congress, they make the laws. if they wanted to change any aspect of this, if they wanted to make it more strict for any aspect of the government, they do have the ability to do that. that is what is being debated right now with the various bills and the various committees and coalitions that are getting together to discuss whether to do exactly that at the end of this current congressional session in january. it remains to be seen whether something monumental will happen, nothing will happen or something in between. frankly, based on many conversations we have been having with congress and the staff it seems this is where it is going to land. host: wordy they get most of the information on these trades? guest: we look at the reports that come in and quite literally every day about financial transactions. there are annual reports they have to file that give a whole variety of information covering a calendar year. those usually come out midyear. for individual stock trades, members of congress have to take an added

it's congress over party. congressman timmons, tell us about the ways you've been able to find a consensus and the forms you're most proud of and there's a list of a hundred and some are big and some are small but all of them are important. mr. timmons: i've been on the committee 3 1/2 years and what i think is most important is time, the calendar, the schedule, floor votes. we don't have enough time in congress and any 10 minutes we can get here or there adds up and is exponential. incentive structures. and i don't need to tell the foreign members oftentimes the incentive structures in congress aren't designed to facilitate the best results. last is relationship building. we don't do enough. we need to be more intentional about building relationships because again, we have to engage in policymaking with one another. if you don't know the person you're more inclined to be mean with them and tell them their idea is stupid and then you warrant to agree with them and if archedded them in their previous encounter

congress, they make the law. if they wanted to change any aspect or they wanted to make things more strict for any aspect of the government, they do have the ability to do that. that's what's being debated right now with the areas of the bills and the various committees and coalitions that are getting together to discuss whether to do exactly that between now and the end of the current congressional session in january. it remains to be seen whether something monumentalr will happn or if nothing will happen or something in between. frankly based on lots of conversations we've been having with members of congress and their staff, it's up in the air where this is going to land. >> host: where do you get most of the information on these trainings and financialof transactions? >> guest: we look at the reports that come in every day from congress about financial transactions. there are annual reports members of congress have to file the to give a whole variety of information covering a calendar year. they usually come

the time for congress to act is now, senator collins said before this congress adjourns. the bipartisan bill produced by senator collins and myself and colleagues. the presidential transition improvement act of 2022. i am thankful for senator collins and her leadership throughout the process and for the valuable input from all my colleagues on both sides of the aisle. i think it is worthwhile mentioning them because they have worked so hard. senator romney, senator murkowski, senator capito, senator young, senator graham, senator king and all of the cosponsors. i will be among the first to acknowledge that the bill is not perfect but represents many months of hard work and compromise and would serve as a tremendous improvement over the current eca. the bill addresses what the bipartisan group identified as the most concerning problems with the eca. it ambiguously clarifies the vice president is prohibited -- i repeat that it clarifies the vice president is prohibited from interfering with electoral votes. it raises the objection threshold by 20%. 87 house members from one

congress has established for itself the rules of the road that congress created for congress. so when you have a situation like that and some situations involve hundreds of stock trades the months late and potentially millions or tens of millions of dollars in some cases. the yield entity for that which has come to bear is a $200 late filing fee. all of these cases that i just mentioned, that is basically the extent of the penalty that we found. the critics of this law who say the stock act is simply too weak , they're just going to keep doing it. there are no ramifications if you can go and rob a bank into the police officer is not going to chase after you, my keep rubbing thanks. -- banks. host: the organization has been relentless on reporting on this. one of the headlines 71 members of congress have violated a law designed to prevent insider trading and to stop conflicts of interest. we welcome your calls and comments. the lines are (202) 748-8000 for democrats. (202) 748-8001 the republicans and independents and others (202) 748-8002. what's next? what has been proposed t

in the coming congress. i think all of you and i want to welcome senator collins and senator manchin to this beautiful hearing room. welcome. you can look at the ships i know you like to sail, senator manchin, and we will remind you of maine, senator collins while you hear senator blunt and i will give our opening remarks. the electoral count act was passed in 1887, as i noted, in response to the disputed election between rutherford, hayes and samuel tilden to something that just comes off the lives of everyone at this hearing today. i point this out because it was a whole lot of time ago. that those put in place to -- at that time. counsel for president. while it has not gotten much attention in the next 130 years, it became the cornerstone, sadly, have a plan hatched by president trump and allies that led to an attempt and this insurrection at the capitol, where there was a possibility. senator blunt and i remember that day well. the will of the american people could have been overturned. it culminated in

