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I think people were looking for someone who could hold the conference together, old congress together, and i believe that he can do that. Hes going to be really focused on the issues that are important to the American People. We got to get control of inflation, Energy Independence and securing the border. Mike johnson knows the issues that the American People are focused on. Host he was not your first choice. Explain. Guest yes, i voted for jim jordan the first round after Speaker Mccarthy when the chair was vacated. Mike johnson wasnt out there for the first couple of rounds, but once he became a serious candidate i certainly was considering him. I think hes a good choice. Host what impact will the lack of a speaker for the last three weeks have, in your view, on the voters when they go to vote in 2024 . Guest thats a year from now. While voters may remember that, what they are going to remember the most is what this congress does. And that is why we need to be focused forward. Its unfortunate that we have three weeks that we were not legislating, but we are going to pick up the ball here today and go right back to work. Remember, these past about 70 of the funding for the federal government, Discretionary Spending prior to the motion to vacate. The senate has passed any of that. Weve been doing our work. We are going to resume doing our work and pathos appropriations bills. Host if you cannot pass all 12 for november 17 and have an agreement with the senate so that you can get the president s signature, are you in support of passing a continuing resolution, another one to give the body more time . Guest first of all, we are going to focus on getting those appropriation bills done and over to the senate. They are more fiscally responsible for the American People and they take america in a different direction than what the Biden Administration has taken us over the last few years. If we dont get them done i do not support clean continuing resolutions, but we need important policies for the American People. That is why i supported the continuing resolution that had hr2. If there is a crisis in america at this point, it is the border. Host and you would support another continuing resolution . Guest it would have to have good policy that benefits the American People. We need to make sure that we control spending, but we have to get some things done. Whether it is getting back to Energy Independence which the Biden Administration has shackled us with these restrictions that are not allowing us to produce energy in america, and securing the border. And also we got to get control of inflation. Remember, inflation is part is being driven by the obsessive federal spending that has been going on. President biden was warned about that, and yet he went forward with this excessive spending. We have to get control of it. Mike johnson knows those are the priorities for the American People. Host President Biden wants to provide money for the border between the United States and the southern border. In a proposal that he has put forth the congress, 100 billion. 60 billion for ukraine, 40 billion for israel, iran and the border. Would you vote yes on that . Guest in regards to the border, it does not require money. It requires changes in policy. President biden in his executive order first day in office when he said we are going to have open borders in the u. S. , that is what caused this. The change in policy. It is not require money to secure the border, it requires a change in policy. We are going to stand firm as republicans on that issue here in the house of representatives. These bills, whether it is ukraine, israel, the border, they need to be separated. It is one of the things that we did to make sure that we have transparency so that people, the United States knows what we are voting on. Not creating these Christmas Tree bills that deal with them one by one, each of them separately. Host have you had that commitment from speaker johnson that aid to israel with the a separate piece of legislation that would not be tied to aid to ukraine . Guest i dont know if he has made that commitment or not but that is certainly what i would be pressing of all of our leadership. I certainly encourage Speaker Mccarthy to do that. You have to separate these bills to be able to allow us to vote on them piece by piece. The American People do not want these Christmas Tree bills. They want us to vote on these issues one by one. Host what do you think should happen with the motion to vacate . Guest the motion to vacate has been around for 200 years. While i dont agree with its use, i do agree that it should stay in place. I think we need to just make sure that we use it judiciously. I think that will happen here as we go forward. I do not fear the motion to vacate, nor should speaker johnson or any other people who may want to be a future speaker. Host do you think that one of your colleagues should be able to offer up the motion to vacate, or should the threshold be higher . Guest i think its acceptable, it just needs to be used responsibly. Host what do you want to see speaker johnson do with the nations that . With the nations debt . Guest weve been talking about a Bipartisan Debt Commission and this could be an appropriate time for that. Its going to take both parties here. We republicans, in honesty, weve not been as good as we should have been also. I think its going to take both parties working together to deal with the debt problem that we have. It is escalating at a rate that is simply unsustainable and it is causing many problems weve seen here financially for americans. 