i came to washington a few years ago people said, senator alexander is going to want every state to do that. they were wrong about that. the last thing we should do is tell states they must evaluate teachers and how to evaluate teachers. it is hard enough to do without somebody looking over your shoulder. too much washington involvement has made it harder to have higher standards and harder to evaluate teachers. thatieve we are changing this week. i had dinner with a democratic senator last night who plans to vote for the bill. he said he would have given me five to one odds at the beginning of the year that we would not have been able to pass this bill. why are we at the point where we are? where we are likely to get votes in the mid-80's in favor? we worked on it in a bipartisan way. i have given credit to senator murray from washington, d.c. for suggesting -- from the state of washington for suggesting how we do that. i see senator mikulski from maryland. our committee work and it bipartisan way. so did the house of representatives. the president and staff members and secretary d

it cannot be born. host: we talked with senator lamar alexander, who is a supporter of the rewrite of note had left behind, giving more control, more authority to states. will that change? guest: i do not think it will significantly change. if you go back and look at no child left behind -- host: and supported by george w. bush. guest: signed into law by george w. bush. it was an example of republicans increasing government. in per-pupilcrease spending on education, but you pretty much flat lined on the national test. personally, when i believe should happen, and it should have been on the local level, local communities say let's give kids a choice, let's give parents a choice. let's take the amount of money spent and give the vouchers to parents. and let that parent take the child to any school they want. baltimore, detroit, washington, dc, let's have freedom of trace in education. guest: well, i have come around on vouchers over the years. i have been to cities like cleveland, milwaukee, the district of columbia here has a public-private cooperation voucher program. and the thing ab

by 100 pounds. then he gets off on the stand your ground law. contrast that with melissa alexander's case in florida. a woman, who upon being confronted by a man who had a history of physically and brutally assaulting her and who, , in that moment announced to her that he was about to physically and brutally assault her again, she produced a weapon said "no you are not. no you are not." and she fired a shot, a warning shot, in florida, hitting no one, killing no one, and she was sentenced to 20 years in prison. the process distorted by race and racism gets us a result like that and you can believe a lot of people in florida were comfortable with that. the last case i want to talk about nationally -- there are more, but i know i am unlimited time. michael brown. michael brown was killed 10 minutes from my house, killed by darren wilson in ferguson. there were credible witnesses that described the shooting scene, that contradicted darren wilson's the count and it is a case that should have been tried on the facts in front of the jury but a prosecutor was determined to prevent that and

better understood through the context 's michelle alexander book on the new jim crow. isil and violent extremism has been rampant throughout the islamic world for decades, and systematically, the public closed its eyes to it. c-span has been a wonderful gift to the nation. the incredible insight and adventurism into the newest technologies that are out there -- c-span was a pioneer in iowaer, back with the caucus people in 2008. it is just a remarkable gift to the nation. i do not think that there are very many other organizations that come close. flow thanks for the strong of support for this network. action, everything she mentioned, you can watch online at c-span.org at any time. that is one of the great things about the network, the website, the archives. -- rain is calling now lorraine is calling now. i guess we will not hear from lorraine. let's try north carolina, independent caller. what is your name? dare.r: my name is t i dominate nikki haley. she might not be number one, by think the way that she handled the charleston shooting was phenomenal. i think she did the right thing

with melissa alexander's case in florida. a woman, who upon being onfronted by a man who had a history of physically and literally assaulting her, and who, in that moment announced to her that he was about to physically and brutally assault her again, she produced a weapon said "no you are not. no you are not." nd she fired a shot, a warning shot, hitting no one, killing no one, and she was sent to 20 years in prison. the process distorted by race and racism get us a result like that and you can believe a lot of people in florida were good with that -- comfortable with that. the last case i want to talk about nationally -- there are more, but i know i am unlimited time to michael brown. michael brown. michael brown was killed 10 minutes from my house, killed by darren wilson in ferguson. here were credible witnesses at described the shooting, contradicted wilson's account. it was a case that should have been tried on the facts in front of a jury, but the prosecutor was determined to prevent that, put the case in front of the grand jury and told them to sort through it. includin

was andrew jackson who waged a bank or and thomas jefferson and alexander hamilton fought so vigorously about the banks. fdr wereilson and strong leaders who took on the banking industry. some of them make mistakes. maybe they didn't fully understand it but there was the exchange in the conversation and we don't see that as much these days. before joining the university of georgia law school, our guest, mehrsa at brighamtaught young university. you make them between $25,000-$50,000? caller: yes, i do. i am a veteran. i average in the middle. my wife had to have knee surgery. and the insurance that she has , ther job only pays 80% , wethat we have to pay found out what we read for the surgery that i had to pay that before she could get the surgery. fromo i had to take money our bills from my check to pay for the surgery that she was going to have. that is put me behind. from to borrow money different places in order to make up for the money that i had. and now i have loan bills to pay have got to cover other things that i have. and i find now today that the president or the go

