steny hoyer just talked about the modernizing government act.nobody ran for congress campaigning on that, but it's probably one of the most essential things that will happen in a short time period. you know, we spend $80 billion a year on technology? 80% of that goes to legacy programs. so what we've done is we've allowed people to keep more of that money to modernize and move forward. this isstepny hoi -- this is steny hoyer and myself working on this. we eventually had to put it in the defense bill, but it's going to get signed, and that's going to make a fundamental difference. look, it doesn't matter where you come from in life, there's an opportunity for you to help your government. a lot of people sit back and say did i start out to run for office? no. no teacher that ever had me ever thought i could win anything either. i grew up in the small town of bakersfield. i happen to be a republican, my family are all democrats. i got out of high school, no one was going to give me a scholarship, my folks don't have much must money, so i go to com

>> i work for democratic with steny hoyer. i have been with him for 16 years and i handle all things digital and technology, both technology policy but also digital strategy. >> where did you come up with the idea of a congressional hackathon? >> we had our first hackathon in 2011. the idea was to bring technologists from technology companies, activists and have a big open event and invite everyone into the capital. we have lots of pizza and stayed late that first one. all having an open format where we can brainstorm and try to work constructively towards improving congress. >> what kind of ideas came out? >> the first one, there was a big focus on releasing all legislative data in a machine-readable format. that has been a big push throughout government from state and local all the way to the federal. it is really a problem. we had all this data on particular website, but other websites could not access that data. as a result of that hackathon and the efforts of other people that worked at the library of congress and other a

let's take steny hoyer. besides steny hoyer, who is your favorite democrat in the house? >> there is a whole bunch of them. i will give you maxine waters because she is so darn entertaining to me. wickedly smart regardless. she knows what she is doing. i would have to say since he is leaving, my favorite at this point is rick nolan. he is my colleague from minnesota and he is truly -- i think his politics are nuts -- he is a great minnesotan and he is a great guy to work with. you could pick. this is the biggest problem with washington is everybody just sees the same faces talking on sundays. everybody gets their media from the places they want to get the. they are not in such institutions so they don't realize that we have relationships with our colleagues. when i got here, there was a guy named rudy boschwitz who served as a senator. after i got elected he said i got to tell your story. when i got to washington, a famous democrat senator was waiting for him in his office. introduced himself and said he wanted to meet you. looking forward to working with you. he thought

i think it is an area that my boss, democratic whips steny hoyer and mr. mccarthy talked about with modernizing the technology x, which is a way to invest in upgrading systems, which we spend that money to upgrade the systems, it will pay dividends in the long run. >> host: how is this change the ability of congress to put its proceedings on facebook or on any type of platform? >> guest: another major accomplishment was there was a big push to not only do absolutely everything a web video, but also standardized by videos. the committee saw broadcast committee hearings but in different formats in different ways inconsistently. that came on and became a part of the house rules were house rules for all committees had to have standardized video of all senate hearings. >> host: what about the senate? >> guest: number senate staffers today. we like to think we move a little faster in the house, but it all in good fun and they are engaged in this conversation as well. >> host: what has been the role of the cloud? >> guest: where we are all moving, private industr

. >> steny hoyer said this. not a nickel. the only place the look is nondefense programs such as medicare and medicaid. their logic is they want to cut spending, whatever it is and we're b obviously opposed to that as a focus. >> that's right. there's nothing coming from the defense department on this. it's, there are ten departments that are impacted and none of them are the pentagon. that's because the president has made it a priority to give the pentagon pretty much anything it asks for this year. and it would have been surprise ing if they were to say we're going to be coming back after those programs now. and there's a lot of noncontroversial cuts this this package out of the $15 billion, only about billion amount to real cutscuts. that means most of this money has been expired or congress has no plan on using it, but there are some programs in there facing resistance from members. even republicans on capitol hill who say they aren't ready to bury these programs. they want to seem them exist. maybe they want to have a se

let's take steny hoyer out of it because he's everybody's favorite. who's your favorite democrat in the house and why? >> i'd give you maxine waters because she's so darn entertaining to me but in terms of -- and she is. she's wickedly smart regardless. she knows what she's doing. but i would have to say since he's leaving, my favorite at this point is rick nolan. rick nolan is my colleague from minnesota and he's truly -- even though i think his politics are nuts, he's a great minnesotan and he's a great guy to work with. but you could pick -- i think this is the biggest problem with washington d.c., is everybody just sees the same faces talking on sundays and everybody just gets their media from the places they want to get it. they're not inside the institution so they don't realize that we actually have great relationships with our colleagues. mike, when i got here, there was a guy named rudy bosh wits who served as a u.s. senator. he said, tom, i got to tell you a story, when i got to washington d.c. a famous democratic senator was waiting for him

