an s car for her short documentary the girl in the river about honor killings. she said in pakistan when she was growing up there weren t those role models. she was so hungry and it was only seeing christiane amanpour reporting on television that made her imagine for herself the life of a journalist and she s become a brilliant journalist. but it was christiane amanpour that made her think of herself and as journalist. again, that is why the power of example again and again becomes because it gives it links you to something beyond yourself and even your border across borders. but speaking of across borders, women have risen to high rank in other parts of the world and night this country. but there s also been a lot of turbulence with that. the case of dilma rousseff which we were all excited when she came in replacing lula as president. one would not have assumed it would go that way. i think of benazir bhutto whom you knew from oxford what happened to her was not b
address the gun-control issue, sidestepping congressional approval. 202-585-3882 for all others. you can post your comments on facebook or send us a tweet. or send us an e-mail. president obama later this morning will be outlining the recommendations put forth by vice president joe biden. part of them will be some executive action. this is from our website, c- span.org. the president may also announced several executive orders which will take effect immediately to curb the violence. so, the assault weapons ban and those sorts of things need congressional approval. president obama will take some sort of executive action and we will talk about that later this morning. 11:45 a.m. eastern time as when we expect the president. look for our coverage. on coverage on the executive orders, do you support that idea by the president to do action on his own? we want to hear from you this morning. here is the arizona republic, courtesy of the newseum in washington. do you support executiv
changes that i asked senator gillibrand to make, and i think it would be worthwhile to outline all the changes that have been made to the bill since they were first introduced. i think they demonstrate good faith of the chairman and senator gillibrand. for instance, senator gillibrand s bill originally would have made it a federal crime to transfer two or more guns if that person knew that the result would be a violation of state or local law. that would have given states and localities a one-way incentive to address new gun control measures and force the cost of prosecution and incarceration on the federal government. it also would have created for the first time a situation in which violation of state criminal law was an element of federal offense. she took that provision out at my request. i raised similar concerns about the language in the chairman s bill and you also removed that language. senator gillibrand also accepted major and minor drafting suggestions, including c
good morning. we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine senators. i think, senator grassley, we can get going. first off i want to thank senator paul for having a filibuster which kept everybody still in town so we can have a quorom to talk about guns that may not have been his number one reason for doing it, but we take ancillary benefits wherever they come from. last week we all had the opportunity to talk about legislation before the committee regarding gun violence in america. we gave our speeches. and i hope we could make significant progress. earlier this week i was joined by senator collins, senator durbin, gillibrand, and senator kirk in the introduction revised legislation to combat the straw purchasing and trafficking of firearms. others have joined us in that bill including senator clow chew char, senator king, and i ll plan when we get on it i ll offer a substitute we find the provisions with the text of the leahy-collins bill. i reach out to
i will amend it with my substitute which is based on the text of the leahy-collins bill. i assume there is no objection to the substitute. it s a bill without objection. the bill as amended by the substitute is now opened for further discussion and amendment. if i could, i would start the discussion. before i make a statement, i think i have not talked to senator sessions. i talked to senator cornyn. you folks want to make statements overall or you re ready to go to straw purchasing bill? it s on the agenda now. so the chairman has the right to bring it up. or do you want to go right to this? i have statements on both, but i d be happy to address the straw purchasing bill first. how about you, senator sessions? i ll proceed with the amendment process. we are ready to go on your bill. can i speak now? sure. go ahead. ok. i greatly appreciate the substitute amendment. i have offered an amendment to the bill which i will discuss separately. federal legislation