, do things differently in congress. our committee did not sit with democrats on one side and republicans on the other, we staggered our seating. we sat on a big roundtable. we did something that was recommended by the committee, which was have joint staff. our services committee does that as well, i am not sure if others do, i think some may have come some clerk-type roles are bipartisan but we did not have staff with separate blue and red jerseys, just staff with congress jerseys. those changes were not cosmetic, they fundamentally changed how our committee worked. to some degree, i mentioned the scale issue, there is no guidebook on how to chair a committee. commerce past bipartisan legislation and to democrats and republicans selected a committee chair and we brought him in to see what some things you do to reppo -- to run an effective committee that gets back to skill. i will mention a few small things the modernization committee recommended that i think could help on the margins. they are not primary reform or camp

priorities for the next congress. >> thank you, everybody. i'm very excited to be the last person hosting a panel between you and your weekend. here to talk about the policy that is possible in congress and the federal government over the next couple of years. first i want you to picture this , you are a patient sitting in a doctor's office nervously waiting for test results thinking about your health and treatment options and what results could mean for you, your family, your body, your life and definitely about -- and what you don't want to be thinking about is what the indications of the policies might be for your health. you want the peace of mind you get the care you need when you need it in a way you can understand and you can afford it. this in a shared experience in the u.s. regardless of political affiliation, where you live, what you make, we all have similar experiences and needs. this is more than a gas but backed by research. the advocacy organization i am so lucky to lead has gone across the country to talk to everyday people ab

reach congress until last friday. and thirdly, first of all, right now, congress is focused on continuing to fund the united states government next year, because it ends at the end of this month. not only the action of these presidential powers with 6 billion dollars for ukraine, but also the fiscal year in the united states of america, and congress still has no bill to extend the us budget, even in the short term, and this is now the main, so to speak, topic of discussion in congress. katya, taking into account everything that is happening now in the congress, as the leaders of the congress and the legislators estimate, in general, the chances that they will still be able to access these... 6 billion will be able to be included in the temporary resolution and approved? republican leaders and democrats with whom i spoke did not give me a clear answer: some claim that everything depends on the speaker of the house of representatives, others say that the government budget must be approved first, and still others general

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host: will congress honor that request? guest: almost one year ago they requested $24 billion for disaster relief. congress has not done anything on that. . reiterating to congress that i made this request several months ago. there are additional needs. i think we will see action on that. it will be independent supplemental, part of a broader spending package, we will see congress take some of this in the past few months. host: the numbers, (202) 748-8000 for the eastern and central time zones. (202) 748-8001 for the mountain and pacific. if you are in a state impacted by national -- natural disasters that is (202) 748-8002. we will take those questions in a moment. with an update on how hard the state of florida has been hit, the republican of florida serves as the third district, thanks for giving us your time. guest: thanks. host: could you remind viewers, what is it cover? guest: i know people refer to it as the big bend area. from the florida georgia line down to ocala to about an hour north of orlando, jacksonville, a

the votes go to congress. and then congress is to count the votes. and all the 12th amendment says that the president of the senate should open the certificates that come from the states and then, quote, the votes shall then be counted. but who who counts the votes? democrat controlled the house of representatives. they believed that they could basically swing the election to tilden by using a congressional rule that was known as the two second joint rule. and what that meant effectively is that what the 22nd joint rule said was anybody could challenge any electoral vote for any reason. if somebody raised a challenge in either the house or senate, the house and senate would separate it. they would vote on the challenge without debate and if the house or senate upheld the challenge, then the vote was thrown out. democrats claim that they could use this rule to challenge any vote they wanted. republicans said the rule was no longer, in effect, that this was not constitutional. instead, republicans said, actually, it's the vice president of the united s

we invited other members from the congress and senate to join us. probably 20-25 act if participant in our discussion and there are others, probably about another 100 or so could follow our work. our goal is in our title. modernization program specifically and then promoting and encouraging arms-control. specifically supporting the efforts by the administration in this arena of negotiation and dialogue. now, with regard to all that is going on in congress, the focus at the moment is the passage of the national defense authorization act from the house of representatives. presumably, this will take ways next week. we do not know if there will be amendments and if they are, we don't know what amendments will be put in order by the rules committee. hopefully three, 45 amendments dealing with the modernization program and amendments encouraging a dialogue. we will find out early next week i think monday, tuesday next week, most committees will be taking up the rule for the national defense authorization act. hopefully within the amendments at our team an

