ms. swain: thank you. it is good to hear more about your relative area joe lochner, the person who gave his name to this case and brought it to the supreme court. let me take a call from floyd in fort campbell, kentucky. floyd: can you hear me? my question comes from an historical background. i have an education in history, i am looking to go to law school next year. this is fascinating. it is the premise that professor stated, that the unions and employers of bakeries having a definite interest that not being involved in the outcome of legislation to create this law that caused lochner v. new york. my concern is, from a historical analysis perspective, should you be leery because there is any -- no public record of them being involved, there could have been something behind the scenes, especially if it would've benefited them or stymied another business in corruption or bribery of the legislative or judicial level. ms. swain: thank you. i think that is a good question. but i have more than not finding any

ms. swain: we have five minutes left. ms. ferrechio: let me ask you a quick question on another topic. the house is having a tough time moving a bill that would help puerto rico deal with the $72 billion debt crisis. that seems to be momentarily stalled. can you talk about the problems of moving that legislation and what it would mean if it does pass why we need to pass anything at all to deal with puerto rico? rep. jordan: there is a host of concerns. first, there is the problem in puerto rico. one of the things many of us are hoping if there is legislation will be things to encourage economic growth. whether it is the wage policy they have there or a host of other things, we would like some more robust elements of that. ms. ferrechio: with a control the whole board? rep. jordan: i will be totally honest with you. we are looking at the bill. we had a pretty intense debate at our weekly meeting monday night. what we don't want is a bailout. what we don't want is to set some precedent that would put taxpayers on the hook down

ms. swain: welcome to c-span's "newsmakers." the house of representatives is once again in budget battles and our guest this week is in the middle of that. congressman jim jordan, republican of ohio representing the fourth district in that state and he is the chairman of freedom caucus fiscal conservatives in the house of representatives. thanks for being with us. rep. jordan: good to be with you all. ms. swain: questioning him this week is erica werner of the associated press, the chief congressional reporter, and susan ferrechio comes back to our set, chief correspondent for the washington examiner. thanks for being here, both of you. >> great to be here. wonderful. mr. jordan, thank you. friday as you know is the budget deadline will be blowing through it. you will be missing the deadline for the first time in six years largely because of opposition from the freedom caucus. how do you justify and explain that, and does it matter? rep. jordan: the only thing worse than not doing the budget is spending more money. you have to l

ms. swain: interesting. ms. werner: another topic is the opioid legislation that has passed the senate and that leader mccarthy and speaker ryan want to act on in some form of the house. do you think that will happen? rep. jordan: yeah. one of the things you hear about traveling across central and north-central ohio which is the fourth district, we hear from so many people. you hear from employers who have job openings and are trying to the potentialut applicants and employees cannot pass the drug screening, and you hear from commonplace judges and prosecutors just how serious this problem is. i think the solution is largely going to be solved with families and communities and churches, but i applaud senator portman and the work he is doing in the senate and others that are doing in the house. i think bob dole on the house side and others to the extent that we can be helpful is good. it needs to be done in a way that does not increase spending, but -- ms. ferrechio: the president has asked $2 billion for this. d

ms. swain: and so ends our episode on lochner versus new york. -- what you can do is look at a book written by tony morrow, 12 cases that we selected for the series. if you go to our website, /landmarkcases, you can purchase it and we can send it out to you quickly. as we close tonight, let me say thank you to randy barnett and to paul kens. gentlemen, thank you very much. announcer: on friday, c-span's original series, landmark cases, continues with shank versus united states, the 1919 supreme court ruling help define the limits of the first amendment right to free speech, particularly during wartime. you can watch this program at 10:00 p.m. here on c-span and the entire series anytime online. at www.c-span.org. coming up on c-span, bernie sanders campaigning in new york city. then president obama and the chinese president talked to reporters at the nuclear security summit. after that come our issue spotlight features past speeches by today's leaders on the supreme court nomination proce

ms. swain: thanks to both of you for your time this week. >> thank you very much. >> donald trump is in buffalo, new york monday. he is going to a campaign rally before tuesday's statewide primary. c-span2 as live coverage at 7:00 eastern. >> our live coverage of the presidential race continues tuesday night for the new york state primary. join us at 9:00 for viewer reaction and speeches, taking you on the road to the white house on c-span, c-span radio, in c-span.org. >> monday on of the communicators," george ford, chief economist of the phoenix center for public policy studies and mark cooper, research director for the consumer federation of america, debate the sec's proposal allowing consumers to buy their own set-top boxes instead of renting them from cable providers, a move to open up competition in the set-top box market. they are joined by lydia bay ude. >> we think we need competition in the set-top box market, and we want competition, competition, competition. someplace who has

ms. swain: welcome to c-span's "newsmakers." the house of representatives is once again in budget battles and our guest this week is in the middle of that. congressman jim jordan, republican of ohio representing the fourth district in that state and he is the chairman of freedom caucus fiscal conservatives in the house of representatives. thanks for being with us. rep. jordan: good to be with you all. ms. swain: questioning him this week is erica werner of the associated press, the chief congressional reporter, and susan ferrechio comes back to our set, chief correspondent for the washington examiner. thanks for being here, both of you. >> great to be here. wonderful. mr. jordan, thank you. friday as you know is the budget deadline will be blowing through it. you will be missing the deadline for the first time in six years largely because of opposition from the freedom caucus. how do you justify and explain that, and does it matter?

ms. swain: thanks to both of you for your time this week. >> thank you very much. >> today with c-span's road to the white house coverage continues with a campaign rally in brooklyn, new york, for democratic presidential candidate senator bernie sanders of vermont. also scheduled to be there, hawaii representative tulsi gabbard, actors danny devito and justin long, and the rock band grizzly bear. rock band begins at 4:00 p.m. .astern on c-span , we give 72retary of our delegate votes. ♪ >> he had a couple of mules and a steam shovel. i think again it is one of the other ironies for those rapidly antigovernment and owe your fortune to the the governments largesse. >> the book "the profiteers," which takes a look at a large construction company. >> who else is the u.s. government going to get to build these, you know, projects broke throughout the world, and it is fine for it to be back till, but if the taxpayer is paying for it, it would seem the taxpayer should have some access to infor

ms. swain: let me introduce the reporters. -- leo shane of "military times" and david wood is the senior military correspondent for the "huffington post." mr. shane: i want to start with the wait times issue. we had a new report over what constitutes wait time and where we stand now. can you talk about this and what confidence veterans should have that the v.a. is addressing the problem? there still seems to be discrepancies over how the time is calculated and frustration over how it is being handled. sec. mcdonald: if you ask me, the ultimate measure for any veteran and how we deal at that veteran is how they are satisfied with what we do. we have put together a transformation program where the first strategy is to improve the veteran experience. we have used some of the best companies in the world like disney, starbucks, and procter & gamble to teach how to process experienced and work to build delight into those spornses. we're all about satisfaction. this wait time thing has taken ove

ms.is juan we will get to the calls in a moment. the shift led by the poor people you focus so much for earl warren, thorough good marshall. and london r king johnson changed history making to he government's role protect equal rights and opportunities for all. guest: i wrote a biography of ustice marshall and one thing that stands out to me is this very simple idea, steve, that 1954 you had the government in the role of racial segregation in america. those were the laws. don't break the law. then you have a moment in 1954 where the government says, to segregation is nconstitutional, it is not in keeping with equal rights for all and equal protection for all. had beenovernment that reluctant to intervene on this southernecially in the states with the tradition of slavery and fight over the civil suddenly is on the other end and you get actors police departments to the f.b.i., the president and ustice department having to intervene. you think of situations like little rock, arkansas, where