the house beginning work on fiscal year 2020 spending joined by jennifer who covers a probe relations and budget for roll call. the first up is a four package

bill with spending measures for next year, what's in the first package and what is behind the democrat strategy and approaching the spending debate this year? >> the package includes the department of labor, health and human services and education, the energy water spending bill and the state and operation spending bill, it's quite a bit of money, it was a little under $1 trillion and these bills would cover a variety of departments. the idea behind packaging these is that it does help to shorten up time so you can move through the process faster. this could also help you with your vote counts so sometimes you can package spending bills that are a little less favorable , with spending bills that have more broad support making the package more likely to pass the floor vote . >> i want to ask you about a

headline from one of your colleagues saying the legislative branch spending bill pulled amid the pay increase, this is not a surprising thing and it seems to happen every year, a dispute over pay raises for members of congress . >> so, ever since 2009, there's been a provision in one of the annual spending bills that says members of congress could not get what would be a typical cost of living adjustment. this isn't a pay raise because if congress give themselves a pay raise legally they can't get it until the next session of congress. so, this is something congress has been voting on for a decade to prevent the automatic cost of living adjustment from going into play so that was not included in any of this pending bills that the house appropriations committee but on the floor so there's been a lot of debate about whether or not this is an appropriate thing to do. it seems like that is what led

to them pulling the spending bill from this package but it could come up later on if there's some sort of an agreement. >>reporter: as you mentioned one of the pieces of the initial package is the labor hhs and education spending measure work on the issue of abortion you tweeted this, the hyde amendment and other abortion riders in the spending limelight, what's bringing them to the forefront, explain briefly what that amendment says . >> the hyde amendment has been around roughly for for decades that the provision that was offered by a congressman with the last name haida would prevent any federal funds from going to abortion with the exemption for rave, incest and the woman's life. this is something that applies most often to people in the medicaid program, the federal health care programs for low income individuals, this has been a debate that has simmered among progressives and it's

been something they want to get rid of and it obviously got a lot of attention on the campaign trail after joe biden said he supported it then changed his stance to say he no longer supports it after getting a lot of blowback from voters. so, it remains in the spending package, it's not something we expect to change this year are potentially anytime soon . >> the spending package covers four areas for fiscal year 2020, a fairly wide range but, what are some of the key amendments in all of this that you are looking for . >> one of the things we are watching throughout the entire process is how much authority the department of defense and a couple others including the army corps of engineer have to

have money redirected for the border wall, it's obviously something that created a lot of tension between congress and the white house earlier this year when trump declared a national emergency and announced he would divert funds from several grams to border barrier construction. language in the department of defense spending bill as well as the energy and water spending bill that would prevent those agencies from transferring any money for many of their accounts to border barrier construction. down the line, we try to get final spending bills agreed to between the house and the white house and it will obviously be a very tense issue. there are a lot of provisions throughout all's well of the house spending bills that would rollback administration policy and what some have called this for bill package of spending it

covers for as you mentioned of the 12 annual appropriations bill, what is the democrat strategy or process for getting it done in the house and where is the senate in their process on spending bills next >> the house, we've been hearing from the majority leaders, for several weeks now, the goal is to pass all the appropriations bills across the house before the fourth of july recess begins. that may or may not be able to happen now logistic as well as from a vote count perspective. things are very different in the senate, whereas the house is planning to vote on all 12 spending bills and the senate appropriations committee has not yet released any of the spending bills or the market. the reason for that is in order to get a total spending level for the upcoming fiscal year, 2020 which begins october 1, there has to be a broad bipartisan agreement between the house, senate and trump administration.

that is not happened yet, house democratic leadership chose to redeem the spending level but it's not an official spending level so the bill probably could not become law or they would lead to seek restoration which are across-the-board spending cuts. the senate is trying to see if the leadership of congress and the white house can get together on the spending agreement and if not it sounds like the senate will go ahead and give a number of its own, although that would be a different number than what house democrats did to begin marking up spending bills but without the final agreement, none of the bills would become law. >> jennifer is appropriations a budget reporter and will redo the reporting and is on twitter , thank you so much . >> here's a look at the life coverage wednesday that the house is back at 10 am eastern for general speeches and legislative business.

members take up a 2020 spending package that covers several agencies including defense, labor, hhs and the state department. the senate returns for debate for votes on district court nominations in ohio, alabama, florida and georgia and on cspan-3, the house oversight and reform committee considers whether to hold the attorney general, william barr in contempt of congress by refusing to comply with subpoenas related to the trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 u.s. census. that gets underway at 10 am eastern. most of us, when we think of winston churchill we think of the older man sending young men into war. but, no one knew better and few knew as well that the reality of war, the devastation, he said to his mother, after the

second war, the rock comes through and you can't gild it. he absolutely knew the disaster the war was extracted sunday night, historian candace miller talks about the early military career of winston churchill in her book the hero of the empire , a daring escape and the making of winston churchill . >> he said, give me a regimen, i want to go and fight. he ends up going with the regiment on the day it fell to the british and he takes over the prison and frees the men who have been his fellow prisoners, he puts in the prison his former jailers and watches as the flag is torn down and the union jack is wasted in its place . sunday night it eight p.m. eastern on q&a. >> in 1979, small network with

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