tok cousins is teaming up launch financial football, interactive money-management, with steny hoyer. they like that. hustle.t this sac up, second to third, does not stop. and scoreso bases, the go-ahead run. saint albans wins. quarterbackavy keenan reynolds has been cleared by the secretary of defense, ashton carter, to play for the ravens, he was drafted in the sixth round. so lebron james keeps it going. okc, i find it really hard for them to beat a team that beat out the spurs. michelle: aura could be a repeat of last year. robert: that would be tough, too. from akron, not trying to build up the anticipation too high. let's talk about something that talks about, the unofficial start to summer. >> 4, 3, 2, 1! leon: and with that, mayor muriel bowser kicked off pool season in the district. she took the plunge and southeast. the outd there are 18 outdoor pools. this year, admission to the polls is free for d.c. residents. steve rudin was there to witness the plunge firsthand. i wish we had a loop of that in slow motion to show what again. steve: what are you talking about? michelle:

people to go before the congressional panel, others included john delaney and jerry conley and steny hoyer who represent jurisdiction served by metro, congress voice concerns over a left of safety culture at metro and they wanted to know what is being done to change the system. paul wiedefeld outline how he found the agency when he arrived. >> a lack of accountability on the management, the front-line people, and a lack of strong management systems put in place. a lack of sustainable, predictable funding source for the system. >>'s testimony came on a day when there were two insulator issues making for a consultative and the late morning rush-hour on the red line. he is hoping the safe track program which kicks off next month, will go a long way to make the system safer and more reliable. on capitol hill, suzanne kennedy. jummy: this hearing comes as two other arcing incidents caused major delays on the red line this morning, the first at 5:30 at the medical center station and the second incident just before 7:00 this morning at the woodley park metro station. both cost trains to singletra

when legislative business was done for the day, house minority whip steny hoyer continued his quest to understand how the vote could have changed as it did as he had a colloquy with house rules committee chair pete sessions. come, let me observe as someone who has served in this house for some extended period of time, some 36 years. i was here in the era not too long ago but long ago when if we had done to the republicans what was done to us, what was that switch votes so discrimination could prevail, there would be outrage expressed long into the night from our republican colleagues who would accuse us of undermining democracy, undermining this house and making the house less than it should be. 217 people stood up and said we ought not to discriminate, and then very frankly, madam speaker, the leadership on the republican side started its activity. i've been the majority leader, i've been the whip, i understand that process. and they reached out to people and said, no, let us be able to discriminate. let contractors be able to discriminate. >> if the gentleman will yield? mr. hoyer: n

we'll hear from minority leader nancy pelosi and minority whip steny hoyer. this is a half hour. ms. pelosi: i know there's great excitement on the hill because of a visitor who's coming tomorrow to meet with the republican leadership. some republicans, including members of their leadership, have said that they cannot support the rhetoric and radical proposals of the republican frontrunner. today we have gathered to ask, since when? since when have the house republicans been so concerned about intolerant statements and discriminatory ideas? they appear to be shocked by their candidate. runner, the ront presumptive nominee, but all of their candidates, think appear to be shocked by their rhetoric on the campaign trail. but year after year republicans have enthusiastically turned their intolerance and their discrimination into legislation. there's not a dime's worth of difference between what donald trump says and what the house republicans have been saying all along. >> need to go back to surveillance of mosques? >> absolutely, absolutely. [inaudible] >> what we are talking about

it was defeated one vote, 213-212 prompting this response from steny hoyer. >> i didn't hear the chair request a change. but i do know that from my own personal observation, not one of those members who apparently changed their vote because it kept changing on the board came to this well and had the courage to change from green to red or red to green. how is that possible, mr. speaker? >> the gentleman has not stated a parliamentary inquiry. >> mr. speaker -- let me raise another parliamentary inquiry. mr. speaker, let me raise a parliamentary inquiry. mr. speaker, mr. speaker -- i asked for a vote on -- >> those in favor say aye. >> mr. speaker, mr. speaker -- >> no -- >> the ayes have it. >> nancy pelosi also released a statement saying in part, quote, house republicans are so committed to discriminating they break regular order to force members to support the republicans' bigotry. >>> veterans "60 minutes" correspondent morley safer died just days after the announcement of his retirement. known as one of the premiere news writers he made his name during the vietnam war. from there,

