Appearance before Congressional Committee in his career. Here on cspan 3 we are going to take your calls and comments and cspan radio as well. Heres how to join the conversation. Democrats call 2027488920. Republicans 2027488921. For all others 2027488922. We plan to show the hearing as well, both hearings today, to reair the hearings in their entirety on the cspan network. If you missed any of the earlier testify, well have it for you much later this evening after the house gavels out. Lets go if you arefirst to joh francisco on our others line. John, san francisco, go ahead, youre on the air. Caller disappointing as everybody thought it was going to be, but i was wondering that it seemed someone should have asked if he report because his john, youre breaking up on us a little bit. Im going to let you go here and go to jackie in irvine, california, democrats line. Jackie in, irvine gor, go ahead caller thank you for taking my call. I am so proud to have the opportunity to participate
Dorgan listen live on the free span radio app. Host thank you for being our guest. Mr. Bishop thank you. The two reporters who will be asking questions. D covering Energy Issues and covering congress. And you are up first. Reporter big news is averting a government shutdown. Are you confident that congress will be able to fund the government in the coming days . Mr. Bishop yes. Reporter why are you so confident . Mr. Bishop it is a continuing resolution. I feel very comfortable its going to go along and try to work through some of the issues. I expect they will continue to be some kind of continuing resolution through most of this spring with the possible exception and probable exception of the defense department. If we do it for the defense spending we help our military. And everyone recognizes that. Reporter you are not expecting congress to pass an omnibus spending package . Mr. Bishop i would be happy if they would, because there are a couple of things i would like to put on that p
They were lean, i would certainly give the u. S. Postal service pretty good grades for that. They have undertaken an enormous effort to become smaller and more lean. Smart, efficient, the Postal Service is embarking down that road. The third is they are entrepreneurial and they are diversified, which the u. S. Postal service is not. They are saying those are the three key essential ingredients to survive in todays world as a Postal Service. I think one of the keys to staying out of trouble, if we do begin to enter the area of diversification, is to enable, not to compete, with commerce. We certainly have many ways to do that. As far as who would do this, i agree and understand that we have a traditional workforce that has been narrowly focused on mail and parcels in the past, but the Postal Service has the longest tradition of all the federal departments and probably within the world of creating effective partnerships with the private sector. First of all, were the long poll in the ten
This first year of trump is going to mean for the Republican Party in the long term, for conservatives . Do they have the same home that they used to, or is the party irreparably changed . I think long term, the chances are high that the Republican Party, it cant recover or is broken apart or this is the beginning of a breaking apart for them. The brand of what it means to be a conservative or conservative republican is kind of lost. And whether conservatives in particular can ever get back to, you know, having a party of their own is hard to know. You have a lot of people like Pete Wayner N david brooks out there saying im a political refugee. Sounds like you wouldnt say that donald trump is conservative. Oh, hes definitively not. Michael steele . No, hes not. Hes not at all. I agree with jon. I think what weve seen at the surface is something thats been going on beneath the surface since reagan left office. And certainly it came to a head during my time as National Chairman with the
And check out the modern ruhles podcast. Third episode drops today. Were talking feminism. Right now, our dear friend, katy tur. Im here. You know i have a Bernie Sanders Campaign Manager and im going to talk to them about how they feel about the surge. Shes peeling away the voters. Im going to guess theyre not that into it. Well see. Well see. They are, theyre proposing bigger and broader and deeper plans compared to what the other democrats are doing on everything from the wealth tax to the climates. Housing. Is that the way theyre going to make a difference. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. Im katy tur. Its 11 00 a. M. Out west and 2 00 p. M. In the east and today, the dam is breaking on impeachment. At 2 30, joe biden will make his strongest statement yet on the trump ukraine controversy. Hell tell reporters if the president doesnt comply with investigatio investigations, congress has no choice but to impeach. At 4 00 p. M. , nancy pelosi is leading a mee meeting with her entir