we want a congress that works. it is more efficient not to include all the members but not as effective because more voices are not heard. host: today's discussion on the $1.9 trillion package. guest: no, that would not be in your mark. you can debate -- an earmark. you can debate one way or the other. it is certainly a bigger policy issue. there are plenty of things congress did not consider earmarks, that we did. for instance, adding new aircraft to the air force budget because they were being built in your district. that is clearly there. also, bipartisanship, it seems almost a kumbaya with earmarks. in reality, there are bigger systemic issues that have to be. concentrating on earmarks takes your eye off the ball. the committee on modernizing congress has 95 recommendations. earmarks were one. clearly there were other issues that need to be tackled and improved in congress and that can help build that bipartisanship. i am not so cynical to think only by having earmarks that that is the only reason you can get p

congress. he explains that prior to the mid 20th century, many served as territorial delegates and commissioners as opposed to learning representatives. >> i'm richard mcaleenan, my historian of the center for richest archives, thank you for attending today's researcher talk. this last day of july and this is the last top in this series until we resume in september. for those of you in attendance, our guest hardly needs an introduction and wasniewski is the historian of the u.s. house of representatives, and then a member of the advisory committee on the records of congress for which the center for legislative archives for courts twice annually. he's a longtime friend and supporter as well as a source of guidance to the senators through his service on the advisory committee. match here today to discuss a hispanic americans in congress in 1822 to 2012 which is published last year. this is a third in the series that has come out of the house office of the historian under his leadership, previousl

the constitution clearly gives congress the power of the purse so members of congress are the federal representative of their constituents in congress and their their job is to advocate for their own e, constituents. most earmarks were very good. they were very small portion of the budget and there are two previous examples that led to a combination of them and theeventual moratorium . >> the issue of earmarks coming up after a article by politico and they write about the democrats effort to bring back your marks read patrick leahy and the new chairs of the house and senate appropriations panel respectively announced, will announce in the coming tsweek democrats will reinstate earmarks, also known as member directed spending in the next fiscal year's bill. they write the democrats say they will be transparent and disclose the details of your, who requested it and which entity would get the money. numbers cannot request earmarks for entities to which they have financial ties. what were the issues that brought about the most moratorium on earmarks when republicans took power in 2011? >>

congress. >> so there's a long period. almost three decades after george henry white leaves congress where there's no african-americans who serve in either the house or the senate. and that has everything to do with the jim crow laws that go on the books in the south, and the way that that changes over time during those decades, there's a critical thing going on in the south where african-americans begin to leave the south and move northward as part of a multi-decade movement that would later be called the great migration. and that begins, oh, depending on which historian you talk to, 1890s, and runs really through world war ii. it picks up momentum around world war i. as there's a need in the north to fill industrial jobs and jobs that have been occupied by men who have now gone off to fight in the war. and you see tens of thousands of african-americans moving northward for the first time, out of the rural south, out of agriculture jobs to industrial jobs in chicago, st. louis, cleveland, pitt

actually in congress. even though as we hear from these former members we discussed political scientists, these are definite problems and these seem to be plausible solutions with executive director of the continuity of government and your work in reform more generally, are there ways in which academics and politicians can partner and are there successful strategies forgetting these reforms adopted ? >> .. i do want to say, really praised the modernization community and think about all the ways it could have gone and he think that relates to question about how outside recommendations or just recommendations generally might get traction and how they sometimes have problems. representative graves mentioned the history of the committee's reform in joint committees and others and it hasn't been that great. sometimes it's an idea generating focused but doesn't really get implemented. one thing i think the modernization committee began with is it focused on the house. there were lots of opportunities, lots of su

congress. he is a veteran of d.c. media organizations, observed congress from positions at msnbc and the broadcasting board of governors, new media strategies, a native of washington and grew up attending temple micah and he and is families or members membf the temp until northern virginia. when rabbis blessed congress, the great american story of jewish powers on cap -- jewish prayers and he is in conversation with carl cannon, the washington bureau chief of real clear exotics. carl as covered the presidential campaign and major convention since 1984. received the two most prestigious honor ford white house coverage, the jerald r ford prize and the beckman award for excellence in presidential news coverage. we're in really good hands for tonight so i want to welcome carl and howard. thank you, guys. >> a measure. >> thank you very much. thank you to all. thank you. >> howard, i'm going to start off with a question about your book that my inspiration for this bev is a guy we both know, brian lamb, who start book notes

