the stash houses in houston, texas, the stash houses in del rio, the stash houses in laredo, the stash houses in mcallen, the stash houses up and down the border where little girls and little boys are being put in the sex trafficking trade, my democratic colleagues who pat themselves on the back for being compassionate are nowhere to be found, m.i.a. joe biden nowhere to be found while people die, while people die from opioid overdose. almost 100,000 this year in the united states. when the cocaine problem was a big deal in the 1980's, we were talking about 10,000. now we're talking about 100,000. just where in the world are my colleagues on the other side of the aisle? i tell you where they are. they're running around preaching about masks and telling the people of texas that small businesses in texas must force vaccinate texans if they got more than 100 employees. that is literally not in the constitution and it's fully unconstitutional, unlawful. and i very strongly encourage the people of texas to look at the president of the united states and tell him to pound sand. do not follow

is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker: the house will be in order. prayer will be offered by chaplain kibben. chaplain kibben: would you pray with me. return to us, o god. dwell in the midst of us. in this place, in our cities, neighborhoods, and nation that we would again acknowledge you. may you see reason to call us faithful and may we reflect your glory to all who would see. in you may both youth and those of age find reason to be joyful. may all marvel at your handiwork, your steadfast love, your saving mercy. cause our hands to be strong to do the work you have set before us so your piece in the pealdz of your hearts and bring forth the fruit in the garden you have called us to teand. give us increase to our fellowship and pour out on your house a spirit of compassion and mutual concern. and we give ourselves over to your instruction to speak truth to one another. to render judgments that are true. and to find solutions which lead to peace. may we not harbor ill will in our hearts ag

now live to the house floor here on c-span. the speaker: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, chaplain kibben. chaplain kibben: would you pray with me? you have called us, o god, and we have answered. from cities and towns across the country, with enthusiasm for a life of service and a commitment to faithful citizenship, all who labor in these hallows halls have responded to your summons to serve and preserve the noble ideals of this nation. and so we offer to you everything we are. lay before you all we hope to accomplish and pray for what we lack. the ability to represent the concerns of our come patriots in this challenging forum of debate and -- compatriots in this forum of debate. the compassion for an issue or group of people and the need to broaden that empathy to hear the voices of those with whom we do not agree. the wisdom to know when a cause is justified but the discernment to refrain in the timing isn't right. and the discipline to rise above the fray of harsh discourse. o lord, we pray your guiding presence amidst the pr

the white house, though, is also known as the people's house, and so that really means the white house grounds are the people's grounds. and if you start to think about it that way, it isn't so far removed from a typical suburban home. typically, suburban homes, mine included, have a more formal or dressy front lawn. that would be the north grounds of the white house with the north portico facing pennsylvania avenue, and a more private, hess formal backyard -- less formal backyard. that's the larger south grounds looking down toward the washington monument. and that's pretty much what happens at the white house today. >> let's get to the issue of just how sacrosanct are the white house grounds. are they untouchable? and i don't -- you're an historian, i'm a journalist. neither one of us is a politician. but first ladies, especially in the modern era, they want to go around changing things, there's resistance to that. >> there is. i think it's fair to say that people have an opinion about melania trump's recent rose garden renovation. but hopefully as the history of that site, which i j

is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.]. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. lawson, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. lawson will vote yes on h.r. 1204. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona seek recognition mr. stanton: pursuant as the member designated by ms. barragan, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that ms. barragan will vote yes on h.r. 1204. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from illinois seek recognition? ms. underwood: as the member designated by mr. rush, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. rush will vote yes on h.r. 1204. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. russ fulcher of idaho, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. fulcher will vote nay on h.r. 1204. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose

. >> gary walters former chief usher at the white house. what was your job? >> i was initially a uniform division officer of the secret service for the first five years as at the white house but then i was an assistant usher from 1976 until 1986. and when the former chief usher retired i was appointed as the chief usher by president and mrs. reagan. >> host: 's responsibilities for the white house and for the first families, what were they? which of the responsibilities of the chief usher were three fold. first of all, to take care of the first family at the white house for the second was to keep the activities of the presidency, those events that take place in and on the grounds. and thirdly, it was to maintain the house for the american people. we are open for tours monday through saturday. : : : >> to try to take some of the reading burdens when the first family wanted their meals and what they wanted them and the house was taking care of that was the greatest challenge to meet the needs of the family and do it unobtrusively. >> we started in the white hous

