hoyer: i thank the majority leader for his remarks. mr. hoyer: john dingell wanted to repeal the senate but did he want to replace it? chairman dingell, i will tell you, i was with wednesday from approximately 4:00 p.m. on wednesday until 6:0 p.m. and debbie was there and your dad was there, andy, our dear colleague, sandy levin was there and john orlando who served with john on the energy and commerce committee for such a great time. he remembered all of you. he asked me to give each of you his best, to wish you well and to say that our country needs each of us to work together. word that would could leave such of the legacy that john dingell has left behind. we are so pleased that we have the opportunity to serve with is wife, his lovely deborah, what an extraordinary relationship. what an extraordinary man. how lucky we were and are to serve with him. the speaker will be shortly notifying us of when the funeral will be, opportunities to go to the funeral. there will be a memorial service hire and probably a service in the capitol as wel

hoyer: mr. chairman, my llow colleagues, i rise with great sadness to announce the ssing of one of this house's great and good members, former representative john david dingell jr., who served in this house for almost a full six decades. his father preceded him for 22 years, and his wife, our beloved colleague, debbie dingell, serves now. at the request of his beloved wife, i have the sad task of informing the house that john died yesterday after a long distinguished and committed career of service to community, to this house, and to his country. john served with honor in wartime and with distinction in this house. he worked for the advancement of his fellow veterans and their care and benefits in peace time. and he fought all of his life for fairness and opportunity for all. he defended vigorously of those in the auto industry and working family everywhere. his wit, his humor, brought smiles to our faces. and his fearless questions of witnesses in committee brought grimaces to those who believe

hoyer: i thank the majority eader for his remarks. mr. mccarthy: i thank the gentleman for the promotion. mr. hoyer: the spirit of john -- the spirit of john dingell was so present at that remark. now, john dingell apparently was not always right and he wanted to repeal the senate and then he wanted -- but he didn't want to replace it. john dingell, i will tell you, i was with wednesday from approximately 4:00 p.m. on wednesday until 6:30 p.m. and debbie was there. your dad was there, andy. our dear colleague, sandy levin, was there, and john orlando, who served with john in the energy and commerce committee for such a great time. he remembered all of you. he asked me to give each of you his best, to wish you well, and to say that our country needs each of us to work together. would that we could leave just some of the legacy that john dingell has left behind. we are so blessed that we have the opportunity to serve with his wife, his beloved wife, his lovely deborah. what an extraordinary relationship. what an extraordinary man. how lucky

hoyer: i'm not a member of the conference committee and he quoted what i said. we are for border security. i'm hopeful that the conference committee reports out a bill that all sides can support that does, in fact try to make our borders more secure. and i look forward to having that bill hopefully on the floor next week prior to the 15th or on the 15th, so we can a, assure that the government is not shut down, and b, that we have bipartisan agreement on how we can make our borders more secure. i yield back. mr. scalise: i thank the gentleman, and i think we will be encouraging those members of the conference committee to continue the work that they're doing and that it seems to be going in the right direction and hopefully we come up with a bill early next week that we can vote on before the 15th to continue to properly fund those areas of government that includes the border security that's necessary including physical barriers. shifting gears, i would like to ask the gentleman about a piece of legislation that we filed and trying to get unanimous consent to br

hoyer referenced going to the border. i tell you this. in laredo each year, they ahve the m -- they have the most beautiful celebration of washington's birthday. they honor washington, george .nd martha, both hatis a multi-day event of w our founding father and mother meant for our country. laredo is mostly hispanic. to see the pride and the deep is a joym side by side i which the country could behold, the patriotism of the people who live at the border, which we consider a community with a border going through it. what the president is saying about the border is mythology, not reality. thinker you may think, about the constitution of the united states. our colleagues have talked about believing that our members were doing this. i know that they will. i know that our republican colleagues care about the constitution. i know that they believe in the separation of power. i know they would not want a president, republican or democrat, to usurp the powers of whichstitution we serve we all serve, as part of the separation of powers, the checks

