noon.ative business at they will take up the 2020 spending package that covers several agencies including defense, labor, h.h.s. and the state department. c-span two, the senate returns to vote on district court nominations in ohio, georgia.and on c-span3, the house oversight and reform committee considers whether to hold attorney general william barr and commerce inretary wilbur ross contempt of congress, for refusing to comply with congressional subpoenas on the 2020 census citizenship question. that gets underway at 10:00 a.m.. >> the house beginning work on fiscal year 2020 spending. we are joined by jennifer shutt the who covers appropriations fr cq roll call. in thetell us what is first package, and what is

behind the democrats' strategy in approaching spending this way this year? jennifer: so, the package includes the department of labor, health and human services and education, the energy water spending bill and the state and 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. the idea behind packaging these is that it does help to shorten up time so you can move through the process faster. this could also help you with your vote counts so sometimes you can package spending bills that are a little less favorable, with spending bills that have more broad support making the package more likely to pass the floor vote. host: i want to ask you about a headline from one of your colleagues -- the legislative branch spending bill pulled amid

the pay increase fight. this is not a surprising thing and it seems to happen every year, a dispute over pay raises for members of congress. jennifer: right. 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 typically be an automatic cost-of-living adjustment. this isn't a pay raise because a congress gives themselves pay raise, legally, they can't get it until the next session of congress. so, this is something congress has been voting on for a decade to prevent the automatic cost of living adjustment from going into place. 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 the legislative spending bill on the package.

but it could come up later on if there's some sort of an agreement. host: as you mentioned one of the pieces of the initial package is the labor, h.h.s., 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 briefly what that amendment says. jennifer: the hyde amendment has been around roughly for for decades. it is a provision that would prevent any federal funds from going to abortion with the exemption for rave, 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. this has been a debate that has simmered among progressives and it's been something they want to get rid of.

it got a lot of attention on the campaign trail after former vice president joe biden said he supported it, then changed and said that he don't longer supports it, a couple of days later after getting a lot of blowback from voters. so, it remains in the spending package, it's not something we expect to change this year are -- this year, or potentially anytime soon. host: the spending package covers four areas for fiscal year 2020, a fairly wide range , from defense, labor, health and human services, education, energy, and water. what are some of the key amendments in all of this that you will be looking for? jennifer: one of the things we are watching throughout the entire process is how much authority the department of defense and a couple others , including the army corps of engineers have to have money redirected for the border wall. it is 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 diverting funds from several programs to border barrier construction. there is 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 for many of their accounts to border barrier construction. down the line, when we are trying to get final pending bills agree to, it will obviously be a tense issue. there are a lot of provisions throughout all of the house's spending bills that would rollback administration policy . they will be pretty serious fight later on this year. host: 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 next

? jennifer: so the house, we have been hearing from majority leader steny hoyer for several weeks now that his goal is to pass all the appropriations bills across the house before the recess begins. fourth of july that may or may not be able to happen now , as well as from a vote-current perspective. things are very different in the senate, whereas the house is planning to vote on all 12 spending bills and the senate appropriations committee has not yet released any of the spending bills or the market. 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 hous senate and trump administration. that has not happened yet. house democratic leadership emows to go ahead and de

spending levels, but that is not an official spending level. so the bill probably could not become law or they would lead to seek restoration which are across-the-board spending cuts. so the senate is trying to see if the leadership of congress and the white house can get together on this spending cap agreement. if not, it sounds like the senate will go ahead and do a number of its own, though it than what theent house democrats did to begin marking up their spending bills. but without the final agreement, none of the bills would become law. announcer: jennifer shutt, you can read her reporting act cq.com. thank you so much for having me. >> when we think of wisdom churchill, we think of the older man sitting young man into war, but you better read few new as well that -- the realities of war, the terror and the

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white house national security adviser john bolton also spoke at the wall street journal's annual meeting for chief financial officers in washington. he addressed the administration's strategies on china, russia, mexico, north korea, and iran. this is just under half hour. [applause] >> thank you for joining us. what do you hope to accomplish with china at the g20? >> the first thing is not to have any expectations about what happens at the g20 meetings. they are a forum for people to have probably more important bilateral