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in the 1990's, marty came to the house of representatives where he worked for congressman dan miller in a variety of roles, ultimately finishing up as his chief of staff. after leaving capitol hill he went object to a think tank and taught high school before managing xerox's governmental affairs team. in 2011, marty came back to the house, joining the ways and means committee's health subcommittee where he was instrumental in crafting legislation that would provide quality health care for millions of americans. on august 18 of 2014, marty joined my team and has been a vital part of it ever since. with a servant's heart and attention to detail, marty is an expert not only in house procedure but on all issues passing through the whip's office and is relied upon in all other leadership offices as well. thank you, marty, for your faithful service to the house of representatives. best of luck in your future. you will be missed. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the the gentlewoman from the virgin islands seek recognition? ms. plaskett: i as

-- not just in american history writ large, but in the institutional development of the house of representatives. clay comes in, becomes speaker, and makes a number of institutional changes to turn the house into kind of a proto incipient version of what we see now, by which i mean, standing committee, a strong speaker controlling the floor and those sorts of things. during this period, clay allowed the people to see the value of a strong presiding officer, and the speakership becomes more valuable for individual politicians and for the parties. however, without very strong parties during this period, clay is able to get elected speaker because of the force of personality, maybe, i don't know. there's lot of reasons. actually, i am still kind of puzzled why clay always gets elected speaker so easily. he comes and goes. he has gambling debts. he goes and negotiates treaties. whenever he leaves in this period -- he shows up from time to time -- he leaves in the middle of 16th congress and taylor gets elected speaker. it takes 22 ballots to elect clay's replacement. clay comes back -- barnham, next

new jersey and in fact, i didn't get into the details although he was a neophyte in the house of representatives and he was a key lair in this disputed election case involving new jersey when he'd been the governor of new jersey. so he was well aware of organizational things in the house and clay was definitely a different guy. a special guy. [ inaudible question ] >> it seems a lot of what we were talking about today is the centralized power. there's a lot of power centralized in the office. you have a top-down structure. that necessarily wasn't always the case. committees have been incredibly powerful throughout the course of the history of the house as the speakers have delegated powers to the 19th century, how was the office of the speaker especially in this -- well, when clay becomes speaker and especially after clay becomes speaker. what's a whole other book and we address that in our book. you described well what was believed by the house, and i think there is a lot of truth to it. one of the things that is striking looking at the history is the members act as if even during the period wh

in fact, i did not get into the details although he was a neophyte in the house of representatives he was the key player in this disputed election case involving new jersey. he was well aware of the organization of things in the house. clay was a different guy. [inaudible] >> it seems like what we're talking about today was the centralize power. the power centralized in the office. you have a kind of top-down structure. that wasn't necessarily the case. committees have been incredibly powerful throughout the course of the history of the house as a series of delegated powers of the chairman. in the 19th century in particular, how powerful in your opinion was the power of the speaker? especially in this kind of, when clay become speaker, and especially after clay become speaker. >> that is a whole other book. in fact we address some of that in our book. also a couple of things. first i think that you described well what is conventionally believed by the house and i think there is a lot of truth to that, having said that, the members act as, if even during the period we know this observa

president, in the time that i have been in the congress, which include six years in the house of representatives, and now in my 17th year in the senate, i have been a part of or witnessed to or voted on numerous spending proposals and appropriation bills, tax bills, and deficit reduction bills, debt limit increase bills. and, through the years,, and i don't think i've ever seen in all of my time in the congress a spending bill where democrats didn't want to spend more and republicans wanted to spend less. and maybe that is consistent with our overall governor from velocities -- governing philosophies. republicans a story to believe in limited but effective government, in personal freedom, coupled with individual responsibility, in economic freedom, in peace through strength, and those are sort of guiding principles. so, when you get into a debate about spending and budgets and appropriation in taxes, and all of those sorts of things, mr. president, and all the time i've been here and i say this with respect to the bill that it, we're going to be voting on in a few moments, republicans try and sp

