he ran for congress. the wednesday after the election, he won in my phone right. -- and my phoene rang. i recognize the new jersey phone number and thought it was maybe the constituency was commented to me to up my belongings. asked i juste and one, now what? it makes the difference. makes this town work. every time i hear of a staffer or in number going, i am going to go downtown and have them pay me for hundred thousand dollars, people say to me, why do not i go? for those of you who know me, you know i do not drink. i believe that every gray-haired gives me is a badge of honor. i am proud to turn gray doing what i do. everybody has been thinking the congressional management foundation and i do as well. i remember beating up bread when he was a staffer. for those of you who have been dealing with beverly since this thing,d, i must say one for those of you who do not know her as well as i do, beverly is probably famous for a gift she once gave a -- gave me. if you have heard beverly taught any of heard m

and how we would have the most him and open congress, the most bipartisan congress, and most unified congress honoring our founders, e pluribus unum, from many one. can't imagine how different we would be. but we would strive for unity. what we will do will have that principle of what unifies us as a country. seeks truth, protects our voting system, and the rest. but again, not to just pick a fight but to make progress. reporter: you have only been -- the democratic caucus compared to the republican caucus, this week's primary results in massachusetts. the latest that next year democrats are going to be even more diverse. what's your response to the trend this year? do you think an increasingly diverse caucus means the caucus should take a different approach in terms of what it pushes for next year? ms. pelosi: the two areas i think you are making reference to, one in new york and one in boston, are a reflection of him and those districts. big is mere chance to commend -- that gives me a chance to commend michael capuano for being a progressive champion in the congress. on the financ

and how we would have the most open congress, the most bipartisan congress, and most unified congress honoring our founders, e pluribus unum, from many one. can't imagine how different we would be. but we would strive for unity. what we will do will have that principle of what unifies us as a country. seeks truth, protects our voting system, and the est. but again, not to just pick a ight but to make progress. reporter: you have only been -- the democratic caucus compared to the republican caucus, this week's primary results in massachusetts. the latest that next year democrats are going to be even more diverse. what's your response to the trend this year? do you think an increasingly diverse caucus means the caucus should take a different approach in terms of what it pushes for next year? ms. pelosi: the two areas i think you are making reference to, one in new york and one in boston, are a reflection of those districts. i'm going to give you a chance to amend michael capuano for being a progressive champion in the congress. on the financial services committee. champion for affordabl

. >>> a tonight a special airing of our all history series focusing on the women in congress. we'll hear from former congresswoman linda woolsy. we start . >> we did you undertake this project? >> the impetus was centennial of the election of janet rankin, the first woman to comfortable in congress. she was elected in november 1916, and seated in the house on april second, 1917 when the house was called into a special session. congress was called into special session by president woodrow wilson when he asked for a declaration of war against germany. >> and how did you decide thupted to introduce similar congress women? >> i thought that would be the best way to look at the changing evolution and role of women in congress. and we have had an event since 2004 and we've learned so many things. we thought what better way to learn about women than from the women who served? and some of the stories that we've learned have been just wonderful to learn about. >> we've done about 40 interviews to date. 30 of which are published on our website and roughly 20 or 25 are with former women

i look at the apa which of course congress acts and congress says they, this is the law, the reviewing court by the agency, the reviewing court shall decide all questions of the law. internet constitutional and statutory provisions. and determine the meaning or applicability of the terms of an agency action. and that statute by usc section 706 as i'm sure you know better than i do. so how can, how can the courts construe that congressional directive as getting the power to our agency? that was currently not congress intended, because could you give me about 30 seconds on that? >> this is a puzzle administrative law a little bit, the text of the administrative procedure act as what you say. it says and has been from you in a way for a number of years of the answer would be even where a court defers to an administrative agency on the interpretation, it's still making but legal judgment, the relevant legal judgments. it is for deciding the first instance, is the statute so clear it shouldn't deeper at all and in the second instance even if the statute is unclear,it's making the judgment a

in congress. i was the first to express our profound gratitude to the founding partner of the democracy, bridge alliance and its founder. bridge alliance -- oh. [applause] david, you will get applause so get used to it. it's a diverse coalition of 80 respected and established organizations around the united minute to revitalizing democratic practice in america. most of you may not know about bridge alliance because is relatively new and a few years old but you will know some people part of the bridge alliance. the national conference on citizenship, project on government oversight, the associate is a former members of congress. to hear more about bridge alliance later when david nevin presents her lifetime achievement award. the vision and goal for the democracy award is simple based on the success we had in our 41-year history of seeking to improve united congress. first, we wanted to organize legislators and their staff by identify best practices in congressional offices. note that this award go

