our congressional community knows profound terror of that day firsthand.congress fled for their lives. staff barricaded behind office doors. support staff who run this capitol hid under furniture the second of sound of blood curdling screams, sound of gas and smoke all remain raw. yet that day the capitol police, metropolitan police, and additional agencies, bravely threw themselves between us and violence. and may i thank the national guard for continuing that protection, ending the day and continuing that protection. with great patriotism -- [applause] again, harkening back to lincoln with great patriotism, determination, and resilience they answered the call to serve, putting their lives on the line to protect the capitol, the congress, and the constitution. your valor on that dark day is the stuff of legend. like the dome, they fought to defend a source of strength and hope and we thank you for that. united in gratitude, today we award them the congressional gold medal forever etching their heroism into our history. in doing so we thank those heroes fo

congressional leader as warding the congressional gold medal to all of the law enforcement who as was backs, thank you for saving our country. and moving ceremony and it is also quite interesting because as lawmakers are standing here in the capitol rotunda, honoring the officers who defended the capitol on january 6. we do have braeks related to attack on january 6. the chairman of the january 6 committee just announced that they will be making at least one criminal referral to the justice department. connected to their investigation. we have those breaking details coming in. we'll have that for you next. they release medicine fast fofor fast pain relief. and now get relief without a pill with tylenol dissolvlve packs. relief without the water. . . i brought in ensure max protein with 30 grams of protein. those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks. uhhhh... here, i'll take that. [woo hoo!] ensure max protein, with 30 grams of protein, one gram of sugar and nutrients for immune health. - [announcer] do you have an invention idea but don't know what to do next? call invent h

and of course, for the congressional black caucus. but, i have to begin with that weekend's top political story. after years of illegal combat that went all the way to the supreme court, the house with means committee releasing six years of donald trump's federal tax returns yesterday, including trump's four years as president. the returns showing that trump claimed losses throughout his time in the white house. ultimately paying little in federal taxes relative to his business earnings in that spin. and yet, two nothing in his final year in office. we have to note that trump has denied any wrongdoing. but, what is your take from these released returns, congresswoman? >> first of all, let me say happy new years. and thank you for having. me i think what we witnessed with our committees is what we knew especially as democrats. that he ran his business like he attempted to run this country into debt. i am not surprised. he claims that he was an astute and wealthy businessman. yet, we knew that not to be true now. he did not pay more tha

has represented a south carolina's fourth congressional district since 2019. welcome back to both of you and thank you for being here. >> thanks for having us. >> for the audience if you would like to submit questions for the panelist, f you can do so in the youtube chat or on twitter using the hashtag. in 2019 the house of representatives established the selects committee on the modernization of congress. originally with a one year tenure. at the house twice voted to extend thehe committee once in 2019 and again in 2021. just two weeks ago the committee approved itsap final report. in that time the committee has held 38 hearings, seven business meetings, sorry, seven virtual discussions, 11 business meetings, scores of witnesses, consulted countless experts and made more than 200 recommendations for improving congress. if i may start with you can you give the audience a y brief history of the modernization committee, why was it formed and what sort of issues have you tackled? >> again thanks for having us. every 20 or 30 years or so congress realizes things a

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i had all three of my kids during my congressional tenure. that gives you a glimpse into the amazing man my husband s my parents, and dan's parents have done more than i could possibly recount to support us. and to southwest washington, thank you for entrusting me six times with this awesome responsibility. and to my team, many of whom have been with me all 12 years, with your help we did things that nobody else could have done. like when i was first elected health care reform was our nation's challenge. if you know me you know that no, or never are like a starter's gun to me. we took the challenge on and in 12 years we helped launch the first of its kind maternity care caucus. we championed the's kids back -- the ace kids act. we helped grandfather association health plans for washington residents. and we also worked our tails off for every single corner of our region. we found out that veterans had to drive for hours to get a blood draw or flu shot so we pushed and pulled and plodded the v.a. until we got a regular mobile clinic out to serv