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>> the texas house of representatives debated voting laws in this portion of the debate, andrew murr responded to questions about aspects of the bill or voting hours and voting access and mail-in voting. they passed it 80-41.

of the house. today, he house of representatives have taken significant steps toward making historic investment that's going to transform america, cut taxes for working families and position the american economy for long-term, long-term growth. when i became president, it was clear that we had to confront an immediate economic crisis. the most significant recession we've had since the depression, or at least since johnson, but that wasn't going to be enough. we also had to make some long-term investments in americans and america itself. the first thing we did was to write and pass the american rescue plan. and it's working. our economy has added four million jobs in my first six months in office. economic growth is up to the fastest it has been, the fastest rate in 40 years. and unemployment is coming down. right now, our economic growth is leading the world's advanced economies. but to win the future, we need to take the next step. today, the house of representatives did just that. today's vote in the house allowed them to consider my build back better agenda, a broad framework to make housing more a

he's also a republican member of the arkansas house of representatives. sir, these deaths are preventable. the u.s. surgeon general saying every death from covid right now is completely preventable. i don't know what convinces people to get the vaccine but perhaps you could explain what you are seeing and also explain what the suffering is like for those who are in the hospital, in the icu, alone without their family members suffering from covid. >> sure. you know, it's a difficult decision for many people. and i think we have to respect that when we discuss our -- the issue with the people in our community. you know, they're struggling with this decision. you need to listen to their concerns, take them seriously and not discount them. most people that i discuss this with, they have a question or two and they're able to be

♪♪ >> the texas house of representatives debated voting laws in this portion of the debate, andrew murrponded to questions about aspects of the bill or voting hours and voting access and mail-in voting. they passed it 80-41.

and we had a whole list of things that we could do that include enlarging the house of representatives, altering the electoral college, bringing us, if we could, a form of the -- akin to the australian system of mandatory attendance at the polls, and other changes in the institutions. there are things that can be done that would improve the process, improve elections, improve the institutions. but i would also leave you with another challenge that we have. and i agree with ed that we have so many positive things happening now, including, i think, a wider awakening among many white americans that have been ignored for so long that minneapolis and others have set out, that black lives matter is a meaningful phrase, not something to just push to the side or ignore. and i think the immigration struggles have taken us back to understanding what it means to have a larger and better society. but the institutions that were built by the framers are going to be more distorted as time passes. and it has nothing to do with donald trump. by 2040, 70% of americans will live 15 of our 50 states, 58%

now, the house of representatives, democratic leadership, tried to get the votes to pass something in the house on that friday before they adjourned for seven weeks. it didn't happen. so cori bush started this impromptu ptest on the capitol steps and that raised national awareness to the issue, put a lot ofressure on speaker pelosi who in turn put her pressure on president biden to do something. so it was a really rare but very effective moment of activism and protest at the capitol that moved policy and while it took three days since t eviction moratorium ended, it's actually moving very quickly for washington speed that they did so immediately. yamiche: lisa, the jobs report came out today. there is in some ways strong numbers there but there are also americans struggling. could you connect what we're seeing, the real challenge democrats have, especially as the midterm comes up, to try to convince americans that things are getting better? lisa: republicans really see the economy as one of their potentially strongest arguments for the midterms and what they're focused is inflation. t

possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from missouri rise? >> as the member designated by mr. luetkemeyer, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. luetkemeyer will vote yea. as the member designated by mr. graves, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. graves will vote yea. as the member designated by ms. wagner, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that ms. wagner will vote yea. boat boat the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from massachusetts seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. welch of vermont, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. welch will vote yes on s. 325. as the member designated by mr. moulton of massachusetts, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. mo

