you run against congress to win a seat in congress. you run against the administrative state to control the administrative state. it is a perverse incentive. to be able to point and say this is who to blame even if it is never that simple, that is a way to garner support for yourself and your position. blame lobbyists, blame campaign-finance, all of these things can be used to accumulate political power and ultimately mold the government and policy in your image. it is a tough doom loop we need to escape from. host: is this your first book? guest: this is my first book people will read. i've written a book about congress for an academic setting. this is purposely for people, it is supposed to be accessible, it is supposed to use stories and people you have heard of to put them within the myths themselves to see where they are taking advantage of the american voter ignorance. i am hopeful this is seen as an entry point into understanding government where i know it is incredibly easy to step back from because there is so much information

look at congress over the last decade. congress cannot and get a budget done on time. ever.ver balance the budget, ever. congress cannot get the debt under control, ever. or paying our children dollars soon to be 1.2 trillion dollars to finance the debt. now again, the framers of the constitution would never have imagined such irresponsibility. using the framers of your constitution would say it's a job of the president just to ignore it all and rubberstamping and rubberstamping? so why do the democrats, the lector immediate academia white and the phony constitutional law professor saying basically donald trump from the executive has no role. despite the fact it's in the executive branch. they are cultural marxist economic socialist for this is what they want, this is what they have created. you see america if you begin going down into the process that what looking at what's taking place, you're destroying the whole idea of an omnibus spending bill. we the people o knowing of the spending is on. congress on the front and the omnibus on the spending and, and he says i want to

only congress. congress lays taxes. congress determines borrowing amounts.determined spending amount. so i have some questions for you is that an unlimited power is that a power that is unchecked? can congress do whatever it wants? whatever it once when it comes to spending, borrowing, taxing? of course they have to vote on it the present have to sign a course the present has veto power. of course you have elections and people come and go. that is not my question. as a constitutional matter can congress do whatever it once with twantswith the power of th? let me give you an example. if congress passes a massive bill they pass an omnibus bill all the time were the members don't know what's in it. which raises a serious question in the first place. is that legitimate? our representatives spending money and they don't even know they're spending money on? and then they delegate the power to these massive actually dollars spending bill to a bureaucracy? that is not even in the constitution. does not represent us, we do not know who these people are. they put the

congress balked on. that is the type of thing we need it negotiate around those particular things that a private sector entity would do. but there's not an appetite for the type of changes that with occur. i will ask my expert. >> would you concur and it will be my final point and please answer. how would you assess the usps performance regarding their mandate by law it break even for decades they have failed. >> they have an understandable business model which is why there needs to be a definition of what level service going forward as he was saying and how is it going to support it because right now they are not financially where they are supposed to be. >> first class mail is not coming back. that is their most profitable area. it is not coming back due to e mail and ear electronic changes. -- and ear electronic changes. amount they have not been able to cut costs fast enough. so absent some additional crow miss between congress on delivery and perhaps some contributions to them or different model for

so if you have congress enacting a criminal law, that would be a federal case because congress is enacting that law and it applies throughout the country. a good example of that would be terrorist cases. we have statutes governing sentencing for terrorist related crimes. those are intrastate crimes, they cover the country so they are federal crimes. state crimes, for example, are those that are confined to what has happened within the state. the public is often confused about it because you get a murder case, and sometimes you will see a murder case being prosecuted in federal court, sometimes a murder case is being pred in state court. u have luigi mangione me who is being prosecuted now in the state courts of the state of new york, not the federal court, because he is being treated as having committed a state crime in new york state, albeit a murder, it was done in new york state, there is no federal hope to it, so to speak. contrariwise, you have murder cases involving mafioso, there is a federal help because they are considered to be of a national character and therefore there is feder

