is this one of the congressional review act's? caller: if you don't have health pay, you lose, you have to a penalty. if the penalty rolled back? according to the irs, if you check know on the form, you are still not sent a penalty notice. host: you are talking about the aca requirement. that is not one of the regulations that was rolled back here. talk a little bit about the possibility in these last days. some health care relations might be targeted. guest: sure. thank you, bill. there are a handful of regulations that were finalized at the very end of the obama administration which could potentially be in the mix there. they are less specific to things like what you're talking about with the irs which is part of .he aca there are things like work or health and safety protections. a couple of things that have been rolled back the deal with safe workplaces and disclosure of safe workplace information. there's not really anything directly connected with medicare, medicaid, or the health system, the way those bigger changes would b

sixth congressional district. she has just cut -- betty price has, has just cut a brand-new radio ad in support of republicans in the upcoming congressional election. that race, the race to replace tom price, that's six congressional district in georgia is getting a lot of national attention right now, in part because national players remain intimately involved with the politics back home. but also because that race is one of the first tests of is the trump effect. the trump effect. what the nation's reaction to trump look likes back home in these congressional districts around the country that are about to start having special elections. today something practically unthinkable, even just a few months ago, happened in that georgia race. we've got more on that next. stay with us.

that caused significant amount concern among congressional staff. those efforts failed and congress and members of congress and their staff that the same garden-variety package that in large employer would offer. host: those who work on capitol hill are still covered under the federal employee health benefit program, correct? there correct but cousin was unclear language and of the law, who is a staff member in an office, the way opm and the congress interpreted it, some staffers get federal employee benefits program. it is comparable to what people on the exchanges are getting. anytime you are a large employer, you have buying power and that's what the federal government had. is onete benefit program of the better ones out there. that covers most of the workers in the executive branch agencies in a d.c. explain that program, is a fairly generous? guest: not a generous that you get better benefits or less expensive. the primary difference is choice. you get a lot more choice because everybody's competing. you have to relate to people that could be c

host: paul ryan called the use of the congressional review act sensible reform. let's take a look at why republicans are using it now. [video clip] >> congress will block five legislations of costly regulations. this includes turning the page on what has been a war on coal jobs in america. these measures will deliver relief from regulations that threaten to wipe out house and upon thousands of jobs in the energy industry. in addition, we are setting in motion reforms for more sensible regulatory reform system. earlier this month, we passed the reins act which requires congressional approval of any new legislation. yesterday, the president took action to cap costs regulators can impose earlier this year. we are very excited to see this off and running. this is not just about blocking bad regulations, this is about smart regulations, jobs, economic opportunities entrepreneurs. , we want to pave the way for more growth, higher wages. more success for workers and small businesses that are the heart of our economy. host: there have been more than a dozen of these acti

at 8:30, a notification of foreign leaders and congressional leadership again. the vice president called several congressional leaders and began calling some foreign leaders. secretary of state, secretary of defense, national security adviser and others were also involved in making some of those phone calls to heads of government, defense ministers and congressional leaders. around 8:30, first impact began on the ground. the president informed the president of china the attacks were occurring as the dinner concluded. the security team continue to monitor the event. after dinner, the president went back down to the secure room or -- room where he was briefed by the secretary of state, secretary of defense, joint chiefs, and others via secure videoconference. the secretary of defense was on a secure room as well as the chairman of joint chiefs. several members were convened in the situation room in washington, d.c. the president was updated on the effectiveness and was told that the battle damage assessment would take several hours but initial results were positiv

it was about local congressional advocacy at the grassroots level.ow what we see is over 6000 groups across the country that ine formed, and these are east tennessee, alabama, minnesota. there are at least two and an average of 13 individual groups and every single congressional district in the country. that is what this is really about, about folks making their voices heard in their own home district. host: ms. greenberg, did this group exist before the election of donald trump? guest: no. have formed are primarily a reaction to the election of donald trump any deep fear americans have about what the agenda means to them and their families and neighbors. host: is your group a top-down organization in a sense that you call the shots for the groups, is that on the state level, or how does that work? guest: these groups are totally locally formed, they make their own decisions, they do their own events. we just put out information about what is happening in congress. we help people who are looking for how to make their voices heard. we know it little b