lincoln, of course, served in the house of representatives and not the senate. >> the library of congress conversation, where was the library of congress when it was in the capitol and what is in there now? >> the wing that sticks out toward the mall. it was added after the capitol was designed because the congress had purchased thomas jefferson's library which is too large for the room they were using at that point. so it was almost the entire wing at least of the upper floors that sticks outoward the mall from the rotunda. it is now occupied on the south by the speaker's office and on the north by a number of hide away offices including the president of the senate and several other people there. then they added another floor above it out of the space, the room was two stories high. i think we have even scheduled a lunch bite later on to talk about that. >> maybe then we can ask if there are any other ghosts that have slipped in the new building. >> and then a couple of people asked questions that i think is a bauder question, when would these -- are there evening tours available, you kn

to the house of representatives. ford was highly respected as the house republican leader. he was also a very longtime friend and supporter of nixon. ford is appointed vice president. as the battle over the tapes escalates, federal judge john sirika orders nixon to hand over the tapes. the court of appeals agrees with that saying that the judge at a minimum is allowed to listen to them in camera, in the privacy of his chambers, to determine if there really are any national security issues involved with them. the white house counters with what they call the stennis proposal. the senator was at this time a 71-year-old senator from mississippi who had hearing aides. he had hearing problems. he had been shot in a burglary attempt. the plan was that he was the only person who was going to be allowed to listen to the tapes. cox would then get summaries of the tapes. nothing else. it was a bold move. nixon was basically going for broke here. i interviewed stennis' doctor. he told me that the senator was on heavy doses of codeine at this time because of the shooting in the burglary.

watching about the really powerful website that you have helped to establish electing the house of representatives where you seek to recapture the role of congress as an equal branch of governing studying side by side with the presidency and granular data about the landslide wins of the president to produce victories where you need the congressional and senatorial victories to produce sweeping legislative reforms. >> sometimes political science is better than historians to look over long political periods, because we are good at that, but if you pull back the cameras, you can see the patterns. norm said that the democrats maintained control of the house. from 1954 through 1994. think about all of the things that were happening in america in those years, and yet, the apparent, the stability of partisanship. that is something to think about. we don't want to glorify that, because in many ways that control as norm said was based on the solid south, and its own kind of tribalism. so when you have just white men disagreeing with other white men, they, if they are not dueling each other, they can feel a

i commend the members of the texas house of representatives. i commend those senators in the state senate who stood there for 15 hours. i know senator royce west was organiing and fell two short of the quorum in the senate. we must continue to fight and fight because the rights of individuals are at stake. and quite frankly, the quality of our constitution is being challenged by individuals who want to see january 6th play out over and over, the denial of the peaceful transfer of power and the inability of individuals to be deemed legitimate citizens by being able to cast a vote. >> let's divide how this is breaking down. texas is the epicenter, right? it's the place we are focused on. we know there's nonsense in arizona and michigan and pennsylvania and georgia, but texas is where the energy is focused on the resistance to one of these state laws or a plate of state laws that would reduce voting rights. then we've got the united states senate that's now talking about two different bills, one of which manchin is onboard for, one which reverend w

the nature of the house of representatives gave them a lot of clout. and because of this determination to maintain slavery. and in the aftermath reconstruction to make sure that they could recapture their power through voter suppression and the use of votes. i would remind people of one other thing or something that most people don't realize. the house started with 65 members. and it was kept in 1929 at 435. it actually didn't change incidence up to the 19th and senses. that was because the southerners saw that if they kept responding to the population by adding numbers it was going to dilute their power and give more power actually to african americans who were emerging. so they figured out how to keep the size 435 and use the power of redistricting a -- use their ability to maintain control to basically keep walks from having any significant role in the south. and keep the law as such so there wouldn't be significant civil rights. which of course wouldn't get until the 1960s. so there's a lot of history here that we have to keep in mind. we also have

