host: peter kiley, thank you so much for talking with us about the video library. guest: thank you, libby. it was a pleasure. host: we'll now head to the house floor, which is getting under way. also a programming note on c-span 3, we will be airing live congressman dennis's plans for how hoe plans to vote. . [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, bishop hutchins, timothy baptist church, athens, georgia. the chaplain: shall we pray? our father in heaven, we humbly approach your thrown today. your servant, solomon, prayed said know the difference between right and wrong. for who by himself is able to govern this great nation of yours. you responded to solomon because you have asked for wisdom in governing my people and h

host: peter kiley, thank you so much for talking with us >> tomorrow morning, representative pete sessions that, we get an update on the spring elections and britain with adam bolten. "washington journal" starts each morning with seven -- at 7:00 a.m.. you're watching public affairs programming on c-span and up next, fed chairman bernanke testifies on capitol hill about federal supervision of banks. after that, we hear from the education secretary who is pushing for changes to the u.s. secretary -- to the u.s. education system. >> c-span, our public affairs content is available on television, radio and on line. you can also connect with us on twitter, facebook and youtube. you can sign up for our schedule alert e-mails @ c-span.org. >> ben bernanke expressed some concerns with the financial regulations bill making its way through the senate. he testified before house financial services committee along with former federal chair reserved -- federal reserve chairman paul volcker. [gavel sounding] >> will the photographers please stand down? the only thing we could see is volcker. now we can s

host: let's take a moment now and talk with peter kiley, c-span's vice president. you're here to announce the video library. tell us about it? >> thanks, lib bism it's an exciting and historic call day in c-span's history. i'll take you back just for a second with how this is going to be developing. the cable industry created c-span as a public service back in 1979. in 1986, they launched c-span 2 for the united states senate. shortly after that in december of 1987, c-span began a facility in a partnership with purdue university. about a decade later, we took total control of a facility that began to archive and record every single minute of c-span programming. the house and senate proceedings, the hearings, the speeches, everything you've come to know from c-span. over that time, it's developed into quite a large archive. we initially sold videotapes and then d.v.d.'s. as the internet grew and expanded, we began streaming a lot of that video. there's a team out in indiana led by dr. robert browning and 10 archivist who over the last few months have been digitizing

[laughter] >> host: peter kiley tonight we will be covering tv correspondents' dinner. are these in the video library, too? >> guest: we think they are. a lot of times where there are a lot of lighthearted moments are in the social dinners in washington that we cover. the radio correspondents, the white house correspondents where big name comedians oftentimes come in and give speeches. the political actors in this town themselves make speeches that are oftentimes pretty funny and we've got one of on a clip from that we will show you from 2007. >> tell me what is your name? that's true. he's crossing his arms wrapping and chilling and shoving his charming. he would do it without bail shooting quail. this man will never stop looking at him getting ready to help. he's got so much to prove, tell me you never saw this man moved. doing the dance, the coralroot dance. >> host: what about members of, chris? >> guest: there's a special section in the video library for trucking members of congress were if you go to the video library of the top bar you find a button that says cong

host: peter kiley, thank you so much for talking with us [gavel sounding] >> will the photographers pleasend down? the only thing we could see is volcker. now we can see everybody. this hearing will come to order. it is an important hearing that is relevant to the legislative task before us as members know. the senate had been considering very much the question of what the supervisory breach of the federal reserve should be. we obviously done with this in a bill that passed the house. we will now go into conference sometime in april or early may and one of the questions will be the appropriate role for the federal reserve. this is a subject which the chairman of the subcommittee on monetary policy has given a great deal of attention to. it predicts many of us have felt that the senate's initial instincts were insufficiently recognizing the importance of the role for the federal reserve. there has been some movement and the differences are less than they were. i now believe that we're entering a range where the desire and the need for a bill the greater than any significant individual diffe