What is not helpful is rhetoric the president has been using comparing republicans in congress over the iran nuclear agreement, to those in tehran dealing death to america. My view of this issue is, rather than this kind of christ political rhetoric, we should treat this with the dignity it deserves. What i have sent in the senate is it we are going to handle this debate in the following way. We will try to reach an agreement to have a specified amount of time to talk about it. Im going to ask every senator to be at their desk actually listening to what others are saying. Each senator will get an opportunity to speak and actually be listened to by other senators. This is an extraordinarily important issue for our country not only now, but in the future. Remember, the president will be gone in a year and a half, and the rest of us will be living with the consequences of this extraordinary agreement, which certainly has transformed the middle east. It certainly has. We are now entering i
Project of reform. Mr. Trudeau doesnt want to have a referendum on reform. Stephen harper wants in he once any change to go through a reform process. Mr. Harper we have a westminster system. Voters are able to elect governments, not coalitions later. Canadians this has come up before. It was the subject of a referendum in ontario and Prince Edward island. I have not found canadians who want to make this change. In fact, when asked, they reject it. Lets play under the rules. Mr. Wells when he brought in his unfair elections act, he refused to talk to canadians. We stood up strong and opposed it. We shut down travel by parliamentarian committees. We used every tool to stop him from walking away. He has made it harder for whole classes of canadians to vote. That is not just our opinion. All of the experts who have looked at his unfair elections act has said the same thing have said the same thing. Mr. Harper, if you have become such a keen fan making sure no single party can change the ru
Objectives objections to this. There was a memorandum that was very intense about the constitutionality of this concept. As thes read by olc statement that congress did not mean access to all. And it is wrong. The deletion is explained earlier in the legislative as,rt, four pages another were cleaning up certain features of this act. That is it. But if you reverse the order, it looks like this dramatic moment togreat Senate Consideration dump this provision in an effort to say, all does not mean all. I found that the most disturbing actually because you are reordering legislative history. And that is absolutely an acceptable. Mr. Grassley mr. Miller, before you answer my first question, i want you to think about the second one because we are looking for the language that would make it clear enough to ensure that the Inspector General really do get access to all records belonging to their respective agencies. You can answer both of those right now. Mr. Miller ok, thank you, mr. Chairman
On the fall congressional agenda. Funding for the federal government expires on september 30, so Congress Must pass a federal spending bill to keep the government open and avoid a shutdown. The house passed four of its 12 Appropriations Bills in a spending package. Here are the opening remarks of the floor debate from the House Appropriations Committee Chair and Ranking Member. Mr. Chairman, i rise today to present an amendment to hr 3219, the make america secure appropriations act. This legislative package revise critical appropriation for nafta security, including the department of defense, the department of Veterans Affairs, and the department of Energy Nuclear programs, and the legislative branch bill. My colleagues, this is the primary constitutional duty of the congress, to ensure the safety of the homeland and the American People. This legislation is carefully crafted to fund our Critical Military priorities, supporting veterans, and making our board making our borders more secu
In to start legislative work today. You can continue watching this and both of last weeks Senate Health Care Committee hearings on the individual Health Insurance market on our website cspan. Org. Live coverage of the u. S. House. Prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conro y. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving god we give you thanks for giving us another day. As members of the peoples house return to washington, delayed by the storms that have blown through the southeast, we ask your blessing upon them. That they might be all the more focused in their work and as modeled by so Many Americans in their efforts these past days in helping their neighbors prepare to Work Together to address our nations most pressing needs. Continue to bless those who are recovering from hurricane destruction and those fighting still the storms of wildfire that plague our western states. Blanket those who fight to overcome these Natural Disasters with your spirit of strength and endurance and pres