and they said congressional said confidential privileges. what the heck are confidential privileges? [laughter] >> expanding to the confidential privilege. they don't name deliberative process or executive privilege. apparently congress can't get an explanation as to what confidential privileges are. any thoughts on that? >> obviously that's not going to be a line that could be held if congress moves to -- well, or even beyond -- even into a contempt phase. like my understanding is that it's sort of an unremedied dispute that's being discussed in the contest of the standing litigation and litigation of the substance of appropriation issues in burwell. and so to me, i don't think that that's something that's going to hold water as a stand-alone sort of principle of privilege. i think for us to get clarity on that, congress is going to have to move through its own resources to enforce oversight prerogative to get to the bottom of what that is rather than have it be like a procedural fact and i think they'll be able to blow pass if committee mo

this is from the beginning of his congressional career. this is later moving from the paper form to wax. a recording he made. keep the faith baby. it's a series of speaking meditations and these bookend his career. he has a very different approach to how to do things. >> all human beings black and white, rich and poor, equal in the sight of god. keep your faith in the life of your fellow man even though he abuses you. when he abuses you, he makes himself a lesser man. a great man once said love your enemies. bless them that curse you. do good to them that hate you and pray, pray, pray, pray, pray for them which despitefully use you. keep your faith. >> up through the 1970s powell was the person who kind of emotions bodied civil rights in the house, right? civil rights in congress. he is elected in 1944. he and dawson are the only two members of congress for a number of congresses until the early 1950s and swo very contrasting styles where as powell is out front talking to the media. pushing against segregation practices in the house restau

the 21st congressional district is one of the poorest congressional districts in the country and has remained poor during easter valadao post-tenure -- during mr. valadao's tenure. mr. huerta: i agree that education is a big deal -- mr. valadao: i agree that education is a big deal. making sure that we brought back education to the local level. a bill that was signed into law by the president. one of the things we did at the end of the year last year and something that will have real impact area at another thing that has to play a role in all of this is making sure that we have good teachers. because of my heart for it on education over the last few years i've got the support of the teachers association in california and the national education association have come out in support of me because they know i've been there for them on education. typeg sure carl perkins funding is there so we can continue to support vocational education. jim: we will give you the last word before we go to break it you have anything to add mr. huerta. mr. huerta: my daughter went to public high school. she

but to try to get at degrading the ability to respond to the congressional request. this is a much milder version but i did have concern after going after those documents that our representative of a whole lot of people to address a good-faith. >> it seems to me there is a situation where individual chairman have the issue -- power to issue to seek an require majority rule. >> that was the of mccarthy's situation. >> maybe government oversight. but if it is expanded where more and more members can issue subpoenas willy-nilly. >> but not just the chair but it may have bad my first letter. with that document request letter with the preamble. with those elected officials and then to start encountering resistance. but the very first day wrote an article so when you litigate two years later in defense to a criminal charge of contempt it is the same language the forced to morning read of the issue that is going on. so it is baked into the cake so early to have that function with the real evaluation of the language. and that is what we had to live with later. >> end with th

it is the 10th large he is congressional district in the country. it stretches from paige to just north of tuscon. about 25% of the district's population is american indian. the congressional seat is being vacated by ann kirkpatrick, who is challenging john mccain. e move on to our candidates. county sheriff and republican paul babeu, and dempster tom o'halleran. open candidate will now have one minute for opening and closing statements. we drew numbers to see who goes goes and that honor first to tom o'halleran. >> thank you. i grew up in a working class family. my father worked day in and day out. every weekend i watched him put together a notebook of what was going to occur with his ability to provide for our family in the coming week. so the bottom line here is that i had a strong sense of hard work, a strong sense of ethics, and a strong sense of community. what is happening in america oday and in arizona today is a dysfunctional congress. we have to make sure we start working for the middle-class families and the working class families of amer

