florida republican congressman michael wald, california's katie hill, texas's brian and and eddie bernice johnson. c-span's washington journal, live at 7:00 eastern this morning. join the discussion. the justice department hosted a summit monday on combating anti-semitism with administration officials and legal experts. the event began with remarks from attorney general william barr, who discussed how the department was focused on the issue. barr: >> good morning and thank you for joining us at this summit. i am privileged to have the opportunity to set the table and introduce the attorney general, bill barr. i expect most of us here today are aware that attorney general barr has had a distinguished career in private practice and in government, including time at the head of the office of legal deputy attorney general. he served as the general counsel of a major corporation. sel of a major corporation. i'm confident that nearly everyone knows that he served previously as the 77th attorney general of united states and now is the 80 fit the attorney general of the united states. what many may not kn

florida republican congressman michael wald, california's katie hill, texas's brian and and eddie bernice johnson. c-span's washington journal, live at 7:00 eastern this morning. join the discussion. the justice department hosted a summit monday on combating anti-semitism with administration officials and legal experts. the event began with remarks from attorney general william barr, who discussed how the department was focused on the issue. barr:

host: congresswoman eddie bernice johnson is the chair of and technology committee.we appreciate your chatting with us this morning. just under 10 minutes left in our program. getting your thoughts in these final few minutes about the future of space policy. launch ofies of the the apollo 11 mission. that happened 50 years ago this morning. the moon landing happening on july 20 of 1969. in bethlehem, pennsylvania. go ahead. with the'm very happy space program. i hope they continue on with it. i've been watching a lot of these shows on the landing of the moon and so forth. i would like to see a little more honesty involved. i remember going to the space station and taking my children down there. i'm going to be 88 years old next year. i remember how they took the german names off walls and replaced them with the nasa engineers who designed all of the stuff. that kind of bothers me a little bit that you would go to that extreme these shows aren't showing anything about the germans. they are the ones who brought the technology here to begin with. they should get a littl

that's why eddie bernice johnson says she's proud to be a co-sponsor of h.r. 582, the raise raise acte bill -- the raise the wage act. the bill will lift millions out of poverty by gradualy increasing the minimum wage of ver a period of $5 to $15. mr. speaker, i want to be on the record and join my colleague, eddie bernice, to say that the growing wealth gap in our country can no longer go unnoticed. we now have an opportunity to take some concrete steps to help close that gap. and this bill is way overdue. i yield back. mr. horsford: i thank the gentlewoman from michigan for bringing forward her commitment and leadership on these important issues and sharing her support for the raise the wage act which this body will e considering later this week. just before we started this special order hour, one of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle came up and talked about the negative impact of raising the federal minimum wage. well, what is so interesting out that position is, c.e.o. pay for the 350 largest u.s. companies, these c.e.o.'s on verage were paid $18.9 million in 2017. whic

and texas democratic congresswoman eddie bernice johnson. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern tuesday morning. join the discussion. >> tomorrow, the confirmation hearing for mark esper to become the next defense secretary. if approved he would replace jim mattis which left the post at the end of 2018. the senate armed services committee will hold the hearing and you can see it live at 9:30 a.m. eastern on c-span3. after that u.s. census director testifies on the 2020 census and what's being done in order to conduct a secure and accurate count. he'll be speaking before the senate governmental affairs committee and that starts live tuesday at 2:30 p.m. eastern. also on c-span3. and wednesday, president trump holds a campaign rally with voters and supporters in greenville, north carolina. and if the senate is out for the night we will show the president's comments starting at 7:00 eastern on c-span2. >> former special counsel robert mueller is on capitol hill next week testifying in back-to-back hearings about po

host: congresswoman eddie bernice johnson is the chair of and technology committee.e appreciate your chatting with us this morning. just under 10 minutes left in our program. getting your thoughts in these final few minutes about the future of space policy. launch ofies of the the apollo 11 mission. that happened 50 years ago this morning. the moon landing happening on july 20 of 1969. in bethlehem, pennsylvania. go ahead. with the'm very happy space program. i hope they continue on with it. i've been watching a lot of these shows on the landing of the moon and so forth. i would like to see a little more honesty involved. i remember going to the space station and taking my children down there. i'm going to be 88 years old next year. i remember how they took the german names off walls and replaced them with the nasa engineers who designed all of the stuff. that kind of bothers me a little bit that you would go to that extreme these shows aren't showing anything about the germans. they are the ones who brought the technology here to begin with. they should get a little