c of the congressional black caucus. this is just over 90 minutes.d r of the congressional black caucus. this is just over 90 minutes.i chair of c commiti committees a >>> good afternoon and welcome to this congressional forum entitled nfl players speak up, first-hand experiences and building trust between communities and police. today's forum is an opportunity for nfl players to provide their own take on what it was like for them growing up in their hometown communities and what they're doing now to make productive change to build greater trust between minority communities and the police. i've often said that the police need the community and the community need the police. i would like to start by thanking my co-hosts for this forum. representative john conyers is the top-ranking democrat on the house judiciary committee. he has been a tremendous leader for decades, just not on criminal justice issues, but on a wide variety of critical issues that face this country. in fact, we have a portrait of him hanging in our room

this is his congressional desk from early in his career. the items on top of that are original to his congressional office. the desk itself was the congressional desk he used in his grand rapids office. it is much the same as the one he would have used in his congressional office in washington, d.c., because they were made by the same company. gerald ford as a congressman enters congress in 1949, launching up on this new career. his ambition became not for the presidency, but he wanted to become the speaker of the house. an office he never was never able to attain. however, he has a fascinating career. congress, beginning in 1949 in post-war america. some of those critical moments of post-war america he is right there at the cutting edge of them. he is introduced to president truman because in his first congressional term, he is on the public works committee. he oversees the maintenance of federal buildings. one of those buildings is the white house. the white house is crumbling around president truman. congressman ford overseas a lot of th

there are at least two in every congressional district. >> do this group exists before the election of donald trump? >> no. the document we put together are a primarily reaction to the election of donald trump. >> so you get a lot of interest. these are independent groups. they make their own decision and do their own event. we just put out information and howat is happening to make their voices heard and what they should focus on. time -- at a >> congressional recess is a phrase in washington. -- reason it is a district they listen to their constituents. we do it as an enormously important time for people to make their voices heard. the as a whole bunch of folks throughout the country coming out and telling their senators not votesentatives, do for trumpcare. congress got the message. this works. we are in the middle of the second congressional recess right now and we saw last .eekend on saturday they are not telling trump, they are telling congress to use the power that you have. you can tweet questions or .omments to our guests is your group affiliated with groups like organizing fo

maybe we need something like the congressional budget office but for reagan places. finally -- for regulations. congress' muscle has atrophied. one being that raines act. it was cycle and not even my favorite regulatory reform bill right now. one thing about the raines act it would force congress and the agencies to return to some sort of conversation. agencies would know they would need congressional buy-in before implementing or imposing the costliest of regulations. think that would be a good way to -- whatever metaphor you want to. >> get the wheels working, get the muscles working again, but return congress' institutional interest to speak language again of legislation. an important step. >> i teach -- i'm aned a adjunct professor and every course i teach i have one class dealing with the use of social media in congressional offices because that has made such a big difference in terms of the way your bosses, assuming you are congressional staff members -- communicate with the public and it's interesting when i was first elect net 1978, we had to deal with the fl

even though we are all former congressional staffers, we have opinions. host: we will hear from randy in kentucky, republican line. caller: hello? host: you are on. caller: yes, i am wondering when the snowflake's are going to give it up. obama was the worst president in history. hillary needs to stay in the woods, and i think these two people on here need to go to the was with her because trump's tried to do something, and y'all expected to happen overnight. you guys -- you are living off of donations. how do you pay your bills? do you pay your bills through donations? host: ok, caller. guest: what you are seeing is americans around the country of are concerned and distressed by the decisions the trump administration has made, and they are not giving up because they see the need to stand up and they need to speak out. with the women's march, with the protests, with the town halls, and we see that the energy is sustainable and it will keep going as long as the trump administration keeps threatening our neighbors and our friends. host:? you think that mome