i love congressional oversight having worked on the walter-reid investigation. payment on the taliban on supply chain in afghanistan and i think it's such an important tool for sort of checking the executive branch and for helping congress learn things to be able to legislate wisely but i would just say that i think the biggest impediments to congressional oversight aren't these disputes, the very narrow cristallized dispute that is have to get resolved one way or the other but it's more like resources for the committees and there are a lot of committees that are not just doing a lot of oversight. the oversight committee is an exception as psi, subcommittee on investigations, long histories of doing penetrating oversight, but, you know, some other committees, i can't remember the last time the house judiciary committee or foreign affairs committee built the kind of investigative infrastructure to do the kind of penetrating oversight that we need. so from my perspective, while i do sort of maintain some of the executive branch views of the legitimacy of the inter

this is from the beginning of his congressional career. this later moving from the paper form to wax, it is a recording he made. it is called, keep the faith. it is a series of speaking meditations on a number of different issues. these kind of book end his career which is very long. , he is no william dawson. he has a different approach to how to do things. >> all human beings, black-and-white, rich and poor, equal in the sight of god. keep your faith and the life of your fellow man even though he abuses you. when he abuses you, he makes himself a lesser man. a great man once said, love your enemies. blessed them that curse you. pray. pray. pray for them. keep your faith. the 1970's, he was the person who kind of embodied civil rights in the house. civil rights in congress. he's elected in 1944. he and dawson are the only two members of congress for a number of congresses in the early 1950's. two very contrasting styles whereas dawson is behind the scenes and powell is out front talking to the media, pushing against segregation practices

>> guest: sure, the story focuses in on two congressional races in the state of iowa. the first district which is northeast iowa, cedar rapids traditionally democratic areashs and the others at their district which includes the des moines metro and point southwest.t both have freshman republican congressman and both appear to be very competitive. the story reference was looking at the money that's coming from the campaigns and outside groups seeing a lot of spending on tv ads and other voter outreach which indicates republicans and democrats nationally are competitive and are seen as potential pickups and republicans see them on -- well over $3.5 million. >> host: by the way if you want to see the district debate of iowa take place live wednesday at 1:00 represented david younger republican and jim mauer the democrat. you can watch it is part of our c-span 2016 coverage live this wednesday at 9:00. outside spending when it comes to the presidential campaigns jason noble can you paint a picture there? >> guest: we are sayinges outside spending in this presidential race.

kirkpatrick in arizona's first congressional district. also, a quick reminder tomorrow evening at 8:00 here on his, a live conversation with libertarian nominee gary johnson. he will talk about his positions, and take his phone calls. tonight, jill stein. now we take you to utah, live coverage here on c-span. >> this is salt lake community college in salt lake city. the utah debate -- commission welcomes you to the fourth congressional district candidate debate. [applause] >> welcome to sell a community college, to one of the most anticipated exchanges sponsored by the you to -- utah debate commission. debate, we gather for a between the fourth congressional district representatives, in a rematch of a debate that took place two years ago. tonight we are from the incumbent, representative mia love, and the democratic candidate, doug collins. -- doug owens. it was determined he would have the first opportunity. rep. owens: good evening. i want to thank the debate and congresswoman love for being here. i want to thank sully community college

the eighth congressional district is energy reliant. the number one cost of doing business is power, it is energy. when you have the obama administration that is engaged in a war on coal, that has it mayor expensive ford us to be competitive. this would have reigned in the epa and the obama administration's war on coal. we have seen that how our energy policies have put us at a competitive disadvantage. rather than going and perfecting clean coal technologies, which we have. we have taken away a vital power source that would have allowed us to be much more competitive on the world stage. tax and regulatory reform. congressman nolan voted for one regulatoryest themes foisted upon american people. we have seen time and time again how washington, d.c. has gotten the tax and regulatory policy wrong and that energy policy. a need to make sure that in main street oriented economy, and a economy that is so energy dependent that we get the priorities of greater minnesota straight. mr. nolan: when it comes to the wen range mining, it is what are