i'm for the congress taking more power and control. i think the people's body has taken a step backwards, i think it's wrong but i think this is a dangerous area to go into. >> just to be clear. i'm not worried about policy making, i'm worried about the execution of policy. we've never had to worry about that. >> execution of policy is fine. i'm all for that. but that's not what's being talked about here, what's being talked about here is how the president formulates policy. >> a little bit of both. anyway, can i say one more thing? you know, i had a chance to serve for about six months in the obama white house and what i will say is there have been many, many books written about the obama white house, many, many books written by former obama aides, including myself. none of them have described anything remotely like this. we had a very disciplined, very sober almost boring process by which we moved things to the president's desk and by the time it got to the president's desk everybody at the appropriate level had had the chance to wei

there are now 108 women in congress. how many do you think will be in congress when it is the 150th election, 50 years from now. >> half. >> how do you think that will happen? >> well, there was 57 when i was first elected. >> there are 88 in the house right now. >> okay. it is going to happen. this is very cynical. for one thing, they don't pay anything, anymore. it is a very expensive job to have, unless you are independently wealthy. which, of course, i am not. good, regular people, men, are going to not do it. they are going to want to make big money. unless they want power and right now it is not such a powerful place to be, either. i think women will want to do it and they will do it and they will get elected, now. >> what advice would you have two author -- would you have to offer to any woman or man who came to ask you about the prospect of running for congress. should i run for congress? >> believe me, many have. i am just really honest. what i say is, make sure you have a support base. make sure that your distr

certainly members of congress care about policy. if they care about policy then , they will care about where a candidate fits ideologically. if they want liberal or conservative policy, they might what a more liberal or conservative candidate elected to a leadership position. at the same time, these are somewhat incomplete ways of thinking about the vote choice in a leadership election. after all this is an important , position. you are choosing the leader of your party or the whip. it doesn't boil down to i like this person more. you want to think about what this person can do if they are given the position. do they fit the role of the position? are they able to fulfill the basic tasks? are they able to do things members would like them to do? can they help them get reelected or get into a position of power? what we argue in the book is aboutather than thinking leadership elections as boiling down to popularity or a matter of ideology, that there are two major factors that matter to members of congress when they are thinking about

during my time in congress we've been able to accomplish great things. i've had the honor to lead on important issues such as eliminating the sexual harassment slush fund for members of congress, increasing protections for sexual assault victims in the military, and getting the pause act to the floor which will provided much needed help for service members dealing with posttraumatic stress. i've been proud to play a significant role in helping pass one of the largest tax cuts in our country's history and moving the u.s. embassy in israel to jerusalem. as a republican nominee for governor of florida, it is clear to me that i will likely miss the vast majority of our remaining session days for this congress. under these circumstances, it would be inappropriate for me to accept a salary. in order to honor my principles and protect the taxpayers, i officially resign from the house of representatives effective immediately. for purposes of pay, i ask that my resignation be retroactive to september 1 so i do not receive any pay for the month of september. this

at one point we had a meeting with a very highly placed member of congress, he's no longer in the congress, but he was talking to us about what was going on at the time of the crisis and he said that he was told, and i assume others in congress might have been told, that the vernment was so worried that with the effect the crisis was having on people that they were actually considering cordoning ff washington with troops. you're looking at me as though that's cray sir, i thought it was crazy at the time but have you heard anything like that from the administration. mr. hensarling: the short answer is no. i was a child in the 1960's, i don't recall it being cordoned off in that turbulent time, otherwise i assume we're going back to the war between the states. that would be rather far-fetched. m convinced that in many respects, the indecisiveness and changing the game plan constantly helped exacerbate the panic in the first place. so that kind of thinking, so i was not privey to it. i was a more junior member and also being in the congressional minority at the time, i assure you a lot of inf

it's very difficult to be a member of congress. so there's lower utility for campaign funding and you know, no real backlash potential here. and lastly, you could if you are a party leader trying to corral your copartisans, you could withhold positions of importance whether that's on different committees or in the party leadership structure such as different whips. now, this is problematic because you could use there only very, very rarely. you can use it sparingly and for really extreme cases. it's such a hammer of a tool that it's not always very useful. and it has huge backlash potential. i'm going to give you a few examples of this. i think it's clear how earmarks are more useful to party leaders. so after a speakership election where over 20 of his fellow republicans voted against him for speaker, speaker boehner found that two members of the rules committee had not voted for him for speaker. there is only one person hon puts people on the rules committee. that would be the speaker of the house. these two gentlemen daniel webs