8 Interest Rates for homes. Weve seen more defaults by banks this year than we seen in quite a while. We have real problems that have been created by this fiscal irresponsibility. We have to get back to it and it is going to take both parties to make that happen. Host what changes to Social Security and medicare would you like to see to address those two programs which are driving the nations debt . Guest we need to get serious about that. You take a look at President Bidens budget over the next 10 years, he doesnt deal with it at all. What happens 10 years from now, you are going to see a 23 reduction in Social Security benefits. I think this could be part of that debt commission, part of a longterm debt that we as americans have and we need to deal with. This is a place where hopefully both parties can come together and Reach Solutions that are going to make Social Security solvable into the future. Host how do you do that . What are some changes you would agree to . Guest the most important thing that we can do at this point is get back the provost policy. Member, what happens if you have less tax revenues that are flowing into the congress, i think we also need to make sure we have work requirements. What is the estimate, 3 million to 5 Million People since covid hit in 2020 that went to the sidelines and are not working . Weve got to make sure people are working so we have people paying into that Social Security system. Host what about changes to the programs . Guest i think we can deal with that in a bipartisan fashion if there needs to be changes to the age limits. Perhaps that is something that could be done. There will need to be some policy changes but ive got to tell you, it is going to require both parties to make that happen. Otherwise it becomes a political football and we end up with this push where Social Security benefits are going to decline by 23 . Host from washington, d. C. To across the country, coming up friday morning, James Carafano of the foundation and mara ruddman talk about bidens response to the israelhamas war. And a Chinese Foreign ministers visit to washington this week. And commissioner Benjamin Hovland speaks about restoring trust in the election process ahead of the 2024 cycle. Join the conversation live at 7 00 eastern on friday morning, on cspan, cspan now or online at cspan. Org. A healthy democracy doesnt just look like this, it looks like. This where americans can see democracy at work. When citizens are truly informed our republic thrives. Get informed straight from the source on cspan. Unfillered, unbiased, wordforword. From the Nations Capital to wherever you are. The opinion that matters the most is your own. This is what democracy looks like. Cspan, powered by cable. Cspans student cam documentary competition is back, celebrating 20 years with this years theme looking forward while dherg past. Were asking middle and High School Students to create a five to sixminute video addressing one of these questions. In the next 20 years whats the most important change youd like to see in america. Or over the past 20 year what is the most important change in america in as we do each year were giving away 100,000 in total prizes with a grand prize of 5,000 and every teacher who has students participate in this years competition have the opportunity to share a portion of an additional 50,000. The competition deadline is friday, january 19, 2024. For atio visit our website at studentcam. Org. Now marge ry Taylor Greene of georgia introducing a resolution tosen sure representative Rashida Tlaib. Asen sure carries no specific punishment over than rebuke on the house floor. The haas house has two legislative days to decide when to consider it. Question of the privileges of the house. The clerk of the house will the gentlewoman first yield back her one minute. Ms. Greene yes. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does gentlewoman seek recognition . Ms. Greene mr. Speaker, pursuant to clause 2a1of rule 9 i seek recognition to give notice of my intent to raise a question of the privileges of the house. The form of the resolution is as follows. A resolution censuring representative Rashida Tlaib for antisemitic activity, sympathizing with terrorists organizations. And leading an insurrection at the United States capitol complex. Whereas, in may, 2019, Rashida Tlaib said that she celebrated the holocaust and felt a calming feeling when thinking about the genocide of millions of jews. Whereas in 2020 Rashida Tlaib retweeted an illustration with the caption, from the river to the sea. Palestine will be free. And this palestine liberation organization, p. L. O. s slogan, has been adopted by hamas and calls for the elimination of israel and death to all jews. Whereas in september, 2022, Rashida Tlaib, as a member of the congressional progressive caucus, displayed her disdain for israel saying, you cannot