Senator Chuck Grassley is the committee chair. This part of the hearing is about 90 minutes. Today, the committee will examine the Justice Departments enforcement of the Foreign Agents registration act. I want to thank the witnesses here today for working with the committee to schedule this hearing. I know that some of you even had to change your travel plans, and i want you to know that the committee appreciates your cooperation. We had to postpone this hearing while trying to schedule two new witnesses and obtain the cooperation of a third who was first invited on july 5th. It is unfortunate when uncooperative witnesses cause unnecessary inconvenience for those of you who are easy to work with. After a failure to negotiate with the committee in good faith, i issued a subpoena with cooperation with senator feinstein to simpson for his appearance today. I withdrew the subpoena after mr. Simpson agreed to a tr transcribed staff interview about, number one, his involvement in creating th
The house is continuing the debate on four spending bills totaling nearly 800 billion. And lawmakers taking more than 50 amendments. Joining us on capitol hill is kelly following this. Thank you for being with us. Whats included in the defense spending bill and what are you looking out for today . Just for your viewers, weve already plowed through three of the four spending bills, an amendment to bid on the bills. Military construction v. A. , legislative branch and mel tear water. Now were turning to the defense spending. The fourth and the four spending bills up for dakota as part up for debate. They made 54 amendments in order. Some of them just have a member cutting spending and then putting it back so they can talk about something thats important to them. But the house leadership which has really compressed the rules process for these spending bills took all the majorities that lawmakers wanted to submit, traditionally would submit in the floor and processed them to prevent any co
The house is continuing the debate on four spending bills totaling nearly 800 billion. And lawmakers taking more than 50 amendments. Joining us on capitol hill is kelly following this. Thank you for being with us. Whats included in the defense spending bill and what are you looking out for today . Just for your viewers, weve already plowed through three of the four spending bills, an amendment to bid on the bills. Military construction v. A. , legislative branch and mel tear water. Now were turning to the defense spending. The fourth and the four spending bills up for dakota as part up for debate. They made 54 amendments in order. Some of them just have a member cutting spending and then putting it back so they can talk about something thats important to them. But the house leadership which has really compressed the rules process for these spending bills took all the majorities that lawmakers wanted to submit, traditionally would submit in the floor and processed them to prevent any co
We were open six weeks late. Next year, we may not open at all. Woodruff all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. Carnegie corporation of new york. Supporting innovations in education, democratic engagement, and the advancement of International Peace and security. At carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff republican efforts to Pass Health Care reform ran into even more roadblocks this evening. A group of key senators balked at voting for what some have called the last resort a version thats been labeled skinny repeal. This came as plans were laid for debate and maybe a final vote, l
We were open six weeks late. Next year, we may not open at all. Woodruff all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. Carnegie corporation of new york. Supporting innovations in education, democratic engagement, and the advancement of International Peace and security. At carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff republican efforts to Pass Health Care reform ran into even more roadblocks this evening. A group of key senators balked at voting for what some have called the last resort a version thats been labeled skinny repeal. This came as plans were laid for debate and maybe a final vote, l