. >>> we are back with amy walter, tom davis and robert wexler. thank you.e president and his power and how any of this, if it does affect the midterm. >> i think tom makes a valid point. midterm elections give a second-term president often time great fits, however, to the extent that the democratic base has been somewhat at ease or less than at ease with what's happening, this leak democratic based voters will see what the real republican party unfortunately is still about in the immigration debate. and what they will find is a democratic party that's following through on its pledge to reform in a very comprehensive way immigration. there will be moderate republicans that stand up with great courage for that goal there will likely be a substantial amount of republicans who think otherwise. about the democratic base, they will be reinvigorated this week likely whatever happens. if it passes it is a legacy issue for the president. if it doesn't it will fail because of the more extreme views in the republican party. >> that will not hurt the republican party i

robert walker, former congressman of walker-wexler. julie stewart, families against mandatory minimums. lyle dennis. dale florio. leslie harris from the center for democracy and technology. i don't know whether daniel is here? no? and craig homan from public citizen. have i forgotten any of our dear lobbyists? i'm just impressed that out of 15 people interviewed, so many of you showed up. and we're honored by your presence. and we hope you'll ask questions as well. so without further ado, i give you beth leech. you can clap. [applause] [laughter] >> thank you, laura, and thank you to everyone here at the aclu for having me here today. so in the audience how many of you are lobbyists? how many of you are policy advocates? [laughter] okay. i have to admit, it's a little bit strange for me to be here talking to a room full of lobbiests about lobbying, because usually it's the other way around, and ask i'm the one canning the questions and listening to what you have to say. but we'll turn the tables for just a minute and talk a little bit

i am with wexler and walker.i am one of those people who speaks with the professors and have a great repertoire with them. you know, is a great and interesting point. because i got to this .20 years on the science and technology committee on capitol hill. i got an education and science policy as opposed to bench science. it is that intersection between policy and practice that lobbyists want. it is the ability to take what is being practiced in the rest of the economy and translated into things that are important in policy in washington. in this century that will be an even more important part in ensuring that we have volumes of information that we are now dealing with, and they are horrendous. people who have a practice approach that being able to take those volumes of information and translate them into something meaningful is going to be more important, not less important in the future. that is the reason why what that has done is so important. it helps people to understand in an academic sense what it is supp

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wexler had a very successful western and southern to her. -- tour.his was the first time since the end of the civil war where a president embarked on this extensive to or be self -- tour of the south. she writes letters saying do it is been a wonderful interface to were -- tour. the crowds were enormous. >> the people of st. louis make wines with her image on her to hand out. >> we are up to the 1880s. grover cleveland stands for reelection against benjamin harrison. lower the issues? at thisiggest issue tont is the economy starting teeter. the major part of the issue is really of hot -- really about making sure that so they can shift the monetary standard to silver, they are republicans were going to get back into the white house to do that you have to get back in new york. benjamin harrison ends up being this compromised candidate. he was a cold fish the political cartoonists having their way with him. he depicted him in this huge overcoat and old-fashioned hat to suggest he is wearing his grandfather's clothes. his grandfather was a former preside

wexler has been been the reaction from democrats? >> the democrats hate it. they point out, among other things, it is unconstitutional, which republicans acknowledge. the supreme court has been pretty clear that abortions cannot be banned before fetal viability, and pretty much everybody agrees is 23 weeks and later of pregnancy. since this pushes it back to 20 weeks, an appeals court a few weeks ago struck down a similar arizona law. that what they are by putting this bill forward, in addition to making a political statement about how much americans do not like abortions later in pregnancy -- what they are saying is they are hoping that if it should pass and get to the supreme court -- unlikely, given the makeup of the senate, the fact that the president is unlikely to sign it -- should it somehow get to the supreme court, they are hoping the supreme court would use this law to change its mind about this. as it stands, this does violate supreme court precedent on abortion. >> let us go back to the markup last week. what was the debate like? testy.as pretty t