if he goes 7 for 7 and wins that congressional district in maine he is still short. he still needs to flip one of these blue states and that's where the other new poll, the new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll comes into play. new hampshire is a state where his campaign thinks they can get that one extra state they need. check it out. a nine-point lead in our new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll. so two layers here for trump. he has to win all those swing states and then a state like new hampshire where you're down a number like that? you have to find a way to flip. >> nicolle wallace, veteran of politics, how does he say what he did today and if you believe this whole psychoanalysis that's going on with these tapes, the "new york times" ran yesterday he was emphasizing his business success, on time under budget, a message people would have said six months ago. >> and i disagree with karl rove. i don't think it's a bad thing for donald trump to showcase his business success. that's what people liked about him. the bad use of his words was giving a high five to

this is from nebraska's second congressional district. discuss cyber security, health care, immigration, and gun control, at this debate. ashford,ressman brad retired general don bacon. congressional district debate, presented by the omaha world-harold and kmtv action news. >> we will be your moderators. thank you for joining us. we are hoping to have a robust exchange of ideas between two candidates, don bacon, a retired righetti are general and -- bird, the former state omaha. we will make the debate as free-flowing as we can, but want to give equal time to each candidate. we are asking them to keep their answers to about 60 seconds. >> in addition, we reserve the right to ask follow-up questions and will give you the opportunity respond if directly criticized by your opponent. mr. ashford, we start the debate with questions about the presidential race in your party's nominees. you received classified about clinton's controversial e-mail system, which the fbi director called reckless. how can you trust your nominee in the white house? >

i want to thank the voters of the fourth congressional district. i have been meeting you, i've heard your dreams, i know you have seen better times, and i want to say they're coming back. every time i have gone into a voting booth, i have gotten tears in my eyes every single time. i think about all the people in the world who have lived without that right, such a basic right. i think about all the people who have shed their blood to bring us that right. i hope you all vote. you are all going to get ballots in the mail in salt lake county. i hope you watch your mail this week and get those ballots back and remember those people who have not had that right. moderator: my thanks this evening to republican representative mia love and democratic candidate doug owens. a special appreciation to the administration, faculty, and students of salt lake community college for their support of this exchange, and also to the utah debate commission for their efforts to ensure public debate in this pivotal election cycle. they are prominent in a long list of people

the battle for iowa's 1st congressional district is tight.. with incumbent republican rod blum facing democratic opponent. monica vernon. kyle kondik, the university of virginia center for politics @ :10: "i think rod blum has been an underdog this entire cycle, mostly because his district leans pretty heavily democratic and he won very close in a midterm year." political expert.kyle kondik says the district is looking to be more favorable for blum - who's in his first term - beu graduates. kyle kondik "whites who do not have a college degree generally have been a group where trump has over performing. you wonder if this is a possibility for blum to hold on in part because trump does better than your average republican nominee in the district." a loras college poll in september shows blum leading narrowly with 45 percent support. to vernon's 38 percent. another toss up. according to the cook political report - is iowa's third congressiona l district. freshman republican incumbent david young faces democrat jim mowrer. kyle lot of uncertainty a

((patrick walker)) >> the national republican congressional committee poll shows tarkanian up p while a poll commissioned by rosen's campaign shows her up 7 points. but... both polls had around 20 percent of those surveyed... who haven't thrown their support behind either of the two candidates yet. that means the candidates still have a lot of voters to sway. let's take a look at where they allign... and where they differ. ((patrick walker)) with under two weeks until election day... the candidates in congressional district three are republican danny tarkanian have been working to point out their differences in the race. the two are miles apart on social security. ((jacky rosen/(d) cd-3 candidate: "my extreme opponent, danny tarkanian, wants to privatize social security, raise the retirement age, and voucherize medicare.")) ((danny tarkanian/(r) cd-3 candidate: "well, first of all, it's going to go bankrupt in 18 years, so leaving it as it is, is not the answer, which is what my opponent wants to do.)) ((patrick walker)) rosen does not propose any major changes to social security. tar