hoyer: thank you very much, congressman castro. leader posey. who clyburn and the members stand behind me. ms. escobar is here, she and i were in el paso two weeks ago. ochi is know whether x here. we were in new mexico in two days ago i was at the border. just south of san diego. with congressman peters and congressman levin and congressman vargas. >> i am here. [laughter] mr. hoyer: i am not taking role. and what i concluded, there is no crisis at the border. tomorrow will be ourher there is a crisis of constitutional adherence. whether there is a crisis because there is a lack of consciousness -- conscience and courage among the members of the house of representatives and subsequently, the u.s. senate to stand up for what the fathering -- finding -- founding fathers want, they did not want king george, they had enough of king george telling them what to do. and so they created this extraordinary government. of powers. we are each had their responsibility. -- where each had their responsibility. that is what tomorrow's vote is about, not the w

a forced steny hoyer to have burner's ice cream float the day died. he in a toast, steny i'm surprised you are still with us. i treasured our relationship years.han 40 our services were across the hall. for years we would stroll to cast literally thousands of votes. and when you asked him how he he had the standard phrase, you.ys better for seeing he always said that. oday before he died we spoke and i wondered if it in fact would be the last time. i had finished his book and it confirmed that e charted a wonderful career and that it was unfortunate we ever seemed to take time to smell the roses. you know, he was first sworn in the youngest member of the 84th congress. said on the house floor, mr. speaker i'm deeply touched tribute paid to my father and respect and affection by all.eld without regard to political half the man be my father was, i shall feel i'm success. well, mr. chairman, let me dad would that your be awfully proud. boehner speaker designated the energy and commerce full committee room as d. dingell hearing room forever. when i became

a lot of people were aligned with hoyer, as she had to work at one vote at a time. that's why the race was so fascinating. no one was sure who was going to win and i don't think steny hoyer thought he was going to lose. carl: pelosi said she had 120 voice and steny thought he had 115. susan: they declared their web counts and they are always different in the end. carl: she had 118. that's how close she was. susan: and through friendships and relationships in gentle arm-twisting she managed to succeed hoyer and state ahead of them ever since and that was 18 years ago. host: we have one more clip of the rank-and-file member and then something from her first leadership position. this is once again 1994. it's interesting to us for two reasons. let's watch. >> because newt gingrich at the republican leadership has spent a week demonizing a bill that should have overwhelming support in the congress, just as it has overwhelming support among the american people. congresswoman nancy pelosi. >> thank you very much, representative schumer. i really appreciate the opportunity

hoyer: well, i'm very pleased at this point in time. we ought to remind ourselves, this is last year's work. and it didn't get it done. i want to congratulate the chair of the full committee and the chair of the subcommittee and the conferees for getting this work done. my objective will be -- and i talked to chairwoman lowey about this. my objective will be as majority leader to make every effort to get our appropriation bills done in a timely fashion that we do not confront again the threat of or the actual shutdown of the government of the united states. that is not a policy that ought to be repeated. we will certainly try not to do that. congratulations to the committee and to the conferees and very frankly to republican and democratic conferees. all stood on the floor and supported the passage of this knowing we needed to get our work done. the speaker: mr. clyburn. ben ray lujan. mr. clyburn: i associate myself with the comments from our leader and i want to add my congratulations to you, nita. thank you so much for this. y classm