congress was that this would be facilitated. with that, i'm pleased to yield to congresswoman sheila jackson lee from houston, texas. she came on our code dell at the el atf the -- on our cod the end of the last session, she brought fresh eyes from her houston experience with katrina. and as a member of the homeland security committee and the , she wearsommittee several hats including as representative of people that have suffered through a natural disaster and has that experience to share with us. leader pelosi,e: thank you so much for convening us. theeemphasize responsibility of the federal government. congresswomank velasquez for her insight and congresswoman plaskett for her pursuit of relief for the virgin islands. as we stand here today, our friends and neighbors are in the southeast region are not only being pummeled, they are being rescued. they are desperate calling out for relief. and if there ever is a time for the federal government to stand for people, it is during times of war and disaster. and so it saddens me to

n 2014, congress enacted the data act. the data act required the office of management and budget and the department of health and human services to conduct a pilot program to alleviate reporting requirements. the grant recipients have to enter the same data multiple times and no single location where all the data can be annual liesed. this is redid you understand ntdant. in fiscal year 2017, the federal government awarded over $660 billion in grants. congress has the fiscal responsibility to review this spending, but without standardized data, it is difficult to do. this tasks the office of management and budget and executive branch agency with creating standardized reporting elements for federal awards. the data elements must be machine readable, nonproprietary and comply with standards in the data act. the great act requires the data to be collected within four years of enactment and this identifies sensitive data and under the freedom of information act. the great act increases transparency for public and private oversi

in congress, that is the only place comparable. a lot of talent and a lot of people enthusiastic about being there, and to my surprise, an amazingly high percentage of people who are genuinely there for the right reasons. there's enough of the other side to reinforce all the stereotypes and drama and everything else, but i believe if you took congress and took away the cell phones and cameras and news media and said, deploy to diego garcia, a little island in the indian ocean, send up a smoke signal when you solve some problems, we have the talent to solve a lot of stuff, but what happens is you get people who agree on policy, and they say, the politics of this, if we can wait, so what happens is, people put off solving the problem. intellectually, everyone knows the math doesn't work on what we are doing. there are a few people who have convinced themselves that deficits don't matter. there are enough of us who believe math is real. host: you went to school before common core. [laughter] let me ask you, i have seen a republican pa

what will congress decide to do? we're not the first committee to take up a resolution like this since the start of the trump presidency. in other cases, markups have descended into partisan rancor. certainly, they haven't resulted in getting any information from the executive branch. in my view, republican leadership in the house has opted to cover for this administration rather than allowing this body to do its job and exercise our checks and balances. i'm confident based on this committee's culture, under your leadership, mr. chairman, that this markup won't follow that path. in fact, i hope we have a good debate about mr. boyle's resolution because if anyone thinks we and the american people shouldn't know what happened in that meeting i'd like to hear why. and i'd like to hear that debate continue on the house floor. thinks we in the -- we the american people shouldn't know what happened in that meeting i'd like to hear why. and i'd like to hear that debate continue on the house floor. as i said, the only questi

where is congress on the border wall funding? jennifer: so, when the president sent his budget request back in february for 2019, he asked for $1.6 billion in spending in the homeland security bill. the senate put that will request in their homeland security bill, before the house released theirs, there was a bit of a tense meeting at the white house where trump said "no, i actually want $5 billion." so, that is the amount included in the house homeland security bill. and a little while ago, congressional leaders, including speaker paul ryan and mitch mcconnell, sort of agreed with appropriators and white house staff, and as far as we were aware, president trump, to hold that debate until after the midterms, and during the lame-duck session of congress, they would work out their issues then and they would not have a public fight over the border wall before voters head to the polls in november. >> let's take a look at one last issue that is under consideration, which is hurricane funding. what have you heard about the effort, espe

waiting on congress. so, in the meantime were working on modernizing come icu put a thumbs up, there's a lot of work to be done there. really, no matter what happens, the copyright process needs to be modernized, easier for people to register and to record and all of these things. when i say record, i mean record their rights and transferring, especially in the digital age. we are busy trying to do that. we've had congress support financially and fiscally to work on that. so, where it lives is secondary to what it does how it does it. that is what we are working on now. >> another thumbs-up. >> my name is alfred, i'm from an elementary school. i want to thank you for sharing and giving us enlightenment on the division and actual responsibilities of both entities. secondly about making the library of congress and open opportunity for information. something he shared a long time ago, and i see it manifesting in your work there. i would also like to share for those may be in virginia there is a resource that

