Cspan is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Host congressman bob latta is the Top Republican on the subcommittee on communications and technology, arguably the most significant subcommittee when it comes to technology and telecommunications in the congress. He is against this week on the communicators. Congressman latta, what has your subcommittee been up to . Guest the good news is for the american citizens whether on the telephone, we passed the robocall legislation. Thats significant because when you think of the almost 50 billion robocalls that are made every year into this country, its going to hopefully provide relief to the american citizens out there. Its important because a lot of people say one of the top issues people contact me about, and its also the top issue that the fcc and the ftc receive every year is about robocalls. People say to me i thought i signed up for this do not call list, what happened . Unfo
Mornings hearing on the federal judiciary in the 21st century for promoting, accountable, ethics and trips. I recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Today we begin the first in a series of hearings on the state of the federal judiciary in the 21st century. In this hearing we will investigate ideas for promoting ethics, accountability an transparency in the federal courts. We focus on these ideas in our first hearing on the judiciary because they flow from two foundational principles of due process. First, that no one can be a judge in his own case. Second, to quart felix frankfurter, quote, justice must satisfy the appearance of justice, end quote. Justice must satisfy the appearance of justice. Both rules embody the understanding that the constitutions implicit promise of equal justice under law depends on at least two things that our court must be fair, independent and impartial, and that we must also believe that our courts are fair, independent and impartial. Justice must satis
Niels lesniewski, Senior Senate reporter for roll call. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. And live now to remarks from secretary of state mike pompeo. Hes part of a discussion on Foreign Policy taking place at the Economic Club of washington d. C. This morning. This is live. So, look it, its an important question. Its about priorities and resources and how you allocate time and how do you think about the problems that, you know, for me the first the first half when i came in now, 16, 17 months ago to the state department after having been the cia director was to make sure that the state department was ready in the moment of crisis. Spent a lot of time making sure my team was ready for the day what happens when something bad happens and are your people, and things you hadnt thought about. Priorities, the first thing i do every morning is read about china. I talk about the broad array of issues that present opportunities for the United States and risks from china. The trade negotiatio
Federaln is live at the society for a discussion about the 2020 sentences and efforts to put a Citizenship Question on the survey. We will be hearing from a professor of georgetown law and a former member of i mentioned our moderators. He has an author and journalist in washington, d. C. , somewhat of a federal society of a Federalist Society regular. I do want to thank him for his role as our moderator today. [applause] thank you very much dean. Welcome to the Federalist Societys Panel Discussion entitled, citizenship the road ahead. It was originally entitled citizenship, i said what else . That is because the Supreme Courts june 27 decision and the department of congers the permit of commerce may have impossibly we have three expert panelists. To my left, john s baker who will speak first is Professor Emeritus at the Louisiana State law center and chairman of our citizenship counts, a group of scholars and other interested people. He has been a consultant to various government bodie
Border and efficiently how to manage it and important for communities and the United States and mexico and our economies as a whole. I dont think thats enough. Not enough for Mexican Border communities to really have the vibrant communities that we want and quality of life the people in the border region aspire to. We need do more than move wigets back and forth across the border. It requires strategies that leverage unique positions for communities across the border as a way to attract Companies Across the region. There is a unique value there and competitive of the United States and mexico side by side that makes working and producing in the border region particularly attractive and interesting. If we look back in time and see the Border Industrialization Program of the 1960s, it was the beginning of free trade between our two countries, focused on the border region, Mexican Border communities in particular. It was effective in attracting a certain amount of investment to the mexican