res. 8, i inform the house that ms. stefanik will vote yes on s.189. >> as the member designated by mr. mceachin pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. mceachin will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. walz pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. walz will vote yes on s.189. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. lawson, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. lawson will vote yes on s.189. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. carter of texas, pursuant to house republic -- house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. carter will vote yes on the passage of s.189. >> for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? mr.tonko: pursuant to h. res. 8, mr. morelle yes will vote yes

is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. desaulnier, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. desaulnier will vote yes on the previous question. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. lawson, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. lawson will vote yes on the previous question. can . the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? >> as the member designated by ms. streubg left hand, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that ms. strickland will vote yea on house resolution 667. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. stanton, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. stanton will

, the house is going to go back into recess. >> there were a few dozen members of congress in the house chamber at that time including representatives jim mccoffin and susan wild. massachusetts democrat jim mcgovern is the rules committee chair. and took over for house speaker nancy pelosi when officials lerpd protesters had breached the capital. he tells us about his unique vantage point, the day's events from front. house chamber. rep. mcgovern: so i was there and then i received -- and then nancy pelosi's -- one of her aides, keith stern, came up to me and said look, would you be willing to step in for the speaker in the chair if she's called away briefly. and i said sure. i've done that maltimes before. i'm sitting there and my daughter -- my daughter, marley, is texting me, you know, like where are you? and i said to her, i'm in the chamber. and well, they closed down the cannon building which is where my office building is. i said well, you know, they do that all the time for various reasons. but i'm in the chamber. and she said, well, why are you there? i said because i'm -- i'm

the speaker of the house of representatives is of course nancy pelosi she has been speaker this time around since january of 2019 but this is not her first rodeo. this is her second turn in the speaker's job. the first time nancy pelosi became speaker of the house was in 2007. you might remember, george w. bush was still president democrats did great in the midterms in 2006 pelosi got elevated to speaker i mean, first it was just this huge historic moment, right, the first female speaker of the house in american history. next in line to the presidency after the vice president just a huge history making deal. so she's always been a big deal simply because of her breaking that glass ceiling but the other thing that very quickly became clear about nancy pelosi as speaker, nancy pelosi as the leader of the that branch of government was that she's just technically quite good at it she is specifically unquestionably good at the math part she can count votes like nobody's business. if a piece of legislation needed to get passed, nancy pelosi knows whether and how she can get the votes for it

it has passed in the house and now it is the senate's turn. what are the challenges ahead in getting it passed? guest: the house passed this bill last week, combining avoiding a government shutdown with -- there was not a single republican in the house who voted for it and we are not expecting many senate republicans to vote for it either. democrats seen at least 10 republicans to join with them to get past the filibuster. right now, it is looking like that vote is going to fail in the senate, as long as we publicans insist they won't take any -- as long as republicans insist they won't take any action because republicans are insisting that democrats include eight measure to address the debt limit in their -- include a measure to address the debt limit in their spending package because that is a bill that can use the process where they can evade a republican filibuster. it appears there could be another week or two for congress to address this but time is running out and they are going to have to figure out how to avoid a debt fall. host: the

democrats control the house, the senate and the white house. this responsibility rests on their shoulders. i'll tell you, madam speaker, at the end of this debate i intent to -- intend to offer a motion to commit the bill to ways and means including a provision to prohibit the i.r.s. from implementing a bank surveillance scheme. the reason i'm doing this is because democrats are leading a campaign to impose bank surveillance on your personal bank account and your business bank account. they are targeting families and farmers and america's small businesses. they want to give the i.r.s. unfettered access to individual and business bank accounts. it's an outrageous intrusion into the private lives of all americans. they want to do that because they think they can raise money to lift the salt cap to give tax breaks to millionaires to create tax haifns for billionaires against the very tax hikes that they're proposing. penthouse occupants are cheering. others get nothing. this is why they don't want to take responsibility for lifting the debt ceiling

res. 8, i inform the house that ms. stefan nick will vote -- stefanik will vote yes on the motion to adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from soeugt carolina seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. rice pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. rice will vote yes on the motion to adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from virginia seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. mceachin, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. mceachin will vote no on the motion to adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. latta of ohio, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. latta will vote yes on the motion to adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> thanks, mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. hagger tkorpb of minnesota, pursuant to h. res. 8

