this is our job as members of the congressional black caucus. my district is majority white, but i may black men raising three children, two of whom are black boys. they end of constituents throughout my state are expecting me to dismantle systemic racism, and i will do my part to do that along with my colleagues. it is now my pleasure to pass along to another great champion on the ways and means committee and a fighter for a democracy , congressmanghts terry --. >> thank you so much. i want to think the congressional black caucus and tremendous leadership we have in karen bass in organizing this press conference. fundamentalmore example of institutional racism event the institutional racism and systemic racism that exists in our democracy and the form of voting. i believe there is no more obvious example of institutional racism than voter discrimination and the antidemocratic practices that impart african americans from exercising their right to vote. in a not so distant past, this look like literacy tests, poll tax and making perspective afric

we wanted to highlight today the efforts of the congressional black caucus.nspired that people can understand this is not a tragedy. i am very proud to be joined by members of the congressional black caucus, who have been on the frontline in the house of representatives fighting or change. they will share those areas they have been fighting for. i have the representative of introducing barbara lee. she is always on the front lines fighting for social net, justice. >> thank you madam chair. thank you for that spirited introduction. let me thank you for your steady leadership of the congressional black caucus. we are in our 49th year. thank you so much. i want to thank all of our colleagues who are with us today. the tragic murder of mr. floyd shows how white supremacy has affected our country. systemic racism has been built in this country. it really is reflected in the dna of the united states of america. racism is at the heart of every crisis. from police murders and starvation, the crisis ofsis, to the poverty, where african-american numbers are in the majo

the congressional black caucus hosted a virtual town hall and discussed health disparities during the covid-19 pandemic. police reform and access to the payroll protection program for black-owned businesses. saw with the tragic murder was the birth of a new movement that has been fighting to really re-envision policing in the united states, and just a few weeks ago, the congressional black caucus led the effort to pass out of the house of representatives, the george floyd policing act. that bill is now languishing in the senate and low pressure is being put on the senate to address, to vote for the justice and policing act, and to put it on the desk of the president. while we will continue to fight for the passage of this bill in the senate, we wanted to highlight today the efforts of the congressional black caucus defined find on many different manifestations of systemic racism. that thisly inspired new movement has elevated the issue, and that people understand this was not a tragedy, one tragedy, and anomaly, but it was a manifestation of much deeper problems in our country. proud

we wanted to highlight today the efforts of the congressional black caucus. inspired that people can understand this is not one tragedy, and anomaly. it is a manifestation of deeper problems in our country. i am very proud to be joined by members of the congressional black caucus, who have been on the frontline in the house of representatives fighting for change. they will share those areas they have been fighting for. after you hear messages from congress, i will i have the open it up for comments. representative of introducing barbara lee. she is the founder of the task force in the house of representatives to address poverty. we have a slogan in the house and in her district. barbara lee fights for me. she is always on the front lines fighting for social and economic justice in our communities. you,e bring before congressman barbara lee. >> thank you madam chair. thank you for that spirited introduction. let me thank you for your steadfast and brilliant and steady leadership of the congressional black caucus. we are in our 49th year. i cannot think of an i

on the congressional subpoena, the supreme court also sent the case back. it has said the president absolutely can't say no, but it has said in a case like this, where a congressional subpoena is so broad, there's a test the lower courts have to apply. they have to make sure that this is tethered to some legitimate legislative purpose, that it's not going to harass the president. so it sent out a series of steps that the lower courts have to look at. so bottom line here, chuck, number one, nothing is going to get resolved in these cases until after the election, because they go back to the lower courts, whoever loses there has a chance to appeal. it could go back to the supreme court. that's the first thing. second thing. even if the new york grand jury had gotten a complete absolute win here, that wouldn't mean that we would see the president's tax records, because of the rules of grand jury secrecy. even if the grand jury ultimately gets the president's taxes, and he can't come up with any good objection for why he shouldn't turn them over, they don't bec

