Writing will without objection be relevant to the record. Entered into the record. I now recognize the distinguished chairman from maryland, mr. Cummings. Mr. Cummings thank you, mr. Chairman. To you, Ranking Member cole and mr. Mcgovern. Members of the committee, i want to thank you for holding this meeting this afternoon. Support the proposed rule because this resolution to hold attorney general barr and sec. Wilbur ross in contempt of congress is necessary to preserve the integrity of this body and of the United States interests. The constitution mandates we conduct a census every 10 years. A thoughtful, fair and accurate count is critical to ensuring that we properly allocate funding and congressional apportionment. Year, the Trump Administration has stonewalled the Oversight Committee yes investigation into the real reason commerce secretary wilbur was trying for the first time in 70 years to add a Citizenship Question to the 2020 census. Secretary ross testified under congress th
I now recognize the distinguished chairman from maryland, mr. Cummings. Mr. Cummings thank you, mr. Chairman. To you, Ranking Member cole and mcgovern. Thank you for holding this meeting this afternoon. I support the proposal because this resolution to hold attorney general barr and sec. Wilbur ross in contempt of congress is necessary to preserve the integrity of this body. And of the United States interests. The constitution mandates we conduct a census every 10 years. A thoughtful, fair and accurate count is critical to ensuring that we properly allocate funding and congressional enforcement. For more than a year the Trump Administration has stonewalled the Oversight Committees investigation into the real reason commerce secretary wilbur ross was trying, for the first time in 70 years, to add a Citizenship Question two the 2020 census. Secretary ross testified under oath in front of congress that he added the Citizenship Question solely to help the Justice Department and the Voting
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Ed isly the president picked up what facebook is looking at. He has a proposal of his own coming up as well. First to the story that broke earlier today in washington, the embattled labor secretary alex acosta from stepping down from his position in President Trumps cabinet. Blake burman live at the white house with the latest on that. Reporter connell, the timeline fairly quick when you look how it unfolded last week. On saturday the feds took Jeffrey Epstein into authority. The Southern District of new york laid out its case, the newest charges they presented against epstein. That forced labor secretary alex acosta to go before cameras here in washington, d. C. , on wednesday to defend the 2018 nonprosecution agreement deal that he strong with epstein and epsteins attorneys back in florida more than a decade ago. Fast forward to this morning, friday morning, acosta submitted his letter of resignation to the president. The president was complimentary of acosta who said he is stepping
This morning, jeff mason of reuters who covers the white of fox wholan nelson was their congressional reporter, thank you for joining us. Lets start with you, the president tweeted toward some democratic powers of congress. Tell us the reaction since those tweets were delivered. Guest there has been outrage over them particular from democrats but others as well. Many people are viewing them as racist. The president suggested that three or four four members of congress who are women of color should go back to where they came from. Three out of the fort of them were born in the United States and the other was an immigrant or is an immigrant. This is sort of part of a pattern that his critics see as engaging and racial baiting and outrage to essentially White America or White Supremacists. The president denies that in the he is notund him say engaging in racism and is just talking about love of country and objecting to some of the things they have said. In terms of the pattern of some of