host: peter welch is joining us, joined by chris gibson of new york. serves on the armed services committee. rare that we get to have one from each side sit down with us at the same time. we thank you for that. you are here because you have a bipartisan proposal on military conflict in syria. what are you proposing? basically of the president wants to arm the syrian rebels, he cannot do that unless to get congressional approach -- approval. should we in beat -- should we be involved with the debate. secondly, the policy itself. . guest: if another country was to arm the rebels for the purpose of attacking our country, we would view this as an act of war. this is a very serious escalation for us. i oppose it. i do not think it is unwise to arm the rebels. as pete mentioned it most certainly, before any of that takes place, there should be a voice for the american people. peter and i are the authors of the bill and has bipartisan support. same bill in the senate as well. we're pushing it forward. reporting --ill" it is stilllutely necessary. am encourage

in about 45 minutes, we will be joined by representative peter welch from vermont and chris gibson, anew york republican to talk about a bill that would require any military intervention in syria be authorized first by a joint resolution of congress. in light of the plane crash in san francisco last week, we will look at airline safety regulations affecting foreign characters -- foreign carriers and the west. formerst is the transportation department's inspector general. in our spot by the magazine serious, we will discuss the national review cover story about the small town that is home of remington guns. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] " is next. " is next.n journal host: house republicans plan to meet behind closed doors this afternoon to discuss a way forward on immigration reform. we will get more details on that coming up on "washington journal." good morning on this wednesday, july 10, 2013. former president george w. bush will push for immigration reform in a speech at the bush institute and we will cover it on c-span.org. a house ways and means panel i

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we have aggressive members including peter welch from vermont. i call myself a republican with a small r and an american with a large a. host: congress and reid ribble is our guest. congressman, given what was cheney,d yesterday, liz andy -- mikeand and, in a primary. is there a fear? guest: it depends on what the voter makeup is in your district. i represent a district that is divided 50/50. if you are in a district that has been gerrymandered to be very regular very little, your big threat comes from the heart or the hard right. we live in a country that has a representative republic, whatever those voters are, they are sending someone to washington that represents the broad interest that they have. if you cluster all democrats together or republicans together, you have a situation where you might not the red enough or blue enough. host: is there a solution? guest: stop gerrymandering districts. host: will that happen? guest: it is happening in places across the country. under a typical election, most voters believe they are sucking the represe