Opportunity and i think they could be good for northeast ohio. Host tim ryan brevis its the 13th district and ohio. Hes a member of the appropriations committee. Thank you for being here. Guest appreciated, bread. Amy klobuchar holding a Campaign Rally in falls church, virginia. Virginia is one of the super tuesday primary states going to the polls next week. Before that though the South Carolina primary is tomorrow. We will have live coverage of those results and speeches starting at 8 p. M. Eastern on cspan. This afternoon at 2 30 p. M. Will be live with senator brown and a sanders in columbia, South Carolina. Also over on cspan. Senator burr standards. Its good to see you this morning. [applause] that the type of energy are looking for. Yall got the energy like youre ready to be the next president of the United States. [cheers and applause] i love it i love it, i love it. Well, im from Virginia State delegate michael, and im here today to support an amazing candidate. I i know thats
Good morning. I thank all of you for being here today good morning, today we are examining our nations history of Voter Suppression. As well as the obstacles that many minority communities continue to face to this day. And in exercising their fundamental right to vote. Tomorrow we will be holding a ceremony to honor our dear friend and colleague and our former chairman, Elijah Cummings. We will be remaining in disappearing room after him and commending everything he stood for. Todays hearing is also part of our effort to honor his legacy. Protecting the right to vote was one of the most important issues. If not the most important issue he fought for during his decades in Public Service. We are holding this hearing in february during black historymonth. It was black americans whose voices were stifled, blocked in silence for centuries and is black americans who are still being disproportionately targeted, even now in shameful efforts to prevent them from registering to vote , purging th
Of those who we have come to washington to represent is to deal with the outrageously high drug prices and Prescription Drug medication that we pay here in the United States of america. Theres no justification for the fact that the American People paid more for the same drug, often manufactured in the same place as canada, australia, japan, great britain, germany andfrance. No justification whatsoever. Hr three will change that by giving the federal government and medicare the ability to negotiate lower drugprices on behalf of the American People. It is a substantively significant step in the right direction and a fiscally sound these of legislation. The preliminary score from the cbo is that the bill will save over a 10 year period, 345 billion dollars. We look forward to our colleagues on the other side of the aisle and the president and others working with us because they claim to be the party of this cold responsibility. Dont talk about it, be about it. And we are here to work with
From how changes in sexual offences in the military will be addressed, to controversial attempts at getting recruitment numbers up, the defence minister joins us in studio.
Chris Wattie/Reuters Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney on May 19, 2009 in Ottawa, Canada. CNN Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney