Thank you for your support. Thank you to all of you for taking the time to join this conversation at a time that could not be more crucial for his country. I get that running for president as a thirtysomething mayor is not a conventional, political, or professional move. The reason i am doing it is because of the moment we are living in. I am convinced even now, and as we read the headlines and look around us, we may be under reacting to the seriousness of he moment that we live in. That right now, the pace of change in our economy and politics is accelerating and if we dont get on top of that, we are not on top of the conditions that made the president we are living with now even possible. [applause] ti mr. Buttigieg a president like the one we have now does not get within cheating distance of the oval office unless something is wrong across the land. We have to speak to that if we want to win. In order to do that im convinced that we need to ground our politics in our deepest values. I am out to break the spell that has had some americans believing the word values is a word that should only be associated with one political party. These are not conservative values. These are American Values and when you take them seriously, they have progressive implications. [applause] mr. Buttigieg this is why we are having a new conversation about freedom. We are talking about all of the things besides government that can make you unfree if we do not have the right leaders and policies. We are talking about how health care is part of a freedom. You are not free if you are afraid to go start a Small Business and live the American Dream because leaving your old job would mean losing your health care. [applause] mr. Buttigieg speaking of health, this is not a free country if women are denied basic reproductive freedoms by male politicians. Cheers and applause] mr. Buttigieg nor is this a free country if a county clerk gets to tell you who you can marry based on their version of their religion. [applause] mr. Buttigieg freedom is not just about freedom from, it is about freedom to live the life of your choosing, building up the kind of life all of us will be able to prosper. Its why organized labor is such an important part of securing the Economic Freedom of people in this country. [applause] mr. Buttigieg a big part of our freedom in life comes with the equipment we get through the process of education. Which is why we need a secretary of education who actually believes in public education. Cheers and applause] mr. Buttigieg this is what it means to take freedom seriously in the 21st century. While we are at it in the 21st century, we are going to have a different kind of conversation about National Security. One that looks beyond the sorts of things you can deal with just by putting up a wall from coasttocoast. Thats not going to help with some of the things we are up against right now. A wall is not going to help you with cybersecurity threats or Election Security threats. It is not going to help us name and confront the violent White Nationalism that has claimed the lives in this country and around the world. [applause] mr. Buttigieg security requires a president who can make a decision and stick to it and do it for the right reasons. Who knows what is at stake when we send troops abroad. Having been one of those troops, knowing what it is like to write a letter to my family and put it where they can find it, just in case, on the outside of the envelope, because of a decision made in the oval office. I will never use american troops as props or enlist them to decorate my presidency. They are there for a reason and they ought to be respected. [applause] mr. Buttigieg the National Security starts at home. A president cannot keep us safe if that president has no plan to deal with gun safety in american communities. [applause] mr. Buttigieg its why we need the question really is if americans gree, gun owners agree, even republicans agree we ought to have things like universal background checks and red flag laws to disarm domestic abusers, why isnt it getting done . That brings me to democracy. We want to believe we live in a democratic republic, but it is getting less democratic by the day. We have to act to reverse that. This is not a democracy if politicians can draw a district such that they are choosing their voters instead of voters choosing them. [applause] mr. Buttigieg nor is our democracy strong if dollars can outvote people because of the Supreme Court decision that says a corporation has the same political soul as a human being. It is not right. [applause] mr. Buttigieg in a democracy, everybody ought to be properly represented. That is why our fellow u. S. Citizens in puerto rico and the District Of Columbia deserve epresentation. And everywhere around the country we have to stand up for them. I would even go so far to argue at the risk of sounding simplistic that in a democracy it would suit us well to choose our nations leader by counting all the notes vothse and giving it to the person who got the most. [cheers and applause] mr. Buttigieg we are going to have a new conversation about freedom, security, democracy, faith. We tread carefully when it comes to talking about faith because it is so important we represent people of any religion and people of no religion equally. Thats one of the founding principles of this country. But i also want americans of faith to know that they have a choice. The choice could not be made more stark by whats going to happen tomorrow when millions of americans will get up on sunday morning and go to church and hear about the ways in which we are commanded to extend friendship and welcome to the stranger, which is another word for immigrant, and then later on in the day read about federal agents tearing families apart in order to