mr. schumer: mr. president? the presiding officer: the objection is heard. mr. schumer: mr. president? the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. schumer: just for a moment we -- there are bipartisan bills on this issue which the republican majority has objected to. i would suggest to my friend the majority leader if he doesn't like this bill, let's put another bill on the floor and debate it. but so far we have done nothing, absolutely nothing in this chamber to protect our country and its elections security. i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. blumenthal: mr. president, i have a separate bill. it has not come to us from the house but it should have bipartisan support, so i ask unanimous consent that the rules committee be discharged from further consideration of s. 1247, the senate proceed to its immediate consideration, that the bill be read a third time and passed, and that motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: is there obj

mr. schumer asap. both sides now say it's a crisis and really bad down there, but realistically,, politically, is there a chance anything will get changed? those laws that you were talking about a little while ago any chance between now and november 2020 will there be a change in the law? >> steve, i hope so. i can understand why the american people would find it way too optimistic to believe there will be any change but i've often found when american people demand things and there's a real crisis both parties can see there is a real crisis along our southern border we have to keep it secure. i was where ms-13 headquarters, the central locus of ms-13 and we talked about the enormous risk we know too well in the united states of america. we watched drug trafficking, young girls being trafficked across-the-boarder. i think democrats now have come to understand that this is a real crisis and i hope people from all across the political spectrum will join to resolve this problem. >> secretary, one of the ma

mr. schumer: madam president. the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. schumer: are we in a quorum? the presiding officer: we are. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the quorum be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: now, madam president, the senate has just a few more days this week to pass legislation who lift the budget caps and extend the debt ceiling before the summer state work period. as the minority leader, i don't have control over the schedule here on the floor, much to my dismay. so i'm left to ask my friend, the majority leader, who does control the floor schedule why don't we vote on the caps deal today? the four congressional leaders and the white house reached an agreement two weeks ago. the president supports it. the house has already passed it. secretary mnuchin has said we needed this legislation urgently, before the state work period, because he can't guarantee we won't hit the debt ceiling before congress reconvenes. the majority leader spoke about the importance of moving the budget agreement back i

mr. schumer: mr. president. the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. schumer: first, let me thank my colleague, friend, the senator from new york, for the amazing work she has done to get this bill to this point. she has worked long and hard on this for years and years and years with compassion, with dedication, with intelligence, with persistence, and the bill wouldn't be here today without her hard work, so i thank her for that. i also want to thank -- i know there are police and firefighters in the gallery over here. i want to thank them for coming. you are the people who got this done. you are the people who made this happen. more than any of us, more than anyone else. the heroes of 21st century america have names like zedroga and pfeiffer and alvarez, for whom this bill is named. three of the thousands who rushed to the towers bravely and lost their lives because of their bravery and selflessness. i would say to my friend from kentucky, throughout the history of america, when our young men and women and older men and women volunteered in the armed

mr. schumer. thank you, mr. leader. thank you, mr. leader. >> that was a good clap. [laughing] >> that was a real clap. thank you, leader schumer, bring us together here on the steps of the united states senate to speak out on behalf of all of the american people. i'm pleased to be with you and distinguish center, former house member, senator jacky rosen was a champion for health care in the house and out in the senate, and colin allred, a freshman member whom i will introduce enomoto, talk about and a moment, in his role in all this from day one as a member of congress. today, houses the democrats are here to show the human stakes of the gop's relentless assault on health care. as oral arguments in her today, gop's texas first u.s. lawsuit can we gather to give voice to the hard-working americans through health and economic security are in jeopardy. today the trump administration is demanding that the court strike down every last provision of the aca. protecting protections for the over 130 million americans with pre-existing conditions. and their families. bands on

mr. schumer: mr. president. the presiding officer: minority leader. mr. schumer: thank you, mr. president. a few minutes ago the majority leader came to the floor --. the presiding officer: we're in a quorum call. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the quorum be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: a few minutes ago the majority leader came to the floor to express his frustration at being accused of blocking election security legislation. i would make three factual points. first, russia did interfere in our 2016 elections. every intelligence agency, everyone who's looked at this is 100% clear russia interfered. two, russia will attempt to interfere in the 2020 elections and is already doing it. that is not only what special counsel mueller said, but f.b.i. director wray and many other appointees in the intelligence and counter intelligence agencies appointed by president trump. three, the republican majority has done nothing, absolutely nothing to deal with this problem. so here's an easy way for leader mcconnell to silence the critics who acc

