Federal minimum wage to 15 per hour. As always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host the House Rules Committee meets to discuss a rule on a resolution finding william barr and wilbur ross in contempt of congress for failing to comply with subpoenas. You can watch that hearing at 5 00 eastern. You can listen live on radio app. This is the washington journal. Joe biden unveiled his plan for Health Care Calling for fixes to the Affordable Care act, but not fully supporting a medicare for all Type Health Care plan. It is the Affordable Care act we want to talk to you about and ask if it should be fixed, and it, or there should be a move to singlepayer. If you say fix the Affordable Health care act, 2027488000. If you say end it, 2027488001. If you say move to a singlepayer system, call us at 2027488002. Tweet us at cspanwj and you can post on our Facebook Page, about 800 plus of you have done so at facebook. Com
Operations budget for the state department and the u. S. Agency for International Development. Committee members asked about the high number of personnel vacancies within the department and hiring from a diverse pool of candidates. This is about an hour and a half. The subcommittee will come to order. We meet today to discuss the state department and u. S. I. D. Fy 2020 operations budget. Without objection, all members may have five days to submit statements, questions, extraneous materials for the record, subject to the length limitations in the rules. Ill now make my opening statement, and then turn it over to the Ranking Member for his opening statement. Ive noticed that the republicans are a little bit faster getting over here after votes. I want to thank the Ranking Member mr. Zeldin members of the subcommittee and our witnesses for joining us for todays hearing for the fiscal year 2020 operations budget, also want to thank the witnesses for being accommodating knowing that our vo
You have two minutes with the introductory round so i will try to do the question first in spanish and then english because we are live on univision. [speaking spanish] thank you to all of our lulac chapters. [cheers and applause] i am julian i have twitter bet joaquin says i am one minute uglier than he is which is not true. Im happy to be here this evening about conversation of the future of the country. We had our first president ial debate and at the end i said i was happy to be there in my presence on that stage marked some of the tremendous progress we have made is a Latino Community. The question before us the next few months is what kind of country do we want to be from cracks and then to achieve the dreams you have achieved because generations have worked for progress to make sure no matter the color of their skin if you went out for a an apartment to rent you can get good job opportunities. And exercise your right to vote at the ballot box. The question before us is if we con
Making policy for all to see. A lot has changed but today that is more relevant than ever. On television and online, cspan is your relevant provider. Treasury secretary, steve manuchy held a conference at the white house on how they will use crypt to currencies and that facebooks currencies could be used by Money Laundering. And asked about the freshman tweets by freshman lawmakers, he said he didnt find the tweets racist. This is about a half hour. Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for being here. As you know there have been a great deal of interest about crypt to assets such as bitcoin and libra. There are many questions regarding libra, Virtual Assets and virtual currencies. I will focus primarily on the concerns the treasury has about growing misuse of cryptocurrencies by money launderers, and financiers and other bad players. Going to capital hill, going to congress about the cryptocurrency, libra. In the International Community there has been a great deal of activity recently
Ken and lynn have made a new tv series about the vietnam war, we talked to them about the program on the washington journal, this is 40 minutes. Nu joining us now or can burns and ling, the vietnam war which airs on sunday, thank you for coming on the program a lot of stuff and information have come out with the vietnam war, why do you think your version was needed out there. I think will be constantly but unfortunately we have spent more so the last 42 years not discussing it. Theres been so much new information, veterans are coming forward with their story and people involved are coming does, forward. What i think it does is aggregate the most recent scholarship and speak to the veterans of the United States and we have no political agenda, but also interview people in North Vietnam and civilians and soldiers to get a 360 view of it and create a space where we cane finally find a way to do it. Fortunately we had an underwriter at bank of america o that was willing to say we want you