order at the intelligence agencies are trying to stop and prevent them. general alexander, the commander of u.s. cyber command, and director of the nsa, says these programs, together with other intelligence, have predicted the united states from power threats across the globe over 50 times since 9/11. that is in over 20 countries around the world. he added, i believe we have achieved this and a relative safety that does not compromise the privacy and civil liberties of our citizens. they are critical to the intelligence community's efforts to connect the dots. yeah, it is those disparate dots that the programs do, along with human analysis. this is what a human being will do, this is what artificial intelligence will do. nobody wants to see another 9/11, or worse, a cybergeddon scenario. but, where is the balance? -- but where is the balance? would you want to see your data, pictures, geographic data, when it images taken of you wherever it might be, you can see on facebook across the globe, we know who you're with, we know what you are doing. it is very short steps to produce

today, before the program begins, we are fortunate to have rabbi stephanie alexander internal send, a cairo founded in 1749, this is one of the oldest jewish congregations in the united states and it is the noblest and recognized to be the birthplace of reform judaism in the united states. [applause] good morning. let us pray. resolve and wisdom, power. diversether today, a and determined cross-section of this great city, we dedicate ourselves to the primary task you have set before us all, not just today but every day, to safeguard the health and well-being of our community. body and soul. ,s we learn and reflect strategize and deliberate today, grant us the wisdom to see with focus and clarity, have the proliferation of gun violence threatens every part of our well-being. confirm our resolve to reject stealstus quo that blameless life and terrorizes innocent souls. solidify our power to shape a new reality. hope,ere fear yields to acquiescence becomes courage violence gives way to peace. a modern-day isaiah might tell us to beat our handguns into plowshares, our rifles into pruning

and alexander hamilton fought so vigorously about the banks. fdr wereilson and strong leaders who took on the banking industry. some of them make mistakes. maybe they didn't fully understand it but there was the exchange in the conversation and we don't see that as much these days. before joining the university of georgia law school, our guest, mehrsa at brighamtaught young university. you make them between $25,000-$50,000? caller: yes, i do. i am a veteran. i average in the middle. my wife had to have knee surgery. and the insurance that she has , ther job only pays 80% , wethat we have to pay found out what we read for the surgery that i had to pay that before she could get the surgery. fromo i had to take money our bills from my check to pay for the surgery that she was going to have. that is put me behind. from to borrow money different places in order to make up for the money that i had. and now i have loan bills to pay have got to cover other things that i have. and i find now today that the president or the government is not going to raise social security. the government is

afternoon. my name is yonah alexander. i'm the director of the inter-university center for terrorism studies. it is administered by the potomac institute of policy. studies for the international center for terrorism studies. center of the withtute, in cooperation many academic institutions and universities around the world, specifically i would like to mention the center for national of the university of virginia school of law. of the ceo and , herman of the institute extends his welcome to you, but he unfortunately is out of the country as i understand. rate, the vice presidency is in the back. he is with us and, of course, general ray, who is the chairman of the board of regents. commandant of the marine corps. he joins us. as always, he will have the last word. theny rate, let me welcome speakers. right here, professor mohammed dajani. currently a fellow at the washington institute. he obviously contributed a great deal, i think, to understanding moderate islam. sciencesor of political in jerusalem. he will be making a presentation and, obviously, many of you are familiar with the

on president ronald reagan. > our guests this week are tennessee republican senator lamar alexander. he was elected to his third term n the senate and took over the gavel of the so-called health committee, which is health, education, labor and pension. in your first deal with the devil, oversaw the rewrite of which child left behind, it had been 13 years since it was attended to. i want to tell our audience that perspective anis serving particular ly as the secretary of education, serving as the former president of the university of tennessee, so lots of experience in the field you brought to there. thank you for being with us. let me introduce our two reporters. thank you for being here with us on newsmakers. >> i'm wondering what you think your next project will be and get done hink you can in 2016, the project that you think >> you're right about senator murray. she's very result oriented and i trust her. it's because of that relationship that we were able to get something done. number 1, we want to turn our attention to the innovation bill. how do we get treatments and devices t

up next on c-span, courtesy of abc news. senatorwsmakers" with lamar alexander of tennessee. at then coverage of presidential candidate jeb bush. next to the powers, we will have a chance to take the measure of the candidates for the that's the democratic candidates for president. answeredhey have all many questions in the past few months, but much has changed in the world since they last debated five weeks ago and this is the last debate of the year. in less than two months, voters in the state will him to the polls. david: please welcome the democratic candidates for the nomination for president. secretary heller he clinton. -- secretary hillary clinton. [cheers and applause] martha: governor martin o'malley. [cheers and applause] david: and senator bernie sanders. [cheers and applause] martha: good evening to you all. the rules for tonight are very basic and have been agreed to by all three campaigns in advance. candidates can take up to a minute-and-a-half to respond directly to a question. for a rebuttal, for a follow-up, 45 seconds will be allowed. there are green, yellow, and