steny hoyer: i would need longer than a day. [laughter] respect -- this problem and any respect is not the making of us, but technology has made it to go back and forth. the politics of america become much more competition all, divided. politics has always been rough. savage. jefferson or has always been benign -- it's not as if the press or public discourse has always been benign. what we have now is a magnification of that discourse. a coarsening of that discourse. and, paying no price for that discourse. if you talk, you talked about the attack on the congressman. the consultant woman will tell you, if the positive -- you are going to score part -- against an incumbent, you will buy bringing the incumbent down, with a positive attitude, on whatever issue of you may think the incumbent is vulnerable on. we are good friends. -- democratic and republican, we are good friends. he and his wife abby i have great respect for. i trust roy. roy and i don't agree. and ikes to say "hoyer always agree." when there are 25 other members vo

amy: that was representative steny hoyer of maryland. you can hear him say "that is correct" when levi tillemann asks him if he'd like him to get out of his primary race and that the decision to back his opponent was made early on. can you comment on this and just overall continuing, while use of the democratic divide is important, you are very strong spokesperson and fought for the leadership of the democratic national committee, saying the democrats have to take a different path. >> that's right. my opinion, progressive candidates are running anyway. they're running and winning a many cases -- in many cases. personally, i think the democratic party should stay out of all primaries, should let the voters decide, should not put our thumbs on the scale for anybody. that is my opinion. but you should know there's a difference between the democratic national committee and the democratic congressional campaign committee. amy: explain the difference. >> the democratic national committee is the central body that connects -- it is the democrati

this week on "the communicators," house majority leader kevin mccarthy and minority leader steny hoyer lk about the hack-a-thon seminar. >> we must come together to engage the public in a positive way to make congress more open and more transparent. mr. mccarthy: this year we have an electronic mail test that is going into a number of congressional offices. pretty soon it will transform all the district offices at the same time. what happens? we get more efficient, get better data, we become more accountable to our own constituents. >> watch "the communicators" tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >> tonight on "landmark cases," a case on capital punishment, greg v. georgia. gregg 4, troy leon challenged his death sentence. his case and four other capital punishment cases were considered by the court. the supreme court ruled against him, established stricter guidelines for states wishing to impose the death penalty. our guest, one of the nation's top capital punishment legal scholars and professor at harvard law school. she's argued against the death penalty in a number of cases be

the have steny hoyer and democrats pushing the democrat agenda.licans, you can't get a more stark difference. they have this queen of the hill procedure where four votes come up. the goodlatte the bill, the way things proceed appears usually by a bill. we have a goodlatte bill on immigration which is the compromise bill which deals with 700,000 kids, in theted daca kids get labor force. the immigrant amnesty bill would be up to 10 million people over a decade. that has not been vetted through the america people and they don't want it. shery: when we say that they take a page out of your playbook is that members feel empowered to speak against congressional leadership. ahead andtually go should to this petition, they feel repercussions for it? >> and again, i would use different language. it is not emboldened to go against leadership. leadership promised us the majority on any bill goes forward. we are not going against leadership. we are going with what leadership said. they said they would put the goodlatte bill on the floor. paul ryan said that

this is what steny hoyer said and so, therefore, it's not a national election. it's not a national election. and what i see in the candidates on the democratic side is the following, they clearly match their district. not my district, their district. the hard thing is, is that once people are elected, as you said before, you come together under a large tent and you have all of these different districts and you have to stitch together what's going to work on whatever side of the aisle you're on. so i'm encouraged. there are so many more women that are running and we saw tuesday night that pennsylvania's going to change. it's not just going to be an all guys club in pennsylvania. all, from their governor, their-- >> the pennsylvania corner will change on the house-- >> the congressional delegation, it was all male. now there are going to be women in that delegation. so i think it's very important in recruitment that -- and i see it, that the -- those that are running fit their district. i'm the first democrat in the history of our country to ever represent the con