incoming house minority leader jeffries of new york announced who he has appointed to lead the congressional campaign committee and other democratic leader spoke about a "new york times" investigation into republican representative elect george santos of new york for the investigation calls into question's employment history. as well as alleged criminal charges against mr. santos in brazil. >> good afternoon everyone it is an honor and privilege to stand before you today. too formally introduce our spectacular new d triple ccc she representative susan. before formal introducer it let me just say when you think about the context we are in right now politically, having come off historic over performance on the most recent midterm election on behalf of the american people to take back the house of representatives in 2024 following only five seats short why do we perform in a historic fashion was expected to be perhaps a wipeout for hausa democrats in the midterm election. in fact our colleagues on the other side of the out consistently predicted a red wave. suggested we might lose north of 60as

what is the role of the congressional black caucus in that climate?ll, revenue, the congressional black caucus isn't has been known as the conscience of the congress. as you know, we have been in existence since 1971. we have started with 13 founders we now have 58 members representing over 80 million constituents across these united states. 17 million black americans. we, as a congressional black caucus will continue to protect and preserve our democracy which is fundamental. whether it's voting, protecting our courts, ensuring access to public education for our children. we understand the importance of this moment and pushing back on white supremacy, antisemitism, and other forms of hate against any group. the congressional black caucus is not only about representing the issues of the black community, it is about fighting for the needs and over the issues have all communities and to stand against discriminate shun and hate wherever it is. >> you mentioned hate. let's finish on twitter. it has been nearly a month and a half since elon musk took contr

and if it is not the most important hearing in congressional history, what is?ll, first, i also have a story of -- you write history to and have strong opinions about history. this is about as important as it gets. because one of the things that congress needs to do in american life's show when bad things have been done and say to future citizens and leaders, this must never happen again, and in 1974, that was a year when oddly enough, that did not happen. there is an energetic senate committee, as you well know. house judiciary, they came out in favor of articles of impeachment against richard nixon. and then nixon resigned to avoid conviction and going to jail. gerald ford pardoning him. for years, that was seen as a great act of statesmanship by gerald ford. one of the things you and i has historians know is that oftentimes, as time passes, we see a historical event differently from the way we might have a couple of decades ago and i think that is true of the -- i think in retrospect especially given trump, gerald ford should never have pardoned richard nixon

i'm a congressional historian. i like i like congress. i like studying congress. one of the things that makes congress so interesting is that it's it's traditionally not a parliament that is that you can get these distinctive members of congress from out of the way places. i did a biography of ernest greening was a democratic senator from alaska. a very left wing senator. you don't think of alaska as a particularly left wing state, strong critic of the vietnam war in the 1960s. and as we moved into this, this the current kind of politics that we have now, we've we've sort of lost that aspect of american political life. this next one, it's a little bit of a doozy. and i don't think that we're going to have time to totally answer it. but maybe you can give us a sneak peek into maybe where to look up resources for it. what is the history of the us capitol police origins mission future it's cetera. is it's this actually. it's relatively easy to find one of the great things about all of these federal agencies is that they have they have offices of historians. so you ca

this congressional gold medal commemorates their courage, professionalism and patriotism.w our gratitude than the rotunda of the capitol, the room that is a symbol of a sacred building and a symbol of a great nation and a symbol of freedom and self government here and around the world. the capitol police and d.c. police are valued members of this community, but they are also members of another community, the community of law enforcement, the brotherhood of law enforcement. by awarding them the congressional gold medal for not only honoring them for protecting our nation and community on january 6th, but we are honoring them for the essential brotherhood as well. to all the law enforcement officers who keep this country safe, thank you. putting on the badge means putting yourself in harm's way to protect others, to keep the country safe. these brave men and women are heroes, heroes who protected so many from harm on that day. heroes who live out the code to protect and serve, heroes who do the noble work. too many people take that for granted. but days like today force us t