his representative schweikert of misconduct and his former chief of staff in 2018 the office of congressional ethics had two separate referrals regarding representative schweikert to the ethics committee for further review. those referrals included troubling allegations of systemic campaign finance violations and reporting errors by representatives schweikert operating campaign committees allegations of misuse of members of allowance for unofficial purposes and evidence he pressured his official staff to perform campaign work. during 150 -- the committee and panel that investigated subcommittee to lead a bipartisan review of these allegations. at the start of the 160th congress they reestablished evenly divided by panel and appointed representative phillips of minnesota as its chair along with representative from texas representative jamie raskin of maryland and representative john katco of new york did the subcommittee which was capably supported by the committee's professional nonpartisan exact investigative staff to testimony from 18 witnesses and reviewed several hundred thousand pages of

this is the 20 eighth edition of the congressional pics and follows two days after the congressional budget office, and $854 billion, the record was $234 billion in the $864 billion would be the sixth-largest annual deficit. .. since the supposedly earmarked moratorium, members of congress have set a record for the amount of spending according to citizens against government waste cry to which we develop back in 1991 with the bipartisan congressional pork busters coalition. the amount spent was $15.9 billion, a 3.0% increase in fiscal year 2019. the numbers may adopt a little bit from 282, two to extend for, decrease of 2.8%. since this league in 1991, cagw has identified 111,417 earmarks costing taxpayers $375.7 billion so yes, those little projects due at up over time. the increase in porkbarrel spending occurred behind closed doors without taxpayers know what was going on. there were no names of legislators attached to each remark and few details. we do know in the agriculture appropriations act there's $9 billion for the appalachian regional authority and the delta regional author

we are talking about congressional earmarks and the 2020 congressional "pig book" list earmarksthey an advocate against them being in future budgets. we will open up our regular lines. democrats, (202) 748-8000. republicans, you can call in at (202) 748-8001. independents, your line will be (202) 748-8002. remember for this conversation about earmarks, you can always text us at (202) 748-8003. we are always reading on social media, on twitter at c-span wj and facebook at facebook.com/c-span. we mentioned this a couple times ,lready, but during the earmark the earmark system -- older earmark system congress had to put their names behind earmarks. that practice seems to have gone away. what do you think about the current system where these earmarks show up and there is no real indication of who is asking for this money? few examples, a senator murray with the pacific salmon coastal recovery. we would like to see the names. we are not encouraging them to bring back earmarks formally because they claim they are not doing them. we would like them to ban them permanently. one name we know fo

for the annual congressional pig book conference. the bright pink pigs are absent from this year's conference. one doesn't have to look very hard to see gigantic, bright pink pigs on capitol hill. namely, the out-of-control spending and the astronomical debts. for far too long, members of both parties have been content with bankrupting future generations of america. they have been content with taxpayers -- [indiscernible] citizens against government waste stands up against that. the pig book is often considered the most hated book in washington. for those of us who fight each and every day against waste spending, this book is a term in his tool at a real resource. this book shines a powerful light on the worst pork spending -- [indiscernible] i am scared to click anything, so i am not going to click anything. standruz: i am proud to and fight alongside you each and every day. thank you, and god bless you. sen. ernst: citizens against government waste may not be the move popular group in washington, but taxpayers have no greater frien

sigh is critical of congressional executive agreement and in the book, these are substitutes for the treaty power, basically a statutory authorization to make an agreement which makes it easier to make executive agreements in the treaty power, i think it seems pretty obvious that the framers thought international agreements would have to go to the senate process the two thirds but the first congressional executive agreement was 1792 in agreement authorized the post office to make international agreements for international postal mail. another example, george washington of 1793 asserted very broad conception of implicitly conception of executive power in declaring neutrality in the european war and in claiming an ability to prosecute those who violated the statute even without congressional legislation, there was a famous debate and between madison and hamilton in the debate is who knows who one, everybody has a different view but from the very beginning the president was making very contested interpretation of his own power to expand executive power. this is my first two points, this

he's not immune to congressional process.not immune to the process from the state of new york in a criminal proceeding. that is far and away the most important part of today's rulings. but the court does allow the administration to continue essentially to run out the clock. and considering that the subpoenas at issue in our committee were deutsche bank over records that might show whether the president is financially compromised beholden to russian oligarchs or others in terms of financing, if you delay resolution of that, if you delay clarity of it, it really presents a danger to the country. and so, you know, as they say, justice delayed is justice denied. here justice delayed can mean national security is denied. that's very problematic. it does yet again illustrate why, and this is something i have been working on, we need our own set of post watergate reforms. and i would at the top of the list expedited court process for congressional subpoenas because the trump administration is continually trying to delay and run out