the criticism about the congressional black caucus, he actually had a successful run. perhaps you heard of the jobs initiative where we went into communities of color to ensure at that point when the black unemployment rate was double the national average and higher than it has been in years we worked on that. we went to five cities in urban areas to address unemployment specifically. after that jobs initiative we provided nine recommendations to the obama administration that then manifested themselves in the american jobs act. you want to talk about what happened with black unemployment? your republican congress chose not to address jobs. chose not to consider that jobs recommendations -- those jobs recommendations that american jobs bill that is what happened there. now in terms of finances running finances into the ground, you want to talk about congressional member organizations budgets? i give you newt gingrich. one of your other surrogates long before i was even in elementary school, dear, newt gingrich snatched congressional member organizations budgets. the cbc

join us for the fifth district congressional debate. moderator: good evening and welcome to this ksbs election cycle. this is washington's fifth district. the fifth district is washington's second-largest district and includes the following counties. fairy, stevens, spokane, whitman, garfield. the candidates are cathy mcmorris-rodgers and joe pakootas. republican incumbent cathy mcmorris-rodgers is serving her sixth term in the u.s. house of representatives. she served at the state level for 10 years. he grew up in kettle falls and is married with three children. democrat joe pakootas is the chief executive officer for the spokane tribe. he has also served on the tribal council as chairman. he grew up in inchelium. he is married with four children and seven grandchildren. for this debate, the candidates have degree to follow our debate rules. the reporter panel will ask the same questions to both candidates, or we could direct a question to just one candidate. answers will be limited to one minute. rebuttals will be limited to 30 second

and i go, "if we can have congressional hearings on how much a toilet seat costs for the shuttle, we can have congressional hearings on this art form that so many people from all over the world who maybe don't like the politics of this country, or even what this country represents, but when it gets to the word jazz, no matter how much they may dislike this country, as soon as you say jazz, they start going 'oh, yes, yes, that music.'" >> hinojosa: you mean when you travel around the world? >> yeah, yeah. when we... the common ground has always been, "we love jazz." >> hinojosa: all right, so bobby, just to finish up here, so there's a young person who's watching this show who thinks maybe they like music, not sure. what should they do? >> hinojosa: well, first of all, if they have a passion for music like i started developing a passion for it, they should seek it out, and also get musical instruction. and i'm not just talking about music. if they have a passion for art, for science, for history... i have a passion for all of those things, and i get to express them all in the world of

ashford, the democratic congressional campaign committee is running an ad suggesting your opponent wants to raise the retirement age for social security for everybody, even though he said he would not change the retirement age. do you support these ads and what would you say here tonight? rep. ashford: i just don't support raising the retirement age. i don't think you need to do that, ever, whether it's going back to 40-years-old, 30-years-old or 20-years-old. i think there is another plan to make social security sustainable for 25 years, which does not involve raising the retirement age. that is my position. >> what does the ad say? >> it has a couple on the couch and they say pretty much that they learn mr. bacon wants to raise social security. they have worked long and hard in their lives and just found out they may have to work longer and harder. they cannot trust mr. bacon. rep. ashford: that's not our ad and we have no control over those. the point that is made in the ads is raising the retirement age is not good policy. i don't think don called it scare mongering. i don't think th

in the second congressional district. now it is her challengers turn. jim lawrence, this is your second time running. how is it going? mr. lawrence: things are going great. i'm still making my rounds through the second congressional district here. i am proud to say the voters are still receiving my. message positively. josh: how are you competing paid in terms of funding, you are outmatched, and the national party might be thinking let's invest elsewhere. mr. lawrence: not paying attention to the war the resources. my focus is on the voters of the second cd and making sure i touch each and every voter, letting them know i am fighting for their priorities important to them. dealing with our stale economy. dealing with our failed for an economy. fighting for a solution for social security. all other issues people are worried about, concerned about, talking around the kitchen about what she sees as her success, whether it was her work with veterans, the agriculture committee, the hair win -- the harrow in crisis -- the heroin crisis. mr. lawrence: the case