malcolm clocked congressional gold medal ceremony honoring the u.s.apitol police, the washington d.c. metropolitan police and others who protected the capitol ungenerous 652021 will be awarded by members of congress, led by house speaker nancy pelosi. watch live coverage tuesday morning starting at 11 eastern on c-span, on c-span now our free mobile video app or online at the snow.org. >> c-span now is a free mobile app featuring your unfiltered view of what is happening at washington live and on-demand. keep up with the day's biggest mental live streams of floor proceedings and hearings from u.s. congress, white house events, the courts campaigns and more for the world of politics all at your fingertips. you can also stay current with latest episodes of "washington journal" and find scheduling information for c-span tv networks and c-span radio plus a variety of compelling podcasts. defendant is available at the apple store google play downloaded for free today. c-span an out your front receipt to, anywhere. up next on see some until from homeland se

derek kilmer has represented washington six congressional district since 2013 had vice chair rep. will timmons fourth congressional district since 2019, what about both of you and thank you for being here. >> you had and thank you for having us. >> thank you for having us. >> for our audience if you would like to smoke question for our panelists, you do so we need to jeff, or on twitter, using the # pcp live. and in 2019, house of representatives established the selected committee on the modernization of congress, originally with one year tenure, and house twice voted to extend the committee once in 2019, and again in 2021. and just two weeks ago, the committee approved is final report that time, the committee has held 38 hearings, seven business meetings, i'm sorry seven virtual discussions and 11 business meetings, seven scores of witnesses, consulted countless experts made more than 200 recommendations from congress. add chair rep. derek kilmer if i can serve you can you give your audience a brief history of the modernization pretty boy was informed and what sorts of issues hav

madam speaker, i ask that each of their names be placed in the congressional record today. they are the sheroes and heroes of this institution. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. speier: i thank my constituents for the greatest opportunity of my life, to serve them. thank you. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess until 2:00 >> house lawmakers return at 2 p.m. eastern today for legislative work. they'll consider 16 ll including a measure providing equal compensation to u.s. amateur athletes regardless of gender. this ening on capitol hill, ukrainian president sro hrod mere zelenskyy will address a joint meeting of congress. this is his first visit to washington, d.c., since rusa invaded rue crane in februy. the house is-l take up the $1.7 trillion funding baggage. the most recent form extension ends this friday at midnight. watch live coverage when house lawmakers return here on c-span. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by these te

the congressional hispanic caucus is holding this special order hour. i welcome all of my colleagues who have come to speak here before us today. but right now i'd like to recognize our chair of the congressional hispanic caucus who has come with his two daughters to share with us his thoughts on dreamers. >> thank you, madam chair. i rise today as chair of the congressional hispanic caucus, as a father of these two beautiful daughters of mine, sky and sage, to call on the senate to act now for dreamers. this october the fifth circuit court ruled that the daca program is unlawful and set the stage for this incredibly successful and popular program to be struck down by the conservative courts in texas. if congress does not act by the end of this year, the future of thousands of dreamers will be on the line. dreamers like juan vasquez from my district. in fact, from mecca, who as a senior in high school was detained by i.c.e. while working in the fields as a farm worker with his parents to help them pay the bills. after taking him under my wing as a preme

at a congressional level? where are we today? rep. speier: we pat ourselves on the back for doing very little. i found that the fact that we pass legislation that broke a logjam of 30 years did not address the single most important issue. why would we have a 19-year-old be able to purchase an assault weapon when they could not purchase a handgun? the idea that somehow we will do background checks. a 17-year-old does not in all likelihood have a background of conduct that would elevate them to being someone you would not let purchase a gun. most mass shooters do not have a record. what we found when we did our conference is most of them are not loners. they are joiners who have been rejected. they have been rejected from a group, from a potential girlfriend. it is that kind of situation. so we have not fixed the problem. that is what is so frustrating to me. >> on a different issue, but similar, who is vanessa gann? >> -- rep. speier: a young private in the army at fort hood who was murdered. she was murdered. her body was dismembered.