the courts congress tolerates. i think in large part because there was a sense that somebody needed to do something and nobody had been do enoug and so people sort of let this one ride. well, we should note that the republicst over hundred seats in theelecon in congress in 1933, when the special session started. democrats had 313 seats. the republicans only 117 that's in the house in the senate. 60 democrats seats and 36 republicans. how quickly did congress act on fdr proposed legislation or did they come up with their own congressman? quickly. and a lot of the legislation was goine driven by the administration as opposed to by congress, especially in these very early days. so the banking bill, for instance, is coming out of the roosevelt administration. in fact, it is introduced. it is not read. it is passed and it is signed into law 7 hours after it's introduced. this is unusual. that's not going be how most legislation is passed during the new deal period. but that that we're just going to we're going to back w

at the time congress was much easier to deal with? the fact is this coalition and bipartisan coalition of southern democrats and republicans stopped everything it felt like from getting through. so there's concern in the early media how effective he can be. there's concern about who he is. some liberals and civil rights leaders are still nervous that he's not really going to support civil rights, that in fact, he is one of the southern conservatives. just looking different but will act just the way they did but but early on i think he shows that's not who he is he shows his commitment to thinking big and to big legislation. and a lot of the media coverage very positive. his approval ratings will get very high. and, you know, going into the 64 election, he's seen as a very strong president. the legislation is happening. i mean, the tax cut, the civil rights act, the civil rights act is is historic. so it's not just that he gets a bill. he gets the bill that we haven't really had since reconstruction. and so there's a lot of positive pu

this is where congress can help. congress can support the president carrying out his doge effort by making all executive branch employees at will codifying the president's authority to fire unproductive or insubordinate agency employees as needed and granted the president authority to permanently eliminate vacant positions and consolidate nonessential positions across agencies and departments to help promote efficiency and put the right people in the right seats. the third thing, congress can make president trump's doge cost-cutting and regulatory reforms permanent by passing the rains act. one problem with the doge effort is most of its work can be undone by a future president with the stroke of the pen. to make president trumps reforms permanent congress must act and return article one budgetary power of the purse to congress while promoting the regulation. it would help lock in doge are forms and submit president trumps legacy as the most consequential d regulatory and cost-cutting president in u.s. history. the a

congress should heed this warning. the framers of the 14th amendment did not intend for universal citizenship to children born to all classes of foreigners. nor did the judges rule on the question of citizenship the on the children lawful permanent residence including those born to illegal aliens and temporary visitors. there is one more point that i'd like to make in closing. congress is where the debate over birthright citizenship should be happening. my friend from texas with legislation fixing this policy gap and restoring the practice of granting u.s. citizenship as it was intended in the 14th amendment. section eight of article one section five grants us power over questions of citizenship. president trumps executive order rightly returns that power to us in doing so returning us to the reasonable interpretation of the 14th amendment of what it was ratified in 1868. i now recognize the ranking member for her opening statement >> mr. chairman, since this is our first hearing of the new congress, i would like to sa

it's been seven years since the congress passed a farm bill. if the farm bill had been aligned to today's cost, would the adhock assistance have been necessary for you? ms. schwertner: no, it's not necessary with adequate farm safety net, that prevents us from needing the adhock assistance. mr. nunn: i appreciate that. everybody's farm district back home, thank you very much for being here. at the end of the year we were able to get financial emergency assistance out to those farmers, including in my home in greenfield, iowa that, got devastated by a tornado, to help get back on their feet. but that is not the solution. we have to have a long-term strategy here to address america's food security, that starts right here in the united states. to all the members on this, i really appreciate your leadership in bringing it forward. thank you, mr. chairman. i yield back. mr. thompson: i thank the gentleman. before we adjourn today, i don't know what anyone else here that has not asked five questions, i invite the ranking member to share any closing c

last congress i introduced the u.s. republic of korea digital trade enforcement act that protects american digital companies if korea passes a law that harms digital businesses. it is my understanding the republic of korea is still pursuing this legislation albeit under the guise of an expert's -- ex post framework that covertly targets u.s. companies. do you believe both the online platform monopoly relation act and korean fair trade commissioners approach amount to discrimination against u.s. companies and do you believe the trump administration's hood seek trade and other enforcement remedies to ensure this kind of korean discrimination against u.s. companies no longer occurs? >> thank you, the short answer is yes. if you look at the service definitions or the thresholds that the career fair trade commissions proposal institutes, both are fairly aimed at targeting u.s. firms even though some companies may be swept in, the key question is does it put the u.s. firms at a competitive place? chinese companies are rapidly

