Once again force a vote to terminate the president s National Emergency declaration. The provisions of the National Emergency act dictate that the resolution of disapproval be privileged and therefore must be voted upon. As everyone no doubt remembers, the Trump Administration declared National Emergency in february of this year. After congress repeatedly denied the president funding for the construction of a border wall that he promised mexico would play for. A few weeks ago the administration released the list of military construction projects, its planned on canceling in order to steal money for the president s wall. National dents Emergency Declaration was and is an outrageous power grab by a president who refuses to respect the constitutional separation of powers. I say to all my colleagues, this issue rises to a large and vital constitutional issue. Does our country truly have checks and balances end particularly when we have such an overreaching president. We all must consider t
New survey on credit card use and consumer debt. As always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host the house and the senate come back into session today after a 5 week after a 6week break. This is the washington journal for september 9. Several state attorneys general will announce they will investigate google over antitrust concerns. This as another group of attorneys general plan to investigate facebook over its practices and congress expressed concerns over these two companies and discussing more regulation of these companies. What do you think about this new round of investigations . Do you think larger tech firms need more regulation. If you say more regulation of these companies needed, 2027488000. If you say no new regulation needed, call at 2027488001. If you say less regulation is needed, 2027488002. You can post on our twitter feed at cspanwj an facebook, you can post there, too, at facebook.
Approximately 204,000 hate sex, ased on race, are committed in the u. S. Every year. An historic africanamerican church. In 2016, a nightclub in orlando, florida, was attacked. Most of whom were lgbtq and latino. A total of 12 people were killed and 10 wounded during attacks at synagogues in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, and powerade, california. Just last month, a shooter in el paso targeted mexicanamericans who were shopping at a walmart store, killing 22. These horrible attacks have two things in common. They are all hate crimes and all committed with a gun. As these show, guns are a motivatedool of hate violence and intimidation. Hate crimes committed in the u. S. Involved a gun. Despite these grim statistics, our nations weak gun laws give easy access to guns to individuals seeking to do harm. Many of those convicted of misdemeanor level hate crimes remain free to buy and possess guns. These hate crimes include many types of threatening and dangerous conduct including threats of assau
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The senate floor. They noted the importance of ensuring the build is done on a bipartisan basis. Congress has three days left to pass shortterm funding legislation and to prevent the federal government from shutting down. That is three more days to provide the essential resources at the current rate of operations before critical government functions come to a screeching halt. Lets be absolutely clear about what is at stake. Shutting down the government is not like pressing pause. It is not an interlude that lets us pick up where we left off. It is an actively harmful proposition. Instead of producing any meaningful policy outcomes, it would actually take the important progress being made on a number of key issues and drag it backwards. Back in 2019, our colleagues on the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee Found that over the previous five years, Government Shutdowns had cost the taxpayer nearly 4 billion. 4 billion. The American People covered at least 3. 7 billion in b