the clerk: senate 2607, an act to award a congressional gold medal to the former w hostages f the iran hostage crisis of 1979 to 1981. highlighting the resilience throughout the unprecedented ordeal they lived through anti-national unity it produced. marking four decades since their 444 days in captivity and recognizing their sacrifice to the united states. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. cell ashin slaws and the gentleman from mr. norman will each control 20 minutes. >> and to insert extraneous material thereon. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. ashin cellulosic: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: yacht is recognized. >> i rise in support of s.2607, the iran hostages congressional gold'd million act sponsored by senator padilla a companion to a bill sponsored by representative suozzi. i want to thank representative suozzi for sponsoring this bill. november 41979 to january 21, 1981. in recognition of their bravery in the face of egregious human rights violations. it has been more than 4

i'm not asking for next the leakage information as a congressional aide, congressional representatives, all of the above, none of the above. why should we believe any news outlet? >> guest: that's quite a question. yes, i was a diversify your new sources. c-span d is an excellent sourcef information for nonbiased news. i'd like to thank that punchbowl news is good resource as well but yes, we talked to congressional sources, aids, staffers, politicians are passively gather our news onn capitol hill. there are a number of excellent publications coming capitol hill. roll call, "new york times", the associate press, "washington post" could go on and on but i would say focused on the outlets whichu present you facts, which present analysis that a reasonable come try to stay with the outlets the present news as entertainment or sensational. >> host: from maryland this is independent line, michael. good morning you are on with max cohen with punchbowlrn news. >> caller: thanks for getting on the line. i want to quickly make a conservation to the program. one of your callers -- was talking ab

i love the congressional baseball game.my age, being able to play baseball for 25 years is just wonderful. play at a major league stadium, twentysomething thousand people in the stands, raising $1 million or more for local charities which you love, and you create friendships both among republicans but democrats colleagues and the other dugouts, you get to know them and like them. you share the love of baseball. as we have discussed, sports unifies and gives you an opportunity really to come together. i wish we did more of that in congress. i think it would help. host: you didn't mention your roommates. rep brady: that's because my roommates are -- it is the best situation ever here. four of us room together in a townhouse on mile from congress. another and i came in together, dear friends owns it and has put up a bunch of tenants out the years. steve scalise obviously my roommate as well. we have representative brad wenstrup on the baseball field. and a former nhl hockey player and cop from minnesota. we have had great room

and as my congressional career draws to a close, i am proud of my service. i hope i earned the respect of those i represented. whether they were democrats, republicans, or neither. whether they voted for me or would never dream of voting for me. you know, this job isn't easy, but nothing truly worth doing is. there are few places where you can make such a difference in people's lives as you can in the united states congress. ask the veteran who finally received the benefit they earned thanks to the congressional office who broke through the bureaucratic red tape. ask the millions of americans who got health and economic aid during the worst of the pandemic. ask the billions of people who will live in a cooler, cleaner planet because of the green investments we've made. ask the lion-hearted people of ukraine who defend their land with weapons we gave them because their fight is our fight. and ask the police officers who risk their lives -- risked their lives on january 6 and hopefully find comfort in the fact there is a bipartisan committee that seeks to hono

that will cause some disagreement with congressional democrats democrats and the white house who are worried what cuts to social security and medicare would mean for seniors and people who depend on that money. over the next six months or so, the government will officially run out of the ability to borrow money. this happens over and over and the dutch they are usually able to extend the date the government is not able to pay their bills, and before that date you can lift or extend the debt limit but talking to republicans will include key concessions, including national programs that contribute to national debt. host: you hear from republicans that democrats want to do things with medicare, social security, otherwise. what is on the table versus what republicans want to do and what they can? guest: i was talking with a number two republican in the senate last week and he said there was -- there are a lot of republicans who would like to do something on this issue. it goes beyond supercommittee or a way to study the issue. like to extract concessions, may be the retirement age or pri

some work to be done at the congressional level, we understand it. outside of that in state after state after state, we saw election deniers and secretary of state candidates who were extreme maga republicans, go down in flames. we won important governorships in pennsylvania, in wisconsin, in michigan, in new mexico. flipped some gubernatorial seats in thetheast and including in maryland. one state legislative bodies like michigan and flipped the pennsylvania house. in a year where everyone was predicting a red wave. we had extraordinary candidates and we had a vision for the future, people over politics, we had a track record of accomplishment and we had the contrast of extreme maga republicans and look at what is happening right now. house republicans are attacking senate republicans, senate republicans are calling house republicans silly and immature. the leadership situation is in chaos. marjorie taylor greene is fighting with lauren boebert and george santos is appearing in the sequel "catch me if you can." and it's not even january 3. chaos, co