he came in to congress in late 1870. when you think about the revolution that occurs, within less than a decade. so, joseph rainey had been born into slavery. during the civil war he was conscripted into the army to dig trenches around charleston, where he was from. he escaped to bermuda during the war. comes back after the war. plays a political role, locally. within a decade, he is holding a seat of a former confederate slaveholder. the rebel story is the same. he was born as a free man. never was a slave, but he comes into the senate and occupies a seat held by a slaveholder less than a decade before. when you think about the great paradoxes in american history, that is one of them. that they can come to the capital and represent african- american constituencies and they are doing it after those seats have been given up by slaveholders. >> that is amazing. i read a little bit about reconstruction. it is interesting, the small brotherhood of men serving right in the early 1870s. we actually have a print that has five o

members of the senate are members of congress. the members of the house are members of congress. for some reason the senate goes by senate and we go by congress or house members. but i don't mean 12 years serving in the house, and then 12 years in the senate. or vice versa. mean 12 years and you're out. that would be six terms for a congressman and two terms for a senator or vice versa. however they wanted to do it. i was once called by a reporter who asked a member, and won't mention that member's name in congress, and you don't know if it's in the house or in the senate, what do you think of marino's term limit legislation of 12 years? the reporter told me that the elected official responded by saying, well, we're only beginning to learn what's going 12 re and how it works in years. and so my term limit legislation would hinder congress' ability to get things done. how's that been going? i completely disagree. opponents say we will not have the experience. wrong. and that's a lame excuse. they say that staff members will be making the decisions. well, if there's a member in the

i look at the ata which congress passed in congress says this is the law -- the review in court, not the agency but the reviewing court shall decide all relevant questions of the law interpret constitutional and statutory provisions and determine the meaning or applicability of the terms of an agency action that is a statute. as i'm sure both of you all know better than i do. how can the courts construe that congressional directive as giving the power to an agency. that was not congress' intent because could you each give me 30 seconds on that. >> this is a great question and it's a puzzle and administered aloft because the test of the administered a procedure act does what you say it says and has been hidden for review for a number of years but the answer would be that even where the courts referred to an administrative agency on the interpolation it is offered is still making the legal judgments, relevant legal judgments. it's deciding in the first instance is a statute so clear it should not defer at all and in the second instance, even if the statute is not clear for making the j

so congress is substantial. the president has large powers of course under the constitution but what we sometimes forget and i think your civic lesson is a reminder that all these checks and balances work together, including on judges, in a way that has served the test of time, but could always be improved in some respects, i suppose. >> and one of the reasons that the executive branch seems to powerful right now is, again, because of how weak the legislature is. i mean, it's a fundamental part of why we have the term "president." in the 1780s this wasn't a common term in the english language. president was a nounified form of the name presiding officer and we made it up, our founders made it up so that we wouldn't have a term that sounded a lot like a king. and so we wanted to be sure that the term presiding officer sounded pretty boring and administrative, because the legislative, the policy-making powers were supposed to sit in this body and the article ii branch is supposed to preside over and execute the la

i will when i go to congress. [applause] >> thank you. moving on to further question. >> good morning. card check in poa, do you support the right of america's workers to a secret ballot election to decide to form a union. do you support project labor agreements and all federally funded projects? >> units brought americans that we can, paid leave and vacation time. they produce a quality product for great price. i do support those project labor agreements. when we implement them we have projects completed on time and under budget like the 495 hot lanes. there has been a lot of work on american unions. in virginia there was an attempt to enshrine great work in the constitution. that's union bashing. people have the right tonight, and come together and fight for equality working conditions. [applause] what we have seen with the low bid and low price contract is we end up with the low quality product. were seeing that with phase two of the silver line. there are subpar materials being used for the concrete the stations. that will cost us mor

we will consult closely with the congress as we move forward. we will work together to make sure that we have the resources and authority to make this work. later this week, i will be traveling to meet with the g7 , wence ministers in italy will start the process of working with our international partners to ensure that we are working together to help strengthen the global economy and to help repair the global financial system. we will work closely with the leadership of the imf and world bank so that they can deploy resources quickly to help those countries around the world that are most at risk from this crisis. discussede programs i involve very large numbers. it is important to recognize that these programs involve loans and investments with terms and conditions that will help protect the taxpayer and help compensate the government for the risk we are taking. because of these terms and conditions, the risk to the taxpayers will be less than the headline numbers. designigation is to these programs of that we are achieving the largest benefit

