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
House budget committee, discusses federal spending and efforts to avoid another government shutdown. And at 9 30, emily martin of the National Womens law discusses efforts to close the gender pay gap. Host political reporting that House Speaker nancy pelosi will meet with Steven Mnuchin to discuss finding ways to avoid budget cuts and raise the debt limit as congress possibly faces another federal shutdown later this year if these issues are not resolved. This is the washington journal for july 10. Part of his political many credit him for the rise of and airdparty system recent poll showed many respondents say the current twoparty system is broken. That is what we want to get your sense of in our first hour of the washington journal. When it comes to the twoparty system, do you think it is broken . Call us and tell us why. If you consider yourself a political independent, 2027488000 is the number to call and everyone else can call at 2027488001. You can post your thoughts on twitter a
Iran is still a year away from eu ministers meet in brussels to try galloping a nuclear weapon. We think to save the Iran Nuclear Deal. There is still a closing but small foreign secretaryjeremy hunt remains cautiously optimistic about its future. Window to keep the deal alive. Also on the programme. Also on the programme. Another posthumous the crackdown on Illegal Immigrants seems not to have happened but fear honour for alan turing and confusion are not in short the face of britains new £50 note. Supply. The moment divers spot a jellyfish the size of a human. 50 yea rs ago man first walked on the moon only twelve people have ever done it there was little sign this weekend alan bean was the fourth, well hear from the family of the high profile round up of thousands of Illegal Immigrants that mr trump had promised. There was however a lot that he left back on earth. Of rumour and a lot of fear. And if the raids havent yet happened in big numbers, hello and welcome another effort to s
This hearing is called to order. Welcome. 50 years ago, exactly what each week from today, at approximately 9 30 am, two astronauts, sitting atop a rocket the size of a navy destroyer, packing 7. 5 Million Pounds of thrust, took off from Kennedy Space center in florida. Roughly 1 Million People had gathered on the ground to watch this historic event. Including half of the United States congress. These three astronauts, as one of the newspapers put it at the time, carried with them the hopes of the world. The year was 1969. The year before i was born. The astronauts were Neil Armstrong, buzz aldrin, and michael collins. And the mission was apollo 11. Armstrong and aldrin went on to make history a little more than 100 hours later. When, with more than one third of the earths the earth watching or listening live, they became the first humans to ever set foot on the moon. The apollo 11 mission would go on to make history again. A little less than 100 hours after that, as the First Mission
President trump threatens further tariffs on chinese imports. Pres. Trump we have a long way to go. Another 325 billion we can put a tariff on if we want. China and ang about deal. I wish they did not break the deal we had. Anna ursula von der leyen clinches the eu top job. We have issues, but we should never forget we are allies with the u. S. And we are friends. We sit on the same side of the table. Anna plus, asml forecasts sales trade tensions hammer the but dialogue semibeat expectations. Plenty talk about plenty to talk about. Good morning. Matt u. S. Tenyear debt approaches, once again, dipping down into negative real rate. Andsee that across europe the u. K. Already. Even nominal rates in germany are negative out for 20 years. This is becoming a global issue. Interesting to watch central bankers continue to talk about cuts. Down even drive rates further. Leaving more of the World Holding paper. Governmentsgood for if they would borrow and spend. Take a look at futures this morn