second one, the democratic congressional committee. that gave me the opportunity to sit down one-on-one with the speaker pelosi. every day we flew in to washington dc for half an hour. i did not know she wanted me to have that job. i do not know she would've selected me. but i can tell you, coming out of it, she is honest. she works harder than anybody in you house -- u.s. house of representatives. she cares deeply for children. she is a woman of faith. there is no funniness -- phoniness when she talks about her faith or parts -- refers to god. she is the strongest person i've ever known in my life. she is still standing. terrific family person. she loves her family. the third position and she appointed it to me, i am one of three cochairs -- i sat alongside her for the last six years and i have alert a lot from him -- learned a lot from all three of them. what have you learned about yourself? rep. bustos: i am somewhat unusual in congress and that -- if you call me, i'm going to return my -- your phone call. i will respond to you even

you did not comply with this congressional subpoena that i have. why should i comply? and the obvious issue here is that it undermines the credibility, and authority of congressional subpoenas. and the committee, i think. lays that out very convincingly. if i can just add to the cassidy hutchinson thing. if you don't mind. lawrence because as you pointed out. if that jumps out to me. in so many different ways. as critical to this entire investigation. and we have talked a lot about her bravery. and her determination to do the right thing. and to adhere to the rule of law. but andrew talked about the special counsel's investigation. and there is zero surprise that donald trump, and close in his world. would try to obstruct this investigation. he did it with the special counsel's investigation. he did it with the investigation of michael flynn. he did it with the impeachment investigation that i worked on. and here, once again. he and his close associates are doing it again. and it raises the issue. in fact they're doing it again as andrew and i who both prosecuted mob c

>> it was a congressional coup.illo did in dissolving the congress was legally a gray area, but in the constitution, which we can talk about in a second, it is deeply compromised, and he wanted to change it to prevent these coups in the future, but it does present the opportunity for the president to dissolve congress in cases of obstructionism. the congress in peru, the perfect description is obstructionist. it has taken every step to prevent castillo from governing. that's why there's been six presidents in five years. there is an article in the constitution that goes back to a dictatorship that ended in 2000. peru had a far right dictatorship until 2000. there was genocide, sterilization of indigenous women, and the dictators children are prominent in the opposition. he left behind this tutorial constitution that allows the congress to remove an elected president with a majority vote if the president is deemed to have moral incapacity. that means nothing. basically it opens the possibility for the political oppos

normally, when i'm talking about the hot congressional report that is just come out. that's something people focus on. one of the things that i'm seeing is that this indication that this written report carries with the same kind of drama that was part of the construction of the televise herrings of the committee because each chapter, this is a congressional report. which normally is the driest kind of arena you could possibly have in front of you. the chapter title for chapter six that you're just discovering the chapter title is be there will be wild. and it's a quote, of course there is a famous quote now. from donald trump urging people to come on january 6th, and to be wild. and of course, to go back to the first chapter title cited in the table of contents. it is i just want to find 11,780 votes. all in quotation marks. this is the way you know, a great novel us would light up a story, a great nonfiction writer who really understands about the power of the material to creates a table of contents like this. and that leads me to the suspicions, there's not a lot of

any member can seek to join and participate within the congressional black caucus.in the congressional black caucus in previous sessions. so i look forward to having them if that is the case. again, i'm willing to work with anyone that will put the issues of the american people around voting rights, economic opportunity, health care before partisanship. >> so just to be clear, so there are two republican black members of the house. you would welcome them into the cbc? as you may recall in 2021, senator donalds claimed he was being blocked from admission? >> i'm not going to rehash the past. all i'm going to say is there's nothing prohibiting any member from joining the congressional black caucus. i'm we are our swearing in for the 118th congress in january. under our rules and bylaws of the congressional black caucus, that's when any new members would be sworn in. >> congress is staring down at a december 16th deadline to fund the government and avoid a shutdown. can you get it done? the american people are so tired of this. >> i agree. i am one of them and i unders

