To to be under house arrest, saying he posed a flight risk. The financier has pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking and conspiracy charges. Now its time for a look back at the day in parliament. Hello again, and welcome to thursday in parliament. Another government defeat on brexit as mps try to make life more difficult for the next Prime Minister. What have we come to in britain where we have to have amendments to ensure that parliament can still operate . A political veteran says the leak of private diplomatic messages sets a dangerous precedent. You can in effect politically assassinate one of her majestys ambassadors. And a suggestion that the next pm tries mountain climbing. Getting to the top of everest will be easier than getting a new deal with the commission. Laughter. All that to come and more. But first mps have backed a bid to stop a new Prime Minister closing down parliament to force through a no deal brexit at the end of october. The government was defeated by a majority
Welcome to aei and welcome to our program today. The value of our veterans, our conversation with representatives, mike levin and brad. Im gary smith, im a senior scholar here as strategic studies and im director of aeis program on american citizenship. I am going to skip a set of introductions since we will be talking the next two hours. So those joining us here in joining online or watching on cspan, if you want lengthier bios go to the website and go to the link for the page and you will see everybodys biographies. That may begin by giving a quick overview of the proceedings. We will first hear from representative mike levin, the recent elected congressman from californias 49th district, a district that runs along san diego to southern Orange County and quite frankly i have a niece that lives out there, im not sure why he decided to move to d. C. , a patriotic act on his part. He is the chair of the subcommittee on Economic Opportunity with the house of Veterans Affairs committee. F
Certainly, there are numerous positions that need to be confirmed by the senate that there is this revolving door. We are going to leave this recorded event. Live now to the House Rules Committee meeting on a resolution that would find attorney general william barr and wilbur ross in contempt of congress. Refusing to comply with subpoenas issued by the Oversight Committee. A consensus is critical. That means counting every american the way it has always been done without turning the census into another tool for the crusade against immigrants. The president has retreated from adding the Citizenship Question to the census. The rule of law Still Matters despite this administrations best efforts. The houses work here is not over. We are continuing our constitutional oversight responsibilities. And this administration is stone walling us at every turn. The department of justice and commerce have refused to turn over unredacted copies of key documents requested by the Oversight Committee aft
The effects of the first two wage hikes in 582, rather than the actual effect of this bill, which is increasing the minimum wage by 107 . As my colleagues well know, the first two wage hikes will not be as damaging as the increase to 15. So the result of the proposed g. A. O. Study are rigged to avoid using the damaging 107 hike as the appropriate benchmark. Second, this amendment has no teeth, it merely says that congress can make recommendations after the first two wage hikes have gone into effect. But theres no requirement that congress do anything in response. And theres no Fast Track Authority in this amendment. Again, i will say this amendment is not necessary. I urge my colleagues to see this amendment for what it is, an attempt to provide political cover to Democrat Members who are justifiablely concerned about the negative justifiably concerned about the negative impacts of a 15 minimum wage in their districts. Vote no on this bill. I yield back the balance of my time. The spe
Pursuant to House Resolution 445 and rule 18, the chair declares the house in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the further onsideration of h. R. 3055. Will the gentlewoman from the district of columbia kindly take the chair. The chair the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for further consideration of h. R. 3055 which the clerk will report by title. The clerk a bill making appropriations for the departments of commerce and justice, science and related agencies for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2020, and for other purposes. The chair when the committee of the whole rose earlier today, en were amendments en bloc offered by the gentlewoman from minnesota, ms. Mccollum, have ow been disposed of. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, proceedings will resume on those amendments printed in part b of house report 116119 on which further proceedings were postponed in the following order. Amendment 3 by mr. Rutherford of florida