We want to hear from you. You can also make a comment via twitter cspanwj is our twitter handle. Alex rogers is with the National Journal. Mr. Rogers, can you explain what is going on in the senate and what is going to happen today and perhaps over the weekend as well . Alex the send it is in a race against time. They are trying to figure out a few matters. The first on the schedule is a trade legislation that is not time sensitive but that the Republican Leadership wants to pass before leaving for memorial day recess. After that, there is going to be a time sensitive deadline. The end of the month, the nsa bulk collection of telephone meta data will and by midnight, may 31. The administration has there could be some lapses if the senate does not pass a house passed bill by the end of today. Then, of course, there is a third item. A Highway Trust Fund authorization the house has passed a temporary two month bill there as well. So, they have a lot on their plate. The jet fumes, the sena
Their website, www. Cspan. Org a emeicanhistory. You can get the schedule. To mark for being with us and enjoy your weekend. Thank you for being with us and enjoy your weekend. Vice President Joe Biden is speaking this week at the u. S. Naval Academy Commencement exercises. He will also be handing out diplomas to the newly commissioned men and women at the academy in annapolis maryland. We had hoped to bring you like coverage of the remarks by the Vice President in the commissioning but we are having problems with our live signal from annapolis. We are recording the event and we will show it to you later in our program schedule. This tweet from New York Times julie davis this morning, a line around the corner here at the dos israel that rivals any high holidays crowd to hear obama speak this a. M. Referring to remarks by the president at the adas israel conversation at washington, d. C. We will have that live at 11 00 a. M. Eastern time today on cspan. Here are some of our featured tok
Linwood Scott III climbs two-story tobacco cropping machines with real agility and apparently no thought to falling. The sixth-generation tobacco farmer is proud of his machinery, upgraded 20 years ago and therefore relatively new. He delights in every tool and accoutrement of the cropping, curing, and baling process: every trailer, every sawed-off school bus that pulls those trailers, every conveyor belt, every one of his 200 small curing barns.Scott, in his early fifties, is from Lucama, North