Republican leader comments on the 2014 Midterm Elections. House democrats present their economic agenda. Then the House Rules Committee considers a lawsuit against president obama. On the next washington journal, immigration and the influx of unaccompanied children from Central American with two members of congress, Iowa Republican steve king and Texas Democrat Eddie Bernice johnson. Washington journal live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. We are here at Salisbury House in des moines, iowa. Its a home that was built by karl and edith weeks in the 1920s. He was a man of many and varied interests. Nonone of the most notable are his amazing collections in terms of artwork, sculpture, the Library Collection is an amazing collection of rare limited First Edition works. Its incredible. He collected the books that he collected not only because they are important historical works but also because he believes that books themselves were works beyondand had a worse the words on a page. He collecte
Actually, were demonstrating google glass today. Its not currently on the market. Were in the experimental phase. This is one of our earlier models, youre likely to see some models out and about that are a little bit different, but right now were showing our floor model. Were very much getting this version of google glass in the hands of as many explorers as possible and gathering their feedback or what they think we cannism prove about it. Host so what can people do with it . Guest you can actually do a lot of things you can do with your phone nowadays. You can send messages, make calls, take pictures and record videos. You can do a lot of the things were doing in a handsfree way so that you could control google glass with touch and with voice [inaudible] in front of our face holding up a camera, just not experiencing the word the world fully. Host so if you were to take a picture right now, how would you do that . Guest i would tap the glass right here, and then i would say, okay, gl
Now i know sen. Corker is working on it. I think there is a strong feeling that we cannot keep relying on the authorization and have to move forward. Thank you. Great to be on. Live coverage tonight. Congressional reaction. Welcome. The present looked like he was not ending his tenure. Going to continue to work with the people of the United States until the end. End. He opened the new world of opportunity and challenge. Working families. He can feel he was committed to giving you a leg up. There are no more campaigns. Really getting a lot of his agenda requires a campaign. So some of his programs. Well, he wants the people of the United States to buy into it. But i am in my district i hear mothers crying out, families, young families for child care. That is a cornerstone. Then the idea of increasing the minimum wage it was a stark question. And then the soul idea of balancing wealth inequality. One of the things that i held onto the presence passion and talking about how he growth with
Rest of the world. The biggest gains for this country in that field are around the issue of equity. Equi when the biggest potential gains are getting people who are not within the s. T. E. M. Pipeline into it, i think about that out being a huge advantage that we have as a country because we have a tradition of trying to broaden opportunity for all americans. The s. T. E. M. Fields are if you believe that brain power ana capability are equally distributed across all differeny parts of our a society, then ret thats by far the biggest place to gain, because if you have role models that can inspire people from all different backgrounds, thats part of thew way how you will open up the pipeline. I think to get back to your peln first question aboute. Competitiveness, i dont think we fully understand what being more competitive in the Global Economy actually means in termse of how do we measure it. Thats a good place to start. I think the competitiveness, it im not sure we all have the same
Very direct and grilling questions of witnesses that would come before our committee. Sometimes there would be a tense moment. But ralph always had something funny or a story to tell that broke the ice. Youve seen a number of members of the texas delegation here today, particularly the republican delegation and every thursday, we have lunch together. Talk about whats good for texas. But what was always a thing that we always looked forward to, we couldnt wait until ralph got there so that we could ralph could share a funny story. And you know, one of the things that ill miss most about ralph is those times when hed be on the floor or he would be at lunch, sharing those stories. Now one of the things about ralph is that as he got older, he got wiser. And in fact he, got so wise, in 2004, he realized he needed to be a part of the Republican Party and so he switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party. We were so glad to welcome him to that. So as i said, its been an honor a