thee are 55 members of congressional black caucus. it is very diverse politically, and how i navigate it, we refer to the cdc as -- cbc as a family. >> ok. we have got time for one more question, and i am going to go back to the vice president's question. if joe biden asks you to be his running mate, will you accept? >> let me just tell you that i am so concerned about him being elected and him having a successful residence the. he could asked me to go volunteer at a local office and licked stamps -- late stamps -- lick stamps, whatever is needed, i am ready. >> all right then. i might have time for one more question. well,o you see as the -- that is too much of a question i think for the remaining minute that we have here. i want to thank you so much for joining us and having this conversation. there is so much to unpack. thank you so much for indulging questionsl of the about a potential vice presidency. national serving as a vice president, i'm happy to offer you some advice on being vice president in the chair, should that happen

this is a congressional investigation, and traditionally congress has had wide latitude to investigate a president's personal finances. people may remember that congress did a lot of investigating of the whitewater matter which related to personal investments of bill and hillary clinton, but the president has argued that this is harassment, that he is immune from this kind of investigation and the congress has no right to these documents. that is a case that really will have broad implications about the balance of power between the house and the executive branch for a long time, and, again, the president has lost in the lower court on that case and we'll see what the supreme court does here. >> we will. stand by, jeffrey toobin. let me go to the high court. our jessica schneider is outside. we're still waiting, but they are expected to come down very soon, jess, right? >> reporter: they are, poppy, so with this new court system and the pandemic, there's actually no one inside the court so they are releasing this all electronically. we got opinions unrelated at 10:00 a.m. and the next o

as a matter fact this is a 49th year of the congressional black caucus. and in the very beginning of cdc's history, cdc members have introduced legislation to address police abuse -- cbc -- this is a long-standing issue in our community. in fact, when it went to george floyd service and i looked up and i saw that you he was born, 1973, that was the year i first became active on this issue in los angeles. i joined an organization called the coalition against policing in 1973 because we have terrible problems in our city can lead to numerous lawsuits. we had a police chief that was very difficult, very much out of step. as a matter fact, african-americans were being killed by chuckles in larger numbers. he had a a press conference ane told los angeles in a press conference the reason what black people died from chokehold was because our veins were different than white people and our veins didn't open up as rapidly. that's what we were dealing with for seven years ago. frankly i thought after the rodney king beating when it was on video, i said finally every

right which are going to ruling on the other case which is a congressional request for drugs for them for documents in about 4 minutes time this was a case that related to the new york district attorney on the grand jury investigation into allegations of financial impropriety by ball drop of the trump organization specifically related to his payment of hush money payments on the run up the election but also folding in various other allegations as well don't look that the . just of it was the grand jury and cyrus vance the district attorney won kids the tax records from donald trump's accounting firm over over several years to help in the grand jury investigation into all of this trump said wait a 2nd the trouble is immune from prosecution while he's in office he should also be immune from all of these sorts of requests for information because any politically motivated district attorney anywhere in the country can just bombard the president with subpoenas and legal actions which would mean that the president couldn't do his job properly so this has to be stopped by $7.00 to $2.00 margi

clearly, under congressional authority, the dod can spend money to stop drugs. the problem is that section 81-34 and 81-30 six go after that authority as well. not only building a wall, but the authority to spend money for instance, the national guard. it is a bridge too far. 92% of drugs coming to ports of entry. why would you want to tie the hands of the department of defense to help in the war on drugs at the ports of entry? why? i agree. this is a horrendous war. we can mention methamphetamine, whatever, but mexico is the leading source of fentanyl. peoplel killed 32,000 two years ago, maybe 40,000 this year. most of it comes across the border. i understand the zeal in stopping this president from building a wall, but why would you tie the president's hands on other means of drug interdiction and more importantly, the next president potentially. this bill extends through the entire fiscal year. i yield back. chair lowey: miss wasserman-schultz is recognized. rep. wasserman-schultz: thank you. i rise in opposition. this would strike 8134 and 8136 as subscribe

