house and senate between 1790 and 1800. our guide is park ranger matthew ifill. we are standing in the old house of representatives in a building that we call congress hall, although originally it was built as a courthouse for philadelphia for most of its history, that's exactly what it was. but in the years that the city of washington, d.c. is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary us. this room serves for the house of representatives. the second floor of the building that we'll see in a moment was the united states senate, the house of representatives. each representative at that in our history represented 30,000 people. we had a population at our first census of about three and three quarters million. we had 106 members of the house we would sit in this room and eventually from 16 states and the story as the us capitol the story where we're taking a new and actually offer it doing things like adding new states to the original 13 also. so the bill of would become a part our constitution while philadelphia was the capitol in fact the secretary of state

so the states kind of take the place of our house of lords and our senate. ou know, often using that green color iment, td use it and then into the american government. but the red would kind of be much more of that house of lords kind of color. so you're going that early senate here in philadelphia and different has that kind of look to it that seems a bit on higher end now the interesting thing about the senate is they are created with a bit more power. the power is a tie to the president and that the house of representatives does not have treaties in the united states are with the advice and consent the senate approved by the advice and consent of the setehas to approve all treaties. the house does not the senate. and so there's one power also any time the president m his cat ambassador, supreme court course those. folks would have to come in front the senate and be approved senate, rejected. and so here, philadelphia, we have our very first treaty approved by the senate is the j treaty that led to the big fight in the house of representative over whether

senator from alabama. mr. tuberville: mr. president, i move to concur in the houseto 2882 with further amendment 1781. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from alabama mr. tuberville moves to concur in the house amendment to the senate amendment to h.r. 2882 with further amendment numbed 1781. the presiding officer: there will be two minutes of debate on this motion equally divided. the senator from alabama. . berville: thank you, mr. president. i still can't believe we're having serious conversations about men competing in women's sports. we've lost our mind. i know many of you have daugers -- the presiding officer: can we have order, please. the senator from alabama. mr. tuberville: i know some of you have daughters, nieces and granddaughters that play sports. my amendment will protect the integrity of women and girls in sports. it will protect them in sports itself because women and girls are being i'm here to fight for the future of women and girls sports for the safety of their locker rooms and showers. the biden department of e

house republican. and so either speaker johnson puts the bipartisan senate bill on the house floor tomorrow or we're goingplore all available opportunities immediately upon our return in april. reporter: the light is finally at the end of the tunnel for fy-24 appropriations. can you talk about how it feels to be at the end of this process that caused a lot of dysfunction inongrs and the key focus? mr. jeffries: i'm thankful for the leadership of rosa delauro who is our top appropriator on the mocratic side as well as all of the members of the appropriations committee who has been involved in negotiating the spending bills over the last several months. and they've done it in a thorough and a forward looking way of the american people under circumstances where of course we're constrained by divided government. it's a win for the american people that we are on the verge of avoiding a harmful government shutdown and meeting the needs of the american people in a way that lifts up their health,ion e economic well-being. reporter: when the speaker called for new elections in from an inflection point on your end

how many members are in the senate from each state. two. houseepresentatives the lower house is based on population population 435, distributed among the states. louisiana loses populationthey . arizona population. they get those same number. that they're now. not as close as far as we're going get because there some attempt at being equitable. the executive. what's his term term of office in thetive the president four year term senate. house of representatives. two year term. judiciary? like like. four, six, two. and like. how come everybody's not on a year schedule. why? why am i changing that? what's the goal. they're trying to protect it. the integrity. they're to protect this document. they have in their mind the best interest of country. look, there are no political parties, no nowhere in the constitution does it say anything about political parties. okay. so they are going to. change very the terms. right now, there's a term limit on the presidency, which is what no. than two consecutive five terms. when george stepped into the white house

there is difference in the house and senate approach regarding museums for black history. ent through all of the ks included in the house and senate appropriations bills come if you look for phrases among senate bills that say african-american or black history, minority cultural issues, those were the big difference thatared in the senate appropriations bills controlled by democrats and not in the house appropriations bills were conservatives have pushed for things like bridges, roads, military construction, that kind of think. host: jack fix patrick is our ■;thisournal. another busy week in washington. the senate comes in at 3 p.m. if you want to join in the conversation, talk about earmarks, you can call now and the numbers tou/ joining is democrats (202) 748-8000, republicans (202) 748-8001 independen (we talked about in s segment special counsel robert herr will be on capitol hill to testify before the house judiciary committee on his report on joe biden handling hearings you will be focusing on ? guest: the president's budget proposal is supposed to be sent to congress

