Youre fast and easy way to watch cspans unfiltered coverage anytime. Scott long a senior staff writer with the hill. What is in the impeachment resolution that the house will take up this week . Scott there are two aspects to this. One is reaffirming that the impeachment inquiry that has been going on the last month is a legitimate inquiry and has been moving along. In the second aspect of this, setting up procedures, rules, really a framework for the next phase of this inquiry, which will be in the public setting. Think about how the past three or four weeks have been behind closed doors, taking depositions privately. This will start to shift into the public setting, public hearings, so democrats and nancy pelosi want to establish the ground rules for how all of this will unfold. Host what is your sense of the timing of this announcement, taking up this resolution by s and then on the house for thursday . Scott republicans in the white house and the white house had been complaining ab
We welcome everyone today. I recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Article one of the constitution explicitly gives congress authority for spending. Is oversight authorization central to congresss responsibility to ensure the government allocates taxpayer dollars responsibly and in line with the values and wishes of the mecca people. It has been the repeated topic of discussion and debate and calls for a forum. We can agree that abuse and a lack of transparency have often been associated with the process. This has, understandably, fueled concern among tax paying citizens. As a result, earmarking became known a process known for its secrecy and selfinterested motivations. Despite efforts to reform the earmarking process, and increase transparency, the American People and many members of congress remained unsatisfied. Highprofile cases persists. Since the enactment of this ban, members have become frustrated as federal funds have been appropriated only to be redirected via the execu
On thursday, follow the congressional debate over funding the federal government. Live coverage on cspan. The senate on cspan two. You can watch online at cspan. Org or listen with the free cspan radio app. Earmarks the legislative permitsn that congressional spending two states were banned in 2011. Proponents for the practice are calling for the reinstatement. A House Committee took place this morning. Men make many members of or for thee against march the marks. This is three hours. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] we welcome everyone today. I recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Article one of the constitution explicitly gives congress authority for spending. Is oversight authorization central to congresss responsibility to ensure the government allocates taxpayer dollars responsibly and in line with the values and wi
Ms. Pelosi good morning, everyone. Good morning, everyone. Thank you all for being here. We wanted to be on the steps of the capitol and we will do this again soon and we will do it constantly until we have the dream act. Its an honor to be here with the senate leader, Chuck Schumer, with the champion on this issue, with the chair of the hispanic caucus in the house, congresswoman Michelle Lujan grisham. Of new mexico. Senator dick durbin, who for at least 15, 16 years has been a champion of the dreamers. The he first introduced this bill in 2001. Even before 9 11. Congresswoman roybalallard who has been a champion on this issue and now serves as the ranking democrat on the Homeland Security committee where she, again, continues her work to be vigilant. Protecting our dreamers. We have newcombers to the of ress, senator harris california. Representative castro of texas. Slightly newcomber. Of nevada. Cortes we all agree that President Trumps decision to end daca is a despicable act of
Rep. Hoyer hello, everybody. Sorry im a little late. I was with the press. We have a luncheon with the press and they kept asking questions. There was a lot to ask questions about. Were going to get started in the next 30 seconds. They have been waiting for 30 minutes, but 30 seconds. Thank you for joining us. We really appreciate that. I will ask all of the before we get started that he will stand up,. Silence forment of the violence that is happening to many people of color. Thank you, please have a seat. Welcomes all of you. Thank you very much for being here and joining us on this important conversation. Today well talk about what happened and the situation for many dreamers, and how daca has changed their lives. We will learn about the struggle , challenges, greater opportunities this can provide for our young immigrants as well as the site for comprehensive Immigration Reform and how these dreamers have played a major role in this extremity struggle we have. We have an extraordin