this is the 49th year of the congressional black caucus. in the very beginning of the history, members introduce legislation to address police abuse. this is a long-standing issue in our community. when i went to george floyd's service and looked up and saw the year he was born, 1973, that was the year i first became active on this issue in los angeles. i joined an organization, the coalition against police abuse, in 1973. we had terrible problems in our city led to numerous losses. chief who wasce very difficult. out of step. african-americans were being killed by chokeholds in large numbers. he had a press conference and he told los angeles in the press conference that the reason why black people die from chokeholds was because our veins were different than white people, and our veins did not open up as rapidly. that is what we were dealing with 47 years ago. i thought after the rodney king beating, when it was on video, i said, finally, everything will change now, because it is on video. we had been crying out about these problems for ye

at least 2.2 million illegals living in the state of california, that is three congressional seats,ctoral votes that california gets rewarded because they're breaking the law. it is not fair to state that kentucky or alabama or states like illinois that are probably in danger of losing a congressional seat. the democrats, once again after yesterday trying to silence attorney general barry for tryig to hold people cannibal call for violations of the fisa process today go all in in a five hour hearing trying to make sure the illegals can be counted for congressional reapportionment. i don't think the founding fathers never intended that or envision that the united states would have thiser many residingn our country illegally. liz: it's an interesting point, alabama and other states would get hurt, it's an equal protection under the law that if you count all of these illegals for apportionment and representation, that hurts the representation of other states that do not have this large there.ion base in >> you are exactly right, it punishes states that are doing things the right way le

california already has the most number of congressional seats.how does nancy pelosi get elected speaker of the house? because california has over 50 representatives in the u.s. house. pause of because of counting massive illegal population will have even more. it is unfair to the states that do things right. it is just another reason why some americans are fed up. that is why they voted for donald trump four years ago and i think he will overperform in the polls in november. elizabeth: congressman, come back soon. >> thank you for having me. elizabeth: i'm elizabeth macdonald. you're watching the earning edit. that does it for us. we watch you come back tomorrow night and have a good evening. ♪. lou: good evening, everybody. the ceo's of tech giants, amazon, facebook, apple and google today, testifying before a house judiciary subcommittee. lawmakers questioning four of the world's richest men in their virtual hearing about their massive companies that dominate technology and social media. the tech titans are worth about $200 billion, looking eve

there is a reason this is the first time a congressional committee has attested a gambit. it is long been understood since congress and subpoena power is applied, it is auxiliary ends subordinates, when that power is deployed against the president, and must yield any long-standing tradition or compelling showing of need, the committee can satisfy neither condition here and that should decide this case. the committees contend of the subpoenas satisfy the limits this court has applied to congressional subpoenas. but their arguments would render those limits meaningless, for example, they contend that this court should ignore the committees about improper purpose so long as they tack on a broad reference to potential legislation. they claim that congress can you subpoenas to uncover individual wrongdoing simply because that will always inform this is physician c of laws, they challenge the ability to question the constitutionality of the potential legislation that they rely upon. the committee is obvious overreach is to validate the subpoenas in a typical case, but the court

on the congressional one, as you say, this is more of a mixed victory. what they say is the president can't absolutely stiff congress. but on the other hand, congress can't just have anything it wants, so there's a test that the lower courts have to apply. they have to say, is the information they're seeking available from some other source. is the subpoena too broad. remember, that's one of the problems the democrats had, the subpoenas were so broad, seeking years of information from, not only the president, but his relatives, other people who work for the trump organization. thirdly, does congress have in essence the right to see this. finally, would this be too much of a burden on the president to respond. so it's going to take months for this to work through the lower courts. both of these are, in a sense, landmark rulings because they both try to set out what basically the terms are for when a local prosecutor or congress can seek information from a sitting president. bear in mind here one of the things that made these cases a little bit different i

but the other thing is it's congressional oversight. a coequal branch of government. the fact is when you fail to reproduce those documents to congress and they cannot proceed with the proper oversight, you also stymie their ability to get the job done so we could have two results in terms of the financial records of the president but really, i think it leads to one thing and that is the president should be held accountable, he can't use his presidential power of immunity to say he should be shielded before he landed in the white house. >> sandra: katie, can we get your reaction to that? >> donna says abuses that may have happened before he took office and that's an assumption we don't have evidence for. the accusation has been that president trump is not releasing his tax returns simply because he is hiding something, we don't actually know that because we have not seen them. but the issue is its about congressional oversight but much of the argument is why congress and democrats who have been pursuing the president's financial record