no congressional committee in history has ever had a burden like this. it is astonishing to me that they got this done in the speed that they did. they've clearly served the reader out there who is uninitiated in the ways of washington. they have delivered this in a way that is going to be easy reading for anyone, you don't have to be a lawyer for this. but talk to us about what they've delivered for jack white and the special prosecutors, jack smith and the special prosecutors' team because they also need to target them with a very specific style that's different from what you use to pull in the general reader. >> yes, i think the document they produced on monday, the executive summary contained the kind of information that would be relevant to the justice department. that reads hike a prosecution memo which is we lay out what we believe to be the potential crimes here, they lay out four of them. they break down what are the legal elements that would have to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt for each of those four crimes, and then they lay the evidenc

it's a clause about elections, congressional elections.nd so this could potentially prevent state courts from applying state constitutional provisions that apply to all of the electoral system. absentee voting, primary elections. anything that could be interpreted as the time, place and manner of congressional elections. reporter: isn't this theory what president trump's lawyers used to argue about keeping donald trump in the white house after the 2020 elections? >> well, that's right. that's not this particular clause. the's a separate clause in article two that relates to presidential electors and the power of a state legislature to appoint them. so if you really believe that the state legislature is independent, and is not subject to state judicial review under a state's constitution, that would apply to the state's choice of electors as well, which would be given solely to the state legislature. reporter: marcia, you're in the courtroom today for these three hours of arguments. there was a lot of skepticism from the liberal justices ab

. >> a congressional committee recommending a u.s.dent face criminal charges as a delivered a damming assessment of donald trump's last days in office. >> he lost the 2020 election and knew it, but he chose to try to stay in office through a multipart scheme to overturn the results and block the transfer of power. >> replaying key pieces of video evidence, the committee summed up the case built over the past 18 months. that the president not only incited the january 6 attack, bu he knew his claim of a stolen election was false. >> i did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff, which i told the president was -- >> i only need 11,000 votes. >> he pressured officials to rig the vote. >> this was a fraudulent election. >> and refused to call off the mob or condemned the violence afterwards. >> go home, we love you. you are very special. >> the committee cannot force prosecutors to act on its recommendations, but donald trump is already facing multiple investigations. the preure is rising on a c

he will also meet congressional leaders at the capitol. the murders of more than 10,000 people during the holocaust. irmgard furchner had worked as a secretary at a concentration camp. it was one of germany's last trials of criminals

both on capitol hill among the congressional leaders. pelosi has talked with other members of the so-called big four about when the security situation is right the idea of bringing president zelenskyy to congress, to address congress and this is also an idea that administration officials had talked about. biden and zelenskyy had talked about a meeting so in that december 11th phone call between the two leaders, president biden, feeling that the security situation was ok, asked him, if you still want to come, we would be happy to host you? that was what -- when president zelenskyy said the time is now right, i want to come. once that phone call happened, it all happened quickly. it was confirmed about a week later in terms of being able to bring him to washington and of course security was paramount for president zelenskyy and he has the protection of the u.s. government from the moment he left ukraine and came to the u.s. he was on a u.s. air force jet when he arrived at andrews. in poland he got on the airplane and then came here to was

he will also meet congressional leaders at the capitol. a 97—year—old german woman has been given a two—year suspended sentence for complicity in the murders of more than 10,000 people during the holocaust. irmgard furchner had worked as a secretary at a concentration camp. it was one of germany's last trials of criminals from the nazi era. those are our top stories. now on bbc news, honduras�* abortion pill black market. so he just went over, knocked on a door. a man popped out, they did a quick exchange of the drugs for some money, and we're all within about 200m of a police station. this is the sale of black—market abortion pills in honduras. abortion is illegal here under all circumstances, and even the emergency contraceptive pill was banned in 2009 following a military coup. and calling for the full restoration of democratic order in honduras. with the return of democracy this year and the election of the first woman president, who partly campaigned on overturning the ban and legalising abortion in limited cases, is the country on th

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