but the problem is not congress per se. the problem is republican control of congress.ratic control, congress was actually historically productive. we pressed up bipartisan infrastructure bill. a gun safety bill. a bipartisan veterinarian health care bill -- reducing gas emissions by 40% by 2030. so we went from the most productive congress under democratic-controlled to that least productive congress under republican control. house republicans in 2023 only passed 22 bills compared to 280 full bills that became law under house democrats. how's democratics were 13 times more productive in 2022 then republicans we're in 2023. so as long as republicans are in charge, i'm pessimistic. >> i have to ask you, obviously you're making the case and establishment that nuance here. i have to wonder, for the average american voter looking at it, they're putting congress under a pretty light umbrella. and i wonder to what extent people view it as republicans and democrats or just congress being unable to do that give and take of compromise that main things will get done. how do you s

congress and services for constituents. hosted by the congressional management foundation, this is just over one hour. brad: hello and welcome everyone to the sixth annual democracy awards. my name is brad fitch, i am so happy to welcome you here on such a beautiful morning. it is so exciting to be here for another one of our awards ceremonies to recognize the best in congress. i am grateful for the founder of the democracy awards, the bridge alliance. they are a diverse coalition of organizations committed to revitalizing democratic practice in america. it is kind of like a trade association for democracy reform. you will hear more about it when debbie lynn comes to the stage. the vision for the democracy awards are simple and based on the congressional management foundation's 47 year history of working with u.s. congress. this award actually goes to the office and the members. because we recognize that the members have to be great leaders and need great teams to support them in their mission. the second reason we wanted t

today in moscow at vdnkh the twenty- first congress of united russia is taking place, its main topic being support for vladimir putin in the upcoming elections. all regional party branches and more than 3.5 million united russia members. our correspondent anastasia efimova is now in direct contact with vdnkh. so, anastasia, welcome again. so how's the convention going? yes, georgy, well, the most important thing, the central event, is today’s meeting. assistance to new territories, moreover, we daily monitor the needs experienced by residents of new territories that our fighters have on the front line, we travel to new regions, communicate with residents, and today this cargo is formed precisely with the orientation to the needs that residents of new territories have today. i ask you to start the movement of humanitarian cargo from all regions of russia to the new territory. fine. please begin shipping the cargo. let me remind you that the current congress is the first after the start of the special military operation, the previous one was held in december 2021, so surely among the p

i was not in congress then. that seared me.maybe a little over a decade later, having seen the face of tyranny upfront, i wanted to do more. we continue on. let's remember why we are here and why our instruments of governance are so critical. when i take a foreign elected official who wants to help their country be a better place, and i will end with this little story, i take them back to my district. there is an awakening, an enlightenment that you will see happen, because many run on the party ticket if they are trying to run in a country that has not had any open governance. and they really can't accommodate how we actually have districts, and there are people there that we listen to. it is a foreign thought. they can't imagine that this raw clay of america could produce the greatest country in the world. they don't know what to do with it. they don't know how to build around it. they are perplexed. you can see it in their faces. they go back and then they face real resistance. some lose their lives. i have had the privilege

permitting congress to levy direct taxes would be a step too far and allow congress to destroy the state and reach family propertacss the country. so the way the framers addressed that was to render these types of taxes specifically subject to apportionmen this was addressed and discussed at the connecticut, n -- pennsylvania, rifying conventions by james madison, iejustice marshall. this sort of investment is something where taxes on it were subject to apportionment. >> one more question on policy. if the court were to hold that the realizationequirement somewhere alg e chain, what ulbe the consequences of holding like that? >> on e door of taxation to practically everything. all property persons own, whether it be income they have received they have in the past, but all property we have ima up of forms of income that have been invested. if this is all necessary with me level of ince, we can say at some in this was income to some person at some level and can be subject to taxation without apportnmt. >> i suppose we would veo draw lines as to how far back in time one can go in assessin t

if the head of state does speak at today’s congress, then judging by the experience of the previous congressall december 2021. they also said also about a whole series of specific ones, today the party supports this candidacy, including, and this, by the way, is said by many of the participants in today’s congress, because the words... yes, yur, of course, our colleagues work here, there are a lot of them here too a lot, our colleagues they work in the hall, on this site. and in general, it must be said that everything that is happening today at the vdnkh exhibition, well, there is a feeling that it is a little frozen for these next few minutes, in anticipation of the start of the congress, because, of course, not only journalists and not only its participants are waiting for it, it’s quite obvious, we hear that the presentation video is now starting. of the 551 delegates registered at the 21st party congress , 492 delegates are present, which is more than half of the total number of delegates. there is a quorum, i propose to start work plenary session of the congress, who is in favor? who's