basically that determines the populations in various cities, congressional districts and counties. here is what this memorandum says in part, i have accordingly determined that respect for the play protection of the integrity of the democratic process weren't the exclusion of illegal aliens from the base feasible into the maximum extent urn the law. this is sure to face legal challenges along the way. in the constitution it says that congressional districts should be based on how many whole free people are living in the area. does not specify american citizens. we'll keep an eye on that. back to you. >>> fire investigators in oakland trying to figure out what sparked a early morning fire that burned down part of the roof. we spoke to some victims and by the time they figure out what was happening and the building was engulfed in flips and one resident had to dangle off the second story window and amazingly everybody got out okay. >> it was not enough. after awhile, battling the flames and they got out just before the roof collapsed. >> they went back in and cleaned up the hot spots

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what did congressional power look like then. and i think the assumption is that congress didn't do much. we thought about the right to vote as a creature of state law. and so congress, at least in my mind before i started studying this, congress didn't really have much to say about it. but then shelby county came out, versus the holder decision, was the decision in which the supreme court invalidated a portion of the preclearance regime of the voting rights act of 1965. and in that decision, the supreme court said that congress had overstepped the bounds of its authority under the 14th and 15th amendments when it required certain jurisdictions, mostly in the southern states, to clear any changes with the laws with the federal government before they go into effect. and so finding that congress had overstepped, i had questions about whether that was true. because i conceived of federal power in the areas being quite proud. and i'm maybe just sort of inherit to the warren court and i've drunk the cool aid so i decided to take a clo

but it requires congressional will, right? when we talk about today, about congress's intent or motivation, that's a tough thing to figure out. is it partisan in nature? is it something nor sin stister. in 1965, there was one party in the south. it was the democratic party, essentially. and so a lot of the fights about white and black voters were essentially intraparty feud and is that's shifted that we now have a lot of partisan polarization. that's changed a lot of the dynamics in how we view the relationship between race and party and the right to vote. i think about the voting rights act, alex points out, there were some provisions that changed things like residency requirements. congress said we think that while the supreme court has said literacy test that is are fairly administered are constitutional, we think there's a good record that literacy records are not being fairly administered. we think they're being administered in a way that is designed to suppress black voters. congress, again, sort of steps up to the plate

they said the congressional investigation was no good because it was inspired by politics. this court unanimously rejected that as a reason it couldn't be done and the other is clinton versus jones where this court said if there is harassment, the courts can take care of that and that's the answer to the justice department's entire brief. there is no responsible claim here that all that's going on is harassment and if there is, this court has said, we are here. >> thank you. >> justice breyer? >> thank you, in respect to the , was there proper authorization of the legislative subpoenas? two points. one, rumley says look at the subpoena and its authorization. at the time the subpoena was issued. perhaps the time it was challenged first. before the later authorization in the full house was passed. compare it with the senate select committee on presidential campaign activities, look at the authorization. the authorization there is highly detailed, highly specific and it suggests they could go after the information held by any person including the president. this authorization

-- citizen co-sponsors of that act into the congressional record. i ask unanimous consent that the list i have today will be included at the end of these remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. hoyer: there are so many of those, it may take several days. more add their names at justicepolicing.us, again, justiceinpolicing.us, we will continue to submit them into the record. because the senate needs to see how important this issue is to so many of our fellow americans. they need to see how many of our people are urging them to act. so, mr. speaker, i ask that this list of citizen co-sponsors be inserted in the record following my remarks, as i just made the unanimous consent request. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. hoyer: thank you. i also want to urge the senate to stop ignoring this issue and listen to the voices of thousands who have taken the time to add their names here and share their stories. we must take action to make it clear that black lives matter. mr. speaker, we passed just a few days ago the roger brook

budget office and congressional research service, and government accountability office. now that i have mentioned all the parts of the bill that i know there's broad consensus on, i wanted to discuss some items that require a tougher conversation. first, i once again included language on the bill to prevent people holding employment authorization under the daca program to work for congress and other legislative branch agencies. d.r.e.a.m.e.r.s. are americans, and should be able to serve their country in this body. i included it because it is the right thing to do, and i want to welcome these members to our national community to seek employment with congress and the leg branch agencies. second, the bill includes language talking the cost of members.justment for right now, with everything going on in our country, i believe this is necessary. however, i would like to point out that this will be the 12th consecutive year that no cost-of-living adjustment has been provided. with the average rent in $2300.ton, d.c. at right now, every federal judge from the district court to t

