sunday at 11:00 eastern, the new monument at arlington national cemetery dedicated to honor the almost 5000 helicopter pilots and crew members killed during the vietnam war. watch this weekend on c-span networks. congress returns monday from a recess. the agenda in the house includes legislation to advance the federal approval process to store nuclear waste in yucca mountains, located in nevada. members will also take up a resolution to overturn a consumer financial protection bureau auto financing role under the congressional will act. -- congressional act. the court of appeals nominations throughout the week. you can watch the house live on c-span and the senate on c-span two. for more information on the week ahead, we spoke with a capitol hill reporter.

>> we are joined by jeremy dillon, who is energy and environmental reporter with cq roll call. the house set to take up legislation on the yucca mountain nuclear waste storage site in the coming week. give us a short and condensed version of this issue that goes back many, many years, if not decades. what is the situation in the yucca mountains? jeremy: this is a big bill's tackling nuclear waste. in the 1980's, it was established that yucca mountain would be the place with the nation's commercial nuclear waste would be. that was going along behind schedule for the next couple of years. when the obama administration came into power, they decided to cancel the project because of harsh, local opposition to it.

that has kind of stalled it since about 2010. with the new trump administration and the republicans in power in the house and senate, people are seeing this as the renaissance for yucca mountain. it is finally coming back. that is what this bill would do. it presents a new strategy to get this going again and doing the stuff that needs to be done so the license application currently pending before the nuclear regulation committee can go forward. it also does some stuff that gets it to be bipartisan. it authorizes an interim storage program which was what the obama administration had recommended doing in place of yucca mountain. this is a two-step approach they everyone on board and does a conference of nuclear waste strategy for the country, where it has been lacking for the past eight years or so. >> the bill comes out of the energy and commerce committee sponsored by john shimkus of , illinois, passing that with an overwhelming vote. you detailed some of the items

in the bill. it comes to the house floor for support. it will likely -- will it likely be as strong in many? are 81,000 metric tons of this commercial and nuclear waste. you don't want that in your state. that is part of the problem nevada has hosting this nuclear waste repository. the nuclear waste has long half-life, meaning it is going to state radioactive for thousands and thousands of years, probably longer than current recorded history. that is a problem for a lot of people. they want to get it out of their states. it moved out of the energy and commerce committee on a 49-4 vote. pretty unheard of, especially since this issue has divided the house and senate for so long. to see such a strong vote coming out of committee will carry over.

there is going to be this nevada opposition getting loud in the next week. >> me show some of our viewers here. this is from a congresswoman, her words, not ours. next week representative shimkus , will br ing his screw nevada 2.0 build to the floor. this legislation will rubberstamp the yucca mountain to turn nevada into the nation's policy.p will be bad i will continue to fight it every step of the way. why in the past has nevada delegation been so strong in resisting these types of measures, and if it passes the house, where does it stand in the u.s. senate? jeremy: that is the big problem right now. i mentioned it in the first question. this project got canceled in 2010 from the obama administration because of strong local opposition to it. this is something that former majority leader and democratic leader in the center harry --

senate harry reid made. it is actually something that carries over to bipartisanship in nevada. you will see next week representative jacky rosen, who is currently running against senator dean heller in the nevada race, she will come out just as hard because this is an issue that unites nevadans. you can see that all the way up to the governor, who is a republican who is against it. it is not just party lines. it'll passed the house, but it will run into opposition in the senate. senators are there waiting and willing to put a filibuster up there. the senate is looking at doing some of their own nuclear waste management. senator lamar alexander and senator feinstein have been talking recently with the appropriation cycle getting up the energy water bill which touches on these issues.

it has been a priority for them to get something going. that may take the turn of something interim storage space than storage at yucca mountain. there is some hope that the senate could do something. this current bill is likely going to have to go uphill to get past the senate. >> we have been speaking with jeremy dillon, who is energy and environmental reporter with cq roll call. you can follow them online and on twitter. thank you so much for the update. jeremy: thanks for having me. washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up sunday morning, former cia senior intelligence offer -- officer, alex bolin, talking about gina haskell's nomination for cia director. and a documenter -- documentary maker discuss the the now more's