at one point we had a meeting with a highly placed member of congress and he is no longer in the congress. he was talking to us about what was going on at the time of the crisis and said that he was told and i assume others in congress might have been told that the government was so worried that the death of the crisis was having on people that they were actually considering cordoning off washington with the truth. is that -- you are looking at me as though it is crazy and i thought it was crazy at the time. but have you ever heard me -- heard anything like that from the administration? >> the short answer is no. i was a child in the 60s and don't recall if the capital had to be protected let -- protected in that turbulent time. the war between the states. i never heard that. i would hope that would be rather far-fetched and so i think to some extent peter, i am convinced that in many respects the indecisiveness and changing the game plan constantly helped exacerbate the panic in the first place. and so that kind of thinking -- i was not privy to it. i was a junior member and also being i

has completed and submitted 16 chiefs reports to congress, include projects in seattle, washington, norfolk, virginia, lower san joaquin river in california, kentucky river in kentucky, san juan, puerto rico, and others. these projects, whose purpose include for flood and storm risk management, ecosystem restoration and navigation, are critical to developing and maintaining our economy at the local, regional, and national levels. today subcommittee members have the opportunity to evaluate these reports as well as the 2017-2018 annual reports submitted by the corps to congress pursuant to section 1001 of the water resources development act of 2014. these annual reports identify completed and proposed feasibility studies as well as proposed modifications to authorize projects or studies based upon requests submitted to corps by nonfederal project sponsors. . mr. graves: general, i recognize you for your testimony. major general spellmon: chairman graves and ranking member napolitano. my name is major general scott spellman and i'm the deputy general for the u.s. army corps of engineer

of course congress has not enacted any special deferral for civil suits so congress is stuck with the jones v. clinton result from that case and is stuck with of course the -- the existing system of special counsels. >> to get back into where you were in 2009 when you wrote this as opposed to just using a hypothetical, so we have said several times here no one is above the law. i said that in my opening statement. but when you said this then, you mean no one is temporarily above the law. so if a sitting president -- in office and there was some crime committed, murder, white-collar crime, everything, then you're saying in this article at the time that she shouldn't be subject to criminal prosecution? >> that would be an issue for congress to consider if it wanted to pursue providing a temporary deferral. there are statutes that do that for members of the military, so servicemembers serving overseas. in fact, i think president clinton's brief in the clinton versus jones case cited that example as something where there is statutory deferral -- not immunity, it is important to distinguis

congress has to step in. but in this case, congress stepped in. congress said we had this major financial crisis. that's why we started this agency. we have done this. then you come in, in a minority opinion here, and you say that it's unconstitutional. i would throw another federalist society back at you, federalist quote. you quoted hamilton yesterday from federalist 83 when he said the rules of legal interpretation are rules of common sense. >> yes. >> okay. all right. so it just doesn't make common sense to me that we would throw an agency out like that or even the head of it. you're basically putting your judgment in the place of congress. >> but i didn't throw the agency out. i said the agency could continue operating as it was. the only change would be instead of being for-cause removal, it would be at-will removal. there was a judge, not me, on our court who said because of that constitutional flaw, the whole agency had to stop operating. i specifically and explicitly rejected that as a remedy and said, no, the agency can continue operatin

what we are left with is for congress to demand, and because that is the only option left, for congress to demand, we are also left with only one question, what will congress decide to do. we are not the first committee to take up a resolution like this since the start of the trump presidency. in other cases, it has ascended into partisan rancor. certainly, they have not resulted in getting any information from the executive branch. in my view, the revoking leadership in the house as opted to cover for the said menstruation rather than allowing the body to do its job in authorizing our checks and balances. i am confident, based on this committee's culture under your leadership, mister chairman, that this fogger will not follow this path. i hope we can have a good debate about mister boyle's resolution because if anyone thinks we and the american people should know what happened in that meeting, i would like to hear why. and i would like to hear that debate continue on the house floor, as i said, the only question left is, what will congress decide to do. it should be up to the entire ho

the first woman elected to congress. we have a lot of questions to ask you today, but first off, what we wanted to know is when you were young, did you have any female role models? ms. woolsey: absolutely, i didn't. [laughs] ms. woolsey: i didn't even think about it until people started asking me, who were your role models? i have to let you know that i did not have a role model until my daughter became a woman, an adult woman. she is a lot like me, although she is way involved and way better. evolved and way better. i watch her and i think oh, i could be like that. less anxious and less edgy. she could be my role model. kathleen: when you were growing up, what were the expectations about what you would be as a woman careerwise, or as you matured in your life? i am 78sey: remember, years old, so i grew up in the 1950's. good housekeeping magazine was my bible, as a young mother. and it was important that i be popular, that i be pretty, that there were noand expectations for what kind of a career. i, on my own, new i was