>>n the proverbial open door of congress, members of congress wa tget reelected. that is why they a far-fetched. who knows hothgs would change. on some of justice alito's poeticals, if things came to pass, i think you acknowledged -- i just want to confirm that unkehis case where you say historical practice supports congress's historical practice, the court's cases, if there were somein novel, that lk of historical support would be a strike against it. not dispositive necessarily. is that accurate? >> the point i was trying to make as there e huge practical and policy reasons these taxes would not be enacted and if it came to pass, the crtould assess that tax on its own terms anit might look to history and thk this is something new. i want to be clear we don't think the novelty alone would be dispositive. certainly congress has the power to enact texas it has not enacd before t would provide a reason to scrutinize that tax a little cefully. the court does not have to go down that road becausehe history is all on our side. >> one hypo of my own. if there were a fed

speaker, harry truman famously labeled the 80th united states congress the do-nothing congress. back then republicans controlled the house and senate for the first time in a while, while truman was in the white house. congress opposed all truman's fair deal bills, but -- bi but still saw work on the truman plan and hartley plan. but generally did very little for the american people. how after that do-nothing congress, democrats were able to take back the house, take back the senate, and re-elected president truman. i think of the famous photo of truman standing with the newspaper that says, dewey defeats truman. it turns out the american people liked having a congress working to solve problems. this is a job about results and that congress did very little. that's a big reason why voters chose to send the republican majority in the house and senate packing back then. now we are in the 118th congress. and we are on track to be one of the least productive congresses in our nation's history. 22 bills have been signed into law. at about this point in the last congress, 81 bills had b

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host: how does that play out in congress? caller: congress has been kind of a dope, if you ask me. they have not on their job. the republicans have not. they have got to start working together. we are a country of racists and everything. we are americans. host: that is bob in utah. clinical highlights the story with activity from congress and once they face once they face wants to come back into the new year, two deadlines when lawmakers return. this highlighting and reminding that they only have two weeks before the first deadline when it comes to congressional funding. the first is january 19, that could shudder parts of the government, and there was another two weeks after that for a total shutdown on february 2, to which the caller highlighted, with nothing to stay over the stalemate over border security and ukraine aid. if you would like to make those part of the top story when you think of issues that come to congress, you can do that on the phone lines, and send us a text at (202)-748-8003. let me take you back to january, one of those top stories we already highlighted, rep

but congress may vote by two thirds to remove such disability. the question is what it means for us today. there are two important topics. one about procedure and one about substance. on procedure. how does this work? what needs to happen for this to work? the provision is a self executing qualification for office. no person shall be parallel to what the constitution already obtains. no person shall be eligible if they are not a natural born citizen and so on. no person shall is the line which the constitution uses to say these are the rules for holding office. the constitution does not allow you to assume office unless you meet the criteria. section three, namely you cannot have engaged in insurrection after swearing to support the constitution, works by comparing it with other parts of the reconstruction amendments. the 13th amendment which banned slavery shall not exist and was immediately -- [indiscernible] -- other parts of the 14th amendment, no state shall deny due process and so on. immediately gave people rights go against the states. se

now, it is up to congress. congress has to decide whether to continue to support the freedom in ukraine as part of the 50 nation coalition president biden has built. i whether congress will ignore the lessons we have learned from history and let them prevail up it's that simple comments at start of a choice. we hope congress on a bipartisan basis will make the right choice. there is no magical pot of funding available to meet this moment. as director young said we are running out of money and nearly out of time for a congress has to act now to take up the president supplemental request which advances our own national security fight against russian aggression. hugs congressman, time is running out according to the white t house and are you riskig allowing putin to prevail? >> there is no question russia is a threat. at the height of hypocrisy that it's almost comical for joe biden's administration to say we have been ignoring anything. there are bills on the senate steps that his part it controlss they have been

