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tv   Sarah Ferris  CSPAN  September 22, 2019 4:05pm-4:13pm EDT

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other than -- >> the overwhelming majority. so, how do i explain to people in my district who don't have mental-health care that we have a 12-1 ratio in the facilities when the vast majority are there because their parents chose to separate them and that's a rhetorical question you are nothing to answer that. i would say that it's great and i congratulate >> you can find the entire hearing on c-span.org. type migrant children into the search bar. >> sarah ferris from politico joins us. the house got the job done funding the government through november 21 but with a september 30 deadline facing congress. negotiators continue off the
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floor. the senate will take up the cr in the coming week. panel and they say the fight is the same as last year because -- which is not great news because we ended up with a 35 day shutdown. they do not have a strategy of how they are going to deal with the border wall. that was the main issue that spurred the government into a shut down through november and january of this year. then there are the other tricky issue like the detention beds and the enforcement powers that ice agencies have. these are things that democrats are really riled up about given
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the administration's aggressive actions on immigration all through the summer. democrats are ready to go to the mat on this. republicans are also hearing from trump on this. we are staring down the same fight as we did last year. bill: the senate will take up the continuing resolution. back on the house floor, they are looking at the southern border. you point out the democratic bills by lauren underwood of illinois and veronica escobar of texas. you wrote in a piece in politico that representative escobar's border bill was pulled back in july. why did they pull that bill? what is in that bill? also tell us what representative underwood's bill would do. sarah: congresswoman escobar's bill was slated to come to the floor in late july. this was a big priority for democrats. they wanted to tackle the oversight issue. they really wanted to make sure requirements for department of homeland security
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when it comes to especially migrant children. this has been a big priority. in the weeks leading up to this vote, they actually added more controversial items. they went bigger and broader. it was really something that moderate democrats could not support. it made them nervous. democratic leaders decided over the summer recess to go back to basically the original bill that was filed by congresswoman escobar. this does things like establish an office of ombudsman for border and immigration concerns. there is going to be someone that congress can go to beyond just the agency. trump's handpicked agency officials. they want more oversight function. they want more training. they want body cameras worn by customs and border agents. this bill is likely not to have a lot of drama. it will be a much different look than what we saw in july. bill: what about congresswoman underwood's bill? sarah: congresswoman underwood's
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bill has more oversight components to this. this is one more way for democrats to take action of trying to have some uniform processes for medical screenings. congresswoman underwood has a medical background. her bill focuses more on medical screening and that sort of thing. bill: barely a week goes by without some news out of the house judiciary committee. this week the house judiciary committee held what jerry nadler said was the first impeachment inquiry under their new rules, hearing from corey lewandowski, former campaign manager for president trump. your story -- excuse me your , politico colleague has a story that reports that the speakers said corey lewandowski deserves to be held in contempt. is there any update on that story? sarah: there are reports that the judiciary committee is looking into holding mr. lewandowski in contempt. it is a complicated procedure. there would be many steps
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involved. cnn had report saying they are looking to take those steps. that is something we will see. there is a lot of things right now as you mentioned, they are having two hearings in the upcoming week. one of them is on emoluments. they're trying to call this the trump corruption hearing. they are trying to make this a little bit easier for people to understand, to really dig into the problem democrats have with what president trump has done keeping his businesses while he has been president. there is another hearing looking at his muslim ban. the judiciary committee of course is juggling a lot of different hearings. a lot of different subpoenas and procedures and everything like that. so we will see if the concerns of mr. lewandowski, holding him in contempt, see how that plays out. bill: meantime, do you think house democrats' strategy on impeachment is an any clearer? sarah: i think the hearing did expose some trouble areas.
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it was hard to see exactly what democrats got out of that hard , to see if there were any new information or arguments they were able to make. they are basically regrouping this week. they are trying to reshape their messaging. they want to have it a little bit sharper and narrow in on what the trump administration and what the president has done here wrong. they are looking to focus on something like emoluments, focus on the corruption. they feel like that is easier for people to understand than obstruction of justice which was the hearing with mr. lewandowski. they are trying to see what will work best as they have this critical phase in the next couple of weeks and months to decide whether to move forward with the full impeachment hearing, which most immigrants feel like the deadline is the end of the year. bill: sarah ferris covers congress for politico. @sara on twitter at
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hannferris. thanks for the update. bill: sarah: thanks for having me. announcer 1: greta finberg testified on capitol hill about what congress could do to slow climate change. she was joined by other young leaders at a hearing of the house climate crisis committee and the foreign affairs subcommittee. >> the hearing comes to order. [indiscernible] as we get in, chairman angles joining us, we are here joined by the select committee on climate crisis and an esteemed panel of witnesses the voices

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