, big library of congress? >> guest: it started to serve congress and they have quite a bit of a role in making sure we not only serve members of congress and staff, congressional research service, the special forces, any policy area, they give objective information and research to the legislative process and congress makes sure, i mentioned my visit throughout the country, we mentioned the veterans history project, oral histories and communities, the surplus book program where we make sure those books are available to libraries and schools. they are also very concerned we make sure the library of congress serves them and communities. >> host: do you feel supported by the current congress and do they have a interest in the national book festival? >> members of congress, people will be pleased to know, our readers and are very interested in making sure their constituents are aware of the library's services. previous congresses have been very involved and interested in touching history and knowing its place in hi

but, to protect that, you have to vote and send them to congress. it -- if the republic -- ever republican takes the governor's mansion this fall, they may undermine and rollback medicare expansion without a serious alternative. that would leave many people potentially out in the cold. that would put folks caught up in this terrible opioid of endemic at greater risk as they would have less access to treatment. governor wolf expanded medicare under the affordable care act covering 700,000 pennsylvanians. you know he will protect your care. but, to make sure he can keep on doing that, you have to vote. you have to vote for governor wolf. democrats believe that a growing economy should benefit everybody. not just a few. keepr than let congress attacking you, we have to stand up for those rights of workers to organize for higher wages and stronger benefits. rather then stand up for big banks and for-profit colleges, we have to allow more pennsylvania students to earn a higher education so they can get a good job and do not have to go broke doing it. rat

it changed congress. it changed the course of all the issues that came before us, it was a new kindof war , as president bush described, an enemy that didn't wear uniforms and that would attack millions so new kinds of laws to be considered and congress had to work through that and president bush had to focus so intensely and as i've said before, my ntremembrance of september 12 is basic mentality was this will not happen again. and having traveled with him from 2003 to 2006 everywhere ask staff secretary and to seeing him up close, i still thinkevery day . i was with himduring those years every morning when he got up , it was till december 12, 2001, this will not happen again and he had to do ,all the other things of the presidency and all the other legislative and regulatory ceremonial aspects, but he was so focused on that and i'm sure that's been true of the succeeding presidents as well because the threat still exists, of course. >> as we came to learn, osama bin laden of al qaeda was responsible for

consumers expect that from congress. it's time for congress to step up and other folks will step in just like we see in the states. >> to dump to an issue that was very prominent recently, one of your members of verizon took a lot of heat for throttling self-service to firefighters. there was curious if you could explain the telecommunications side of what happened there. a lot of people made the argument that this wouldn't of been the case being imposed spirit of us curious to get your perspective on that. >> i don't think this has anything to do with net neutrality. the customer service anywhere they addressed immediately. they develop new protocols for service plans on public safety agencies going forward. >> host: either safeguards in place on what verizon implemented on a public level that you think should be imposed to help these issues? just go in the context of our open internet, they have been clear about their determination to protect fundamental principles like about anti-competitive prioritization, transparen

where is congress on the border wall funding? jennifer: when the president sent his budget request back in february for 2019, he asked for $1.6 billion in spending in the homeland security bill. the senate put that will request in their homeland security bill, before the house released theirs, there was a bit of a tense meeting at the white house "no, i actually want $5 billion." that is the amount included in the house homeland security bill. a little while ago, congressional leaders, including speaker paul ryan and mitch mcconnell, agreed with appropriators and white house staff, and as far as we were aware, president trump to hold that debate until after the midterms, and during the lame-duck session of congress, they would work out the issues. they would not have a public fight over the border wall before voters head to the polls in november. >> let's take a look at one last issue that is under consideration, which is hurricane funding. what have you heard about the effort, especially by north and south carolina lawmakers, to

he's not running for congress to be in congress, he's already successful. he knows that when you go to congress, you better be less concerned about being there and more concerned about what you are going to do on behalf of the people who sent you. and he's going to use that to advance the interests of all the people of the 48th congressional district. so we are proud of harley. mike spent his career trying to protect this planet for our kids. to make sure they are able to enjoy the incredible bounty that is this beautiful state of california. he is the kind of champion we need in congress right now, a leader on environmental issues, a leader on crime, a fighter to -- a leader on climate change. a fighter to make sure everybody is getting higher wages, working to prevent gun violence, working to protect our health care because there are people out there right now that are counting on us to make sure they still have health care after the selection. [applause] that is on the ballot, and mike is going to make sure he fights to keep it. [applause] and even thoug