maybe the member left congress. maybe the member didn't leave congress. but they weren't publicly crucified and expelled. the very fact that we have allred the quote-unquote, investigative report indicates a level of public character assassination that i have not witnessed through four terms of congressional service. it's troubling to me that a republican-led ethics committee would present itself as so judgmental. previous ethics committees' investigations have always been conducted quietly, reflective of our constitutional standards of innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. reports of similar allegations of campaign finance violations like family violations overseas and cosmetic dental procedures and sexual adventures of every sort have not historically been released to the public. this particular ethics committee investigation seems to be quite public, and i'm not seeing any allowance for the member to make restitution of alleged campaign finance violations. full media disclosure, combined with intention to move straight to expulsion, appears w

and congress gave the congress new authority over the states to prevent it. no states from discriminating on the basis of race. and it used a very general term like appropriate legislation. and what the supreme court had said about that for decades is it's up to congress. the courts have to respect congress judgment about this. the courts have to respect congress's assessment of the problem and its about what kind of legislation is appropriate. and even something as dramatic as pre-clearance, something that requires the states, as one of my colleagues once said, to come to washington bureaucrats with hat in hand to change their procedures, even that is constitutional. supreme court, in a 5 to 4 decision, disagreed and held and held that the voting rights act interfered with state sovereignty and also treated the states differently, which it could not do. it was 5 to 4 strictly ideological, a decision, and was the first of several supreme court decisions chipping away at the voting rights act in in shelby county. the court assured us not to worry because there

the tennessee congress? guest: former speaker mccarthy says he might resign. he has not said what he is going to do after that. it is not uncommon for former speakers to leave in the middle of their term. we are waiting to hear for sure. nancy pelosi might run for reelection. she has not filed in california had to do so. that is coming up quickly to do so. there was some scuttlebutt that he would be a lobbyist. mccarthy is too qualified to do that. there is a long tradition in washington of former speakers, former lawmakers staying in government relations base and the lobbying space and continuing to be part of the conversation. he has been lobbying on cannabis issues. it is unclear what his next steps are, but certainly anything that he wants to do, there will be plenty of people interested in him doing it. host: let's talk with wayne in new york. go ahead. caller: good morning, gentlemen. in regards to speaker johnson, this man has been groomed into being a speaker. on the other hand, nancy pelosi groomed

if congress if you have done something like stolen from the congress, or had sex with a page if you look at the cases historically, you don't have to prove beyond a raoeupbl doubt it happened. we can use our common sense to say we believe it's simple matter this took place. we don't need a conviction of 12 people. it's sufficient, but it's not necessary. >> why did we look -- why didn't we look into his past prior to last year's elections? is there some fault on you guys you didn't do the research? >> this is a republican motion. those were long island republicans who led to expel santos. they were not democrats who brought that up. the second thing is, should we do a better job on researching republican candidates and those who lie, cheat, and steal? we should be. in fact, where did george santos get the idea you could lie, cheat, steal, and convert public or campaign resources to personal use? in the republican party, where did he get that idea it was ok? probably from donald trump. donald trump was convicted in new york for having falsely inflated the value of his properties, for comm

what is the appetite of republicans in congress?at's what i hear, they prefer war with china. a war with china, which produces all our antibiotics. how long will this war last? after all, they produce everything, we cannot fight with them, they already control. to the country, right, right, in my book there is a chapter on covid, of all the lessons of the pandemic, this is the one we should have learned? yes, maybe we should return production to our country and produce life-saving medicines here? no, it’s better to depend on china, but some republicans want to start a war with china, yes, they are preparing for this, we must create an army, finance it, because they say: we will be at war with china in 5 years, they say: this is out loud , or they think so at night , they say it out loud at our meetings, we can’t win this war, this is madness, obviously these are common thoughts words, but by the way, this is not support for china, no, you are not a lover of china, neither am i, sindenping's gun, they really are that's what they say,