much to the dismay of congressional black caucus colleagues. the march to selma, alabama, from 1965, alabama state troopers lay in wait across the bridge and alabama state trooper cupped lewis with a concussion. he carried a steel plate in his head until he died. the annual pilgrimage across the bridge to commemorate letty sunday. he also helped lead a sit in on the house floor on guns in jun june 2016. present obama present him with the presidential medal of freedom. when parents teach their children about what's courage, the story of john lewis will come to mind. if african-american who knew that change can't wait for some other person, time, and life is a lesson in the fierce urgency of now. lewis diagnosed with pancreatic cancer late december last year and foxes told it's possible lewis could lie in state in the capital. john lewis, 80 years old. marmary and buried >> chad perg, thank you for your insight once again. if john lewis died at the age of 80. youngest and last survivor of the big six civil rights activists organizing their 1963 m

joining me now is california congresswoman and cheer of congressional black caucus, karen bass. congresswoman, madam chairperson, you worked with john lewis, you were the chair of the congressional black caucus, you worked side by side with him. he was called the conscience of the congress. we say that quickly on newscasts, but explain why he was called that and how he played that role. >> absolutely. well, you know, when he was in a hearing, when he was on the floor, when he would get up to speak, it was the moral authority that he kmaded always. i want to share a funny story with you because one time there was one of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle submitted an amendment that was going to cut the funding to help with voting rights enforcement. i guess mr. lewis must have been in his office and heard about this amendment and he comes rushing down on the floor of the house and he gave one of his, you know, roaring speeches. my republican colleague went back on the floor, apologized publicly and withdrew the amendment. it was the moral authority with which he always

when he got there, elijah cummings and the congressional cloud of witnesses marched down that street paved of gold. we want to say thank you from emmett till to george floyd. they said thank you for allowing our deaths to not be in vain. when he got to the white throne, well done, my good and faithful servant. you have kept your eyes on the prize and now enter into the joy of the lord. angels tod to the lift every voice and sing, we heard dr. king in the background saying, "free at last, free at last, the consciousness of congress is free at last." in jesus' name we pray, amen. >> the honorable mitch mcconnell, majority leader of the united states senate. sen. mcconnell: please be seated. in his memoirs, john lewis described a childhood home that was quite different from the place he lives today. had normhouse in alabama running water or electricity. it stood on the first land his inher family had ever owned, a part of the country where segregation had led to almost total isolation along racial lines. it would have been hard to conceive back then that the young child attending his fa

she ran his congressional office. don't think we have another first lady who ran her husband's office. beth truman worked in the office for pay. lady bird johnson was always careful to say she was volunteering her services. >> it's remarkable. he just left her in charge and off he went. and mary is reporting to him that she was running the office a whole lot better than he had. coming back to the daily saying about networking with the political women, it was an extraordinary group of women to begin with. but what they were doing was not sitting around drinking tea and tending to the padding. they were very politically active both in their husbands' campaigns and in the wider campaigns, voter registration, organizing conventions, all that. but they were also very active in the districts of columbia. it was before har mu and no matter where they were from and in a time where it weren't popular where they were from, when works of the african-american women here in washington on all kinds of social service issues. and the

so what they say is, presidents cannot completely stiff a congressional demand. but because these are separate branches of the government, there has to be a kind of balancing test here. and the courts have to be a little bit wary that congress isn't trying to use the subpoenas to basically abuse the president politically. so they say when this goes back to the lower courts, that the lower courts are going to have to be satisfied -- there are sort of four tests to apply. one is, are there other sources for this information. two, are these subpoenas too broad. three, is there a valid legislative purpose for these subpoenas or do they just want to gather a bunch of stuff and try to nail the president for something. and then, would it be overly burdensome for him to respond. one other point here, andrea. the parties in these cases were very clear to say we're not asking for anything from the president himself. the subpoenas were directed to the president's accountants and his bankers. what the supreme court said is, yeah, that may be true, they're just the custodians

