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David Reich is a Senior Fellow working on issues related to federal appropriations and the federal budget process.
Reich was at the Center between 2014 and 2018, and left to become counsel to the Democratic co-chair of the congressional Joint Select Committee on Budget and Appropriations Process Reform. He worked for more than 17 years on the staff of the House Appropriations Committee, where he held a variety of positions including Committee Counsel and Democratic Staff Director for the Labor, HHS and Education subcommittee and the Financial Services and General Government subcommittee. Previously, he was Chief Counsel and then Minority Counsel for the House Budget Committee and a staff member at the House Democratic Study Group.
he s the only one i have an obligation to report to, tell him what happened. and let s go to slide 18. this is from real clear politics, and it should be on the screen in front of you as well. what mr. giuliani said about the ukraine, he said, it s a big story. it s a dramatic, and i guarantee you joe biden will not get to election day without this being vefd. collaterals to what i was doing. you agree that election day refers to the 2020 election where president trump will be running for reelection, correct? i guess you re right. so that was my only question to you. you ll have a chance to answer questions to minority counsel. now, president trump, let me show you slide 19 we re going to sidestep the volker meeting on july 19? you ll have a chance to fwauk that when minority counsel questions you. let s go to slide 19, please.
for then democrats is a witnes and that s why he didn t have to comport with thee rules of decorum. i ve been a judge and i know you don t get to be a witness and a judge in the same case. that s my point of order. it s not a point of order. pursuant to house rules there will be 45 minutes conducted by the b chairman or or majority counsel followed by 45 minutes by the minority counsel. only theor chair may question witnesses during this period. following that unless i specify we will proceed under the 5-minute rule. i now recognize myself for the first round of questions. the republican s expert witness last week professor turley wrote
back on the process a little bit for us, what happens next after today s hearing? well, we still have to see exactly what the process is going to look like, we need to get through this hearing. we will have the intel committee present their report to the judiciary committee, the minority counsel will also have a chance to present their report. the president has not engaged at all and he wasn t here today. he could have been here, his counsel could have been here today. so we ll see if they come. but assuming we get that presentation at that point we would look at all of the evidence on the table in front of you was to determine whether we re moving forward and if we are, on what basis. so we can see your chairman has taken his seat back. so i need to run. thank you so much. thank you for spending some time with us. and we ve been joined by claire mccaskill. i was asking the congresswoman, you know, if there is something that we re not he seeing from
impeachment hearings have brought national attention to house intel member elise stefanik. thanks to her attempts to shake up her democratic colleagues. ambassador yovanovitch, thank you for being here today. the gentlewoman will suspend. what is the interruption for this time? the gentlewoman will suspend. you re not recognized. mr. nunes, you are minority counsel. i just recognized. you re not allowed to yield time except to minority counsel. the ranking member yielded time to another member of congress. nope, that is not accurate. that is accurate. ambassador yovanovitch, i want to thank you for being here today. gentlewoman will suspend. you re not recognized. so to have our democratic colleagues say these untruthful statements just wreaks of political desperation in their continued obsession to manipulate mainstream media coverage. but stefanik s performance may also be shaking up her chances at a fourth term in new