and commerce secretary wilbur ross in contempt of congress for refusing to comply with subpoenas related to the trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 u.s. census. that gets underway at 10:00 a.m. eastern. >> the house beginning work on fiscal year 2020 spending. we are joined by jennifer shutt, who covers appropriations and budget for cq roll call. first up is this four package a bill of spending measures for next year. tell us what is in this first package, and what is behind the democrat's strategy in approaching spending debate this year. ms. shutt: the package includes the defense spending bill, the department of labor, health and human services and education, the energy water spending bill and the state and foreign operation spending bill. it's quite a bit of money, it

was a little under $1 trillion and these bills would cover a variety of departments. and the idea behind packaging these is that it does help to shorten up floor debate time so you can move through the process a little bit faster. it can also help you with your vote count. so sometimes you can package spending bills that are a little less favorable with spending bills that have more broad support, so that makes the package more likely to pass the floor vote. >> i want to ask you about a headline from one of your cq colleagues. it says the legislative branch spending bill pulled amid the pay increase. this is not a surprising thing and it seems to happen every year, a dispute over pay raises for members of congress. ms. shutt: right. so, ever since 2009, there's been a provision in one of the annual spending bills that says members of congress could not get what would automatically be a typical cost of living adjustment. this isn't a pay raise because

technically if congress give themselves a pay raise legally they can't get it until the next session of congress. the next congress would be sworn in. so, this is something congress has been voting on for a decade to prevent that automatic cost of living adjustment from going into place, so that was not included in any of this pending bills that the house appropriations committee reported to the floor, so there's been a lot of debate about whether or not this is an appropriate thing to do. it seems like that is what led to them pulling that legislative spending bill from that package, but it could come up later on if there's some sort of an agreement that takes place. >> as you mentioned, one of the pieces of the initial package is the labor hhs and education spending measure. on the issue of abortion, you tweeted this, the hyde amendment and other abortion riders in the spending limelight, what's bringing them to the forefront. explain for us briefly what that

hyde amendment says. ms. shutt: the hyde amendment has been around roughly for four decades. it is a provision that was offered by a congressman with and would prevent any federal funds from going to abortion with the exemption for rape, incest and the woman's life. this is something that applies most often to people in the medicaid program, the federal health care programs for low income individuals, and this has been a debate that has simmered among progressives for several years now. for some it's been something they want to get rid of and it obviously got a lot of attention on the campaign trail after joe biden said he supported it and then changed his stance to say he no longer supports it after getting a lot of blowback from voters. and so, it remains in the spending package, so that is not something that we expect to change this year or potentially

anytime soon. >> the spending package covers four areas of federal spending for fiscal year 2020, a fairly wide range. but what are some of the key amendments in all of this that you will be looking for? ms. shutt: one of the things we are definitely watching throughout this entire appropriations process is how much authority the department of defense and a couple others including the army corps of engineer have to have money redirected for the border wall. that is obviously something that created a lot of tension between congress and the white house earlier this year when trump declared a national emergency and announced he would divert funds from several programs to border barrier construction. there's language in the department of defense spending bill as well as the energy and water spending bill that would prevent those agencies from

transferring any money from many of their accounts to border barrier construction. down the line when we are trying to get final spending bills agreed to between the house and the senate and the white house and it will obviously be a very tense issue. there are a lot of provisions throughout all 12 of the house spending bills that would rollback administration policy appeared >> -- policy. >> and what some have called this for bill package of spending it covers for as you mentioned of the 12 annual appropriations bill, what is the democrat strategy or process for getting it done in the house and where is the senate in their process on spending bills. ms. shutt: the house, we've been hearing from the majority leader for several weeks now that his goal is to pass all the appropriations bills across the house before the fourth of july recess begins. that may or may not be able to happen knowledges the silly --

happened now logistically as well as from a vote count perspective. things are very different in the senate, whereas the house is planning to vote on all 12 spending bills on the floor, the senate appropriations committee has not yet released any of the 12 spending bills or markups. the reason for that is in order to get a total spending level for the upcoming fiscal year 2020 which begins october 1, there has to be a broad bipartisan agreement between the house, senate and trump administration. house democratic leadership chose to deem spending level but it's not an official spending level so the bill probably could not become law or they would need to sequestration which are across-the-board spending cuts. the senate is trying to see if the leadership of congress and the white house can get together on the spending caps agreement and if not it sounds like the senate will go ahead and give a number of its own, although that

would be a different number than what house democrats did to begin marking up some of their spending bills but without the final agreement, none of the bills would become law. >> jennifer shutt is appropriations and budget reporter for cq roll call. reader reporting at cq.com and she is on twitter at jennifer shutt. thank you so much. ms. shutt: thank you for having me. aboutcer: lots of details the house and senate for the current session of congress. contacts and bio information about every senator and representative. plus information about congressional committees, state governors, and the cabinet appeared the 2019 congressional directory is a handy guide. order your copy from the c-span online store for $18.95. >> when we think of winston churchill we think of the undermanned -- older man sending younger men into war.

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