The defense of marriage act signed in 1976 which defined marriage between one man and one woman under federal law. Lawmakers is passed december 16. Watch live coverage here on cspan2. I think they all want to see a page turned in washington dc. One of the things that i think has been so problematic is that members just rank and file members who been disenfranchised, everything goes through the leadership whether its nancy posey on the the democrat side or whoever is going to be the republican leader. Everything is centralized as far as power you have a very very respected amendment process. In six years we havent had an open amendment process on the floor of the house of representatives. How about the budget . You need to empower the readers. You either get rid of the operations and change it and im okay with doing that by having the committee combined with a subcommittee on appropriations or you give the appropriators time to get their job done before june 1 and lets actually do a bud
[inaudible conversations] the select committee to investigate the january 6th attacks on the United States capital will be in order. Without objection the chair is on the rise to declare the committee in recess at any point. Pursuant to House Deposition Authority regulation can, the chair announces the committees approval to release the deposition material presented during todays hearing. Good morning. Last week the select committee laid out a preview of our initial findings about the conspiracy overseeing and directed by donald trump, to overturn the results of the 2020 president ial election and block the transfer of power, a scheme unprecedented in american history. My colleagues and i dont want to spend time talking about ourselves during these hearings, but as someone who is run for office a few times, i can tell you at the end of a campaign it all comes down to the numbers. The numbers tell you the winner and a loser. For the most part the numbers dont lie. But if something doesn
Obviously i think. Lets pause on that last statement. Although Pat Cipollone is being careful about executive privilege, there really is no ambiguity about what he said. Almost everybody wanted President Trump to instruct the mob to disperse President Trump refused. To understand how in adequate the president s tweets were. Lets examine is to 38 tweet in more detail for context. Here is what was happening at that time. Last. For sarah, kate, theres people flooded the whole without the way out. Just hold that. There has been tear gassed. And to each of us get a we went from a peaceful protest and this is a very dangerous situation right now. That there are. Im being told these protesters on the inside. Around both chambers and theres now tear gas inside the capitol rotunda. In fact, members locked in the house are being instructed to put on masks. Ms matthews after President Trumps tweet about Vice President pence. You told us he spoke to a immediately spoke to kaley mcenany. What did y
Like, okay, well, in my mind i was thinking, well thats it. You know, when my son in law looks at me and he says, i want to go and what percentage of the crowd has gone to the capital 100 percent . That is, it is spread like wildfire that cant says the trade us and everybodys margin on the capital. All 1000000 of us. Its insane. Oh. I the people here angry as you were, walk into the capital. Yeah. A lot of people, a lot of people, she might, they are very upset eloquent. I think they were saying if you recall, oh, there was, she was saying all time people are screaming all types of stuff. So theyre mad that, ah, ah, Vice President pants was gonna accept the electoral was, i mean is, i mean theres a lot you can, if you can think it up that you are hearing it. I believe the Vice President pants was going to certify the electoral votes and are not certified them. I just, i just changed. Correct. And its very big disappointment. I think theres several 100000 people here that are very disap