father is dea when she heard that, my grandmother fainted right into the arms of the president. he caught her tenderly. >> first latest, influence and image -- first ladies, influence and image. next week and a harrison to eliza johnson. with the rights all this month on 9:00 p.m. eastern. weeknights, all this month 9:00 p.m. eastern. >> the american institute of architects held its annual conference in denver, colorado with an address by cameron sinclair. he talked about his organization's efforts to provide the links in projects for humanitarian crises. including efforts after the 2010 earthquake in haiti, the 2011 japanese tsunami, and hurricane sandy. this is just over an hour. ♪ >> wow, first of all i woul

. >> sorry to interrupt -- i work for the mayor in pawtucket -- the mayor had a community meeting tonight and it ran over and they had quick questions. he asked me to thank you for you and your staff do throughout the years. and tonight and coming out and doing this for the public so thank you very much. -- thank theayor mayor for me very much. thank you everybody and good night. as i promised, i will be the last person to leave and we can stick around and talk if you want to chat further. >> a look at president obama's plan for improving the mortgage finance system. we will discuss how sequestration is affecting national defense. begins aton journal" 7:00 a.m. on c-span. today, the brookings institution discusses spending cuts in the 2014 budget and their impact on the pentagon and their strategies at 10:00 a.m. eastern. tonight, wendy davis's remarks from the press club in washington, dc and she talks about her future political lands and her 10 -- our filibuster in the state senate at eight 30 5 p.m. eastern. at 8:35 a.m.. -- p.m.. theill have the chair of "reign affairs committee on ne

i work for the mayor here in pawtucket.the mayor had a community meeting tonight and he apologizes it ran over. they have some great questions just like we had tonight. he asked me to thank you on his behalf for all the work you and your staff do throughout the years, and, obviously, tonight as well coming out and doing things for the public. so thank you very much. >> please thank the mayor force. he is always made me feel very welcome in pawtucket, and i appreciate very, very much. >> thank you, everybody, and could die. as i promise, i will be the last person to leave and but instead read and talk if you want to chat or there. -- chat further. [inaudible conversations] >> here on c-span2 all this week it's on core two and a. today, editors at large by "fortune" magazine will discuss a recent cover story outlining the proposal to jumpstart u.s. economy. that will be today at 7 p.m. eastern. tonight on booktv, military history. >> that's all tonight starting at 8 p.m. here on c-span2. >> retransmission is important to my t

so pawtucket, newport providence that is not a complete dodge because they said it, but they set their property taxes depending how much the state can provide to support different municipalities. as the budget is turn up for the state, there's been less money for municipalities. ask any mayor. they have to depend on property taxes, so it has been hard on property tax owners. the states in turn taken in reading because there's less federal money coming in because of the cutting we have done. i think we need to do two things. one is be careful about what we are pending. sometimes you cut off your nose to spite your face and it's not a wise cut. supporting the states and municipalities is usually a reasonable way to spend money. community development block grants are very helpful and allow a lot of flexibility for local communities. that's really important. the other thing is that as the economy picks up and taxes coming from other sources, you can do less dependent on property tax. the property tax is the last tax standing when people are coming to the hotels. the sales tax is crashing.

i'm from pawtucket. i just had a few questions for you. are you for or against the obama plan and why? >> the healthcare plan? >> right. >> yeah, i'm very for it. i helped write it before it got called the obama healthcare lan. it started in what's called the help committee of the senate and i had a temporary assignment to the help committee to work on that bill. i'm for it for three big reasons. one is a lot of people didn't have insurance in this country. and if you don't have health insurance, it really affects your life, and it really affects the care you get when you get sick and it actually can make the difference between getting well and not getting well. it can even make the difference in some extreme cases between whether you live or whether you die. so getting people, more people to have health insurance, i felt was a really, really good goal and a really good achievement. the second thing is that the insurance marketplace wasn't all that fair. as i said earlier, if you work for a big company, you got a pretty good rate because t