lamar alexander is our guest. this is the follow-up to no child left behind. he explains why this law was needed and signed by the president this month hear. in -- [video clip] >> that accelerated would race to the top -- with race to the top. congress, in 2007, we failed leave no child behind. suddenly, brothers -- governors had to come to washington and play mother may i. may we fix performing schools that way? suddenly, you had washington running 80,000 schools in 42 states. we got rid of all that and we kept the tests so we know how people are doing. those are state designed to tests -- state designed tests. everybody was really fed up with washington telling 100,000 public schools so much about what to do, and it was really creating a backlash on efforts to set higher standards, mainly common core and teacher evaluation. host: i know you were very careful in crafting those prohibitions. some school district advocates that i've spoken to are really worried that this department will try to continue to wield a big federal hammer to the extent that it can. mr. alexander: we expec

tomorrow at 10:00 through six ago. thetor lamar alexander, chair of the health, education, labor and pensions committee talking about a variety of issues including why he things a new education law is needed. >> it began with no child left behind in 2001. federal requirements for tests, reporting the tests, a few other things. when president obama came in, that accelerated with what they call race to the top. congress, and we get ourselves the blame, we felt since 2007 to reauthorize no child left behind, suddenly, government -- governors had to come to washington pleading mother may i saying may we evaluate our teachers this way? maybe set of standards this way? maybe fix performance goals this way? washingtonou had running 80,000 schools in 42 states. we got rid of all of that. we kept the tests. we will know how people are doing. those are state designs tests. what to do about the tests now moves to the governors of chief state school officers, classroom teachers. that is why it had such support. everyone was fed up with washington telling 100,000 public schools so much about what

newsmakers program which airs on .unday at 10:00 and 6:00 senator alexander is the chair of the education committee. here he is talking about some of those issues. [video clip] it began with no child left behind in 2001 with requirements for tests, reporting tests, and other things. accelerated was when president obama came in with race to the top. congress, we failed in 2007 to reauthorize no child left behind. suddenly, governors had to play mother may i with at the department of education saying may we evaluate our teachers this way, standards this way, evaluate schools this way? you had washington running 82,000 schools. we got rid of that. theap the tests -- we kept state-designed tests could what to do with the tests now moves to the governors, officers, and teachers. everyone was fed up with telling 100,000 public schools so much of what to do. it was creating a backlash on setting higher standards, mainly common core and teacher of valuation. >> i know you were careful crafting prohibitions. solomon school district advocates are worried the continuet will try to wielding a bigger

do that. up thate caller brought senator lamar alexander will be joining our "newsmakers" program on sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. he is the chairman of the house education and labor and pensions committee. how would you respond to salt river on twitter who says that people are not on board with this bill? we sent you there to stop this kind of government abuse, why has gop folded? guest: iran on that and i put my ran onles in public -- i that and i put my principles in public. i agree. that is not why they sent the republicans there. this budget will probably pass with more democrats voting for it than republicans. the republicans own the house, so not a very good negotiation when we are losing on almost all the big issues and the last caller called about sequestration, and we broke the caps on the military and social spending side by $80 billion or so. i agree. rightyan is making the moves right now in terms of process, so we hope that the process will yield a better product deer, but there is a lot of special interest groups out have been promised strains of government revenu

sweetheart, james, and is mother to alexander, a beautiful 2-year-old boy. her legacy will live on through alexander's happy dean neenor and smiles. her passion was to be a great mom and wife. she enjoyed baking, scrab booking, disneyland, the green bay packers, and star wars movies. we will miss her laugh. but as she would say, quote, what can i do to get through this? smile. everything will be ok. and happiness will come back again. i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from florida seek recognition? >> unanimous consent, mr. speaker, to address the house for one minute. revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. ros-lehtinen: thank you so much, mr. speaker. as we remain correctly focused on the isis threat, less attention is being paid to boko haram. over the past three years boko haram has evolved from a regional to a global threat. boko haram is one of the world's deadliest terror groups and it has pledged allegiance to isis. it has also been almost two years since boko

you. it's not an easy one to solve. i have set them at top experts like keith alexander, one of the brightest minds on this issue, but i do believe that the first step is forcing them to get together in the same room to work out these differences and find a solution. i can't say that i have all the solutions to the problem, but i know the experts know how to get there. i think that is what this legislation will provide. >> david smith of "the guidian." you mentioned new efforts about people trying to enter the u.s. in terms of the refugee program. do you have any further details on that? the second question is, would you rule out a major ground force in iraq or syria, or is that a debate worth having? chairman mccaul: these are two different issues. the refugee crisis is as a symptom of a larger problem. the root cause is the civil in syria and the creation of isis and the failure to engage maliki in any political dialogue, and thereby, disenfranchising the sunni tribes. most chose isis. we saw them drop their weapons in mosul because they didn't want to fight isis. the refugee prob

an example of great work by my own senator, constituent and friend, senator lamar alexander. this bill is just one of many reasons why senator alexander is one of the most respected members of the other body and i commend him for his efforts to improve our nation's schools. and i urge all of my colleagues to support these two bills that this rule brings to the floor and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from colorado. mr. polis: i yield three minutes to the gentleman from vermont, mr. welch. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. welch: i thank the gentleman. this bill is missing a great opportunity where we have common ground on energy efficiency. mr. upton, mr. whit our great chairmen of the subcommittee and the standing committee made an honest effort to try to include all of the possible things we could do on energy efficiency but we came up short. the american council for energy efficiency economy, that's made up of a lot of private sector companie