Guest: Craig Holman, Public Citizen

Friday marks the fifth anniversary of a law responsible for recovering some peace and quiet in your life: The National Do Not Call Registry. The Takeaway listens to what we've been missing.

Guest: U.S. Senator Benjamin Cardin, D-Md.

Guest: Todd Zwillich, Capitol News Connection's Power Breakfast

Guest: Eric Lichtblau, The New York Times

What does democracy sound like? That depends on where you are. The Takeaway compares U.K. Question Time and the U.S. House of Representatives to hear the difference in the way lawmakers serve you.

America is 84th in the world for the number of women in office. While Hillary Clinton’s bid for the White House may have ended, it has invigorated women throughout the nation to seek a place in elected office. The Takeaway talks to political guru Andrea Bernstein about how more women are throwing their hats into the political ring.

A probe by the Senate Armed Services Committee has found that senior Pentagon lawyers were active in developing harsh interrogation techniques used in the systematic torture of detainees in American prisons at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Abu Ghraib, Iraq. The Takeaway talks with Mark Mazzetti, the New York Times reporter who covered Tuesday’s senate hearing.

With demand growing for tougher immigration enforcement and a flurry of new state laws addressing the issue, local police are stepping up and arresting illegal immigrants. Damien Cave, the Miami Bureau Chief for the New York Times, has been tracking these local crackdowns.