republican and congressional democrat stand for.e will continue to drive that home aggressively through the next few months. betsy: here is another question on political participation from eli. given the current administration's threat way to deal with -- ministration's threatening way of dealing with people of color, including ice, -- gettingions for -- getting people to vote in north carolina? lucinda: we are eager to not in thet more volunteers communities, we are working very want to makeut we sure that voters are being reached out to in a confident way. one other way worth noting, we along with our committees and state parties have invested somewhere around $10 million. we are filing lawsuits and are in the middle of litigation and have won lawsuits all over this country. almost half of our state now where there have been voter suppression attempts. let me give you an example. carolina.ase in south think about these voter registration drives. i've been involved in these and i've seen these. there is somebody standing outside wh

a request for access by congressional committees was referred back to a lower court.t political point — the rulings make it likely mr trump's financial records won't be made public before november's presidential election. speaking at the white house today, the president slammed the decisions. this is a political witchhunt the likes of which nobody‘s ever seen before. it's a pure witchhunt, it's a hoax. just like the mueller investigation‘s a hoax that i won, and this is another hoax. this is purely political. at her weekly press conference, house speaker nancy pelosi dismissed the president's reaction. i don't know what they're even saying about it. i hear he's tweeting one thing and then other people are saying another. but whatever it is, it's not good news for the president of the united states. let's speak now to our north america correspondent david willis. the united states digesting what has happened in these two situations. but when it comes to the president come he was not pleased in any way shape or form. he was not. he called this a witch hunt and he said h

the congressional office said that five of six recipients, 83 percent received more to stay home and they made on the job. we all know that that is not fair and is not workable and reopening job market. we are here from smallwn busines owners who had trouble reopening because it would be financially irrational for their employees to goor back. this is why republicans proposed providing federal aid and continue providing hundreds of dollars per week but do it in a more targeted way while providing human arson incentives for rehiring. but now metta present the speaker of the house is apparently rejects his bipartisan consensus and will upload package go forward the last week continue to pay people more network. it is apparently the speaker'spe position. we will not let a package go forward unless we continue paying people more not to work. that's what speaker pelosi apparently signaled the yesterday. no money for school. households and a second round of the ppe. no money for hospitals. nothing at all unless we continue to pay people floor not to work. in the democrats don't get that co

congressional subpoenas implicate special concerns regarding the separation of power. the courts below did not take adequate account of those concerns. he gave a 4-prong test. 2 competing branches, you've got to wade into this carefully. in those go back down. justice thomas doesn't think that needs to happen. here's what he said and that this answer. up about the power to subpoena private nonofficial documents is not a necessary implication of congress' legislative powers. if congress wishes to proceed, it should proceed through the impeachment power." the other case management involves a new york prosecutor up in new york state. a subpoena connected to a criminal investigation. the court said, "yes, no president is immune from that kind of document, from that kind of subpoena. you don't get absolute immunity. there are enough questions to go back for consideration. "the argument presented here and in the court of appeals were limited to absolute immunity peer to court of appeals has directed at the case be returned to the district court where the president may raise

there were a lot of things congressional democrats wanted to look at. is stossible they will be able to get some of these records but they have to go back to the court andff road -- an offer a narror argument and how it ties to thegi purposes as ators. katty: that was the president's day. joe biden was in philadelphia making a speech lodging his economic program. he used the phrase make it in america, build back better. he seems to be harking on donald trump's economic themes. susan: he is making the case that he is also interested in america that is economically strong.th e economy is the only issue in our latest poll in which president trump is rated mor highly than joe biden. joe biden has an imperative to make the argument that he has a rmula for economic growth that will get american moving again once -- even after the effects of this terrible pandemic we are one big difference between joe biden and donald trump ithe tone they strike. the tone joe biden was striking today, we arall in this together. we all have to unite. he is portraying himself as

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he saved the conditional record -- congressional record which makes mr. rogers, my good friend, the only person in this an associate staff or member. i am an appropriate or to my core. when people ask my father who lived to be 101, he said i played politics. if somebody asked me that i will say i'm an appropriate her. i started as associated staff in january, 1977. i would point out that we are a unique committee. if the work of this committee is not completed, there is no government of the united states of america. we are the ones who are charged with funding the oversight of is entire government so it effective and efficient as possible. hasome ways the committee the ability to achieve bipartisan solutions. in part this is due to the budget control act of 2011. if we only cut discretionary friending -- spending, we could balance the budget. comes up toending 70% of the money each year of the federal government. as mr. womack and others have pointed out in other markups, we must deal with mandatory spending. generations, budget integrity, most important,