but we are where we are, the american people gave us a very slim majority in the house, the senate, thether party has a slim majority, and the white house is controlled by the other party. i want the american people to know, mr. speaker, that this negotiation has been difficult. but to close the government down at a time like this would hurt people who should not be hurt. let me give one example. i chair, as our distinguished chair has said, the energy and water subcommittee of appropriations. as part of that, funds our great national labs, and our office of science and so many other great things, but as a part of that, through the national nuclear security administration, it funds our nation's nuclear arsenal. we're in a very dangerous world right now. our adversaries are ramping up. i wish we were not on the precipice tv another armed races -- precipice of another armed race, but i'm afraid we are am we can't close that down. we can't shut that down. and so that i can be abundantly clear, government shutdowns, and i have lived through three, never work. they cause more harm than they

from the house and senate floors to congressional hearings, party briefings, and committee meetings. c-span gives you a front■' row and decided. with no commentary, no interruptions, and completely unfiltered. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. announcer: the house approved aa nationwide ban of the vio sharing app tiktok, if it china-baseditste. more than 150 million americans use tiktok. thlegislation now goes to the senate where the associated press writes, its prospects are unclear. lawmakers contend that bytedan is beholden to the chinese government which could demand access to the data of tiktok's consumers in the u.s. anytime it wants. -- that compel organizations to assist with intelligence gathering. democratic leader hakeem jeffries held a news conference with reporters, answering their questions on a variety of topics including the tiktok bill. this is about 20 minutes. mr. jeffries: good morning, everyone. house democrats will continue to work biden to create an economy that works for everyday americans to lower costs, continue our fight for better paying jobs, saf

so consider that irony, what you see here basically is a lot of political posturing. 5, senate and, and house democrats, by senate and house republicans and by the government of benjamin netanyahu in israel. but essentially, there is going to be no easy way to resolve this. first, the meeting that tab benjamin netanyahu, who spoke to remotely of the senate, republicans, was essentially a uh, a regular luncheon of these members. and so for chuck schumer, the senate majority leader to deny benjamin that yahoo access to his democratic party members own luncheon is really it's really not that big of a deal. this is not the matter of having him appear in the chamber of the house of representatives. for a joint meeting of the house and the senate as he was able to do back in 2015. when republicans controlled both the senate and the house leadership. and essentially brought him in to try to undermine the oprah bomb. as a bomb administration's efforts to negotiate the wrong nuclear deal, this is a very different political context. and so you have basically this big game of chicken which party might w

democrats in the house and senate did without one republican.ith that one republican joining us and doing them. and as we know republicans are still on the side of the wealthy and well-connected. let me remind folks when they did their tax bill the drug companies got a 40% cut in their taxes that is what they did. we are giving people a cut in the insulinin cost. in their cancer drugs, in the medicines that they need to stay alive and thriving. so the bottom■k line is democras are putting people first and as a president will talk about tomorrow night we are just getting started. quick senator smith. >> good afternoon everybody. so democrats areelivering on our promise for the american people to lower healthcare costs for the first time seniors insured on medicare part d have a cap on their out-of-pocket costs and next year not one senior over the age of 65 will pay more than $2000 year for the prescriptions. folks with medicare who were rely oninsulin to manage their s only pay $35 a month for this life-saving drug. the federal government can fi

we should be fighting to take back the white house and the senate also you strengthen our majority in the house, >> but senator, what about >> her her argument about the fact that there are again, 30 to 40% depending on the state of voters who vote for her according to take south carolina for an example, 40% of that scherr said they were voting against donald trump. is that a warning sign for trump >> no, i don't really think so. any of us has ever run in politics at all. understand that there's about 20 or 30% of the population in your own state that will vote for anybody. but you. >> and so what she's seen >> as she seems just the out fringe of the party that would vote for anybody, but they will look at even president trump isn't necessarily an incumbent. they look at him more as an incumbent. she has that group of individuals and she can get anybody can put their name on any ballot when it's one-on-one and get 20 to 30% of the vote. okay. let's talk about what's happening in the senate. mitch mcconnell announced this week that he will stop et down as republican leader in november.