the race for congressional di >>s welcome back to "politics now." >> with less than two weeks until the votes are counted. the race for congress district 3 is turning into a battle. >> both released polls showing their candidate with the lead. we sat down with tarkanian to talk about a host of issues, including and social security. >> this is the congressional race, so if you're elected what's the top thing that your's looking at to get done on capitol hill. >> there's three major things that i see talking with constituents. they want to get our economy going again. we need to get back to having reasonable regulations, we need to have a fair tax system. we need to allow the banking people with large amounts of money, they get loans anytime they want. we need to be able to get the banking institution to the people. we need to do a better job protecting our citizens both in the united states and abroad from terrorism and people are upset with washington, d.c., they want to see change and see someone who is going to fight for the middle class. >> when you mentioned that disfunction in wash

for example, right around the time when the congressional black caucus is created, "ebony" magazine is able to put a lot of folks on the cover as that's created. and it really becomes an important caucus, important issues-based group. but each of these individual people become important in different ways to different communities. yvonne burk is here seen on the cover of "jet" twice, once in the 1960s when it says "women who may become congresswomen." and she does not become congresswoman in 1967. but a little bit later on she does, is elected to congress. and very much shows up on the covers of actually a lot of magazines as a face not just of black women in congress, but of women in congress and of younger women in congress. she is the first member of congress to have a baby while she is serving. and she shows up on an "ebony" magazine cover holding her little baby in something that probably the first time there had been such a cover of a lawmaker holding a brand-new baby. shirley chisholm also becomes a national figure in ways that are shown by two these buttons we have here in the c

but what we do as congressional members is a lot of other things too. you know, we work on different projects, different bills, and we get those things done. so, you know, with the results that i've had over the past 16 years, i've brought in almost a billion dollars worth of revenue and all kinds of programs that affect education, nonprofits, silicon valley. >> you're facing your own investigation and questions about ethics, the house ethics committee is investigating. they voted unanimously to investigate, and there are questions about you giving favors to high donors for things like expediting visas and that sort of thing. >> sure. >> what's your reaction? isn't that the kind of thing you're sort of accusing him about, favoring the rich? >> well, it's the ethics issue is one of house rules, whether we had violated house rules. in order to address that, two things. one, to let the people know that i made a decision that nobody on our official staff will be participating -- >> but the conclusion of the report found there was substantial reason to think

so a president must be congressional approval for significant military action. as commander-in-chief a president can always take steps to defend america from imminent threats, the framers understood this. but even in those instances they intended that the president returned to congress to seek ratification of those actions. if we take the constitution seriously, as we pledged to do, we must follow the command of the president must come to congress to initiate major military action. during a congressional recess president obama begin in the middle to action against isil. dissent against military action may continue for an extended period of time. he has stated the action is evolving from a narrow effort to protect americans from threats to the campaign to go on offense in order to degrade the ability of isil to harm. this is precisely the kind of situation that calls for congressional action and approval. some have asserted, mr. president, at the demonstration need not seek congressional approval for an extended campaign of airstrikes. humbly and respectfully, i

hillary clinton is guilty of all the things that director comey stated at his press conference and congressional hearing, and far more. he stated many things, but it's far more, and he knows that. and yet after reading all of these items where she's is so guilty, he let her off the hook. while other lies come including general petraeus, and many others, have been destroyed for

redrawing congressional districts along party lines feels flat-out wrong but it is, in most cases, how the system is built and republicans really did pull off this amazing trick in 2010 with very little money and no hoopla and republicans have had nothing equivalent to this in their toolbox. after president obama won in 2008, republicans mobilized this little thing, they were able to mastermind it and execute this plan. it was political genius. mr. jankowski, welcome to genius week. i think you were a genius. president obama has 87 days last in office. he's almost done. we have now learned a little bit about what he's going to do next after leaving office. and so, behold, the national democratic redistricting committee. he's going to be focused on redistricting reform for democrats. they are going to organize initiatives and legal challenges to redistricting maps and push for democrats winning in down-ticket races. president obama's former attorney general eric holder is going to chair the group and president obama has decided he wants this to be the main political focus of his post-pr