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i leader hoyer, do you have a moment to chat? we've heard the president is going to sign this legislation. what's your reaction? mitch mcconnell said he spoke to the president, the president is inclined to sign it but he will declare a national emergency simultaneously. do you think that's the right plan? >> no. i do not. i think declaring a national emergency where there is no national emergency is not good for the president to do and, frankly, i don't think it's good for precedent for future presidents and i think a lot of republicans share that view. i am pleased, however, that he's said -- apparently, i don't know, you're telling me -- that he is inclined. that's a hedge word, inclined, either is going to sign it or not. >> mitch mcconnell was more definitive. he said the president indicated he was going to sign the bill. >> fine, i'm happy to hear that. this was a conference report. it's been hard fought. there was differences of opinion. nobody got everything they wanted but it's the product, i think, of a good legislative

hoyer: madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland seek recognition? mr. hoyer: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that when the house adjourns today it adjourn to meet on monday next when it shall convene at noon for morning hour debate and 2:00 p.m. for legislative business. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. hoyer: thank you, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will now entertain requests for one-minute peeches. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from florida seek recognition? >> madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. >> madam speaker, my first friend and mentor in washington was chairman dingell. ms. shalala: big john guided me during all of my years as h.h.s. secretary. he was a towering figure in the house, passionate about health care, and tough on unethical be

[laughter] hoyer: and more often than not, he ultimately got the votes, too. john liked and respected every member with whom he served for having been elected by their neighbors to represent them in the congress. at least until they gave john a reason not to. he never minced words. he never held back. sincere, earnest, determined, courageous, persuasive, principled, indefatigable, at times, acerbic. say amen. >> amen! [laughter] the voices you just heard are those who knew that personally. and so many times, of course, gentle and encouraging. the love he showed those of us who were his colleagues was often tough love. he loved us sometimes with soft words and sometimes sharp elbows. democrats, fred as you pointed out, republicans alike. john handed out barbs as often as he handed out punch key. those are polish doughnuts. if i mispronounced it, i apologize. [laughter] and how fortunate we were to have both. from the biting letters he wrote to his pointed questioning of witnesses, from his unyielding advocacy for legislation ahead of its time, to his tweets so

let's get the read from steny hoyer. congressman, where good to have you. where does it stand right now? >> there's still negotiations going on between the two sides, between the two houses. hopefully they will reach an agreement. hopefully they'll reach an agreement soon. obviously we need to fund the government. we must not shut down the government. contrary to what mr. mulvaney said. shutting down the government ought not to be an option. we want to see an agreement reached. a statement was put out a few hours ago as to why we were trying to restrict the numbers of beds. let me say the president's statement that he just made is absolutely incorrect. in the statement, the chair of the homeland security subcommittee, she said clearly they wanted to have sufficient beds to house -- to keep whatever criminals are elected or arrested. we think that that is the proper thing for ice to do. clearly if we have people who are committing crimes, putting in danger either people or property, they ought to be taken off the streets and frankly incarcerated or held. but

don't think steny hoyer could have done it because he has the same problem she does. he's very -- he's getting old. some of the younger people want to move in. now the younger people have the support they do because they haven't been there as long, but she did this trade-off. i was assured by her leadership staff that she always had command of the votes and was never in danger of not becoming speaker. that may be true because that -- because there was not another substitute and by default she would get it because she is the most powerful and the one with the most support. host: our next to last clip happened less than a month later and it is one we were probably watching with amazement when it happened. this is the meeting as the shutdown is becoming more a reality, at the white house, when nancy pelosi and chuck schumer met with the president and the president decided to negotiate in front of the cameras. speaker pelosi: the fact is that legislating, which is what we do, you make your point, you state your case, that is what house republicans would do if they have th

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steny hoyer bringing this to the house was a big deal.ee what mitch mcconnell does. as we saw with the last shutdown standoff, mitch mcconnell is not going to bring any bill forward that he knew president trump is not going to sign. if we haven't heard from the white house but mitch mcconnell says were going to vote on it, that's pretty good sign this is all going to go through and that the government will stay open after this weekend and beyond. >> neil: may be steny hoyer jumped the gun and announcing these plans. would mean he wants to make sure, mitch mcconnell, that the president would support it. the president sounded iffy. >> yeah, he sounded iffy. but he also kind of sounded like the person from the house. i'm not happy with that but democrats also aren't happy with it. they may not be happy with it but that's what you have to do when you have the democratic party controlling the house of representatives. you have to compromise. that sounds like something trumpet is at least willing to do to get something rather than nothing on th