could democrats take one of these congressional seats? could they take more than one?publicans are pouring in resources from trying to stop that from happening. so ted cruz you were at yingling aviation for the day try,ing to save a kansas congressional seat that had been occupied before by mike pompeo who is now running the cia. both vice president trump and vice president pensacola sent robocalls into the district for tomorrow. they won the district by 27 points. they shouldn't have to help here. the race happens tomorrow. the next week, the week from tomorrow, it's georgia. it's an all comers primary to fill the seat that used to be held by tom price. congress price now secretary of health and human services. look at the field of people trying to replace him. look at this. 18 candidates, all lumped in together in the same primary, regardless of party. if anybody clears 50% of the vote, that person will win the seat outright. if not, the top two candidates will compete in a runoff. the game here is that a bunch of republicans could win. they're all slugging it out. b

. >> so much news happening both on the white house and congressional front, to reporters joining us to talk about those topics, were joined by kimball politico, she's associate editor for that publication, catherine lucy joining us of the associated press and the white house support for both of you, thank you for joining us. what's the focus this week with the first 100 days coming up, what do you see as the focus of this white house this week? >> there's a lot of different focus is in some ways but the white house is staring down a new day even though they're trying to downplay the significance, they are looking to get wins going into that. >> a couple of different things they are trying to do, obviously we can talk more about this, there's the budget deadline, they'd like to resolve that. i want to see some kind of money or the border walls which is been a key priority for the president. there's also renewed interest in trying to do something around repeal and replace healthcare, also the president is providing more details on his tax plan this week so they're looking to do a lot

congressional races in the fourth congressional district, at 7:00 tonight.k at this. 31 in the congressional race last november. 34, 30, 23, 32, 30, 35, 24, 12, 19. you got to go back 20 years to find a single digit congressional race in this same district. you got to go all the way back to '94 to find a six-point race. so this is a historical tightening. democrats do not run this close in this district. what is going on here, and what does it potentially mean nationally? well, two things here. democrats will point to this. they will say this is a sign that democratic voters in the trump era are more fired up than they've ever been. you throw a special election in a republican district in the middle of kansas in the april, and they will turn out. that's what democrats will take from this. they will say that portends big things everywhere for them. republicans will say, hang on a minute. there is another factor in this district in kansas that we're overlooking nationally. that is the governor of kansas. sam browneback. new poll today, his approval rating is a

1st congressional district. and i have been pleased to sponsor this competition in st. louis for the last 16 years without interruption and incident. . many other members of congress conduct this congress in their district as well. in fact, this painting was one of more than 400 student entries from across the nation that were reviewed, accepted and approved last june for public display in the cannon tunnel by the architect of the capitol. members of congress do not select the artists. we do not approve or disapprove of any of the artistic concepts, and we have no role in judging the competition. we simply provide a public forum for the most talthed young artists in our districts to display their winning artwork in the u.s. capitol complex. yet, without cause or reasonable process and after being viewed repeatedly by members of congress, congressional staffers and thousands of visitors, without incident or concern, my constituent's winning entry was removed in an act of politically motivated, unconstitutional re

you see, the congressional review act allows us to disapprove certain regulations that basically were approved by the administration, or created by the administration about the last six months. and the reason why we're able to do it is because we can do it with just a majority vote. it's a privileged motion in the united states senate. it takes a majority vote in the house. it takes a majority vote in the united states senate. it doesn't require 60 votes, so we're actually able to, with a majority vote, undo these regulations that we're going to be imposed on the american public over the last six months. i think that's a step in the right direction. this is a program which in the past has been used only like one time since it was created in the 1990's. we've done it 13 times in just these first three months. the congressional review act, or the c.r.a., is truly an important oversight tool that allows congress to undo federal regulations issued by unelected bureaucrats at federal agencies by this simple majority vote. for example, we've been able to reverse the obama administration's e

