host: congressman earl blumenauer is with us this morning, a democrat of oregon and sits on the budget on ways and means committees. let's begin with the possibility of a government shutdown 10 days away from that deadline. do you think it's imminent? guest: sadly, i think that's the case. i've been through this before. it's highly predictable but you have a small group of people who have a stranglehold on the republican leadership in the house and leaving kevin mccarthy no choice but to try to placate them. but it doesn't work. in the final analysis, we know how it will end. congress actually agreed on a spending proposal in the spring, 100 49 republicans voted for it, establishing the spending levels. the senate's budgeting based on that and passing legislation and we will end up largely in that space after we inflict a lot of pain and confusion. unnecessarily host: is it because there is not enough time at this point, 10 days away? guest: you are running out of time and you have a deadline and you have the jewish holidays, it takes time to be able to assemble serious legislation. it

earl blumenauer was one of the sponsors of the bill. >> what we're attempting to do with this legislation is blow a whistle. stop moving forward with the products within the next 6 months that has this potential exceedingly damaging effect and prohibit their use until we're able to follow through on the research to prove that they're safe. >> but congressional action is unlikely any time soon. in 2014, neonics were banned by the cities of eugene, oregon and spokane, washington on municipal property. the u.s. fish and wildlife service announced plans to ban neonics from all wildlife refuges by 2016. and the white house launched an initiative to strengthen federal action to improve pollinator research and to protect pollinator habitat. >> there are things that we can't control or not easily regulate, things like climate change, even habitat loss are things that we can't control. but things like pesticides we can. >> well, nature is pretty good at fixing itself. but then that assumes that you're going to remove the pressures that we're putting on it now. >> we depend on all these things. we

earl blumenauer and later, republican congressman matt rosendale, a member of the house freedom caucusll talk to both of them coming up on the "washington journal." >> eric schmidt is the associate professor of rhetoric at york college in pennsylvania. he is also the cofounder and coeditor of pre-black thought. in a newsweek article, he wrote we hear endlessly about systematic racism, white supremacy on the black and white income gap and police brutality. so powerful and ideology has this narrative become that those of us who pose a counter narrative like anti-woke writers frequently find our words being misconstrued in an effort to stanch their impact. >> book notes plus is available on the c-span now free mobile app for wherever you get your podcasts. >> monday, watch c-span's new series in partnership with the library of congress, books that shaped america. we will feature the federalist come a come violation of essays written in 1880 seven and 1788 by alexander hamilton, james madison and john jay, urging for the ratification of an newly ratified u.s. constitution. our guests will

in fact, democratic congressman from oregon earl blumenauer has introduced a bill that would expand thef representatives by 150 seats for the 2030 census to get our ratio down to about 1 per 500,000 residents, having a little more of a closer, you know, member of congress a little more of a tighter community. they might be more representative of the people on the ground. so, what would this do to congressional delegations across the country? well, delaware and the two dakotas might actually double in size, going from one to two. in wyoming, it would probably still only have one seat. but take a look at this. this is how the delegations would change in the big states. california would go from 52 congressional seats to 70, texas 38 to 51, florida and new york both would expand by 10 congressional seats, pennsylvania by 6. so it would be quite the change to our electoral college. but guess what? it might make members of congress and washington a little more connected to the people on the ground. >>> when we come back, he's consistently underestimated and he blames the media for his poor ap