she is talking about the conversation between pete sessions and steny hoyer at the end of the day talking about what happened. pulling that back a bit, the headline in the washington post -- and battleground over lgbt rights. tell us what happened. guest: this is a fight that happened wednesday night. it spilled over into the military construction and veteran affairs appropriation debate the next day, a completely separate bill. we have an amendment that was added to the authorization bill the republican say protect religious rights. it allows them to exercise the religious liberties. what democrats and critics have said is this is condoning discrimination of lgbt workers, going against federal executive orders by obama to make sure folks are protected on their sexual orientation. ehe religious exemption roleulke got included in the defense authorization bill. the next day, representative maloney tried to bring up an amendment that would have erased the entire thing. we saw a vote where it appeared democrats had won, the language would be stripped out and the vote was held open for 10, 15

. >> and can i mention the other day, steny hoyer and i stayed late on a friday and didn't jump right on the plane to go back to minnesota and stenny and i went to a mosque in maryland and sat down and talked with community members. so this is common and after some of the hate was really pumping in december, andre and i and crowley asked the whole caucus to reach out to the members of the democratic caucus to reach out to muslims in their community. and a lot of people have just come up to me very -- you know, very informally and talked about how they've done this. even new members like kosman -- the guy -- the guy with the auto dealer. yeah, don beyer has been a leader on this. he has been a leader on this. and i just want to mention those as well. >> okay. you had a question? >> [ inaudible ]. you've mentioned trump and cruz and carson, but i think all of the names you mention ready republicans that are some form of islama phobia and there was a piece recounting [ inaudible ] in 2000 after hillary clinton asked her of allegations that she was taking, quote, unquote, muslim money, re

brad: i'm brad bell in the neighborhood of fort washington where today politician led by steny hoyer and county executive baker join with the residents of the neighborhood so celebrate the reopening of piscataway drive. this road collapsed literally in what was called a slope failure, rather than a landslide back in may of 2014. a number of houses including these up on top of the hill here condemned. never able to be occupied again. the county having to buy them. all told, $15 million spent on this project. we'll have more on this story coming up at 5:00. jonathan: did a university of mary washington student murder his own roommate? he is accused of killing his roommate with a house he shared with two other people. jeff goldberg is joining us live from fredericksburg. what did we lear what came out in court? jeff: well, a lot, jonathan. a very sad scene inside the courtroom. grace mann's mother in tears. holding thomas mann. the first witness to take the stand following the opening statement from the defense. the defense is arguing stephen grill is not guilty for reason of insanity.

request, representative buchanan of florida who supports the president's request said last week, not steny hoyer, democrat, vern buchanan, republican. may i have one i additional minute? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. hoyer: he said this. all members of congress should take the virus seriously and put aside partisanship. time is not on our side as the summer months draw near. i will in just a second. on your time. senator marco rubio of florida said in april, congress is going to have to explain to the people why it is that we sat around for weeks and did nothing on something of this magnitude. that's mark yow rubio. let's work together to pass an emergency supplemental. steve womack said this. if we fail to deal with the issue and there are hardships that would be posed on society in this country, you won't -- you wouldn't be able to compute those costs. it's a dice roll, he said, to get into an argument about zika funding and run thinking risk and having something catastrophic happen as we own it he, said. we will own it. if this gets out of hand and we don't have th

. >> steny hoyer. there is the affirmation -- the aforementioned fat jewish.uest of arianna huffington. i don't know how he gets his braid to do that. that's pretty impressive. >> the actual dinner festivities are due to begin at 8:00 p.m. eastern time. >> first became popular as the star of "real housewives of atlanta." she is getting a touch up here from it looks like her stylist. >> 8:00 p.m. at the dinner program and they will be dinner. there's a few speeches. after that at about 9:45 is when it is due to begin again. we will be watching that all evening. >> it's funny, there are always surprises. people show up to this event that you were not expecting. who everybodyknow is, and then someone else was invited, or there's a last-minute ad. maybe they came with cnn. >> i don't have a cnn page. >> i don't, either. >> you got to learn that move. another guest, jenna fischer. >> born in indiana. >> that's right. she is a delight. enjoying notnk, being on a network series right now. she tries to schmooze some folks here in washington. she's a great guest and a