is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: if the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's room, washington, d.c., september 20, 2021. i hereby appoint the honorable debbie dingell to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by chaplain kibben. chaplain kibben: would you pray with me. god, our creator, redeemer and sustainer, we pray your inspiration over the reconvening of this body, with much to be discussed, debated and decided, allow your holy spirit to brewed over the tumultuous waters and bring order and purpose into this new day. redeem the efforts and intent of all who endeavor to steward the responsibilities you have given them. may each of us speak out of genuine commitment, not just to the nobleness of our position, but to the welfare of our common humanity. may we exercise courtesy and

host: a busy week on capitol hill and also at the white house , joined next by the white house reporter for the washington examiner who is here with us to talk about the week ahead, the president busy over the weekend. he and his staff talking to lawmakers about the votes ahead. guest: thanks for having me. a big week for the president's agenda. the hard infrastructure bill is up for a vote on thursday and according to politico reporting, the democrats in the house confirmed the president hasn't been whipping votes hard enough and they need to focus more attention on -- that they can get, kratz aligned in order to proceed with the bill. host: the continuing resolution was passed in the house last week and has to be passed by the senate to avoid a government shutdown. what can you tell us about the administration's preparations for a potential shutdown. >> the administration has begun to reach out to staff at various agencies. they sent out a memo last week. alerting their employees the need to consider the government could be shutting down as soon as the end of the week. preparations ar

that is according to the national low income housing coalition. the reasons for this being, they face overcrowding this, lack of plumbing, high poverty rates, lack of heating and other severe infrastructure issues. and that is, if they are even able to access housing options at all. this is a serious problem. and now is the time to fix it. in addition, there are other environmental challenges that make homeownership more difficult for native americans. the legal nature of tribal trust land can make it exponentially more difficult to land and borrow a land in indian country. legislation that senator smith and i partnered on has resulted in a number of improvements but there is clearly more work to do. many native american individuals are on banked, at nearly triple the rate of other americans. i hope today's hearing will also highlight how housing challenges are exacerbated by other legal and economic issues. even before the covid-19 pandemic, native american housing programs that were in existence failed to serve the needs of our force tribal commu

that's according to the national low income housing coalition. the reasons for this being that they face overcrowding, high poverty rates, lack of plumbing, and adequate heating and other severe infrastructure issues. that is if they are even able to access housing options at all. this is a serious problem, and now is the time to fix it. in addition, there are other fundamental challenges that make homeownership more difficult for native americans. the complicated legal nature of tribal trust land can make it exponentially more difficult to lend and borrow on land in indian country. legislation that senator smith and i partnered on in the past has resulted in a number of complications, but there is clearly more work to do. the fdic's reports that native americans and alaskan native american individuals are unbanked at triple the average of normal americans. not having access to financial services makes owning and even renting a home that much more difficult. i hope the hearing will also shed light into how housing challenges are exacerbated by oth

>> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i'd like to ask the people on this floor and people watching television a very simple question. do you know if i'm carrying the covid virus? do you know if the next person you meet will be carrying the covid virus? the answer is you don't know because we cannot see this virus with our naked eyes. mr. lieu: and you don't know how this virus is going to interact with your body if it comes in contact with you. don't act like you do know. over 680,000 americans have died. millions more have been hospitalized and many more still suffering the comects effects of long covid. in matthew, chapter 4 verse 7 jesus said do not put the lord your god to the test. got created the laws of chemistry and biology -- biology. god is nod going to make an exception just for you for this virus. pleas be humble and not arrogant. talk to your doctor about the best way to protect yourself against this virus. i yi

now it is the house's turn. gets through, the government keeps lights on until early december. the vote just opened. it will be open a couple of minutes. the person joining me onset has to sprint to the house floor. thank you so much for being with us. especially as i know you are juggling a couple things. didn't know the timing of the vote. appreciate you holding to the agreement to talk to us. let me start with the vote. any expectation it will do anything but pass? >> it will pass. i am a member of the appropriations, this is something that we have to do. it will pass, we'll keep the government open until december and come back and finish the work in december. >> you think it will be another kick the can situation in december? >> no. we'll get the job done. house appropriations, we've done our work. we're waiting for the senate. there's already preliminary conversations. we are doing the work with the senate finance. >> talk about other bills, specifically the question mark for a potential house vote maybe to

