Your thoughts be known and your ideas for fixing congress. Weigh in. You can here are the phone lines. For republicans, 202 5853881. For democrats, 202 5853880. For independents, 202 58538 2 2. Respond onweet, facebook or send us an email. The gallup poll looks at confidence in the congress. If you look at the pole and go back to the mid80s, you can see that Congress Congressional an uptake bys at 2003 at 30 . Leading to the current day in 2014 with 7 percent of respondents saying they have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in congress. Have confidence in congress, you can let us know. You may want to share your ideas for fixing congress. 202 phone lines, 5853881 for republicans. 202 5853880 for democrats. 202 5853882 for independents. And onal media, cspanwj facebook. About 90 people responding on facebook. Com cspan. Send in enough to journal cspan. Org. Lets find out about activities in congress this week with Cristina Marcos of the hill, she joins us on the phone. Guest goo
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Away. We are live with what happens next. Good morning, everyone. A lot going on. I would say so. Welcome to early start. Its wednesday, june 11, its 5 00 in the east. All right. So much for the fall of the tea party. Theres been a stunning epic upset in virginia. House majority leader eric cantor defeated by economics professor and Tea Party Darling dave bratt. This wasnt even close, folks. He kept pounding home the theme that cantor betrayed principles on spending and immigration and knocked off the number two House Republican by an astonishing 12 points despite being outspent by some 5 million. The reason we won this campaign is theres one reason, and thats because dollars do not vote, you do. Was basic American Values right from the beginning. And the basic premise is power belongs to the people, and thats what were going to do. Its disappointing, sure. But i believe in this country, i believe theres opportunity around the next corner for all of us. So i look forward to continuing
Billion compromise to address the Veterans Affairs scandal. Those involved in the intense negotiations say 5 billion is paid for with cuts elsewhere and the rest is labelled emergency spending. The veterans need Quick Response. And this is the way that we need to be able to make sure that veterans are not standing in line. Planes and tanks and guns are a cost of war. So taking care of men and women who use those weapons. Reporter the measure includes allowing veterans living more than 40 miles from a va facility to get outside treatment providing some choice and flexibility. I dont believe there will be a flight of all the veterans out of the system. But we dont know until we start this program. Reporter the scandal came to light in the spring when whistle blowers said they manipulated waiting lists to hide long delays and allegations that veterans died while waiting for treatment. It cost then secretary his job. The va is not sacred, the veteran is. Thats the most important thing for
To the audience he will be speaking to right now. What this law will do is streamline for disabled veterans who are trying to appeal their their disability benefits and this will make it much easier. Right now 470,000 people are waiting determination by the va. Now the message he writes here today according to the white house is one of unit. Hes expected to call on americans to heal the wounds that divide us. Thats a quote. That is if he sticks to the script. He went off script last night in phoenix after ex saw. He went after the media for about half an hours time. Criticizing the medias coverage on how he responded to the violence in charlottesville. Take a listen. President they dont report the facts. Just like they dont want to report that i spoke out forcefully against hatred, bigotry and violence, and strongly condemned the neo nazis, White Supremacists and k2 Global Partners k. Kkk. Harris, he was also critical of the two republican senators in arizona. John mccain specifically