congress is the problem. changing the debt ceiling isn't going to make [indiscernible] works. >> mr. mulvaney, congress is now facing another debt limit discussion within the next year or so and perhaps sooner if more of the $7.5 trillion in new spending the house democrats have passed becomes law. as you know, the debt limit has often [no audio] rain in deficit spending. given that the 2011 s&p downgrade was a result of the markets having the confidence that washington would curb its appetite to spend, and since we are facing a new debt limit crisis end of this year, when that next conversation over the debt limit occurs, what specifically do you think that congress should consider as part of these potential debt limit increase, apart from just abolishing the that limit, like democrats are proposing. could congress put back caps on spending that put into law real spending restraint? >> mr. chairman, my gut -- caps would be great, but we did that in 2011 and then all congress did every two years was raise the

they burned the library of congress along with the congress.books work on that's when thomas jefferson said i will sell you my library, which he did but he needed the money a deal was done pretty sold for roughly $24000 i think it was. applicant library of congress read those books were later burned and another fire. but library congress did a very good job at getting reproductions some of those still exist of the original ones. ultimately the library congress grew, and grew, and grew. he is now decided to have its own building. this building was built in 1897 for $10 million. under budget and on schedule. it was redone around 2000 or so for roughly one or $50 million. by think the library of congress to the most beautiful rooms in washington d.c. you are in one of them a little while ago, the great hall. some have seen the main reading room for those are two spectacular building nothing like it exists in washington d.c. the library of congress is appointed by the present of the nights it even though couple library congress. there's only been o

congress. later, the hill's editor-in-chief bob cusack on what is ahead in congress this fall as lawmakers prepare for midterm elections. "washington journal" starts now. ♪ host: security barricades have come down at the u.s. supreme court following this summer's protest over the court's abortion decision. but concerns over the direction of the court remain, particularly among democrats. according to one survey, public opinion of the court has fallen to its lowest level in years. like everything else these days, it is now a political viewpoint and the response depends on who you ask. they begin their new term in little less than a month. we want to hear how confident you are in the u.s. supreme court. welcome to the program for this tuesday, september 6. (202) 748-8000 for democrats. (202) 748-8001 is the republican line. independents and all others, (202) 748-8002. you can text (202) 748-8003. include your name and where you are texting from. you can also send us a message on facebook or hit u

we often talk about whether the hyperpartisan in congress is a congress problem or a society problem.and it is probably a little bit of both. but i think one of the biggest challenges is our inability to, i guess, digest information. because, you get a lot of information that previously humans just wouldn't get because the journalism would weed it out before it got that far. and i think screen posted on social media anonymously, just by crazy people. and so how do we grow past the challenges that technology, interconnectedness are creating? anybody? >> i am happy to speak to that if. so, i think your question gets to the deepest issues we are all facing. the question that's all of these suggestions relate to, which is, we are facing a crisis of representation. of the activity, and practice of representation. and it is not a crisis of any particular individuals making, it is a crisis that, at the end of the day has been finally driven all of the way home by the invention of social media. and i just want to be very clear about why and how, and therefore why your committee is so importan

when it was passed by congress it still needed to be signed by the president even though it said congress has the power to do it. and so similarly state legislatures passing election laws have always send those bills to their governor under their state constitutions for signatures. >> yes. >> so the independent state legislature doctrine would suddenly announce that more than two centuries of state election laws are somehow unconstitutional or at least went through an unnecessary step being signed by the governor and operating under state veto requirements and so on. >> this theory, if it were embraced would nullify hundreds of election laws that it been in place for many years and in some cases centuries. as my colleagues have reflected, state constitutions were adopted around the time of the ratification of the constitution that themselves constrain state legislatures. everyone understood at the time that state legislatures are creatures of their own constitution and are constrained by them including gubernatorial veto and judicial review. >> but there are some places in the constitutio

and we hosted them at the library of congress. i just got a chance to meet some middle schoolers from hampton middle school in woodbridge, virginia. we took pictures and they talked about they wanted to see and i just passed by quan the alexander one of the superstars they wanted to see. >> before we get to calls, what is going on with the jefferson building at the library of congress? >> what we're doing, we have a plan to engage more people in the library of congress. especially in our buildings to make them feel welcome. we will have an orientation center, learning center for young people. ways to invite everyone in to have the same type of spirit, not one time but to make sure that everyone feels welcome. it is part of that plan. i'm glad people are interested in what we are doing and we will be giving more information and we will have drawings and eggs like that. it's a good opportunity. >> can all of the people watching right now, can they go get a library card from the library of congress or is it restricted? >> right now,