as you said, steny hoyer forcing that apology from a present of omar.to ask you specifically since we are talking a lot about twitter, you put out a tweet about three billionaires trying to buy the midterms. what did you mean by that? >> that had nothing to do with faith. that was her republicans versus democrats. michael bloomberg put in $54 million into campaign just in the last couple weeks in 24 districts. all i was pointing out was money that republicans and democrats were spending to defeat one another. one of the greatest joys i have in this job -- every single new term, i lead a trip of all the republican freshman to israel. when i became a majority leader and started to do this, i changed the course. i sat down with steny hoyer and said, "let's make it bipartisan. let's overlap for a couple days." it had nothing to do with faith, it had to do with party and the campaign. >> harris: real quickly before i leave go, we seem to be at a time where people are going to do a lot of this in the public sphere of social media. does that concern you? >> i

denny hoyer and former house speaker bon boehner. watch the funeral services for john dingell on c-span or c-span.org or listen with the free c-span radio app. >>> c-span where history unfolds daily. in 1979 c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies. and today we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress. the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events in washington, d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. >>> we're live on capitol hill this morning where executives from t-mobile and sprint will testify about a proepds merger between their two wireless companies. the proposed deal would join the third appear fourth largest u.s. mobile carriers into a single company. live coverage from the house energy and commerce subcommittee on technology and communication here on c-span3. >>> well, good morning. before we get

listen to the house majority leader steny hoyer. has said, let the negotiators work. nancy pelosi at one point said not a dollar for the president's wall. steny hoyer says he's open to supporting about $2 billion. >> i don't think anybody expected there wouldn't be a compromise of some type, and, obviously, one side has been asking for additional barrier money. >> right. >> so when you have a conference like this, one ought not to be surprised that part of the deal encompasses that facet of one party's demands. >> if the republicans are there, it's not an issue. they'll have the votes in the house regardless. will speaker pelosi and hoyer face some blowback? >> they'll certainly face some in their new caucus. we've seen in the border negotiations the group of progressives, including alexandria ocasio-cortez send around a letter to fellow colleagues saying we -- no money for the kind of barriers that this is being discussed. but that's the nature of compromise. you look at these deals that pass congress. you'll always have people pee

hoyer laid out, the importance of the bipartisan work to get everything done for the good of the country, also looking at important investments when it comes to border security. but the work of the conferees also built on the humanitarian responsibilities we have across the country. nita and lucille are our two chairs, but also there was work done by pete and henry and barbara and david. rep. pelosi: thank you. madam chair? >> i just want to add to what my colleagues said. at a time like this, where public political discourse has been so crude, i was so proud as the chair of this committee, working with outstanding conferees, to work in a bipartisan way and really accomplish our goals, serve the people of the united states. i haves hope -- as always been an optimist, that we can continue this tone. .e have a lot of work to do as we complete this bill, we have to begin on 2020, where we have 12 new bills that we have to work on. i really hope that we can work together in a civil way to accomplish our goals and serve the people of the united states of america. that is the way this project

speakers at the funeral include president bill clinton, house majority leader steny hoyer and john boehner live on c-span and c-span.org or listen with the free c-span radio app. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979 c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and today we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court and public policy events in washington, d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. >> the house has voted to end meltry aid for saudi arabia's military operations in yemen in a 248-177 vote. 18 republicans joined democrats in passing the resolution. the resolution now goes to the senate which passed a similar measure in december. here is the debate before the vote. it begins with eliot engel. n im the house, madam chair. for years under administrations of both parties the congress has handed away our authority and abbreaux gated our responsibility when it comes to foreign policy, particularly the questions of how and where our military is en

