Much. Things a lot. You can watch live coverage of the u. S. House on cspan. The senate is about to gavel back in for more debate on defense programs and policy this afternoon. Shortly we take live to the floor of the u. S. Senate for more debate. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The presiding officer the senator from texas. Mr. Cornyn madam president , are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer we are not. Mr. Cornyn madam president , yesterday the Senate Overwhelmingly voted to proceed to the National Defense authorization act by a vote of 868. Excuse me, 866. Thats about as overwhelming a bipartisan vote as weve had lately, and its for good reason. Because this bill represents one of our most fundamental duties as a United States congress, which is to authorize military expenditures and to provide our men and women in uniform with the resources they need in order to protect the American People. The Defense Authorization bill would authorize funding for the d
Will be testifying at that anding, casey burgat neck tomboulides. They will be with us in this final hour of the washington journal as we talk about term limits and take your calls. If you support term limits, you can start calling in now if you moments, 202 7488001. Start us off. What are u. S. Term limits . Limits is aterm Nonprofit Organization that fights for term limits for all members of government. We are basically focusing on this issue because the American People are frustrated. They are fed up with a congress that falls short of what a great country like ours deserves. Ask americans, 60 of them say they would fire every Single Member of congress if they could. Congress has a 14 Approval Rating and a 98 reelection rate. That is the sign of a broken system. When people run for office in this city, they call it the swamp. When they get here, it becomes like a hot tub. They start to enjoy the power in the prestige. They never want to go home. They never want to go back and talk t
Yesterday was fantastic, we enjoyed it. Yesterday, liberty had eight students, but from Columbia International university theres 64 students out there will you wave at us . I love it. I love it. Thank you for being here. Thank you to the liberty students, my good friend jerry falwell, its great to be here, today we are so honored to have a man who has fought for our religious liberty, a man who has stood for faith and family values for many years. A man who was reelected last year despite the pundits saying he didnt stand a chance in texas. Senator ted cruz is with us today. Cheers and applause] senator ted cruz stood against obamacare. Will you welcome ted cruz today. Cheers and applause] senator cruz god bless the United States of america. What a blessing it is to be with you today. To be with men and women committed to defending our nation, committed to defending our constitution, committed to defending the principles upon which the United States of america was founded. This is a ti
Please welcome chairman of the South Carolina freedom coalition, dr. Mark smith. [applause] are you ready for a great day . Yesterday was fantastic. We enjoyed it and we are looking forward to today. Let me take one moment. Haderday liberty eight students. From Columbia National university there are 64 students. Will you waive . It. Lause] i love thank you to the liberty students. My good friend jerry falwell. It is great to be here. Today we are so honored to have a man who has fought for our religious liberty. A man who has stood for faith and family values for many years. A man reelected last year despite the pundits saying he didnt stand a chance in texas. Senator ted cruz is with us today. [applause] senator ted cruz stood against obama care. Will you welcome ted cruz today . God bless the United States of america. What a blessing it is to be with you today. What a blessing it is to be with men and women committed to defending our nation, committed to defending our constitution, c
Year, the phone number is 2027488002. You can catch up with us on social media. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good tuesday morning. You can start calling now on this question as we show you some stats on poverty. In 2019, the Poverty Level for a household of 4 with an annual 25,750 or below, the 2018 the latest year where there are federal stats for this range, 500 53,000 americans were considered homeless. In 2017, the poverty rate was 12. 3 . Americans did of not have Health Insurance. We are having this conversation on poverty in america in the wake of a forum in which 9 president ial candidates spoke. It was the Poor Peoples Campaign form and one of them was Bernie Sanders. Here is what he had to say. [video clip] the point is for us to begin to think about what freedom means and in the richest country in the history of the world, half of the people in our country should not be forced to live paycheck to paycheck. 500,000 americans should n