what happened as congress move down here the library of congress was in the building and that's where it was. and then the british came in 1814 they burn the library of congress so the books were gone that's when thomas jefferson said i will sell you my library which he did and he needed the money and the deal was done i was $24000 that became the library of congress later those are burned in another fire. [laughter] but the library of congress has done a good job to get reproductions and ultimately they grew and grew so now because it has its own building built in 1897 for $10 million under budget and on schedule. so roughly from $150 million congress has to the most beautiful rooms in washington dc. and the library and congress and then one african-american who served in library of congress and for more than 50 asyears and a librarian at the library of congress. and she is in a spectacular job. [laughter] [applause]nv finishing her six-year it is a ten year term to be renewed no doubt there would be an outcry and has done a spectacular job including the national book festival. it wa

if we take congress, when congress proposes constitutional amendments, congress does not have to present those to the president. in fact the bill of rights was not presented to the president before it was adopted, or sent out to be states to be ratified. we wouldn't of course conclude that congress wouldn't exercise its powers to regulate federal elections, doesn't have the to present a bill to the president. i think that is a good example, in the federal context, and i think justice ginsburg's opinion does acknowledge that the 70 the men meant, state legislators might have been independent in their role as elector, but not in their role of regulating ordinary law making. >> gentlemen, time has expired, let's turn to mr. bryan steil for his questions. >> i want to start by jumping back to yesterday for a second, on the importance of making sure that our elections are free, fair, and secure. and know that i am proud to join the ranking member, mr. davis, my colleague, mr. barry loudermilk to my right, in introducing the ace act, to inspire voter confidence and election integrity. i think

now he had good friends and allies in congress, but he was not generally liked by members of congress the conservative wing of the republican party who thought he was too much of a progressive. well, as he progresses in the republican party, the so-called rhinos of the day of la follette and norris of nebraska and, they were called by one of the conservative senators, sons of the wild --, because they were so cantankerous and not club able. they work in harmony and they held the kind of, the balance of power in the senate and. many of them hated hoover, whom they thought was of insufficient progressive. and one historian once said of hoover that he was too progressive for the concern over this and too conservative for the radicals. so he kind of fell in between. so i think trump ford was did come to be disliked the way that hoover came to be disliked. trump rather run. ford did not have the same weight to bear in personal terms. hoover it was personalized for hoover, you know, there were in this country, some of you have heard these are unemployed people, living in shantytowns on, the

congress can specify priority.n the last two years, we have had 100 billion spectrum options and none of those have gone to congressional priorities rated i feel pretty strongly that a long-term effect of authority is good but used to be tied to specific bands. >> could you quickly, it's because there is a -- up here by the democrats which could be vote -- a proposal up here by the democrats which could be voted on earlier this week. i know the way spectrum is treated out of the tax which allows it to be that he has over the last. ebay desilets period of years. >> thank you for the question. it is a big deal for our industry. it is currently structured so tax provisions underline everything we are talking about. we are building out 53 twice as fast as we build out 4g and that is to the tune of $60 billion on infrastructure in the last two years. a 15% tax on the $200 billion in spectrum investments will absolutely, when it is retroactive and a surprise, so our build out. it will slow our closing of the digital divi

and it doesn't take congress out of the business -- he doesn't eliminate congress possibility to look at any aspect of elections. it just says it has to be a broader basis for objection, 20% of each house. i have two amendments to propose, then i will withdraw. i want to outline what they are. one of them is, in current law, the basis of an objection is the vote of one or more electors has not been regularly given. that is the language from the ancient law. that is the term that is not very well defined, and is confusing, and the scholars recommend that we change that to "is unlawful or the product of unlawful coercion." it is merely the clarification of a term that really has no legal meaning. the second proposed amendment is even simpler, and that is that we are talking about where a court will have an opportunity to in effect the current law the current statute says such action shall be heard a district court of three judges convened, etc. one of the things we're trying to do with the statute is to clarify and restore the trust of the american people. my suggestion is to add the ph

congress has a role. i would urge my colleagues to support short-term extension of options authority. to continue its important work while we work with stakeholders to develop more comprehensive legislation laying out long-term pipeline of frequencies. i would hope to work on legislative efforts to improve the coordination between federal agencies and the fcc to ensure there's an open and effective communication. i yield back to you. >> ranking member of the committee, thank you for your thoughtfulness and policy approaches in this arena. >> thank you, chairman, for holding a timely hearing. 22 legislative calendar days, conduct spectrum option expires. the last time this committee held this hearing is in july of 2,020 with chairman of the subcommittee. disappointed lack of progress on this issue, it is the lifeblood, wireless communications, next generation networks require efficient and effective use of mid, low and high band spectrum. in the global race we deploy these services proper management of the