congress is for most of congress to want to change. right. so that's not that many people. we we know them. we go to them with phil wallach's book and we give them the book and say, this is what you should do. now, tell me what you think about that. why don't you do that? it's still going to take time. and i think that the the kind of socialization of a set of ideas about what congress is for is going to be the work of the coming years on that front. but i do think it is achievable and i actually think that socializing, that kind of idea, you know, i wouldn't overestimate what you could do on that front in two years, but i would not underestimate what you can do in ten years because congress changes fast for good and bad. there's almost no one there now who was there in 2000. and so all the people who are there now probably not going to be there in 20 years. and with the work we have to do, if we know what we're trying to persuade them of, is persuasive work for a couple of hundred people. i think we should try. i think the takeaway there is that congressmen change fast, bu

congress, the light of a fairer britain, of a congress, the light of a fairer britain, ofa more congresst of a fairer britain, of a more prosperous and dynamic country is at the end of the tunnel. that doesn't mean that it is easy to get there. the tories knew it would be like this. that is why they call the election early. and we saw, as i'm sure you all did, just how ruthlessly they were prepared to salt the earth of britain �*s future, serving themselves to the bitter end. and that is why we were so clear and specific about the first step in our election campaign. we did not want to go further because we knew they would be new problems, unknown problems, when we finally saw the books. and with trust in politics so low, i had to be honest with the british public when i am standing on the full light of democracy. i owed it to them to promise only what we knew we could deliver. and yet, congress, even in our worst fears, we did not think it would be this bad. the pollution in our rivers, the overcrowding in our prisons. so much of our crumbling public realm, universities, councils, the c

delegates of trades union congress are gathering for their annual congress in brighton — we'll be thereive for the general secretary's main speech in a moment. the covid inquiry enters a new phase, covering the pandemic�*s impact on healthcare systems. a record of stories submitted by the public and nhs staff is being published as evidence. and members of paralympics gb are about to return to the uk following their success in paris — finishing second in the medals table, behind china and ahead of the united states. we'll be live at st pancras in london as they arrive. hello, i'm sarah campbell. the next phase of the covid inquiry is about to get under way with the public hearings looking at the impact on patients, healthcare workers and the wider nhs. the hearings will also focus on issues such as the diagnosis and treatment of patients with long covid, protective equipment in hospitals, and the policy of shielding. more than 30,000 people in the uk have shared their personal stories from the pandemic 7 as part of a report called every story matters, which will be published today. at th

but something the congress and the u.s. cannot deny. people are writing to congress.whites pleading for help around the violence that isd taking place. and so in particular over the franchise's work congress sees they can intercede. congress is going to pass a series of enforcement acts the third being the ku klux klan act trying to find some way to federalize if you will these violations on southern civil rights and political rights in particular black southerners civil and political rights.ng one way they're going to do that is form the department of justice which the department of justice one of their initial ideas is to actually investigate activity tohis clan investigate terrorist organizations. congress very quickly realizes they cannot ignore the reports that the department of justice is coming up with. the going to create a commission and investigate what's happening in the south that commission will be known -- that commission can be known as the ku klux klan commission and a short title. what they are going to do is to have hearings investigate for themselve

congress has still done nothing. i think we will see action on that want it remains if that is independent supplemental or broader spending package, possibly another c.r. but we will see some action. host: being continue to call if you want to ask questions the numbers 202-748 for the eastern and central. . (202) 748-8001 if you are in a state impacted we will tack those questions in a moment. we will take those quen a moment. with an update on how hard the state of florida has been hit, the republican of florida serves as the third district, thanks for giving us your time. guest: thanks. host: could you remind viewers, what is it cover? guest: i know people refer to it as the big bend area. from the florida georgia line down to ocala to about an hour north of orlando, jacksonville, and out to the gulf coast. think about the area where you have dixie co., some people call it the forgotten coast. it is a huge part of agricultural area, i consider it to be old florida. host: as far as the impact of helene, how did your

trying to fix congress from within. which is harder than trying to fix it from the outside. >> thanks. i want to start by echoing the comment about scheduling, the calendar. pre-covid, the house was in session 66 travel days and 55 full days. by and large committees don't meet on travel days. the average member's done 5.4 committees and subcommittees. so you are packing all those committee meetings into the 55 full days members are there. the mass does not work -- the math does not work. jumping from committee to committee, parachuting in to give a five-minute spiel and running to your next committee. that is bad for legislating and relationship development. you are not there to hear the ideas of your colleagues or defend your ideas, just give a speech that you can then throw up on social media. the only way to fix the math, two things the modernization committee proposed and one thing that we did not -- the one we didn't is you could reduce the number of committees people serve on. we did not recommend that. we did rec