mr. schumer: a few minutes ago the majority leader came to the floor to express his frustration at being accused of blocking election security legislation. i would make three factual points. firs

mr. schumer: madam president. the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the quorum be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: thank you, madam president. excuse me one minute. now, last friday, i went with a group of senate democrats to visit several detention centers at our southern border, including the border patrol facility at mcallen and processing centers at donna and ursula in texas. the searing accounts about the conditions endured by the migrant families are true. we saw overcrowding. we heard migrants tell us they are unable to brush their teeth, shower, call their families, or access feminine hygiene products. and we saw children in soiled clothing caged and expressionless. heart breaking. 1,000-mile stares on the faces of toddlers. where smiles and laughter should be. it breaks your heart. it makes your blood boil all at once. but we saw something else. i am always looking for the positive. and we saw a much better model employed by a nonprofit catholic charity center run by sister

mr. schumer: madam president? the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. schumer: are we in a quorum? the presiding officer: we are not. mr. schumer: thank you, madam president. madam president, yesterday i sent a letter to u.s. soccer that officially invited the u.s. women's soccer team to come to the senate to celebrate their outstanding world cup victory. happily, i heard that last night that mega rapinoe, one of the team's cocaptains and stars of the tournament had accepted our invitation. i greatly look forward to scheduling the time when these inspiring women can come to the nation's capital. what they have accomplished on and off the pitch is a credit to our nation. millions of young girls and young boys look up to these players. millions of women, sports fans or not, admire the light they've shown on the disparities between the men's and women's game, part of a broader fight for equal treatment and fair pay in the workplace for all women. so i believe that it would be a fitting tribute to this great women's soccer team to bring legislation to the se

mr. schumer want to go have a meeting. i am hoping something comes of it.e only way we are going to solve this problem. trish: they have been talking about getting meaningful immigration reform done. now is the opportunity to do it. this doesn't have to be in any way associated with race. you either have borders or you don't. pure and simple. there is some breaking knives got to get to. this coming into us right now. breaking living. you are looking at pictures in caracas, venezuela. there is a nationwide blackout throughout much of the country. we have seen this happen repeatedly in venezuela. there was a time when the nation suffered with a blackout for days and weeks in some parts of the country. and that caused all kinds of shortages with electricity and getting clean water. this is the nicolas maduro regime that has not been able to manage its electrical grid and quiep the technology improvements in its electrical grid. so the country faces things like this on not a regular basis. but this is a full-on blackout nationwidnationwide crippling te country.

in a letter posted on twitter, mr schumer called it "deeply troubling" that personal data of us citizensof the conservative party and prime minister. well, injust five days, the uk will have a new prime minister, and last night the two remaining candidates made their final pitch for thejob. borisjohnson remains the front runner to succeed theresa may, according to polls, but foreign secretaryjeremy hunt says he isn't ready to accept defeat. talking to bbc breakfast this morning, mr hunt was challenged to explain how he would negotiate the brexit deal with the eu if he was leader. i don't think it's a very constructive attitude to say that if we are going to solve this problem its the deal we have, take it or leave it, especially when that deal has already been rejected by parliament three times. wiser heads in europe will recognise it is in both site's interests to find a solution to this problem. it is not in europe is like interests to have the shadow of brexit hanging over it for months and months and so i think when we have a new prime minister in place, if we sent someone to brussel

mr. schumer: madam president. the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. schumer: madam president, i'm speaking on the bill as well as the amendments. in a short time the senate will vote on and pass a permanent reauthorization of the 9/11 victims compensation fund. in my short time here on the floor, i can't do justice to the years upon years of work by the first responders, by labor leaders, by advocates that led to this moment. but suffice it to say, this is not a day of joy for them or for this bill's authors. rather it's a day of relief. for 18 years those first responders, some of whom are here in the gallery, have watched their brothers and sisters get sick because they rushed bravely to the towers at ground zero. at first they were told by the government the air was safe. it was not safe. and we began hearing of cancers that people never got when they were 38 or 40 or 42 occurring. all of a sudden in firefighters and police officers. and they only had one thing in common. they had all rushed to the towers. and we had to persuade people that this was

