Hello everyone this is the day the lord has made a lets rejoice and be glad. [applause] good morning. Welcome to the dedication of the museum of the bible the first worldclass museum in the history of a the world what a blessing to have you here. You will hear from wonderful people today making History Today is rededicate this museum in the of washington d. C. Area and also as the worlds museum. So as you can see we are located in the world stage theater we are coasting amazing grace. They are here with the second performance last night and will perform a limited engagement get your tickets go on line to the museum of the bible. [laughter] our mission as educational Innovative Institute our purpose is to invite all people to engage in this wonderful work recall the bible the history and its narrative and impact those are the three things you will see throughout the museum and it continues to lift up the people with those grand opening events before we created a new exhibit were policy
[inaudible conversations] president obama speaking at the united nations. Joints he spent on twitter to get updates and you can watch live on our companion network cspan. Other World Leaders are gathering to address problems in the middle east and other issues related to peace and interNational Security. Speaking after the president will be the president of china, russian president come as the president of south korea and iran. Republican president ial front runner donald trump of the announcing his tax plan he says will reduce rates while increasing rates for some like Hedge Fund Managers who he says dont pay into the well take you live to new york at 11 a. M. Eastern. On Capitol Hill Congress working on federal spending to current funding expires wednesday. The house was waiting for action so that will begin work with other bills including one to give states more flexibility in denying medicaid contracts to providers who perform abortions. The senate meets at 4 30 p. M. And will cons
Happening this morning, the Supreme Court will take up the latest challenge to the Affordable Care act. Much more on that throughout todays washington journal. Democratslenny gainthis is the houston chronicle. This is a failure. To fund the department through september. No strings attached. Here is the front page of the boston globe. The house oks homeland funding. Divisions widen between john boehner and hardline conservative republicans. Also this morning their headline on this story. Homeland security receives funding. They say the gop capitulates but the war is not over. This is immigration is the reaction from capitol hill. I voted against this because it does not deny funding for the president unconstitutional action. He voted against what the speaker wanted to do. Since it democrats refuse Senate Democrats refuse to compromise. Another chairman who oversees reform panel voted no on the funding bill. I will not power amnesty. Harry reid tweeted out open or i hope we all i hope we
Coming up tonight, the Senate Rules Committee heres from John Paul Stevens and then senate obama remarks on the minimum wage bill and then we bring you the debate on the minimum wage bill. Wednesday the Senate Rules Committee held its first hearing on Campaign Finance in response to the Supreme Courts ruling strike down limits on individual political contributions. John paul stevens joined current and federal Election Commissioner representatives at this twohour hearing. I am deeply worried about the future of our democracy. For over a hundred years we have struggled with the issue of money and politics always looking for the balance between freedom of political expression and the corrosive influence of unchecked money to Public Officials. We have had scandals and corrections. We have had new laws and new ways to abade those laws. But we have never seen what is happening today. Court poins, clever political up operatives have created a new Political Landscape where candidates are compe
Defend its views as does the right to life. That is the way our system operates. And Campaign Finances reform is about lower the limits, restrict the speech, restrict the speech and what happens is the only is e who can win election incumbent politicians because they have those that raise the money and any challenger has to raise the money. If you dont have an army of thousands and thousands of buppedlers you cannot effectively challenge an incumbent. That is not the unintended effect of these laws, that is the intended effect. We have super pacs that are speaking on the sidelines and you have politicians who play games. They speak since they cannot speak directly under the law they will say who will rid me of this trouble some clerk. If a group is supporting you, you hope what they say bears some resemblance of what you believe but you cant talk to them so if they get it wrong, there is nothing you can do. A far better system would be to allow individuals unlimited contributions to ca