We will now proceed with Opening Statements. I wish you all a good morning and welcome to the fourth hearing in the economic Emergency Management subcommittee. One of the purposes of this committee is to protect taxpayer dollars by ensuring they are spent effectively, efficiently and with transparency. That brings us to todays hearing which is entitled landlord and tenant. You can tell from the title that today we will be investigating fairly unprecedented situation. The federal government owns the building that houses President Trumps d. C. Hotel hotel. Since President Trump has declined, he is essentially acting as both the landlord and the tenant. Before i was elected to congress , over three decades Teaching College students about American Government and politics. Serious discussions about the legislature holding the executive Branch Accountable to the highest legal and ethical standards and that is exactly what we hope to do today. First lets start with some facts. All federal wor
Hello. My name is robert barnes. I cover the Supreme Court for the washington post. Thanks for coming on this crisp, fall day to hear about the Supreme Court. Id like to thank the federalist society, particularly the Facility Division and practice groups for putting together what we think will be an interesting panel on what looks to be a very interesting term at the Supreme Court. After the trauma of last years confirmation hearings, theres been a thought from those who watched the court that it went out of its way not to look partisan last term, to look for ways to bust up the ideological divide on the court in some cases and to slow walk some controversies to keep them off that years docket. Its been welldocumented that each of the conservative justices at least once joined the four liberals to make up a majority in a case. And it went the other way, too. Each of the liberals at least once abandoned his or her usual voting partners and joined the conservatives in a case. Harmony cou
The Citizenship Question on the 2020 census and instead the president is issuing an executive order requiring federal agencies to provide the Commerce Department with information on citizens and noncitizens living in the u. S. Our own Edward Lawrence is live at the white house tonight with more. Ed . Reporter david we were the first ones to tell you what this executive order would do. The president ordered the executive order for the Commerce Department to basically be a Clearing House for all the records in the federal agencies. He said records including the Social Security records even records related to the department of Homeland Security to determine how many citizens are in the United States, and the president says this will give an accurate count of about 90 accuracy how many citizens are here. President trump we will utilize these vast federal databases to gain a full, complete, and accurate count of the non citizen population including databases maintained by the department of
The Citizenship Question on the 2020 census and instead the president is issuing an executive order requiring federal agencies to provide the Commerce Department with information on citizens and noncitizens living in the u. S. Our own Edward Lawrence is live at the white house tonight with more. Ed . Reporter david we were the first ones to tell you what this executive order would do. The president ordered the executive order for the Commerce Department to basically be a Clearing House for all the records in the federal agencies. He said records including the Social Security records even records related to the department of Homeland Security to determine how many citizens are in the United States, and the president says this will give an accurate count of about 90 accuracy how many citizens are here. President trump we will utilize these vast federal databases to gain a full, complete, and accurate count of the non citizen population including databases maintained by the department of
The Citizenship Question on the 2020 census and instead the president is issuing an executive order requiring federal agencies to provide the Commerce Department with information on citizens and noncitizens living in the u. S. Our own Edward Lawrence is live at the white house tonight with more. Ed . Reporter david we were the first ones to tell you what this executive order would do. The president ordered the executive order for the Commerce Department to basically be a Clearing House for all the records in the federal agencies. He said records including the Social Security records even records related to the department of Homeland Security to determine how many citizens are in the United States, and the president says this will give an accurate count of about 90 accuracy how many citizens are here. President trump we will utilize these vast federal databases to gain a full, complete, and accurate count of the non citizen population including databases maintained by the department of