mr. leader. thank you, leader schumer, for bringing us together here on the steps of the united states senate to speak out on behalf of all of the american people. i'm pleased to be here with you and the distinguished senator, former house member, senator jacky rosen, who was a champion for health care in the house and now in the senate and what colin allred, a freshman member, who i will talk about in a moment, and his role in all this from day one as a member of congress. today house and senate democrats are here to show that human stakes of the g.o.p.'s relentless assault on health care. as oral arguments are being heard today in g.o.p.'s texas versus u.s. lawsuit, we gather to give voice to the hardworking americans through health and economic security are in jeopardy. today the trump administration is demanding that the court strike down every last provision of the a.c.a. protecting protections for over 130 million americans with pre-existing conditions. and their families. bans on lifetime and annual limits. as the leader mentioned, that can be a very, very -- have a devastating impact fin

mr. schumer but no will not go to the white house, because she deteshs president trump i want to watch soccerrats have grabbedhold of the world cup now running it as a sideshow. to back up their policies. >> i don't like that at all imz i just don't like. >> it it is very sad i agree with you, by the way, did president invite them yet. >> i don't believe he has. >> he she says not going nay. >> not going anyway. >> i know what about the rest of the team does she speak for everybody? >> that is a good point that is a good point, because remember there was that other player who made sure that the flag wasn't stepped on picked up flag american flag after rapinoe threw it aside. >> yeah, yeah, divisive should not be dividing you want to unite in support of a brilliant team come on. maria: i know that you are right, thanks so much, we will see you more in 10 minutes thank you "varney & company" top of the hour 9:00 a.m. eastern after "mornings with maria," but first we are taking you go thrive correlated cup parade in new york city check out festivities, back in a minute. ♪ we are the champions my

we now can report that we expect chuck schumer to join calls for mr. acosta to step down as labor secretary. . >> okay. >> reporter: we are waiting for him to go to the senate floor. this is the typical opening of the senate floor for the day. but it looks as though that is the direction that this is going. he of course joins house speaker nancy pelosi in making that resignation call. now, whether it makes any difference we have not typically seen, you know, democrats deciding they're unhappy with trump officials making any difference at all. our reporting team spoke yesterday with senator alexander who is close to republican leaders in the senate. there didn't seem to be any concern on his part about acosta continuing to serve. senator alexander pointed out, hey, this was addressed in his hearing. now obviously critics have watched that tape. and felt as though acosta came across perhaps as though he was not focused on the victims in this case but rather considered it to be opened and closed already. the pressure on democrats to be removed. >> we shou

mr acosta. leading democrats, like nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, are calling on the labor secretary to resign ew evidence. president trump was asked about the controversy, and had this to say. i do hear that there were a lot of people involved in that decision, notjust him. he has been a really great secretary of labor. the rest of it we will have to look at. we will have to look at it very carefully. i feel very badly actually for secretary acosta because i have known him as being somebody that works so hard and has done such a good job. joining us now is elisabeth bumiller, washington bureau chief for the new york times. we said yesterday on the programme that the trial ofjeffrey epstein would have other implications for seniorfigures in would have other implications for senior figures in washington, would have other implications for seniorfigures in washington, and so it is proving. the labour secretary was a prosecutor in miami and did cut this very lenient deal 11 years ago. that is absolutely right. and right now, the president is standing by him, but there are calls all over the place f

representatives introduced for unanimous consent by senator schumer now and duty report act now so that we protect our democracy going forward. thank you mrresident, i yield the floor. >> mr. president. i would ask unanimous consent to submit this letter from 21 attorneys general saying they need more election assistance to protect against foreign interference to the record. >> without objection. >> mr. president. i ask unanimous consent that the rules committee be discharged from further consideration of hr 2722 the safe act the summit proceeds to its immediate consideration the erbill but he read a third time and passed on the motion to reconsider made and laid upon the table with no intervening debate. >> majority leader. >> was my plan the democratic leader is asking unanimous consent to pass is partisan legislation from the democratic house of representatives relating to american elections. this is the same democratic house that made its first big priority for this congress a sweeping partisan effort to rewrite all kinds of the rules of american politics not to achieve greater fairness but to give themselves a one size political bene