and giving it to members of congress.ow do you plan to vote and how do you respond to a congressman? >> thank you for having me i greatly appreciate the opportunity to appear and i would like to start by saying as a member of congress i pledge allegiance to the flag of the nine states of america. lower the flag, but love my country my votes are in the best interest of myy country. as it relates to mr. santos it is my belief the integrity of congress supplants the integrity or lack of integrity of any member part we want the integrity of congress to stay intact. i am having difficulty with w i. as has been indicated will be doing something that has not isd done before. the five other persons we have all heard the news stories about how they were removed for cause related toe some sort of crime civil war crimes or some other crimes. this, in my opinion is a giant step i'm going to think throughi very carefully my vote will indicate where i stand. right now i'm going to stand on conscious and think through this carefully. af

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my tenure in congress. i believe i'm am the only member of this committee who has served as a house prosecutor during the second impeachment trial of president trump and spent many a day preparing for that trial in making the case to our colleagues in the upper chamber. i know about the constitutional standards, the exact nature of that standard. i was with many of you in the house chamber on the second floor on january 6. i remember it well. i remember the outrage that so many of us felt on both sides of the aisle. at what president trump had done in inciting a mob to come and disrupt and interfere with the peaceful transfer of power. he was impeached for that on a bipartisan basis with good cause. and he has been singularly focused ever since on exacting retribution. he has made that clear. he posts about it often on social media. it has been reported he has communicated directly to our colleagues on the other side of the aisle what he has communi cated to the public, he demands house republicans exact th

congress has the ability to legislate. we make the laws. that's what i taught my kids. we have the awesome responsibility of looking at our laws and saying, this does not work. let us change it. let's keep the peace, but reframe this peace. we have the ability to do that. i promised kids that we would do that. we need your help to make sure that this epidemic ends. i'm just so honored to work with this group of people, who, like me, that schools should be safe places and our children should be able to thrive in their communities and working with me. pray for my community. these are the strongest, most resilient people you will ever know. these are people who have shared their pain with the world under a microscope and grieved out loud to ensure that though other family has to endure this unimaginable pain. hold them up and they need us and let them know they are not in 24 fight alone. and someone who has been a rock through every smoothing, every anniversary and every legislation that has been blocked and stalled and someone who will not stop until this epidemic is ende

this says congress shall have the power. >> congress says -- that provision -- you know better.ou have read the provision. that provision applies to section 1 as well. your logic would mean that courts -- that states could engage in race discrimination tomorrow if all the civil rights statutes were gone. it's nonsense. >> that's not what it means. it says, congress shall have the power. >> it's not a serious argument. i'm sorry, it's not a serious argument. >> you are speaking in conclusion terms. you are not addressing the issue. >> no, i'm not. you are. i made -- eli, i made a complete argument that section 3 is parallel to section 1. that's what we do as lawyers. we don't say that a provision, like section 5 that says that congress has the power, that does not mean that a provision of the constitution is not enforceable unless congress says so. that's nonsense. if the framers of the 14th amendment agreed -- had meant to say that, they could have said that. instead they said this section 3, that somebody who engages in an oath to the constitution to support the constitution, t

now before the congress?artially responsible for the deaths of more people around the world than any other american? she is present at a secret briefing, and i'm not saying that she belongs in prison, although there is something to put her in prison for, but she certainly should not appear before congress at a secret briefing, did no one say, wait a minute, there is no one more discredited than you , victoria, did anyone say this, no, no one, by the way, these secret briefings are the essence of the propaganda that the deipst and the administration are laying down they feed members of congress, by the way, for today... by the way, a considerable part of this money does not go to armaments, we provide for their government, we pay salaries to ukrainian politicians, and we also pay pensions. yesterday i met with the inspector general, special inspector general for afghanistan, and learned that since we left, we have already spent $6 billion. money is still flowing into afghanistan. and he said that we need him,

