eventually, this will implode in people's faces. host: we would like to thank sarah kendzior for a great conversation about her book, "the view from flyover country >> the government shutdown has reached day eight and is likely to go into the new year and the new congress which begins january 3. last night president trump had a meeting with vice president hands, budget director mick mulvaney and jerrod kushner in washington dc. the three senior administration officials visited capitol hill last week to meet with lawmakers about government funding. outhouse and senate are this weekend. they return monday for a pro forma session with no votes scheduled. after that the senate meets

wednesday, one day before the start of the new congress. live house coverage on c-span and the senate on c-span2. >> the white house did not release an address this week. representative elect delivered the democratic address and talked about the government shutdown and the new, 116th congress. joe: good morning. neguse, and i'm honored to be the representative elect for colorado's second district. when my colleagues and i take the oath and are sworn into the 116th congress in a few days, it will be our focus to stand up for our children's future and the future of working families across the country.

we have a long way to go to restoring common sense in washington dc. trump driveresident our nation into a needless and destructive trump shutdown in the middle of the holidays. as we speak over 420,000 federal employees are going without pay, including firefighters in our national forests, tsa agents to secure us during holiday travel, and countless others. rancor andnship, dysfunction of the trump shutdown is what voters rebuked in november. that is why on january 3, when the new democratic house majority arrives, we will bring the hope, vision and goals of effective governance back to the forefront. we will not only swiftly passed legislation to reopen government, but ensure government is responsible, ethical, and is truly of, by and for the people.

that message at directive in mind that the democratic majority will also restoring our democracy a top priority with the passage of .r 1 this bill will clean up the mess in washington by doing three critical things, securing our elections, reducing the power of special interests in political campaigns, and increasing ethical standards for a elected officials. we have seen insidious efforts to prevent certain types of voters from voting, whether by creating barriers to registration, shutting down polling places or preventing common sense upgrades to voting systems. too many americans are blocked. nds with the passage of hr 1. we will expand access to voting by early, absentee, and in

person methods. here in colorado we have taken many of the steps and have seen people engage in democracy and record-breaking numbers, including my district, district 2. it's long past time that do the same at the national level. hr 1 will also protect the security of our voting systems against attempts by outside sources to influence our elections. one of the voting is most important of our civil rights, we will commit to full reinstatement of the voting rights act, which in recent years has been weakened by hostile and wrongheaded court decisions. put simply, every vote matters and every vote must cap. is tocond tenet of hr 1 make our campaigns clean and deprive big money of its ability to drown out the voices of citizens. require a complete

disclosure of political spending my special interest groups, will clean up elections and amplify the voices of everyday americans, not big business. , democrats will clean up the culture in washington dc. over the past two years we have all witnessed what happens when public officials and public servants attempt to enrich themselves, when foreign entities and big business can exert influence through loopholes, workarounds, and when an administration acts unethically at every turn. the result is higher health care costs, hard-working families struggling to keep up, more pollution in our air and our and now, literally a trump shutdown of our own government. will change that. the bill will strengthen ethics laws, make sure when voters send someone to washington dc, they are serving the public, not themselves. the bedrock of

everything we do in the next two years, reminding us that when it works, the united states of america has the best form of government ever invented. we can do big things. we can be bold in our ideas and bold in our solutions. we can take bold actions that lower health care costs and prescription drug prices, raise , and gun violence, rebuild our infrastructure and fight climate change. but we know that first we must store trust, faith, transparency and hope in our government, and remind americans that this government truly belongs to all of us. the democratic majority is going 1 is thet that, and hr first step in that process. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily.

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