Were expecting the senate to come in here for a brief pro forma session. Senators are back for legislative business on thursday or and will come in the at 10 a. M. Eastern for work on two bills. The first would extend provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act exprk the over is a 60 billion relief package for areas affected by hurricane sandy. And negotiations on the fiscal cliff continue and debate on a deal is possible in either the house or the senate once its announced. The senate is running a little bit behind schedule. Senators were expected back in for a brief pro forma session about ten minutes ago at noon eastern time. In the meantime, a look ahead to tomorrow mornings washington journal. A look at the biggest Foreign Policy events of 2012, our guest is ely lake of news week and the daily beast. Then the biggest political stories of 2012. Well look at that with juan williams. Washington journal starts every morning at 7 eastern on cspan. As we wait for this pro fo
Between christmas and new years. I do not know. Maybe they should finish their work. You will see some push in the next few days to get a small deal done. Viewers are fan of the process. Anything that gets done needs to be done quickly before new years to be signed into law. Today is the 27. And so you have a few days left for lawmakers to make a deal. The president s should land at some point. There is a 5 hour time difference. They have to figure out something. It seems likely will go over the cliff. It has been looking like that before the holiday, but certainly now, particularly if you remember for congress broke for the christmas break, speaker raynor was not able to get the backup plan through his caucus, so there was no pressure on democrats to try to counter that immediately. Senate democrats saying we passed a bill that raises tax rates on incomes over 250,000, we ran on this and this is what we are offering. House republicans were saying, no, we want to negotiate something, f
The senate is in at 1 00 eastern time. Votes are scheduled at 2 00 p. M. Eastern. Majority leader harry reid and minority leader mcconnell had set a deadline of 3 00 p. M. When theyre planning to convene a caucus meetings and update members of the parties on a possible plan for taxes and spending on the new year. Will bring you live coverage of the senate on cspan2 started at 1 00 eastern. In the house, the return of 2 00 p. M. Youll be considering a number of pieces of legislation. What the live coverage of the house here and cspan. Next, retiring senator kent conrad reflects on his career in congress to. It is currently Senate Budget Committee Chairman and was first elected to the senate in 1986. This is about half an hour. Senator conrad, your Farewell Speech was yesterday. What is that like . It has been great. I had the Going Away Party the night before. A lot of my colleagues were there. Then the Farewell Speech, in which i had a chance to reflect on my service here. But also, to
On his 26year career. And a discussion on corporations and stock values. Dan burton is retiring from the house this year after 30 years in office. The 15term congressman represents the Fifth District in east Central Indiana which includes parts of indianapolis and the surrounding suburbs. Earlier he talked with cspan about his past investigations of the collective demonstration and the oversight ruled congress. This is 30 minutes. As you exit the institution how would you say it stated . It has changed a great deal. It is not the same as when i came 1983. There seemed to be more comedy. Tip oneill was speaker. I will never forget he was the first time he was on the floor raising cane with democrats. He had someone take his place and he came down and started giving me the dickens. After that we became very good friends and played golf together. Michael was a wonderful leader. There was a spirit of camaraderie even though we had differences politically then that we do not have now. Now i
The colonists were sending ships ever where to get muskets and cant after the british had sent more troops to boston after the Boston Tea Party and the so called coercive acts and it is clear that the colonists were pulling together ammunition. Maybe they did not intend to use it but that was a big debate. The king prohibited british ships from taking ammunition and everything to the colonies are less it was officially sanctioned. They were very alert to this. As soon as the colonys found out about the order prohibiting ammunition and munitions from being sent to the colonies, in New Hampshire and then rhode island, colonist patriots over the monitions so everyone knew what was coming in the winter of 70741775. This brighter suggests that 1775 was a critical launching point of the revolutionary war and american independence. That is sunday night at 8 00 on cspans q7a. Next a discussion with the all women delegation to congress from New Hampshire. For the first time in u. S. History, th