i like the congressional review action. i like the strike in syria. i like the bunker buster bomb in afghanistan. i like his more assertive foreign policy. as i said repeatedly, i'm not a big fan of the president reading habits but if you focus ont

i'm very pleased to come to the floor this evening and to -anchor this congressional ack caucus' hour about the present nominee to the supreme court, neil gorsuch. i'm very pleased that my good iend from texas, representative sheila jackson lee, the distinguished member of the judiciary committee, has agreed to co-anchor this hour with me. mr. speaker, i am chair of the working group for the congressional black caucus that looks at nominees for federal courts.

democrats raised more than $8.3 million for a 30-year-old congressional it -- former congressional aideere's a fund-raising record in washington, $96.1 million in the first quarter of 2017. john mccormick joins us from chicago. what's start with this special election in georgia, there's another one in kansas recently. what do they tell us about the state of fund-raising when you look at those special elections in particular? there.he money will be if you are a democratic candidate thinking about getting into the congressional race, there will probably be financial support for you in terms of dollars to back up in your candidacy. that's what we are in the georgia special election. as you mentioned, it will be held tomorrow. it raised $8.3 million, an unprecedented amount for a house district and one quarter. david: what accounts for this and flow of cash? two partieshese trying to get small donor donations? how much has been actively ginned up? john: the short answer is donald trump. he is driving fundraising both on the democratic side especially, where we are seeing activityrassroots f

democrats calling for more congressional oversight.thers remain skeptical of any military intervention in syria. senator bernie sanders. you can see the run down of all the members of congress and their reactions today compared to 2013. in las vegas, nevada. what role should congress play? i believe that congress should play a role in something other than just shutting it down. that's all they are doing right now in the government as it is anyways. was more important right now is that action was made by a president who installed a corporate government and this action of war was taken by a corporate leader and of course corporations do not want people to have any say whether they are senators or regular old citizens. whatever it may be. ssad.ssue is not a countryhin our own and wallets and we've got to stop the system. that's all i have to say. have a great morning. headline from the financial section of the wall street journal today. oil rises after syria missile strike. crude prices hit a one-month .igh tensions contributed to oil pri

congressional seat.hn ossoff says he's got no doubt his showing is quote, a victory for the ages. he fell short of an outright majority but his support in a solidly republican district viewed as a referendum of president trump's popularity ossoff faces karen handel in a june runoff. >>> steve stephens had been on the run after police say he brutally gunned down a man and posted video of the murder online. cnn has the details. >> the search for steve stephens has ended. >> the nationwide search of the man is over. >> pennsylvania state police officers received a tip that the vehicle that we were looking for, the white ford fusion was in a mcdonald's parking lot. >> a signal from stephens' cell phone on sunday. >> we were in the process today of going back and doing a more thorough search of that area when this transpired. >> but it was today's tip from a mcdonald's drive through employee that led police to stephens. the 37-year-old took off leading police on a two-mile chase ending when police forced him

even sparking anger at congressional town halls where some voters are accusing mr.trump of hiding his business dealings overseas. >> it doesn't take a lot of effort to find out where donald trump has overseas. he normally puts his names on buildings that he has them. >> i think people are going to keep demanding it and demanding it and making their voices heard on this. >> reporter: democrats warn the president's refusal to release his returns could have a policy impact on gop efforts to reform the tax code. members of congress are wondering whether changes to the law would benefit trump family businesses. >> what i've said is it's going to be much harder to get tax reform done if the president doesn't disclose his taxes. >> reporter: the white house says the president doesn't plan to offer up his returns while he remains under audit, but officials are not ruling out a release in the future. >> we'll have to get back to you on that. >> reporter: democrats are also slamming the trump administration's decision against labeling china a currentsy manipulator, a flip-flo