her argument, which is sort of what markwayne mullin said, we need to focus on some of these senate races in house races if we want a big night night in the senate, in the house, nikki haley gets us there because she doesn't win battleground states by a few points tunes and by ten points or 12 points. but we have an rnc that is not just changed, but changing and potentially changing its rules, whether whether or not they're going to follow what's called rule 11 real political nerd talk they wanted, they want to step in and change because this race, as it's ongoing donald trump is a huge lead. i don't think anybody disputes that, including haley, but there is a hunger out there for somebody who is not donald trump and who's not joe biden, you're joe biden is the movable object. donald trump is the resistible force and voters are saying, we don't want this movie again. >> and here's what's interesting about what's happening with haley and look at, this through the lens of 2016. and whereas she's not winning to the degree that bernie sanders was running against hillary. she is doing some damage to pr

house. while the lovely things about senator lieberman _ house. things about senator lieberman is that the - house. while the lovely things about senator lieberman is that the new i senator lieberman is that the new yorker— senator lieberman is that the new yorker magazine said that his world was a _ yorker magazine said that his world was a orderly place of people waited their turns _ was a orderly place of people waited theirturns and was a orderly place of people waited their turns and behave themselves in his passing _ their turns and behave themselves in his passing remarks how it looks like the — his passing remarks how it looks like the end of an era where people can disagree politically and still be friends which is very sad, that's not where — be friends which is very sad, that's not where we are politically now the united _ not where we are politically now the united states and he was still at the time — united states and he was still at the time instead of working to reverse — the time instead of working to reverse that by trying to have

let's expand our lead in the house, take back the senate and let's put donald j. trump back in that white house. thank you, guys. thank you. it's an honor. [applause] >> that concludes our committee business today. i would like to thank all of you for everything you are doing for our party and our country. and i would like to recognize richard porter, the national committeeman from illinois for the purposes of a motion. >> mr. chairman, congratulations to you and to lara. it's going to be a great team and we're very excited to be with you. as the co-chair just said, it's time to go to work. i'd like to make a motion to adjourn this meeting. >> we have a motion. is there a second? >> yes! >> the motion has been moved and seconded. all those in favor of adjournment, please signify by saying aye. all opposed signify by saying no. the noes have it. this meeting is adjourned.

reporter: do you think the senate should hold the tiktok bill hostage until the house takes care of the bill? mr. jeffries: who am i to tell the senate what to do in terms of their own agenda. they pass bills and consider it over to us for consideration and we pass bills and send it over to them. the ball is now in the court of the senators and t leader chuck schumer. reporter: so yesterday was speaker johnson and -- [indiscernible] did speaker johnson indicate any shift in his position? mr. jeffries: speaker johnson continues to maintain he understands the importance of passing the national security bill and funding the ukrainian effort which has been brave and valiant. we cannot allow vladimir putin to succeed in ukraine as it will undermine america's national security interests and that of the west, nato, and democratic allies throughout the world. we'll see what happens. i think the clock is ticking, and we have to get the bipartisan national security bill over the finish line beforh 22. before we leave town. it's reckless to do otherwise. reporter: some of the members felt the bill

house? >> well, they have a democratic senate, which makes it very hard tore priorities in the house to get an election year no, one's to take tough votes. they are not even putting them on the floor, so i don't think we can expect that much action beyond what they did on -- what he they're doing on immigration, not a comprehensive immigration border bill and i think this is -- there's is a reason we see congress has 15% approval for these types of things. >> rich: marc, a lot of the discussion foreign policy aid, aid to israel and aid to ukraine. is this a situation where it could be you a lame duck speaker who might work with moderates and democrats to put something on the floor or can we say that that foreign aid probably won't pass the house. >> i think at this point in time going toes pa. speaker johnson first of all he has committed that russia is not going to prevail in ukraine and that the house is not going to abandon ukraine. the majority of americans support ukraine. the majority of republicans in the house support ukraine. at love them, i had brian fitzpatrick on my podcast and

house to drive the 16 blocks of to the capitol. we will be able to watch that. we will also see the senateather at the body on their half of the capitol and walk over to the house side where the state of the union is held. we will be able to see that as well. right outside the house chamber is statuary hall. and joining usre along with the rest of the media is catherine kelly mcmanus of politico. catherine, the become quite an event here in washington, hasn't it? catherine: absolutely. the capitol isesident is not eve yet. the capitol is packed with guests and lawmakers. peter: how important is this speech to the president or the perception at least of the speech? catherine: this is biden's big bid for a second term pick this is an enormous audience you will have of course both in the know who they are voting for in november. but the television audience is ones and other speeches he will give where he will be surrounded by supporters pretty this is his chance to speak to the nation about what he believes he has accomplished in his time already as president and what he intends to accomplish