you suggested hypocrisy about serving in congress and taking this position. harry truman exercised impoundment power to cancel a squadron of farmers that he had vetoed. these things that happened across history by presidents. sen. slotkin: i would just say i feel very strongly that it is not about red america or blue america or any of those things. i am from a purple state. people watch this chaotic cutting. this just be fair, you fire people and then higher than the next week, that is indiscriminate. that is acknowledging you've made a mistake. that is not some review that a normal private sector company would do. i don't know a damn private sector company that would fire someone friday and hire them back on monday. but let's just be honest that this approach is scaring the crap out of people on the benefits they've worked their entire life for nno and out of time, i yield back. >> probably we should try to put aside some of the fear mongering. my knowledge, no one in the trump administration has advocated for taking social security money. so that is a hypot

that's up to congress do so this is the regulator should not overstep the authority that congress hasgiven them that should be first principle that should the first principle as it is in article one. section one. washington himself mentioned in his farewell address, he was called for caution and those entrusted with its meaning the federal government administration to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach another. so that's something the loper brite decision really did. and we should also have in congress to enforce it in addition to the congressional review act, which they are going be using to overturn lot of the law, in my opinion, ill thought. but we argue that that's something like the reins act or going even further that congress must be able to affirmative we approve all regulations that that that bureaucrats push through to be it gets it so there is no regulation with or with representation and the elect elected representatives have say over the laws and policies governing us not an

force congress., which would. >> otherwise. >> okay for now. >> the laughter. wisconsin's republican congressman glenn grothman faced backlash from his own constituents for his support of elon musk in a town hall last week. that righteous anger was directed at republican town halls across the country, and those republicans have had enough, but not of elon musk. they've had enough of the voters. nbc news reports a gop aide said house republican leaders are urging lawmakers to stop engaging in them altogether. obviously, we're very aware of those headlines, a republican national committee official familiar with the dynamic said. i don't know that a specific edict is going to come down from on high that they need to stop or anything, but a message, i believe has been clearly sent that this narrative should end very soon. don't be so sure about that. democrats are out hearing from voters and raising hell about the musk cuts in their states and communities. joining us now, democratic congresswoman madelei

the congress neutered itself.mean, it took it took the it took the clippers and did the deed itself. so what what say you, sir? >> okay. >> so let's go to this. >> point because that's an excellent one in the constitution. >> the article one, the first article is the power of congress. >> so the founders. >> envisioned congress as being the most important branch of government. you think about. >> donald trump's power. >> it rests. >> on what. >> four republican senators not willing to call bs on this. his margin in the house is just a. >> handful. >> literally a half dozen republicans could essentially say, no, we are the congress of the united states. you know, we don't have to bend the knee to this narcissistic bully in the white house. >> so it this is a surrender. >> by congress. you know, i've been thinking about this all morning. >> what what democrats. should do, i you know. >> the only thing i can say is. >> that recognize. >> how completely abnormal this moment is. and i think that part of what donald tru

if you were still in congress, would you go?>> they should go. >> and, you know, democrats should should not go as the grand defenders of the status quo or of bureaucracy or anything else that's esoteric. they should go talking about the bread and butter issues, standing up for the issues that donald trump quite frankly, talked about, many of them during his presidential campaign, but then proceeded to absolutely ignore them since he was sworn in. so long as they're that party, they will attend the state of the union, and they're going to win the midterms in a landslide. >> so the piece of paper is just handed. secretary of defense pete hegseth has ordered u.s. cyber command to stand down on offensive cyber operations and information operations against russia, according to a u.s. official familiar with the matter. hegseth gave the order to general tim hobb, the head of cybercom, in late february. the official said it's not clear how long this order will last. hayes i mean, we saw in the oval office the realignment of the western

both houses of congress and the white house.so any attempt by the president and no doubt he would make one, along with other republicans, to blame a shutdown on democrats. it's just that would be a hard sell. your question is, what is he going to do? i mean, i think given that criteria, it would make some logical sense that he will support a clean cr. but logic does not always apply. >> yeah. because the question is like, is he going to get behind a bill that funds usaid and all these agencies he wants to dismantle? and if you're the democrats, your base wants you to fight, but you also risk blowback if you are seen as responsible for shutting down the government. >> yeah, absolutely. the the doge cuts are going to be critical as as you reported. um, this is something that democrats have been protesting. uh, and so any codification of doge cuts in this short term or this government funding bill there, it's going to be very difficult for them to support. now, republicans say, look, democrats are protesting cuts to the government

that congress will legislate a lot of these areas.he administration has made clear they will move as fast and as hard as they can on his many friends as they can. elon musk and the courts may push back. they may slow down the administration but i think at the end of the day it will be largely speed bumps and the courts are not going to prevent the trump administration from trying to dramatically reduce the size of the federal workforce. >> shannon: a mix of wins and losses. >> grey areas. most of what doge is doing has authority in the sense that there is an obama era, u.s. digital service that trump renamed the u.s. doge service. all the musketeers are special government employees pursuant to statute and floating out there on some whim and they are looking at waste, fraud, and abuse. they can shut down the entire department of education, that would take legislation but they can certainly cancel certain contracts, reevaluate certain things and there shouldn't even be standings to challenge because the president has until the fiscal ye

. >> in his speeches to congress. from which he received standing ovations from democrats. >> and republicans alike. >> for goodness sake, he thanked. >> donald trump today. >> on social media. thank you america. thank you for your support. thank you for this visit. thank you. at potus, congress and the american people, ukraine needs a just and lasting peace and we. >> are. >> working exactly. >> for that. it's because donald trump. is and. >> always has been. >> enthralled with vladimir putin. >> since his first term, when he shocked the world by siding with vladimir. >> putin over the. >> american intelligence. >> community. >> which found that. >> russia interfered. >> in the 2016 election. >> to help donald trump. >> they think it's russia. i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. i will say this. i don't see any reason why it would be. >> all the way to today, when donald. trump expressed more. sympathy for putin. >> than he ever has, maybe for. >> anyone publicly. >> let me tell you, putin went thro

so, you know, look, this is a narrowly divided congress. democrats are trying to figure out their way forward here. nancy pelosi, as you saw on the screen there, the last time trump addressed congress, she was the speaker of the house. she tore up that speech very infamously in that moment. and she said to the washington post, to her friend paul kane of the washington post, she told him any demonstration of disagreement, whether it's visual or whatever, just let him stew in his own juice. don't be any grist for the mill to say this was inappropriate. that is her advice to democrats. >> yeah, we'll see if any people they're all able to contain themselves. it's going to take some self-discipline on the part of democrats. um, yeah, i it's going to be this is always a speech of, um, you know, self i guess, um, patting on the back for the president. uh, it's usually quite divided. everyone always watches the moments of bipartisanship. where are the democrats going to stand up? you can expect boycott. >> maybe some members will boycott. >> yeah.

already approved in the previous congress. is there any worries that congress proposes, doge discloses, you guys worry that anything you approve in a reconciliation package will be only the first draft? >> that's a catchy phrase but it's only just a phrase so we got to do away with it before we get on with it, you see what i did there? they're going to examine every concept piece by piece so we can say well, you all can't do that for you shouldn't have done that or you shouldn't have done this. we will see what they do with reconciliation. that remains to be seen. we are going to be having some quotes pretty on quick . >> but if doge sayscongress approved x number of money for developing data centers , we want to be the ones to put out those contracts,we want to make sure the counterparty is safe. >> i don't think they're going to have that kind of authority. going to be peddling congress bto move forward with this reconciliation . >> when it comes to data centers there's going to be a big deal for texas, electricity demand, h