satisfy the radical genda of this president. [applause] mr. Buttigieg every moral tradition we have, religious and secular, tells us we have a responsibility to look after the most vulnerable, the marginalized, those who are ground down by systems of power around them. Right now, we have politicians who cloak themselves in the language of religion and set out to afflict the afflicted and comfort the comfortable. It is not right. Under any version of ethics. We are going to change that and remind people that religion doesnt have to push you into the arms of the religious right. Mr. Buttigieg i am proud of the plans we put forward. You will see more from us soon on how we deliver the kind of country i am talking about building, from the National Service plan that is about making sure that we do the work, because there is so much work that needs to be done, but also that we come together doing it. I bet a lot of people would want an intergenerational core that would serve seniors and people age well in this country. [applause] mr. Buttigieg i bet a lot of people would roger up to be part of a climate core, that would weatherize homes and make our country more sustainable. [applause] mr. Buttigieg i bet a lot of people would sign up for Community Health scorp that would help people dealing with addiction and Mental Health challenges and help them prosper and succeed in our country. But in doing that, not only would such good work get done, we get to know each other better. When i was in the military, i learned to trust my life to people who were radically different than me. We trusted each other with our lives. You shouldnt have to go to war to have that experience of learning to trust your fellow americans. That is what civilian National Service can do. [applause] mr. Buttigieg we are going to fund the serve america act, endow communities to come up with their own service plans. All of that is not just about immediately, in year one getting to quarter million Service Opportunities, but by the time we celebrate our 250th in 2026, being able to say that we have a million Service Opportunities in 24 con in this country so that it becomes the norm not the exception. [applause] mr. Buttigieg we are proud of our plans. We also know that most democrats, even though we are jostling for the nomination, broadly agree on many things. We are going to bring out our various differences, but what most democrats are thinking about is, how are we going to win . How are we going to deal with this president because we cannot afford four more years of this . Mr. Buttigieg i am here to make the case that in order to win, we have to put forward Something Different than what we have done before. [applause] mr. Buttigieg it is not that there is anything wrong with our values. We should be vigorously defending our values. It is why it is the foundation of my campaign. We have to navigate a trap. The trap is this president does things you cannot ignore and at the same time, we cannot let this whole conversation be about the president. When it is about your life, the every day, that is when we win. Most americans agree with us on the every day. They agree with us on raising the minimum wage and immigration and gun safety. That is why the white house needs us talking about something else. Why do you think the president , basically the president of the United States invited the Comment Section off youtube to join him in the rose garden and let everybody watch the show . Why would he do that . The show is mesmerizing, like all grotesque things, the show is hard to look away from. We have to walk and chew gum at the same time. When he lies, we got to name the lie and tell the truth. When he does something wrong, we have to confront it. And move right back to the certainty of gravity. The less we talk about him, the more we are talking about you. We have to do it in the spirit f conviction and hope. That is worth participating in the politics of this country to bring about Something Better than we had before. Hope is not fashionable because its such a bleak picture when you look at our nations capital. But running for office is an act of hope. Coming out and watching someone running for office is an act of hope. Can i look to you to spread the hope that is required in order for us to bring about a better day . [applause] we have a chance to model a completely different kind of politics. Even in the way our campaign is conducted before the first vote is cast, we are going to show what it means to have the sort of politics that can deliver racial inequality in our time, which is what the douglas plan is about. That can deliver Climate Solutions in our time before its too late. That can deliver a rising tide that actually does lift all boats. To do that, we have to come together, stand up for each other. I see a sign up here, three generations for pete. Fantastic. We are building a generational alliance. [applause] we need to build an alliance of people of every walk of life standing up for each other. Its the only way well get ahead. We do not know the next group they will target, but it will be some of us. Anybody who has ever been on the wrong side of an equation about belonging, which in one way or another is all of us, needs to stand up for one another at a time like this. We can build that up and make our country a better place. [applause] mr. Buttigieg i know there are great questions. We have some gathered up. Please welcome back to the stage representative wilhelm, who will walk us through some of the questions. [applause] the first question is, what would you say to people who say their vote doesnt matter or they are not going to vote ecause its just one person . Mr. Buttigieg thanks for your question. We have to acknowledge all the flaws in our democracy at a time like this. We have to