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>> we are waiting for president trump to talk about the tax reform bill passed in congress. here is some of today's "washington journal." host: join us is a senior political adviser. he is here to talk about the state of the federal election committee and its ability to oversee campaign finance laws. thank you for joining us today. >> thank you for having me. host: what is it and how is it set up? it was proposed as an elixir to bring order to what was a very turbulent campaign, the watergate scandal.

very quickly it was not necessarily as powerful as some people across the country would have liked it, although it was designed as a bipartisan agency that would not be dominated at , other by of time republicans or democrats. that has proven to be a good thing. . it has not been an overriding lee partisan body but the , fec critics would put forth and that would mean that there will be some inherent's gridlock or disagreement on the commission that will lead to it itng bottom line is that regulates and enforces campaign finance laws for the company which is a role that is important when you have literally billions upon billions of dollars going into elections and being used to elect politicians all across the country. host: is the fcc the only game

in town? are they the only ones that regulate campaign finance laws? guest: it is the primary, but not the only one. the worse the fcc can do to you is fine you and publicly embarrass you potentially if there are criminal allegations, asever that may be put forth a political action committee or a super pac. these groups can raise unlimited amounts of money and spend unlimited amounts of money. you are then looking criminally at the department of justice which has the mandate to criminally investigate. you may remember john edwards and that was a campaign finance related case that was in the purview of the department of

justice. even the irs gets involved sometimes because particularly hadhis decade, you have host citizens united for certain types of nonprofit organizations to get involved in politicians and to abdicate for or against. irs has a purview over nonprofit organizations and exempt organizations, the and get involved, although to a lesser degree. a few days ago that the fcc is celebrating an anniversary, but you called it about the termg expiration of some of its members. how about this dubious anniversary? guest: we think of anniversary my 50ths in terms of wedding anniversary, so the sec was a dubious anniversary in the sense that it was the anniversary of the four remaining sec commissioners'

terms expiring. the fec commissioners -- and there are six lots, they can serve for six years, one term. that was a law put in place by congress two decades ago. we have had all four commissioners long over serve their allotted terms, and they are basically serving is -- in what is called holdover status. to beon't have a mandate there based on terms, they can still stay in office until the president of the united states replaces them. weintraub, she has served 11 years past her term. for the others it has been 9, 7, 11 years. if you add it up, it is 32 years they have overstayed. some will say, who is to blame? you can pass blame on a couple of people. number one, president barack offerwho did not

replacements for three of the four commissioners that are still serving right now during his term. president donald trump has not nominated anyone, safer one person to the fec, meaning three of the current commissioners who are serving as well as to vacant spots that are not occupied by just ist this point, he not offered anyone up. in this case, he hasn't offered anyone up. congress plays a role because ultimately they have to confirm and approve any residential nominee. in the case of a lawyer from texas and a republican, president trump did nominate him more than seven months ago, and congress has not conducted a congressional hearing or senate confirmation hearing for trey trainor. he is off in limbo right now. this is all important in the

sense that the fec needs four commissioners serving at minimum to conduct high-level business. we are right at that threshold right now. if we lose one commissioner for any reason, retirement, resignation, illness, then the fec cannot function in the 2018 midterm election cycle which would be not the best thing for the country. host: we are talking with dave at the center for public integrity. we are talking about the fec, it's role, and its ability to function and oversee campaign finance laws. democrats can call in at (202) 748-8000, republicans (202) (202)01, an independents 748-8002. can you explain the nature of the relationship of these folks.

? is it at a logjam? guest: on a personal level, they do not get on well. very diverse set of personalities, in particular carolyn hunter who is a republican and the vice chair weintraub have had some very public battles with each other, sometimes philosophically and sometimes more personal. in the last meeting they conducted where they were at each other over a trip that ellen weintraub had taken to lithuania, which ultimately because of her departure -- ♪ two men and i won't forget the man who gave that write to me, and i will gladly stand next to you and defend her to the day because there ate no doubt i love this