to have asteny hoyer burner's ice cream float the day before he died. in a toast.i'm surprised you are still with us. relationship for more than 40 years. our offices were across the hall. and for years we would stroll together to cast thousands of votes. when you asked him how he was, he had the standard phrase, always better for seeing you. spokey before he died, we and i wondered if it in fact would be the last time. i told him that i had finished his book and confirmed that he charted a wonderful career, and that it was unfortunate that we never seemed to take time to smell the roses. in as thest sworn youngest member of the 84th congress, and he said on the i am floor, mr. speaker, deeply touched by this tribute to my beloved father and the respect and affection he was held by all. without regard to political creed, if i can be half the man my father was, shall feel i'm a great success. youchairman, let me assure that your dad would be awfully proud. speaker boehner designated the energy and commerce full committee room as the john dingell hearing room forever

yesterday i had a chance to speak with steny hoyer, the house majority leader, who seemed to draw even more distance with nancy pelosi on a host of issues, including the prospect of a shutdown. take a look at this. >> we didn't want wall money. we think, you need personnel. you need infrastructure, you need, you need technology. we were just at the border. clearly those are all necessary but the fact of the matter is the president want as wall. okay. i have always said that is probably going to be part of the agreement. neil: all right. so it is. earlier in the interview he was saying this sudden issue the number of detention beds deirdre was talking about lowering 16,500 they were around 48,000 bed. they agreed to figure of 42,000. no one agrees with figures, that got the monkey off the president's back finding a reason to reject this we don't know. john, that issue was raised at the last minute, gives you an indication of the power of the left in the party that wanted to make it an issue. wanted to make eventually defunding i.c.e. an issue. this battle goes on within the party. >> th

hoyer, jim, jewel, it is hard at this point in time after three extraordinary speakers not to be redundant. 'm sure i will be. john dingell was known by all of you here. there's nothing therefore that i can tell you about john dingell that you don't already know. we know, of course, john dingell, like all of us, was not perfect. none of us are. but we know how very, very good he was. we know that is why he kept etting re-elected. kindness, more than any person in the history of our country. like to do the people's work and the people's house. what an extraordinary record he achieved in the almost 60 years he served. john dingell. made a profound difference on behalf of millions of his fellow citizens and indeed people around the world. s has been said, he was tough. very tough. many have known his fierce and biting judgment. many, too, will recall as has been said his gentle soul. he was inle to rent -- inle toent -- intolerant of evil. intolerant of injustice. intolerant of malfeasance. nd made sure everyone knew it. at the same time he was an advocate and fighter for tolerance. jim clybu

steny hoyer, (d) majority leader// "the crisis that is claimed--america being under siege or attack--i don't agree with."sources say the latest proposal pegs border wall funding at 2-billion.that's far below the 5-point-7 billion the president requested.on nbc's meet the press-- white house acting chief of staff mick mulvaney said he wouldn't rule out another shutdown.mick mulvaney, white house acting chief of staff// say that the hard-core left wing of the democratic party prevails in this negotiation and they put a bill on the president's desk with 0 money or 800 million dollars for the wall, an absurdly low number for the wall. how can he sign that? he cannot in good faith sign that."president trump tweeting on sunday, saying democrats are offering very little money for the wall and accusing them of wanting another shutdown for political purposes.on monday-- he's heading to the border ( robin ) police in southern california say a woman may have been driving under the influence when she smashed into a police station with a baby in the car. this happened saturday morning in san pedro

hoyer: madam speaker, i move the house do now adjourn.he speaker: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is agreed to. accordingly, the house stands adjourned until 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning for morning hour debate. >> of course, c-span will have live coverage of the house when it gavels back in tomorrow morning. speaker pelosi thanking the president of the senate, vice president mike pence, seated behind the president of his state of the union address that was supposed to end about 9:55 eastern time. it ended at 10:29. so about an hour and a half which would rank up there to the speech delivered back in 1995 by president bill clinton, the longest state of the union address on record. coming up in just a couple minutes, the democratic response from stacey abrams who was the candidate for governor in georgia. she lost to brian kemp. our phone lines are open. we'll get to your calls after the speech. we're dividing our phone lines for those who support or oppose th

