>> centerpiece, the spending package. before members get to that hey're expected to take up a ce bull that would impose new saunchingses oben russia, iran and north korea. the senate back todd holding a confirmation vote. as for health care majority lear mitch mcconnell said he plans bull that would to hold the pro vote as early as tuesday but details are still being worked out. you can follow the house here on c-span and the senate live 2.c-span 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. ryan: next week the house will take up a spending package referred to as a minibus -- forur 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. exico 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, r 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. so -- that the republican 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, with the appropriationsb bills, why this process versus the regular way that congress typically handles the 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 inish 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 ecided 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.

>> ryan mccrimmon covers appropriations. the website of his organization has a busy week, tackling these issues. ryan, thank you. >> coming up next, q&a with david thank you for your time. biographer and gero.sor darrell -- david that's followed by washington journal with your phone calls and a look at today's headlines. >> this week on q&a part two of our interview with poland served davidinning by a for gero. a professor of law and history talks about his