mr. speaker, i rise, therefore, in support of this bipartisan legislation, which formalizes the agreement reached earlier this week by speaker pelosi and secretary mnuchin on behalf of the president, with support of senators schumer, mcconnell, the republican leader in the house, mr. mccarthy. this is what we've been working forward to for a long time, and i'm pleased we were able to secure an agreement before the end of the july work period. this will provide certainty for the american people by providing the top line guidance necessary for appropriators and the full house and senate to complete work on funding the government for fiscal year 2020 . ideally, we would do that before september 30 of the coming months, but this agreement was made possible by virtue, in my view, the fact we passed 10 appropriation bills to fund 96% of the government before the end of june. that hasn't been done before. now, there have been 10 bills passed back in 2006, 13 years ago, but it did not include labor and health, so it left out a big chunk of government funding. so i'm proud of the fact we did that, but it also set a mark. it set an objective. it set, through the chairman's deeming the numbers that the appropriators could m

interestingly senate minority leader charles schumer who's a democrat and hardly a political ally of president trump is really in lockstep with with the trumpet mr asian on this you know tariffs traditionally have been tools that the democrats have been very comfortable with and frankly the republican party has always been the party of free trade for the last generation and trump has really turned that on its ear so politically trump has quite a bit of support in terms of using tariffs as a means of leverage now interesting interesting that you bring up farmers though because farmers are really the sort of the victims in this trade are the ones who are hurting they're the ones who are hurting and ironically they're also among trump's biggest political allies so what we could see happen is some sort of maybe interim deal or a mini deal to just get china buying agricultural products again in exchange for perhaps some loosening of these you know hallway export ban so there could be some sort of interim steps along the way but i really don't see a broad loosening of tariffs any time soon andrea to thank you very much for coming in thank you. allies

schumer said. >> we're willing to go a good ways but bottom line the administration has to compromise as well. when mr. mulvaney is involved, they ask for things are being made. >> bottom line is simple, every day there is less time and getting a deal locked in is essential. a default would risk the position of u.s. debt as a global safe haven investment and could rattle markets. >>> a brutal heat wave straining the power grids over the weekend. overnight up to 53,000 customers were without air conditioning and lights. that number is cut in half. it took 33,000 customers in brooklyn off the grid to protect final decades. mitch petras was killed in arkansas and an unfied woman in arkansas. let's bring in pedram javaheri. >> finally getting a break in the forecast after the upper 90s and low 100s. laguardia and it shows, all of these setting or climb iing fro july into august where we see the hottest temperatures of the year. first time we've seen boston have two days where the temperatures haven't dipped below un. upper 80s saw and the humidity felt warmer than that. new york's 100 gives way to 84. we

mr. speaker, i rise, therefore, in support of this bipartisan legislation, which formalizes the agreement reached earlier this week by speaker pelosi and secretary mnuchin on behalf of the president, with support of senators schumer, mcconnell, the republican leader in the house, mr. mccarthy. this is what we've been working forward to for a long time, and i'm pleased we were able to secure an agreement before the end of the july work period. this will provide certainty for the american people by providing the top line guidance necessary for appropriators and the full house and senate to complete work on funding the government for fiscal year 2020 . ideally, we would do that before september 30 of the coming months, but this agreement was made possible by virtue, in my view, the fact we passed 10 appropriation bills to fund 96% of the government before the end of june. that hasn't been done before. now, there have been 10 bills passed back in 2006, 13 years ago, but it did not include labor and health, so it left out a big chunk of government funding. so i'm proud of the fact we did that, but it also set a mark. it set an objective. it set, through the chairman's deeming the numbers that the appropriators could m

schumer demanded it. democrats demanded it. james comey, mr. leaker, he demanded it so they demand it and you get a special counsel and who do they pick? wheeler? who is mueller? best friends of james comey. that makes sense. with all due respect mr. deputy attorney general, rosenstein. the president was under investigation, you should have been too. because you are one of the ones i recommended he fire james comey. and let's be honest. james comey should've been fired. his conduct was outrageous. hillary clinton or donald trump, the whole senior level of the fbi is gone. almost all of them are under criminal independent counsel investigation. donald trump didn't do that. they are under investigation. the senior level of the fbi. i've never seen anything like it. we were told the president of unisys will go to fire robert mueller. we've had some republicans on the senate judiciary committee joined with democrats so we need to pass legislation to protect robert mueller. did the present fire mueller? no. we were told there would be a saturday nig

