magazines segment, democracy under strain. peter, thank you for being here. guest: thank you for having me on. host: what prompted an eight-pa rt series, democracy under strain ? well, we are trying to find out what adds to the conversation. we look at all the stuff going wrong with democracy today. partisanship is out of control. isre is gridlock, nothing getting done. peter has been around a while, and he can look and see how these things stretch beyond the trumpcare wreck how they started, and where they are going. host: so the most recent piece was entitled block the vote: the history of efforts to change and contain and change voting practices in america. on voting access, and what did you find? thet: well, i started with vote. voting is of course the core aspect of democracy. it is how we participate, and there are a lot of issues surrounding voting right now. is onely voting rights that a lot of democrats and republicans are fighting about. the statesnd is that ar
teachers, your line is 702-8000. we want to hear from school administrators at 202-7 02-8001. parents, we want to hear from you at 202-702-8002. if you don t fit into any of those categories, we still want to hear what you think. you can always reach us on social media come on twitter, and on facebook. let s set up the question for you. of teachertopic pay has been a hot one in the democratic presidential race for the democratic nomination. one of the first candidates to jump off was kamala harris, who came out in april with her proposal for raising teacher pay in new hampshire. here is what she had to say. let s be clear, there are two groups of people raising our children, parents, often with the assistance of grandparents, and our teachers. we are not paying them their value when we know teachers in our country make 10% less than similarly college educated individuals. which is why as president i will implement what will be the first time in our nation a federal invest
voted for dredd scott. he did that in a conspiracy with james buchanan. they thought the issue of slavery would be done with. there would be no threat of a civil war. come to order. i want to first thank our expert witness anpanel. your testimony was excellent, very informative. we look forward to your oral testimony and answering of our questions. i want to apologize to everybody for the late start to the hearing. we had a number of votes. as a result, i m going to ask that my opening statement be entered into the record and we ll have a very full conversation. i ll be able to make my points during question and answers. with that, i ll turn it over to senator shaheen. thank you, mr. chairman. i m also happy to submit my opening comments for the record and look forward to the testimony of both our panels. thank you. ambassador volker has agreed to give his opening testimony and slide over and let the other witnesses give their opening testimony and then we ll open to qu
washington journal continues. host: we are back with peter grier, the washington editor for christian science monitor, who is here to talk about an eight-p art series and our spotlight on magazines segment, democracy under strain. peter, thank you for being here. guest: thank you for having me on. host: what prompted an eight-pa rt series, democracy under strain ? well, we are trying to find out what adds to the conversation. we look at all the stuff going wrong with democracy today. partisanship is out of control. isre is gridlock, nothing getting done. peter has been around a while, and he can look and see how these things stretch beyond the trumpcare wreck how they started, and where they are going. host: so the most recent piece was entitled block the vote: the history of efforts to change and contain and change voting practices in america. on voting access, and what did you find? thet: well, i started with vote. voting is of course the core aspect of democracy.
to the british museum more than 20 yea rs to the british museum more than 20 years ago. hello and welcome to bbc news= 7,” theresa may will talk with her cabinet later , before addressing parliament tomorrow on how she intends to break the brexit deadlock. meanwhile, with the uk due to leave the eu on march the 29th, at least one cross party group of mps is discussing how parliament could take control of the process to avoid a ‘no deal‘ brexit. 0ur political correspondent nick eardley has the latest. the clock is ticking, on the 29th of march, as things stand, we leave the european union. and the government is struggling to find a plan for the future that parliament will accept. ireland, many tourists stay, remains the main sticking point. the compromise on the backstop that we haven‘t agreed to before, that we could agree to in the future. it s getting an agreement with ireland an alternative mechanism to ensure that we don t get friction across the north and ireland