it. tonight bygin recognizing that the state of our union is strong because our people are strong. >> the state of the union first post post because of the government shutdown will now take place on tuesday night. watch as president trump delivers his state of the union address live from the house chamber getting at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span followed by the democratic response by stacey abrams. the state of the union live tuesday on c-span, c-span.org or listen with the free c-span radio app. >> house speaker nancy pelosi held her weekly briefing this morning talking about the conference committee between the house and senate.

here's this morning's briefing. >> good morning. it's all about the numbers. so here we are. thank god government is open again. and now we can negotiate on what orderst way is to have security to enforce our homeland security goals. important and the would be any shutdown taken off the table as a reasonable approach to governance. impact in theble lives of the families affect by federal employees who are not

receiving their paychecks in a by theirshion communities. since the paychecks were not coming the community suffered as and impact on our national gdpomy as well in terms of growth. it's harmful to our veterans many of whom service public employees. about a third of our federal employees are veterans and many of them have their jobs because they have security clearance and security clearance is affected either credit rating and that is affected by your ability to pay your bills on time there is such a negative impact and hopefully we can do something to help out because not getting paid under the present formulation of things and there's some initiatives coming

forward to help those especially our low-paid contract does. contractors. we know what the consequences of a shutdown are. yesterday we had to build on them to say that the shutdown is 163 republicans voted no. to a resolution that says check downs are wrong. shutdown's are wrong. then there was a federal employee pay raise to make federal pay consistent with federal pay for the military and only 29 voted yes on that. hundred 61 voted no. , shutdowns are wrong.

161 that federal employees should be paid in a fair way with their increase. what is fortunate is that we have a conference committee that is working in i think good spirit. the opening statements yesterday were promising. house and senate democrats and republicans. i take pride in the ability of the appropriation shall -- members to reach consensus without any other interference. they know the impact of investment and many of them have experience in all of this. including one relatively new he's the vice chair of the appropriations

committee in the house and he is therefore one of the fewer than five terms members. so we had every aspect of our caucus represented there. members camey forward in a public statement about order security and they put forth what they saw as the to have border security. they took about 1000 new customs office or is currently new imaging technology at the land ports of entry. 90% of whatever comes into our country comes through the ports of entry whether it's a silent seekers or drugs. funding to repair and extreme -- expand the ports

of entry. that can go right through without stopping. very important and that new equipment at processing facilities to interdict fentanyl and other opioid ships through international mail. that's a big issue. cutting-edge technology not only at ports of entry but other places on the border and an expansion of border patrol air and marine operations along the border and u.s. waters. they are some of the major points of discussion i would hope as we go forward now. but i was pleased yesterday. i thought everybody was of good intention and that is the way the appropriations committee usually worked.

have been since the election of theng for the people agenda. lowering health care costs by lowering the cost of prescription drugs and ensuring that pre-existing benefit continues. increasing paychecks by building and hr one which is moving along integrity in government to increase the soces of the american people they know that the people's agenda will happen and not the special agenda. had this weeklso we observed the 10th anniversary of president obama signing the ledbetter act.

his first bill opened the door to more fairness in the workplace. but it wasn't paychecks fairness completely. again, she hasce been introducing every congress for as long as i can remain. we couldn't get the 60 votes in the senate. leadatty murray is a sponsor in the senate on that and that is equal pay for equal work. yesterday was the 10th anniversary. april 2 is the day at which women start to get paid for the year as opposed to what men make for the year so we hope this could be signed into law by that day. the for the people

agenda for lower health care costs and more integrity in government. >> we heard from the offering to provide protection for daca recipients if the fate of dreamers is being discussed or are dreamers getting lost in all of this? >> let me clarify what the the dreamers,you daca, the dreamers are twice the number of the daca recipients. in his comments he said he wanted to protect the daca. he took away the protections had.had and tps

he took away an initiative of president obama to facilitate amnesty questions in the country of origin. he took things away and then he had i'm going to give these back to you temporarily if you give me a wall. he shouldn't have taken them away in the first place. these protections were there until you decided to take them away. now you're going to come back and say i will give them back to you for three years? that is not of protection. protection is something that has certainty to it. it was really disappointing. i think these are the protections that exist. i will take them away. i will give them to you temporarily. a nonstarter. negotiation the

point is what is the best way to protect our border? you heard some of the ideas that are there. many of which the president talked about in that speech as well. of what we are% concerned about whether it is drugs or whatever come through the ports of entry. with make them stronger roads to go with it so that we can facilitate commerce. immigrationand first and foremost security. committee should be left to its own devices. whatever the product is are you committed to allowing the floor ? >> if they come up with a bipartisan consensus, of course. >> will you include order will

money? -- border wall money. >> there's not going to be any wall money in the legislation. however if they have some suggestions about certain technology, some infrastructure about the ports of entry. part of the negotiation. it is not a negotiation for the president to say -- what did he say today? it doesn't matter what congress does? i knew that he wanted it all to himself. a president who wants to have congress be completely irrelevant in how we meet the needs of the american people? now. come on. let them work their well.