democrats and republicans in congress have legitimating concerns about it. some of my closest colleagues, people i have the greatest respect for still have problems with it and may choose to vote against the bill. think we can respectfully disagree. i fund their frustration and i know american americans share the concerns but it's clear that from my perspective this is what we need to do right now to prevent the possibility of a crisis turning into a catastrophe. it is conceivable, it's possible if we did nothing, everything would turn out okay. there's a possibility that is true. and there's no doubt there may be other plans out there that had we had two or three or six months to develop, might be even more refined and might serve our purposes better. but we don't have that kind of time. we can't afford to take a risk that the economy of the united states of america and as a consequence the worldwide economy could be plunged into a very, very deep hole. so, the democrats and he republicans who have opposed this plan, i say, step up to the plate, let's do wh

one representative in congress. it fails as the original second amendment, which says congress can't raise its salary. that became the 27th amendment. our first amendment was the framer's third, it was the first amendment that happened to pass. it doesn't mean the framers weren't centrally concerned about the speech. they believe our rights of speech are natural rights that come from god or government we are born with certain natural rights. remember that the right of complete freedom of conscience is the preeminent national right, because the new hampshire constitution says in its preamble. the opinions of men being the product of reason, rather than force oar violence cannot be coerced. my reledgeous beliefs must be the project of reason. i cannot alienate them. that's why the rights are unconscionable. the right to alter and abolish government whenever it threatens the unalienable rights we refused to surrender. we have to teach this to our students too. we hold these truths to be evident that all men are created

hard to get a law through congress. that's by design. the by cammeralism and deciding the president is designed to prevent the passions of the moment from overwhelming and enacting a law based on passions as opposed to a more process. that helps protect individual liberty. then even after you pass a law, the president has as i was discussing some executive branch has prosecutoral discretion when and how to enforce particular laws. who is protected by the discretion? ultimately, it protects individual liberty. even when the congress passed a law and the executive is enforced a law, that doesn't mean you go straight to prison. you go -- if you're charged with crime, you go before an independent judiciary. and just to add further protections for liberty, you have a -- the jury protection that's are in the original text of the constitution and also reflected in the bill of rights. so in check after check after check the constitution tilts toward individual liberty. the separation of power is also ensures that there are checks on branches. so

veteran of the was armed forces to serve in congress. while there, she didn't hesitate to vote independent of her party, particularly on social issues. including requiring federal workers:health plan to cover contraceptives and opposing an amendment to ban adoptions by gay parents in washington, dc. sigrid a wilson was noted by -- secretary wilson was nominated by president trump now oversees the air force's annual budget of more than $138 billion. today she will talk about the future of american airpower in the 21st century. sakae wilson will fill us in on what it will take to get the air force -- secretary wilson will fill us in on what it will take to get the air force that she believes the united states is going to believe over the next decade. please give a warm press club welcome to the 24th secretary of the u.s. air force, heather wilson. >> thank you so much. since this is a press club, and what is right by correcting the record at least one thing. that is that i was actually not the first veteran in congress, but it was also not

and how we would have the most open congress, the most bipartisan congress, and most unified congress honoring our founders, eplure russ une yum, from many one. can't imagine how different we would be. but we would strive for unity. what we will do will have that principle of what unifies us as a country. seeks truth, protects our voting system, and the rest. but again, not to just pick a fight but to make progress. reporter: you have only been -- the democratic caucus compared to the republican caucus, this week's primary results in massachusetts. the latest that next year democrats are going to be even more diverse. what's your response to the trend this year? do you think an increasingly diverse caucus means the caucus should take a different approach in terms of what it pushes for next year? ms. pelosi: the two areas i think you are making reference to, one in new york and one in boston, are a reflection of those districts. i'm going to give you a chance to amend michael capuano for being a progressive champion in the congress. on the financial services committee. champion for aff

so congress is substantial. the president has large powers of course under the constitution but what we sometimes forget and i think your civic lesson is a reminder that all these checks and balances work together, including on judges, in a way that has served the test of time, but could always be improved in some respects, i suppose. >> and one of the reasons that the executive branch seems to powerful right now is, again, because of how weak the legislature is. i mean, it's a fundamental part of why we have the term "president." in the 1780s this wasn't a common term in the english language. president was a nounified form of the name presiding officer and we made it up, our founders made it up so that we wouldn't have a term that sounded a lot like a king. and so we wanted to be sure that the term presiding officer sounded pretty boring and administrative, because the legislative, the policy-making powers were supposed to sit in this body and the article ii branch is supposed to preside over and execute the la