that we win up and down the ballot and all across this country, that we win, we keep the house, we win the senate and we went the white house by putting donald j. trump back in as president of the united states. can we get excited about that? thank jan y'all so much. god bless you. [applause] >> thank you, drew. well, good morning and welcome to houston. i love this city and i hope you've all seen why we've chosen the city to host our 2028 republican national convention. it is a little bittersweet to be with all of your today as i stepped down as chair after seven years of working with you all to elect republicans up and down the ballot. actual tenures on the committee. as you all know i have a tendency to get emotional sometimes. i have a bet that i won't so it's a big bet some going to really work hard not to. but w i need to start with my thank yous, toou get that out of the way for pursuant to thank all of you. thank you to this entire committee, the rnc, the, all of you leaders in your state. thank you for all you've done. thank you for voting for me four times a record four times. i appreci

let's expand our lead in the house, take back the senate and let's put donald j. uys. thank you. it's an honor.lause] >> that concludes our committee business today. you for everything you are doing for our party and our country. and i would like to recognized l committeeman from illinois for the purposes of a motion. >> mr. chairman, congratulations to you and to lara. it's going to be a g team and we're very excited to be with you. as the co-chair just said, it's time to go to work. i'd like to make a motion to adjourn this meeting. >> we have a motion. is there a second? >> yes! >> the motion has been moved and seconded. all those in favor of adjournment, by saying aye. all opposed signify by saying no. the noes have it. this meeting is adjourned. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2024] >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we're funded by these television companies and more, including sparklight. >> the greatest town on earth is a place you call home. at sparklight, it's7 home, too. right now we're all facing our greatest challenge.

note what mitch mcconnell himself did today a powerful enough statement in the senate, he in particular addressed the housetatives and called for a senate bill on aid to ukraine to be voted on. at least mitch mcconnell did not mention the alternative version of speaker mike johnson during his speech today. i suggest you listen to what he said today. vladimir putin does not play for a draw. he does not seek to sit down at the negotiating table. he will not stop at ukraine. he told us that himself. he showed us this many times. equipping ukraine for success on the battlefield is the best way to help to our friends to resolve this war from a position of strength. supporting ukraine is exhausting the army. forces of our common adversary, and also strengthens america's interests. at the same time, these are direct investments in our own military and defense-industrial capacities. it's time for the house to take up the senate-passed supplemental relief bill and finish the job it started. katya, are there any time frames, what is known about when this draft law could theoretically be? put up for voting. in genera

the secretary: i have by directed by the senate to inform the house that the senate pass h.r. 5463 making further appropriations for fiscal year 2024 and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house an enrolled bill. the clerk: h.r. 7463, an act patrioticking further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2024 and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: woiks. the house stands adjourned until noon tuesday march 5, 2024 for >> the next legislative work and votes in the house will be tuesday. yesterday, both the house and senate approved a short-term government funding bill to avert a federal shutdown tonight. it makes next friday the new deadline for congress to reach agreement on federal spending or a partial government shutdown will take place. watch live coverage of the house >> brian has a longer history, he was the point person for health policy change if not reform. different opinions on that in the trump white house and prior history on the senate side and on the house side after the enactment of the a.c.a. he has been be a spring board and re

alexander bolton is reporting house speaker mike johnson has sent a letter to senate majority leader schumer that house managers are planning to present the articles of impeachment to the senate on april 10. that could potentially trigger the senate trial process to start the next day. the letter says the charges are well-founded and goes on to state we urge you to schedule a trial of the matter expeditiously. capitol hill producer craig kaplan report senator schumer has replied saying in part as we have said previously after the house impeachment managers present the articles of impeachment to the senate, senators will be sworn in as jurors for the trial next day. senate president pro tempore will preside. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by these television companies and more including charter communications. >> charter is proud to be recognized as one of the best internet providers. we are just getting started. building 100,000 miles of new infrastructure to reach those who need it most. >> charter communications supports c-span as a public service alo

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: i'm still hoping for the best, still hoping senator schumer will really consider the national security risk, the strong bipartisan consensus from the housef representatives that this is an issue. this is an issue that is important enough to take on. that at the end of the day, even if it doesn't go to the senate for a vote, there is an authority the commerce department has. many will recall what we did with respect to huawei. we put it on the entity list which basically prohibits exports of goods, software, technology without a license from the u.s. government, and that really got the china threat conversationto the ecosystem and then got our allies to move away from huawei. the same thing can be done with respect to bytedance. if the u.s. government, and this is solely within the executive branch's legal authority, if they decide right and on the entity list, and i should really say the legal standard of getting on it is so low that it is rarely if ever adjudicated, if they put bytedance on the entity list, users cannot update the app because the update requires an export of the software which then allows the app to be updated. and that