democratic whip steny hoyer call for a parliamentary inquiry saying he wants to find out how representativeso no after first voting yes. >> not one of those members who apparently changed their vote, because it kept changing on the board, came to this well and had the courage to change from green to red or red to green. how is that possible, mr. speaker? >> it's an unusually unruly day there in the house chamber. coming up, they're already trying to manage security screening lines lasting for hours now. how is the egyptair crash going to affect the tsa and air travel here at home? stay with us. if you're going to make a statement... make sure it's an intelligent one. ♪ the all-new audi a4, with available virtual cockpit. ♪ one day a rider made a decision. the decision to ride on and save money. he decided to save money by switching his motorcycle insurance to geico. there's no shame in saving money. ride on, ride proud. geico motorcycle, great rates for great rides. & in a world held back by compromise, businesses need the agility to do one thing & another. only at&t has the network, people,

democratic whip steny hoyer expressing his fury after the vote. >> not one of those members who apparentlyecause it kept changing on the board, came to this well and had the courage to change from green to red or red to green. how is that possible, mr. speaker? >> the amendment sponsored by congressman shawn maloney would have prevented federal contractors from receiving government work if they discriminate against members of the lgbt community. >>> we also have developing news from the centers for disease control. the cdc announcing this morning that they are monitoring 279 pregnant women with evidence of the zika virus in the continental u.s. and surrounding territories. it comes just as president obama right now is receiving a briefing on the disease. msnbc's cal perry is following the developments for us right now. cal, what do you know? >> peter, i can break down those numbers for you a little bit more. it's 157 pregnant women here in the u.s. that on the mainland, 122 in territories. we can infer based on previous data that's probably puerto rico. these are the first hard numbers tha

had democratic leaders, nancy pelosi and it looked like we just saw democratic assistant leader steny hoyer take the podium there. they are talking about the gop agenda. they are wasting no time connecting house republicans to the new face of the republican party, donald trump. they showed a video there a few moments ago. i am sure we will be getting a copy of that video, if we don't already have one in our inbox. when we do, we will of course pass that along to you. meanwhile, we continue to wait for the aforementioned house speaker paul ryan to come into the room to take some questions from reporters. lots of those questions certainly will be about that big meeting tomorrow between paul ryan and donald trump. rick, one of the things we enjoyed doing here on election night after the poll results come in is taking a deep dive into some of the exit polling and we did that last night. luke, i want to bring you back into the conversation in just a moment here. rick, on the question of evangelicals, and of course evangelical voters, your former boss's bread and butter. they have made up half of

ellison: just the other day -- i -- steny hoyer and i stay late on a friday. where did we go? mosque ini went to a maryland, set down and talk with community members. after some of the hate was really pumping in december, entree and i and crowley asked the whole caucus to reach out to the members of the democratic caucus to reach out to muslims in their community. a lot of people have just come talkede very informally about how they have done this. even new members like congressman -- the guy with the auto dealer. don buyer has been a leader on this. i want to mention those as well. >> you had a question? >> you have mentioned trump and carson. i think all the name few mentions are republicans who are guilty of some form of islamophobia. a native american recently had a piece recounting the year 2000 around hillary clinton after there were allegations she was taking for "muslim money returned the money -- quote, unquote muslim money returned the money. how do you respond to an incident like that? is a democratic party itself clear of, -- islamophobia sentiment? >> i support be

when legislative business was done for the day, house minority whip steny hoyer continued his quest toanged as it did as he had a colloquy with house rules committee chair pete sessions. come, let me observe as someone who has served in this house for some extended period of time, some 36 years. i was here in the era not too long ago but long ago when if we had done to the republicans what was done to us, what was that switch votes so discrimination could prevail, there would be outrage expressed long into the night from our republican colleagues who would accuse us of undermining democracy, undermining this house and making the house less than it should be. 217 people stood up and said we ought not to discriminate, and then very frankly, madam speaker, the leadership on the republican side started its activity. i've been the majority leader, i've been the whip, i understand that process. and they reached out to people and said, no, let us be able to discriminate. let contractors be able to discriminate. >> if the gentleman will yield? mr. hoyer: not right now, thank you. and mr. speak

steny hoyer wasn't elected dictator. we were elected to be one of 435 people to make policies for this country and for our people. reject this rule. bring democracy back to the house of representatives. let the people's representative et policy in the light of day. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland yields back his time. the gentleman from massachusetts reserves his time. the gentleman from alabama, mr. byrne, is recognized. mr. byrne: i appreciate the comments of the gentleman from maryland. he wasn't on the floor when i spoke earlier. perhaps he didn't hear between the committee, the armed services committee and on this floor, 429 amendments have been made in order. 181 for this floor alone. that's an open process. and it's a far more open process than what this house saw when other people were in charge. so this is the process that the american people have a right to expect and they are getting exactly what they were told they were going to get. mr. hoyer: will th

. >> we have the honorable steny hoyer, the honorable jerry conley, and the honorable john delaney. would ask unanimous consent that are witnesses full statements be included in the record. that is so ordered. we will start with mr. boyer. --mr. hoyer. myselfnt to associate with the remarks of the gentleman from mr. schuster. clearly, this was the crown jewel. nobody would call it the crown jewel today and cleary it must be the ground jewel -- crown jewel. millions and millions of everyday constituents in this room is the system. i appreciate the opportunity to , and the need for robust investment and high safety standards. the safety and reliability of the metro is of critical importance, not only to washington dc and the surrounding communities, but it is critical for the smooth governing of the government. both civilian and military rely on the metro to get to their office and duty stations. my district is home to 62,000 federal employees, and many who serve in military jobs located here in regional installations. many depend on metro to get to work each day to survey american pe

both parties and i really do have to give a shout out to leader pelosi, the democratic leader, to steny hoyer and to frank pallone and all of those on the house side that worked so hard, their counterparts in the republican party, and here senator inhoffe, senators from my committee on both sides of the aisle, we would not be here and to the staffs, to the public interest organizations, to the states. we have scored a significant step forward for the american people. i hope this bill will come before us today. if it does, i will vote yes. if it comes to us after recess, i will vote yes. but i really wanted to headache this statement because i think the history of this bill, you know, is clear to me. i think the history is being rewritten by some about this bill, and i wanted to make sure i put into the record all the problems we had at the beginning and all of the improvements we obtained at the end. thank you very much, mr. president, for your patience. i yield the floor, and i would note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: a senator: mr

that is why congressman steny hoyer and myself drafted the opioid program evaluation act, better known as the open act. because we need to actually help stop the abuse. not just create programs to talk about it. we need to prevent addiction if happening. we need to help those addicted to recover. and we can't afford to waste time and money accomplishing these goals. ultimately we need to use the pow of data to determine if these programs actually work. it's that simple. you see, we live in the age of data. innovators around the country and around the world are using data do everything, from ro providing better service to customer, preventing disease and to prevent crimes across this country. we can learn from that. we need to bring data and innovation into government. when we do that, we can ensure government programs work as intended and it's the most effective way possible. that's what this bill will do. it gives health care officials, researchers, and engages citizens the opportunity to see exactly what their government is doing and the use -- and to use the information to make the

when legislative business was done for the day, house minority whip steny hoyer continued his quest to understand how the vote could have changed as it did as he had a colloquy with house rules committee chair pete sessions. come, let me observe as someone who has served in this house for some extended period of time, some 36 years. i was here in the era not too long ago but long ago when if we had done to the republicans what was done to us, what was that switch votes so discrimination could prevail, there would be outrage expressed long into the night from our republican colleagues who would accuse us of undermining democracy, undermining this house and making the house less than it should be. 217 people stood up and said we ought not to discriminate, and then very frankly, madam speaker, the leadership on the republican side started its activity. i've been the majority leader, i've been the whip, i understand that process. and they reached out to people and said, no, let us be able to discriminate. let contractors be able to discriminate. >> if the gentleman will yield? mr. hoyer: n

calls and e-mails from many high level democrats supporting her, including nancy employees is city, steny hoyerm clyburn, joe biden's office reached out and gave us a statement. she clearly has some support, and she is showing no indication she's going to be stepping down to appease the sanders supporters. >> >> host: and yet there's one quote i'd love to have you elaborate, it's from a democratic senator supporting hillary clinton. there have been a lot of meetings about what color plate do we deliver debbie wasserman-schultz's head on. can you touch on that? >> guest: yeah. that's, basically, the sacrifice that they're offering. these are clinton supporters, so these are not -- there's only one sanders supporter in the senate, and that's jeff merkley. these sources are clinton backers, and that, as you mentioned, that, quote, came from a senator who is a clinton backer who requested anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the talk. so there have been a lot of discussions, and when we contacted the dnc, they certainly were not disputing that those conversations have taken place. we're not