make sure no one gives up on a democratic project. This is the best means we have to empower americans to bring about a different result. People say it is just one vote. That Voice Matters so much. I will tell you a story from someone i met in houston. Selena, a college student. Amazing, impressive, young woman. She is a dreamer. She participates in all kinds of voter turnout, mobilization things, even though she cannot vote. She explained with tears in other eyes how she pleads with fellow young people saying i dont have a voice on decision that is are going to affect me. You do. I need you to be there. I need you to rise up and do this. I think sometimes about the people i saw in afghanistan, i was there for an election day. Over there they make you dip your finger in purple inc. So you cant vote twice. Not everybody is literate there, thats the system. Everyone can tell if you voted. We have stickers sometimes, they have purple fingers. They did it knowing there were elements in afghanistan who threatened that if they saw anyone with the purple finger, anyone who voted, they would threaten their lives. You could get killed for voting because they were trying to stop the democratic process cold. They still did it. If they can do it, and if somebodys willing to reveal that she is not a citizen just to tell other people how much is on the line, surely we can get up and take the trouble to go to the polls and make our voice heard. It only works if all of us do it. I would encourage you to say that if anyone is wondering if their Voice Matters. [applause] mr. Wilhelm expanding the Supreme Court and packing it with your own nominees is an a profoundly undemocratic act. Explain your position or explain alternatives for depoliticizing the Supreme Court. Such as term limits. Mr. Buttigieg heres what i believe we need to do in regards to Supreme Court reform. Right now the court which is supposed to stand completely apart from politics runs the risk of becoming a nakedly political institution. The United States over the years has adjusted the design of the Supreme Court to make it better. Some of those have beneficial legal actions. I would argue the Republicans Senate majority also changed the number of Supreme Court justices. They changed it until eight until they got a republican president and then decided to change it back to nine. As president , i will put together a commission that will propose solutions to make the Supreme Court less political. One you mentioned that is appealing but problematic is the idea of term limits. The appeal you have less of a stream to putting somebody on the court who can be there for 40 or 50 years. The problem it creates is you have, for the first time in a while, Supreme Court members thinking about what their career might be like after the court. We need a cure for that problem for that policy to work. The more ambitious one i have floated, you have more members of the Supreme Court, 15. The crucial thing is not the number, its the design. You have one third of them appointed not by a partisan political process. By a unanimous agreement by the other 10. They cannot be seated unless that happens. It is a little complicated. It is being published in the yale journal. Not by me. Im not a constitutional scholar. Its attracted my attention because some constitutional scholars think this could be done without a constitution amendment and that it would help cure some of these issues. Another way to do it would be you have a rotation. You bring people off the apell plat bench and send them back. It melds the virtues of those two approaches. I am less concerned with saying i have it figured out and we are going to do it, rather than opening americas imagination saying we can change this. When i became mayor, we banned the phrase, we have always done it this way. It is unacceptable d. C. Is not a state and they live without members of the senate. It is not right. In a country that has evolved over and over again, whose most elegant qualities, we develop institutions from day one, we are absolutely cape and of taking on these challenges. Constitutional reforms stopped in the 70s. Now would be a great season for a deeper reform in the construction of our democracy. [applause] mr. Wilhelm i have heard a lot of talk about plans for how to address the opioid epidemic. How do you plan to address the issue . Popup chain clinics and big phrma . We need someone with tenacity, stamina, and drive to take them on. Are you up to the challenge . Im going to answer this. Yes, he is up to the challenge. Mr. Buttigieg as huge as the oipyode challenge is, there is a lot more going on we have to deal with. We need to be smart. This is not about saying there should be no these medications cannot exist. Fentanyl was a blessing to my family during my fathers last days. It is needs to be responsible, it needs to be managed the right way. The truth is a lot of these companies have acted in in fairous ways which is one of the reasons we are suing them in south bend. They have done a lot of harm in our city through dishonest practices and deserve to be held accountable. We welcome the research and achievements of pharmaceutical companies that do the right thing. We see a lot of gouging that goes on, where they take advantage. We need policy that can tell the difference. We will have Circuit Breakers when you have Companies Taking advantage of people. What we need is not just the right kind of treatment for pain, but more people certified in the treatment for addiction. We finally begun to figure out as a country that we cannot criminalize addiction and expect it to get better. We need medically assisted therapy. We need more doctors qualified and certified to deal with things like suboxone. In order to help people deal with addiction. As we go on this journey as a