The president ial campaign of 2016 as we approach the election, Many Americans say that the political outsiders like trump and carson over the career politicians. A year that americans are so fed up his politics as usual that many now favor unusual politicians. They keep reelecting incumbents over and over. It is really a bizarre moment. Based on a study, independent of the people of the bottom 90 have no impact on the actual congress. The opinions of the economic elite however, are reflected in the action of congress. What looks like responsiveness to the public overall, is really responsiveness to the economic elite. You see the middle class and the poor have virtually no influence over government policy outcome. While the Study Suggests the government does not reflect the people, it can also suggest that congress is susceptible to corruption. But not necessarily corruption by the traditional definition. It is not the petty corruption of trying to earn a few bucks on the side. The co
Mckinley gave those the next president of the United States [cheering] [applause] president obama is on a trip to a United Kingdom, including the meeting with Prime Minister David Cameron. He will stay in britain on saturday before heading to germany on sunday. The president and Prime Minister cameron held a joint press conference with they talked upcoming referendum on britains membership in the European Union. President obama wrote an opinion piece in the telegraph arguing for britain to stay in the eu is present is one hour. Prime minister cameron good afternoon and welcome. It is great to welcome president obama on his fifth visit to the United Kingdom. Barack has been president for more than seven years. I have been Prime Minister for nearly six years. And our two countries have been working together through some of the most difficult and troubled global times. We faced the aftermath of the banking crisis, the need to revive growth and create jobs in our economies, new threats to
Host our guest is Veterans Affairs secretary robert mcdonald. Secretary mcdonald came to this job almost three years ago and his background includes the military academy at west point and he is an army veteran himself. He came from private industry and served as ceo at Procter Gamble. Let me introduce the reporters leo shane of military times and david wood is the senior military correspondent for the huffington post. Reporter i want to start with the wait times issue. We had a new report over what constitutes wait time and where we stand now. Can you talk about this and what confidence veterans should have that the v. A. Is addressing the problem . There still seems to be discrepancies over how the time is calculated and frustration over how it is being handled. Sec. Mcdonald if you ask me, the ultimate measure for any veteran and how we deal at that veteran is how they are satisfied with what we do. We have put together a Transformation Program where the first strategy is to improve
Today, the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee will hold a hearing looking at ways to improve management of federal agencies. Live coverage at 3 00 eastern on cspan. The car spun around in a circle, one girl got ejected. The jive are instantly wanted to know where her phone was. She was looking for her phone. He was stuck in the back seat. She was alive for about 45 minutes before they cut her out. Madeline i am bowne. Years old. Many drivers today are focusing on their cell phones rather than the road. Distracted driving is dangerous and cell phones should have no place behind the wheel. Something needs to be done about this. The winners of this years cspan student cam video competition on the most important Issue Congress should address. Watch the top 21 videos starting tuesday and every weekday on cspan at 6 50 a. M. Eastern. See all the winning documentaries online at studentcam. Org. This week on q a, educator, journalist and author Betty Medsger discusses her latest historical
Live at 2 30 p. M. Here on cspan. Edison was a plant scientist as well as interested in other sciences. He knew that it did not freeze in fort myers. A lot of the interest that he had here in this area was aced on his love of plants. 1920s, the United States was relying on foreign rubber. We were heading into war. The decided that the plant material and the process should be done in this country. They were traveling all over the world and collecting plants. They had hundreds of people all over this country collecting plant. They were sending it back here to fort myers, to his laboratory, to find the source of plant materials that could produce robert efficiently. Laboratory was put here because of that reason. They could grow the plants onsite and in duty preliminary research on site. It was an exciting process. The laboratory was interesting because at that line in American History, there was no patent chemicals. Plants or part of the reason why this lab was so important was that it c