congressman richmond, chame of he congressional black caucus. mr. richmond: thank you, ranking member elijah cummings, elijah let me just take a moment to brag just a little bit because both dante and malcolm played for the new orleans saints and malcolm has a super bowl ring with the new orleans saints, and i know baltimore won a super bowl, jacoby jones of new orleans should have been m.v.p. of that game. to my colleague to the right from detroit, we are praying for you all. to my colleague on my left from tlanta, i just can't say much. let me thank you all for stepping off the field and stepping back into the real life that you all lived before you made it to the nfl and before get layed in college, to out of your comfort zone, but to actually give back and fight for issues that are critical. , but don't see it enough you all do it, and most of our african-american male athletes do it, you just don't get the attention for it. you only get the attention for doing the wrong thing. when you're doing the right thing you don't get as much attention. l

at that time then president obama sought congressional approval.nd some 00 republicans wrote you can't do it. it's unconstitutional. we should not bomb seara. those same republicans are cheering on president trump right now. that's how insane our congress is. >> no, that's a political argument. >> that's how insane it is. >> that's a political argument. >> it's so ridiculous. you can't even get a clear-cut answer. in any event, the answer here, fred, it's done. now what do we do? what's our goal? what's our stated goal? what's the next step? if he will continue military action with the russian battleship pulling into the area, he will have to get congressional approval. >> avery, why do you see the circumstances different than 2013? i mean, it was still -- i guess the effort of president obama going to congress, it was still a result of observation of chemical use of weapons. >> right. >> the same applies here in terms of chemical weapons, avery. why are they different? one president saying he wants congressional approval and the other one saying b

before the congressional break, we saw what happened with health care. work on health care was continuing. what's happening now? that there is a new plan emerged over the recess. t was a deal that was brokered by tom mcarthur, representative california, from the so called moderate faction, the tuesday group. meadows from north carolina. the details are still puz seu. it would allow states to get a out of waiver to opt some of the requirements and the affordable care act and obamacare. it is unclear whether that got a of le no republican vote as yet. we'll see when lawmakers return o capitol hill, the party leadership will start whipping their members on is this support. you can right now how far this deal goes is unclear. movement.is some white house officials have said, hinted last week, thao they to see a vote. with everything else going on, very unlikely. n a conference call with members on saturday, house republican leaders tafrped out said there is this new health care measure. we are not going to put it on the floor until we know we have the votes

. >> a congressional forum on policing and minority communities. >> there are a lot of police officers not involved in the communities they're supposed to be serving in. i have this crazy theory that if i know you, i am a lot more likely to treat you better than if i don't. so if i have a relationship with , with that relationship, i am not going to be so quick to lock you up. >> general joseph photo on security challenges in the middle east. >> while we establish accountability over our actions on this incident, i think it is important to clearly recognize that the enemy does use human shields, have little regard for human life and does attempt to use civilian casualty allegations as a tool to hinder our alec -- operations. >> the american israel public affairs committee conference. >> today, the state of israel is a modern-day david and goliath is the arsenal of hundreds of thousands of rockets and missiles aimed at the jewish state by terror groups. a majore, israel has upgrade in technology that will help it take down the next giant. [applause] >> amen. the david sling missile-defe

congressional district, it's seven tonight.at this, 31 in the congressional race last november. 34, 30, 23, 32, 30 rks 25, 12, 19, you have got to go back 20 years to find a single digit congressional race in this district. you have got to go back to '94 to find a six point race. this is a historical tightening. democrats don't run this close in this district. what is going on here? what does it mean nationally. two thing. democrats will point to this, they will say this is a sign that democratic voters in the trump era are more fired up than they have ever been. you throw a special election in a republican district in the middle of kansas in the middle of april and they will turn out. that's what democrats will take from this. they will say that pour tends big things for them everywhere. republicans will say hang on a minute there is another factor in this district in kansas that we are overlooking, that is the governor of kansas, sam brownback. his approvalet rating is 20%, one of the least popular republican governors in the