conditiontry, we also have to have an equity lens. People where i am from are justified in raising the question, mayor you seem enlighted now about drug policy when it comes to opioids, where were you during the crack epidemic that created these huge racial sentencing disparities in our country . When we do drug policy reform it s to be retroactive and an equity lens to recognize the racial inequality that is a huge part of how we have dealt with drugs in the past. Mr. Wilhelm do you have plans to aid the growing issue of student debt, specifically lower income educators. Mr. Buttigieg this is personal, thank you for your service. I married an educator. As a household, we have sixfigure student debt and we live in a country that does not reward Educational Service the way it ought to. It is relative to the importance of that position in our society. We ought to respect teachers more like soldiers and pay them a little more like doctors than we do. [applause] mr. Buttigieg it is one of the reasons we need to expand the Public ServiceLoan Forgiveness Program and teacher Loan Forgiveness Program. They are on the book but too hard to access. Very few people are taking advantage of them. I think we can change the way they are set up so it is more of a benefit to doing it for different lengths of time and make it easier to deal with. That is one. On the front end, we have to do a lot of work to make education more affordable. The right combination of carrots and sticks, a federal state partnership, will help states carry more of the burden so less falls on the students. As we take these steps what well see its not something that just been fets the borrower, its something that benefits the country. For the first time in a long time a majority of teachers surveyed have said they would discourage their children from following into that profession. That puts us in a bad place. We cant let that go on. We have to react to how the profession is treated and what it takes to get qualified for that profession and making sure its affordable. Thanks. [applause] mr. Wilhelm the next question s from nakeel. What will your douglas plan due do address systemic racism in the criminal Justice System . Mr. Buttigieg one of the things i am proudest of in this campaign and we put out a new level of detail on it yesterday is our douglas plan to address systemic racism in all dimensions of american life. It is all connected. We are going through tough discussions. When we sit down with Community Members to talk about it, we are talking not just about policing, but about justice, and not just about justice but linings like economic empower. Empowerment. Our plan includes provisions to increase black entrepreneurship in this country, health equity, a 21st century response to the homestead act that would help support homeownership in our communities and for black americans. And, education, where we need to do a lot of work to support historically black colleges and universities, affordability, and make sure title i schools get the help they need. A huge part is the part you are asking about which is criminal justice reform. We are the most incarcerated country in the developed world. It does not make us safer. T is not true. Tee tee its just not true that more prisons do not lead to more safety. We have to undertake a whole bunch of steps to reduce incarceration. I see evidence we can reduce it by half and i have committed to do that, without an increase in crime. How . A whole bunch of things you have to do. First of all, you should not be able to profit off of other peoples misery. We should not have forprofit prisons. [applause] secondly, you look at incarceration in the federal system and across the states and you see a lot of it is driven by nonviolent drug offenses. We can look at the statistics and what they will tell us is there are cases where the incarceration does more damage to our country than the original offense. In south bend, we have a generation of kids growing up dealing with the incarceration of a parent, which is right up there on the list of traumatic childhood experiences that could make a child more likely to wind up having problems later in ife. It hurts society. Drug possession should not be something that leads to incarceration in this country. [applause] mr. Buttigieg New Hampshire has shown enormous leadership in abolishing the death penalty. Something i think we need to do at the national level, too. Because its application has been hugely discriminatory. Another thing we have to do and can do is recognize how much the country has at stake in bringing people back into society and getting them on their feet. The exclusion of the ability to get access to Public Housing when you leave incarceration is selfdefeating. It makes someone more likely to commit another offense out of survival in the future. When it comes to things like that, the ability to get education while incarcerated, so you can return as a productive member of society, when it comes to the medicaid exclusion, which makes it harder to have Health Outcomes and continuity when you leave and puts people at risk of overdose deaths, the mom they are out of incarceration. And the simple fact that we need to invite people as we return them to society to be able to vote without imposing any ridiculous requirements on being able to do that. [applause] all of these things add up into a more just Justice System. Until we live in a country where the criminal Justice System delivers justice, all of us are worse off. People of color bear the brunt of systemic racism in this country. The truth is, everyone is worse off because of the harms it creates. This is a conversation that white americans need to be having. This cant be a specialty topic or black audiences only. All of us need to talk about this and all of