so, has congress done that? no, it doesn't say congress shall have the power or states can. it's nonsense. >> elie, that's complete nonsense. >> i think we have section five, we'll call it a. what's your response to that? section five is clear, it says -- >> what you just said, it does have the power. but it does not say, it does not say is that the amendment is not self executing. and that's the point i was making with section one. what it means is that if section three says somebody who's engaged in an insurrection is not eligible, i've already taken enough, then that's what it means. you don't need congress to tell you to follow the constitution. no more than you need congress to tell you to follow the section one's prohibition in the 14th amendment that says that you can't put black kids in a different school. >> i'm not falling that analogy whatsoever. i don't know what you're talking about. congress shallhave the power -- >> that provision, elie,, you know better. you've read the provision. that provision applies to section one as well. your logic would mean that state

host: how does that play out in congress? caller: congress has been kind of a dope, if you ask me. they have not on their job. the republicans have not. they have got to start working together. we are a country of racists and everything. we are americans. host: that is bob in utah. clinical highlights the story with activity from congress and once they face once they face wants to come back into the new year, two deadlines when lawmakers return. this highlighting and reminding that they only have two weeks before the first deadline when it comes to congressional funding. the first is january 19, that could shudder parts of the government, and there was another two weeks after that for a total shutdown on february 2, to which the caller highlighted, with nothing to stay over the stalemate over border security and ukraine aid. if you would like to make those part of the top story when you think of issues that come to congress, you can do that on the phone lines, and send us a text at (202)-748-8003. let me take you back to january, one of those top stories we already highlighted, rep

america, but i don't think they are doing that, let's talk about the congress as a whole, the congresstes of america should focus solely on our problems. i would say that both parties should not just be completely sold to ukraine. ukraine is not even a member of nato, not even a member of nato. yes, that's what shocks me. we have no contractual obligations. yes, for the first time i was shocked by the conversations before the vote for the first aid package, marjari. you vote yes, don't you? i'm like, no, i'm not voting for, why are you voting for, all my conversations with others, conservatives, republicans, just amazed me, you should vote for, you will not be re-elected, marjari, how can you be against, the people of your district are so care about zelsky? oh yes, every time grocery store, they tell me please help zelsky, he wears cute green t-shirts all the time, he can't afford anymore. other supposedly conservative republicans said it to your face, those who are running with slogans, for trump, for america, for secure borders, make america great again all that, told me, you should

congress has not done anything, particularly the republican congress.hey have done is drum up cultural wars to not do anything and to cater towards donald trump. for example, the impeachment going on is simply because donald trump wants it and the republican party are acting like puppets. they are following everything this guy wants. it is all about him. if we don't wake up, america, we don't have a -- we won't have in america again. host: james is a democratic caller in massachusetts. caller: good morning. may i come aboard the c-span ship? [laughter] host: what are you referencing? caller: i want to make a couple points. my grade to the democrat congress, i am a democrat but i'm going to give them a c because they are telling you exactly what they are. the resolution in february was to ask them to condemn socialism. out of 212 democrats, 200 voted they would not condemn it. this is what is happening to the democratic party. i am a blue dog democrat from way back. it is ridiculous what is going on. i have one other quick question. when trump said somet

congress has not done anything, particularly the republican congress.hey have done is drum up cultural wars to not do anything and to cater towards donald trump. for example, the impeachment going on is simply because donald trump wants it and the republican party are acting like puppets. they are following everything this guy wants. it is all about him. if we don't wake up, america, we don't have a -- we won't have in america again. host: james is a democratic caller in massachusetts. caller: good morning. may i come aboard the c-span ship? [laughter] host: what are you referencing? caller: i want to make a couple points. my grade to the democrat congress, i am a democrat but i'm going to give them a c because they are telling you exactly what they are. the resolution in february was to ask them to condemn socialism. out of 212 democrats, 200 voted they would not condemn it. this is what is happening to the democratic party. i am a blue dog democrat from way back. it is ridiculous what is going on. i have one other quick question. when trump said somet

while congress and the f.c.c. have made important progress toward removing all of it, until we fully fund a reimbursement program our work will not be done. chairwoman, can you briefly describe the threat posed by vulnerable research here and what could happen if congress fails to fund the shortfall. >> sure. we have insecure chinese kpheuplt in many networks around the country. we asked them to rip it out and replace it with secure equipment. congress provided with us funds for the care krers to do this but we have a shortfall of over $3 billion. that means we're providing 40 cents on the dollar to a lot of shawl and rural carriers to rip this equipment out and replace it. they need more funds to get this the job done and for our networks to be fully secure. >> thank you. i know i've talked to with many in rural arias, that has come up many time, they do the right thing but are facing this challenge. we introduced the bipartisan re-authorization act, that includes a provision based on my spectrum act to establish