claim to hold progressive values yet back israels apartheid government. Whereas instead of denouncing the horrors of hamas, slaughtering israelis, and demanding the release of all hostages held by hamas, Rashida Tlaib stated on october 8, 2023, the path to the future must include lifting the blockade, ending the occupation, and dismantling the apartheid system that creates the suffocating, dehumanizing conditions that can lead to resistance. Whereas, Rashida Tlaib exhibited her ray hatred for america by reposting a message on october 12, 2023 blaming america for allowing the deaths of palestinian babies at the hands of israel. Whereas, Rashida Tlaib led an insurrection at the United States capitol complex on october 18, 2023, which put members of congress, their staff, and capitol visitors in danger by shutting down elevators, stairwells, and points of egress while obstructing official business in both the house of representatives and the senate, including a Senate ForeignAffairs Committee hearing. Whereas, the insurrection led by Rashida Tlaib was organized by jewish voice for peace, which the Antidefamation League calls a radical antiisrael activist group that advocates for a complete economic, cultural, and academic boycott of the state of israel. And that believes israeli policies and actions are motivated by deeply rooted jewish racial chauvinism and religious supreme civil. Whereas members of the southern poverty law certainty, a far left nonprofit organization, were present at the insurrection at the capitol on october 18, 2023. Whereas, several insurrectionists at the capitol belong to a Group Messaging chat called global n. T. Fada, the air particular word for rebellion or uprising, and refers to series of protests and violent riots carried out by palestinians and israel during the last century. Whereas, by leading an antiamerican and antisemitic insurrection on october 18, 2023, Rashida Tlaib followed hezbollahs orders to carry out a day of unprecedented anger. Following an explosion at a gazan hospital, lying about israels responsibility for the attack which united United States intelligence agencies said was not perpetrated by israel. And whereas, members of congress who denounce the United States while praising terrorist organizations are unfit to hold office. Now therefore be it resolved that representative Rashida Tlaib be censured. Representative Rashida Tlaib forthwith present herself in the well of the house of representatives for the pronouncement of censure. And representative Rashida Tlaib be censured with the public reading of this resolution by and now another congresswoman offers a resolution tosen sure representative marge ry Taylor Greene of georgia. She refers to what she calls repeated racist and antisemitic statements made by congresswoman greene as the reason. Rise to gy intention to raise a question of the privileges of the house. The form of the resolution is as follows. Ms. Balint House Resolution 610 , censuring representative marjorie Taylor Greene, whereas representative marjorie Taylor Greene repeatedly fanned the flames of racism, antisemitism, hate speech against the lbgt community, islam phobia, asian hate and citizen phobia and other forms of hatred, whereas marjorie Taylor Greene repeatedly debuted memories of thousands of the victims of the terrorist attacks on september 11, 2001, by perpetuating conspiracy theories to shift blame and responsibility for mass murder. Whereas marjorie Taylor Greene has repeatedly assaulted the foundation of our democracy by perpetuating conspiracy theories related to the january 6 attack on the capitol which sought to halt the peaceful transfer of power. Whereas, marjorie Taylor Greene has repeatedly called for violence against elected officials and their families. Whereas margely Taylor Greene has repeatedly espoused antisemitic rhetoric and conspiracy theories, including through inflammatoryive occasions of the evocations of the holocaust. And marjorie Taylor Greene said the mask mandate in the house of representatives was akin to jews being put in trans and taken to gas chambers in nazi, germany. And on may 21, marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted vaccinated employees get a vaccination logo just like the nazis forced jewish people to wear a gold star. Whereas, on february 26, 2022, representative marjorie Taylor Greene appeared at a White Nationalist event that was condemned by the Republican Jewish Coalition as, quote, appalling and outrageous that a member of congress would share a platform with an individual who has actively spread antisemitic vial and mocked the holocaust and promoted dangerous antitheories. Whereas september 1, 2022 marjorie Taylor Greene posted a tweet comparing President Joe Biden to adolf hitler saying joe biden is hitler, mash tag nazi joe has to go. Whereas september 21, 2022 marjorie Taylor Greene posted another tweet of a doctored video showing President Biden speaking with audio of hitler, swastikas in the background with a mustache akin to hitler. Whereas, on july 21, 2021, marjorie Taylor Greene said if in charge she would kick out every chinese in this country that is loyal to the ccp, they would be gone. Whereas on december 19, 2021 at a turning point in a conference marjorie Taylor