And at 9 00 a. M. , dr. Steven on a new study of Life Expectancy in the u. S. The Supreme Court yesterday to go up its first one rights case in nearly a decade. How or even whether the court will decide that case is still to come. This morning, we would like to hear from you on the issue. Good morning, it is tuesday, december 3, 2019. We will start with your views on gun laws and how they should be changed or not changed. If you think gun laws should be more strict, the number to call is 2027488000. If you think gun laws should be less strict or loosened, 2027488001. If you think gun laws should be capped as they are, that line is 2027488002. You can send us a text. Make sure you tell us your name and where you are texting from. That line, 2027488003. On twitter, tweet us at cspanwj. You can post your thoughts at facebook. Com cspan. Top of also keep you on the latest in the impeachment coming with the report out today and President Trump at the nato meetings in london. We will have th
Common sense caucus, we heard from two of them earlier today. Senators joe manchin of West Virginia and senator Susan Collins of maine. Here are some of their remarks. Senator manchin let me thank you for being here. Were open for business again, the couldnt vi open for business, the government is open for business, and my good, dear friend here, Susan Collins, from maine, were the two most bipartisan, centrist voting members. With that, we have basically taken over susans office as our little switzerland. Thats where we meet. In a bipartisan way. Everyone is talk with each other. Trying to help each other. And not at each other. And i want to thank susan for always being here. We started this in 2013 in the first shutdown. We were just so frustrated, her and i were talking, we said cant we just get some likeminded people together . Thats how we started pushing our leadership into a bipartisan bill. It was natural for our Common Sense Coalition to do it again. Susan comes comes to the
Quorum call the presiding officer the majority whip. Mr. Cornyn madam president , i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Cornyn madam president , now that the government is up and running again, we need to look ahead at what our legislative priorities should be. I cant speak for everybody, but i can speak for myself. My priorities are threefold. First we need to expedite Disaster Relief. In december the house passed an 81 billion Disaster Relief bill to address the disasters by Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Harvey and the wildfires out in the west. That has been sitting here since december and we need to act and act with dispatch. Everyone remembers Hurricane Harvey, we certainly do in texas, which pummeled us last august. It was last august. This is february. Most of the Media Attention in the months since has focused on the city of houston, which quite literally, was torn apart. They had more than 50 inches of rain fal
Watch book tv on cspan2. Senator Susan Collins, House Minority whip steny hoyer, and House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member adam schiff, who discussed President Trumps first discuss President Trumps for state of the union with mike allen of axios. Good morning. Thank you for coming out to the state of the union post game. We appreciate the bank of america for making these conversations possible. We have a fantastic triple crown, tripleheader lineup this morning, people who were in the chamber for helping make the news and are going to illuminate it for us. Axios makes you smarter faster on topics that matter, business tech, media, politics and our events follow the same format. They are quick and we start with what happens and why it matters. Thats the formula you always get in the axios stream when you go on axios. Com. Every story starts as one phone screen, and in that whats new, what is happening, why it matters to make you smarter faster. Id like to thank my axios events coll
We have a fantastic triple crown, tripleheader lineup this morning, people who were in the chamber who are helping league the news and are going to eliminate it for us. Axios is smart and faster on the areness matters, and they equipped for this format. We start with what happened and why it matters. That is what you get on axios. Com. One screen starts as on what is new, what is happening, and why it matters to make you smarter faster. I would like to thank my event colleagues for pulling together this fantastic event. I thank all of you for being here. E are going to start we have three guests. Hasfirst guest this morning seen 35 addresses to congress or states of the union, the representative from the fifth prince georges county, maryland, the House Democratic whip, congressman steny hoyer. Mr. Hoyer, what an honor. Thank you so much. You were talking with sen. Collins stage, and you have seen 35, 36 states of the union, addresses to congress, but this is the first time the presiden