hoyer: john dingell, indeed, was the dreamer. and thankfully for us he was also a doer. before i left, i kissed him on the forehead and told him i love you, john. and i knew i spoke for all of his colleagues as well. he knew the end was nearing. i don't know that any of us knew it was 24 hours or less. but even at the threshold of death, he was in command. he was concerned. he was ready for the next day. the next tweet. the next fight. as debbie said, he was classic john dingell. and that is how i will always remember him. our dear and loyal friend, a great american, a great member of the house, and a very good and decent man. godspeed, big john. [applause] president clinton: to john's family, thank you for loving him. deborah, thank you for giving hillary and me the chance to be here. to honor someone we loved, admired, and happily follow. thank you for going to congress. and continuing the service of a great name. thanks for making the last 40 years good for him. i watched him change and grow at the very end. i want to thank john's staff and colleagues who over all the

you're seeing steny hoyer speak to the people gathered there at his serv the democrat from michigan was the country's longest serving member of congress. he died last week at 92 years old. former bucket, steny hoyer and former house speaker of the house john boehner will speak at the service. the funeral is open to th public. dingell will be interred at arlington national smemtry. >>> annual list of best companies to work for is out. >>> "empire" star jussie ollett is talking about being atecked. why h says he is mad and even >>> we are hearing from the tv star at the center of a story that we have been following the last several days, "empire" actor jussie smollett speaking out about the attack he says he suffered last month. >> he says he's angry at people who dou his story. ron mott has details. >> i'm pissed off. >> reporter: "empire" star striking back at thoseon quesg his account of being taekd at his chicago apartment st month. >> is it the attackers? >> is also the attackers and the attack. at first it was a thing of, st like, if i tell the truth, then that' it because it's the

phil mattingly stopped steny hoyer like this. >> hold on one second.ere's house majority leader steny hoyer talking about what's going on. >> jimmy: hold on a second. that is the most threatening microphone i've ever seen in my life. [ applause ] give me your money, old man! desperate times, i guess. you know, if the democrats can't convince trump to end this silly shutdown, i think i know somebody who can. a lot of people try to make sense out of this. the clearest voice i've heard on the subject so far, believe it or not, came from cardi b. >> hey, y'all, i just want to remind y'all. it's been a little over three weeks. it's been a little bit over three weeks. trump is now ordering federal government workers to go back to work without getting paid. now i don't want to here your [bleep] talking about oh, but obama shut down the government for 17 days, yeah, bitch, but health care, so your grandma can check her blood pressure, and you what to [ bleep ], [ bleep ]. [ applause ] >> jimmy: cardi b is right. almost 800,000 federal employees are not getting

steny hoyer tweeted this picture writing, i'm visiting texas and new mexico with representatives veronica escobar, small, holland and scanlon. with localg we met immigrant advocates. we are committed to ensuring our immigration policies aligned with our nation's values and treat migrants with dignity and respect. wongn spoke with scott about the status of border security ahead of next week's funding deadline. wong as a senior staff writer with that hill -- with that hill. what is the status of house and senate border security talks ? like negotiators are nearing a compromise deal to keep government open. they are approaching a compromise number somewhere from the range of about one point $3 billion for president trump's border wall, to about $2 billion for his border wall. that is significantly lower than has beenident trump demanding for the last several months. the president wants 5.7 billion dollars, but given the fact that we just had a 35-day shutdown and the president was weakened and sort of hobbling, coming out of that shutdown, it appears the president will have to come off that

