>> this afternoon former irs commissioner john costin will talk about ways to improve the child tax credit and earned income tax credit hosted by the bipartisan policy center. watch live coverage at 2 pm eastern on c-span2 and also watch a mobile video app c-span now or online at c-span.org. >> on mondays when congress is in session we like to lay out the week ahead on capitol hill and it's at the start of an especially busy week were joined by natalie anders, will reporter for the wall street journal and let's begin on the effort to keep the federal government opened past friday . where does the negotiation stand right nowon a government funding bill ? >> we expect the senate to move tomorrow to vote for a continuing resolution, a stopgap bill. the catch there is the bill is going to have joe manchin's reform bill on it.

this is a deal he made with chuck schumer in august and in order to pass the state reconciliation bill he wanted this legislation attached to a past bill. however we don't know if that bill will have 60 votes in the senate and especially in the house to get it over the finish line because a lot of house democrats have said they don't want to support it . so it's interesting again going into the last week of september with a lot of unease during the vote tomorrow it may not actually be a vote that can get the government-funded and passed by friday. >> your colleague at the wall street journal katie ferric today laying out what's actually in that permanent reform bill.

here's what she writes. that bill would speed up the approval process for energy-related projects including natural gas pipelines, electricity transmission lines, solar power installation . is it true your target for the duration of the most detailed category of review required by the federal government's national environmental policy act and it would order the white house to designate 25 projects that energy costs and improve energy reliability and cut carbon emissions as a priority for the federal agency review laputting pressure on us officials to steeper review from languishing that in today's wall street journal and also in today's wall street journal joe manchin himself making his case for the passage of hisbill . the question i guess for you is what happens if this doesn't have the support, as joe manchin's daring his colleagues to shut down the government because they don't like his permitting bill west and mark . >> yes, he's saying this is good policy, he tried to make that case and it'sinteresting and talking to governors the past few weeks . lawmakers largely do see

unease for some sort of permanent reform but there's a lot of disagreement on what that is. so now you have joe manchin who in some cases doesn't have a ton of goodwill with some of these members. in some cases he does, they're thrilled he's got a reconciliation bill over the line and they will support it so it's just the margins of understanding will people come along? will wethey say this bill is safe? they didn't have tax until late last week to look at it so it's unclear if maybe how that's percolated through the weekend has eased some stress about the referral. we're also going to see hopefully we see it before friday and the government can avoid the shutdown. >> is there any other legislation that could hitch a ride on the government funding bill? >> soap two main things that we expect to see jump on that ismore aid for ukraine .

that conflict is there as we know. putin has committed to escalate and more funding of about $12 billion does have support from republicans and democrats. it's unclear though how much longer republicans want to continue funding this war and also funding the ukraine government but right now there is money for aid. there is expected to be aid money on that bill. we also expect to see some money to help jackson mississippi with their water crisis right now. wthat's one thing where watching and also there was a deal struck to add an fda user fee renewal on the continuing resolution. it was something that was halso expiring at the end of september and the cr is the train leaving the station, it looks like it will catch a ride.

>> the continuing resolution if it does getpast the expectation is it would hunt this debate to the lame-duck . >> yes. most lawmakers would like to see the deadline out into december. we often don't push until mid-december and sometimes right before christmas eve they enjoyed hunting it to a deadline expires with some motivation among lawmakers to get something done. but yes, i would expect that there are house republicans and others that it should go into january where they expect congress to change control and they liked away in a little bit more but it doesn't seem like december is where things are headed. >> what else could we be looking at in the lame-duck session? any other must pass legislation? >> there are a lot of things percolating. i will say that it's unclear how the agendawill shape up .

we could see withe antitrust bill that senator amy klobuchar and chuck grassley are pushing for. we could see them try to get it outfor a vote . we could see the electoral count reform that the house bipartisansupport in the senate . it's slightly different than the bill that passed the house last week. so it would make sense that something that has 60 votes in the senate that democrats see as important moves forward. we can also see the cracks in the house push their bill to ban doc ownership for lawmakers through their chamber. it's unclear though if their bill has backing in the senate where you also have had senators say they'd like to stop on owning stock but there doesn't seem to be one consensus. those are some of the things we're watching and it's

expected to come up, natural disasters, we also see them unfortunately right now. you could see him emergency funding bills as well. >> talking about the week ahead. natalie is our guest from the wall street journal. if you want to join the conversation phone line as usual democrats 202-748-8000, republicans 202-748-8000 one. we're just talking about the lame-duck and speaking of after the midterm elections we spent a good deal of time taking a look at what leadership might look like in rethe house specifically on both sides of the aisle when it comes to after the election starts on democrats. what does the leadership team , what is it shaping up to be at this point when the house convenes for the hundred 18 congress come january? >> democrats have had the same leadership for about two decades.

nancy pelosi at the top, steny hoyer in the number two spot and i've talked to several democrats in the last few weeks asking them what do they expect to see after the midterms and i'll say as democrats have gotten more hopeful that they could lock off republicans from winning a majority or let the losses there they have thought nancy pelosi could run for another term and probably win if she had support. part of that is there's not a lot of people stepping up directly to challenge speaker pelosi. you have two, hakeem jeffrey who is currently the democratic caucus chair and adam schiff who spend the chair of the intelligence committee. they have started talking to people, having meetings. laying out the groundwork

should nancy pelosi decide she doesn't want to be in the caucus anymore. she did make a deal for years ago that she would only do two more terms as speaker but that deal was never codified into house democratic rules so there's always wiggle room and it seems like it's truly anyone's game. if policy wants to stay several democrats say they would expect her to try and then if she doesn't you could see hakeem jeffries. he could emerge as the first one to lead a political party in congress and i would say adam schiff as the underdog as he does have national name recognition and he's holding meetings and calling people. >> to the republican side of the island on the house, the headline of your story in the wall street journal, kevin mccarthy brought back to power. you write is closer than ever to becoming a speaker. though the path he's taken is a risky one.