it was really about the optimism in the markets, especially after the house of representatives adopted the 3.5 trillion dollar budget resolution. there was a lot of political maneuvering from speaker pelosi but she managed to get the progressives and moderate democrats on board. we are looking to the 550 billion dollar infrastructure till for the vote to be set up. haidi: so much being driven by the economic optimism as well as the extraordinary amount of monetary policy stimulus in the system. that has sent hedge funds, as of a year ago, completely out of vogue. we had seen arise when it comes to hedge funds but that seems to be turning because it seems like they are hard again. according to that data tracker, we seen a record -- shery: it's a lot of money. haidi: they've stopped accepting new money. essentially closing up shop to new money because there had been so much demand. shery: we are watching what happens on the geopolitical front because president biden is sticking to his deadline of august 31 to have afghanistan it evacuated. president biden saying they are on pace to finis

today the house of representatives has taken a significant step toward making a historic investment that will transform america, cut taxes for working families and position the american economy for long term growth. today's vote in the house allowed them to consider my build back better agenda, a broad frame work to make housing more affordable, bring down the cost of prescription drugs by giving medicare the power to negotiate lower prices for drugs, make elder care more affordable, provide two years of free universal pre-k and two years of free community college, provide clean energy tax credits, continue to give the middle class families the well deserved tax cut for day care and health care they deserve, allowing a lot of women to get back to work primarily. and provide significant monthly tax cuts for children through the child care tax credit. i want to thank speaker pelosi who was masterful in the leadership on this. i want to thank every democrat who worked so hard to reach an agreement and who supported the process for house consideration of the jobs and infrastructure plan, the

christina peterson talks about what we can expect on capitol hill as the house of representatives takes break from their august recess. the editor-in-chief of the breaking defense news will discuss the taliban takeover of afghanistan, and a former ceo on how covid-19 affects the u.s. health care system as a whole. watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern. and be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, texts, and tweets. ♪ announcer: c-span sat down with 14 members of congress to get their first-hand experiences on what happened january 6 as they were counting and accepting electoral college votes for the presidential election. they talk about what they saw, heard, and experienced that date while in the house chamber. tonight we hear from two representatives, jim mcgovern of massachusetts and susan wild. they recount what happened when a mob stormed the u.s. capitol trying to overturn the 2020 u.s. election results. vp pence: madame speaker and denies its, pursuant to the laws of the united states the house of representatives are meeting at a

house will begin marking up this $3.5 trillion budget panel. and they said that they would do that as early as the first week of september. now keep in mind, the house of representativess leaving. they're not planning on coming back here until september 20th. that leaves only seven days after they return to get that budget reconciliation package moving through the house and passed so that they can then vote on the bipartisan plan on september 27th. there are a lot of moving parts in this process, jake, and it seems at each stage there is the potential that the whole deal could collapse. they got over one hump today, but there are still many hurdles that they need to cross before it is all over. jake? >> ryan nobles on capitol hill for us, thank you so much. we're waiting to hear from president biden on the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. we're going to bring that to you once it starts. >>> also coming up, stuck in a hangar in a hot desert climate. reports of what evacuees are dealing with after they get out of kabul. stay with us. ♪ ♪ [ring] [ring ring] [ring] oh no... i thought i just ordered tacos. nope! sushi... ramen... burgers... tandoori chicken... some milk f

possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representativesy use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's room, washington, d.c., august 31,

the clerk: house resolution 602, resolution electing a member to certain standing committees of the house of representatives. resolved, that the following named member be and is hereby elected to the following standing committees of the house of representatives. committee on science, space, and technology, mr. elsing -- ellzey. committee on veteran affair, mr. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the resolution is agreed to. the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> madam speaker -- mr. davis: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that the committees on ways and means and budget be discharged from further consideration of h.r. 5085 and ask for its immediate consideration in the house. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 5085. a bill to a-- amend section 1113 of the social security act to provide authority for increased payments for temporary assistance to united states citizens returned from foreign countries and for other purposes. the speaker pro te

the number of seats that we are entitled to, both in the state legislature as well as the house of representativesbasis of fair criteria, democrats and progressives will do just fine. republicans have to cheat to win. so yeah. they'll try to do what they can in texas and georgia, florida, north carolina. we'll bring laws if we have to do that. we won lawsuits already in north carolina that reduce the margin to 8-5 when it was before. it was a two-seat greater differential for republicans. the constitutional amendment in florida that we will use in litigation as well. but there is no need for democrats to do anything other than to fight for that which is fair. if you fight for that which is fair, if we are successful in that fight. democrats will do as i said, just fine west don't have to cheat. republicans have to cheat in order to win and that's why they are in favor of partisan and racial jerry imaginedering. they know that substantial numbers of people vote in this increasingly younger, increasingly more diverse, increasingly less rural america, they get that. they understand it. >> let me ask

he became the first in the house of representatives to become the house majority whip from 1989 to '91. and he served on the chairman of the house budget committee. those are all big deals. because he who pay attention to the tax proposals going on right now. if you are the chairman of the house budget committee, you are a powerful chairman, right? this is something -- everybody learned from adam clayton powell, jr. for all of his interesting dalliances he was a politician and served on very powerful committees to get legislation through, and that's how you get legislation through. so powell, bill gray, all learned how to work the system and to navigate it. he is the first person, he died in 1913, too early. he became -- after leaving congress, he became the president of the united negro college fund. so to kind of work -- and he's -- of course, he is at a very powerful time being in the house committee on the budget because he's working really with george bush i. he has to help shepherd him raising taxes through, because under the reagan administration the budget gets out of kilter an

house of representatives. >> the front of it down trudge in front of african americans [inaudible] is justly is going to come. >> so that's a very capable video of jesse jackson. when i was working in chicago kids in the project would call reverend jackson " messi " jesse. you know, but the point is that this unique position is being carved out. it's not just a religious role. it has taken on other social significance for everybody. any last questions, and i'm done. i would like to tell you to pay attention to william barber, who started more mondays in north carolina. and is attempting to start your poor people's movement in the united states. again, the same tradition of that peoples spiritual spiritual needs are also political. thank you. next on lectures in history, baylor university thomas kate teaches a class on the first great awakening in the americas, a period in the mid 18th century of christian revitalization that swept through the colonies. he explains how the salem witch trials and the decline of puritanism that to an era of traveling preachers and an emphasis on evangeli

losing your seat over if you have to. >> you were one of five democratic members of the house of representatives that didn't vote for nancy pelosi to be speaker. and you're part of the problem solvers caucus. how do you, congresswoman, describe your politics? >> well, i'm an independently minded person from an independently mindedistrict. and i'm from the state of michigan, which is inherently a swing state. we are still a split-ticket state where people vote the persver the party. and when you represent a place like that and you come from a place like that, you carry that same approach to legislating. so when people come and let's say, try to lobby me to vote for sothing, i say, "look, i'm going to tell you exactly what i tell everyone else. i'm going to read it. i'm going to evaate it on its merits. if it's targeted and transformational and is going to affect my constituents in a positive way, i'm in," whether that's a democratic bl or a republican bill. but i'm not going to vote for something just because my team is voting for it. >> on january 6th, you were on a staircase headed to the house

which already passed the house of representatives. right? ate bill one, a landmark voting rights bill proposed by democrats in congress this year. of course, the for the people act was dead on arrival in the senate. republicans guaranteed it would never get any votes from them to pass. but the pressure to pass some kind of a federal legislation, to backstop voting, to codify protections around voting, that pressure remains and in some ways is increasing. just today, outside the white house, family members of john lewis, the late congressman, held a rally to try and pressure president biden to call the senate to end the filibuster. so democrats can pass the legislation even if they get zero republican votes. the washington post reports today that at the end of this month there will be 100 nationwide marches on voting rights. excuse me, nationwide marshes ago organized by more than 100 organizations across the country. the group that convene the protest outside the white house today, told us there will be civil disobedience, including at the wh