castro will be followed by ourer hoyer and a member of freshman class, an expert on the constitution from pennsylvania. it is my privilege to yield to the chairman of the congressional hispanic caucus, the congressman mr. castro. >> [applause] thank you for your leadership in marshaling support on hj res 46. six weeks ago when the rumors started president trump might declare a national emergency to build his border wall across the u.s. mexico border, my staff and i tried to find a way to make sure congress would have a say in this matter. the result is hj res 46, which would terminate the president's declaration of a national emergency to build his border wall. foundingry since its has become the most prosperous and powerful nation on earth without any wall. that is why i believe most of the american people and most people in my home state of texas disagree with the president building a wall across our border. the president consistently said that anyone would be paid for by mexico. well, mexico refused to pay, and congress refused to pay. and so the president, rather than letting thi

hoyer laid out, the importance of the bipartisan work to get everything done for the good of the country, also looking at important investments when it comes to border security , but the work of the conferees also built on the humanitarian responsibilities we have across the country. chairs and the work of pete and henry and barbara and david. rep. pelosi: thank you. madam chair? >> i just want to add to what my colleagues said. at a time like this, where public political discourse has been so crude, i was so proud as the chair of this committee, working with outstanding conferees, to work in a bipartisan way and really accomplish our goals, serve the people of the united states. hope that we can continue this trend, because we have a lot of work to do. as we complete this bill, we have to begin on 2020, where we have 12 new bills that we have to work on. i really hope that we can work together in a civil way to accomplish our goals and serve the people of the united states of america. that is the way this project should work. rep. pelosi: thank you, madam , for chairing the conference i

now this has come from speaker nancy pelosi, leader steny hoyer it, and many others now.ts in the house. they say that they condemn what she has said. congresswoman omar's use of anti-semitic tropes and prejudicial of israel supporters is deeply offensive. we condemn these remarks and we call on earth as it is omar to apologize for these hurtful comments." there has been swift and fiery response to some remarks that she made, saying that aipac was paying some members on o-uppercase-letter for participating in support of israel. and it lit up on social media. no members of the house democrats leadership are calling for congressman omar to apologize immediately for what she has said paid as the news continues to develop, we will bring it to you. the news website axios has obtained a new batch of president trump's personal schedules after months of schedules which show that he spent working hours on what is called "executive time." this, after the white house launched an investigation into the leaks. watch. >> is the fact that somebody within the white house spent three mont

former president bill clinton, house majority ader, steny hoyer, and former speaker of the house, john ehner, all delivered remarks. dingell, a democrat, represented the state of michigan for 59 years. >>> a bit of an awkward start to an international conference this week. it's being held in warsaw, poland. a polish representativ introduced him as vice president mike pompeo. >> vice president me pompeo. i'm sorry. of course. >> mike pompeo is the secretary of state, farther down the table, from the vice president. ook it in dent pence stride. he patted the polish speaker on the back andgh had a l later on. >> what are you going to do in that siloation? >> so in names. >> i'm worried that somebody job. lose his >>> we're hearing from a man who survived an ordeal that my of may not have. >> he was out for a jog when he was attacked by a mountain lion. travis kaufmann had his hands to fight wback. out for a run in the colorado town he lives. he heard a rustling behindhe hi. turned and that's when a young mountain lion s ung out ready to attack him. he did everything right. he pinned the l

you look at her number two, steny hoyer, you go to her committee chairs, they say barriers work and walls work. they say, provide the money. ag chair says give trump the money. so i think really your question and the answer would be to it, would really stop with the speaker. the speaker has the control. whether she'll bring it to the floor or not. i believe if it came to the floor, there would be enough bipartisan votes for it to pass. reporter: you mentioned the green new deal very briefly. is it worth even expanding on? what do you think about it? mr. mccarthy: it's not in bill form so it's hard to expand. speaker pelosi calls it the green dream or something. i think it has a lot of work to go forward. i'm really looking to, one, how do we keep our economy, how do we make sure our environment's protected at the same time? i think we can find common ground on that. it's interesting in this green new deal, all the buildings, all the homes will have to be redone, zero emissions. a lot of people are talking about, what do you do with animals? her own speaker is calling it a dream green. i t