Greene referred to asians as yellow people and has been referred to as the Asian Community in the United States. Whereas marjorie Taylor Greene has a history of perpetuateing lbgtq hate speech including through the halls of congressional buildings beginning september 24, 2021. Whereas september 22, 2022, representative marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted a lbgtq california state senator was a communist groomer, unquote, an offensive slur thats been used to invoke fear and insight hatred of lbgtq . Whereas, march 20, 2023, marjorie Taylor Greene referred to members of the lbgtq as, quote, groomers, and spotted antitransrhetoric on the floor of the house of representatives. Whereas on june 1, 2023, the first day of pride month, representative marjorie Taylor Greene submitted a photo of a antitrans photo she displayed outside of her office. Whereas february 22,2019, representative marjorie Taylor Greene posted a video on facebook claiming the Muslim American members of congress were not, quote, really official because they didnt take the oath of office on the bible. Whereas on june 17, 2020, politico reported that representative marjorie Taylor Greene repeatedly engaged in islama phobic rhetoric and subjected Muslim Americans do not belong in the United States government. Whereas on may 10, 2021, representative marjorie Taylor Greene yet again referred to fellow muslim fellow members of the congas, quote, the jihad squad. Whereas, on june 17, 2020, politico reported that representative marjorie Taylor Greene referred to black americans as, quote, slaves to the Democratic Party and said they should be proud to seek confederate moderates. Whereas on june 17, 2020, politico further reported that representative marjorie Taylor Greene stated in a video, quote, i know a ton of white people that are as lazy and sorry and probably worse than black people, unquote. Whereas on may 18, 2023, marjorie Taylor Greene compared being called a white supremacist to a person of color being called a nword, a vial racial slur. Whereas on january 28, 2021, a video of representative marjorie Taylor Greene resurfaced in which she used a harmful slur targeting americans with disabilities with the national down Syndrome Society called, quote, heartbreaking and unacceptable. Whereas, on november 1, 2018 representative marjorie Taylor Greene denied the attacks on september 11 saying there was, quote, a socalled plane that crashed into the pentagon and quote, its odd theres never been any evidence to show a plane at the pentagon. Whereas, on november 17, 2018, representative marjorie Taylor Greene said a antisemitic. Tre which she blamed wildfires in california were caused by space lasers operated by members of the jewish community. Whereas on august 17, 2020, with a video of representative marjorie Taylor Greene resurfaced in which she stated the mass shooting at the Country Music festival in las vegas, nevada, where 60 people were murdered was perpetuated in order to pass antigun legislation. Whereas, on january 19, 2021, media matters published a screen shot of representative marjorie Taylor Greene on facebook emphatically agreed the mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneham Douglas high school where 17 American Students and teachers were murdered was a false flag event. Whereas, on january 21, 2021, media matters published a screen shot on facebook, a comet that represent comment that marjorie Taylor Greene quoted 9 11 was done by our own government to which she responded, that is all true. Whereas, that same comment liked and agreed to by representative marjorie Taylor Greene further claimed, the mass shooting at sandy hook elementary where 26 people including 20 precious, precious children were murdered was staged. Whereas, on september 3, 2020, representative marjorie Taylor Greene posted an image of herself holding a gun next to images of three members of congress with a caption encouraging, quote, going on offense after them. Whereas, on january 26, 2021, cnn reported on post comments and likes by representative marjorie Taylor Greene from 2018 and 2019 in which representative marjorie Taylor Greene liked several posts and comments on facebook demonstrating her support for the execution of several members of the Democratic Party, including the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, secretary of state Hillary Clinton and president bahama. Barack obama. Whereas, marjorie Taylor Greene liked a facebook comment on january 2019 that stated, quote, a bullet to the head would be quicker in reference to the removal of Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Whereas, on january 26, 2021, cnn also reported that deleted videos showed representative representative marjorie Taylor Greene calling for the execution of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and stating she was, quote, a traitor to our country, that shes guilty of treason and should suffer death or shell be in prison. Whereas, representative marjorie Taylor Greene has perpetuated the big lie represented related to the 2020 election by espousing conspiracy theories and threatening and inciting violence. Whereas, october 26, 2021, representative marjorie Taylor Greene downplayed the actions of those who participated