On the campaign trail. Not only for the president ial candidates but also the upcoming senate, house, and governor races. It is free. It is easily accessible. Its all there at cspan. Org. Members of the Senate Budget committee along with budget experts discuss ways to improve the congressional budgeting process. They spoke at an event hosted by the committee for a responsible federal budget. So, this sounds really loud to me. Does it sound okay to people . Yeah . Hello everybody. Im maya mcginnis. I run the committee for responsible budget. Im pleased you joined us for our forum. Many of you probably know this, but the committee for responsible federal budget is a Bipartisan Organization focused on fiscal responsibility. And if you look at the world right now where the debt is at near record levels, never been this high relative to the economy since world war ii and the deficit is the largest its ever been when the economy is this strong its a really important issue to focus on right n
Limited to just a certain number of witnesses, or even to just the monica lewin ski questions questions. Democrats fought to keep that from happening, but the rules were established, and the ammittee, because iof partyline vote, the republicans were in control of the committee and regarding it, and move pretty quickly. The house was ready to take it up under Republican Leadership of the house at the time. Steve we remember so much drama. We went through three speakers within a couple days, first with the resignation of newt in line, and the next then what happened . Alexis there was a scramble to figure out. Allies bob lewistons tried to talk him out of it. It was interesting, because he made the decision to resign with some agony. Steve he resigned because . Alexis he resigned because in theas a fullon press democratic world and larry flynt was asking for anyone to come forward about anyone involved in impeachment who had extramarital relationships themselves, and it became reported,
And republicans over what everyone can accept in this package. We didnt think we would get some type of final agreement before Congress Left town last thursday evening for their weeklong long memorial day break. Lawmakers and the white house were able to come to an agreement last thursday midday after the house had already taken their final roll call vote. A lot of house members had already left for the airports or for their cars to drive back to their districts. Its important for members to get back in whole town halls with their constituents and hold fundraisers and see their families. The idea is once this disaster aid package was reached last was a vote and the house leadership had to decide whether they wanted to pass this through unanimous consent during a pro forma session or weight until monday wait until monday. House democrats decided to do it through uc, unanimous consent. Any member of the house is more than 400 nevers can stand up and block it members can stand up and bloc
The guess to start, one of fundamental jobs of congress is to do oversight over the executive branch, to make sure that the democracy, people are happy with the work of the executive is doing. From time to time, congress is to satisfied with the cooperation it gets from the executive ranch, so one of the things we have seen, particularly in the last decade or so is Congress Going to court on occasion to try and get help enforcing subpoenas. Why not hold a formal contempt vote . Why take this route . Guest they are not mutually exclusive. Civiles where the enforcement has been pursued in the courts, it has been preceded by contempt vote by the house. The notion is that the house has a number of options when someone violates a subpoena and refuses to appear. The house could actually arrest the individual, it could send out the sergeant at arms, aided by capitol police, and put them somewhere in the capital. I think it would be cruel and unusual punishment to put them in the snack bar, bu
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