here is steny hoyer.ch year. >> let me say that the conferees have indicated they have pretty much reached agreement. obviously working on this and we hope to have the papers done and ready to go by tomorrow and we hope to passerby to marinate. thank you. >> if you start to add everything up here, the white house wants to go through all of this. it's probably not going to be written in full until tomorrow. it is going to be at least 700 plus pages. there's got to be some sort of deal signed by the president. tamara courses thursday. it starts to become a timing question here as to whether or not all of that can be accomplished by friday and if not how does this thing proceeds from then. another fact to keep in mind as i'm told by the white house official and we heard some of this from president trump yesterday that some of what the president has been briefed on he is not happy about. to sum all this up, the president wanting to avoid landmine. he's not happy about certain things, but the white house wants

hoyer: it's a magic one minute. a wall. e is not about it is about the constitution. it is about this institution. it is about the balance that we say is equal between the article 1 institution and the article 2 institution. that's important to remember. that is why this argument is so very important. it is note just about a single policy. it is about the kind of government that our founding fathers instituted, which has been the envy of the world and the example to many. mr. speaker, i want to thank my friend, congressman castro of texas and the congressional hispanic caucus for introducing this resolution. i was at the border in lifornia and in new mexico just a few days ago. el paso he border in with my distinguished colleague, the former executive called judge of that area. she will speak shortly and she will tell you, ms. escobar will say, there is no war at the border. there is no crisis at the border. she'll explain that better than i can. she lives there. now at the border, i saw a lot of heartbreak and challenge. but i did not see a national emergency that wo

we will speak to steny hoyer in a bit. we begin with press secretary sarah sanders on the north lawn. thank you for being here. the push is going to be about unity and reaching across the aisle. it's been a pretty contentious few weeks. how is that going to go over? >> look, i think that's what the american people want. they like it best when government functions and that elected leaders can come together and find solutions. we know we can do it because we have done it even in the last several months. if you just look at criminal justifiable reform, i think is a perfect example of democrats and republicans seeing a problem, working together to find a solution and the president led that effort. we can do that again and there are a number of fronts that we agree on and the president is going to lay out that case tonight. we can either choose greatness or we can choose to continue fighting with one another. and we're very hopeful that democrats will want to choose greatness and we are with the president trying to get somethin

the house, steny hoyer, said that the earliest votes would likely be tomorrow night. we expect this to start in the house of representatives. that's simply to do with how long it takes to put pen to paper and write a massive bill like this. they also have to do something which we in capitol hill parlance refer to as martial law on the floor of the house, they have to take some action to speed up what's going on. we expect that to happen today. the reality is if everybody is on board, congress can move at close to the drop of a hat. if the president is on board, this can be done by friday. if he's not, he won't. >> i know peter and the team at the white house will be trying to get that answer as soon as possible. peter alexander, kasie hunt, mike murphy, thank you for starting us off today. >>> coming up, fighting back. congresswoman ihlan omar fighting back. vice president mike pence weighing in in an exclusive interview with andrea mitchell from poland. your brain is an amazing thing. but as you get older, it naturally begins to change, causing a lack of sharpness, o

hoyer: mr. speaker, i want to thank chairman engel, chairman smith, representative cana, and others for ensuring that the house express -- --khanna, ive cana and others for ensuring that the house express its views on the military catastrophe in yemen. after the republican leader decided to allow this resolution to come to the floor in december, i promised to bring it to the floor. here we're. and now the house will have an opportunity to express its views to the president and to the country that he ought to end his administration's support for the saudi coalition's military campaign in yemen. has a campaign that is led to tremendous human suffering. with minimal military gains. after four years, it is time for change in polamalucy. let me be clear, the -- in policy. let me be clear, the houthi rebels in yemen are bad actors, engaging in brutal actions against civilians, and they are sponsored by iran. they prevent humanitarian assistance to star ever everybodying civilians, and exercise a brute