Constitution civil rights and Civil Liberties will come to order. Without authorized to declare recess to the subcommittee at any time. I welcome everyones attendance herein t here and the hearing, Voting Rights act, Shelby County v. Holder. This is the sixth an verniversaf Shelby County v. Holder. Normally what i would do, id give an Opening Statement of five minutes and the Ranking Member would give one of five minutes. Miss clarke, one of of witnesses, has a 3 40 train, which would have been easy to accomplish were it not for the house of representatives schedule. Well go straight to her statement, and go back to the traditional i talk he talk, panel. Miss clarke is the president and executive director of the committee for civil rights law under law, one of the nations leading civil rights organizations. She previously worked for seven years at the naacp Legal Defense and Education Fund where she helped lead the organizations work in the areas of voting rei rights and election law a
The committee on the judiciary subcommittee on the constitution civil rights and Civil Liberties will come to order. Without authorized to declare recess to the subcommittee at any time. I welcome everyones attendance herein t here and the hearing, Voting Rights act, Shelby County v. Holder. This is the sixth an verniversaf Shelby County v. Holder. Normally what i would do, id give an Opening Statement of five minutes and the Ranking Member would give one of five minutes. Miss clarke, one of of witnesses, has a 3 40 train, which would have been easy to accomplish were it not for the house of representatives schedule. Well go straight to her statement, and go back to the traditional i talk he talk, panel. Miss clarke is the president and executive director of the committee for civil rights law under law, one of the nations leading civil rights organizations. She previously worked for seven years at the naacp Legal Defense and Education Fund where she helped lead the organizations work i
That growth and enforce policies that will do nothing to stop Climate Change. What would staying in the agreement lead to . The Heritage Foundation modeled the policies that would be required to meet the Obama Administrations paris commitments and found that by 2035, there would be an overall loss of nearly 400,000 jobs, half of which would be in manufacturing. An average of total income loss of more than 20,000 for a family of four. And an aggregate g. D. P. Loss of over 2. 5 trillion and an increase in Household Electricity expenditures by 13 and 20 . My amendment would allow the United States to stay out of the unrealistic and overbearing agreement. I urge members to vote yes on this amendment and i reserve the balance of my time. I yield to the Ranking Member. The chair the gentleman reserves. The gentleman from kentucky is recognized. Mr. Rogers i thank the gentleman for yielding. I rise in support of his amendment. The Paris Agreement is an unworkable, unrealistic policy solution
Was a little under 1 trillion and these bills would cover a variety of departments. And the idea behind packaging these is that it does help to shorten up floor debate time so you can move through the process a little bit faster. It can also help you with your vote count. So sometimes you can package spending bills that are a little less favorable with spending bills that have more broad support, so that makes the package more likely to pass the floor vote. I want to ask you about a headline from one of your cq colleagues. It says the legislative Branch Spending bill pulled amid the pay increase. This is not a surprising thing and it seems to happen every year, a dispute over pay raises for members of congress. Ms. Shutt right. So, ever since 2009, theres been a provision in one of the annual spending bills that says members of congress could not get what would automatically be a typical cost of living adjustment. This isnt a pay raise because technically if Congress Give themselves a
Means to travelers but first, the Supreme Court today issues a decision that will keep former President Trump on the colorado ballot just before super tuesday. Tomorrow youre watching, getting answers. Im kristen sze. Thanks for joining us. Tomorrow, california will join more than a dozen states in Holding Elections on super tuesday. Bay area voters are being asked to make important local, state and federal decisions, joining us live now to preview this march primary is politicos senior politics reporter jeremy white. Hey, jeremy. Hey, kristen, so much for us to talk about today. I want to start with the Supreme Court, which voted unanimously that colorado cannot just keep trump off its ballot. So he will be on it tomorrow when colorado participates in super tuesday. What was the rationale and what does this mean . Well, this means that we are going to continue towards what seems to be inevitable, which is that donald trump will be the republican nominee. Im not sure how much of an inf