as a face not just a black women in congress, but women in congress and younger women in congress. she's the first member of congress i think i have a baby while she is serving. and she shows up on the cover and she's holding her little baby. in something that probably the first time there had been such you know a lawmaker holding a brand-new baby. and shirley chisholm also, she becomes a national figure, in ways that are shown by these two buttons. we have here in the collection. they don't say anything about shirley chisholm running for congress, but it surely running for president. surely is our girl for president. shirley chisholm for president. to represent all americans. you can see the woman symbol around her face in the center of this, and it places her in the feminist agenda, and that was something that very much was important to her. the and during the 72 election, she was very much putting together she was put together with a group of interesting people. and if you look at film clips of her at the democratic convention, it's interesting to see her see her talk about dele

congress needs to do it. that's why even when he takes the step of the emancipation proclamation, he's still pushing the 13th amendment, to have congress, the lawmakers decide it. well, congress, after lincoln's death, continues to try to dictate reconstruction policy. they think that's their role is to decide how the nation is supposed to be reconstructed. they start passing various pieces of legislation. one of the first ones is the freedmen's bureau bill. you should say the extension of the freedmen's bureau. and the idea was to create an agency that was going to help african-americans to adjust to freedom, provide money for schools, provide people who can negotiate between former slaves and former slave owners for them to work together. and that's economically get jobs, to be able to help resettle them on millions of acres of land. and johnson vetoes it. this came as a shock. almost the definition of a moderate republican. he had specifically written the bill trying to keep it as conservative as possible

rainen wasn't actually the first african-american in congress. that distinction went to hiram revels of mississippi elected by the state legislature as senators were back in the 19th century and he came into congress in early 1870. but when you think about that revolution that occurs within a matter of less than a decade -- so rainey had been born into slavery. during the civil war he had been conscripted into the confederate army to dig trenches around charleston, where he was from. he escapes to bermuda. during the war. comes back after the war. gains a political experience and a political role locally, and within a decade he's holding the seat of a former confederate slave holder, and revels story is the same. he was born as a free man, never was a slave, but he, too, comes into the senate and occuies a seat that had been held by a slave holder less than a decade before. when you think about the great paradoxes in american history, that's one of them that they come to the capitol and represent african-american constituencies and their doing it

to congress. it's an amazing story the ultimate triumph over hitler is to have a jew in front of american democracy giving prayer there were a couple holocaust survivors the. in congress. >> tell us about the female why are there so few women. >> i love that can you pull up the video the first video and we'll talk about this this will be our first example rabbi given a prayer in congress this is a video who is close to the capital of the jewish museum stephanie if you can let that play. we need sound. do we have sound without howard. >> sorry about that. >> speaker of the house of representatives the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain rabbi from washington, d.c. >> thank you for the jewish which begins today and we have a commandment to build temporary structures to eat and sleep with them under the star coming guest, other guest, guest in need, you teach us these are one and the same, and it teaches us to come to terms with the temporary structures that are actual homes, our social stan

last december, congress enacted legislation to address this problem. the legislation includes a provision directing the commission to issue final rules within 180 days, defining purposes and functions to which the obligation or expenditure amount of awarded fees is accepted. the notice of rules making we seek today seeks congress's proposed rules to implement the directive. with me from the homeland security bureau is brenda boykin. i would also like to thank michael, john, jill and rachel for their work on this item, as well as the other bureaus and offices that contributed. now to miss boykin. >> thank you. good morning, madame chairwoman and commissioners. on december 27, 2020, the president signed the don't break up active 2020 as part of the consolidated appropriations act. section 902 of the new legislation requires the commission to issue final rules within 180 days, by june 25, 2021, defining what uses of 91 one fees constitutes 911 fee diversion -- 911 fees constitutes 911 fee diversion. it seeks comment on rules that are acceptable under the

not only because of lack of information, as a member of congress. all i wanted to do was do my job. and the insurrection that occurred prevented me from doing that. to be honest with you, if it were not for my wife and others communicating with me from the outside telling me what was going on, i didn't have the foggiest idea. i saw the moving of the furniture, blocking the doors. i heard the shots, where a citizen was killed, who was trying to break into the area. but there was no information forthcoming. and so, i thought, looking at the impeachment process and the fact that the senate had an opportunity to convict donald trump for inciting this effort on members of congress, and when they failed to do so, i am privileged to partner with the naacp to have my day in court, so that the perpetrators of putting members of congress at risk can be held accountable. and i look forward to having my day in court. >> you are muted. >> thank you. thank you, congressman thompson for your remarks. we'll now send it over to our general counsel for remarks from her. >> thank you. good afternoon.

, the lame-duck congress . . . . being in charge a new congress with a new result. what does it look like occasionally it isn't that common but this is a big one where they meet this way and ultimately it usually goes without much fanfare, but the vice president is in the chair and house and senate appointed a couple of tellers that are important committee chairs and democrats and republicans read out loud the results that come from the states so with alabama and use a here we have those that are certified for donald trump and they could hear objections, that's where it gets tricky but presumably we tend to go through the alphabet and the final count you add up all the votes and that's when you have the most official but at that point they counted it correctly and we have a president. there is the possibility of objection and it lays out some of the process for how that goes forward. the basic point is both a member of the house of representatives and a member of the senate would have to both agree to an objection fo

congress. but congress has a role in counting the votes and it is absolutely clear. it sounds easy but when you have to effect of you and each vote opposite you can just count the figure out what is the right one and they had great difficulty doing that. so the electoral count act that was written as a reaction of 1876 tried to lay out the ways we could avoid problems at this again by setting the safe harbor deadline to get results more quickly and other things as well. he has of elections. and looking at those problems also on the 2000 elections trying to cover both both the history and answer these questions. >> 1876 was something else trying to keep their chronological but they all bleed into each other so now going back to the meetings of the electors in december so starting with the basics how do they vote and what happens? >> and the most important point already most people think of the electoral college as one big plays for all the electors show up and together they vote. but the states

we can get to when congress count thursday votes later but congress has a role in counting votes and when they came to this it isn't absolutely clear what you do when -- sounds easy to just count but when you have two lists in front of you, one voting for one presidential candidate, one for the other, from a state, what do you do? you can't just count you have to figure out which is the right one and they had some grave difficulties doing that, and so the electoral count action written years late but in reaction to 1876, tried to lay out ways in which maybe we could avoid problems with this again. one of them. is by setting the safe harbor deadline to have states get their results in more quickly. other things as well. so, we have had some tough elections. the book does try to cover these tough elections, essay in there which looks at our 19th 19th century elections with problem. wrote one on the 2000 election, so the book tries to cover the history and answers to these questions. >> 1876 was something else to say the least. so i said i would try to keep this chronological. i'll take

last december congress enacted legislation to address this problem. legislation includes a provision directing the commission to issue final rules within 180 days defining the purposes and functions for which the obligation or expenditure of 911 fees is acceptable. the notice of proposed rule making we seek today seeks proposed rules to implement this directive. with me today from the public safety and homeland security bureau is brenda boykin, an attorney advisor in the policy and licensing division. i'd also like to thank -- for their work on this item as well as the other bureaus and offices that contributed. now to ms. boykin. >> thank you. good morning, madam chairwoman and commissioners. on december 27, 2020, the president signed the don't break up the tea pan act of 2020 as part of the consolidated appropriations act 2021. section 902 of the new legislation requires the commission to issue final rules within 180 days or by june 25, 2021, defining what uses of 911 fees constitutes 911 fee diversion. the draft notice of proposed rule making propo

, the wishes of congress what they wanted to do on prison payphones. it wasn't until the last two years of my time when it was introduced. i never understood the reluctance to go to congress, whether to try to bulldoze, it was really difficult. and also to denigrate different people's opinion. i understand the arguments and the concept for the people, but i would always get attacked for not voting for it as some kind of indication of my social views of prison, and it was nothing of the sort. i bring that provision up as something that you look back and see what got so much airtime, so much attention after the fact that no one would have imagined. there's so many different pieces. the things that did not get much attention, whether it be the belle operating equipment prohibitions, it didn't matter, very quickly we knew that they were not interested in those so it didn't really have any impact. so many other things that have been interpreted, it's comical. harold: right, another provision that never went anywhere that we spent a lot of time on something

and it's hard enough to be a member of congress. i just do not know what it is like to go on to the house floor, the senate floor knowing that that specter is there. >> right. and those items are under investigation, and there is a whole multi-state investigation going that's complex. all of this, of course, also in the backdrop of something that we haven't mentioned yet tonight, but that hangs over all of this which is the events of january 6th will be tried in the senate starting next week over whether to hold the ex-president accountable. that's how it all fits together. michael beschloss, thank you as always, sir. >> thank you, ari. >> we have our shortest break of the hour, 30 seconds. we'll be back with parkland shooting survivor david hogg, and our coverage continues. i'll see you in 30 seconds. so you don't just brush to clean, you brush to build. pronamel intensive enamel repair. obsession has many names. this is ours. the new lexus is. all in on the sports sedan. lease the 2021 is 300 for $359 a month for thirty nine month

you had a government shutdown, a very tough congress. the first hundred days, congress pushed a lot of legislation out the door. you had some vision of where the commerce want to go and leadership and where one it taken. after you move that aside you see where the effort was an you go on with support for this. very memorable, very enjoyable, in retrospect, i must admit. every day it would go in fits, it's going to move, it's going to die. a couple of different times, there was a comment from a congressman from ohio set it was deader than elvis. a couple of weeks later, elvis had rejoined life. it wasn't soon after that we got it out of the conference that concluded. so it was one of those things where at any point in time, the plug could have been pulled. it had been pulled many times before in 20 some years of effort. it kept plugging along and plugging along and you finally get to the endpoint with a very successful outcome. there's a lot of good things to embrace, and then some things that occur as part of legislating and what happens

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i've got to congress for over 25 years to talk to congress and senators about my profession. for the profession i have a license to do. i understood how valuable words are. they all mean something. when it came down in our congressman said he has decided to retire, and i do not hold anyone against anyone, but everyone that raised their hand and wanted to have this seat or former politicians. i thought, i have never been in the political arena, but i do know that i want to do what is right for this country. i want the america first agenda to go forward. i support the things that have made this country great. that is the moment i said, you know what? who better than me to trust to do something that no other woman has done in this district. that is when i decided to raise my hand and enter the race. >> did you get any pushback? >> a lot of people said, this is not something you can do. you have no experience. no political experience. maybe some of them did hold things against me. but you know what? i was successful not because i was a woman, i was successful, and am successful,

watch our conversations with new members of congress all week at 8:00 p.m. eastern. tonight we feature freshmen members who immigrated to the united states or were raised to parents who date, including carlos gimenez and nicole malliotakis. watch interviews with new members of congress tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span, online at c-span.org, or listen on the c-span app. >> the naacp announced a lawsuit filed against former president donald trump and his attorney, rudy giuliani, for inciting the attack on the u.s. capitol. speakers include bennie thompson and derek johnson. this is 15 minutes. >> today you will hear from the president and ceo, jeric johnson. -- derek johnson, congressman bennie thompson and representative of the second congressional district. the general counsel for the naacp and the partner and cool count -- cocounsel at -- as well. we will have opening remarks from each one of those participants and then at the end, at the conclusion, we will open the floor to any questions that you may have for our panelists. at this time i will turn it over to pre

and then congress answers it, congressional review act and now will congress come back and address this in some form or fashion to be determined but a rifle shot seems like a heavy lift because a lot of the rifle shots have been attempted on so many pieces over the last several years. on so many things people trying to get through which have been successful and i think into 30 park about 230 and i've made this comment before is that everyone seems that they agree that 230 is worthy of a review and potentially reform. there's some that would like to repeal it epbut most of the majority is for reform. but i come at itfrom different perspectives , most republicans or conservatives are worried, most any way are worried about how the platforms, how the big tech tree conservative voices and are nythey subjective and how the rhythms work and on the other side most democrats, not all that many democrats have worried about how the information , misinformation and how the platforms have been able to share in conspiracy and nutty ideas without any retribution or collection, not even correction and

that is a very complex set of facts but the one point is we get into congress and congress sometimes has to wrestle with what is in front of it. here they have a stay of electors and they have this other with a letter from the governor saying no, no, it's this group and ultimately nixon was sitting in the chair when this was going on and he said look i don't have a dispute with the fact that they didn't make a difference in the election and they said to congress as long as you don't mind we're just going to count that set of electors and it seemed like a pretty harmless because it didn't undo any election and not many people thought of it. they noted that day but they were not. they got to be named later. there was more counting going on. i think the big answer probably is we shouldn't be doing any of this. we shouldn't be counting them but one thing that should be done we should resolve them by then but we opened up this little door to that. in some cases it was the donald trump electors not those that were on the ballot but other people that supported donald trump and were voting o

no one will ever replace him in the united states congress, and i am going to congress to live up to his legacy and chart my own path. congressman lewis taught us each generation will take a step forward towards full equality. >> where it is your conviction come from? >> i was raised by my grandparents, and my grandfather was always involved in elections, never missed a vote. we would've pass out things to our neighbors to make sure they know who to vote for. i didn't realize it was political. i didn't realize the impact it would have on my life and encouraging me to be more civic lien involved. my great aunt went to the university of alabama. it didn't stand out to me until i was in ninth grade, and i remember coming home and being like, i read about it in my history book. that was a powerful moment. i come from very humble beginnings. i grew up in a home with no indoor plumbing and running water. i know what it is like to need extra support from our government to make sure i can move forward in this country so a little girl from my background , being able to move to one of the high

and, that election gets thrown to congress. to decide what happens is, the house and the senate are controlled by different political parties can come to an agreement. as to the house deciding. it so they create a special electoral commission composed of five senators, five representatives. and lots of supreme court justices. in the results, that come back, there were three southern states. that had disputed, returns so what's shows up is two different groups, one for tilden. one for hayes. the commission comes back, and finds favor of, hayes awarding him those votes. but, as part of the political negotiation, that struck to make him president. southern states managed to -- democrats managed to push republicans to and reconstruction, formally. that happens in 1877, once that happens. which you see, over, really a decade, decade and a half is a process where, african americans are, gradually excluded from a political process, in the south. it's a combination of state laws, that go on the books. and local laws that go on the book

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there were debates whether congress had a role in the pardon power, whether congress must approve of a pardon and those rules were voted down. the framers viewed this power to be residing in a single person. he famously issued pardons to those who are in the wister rebellion. washington pardoned the people in the whiskey rebellion to bring tranquility to the nation. it was controversial but it was important work. it leaves it to the president to decide how to pursue the common good. >> they must have foreseen, human nature being what it is, issuing a pardon for personal reasons, i can't believe they did not take that into consideration. >> there were debates in the philadelphia convention about the abuse of pardon power. george mason, who was invoked earlier was very much worried that the president would use his power to cover up his own crimes. james madison said the remedy in that case is impeachment that i think that's the right answer. the president could be convicted and removed from office and under prevailing whitten -- prevailing wisdom, he can be impeached after he leaves of

congress provided that when they accommodated $1.9 million. so we take steps for the provisions passed by congress to help expedite the removal of insecure equipment. i look forward to moving swiftly to an order. but our work certainly goes far beyond that supply chain proceeding and that is the threats posed by communist china do not end with any equipment supplier. there are multiple telecom providers operated today that are owned by the people's republic of china. and they are engaging in malicious cybertivity as well as the disruption and misrouting of u.s. communications. that's why i called on the fcc last april for a top to bottle review of every provider with ties to the government. and companies that are owned or controlled by the chinese government. doing so demonstrated a strength and resolve necessary to confront the modern day threats that can communist china poses to our networks. any backsliding or backsliding of our approach to china will be a monumental mistake leaving america less safe and networks less secure. now is not the

the congress. for each congress, chairman deutch has served on ethics, the committee hags worked -- has worked in a collegial and bipartisan manner. to be able to state for the 113th, 114th, 115th, 116th congress all votes taken in the investigative subcommittees were unanimous. this staff of reports represents all the hard work that the committee has completed in the last four congresses. all of the committee completed by its sitting members, the members that were asked to serve in the investigative subcommittees, and the committee's professional staff were accomplished in bipartisan cooperation. in fact, chairman deutch himself recognized in the committee report for the 116th congress that, quote, all of the committee's work is made possible by the committee's talented professional, nonpartisan staff. though members of the committee wish to acknowledge their hard work and dedication to the committee in the house. in addition, the committee wishes to thank its departing members for their service a

we begin this congress by picking up on a topic that we devoted two hearings to in the previous congress, the proper scope and use of the president's constitutional power to grant clemency. the clemency power is outlined in article 2, section 2 of the constitution and it rightly broad. clemency power's purpose is to act as a safety valve for our criminal justice system to correct system injustices and sure that mercy tempers excessively harsh punishment. there are few things that are more fiercely urgency than to grant clemency for the thousands who suffer from the burden of excessive and unrest imprisonment or the consequences and not coincidentally these are born by people of color. i've long been looked at the modern presidents beginning with the 1980's on so-called war on drugs which really goes back to the 1970's. 2013 to 2014 i wrote four letters to then president obama and then attorney general holder, urging the president, the attorney general, to become more involved to grant more clemency petitions, and i offered two opinion pieces on the subject calling for more clemency grant

later that year, he was elected to congress in a special election and was sworn into congress on december 12, 150 years ago. becoming the first black to serve in the house of representatives. he was the first of several african-american members of this body during reconstruction . from the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments enforced however imperfectly by the power of the federal government. but reconstruction was short lived. jim crow laws and white sprim cysts dismantled -- supremacists dismantled voting rights, violent insurrection. federal troops were withdrawn from the south. following widespread white supremacy violence during the 1876 election and the subsequent election of rutherford b. hayes as president. joseph rainey spoke out against the removal of federal protection of voting rights. but in 1878, he lost re-election to former confedderate -- confederate officer richardson in a district, that was like south carolina, majority black. severe gerrymandering reduced the number of black south carolinians in congress to one. in the 1890's, he lost his bid for re-election in 1897, south

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the first hundred days of the congress pushed a lot of legislation out the door, out of the congress committee, some of it necessarily wasn't bipartisan, or had some vision of where the congress wanted to go, the new leadership wanted to take it. but if you look at, once you put that aside, you see with effort was in committee, and the overwhelming support of this. absolutely, we survived a very contentious time. it was very memorable. very enjoyable in retrospect i must admit, a very, tough every day the bill will go like this. is it to move? is it going to die? it had been called that a couple of different times, i think the comments made by the former congressman in ohio, he said it was deader than elvis, a couple weeks later she had rejoined her life, it wasn't soon after that we got it out of the conference that concluded. it was one of those things where any point in the time, make the play could've been polled, it would have been pulled many times before, it was highlighted 20 some years of effort. but it didn't. and we kept plugging along in plugging long and you finally get

in this congress? ashley: i think so. the most recent development here on the hill was occurring yesterday on misinformation on traditional cable news networks. specifically, the democrats are concerned about fox news. they're concerned about one american news network, newsmax, the channels that popped up in the trump era. there is messaging says it's not just these platforms. it's on the tv they watch, and cable companies are just as responsible as tech companies for allowing this misinformation to spread. so, there's a lot of concern around democrats -- among democrats on that issue. the anything they try to do their is going to be pushed back by conservatives, whether they are doing it on tech platform or on tv. we saw brendan carr, the commissioner, push back against the hearing that happened in the house energy and commerce committee. i don't know if the fcc is going to pick up media ownership rules and try to make them more strict. so, conservative stations, conservative conglomerates like sinclair, can't buy up so

and since her time in congress. it has that material that went into the decision you made on committees this individual would serve. and so, was there a different and better way, absolutely. and in the ensuing days since it's been highlighted more and more of what this members conduct has been, there've been ample opportunities during the ensuing days to do the right thing. there's never a bad time to do the right thing. over the last several days, you could have done the right thing and stepped up, and i think the minority leader has to take on the responsibility for what i think is a tragic misguided decision. you could undo it today. you could undo it before the house acts. so, this is a simple one and frankly, this really is a question of right and wrong. i wasn't at the pentagon on 9/11. i was in new york city. i watched those buildings burn and come down, with thousands of americans, and ms. taylor green indicated she questions whether or not anyone actually saw the plane hit the pentagon. i wasn't there. i as

last, december congress and acted legislation to enact this problem. legislation includes directing the commission to -- defining the purposes and functions for which the obligation or expenditure of 9-1-1 fees is acceptable. the notice of propose that we are making today six comment on proposed rules to implement this directive. with me today from the public safety and homeland security bureau is brenda, an attorney adviser in the policy and licensing division. i would also like to think erica all, sin jill kogan, and rachel weir for their work on this item, as well as the other boroughs and offices that contributed. now to miss -- >> thank you chief folks. good morning madam chairwoman and commissioners. on december 27th, 2020, the president signed the don't bring up the tee band act of 2020 as part of the consolidated appropriations act, 2020, one section 902 of the new legislation requires the commission to issue final rules within 180 days, or by june 25th, 2021. defining what uses of 9-1-1 fees constitute 9-1-1 fee diversion. the draft noted of -

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but congress was always very, very frightened. to understand that, we have to understand a bit more as well. this man, in fact, this andrew johnson, who treated the constitution as if it was his only friend, as if it was a golden retriever to follow him wherever he went was a man, in fact, who believed in what he was doing. but his policy republicans would have said means the death of many innocent people. and they saw johnson, in fact, as taking powers that no president had ever taken before in peacetime, to dominate, to dictate to create state governments in the south. and so here is andrew johnson as a cesar looking down as a 1 massacre in the arena. who is being massacred out there? it's the black people of the south by the forces of law and order in new orleans and in memphis, by the mobs of ex-confederates who butchered them. it meant nothing but lawlessness personified and justified. providing a vote for black people in the south, black men, was a daring and bold thing. it was not accepted by most of the white south and it

sensor timing congress. that went into the decision you made on which committee this individual would serve on. was there a different and better way? absolutely. in the ensuing days since it has been highlighted more more of what this members conduct has been, there have been ample opportunities to make good on this. do the right thing. i can't even repeat it. there is never a bad time to do the right thing. you could do it today. this is a simple one. this is really a question of right and wrong. i was in new york city for 9/11. she has indicated that she questions if anybody saw the plane hit the pentagon. i will assume that the thousands of witnesses and people in the building speak for it. it would be one thing if having set her down some of these things in the past, the member demonstrated some remorse. i understand from press reports there have been numerous attempts by colleagues to have her come out and say publicly, i apologize. whatever it is you want to say. she has boasted of raising $1.6 million

plan to address congress this month? >> we do not know where the february 23 date came from. it was never planned to be in february, and we do not have a date for a session at this point. we remain in touch with leaders in congress about a timeline and a format. it will not look like what it looked like in the past. we are not behind any timeline. that date was never accurate. >> there is a federal judge in texas who could decide the fate of the daca program for dreamers. what is the administration prepared to do to shield the population from deportation? >> the daca program is important to the president. it is a program he has been long committed to. i am not going to get ahead of a ruling in texas, but we will watch closely. if there is more to say, we will share it. >> he said this would help unify the party. i do not think many republicans will be up for many of the things coming out of the administration. the single thing that we want to achieve is we want obama to be a one term president -- does mcconnell see any i

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