Will be testifying at that anding, casey burgat neck tomboulides. They will be with us in this final hour of the washington journal as we talk about term limits and take your calls. If you support term limits, you can start calling in now if you moments, 202 7488001. Start us off. What are u. S. Term limits . Limits is aterm Nonprofit Organization that fights for term limits for all members of government. We are basically focusing on this issue because the American People are frustrated. They are fed up with a congress that falls short of what a great country like ours deserves. Ask americans, 60 of them say they would fire every Single Member of congress if they could. Congress has a 14 Approval Rating and a 98 reelection rate. That is the sign of a broken system. When people run for office in this city, they call it the swamp. When they get here, it becomes like a hot tub. They start to enjoy the power in the prestige. They never want to go home. They never want to go back and talk t
Steve king is looking to allow that question on the citizenship on the 2020 sense us and democrats are looking to ensure language that privacy and other issues, but by and large democrats are blocking this language which they say will deter people from answering the numbers being accurate and ultimately affect federal funding and resources to communities. On the 290 amendments allowed up by the rules committee, you tweeted the breakdown, 90 commerce, justice, 35 for the agriculture and f. D. A. 69 interior and environment. And 62 for transportation and housing and urban development. What are some of the key amendments . Some of the key amendments we are watching for affect the department of commerce, the census question and affect the department of justice and hiring of Immigration Judges and there is some language that democrats are looking to bar the department of justice from trying to overturn the Affordable Care act. There are a number of amendments in there offered bipartisan sup
Melissa 2020 census ruling coming out today from the nations highest court and now President Trump is responding saying the ruling is quote totally ridiculous. I can hear him saying that. We are live outside of the Supreme Court with reaction from both sides of the aisle. Plus all eyes focusing in on iran from the g20 summit in japan. How the commanderinchief is working with our allies as tensions with iran remain high. Candidates getting ready for night two of the democratic debate where senator Bernie Sanders and former Vice President joe biden are facing off. We have much more coming from miami throughout the hour. Big focus here on the g20 summit in osaka, japan. President trump is expected to meet with his chinese counterpart for the First Time Since the talks broke down in may. Lets go to fox businesss edward lawrence. Reporter melissa, before that happens, in four hours from right now President Donald Trump will meet the japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe. They will talk about t
Rules committee tee up a whopping 29 290 amendments for debate. So floor action on this second spending bill will start today and democrats have quite a list of amendments to work through. Host you talked about the commerce department, one issue there is the issue of the 2020 census and the question of citizenship, which has been in the courts and elsewhere. How does the commerce piece of that spending package address the Citizenship Question . Reporter right. Well, House Democrats inserted language in the bill that would prevent the Trump Administration from including a Citizenship Question on the 2020 census. This issue is currently being deliberated by the supreme court. But House Democrats did allow an amendment to go up for debate last night and the amendment was offered by conservative steve king and hes looking to allow that question on the Citizenship Question on the 2020 census. And then democrats are also looking to insert some language in there that ensures privacy of inform
Host caitlin emma from politico. Read more at politico. Com. Thanks so much for the update. Reporter thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] the house will be back shortly to vote on the rule for that fivebill package. Also in the upcoming debate, they will have final package passage vote on that first measure they started last week. The one that includes laborhealthHuman Serviceseducationdefensestat eforeign operations. Take you live back to the house floor now for that series of votes. Postponed. Votes will be taken in the following order. Ordering the previous question on House Resolution 445 and adoption of House Resolution 445 if ordered. The first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15minute vote. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule 20, remaining electronic votes will be conducted as fiveminute votes. Pursuant to clause