does this vote move forward or does the house speaker pull if? >> it's my expectation that the bill will move forward. we are in it to win it, failure is not an option. we have to fix our mass transit system, invest in our water and sewer systems which are broken. those problems are exacerbated by the extreme weather events we're seeing back home with hurricane ida in new york. we want to make sure we provide every single american with access to high speed internet. all of those areas are covered in the bipartisan infrastructure agreement. that's important. at the same time, there are other investments that we need to make in childcare and in home care, driving down the high cost of life-saving prescription drugs, expanding access for medicare and medicaid for everyday americans and the most vulnerable amongst us. those are also priorities that i share and i feel need to happen with the fierce urgency and now and which are on the path to get done. >> congresswoman jayapal, who as you know chairs the house progressive caucus, she was asked if anyth

the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, madam, pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2-h of rule 2 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on september 30, 2021, at 1:58 p.m. that the senate passed with an amendment h.r. 5305. appointment, social security advisory board. signed sincerely, cheryl l. johnson, clerk. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from connecticut seek the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman seek recognition? >> pursuant to the house order i call up house 355 with the senate amendment thereto. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill, designate the senate amendment and designate the motion. the clerk: an act making continuing proapgs for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2022 and for other purposes and providing for more than assistance and for other purposes. senate amendme

of course we were already in the , house chambers. i had been working with the team of other house members to try and prepare. we had heard that there would be challenges that we thought were improper so we had worked, myself and others, to prepare our team for that discussion. and we really decided that the primary people to defend the votes of the states where the members of congress from that state. and so we had a lot of data and information that we were able to provide to state allegations that might be challenged. but i gave, i think i was the first to speak on the democratic side defending the constitution. and at the conclusion of my remarks, i needed to stay on the floor but a lot of the republican members were not wearing masks, and i wanted to stay as far away from their air as i could. i didn't want to get infected. so i went into the cloakroom, the democratic cloakroom. there was no one there, and i felt somewhat safer in terms of covid exposure from the republicans. there are tv's in the cloakroom and one was on the seati

which all of us want to avoid, but it takes democrats who control the white house, the senate, and the house, to come to that reality that they have to negotiate with republicans to get something like that done . >> well, thank you for being here and thank you for your leadership. as you mentioned in afghanistan, there are american citizens and others that are desperately trying to get out. not just in kabul, but all over the country. i'm somewhat familiar working with veteran groups to get lifts for these people which we have and there are people-- they're not only american citizens and dependents, but they're green card holders, they're siv holders, they're interpreters that helped our forces, there's women activists, there's prosecutors and judges who put these people in prison. they're being hunted down, they're going from safe house to safe house. their time is running out. what can congress do, whether through appropriations or otherwise to help these people and help us get them out? i know democrats have spoken out about this issue, too. >> yes, i mean, get this, it's even worse

the white house is also known as the people's house for the white house grounds or the people's grounds and if you start to think about it that way it isn't so far removed from a typical suburban home. typically suburban homes mine a more formal lfront lawn. that would be the north grounds of the white house with the portico facing pennsylvania avenue and the more private formal backyard on the larger south grounds looking toward the washingtonun monument. that's pretty much what happens at the white house today. >> let's get to the issue of just how sacrosanct are the white house grounds. are they untouchable and you are an historian and i'm a journalist and neither one of us is a politician but first lady's especially in the modern era they wouldn't go around changing things. there was a resistance to that. >> they are is pretty think it's fair to say people had an opinion about melania trump's recent rose garden renovation but there's a history of that site which i briefly enumerated that describes the rose garden itself in the history of the white house grounds which go on for two c

res. 8, i inform the house that ms. strickland will vote no on the motion to the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from virginia seek recognition? ms. wexton: as the member designated mr. mceachin, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. mceachin will vote no on the motion to recommit. # the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from florida seek recognition? >> as the member designated mr. payne of new jersey, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. payne will vote no on the motion to recommit. # the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from connecticut seek recognition? >> as the member designated ms. wilson, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that ms. wilson will vote no on the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the yeas are 209, the nays are 215. with zero answering present. the motion is not adopted. the question is on the passage of the bill. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the noes ha

