stretch the department spending. when it comes to law enforcement, your arrival at the department at a critical time of needed leadership is welcome. since our hearing early this spring, with the department s law-enforcement chiefs, we have seen the departures of the atf director and the dea administrator. i hope you will pay attention to these law enforcement agencies. to ensure that they faithfully execute their duties during this time of change. as an example, the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms and explosives has a rule pending that would impose burdens burdensome and unnecessary regulations regarding firearms lost or stolen in transit. however, the atf s own statistics indicate this number is insignificant and should not be a cause for concern. it certainly does not warrant such encumbering regulations. oversight and accountability should remain a top priority for this committee. i have consistently expressed my displeasure to your predecessor regarding the de
that is to say, there are a very few number of democrats who are for it or against it. and no those are the members that president obama and joe biden need to lobby one way or the other, the pending on with it are. host: in the pool of house democrats who have said yes? vicki needham: 10 that are for sure yes. and about 26 have decided for sure. but there is another huge pot of undecided, and we figured that they are in several different batches. the ones that are going to say yes now, the ones who are going to say no now, and the ones who are going to stand on the floor and wait to see if the vote is needed. emma dumain: and i think republicans fall into that category as well. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] announcer: peter nowak says we are in a new era of robotics technology. 2015 was the year of robot angst. n
story about her time? kate: she is one of the most interesting characters. she was the carters nanny and she was convicted of murder in the early 1970 s. it is a fascinating story. she was convicted of murder. she was in georgia with her cousin and they got into a fight outside a bar. she ended up killing this guy. she says it was in self-defense. she went to prison and was on a work release program. she went to the governor s mansion and interviewed with rosalynn carter. carter loved her and said, would you come and meet our daughter amy? she said the minute she met amy, they clicked. they couldn t stop laughing. they would play hide and go seek. they loved each other. they took her on as their nanny and their nanny was still in prison. when jimmy carter was elected president, she went back to prison for a period of time. they had to have the president be her parole officer in order to bring her to the white house. so she came to the white house. eventually she was cleared
congress gets that to consider renewing or changing elements of the patriot act. our question is how concerned are you about homegrown terrorism? it is (202) 748-8000 if you are calling on the democrats line. for republicans, (202) 748-8001. for independent and all others (202) 748-8002. we welcome your comments on facebook as well. facebook.com/c-span. on twitter, send us a tweet. we will get to comments momentarily. front page of the houston chronicle in a headline courtesy of the museum. the broader issue of homegrown terrorism. keeping track of foreign fighters. they write the specter of americans drawn to violent jihadist is drawing scrutiny from texans in congress on the little-known foreign fighters task force which gets briefings and traveled to the middle east to assess the threat. the panel has been meeting in under the radar sessions for at least a month in a secure room at the capitol starting before the attack in garland last weekend that left two radicalize ro
[general chatter] [laughter] democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton. you can find her remarks in our video library. it look at tweets from some of the republican presidential candidates. dr. ben carson said he had a great time at blake s family restaurant in manchester, new hampshire. ted cruz will be in iowa fundraising for the republican party appearing with steve king. today in washington dc, a discussion on oil prices and their impact on racking. that will be hosted by the atlantic council. we will have that live at 3:00 eastern time. the u.s. senate is meeting this afternoon. the house returns tomorrow. we spoke this morning with a capitol hill reporter to get a look at the week ahead in congress. their district work period. what is on tap for today and the rest of the week? guest: a big issue in the senate this week is going to be trade. all eyes are on president obama. one of his top priorities for a second term is to get some of these international trade