us need to support these kinds of reform. [applause] r. Buttigieg thank you. Mr. Wilhelm the ultimate goal is for the democrats to win the 2020 election. Mr. Buttigieg thats right. Correct. This is the true false section. Mr. Wilhelm how can the party be unified to win . Mr. Buttigieg great question. I expect to be the nominee. I am working to make that happen. [applause] mr. Buttigieg no matter who the nominee is, approximately 23 Democratic Candidates are not going to be the nominee and need to rally around the one person who is and quickly. [applause] mr. Buttigieg we know what will happen if we do not. Not only do we have all of the harms that have always been there through division, we actually have countries, intelligence agencies, expertly manipulating those divisions, and you Better Believe theyll do it again. We have got to be rocksolid in our commitment to bringing about a different presidency. I am pretty sure im preaching to the choir. We have to tell our friends. You would be surprise how will we get along as candidates. The important thing is to make sure when you are out on social media, when our supporters and sympathizers are out there, that we have the same spirit of remembering. We are going to have contrasts. That is ok. This is a competition. I do not view the others as opponents. I view them as competitors. We are competing for the chance to take it to our real opponent, the occupant of the white house who must be replaced at all costs. [applause] mr. Wilhelm this is from lori in santa barbara. There she is. Good morning, mr. Mayor. After the rollout of the douglas plan, how do we address undecided voters who suggested you are pandering to the black vote . Mr. Buttigieg you can let them know our first discussion of the douglas plan was more than a month ago. The black voters deserve to be addressed with serious policy proposals. This is not just politics. This is the right thing to do. [applause] mr. Buttigieg black voters i talked to are pretty tired of being taken for granted, being lied to by people in both parties. Also of the idea that sometimes the vote is talked about like its one guy. There are a lot of diversity of opinion among the black voters i am meeting and the residents of my own community, who agree with this part or disagree with that part of a plan, proposal, or candidacy. In addition to this being my effort to provide the most comprehensive answer of any candidate to the question of how we deal with systemic racism, this is something that goes to the very heart of what it is to live in our country. It involves correcting an illusion that will be hard to correct. If we just take racist policies and replace them with neutral policies, everything will get better, that is the illusion. It turns out, we now know from recent years, it is not that imple. Because of the way the harms compound, the same way you save a dollar it compounds. The same thing is true of a dollar stolen. It is why we have to have a conversation of what it means to be a just country and how all of us will be elevated when it is impossible to predict somebodys life expectancy, income, or educational outcomes based on race. We will all be safer. We all need this. [applause] mr. Wilhelm next question is on gun control. What is your position on reasonable gun laws . Why are you not talking about it a lot . Mr. Buttigieg i talk about it a ton. We cannot allow the Second Amendment to become a death sentence for thousands of americans. [applause] mr. Buttigieg as i pointed out in the Democratic National debate, did you see the debate by the way . [cheers and applause] mr. Buttigieg if more guns were all it needed to make a safe, we would be the safest country in the world. Commonsense gun safety, as a party, we have to get out of a defensive crouch on this. This is one issue where we have the most support among the american people. 90 think we ought to have universal background checks. 90 , including most republicans and gunowners. The fact we cannot get it done is a problem of democracy that is very visible in the daylight between the American Congress and the american people. We know we need universal background checks. We know we need red flag laws that disarm domestic abusers. This is a common sense position. There are weapons, weapons like some of the things i trained on in the military, weapons of war, that have no place in american streets and neighborhoods in peacetime, especially near a school. [applause] mr. Buttigieg i have taken heat over the years as an indiana mayor when i embraced some of these policies. s not just something i came to in the president ial election, i have been talking about this for a while. I took heat, usually along two dimensions. One said it would have prevented this shooting or that tragedy. Maybe that is right. It would save thousands and thousands of lives. You dont have to believe it would fix every problem to know that it will fix many problems. How can we not save thousands of lives if we have the chance . The second thing i hear is you cannot do any of this because of the Second Amendment. It says shall not be infringed. It also says wellregulated, but they skip over that part. They say any regulation is unconstitutional. It is not true. Think about any freedom that we honor. Freedoms that i defended with my life. We also apply common sense. The freedom to free speech does not mean you can yell fire in a theater. The right to swing your fist as one justice said ends where somebodys nose begins. We have already established as a country that we are going to draw a line somewhere because it is common sense. Everybody can have a water balloon. Nobody can have a nuclear weapon. We have decided somewhere on that spectrum there is a limit. Somewhere between a slingshot and a predator drone, we are going to draw the line. The