so i think that's a lesson that the house has learned. we are not going to do the traditional thing, work our way up, we are gonna go first to subpoena people we know are not gonna be cooperative, and then we will go back to the beginning. , and we now see in my report, e beginning of this, our that letitia james, the attorney general stayed of you york is dealing with trump delay in litigation that she is involved with with the trump business, and she had to go into court and have the court order the trump organization to actually comply with pre-existing subpoenas and behave on schedule. and if they don't do, that they are going to send an accompanied to search their records, specializing in this kind of thing, to search the trump records to force the compliance with the subpoenas. but what we see in that right there is several, several months of delay in the enforcement of a subpoena. >> that is right, and that is the playbook. and we know it by now. it is not used to, us it is not new. but it is a pretty remarkable notion that this jud

the house floor is one of them. u can even enter the floor unless you are a member of congress at or have special permission to enter with a member of congress. so just saying, i'm on the floor, proceedings are going on and started getting more text about something going on outside of the capitol. the tenor of the text started getting more and more concerned and i think probably my wife and staff did not want to tell me exactly what was happening at that time since i was working, but i could tell they were concerned and at some point they paused the proceedings and it wasn't the sergeant at arms, but one of the capitol police who is responsible for security on the floor came to the microphone and said that the capitol had been breached, we are pausing the proceedings and that everything was fine and to stay in our seats, nobody move, we are just going to wait here. >> a breach of the capitol building, that has caused a lockdown of both chambers. we will advise you with information when it becomes available to us. ple

democrats control the senate and the white house. so if there's something they want to pass, they have the vote to pass it and if they want our votes, then they need to come to the table andnd the need to talk about the changes that have to happen here in washington on behalf of the market people because you talk to americans in their fed up with washington, they call it the swamp for a reason. because too many bureaucrats are making decisions that impact our daily lives we need to return control to the state into the people. that's what were fighting for some of the democrats want are going on infrastructure, i would like to vote for one for not going to vote for something that is a key to unlocking bernie sanders socialist dream budget of $3.5 trillion. and as long as nancy pelosi and chuck schumer continue to insist that the tour link than we have got a problem. and you will not get the votes from the most of the republicans. >> and from tennessee, republican. >> if i have a problem with the republican omma is that they don't speak

and thirdly, it was to maintain the house for the american people.rs monday through saturday. : : : >> to try to take some of the reading burdens when the first family wanted their meals and what they wanted them and the house was taking care of that was the greatest challenge to meet the needs of the family and do it unobtrusively. >> we started in the white house did you think he was at 37 years there quick. >> no i didn't. actually i was going to school at night when he first started at the white house. than the opportunity became available one of the people in the office retired. i applied for the position and rex chose me and i never regretted one minute of the days i spent there. >> take us back to the morning of september 11, 2001 walk us through your morning. >> normally i got to work between six and 615 in the morning. on that day my primary mission was to take care of the activities that would occur that evening which was the congressional picnic the president and mrs. bush were posting the entire congress, house and senate, cabinets, the c

the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 667, the amendment printed in part a of house report 117-125 shall be considered as adopted. the bill, as amended, is considered as read and shall be debatable for one hour equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on energy and commerce or their respective designees. the gentleman from new jersey, mr. pallone, and the gentlewoman from washington, mrs. rodgers, each will control 30 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new jersey. mr. pallone: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on h.r. 3755. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. pallone: and madam speaker, i yield myself one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. pallone: madam speaker, i rise today in strong support of h.r. 3755, the women's health protection act of 2021. the need to pass this legislation grows more urgent every day as anti-abortion extremists con

and the house committee on education. he's a u.s. navy officer reserved and served in afghanistan from 2014 to 2015. also a member of house leadership representative banks serves as the chair man of the committee the largest caucus of conservative legislators in washington and for those of you that don't know it's focused on the legislative agenda and correct me if i'm wrong it's the largest group in the republican caucus. the last thing and i suspect jin may be proud of this he has the distinction of having been kicked off the january 6th so-calledis bipartisan commissin so with that, thank you so much. a. >> thank you so much for that greato introduction it is an honor to be with all of you today and thank you again for the invitation.nd i am humbled a group of lawyers would allow me to come and speak to you this morning i'm grateful for the work you do on behalf of the republican party and i want to get back to this a little bit later. we saw in 2020 the lawyers who donated to political campaigns, 88% gave 12% that's a

