Coming up this morning, Theodore Johnson of the Brennan Center will join us to talk about the africanamerican vote in campaign 2020. Of the university of Virginia Center of politics will discuss the latest news in campaign 2020. Be sure to watch washington journal live at 7 00 eastern this morning. Join the discussion. Examinest, a hearing Congress Constitutional role as a coequal branch of government. We hear about the role of earmarks and transparency and how increased funding and staffing can lead to a more effective government. This is two hours, 15 minutes. The committee will come to order without objection. Articlering is titled one, capacity and equipping congress to better serve the american people. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. Im excited to be here today, gaveling in the first hearing of the new year. This committee has had a productive last year, passing 45 recommendations focus on making congress more effective and efficient so it can
The impeachment trial of president trump, light on tilt or custom coverage on cspan2. Or on theonline cspan radio app. Desantisa governor ron delivered his state of the state address in tallahassee. This is just over 30 minutes. [applause] mr. President , mr. Speaker, members of the senate. The constitution requires me to inform the legislature concerning the condition of the state and to recommend measures in the public interest. It brings me great satisfaction to support report and to commend bert commend the members of the house and senate for your efforts to make for successful. [laughter] [applause] floridastis Unemployment Rate is near a historic low. We have a triplea credit rating. Florence Public University system is ranked number one in the nation. We are ranked one of the top states in the nation for physical health, physical health. And wes a 50 year low have no state income tax. [applause] gov. Desantis it is said that the only thing certain in life are death and taxes but
Harvard law professor who went to law school with him and his hot law classes with him since he has become chief justice. Wants to playrts some role and to make himself known a little bit. He thinks just to sit there and let the majority do what it wants to either way would not be fulfilling his job. Mentioned,nd as you there is no roadmap for this. Roberts is only the third person to preside over a president ial impeachment trial. There is nothing in the constitution that says what his powers are except to preside. Open for the chief justice to find his own role in this. Host one of the questions weve been hearing in terms of the trial, if there is a tie, the Vice President cannot break the tie. What is the role of the chief justice . Guest thats a good question. Everything goes through him. The centers are not allowed to questions. They have to write questions down and send it to the chief justice and decide question for the house managers or for the president s defense team. All of
Our friends at cspan, are we ready . We dont want to oh, heres the mayor. I said shes going to be tied up for just a minute. She was tied up for just a second. Madame mayor, thank you so much. Good to see you. Why dont you have she is our point person on Citizens United, and i have represented the highest bill for very long period of time, all my period time in the congress of the United States, and hyattsville is a happening place. Hyattsville is, i like to say, is the georgetown of Prince Georges County. Its got all sorts of very diverse, very excited, very interesting things happening here, and mayor hollingsworth of course, is a part of that happening. So madam mayor, were very glad to be in your city. We are happy to have you here, for a very important conversation. We appreciate your engagement on, i know i appreciate your engagement on this issue and the citizens in the city of hyattsville definitely have high interest in this as well. Good. We are about to celebrate or to lamen
A. M. Eastern, senator elizabeth boston. N watch live on cspan, or listen free cspan radio app. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] we feature authors from all side of the political spectrum. Sues. Andersons is carol with her book one person, no vote. Why did you write this book . Guest the book emerged out of two things, one was a 2016 election, and there is when i about,he pundits talking black people did not show up. Blacky lost because people were not feeling hillary. I looked at that and it did not make sense because this was the first election in 50 years without the protection of the Voting Rights act. We had a series of laws coming through, targeting africanamericans, so i wanted to lay out how Voter Suppression s. Rks because host what protections were under the Voting Rights act. Passedin 1965, congress the Voting Right