Im so excited i think all of you know that as the representative from alabama seventh district theress probably no more similar issue than Voting Rights. Voting rights is basically the foundation for every other right that we seek to have. I am so excited today and excited that you came out. I first want to welcome you as the chair of the black Caucus Foundation the board of directors and thank you for participating and coming to the annual legislative conference. I think youou all know the theme of this year is securing our democracy, protecting our freedom and upliftingg our culture. And i do believe we are living in a time that its important we do all three. We see the democracy under threat. We see basic freedom like Voting Rights and reproductive rights and other things rolling back and we also see efforts to erase our culture which is why we must uplift it all the time. We are excited about our annual legislative congress and its the 52nd year weve put this on. The foundation is
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Neutral act we believe this now to a supreme courtra arguments on whether the Consumer Financial protection bureaus funding structure is unconstitutional. Live coverage on cspan2. Decision in this case is the first time in a court in our nations history has held that congress violated the appropriations clause by enacting a statute providing funding. This court should uphold the cfpbs fding statute because it is firmly groundedn constitutional text and in historical practice dating bac to the founding. The text of the constitution shows that when the framers one to limit Congress Appropriations authority they did so expressly. While the framers restricted appropriations for the army to two years, they applied no similar limits on appropriations for any other agency. History confirms that. Since the foundingongress has consistently funded agencies through standg appropriations that are not timelimited and that provide significant discretion over how much to spend. Their congress did exa
We are going to get started. We do have a quorum. Thanks to everyone for taking a break and coming back with us. We are going to continue as we have spent the morning going through the next section, which is party reform. Party reform is a big section and obviously covers a lot of topics, so i would like to highlight the key areas. And then we are going to be voting and amending, amending and then voting each section. So instead of going through everything, we will go through section by section and make amendments and vote. The key elements that we will be focusing on this afternoon, are recommendations that are focused in the following areas, the first is making the party more competitive in all regions of the country, the second is supporting and growing state parties and increasing grassroots participation. The third is operating in a manner that is open and transparent. And ourth is strengthening inclusive participatory culture at the d. N. C. Fifth, building on the great diverse q