>> guest: i work for democratic whip steny hoyer, i've been with him 15 years, and i sort of handle both technology policy but also digital strategy for all house democrats. >> host: where did you come up with the idea for a congressional hackathon? >> guest: the first was back in

they have a deal with steny hoyer and 200 democrats which is just a daca deal and no border security.the republican party and conference usually works through bills. the goothe goodlatte bill is thy bill that's been around. and e-verify which includes legal hiring. chain migration where people get to bring in their extended family, aunts, uncles, et cetera. if this discharge petition goes through where 25 republicans work with 200 democrats. it's 10 million folks over 10 years with a pathway to citizenship cutting in line. the goodlatte bill deals with daca. it brings them out of the shadows. so that's the compromise. president trump even doubled down and offered 1.8 million and the democrats said no to that. 25 republicans are helping democrats do their own policy because they cared about cheap labor. the cheap labor crowd would get cheap labor. but the american people know they pick up the tab. two kids in school, that's $26,000 and the taxpayer pays the bill. charles: you have a congressman in florida who wants to get involved in this. we know a lot of them are involved in tight ra

older gentlemen like steny hoyer and jim clyburn i'm not sure they have the younger designs of the office former boss barbara lee, others in the congressional black caucus. the good thing about the democrat party, there's a big tent and strong stretch of people that can step. in i think she has important people lock step behind her. melissa: thanks, both of you. david: breaking news from the corporate front, sprint ceo is stepping aside and will be executive chairman. finance chief michelle combs will fill his role as ceo as the company is working on the deal for t-mobile to purchase them. shares are sprint are higher after hours. melissa: this bud's for you, george washington. the new brew based on the formula that would make our founding fathers proud. melissa: patriotic beer inspired by one of founds father, budweiser announcing newest edition of its collect, a red lager. david: back to beginning of country brewed by company employees, they are military veterans, a portion of proceeds going toward a nonprofit that provides military families with educational scholarships, beer will be a

this week on "the communicators," house majority leader kevin mccarthy and minority leader steny hoyer talk about the congressional hack-a- thon seminar. >> it isn't and what it would take a step away from the partisan back-and-forth -- it is important that we take a step away from the present back-and-forth and come together in a positive way to make one guest more open and more transparent. >> this year we have an electronic mail test that is going into a number of congressional offices. pretty soon it will transform all the district offices at the same time. we will become more efficient, get better data, we can become more accountable to our constituents. >> watch "the communicators" tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. tonight on "landmark cases," a case on capital punishment. egg, a convicted armed robber and murder, challenge since that sentence. his case and other capital punishment cases were considered by the court. the supreme court ruled against him but imposed stricter guidelines for states wishing to impose the death penalty. a guest discussing this case from one of t

. >> this week on the communicators, house majority leader kevin mccarthy and minority leader steny hoyert the congressional seminar.n's >> it is important that we find ways to come together to engage the public in a positive way, to make congress more open and more transparent. >> this year, we have electronic mail tests going into a number of congressional offices. it will transform the district offices at the same time. we become more efficient, we get better data, we understand where we can file it and we become more accountable to our constituents. communicators monday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span two. >> friday, the council on foreign relations hosted a discussion about brexit

this week on "the communicators" kevin mccarthy and steny hoyer congressional hack-a-thon seminar. >> it's important that we take a backaway from the partisan and forth. find ways like this hack-a-thon o come together to engage the public in a positive way to make and more ore open transparent. >> this year, we have an test related to a number of congressional offices so pretty soon it will transform all the district at the same time. what happens? we become more efficient we get better data and we understand it and we n follow become more accountable to our own constituents. communicators" tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span 2. "washington journal" continues. us on aw stettner joins discussion on how the federal government can prepare for the impacts of technology on the future. he's a senior fellow at the century foundation. for those who aren't familiar, xplain what the century foundation is and what your mission is. guest: sure, it's a 100-year-old thinktank and focuses on equality, opportunity and security. and people from the east may emember feline's basement, the founder of

. >> this week on "the communicators kevin mccarthy and steny hoyer talk about congressional hackathons important we take a step away in the parts and back and forth and find ways like best hackathon to come together to engage the public in a positive way to make a more open and more transparent. >> this year, we have an electronic task that is going to a number of congressional offices that will transform the district offices at the same time. would become more efficient and get a better data and understand and we are more accountable. announcer: watch "the communicators," on c-span2. >> connect with c-span to personalize the information you get from us. go to c-span.org/connect and sign up. the program guide is a direly -- daily email with the primetime schedule. word for word gives you the most interesting daily video highlights in their own words with no commentary. the book tv news later is an insider's look at upcoming festivals. the american history tv newsletter gives you the upcoming program exploring our nation's cast. visit c-span.org/connect and sign up today. council ony,