congress in that regard. the other thing sir is that within a, if sa, i have the ability to -- afsa, i have the ability to set that for the workforce. and it gives me the authority to provide inband increases every year which is different than the title 5 general schedule. unfortunately we haven't used that authority, and that's something that i'm exploring actively at this point in time. there's also a financial component to that. one of the problems we have in t.s.a. right now, particularly at the entry level, is that most employees are at the very low end of the pay band. there should be a bell curve there. it shouldn't be everybody at the bottom of the pay band. but it is gonna require financial resources. >> the gentleman from alabama is recognized. >> we have had hearings about the miss treatment of t.s.a. employees in this committee before. and i'll say that i have gotten to know the t.s.a. employees at the birmingham airport, and i think they're outstanding. they do a great job. my concern is that we

senator sasse and congress has to step in. in this case congress stepped in. we have this major financial crisis. we started this. you done in a minority opinion here and you say that it's unconstitutional. i would throw another federalist society back at you. federalist quote. you quoted hamilton yesterday from federalist 83 when he said the rules of legal interpretation are rules of common sense. right? >> yes. >> so it just doesn't make common sense to me that we would throw an agency out like that or -- >> but i did -- >> you're basically putting your judgment in the place of congress. >> but i didn't throw the agency out. i said the agency can continue operating as it was. the only change would be instead of being for cause remove value, would be at-will removal. there was a judge, not me, on the court that said because of that constitutional flaw, the whole agency had to stop operating. i specifically rejected that as a remedy and said no, the agency can continue to operate doing its important consumer functions. >> let's go to one where you did throw ou

consumers expect that as congress created is time for congress to step up. other folks will be stepping in like we have seen in the states. one of your members at horizon took a lot of heat for .hrottling self-service i was curious if you could explain the a side of what happened? a lot of people made the the rules were being imposed and i was curious to get your perspective. >> i do not think this has anything to do with net neutrality. netflix -- they address the error and they developed new protocols and approaches and service plans for public safety going forward. >> are those going into place at the public and corporate horizon , can the legislation help these issues? >> we have in the context of support and protecting our open internet. the company has been clear about determination -- determining to protect federal principles, no blocking or throttling, transparency. we want to see these and forcibly put into the law at the maximum level. and i think that if we can get there for we will advance this wonderful open and neutral internet that we are enjo

it seems the american people and all of us in congress should know. i would hope that our republican colleagues and our public both requires, demands that we examine the helsinki event closely and if not this body, the american people regret not doing so and history will so recorded and i thank him for his amendment, i yield back other members seeking recognition. congresswoman torres. >> thank you. chairman royce, hr 17. [audio lost] i want to thank royce and engels for bringing it before this committee. hr 1017 would force the administration to turn over documents related to the july 16 meeting that took place between president trump and vladimir putin in helsinki. as i recall, democrats were not the only ones with very serious questions about that meeting or concerns. as i recall, many of my republican colleagues were shocked at the fact that president trump would meet with putin with no staff and shocked by the bizarre spectacle of a joint conference in which president trump treated putinlike a friend, not the adversary that he is . he is not our

keep it read. >> i want women to control congress. i'm tired of people who don't live my life telling me what i need to do. we need more women in all sorts of powerful positions. in congress, as the president, in our senate, state and federal. >> i think that it would be bad for the country if impeachment proceedings failed. they will initiate if the democrats hold the house. i think either we would like to see a sweeping democratic victory where they pick up enough seats in the senate to get a guilty in impeachment, or to have the republicans keep the house of representatives and then there's no impeachment at all. if there are unsuccessful impeachment proceedings going on for many months, that would be pretty bad for the country. >> voices from the states, part of c-span's 50 capitals tour. next, on lectures in history, brandeis university professor abigail cooper talks about how rove for thes st rights of full citizenship and the right to vote, make contracts and choose where they work. this is about 50 minutes. prof. cooper: slave

what is congress' role? >> i haven't seen any suggestions for anything in the congress of the united states of the catholic church but i do respect the work that's being done, for example, in pennsylvania that will serve as model to other places which i understand it is to undertake their own research or investigation into the matter. you see what was just release in germany, it's not in the u.s. but in germany, when people see what is happening, that's the evidence, facts, data of what again should be helped when we go forward and best achieved in a parish, in a dioces in a state because that's where the responsibility is, there should be no doubt, there should be no doubt that if there's a reason to believe that this happened that it be turned over to law enforcement. >> i mean, isn't that the concern that they have not been transparent at all and buried all of the cases? >> no, it's been shameful and i don't think a number of the people who have responsibility, for example, the law of boston what do they