so, we support the congress.ur first responsibility in budget act is to support work of two budget committee, then after that a loss of other committees. so, that is number one. is we're accountable to congress, listed in order priority in budget act starting with budget committee. >> if mr. bobby scott does a bad job representing the first state, mother of all states in his district, they will throw him out on his ears, if i ask him, who hires and you fires you, i think you would say i don't put words in your mouth but the people of my district. the voters. so that is my question to you. if you do a great job who gets to reward you, and if you do a bad job who holds you accountable. and meets out consequence to that. >> you know if we do a good job, it is usually sometimes we get thanked, a lot of times means things happen. >> that field goal kicker who never gets rec niced. recognized. >> if we don't do our job, then the congress is -- you are not able to do your job as well as you want. and i hear it i hear it

the votes go to congress. and then congress is to count the votes. and all the 12th amendment says that the president of the senate should open the certificates that come from the states and then, quote, the votes shall then be counted. but who who counts the votes? democrat controlled the house of representatives. they believed that they could basically swing the election to tilden by using a congressional rule that was known as the two second joint rule. and what that meant effectively is that what the 22nd joint rule said was anybody could challenge any electoral vote for any reason. if somebody raised a challenge in either the house or senate, the house and senate would separate it. they would vote on the challenge without debate and if the house or senate upheld the challenge, then the vote was thrown out. democrats claim that they could use this rule to challenge any vote they wanted. republicans said the rule was no longer, in effect, that this was not constitutional. instead, republicans said, actually, it's the vice president of the united s

that's automatically growing even if congress never does anything. so now the issue is you got a long-term budget problem on top of a short-term one of congress being profitable year after year. that's the box basically the box were in. very simple to explain politically it creates a problem. i'll go quickly to the last slighted because what to get your questions and answers. this is a measure at come up with which i call measure of fiscal democracy because i think it does affect democracy. this is the ship of revenue left or the share of receipts left after you take into account the spending authority in the law adequate revenues come how much of revenues are left after you take into account all the automatic spending. if you notice it was never negative in the past. usually about 6% of receipts have not been committed. now, you probably still would've committed them to continue the highways or whatever but there were not permanently committed. today, as you look out onto the right-hand side, everything, every dollar received is committed before eac

now, we in congress are very of the problem. we have bought into the assumption that more nuclear weapons will make a safer. the ever-growing cost reflects the rationale it he that has plagued the nuclear policy. in the name of modernization, we have taken on hundreds of billions of dollars of additional spending, and, the nuclear accounts grow without question or scrutiny. let's consider for a moment the nuclear modernization acts. the political price tag new start was to modernize all three legs of america's nuclear . proponents toles the multibillion-dollar cost was absolutely necessary to ensure we would continue to have a viable deterrent. even though we would have fewer weapons. now, we must fully understand the reasons for the massive growth and the cost of all these programs. if we were to turn to the new sentinel, icbm, which is destined to be replaced, it has incurred an egregious 37% cost overrun. making the programs cost almost 211% higher than the air force's initial 2015 estimate. this is triggered a critical cost

talking to members of congress. but democrats entire, prentice and brand and promise of their party is supposed to be that they are not accountable to those special interest. and they are trying to tell us that they are more accountable to the american people spend to the oil lobby. they've gone lobby and all of these other special interest groups. and so the fact is that democrats also having a tough guy, and that's part of what we've been focusing on with the reject. impactful listing for this past year is that democrats in particular, should be treating a part of life. all of these other far right groups that are on democratic but do not represent the interest of americans, other constituents and, and be rejecting a pop and not meeting with our lobbyist and not accepting their money in their elections. because frankly, we would expect that from republicans and democrats, entire promise for existing is that they, they do better. i guess the result of this heavy involvement to left, right, and center is house of re

the way we choose chief justice is governed by congress. there are many things congress governs. i am not saying it would not be difficult politically. somebody thought there was no it does some advantage to their side. i saw no constitutional barrier. i thought maybe there is a requirement to allow all people, senior and active justices, to sit on the original cases. other than that i think it is really a question we can take up in congress. >> christina and alicia you have looked at many cases, considerable case law making it clear that these kinds of jurisdiction changes and things can be done and have been done. many people say to me, what if the supreme court just struck down term limits done by statute? what do you think about that? >> i think that's a very real risk. especially, given today's supreme court. and i also think that whether this could be done through statute or required constitutional amendments will be a source of enormous controversy. even though there was widespread support for term limits on our commission there was disagreement about whether this required