, which is to remove, select and remove members of congress. obviously, some want to cling to some circumstances and allegations, but there's been a long-standing resident in the house that every single member that's ever been expelled, and they're trying to join me to the group of three confederates and two people convicted in a court of law. so if i am to get expelled tomorrow, i will be number six in history, the first republican as the only one without a conviction or without being part of, or without having committed treason. so that's, that's kind of what we stand today on that sense, but let me go down a few things here that to get a sense of congress today and what it represents for the american people. it represents chaos. chaos because we have a house that doesn't work for the people. we have a house where we have members with severe allegations against them having the gall and the courage to call the speaker a joke. i read that today and "politico." it was on the cover of "politico" where we are reading about members of congress tryi

david chalian standing by, and the sixth member of congress to be expelled from the house of congress. >> he walked by himself out of the chamber before the speaker gavelled the vote to the conclusion, and he got into that car, and drove away no longer a member of congress as he was just moments ago. and you heard the speaker instruct the clerk to notify the governor of new york of the vacancy in this seat. it is now, you know, the first time as you have said where you are not dealing with a trader from the confederacy or a criminal, and this is the first time that somebody has been expelled from congress who does not fit into one of those categories which is that notion of precedence that george santos was raising and some republicans were raising as an area of concern that it was setting a precedent. this is quite astonishing when you are thinking that a year ago when it was first reported by the "new york times" and others how much he had lied to the public about who he was, what he was claiming to be, and total and complete fraud, and then as you noted, the ethics report that show

congress has the power to purse. only congress can raise money.ery specifically how it should be spent. and unfortunately, what we've seen is presidents are more and more inclined and this has been going on for decades, to just ignore the law and spend the money in the way that they want to spend it, stretch their reading of the law to reprogram funds from one thing to another thing. and congress, unless it's controlled by the other party has gotten in the habit of just giving in. and that's where i am hoping that members of congress can kind of get past the whole democrat versus republican thing when it comes to spending. and not letting presidents push them around and standing up for themselves. host: ok. let's go to a question here from x, who this is -- what can you tell us about project 2025? guest: sure. project 2025. you will recall that there were some challenges staffing up. first, trump did expect to win but he didn't start lining up the right people ahead of type. so you had a lot of jobs that were sitting empty. you had people thrown i

so this a congress for cultural freedom. it a event that he attended a few years after, the tashkent event here. he is smoking his pipe and. here he is 1973, except getting his own lotus award at the afro-asian writers association. meeting in the middle is a vietnam poet to long and over here is a young ish in googie whitianga we don't have a picture him at the 1962 macready conference or at least i couldn't find picture of him there. also who attended the soviet affiliated afro asian writers association meetings. so this weight over here is now like a millstone around my neck and i'm in a blind panic thinking. the whole premise with which i started at least half of this book, is now shot to pieces. what am i going to do? here's the great canon poet, a playwright f sutherland. at the first 1958 afro-asian writers association meeting in the audience there is w.e.b., who was know, just as langston hughes had kind of presided over the mccreary event. w.e.b. dubois was at the the tashkent event. f was sutherland is somebody like

so this a congress for cultural freedom. it a event that he attended a few years after, the tashkent event here. he is smoking his pipe and. here he is 1973, except getting his own lotus award at the afro-asian writers association. meetinin the middle is a vietnam poet to long and over here is a young ish in googie whitianga we don't have a picture him athe 1962 macready conference or at least i couldn't find picture of him there. also who attended the soviet affiliated afro asian writers association meetings. so this weight over here is now like a millstone around my neck and i'm in a blind panic thinking. the whole premise with which i started at least half of this book, is now shot to pieces. what am i going to do? here's the great canon poet, a playwright f sutherland. at the first 1958 afro-asian writers association meeting in the audience there is w.e.b., who was know, just as langston hughes had kind of presided over the mccreary event. w.e.b. dubois was at the the tashkent event. f was sutherland is somebody like sem