i'm an appropriator. intelligence -- and appropriation. they know their limitations terms of financial resources and they have to choose the best way to use the money for the american people. that's why i have confidence in what they can do. mitch mcconnell indicated he might be open to supporting -- would you support legislation to effectively outlaw government shutdown? but there are so many possibilities on the table that i don't think that should be part of this agreement because there's not a consensus as to what that would the. if there is a consensus maybe it could be. in order to have a bill signed we have to have

assigned conference report next friday. so we only have this week plus one day. with the state of the union in between to get this done in order for them to bring it to the floor and have it on the president's desk. to the extent that we can keep it simple. this is about border security, homeland security and it's about other bills that need to be passed in order to completely open up government. confident about the ability of congress to do the respecting in differences of opinion. that's what negotiation is about. consensus? be a i know at least 30 different versions of this story. you have to have consensus.

certainly we should not have anymore shut downs. >> you can talk about the diversity of viewpoints in the democratic caucus. there are pro-life democrats. how does that make it harder for pro-life democrats in the party? >> i'm sorry. i just don't know what he said yesterday. >> friday there was a statement saying -- what does putin have on the president politically, personally or financially. do you believe that someone has something compromising on this president? >> i've been asking the question for two years. i've always said that.

something is wrong with this picture. nancy. >> you talked about intelligence. check sumer sent a letter. are you planning to take any further action given the discrepancies between the president and his intelligence advisers? >> what the public saw this week was the fact that the president has not paid attention to the intelligence that has been given to him on many of these subjects. i thought it was courageous that different aspects of our intelligence community spoke truth to the country and to power. their opening statements are usually led by the white house. they made their statements and also they answered the questions.

i'm very proud of adam schiff and members of the intelligence committee as to when they will have that particular presentation made to the house intelligence committee in open forum. activity withome of appropriations committee. i'm not sure about that. but it was stunning. i started in the early 90's as an appropriator and served as ranking member and then ex officio for all of the years i've been leader or speaker of the house. one dismaying factor of it all is the president just doesn't seem to have the attention span for the desire to hear what the intelligence community has been

telling him. so for him to make the statement that he did yesterday is cause for concern. i think that it's important for the republicans in congress to recognize that they have to weigh in with the president to say you can't act without knowledge. is intelligence community there to be protection for the american people. when i started all those years overarchingbout issues. money longer during and how they affected security. that of course the anti-terrorism initiative in the 90's emerged. it is a real protection to us to keep us from having to initiate hostilities for make sure that

we have intelligence to protect our men and women in uniform and also to fight terrorism in its many forms. wefor the president to say don't need congress and i know more about what's happening in our threats in the world than the intelligence community even though i haven't attention when people have described it to me that's a cause for concern and i would hope that the republicans in the congress would either have an intervention with the orsident about that recognize the problems that it faces to our country and take some congressional action. democraticgree with caucus chair jefferies when he says enhanced spending should be

on the table in these negotiations? >> i did not hear his comments. did you see the presentation yesterday of henry clay are of he represents laredo and surrounding areas there. and he showed the border. ,any places on the border there's a river and there's 600 miles of something. it art normandy fences. so that cars cannot go by. if the president wants to call that a wall he can call the wall. he saying we already have over 700 miles of wall.

it's a place where enhanced fencing would work. let them have that discussion because it's all about cost-benefit analysis. what's the best way and what do you get for your dollar in order to protect the border? and thisalso about will be coming up as he takes some extraordinary action. it's also about the opportunity cost of the money. if the money can be used better for technology then let's see what's the best. and when some of these fences were built, the technology was not what it is today. so you have to look at technology in a new form. say should we all get landslides in our homes should we get smartphones.

what should we be doing on the border of dislike landline versus technology our personnel on the border should have. they are talking about more enhancements of the ports of entry and we already have that in the bill we passed last week. appropriations bill. more on the subject that you may want to know. so let the negotiators see if --re is something that can there were only about 30 miles if you saw the presentation and a lot of it is that the cars go by. some of it is about levees in the rest of that. thank you all very much.

>> you are nearly 100 new faces in congress following the midterm elections. three are from tennessee. all republicans. voters in the second district elected tim burchett who has held elected office since the mid-90's including serving as mayor in terms in both the state senate and house. congressman mark green first came to national attention as president trump's nominee to be u.s. army secretary. he would prove his name from consideration after his nomination drew criticism for statements he had made about transgender people and muslims. pointa west judge -- west he spent time in both afghanistan and iraq taking part in the mission that captured saddam hussein. militaryiring from the

he cofounded a company that provides staff for hospital emergency room's. he was also elected to two terms in the state senate. he also owns and operates a farm that has been in his family for a generations. early in the 2000's was tennessee's commissioner that culture. south carolina also has two new members of the house. republican william timmons in the statears senate before joining congress. he owns two fitness companies and operates a law firm in the greenville area. joe cunningham is the first democrat since 1981 to represent the charleston-based first district. lifearted his professional as an engineer working on newtime congress --

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