who is supposed to appoint an officer and remove an officer from congress limit removal protections, we did not have cases like that this last term. we had this case which is looking i can the public or mechanisms outside of the government help to keep accountability for government officers. elections are an important mechanism for accountability potentially impeachment and conviction, if you look historically impeachment has been successful fewer than two dozen times, conviction much fewer it is very hard even for congress to successfully impeach and convict a president who is charged with attacking the coequal branch physically so perhaps that's not as effective of a remedy as the framers of the founding generation would've thought. there was a lot of evidence at the time of ratification the folk signing onto the constitution approving the ratification that the mechanism of state common law was going to remain in place, a number of scholars have written about how the common-law actions were to work, professor has written some, professing her in his scholarship. there was definitely

lawful election resultses to congress -- results to congress. or be compelled to by a federal court. or be compelled to by a federal court. no rogue governor can unlawfully subvert the will of the people. the will of the people, the heart of the democracy. expressed in the democratic electoral process. fourth, our bill makes crystal clear that states cannot change the rules governing an election after the election has occurred. did you hear that? cannot change the rules governing an election after the election has occurred. preventing radical state legislators from attempting to nullify the election. i keep using that word, nullify. these changes are imperative right now, emboldened bijan 6, maga politicians are waging a sinister campaign across the country to subvert our future elections. peddling the big lie, the 2020 election was stolen, assembling an army of operatives to intimidate voters a at the polls and poll workers as well, and even threatening to reverse results for which they disagree. wait a minute. we're talking about a democracy.

. >> joining us for a look ahead at congress.lso a month ahead look the sprint to the expected break before the midterm elections. top of the l list of legislative priorities and keeping the government o open, keeping the government funded. reminded viewers where we are on a government funding bill. >> as you know, jon, funding runs off of the government on september 30. we are weeks away from a potential government shutdown. this time around things looked to be a little bit easier than perhaps the pastt moments. but again, it is a difficult time for lawmakers. they are thinking ahead to the election. nobody wants a government shutdown right before the election. but at the same time,ec these things are never easy. there are a number of challenges that lie ahead. the top challenge i would say is joe manchin was able to get a deal with chuck schumer and congressional leadership in the white house when they pass the inflation reduction act. he was able, she probably discussed of this program before, to secure a bill, one of his bill

washington being a member of congress was known by the others in congress and they picked him because of his character. they knew the man and knew they could trust him. when the war was over and washington did return the command to the congress, he did something that had never been done before. when george the third was told washington might do this, george the third said if he does that he will be the greatest man in the world and he stood back from power as he promised to do in the beginning. but the real story is with those men and rags who marched with him. when his army finally got to the delaware river and crossed the delaware river at night, trying to put the river between them and the oncoming british army, they were men who were heartily exhausted, sick, hungry, cold. many of them at their feet wrapped in rags because they had no shoes in the stories of men leaving bloody footprints in the snow from their bare feet are not mythical. that is the truth. we must never forget them. we must never not recognize what we owe to them and among the things that we must do is know about

reform of congress and other government institutions. respect for the people we serve and represent, and renewal of the american dream that each day seems to slip further from the grasp of too many of american's families. we make this explicit offer. give us majority control of the house of representatives for the first time in four decades, and we will bring to the house floor on the first day real congressional reform. in the first 100 days. we will bring to the vote ten bills that would have an immediate and real impact in the lives of ordinary americans. we will bring all these bills to the floor for an up and down vote. and with open and fair debate, where everyone's views are heard as we embark in a new direction for congress and a new partnership with the american people. we put these bills in a contract so people can hold us accountable and there's an enforcement laws we explicitly state if you give us control and we don't do what we say, throw us out. we mean it. we mean it. and we take it as an article of faith that the america

in general, according to the procedure, the president must provide the congress with relevant evidence that the state has really corrected itself, changed its behavior and ceased to be a sponsor of terrorism, and already congress will make the final decision, so this amendment will give the president of the united states of america more opportunities and more freedom. they simply offer to listen in the comments themselves the authors of the bill, please, we do not agree , there is nothing wrong with the fact that the congress does not agree with the president, and in this case we respect the president's point of view, by introducing an additional amendment to our bill, i want to emphasize that this is the best signal we can send now russia is buying weapons from the iranians wants to buy weapons from north korea it operates as a terrorist organization and we recognize it as such but we also give the president the ability to use this amendment if the time comes when he will consider it necessary. i think it is a good compromise. katya. what do the senators themselves say about the prosp