well a closely watched congressional election is headed to a run off this morning. 30-year-old democrat jon ossoff was the top vote getting in the 18 candidate primary. he is trying to at the identify the odds in take georgia's 6th congressional district that voted republican since 1978. he'll face the republican in the june run off. president trump used twitter to urge republicans to vote in an election that some see as a referendum on his presidency. roxanna is here. good morning. >>> good morning, ossoff had the support of grass roots activists and millions in donations but fell short of the majority needed to win out right in a race that has national implications. >> democrat jon ossoff took the stage tuesday night gearing up to flip georgia's 6th congressional seat in two months time. >> there is no doubt that this is already a victory for the ag ages. >> democrats pumped millions of dollars into his campaign hoping the 30-year-old former congressional staffer would win yesterday's special election outright. that would have turned the district from red to blue for the first time in

congressional election in georgia.n projecting there will be a runoff. >> this special election viewed as a litmus test of president trump trump support on the local level. he tweeted this "despite major outside money, fake media support and 11 republican kand d dts, big "r" win with runoff in georgia. glad i could help! i mean that's the headline. this thing will go to a runoff. what is the feeling among the ossoff camp and among supporters about what the road ahead will look like, what this fight is going to be like to win this run off against karen handel. >> no doubt there was disappointment in the room, a hope that perhaps he could achieve that 50% thresh hold and win the seat outright. but at the same time no one -- top officials in both parties were not expecting jon ossoff to get to that 50% thresh hold. public polling showed he was probably in the 40s, mid-40s and even internal polling suggested the higher 40s. if you were able to exceed that, it would have been a huge surprise. nevertheless the fact that it i

not my observation, the congressional budget office's. the president promised he wouldn't cut medicaid, but like so many other broken promises, trumpcare cuts medicaid deeply. as it was true of the president's campaign, he brought no unity to his attack on america's health and his plan was not even voted on. indeed, that has been followed by republican efforts to make their proposal even more draconian. the second hundred days looms even worse. as the trump white house continues to be focused on kicking americans off their coverage and making the rest pay more and getting less. saying it intends to bring even more draconian version of its trumpcare pill back. mr. speaker, republicans control both the house, the senate, and the administration. they are now theoretically the governing party. and whatever happens to our health care system on their watch will be their responsibility. so as this administration reaches its 100th day in office it has a choice t can continue to wrack up the failures it has amassed or turn the page to constructive

in 1943 he helped to sponsor a congressional resolution known as the fulbright resolution. after senator william albright of arkansas.this was passed by congress in 1943 and it advocated the united states joining some kind of international organization either late in the war or right after that would be organized very much like the united nations after world war i. so here you have this isolationist, or former isolationist now who's arguing basically we need to do league of nations and the united states has to take the lead in organizing that. the other big step that comes to mind is late in the war, at the united states government starts thinking about how do we reconstruct europe after all the damage that has been done to it by world war ii , as a member of the house foreign affairs committee he gets very involved in that postwar plan. after the war, in the late 1940s, for these becomes in the house of representatives the most important republican advocate for things like the marshall plan which was implemented in 1948 and helped to get western europe back on its feet eco

he went ahead and ordered those bombings and did not get congressional consent. >> that is right. he later got it, but he went ahead and said i have the right to do this without consulting in getting permission from congress, and he presented all of the constitutional arguments you and i were talking about before. he is a bit schizophrenic because when it came to confronting bashar al-assad in syria, he said, really congress ought to be the one that makes this decision. he abdicated his responsibility to congress, which undermined the constitution itself. but look, over the course of our republic, there have been 125 occasions in which american presidents have done precisely what president trump did. so there is a long and distinguished precedent that supports president trump's actions against syria. >> julie: he picked up where president obama left off with his time, there is no redline. >> one could argue that but for the failure president obama to act, president trump would not have had to. >> julie: gregg jarrett, thank you, always great to see you. >> jon: u.s. air strikes in