did the white house drop the ball on this? jen psaki: well, first, we share david shipman's frustration that he wasn't confirmed. we felt that he was absolutely qualified, uniquely qualified in many ways as someone who had worked both at atf and also for a number of gun safety of for gun safety organization over time. there's only one. but we also knew, and we are clear eyed about nominating anyone, even anyone has qualified as him. there's only been one qualified one confirmed atf director in history because of republican obstructionism. we moved historically. quickly. there was a whole team of multiple people behind him. we engaged with members of the senate, including the president, engaged with members of the senate about his nomination. we were committed to getting it through. unfortunately, we didn't have the votes to do exactly that. we also have been engaged with him about working to find a job in the administration. that's something that we are eager to do if there's alignment on that. but we believe in his qualificat

they control the house, the senate, the white house. they have a mechanism to spend another 5 trillion and in that mechanism it allows them to raise the debt ceiling. that's what they would have to do to make that happen. i don't believe it's smart to spend another $5 trillion. i am opposed to that and i would think that most any american would be. especially the next generation. >> i want to ask about the women's health protection act. i asked speaker pelosi earlier on the arch diocese. it's nothing more than a child sacrifice [inaudible] what is your reaction to this agenda? >> what the democrats are were bringing before us is a radical bill that goes beyond roe v wade and allows abortion on demand until birth and shows how far left democrats have become. 219 i believe have cosponsored that, to have abortion up until birth regardless of how you feel about the situation that isn't the place i believe americans are at but they are going to spend their time pushing that onto the floor, putting american economics and out when they should b

it's the house, senate and the white house. work together, come together, but the senators don't seem to know what you want. they just say shut up, they don't need it, they don't need it. people need help. host: on the hill today, jake sherman a punch bowl news tweeting about the house. they are about to come in in about five minutes. i asked speaker pelosi if the house this morning will vote on infrastructure today. "that's our plan," she said. hello c, hour-by-hour, -- pelosi : "hour-by-hour. your moment by moment. i am hour-by-hour." caller: wrapping up the discussion about haiti and immigration, i would like to hear somebody, you know, another perspective brought in. i have read a lot of paul farmer, and he is someone who is very knowledgeable about the medical infrastructure in haiti. bringing him into paint a picture of why the situation in haiti is the way it is and how we in the united states, we can help bring that country to --, we are not going to be experiencing waves of patient refugees every time there is a climate

a three-vote margin in the house between the house democrats and republicans. the other thing that pelosi has made this had a thursday vote because october 1st, friday, that's when the current funding for a lot of transportation programs expire. that could hurt districts, progressive districts, conservative districts and moderate districts, and members will want to make sure that's extended somehow, so she's setting up a cliff and putting a lot of pressure on these guys and girls, gals to fall in line. will they? we'll see. >> somehow you say. >> reconciliation is really the entire ball game for progressives because they are not getting anything else whether it's immigration, voting rights, other issues right now. >> police reform. >> yeah. >> a lot of things progressives are saying they will do this year have collapsed. we'll so how this goes, a fascinating week ahead. we'll stay on top of it. the president getting his booster shot. details on that next. it's an important time to save. with priceline, you can get up to 60% off amazing hotels. and when you get

members may begin debate on the info structure bill. houseajority leader steny hoyer intends to bring the larger spending package, known as the build back better act, to the floor. the house may consider two bills considering working discrimination and funding emergency shelters for the massive violence victims. announcer: on thursday, the house debated legislation to provide $1 billion to israel for the country's iron drone -- dome defense system. representative rashida tlaib of michigan was the only person to speak against the bill. she said israel has an apartheid system of government for which she was criticized i republicans and democrats and called an "anti-semite." this is one hour. rep. tlaib: i give myself time. i rise in support of iron dome supplemental appreciations act which provides $1 billion for iron dome, israel's short-range missile defense system. in may, during the latest period of increased violence between israel and hamas, more than 4000 rockets were launched from gaza. using radar technology and missiles to attract and

