cuomo s expected to sign into law a bill that would clear the way for congress to obtain the president s state tax returns. joining me now, congressman brendan bo brendan boyle, a democrat from pennsylvania and member of the ways and means committee. welcome back to the program. thank you very much for joining me. i m curious, your realistic expectations as whether this legal fight could be decided before the 2020 election? and do you support opening an impeachme impeachment inquiry to enforce subpoenas as some of your democratic colleagues are suggesting to do just that? thank you. it s great to be back with you, alex. i actually predict this issue over the taxes will be settled by november of next year. two significant things happened just in the past week. first already a court has found in our favor regarding the president s taxes saying there s no discretion here. he does have to turn them over to congress. and the second thing is of the subpoenas moving forward also in
because if i do not object, congress will have passed into law a bill that spends $19 billion of taxpayer money without members of congress being present here in our nation s capital to vote on it. secondly, it s a bill that includes nothing to address the clear national emergency and humanitarian crisis that we face at our southern billion. the bill was all set to go through by what they call nan muss consent and now it seems to be on held until after a memorial day congressional recess. joining me is phil mattingly and melanie zinono. how significant in this is that the president had green lighted there so that the president would bite their tongues, if you will, and we know they object for a number of reasons. they finally figured out a pathway forward. the senate passed it by a major vote, 84-16, if you didn t think
governance. republican government and democratic congress disagree over bill, negotiate anyway, sign a compromise into law. the american public gets a raise, right. but in context, think about that. this is at the peak of watergate. nixon and congress are mortal existential enemies at this point. and yet here they are, enacting a broad minimum wage increase. and this wasn t the only big legislation passed during this period. a couple of months after the house judiciary committee launched its impeachment investigation and nixon was forced to appoint a new special prosecutor after firing the first one, in the midst of all that, nixon signed the endangered species act into law. a law written in large part by the white house and negotiated with the hostile congress for nearly a year. in the summer of 1974, literally the day after the supreme court ruled against nixon and unanimously ordered him to turn over the white house tapes, that day he signed into law a bill creating the legal servic
that, nixon signed the endangered species act into law. a law written in large part by the white house and negotiated with the hostile congress for nearly a year. in the summer of 1974, literally the day after the supreme court ruled against nixon and unanimously ordered him to turn over the white house tapes, that day he signed into law a bill creating the legal services corporation, which provides public defenders, provides legal aid to poor americans to this day. that bill was a compromise that nixon had negotiated with the democratic congress. this was barely two weeks before he was forced to resign. and he is negotiating with the lawmakers who are getting ready to impeach him, negotiating with him, and successfully agreeing to this big new landmark super important federal landmark program that survives to this day. right up into the end, the business of legislating and governing went on. and that isn t a nixon fluke.
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