congress invite you to interview. we're going to talk today with a new yorker again, as we have some times in the past. he was formerly rochester and was the treasurer and the director of the eastman kodak company before coming to washington on a rather permanent basis. he had been here often collaborating with the government in various projects, was frequently called here for consultation and work with congressional committees and in the administration, administration and previous administrations. but in 1953 was named undersecretary of treasury and last became a member of president eisenhower's cabinet as secretary of health, education and welfare. it's a great pleasure and honor to present to you the honorable marion bee for some righteous dear one of our good new yorkers, a good friend of all of us and a distinguished public servant in washington. marion, it's fine to have you here on this program. well, again, i'm very glad to be here with you. i want to talk with you some about the work of your department and th

>> i defer to congress. congress appropriated the money.ink it's a good use of taxpayer money? >> i believe it's a good use of taxpayer money. crack is very telling thank you yelled back. >> thank you. in closing i want to thank our witnesses once again for their testimony today and chairman, it was going to be here but got tied up by now yield to the ranking member for closing remarks. correct thank you madam when elon musk and donald trumps and foreign aid elon musk and donald trump are doing to our foreign affairs and foreign aid. in fact if my friends across the aisle would like to understand the real world impact tens of thousands of americans have been laid off. the people who are suffering around the world go home and talk your own constituents. we know they are coming to your town halls and we know behind closed doors were calling the president, you're calling secretaries and telling them your constituents are upset and that you do not support what they are doing. i do not appreciate you all sitting here pretending like he so, let's

cooksey doesn't like noun congress and in congress as an appetite to look at a lot of these issues an opportunity to address them. national security reasons but also for nasa and other agencies in the department during cutting edge work that may be have a little more difference than if you're buying a pencils. >> those are the things it's logical to have that. i think they would be intense. when you think about these things we think about the people people's her job to enforce these things and again these people are being told what to do they do their jobs well they are really trying to protect the taxpayer. the root of a lot of the reporting is transparency and people with their government to be transparent okay one 100% if i could tie everything i'm doing, in fact i get balled up because of compliance stuff it prevents transparency in some cases there's a lot of different ways if we as commercial software and other insight tools you can see everything we are working on i'm happy to show because we love or during rebuilding crazy things i want to be able to assure that every day. i w

how important is it for congress to move into the 21st century and recognize that members of congressg birth and becoming new parents? >> yeah. so i introduced a bipartisan resolution and proud that, you know, people from both sides of the aisle know how important this is. but i you know, it's not just moms, it's also dads. we have, you know, dads that are co-leading this resolution wide support. and unfortunately, speaker johnson refused to bring it to the floor. so i you know, we have the opportunity to force a vote if we bring a discharge petition after 30 days, which is something that we're evaluating, but we need congress to be more accessible to regular people and reflect the americans that we're representing. and we do that by addressing those systemic barriers and something that is a huge barrier is when you give birth, making sure that you actually are able to your constituents still have a voice and that you're not stopped from voting. i wasn't actually able to fly from colorado to dc to vote a few weeks before giving birth. because of the medical restrictions. and, you know

that congress is going to legislate a lot of these areas.istration is made clear they are going to move as fast as they can calm as hard as they can on his many fronts as they can. the courts may push back. they may put in guard rails slow down the administration by think at the end of that it's going to be largely speed bumps the courts are not going to prevent the trump administration from trying to dramatically reduce the size of the federal workforce. shannon: is that mix of wins and loses it. >> there may be some great areas apart most of what doge is doing has authority in the sense there's actually an obama era u.s. digital service that trump remained the u.s. doge service for elon musk in the musketeers are special government employees pursuant to statute they are not just floating out there on some women. they are look at waste, fraud, abuse they cannot shut down the entire department of education out take legislation but they can certainly cancel certain contracts, reevaluate certain things they should not be standing to challenge