and majority leader kevin mccarthy and minority whip steny hoyer came out to talk about next yeek' ageneral dafment revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. -- mcyart mr. mccarthy: no votes are expected in the house on monday. votes will be postponed until 6:30 p.m. on tuesday. on wednesday and thursday the house will meet at 10:00 a.m. for morning hour and noon for legislative business. mr. speaker, on -- mr. friday, the house will meet at 9:00 a.m. for legislative business. last votes of the week are expected no later than 3:00 p.m. mr. speaker, the house will consider a number of suspensions next week, a complete list of which will be announced by cless of business -- close of business tomorrow. next week is national police week. so several built will focus on supporting the work done each day by our men and women in law enforcement. that includes h.r. 5698, the protect and serve act sponsored by representative john rutherford. this bill would make inflicting or attempting to inflict serious bodily harm on any police officer, a crime punishable by up to 1

the idea that we have to play by the policy clinton steny hoyer playbook is a thing of the past.he future of the party is right now. >> as we look forward in the way this is shaping up, and it is clear how the president in the white house want to frame the services about the economy. you saw that yesterday with the president was in ohio for a small business roundtable. here's one of the members of the roundtable. >> we chose to move forward. we had contemplated that for seven or eight years, didn't feel it was the right time that we saw with your strong leadership that now is the time to reinvest in our company. >> os do the same question i asked in the poster up a bit earlier. those folks on stage certainly seem to credit the president. as we went through ohio, people said the economy is doing better. they didn't necessarily give the credit to the president. how do republicans win the argument in 28 team? >> the biggest for republicans in 2018 as they have to look at what trump had done and what trump can do it with him in the white house, how is the economy turned? even if it's

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. >> this week on the communicators, house majority leader kevin mccarthy and minority leader steny hoyer talk about the congressional hackathon seminar. it is important we take a step away from the partisan back-and-forth and find ways like this hacathon to come together to engage the public in a more positive way to make the congress more transparent. >> this year, we have an electronic mail test that will go into a number of congressional offices. it will transform on the district offices. we become more efficient, better data. we will understand where we can follow it and become more accountable> >> watch the communicators tonight at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span2. a is the in the commercial satellite history. a panel discussion with robert mcdowell who talks about how satellites are used and the problem of space debris. this is one hour has 25 minutes.

>> this week on the communicators, house majority leader kevin mccarthy and minority leader steny hoyer talk about the congressional seminar.n's >> it is important that we find ways to come together to engage the public in a positive way, to make congress more open and more transparent. >> this year, we have electronic mail tests going into a number of congressional offices. it will transform the district offices at the same time. we become more efficient, we get better data, we understand where we can file it and we become more accountable to our constituents. communicators monday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span two. >> friday, the council on foreign relations hosted a discussion about brexit and its possible implications for future relations with the european union and the u.s. this is just over one hour. >> it is really quiet. >> all right. thank you everyone for coming. welcome to today's council on foreign relations meeting on british foreign policy post brexit. i am steve, and i will be providing over the discussion -- presiding over the discussion. we have joining us via videoconf

and i do think, now, i had good across the line relationships in the house, the democrat with, steny hoyer, they got i certainly dealt with the most, what am i really close friends. we didn't vote together very often but i do think senate the relationships are closer because there are so few of you and because the senate rules, you always have to have some interparty ability to get things done. i do think people are little more cautious about a limit dating relationships in the senate. in the house with 435 people you can make the decision, there are 200 or 100 people and just never going to talk to, to get away with that i guess. but you cannot do that in the senate. it would be hard. >> one hundred people, so interesting that you can't pick just one. that's how we summative. senator roy blunt, thank you for being with us here today. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> i'm paul. [laughter] i'm about to introduce paul. as you all know, congressman paul ryan is the 54th speaker of the house. he is now serving his tenth and final term in the house. he represents wisconsin's first congres

steny hoyer, congressman on the other side said, "releasing detainees is the easy part.he difficult part will be reaching an agreement with the north koreans that establishes a strong verification regime that can injure genuine denuclearization. congress has yet to see a concrete strategy for the president as to how we intend to avoid giving mr. kim a propaganda victory without securing the verifiable commitment on denuclearization necessary for any summit to be a success." that has been one of the critiques of the iran deal, the verification process did not satisfy the critics. how does he make sure to get it done? >> that is why it is so important for president trump to pull out of the iran deal, it's a bad deal. it did not accomplish what it was supposed to accomplish, it was not set up to do the things that we wanted to have done in terms of prevention of nuclear weapon, the money that went for terrorism, all of those things made a bad deal. by pulling out of that, president trump is telling north korea, i am willing to walk away from a bad deal. if it's not a good d

