You only and. You are awesome, have a great day. Guest thank you, and thank you for judging the donating that piece of history to the local museum. Expanding opportunities to vote, these are fights that play out over generations. They are noticed about what is going to happen this year, what is would happen in 2016. This is a long haul of people care about this country pushing to make it better, organizing together. That is the greater part of our democracy, and this memorial day weekend that is the type of value we should be standing up for. Thank you for your call. Host we will conclude on that note. Anna galland is the executive director of moveon. Org. Thank you for being with us. Guest thank you. Host two former members of congress, say it is time for us to open up the president ial debate and include thirdparty contenders like they did with ross perot. Later, retired colonel derek harvey will talk about the isis gains in syria and iraq. Youre listening to washington journal on me
Or join the conversation on facebook. Com cspan. Send us an email, journal cspan. Org. We will get your thoughts in a minute. Joining us on the phone is sarah mimms, staff correspondent at national journal. Lets begin with what is happening on the floor in the house and senate. Guest sure. The senate particularly is really interesting. They are coming in in very much the same position they were last week. They still have a Human Trafficking bill holding them up. They still need to confirm Loretta Lynch. They are still looking at the iran nuclear deal. Mitch mcconnell indicated he thinks they are making progress on the Human Trafficking deal. Once that gets done, that is going to be the beginning of dominoes that will allow Loretta Lynch and iran to get done. All of that this week. Host serve the house is looking at Cyber Security legislation that they will vote on. Off the floor house and Senate Negotiators are meeting to try to iron out the differences on the 2016 budget. What are the
Version. Is this a budget that will work for working americans . Or is it a budget designed for powerful, special interests . You see, there has been a lot of rhetoric on both sides of the aisle about helping the middle class and fighting for workers but a budget document puts down real numbers, concepts, and we can see if it is just rhetoric or a vision for expanding and strengthening the middle class. I am disappointed neither the senate or house budget meets the test of fighting to make this country work better for working americans and both the house and Senate Budget and a parallel fashion are designed to help the powerful special interests. So many sectors, so many parts of our community will be affected in a negative way with this vision. Our seniors will be either affected by the house version or the senate version. Our infrastructure is assailed in both budgets. Women infrastructure deficit, a Highway Trust Fund running out of money, and both budgets failed to create good payi
, did you know that decision. Did you approve of that decision . General you asked me a question out of my area. I do know about this, this is essentially what u. S. Naval forces do. Right now, for the past 24 hours, i know about as much as you do. General, on the vehicles heading to europe, have you made a determination on where those vehicles will go . And how does that factor into your strategy . General the decision is being considered right now. When that will be rolled out is yet to be determined. How we please those, is going to be very important. Placing the kits so we can train with it is very important. Placing it so it could react to a constituency contingency is very important. We will make sure we get this right. Hopefully that will roll out soon. Thank you very much. [no audio] announcer during this month cspan is pleased to present, the winners from the student cam competition. It is the annual competition that encourages middle and High School Students to think critical
These six men. Its taken so long for them to be charged. Theres no question what happened. Host im sorry, maybe you can call in again, we can get your comments again. Going to move on to virginia, independents line. Caller thank you for taking my call. Im from virginia where, you know the American Dream was born here. Jamestown in 1619, you had your first africans get here to this country, became the greatest nation on the planet in terms of talking about the ideal of democrat sifment and independence for all. It hasnt happened. And here in virginia, we have a place called fort monroe where that happened almost 400 years ago. And what were doing there is helping people understand how our founding past impacts who we are today. So we codified slavery in the constitution and now in 1865, supposedly it was ended with the adoption of the 13th amendment. But here we are in the 21st century, still fighting the ills of how this country was founded. What we are hoping we can do is help people