And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. So pleased to welcome ava duvernay back to this program. This time for the movie selma, which she directed. The film chronicles the threemonth period in 1965 leading up to the passage of the Voting Rights act. Before we start our conversation, a look at a scene from selma. As long as i am unable to exercise my constitutional right to vote, i do not have commanof my own life. I cannot determine my destiny. It is determined by people who would rather see me suffer than succeed. Those that have gone before us say no more no more no more no more m. That means protest that means march that means disturb the peace that means jail, that means risk, and that is hard. We will not wait any longer. Give us the vote no more were not asking. Were demanding. Give us the vote give us the vote i want to first say congratulations. I want to start right there, congratulations. You know my regard for dr. King. I regard him persona
Okay. Now the fun part. Where . Right here, governor. Have a seat for a second. Raise your hand. Okay. Holler it out loud. Thank you for your service. As an inventor, serial entrepreneur and writer, i believe ill come up with a solution to the immigration problem. Can i hand this to you . Sure. And tell me what you think. If we eliminate the magnet that the problem resolves itself. Its very simple. Costs zero dollars and will resolve itself very easily. Thank you. Lets talk about this issue just a second, if you will. What i happen to see as a that may help a bit right there. The point with this is to have this this country has got to be secure. When you look at the constitution, the constitution tells us a few things that the federal government is supposed to do. Stand a Strong Military and secure our borders are two of the most important things enumerated in the constitution. And weve got to get back. I got to think that steve king touched on this about the rule of law and doing what
We are committed to our professions future through programs just like this and we fight for a free press worldwide. For more information about the club visit our website, press. Org. To donate to programs offered through our clubs, Journalism Institute visit press. Org institute. On behalf of members worldwide i want to welcome you to todays luncheon. Id like to welcome our cspan and public radio audiences. You can follow the action on twitter. Use the hashtag npc lunch. Remember, the public attends our lunches applause is not evidence of a lack of journalistic objectivity. Ill ask as many questions as time permits. Our head table includes working people who are members of the National Press club. From the right will watson. A former newspaper editor and 20year National Press club member. Larry holdren, patrick host. Captain sydney dawson u. S. Air force, aid to the superintendent and a guest of the speaker. Donald linewein. Gene tie. Thank you so much. Lieutenant cassiem. Gra m. Grane
Committees of jurisdiction such as commerce and banking to pass legislation with the same bipartisan support we experience experience with map21 so we are going to marcus bell up at the end of april. We must move it forward and i know that members on this committee on both sides including senator carper and senator barrasso working with senators vitter and i are all committed to this. I hope hope what youll do today is speak from the heart about what it means to you if in fact it is as important to you as a think it is. I hope he will tell us its important. If you dont pick its important, if you think the federal government could walk away from this tell us that. We need to know from you so this is a very important thing for me because again i have so much respect for folks who implement what we do here and with that i will turn it to my Ranking Member senators vitter. Thank you madam chairman for holding todays hearing. This is really important to get the local and state perspective o
I come from my home state. That would be one of the final four. May be. Maybe so. Im happy to see all of you. Thank you for pulling together this good group and we look forward to hearing from you. I will be very brief to help draft the last transportation bill and im so happy to have a chance to work with all the senators, senator boxer and senator john brasso. Hopefully we come up with a five or six year bill. So that we have a chance to help out a little bit on that front as well. We are really pleased, madam chair with the state and local folks. State and local governments are stepping up on transportation and that remains the case to be seen today. And so we are finding officials making some of the transportation infrastructure. When local officials asked the voters for more money, he or she is going to be focused like a laser on this and what that means is that it isnt that they are investing in these products. You are investing in a shorter commute with less conduction and we ha