at one point the house chaplain stood up at the podium on the house floor and started praying, which was a good example of a wonderful person doing her job. but in a way that also contributed to an atmosphere of impending doom. and then one of the capitol police officers motioned to some of us to exit by the door on what we think of as the republican side, the right hand side of the house chamber. so some of us exited through that door, got on an elevator, someone on the elevator pressed the wrong button, which took us down to the most dangerous floor, actually, rather than to the subbasement. we were heading for the underground tunnel leading to the rayburn building but got off on the wrong floor because somebody pressed the wrong button, and then took the stairs from there. we did not come face-to-face with the rioters, although i think reconstructing it, we left at precisely the moment when the gunshots were fired outside, or through the speakers lobby. >> as you and your colleagues are traveling in that elevator and then making your way down the stairs, do you remember what was be

he is the chairman of the house bug committee. mr. thank you very much for joining us tonight. first of all, i want to get your view of what we should be doing on the debt ceiling. >> well, as you said, it makes no sense that we have a statutory debt ceiling. we're the only country in the world that has one like this. i think denmark has one that actually automatically escalates as they appropriate more money to increase the debt. so the debt ceiling never impedes their ability to spend more money. but i think the national debt in 2017 when the debt limit statute was actually approved was somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 to $12 billion. so we're now at $28 trillion. and so it's obvious that whatever reason they initially created a debt ceiling, it hasn't in any way limited the debt that we have over the last 15 years since i've been in congress, the national debt has tripled. so this makes no sense. we've raised the -- the congress has raised the debt limit about roughly 100 times in 100 years. it's been routine. right now the only

now live coverage of the house here on c-span. # the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by chaplain kebben. chaplain kebben: would you pray with me. god, search our hearts and examine our minds. reach into our inmost being and call us into account for what resides there. then heal us, lord, and we will be healed. heal us from all that has wounded our spirits or hindered us into living into our best selves. save us and we will be saved. save us from the uncertainty and unrest of these days. save us from all that distracts us from seeing you your hand in our lives or your face reflected in those around us. we ask for a word from you. speak so that we may hear. attend to our pleas that we may be assured of your favor. then may your race plan be fulfilled in our lives. at the end of the day, o lord, reward us according to our faithfulness to the tasks you have laid before us. give us not what our deeds reserve but may we serve what your grace provides. in your merciful name we play, amen.. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to section 11-a of house

host: a busy week on capitol hill and also at the white house , joined next by the white house reporteror the washington examiner who is here with us to talk about the week ahead, the president busy over the weekend. he and his staff talking to lawmakers about the votes ahead. guest: thanks for having me. a big week for the president's agenda. the hard infrastructure bill is up for a vote on thursday and according to politico reporting, the democrats in the house confirmed the president hasn't been whipping votes hard enough and they need to focus more attention on -- that they can get, kratz aligned in order to proceed with the bill. host: the continuing resolution was passed in the house last week and has to be passed by the senate to avoid a government shutdown. what can you tell us about the administration's preparations for a potential shutdown. >> the administration has begun to reach out to staff at various agencies. they sent out a memo last week. alerting their employees the need to consider the government could be shutting down as soon as the end of the week. preparations are

more in the house and senate butcertainly in the house . and i think that's, i know you are more to the right on the political spectrum but i've noticed that because the person like you nobody would ever have called a liberal or rhino or a moderate or a centrist, no one ever called you that and you're a very strong principle conservative. now because you've spoken against a former president, there are people who now think you're amoderate . my head is ready to explode. >> to your point, i'm a guy who carried two lives we lead occasions the statehouse when i was a governor decrying pork and constitutional minutes in our state. i've been about as far on the job category as you can get. and yet in the age of from i was viewed as a squish, rhino establishment. there's not one road race named after me in south carolina . i have consistently bought the establishments but i was a squish, party establishments and here's a telling thing . after my loss in next night i had a reorganized tour in the capital and so i was there with. home giving the tou

at the white house very soon. we're covering this breaking story from both ends of pennsylvania avenue. kaitlan collins is standing by over at the white house. first let's go to our congressional correspondent, ryan nobles. ryan, the big question tonight, will there be a vote on infrastructure? >> reporter: well, they say there's going to be, wolf. but we're not exactly sure how they're going to pull it off. in fact just the last few minutes the house majority leader, steny hoyer, who controls the action on the house floor, said that we shouldn't expect a vote before 9:00 tonight but they still intend to vote on this bipartisan infrastructure plan. how they get there, though, remains an open question, because at this point house progressives remain steadfast in their desire to vote no on this piece of legislation unless they get some sort of firm commitment and guarantee on the much broader $3.5 billion reconciliation package, that massive expansion of the social safety net that the government provides to american

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