why risky? >> kevin mccarthy has tried in 2015. he has since set his sights on unifying people that didn't like him. so jim jordan who was threatening to challenge him in 2015 is now an ally and he has tried hard to unite all the wings and branches of the republican conference. however that it's hard when you have tried to make friends with everyone and try to push them through onto bill or some sort of must pass legislation. it's just difficult when you try to bring people together in a republican congress that is not necessarily unified on a lot of things.es republicans don't like spending bills, they don't like increasing spending and it's going to be hard for any

republican speaker to negotiate a deal with joe biden. and we're going to see kevin mccarthy who doesn't have a relationship with joe biden. 2000 republicans if they would vote for an omnibus if kevin mccarthy came to them and said i need your help getting this giant spending bill through, we've seen other spending bills come through congress this past several years. the result of that informal survey but one that looks at several republicans, most republicans said even if kevin mccarthy asked them to vote for an omnibus pending bill they couldn't see themselves doing it it's going to be a hard job as he gets ready to assume that role. >> deep dive into kevin mccarthy path to power available at the wall street journal. wsj.com. you can also find a pin to her twitter page at ask natalie wsj. let's chat with a few colors.

lines for democrats, republicans and independents as usual . this is barry, i democrats in williamsburg virginia. >> i'm looking at the next election coming up i was just thinking. i'm a democrat. ireluctantly voted for biden. i wanted sanders in there . i guess that didn't happen. but i'm just afraid to vote again because if you vote, it's like you're putting a stamp of approval on this like daytime drama jerry springer show that's going on right now. t i just don't want to put no more stamps of approval on it . my best bet, i don't want to invite anybody to do anything . if the republicans win because democrats don't vote, it's no big deal because it's kind of like i wouldn't want to use the term, i'm not going to say it like that. it seems like they're subservient to the

corporations anyway there's some that art and they're starting to wake up and realize that they're being left out to but if the republicans win because democrats stay out that's fine, it doesn'tchange anything anyways because they control any everything anyways . >> what would you say is your number one issue? >> my number one issue is probably censorship because a lot of stuff is being censored. the right wing people, let's not even say right wing, left-wing. you say right wing you mean totally to the left but the biggest thing is just being able to find theinformation when you needed .>> that's very in williamsburg virginia. on this issue of censorship have you talked with members of congress? have you thought of that issue as it gets debated on capitol hill ? >> i think some lawmakers

would say that's why theywant to see , they talk a lot about media and how their messages are brought out. they talk about taxes and wanting to regulate that. i would expect that to be a topic of the house investigation next year. if republicans win thehouse majority . and we could see legislation from their. >> speaking of legislation i know it's the week ahead on capitol hill but at the end of last week we saw the house ho approved legislation to boost police hunting in a series of bills. explain what happens to that now that it's been passed in the house. what's its path in the senate? is it likely to become law before the election? >> the house asked for bills that were all led by democrats, some of them are bipartisan. they were led by people who wanted to push back against the thought that democrats

are soft on crime or that democrats want to defund the police. democrats have been facing some of these attacks for years and these bills would give, a bill led by congressman josh schottenheimer from the republican side would give grants of 60 million over the next five years. there were bills to mitigate prime through community grant programs but these bills are probably facing a bipartisan bill which had the backing in a different form from chuck grassley inthe senate they're probably up against the clock more than anything else . senators have a long list of things they like to do. if they can get through the senate we will be watching. i think that bill would have the best chance but they're probably up against a tough walk in the senate where they're running out to campaign and if they don't go out and campaign they're

going to have to do the national defense authorization act and as we talked previously there's a list of things thatlawmakers want to get done . >> so when does the house get out of town and when is this get senate schedule to get out of town to keep everybody awareof the schedules here . >> so the house is leaving town after this week and they're going to go campaign and they will campaign vigorously until election day . both sides obviously the see the stakes in this election very high with the narrow majority that the democrats hold. the senate is scheduled to meet in october but we have at times seen systemic calendar ships. chuck schumer has democrats defending their seats who probably want to go out and campaign and will be asking for such time so we could see some of the days that the senate has scheduled for october be put back into a recess for them to campaign. >> back to the phone lines, this is lewis andsaulsberry

south carolina, good morning . >> top of the morning to you. i'm just thinking about what some of the things you had said about how politics is running in the senate. now, this is one of my questions. if the republicans happen to win the house or the senate, do you think and you know they're going to go ahead and put abortion on it and make it mandatory andeverything . do you think the republican whether it's democrat, women or independent women who were marching in the streets when that dobbs decision came out, protesting about it. do you think those women are going to vote that want to get rid of abortion altogether.

do you think these women are going to vote on them and go back out in the streets and marched again about abortion? >> natalie andrew, the issue of abortion. >> it is an interesting question how abortion will play into people's vote in november. we have seen pulling in the past that shows abortion sometimes ranks as number three or number four by issue to voters. and if the economy is in a tough spot, we see inflation and rising costs the economy generally rises to the top. in the past when healthcare ar has been front and center receive healthcare rise to the top and this is the first election in recent history where we had abortion being legislated as we speak. >> ..