this is a congressional election that's mt. everest for democrats.ble pick-up for the democratic party. nationally, the democrats house campaign committee declined to get involved. they asked the national party for -- asked the democratic party for $20,000 to send out a mailer. the democratic party said no. but then, last week, there were these shocking sort of murky news reports out of kansas that an internal republican poll in this race, not a public poll, an internal republican poll, showed that the republican running in the special election, that the kansas state treasurer, the guy who ought to be running away with this was actually only leading by low single digits. and that caused a panic. i mean, in a special election where republicans generally outperform anyway because special elections always have a low turnout. in a republican district this red with these candidates run, this shod be a 25-point, 30-point winning for the republicans without anybody even trying. then that internal republican poll got publicized. low single digit lead? really

hedging his trade policy with china, and his animosity toward the conservative congressional bloc knowns the freedom caucus. quote, the freedom caucus will hurt the entire republican agenda if they don't get on the team and fast. we must fight them and democrats in 2018. when he asked where they were in the health care battle, the freedom caucus responded saying, @realdonaldtrump, we're where we've always been, keeping our promise. repeal includes eliminating the costly obamacare regs that are driving up americans' premiums. we can do better than a plan that only 17% of americans support. #keepourpromise. does the president have the power to fight them in 2018? in november's election the freedom caucus members won by bigger margins than trump in their districts just as they outpaced mitt romney in 2012. last week i had on this program david daly, he wrote that book rat f'ed. he showed how the gop has redrawn congressional maps in such a way that they have locked up certain seats until the next census. as daly wrote in "the washington post" this week, the 40 members of the freedom caucus

they do that census before they draw the congressional map. the way they draw the map censut begins with a bill in the state house, and then he goes to the state senate, and then it goes to the governor. the current map was drawn by the republican state house the republican state senate and we signed -- and was signed into law by republican governor. that is why we have a state with a majority democratic registration, we have 13 republicans and five democrats in our congressional delegation. do about it? again, raise our voices. the democrats, once they get back in charge of the process, they are going to say now it is our turn. you are going to be calling them up. the question is what can the dnc do and they cannot do anything. dnc is not in control, it is harrisburg driven. i cannot read this one. registration, we have 13 this question is, where do you specifically stand on the toxic use of biosolids or sludge? sensibleall protections -- not regulations -- that is another thing that the truck budget did is it -- the trump budget did. in addi

but they do that census before they draw the congressional map. the way they draw the congressional map is it begins with a bill in the state house and then it goes to the state senate and then it goes to the governor. the current map was drawn by a republican state house, a republican state senate and was signed into law by a republican governor. and that's why we have, you know, in a state with a majority democratic registration we have 13 republicans and 5 democrats in our congressional delegation. so, what can we do about it? again, raise our voices. the problem is, you know, the democrats once they get back in charge of the process they're going to say, now it's our turn. and then you're going to be -- you're going to be -- you're going to be calling them up. so, now -- but the question is what can the dnc do? and they can't do anything. it's a harrisburg-driven thing. the dnc is not in control of that. i can't read this one. this question is -- where do you specifically stand on the toxic use of bio solids or sludge? i'm for all sensible pro

the congressional research service goes on to state that, quote, of the 36 nominations which are not confirmed, 11 were rejected outright in a roll call vote by the senate while nearly all of the rest in the face of substantial committee or senate opposition to the nominee or the president, they were withdrawn by the president or were postponed, tabled, or never voted on by the senate. madam president, the manner in which the senate decides to provide its constitutional advice and consent to presidential nominations has varied over the centuries with respect to nominations. this includes decisions not to take up supreme court nominees. as jonathan abner put it in his article in the george mason law review, quote, much as the senate may reject a legislative proposal that originated in the house of representatives by voting it down, killing it in committee, or simply refusing to take up the measure, the senate may withhold its consent by voting against confirmation of a nominee, rejecting the nominee in committee, or simply refusing to act. is refusing to act the preferred outcome? i c