to adopt something other than the best thing that congress. congress wrote those words 90. they said function of a trigger and in 1968 added something. it understood that americans have a lot of ingenuity and a lot of ways to build a machine gun and don't hesitate from applying the broad language that congress wrote. >> are you representing on behalf of the government that you are not going to prosecute anyone prior to 2017, anyone who was a felon or disqualified for some other reason? >> anyone who turned in their bump stock before march of 2018 would not face prosecution. the statute of limitation for this offense is five years. we have not prosecuted those people and won't do it and if we try to do it they would have a good defense. >> second at best there might be some ambiguity. now the question is what's the best reading. and we have a slew of doctrines that talk about that with respect to that we shouldn't render statutes ineffective by interpretation. that's not the best reading, correct? exactly. >> we said that as far back in 1824 in the emily case. i think your p

[laughter] he began covering congress way back in 1985. and now, he is the chief washington correspondent for the new york times who regularly delivers very insightful commentary and analysis of the institution at the other side of the window. his book is called "confirmation bias." it explores the 30 year war at the j shape ideology -- war to shape the ideology of the court system. one of the few things americans agree about is that congress has broken and has been broken for some time. he was a collaborator and they wrote their book, the broken branch, way back in 2006 and a decade later, norman tom came up with an updated version. in 2016, the titled -- it's even worse than it looks. i think norm would agree, it's only been downhill since then. you generally hear two sets of explanations for this dysfunction. the most common one that you hear from the members, at least in public, is that it's all the fight of the -- all the fault of the other party. our party wants to get things done. it's those other guys who are unreasonable and who a

congress, congress codified them law. and they became actually the law that governs neutrality all the way up the end of the 19th century. in doing so, congress said to washington, basically, they didn't say it in so many words, but tacitly said well done handling the situation. thank you for taking the initiative. we approve of your rules. carry on. it established a precedent. when there was a crisis like this, the president was the person to act. the cabinet also requested the recall of citizens from france which was approved and was a very important precedent. it was the first time the united states had ever done so, and it established the that the united states was a sovereign, had the right to establish its own foreign policy and to demand that foreign policy be at least tacitly respected by. foreign actors on american soil. interestingly once his recall was passed, washington did not make him leave because he knew that if he left, he would immediately executed during the reign of terror. so he went to new york. he m

so we support the congress. our first responsibility in the budget act is to support the work of the two budget committees and after that, there's a whole list of other committees. so, that, number one, is we're accountable to the congress listed in the order priority in the budget act. >> so if mr. bobby scott does a bob job representing the first state, the mother of all states, at least in his district, they'll throw him out on his ears so if i ask him who hires you and who fires you, who -- i think you would say-- i don't want to put words in your mouth, but would say, the people. if you do a bad job who metes out consequence to that? >> if we do a good job, it's usually, you know, sometimes it gets -- and sometimes there's --. >> like the field goal kicker. >> if we don't our job, the congress-- you're not able to do your job as well as you want to and i hear it, i hear it from committees, i hear it from individual members and that's also part of the accountability. let me cut to the chase, i understand thi

of how congress operates. the federal policy land scape has grown more complex and back home americans are seeking our help. as a result, members are relying on c.r.s. for supporting their legislative and representational duties. and in order for c.r.s. to meet the demand it needs access to current and reliable data and information. h.r. 7593 fulfills this need. it updates c.r.s. statute to ensure that the agency can request data and information from federal agencies to support its work on behalf of congress. we are talking about information and data that congress and its support agencies have an accomplished right to access. this change in the statute will debately improve c.r.s.'s ability how we work today. i have advocated for more modern c.r.s. i thank stephanie bice in bringing this forward and her efforts to improve and modernize c.r.s. i thank modernization subcommittee representative kilmer for bipartisan support of this measure. i urge my colleagues in joining me to strengthen c.r.s. to support h.r. 7

it relies in congress. it lies in congress. because it is not just when an individual seeks to abuse their power where our democracy fails, it is a when there is a lack of accountability and standing up and response to an attempt at turning that our democracy fails -- at tyranny that our democracy fails. that is why it is important while we had accountable he january 6 and an attempted insurrection and involvement to overturn the results of the united states presidential election. and it's why we need to have truly important, sweeping, and strong response to the crisis of corruption on the highest court of this land. and with that, i yield back to the ranking member. >> thank you for that, ocasio-cortez. the senate gets to render advice and consent on supreme court nominations, judicial nominations. we don't have that constitutional power. we have the power to impeach, for example. but we nonetheless have a very powerful institutional interest in integrity on the supreme court. and we are going to exercise our power and we are