>> well depends how they blend this together in the house of representatives. you could have two separate bills. you could have them blended together before they ship it back to the senate. maybe the senate bounces it back. there are a lot of different machinations putting this together. some are adamant they have to get it addressed in the bill. therein lies the divide inside of the democratic party as it pertains to the cost here. as i said, this is a crucial pay for here. you have liberals and progressives saying look, they should have these wealthy americans pay more. this is going to be one of the most meddlesome issues as this bill comes over to the house of representatives. and it underscores just hue how challenging bassing this bill here is it going to be. we'll be here untiller fall. neil: i appreciate that, chad. 3 1/2 trillion dollar human infrastructure package is where the tax increases come in to play for the top, you know, paying americans as well as corporations, right? it is in that measure, right? >> right. but there is really three steps to t

airports across the country, but there is more and some of it is going to turn into the haunted house of representatives, right? edward lawrence is outside the white house, edward, the bills passed, what's next at the house? reporter: yeah, you're right it goes to the house of representatives where house speaker nancy pelosi will sit on it. she says, until the reconciliation bill is going to be passed and that looks like it could be sometime in the fall we'll have to wait and see on that now president joe biden coming back here to the white house today from delaware to make the comments, to show these comments we're expecting to hear him say he reached across the aisle and it worked. they got a bipartisan in deal. the president expected to take this victory lap and here is the white house press secretary on why, listen. >> the most important piece of this to the president is not the bipartisan piece, which of course, he is pleased to see the opportunity work with democrats and republicans, but that this will deliver huge benefits, millions of jobs, to the american people. reporter: we will add some of t

at the end of the hour, we have all this stuff to do, including what is going on in the house of representatives tonight. we have no idea. that's the first thing we're going to move on to. >> thank you. lawrence >> thank you rachel. breaking news situation in the house of representatives tonight. the breaking news, is we don't know what's going on, luckily, we are going to be joined by a key member, of can see pelosi's house leadership, team and also joined by the chair of the house budget committee, two key players in this, they'll be joining us in a moment to give us an update on what was supposed to be the first vote tonight, in the house. in the biden infrastructure plan. it was supposed to be a procedural vote. and a budget resolution. here's what white house press secretary jen psaki said today. >> what is your message for those who want to vote on the biden didn't infrastructure bill? and the trillion dollar budget. and why not just do it first? >> i would first say, that the president has every intention of signing east of these pieces of legislation into law. what i want to be clear wit

of the house. today the house of representatives are taking significant steps toward making historic investment that's going to transform america, cut taxes for working families and position the american economy for long-term growth. when i became president, it was clear that we had could confront an immediate economic crisis, the most significant recession we've had since the depression, or at least since johnson. but we weren't going to -- but that wasn't going to be enough. we also had to make some long-term investments in americans and america itself. the first thing we did was to write and pass the american rescue plan. and it's working. our economy has added 4 million jobs in my first six months in office. economic growth is up to the fastest it's been, fastest rate in 40 years. and unemployment is coming down. right now our economic growth is leading the world's advanced economies. but to win the future we need to take the next step. today the house of representatives did just that. today's vote in the house allowed them to consider my build back better agenda, a broad framework to make housing

>> she was posing a threat to the united states house of representatives. >> she was posing a threat nited states house of representatives. that is lieutenant michael byrd of the united states capitol police coming forward, identifying himself, speaking on his own terms. talking not only about what happened that day but about the attacks and threats against him since. joining us now is ryan riley. he's the senior justice reporter for the "huffington post." he's been following the rioters and their ties to far right movements from the very beginning. ryan, thank you for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> tell us a little bit about the role who lieutenant byrd, who has now identified himself publicly, and the shooting of ashli babbitt have played in far right circles online since the january 6th attack? >> it's something that everyone is rallying for on the far right, and the factor that cannot be removed at all is the race of the officer who fired the shot. that just plays a tremendous factor here. i would say it is amazing how quickly this alliance between the police and the repu