in congress. but now i think europe understands that they are going to have to it's going to be their finest moment. i think they're going to come together. you know, donald trump wants to be isolationist. >> he's fighting. >> with canada. he's fighting. >> with mexico. >> he doesn't like that. he said, who are the dumb people who made. that deal with canada and mexico? he signed. >> it. >> you know, i mean, he. >> is you. >> know, he doesn't know what he's done. you know, he's asking, you know, and j.d. vance is sitting there thinking, you haven't thanked us. he didn't support the, you know, the you know, the deal for ukraine. >> he didn't vote for that. >> and marco rubio, who was slinking. >> into that. >> couch. >> he couldn't have been more uncomfortable. >> he didn't. >> vote for the last package either. >> so the people who were sitting there, you know, president zelensky was being very polite to and thanking them. but he stood up for his country. he stood up for democracy. and all those eu

and so i think congress is role. i like to look at incentives rather than throwing money at a problem because incentives drive different behaviors than, you know, a big bucket of money for companies to dip and do i mean, in order to do this, we had a federal budget for which we don't have the c.r. every year. we have a c.r. what's the way out of this? i mean, are you going to beat me up for a seahawks? yeah, i know. it's it's frustrating as hell. i'm pounding the table. you know, i look, i get beat up politically. i vote against them because they're so bad for the military. but then there's always something in there that, you know, i'll get i'll get beat up by the other side. i can't believe he voted against that or to shut down the government or what have you. i think until we toe the line on the cars and force everybody to do their job, it's it's it's been a huge frustration to mine. and whenever i get asked in groups, what are some of your bigger frustrations in congress? that's one of them. yeah, right. but i thi

donald trump will make a joint address to congress this week. but new poll numbers show americans are concerned about his priorities. and hollywood's biggest night will bring you the winners of the oscars and the touching tributes to l.a. firefighters. >> live from atlanta, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. >> good to have you with us. well, first, this hour, a major show of support in europe for ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy as leaders move to take control of negotiations aimed at ending the war in ukraine. at a key summit in london, british prime minister keir starmer said european leaders were working to craft a plan to stop the fighting, which would then be presented to the u.s. starmer says europe must do the heavy lifting, but that u.s. backing is needed. and french president emmanuel macron told newspaper le figaro that france and the uk have proposed a month long limited ceasefire in ukraine. all this coming just days after zelenskyy's explosive meeting with u.s. president donald trump at the white house. the ukrainian

what i mean by it he is looking at congress but that should be the first clue.er democrats are controlled for 12 of the last 16 years per the holes they have put it in whether it's the war, the border, the economy, you name it he is going to call out those idiots. i think those are going to be some of the more viral moment. >> nice, doge is gotten a lot of heat and so i think he'll talk about that. what he needs to do is put some themeat on the bones of exactlyw doge is taking on things that american voters care about. and how the bureaucracy is in or explain yourself era and it is it a day per i will look for some interesting wildcard gas from i think he has the ability to bring in interesting characters. correspond to shoot back baby stronger than ever. always seen as american persons president trump took office. we saw a muscular white house looking at these executive actions he has taken. the way i see that is a wrangling and back our government from the bureaucratic state delivering it to the american people and so that is what i think. >> that promise abou

-- flows by congress. speaker johnson says he is open to not incorporating the cuts doge has made into this funding bill ad aing that -- adding that is an issue they can address later on. here is johnson on "sunday morning futures." >> we're going to pass a clean c.r. and, maria, the exciting thing is fy-26, the budgeting, where we will actually be able to change the way this is done and incorporate all the extraordinary savings that doge is uncovering through fraud, waste and abuse. >> reporter: some republicans will likely be frustrated at the thought of passing a clean c.r. saying they don't want to fund programs doge has a already slashed. we'll see how democrats respond to johnson, but some of them say the onus is on republicans to pass a bill considering they have a government truck backed up. >> last i heard, the republicans control the white house, the house and the senate, and i hope they present if us with a budget that works for working people, not just for the billionaires. >> reporter: in wash