so it's well over a year between the congressional subpoena seeking the records and the preservation order and this immunity deal. >> can it be argued that the laptops themselves were not really records? >> great question. i spoke with jonathan turley who is very well respected, legal mind in this area. >> on this program the other night. >> yeah. he said that the fbi does not have the independent authority to make a determination about what evidence is germane to a congressional investigation. congress has its own investigative authority. so while it may not be of interest to the fbi and justice item. it may well be of interest to capitol hill. >> on ordinary prudence you wouldn't destroy it. >> you would not. i don't know what to say about that. it really -- these laptops had classified information and under the law, once have you classified documents on a personal computer, that computer becomes government property. it's not even clear why they needed an immunity deal to get those computers. they could have gone to a judge and gotten a signed order to seize those gliewrts wow. int

. >> i sit down with congressional candidate jacky rosen to talk the about issues and her congressional race. >> and what's in his inbox this political season in a special commentary. >> from 8 news now, this is "politics now" with steve sebelius and patrick walker. >> the state supreme court has finally ruled on two lawsuits to of the education savings accounts and both sides are declaring victory. >> i'm steve sebelius, i'm patrick walker. >> the program is effectively on hold, but it is not dead. they allow parents to use the funding allocated to their kids. the program itself was ruled constitutional, but the way it was funded by the legislature was not. lawmakers must change that mechanism if they want the program to continue, here is how both sides are spinning >> that money is not going to leave the hands of public school children. >> it is about money, if they have approved the constitutionality of the statute without providing the funding, then we have a problem. state treasurer who administers the potential fix. governor sandoval tells me he has not made a decision on whether

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they've run the school boards, the city councils, the mayor's office, and the congressional seats. their policies have failed, and they failed miserably. they've trapped children in

the speaker will use this time to strap support for congressional republican races. >> paul ryan will be in 42 cities in 17 states, running to win back the house. >>reporter: trumps remarks have prompted dozens of republicans to withdraw support. a defiant trump said brian should spend more time balancing the budget. hillary clinton kicked off a campaign in detroit on monday. she said that his comments make him unfit for office.>> donald trump spent his time attacking when he should have been apologizing.>>reporter: mike pence says trump has apologized and is ready to move beyond the controversy. while the jury is still out about who won the debate, a lot of people on the internet have decided one of the audience members stole the show.>> what steps will your energy policy to take to meet our energy needs, while reminding environmentally friendly and minimizing job lost for fossil power plant workers?>>reporter: that is kenneth bone, he is now amy media star because of his red cardigan and his glasses and his demeanor. he has facebook and twitter fan pages in his honor. the latest pol

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ten days to go before election off and represents the congressional districts since 2007. the e-mail issue could have been handled differently but in the end does not make a much different in the polls. clearly a could have been handled differently by the fbi but the message from the fbi chief unrelated case, doesn't involve e-mails from or to hillary clinton and it just is a lot of noise and really

e-mails after -- after, after, after, after receiving a congressional subpoena, made 13 phones disappear, some with with a hammer, lied to congress under oath many times, lied to the fbi many times and then recently two boxes of e-mail evidence went mysteriously missing. although they might have found a lot of those e-mails over the last couple of days, folks. looking like it. a lot of e-mails, a lot of trickery. the wikileaks revelations have exposed criminal corruption at the highest levels of our government. hillary put the office of

granite state poll has a look at the congressional races in new hampshire. in the first district, democrat shea-porter holds a 14-point lead over frank guinta. while independent sean o'connor may have the same thing as he reached double additional it support. in the second district it's the incumbent who is ahead, democratic congresswoman kuster has a commanding lead of 28 points over her challenger, republican jim lawrence. and our granite state debate series is coming up in less than race for governor. invited candidates are republican chris sununu and democrat colin van ostern. november 2, u.s. senate debate, kelly ayotte, maggie hassan. november 3, invited candidates are republican frank guinta, i believe sean o'connor and democrat carol shea-porter. and rounding up the series, the second congress that district, kuster and they will also be live streamed on wmur.com and our app as well.

