announcer: if you missed our live coverage earlier today, we will show you president trump speaking at the commissioning ceremony for the uss gerald r. ford nuclear powered aircraft carrier tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. announcer: joining us, ryan mccrimmon. >> a reporter on issues -- thank you for joining us. you have a piece on your website with other reporters saying that the health core will be busy next week when it comes to issues including appropriations. one of those dealing with the senate. four spending bills. walk us through this. next week the house will take up a spending package referred to as a minibus -- four appropriations bills in one, so they are taking a bills to fund the military, energy programs, water projects, the legislative branch itself and

veterans programs. these are bills that are popular among republicans. it should be a fairly partisan exercise. the package is not expected to get a lot of democratic support, if any. so it should be a pretty partyline vote. there will be a lot of amendments, i think it will go late into the night, several nights. we have a busy week ahead of us on appropriations. >> one thing you talk about when it comes to the lack of support from democrats, is that because of the border wall? talk about that and how it factors into the package. ryan: it is a big part of it. i think this probably would have been a fairly partisan package regardless of the wall, because the spending bills are written at spending levels that the democrats do not agree with. but the border wall is probably the most controversial part of this. the package includes $1.6 billion to begin construction of the border wall on the u.s. mexico border, obviously one of president trump's signature

campaign promises. so republicans are hoping to sort of move the ball forward on this issue and give the white house legislative victory and go home for the august recess with something they can tout to constituents. it will be problematic, i think democrats will make a lot of hay over the wall funding. even some republicans might be uncomfortable with supporting a package that has the wall funding. >> why would republicans be uncomfortable? ryan: there are some that represent border districts that have voiced concerns about the wall. concerned about the environmental aspects of it and how it would impact property rights in their district. there are some representatives, especially in texas, who have said the wall is one of the least effective and efficient ways to secure the border. so it will be a tricky vote for some republicans who do not like of the wall, but maybe support the overall package, which funds

popular things like the military and veterans and more. >> when it comes to issues of military, one of the aspects, or at least containments of this preparations bill deals with authorization for the use of military force. can you talk about how this would address that and resistance, particularly from barbara lee of california? ryan: exactly. the bill that was written by the perforations committee had -- that would repeal the authorization for the wars. and that provision, which was adopted on a bipartisan basis, was stripped out of the package by republican leaders. so the provision that had bipartisan support will not be going to the house floor for a vote and yes representative lee and others that represented it were outraged that the rep. cook: and leaders took it out, republicanthe leaders took it out, so. >> tell us why it is important to know that barbara lee was at

the forefront of this. ryan: she has been working on the issue for many years. she offered this year after year and there was some surprise actually that it was adopted. a lot of republicans supported it. and many people do not see it coming, congresswoman lee herself was taken aback it was adopted in the first place, so all the more reason for them to be a little bit upset that it was taken out. >> tell us why this process, ls,h the appropriations bil why this process versus the regular way that congress typically handles the issues. ryan: right this year they are behind schedule. part of it is there is a new administration and it does take time to get the full cabinet implemented and to get the budget written, so the process has been really delayed. they also had to finish up carry overwork from last year. now they are behind schedule and

playing catch-up and there is no time for a so-called regular order process where they bring the bills to the floor one by one. there are 12 bills, and they were hoping to do all of them this week but there was none of support among house republicans to do that. so the house gop leaders decided to do the 4 bills instead, instead of the 12 bills. so they are playing catch-up, trying to get done before the recess. and this bill, this package funds summer bubblegum priorities like border security funding and a huge boost for defense spending. covers mccrimmon appropriations. the website of his organization has a busy week, tackling these issues. ryan, thank you. ryan: thank you. announcer: join us on c-span3 sunday for in american history tv live special, the 1967 detroit riots 50th anniversary.

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