. >> this week on the communicators d, house majority leader kevin mccarthy and minority leader steny hoyer talk about the congressional hack-a-thon seminar. >> it's important we take a step away from the partisan back and forth and find ways like this to come together to engage the public in a positive way, to make congress more open and more transparent. >> this year we have electronic mail test that's going into a number of congressional offices, so pretty soon it will transform all the district offices at the same time. what happens? we become more efficient, we get better data, we understand where we can follow it, and we become more accountable to our own constituents. >> watch the communicators tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >> tonight on landmark cases, a case on capital punishment, greg v. georgia. 1976, troy leon gregg, an armed robber and murderer, challenged his death sentence. his case and four other capital punishment cases were considered by the court. the supreme court ruled against him. but established stricter guidelines for states wishing to impose the death pen

. >> this week on the communicators, house majority leader kevin mccarthy and minority leader steny hoyeralk about the congressional hack-a-thon seminar. >> it's important we take a tep away from the partisan back and forth and find back and forth and find ways like this hack-a-thon to come together to engage the public in a positive way to make congress more open and more transparent. >> this year we have an electronic mail test going to a number of congressional offices. pretty soon it will transform all the district offices at the same time. what happens, we become more efficient. better data. we understand where we can follow it and we become more accountable to our own constituents. >> watch the communicators, tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. night on landmark cases a. case on capital punish, greg v. georgiaa. . a convicted arm robber and murderer challenged his death sentence. his case case on and four other capital punishment cases were considered by the court. the supreme court ruled against him, but established stricter wishing to r states impose the death wishing to impo

. >> at that same event, steny hoyer, sean duffy, and senator formerake sat down with members of congress mike ferguson and heath shuler to talk about the legislative agenda and the upcoming midterm elections.

host: steny hoyer from maryland said this -- not a medical -- a nickel from defense. going to rescind money for nonuse, the logic is the want to cut nondefense discretionary spending whatever it is and we are obviously opposed to that is the focus. there's nothing coming from the defense department on this. there are 10 departments that are impacted and none of them are the pentagon. that's because the president has made a priority to give the pentagon pretty much anything asks for this year. it would have been surprising if they were to say we are going to be coming back after those programs now. there's a lot of noncontroversial cuts in this package out of the $15 billion, only about $3 billion amount to real cuts and that basically means most of this money has either been expired or congress has no plan on using it, but there are some programs that are facing some resistance from members, even republicans on capitol hill who say they aren't ready to bury these programs. they want to see them exist and they do they want to have a second chance. there are a couple of

and majority leader kevin mccarthy and minority whip steny hoyer came out to talk about next yeek' ageneral dafment revise and extend

. >> this week on the communicators, house leader kevin mccarthy and cockle leader seas steny hoyer talk about t-- >> this year, we have electronic mail test that's going into a number of congressional offices so pretty soon it will transform all the district offices at the same time. and what happens? we become more efficient, we get better data, we understand where how we can follow it and we become more accountable to our constituents. >> now a discussion on how to reduce the rates of arrests, prosecution, and incarceration of the mentally ill in the u.s. this was part of a forum hosted by the center of criminal law at new york university. it's 90 minutes. >> all right, thank you so much for being with us today, and good morning. this is our 10th annual conference for our center, where we explore important topics in criminal law, and t

later, interviews with representatives steny hoyer and sean duffy and arizona senator jeff flake.fter that, president trump meets with nato's secretary-general. on thursday, house intelligence committee ranking member adam schiff of california, missouri senator roy blunt, and house eager paul ryan -- house speaker paul ryan set down to talk about the legislative agenda. this was part of an annual legislative seminar hosted by washington dc law firm, bigger hostettler. this is one hour and 10 minutes. [applause] so, we are going to get started off this morning. there is never not much going on in washington these days. people from around the country

. >>> last week house miniature whip, steny hoyer, wisconsin representative, sean duffy, and the senator jeff flake of arizona sat down with former members of the congress mike ferguson and heath shuler to talk about the legislative it's an hour and a half. >> obviously, our next guest needs no introduction. first and foremost, a friend, colleague, but most importantly to me, as i was in congress and continues today, a mentor of mine. as we go through life, you can identify people in your life that have been impactful you to and have made a difference. and i certainly say that is the

>> i work for democratic with steny hoyer. i have been with him for 16 years and i ha a