world, they were able to produce nationwide results in a single night when they have tens of millions of people voting, but apparently not pennsylvania. recently, france determined a winner in their runoff presidential election in less than 24 hours despite over 82 votes being cast. as chair, candida managed to confirm the results countrywide during a single day in what was a very close election. and in 2016 it took united kingdom about a day to get the final results there during the brexit referendum despite 33.5 million votes cast in that election. but now it s taking the commonwealth of pennsylvania, watch, days, six days, maybe weeks, to count around a million votes in the senate primary? so what s happening here? how did we get to this point? for starters, the state s widespread mail-in voting is a big problem. in 2019 pennsylvania did pass a new law allowing no excuse mail-in voting, which, by the way, and interestingly, violates that state s constitution. constitution
activists. ruby bridges beginning now on book tv portions of this hearing good morning. thank you to all of our witnesses for joining us today. thanks to all of the members participating. we re in the middle of votes. so there s going to be a little bit back and forth in classic congressional style in in a very happy to be here with the wonderful ranking member of this committee, ms. nancy mace. in 1943 in west virginia versus burnet the supreme court struck down compulsory flag salutes as a violation of the first amendment stating if there s any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it s that no official no matter how higher petty shall prescribe what shall be worthodox and matters of politics religion nationalism or other matters of opinion or for citizens to confess by word or act their faith. they re in then in 1969 in the case called tinker versus des moines school district, which struck down mary beth tinker suspension from middle school for remusing for refus
wonderful ranking member of this committee, ms. nancy mace. in 1943 in west virginia versus burnet the supreme court struck down compulsory flag salutes as a violation of the first amendment stating if there s any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it s that no official no matter how higher petty shall prescribe what shall be worthodox and matters of politics religion nationalism or other matters of opinion or for citizens to confess by word or act their faith. they re in then in 1969 in the case called tinker versus des moines school district, which struck down mary beth tinker suspension from middle school for remusing for refusing to remove her black armband in protest of the vietnam war the court-affirmed that neither teachers nor students shed their first amendment rights at the schoolhouse gate. in 1982 most relevant to our hearing today in board of education versus pico the supreme court rejected the effort by a town school board in new york state to strip
that contradicts republican denials in an ethics complaint about the allegation about the congressman himself. william barr has formally talked to the committee last fall. they want him to speak again, this time under oath. how likely is that? anderson, they have a tentative agreement for him to appear with the committee to do this interview under oath. so, we expect that this is actually going to happen. one of the interesting things with bill barr is he has spoken a little bit publicly doubting the committee and whether it s made too much of a big deal about january 6th. but obviously there s a lot of information the committee believes he has from the period before he left office. keep in mind he left office at the end just before the end of december. so, there s a lot of information he has from the period after the election that he can tell them about. the last time barr spoke with the community, conversation focused on interactions with president trump before and af
past 11 days in a row. american families forced to spend an average of $5,000 a year on gas compared to $2800 a year ago. interior secretary deb holland refusing to concede it is too big a burden to bear. americans are still recovering from this terrible pandemic and there are a lot of other world events that are making things difficult for all of us. so it sounds like you are unwilling to say that gas prices are too high. we re doing all we can, senator. dana: grady trimble is following the story from chicago. good morning. good morning. gas prices are expected to keep rising this summer so when interior secretary deb holland wouldn t acknowledge in that hearing that gas prices right now are too high, it certainly raised eyebrows. we re doing all we can, senator, production on federal lands is up. it s a 45% increase from 2020. that s new drilling. that s up. but the production is also up. it s at an all-time high. president biden is allowing drilling on federa