Afternoon eastern time and later, pending action in the house on the g. O. P. Tax bill, the senate would then take up the measure. Youre watching live coverage. Senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, fill us with reverence for you. Help us to remember that you are the one from whom we borrow our heartbeats. You continue to be the source of our peace and the center of our joy. May our reverential awe provide us with the foundation of true wisdom. Empower our lawmakers to make a positive difference in our nation and world. Give them generous, righteous, and compassionate hearts so that they will transform discord into harmony. As they turn to you in humble, fervent prayer, hear our prayers, forgive our sins, and heal our land. Lord, we thank you that you will never give us more to do than we can do with your power. We pray in your mighty name. Ame
Also on the calendar, this years state of the Union Address from President Trump before a joint session of congress. As always, you can watch the house live on cspan and see the senate on our companion network cspan 2. Next testimony from officials with the atf and the air force on proposed firearm regulations. And updating the criminal background check system. The measure proposed banning bump stock and similar devices. Senator Dianne Feinstein is the Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary committee. She introduced the legislation. Good morning, everybody. Thank you for attending todays hearing. We gather here today in the wake of violent acts by an evil man in las vegas and southern springs and those two places get all the attention, but theres lesser number of people have died other places as well. Today with the help of our witnesses, we hope to learn more about how those tragedies might have been prevented. And we will discuss various proposals on preventing similar tragedies in t
Provider. Next, testimony from officials with the atf and the air force on proposed firearm regulations. And updating the criminal background check system. The measure proposes banning bump stocks and similar devices that enable guns to fire as fast as an automatic weapon. Senator Dianne Feinstein is the Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary committee. She introduced the legislatio and thank you for attending todays hearing. We gather here today in the wake of violent acts of an evil man in las vegas and Sutherland Springs and those two places get all the attention, but theres lesser numbers of people who have died other places as well. Today with the help of our witnesses, we hope to learn more about how those tragedies might have been prevented. And we will discuss various proposals on preventing similar tragedies in the future. Before october 1st, 2017, few americans knew what a bump stock was. Then a shooter used bump stocks to fire more than 1,100 rounds into a crowd attending a
The Senior Vice President for the committee for responsible spoke to Thet National economists club. This is 55 minutes. Pete welcome to the National Economist club, our first event of the year. The club was first of all, im pete davis, Senior Vice President and past president of the club. The National Economist club was started in 196 by herb stein, the chair of the council of economic advisers and it has met roughly 40 weeks out of every year since, presenting leading economists talking about issues of the day. Today, were very pleased to mark goldwine of the committee for responsible federal budget to talk about the return of trillion dollar deficits. Before i introduce mark, let me tell you about some upcoming programs. We have dr. Alice rivlin on february 1 at a luncheon right here at the chinatown garden talking about fed policy and maybe a little bit about the budget. Shes a former vice chair of the fed, and of course, the founding director of the congressional Budget Office. We
Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 what that does, to draw a line that for the purposes that michael i think just described betweenprofessors private activities and their professional activities in order to protect the right of the freedom of professors to be politically engaged outside of the classroom. Of course the rubber hits the road when the professor is teaching politics. And those are the places where we see the most challenge in these environments. For example professor of the middle east who has particular position on the middle east, that might cross the line between instruction and advocacy. That is not a simple line to navigate. And many of the controversies sweechb seen at berkeley are students who are concerned about or disapprove of the positions that professors may profess in those particular kinds of settings. And i think that is one of the arenas where weve seen the most stress and it has come from both the left and the right in different cla