mirtha ramos leads the dekalb county police department, which responded to the 911 call to senator jackson's house. in terms of the dollar amount, what does it cost taxpayers to respond to a swatting call like the kind that we saw at senator jackson's house? it could cost into the thousands, depending on the number of resources that you're going to utilize. but it could be a situation where we could be out there for hours. so you're talking about resources that are off the street that are not taking care of their day to day responsibilities, potentially people that are on overtime. so all of that adds up. the police department now has a new protocol to try and identify potentially fraud 911 calls. so when a call comes in, it will be flagged here. as you can see, it is bright yellow and it's alerting the dispatcher who the elected official is and how to contact them. well, the extra layer of verification is helpful. lawmakers like senator dixon want to see stiffer penalties for hoax callers and recently introduced legislation that would do just that. it becomes a felony if the call is to a dwelling

the house and senate both supported. both the house and the senate we have a significant number of republicans and democrats in the house the support that. it is a total mike parson effort but it is being held up by a small group of people that are working with leadership to hold it up in both the house and senate. my point is, there are efforts on issues we agree on to work across the aisle and we are not very successful at that. there are other things we believe that my democratic colleagues, the same colleagues working with five said jerry nadler and pramila jayapal, they are other things we for he immediately -- for he vehemently disagree on it we agree we will fight for that viewpoint we disagree on. when we come together, we come together. i think the media and the public in some respects rather see the discord of fight. the stories of us working together on fisa or this reform on antitrust or fighting big tech oligopolies that have bipartisan support. you don't hear so much about those things but you will hear us k

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the democrats in the house and the senate did joining us in dog that., as we know, republicans are still on the s remind folks that when they did their tax bill, the drug companies got a 40% cut in their taxes. we are giving people a cut in their insulin cost. in their cancer drugs. in the medicines that they need to stay alive and thrive. the bottom line is, democrats are putting people first and, as tomorrow night, we are just getting started. >> good afternoove democrats are delivering on our promise to the american people to lower health care costs. for seniors insured on medicare part d have a cap on their out-of-pocket costs. next year, not one single persof 65 will pay more than $2000 a year for their prescription. folks with medicare who were why -- who rely on insulin only polite -- only pay $35 a month for this life-saving drug. the federal government can finally negotiate with pharmaceutical companies on the price of popular medications. this will bring down medications for everyone in america. pharma might not like this, but the american peo

i am hoping that the senate will take it up, i think that house will pass it by a huge majority, senst. larry: thank you. >> we have a full screen, a poll, i think from "financial times." the republican party has change changed. and changing to a working class party, how well to do people are moving away from democrat -- i am sorry away from republicans, old country club, they are going to democrats now. the elites. low income people, believe it or not are moving back toward the republican party. and middle class people have pretty much left the democratic party. and have moved to republican party. i don't know that all this began under mr. trump, what do you make? >> well, i think that you have two different things happening. one you have a trim dou tremendous portfolios failure by -- performance failure by joe biden whether you talk about inflation or immigration or crime or fentanyl, you can go down the list, result is people just every day normal people, say this is not working, it is not complicated biden's biggest drop is with people under 30 who have realized they are not getti

the senate and house will hear

this morning, but if we come back to you in a month, you're thinking is that the house will have passed this and the senatel have passed this and the president will have signed off on it? >> there are a majority of members of the house, a majority members of the senate and including over the 60 votes that are needed and a willing president to sign a package that would deliver this necessary aid to ukraine and i'm hopeful we find a vehicle as quickly as possible to get that done. speaker johnson has certainly committed himself to that. >> you think the speaker is willing to put his job on the line in order toget this done. because he's facing threats from republicans. >> the chaos caucus has continued to want to stop everything that occurs in congress. it is not as if they have an alternative plan. they are just against the things that are necessary. and this is necessary for national security. hakeem jeffries minority leader has made it clear that he will not join with rebels in the republican side to take down speaker johnson on this and i think we're certainly going to see broad support in congress to ge

republicans win a majority in the senate which is probably about an 80% chance right■ now. if republicans when the house's basically 50/50. and you can remember back to 17 and 18, if it is let's say trump wins republicans in the senate. the house which i think is a coin flip and i know there are coattails but there's also hedging your bet. if it dem own one, have a one legged stool that is a somewhat different situation. it matters whether somebody, and all of the different combinations of outcomes the only one you can kind of rule out is the democratic trifecta. with west virginia joe manchin not running is going to be hard anyway. that means six other states trump carried at least once that democrats would have to win all six of them. and two of them -- the question really is how big of a republican majority there is. keep in mind once west virginia is done republicans don't need to win. the 50/50 and the vice president breaks the tie edges on 2021. if you wear a blue jersey this is a very certain situation. old-fashioned republicans that are real happy with where things are either. i am sort of used