question is where we draw the line and that is something i think my military experience speaks to. We have to draw the line tighter than we are today and most americans agree that is the right to do. [applause] mr. Wilhelm we have time for one more question. It is a good one. How will you work around Mitch Mcconnell . Mr. Buttigieg oh. All right. I have a few ideas on this. It reminds me of something. I know jim is very alive to this and local organizing. I am here running for president , but we cannot treat the presidency like it is the only office that matters. Every office matters. [applause] mr. Buttigieg there is great power in local office, great power in state office. Your legislature is a beacon to the contrary in terms of good legislation. A lot of it is getting vetoed, but it is really good stuff coming out of there. Nowhere do we see the limitations of the presidency more than in dealing with the United States senate. Especially because, i am big on reaching across the aisle. An indiana mayor does not get much done if you dont figure out how to work with the republicans at least some of the time. It overwhelm works if you have some good faith partnership. We do not have good faith right now. Mcconnell said if there was a Supreme Court vacancy in 2020 he would schedule a vote on that, when in 2016 it was a matter of principle you would never do that in an Election Year . They are not pretending to act in good faith anymore. It is raw cynicism and power. The good news is, because most americans agree with us on most of these issues, a great use of air force one is to fly it in the state of a person getting in he way of good policy, and emind them even now, even with all these offices in the wrong hands, they still couldnt take away the a. C. A. They are working hard at it. But it shows you the power that rests in the fact that the people are with us. That is part of how you outmaneuver Mitch Mcconnell. There is a better answer. Its why, by the way, i suggest you might want to nominate an industrial midwestern mayor with coattails. Its this. The best way to deal with Mitch Mcconnells for him to not be in the majority anymore preferably not in the senate anymore. I hope you are excited about being part of this. I hope youll get to know our New Hampshire team. We are growing by the way. We are hiring by the minute. We need your help. Tell a friend, tell a neighbor, bring them out to vote and i will see you on the trail. Thanks so much for joining us. We will be with you every step of the way. [applause] [up around the bend by Creedence Clearwater revival plays] conversations] [captions Copyright National able satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [indiscernible] thanks for being here. Appreciate it. Good luck. Can you sign my yearbook . Sure. Pass it up. Thanks for coming. Appreciate it. Where are you from . Freedom playing] [indiscernible] thank you so much. Mayor buttigieg thank you so much for coming. Whats your name . Mayor buttigieg oh, my goodness. [freedom playing] mayor buttigieg you get back there much . Wow. Nice meeting you. Fellow hoosier. Soud south indy. Were from indiana. Great to see you. Can i get a picture with you . Thank you. So happy to have you around. Tay in politics, please. Mayor buttigieg i think we need a different whistleblower protection. I blew it. Mayor buttigieg thanks for being here. Thanks for coming. Thank you. Indiscernible] mayor ernible] buttigieg thanks so much for eing here. Indiscernible] good luck. I love that youre trying to make college more affordable. What about college for all . Mayor buttigieg i believe it should be free for low and middleincome students. Ok. Thank you. Thanks for coming. Mayor buttigieg first place to have Indian Country was south bend. There are a lot of people in the southwest without running water. Thanks for being here. Welcome aboard. Thank you so much. Thank you for your hard work. I have a question for you. I heard you would ban fracking. Would you ban any new oil, coal or gas . Mayor buttigieg we need to wind down exploration. Ok. Thank you. I was wondering what your position on the minnesota banning the pledge of allegiance, whats your position . Mayor buttigieg i dont know about that story. ll learn more about it. We have your back. Mayor buttigieg all right. All right. There you go. All right. All right. Thanks so much, everyone. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks. The u. S. House returns at 2 00 eastern to open todays session. Bill debate will begin at 2 45 eastern when members consider 14 bills including sanctions against saudi government officials apparently involved in the assassination of Washington Post columnist jamal khashoggi. Tomorrow the house will debate a contempt resolution against william barr and wilbur ross for failing to provide information on the administrations attempt to add a Citizenship Question to the 2020 census. And coming up later this week, raising the federal minimum wage to 15 an hour. Before the house can debate the contempt resolution against attorney general barr and commerce secretary ross, the House Rules Committee must decide the debate structure and you can watch that Committee Meeting live this afternoon at 5 00 eastern on our companion network cspan3. And the hearings with former special Counsel Robert Mueller originally scheduled for wednesday have been pushed back a week. The Judiciary Committee hearing on president trumps possible obstruction of justice has been extended to three hours. And after that hearing, mr. Mueller will go before the House Intelligence Committee to answer questions about russian interference in the 2016 president ial election. Cspan3 will have live coverage of both hearings wednesday, july 24, also Available Online at cspan. Org or you can listen with the free cspan radio app