in the january 6 attack on the capitol and said, quote, if you think about what our declaration of independence says, it says, to over throw tyrants. Whereas, on november 4, 2021, representative marjorie Taylor Greene went to visit those incarcerated related to the january 6 attack on the capitol in which she referred to them as, quote, the patriot wing of the d. C. Jail. Whereas, on november 10, 2021, representative marjorie Taylor Greene referred to those who participated in the january 6 attack on the capitol as, quote, Political Prisoners of war. Whereas, on december 10, 2021, representative marjorie Taylor Greene said if she had organized the january 6 attack on the capitol, quote, we would have won, not to mention we would have been armed. Whereas, on july 19, 2023, representative marjorie Taylor Greene displayed graphic pornographic images during an official Committee Hearing that she claimed depicted a member of President Bidens family. Whereas, on july 19, 2023, representative marjorie Taylor Greene sent an official press release and posted to her official congressional website a public commentary featuring graphic pornographic images she claimed depicted a member of President Bidens family. Whereas, members of congress have promised to always have the back of marjorie Taylor Greene no matter the extent of her vile and hateful behavior, wherever, be it resolved representative marjorie Taylor Greene be censured. Representative marjorie Taylor Greene forth with present herself in the well of the house of representatives for the pronouncement of censure and representative marjorie Taylor Greene be censured with the congressman anthony december po see toe of new york december po zito of new york made a motion to remove representative santos from congress. He stated santos lies were grounds for his removal. Congressman santos is also facing 13 federal counts relating to financing. 2a1 ofe to give notice of my i tent fe intent to raise the question of the privileges of the house. The form of the resolution is as follows. House resolution 773. Providing for the expulsion of representative George Santos from the house of representatives. Where was George Anthony santos, known as George Santos, was elected to represent new yorks third Congressional District in the house of representatives on november 8, 2022. Mr. Desposito it is revealed George Santos lied about a significant portion of his background, including his education and previous employment. Whereas George Santos has a long history of misrepresenting his and his familys connections to major events, including the holocaust, september 11 terrorist attacks, and the pulse nightclub shooting. Whereas, on may 9, 2023, George Santos was indicted on 13 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, stealing public funds, and lying on federal Financial Disclosure forms to the house of representatives. Whereas, a federal grand jury indicted an aide to George Santos campaign on charges of wire fraud and Identity Theft for defrauding potential donors by impersonating speaker Kevin Mccarthys former chief of staff. Waras, on october 5, 2023, George Santos former Campaign Treasurer pled guilty to falsifying Campaign Finance records including lying about a 500,000 loan that George Santos claimed to have donated to the campaign himself. Whereas, on october 10, 2023, George Santos was federally charged with an additional 10 criminal counts. Whereas, the additional charges were serious in nature including conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States of america, wire fraud, aggravated Identity Theft, access to vice fraud, false statements to the federal election commission, an falsifying records to obstruct the commission. Whereas, the indictment outlined a vast amount of evidence against santos, including conversations he held with his former Campaign Treasurer outlike plans to commit the fraud he was charged with. Whereas, these charges indicate that George Santos engaged in a serious financial fraud throughout his 2022 campaign for the house of representatives. Whereas, George Santos stole over 44,000 from donors by charging their credit cards without authorization. Whereas, George Santos directly profited from his fraudulent actions, including transferring money to his own bank account to buy luxury items and pay off debt. Whereas, George Santos engaged in Election Fraud throughout his 2022 campaign by deceiving voters regarding his biography, defrauding donors, and engaging in other Illegal Campaign behavior. A whereas, as result of these actions George Santos is not fit to serve his constituents as a United States representative. Now for it there be resolved pursuant to article 1, section 5, clause 2 of the constitution of the United States of america, representative George Santos be and hereby is expelled cspans studentcam documentary competition is back, celebrating 20 years with this years theme, looking forward while looking to the past. We are asking middle and High School Students to create videos addressing one of these questions in the next 20 years, what is the most important change you would like to see in america . Or in the last 20 years, what is the most important change in america . 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