mr trump has again taken to twitter to accuse them of hating america. a senior democrat, chuck schumer, says republicans are making a "deal with the devil" by ignoring the racist tweets. the significance of iran's breaches of the international nuclear accord have been played down by the european union's top diplomat. and in an exclusive interview — iran's foreign minister has warned that there's a risk his country could stumble into war with the united states. more than three million people have been displaced across north and north—eastern india amid monsoon rain that has cost lives and destroyed homes. storms and floods have ripped through areas of nepal, bangladesh and india, killing more than 130 people. now it's time for a look back at the day in parliament. hello and welcome to monday in parliament. coming up, a former cabinet minister accuses the government of failing to find out the truth about what the british intelligence services knew about the treatment of detainees abroad after 9/11. it is years and years of putting this into the long grass in the hope that it would eventu

mr trump has again taken to twitter to accuse them of hating america. a senior democrat, chuck schumerets. the significance of iran's breaches of the international nuclear accord have been played down by the european union's top diplomat. and in an exclusive interview — iran's foreign minister has warned that there's a risk his country could stumble into war with the united states. more than three million people have been displaced across north and north—eastern india amid monsoon rain that has cost lives and destroyed homes. storms and floods have ripped through areas of nepal,

america he didn't do that even chuck schumer, back in may i think it was no march chuck schumer had a tweet saying mrexports, he looks weak from point of view of schumer's tweets not good. >> propaganda about china's economy jennifer we saw huawei saying gained market share great first half of the year should we buy into this is there an investment play in any of this. >> -- working in china not because of overall trade talks but bottom up perspective there is a lot of intoing opportunities in china gdp per capita risen 28 times last 30 years so that is a lot of -- the fastest creation of consumer wealth basically human history, so that hasn't -- a lot of opportunities in consumer space we like investing in consumers, that play consumers spending more money on goods, services, and experiences from bottom up perspective still finding chaep stocks that we can put money to work in he also like, aligning with entrepreneurs not state owned companies we know entrepreneurs typically more about efficient about about will profitable in terms of running business. >> what about the fed rate cut how important is

the sudden outrage well according to chuck schumer timing is everything the president needs to answer for his statements he has made about his relationship with mr epstein particularly since president trump appointed mr acosta. to such a powerful position see the issue is that a trumpet ministration official is now caught up in the outrage around jeffrey epstein and trump indeed does have some skeletons in his closet when it comes to the epstein case epstein visited mara largo however according to the attorney who represents one of epstein's victims trump threw him out after he started making passes at underage girls on the property furthermore trump seems to be the only prominent individual actually cooperated with the investigation into epstein's crimes trump is the only person who picked up the phone and said let's just to give you as much time as you want we will need to know it was very helpful so that does not put trump in the clear he certainly was familiar with the sexual predator however so was bill clinton the former president actually took 27 different flights on jeffrey epstein's private airplanes some of them without being accompani

mr. president on taking this effective action. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] inaudible conversations] >> after the president eats rose garden announcement on the census citizenship question, chuck schumer released a statement that reads in part president trump is so intent on intimidating communities of color even when the courts and rule of law thwart him, he still tries to persist in his ham-handed ways. >> c-span's wourge live every day -- washington journal is live every day. coming up in the morning, clifford young talks about his ew survey on america's attitude toward space politics and then michigan democratic congressman dan kilby will speak about the latest spending deadline. and then a discussion to have debate over federal spending and efforts to avoid another government shutdown. be sure to watch live at 7:00 eastern friday morning. join the discussion. >> the house will be in order. >> for 40 years, c-span has been providing america unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house and events from washington, d.c. and around the country so you can make up your own mind. created by cable in 1979. c-span is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. c-span, you

mr. mcclintock: to fill in a few gaps. speaker pelosi called the situation a big crisis at the border. chuck schumer said it doesn't exist. steny hoyer said there is no crisis at the border. our chairman said there is no crisis at the border. i could go on. i see the time's expired. mr. roby: i yield back. chairman nadler: for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition? >> move to strike the last word. chairman nadler: the gentleman is recognized. mr. johnson: i rise in support of the amendment in the nature of a substitute so that we can issue subpoenas and get at this zero tolerance policy and other separation, family separation policies of this administration. and i have been listening to all of the crocodile tears being shed about the inability to question mueller. i have sat through the reverse psychology and the psychlogical operations that some folks are trying to play. but it does not destract the american people away from this administration's shamed action in implementing inhumane practices at our border president trump publicly announced this time last year that this fa