of course, congress could always, because auctions don't come on a regular schedule, congress could alwaysiate more funds to continue on that work. but certainly, it's a critical part of making sure that everyone is connected and sees the benefits of high speed, quality connectivity. >> we are going to have kids 20 years from now looking back at their childhood saying, they just left me behind! i wasn't connected, and it did harm them. with the revenues that are raised, we have to ensure we focused on ensuring that everyone gets access to it. that's with the emergency connectivity fund is, and i think that that fund should get a part of any revenues. finally, net neutrality, everyone wants competition. they want to make sure that there is a darwinian competition environment, and that what net neutrality is all about that as well. mr. lewis, i introduced legislation a couple of days ago with senator win, and we have a couple dozen of our colleagues who have signed on talk about how important net neutrality to ensuring that we have a marketplace that allows every voice to be heard, every com

it was on this day in 1832 that the law library congress was created as a depart of the library of congress by statute. since that time, the law library has grown to be the largest law library in, the world featuring an unparalleled collection of domestic, foreign, international and comparative legal materials. this collection so large that the sub basement stacks of the madison building, which contains most of law library's collection, is an incredible one and a half football in length. but of course, the impressive are only half the story. the law library's dedicated staff is what makes this collection accessible to patrons who come from a wide variety of backgrounds ranging from members of all three branches of our government legislative, executive and judicial, to members of the public. they make the collection accessible by providing reference services and issuing reports for congress on both u.s. and foreign international and comparative law, providing webinars on how to research the law maintaining and describe a vast collection of legal materials in a wide variety of languages, is a

to congress the lex exceptions are there's seven votes. i'd mentioned province previously were two-thirds are required. there's some quorum requirements. and it's interesting argument because people like james madison alexander hamilton, they were all for a majority role and if you think about the filibuster, it's a super majority thing where you need 60 in the old age. you need 67 to proceed on certain types of business. so this is kind of conflict between the concept of what's called majoritarianism where the majority should rule in most cases, but clearly the founders intended for congress to establish their own rules. what is your position as editor-in-chief at the national constitution center? i have a really cool job and i get to work with the constitution every day and i run a blog called constitution daily, which we've had in some form i think for about 10 years. i've been to editor of that blog for the past eight and a half years since i joined we have about 500,000 monthly readers and we talked a lot about history and some curren

congress has power over them.have an issue with the way an agency is being run, the best avenue for dealing with that is to contact the committee that has oversight. that committee can have a hearing or do whatever. that's the avenue for you to have any affect on an agency. host: jen briney, host of the podcast congressional dish, thank you for coming in. tomorrow is 9/11. we will be having live coverage of all the events around that. we will be starting with washington journal and taking your calls live on the year as commemorate that anniversary at 7:00 eastern time. we will have the director of more in common u.s., he will talk about attitudes toward the terrorist attacks and their mission to reduce polarization. we will take you live to the that all starts tomorrow morning at 7:00. that is it for today's "washington journal." thank you for joining me and we will see you again soon. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2022] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is resp

there are also calls to increase aid to kyiv in the american congress, which returned to work this week. what can legislators do to support ukraine at this stage and how do they react? on the decision of the white house not to recognize russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, we will talk about it with my colleague kateryna lisunova, who is joining the broadcast from the senate katya congratulations congratulations to you yulia the day before white houses of the department said that the biden administration does not consider the designation of russia as a state sponsor of terrorism to be the most effective way to hold russia accountable for its war in ukraine and that this decision is final. how did american lawmakers react to this? resolution and whether they, on their part, can put pressure on the administration to change the decision. as you rightly pointed out , at the end of july, congress actively advocated the recognition of russia as a state that sponsors terrorism , the authors of the resolution that directly called on the states to make such a definition are republicans in the

congress, white house, the courts. all at your fingertips. you can also stay current with the latest episodes of washington journal and find scheduling information. c-span now is available at the apple store and google play. download it for free today. we have scott long exceed congressional reporter. congratulations on the new gig. a week ahead in the look in congress and a month ahead the sprint to the expected break before the midterm elections in the top of legislative priorities is keeping the government open, keeping the government funded. where are we with government spending bill? guest: as you know, funding was out on september 30. we are weeks away from a potential government shutdown. this time around, things looked to be a little bit easier but again it is a difficult time for lawmakers. they're thinking ahead to the election, nobody wants a government shutdown right before the election but these things are never easy. there is a number of intelligence -- challenges that lie ahead. one of the top challenges his joe manchin was abl