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so somebody has to set that expectation, and then the congressional staff and congressional members will respond to that. but i think specifically, there are very, very specific activities that are already ongoing that need to be authorized if they haven't been authorized already waiting around for the national animal health laboratory network to get authorized until just so recently, it is a little ridiculous. it could very well have gotten into the farm bill. i wouldn't want to say thousands of pages of that sort of thing, but somebody needs to make sure what is already happening is authorized and will allow congress to conduct the oversight it needs to. i would put that in there, and i would make sure that a national strategy, similar to what we're requiring or recommending for bio defense in general, that national strategy activity be put into the farm bill as well. particularly addressing agriculture obviously, but giving the department of agriculture a leadership role in that, along with the other major players. i think that's really important, as with human bio defense, there are

. >> scratch the surface of the california agricultural 20th congressional district, an area voted overwhelmingly democratic in the past and a fascinating political race is shaping up. >> i'm not supporting donald trump. >> republican candidate in casey lucius who is not being shy about disavowing the top of the republican ticket, and a democrat with a famous name.

hillary deleted 33,000 e-mails after receiving a congressional subpoena. that alone to me. there are more serious things done but that was so obvious. she gets the subpoena and she bleaches and delete 33,000 e-mails. it's so simple. it's not about the sale of uranium that nobody knows what it means. i know what it means. she talks to me about russia. 20% of the uranium in our country to russia but you know that deletion of 33,000 e-mails, boy that is so out there.

we do have construction going on 355 both direct congressional lane. looks like you will be able to get past all the way up to congressional. accident bw parkway no slow downs at the belt way, your southbound lanes could slow down we have an accident. also a van filled with marijuana candy caught on fire sending the pot laiden treats up in smoke happened yesterday evening on the delaware memorial bridge. witnesses say the flames and smoke could be seen for miles

washington's's fifth contract -- congressional district. rogers is the only woman in the republic leadership in the house. it is very important for republicans to keep considering 87% of house republicans are currently white men. they have an image problem. fortunately for them this is one of their safer districts. like kathy will win another term. caller: thanks for taking my call. give me a minute here and i heard so many things. gerrymandering of congressional districts, we all know 400 and 35 of them in the house, a handful we are talking about this morning, very competitive. i went to last week, chamber of commerce in pennsylvania or a long-term republican in the house is facing the challenger that was a retired navy admiral -- i'm sorry, captain. i asked him at the chamber meeting what would be the priorities in the congress. , which surprised me, it would depend on who the president was. it seems to me there was really toleadership in the house as what the priorities are for the american people. it would depend on who wins the presid

they can help build and support the congressional staff offices. and so the staff are really the gatekeepers for the members. you need their support. and when i say you, i mean you as a group not you as an individual. i think ralph nader is the only person who by himself got enacted into law. that was 50 years ago. so you need to have a group. you need to organize. five, you need to prepare materials to support your bill. you need to argue why you want this piece of legislation. you've got to make sure they are 100% accurate, concise, interesting and designed to persuade with graphs and pictures if pertinent. different documents must be prepared for congressional offices for the media and for coalition groups. because you want to build a coalition. that is how you get legislation through from the consumer perspective. they must include data, research, resources listed at least -- in at least one of your documents, you can get information from the internet, from libraries, from the congressional record, from freedom of information act request, to go

they can help build and support the congressional staff offices. and so the staff are really the gatekeepers for the members. you need their support. and when i say you, i mean you as a group not you as an individual. i think ralph nader is the only person who by himself got a bill enacted into law. that was 50 years ago. so you need to have a group. you need to organize. five, you need to prepare materials to support your bill. you need to argue why you want this piece of legislation. you've got to make sure they are 100% accurate, concise, interesting and designed to persuade with graphs and pictures if pertinent. different documents must be prepared for congressional offices for the media and for coalition groups. because you want to build a coalition. that is how you get legislation through from the consumer perspective. they must include data, research, resources listed at least -- in at least one of your documents, you can get information from the internet, from libraries, from the congressional record, from freedom of information act request