. >> president trump will deliver a joint address to congress. it's not technically a state. >> of the. >> union, and it comes at a moment of considerable disunion. after six weeks of controversial and confrontational moves from this new white house. america's allies in europe are now considering ways to go it alone in their defense of ukraine. after a meeting between trump and zelensky dissolved into a shouting match on friday. and federal workers who make up. >> the. >> backbone of our government are gearing up for another week of chaos as the world's richest man, elon musk, is allowed to tinker and toy with their jobs without any accountability or oversight. americans will be tuning in on tuesday, seeking an explanation for how trump's radical actions will deliver on his promises to reduce inflation, create jobs and make the world a safer place. the question is whether he will offer up some answers or just a lot of hot air. joining me now is democratic texas congressman sylvester turner. he is the former mayor of houston, texas. thank you for

these other courts are not they are a creation of congress.g difference that yes we defend the independence of all the courts. that'pray that'spart of the pro. isn't also part of the problem with certain republicans who just rubberstamp these nominees every time they come up. i think lindsey graham is 1 of the senators who has said the president has a right to his choice. no, no, no. we have a right, the people to somebody is going to be a judge and not an activist. biden and obama have put these radicals throughout the federal judiciary. >> we have to be clear either way the judiciary works et cetera break with the way it supposed to work. quite frankly it should not have the kind of power that it does over policy choices that are made, it should be made by the congress that pit should be made by the present and the executive branch. that is what people expect. when those judges get in the way of these policies i think we have to have a conversation about reform because so many activists have taken over these rules they've really driven polic

that's something we are looking forward to this congress. to answer your question directly, the president has his prerogative for his policy priorities that he wants for his administration. no doubt about that. but we come back to if moneys have been obligated, it's very clear the law says they must flow to the recipients of those grant awards. at the point the grant is awarded to a recipient, the money has to flow. that's something we are monitoring closely. mr. hernandez: i want to switch gears quickly to emergency preparedness. on saturday evening a 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit the caribbean and there was a tsunami advisory for puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands. i think this tsunami advisory underscores how vulnerable regions like puerto rico and the u.s.v.i. and the caribbean how we depend on strong modern ports for emergency response and recovery should a disaster strike. what could be the specific economic and public safety impact of the federal funding freeze on infrastructure projects, particularly in regions vulnerable to natu

and so it's your first visit to the library of congress. if it's your multiple time visitor to library of congress. welcome back. my name is sheri shu, and i am a historian here at the library. as america's oldest cultural institution in the world's largest library, the library is more than just books. we certainly have plenty of those here. we think about the preservation knowledge in the broadest sense. we're the custodians of roughly 164 million individual items in over hundred 70 languages. the oldest in our collections is clear from tablet from 2040 b.c. here you see a perfect and complete gutenberg bible, or the world's largest collection of comic books. since 1931, library has also provided books in braille and on recorded sound to visually impaired readers. many of your favorite movies are here for posterity through the national film registry, including films such as iron man. when met sally, die hard, wall-e, shrek and even the wrath of khan. we have entire reading rooms to newspapers, photographs and graphic prints, music and perf

joining me here today in this spectacular building, the library of congress. i first came here to the library when i was a kid. my dad took me on a trip. it was like a big trip that we took together. when i was a kid was to washington dc and my dad had a list of stuff we were going to see. we saw all this stuff. but the one thing that i put on the list is a dad, i want to visit the library of congress and. my dad said yeah all right that's good my dad by the way that's a really good impression of my dad. you don't know him. but now that he's here, that same way, raise your hand give us. you want to say. yeah, all right, yeah. all right. that's pretty good. that's pretty good. i i, i remember i still remember, like, the view that you all saw today craning my head up at the ceiling. it is etched in my brain i remember what it felt like. stand there and look at this building that celebrates literature and knowledge and information. and now i'm back all the way from my home in california. i know, i know. i might be inaugurated as your ninth national ambassador for