hilton. we have a true honor to serve with john lewis. whether we disagree sometimes on politics, to be able to sit and talk with somebody who truly lived some of the toughest history of our nation and has the scars to prove it. and yet, he still has love in his heart and exhibits that love and passion and we are honored to be able to celebrate that diversity and it's the diversity of thought that we should fight to achieve equality and opportunity for all men and women in this debate nation. and if the gentleman has anything else. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman for his comments. let me add, we can honor that by our words and actions today and tomorrow and every day thereafter. and i yield back. mr. scalise: i agree we should continue to honor all of those

>> niels lesniewski, senior senate staff writer for "rollcall" joins us ahead of the senate debate on the resolution to terminate the president's national emergency declaration to build a southern border wall. when will the senate take up this resolution, and what is the current plan? niels: most likely the vote is going to be on thursday because the senate is about to depart for a weeklong recess for st. patrick's day. this will likely be the last legislating the senate does before it leaves. what we are looking to see is whether or not senate republicans get together and muster the votes to try to at least amend the resolution of termination as it came over from the house that would effectively stop the national emergency designation for the southern border wall.

we do not know whether or not there will be enough republican senators who will be supportive of making any changes to the resolution as it came from the house. >> the house last month 245-182. 13 republicans supported the resolution. what will we see in the senate, and which republicans might support the resolution? handful of republicans to support the resolution. there are several who are involved. susan collins of maine is the lead republican sponsor of the senate version. lisa murkowski of alaska, tom tillis of north carolina, and rand paul of kentucky are already on board. we expect if push comes to shove and there has to be an up or

down vote on that resolution as it is, there are several other republican senators who have been waiting to see what the department of defense wants to reprogram where military housing or construction projects take theer, what they money away from to build the border wall. if the vote occurs before any of that information is public, it probably becomes a more lopsided vote. wrote about the majority leader, mitch mcconnell, his view on the emergency declaration itself. what has been his view of the resolution to end it, and how is he influencing other republicans? niels: senator mcconnell seems to be sort of keeping his powder of the influence on

other senators. mcconnell had said he would support the president's emergency declaration, but he has not exactly been very strident in his support for it. he has generally demurred when asked about the legality of the emergency declaration. it is a message from mcconnell to republican senators that they should do what they think is best. on the other hand we have been hearing in recent days that the trump administration has been louder and louder in terms of pressuring republican senators to keep the vote total down, but i do not think they will get this low enough that it will not pass. >> if the resolution does pass the senate, and the president plans to veto it, what are the next steps for the house and senate? niels: then we would have a veto

override that would have to play week.ter the march recess we do not expect there will be enough votes in the house. you mention the tally earlier, we do not think there is enough votes in the house to get a two thirds majority to override a veto. and we are on to the courts into the next round of appropriations. remember that there have been so many disasters, the natural disaster of variety, not the questionable disaster declarations border variety. congress needs to do a supplemental spending bill to deal with tornado damage, hurricane damage and the like. that is probably the next place where this becomes an issue because there we have emergencies that everyone will

agree our emergencies. there will be money spent there that is not spent on the wall either. >> we appreciate the information. we will continue to follow you on twitter. thank you so much. niels: thank you. >> c-span's "washington journal," live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. saturday morning, veterans mental health care and the executive order signed by president trump to stem the rise of veteran suicide. investigatorg news peter robinson on changes to school nutrition standards. and national popular vote will oncuss the group effort electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the overall ocular vote. -- overall popular vote.

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